23 Nov 2006
In this week's rundown, Mike previews the somewhat unexciting Thanksgiving NFL slate, tries to avoid the "Super Bowl Preview" hype surrounding the Bears and Patriots, and gives up on the Eagles. Make sure you also check out Mike's ode to Thanksgiving football over on the FO FOX blog.
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As actual NFL football returns to our lives, we have observations on good quarterback play in Dallas, bad quarterback play in Denver, the Olympics, baseball, taxes, and mermaids.


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This review, “Tele Vue’s new eyepiece field tested,” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Astronomy magazine
When I first heard about Tele Vue Optics’ 13mm Ethos eyepiece with its 100° apparent field of view, I didn’t realize its significance or potential. Not until I placed the eyepiece in my 5-inch Tele Vue NP-127 f/5.2 refractor did I discover that, like Alice, I had gone through the looking glass and entered a new world of visual wonder. And that’s what I’d like to share with you: the awe and beauty of the Ethos experience. I found the view “as different as possible.”
A celestial window
My observing experience began with the magnitude 5.6 globular cluster M4 in the constellation Scorpius. To find it, I used my 22mm Tele Vue Panoptic eyepiece, which gives a true field of view of 2.2° and a magnification of 30x in the Tele Vue NP-127.
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During my blog break in July, my family and I took an amazing trip to the Colorado Springs and Denver areas, so I thought I’d share some cool stuff about it. Here is a somewhat sciency (I love to make up words) run down of our vacation:
- It’s possible to fall on Pikes Peak without falling off of it (my chiropractor was happy for the extra income). I fell at the top while walking around on some slippery boulders. It might have had something to do with me holding hot chocolate while climbing, but it’s really cold up at 14,115 feet.
This is close to where I fell on Pikes Peak, although it looks scarier than it really was.
- Rafting during a thunderstorm is still not a good idea, but nobody told the Colorado rafting guides this. It was sunny when we got on the bus to go to the river and pouring down rain with lightning when we got off the bus. Even so, our guides put the boats in the river and said get in. We did and thankfully, no one got electrocuted, although my son tried to drown himself, but that’s another story. (Sorry, no rafting pictures because frankly, rafting and my camera are just not a good mix).
- Royal Gorge Bridge survived a wild-fire a couple of years ago with only some singed planks. This bridge is a suspension bridge with wooden planks that don’t fit together completely perfect, so you end up with enough space between the boards to look down 1,200 feet to the Arkansas River. It’s enough to scare the pants off this Acrophobe (fear of heights).
This is Royal Gorge Bridge over the Arkansas River.
This is a view from the bridge looking down 1,200 feet at the Arkansas River. The colored things you see in the water are kayaks.
- Garden of the Gods is full of amazing sandstone spires, some rising up 300 feet. It’s constantly changing because it’s constantly weathering. I was shocked by how many people were attempting to climb in areas that were clearly not stable. But maybe that’s just the cautious geologist in me.
Garden of the Gods
- The decrease in humidity makes such a difference on a person’s comfort level. Really, 85 degrees with 85% humidity in Iowa is totally different than 85 degrees with 30% humidity in Colorado (and it makes a huge difference in my hair).
- Last, but not least, the mountains affected me psychologically. I miss the mountains so much that I wonder if there’s a Pining-For-Mountains syndrome. And if I’m diagnosed with it, will my husband move us to Colorado? (seriously, if anybody knows if this is a real syndrome, please let me know).
Someday, I plan to live in Colorado so I can indulge my mountain obsession every day. Oh, and by the way, if you’d like to contribute to the Janice-moving-to-Colorado-fund, feel free to e-mail me to let me know your desired contribution (this is just a joke, people, please don’t send me money).
The only double rainbow I’ve ever seen (Colorado Springs)
Anybody heard any sonic booms in the middle of this deep freeze? Maybe if you live in Florida or California or someplace outside the U.S., you don’t really care about those of us trapped in the swirling snow of the polar vortex, but much of the rest of this country has seen freezing temperatures on a record scale. And with those crazy temps comes a phenomenon that many have never heard of—ice quakes.
Called a cryoseism, it’s a cracking of the ground that comes from a sudden deep freezing of the water in the ground. Many times these quakes are heard as loud booms accompanied by a short-lived shaking. People have described them as sounding like a blown transformer, a sonic boom, a car accident and even a plane crash.
Ice quakes occur near the surface, so there’s no danger of prolonged shaking and little risk of property damage. If you want to hear one, they usually occur between midnight and dawn during the coldest part of the night. This explains why I’ve never heard one since I’m dead asleep at that time.
The explanation for ice quakes lies in the properties God gave to water. Unlike most liquids, water expands when it freezes because of the shape of the water molecule. If rain seeps down into cracks during warmer periods and then rapidly freezes when the temperature plummets, the ice expands and pushes on the surrounding material. Stress builds up until the pressure is released by the ground cracking.
Thanks to this frigid winter, ice quakes have been reported in the Midwest, Canada, the Northeast, and even parts of the south, like North Carolina and Tennessee. Ice quakes are nothing to be afraid of, but if a loud boom wakes you up in the middle of the night, I wouldn’t blame you if you called the police.
What about you? Have you actually heard one? What do you think it sounds like?
References: http://abcnews.go.com/US/tennessee-residents-mistake-frost-quakes-airplane-crash-explosions/story?id=29101755, http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/icequakes-cause-earth-to-crack/21985456
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I’m constantly amazed at how God has created the world. There’s always something amazing to discover.
Like a blue fire volcano!
The volcano Kawah Ijen lies along a subduction zone in Indonesia. If you think of the earth as a baseball, the leather in the baseball represent the techtonic plates and the seams are where the plates meet. In a subduction zone, one plate slides under the other causing the rock on the lower plate to melt. This melted rock is more buoyant and rises to the surface, sometimes coming out in volcanic eruptions of lava and gas.
But Kawah Ijen has a special kind of volcanic display—blue fire. This blue phenomenon cascades down the volcano like lava, but it’s not blue lava. It’s actually rivers of sulfur. The sulfur gas escapes from cracks called fumeroles, hits the cooler air and some of it condenses into liquid sulfur.
When this sulfur ignites, it burns with blue fire (at up to 1,112°F) and appears to flow down the volcano like lava. Some of the flames reach as high as 16 feet.
This volcano generates so much sulfur that the local people mine it. They use spring water to condense the sulfur around ceramic pipes, which hardens it. Then these sulfur miners carry their rock load (usually 100 to 200 lbs of sulfur) down the volcano on their backs. What a way to make a living.
Check out the National Geographic link here for more amazing pictures of this blue volcano!
References: Skelton, Renee. “Blue Volcano.” National Geographic Kids, March 2015, p. 22.
Anyone remember that scripture that says God opened the fountains of the deep when He initiated Noah’s flood? I know, I didn’t either. I had to look it up. Here it is:
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
The reason I bring this up is because scientists have long suspected water exists deep in the molten core of our planet. And now they have evidence of it. Recently, geochemists have found a large quantity of molecular water hidden in of all things diamonds.
Diamonds have long been thought to originate from deep in the mantle and what we see today seems to confirm this. Minute specks of diamonds can be found coming out of currently active volcanoes.
In early 2014, Canadian geochemist Graham Pearson and his graduate student John McNeill found something unexpected in diamonds discovered at the edge of the Amazon rainforest. While shining a laser into the diamond, McNeill saw a rare mineral: ringwoodite (a variety of olivine formed after the mineral is put under great pressure). Previously seen only in meteorites, ringwoodite is thought to form in the dense interior of the earth, but until now no one could prove it.
As if that astounding discovery wasn’t enough, then McNeill noticed something even more unusual inside the ringwoodite structure—water. The water was trapped in the microscopic pore space of the mineral during formation, present not as liquid water but as hydroxide ions.
