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The global market for cell and gene therapy in 2020 reached an estimated $3.8 billion in 2020 according to Kalorama Information. How do you keep up with the business? How do you know what news is important? How can you know if scientific developments are changing the business outlook? The only way is to keep updated with a regularly published and authoritative source.
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The market for 2025 is estimated at $12,954 million and will more than double five years after to $29,960 million for 2030. Sales from oncology, cardiovascular-blood and musculoskeletal conditions will contribute strongly to market performance. Genetic conditions will also provide steady growth.
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Clayton Echard found love on the ‘The Bachelor.’ Who else has found love on the show?
After many ups and downs, Clayton finally found love on Season 26 of ‘The Bachelor’
“The Bachelor” Clayton Echard did find love on the show — even though Season 26’s finale didn’t go as planned.
He told the remaining two contestants — Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey — that though he was in love with them, he loved another contestant the most. Spoilers ahead!
That woman was Susie Evans, who left the show last week, came back, met Echard’s parents and promised to give the bachelor another chance, only to dump him at the final rose ceremony.
Later, the pair revealed that they had rekindled their romance after the filming stopped.
”I spent the last four months with her,” he said on the finale, revealing that Susie reached out to him later on. “She just impresses me more and more every day. And she continues to give me reason after reason why following my heart was the best decision I could have ever made, and I could not be more in love with this woman.”
Echard isn’t the only bachelor to find love on the show. Here are some other bachelors who found love and stayed together after the show ended.
Bachelor Sean Lowe (Season 17)
In the Season 17 finale, Sean Lowe gave Catherine Giudici his final rose. According to Women’s Health Magazine, they both said “I do” in the first-ever live TV wedding in the show’s history in 2014.
“I love having my best friend to wake up to, spend the day with, and kiss good night. I can count on Sean to make me feel loved every day and also give me sound advice when I need it. He’s honestly the best thing that has happened to me,” said Giudici.
The couple have two sons, Samuel and Isaiah, and a baby girl, Mia.
Bachelor Jason Mesnick (Season 13)
Jason Mesnick had a similar journey to Echard. He gave his final rose to Melissa Rycroft, but later broke up with her and got back together with the runner-up contestant Molly Malaney.
The couple wed in a televised ceremony. Molly is now Jason’s son’s stepmom and together they have a daughter, Riley.
Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr. (Season 22)
This bachelor may have managed to one-up Mesnick or Echard. Arie Luyendyk Jr. proposed to Becca Kufrin during the finale and then took it back. In the end, he chose the runner-up, Lauren Burnham.
They got married in Hawaii in January 2019. Together they have a baby girl, Alessi. Recently they welcomed twins, a boy and a girl.
What’s next in store for “The Bachelor” franchise?
For the first time in “The Bachelor” franchise history, two women will search for love at the same time, all season long.
On “The Bachelor” season finale, host Jesse Palmer announced Widney andRecchia as the next “Bachelorettes.”
“Watching you both support each other in Iceland — and also how you have tonight — that was really the big areas on why we decided to give you both a shot,” Palmer told the women.
The new season will premiere on July 11 with Palmer as the host.

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None of this is as hard as it sounds. I started making my own cereal because I found that store bought granola is just too sweet. I stretch it with raw oats and then add nuts and seeds for extra nutrition. I have a collection of glass jars I got out of the trash years ago. I put everything in a jar and shake it up good. My mix lasts twice as long and keeps me full almost the entire day.
I started making yogurt when I found out how easy it is to do. I never bought a yogurt machine either. Waste of money. Don't need it. Just heat up some milk in a big pot. You can dissolve some gelatin in it if you like firmness. Let the pot cool down until the milk doesn't burn your finger when tested. Then stir in a cup of plain yogurt, the kind with live cultures like Dannon. Wrap the pot in towels and place in a warm place. I sometimes put it out on the driveway when it's sunny, or you can set it on top of a radiator or other heating unit. Like bread it needs a little warmth for the bacteria to grow. Once it's cooled down completely put it in the ice box to firm up some more. Add fresh fruit for sweetness and save on money and calories.
Trail mix is another good DYI project. I don't like raisins, they're too sweet for me. I use craisins instead. Most of the time I can buy the ingredients for my trail mix, peanuts, nuts, seeds, chocolate chips and other dried fruits for a lot less than the mix would cost. I pack up small bags and a can for the car. I always have snacks to keep me out of Mickey D's.

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ORRVILLE, Ohio, July 1, 2015/PRNewswire/ -- The J. M. Smucker Company announced today that it decreased the list price for the majority of its packaged coffee products sold in the United States, primarily consisting of items sold under the Folgers® and Dunkin' Donuts® brand names. The price decline also applies to the new reduced canister size of Folgers® ground coffee. Prices decreased an average of six percent on impacted items in response to sustained declines in the green coffee futures market. The Company's K-Cup® pods were excluded from the price decrease.
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Getting into the castle of an ancient vampire has never felt better.
Author: Luke Nally
Lost Epic is Not that Epic
What is mid?
Is this the Souls game of Soulslikes?
Time to fight for the spice.
Travel with your mercenary group in The Iron Oath.
Edge of Eternity is a flawed experience for PS5 users
From the depths of hell comes our review of Infernax.
Luke reviews Capcom’s newest PC release of Monster Hunter: Rise!
Luke takes a look at the debut issue of Arkham City: The Order of the World!

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A State Transport Corporation bus that was on its way from Thirukkoilur to Ulundurpet on Saturday fell into a lake, injuring 25 passengers.
Police said that the bus left Thirukkoilur carrying 52 passengers. While nearing Kiliyur, the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle. The bus skidded down a bund and fell on its side into the lake.
However, the lake had hardly two-foot-deep water. The injured were taken to the Ulundurpet Government Hospital for treatment.

