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Waverly woman charged with animal cruelty
- Waverly woman accused of leaving dog in more than 115-degree car while she shopped in Horseheads
- Elmira Heights man accused of leaving dog in more than 130-degree car while at Langdon Plaza in Elmira
- They will be in Horseheads and Elmira courts next week to answer animal cruelty charges
A Waverly woman will be in Horseheads Town Court next week to answer an animal cruelty charge, Elmira City Animal Control said.
Patricia A. Olmstead was charged Thursday by animal control officers with one count of animal cruelty for leaving her dog confined in a car while she shopped at Walmart in Horseheads, animal control said.
When officers arrived, the car's interior temperature exceeded 115 degrees, animal control said.
Olmstead is due to appear in Horseheads Town Court on Aug. 14, animal control said.

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Borislav Mihaylov, president of the Bulgarian Football Union, has resigned from his post following the shameful scenes in last night's defeat to England .
Fans were seen giving fascist salutes and directing racial slurs at opposition players in the Euro 2020 qualifier, which England won 6-0.
The game had to be halted twice due to the bile coming from the stands, in a stadium which was already partially closed due to racist incidents.
Following pressure from the Bulgarian government, BFU president Mihaylov has stepped down from his role.
A statement reads: "Today the president of the Bulgarian Football Union Borislav Mihaylov tendered his resignation, which will be presented to the members of the executive committee at the meeting on Friday.
"This position has been taken as a result of tensions in recent days, creating a situation that is detrimental to Bulgarian football and the Bulgarian Football Union.
"After many years spent in the post and with his many contacts at a high international level, Mr. Mihaylov expresses his firm readiness to continue to help the development of Bulgarian football in every possible way."
The move comes as no surprise, as the Bulgarian government had pressured him to fall on his sword.
Sports minister Krasen Kralev said : "The prime minister called me urgently a short time ago.
"You know that the government has done a lot for the development of Bulgarian football in the last four years.
“But after the recent events, having in mind the whole state of football and last night’s incidents, the prime minister has ordered me from today to suspend any relations with the BFU, including financial ones, until the resignation of Borislav Mihaylov.”

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Below is information on Stacy’s books on Audible for adults, teens, and children. Click on the covers for detailed book descriptions, reviews, and retail links. Scroll down for a special sneak peek at the narrators and to learn what goes into producing an audiobook.
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Narrated by Erin Moon. Erin is a professional AEA/CAEA/SAG/AFTRA actress working Off Broadway and regionally in the USA and Canada for over a decade. Erin has been seen on Law and Order: SVU and is also an award winning audio books narrator recording over 50 novels for Audible.com, Recorded Books, Brick Shop Audio and Hachette. Favorite audiobook recordings include young adult novels: The Sisters Red (Earphones & Best YA Books of 2010 Awards from AudioFile Magazine), The Bone Shaker and Touch Blue among many others. Adult American: The Shape Shifter series, Seeing is Deceiving (Series). Adult Canadian: Exclusive narrator for author Miriam Toews and the Clare Vengel Undercover series. Erin is a 500hr Therapeutics/Vinyasa Yoga instructor and an adjunct movement professor at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Read Stacy’s in-depth interview with Erin.
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The black community affected by Texas’ first serial killer is filtered through a white lens in 'The Midnight Assassin.'
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When Jacqueline Conn lost her job, she found a movement — one that aims to help 70 million Americans with criminal records find a way out of the 'box.'
Essentially, “Ban the Box” is an effort to allow those with past convictions to have their job qualifications and personalities evaluated before discussing ...Read More
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FDA plays a critical role in protecting the United States from threats such as emerging infectious diseases, including Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. FDA is committed to providing timely guidance to support response efforts to this pandemic.
FDA has been asked whether refrigerated food transport vehicles and refrigerated food storage units used for the temporary preservation of human remains during the COVID-19 pandemic subsequently can be used to transport and store human and animal food. FDA is issuing this guidance to provide information and resources related to the cleaning and disinfection of such vehicles and storage units to address food safety before they are used again to transport and store food. The recommendations in this guidance are intended to supplement existing food safety regulations and guidance.  Other aspects of cleaning and disinfection, such as worker, environmental, and vehicle safety, are addressed by other federal agencies, such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Transportation (DOT), as well as State and local government agencies. Several additional resources related to these topics are included in Section IV of this document.
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According to today's Wall St Journal, the men on this site are all in style now. Vintage is now officially "in". I read this article with a feeling of ambivalence. 10 years ago, no one I knew had ever seen a bag like my Filson Travel Bag. Now, they sell it at Barney's. Well, I guess going mainstream is better than going bankrupt. If the companies handle it correctly and don't dilute the brands for the sake of sales growth, it should be ok. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703466704575490393103166572.html Note: if you don't have an online WSJ subscription and want to read the full article w/photos Google "Is L.L. Bean Driving the Runway?!" and click on the link. This works for all WSJ (and Barron's) content. Is L.L. Bean Driving the Runway?! By STEVE GARBARINOF. Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Unbatten the hatches, folks: The Brawny Man is back. He's dressed for the elements, looking as rugged as a lumberjack—and also a tad pleased with himself. Yes, he can hunt, chop trees, mine gold and pull lobsters from frigid waters. But his oil-waxed knapsack of tricks has just grown: He's today's fashion icon. The Heritage-Hipster Matrix Our road map to the strange and crazy lovefest between new-school designers and old-school brands. His fisherman sweater is coming down the runways of Gucci and Jil Sander; his flannel shirts and Navy-style pea coats are for sale at Barneys (add a zero or two to the price). After years where a sexual ambiguity ruled, today's menswear designers are taking cues from yellow-paged copies of Field & Stream and L.L. Bean catalogs. Pioneering names like Barbour, Filson and Stetson are catchwords of the moment, while Gucci, Prada and Helmut Lang are sounding almost…passé. So-called "new heritage" brands, created by youthful designers and inspired by iconic outdoor apparel companies, are opening their doors with Gold Rush speed. They specialize in handcrafted, American-made togs and, more often than not, sales associates with perfectly pruned 1850s-style facial hair. While skinny ties and pointy shoes come in and out of style, the nostalgia-driven look isn't showing any signs of flagging. There's comfort to be found in the familiar. "During uneasy times, consumers are naturally drawn to items that are well-constructed and built to last," said Carl Chiara, director of brand concepts for Levi's. An abundance of clothing made in China and India and the United Arab Emirates has paved the way for a new fascination with clothes that are created in American factories. And everyone was bound to get a bit tired of that effete, tailored Italian designer "uniform" that the Pradas of the world have been pushing on men for the past decade. "When the economy fell apart, the Euro look of skinny black men's suits" did, too, said designer Michael Bastian, whose own line of rugged sportswear is heavy on shearling and gray flannel. It was only a matter of time before the pendulum swung toward a rough-and-tumble look that was unabashedly manly. Besides the re-emergence of L.L. Bean and Pendleton, other vintage brands such as Stetson, Woolrich, Levi's and Britain's J Barbour & Sons are having second comings, either independently or collaborating with high-end runway designers. (See chart.) Over the past couple of years, hipsters and hipster designers have been adopting the mystique surrounding outdoor wear brands. Now the classic brands are tapping the designers and forming partnerships with them. If the new nostalgists are profiting from heritage chic, it's only fair the look's forefathers benefit. A number of heritage brands are partnering with high-end, runway designers or upcoming labels to fortify their relevance. Cowboy-hat legend Stetson approached Albertus Swanepoel—who has collaborated with fashion designers like Carolina Herrera and Alexander Wang—to design a line of signature hats this fall, because "it keeps Stetson in the public eye," said Pam Fields, Stetson CEO. Century-and-a-half-old clothing company Barbour has been partnering with cutting-edge Japanese designer Tokihito Yoshida. Mr. Yoshida went into the company archives to create updated versions of the plaid-lined country staple. American outfitter J. Crew only debuted in 1983, yet the company has asserted itself as the behemoth of heritage purveyors and now carries in its clubby men's shops more than 40 traditional brands such as Red Wing work boots and Baracuta Harrington jackets (its website calls those labels its "design heroes"). The retailer also makes its own appropriations of ye-olde items such as Filson bags and Barbour's oil-waxed jackets (which they sell side by side with the originals). "You go into a designer store at this moment, and it's dead silent, but you enter one of the more traditional stores selling heritage brands and they're, like, buzzing," said Alex Carleton, a menswear designer who began his career at Polo Ralph Lauren. In 2003 he left his job at L.L. Bean to create his own nautical inspired sportswear line, Rogues Gallery. He is now the designer of L.L. Bean Signature, a newly launched line that offers a leaner, more modern take on the Freeport, Me.-based company's signature items. The heritage look is rooted in America, yet its revival is traceable to post-World War II Japan, when an enthusiasm for baseball and American movie stars caught on. The exaltation of "Made in America" tags have been steadily growing in Japan since then, resulting in the inclusion of tweeds and toggles in the recent collections at Japanese clothing stores Beams and United Arrows. Japanese label Comme des Garçons's designer Junya Watanabe has collaborated, over the past few years, with companies such as Brooks Brothers, Vanson Leathers and Woolrich. This year, for classic British brand Tricker's, he designed a white-soled Red Wing-like "Super Boot." In 2006, Japanese designer Daiki Suzuki took the Woolrich label and upgraded it into the Woolrich Woolen Mills line. American outdoor-wear forerunners like Abercrombie & Fitch and Ralph Lauren's Rugby collegiate line are now being overshadowed by more durable, less logo-driven goods. "I've heard some people saying that the heritage revival is the death of luxury," said Mr. Bastian, the fashion designer. "But guys are just shopping differently." Yet another thing the Brawny Man can aim for: saving the American economy.