Although the amount of water in each ringwoodite mineral is small (1.5%), the mantle is vast—adding up to a huge amount of water held at high-pressure deep in the earth. The amount of trapped water is potentially close to all the water in Earth’s oceans.
When God said he released the springs of the great deep, perhaps He meant that He brought the hydroxide ions out of the chemical bonds of minerals stored in the mantle.
What do you think? Do you believe in Noah’s flood? Is it a surprise to know the mantle is full of water, even if only on a microscopic level?
References: Palus, Shannon. “Diamonds Reveal Hidden ‘Oceans’ in Earth’s Mantle,” Discover, January/February 2015, p.35.
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Most of us over forty would love to look younger than we are. Although being called a fossil certainly wouldn’t make me feel young, more and more studies are coming out with evidence that fossils are younger than we think. Dead creatures are being found that are still soft and still contain organic molecules, after supposedly millions of years have passed. These discoveries are hard to explain using a long-age view of earth’s history.
The most recent line of evidence for young fossils comes from worms. At Uppsala University in Sweden, researchers have found that the tube casings of the seabed worm Sabellidites cambriensis were still soft and flexible in rock which had been dated to 550 million years ago. The scientists say the organic compounds are original and the fossils show no evidence of mineralization. They further examined the worms and concluded the structure of the fossil worm tube is consistent with the tubes of modern seabed worms, like beard worms.
So, the worms are still soft and flexible and they look exactly like worms today, but we’re supposed to believe they are 550 million years old? Why? Because that’s how old they must be to get the long time scale needed for evolution to have happened.
Could even one million years go by without complete deterioration of these organic compounds? Much less 550 million years?
I find it hard to believe. How do the scientists themselves explain this supposedly incredible preservation?
They don’t. To them, it remains a mystery.
But if the rocks are much younger than millions of years, then there is no mystery. So, why not go with the simplest explanation?
At this point, you might be asking, why are researchers finding this stuff now and not thirty years ago?
The answer is two-fold: 1) researchers today have better equipment to test for these organic molecules, and 2) they are just now looking for them. To some extent, these discoveries could have been made thirty years ago, but scientists didn’t think this type of preservation was possible.
The sad truth is that you won’t find what you don’t seek.
What do you think? Is this unexplainable? How far would this kind of evidence go to convince you of the young age of fossils?
References: Catchpoole, David. “Seabed worm fossils still soft after 500 million years?” Creation 36(4), 2014, p. 22-23.
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Different layers of rock Layers of yummy chocolate cake
I love to bake, not regular food, but anything sweet, especially when it’s chocolate. Have you seen the cake that looks like the death star from Star Wars? I haven’t tried to make that one yet, but it looks amazing. Recently, I was thinking how the earth is like a gigantic death star cake (no, I don’t have too much time on my hands, but this weird stuff just floats through my head all the time). Anyway, go with me on this, you’ve all made mud pies before, right? Same thing.
So the layers in the cake are the different rock formations (sandstone, shale, limestone, etc.). Although the cake above isn’t the death star, I hope you can see the similarities? And if you bake a cake one layer at a time, you know the bottom layers were created first, followed by the next layer and then the layer on top and it’s the same with rocks. What we see on the surface of the earth are the last layers laid down, or the youngest layers. We know they are the youngest, but does anything about the layers tell us how long it took to bake the cake? Nope. And neither does the existence of rock layers tell us how long they took to form. Rocks don’t come with a year stamped on them and the supposed dates obtained from radiometric age dating have serious problems (more on this in future posts). Which leaves us with more questions than answers. Questions like:
Why do we find rocks stratified by fossil animals? Evolutionists will tell you that we find more primitive animals at the bottom of the strata (rock layers) because they are the ancestors of those higher in the strata. Seems to make sense, right? Unless there’s a different explanation.
If a global flood happened today, on the scale of Noah’s flood, we’d likely see the same fossils in the same rock layers after it was over. Not because the animals are related, but because they live in different habitats. The sea bottom dwelling creatures live at lower elevations and during a flood, they would be overwhelmed and smothered by mud. Amphibians live at a slightly higher elevation, but must stay close to water in order to breed, so they would be in layers just above the lower sea life. Reptiles and mammals would likely run to higher ground and then float after death, causing them to be found in higher rock layers. The only humans who would survive a violent flood like this today would be those on an aircraft carrier or maybe a submarine. In Noah’s time, no other humans, besides him, had seen the need to build a huge boat like the ark.
So, we would see much the same sequence of rocks with the same fossils of animals that weren’t related, just buried in sequence based on habitat.
Are there any fossils that cross over? Yes, but when geologists find a fossil which doesn’t belong, they typically call it in-fill from the layers above or they might say the whole sequence has been re-worked (meaning eroded and stirred up). Why do they believe the sequence was re-worked? Because the fossils are out of order. They are forced into this type of circular reasoning because there is no way to explain how those fossils got there without invalidating the theory of evolution.
What do you think? Which explanation for the distribution of fossils makes sense to you? One or both of them?
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Black flies are a pest for marijuana plants. They are flies that live in humid climates and high temperatures , so they are also very present in indoor crops.
THE SUBSTRATE FLY ON MARIJUANA PLANTS
Unfortunately we will not realize that the plague has arrived until we see the tiny black flies on the plants. At that time the fly is already an adult and can lay its eggs . It is very difficult to detect them earlier.
These flies, which measure 5 millimeters , are brown and black in color . The larvae appear a few days after laying and survive underground for about two weeks feeding on the roots. In indoor crops, where humidity is combined with temperature or in naturally humid areas, black flies roam freely on plants.
They will deposit their eggs in the substrate and after three days they will hatch, feeding on the roots of the marijuana . From that moment the plant is already weakened and, if the pest is not eliminated quickly, it may not be able to recover . If the plant weakens it is possible that other types of pests or diseases appear, such as mold, fungi, etc.
Depending on the growth stage the crop is in, it could be a catastrophe and become unrecoverable once all the roots have been attacked, as the plant will not be able to nourish itself properly and these gnats will not stop reproducing.
HOW TO ELIMINATE THE FLY FROM THE SUBSTRATE OF MARIJUANA PLANTS
To know how to eliminate small flies from plants and that they never appear, controlling the temperature, humidity and composition of the soil is elementary. The top of the soil must be dry so the flies will not be able to lay their eggs.
The sticky traps or snares Catcher help that much of the black flies are trapped marijuana. Arlite , which is also used for water purification, can be sprinkled on the ground to deter flies. Natural remedies such as cinnamon or lemon also fulfill their function as repellants, but to a lesser extent.
As an initial prevention, making a mixture of Trabe Pro Neem substrate would turn the soil into a natural insecticide that does not harm the marijuana root at any time . If you’ve been late and the plant is infected, spraying it with a Neem oil mixture kills some of the pest . The Neem tree has insecticidal properties that are effective against many types of insects and pests, but it is harmless for crops.
There is nothing like home remedies for black flies , because they are usually less invasive than chemical insecticides that can cause, to the minimum excess, the death or irreversible contamination of the plant, as well as the eradication of the fly. Prevention by controlling temperature, humidity and air circulation, especially in indoor crops, is the most important step.