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Nobody knocked on Amir Locke’s condo door earlier than Minneapolis police entered, utilizing a key, at 6:48 a.m. Feb. 2. They murdered the 22-year-old Black man, 9 seconds later.
Locke, who police killed whereas finishing up a search warrant, was wrapped in a blanket and sleeping on a sofa. SWAT officers kicked the sofa over, waking up Locke who allegedly displayed a gun. Police officer Mark Hanneman instantly shot him.
Repeating the official police line, Minneapolis media labeled Locke a “suspect.” Solely later did police admit that Locke was not named of their warrants. Locke had a license for his gun however was given no likelihood to outlive his encounter with police.
Locke’s homicide has generated protests, together with a nighttime automobile caravan by way of the streets of Minneapolis Feb. 4 and a turnout of 1000’s of protesters over the weekend. Black Lives Matter activists disrupted and took over the press convention the place Mayor Jacob Frey and Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman tried to justify the taking pictures.
At 5 a.m. Jan. 10, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, serving a search warrant for another person, forcibly entered the condo of 19-year-old Isaiah Tyree Williams, firing 23 pictures and killing the Black youth inside seconds. After the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division realized Williams was not who the cops had been in search of, they instantly started demonizing him, itemizing fees he would have confronted had he used his weapon to guard himself in opposition to their armed break-in.
Each shootings are all too harking back to the homicide of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black girl, by Louisville, Kentucky, police on March 13, 2020. In all these instances, controversial “no-knock” search warrants, which had recognized different folks as goal suspects, offered cowl for white law enforcement officials to interrupt into residences of Black people, late at night time or early within the morning, and execute folks of coloration with out trial.
Taylor, an emergency room technician, was asleep when Louisville police used a battering ram to enter her condo shortly after midnight. After breaking down her door, police fired a number of pictures, placing Taylor 5 occasions. Louisville police delayed calling an ambulance and let Taylor die. Solely after the very fact did police acknowledge that Taylor was not the “suspect” listed on their warrant.
Brett Hankinson, one of many officers who shot Taylor, is at present on trial in Kentucky — not for killing Taylor however for 3 counts of wanton endangerment for firing pictures right into a neighboring condo.
Chauvin conviction – no deterrent to police brutality
In April 2021 Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on three fees stemming from his Might 2020 homicide of George Floyd and subsequently sentenced to over 22 years in jail. Three different Minneapolis law enforcement officials linked to the Floyd’s homicide are at present on trial.
The identical Minneapolis choose who presided over Chauvin’s trial signed off on the no-knock search warrants that resulted in Locke’s dying. The St. Paul, Minnesota, Police Division had requested a knock-and-announce warrant. But Minneapolis police, who’ve the choices of knock or no-knock warrants, selected the latter.
In November 2020, Frey declared a moratorium in opposition to no-knock warrants, but the follow continued, averaging round 139 per 12 months. Since Jan. 1 Minneapolis police requested and had been granted 13 no-knock search warrants. In cities throughout the U.S., police are weaponizing no-knock warrants — utilizing them to brutally homicide Black and Brown folks.
That Frey and Huffman allowed no-knock warrants after promising the moratorium and different reforms following Floyd’s homicide exposes simply how corrupt the police system is and why reforms and convictions of some responsible cops should not sufficient.
Chauvin’s conviction was designed to pacify hundreds of thousands of BLM activists who stuffed the streets of cities around the globe within the months following Floyd’s homicide. Politicians like Frey made guarantees to reform and in some instances even “defund” police departments, solely to have these guarantees evaporate because the November 2020 elections.
Within the 12 months after George Floyd’s homicide, 1,068 folks had been killed by police — a mean of three per day. This sample didn’t cease with Chauvin’s conviction. The capitalist system provides white police carte blanche to shoot to kill Black and Brown folks. Whereas receiving appreciable media protection, convictions like Chauvin’s are the exception not the norm.
Showcase trials, even after they end in uncommon jail phrases for killer cops, do nothing to essentially change systemic racism and a capitalist state equipment depending on brutality and repression. The issue isn’t a couple of dangerous officers — the issue is systemic racism all through all the U.S. felony “justice” system — from the beat cops to racist U.S. Supreme Court docket judges.
The demand to “abolish the police” is all of the extra related than when it was first raised in 2020.

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How to Access TEEAL TEEAL database can be accessed all over the campus through the Local Area Network (LAN). To access TEEAL databases installed in the server each computer on campus must be physically configured and TEEAL index installed. The TEEAL Index is currently installed on computers in the school of Agricultural and environmental Sciences and in the students’ computer Labs. Kindly contact the library for more information on how to access TEEAL.

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Snow globes are not just for winter! I needed a fun way to present a gift card for a birthday gift. After searching on Pinterest, I found some cool snow globes made with mason jars, so I decided to design my own style.
The jar is actually a plastic scrapbook container that I purchased as part of a three pack at Michaels.
I made a little pocket to hold the gift card and hot glued it to the lid of the jar. Then, I hot glued some kraft paper shred to represent the ground. Using my Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge, I cut the tree out and attached it with pop up dots the gift card. The tent was cut free hand, and also attached with pop up dots. The little sign was cut out of the designer paper.
I cut the stars using the My Favorite Things Stacking Stars Die-Namics. The moon was cut using circle paper punches. The are attached to the top of the "globe" with thin strips of clear acetate and transparent scotch tape.
Sorry the pictures are kind of cruddy, it's really hard to take pictures with out the glare from the plastic! I must of taken 100 pictures, and believe it or not, these are the best!
Paper: Echo Park, Bazzill
Misc: Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut Cartridge, paper shred, hot glue gun, pop up dots, plastic jar, clear acetate, scotch tape, My Favorite Things Stacking Stars Die-Namics, paper punches, wooden skewer
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By means of this step, Portugal can acquire the primary funding from the restoration mechanism. Pre-financing roughly 2.1 billion euros.
That is the step required for Portugal to start out receiving the primary batch of so-called European “bazookas”, which is able to assist promote financial restoration after the robust contraction brought on by the covid-19 pandemic.
In a report launched this Friday, the Ministry of Finance reported on the ceremony on the afternoon of Monday, July 26. The Ministry of Finance said: “The Minister of State and Finance João Leon and the Minister of Planning Nelson De Souza signed the financing and mortgage settlement between Portugal and the European Fee on the restoration and restoration mechanism.”
After the settlement was signed, the bureaucratic course of in Portugal ended, and for the primary time started receiving neighborhood funds funded by the joint debt.
The issue is that the overall monetary quota to be carried out by the tip of 2026 is 16.6 billion euros. Within the subsequent 5 years, these funds will attain the speed of two batches per yr.
Within the close to future, Portugal will obtain pre-financing equal to 13% of the overall, or about 2.1 billion euros, and the federal government plans to obtain 3.3 billion euros earlier than the tip of this yr.