The rules also do not have safeguards to ensure that users of social media platforms are made aware that their personal data will be stored and analysed by the tech giants
The government’s new rules to regulate social media content, forcing companies such as Facebook and WhatsApp to remove posts and share details of certain messages with state authorities, will compromise the privacy of millions of online users in India, experts said.
The rules also do not have safeguards to ensure that users of social media platforms are made aware that their personal data will be stored and analysed by the tech giants. Experts fear the new rules may lead to widespread gathering of personal information by social media platforms in the absence of an online privacy law.
“There are some parts of the rules that may infringe on user privacy and go against the ‘data minimization’ principle of the data protection law," said Gurshabad Grover, senior policy officer at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
The data minimization principle advocates that only those user data should be collected and processed that are adequate and necessary for that purpose. Globally, it is being followed strictly under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The GDPR regulations, for instance, include requiring the consent of users for data processing, anonymizing collected data to protect privacy, providing data breach notifications, safely handling the transfer of data across borders and requiring certain companies to appoint a data protection officer to oversee GDPR compliance. In addition to EU members, it is important to note that any company that markets goods or services to EU residents, regardless of its location, is subject to this regulation.
This is in contrast to the new rules, which mandate intermediaries to retain user information given during the registration process for 180 days (or six months), even after users delete their accounts.
The rules also state that users who want to verify their accounts should be provided with an appropriate mechanism. Messaging platforms, which offer end-to-end encryption for greater privacy, have been asked to identify the ‘first originator’, which means identifying an internet user who starts sharing any type of mischievous information, which many privacy experts fear is a veiled attempt at state surveillance.
“To comply with this rule, messaging platforms will have to store metadata, which is often deleted as soon as a message is delivered. Clearly, the government is going in the territory of calling for constitutional scrutiny on the right to privacy and stepping into murky legal territory whether all of this is possible through delegated legislation," Grover noted.
Google and Twitter declined to comment on the new rules. Facebook said it is committed to people’s ability to freely and safely express themselves on its platforms.
“The details of rules like these matter, and we will carefully study the new rules that were just published," said a Facebook spokesperson.
To be sure, data is collected through various means such as cookies and software development kits by or on behalf of corporations to create products and services for consumers.
Social media platforms, in particular, collect data to serve customized and targeted advertising. However, user data also has the potential to be used to mould public opinion or disrupt public order.
There is widespread gathering of personal information of users, said Apar Gupta, executive director of Internet Freedom Foundation.
“What is required in India is sound public policy choices, which can be made by the government to protect the rights and provide for the welfare of individual internet users in India. The new rules seem to fix accountability on big tech platforms such as Facebook or Google but at a much higher cost to end-users by compromising the freedom of their speech and online privacy," he added.
There is also rising concern on government asking intermediaries to rely on an underdeveloped technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) for censoring abusive content by relying on and collecting a massive amount of user data.
“Development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of censorship is replete with a host of risks, including the underdeveloped and imperfect nature of AI," noted Gupta. “AI learns by examining vast amounts of data, and the development of a censorship AI is likely to require social media intermediaries to store and examine large amounts of user-generated content that does not in any way relate to the kind of content sought to be censored."
Supreme Court lawyer Virag Gupta said the government needs to notify the data protection law as mandated by a nine-judge Supreme Court ruling.
“In the absence of a stringent law, there are a billion digital users whose right to privacy and life are being denied by the government as well as the tech giants," he added
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Also keep those shutter speeds up. Even birds that are perched it is best to stay above 1/800s so that you avoid blur due to their quick movements of the head. Birds in flight it is best to be faster than 1/1000s.
What type of birds are you shooting? Are they the size of songbirds or hawks or egrets?
50-100 feet is a long way away at 510mm (your 3oo/f4 + TC17) on an FX body. Even with the D800 I suspect that you are cropping deeper than the DX crop mode if the birds are smaller than a large hawk or an eagle.
>> “...I would like to know what contributes to sharp, distant bird feather detail that I see in the pics some of you have.” I have found that filling the frame with your subject (or in case of the D800 filling at least the DX crop frame) is the best way to get that great feather detail that you are looking for.
Work on getting closer, using feed or water to attract the birds and shooting from a vehicle or a blind.

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text: ACCRA, July 19 (Reuters) – Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a legal challenge seeking to block parliament from passing a stringent anti-LGBT bill, paving the way for its ratification. Lawmakers in the West African nation have been debating a bill since August 2021 that would criminalize same-sex relations, being transgender and advocating LGBTQ rights. Most MPs are in favour. Passing the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values bill would further reduce freedoms in a country where gay sex is already punishable with up to three years in jail, critics and activists say. Amanda Odoi, an academic researcher, filed a lawsuit on July 7 challenging the bill’s constitutionality, saying it would impact donor aid and other forms of financial support. Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled her arguments were not sufficiently convincing to grant an injunction. The ruling cleared the way for the bill, one of the harshest towards the LGBTQ community in Africa, to go through a final stage of parliamentary approval before being signed into law.