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Do your employees play the “blame game,” or are they willing to take responsibility for their actions and outcomes?
Winning organizations and individuals do not make excuses or point fingers when they have not met their performance expectations. Instead, they freely assume ownership for the outcomes they have produced.
Creating a climate where individuals are willing and eager to take ownership of their behaviors and how they impact the organization comes down to a simple sequence of interlinked actions. We will discuss these below.
First, let’s take a look at the burning question in most leaders’ minds… “How do I go about getting others to assume a higher level of ownership?”
Historically, leaders have believed that with the right external motivation, their employees can achieve anything. However, the root of motivation, and the key to getting the best possible performance out of your employees, doesn’t begin where you may think.
In working with profit and not-for-profit sector organizations over the past two decades, I’ve seen a clear model arise that differentiates the winners from the losers. Successful businesses know that:
- When you fully understand someone’s strengths and weaknesses and then utilize their strengths while delegating their weak areas to others, they experience success. This feeling of accomplishment or victory improves their self-esteem. Ultimately, you have set them up for success by allowing them to shine through their skills and abilities. (And, you can do this for yourself as well!)
- When someone is victorious, and their self-esteem improves, they become significantly more MOTIVATED to apply themselves, assuming more responsibility, and becoming more excited to participate. At this point, incentive and motivation programs and initiatives become less critical.
- When individuals become MOTIVATED seeing their victories and successes, they become significantly more PASSIONATE about life and apply themselves fully to all their different endeavors.
- When individuals are passionate about something, they are happy to take OWNERSHIP of those things.
In order to encourage your employees to take ownership, you must first set them up for VICTORY! The cycle or circular diagram below becomes an addiction to victory, where individuals seek more opportunities to showcase their best skills and abilities and thus see continued achievement and success.
This model came about from a reverse analysis of some of the most successful businesses and many of my clients today. People that assume OWNERSHIP seem to be among the most PASSIONATE at what they do. Those that have a high passion for what they do are continuously MOTIVATED by what they do. This can only happen when people are set up for VICTORIES, having been given those tasks that they are best mentally and physically equipped to undertake. All of this feeds one’s self-esteem, allowing them to accomplish great things for themselves and your organization as a whole!
Written by Dr. Jeffrey Magee.
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This study examined the perspectives of both tutors at university writing centers and the Non-Native English Speaking (NNES) students who use the centers. Using qualitative methods, this study looked at perceptions of the academic writing needs of the NNES students, along with characteristics of tutoring sessions which made the sessions successful in the eyes of tutors and students. The study used interviews, observations, a survey, and artifacts to look at these topics and then compared the perceptions of tutors and students. Additionally, the study compared writing centers at two universities, one of which employs an English as a Second Language (ESL) specialist, in order to learn if employing this specialist affects success for the tutors and NNES students. Results indicate that student and tutor perceptions of student needs were similar in that they expressed consistent need for grammar assistance and help with low-order concerns (LOCs). Sessions at both universities were successful, according to tutors and students, if sessions focused on these grammar and LOC needs. Employing an ESL specialist did not affect the perceptions of students or tutors nor did it seem to effect the success of sessions for either students or tutors
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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA, is officially halfway between our planet and the Sun. The spacecraft is currently 46.6 million miles from our host star. The spacecraft began its scientific observations in November 2021 and will continue its comments on their way closer and closer to the Sun.
Being situated so neatly between Earth and the Sun, the probe gives researchers a unique opportunity to study space weather. Space weather is a feature of the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles from the Sun that generates aurorae and occasionally disrupts electronics on Earth.
Nearly 50 million miles on the space odometer doesn’t sound like much until you remember that the Webb telescope only had to trek 1 million miles to its observation point in deep space. The orbiter’s current proximity to Earth and the Sun lets it gather valuable data on how the solar wind blows through our solar system. Combining Solar Orbiter observations with data from spacecraft like IRIS and the ESA’s SOHO will give a complete picture of the wind; like buoys in a sea of solar particles, the dispersed spacecraft will provide a dynamic look at space weather.
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When Amazon announced in September that they were seeking to construct a second headquarters, it set off a frenzy among cities in the United States, big and small. Amazon would be constructing a facility identical in size and with 50,000 jobs. These jobs aren’t the low-wage variety, either. These are engineering and computer science jobs that would be accompanied by $100,000+ salaries.
With that type of a white collar influx all at once, a city such as Pittsburgh could re-define itself. It’s no surprise that Mayor Peduto is positioning Pittsburgh as a possible destination. Pittsburgh has already dipped a toe in the nationally-known high-tech sector with a Google office and an Uber self-driving facility. The presence of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh would help create a sustainable source of future Amazon employees.
The most obvious destination for Amazon would be in the nascent Almono complex. As per the list of requirements that Amazon is looking for, chief among them is 500,000 square feet (11.4 acres) for its headquarters. The 178-acre Almono complex more than meets that. As Almono is poised to become a mixed-use development, the residential aspect of it would be quickly filled. The adjacent neighborhood of Hazelwood would be instantly re-invigorated by a large portion of the remaining 50,000 employees. Naturally, housing stock prices would skyrocket and most likely gentrify Hazelwood to an alarming degree.
But I can’t get the “close to an international airport” requirement out of my head. Of course Mayor Peduto is going to want Amazon in the City, but he also wants what is best for Allegheny County in a broader sense. For years, the County has been trying to develop the surrounding areas around the Pittsburgh International Airport. There’s an office park where Dick’s has located their headquarters directly adjacent to the PIA runways, off of Business-376, on a road called International Drive. They’re currently the only occupant. Amazon would quickly consume many of the available parcels with their headquarters and parking.
Now, Moon Township may not be the most glamorous of living areas for young Amazon employees, especially compared to the lure of being close to the City of Pittsburgh in Almono and Hazelwood, but it wouldn’t be hard to imagine huge swathes of land being developed for new housing, perhaps even of the mixed use variety that would have residential and commercial all in one, similar to the Village of Pine in Pine Township.
Business-376 is already capable of handling the presumed 50,000 vehicles that would travel it to reach the Amazon headquarters at the potential International Drive location. After all, it was the route to get to the previous Pittsburgh International Airport. Through the use of PENNDOT’s traffic volume maps, you can see that at the split from I-376 (to the current Airport) to Business-376, there are currently 33,000 vehicles per day. By the time you get to International Drive, that number has thinned down to 15,000. But even though Almono is most likely Mayor Peduto’s #1 choice, the Airport location would allow him to potential unlock another one of his stated goals — a mass transit solution that finally connects downtown Pittsburgh to the Airport.
In July, my wife and I took a trip to Minneapolis. We never considered taking a cab or Uber or other form of transit from the airport to our downtown hotel, because Minneapolis (and St. Paul) have a fantastic Light Rail system in place. For only $2.25 per person each way, we rode for about 25 minutes on a clean, modern LRT straight downtown and through Minneapolis. Pittsburgh does not currently have that luxury, which undoubtedly has hampered some companies from wanting to do business here. Relying on taxis or shuttle vans is outdated and inconvenient.
When Steve and I met with County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and then-Councilman Peduto’s staff to present our Light Rail North option, they liked the concept, but felt the priorities for mass transit should be to connect Pittsburgh and Oakland, followed by a line out to the Airport. Port Authority is moving forward with a Bus Rapid Transit option for the Pittsburgh-Oakland link. Plans have been drawn up for years, with multiple alignments, for the Pittsburgh-Airport link but they’re collecting dust currently.
Mayor Peduto and County Executive Fitzgerald could pitch to Amazon in their proposal that they will waive taxes on Amazon, in lieu of direct payments to fund the local share portion of funding on the federal grant program to construct the mass transit line from Pittsburgh to the Airport area, with there naturally being a dedicated series of stops for Amazon HQ. The cash-strapped Port Authority gets a windfall of cash, Peduto and Fitzgerald get to stamp their legacies on moving the region forward in transit on a major project, the public gets a viable mass transit option to commute from the City to the Airport, and Amazon can allow their employees more freedom of housing choice and less commuting stress. Everyone wins.
If the City and County pitch the Almono site as the preferred location for Amazon and they select Pittsburgh, it would be easy to see Mayor Peduto pushing a similar transit-in-lieu-of-tax concept for his pet project on a connector mass transit link from Hazelwood to Oakland. He dubbed it ‘The Brain Train’ in a conversation with me at one point, as it would link CMU and Pitt to the nascent tech development of Almono. This would be fine as well and it’s not hard to see the Mayor putting his stamp on this development by making Almono the preferred destination.
At the end of the day, if Pittsburgh is fortunate enough to be selected by Jeff Bezos to be the “next HQ”, Pittsburgh’s profile on both a national and international scale gets raised exponentially. Not only does the metro region have the cachet of being associated with Amazon, but the metro region gets a boon of 50,000 new residents that will have plenty of money to spend. Considering that from 2000 to 2016, the metro region has lost almost 89,000 people, the Amazon influx will staunch the flow of that loss significantly. And once Amazon stakes a claim to a city, ancillary businesses may suddenly find Pittsburgh more attractive, as well. In short, the Mayor and the County Executive have the rare opportunity to instantly transform the region with one proposal.
Pittsburgh will go on with or without Amazon. But if the announcement is made, it will re-invigorate the City to a degree not seen in decades.