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A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE
He's a successful conference impresario, a consultant, expert witness and respected lodging management guru. But 40-plus-year hotel industry veteran Morris Lasky is probably best known as The Hotel Doctor for his ability to diagnose and provide solutions for ailing hotel operations.
Through his Chicago-based consulting company Lodging Unlimited, Lasky recently began offering a Streamline Study as an alternative to lengthy and expensive analyses of operations or marketing problems at a hotel. The study, priced at $10,000 plus expenses (versus $25,000 to $100,000 for a full-blown study) includes a two-day site visit by Lasky, an immediate verbal review with the client and a follow-up letter summarizing the findings.
In the past few months, Lasky has employed Streamline Studies to help owners and operators with a variety of issues:
Lasky helped an inexperienced ownership group negotiate a more favorable management contract.
A company planning to buy a hotel and resell it quickly asked Lasky for his opinion. The study showed that if the purchasers close on the property and spend a small amount on renovation, it could be worth three times the purchase price within three years.
Lasky advised a company that was about to make an offer to purchase a hotel that the price was too high. As a result, the group revised its offer and reentered negotiations.
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DNA is injected into a stem cell. (Photo: Spectral-Design, via Shuttertock)
The California stem cell agency has just finished pumping $5.3 million into the fight to save the lives of Covid-19 victims. And — in a ballot-box bonus — its efforts are already surfacing in the ballot campaign to rescue the agency from its own demise. The agency is running out of money. It will begin closing its doors this fall without major financial support that it hopes will come from Proposition 14, a $5.5 billion bond measure on the November ballot.
Blood cells in a bone marrow smear, examined as part of stem cell research. (Photo: toeytoey, via Shutterstock)
California’s state stem cell agency is down to its last $67.3 million following a decision Thursday to back research to enhance bone healing in elderly patients who undergo spinal surgery. The $4 million award went to Ankasa Regenerative Therapeutics following little discussion among members of the governing board of the $3 billion California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.


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Stock pick of the week: 4 factors that make Shriram Transport Finance a strong bet
With 70% y-o-y fall in net profits, Shriram Transport Finance reported weak numbers for the fourth quarter of 2019-20. However, analysts are getting bullish on the counter because of its improving outlook triggered by several factors. First, borrower interest in used vehicle finance continues and it is one of the only two lending segments that continues to draw traction
strong buy, 4 for buy, 3 for hold, 2 for sell and one for strong sell) and any improvement in consensus analyst rating indicates that the analysts are getting more bullish on the stock. To make sure that we pick only companies with decent analyst coverage, this search will be restricted to stocks with at least 10 analysts covering it.


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“Architects may become a thing of the past.” This was the stark warning issued by chatbot ChatGPT in February when it was asked about the threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the profession.
ChatGPT has generated huge attention since being launched at the end of 2022. Reports have quickly spread across the internet of its capabilities, such as writing highly specialised essays, poems or code almost instantly. Its shocking statement about architects also included the observation that architects who ignore the potential of AI
“risk sleepwalking into oblivion”.
It made the alarming comments in a text conversation with AI architecture expert Neil Leach, a professor at Florida International University. Leach asked ChatGPT for an “attention grabbing” answer to how AI could negatively impact the architecture profession in the future. It replied: ”AI is quickly advancing to a point where it can generate the design of a building completely autonomously. This could spell the end of the profession as we know it, raising questions of what the future holds for architects in a world of AI-generated buildings.”
AI has become a major talking point among architects and designers in the past two years, accelerated by the advent of text-to-image generation software like OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 and Midjourney.
Many users have created images of imaginary buildings using these tools. The images created by these bots have become an internet sensation and led to discussions about how they could impact the future of design and architecture.
No emotional intelligence
In an AJ article about the threat AI poses to architects, Merlin Fulcher wrote: “Work that previously took hours of skilled labour at considerable cost to the architect profession can now be mimicked instantly, offering clients, architects and architecture students a new tool that could upset established business models. While the technology is still in its infancy and AI-generated renders are clearly a long way off from being able to replace ones drawn by humans, the ability to quickly create ideas in response to a real-life brief could bring rapid changes and unexpected outcomes. There are big questions about the impact this could have on the architectural industry.”
However, architects have hit back saying that while AI will change the way they work it currently has limitations. Architect and entrepreneur Alexandra Groszek told AJ: ’With basic parameters, AI can produce some interesting outputs on a small scale. But when it comes to a larger building design, AI alone is not able to handle the complexity yet.’ As long as AI has no emotional intelligence, I think humans cannot be replaced in design for those that believe it has value beyond function.”
Pablo Zamorano from Heatherwick Studio says the key is to use the tech to your advantage. “Machines can take on tasks, like planning a car park, that enable designers to spend more time exploring ideas that make a real social impact. What will definitely change is the way we interact with these design tools. These workflows get more natural, so the interaction between machines and designers will be normalised instead of being separated.”
Håvard Haukeland from Autodesk says “AI and automation will play a greater role in the design process by, for example, predicting outcomes and automating tedious tasks such as number-crunching or sourcing data, while freeing up more time for architects to focus on design work.
“New digital processes will potentially enable architects to rethink their business models such as testing new fee structures and diversifying their services. As a result, more firms will invest in innovation officers and digital strategists to ensure a cohesive approach to architecture, business, and technology.”
So what of actual products? American designer Dan Harden of industrial design company Whipsaw said that AI is “gradually” entering industrial design but is “still primitive”.
“Unlike digital design, where AI is integrated within a common software platform, product hardware design is different,” he told Dezeen. “The three-dimensional aspects of a product and its relationship to its user and its environment present exponential challenges for AI, mostly because it cannot perceive the dynamic user interaction nuances within the physical world in which a product resides.”
But robots in manufacturing is nothing new. This is the age of smart production lines and factory automation, where in other industries robots are applied to perform extremely dangerous tasks, improve flexible manufacturing, reduce manpower cost and save development time. The automotive industry has been using industrial robots for more than half a century, since General Motors first adopted the UNIMATE in the early 1960s.
AI is being used in construction in a host of ways from construction robots, BIM, wearable tech, data analytics to tool tracking tech, IOT, drones and 3D printing.
Mace’s director of innovation, Matt Gough said in an article on BIM+ : “We expect the use of this technology to be rapidly scaled up and include the automated fabrication of modular homes and building components off-site, robotic welding and material handling on building sites and robotic 3D printing of houses and customised structures.
“As well as production, automation will guide us toward a future where machine replaces manual labour in areas where safety, quality or environmental impact demands it. Mace projects in Ireland and Heathrow are trialling the use of robots for quality, safety and progress inspections.”
Some door hardware manufacturers are already using robotic production lines. Metal LS, a Bulgarian manufacturer of door locking systems, door and window handles and building hardware, has put in place an automated assembly of door locks.
The robotic systems that the company already used for other applications were too large, so the new solutions needed to be as compact and precise as possible. Door and security locks are precision parts with standard dimensions and components stipulated in DIN standards.
In addition, the robots needed to achieve high productivity, assembling between 10 and 14 locks per minute. The company also needed a high level of flexibility from the solution and the possibility of retooling so that they could reuse the same system to produce different types of lock in the future.
Metal LS chose a robot system from Delta. Delta supplied programmable logic controllers, a human-machine interface, servo systems and robotic arms with machine vision. A custom workstation for assembly of the mechanical door lock components was created formed of a rotation table, on which seven six-axis articulated robots were installed.
The robots are capable of precise, quick movements and feature a hollow wrist that allows them to be combined with the correct tool for each production step. The system visualises all processes and enables the user to select various receipts for different locks via a touch screen. The assembly line is monitored and communicates with the rotating platform.
Various door scheduling software packages already exists of course. ASSA ABLOY’s Openings Studio is one example. It integrates directly with BIM software Autodesk Revit, to transfer project data to improve the process of creating and visualising 3D doors, frames, and hardware objects.
Currently software still needs human input but Autodesk has been experimenting with how machine learning can improve BIM applications. At the end of 2022 it announced a collaboration with Epic Games to offer Twinmotion – real-time rendering and storytelling that it will be available soon.
Where will it lead? The word on the street is that if you’re not learning how to use AI technology to your advantage you may get left behind. But in an industry that needs creative, technical and problem-solving knowledge the machines aren’t clever enough. At least not yet.
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NOTE: Jan. 2009 ice storm deposited lots of wood in the creek, creek is currently most likely unrunnable.
This is a great Ozark creek, lots of great scenery and tight drops. Creek runs through private
land, please thank any landowners you see. Please do not block the roads or driveways at the
put-in. The current landowners on the downstream side of the put-in bridge are very friendly,
please respect thier beautiful home.
Put-in: Go North on Hwy 43 for 4.8 miles from the intersection of Hwy 103 near Compton. Turn left (Northeast) on a dirt road and follow for 2/3 miles to the bridge over the creek. Osage Creek and Wolf Branch join just above the bridge and there is a 6-ft waterfall just below the bridge.
Take-out: Go across the bridge and turn right (North). Go 2.2 miles and turn right (North)
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|> 10 years||Osage Creek [AR]||Old Mill Falls||very low||Lance Jones|
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7-ft waterfall to start the day.
Another 'waterfall' over an old dam. Next to the put-in house.
Water funnels into a hole with some trash rocks lurking around.
Trashy rapid with multiple pin potential in the bottom part of the rapid.
A boulder entrance to a sluice/slide past a large pedestal mushroom rock. A very unique feature on any creek.
As the name implies, a 'S' turn rapid with some powerful crosscurrents.