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A medical procedure by which healthy blood stem cells are infused into your body in order to take the place of the impaired /deficient or contaminated bone marrow is known as a bone marrow transplant.
Where the body is unable to produce the requisite amounts of healthy blood cells, a bone marrow transplant may be necessary. A bone marrow transplant may be used to restore a new immune system in the body so as to fight against disease like blood cancer after adequate control with chemotherapy or even replace the bone marrow if it is not producing blood cells or producing defective blood cells.
Bone marrow transplants at SPARSH Hospitals are performed with the utmost precision and supervision by a specialist team of oncologists who are some of the best minds in the business today. We concentrate on excellence and that’s why we collaborate and consult your case history with a highly skilled team of clinical hematologists, surgical and medical oncologists
, doctors from allied disciplines, expert practice nurses who participate in the transplant process.
At SPARSH Hospitals, our doctors have several years of experience at performing bone marrow transplants for both adults and children in order to battle a number of cancerous and non-cancerous conditions.
Such an extensive history of performing bone marrow transplants at SPARSH Hospitals, only proves that our specialists are practiced and trained with the know-how and skill to deal with the most critical cases with professional and personalized care.
Bone marrow transplant is certainly an option of treatment for patients who have been diagnosed with these conditions. However, you will have lengthy consultations along with extensive diagnostic screenings before your specialist at SPARSH Hospitals
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Types of Bone Marrow Transplant
The treatment options under bone marrow transplant cover three broad categories. Depending on the source of the bone marrow for the transplant, the types of bone marrow transplants can be divided into:
Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant:
During this procedure the patient is the source of the bone marrow. After adequate control of the disease, patients own blood stem cells are harvested from peripheral blood and it is given as rescue therapy after myeloablative chemotherapy given to destroy the malignant cells like Multiple Myeloma, Lymphoma etc.
Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant:
For this procedure, the bone marrow is harvested from a donor after appropriate testing. Based on the type of donor and the degree of HLA match, they are again broadly classified into three categories:
a) Matched family donor:
Here the siblings who are 10/10 HLA match with patients are selected. This is the most preferred type of donor for all BMT, however there is only a 30% chance of finding such a match within the family.
b) Matched Unrelated donor:
Here the individuals who are unrelated to the donor, but have 10/10 HLA match are selected through the stem cell registries. The chance of finding such a donor for Indian patients is less than 20% and additional costs are also involved.
c) Haplo-identical donor: Here the biological parents or siblings who are half match (5/10) to the patient are selected as donors. It is usually done through two methods
a. T cell replete:
In which cyclophosphamide is used post-transplant to get rid of the unwanted T cells in the patient’s body after infusion
b. T cell deplete: Here the unwanted T cells are removed before infusion through Clinimac machine using immune-magnetic beads
Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant
It is another kind of bone marrow transplant which uses the cord blood stem cells that have been extracted at the time of a baby’s birth as a source of blood stem cells. The stem cells from the umbilical cord blood may be used in combination with bone marrow stem cells in order to perform a bone marrow transplant in a patient. It has fallen out of favor due to several reasons.
It requires a lot of planning by your Hematology team at SPARSH Hospitals, prior to performing a bone marrow transplant. Your team of specialists will sit through multiple sessions and explain the various processes and answer any questions that you may have. Once the treatment begins, your transplant team will help you and your family, by providing physical and emotional support through the entire process.
Our Diagnostic Services
Pre-transplant Tests and Procedure
Here is a list of tests according to the institutional practices and underlying disease and type of BMT that has to be carried on, will be performed for both the patient and donor to see their condition prior to BMT and to provide fitness for the same. It includes high resolution HLA typing, CBC and organ function tests, infective screening etc.
Collecting Stem Cells for Transplant
For Autologous Transplant
To collect stem cells in the case of an autologous transplant, you will receive daily injections (GCSF) in order to expedite the production of stem cells. The injection also starts moving the stem cells that are circulating in your bloodstream that will make the collection process easier. This process will be followed by a procedure known as apheresis where blood is drawn from your vein. A machine is then used to circulate the blood that separates it into various parts like stem cells. This is done after adequate control of the underlying disease like Myeloma or Lymphoma.
For Allogeneic Transplant
Blood stem cells harvested from a donor’s stem cell harvest or a Bone Marrow Harvest is the process by which either stem cells or bone marrow is extracted from the donor.
a) Bone marrow –
usually done in benign cases like Thalassemia, Aplastic anemia. It is usually done in OT under general anesthesia.
b) Peripheral blood –
here the blood stem cells are mobilized from the bone marrow to the peripheral blood and then harvested through a venous access. It is the most common type of blood stem cell harvest.
The Conditioning Process
During this phase, patients will be going through high dose chemotherapy and or radiation that will help to destroy the cancerous cell, subdue your immune system and prepare your bone marrow to accept the new stem cells.
Undergoing the Bone Marrow Transplant
Day zero, which is the day you complete the conditioning process is also the day when your body is infused with the stem cells. During the infusion process, there’s no need for sedation as the procedure is painless.
Post the infusion of stem cells, they then travel to the bone and start generating new blood cells. However, bear in mind that it may take several weeks for the creation of the new blood cells and that your blood counts will start recovering.
The preservative component in the thawed bone marrow or blood stem cells may cause some side effects like:
- You may experience headaches
- You may feel nauseous
- You may experience shortness of breath
- You may observe an unknown taste in your mouth
Experiencing these side effects may vary from patient to patient. In order to reduce the effects of the preservative, you may be administered with IV fluids.
After your Bone Marrow Transplant
After the infusion of the stem cells, they start traveling through your body towards the bone marrow in order to produce new and healthy blood cells. This process is called engraftment. Many more blood tests will follow and your health condition will be closely monitored.
The objective of the bone marrow transplant is to heal your body of certain critical diseases and put the cancerous cells into remission. The success of the transplantation procedure will largely depend on multiple things, primarily the experience of the treating team.
Going through these diagnostic screenings, tests and procedures takes a toll on you both physically and mentally. You may also have a number of questions too. Speak to your transplant specialist at SPARSH Hospitals, who will be happy to answer all your queries.
The goal for us at SPARSH Hospitals, through the bone marrow transplantation process is to either cure or control the critical condition that is ailing your body, prolong your lifespan and recuperate you into a healthy lifestyle.

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text: Come experience "Authentic Hospitality" in beautiful Plantation, Florida! The Hyatt Place Ft. Lauderdale/Plantation is perfectly situated along West Broward Boulevard just ten minutes East of the Sawgrass Mills Mall and BankAtlantic Center, 15 minutes West of the Hollywood/Ft Lauderdale International Airport, 20 minutes West of the beautiful beaches of Ft. Lauderdale and night life and 10 minutes from the Seminole Hard Rock Casino. Mix business with pleasure. Whether you are a business traveler, sports enthusiast, or vacation traveler, we are confident you will love to call the Hyatt Place Ft. Lauderdale/Plantation your home away from home. Catch great deals at the Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall, be entertained by many shows and sporting events at the Bank Atlantic Center, or stroll along the beautiful Ft. Lauderdale Beaches. Experience great night life and fine dining along historic Los Olas Boulevard or enjoy a great meal at J. http://Alexanders.For more information about local Fort Lauderdale restaurants and activities near this Plantation hotel, please visit our Activities ( link ) page.

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In 1991, Cameron Todd Willingham’s three daughters died in a Corsicana, Texas house fire. Tried and convicted for their arson murders, Willingham was executed in February 2004 despite overwhelming expert criticism of the prosecution’s arson evidence. Today, Willingham's name has become a call for reform in the field of forensics and a rallying cry for the anti-death penalty movement; yet he remains an indisputable "monster" in the eyes of Texas Governor Rick Perry, who ignored the science that could have saved Willingham’s life. Equal parts murder mystery, forensic investigation and political drama, INCENDIARY documents the haunted legacy of a prosecution built on “folklore.”
"Please join the Houston Peace & Justice Center (HPJC) for a special screening of this film at the Regal Greenway Grand Palace Stadium on Wednesday, February 1st at 8 PM. Stick around afterwards for a discussion after the film to discuss the most recent developments in the Willingham case.
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Equal parts murder mystery, forensic investigation and political drama, INCENDIARY: The Willingham Case has captivated theatrical audiences this fall. Winner of the 2011 Louis Black Award at SXSW Film, and selected to play as a 2011 Sterling US Feature at the American Film Institute/Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Festival 2011, INCENDIARY has been called “one of the most timely movies of the year…nonfiction filmmaking at its most classic. Crime, punishment, morality and hardball politics make for an explosive narrative mix all their own.” (Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post)


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News • Apr 11, 2018 07:00 BST
Ballentyne Hylton was last seen on Saturday, 5 August 2017 in the Harlesden area of Brent.
News • Apr 10, 2018 13:51 BST
Police are appealing for help to find a 22-year-old man who is missing from the Hillingdon area.
News • Mar 26, 2018 15:41 BST
Detectives are renewing their appeal to trace the whereabouts of Phil Nicol who is missing from Peckham
News • Dec 19, 2017 06:00 GMT
Detectives are continuing to investigate the disappearance of a Kilburn man.