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by BWW News Desk - Jun 27, 2019
On this day, we're wishing a happy birthday to Tony Award-winning directorÂ Michael Mayer!
by Stage Tube - May 20, 2019
Johnny Stellard has choreographed a dance to 'Remember the Day' from Shoshana Bean's album, Spectrum. The video, which tells the story of a lesbian couple, features Alicia Albright (Frozen, Wicked) and Ashlea Potts (Ogunquit, Cape Rep).
by Stage Tube - Apr 16, 2019
The Marriott Theatre is thrilled to welcome back ten-time Jeff Award-winning directorÂ Gary GriffinÂ to helm the exhilarating smash hitÂ FOOTLOOSE, running April 10 through June 2, 2019 with a press opening onÂ Wednesday,Â April 17Â at 7:30 p.m. at theÂ Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire. Based on a true story and the 1984 classic film,Â FOOTLOOSEÂ is a compelling story of teenage rebellion and celebrating life through music and dance. Jeff Award-winning choreographerÂ William Carlos Angulobrings dance to life in the round, with musical direction by Jeff Award winnerÂ Ryan T. Nelson.
by TV - Press Previews - Apr 4, 2019
The pie shop is filled with new faces this spring as Shoshana Bean and Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan take over the roles of Jenna and Dr. Pomatter in Waitress on Broadway. Bean can currently be seen alongside Joey McIntyre as Dr. Pomatter, who plays his final performance on April 7. Jordan will take over the role on April 8 through May 12, 2019.
by BWW News Desk - Mar 26, 2019
Fifty fiveÂ years ago a little musical shot a young actress to super stardom. The musical was Funny Girl; the actress wasÂ Barbra Streisand, and today, we reflect on the show that launched her legendary career!
by Stage Tube - Feb 17, 2019
UCLA Anderson's Women's Business Connection recently presented Barbra Streisand with the 2019 Velocity Award. The award recognizes Streisand's achievements in raising awareness of many of the most pressing issues of our day.
by Stage Tube - Oct 24, 2018
Amazon has released the official trailer for season two of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and it features a familiar tune- 'I'm the Greatest Star' from 'Funny Girl!'Â
by BroadwayWorld TV - Oct 22, 2018
Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith will be broadcast in cinemas across the UK on 24 October, as part of a worldwide release of the smash-hit stage production that played to critical acclaim at the Menier Chocolate Factory, in the West End and on tour. Michael Mayer's production was filmed during the final week of its run at the Manchester Palace Theatre by Digital Theatre, and will be released in cinemas by Trafalgar Releasing.
BWW TV Exclusive: Watch Sheridan Smith & Darius Campbell in Scene from FUNNY GIRL; In Theatres on October 24!
by BroadwayWorld TV - Oct 18, 2018
Following the announcement of screenings around the United Kingdom, Trafalgar Releasing will soon present FUNNY GIRL starring Olivier Award winner Sheridan Smith, broadcast in cinemas globally on Wednesday October 24, 2018 following the smash hit stage production that played to critical acclaim at the Menier Chocolate Factory, in London's West End and on tour.
by BWW News Desk - Oct 12, 2018
Rehearsals have begun for the world premiere of Havana Music Hall at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Miami.
VIDEO: Here They Are! Dami Im, Maggie McKenna, Caroline O'Connor, and More Perform 'Don't Rain on My Parade' at the Helpmann Awards
by Stage Tube - Jul 24, 2018
The 2018 Helpmann Awards Act IIÂ was a star-studded ceremony in front of a full house at the Capitol Theatre Sydney on the set of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical. The evening featured a show-stopping number in which some of the biggest stars in the game performed 'Don't Rain On My Parade' from Funny Girl. Watch the video below!
by Stage Tube - Jun 27, 2018
Michael MayerÂ is an award-winning director whose work spans from theatre and opera to film and television. He is currently represented on Broadway byÂ HEAD OVER HEELS, the new musical featuring hit songs of the Go-Go's.
VIDEO: Watch a Clip of Barbra Streisand Performing 'Watch Closely Now' From the All New Netflix Re-Release of A STAR IS BORN!
by Stage Tube - Jun 15, 2018
As previously announced, Netflix is now streaming a special edition of Barbra Streisand's classic movie A Star Is Born (1976). Supervising the edit, Ms. Streisand was happy to include never-before-seen footage - the scene where she first plays 'Evergreen' on the guitar for Mr. Kristofferson. To Ms. Streisand's surprise almost a year later, the song went on to win the Academy Award, the Grammy, and the Golden Globe. The other never-before-seen footage includes a rock n' roll version of the film's finale 'Watch Closely Now.'
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2018
BroadwayWorld has a first look at The Muny's centennial celebration gala performance! Check out the video featuring Heather Headley performing the 'Sadie, Sadie' from Funny Girl!
by Stage Tube - Apr 30, 2018
A Phantom and an Elphaba walk into a recording studio... Find out what happened when Chris Man and Shoshana Bean joined forces to sing Justin Timberlake's 'Say Something.'
by BroadwayWorld TV - Apr 18, 2018
BroadwayWorld has a first look atÂ Cleveland Play House's high-spirited, interactive musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Check out the cast in action in the video below!
by Nicole Ciravolo - Mar 29, 2018
Broadway fave and former Elphaba, Shoshana Bean, has just dropped her a video with Travis Wall of her cover of the Oscar-nominated anthem, This Is Me, from the musical The Greatest Showman. Check it out here!
by Stage Tube - Mar 14, 2018
Shoshana Bean recently performed at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles in honor of the release of her album, Spectrum. The concert featured special guests Amber Riley and Haley Reinhart. Check out the video of her performance of 'Make it Rain' below!
by Stage Tube - Dec 9, 2017
Shoshana Bean joined Postmodern Jukebox to perform a cover of 'Tomorrow' from Annie with the group's signature Motown flair. This is Bean's fifth song with PMJ. Watch the video here!
by Stage Tube - Dec 1, 2017
Two of the biggest voices on Broadway, Shoshana Bean and Cynthia Erivo, have joined forces and the result is your must-watch treat of the day.