I wonder if Knipex chose the Spider-Man blue-on-red color scheme for their new heavy-duty 9″ linesman pliers in order to tout the “upgraded gripping zone” featured in the new design. Maybe not, but it’s still cool — and the gripping zone is pretty neat, too.
Released this spring, the new pliers feature a crosswise (read: diagonal) serrated gripping zone in the jaws for added grip over previous models plus an additional gripping zone below the articulated joint for extra leverage and pressing performance when cutting wire.
Knipex also claims that the new pliers “require 40% less effort compared with conventional combination pliers thanks to an optimized transmission ratio,” which could just as well read, “We moved the pivot point back a little.” Still, less effort is a good thing.
Priced at $30, these don’t look like a bad deal. However, if you already own a set of linesman pliers, their somewhat-evolutionary new features probably don’t justify laying a pair of smoking tire tracks all the way to the store, either.


The White House has said that US President Barack Obama does not rule out a complete withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by 2014.
President Obama is due to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai this Friday.
The comments by US Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes were the first signal that the final decision may be to remove everyone, as happened in Iraq in 2011.
This is despite initial recommendations by the top military commander in Afghanistan to keep as many as 15,000 troops in the country.
Asked about consideration of a so-called zero-option once the NATO combat mission ends at the end of 2014, Mr Rhodes said: "That would be an option that we would consider."
He said the president does not view these negotiations as having a goal of keeping US troops in Afghanistan, adding that the objective was to ensure the training and equipping of Afghan forces and combating Al-Qaeda.
It is expected that it will be months before a final decision is made on troop levels.
In Iraq, Mr Obama decided to pull out all US forces after failing in negotiations with the Iraqi government to secure immunity for any US troops who would remain behind.
The Obama administration is also insisting on immunity for any US troops that remain in Afghanistan, and that question will figure in this week's talks between Mr Obama and Mr Karzai and their aides.
US officials have said privately that the White House had asked for options to be developed for keeping between 3,000 and 9,000 troops in the country, a lower range than was put forward initially by General John Allen, the top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan.
General Allen suggested keeping between 6,000 and 15,000 troops in Afghanistan.


EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- Lorena Ochoa is in position for her second straight victory and fifth of the season. The world's number one female golfer shot a 7-under 64 in rainy conditions to take a four-stroke lead in the Canadian Women's Open. Paula Creamer and Laura Diaz are her closest pursuers at 10 under.
Ochoa is 14-under 199 total on the Royal Mayfair course. She opened with rounds of 70 and 65 and hasn't made a bogey in 40 holes.