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As former President Donald Trump’s Tuesday impeachment trial approaches, there is a growing body of evidence in criminal complaints and affidavits that the Jan. 6 Capitol breach had been pre-planned, undercutting the allegation leveled against Trump that he is guilty of “incitement to insurrection.”
A number of FBI affidavits filed in support of various charges—including conspiracy—against accused participants in the Capitol breach show evidence of pre-planning, reinforcing an argument made by critics of the impeachment trial against Trump, namely that participants couldn’t have been incited by the president to break into the building if they had earlier planned to do so.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said recently that parts of the Capitol incident had been coordinated well before Trump’s Jan. 6 speech. Trump’s accusers have described the speech as a call to storm the building.
While Trump said in his speech that “we fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” the former president appeared to be making a general reference to political activism, as he called on supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard during the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress.
Graham, in a Feb. 1 interview on Fox News, said, “There’s mounting evidence that the people who came to Washington preplanned the attack before the president ever spoke.”
“If you open up that can of worms, we’ll want the FBI to come in and tell us about how people preplanned this attack and what happened with the security footprint of the Capitol. You open up Pandora’s box if you call one witness,” Graham added, in reference to calls for witnesses to testify at Trump’s impeachment trial.
The former president’s son Donald Trump Jr. argued in a tweet last month, “If these federal law enforcement agencies had prior knowledge that this was a planned attack then POTUS didn’t incite anything.”
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text: Occur at an early stage in renal cancer (100). In accordance with our existing understanding of the tumorigenesis of ccRCC, alteration of VHL promotes the expression of hypoxia-inducible elements, which are believed to be the central occasion in upregulation of angiogenesis-related α adrenergic receptor Compound components. There’s mounting evidence of radiogenomic associations between subtype-discriminative CT features and VHL mutation status, possibly arising from a prior obtaining of substantial associations between ccRCC with VHL mutation and clear tumor margins, nodular enhancement, and an intratumoral vasculature on enhanced CT photos (101). Li et al. (102) created a radiomics model with all eight minimum redundancy maximum relevance options from CT images of 170 RCC sufferers and located it to be considerably linked with VHL mutation.RNA SequencingThe Oncotype Dx Recurrence Score (ODxRS), which incorporates the mRNA expression of 21 genes, is made use of clinically to predict the prognosis of early-stage invasive breast cancer (95). Sutton et al. (96) aimed to illustrate the relationship involving ODxRS and morphological and texture-based image features extracted from MRI imaging of 95 breast cancer sufferers. Two MRI-derived image attributes, kurtosis and histologic nuclear grade, have been discovered to be significantly correlated together with the ODxRS. Long noncoding RNAs, defined as the noncoding transcript, are a important group of regulatory RNAs that have been implicated within the development of numerous forms of strong tumors. The emergence of next-generation sequencing technologies has provided an excellent chance for increasingly rapid improvement of RNA sequencing, shedding light on novel and undiscovered transcriptional and epigenetic regulators in breast cancer. Yamamoto et al. (97) performed a radiogenomics analysis to ascertain the association between the enhancing rim fraction and also the expression of 14,880 long noncoding RNAs. Interestingly, the enhancing rim fraction score was found to become correlated with a known predictor of tumor metastasis, HOTAIR (homeobox transcript antisense intergenic RNA). These findingsPolybromo 1 MutationThe second most frequent mutation in ccRCC is in Polybromo 1 (PBRM1), which, like VHL mutation, becomes mutated within the early stage of tumorigenesis. A meta-analysis that included 2942 individuals reported that a reduced PBRM1 expression level is correlated having a dismal prognosis, sophisticated clinical stage, and a higher Fuhrman nuclear grade in ccRCC too as responsiveness to P2Y2 Receptor Purity & Documentation immune checkpoint inhibitors (103). Kocak et al. identified that high-dimensional quantitative CT texture evaluation was potentially able to recognize ccRCC with and without having PBRM1 mutations working with the artificial neural network (ANN) and random forest (RF) algorithms as machine studying classifiers; RF outperformed ANN in that study (95.0 vs 88.2 ) (104).Runt-Related Transcription Factor-3 MethylationThe runt-related transcription factor-3 (RUNX3) gene, a noted tumor suppressor gene, regulates gene expression in some dominant developmental pathways and has antitumor activity in several sorts of tumors (105). RUNX3 is reportedly inactivated in a lot of kinds of tumors and is involved inFrontiers in Oncology | www.frontiersin.orgJanuary 2021 | Volume 10 | ArticleShui et al.Radiogenomics for Tumor Diagnosis/Therapyvarious biological tumor processes, such as epithelialmesenchymal transition, adhesion, migration, and invasion. Consequently, the methylation degree of RUNX3 can also influence tumor cell phenot.

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A true account of the horrid conspiracy against the life of His Sacred Majesty William III. King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. :
Setting forth by whom it was contrived; how it was to be carried on; and the manner of its discovery. Published by authority.
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Democrats are gonna shut down the Government!
Mar 14, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 7:55 pm PDT
Congressional Democrats are threatening to shut down the government to continue their war on President Trump’s agenda. Didn’t they tell Republicans this was a bad thing when Reps threatened to do it to Obama?
Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, Corey Duncan says he believes that Obama wiretapped Trump.
‘Required’ school survey probes student attitudes on Trump and race. It asked questions like: should Trump should be impeached and “A Latino man, a black man, and a white man commit the same crime on different dates. Who do you think is getting the longest sentence?” SERIOUSLY?!?
Ray Charles could see that Hillary lost the election. Why can’t Democrats accept it?
Why do we need a petition to get SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas entered into the Black History Museum? He’s only the 2nd black justice and has served a much longer term. The curator has all but said, it’s because of his political viewpoints.


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Congress produces a variety of publications as a bill moves through the legislative process on its way to becoming a law. A compilation of these full text primary source publications produces a legislative history that is valuable to a wide variety of researchers. Legislative histories enable users to trace the development of a public law from its early consideration to its enactment, including development that spans more than one Congress.
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. (This database provides access to the full-text of articles from 50 journals in Spanish covering a wide range of topics, including business, health, politics, and popular culture.)
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is a major resource vital to the study of 19th century Britain, its colonies and the wider world. The papers are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the 19th century.
The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
U.S. government publications. Consists of records published by the GPO (Government Printing Office) since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.
Contains opinions issued in Florida Supreme Court cases decided since June 1993 and the briefs filed in those cases. Briefs for cases decided without an opinion are not included. Maintained by the FSU Law Library and financed by Florida Law School Libraries.
Florida Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal opinions, with headnotes and subject matter indexes. Most new releases added on day of filing. Extensive subject-matter indexes allowing you to find subjects and cases of interest, complete with links to the decisions. Find the newest cases or any published case back to 1995.
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Several organisations have raised concerns about the safety of citizens as the police's Operation Lockdown gets under way in Cape Town's crime-ridden suburbs.
The operation will receive support from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). SANDF troops arrived in Cape Town on Friday.
SANDF spokesperson Brigadier-General Mafi Mgobozi confirmed to News24 on Saturday that the troops are receiving orientation training to ensure they are prepared before they are deployed.
He did not give any further information on the expected date of deployment, or how many troops are being deployed, citing the safety of SANDF members as the reason.
The SANDF is still waiting for legal documentation, or their deployment papers, to be signed off. Mgobozi declined to comment on when the SANDF expected to receive these documents.
"The army's mandate is not necessarily community safety, fighting crime and organised crime intelligence," Bonteheuwel community activist Henriette Abrahams told Netwerk24.
Abrahams, who is also one of the organisers of Total Shutdown, said she hoped the army plays a supporting role to the police and that everyone wants to protect human rights. She also hoped that people's dignity and respect would be upheld.
This was similar to the view of defence analyst John Stupart, who wrote for the African Defence Review that in a policing scenario, the defence force is being used in a way where they will be facing communities and individuals whose "enemy" elements are indistinguishable from ordinary civilians, according to The Citizen.
'Default response to shoot first'
"Without powers of arrest or investigation, and without the training in community policing that even the SAPS struggle with, the SANDF's default response to violence will be to shoot first and ask questions later," Stupart said.
Dalli Weyers from Social Justice Coalition told Netwerk24 the fact that the army needs to be brought into certain areas shows that the police have failed in their mandates in that environment.
Police Minister Bheki Cele's spokesperson Reneilwe Serero however told the SABC that the deployment of the army to the Cape Flats is by no means an admission that the police have failed to do their job.
"There is already a large contingency of police that have already been deployed. They started walking the streets, doing searches, making arrests as well. So, they are here to make sure we maintain law and order in this part of the Western Cape and in any other volatile areas.
"Not only will they be focusing on Philippi East, but they're focusing on a broader Western Cape where we have noticed a high rate of crime and murders," she said.
Cele announced on Thursday in his budget speech that President Cyril Ramaphosa had given the go-ahead for soldiers to enter crime-ridden areas on the Cape Flats.
Western Cape Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz welcomed the announcement.
"The deployment of the SANDF is a massive relief for the people of our province who can now look forward to being safe in their own communities and homes," he said in a statement on Friday.
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: a Ruger SR9 with no safety, a 5″ barrel, and a decent set of adjustable sights, and forward cocking serrations, and hell, might as well add an optic cut, would make a killer beginner competition gun.
There was never really anything wrong with the Ruger SR9, except for the safety (which felt oddly placed in my hand), which was probably part of the reason the gun never really took off in the competition world.
Basically, why not take an SR9, and add the features of the Sig P320X5/Canik TP9SFX to it, and bring it in at a decent price point, and I think it would be a great pistol to push folks who are brand new towards as their first competition gun.
Interestingly, today IDPA posted a survey on their Facebook page where Ruger is asking for the features people would like to see in and IDPA gun. Seems really interesting to see a big player in the gun world taking an interest in competitive shooters…