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The US Federal Reserve has named the companies that used its emergency loan facilities during the financial crisis and revealed how much they borrowed.
Details of more than 21,000 transactions aimed at stabilising financial markets have been posted on the Fed’s website.
The documents’ release was ordered by Congress, and will be picked over by critics of the Fed’s stimulus packages.
The data reveals the magnitude of support offered to banks.
Loans included $2.2trillion to Citigroup, $2.1tn to Merrill Lynch, $2tn to Morgan Stanley, and $1.1tn to Bank of America.
Most of the loans have been repaid, and none are overdue, the Fed said.
Bank of America’s aid included a pledge by the Fed for up to $118bn (£75.7bn; 90bn euros) of assets if loans and mortgage-backed securities turned sour.
But the documents show that America’s biggest bank did not, in the end, need the money.
In September 2008 alone, AIG, the insurance giant, had to draw on $62bn from a credit facility in order to pay off immediate debts.
Foreign banks including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank also borrowed from the Fed to overcome their liquidity crises.

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Rita Houston, WFUV D.J. Who Lifted Music Careers, Dies at 59
Rita Houston, a big-hearted disc jockey with an intoxicating voice who championed artists like Brandi Carlile, Mumford & Sons, Adele, the Indigo Girls and Gomez on the broadly adopted WFUV-FM within the Bronx, died on Dec. 15 at her residence in Valley Cottage, N.Y. She was 59.
Laura Fedele, her spouse, mentioned the trigger was ovarian most cancers.
Since 2012, Ms. Houston had been program director at WFUV, a listener-supported station licensed to Fordham University. She was additionally maybe its best-known character, internet hosting a preferred Friday night time present, “The Whole Wide World,” which was her automobile for updating the station’s sound, balancing a brand new mixture of indie rock, world music, hip-hop and electronica with the extra acquainted certainly one of folks, rock and blues.
“Rita might pull collectively all these issues and make you are feeling, ‘Wow what a giant world of music there may be right here,’” Chuck Singleton, WFUV’s basic supervisor, mentioned in a telephone interview.
“In her music she contained multitudes,” he added.
Ms. Houston was additionally the impresario of in-studio performances — by Tom Jones, Adele and Emmylou Harris, amongst many others — and musical occasions in Manhattan at venues just like the Bottom Line and the Beacon Theater in addition to on the High Line, the elevated park.
“I’m a singer lady, I’m a vocal lady, I don’t like when individuals don’t sing,” she instructed the musician-artist Joseph Arthur in March on his podcast, “Come to Where I’m From.” “I don’t need the whole lot to sound like Ella Fitzgerald, however I simply love a great voice.”
One of these was Ms. Carlile’s, the people and Americana singer-songwriter who credit Ms. Houston with giving her music its first airplay. More essential, Ms. Carlile trusted Ms. Houston sufficient to debate being a lesbian publicly.
In a remembrance on Facebook, Ms. Carlile wrote, “‘Is that your plus one?’ Rita Houston mentioned to 22-year-old me as an image of my girlfriend unintentionally popped up on my cellphone display screen.”
Ms. Houston, sensing Ms. Carlile’s uneasiness at confiding to individuals within the music business that she was homosexual, had persuaded her to open up.
“I don’t know what it’s like the place you’re from, however that is N.Y.C.,” Ms. Carlile recalled Ms. Houston telling her. “We’re going lesbian karaoke singing proper now. Do a shot of tequila and get your coat.”
Ms. Carlile forged Ms. Houston within the music video for “The Joke,” which gained Grammy Awards in 2019 for finest American roots music and finest American roots efficiency.
Ms. Houston’s recognition of the Indigo Girls had a big impression on their profession as effectively.
“You knew you have been doing one thing proper if she performed your songs,” Amy Ray, a member of that people duo, mentioned in an interview. “And she was a kind of individuals we weren’t afraid to be ourselves and be queer with. We might be who we have been. She gave us numerous bravery.”
Since earlier this 12 months, Ms. Houston had guided a station initiative, referred to as EQFM, to place extra feminine artists on the air.
“WFUV is on the fitting facet of this difficulty, however we acknowledge there was extra work we are able to do,” she instructed AllAccess.com, a radio business information web site. “For instance, our music combine is 35 % female-coded. That is increased than most however must be at 50 % for true parity.”
She added: “Good songs come from in all places, throughout race, age and gender. Good radio ought to have a good time that, with out bias.”
Ms. Houston with Paul Simon in 2003. She balanced the station’s choices between a mixture of indie rock, world music, hip-hop and electronica and the extra acquainted format of folks, rock and blues.Credit…WFUV
Rita Ann Houston was born on Sept. 28, 1961, in White Plains, N.Y., and grew up in close by Mount Vernon. Her father, William, was a house heating oil firm govt. Her mom, Rita (Paone) Houston, was a waitress.
Ms. Houston majored in city research at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in Geneva, N.Y., however was expelled for tripping hearth alarms and tipping over merchandising machines. “I went out large,” she instructed Mr. Arthur on his podcast. “I used to be within the mistaken place.”
She labored as a waitress earlier than discovering work as a D.J. at Westchester Community College’s radio station, then at one other station in Mount Kisco, N.Y., for $7 an hour. She left for a job at ABC Radio as an engineer, and labored with the sports activities journalist Howard Cosell and the speak present host Sally Jessy Raphael. The pay was much better than her low-wage radio jobs, however she missed being on the air. In 1989 she was again behind a microphone at WZFM in White Plains.
“Someone mentioned to me, ‘I wish to introduce you to the voice of God,’” mentioned Paul Cavalconte, who, because the WZFM program director, employed Ms. Houston. “She was so participating and charismatic, which labored on the radio and in private appearances.” (WZFM is now WXPK.)
When WZFM’s format shifted from grownup album different to fashionable rock in 1993, Ms. Houston was instructed that she needed to undertake on-air identify with an X in it. She grew to become Harley Foxx. But, looking for extra variety within the format, she sought refuge a 12 months later at WFUV, of which she had been a fan for a while.
“I simply referred to as the station and was, like, ‘Hey, can I work right here, please?’” she instructed Mr. Arthur.
She began internet hosting the noon present in 1994, then stepped away from it after just a few years to change into the full-time music director. She returned to the air in 2001 to host “The Whole Wide World.”
In addition to her spouse, she is survived by her sister, Debra Baglio, and her brothers, Richard and Robert. Another brother, William Jr., died in October.
Ms. Houston recorded her remaining present from residence on Dec. 5, with Mr. Cavalconte, additionally a D.J. at WFUV, because the co-host. It was broadcast three days after she died.
“She was wanting breath and conscious that her voice was not robust,” mentioned Ms. Fedele, who’s the station’s new media director. “I nagged her for a few days, I needed her to consider the playlist. Finally, she requested me to get a pen, and he or she simply reeled off 30 songs.”
Her playlist was a distillation of the genres that she had dropped at her present and the station. She opened with James Brown (“Night Train”), moved on to artists like Deee-Lite (“Groove is within the Heart”), Emmylou Harris (“Red Dirt Girl"), Los Amigos Invisibles (“Cuchi Cuchi”), LCD Soundsystem (“New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down”) and “David Bowie (“Station to Station”).
The finale was the Waterboys’ “In My Time on Earth,” which the group carried out final 12 months at a WFUV occasion at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan.
Given the time she had left, the music resonated together with her.
“In my time on earth,” it goes, “I’ll communicate the key / In my time on earth / I’ll inform what’s true.”

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By Larry Shaughnessy
A new report shows a trend of increased defense spending among Asia's major military powers, with China's military budget accounting for nearly half of all spending in the region. It's a trend that reflects one reason why the Pentagon is heavily focused on increasing its presence in the region.
According to official reports from China, defense spending there has increased to $90 billion in 2011 from $22.5 billion in 2000. It should be noted that skeptics believe China's official numbers are purposely low. For example, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimated that China's 2011 defense budget was much closer to $142 billion.
By Charles Riley, reporting from Hong Kong
President Obama and Mitt Romney each used their second presidential debate to talk tough on China.
Romney pledged that he would label China as a currency manipulator on his first day in office - a promise he frequently works into his campaign speeches. And he accused China of "stealing" designs, patents and technology pioneered by U.S. companies.
"There's even an Apple store in China that's a counterfeit Apple store, selling counterfeit goods," Romney said. "They hack into our computers. We will have to have people play on a fair basis."
Obama was more circumspect in his use of language, but he touted the trade complaints his administration has filed against China over auto parts. Obama also recently blocked the sale of American wind farm companies to a Chinese firm.Click here for the FULL STORY
By Larry Shaughnessy
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been a magnet for problems for years, but the new warplane's developers are slowly making progress toward deployment.
During testing at a facility in Lakehurst, New Jersey, pilots flying the Navy's carrier variant successfully caught five arresting wires in eight attempts, according to Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 program office.
That's an improvement over the first tests when pilots couldn't hook the wire. But it is not good enough.
By Paul Courson
The pretrial hearing for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged co-conspirators was focused for much of Tuesday morning on the detainee dress code.
The hearing at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was broadcast via closed circuit television to victims' families and the news media at Fort Meade, Maryland.
The defense challenged a practice by the jailers to ban certain types of clothing. In oral arguments on a motion to clarify a dress code for detainees while they are in the courtroom, prosecutors said the ban was part of preserving decorum and respect for the venue, and also one of security.
The judge agreed to ban articles of clothing that resembled current American military uniforms, and said detainees, if they choose, must wear prison uniforms that match their status as detainees. This precludes the "orange prison jumpsuit" popularized by activists during anti-Guantanamo demonstrations, unless such clothing is used for that detainee. FULL POST
By Carol Cratty
A federal appeals court Tuesday tossed out the conviction of a driver for Osama bin Laden, dealing a blow to the U.S. military commissions system.
Salim Hamdan was convicted in 2008 of providing material support for terrorism. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the conviction.
The court noted that Hamdan was found guilty based on conduct that took place from 1996 to 2001, but the charge of material support for terrorism only came into effect with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
"Because we read the Military Commissions Act not to retroactively punish new crimes, and because material support for terrorism was not a pre-existing war crime," the court wrote, "Hamdan's conviction for material support for terrorism cannot stand." FULL POST
By Laura Smith-Sparks
The UK government Tuesday blocked the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon to the United States to face trial for what the U.S. government says is the biggest military computer hacking of all time.
Home Secretary Theresa May said McKinnon's Asperger syndrome and depressive illness meant "there is such a high risk of him ending his own life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with his human rights."
Gary McKinnon has admitted to breaking into computers at NASA and the Pentagon but says he did so to find out if the U.S. government was covering up the existence of UFOs.
The 46-year-old has fought a decade-long battle against extradition.
By Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister and Nic Robertson
The story would not be out of place on the TV thriller "Homeland": the Danish petty criminal turned double agent who receives $250,000 in cash for helping the CIA try to ensnare one of al Qaeda's most wanted - by finding him a wife.
The wanted man was American-born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who had become one of the most effective propagandists for the group. The bride-to-be was a pretty blonde from Croatia. The agent was Morten Storm, who had long moved in radical Islamist circles and had apparently won the trust of al-Awlaki during a stay in Yemen in 2006.FULL STORY