Maceo Parker: his name is synonymous with Funky Music, his pedigree impeccable; his band: the tightest little funk orchestra on earth.
It's fairly common knowledge that Maceo has played with each and every leader of funk, his start with James Brown, which Maceo describes as "like being at University"; jumping aboard the Mothership with George Clinton; and his ongoing part in Prince's tours. He's the living, breathing pulse which connects the history of Funk in one golden thread. The cipher which unravels dance music down to its core.
"Everything's coming up Maceo," concluded DownBeat Magazine in a 1991 article at the beginning of Maceo Parker's solo career. At the time Maceo was a remembered by aficionados of funk music as sideman; appreciated mainly by those in the know. For the last two decades Maceo Parker has been enjoying a blistering solo career, building a new funk empire; one that is both fresh and stylistically diverse. He navigates deftly between James Brown's 1960's soul and George Clinton's 1970's freaky funk while exploring mellower jazz and the grooves of hip-hop.
His collaborations over the years have included Ray Charles, Ani Difranco, James Taylor, De La Soul, Dave Matthews Band and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. His timeless sound has garnered him a fresh young fan base.
It is almost impossible to separate which came first, Maceo or the funk. The amazing P-funk Parker has been at it with his legendary sound for time that dates back to the 1960's. That's when Maceo and his drummer brother Melvin climbed on board the James Brown funky soul funk train. It wasn't long before James coined the solo summoning signature, "Maceo, I want you to Blow!". To most musicologists it's the musically fertile group of men from this period of James Brown's band who are recognized as the early pioneers of the modern funk and hip-hop whose sounds we still jump to in the present day.
Maceo, I want you to Blow!
Maceo grew to become the lynch-pin of the James Brown enclave for the best part of two decades. - his signature style helped define James' brand of funk, and the phrase: "Maceo, I want you to Blow!" passed into the language. He's still the most sampled musician around simply because of the unique quality of his sound.
There would be other projects and short hiatuses during his on-off time with The Godfather, including a brief spell overseas when he was drafted, and in 1970 when he left to form Maceo and All the Kings Men with some fellow James Brown band members (the two albums from this period are on a constant reissue cycle even some thirty years later.)
It was Maceo's Uncle the front man for a local band; the Blue Notes, who was Maceo's first musical mentor. The three Parker brothers (Maceo, Melvin and trombonist Kellis- later to become Professor of Entertainment law at Columbia University) who formed the "Junior Blue Notes.". When Maceo reached the sixth grade the Junior Blue Notes were brought by their Uncle perform in between sets at his nightclub engagements. It was Maceo's first experience of the stage and one that started his love affair with performing an love which has increased rather than diminished with time.
Maceo grew up admiring saxophonists such as David "Fathead" Newman, Hank Crawford, Cannonball Adderley and King Curtis. "I was crazy about Ray Charles and all his band, and of course particularly the horn players". By the age of 15, Maceo had forged his own style on the tenor sax. "I thought about 'Maceo Parker plays Charlie Parker', and then I thought how about 'Maceo Parker plays Maceo Parker', what would it be like to have young sax players listening to me and emulating my style of playing". Thus the "Maceo sound" we know so well was born.
In the mid '70's Maceo hooked up with George Clinton, and the various incarnations of Funkadelic, Parliament and Bootsy Collins. He now had worked with the figure heads of Funk music at the height of their success. From the breathtaking shows of James Brown to the landing of the Mothership, Maceo has been there: as close as it gets to some of the most exciting moments in musical history, delivering his sound as a constant point of reference.
In 1990 the opportunity came for Maceo to concentrate on his own projects. He released two successful solo albums: Roots Revisited (which spent 10 weeks at the top of Billboard's Jazz Charts in 1990) and Mo' Roots (1991. But it was his third solo album, Maceo's ground breaking CD Life on Planet Groove, recorded live in 1992 which soon became a funk fan favorite. Planet Groove also served as a calling card, boosting Maceo's contemporary career as a solo artist for a college aged audience, and bringing into being his catch phrase "2% Jazz, 98% Funky Stuff."
And so began Maceo's relentless headlining touring. Bringing his top notch, road-tight band and superlong shows to people all over the world. "I feel it's my duty as an artist to go as many places as I can, especially if the people want it." says soft spoken North Carolina native. He doesn't come out on stage in a diaper or a velvet swirling cape, no giant spaceships or 50 person entourages, nothing except the core of his musical soul which he lays open every time he blows his horn.
In 2003, after several years as Band Leader for the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Awards Maceo received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation for his contribution as a sideman to the genre of R & B.
Since 1999 Maceo has participated in some of Prince's groundbreaking tours when not on the road with his own group, and continues to do so as a special guest when his own schedule allows.
Maceo's albums Funk Overload, Dial M-A-C-E-O and Made by Maceo entered the top 40 in the European charts upon release. Dial M-A-C-E-O features guest spots from the Mistress of folk music Ani DiFranco, Prince, and a quite different James from the one we have come to associate with Maceo: James Taylor, while School's In from 2005 is about as Funky as a studio album can be.
At the beginning of 2007 Maceo had a chance to fulfill one of his dreams: working with a Big Band. With Grammy Award Winners the WDR Big Band from Cologne Germany, he broadcast and performed a live series of shows paying tribute to Ray Charles and released the album Roots and Grooves, a live recording taken from these shows which also features Dennis Chambers and Rodney "Skeet" Curtis. The album received huge critical acclaim, and Maceo has followed up with a recording to be released in 2012: Soul Classics. Along with WDR Big Band the album features drummer Cora Dunham Coleman and bassist Christian Mcbride.
In July of 2012 Maceo was presentedwith Les Victoires du Jazz in Paris: a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to music. The same weekend he was presented with an Icon Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, with the following inscription:
"Maceo Parker, a music-maker and world-class performer for almost fifty years, distinguishes himself through exceptional musicality and craftsmanship. The inspired and indefatigable saxophonist has made an indelible mark on soul, funk and jazz.
The unique sound of James Brown owes a sizable debt to the talent and inspiration of Maceo Parker, and Brown recognized it openly. Parker's name found its way into Brown's lyrics: "Maceo, blow your horn!" Prince also tips his hat to Parker referring to him as 'The Teacher'.
Maceo Parker has not only made an incredible amount of music, he has put his signature on a huge variety of musical genres. Through his partnership with soul and jazz artists like James Brown, George Clinton en Bootsy Collins as well as pop formations like Living Colour, Bryan Ferry, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Dave Matthews Band, Maceo Parker has entertained a wide audience with his unique saxophone sound. Parker's music is a major source of inspiration in the hip hop world. He is one of the most sampled musicians in the world.
Maceo Parker's music integrates a range of genres from soul, funk and jazz to rhythm and blues while maintaining respect for tradition.
As saxophonist, singer, composer and band leader, Maceo Parker has distinguished himself through a wide array of projects, CDs, concerts and international festivals. Parker regularly performs with Prince, often accompanied by Candy Dulfer. He is at his best on stage, where he shows his boundless energy and passion and his ability to captivate audiences with his sound.
All the qualities of an icon unite in Maceo Parker, and the jury is proud to present him with the 2012 Radio 6 Icon Award. "
Maceo received the North Carolina National Heritage Award from his home state in May 2016.
"Given Parker's sense of groove invention and the evergreen emotional power of Charles' chestnuts like "Busted" and "Hit the Road Jack," anyone might have expected this to be a dream match. But it's more than that because Parker also sings with a gravelly, Charles-like perfection on these two songs, and even more poignantly on "You Don't Know Me," "Margie," and a magically moody "Georgia on My Mind." Charles may have been declared deceased in body in 2004, but he lives again through Parker in haunting yet wonderful ways"
All Music Guide
"Maceo put a complex funk spin to the famous Parker name playing his horn more like a drum than a melodic instrument. The result is an insanely percussive style, which forces everyone within ear shot to dance like a giddy geek. For sure no one plays the alto saxophone like Maceo Parker, and most likely no one ever will again. Never ignoring melody Parker woos us sweetly on one tune, only to make us jump out of our skin the next with Funkalicious ferocity. The bottom line...if you want to dance with members of the opposite sex without asking them too, go to a Maceo Parker show. Once there, you suddenly realize this is one of the reasons why you're alive on this planet...to be taken to a place where your mind stops thinking as you listen, move, and experience pure joy".
"He's no bebopper, reborn or otherwise. His roots are the church and the blues... his sound is joyful, cutting ribbon of light and heat burnished by grit and soul. His riff-based attack is melodic, unraveling and re-weaving themes rather than running chords, and primarily rhythmic, relying on finely-shaped nuances of timing and displacement to communicate - kinda like his longtime boss' vocals, amazingly enough." There's no doubt about it, "There's only one Maceo."
Gene Santoro Downbeat Magazine
"When people talk about legends they mean 'they're done, but boy did they do good' when I think of Maceo Parker I think of legendary funk master and horn player, but not 'legend' in the term that he's done. He's still doing it. And that to me makes a really legendary person"