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Improvement of Oil Flow Calculations in in Analytical Predictive Models of Thermal Recovery
Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) is the preferred thermal oil recovery method used allover the world. The extensive use of CSS by the oil industry points to the need for a simple performance prediction technique. Analytical models are capable of rough production estimates for various operating conditions. The most important aspect of flow calculation in thermal recovery is the proper evaluation of the oil viscosity. So far, in the analytical models, there has not been any attempt to calculate an average viscosity based on its aerial distribution. In case of heavy oil, it is also very important to include the conduction heat loss from the hot steam zone to the cold zone along with the convection heat loss. An improved average temperature calculation technique and a new method of evaluating the effect of spatial oil viscosity distribution have been presented in this study. Results are analyzed and discussed for the improved situation.
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Tortured Soul *UPDATED*In a near vacant graveyard at the hour of seven, a young woman by the name of Alissa Willows stood over an aged stone cross at the edge of the cemetery. A light pink rose was clutched in both her hands and was lightly pressed against her stomach the thorns that were too small to be cut off dug into her fair skin, but she did not care. Her gaze held a heavy feeling of sadness as she once again read the writing engraved on the stone. ‘R.I.P Johanna Willows 1971-2013 An angel that was taken too soon from this Earth’. A single tear fell from her gray-blue eyes as she remembered her beautiful, loving mother. She was always so caring to everyone, always listening to people’s problems and somehow always solving them, not to mention she was one of the most kind and the most patient people anyone could have ever known. The same thought that puzzled and angered her everyday crept back into her mind ‘How could someone do this to such an amazing, gentle person? And why woul
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Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges worldwide, has secured a license from the Bank of Spain that will let the exchange operate in compliance with the local laws. This certification means that the exchange is currently complying with its AML/KYC processes required by the government of the country. More than 17 companies have received this certification by now.
This is a major milestone for the exchange in the country, that had applied to receive this certification since January. The company is now allowed to offer its cryptocurrency trading and custody services in the country with the approval of the Spanish authorities. About this achievement, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, founder and CEO of Binance, stated:
Effective regulation is essential for the widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies. Moon Tech’s registration in Spain is an acknowledgment of the hard work and commitment of our teams to providing a platform that places user protection above all else.
According to statements from Quim Giralt, director of Binance Spain, the company has plans to expand its operations and reach in Spain after this development. In a statement, Giralt declared:
Following this registration, we will significantly expand our team and operations in Spain to make our services more accessible to everyone. Over the coming years we will be hiring local talent to serve the Spanish-speaking market and helping to grow the local crypto ecosystem.
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The first in this series posted eight years ago!
Of course, tugs currently working in freshwater haven’t necessarily started there, as is true of Manitou.
Victorious had to traverse halfway around the world before quite recently beginning its life on the Great Lakes, such as it is now pushing hot asphalt seething within John J. Carrick.
Ditto G. L. Ostrander, here pushing LaFarge barge Integrity.
Josephine (ex-Wambrau) has likely had the greatest amount of saltwater time and distance before coming to the Great Lakes watershed. Here she’s docked in the Maumee river with the Mightys . . . Mighty Jimmy, Mighty Jake, and mighty small.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has more Mightys and more freshwater tugs to come.
This does not look like a highway scene, yet
it IS the stretch of Route 10 that will get you the best fuel economy and can accommodate quite oversized loads
whether they come from Manitowoc or Chengxi or
anywhere else, Badger can move backward
driven from here or
forward . . .
to get you there. It has for a long time, and we hope will continue that role.
This last foto from the Badger onboard museum. All others by Will Van Dorp, who will continue along Route 10 today. More Badger soon. Click here to learn more about the imminent threat to the ferry.
Chain link fence topped by accordion razor wire coils stand exposed only after a solid steel door is raised and an even heavier drawbridge lowered . . . what is this?
Unrelated . . . Grande Marocco left not quite a week ago for . . . Dakar. With all those cars up on the top splash deck (monkey deck??), I’m left wondering . . among other things . .
I’m wondering what Grimaldi ships to places like Cotonou and Banjul in West Africa.
Graphics on ships . . . if Charles Fazzino has been designated official artist of OpSail NY 2012, I wonder if we can expect designs like these on tall ships in less than a month . .. How did he get chosen? By whom? To what end? Who else was considered?
And one more from the north coast by Michigan Exposures . . . who might be planning a foray into the sixth boro . . . it’s Arthur M. Anderson. If Titanic had its Carpathia, then Edmund Fitzgerald had its Arthur . . . unfortunately too late. I love the mild-dazzle paint on these vessels. Arthur is a product of the American Ship Building Company yard in Lorain, OH . . . another manufacturing center transformed into . . housing. If you don’t know the Lightfoot Fitzgerald song, here’s the link. Otherwise, check out this supremely moody foto of a laker.
Here was RS 18.
Let’s start with two fotos from Ken on the North Coast. In fact, this first foto shows American Spirit on the legendary Whitefish Bay. Note all the wind turbines on the distant ridge. The 1000+ footer was built in Ohio and operated by American Steamship Company of greater Buffalo, NY.
Here the Wisconsin-built John G. Munson enters the Soo Locks, at the southeast corner of Whitefish Bay. No visitors to the sixth boro have quite these hull designs, which border on neo-razzledazzle a la bowsprite.
or NYK Demeter, Ulsan 2008, stopping in NYC once every few months on its trans-Panama shuttle between eastern US and China;
or Korean-built MSC Emma . . . operating between eastern US and
eastern South American ports, although registered in the Marshall Islands. In the shot about, it’s Moran’s Laura K near Emma‘s stern and Barney Turecamo,passing to port.
One more . . . Korean-built sixteen years ago . . . it’s another Panama Canal-frequenter APL Spinel, here escorted in by Louisiana-built Amy C. McAllister.
Top two fotos thanks to Ken of Michigan Exposures; all others by Will Van Dorp.
Whatzit??? Answer follows.
Note what’s on the deck of USCGC Mackinaw WLLB-30, built in Wisconsin and homeported in Cheboygan, MI. Foto thanks to Kyran Clune.
Last shot . . again, no government boat is this, but exactly a year ago today, Papillon came ashore . . . prompting many hours of visitation of government employees . . . if not boats. Here and here are two of my posts; go back to the April 201 archives for many more. Ironically, I have never been able to find out what became of the vessel.
Happy April! Again thanks to Kyran for his Lake Michigan foto. All others by Will Van Dorp.
I’ll get to more of the Louisiana and Panama fotos once I “deglitch” something, so thanks to these shots from Isaac Pennock of tugboathunter we can head north.
Do you recognize this shade of blue?
And it’s huge. How huge?
Here’s a video from more than a year ago showing Boothe first in the water. It only gets somewhat more exciting than watching ice melt (like watching paint dry or grass grow) after 3:40 . . .
Many thanks to Isaac for these shots.
Unlike the case in saltwater vessels, Great Lakes ships like Herbert C. Jackson and M. V. Algolake tie up for the winter; maintenance happens, but no cargo gets moved. Re-opening of the Soo Locks is about three weeks away . . . March 25.
The sixth boro has been virtually snowless this winter; not so, though, areas along the North Coast. Alice E (1950) hibernates in Benton Harbor.
Although rough as the Great Lakes can be, there was no ice on the St. Joseph pier when Ken took this foto.
I like collaboration. Number nine was a week and a half ago, but I do appreciate fotos like the ones here.
Ken of Michigan Exposures took this one up in Bay City, MI, a hundred plus miles northwest of Detroit. Any guesses on the vintage of this attractive tug . . .55′ loa x 12′ ? Answer follows.
Staying with vintage Great Lakes tugs, this foto comes from Jason LaDue, who recently sent these fotos from upstate. The foto below was taken in Oswego, NY, in late 1998. Three tugs had been sold south by Great Lakes Towing. The tugs below are from RIGHT to left, Gull (1952 ex-Jennifer George, Galway Bay, Oregon), Sea Tractor (1951 ex-Messenger, Patricia Hoey, New Hampshire) and the one I’ve called Grouper, whose entire saga you can find by using the blog search window to the left. Gull and Sea Tractor were both built in Louisiana at Alexander Shipyards.
At this point these fotos were taken in December 1998, all three tugs were headed south, but Grouper has never left the Erie Canal yet . . . in the past 13 years. Did anyone catch Gull and Sea Tractor coming through the sixth boro in early 1999?
Here’s Gull working the icy Great Lakes as Gaelic’s Galway Bay, and
And Sea Tractor (then called Shark) was reefed a year and a half ago near Miami’s Haulover Artificial Reef site in September 2010. I’d LOVE to see fotos of her in her last years, maybe even of the scuttling. Anyone help? Here’s a poor quality foto of Shark being hauled out to be reefed in 255′ of water.
No news currently on Grouper in Lyons, NY, but I wish the restoration of the 100-year old tug success.
Thanks much to Jason and Ken for these fotos.
Jill Marie, 121 years old!! Built 1891.
Harold Tartell and Jan van der Doe were 100% correct in their identification of the white-striped red self-unloading vessel in Road Fotos 11. It is the Arthur M. Anderson. I didn’t get to see it close up, but through the magic of YouTube, it’s rubbing-or-scrapping distance here. At about a minute into the video, you learn how the can be that close.
One of the joys of gallivanting is meeting new folks; this was especially true here. One person on this waterfront had a focus I recognized; he carried a zoom camera and looked at the same things I did. Seeing me take a foto of Arthur M. Anderson, he said its name (which I’d not been thinking of). Then he added, “And farther down there, it’s American Integrity.” Check out Ken’s blog here. Here are some highlights of Ken’s blog: American Century, the Westcott delivering mail to a passing vessel, Stephen B. Roman, a 1000-footer dwarfed by “big mac“, and check this one . . . the Huron Lightship . . . which I spotted from the Blue Water Bridge but couldn’t quite figure out. When I have more time, I plan to digest Ken’s archives, now added to my blog roll.
My zoom camera quit as this vessel approached, frustrating because I’d recognized the Algoma bear logo. And I’d assumed it was a bulk carrier too, as I thought that was Algoma’s only business, but Algosar is a tanker. See her history here.
Just south of the Ambassador Bridge, Dutch-flagged Moezelborg transfers cargo near the now-abandoned Boblo Island Detroit dock building. Boblo lives on but only in the way that this whole list of defunct amusement parks does. When Moezelborg left the international port of Detroit, she headed north, west, and south for the next international port of Chicago.
Here’s another shot of the two steamers that served Boblo Island, SS Columbia and SS Ste Claire. I wanted to get better shots but even as I got this–along with my anonymous partner–we were threatened with arrest for trespassing, which I firmly believe we were NOT doing. Here and here are more links for Ste Claire. The second one is a video of a tour of Ste Claire, interesting video but unfortunate audio.
I have returned to the sixth boro, but part of my heart got left behind in Detroit, a place of both rust and new molten steel.
Here, fun but otherwise a propos of nothing except a post on the official end-of-hurricane-season, check out “bone in its teeth” blog.