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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Stream-And-Run: The Burning (1981)
An early slasher offering from the Weinsteins before they were obsessed with buying Oscars…
NOTE: Netflix is taking down virtually all of their MGM titles on May 1st, so I thought it might be fun to see how many I can watch in the next two weeks, and then post quick, little hit-and-run reviews here. Hope you enjoy, and if you want to see any of these movies and have Netflix, better watch ’em now!
This early Miramax effort (based on a story by Harvey and Bob Weinstein) takes the central conceit of the Cropsey urban legend and transplants it to a dead teenager movie, in the process creating a rather above-average slasher flick. The film begins as a prank goes horribly wrong, resulting in the creepy old groundskeeper of Camp Blackfoot being horribly scarred in a fire. Five years pass, and the groundskeeper finds his way to another summer camp (which has either the best or the worst counselors in the world, considering how they‘re seemingly okay with their campers running off into the woods and fucking like rabbits) and proceeds to summarily slaughter the campers with his gardening sheers. Boasting early appearances by Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter, The Burning is a rather effective little horror movie - certainly far better than most of the slasher movies that followed in the wake of Halloween and Friday the 13th. The kids and counselors are just human enough to get us to care, and Tony Maylam’s direction is far above what you’d typically find in the genre. Coupled with the excellent makeup effects from the incomparable Tom Savini, and it’s hard to see how horror fans can go wrong with The Burning.


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Actor Ankush Chaudhari drops the official trailer for Maharashtra Shaheer, a musical biopic based on the life of Padma Shri Shahir Sable, a Maharashtrian singer, playwright, performer and folk theatre producer and director.
Ankush took to his social media and captioned his post, “Presenting with pride, respect and love….the trailer of the much-loved, much-awaited Maharashtrian blockbuster ‘Maharashtra Shaheer’!! Jana-Manatla Awaaz i.e. Shaheer Sable’s magnificent life story in every theatre of Maharashtra from 28th April.”
The movie’s trailer will be released the following week. Sanjay Chhabria and Bela Shinde are the producers, and Kedar Shinde is the director.
Sana Kedar Shinde, Ashvini Mahangade, Shubhangi Sadavarte, Nirmiti Sawant, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Dushyant Wagh, Atul Kal, Amit Dolawat, and more outstanding actors also appear in the movie.
Shahir Sable, a legendary Marathi theatre and music character, will have his life and times chronicled in the musical biopic. The movie will debut in theatres on April 28, 2023.
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Title: Revenge, A Bittersweet LoveAuthor: Zoey
Paring: JunChun, JaeHo
Genre: Angst, Drama, Romance, Smut
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Summary: One accidents, Two victims. One revenge, Two broken hearts. They both each lost a piece of themselves. One lost the only comfort and love he ever known and had while the other lost the one thing he needed to complete him. What happened when their path crossed and revenged was set? Would love be enough to bring them out of their pain and suffering?
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It's been a while! Mara and the Bitter Suite are stoked to get back on staged and thrilled to be playing at a new venue, Zirzamin, "a subterranean music parlor." Find out more about Zirzamin here: http://zirzaminnyc.com/ It's a very intimate venue, so the show will be a trio show, just Adam on the keys, Kris on bass and Mara on the vocal chords. Great news: It's FREE! No cover. Other great news: It's a bar and restaurant, so you can get some great food to go with that beverage. We're so excited to be playing for the first time at this venue. Hope to see you there!
After a busy holiday season, the Bitter Suite are back! Kick away the January doldrums by rockin' at Rockwood with us!
Bio: Singer/Actress Mara Davi ("Smash" [NBC], "Blue Bloods" [CBS], "White Christmas", "The Drowsy Chaperone", "A Chorus Line" [Broadway]) and Pianist/Composer Adam Waite met while recording Broadway's Carols for a Cure in 2006. After collaborating on multiple concerts for Birdland, Ars Nova, and Lyric...See Full Bio
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Monday at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference CEO Tim Cook introduced new laptops. All laptops got the Ivy Bridge treatment with Intel HD Graphics 4000, USB 3.0, and faster 1600 MHz memory.
The new Retina MacBook Pro features a 220 ppi high resolution display with quad-core i7 processor and SSD storage. Apple also updated the MacBook Air for CPU and a FaceTime HD camera. The MacBook Pro also got updates for new CPUs and NVIDIA GT 650M graphics processors.
Lastly we got some new Thunderbolt accessories, an updated AirPort Express, and a puzzling minor speed pump to the Mac Pro.
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An internship in Business Development in Asia is possible, even without knowing the rudiments of one of the languages represented in Asia: English is enough! However, it’s not easy to get it: between jet lag, cultural incomprehension or the difficulty to find companies via the web, it’s sometimes a struggle! However, you know it: International Horizons is there to set your internship abroad on fire! By the way, as an introduction I would quote Alicia Keys “With International Horizons, this internship is on fire”. Thanks to her, we embrace it.
An internship in Business Development
Already you have to focus on what you put behind this term: sales, communication, marketing … it’s a bit of a buzzword that means everything and nothing. So define in advance the missions that will interest you, at least the main lines. Afterwards, it’s up to you to adapt to the needs of the company. Then, you also have to choose a field: working on commercial skills in a startup, in an art gallery or in the wine industry, nothing to do with it! After all that, all you have to do is choose THE destination that makes you dream.
An internship in Business Development in Thailand
No matter how long it lasts, if you leave with an internship contract, it’s a paid name. So you have to budget to live there. Thailand is if not the most reactive country of the three that we propose on the destination Asia. We advise it for those who would be in first mobility in Asia: the country is more affordable, there is a large French-speaking community: it’s more reassuring. As far as the field is concerned, Thailand has a very varied economy, you can find all types of internships in this country. Note anyway that we don’t send you anywhere: there are regions where it’s still crazy (<<- this word comes from my grandmother, I don’t even know if you understand it), so we are only targeted on the cities we master.
An internship in Business Development in Taiwan
Bim! If you want to improve your Mandarin, this is the destination. A small drawback: no training course starts in January and February. It’s Chinese New Year on February 5th this year, and every time, companies are very slowed down by the festivities. So they don’t accept trainees. Moreover, the notion of trainees is still rather vague, so the recruitment time is quite long, it is necessary to plan at least 3 months in advance, the time to find the internship and then make the visa, leave quietly & co! From this country we have only excellent returns, the students all come back happy with their experience. And, pompom on the cake: you can visit Asia cheaply from Taiwan, because the island offers Low-Cost destinations!
An internship in Business Development in South Korea
The latest addition to International Horizons. The recruitment process is long, plan at least 4 to 5 months in advance; and, note that the schedules are more extensive than in other countries, they vary from 40H to 52H per week. Most of the companies focus on Seoul; to tell you the truth, for them, Daegu – 2 million inhabitants – is far too small to find a job. #Come to Montluçon. South Korea offers a variety of opportunities, the economy is still growing, the cost of living is very low, and we’re all digital and connected. If it’s technology that interests you, this is THE Asian country to go to!
So for your internship in business development in Asia, you know what you have to do: contact us!
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Dancing Sun Foundation presents
What Changes Us
Performed by Bird & Water Dance Ensemble,
the first dance ensemble formed by people with
physical, visual, and other disabilities in Taiwan.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
5pm to 6:30pm
7:30pm to 9pm
1635 Park Avenue
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Tickets: $35 General; $25 Students/Seniors
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KIEV, September 8. /TASS/. Members of the Coordination Council set up by the Belarusian opposition Anton Rodnenkov and Ivan Kravtsov stated that they had arrived in Ukraine legally and that they are not planning to ask for political asylum yet.
"We entered Ukrainian territory in an absolutely legal manner. We had all the documents: passport, insurance, test for COVID-19 and a temporary residence permit," Rodnenkov said. He added that he and Kravtsov are members of a volunteer organization in Ukraine, which is why they got the residence permit beforehand. When asked about requesting political asylum, Rodnenkov stated that "there are no such plans so far." "We have not discussed this issue yet," Kravtsov said.
Rodnenkov and Kravtsov plan to carry on their activity in Kiev, "using all opportunities," Kravtsov said during the press conference.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Ukrainian border service informed that members of the Belarusian opposition Anton Rodnenkov and Ivan Kravtsov had arrived on Ukrainian territory. According to Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Anton Gerashchenko, they were expelled from Belarus by force. Rodnenkov stated that the Belarusian special forces had attempted to force another opposition member Maria Kolesnikova to leave the country, however, she tore up her passport to avoid leaving. State TV channel Belarus-1 informed that she had been detained during an attempt to cross the border illegally.