Brentwood Named a Playful City USA Once Again!
By Barbie Gary
We did it again!
For the fourth consecutive year, Brentwood has been named a Playful City USA! Only 150 cities throughout the United States have been designated by KaBOOM!, a national non-profit dedicated to saving play, as Playful Cities in 2011. Each community selected demonstrated creative commitments to the cause of play. Brentwood was selected for a variety of reasons, including that fact that it offers the community its Wellness Policy, a community-wide aspirational goal which promotes physical activity and education as the benefits of living
a healthy lifestyle. Additionally, with 58 parks within nearly 12 square miles, there are plenty of great parks to visit. Some of these parks were featured in the Playport to Fun program this summer, including Blue Goose Park, where water features provide a free and fun way for kids to cool off during the summer and the dog park at King Park. Residents were encouraged to visit a local park each week during the summer and try out unique and family-friendly games, recipes and activities. Brentwood will celebrate their playful status by hosting the fourth annual Play Day at Veteran's Park on September 24th from 2-4 p.m. Residents of all ages are invited to come out to play old fashioned games, participate in a scavenger hunt and a park improvement project.
Want to keep play at the forefront in Brentwood? Join our Play Task Force and work with other residents to promote play and keep our city playful! Call the Parks and Recreation office at 516-5444 for more information.
So, just a reminder... start playing today... come to our annual Play Day!
Saturday, September 24th
Veteran's Park, 3841 Balfour Road
Everyone is welcome to this free event!
EverythingBrentwood.com thanks Barbie Gary for this wonderful article!
Barbie Gary is a Recreation Supervisor at the Parks and Recreation Department at the City of Brentwood.
Article posted in September 2011 and so may be outdated after sometime.


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The Molsbroek nature reserve is an attractive and interesting place to visit for a short 5 km walk or a longer 8 km one.
Taking a daily evening walk can help you get or keep fit, and can help improve your mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hiking in the High Fens of Belgium is a highly popular activity. Here are four routes to take, starting from Mont Rigi.
An 11 km country walk around two nature reserves, a château, and the villages of Hollogne-sur-Geer, Omal, Grand-Axhe and Petit-Axhe.
An outstanding 12k walk along the picturesque River Helle valley and then around the southern perimeter of Lake Eupen.
Enjoy a short 5 km or a longer 9 km walk from Baraque Michel, one of the highest spots of Belgium
Four walks – three short and one longer one – around the fields, heaths, forests and suburbs of Keerbergen, and along the River Dijle.
A 5km walk around the village of Opprebais in Brabant Wallon province, taking in the flooded quarry, a ruined château and a windmill.
An outstanding 14 km walk starting from Gendron-Celles railway station, passing the Château de Vêves, and including a 7 km stretch along the picturesque River Lesse.
Walk or cycle from Arquennes to Ronquières along the picturesque old canal, and visit the incredible Sloping Lock of Ronquières.
A review of two pairs of Berghen hiking boots and a chance to get a 10 EUR reduction on your first order
The 7 km Chartreuzenberg walk is ideal for children and families as it includes a woodland play area. Starts and ends in Holsbeek.


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Clifford Chance lawyers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of sweeping reforms to the firm’s constitution, simplifying the process of expelling partners. The result of a three-week ballot saw the management secure more than the 85 per cent majority needed to push through the changes, with well over 50 per cent of the equity partners taking part in the process. Until now, the firm has required an 85 per cent majority to expel partners. Under the new constitution, the management will also have the means to freeze and move partners down the lockstep.
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Worldbex Services International (WSI), the organizer behind the MANILA FOODS AND BEVERAGES EXPO (MAFBEX) is set to launch a month-long campaign entitled MAFBEX WIRED. The online series of activities will kick-off on August 8, 2020.
To address the challenges and changes in the food and beverage trade environment, MAFBEX WIRED aims to bring its expertise in connecting and supporting brands, associations, professionals and entrepreneurs into the digital space.
MAFBEX WIRED will kick-off with a series of online activities which aims to provide new information to its stakeholders when it comes to adapting their operations to the changing times.
MAFBEX WIRED will be featuring 4 exciting and informative EVENT HIGHLIGHTS, namely:
- MAFBEX TALKS. This activity will present topics which will be a good source of information that can serve as a valuable reference and insights to its stakeholders and followers. This activity will be supported by industry experts by presenting relevant topics and trends ranging from e-commerce, digital marketing, food sustainability and food safety.
- MAFBEX BASICS. This activity will feature how-to’s in a short creative idea format. The instructional can be a step by step guide, an explainer or a trivial list which aims to provide a quick and engaging reference for the community.
- MAFBEX COOKS. This activity will introduce a series of content featuring some of the country’s most well-renowned chefs giving us their best interpretation of restaurant-grade dishes that can be done at home.
- MAFBEX MIXED. This activity takes on a fresh roster for this edition.
World-class talent from the local craft cocktail community will demonstrate how to prepare their original drinks to spice up your chill weekend nights at the comfort of your own space. Featuring one of the world’s best bartenders, Mr. Cedric Mendoza of Grain Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney. To quote him, “I used to attend MAFBEX as a student during my college days, and now I’m one of the main attractions. I’m definitely excited and feel like this is a homecoming of some sort even if I’m far away right now. Overall, I’m happy to be part of this year’s online activity.”
MAFBEX WIRED is a preview on what is about to happen for the rest of 2020 for WSI. As the community looks forward to meeting and engaging with the entire food and beverage industry next year, it is WSI’s ultimate goal to merge two spaces, physical and digital, to give everyone the best support and exposure they can possibly offer. “We are always at the forefront of innovation and this is the ideal time for us to penetrate the virtual space.
Our WIRED series will still keep the core of our physical events but we understand that this is now a game of adaptability and accessibility.
What we want to offer is a perfect mix of varied platforms for growth opportunities for the trade industry moving forward. “Says Jill Ang, Managing Director of WSI.
With this, let’s all get WIRED. For more updates follow Manila Foods and Beverages Expo [MAFBEX] on Facebook and subscribe to Worldbex Services International [WSI] YouTube Channel.