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Shernborne is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 5.63 km2 (2.17 sq mi) and had a population of 59 in 24 households at the 2001 census. The population remained less than 100 at the 2011 Census and is included in the civil parish of Ingoldisthorpe. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
- Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
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JUPITER, Fla. — A group of women are highlighting the importance of International Women's Day.
A team of 12 women, who are Bank of America employees, are the first of roughly 50 groups building two homes in Jupiter for families in need.
"We have fallen on the ground working, we have sweat together," said Fabiola Brumley, the President of the West Palm Beach market of Bank of America. "Some of us who had a fear of heights said you know what, I'm taking this on. So the bravery and the courageous women that were out here today, we have hurdled a lot of obstacles."
Their timing is just as important as their goal. This is the fifth year they've partnered with Habitat For Humanity to build homes on International Women's Day.
"I love doing home building," said Tracy Cooper, a volunteer. "And especially being all women here today to do this event."
The Center For Construction and Research reports women are underrepresented in construction, accounting for only 9 percent of the workforce.
These women in Jupiter hope their efforts change that.
"I would really like to see more women get involved in construction," said Jennifer Davidson with Habitat For Humanity of Palm Beach County. "It's really common when women come to our sites in the morning. They're afraid of the power tools. They don't want to get up on the ladder. And by the end of the day they feel empowered and they're using the nail gun and they're using the power tools and they're climbing up in the trusses and I really would love to have more women experience that confidence that comes with getting out and doing it."
It will take all 50 teams, comprised of mostly women, several months to complete the job.
The homes should be ready for move-in by mid-Summer.