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NEUROMUSCULAR CASE OF THE MONTH – NOVEMBER 2010
What is your video diagnosis?
Contributed by Dr. Osbone Wilder
Berkeley Veterinary Clinic
This 6-year-old female-spayed Labrador retriever was presented with a 1 day history of difficulty walking and an unusual gait in the pelvic limbs. The dog seemed to tire easily after walking outside at the clinic. Thoracic limb function appeared normal.
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1. The smaller Android Wear smartwatch will not include LTE nor GPS, and it has a diameter of 42mm.
2. As expected, Apple unveiled a new version of its smartwatch, called the Apple Watch Series 2.
3. Pebble introduced its first smartwatch, called the Pebble, in 2013.
4. You can buy a real smartwatch for the same price and get more functionality.
5. Apple did a lot of work to make using a smartwatch with so many features this simple.
6. Apple looks to have a big impact on the smartwatch market for years to come.
7. The launch of the Apple Watch has had a major impact on the smartwatch market overall.
8. As a result, those of us who were hard on the Android smartwatch devices are less so now.
9. The smartwatch also provides music controls for users, as well as other capabilities.
10. This drawing of a smartwatch design was included by Apple in a patent filing.
11. The smartwatch was connected via Bluetooth to a smartphone kept in his pocket.
12. This puts pressure on smartwatch platforms to develop further from where they are today.
13. It is a well built smartwatch, but it is quite large and has terrible battery life.
14. The smartwatch also will recommend ways to improve a workout.
15. When the smartwatch is sold to the public, the metal band can be purchased as an accessory.


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At the beginning of 2019 Antoinette will read our column in this newspaper. In it the story of Frits *. She is in the same boat as them. He also had to repay his housing benefit because his pension was forcibly purchased. He hears from us that there is a system for “special income”, for example for the transfer of pensions. You can ask the tax authorities not to add such a small amount of pension to your income. This rule only applies to housing benefit. And do you want to use it? Then you have to submit the application very quickly: within 6 weeks from the date on which you receive the letter stating that you have to repay the housing benefit. Frits is two weeks late …
Antoinette reads that we’re getting more complaints from the likes of Frits. You will only hear about the program after these 6 weeks have passed. And we think 6 weeks is way too short! In recent years we have therefore asked the minister several times to convert these 6 weeks into 5 years. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that far when Antoinette decided to write to us in early 2019.
But perseverance wins! This spring, the tax and customs administration extended the application period to 5 years (calculated from the year in which you received the housing benefit). So: In the last few years, were you too late with your request for a special situation with the tax and customs administration? Or did you not make a request at all? Then you can still do this for the last five years, i.e. 2015 up to and including 2019. Please note, however: You must submit an application for the approval year 2015 before January 1, 2021. From January 1, 2021, this is possible for the housing benefit years from 2016 (i.e. no longer for 2015). Good news for Frits, Antoinette, and everyone else in the same situation.
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Liberalism in the classical sense isn’t the opposite of conservativism but rather “the proposition that we’re all free to do as we please, other than to impede the freedoms of others,” writes Timothy Ferris in the Future Issue of The Oxford American:
An independent political philosophy with no inherent ties to either the Left or the Right, liberalism forms the basis of liberal democracy, the most popular and successful form of governance ever deployed. … Liberalism is a proposition, not a dogma. … Its method, like that of science, is to start with freedom and let people experiment as they see fit, discarding the experiments that fail and retaining those that seem to work.
Liberalism has been a resounding success, posits Ferris, with most Americans sharing basic classical liberal beliefs and liberal democracies comprising “nearly half of all humanity.” But one thing could be its undoing, he suggests: catastrophic climate change:
Liberalism itself could become a victim of such a calamity. The liberal democracies have already demonstrated a disturbing tendency to revert to authoritarianism in times of emergency. Few historians today think it was a good idea for Abraham Lincoln to have abridged habeas corpus during the Civil War, or for FDR to have put native-born Americans of Japanese descent in concentration camps during World War II, or for George W. Bush to have imprisoned suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay without due process, but this baleful tendency has persisted anyway.
Too many conservatives think global warming can be dismissed as a socialist conspiracy. Too many progressives agree with the ninety-year-old ecologist James Lovelock that “it may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while” in order to deal with global warming. There is a real danger of our running aground between these two big, ignorant, smug schools of thought–and a real need for those who comprehend the threat to start speaking out more forcefully about it.

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This 90 thousand sq.ft 6 Mansions was designed with richly imaginative and ideal luxury for Veepees fraternity. the 6 brothers who think alike who has a similar style of living. Project Name: VEEPEES MANSIONS Studio Name: Arif Associates
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The Welsh Select Committee say it is 'disappointing' that Wales has so far been excluded from plans for high-speed rail.
But the committee's chair David Davies said that the UK Government's decision to extend electrification to Swansea and the Valley lines into Cardiff should be welcomed.
In a report published today, the committee said that current plans for the HS2 link could cause damage to the Welsh economy by attracting businesses and people to move across the border.
The MPs want the UK and Welsh Governments to develop plans for a high-speed rail link between Wales and England.
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The gang behind a £19million cocaine conspiracy are being sentenced in one of Dyfed-Powys Police's biggest ever operations.
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When a wave took a woman's false leg into the sea at Freshwater East, Gertie the dog knew she only had one chance - and leapt into action.


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This vehicle looks like it ran up over something low in the middle front. In the front it needs a complete front bumper assembly, and front bumper re bar, grill, and probably a radiator support. The radiator support is pushed upward. It does not look like it got into the main lower and upper frame/structure rails. All of the coolers, cooling fan assembly are actually still good as well. Both of the front headlamp assemblies have got the two upper mounting tabs broken on them (could be repaired). The hood is good, but does have a small upward ding in the middle left side of it. The upper grill on the nose of the hood is untouched. The left fender is also untouched, the right one has a tiny livable crease mark in it, in the upper top corner. The right rear quarter panel is dented in (could mostly pop it back out, repair). The right side of the rear bumper cover is also damaged, (could be repaired if needed) and the middle top of the rear bumper cover, has got some cosmetic scratches in it as well. The right front rim, has got some cosmetic finish scratches in it. The interior is super clean, but does need both roof/side curtain air bags. The headliner has a tear mark in the middle of it on both sides, and some light discoloration in it mostly on the right front edge. The drivers seat belt is sprung, and passenger side is locked up. The vehicle runs and drives perfect, straight down the road, with no issues. New car sticker was $27,678 dollars. Really not a bad fix here, and in the end you would have a nice well equipped AWD Subaru to drive.
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Brexit is “fraying” the relationship between the UK and Ireland and putting peace in Northern Ireland at risk, Irish premier Leo Varadkar has said.
The Taoiseach said the Good Friday Agreement was being “undermined” by fractious relations between the two countries over how the Northern Irish border should be managed once Britain leaves the EU.
It comes just a day after Theresa May’s de facto deputy, David Lidington, travelled to Dublin to hold talks with his Irish counterpart, Simon Coveney, in a bid to improve relations between the two governments.
But speaking within hours of the visit, Mr Varadkar described the relationship between the two countries as “fraying”.
He told Irish broadcaster RTE: “Brexit has undermined the Good Friday Agreement and is fraying the relationship between Britain and Ireland.
“Anything that pulls the communities apart in Northern Ireland undermines the Good Friday Agreement, and anything that pulls Britain and Ireland apart undermines that relationship.”
The warning comes despite Mr Coveney having claimed a deal between the UK and the EU was “very close”.
Mr Varadkar was speaking hours after another senior Irish politician also claimed the return to a hard border would threaten peace in Northern Ireland.
Senator Neale Richmond, who chairs the Brexit committee in the Irish parliament’s upper house, told Radio 4’s Today programme: “When we talk about political goodwill I think it’s very important…why the Irish government and why the European Commission is so firm on an Irish-specific backstop is the preservation of peace.
“It’s the 20-year-old fragile Good Friday Agreement peace, something that the Irish government and indeed the British government is a co-guarantor of, and we must work to ensure that there is no hard border, customs or otherwise, on the island of Ireland, as that is a threat to that Good Friday Agreement. Let’s focus on that first and foremost.” Read more
Related news: Tory MP asks government to consider bringing back death penalty. Read more