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From an interview, via Bloomberg, says Gruebel: “If someone acts with criminal intent, you can’t do anything,” ... That will always exist in our job. If you ask me whether I feel guilty, then I say no.”
But what Gruebel wants, and what ultimately happens at the bank may be two totally diferent things.
The Telegraph reports on growing calls for Gruebel to resign. The bank's "honorary chairman" Nikolaus Senn expects that Gruebel will have to go:
Mr Senn told Swiss television: "I do not know how often Gruebel flew to London to ask the people in charge how the business was growing." He questioned whether adequate checks were implemented and criticised Gruebel for his over-reliance on control systems to detect issues, instead of proactively taking charge. Sources close to UBS said Mr Gruebel had no plans to come to London to take charge of the post-fraud situation.
Meanwhile, WSJ reports on one candidate for Gruebel's job who seems unlikely to get it now: Inestment bank chief Carsten Kengeter, who let the rogue trade happen under his watch.


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So by now we all know what’s going on inside the controversial Bigg Boss Halla Bol. Karishma Tanna and Upen Patel are the hottest contestants thanks to their PDA and that explains why the rest like Mahek Chahal, Dimpy Mahajan, Gautam Gulati and Rahul Mahajan are crying insecure for all that you know.
In fact, host Farah Khan too devoted the weekend episode to Karishma and her unjustified behavior in the house. But while this continues to hike the TRP ratings, don’t you think Karishma has become an easy target for anything and everything now?
Well, maybe she’s herself inviting the trouble but her fans are not sparing a bit against Miss Tanna and are now trending #StopTargetingKarishmaTanna on Twitter. Yes! Fans are constantly defending Karishma by highlighting on issues like- Farah Khan’s biased hosting, Dimpy’s comments about Karishma and Karishma being labeled as ‘Forever selfish.’
However from what we see, Twitteratis are majorly irked at Farah’s hosting of how she mercilessly targeted Tanna and went in agreement with the rest of the contestants during the weekend episode.

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Natalie Brooks: The Treasures of Lost Kingdom
Famous teenage detective Natalie Brooks is back in an all-new adventure! In Secrets of the Lost Kingdom, Natalie faces the seemingly impossible task of saving her grandfather, a renowned archaeologist, from kidnappers holding him ransom for an ancient treasure map. She has just 24 hours to find the map, solve the mystery of a terrible curse and unmask the truth behind a legendary ghost train!
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Overview from www.bn.com: A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and meet their neighbors: Captain Jim, the lighthouse attendant, with his sad stories of the sea; Miss Cornelia Bryant, the lady who speaks from the heart — and speaks her mind; and the tragically beautiful Leslie Moore, into whose dark life Anne shines a brilliant light.
It’s been a little while since I returned to the Anne of Green Gables saga and to the experiences of Anne Shirley herself but I decided that it was now time. I did have to wait a few weeks for the book to come to my local library through the inter library loan program and I couldn’t wait to get to it once it had arrived. It exceeded all my expectations.
Anne’s story picks up not long after the last book, Anne of the Island, ended—with Anne relishing her upcoming nuptials to Gilbert along with the end of her experiences with geometry. In fact, I almost got the impression that Anne was happier that her time with Mr. Euclid had ended than she was about her wedding. I can’t say that I blame her there since I have always hated geometry myself.
After a small, outdoor wedding (what else can we expect from a nature lover such as Miss Anne) and a small celebration with many of her old friends, she and Gilbert are off to their house of dreams. The house is small but old and has character. Anne loves it immediately as she also immediately comes to love the community of Four Winds where Gilbert will take over the medical practice of his uncle who wants to retire.
Here Anne, as usual, meets some interesting characters who she must of course try to befriend. It’s in her nature after all. This seems to be the way that the plot moves in nearly all of the Anne books that I have read so far. Anne is intent on helping them if she can and they in turn love her for it.
However, this is the first time, since her unhappy early childhood, that Anne really gets “acquainted with grief” as the Bible says. First, in her encounters and conversations with Leslie Moore who is stuck in an unhappy marriage with a monster of a man when she would really rather be with someone else.
Then later, when she suffers her own loss of her precious little one, it was all I could do to keep from crying. Nevertheless the loss seems to mature her. She doesn’t want to accept it but yet she must get on with her life. She will never forget her Joy, she says, and she will try to carry her (and the joy of living itself) along with her in life whenever she can. Not for herself alone but primarily for those she loves.
And then there is Gilbert. I love how he reacts to Anne in this novel. I love how he calls her “Anne girl” just like Miss Barry, did in the first Anne book. To him, she will always be a girl as well as the fulfillment of his dreams. At the same time he thinks of himself as an “old, married man,” he sees Anne always as a young girl.
At one point in the book, when they have a sort of argument, Gilbert wonders whether or not it would be worth it to persist in the course of action that he has determined is the best one even if Anne were to stay angry at him for a long time. He is later vindicated when his decision inadvertently works a miracle in the life of Leslie Moore. Anne is obliged to admit that Gilbert was right and feels badly for their arguments about it. You would think she would have learned by now after what happened before when they were at odds over whether or not they should even be friends when they still lived in Avonlea.
Overall, Anne’s experience in the house of dreams is a positive but poignant one. In my opinion, apart from her childhood, it is the first time that she experiences such a serious tragedy. A tragedy so severe that her imagination is no consolation to her and it is the only time which I can recall her flatly stating that she will never dream again to anyone else as she does to Captain Jim.
Of course she comes out alright to the other side and begins to dream again. Though I got the sense that she will move on, she will always remember the house of dreams and the lessons that she learned there. Perhaps the most import lesson being that is okay to dream again, even after a terrible tragedy.
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Brazil doesn’t have Neymar in its semifinal game against Germany, but the fans never could have dreamed a start like this. The Germans scored five goals in the first 30 minutes of the game — four in six minutes — and needless to say, Brazilian fans are sad.
‘We don’t feel that they’re soft. We don’t feel like they’re sissies.’
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Kansas City’s bullpen is not fair.
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PREMIERSHIP giants Dynamos had something to cheer about amid the gloom caused by the coronavirus after versatile player Godknows Murwira was released from hospital yesterday following a successful knee operation.
The news came in a week the Glamour Boys’ merchandise deal also came into full swing.
Murwira, who injured his knee late last year before the injury worsened during pre-season, went under the knife on Friday and will now need between six to eight weeks to fully recover.
The 26-year-old on-loan Murwira had been ruled out for the first half of the 2020 Premiership season.
However, the beginning of the competition was shelved due to the coronavirus and chances are now high the midfielder will be fit by the time the league kicks off.
ZIFA have set August/September as tentative kick-off dates.
The development comes at a time Dynamos have begun steps to commercialise and widen their revenue streams beyond gate revenue.
Dynamos, just like all the local teams, have had to endure months without any gate-takings as action was halted owing to the pandemic that forced a stop to global sporting action.
But before the Covid-19 outbreak, Dynamos had begun exploring ways to enhance brand visibility through merchandise sales, particularly the club’s replica jerseys and branded shirts.
Dynamos and their sponsors Remington Gold launched the four-year sales relationship agreement in February. The deal is now fully operational.
With Murwira now on the path to recovery, the Harare giants’ camp was in high spirits yesterday.
“We are glad to announce that our player Godknows Murwira has been released from hospital after undergoing a successful knee operation.
“The doctors are saying it will take at least six weeks for him to recover and we are hoping for the best,” Dynamos spokesperson Tinashe Farawo said yesterday.
“The other good news for the Dynamos family is that the sale of our merchandise has kicked off,” added Farawo.
“Dynamos Football Club and their anchor sponsors Remington Gold are glad to announce the operationalisation of their four-year sales relationship agreement, which was concluded in February 2020.
“The two partners agreed that they shall, during the subsistence of the agreement, distribute, through their supporters’ structures, the official club merchandise and or paraphernalia and Remington Gold products in Zimbabwe and beyond the borders.
“The products, which shall be sold to the club’s fans and the general public, shall be distributed through designated distribution agents comprising, but not limited to the following: sports shops, restaurants and food courts, service stations, licensed vendors, departmental/chain stores, wholesalers and club offices,” read part of the statement.
While Dynamos’ official home and away shirts will be on sale when the season gets underway, merchandise like royal blue supporters’ shirts are already on sale at US$10.
“The first batch of official club merchandise comprising royal blue supporters’ shirts shall be sold at your nearest distribution agent designated by the club.
“Each original supporters’ shirt shall be sold for a special price of US$10.
“More merchandise, including the official 2020 season home and away playing shirts, shall be going on sale as soon as the season gets underway,” Farawo said.
Dynamos and fellow traditional giants Highlanders and CAPS United have constantly been urged to lead the way in becoming commercial ventures in line with global football trends.
Without official club replicas and branded shirts, caps, scarves and other merchandise, Dynamos fans have had to find their identity in replicas of international clubs such as Chelsea who wear similar colours.
Farawo, however, believes the Premiership giants can only build from the steps they have taken through their partnership with Remington Gold, which includes their supporters across the country.