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If the liver is resistant to insulin, that's a bad sign for the rest of the body and could mean there's an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the researchers said. What's more, these results are concerning because overweight patients seeking to reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes by following a ketogenic diet could unintentionally be increasing their risk for developing the disease, at least in the first few days of their diet.
You’re very welcome, Judy! I’m glad it’s helpful. If you are keto (as opposed to low carb), unfortunately peaches would not allow you to stay in ketosis. You can check my keto food list to help determine what is keto friendly. Of course, there are worse things than fresh fruit 🙂 but in the end our bodies still see the sugar. That being said, it doesn’t mean you sabotaged the whole day. Just pick up again – you got this!! (And for next time, try some fresh berries in moderation when you’re craving fruit.)
There are so many tricks, shortcuts, and gimmicks out there on achieving optimal ketosis – I’d suggest you don’t bother with any of that. Optimal ketosis can be accomplished through dietary nutrition alone (aka just eating food). You shouldn’t need a magic pill to do it. Just stay strict, remain vigilant, and be focused on recording what you eat (to make sure your carb and protein intake are correct).
Cold fried chicken breast (don’t eat the skin or coating). Hint: The chicken doesn’t have to be cold. This could be a fast-food lunch but only if you can choose whole chicken parts. (Definitely do not choose chicken tenders, patties, crispy chicken, or nuggets. They have too much breading for the amount of meat.) Most fried chicken places have coleslaw as a side. When you get back to your office, you can have the carrots and Jell‑O.
Grains and beans are high in lectins, and it’s no surprise that the top allergen foods also have a high lectin content. The lectins in nightshade vegetables can be troublesome for some people, while others handle them just fine. Cooking and peeling removes some of the lectin content in vegetables (but not grains, they’re pretty heat stable), but some super-sensitive people have to avoid them completely.
In this meta-analysis, the researchers looked at the results from a total of 20 randomized controlled trials with more than 3,000 subjects, most of whom had type 2 diabetes.  Although the authors concluded that low-carbohydrate, low-GI, Mediterranean, and high-protein diets should all be considered as a dietary strategy for diabetes management, the low-carb diet proved itself as being superior in 6 of the 8 studies.
The ketogenic diet is usually initiated in combination with the patient's existing anticonvulsant regimen, though patients may be weaned off anticonvulsants if the diet is successful. There is some evidence of synergistic benefits when the diet is combined with the vagus nerve stimulator or with the drug zonisamide, and that the diet may be less successful in children receiving phenobarbital.
What the diet guru says: ‘Every phase of the New Atkins plan is based on proven scientific principles and is a completely safe, natural way to lose weight,’ say Akins Nutritionals Inc. ‘Phase one is about transforming your body into a fat burning machine and kickstarting your weight loss. By limiting the amount of carbs you eat to around 20g a day, your body will switch its main fuel source from carbs to fat.’
There is research that supports the ketogenic diet for diabetes management, while other research seems to recommend opposing dietary treatments like a plant-based diet. Research from 2017 confirms that people with diabetes who followed a plant-based diet experienced significant improvements in blood sugars and A1c, cardiovascular disease risk factors, gut bacteria that is responsible for insulin sensitivity, and inflammatory markers like c-reactive protein.
DASH was first introduced at a meeting of the American Heart Association in 1996 and later published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1997.  The DASH trial randomly assigned 456 people to different diets to test the effects of dietary patterns on lowering blood pressure. The authors surmised that eating a diet with many different foods with blood pressure-lowering nutrients would show a greater effect on blood pressure than eating single nutrients, such as found in supplements or in a limited diet. Three diets were tested: 1) a control diet, or a standard American diet, 2) a fruits and vegetables diet, similar to the control diet but providing more fruits and vegetables and less snacks and sweets, and 3) a combination diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and low-fat dairy foods with reduced amounts of saturated fat, total fat, and cholesterol. The last two diets were richer in nutrients associated with lower blood pressure, such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, fiber, and protein. All three diets provided about 3000 mg sodium, which is more than the recommended amount from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans but less than the average sodium intake for Americans.
You say keto is a highly controversial topic. For those of us following a keto diet, there is no controversy whatsoever because the diet proves itself efficacious very quickly. I think the real controversy comes in because the ADA has been recommending dangerous levels of carbs for decades now, and they would lose face if they had to change their recommendation and admit they’ve been wrong for so long. You say there are not many studies on the keto diet, and I disagree with you. You’ll find the evidence if you look for it. Eric Westman, Steve Phinney, Jeff Volek and many other researchers have written volumes about this.
On day 1, lunch is 3 cups of spinach topped with 3 ounces of salmon or sardines; the greens are loaded with vitamins A and K, plus iron, while the fish supplies protein and omega-3 fats. Include some chopped veggies on your salad, like tomato, broccoli and bell pepper for fiber and vitamin C to help you absorb the iron. Have a salad again on day 5, but use romaine lettuce this time, and substitute cannellini beans for your protein and choose cucumber, carrots and asparagus tips as veggies. Opt for olive oil and red wine or balsamic vinegar for your dressing.
First – let’s admit that there are several different types of diets that produce dramatic improvements in weight loss and diabetes. The vegan diet is one of them (and one which also reduces risk in most other diseases better than the others) – but it is by unquestionably by far the very best diet for the environment and the survival of the planet. High protein (high meat and/or dairy) diets are absolutely TERRIBLE for the environment and are not sustainable in any way. A vegetable diet will END world hunger because we DO have enough earth to grow enough vegetables for everyone and we definitely do NOT have enough earth for meat eaters even at current levels.
We have all heard of essential fatty acids (EFAs) and essential amino acids (EAAs), but have you ever heard of essential carbohydrates? No. The human body is capable of burning fat for fuel. If the body can burn fat for fuel, why would you ingest a substance (carbohydrate) that raises your blood sugar, raises your insulin levels, and makes you sick? Why would the ADA advocate the very diet that made us sick in the first place? When are they going to admit they’ve been wrong and start doing what is in the best interest of diabetics?
You'll find lots of free Mediterranean diet resources on the Oldways website, including an easy-to-understand food pyramid; a printable grocery list; gender- and age-specific tips on making the Mediterranean switch; a quick-read "starter" brochure; a recipe newsletter; and even a glossary defining Mediterranean staples, from bruschetta to tapenade.
Finally, the ketogenic diet has been shown to be an effective adjuvant for the treatment of certain cancers. The beneficial effects have been demonstrated for various cancer types, including prostate, colon, and brain cancer, such as glioblastoma. Its efficacy has been documented in animal models as well as in humans, including in pediatric patients.
Children who discontinue the diet after achieving seizure freedom have about a 20% risk of seizures returning. The length of time until recurrence is highly variable but averages two years. This risk of recurrence compares with 10% for resective surgery (where part of the brain is removed) and 30–50% for anticonvulsant therapy. Of those that have a recurrence, just over half can regain freedom from seizures either with anticonvulsants or by returning to the ketogenic diet. Recurrence is more likely if, despite seizure freedom, an electroencephalogram (EEG) shows epileptiform spikes, which indicate epileptic activity in the brain but are below the level that will cause a seizure. Recurrence is also likely if an MRI scan shows focal abnormalities (for example, as in children with tuberous sclerosis). Such children may remain on the diet longer than average, and it has been suggested that children with tuberous sclerosis who achieve seizure freedom could remain on the ketogenic diet indefinitely.
Being in optimal ketosis for a prolonged period of time (say, a month) will ensure that you experience the maximal hormonal effect from eating a low-carb diet. If this doesn’t result in noticeable weight loss, you can be certain that too many carbs are NOT part of your weight issue and not the obstacle to your weight loss. There are, in fact, other causes of obesity and being overweight. The next three tips in this series might help you.
He also told me that I was in horrible shape, that I would need a lot of medication, and that because I was T2, insulin would do nothing for me. I still remember walking out of the building after. I felt like shooting myself. My brother had just gone blind from retinopathy 2 months earlier. There was no hope for me. High numbers were inevitable. Complications were inevitable.
You sound weak I have given up all carbohydrates and fast acting insulin and had no issue with it ( real food is so delicious and satisfying)… and I don’t miss bread pasta and sugar at all… your mind is poisoned. It also has an added side effect , I now have no fat on my body. You uneducated money grubbing doctors and the sugar industry are the real problem here. My endocrinologist didn’t even bother to tell me about nutritional ketosis at all. I eat 80 to 85% good saturated fats out the 4000 calories I consume each day… not that difficult getting rid of crap sugar and carbs… these “doctors “ are lying to us and no one cares! It’s really disgusting …. I have no problem living without sugar…. and no studies done at all.. what the hell are these doctors doing, it seems pretty obvious to me$$$$.
It seems strange that a diet that calls for more fat can raise “good” cholesterol and lower “bad” cholesterol, but ketogenic diets are linked to just that. It may be because the lower levels of insulin that result from these diets can stop your body from making more cholesterol. That means you’re less likely to have high blood pressure, hardened arteries, heart failure, and other heart conditions.
Fits in with the principles of eating and activity that I would recommend to clients: lots of produce-based meals and calcium-containing foods three times daily and exercise. Recipes look tasty. I would not necessarily recommend the lead-in period, but I like the meal plans main phase for losing weight as well the maintenance phase. I would recommend to friends and family as well
“We do not recommend the diet,” he says. “It works for weight loss, and the liver insulin resistance we observe might be transient. But the diet is simply not necessary and probably not the best choice for weight loss,” he says. “Ketogenic diets are often very low in fiber, which may have bad effects on gut health and overall health, especially over a long term. Diets high in fiber and low in fat work equally well or better than low-carb plans, in many studies, to achieve weight loss and lower glucose intolerance.”
“We have basically no evidence that this diet is consistent with human health over time,” says Dr. Katz. (Its heavy emphasis on animal protein isn’t ecologically sustainable, either, he adds.) “All of the evidence we have points toward a plant-predominant diet with an emphasis on vegetables, whole grains, fruits, nuts, and seeds—all of the very things that the ketogenic diet avoids.”
Forget old low-carb diet plans that focused on processed protein bars and shakes. This year, the keto diet got high marks for low carb. Keto, short for "ketogenic," is all about training the body to burn fat for fuel. How? By eating fat—and lots of it. Most keto diets recommend getting at least 70 percent of your daily calories from fat and the rest from protein. The goal is to eat as few carbohydrates as possible. Proponents say it helps them drop weight fast with little or no hunger in addition to perks like more energy and mental clarity. (Interested? Here's everything you need to know about the keto diet.)
The Mediterranean diet might help you lose weight. While some people fear that eating a diet like the Mediterranean diet that is relatively rich in fats (think olive oil, olives, avocado and some cheese) will keep them fat, more and more research is suggesting the opposite is true. Of course, it depends on which aspects you adopt and how it compares to your current diet. If, for instance, you build a "calorie deficit" into your plan – eating fewer calories than your daily recommended max or burning off extra by exercising – you should shed some pounds. How quickly and whether you keep them off is up to you.
You’ll find that in their meals, they emphasize a plant-based eating approach, loaded with vegetables and healthy fats, including olive oil and omega-3 fatty acids from fish. It’s a diet known for being heart-healthy. (1) "This diet is rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, seafood, nuts and legumes, and olive oil," says Nancy L. Cohen, PhD, RD, professor of nutrition at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. On this plan, you’ll limit or avoid red meat, sugary foods, and dairy (though small amounts like yogurt and cheese are eaten).
On the flip side, hypos can be an issue, especially early on…and if you treat them too aggressively, they could knock you out of ketosis. I remember my first 3 weeks on keto, my CGM trend line hugged a blood sugar of around 80. It was glorious, but I had to reduce insulin substantially through trial and error and felt like I was low every five seconds.
This diet also works for every type of eater who wants variety in their meals. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had Pistachio-Crusted Sole much less would I know how to make it. But in the “Mediterranean Diet Plan,” everything I need to know is on page 175 along with substitution tips in case I can’t find pistachios or want to try pecans or cashews instead. I also can see the health breakdown too. “The Mediterranean diet incorporates as lot of nuts, like walnuts, pistachios, and cashews which have a lot of fiber,” adds Zogheib. “Also tuna fish, king mackerel, salmon, all have omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids. There’s are whole grains, bananas, and one of the best oils to bake with — canola and olive oils. You can replace fatty butter with these oils when baking.”
In its 2016 report “Healthy Eating Guidelines & Weight Loss Advice,” the Public Health Collaboration, a U.K. nonprofit, evaluated evidence on low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets. (The Keto diet falls under the LCHF umbrella.) Among 53 randomized clinical trials comparing LCHF diets to calorie-counting, low-fat diets, a majority of studies showed greater weight loss for the Keto-type diets, along with more beneficial health outcomes. The collaboration recommends weight-loss guidelines that include a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet of real (rather than processed) foods as an acceptable, effective and safe approach.