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Hay prices are high around the country and in some places the hay is hard to come by. These reasons led Dianea Fay and her son Brandon Fay who raise Nigerian dairy goats under the herd name Beards and Tails Dairy Goats near Emporia, Kansas, to try Chaffhaye, a hay/fiber alternative feed for dairy goats.
"Our hay dealer lost his fields to floods the year before so he needed to replant and rotate his crops," Dianea Fay said. "We started feeding Chaffhaye late last fall as we were struggling to find alfalfa for the goats."
Chaffahaye is a source of roughage, protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals, made from alfalfa hay. It is chopped and packed into special 50-pound bags that lock in freshness and natural plant juices. Fermentation agents are added, creating a mix that produces beneficial bacteria, enzymes, and yeast that aid digestion and helps maintain proper pH balance in the dairy goat’s diet. This allows the digestive system to extract more energy and nutrition from the forage.
"Once we started feeding Chaffhaye we were shocked to see improvement in overall coat condition, loss of hay bellies, and that infernal hay dust cough in our dairy goats," Fay said. "We also noted an increase in our milk production while they were on the Chaffhaye."
The Fay’s goats relish the Chaffhaye.
Fay said they feed their goats about two pounds of Chaffhaye each day, in divided feedings.
"You can increase or decrease the amount you feed on the condition or weight of your animals," Fay said. "We feed grain and then when the grain is cleaned up, then we go about and put the Chaffhaye in the feed bowls and they clean that up in record time. We have many bowls out so that everyone gets some. If I have a few smaller goats that I do not think are getting enough, then I pull them out and guard them so they get enough. But overall, they share well. If I have some brome or prairie hay then I will give a bit in the afternoon just to occupy them as we dry lot our goats."
Fay said the Chaffhaye has a two-and-a-half year shelf life without a loss of protein. It is also cost-effective because there is less waste than there would be from a normal bale of hay fed to the goats.
"I feel we are getting a better bang for our buck with Chaffhaye, because not only are my goats getting the quality alfalfa, but there is the yeast in there for probiotics." she said. "It is packed in water repellent bags that are easy to take to shows or move around on the farm. Tag is only 50 pounds but it is ‘packed’ and is equivalent to a bale-and-a-half of alfalfa. Actual bales of alfalfa currently weigh between 50-75 pounds and are selling in many areas for $10-$15 a bale. It is really hard to get good brome or prairie hay here in Kansas right now where I live, so Chaffhaye has been a blessing for us. A bale of Chaffhaye, depending on how far it travels to dealer, is running about $13.25. I know it sounds like a lot, but when you weigh all the benefits the goats gain then it is not so bad, and then factor in that it is a bale-and-a-half then you are paying about the same price."
At Beards and Tails, the does and bucks all get the same ration.
"We feed an all stock grain ration to the goats and those getting ready to kid get a dairy ration," Fay said. "I know many do not feed the goats year round, but as we have domesticated them they cannot live on hay alone. We also have mineral available for them all the time, and lots of water. They do not act as hungry when being fed the Chaffhaye. We feed all our goats the same hay. The bucks really like it and I have to say they have done well this year breeding, as we had many triplets and quads born. The bucks did not get real skinny during rut either. And I have to say this year they are maintaining weight pretty good too."
Fay said she and her son had to drive a few hours to get their first pallet of Chaffhaye, but it lasted them a long time and the goats loved to eat it. Storage was not a problem because the pallet of 50 pound bale bags had an additional tarp on it to add extra protection from elements. A ton of Chaffhaye occupies only one third of the space of baled alfalfa. It is also free of dust, mold, and blister beetles.
Fay said until the cost of good alfalfa hay came back down, her goats would not mind eating Chaffhaye, in fact, they seemed to prefer it.
"I can say that when the first pallet was gone the goats were really unhappy to have to go back to less than quality hay as that was all we could find," she said.
Fay said she encouraged other goat breeders to try Chaffhaye if they were having trouble locating a good hay source this winter.
"I am not saying it is going to fix all things but it sure helps," she said. "I believe in it enough to have become a Chaffhaye dealer. I won’t quit using but once we can get alfalfa out of the field at a cheaper price I will, but the show does will be eating Chaffhaye."
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Distance from Mali to Palestinian Territory
Distance from Mali to Palestinian Territory is 4,253 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 2,643 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Mali and Palestinian Territory is 4,253 km= 2,643 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Mali to Palestinian Territory, It takes 4.72 hours to arrive.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||17° 34´ 14.4840'' N |
3° 59´ 46.2120'' W
Mali Distances to Countries
|Distance from Mali to Mexico||10,064 km|
|Distance from Czech Republic to Mali||3,986 km|
|Distance from Gibraltar to Mali||2,069 km|
|GPS Coordinates||31° 56´ 47.6520'' N |
35° 18´ 9.7920'' E
Palestinian Territory Distances to Countries
|Distance from Bhutan to Palestinian Territory||5,290 km|
|Distance from Angola to Palestinian Territory||5,144 km|
|Distance from Falkland Islands to Palestinian Territory||13,053 km|


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On the ice of Paittasjärvi lake in the Pirttivuopio village a field is cleared of snow every easter. The field consists of one take-off track, an aircraft parking area, and a landing track. The total size of the field equals approx. 50 football fields. During the two easter weeks of flying activity there are more take-offs and landings here than on Arlanda during the same time!
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The vehicular romp saw the nu metal legends team up with The Hangover‘s Kim Jeong to become ‘Lin-Ken-Park’ and belt out some tunes, but was shelved indefinitely after Bennington died of suicide less than a week later.
At the time, Carpool Karaoke creator James Corden released a statement promising to abide by the Bennington family’s wishes regarding if (and when) the episode would ever see the light of day, telling the Associated Press:
“We will approach it in whichever manner his family or the people that were involved in that episode, however they would like it to be handled.
“We will navigate it as delicately as possible and just adhere to whatever wishes they would want because I don’t think there’s any other way we could deal with it really.”
The episode, which was filmed for the Apple Music spinoff of Carpool Karaoke, is now expected to be released on Friday, 13th October Australian time.
The episode will arrive as Linkin Park continue planning for an upcoming tribute show in Bennington’s name, which will feature members of bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Blink-182, Korn, System Of A Down and Avenged Sevenfold.
Last month, Bennington’s wife Talinda shared a candid home video of the singer, also taken just days before his death.
Catch some photos from Linkin Park’s upcoming Carpool Karaoke segment, below.
If you or anyone you know needs help or information regarding mental health, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636.
— LINKIN PARK (@linkinpark) July 14, 2017
Lin-Ken Park. https://t.co/R3bYFDcECG
— Ken Jeong (@kenjeong) July 14, 2017


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The voters have decided that Toounknown is wrong! Vote on the post to say if you agree or disagree.
Also by Toounknown-26Its easier to make a new account then to find an old password, amirite?
Also about society today+252The people at IBM spent years and possibly billions of dollars to develop a computer that can play jeopardy. Isn't that sort of what's wrong with society today? "Alright guys we have infinite money and amazing technology should we try to cure cancer? Nah you're right, feed the millions of starving kids in Africa? Nah that's a waste. I know, let's build something that can play jeopardy!", amirite?
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Also about grocery line+1,709It's proper and polite to let the person behind you in the grocery line that has two items in their hands go ahead of you if you have a cart full, amirite?
Also about Jobs & Employment-20anyone who loses work because of covid 19 should sue any media who pushed propaganda and fear over the virus. amirite?
Also about society today+785In SOCIETY today we use the rhyme i before e except after c to make spelling easier. Isn't that WEIRD? amirite?
Also about society today+145in this society today, green in stoplight means go, red means stop, yellow means go faster. amirite?
Also by Toounknown+28I could never be a cop because i could never not drink and drive, amirite?

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