By Beth David, Editor
Fairhaven town hall will be closed to the public and to employees until Monday, 7/27, for sanitizing after an employee tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.
In a press release on Monday, 7/20, the town said an asymptomatic employee tested positive from a test he or she got for a “routine” matter. The Neighb News has since learned that the employee was tested before a medical procedure.
The town also sent an update on 7/21, after receiving inquiries from concerned residents who had used town hall and were concerned that the town did not release the name of the department the employee works in. In the update the town said that the employee worked in a “non-public office that is available by appointment only.”
“The Department of Public Health (DPH) Epidemiology unit was notified immediately upon notice of the positive case, contact tracking protocols were followed, and all individuals (employees and the public alike) have been or will be notified and advised of their self-quarantining obligations in accordance with the DPH’s guidance,” reads the statement.
In a phone interview, Town Administrator Mark Rees said that although the building is closed, employees are working from home. He said resident should call the office they need and leave a message, or send an email. Employees will get back to them.
“The building is closed to public,” said Mr. Rees. “But the previous protocol for working from home is in place.”
Town Hall offices contact information can be found on the Town website (www.Fairhaven-MA.gov) under the respective department. Any business matters that require face-to-face interaction will resume once Town Hall offices reopen. The dropbox remains available to use at the entrance of Town Hall.
According to the statement, the deep-cleaning and sanitizing have been completed. Town hall is remaining closed pending the completion of contact tracing.
Board of Health chairperson Peter DeTerra took to Facebook to complain that he was not notified that an employee tested positive for the virus. BOH member Michael Ristuccia also voiced the same complain in phone interview.
Mr. Rees said that he notified the Department of Public Health and would not comment on the complaints by the BOH members.
In a phone interview, Mr. Ristuccia also criticized Mr. Rees saying he let the town hall be open for too long after knowing about the case.
Mr. Rees said he closed the town hall as soon as he could and would not comment any further.
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Road trip movies are fun because it allows the filmmakers to explore their characters in situations that often we don’t find ourselves in. But they need to have interesting characters and relationships but also a premise that can be sustained. Summerland had potential and the acting and relationships are enough to make it something more, the problem is that Summerland can’t hit all the marks it needs too. It finds itself muddled into a story that never finds it’s footing and, quietly frankly, becomes boring when it should be entertaining.
I have nothing against slow-paced films honestly, sometimes they are even my favourite. The problem is that Summerland takes so long to establish itself that by the time it finally gets to what you want it to be, you just aren’t into it anymore. And then when things finally start to pick up, the movie comes to an alt and goes back to being super slow. Its inconsistency brings the film down and makes you forget that behind it all the characters are actually interesting and complex. All three of the leads are doing a great job, particularly Rory J. Saper (Rufus, The Legend of Tarzan) as Oliver. The friendship between Saper’s Oliver and Chris Ball’s Bray feels lived in and believable. The way they act together feels natural and brings the film to a level that I don’t think it would have reached otherwise. Then there’s Maddie Phillip’s (Teenage Bounty Hunters) Stacey that never feels fully formed but gives a performance that makes you forget that.
Catfishing films are weird for me. I know it something that happens in real life but I find the concept so cruel that it is hard for me to accept it. Too often the person who does the catfishing doesn’t really learn from their mistake or anything, they just move on as if they didn’t lead someone on for a while, often even getting something out of the person they were taking advantage of. And Summerland is just like that. The premise centers around Bray catfishing Shawn (Descendants 2 Dylan Playfair) and trying to meet up with him at a festival called Summerland. He brings along his best friend Oliver (Saper) and Oliver’s girlfriend Stacey (Phillips). The only problem is that he is using Stacey’s pictures to catfish Shawn. It sounds interesting enough and I would have been okay with the idea if by the end Bray would have had consequences for his actions but he doesn’t really. Yes, he learns that he needs to love himself before he can start loving anyone else but the fact that for most of the film he doesn’t seem to understand how bad what he is doing rubbed me the wrong way.
To me, Oliver is the most interesting character and I think if Bray’s story would have been a subplot-point and Oliver would have been the main character, I would have found the film more interesting. The nuance that Saper was able to bring to the screen and his presence dictated much of my attention and I was barely able to take my eyes off him when he was on screen.
Summerland had potential but the problem is that it can never meet them and in the end finds itself into a mess that it can’t get out of. Is it truly bad? No, but it is also not exceptional. I had a good time watching it but I also found myself bored at times. It was inconsistent and couldn’t find the right foot to stand out and that is a shame.


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