LAS VEGAS — Samsung is betting on high-res, big-screen and smart TVs at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. In this first report from Ashley Swartz at the event, she checked out the tech giant's TV plans in Samsung's early presentations at CES, where the company is showcasing a range of TVs, as previewed by Hyun-suk Kim, EVP Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics, and other executives in this video report.
Among the new sets is the Ultra HD TV, which comes in 85 or 110 inches and promises four times the resolution of 1080p high-def sets. Samsung will also be demonstrating a new version of its smart TV software with additional social, on-demand and personalization features. That includes tools that analyze viewers' preferences and suggest shows they might like, akin to Amazon's recommendation engine. New TVs also let viewers control the set with natural language voice commands, Samsung says.
Ashley Swartz is a principal of the New York-based consultancy Furious Minds. She is former head of the interactive television practice at Digitas. She is a regular contributor to Beet.TV


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No card today, just a quick note that friday through sunday you will get 20% off on all stamps at
plus free shipping to USA residents (overseas only $4.95)
You have to go to the homepage and order through a link there to get the discount. Enjoy your weekend. I'll be back before it ends with a sweetpea project.
Monday, 22 November 2010
...and then some! I went crazy with the colours for this card. Have you ever seen so much going on? It was a delight to colour though.
For today's card I've been playing with a wonderful winter scene drawn by Linda Biggs called snow queen.(from sweetpea stamps)
I couldn't decide on a colourscheme, but knew I wanted to add some sparkle to the flakes. I started out by using blue, but it got a bit too much so after finding these papers with pinks and reds I went all in :) Maybe a bit too much, lol.
I struggled with it and I'm not sure if I like it or if it's too cluttered. I wanted the image to stand out more, but it almost got lost here. On the other hand it coordinates with the papers and embellishments quite well. Ultimately I think I need to give this image another go.
The paper to the far left is from cloud9design, the other two are from Basic Grey's eskimo kisses line. I used a nestabilitie to cut out the image and coloured it with promarkers. The edges are inked with distress ink. The snowflake is made using different nestabilities dies.
Challenges for this card are:
ABC challenge - H is for holidays
Anything goes - let it snow
Basic Grey challenges - wings
Creative inspirations - winter wood land
Cute card thursday - sketch
Paperplay challenges - let it snow
Simon says stamp - sparkle
Stampin for the weekend - winter
Totally gorjuss - not so traditional


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Is it the right time for commodities? Three charts say yes.
Right now is a particularly strategic time to include commodities in your asset allocation mix.
Joshua Kutin, Head of Asset Allocation, North America
Investors generally consider commodities for enhanced portfolio diversification and a hedge against inflation. But while the past several years have been a mixed bag in terms of performance and volatility, we’re bullish on commodities today. Here’s why:
As we look at different environments for economic growth and inflation, we find ourselves in an above-trend period on both. And while U.S. stocks have historically performed well (compared with cash) in similar economic growth environments, this—combined with inflation—is the best possible environment for commodity investing.
One of the main arguments for including commodities in an asset allocation portfolio is diversification. But at various points both before and after the financial crisis, diversification benefits decreased because equities and commodities were moving in a very similar direction. Over the last five years, we’ve seen a noticeable decline in correlation between stocks and commodities, which means we can expect an improvement in their diversification benefits.
Despite these advantages, one of the more recent challenges in commodities investing has been the elevated volatility. It spiked up toward the end of 2014 but has recently reverted to a more stable level.
There’s always a role for commodities in a diversified asset allocation portfolio. The current favorable macroeconomic environment, along with an improvement in some of the factors that had made commodities a less effective diversifier, makes it a particularly good time for investors to think about their exposure to this asset class.
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Skystream Markets raised a round of funding on November 01, 2012. Investors include
Clean Energy Venture Group.
Skystream Markets is an institutional transaction platform for the renewable energy and environmental markets. By utilizing a hybrid approach that combines technology and traditional brokerage service…


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by Lorie Lewis Ham
Watching A Christmas Carol is a part of our Christmas tradition, whether we are lucky enough to see it on stage, or we watch Patrick Stewart’s version on DVD. It has been one of my favorite stories ever since I played the Ghost of Christmas Past at my elementary school’s annual production when I was in sixth grade. One of the best performances of this story I have ever seen was Chris Mangels’ one-man show and I am thrilled to share that he will be presenting a concert reading of that show on December 6 at 2nd Space in Fresno.
This performance is also a benefit for Bring Samantha Home. I chatted with Haley White about the group putting on this show, The Motley Fools, and about what Bring Samantha Home is all about. I also got the chance to chat with Chris Mangels about his show!
Interview with Haley White:
KRL: Please tell us about the charity that you are fundraising for and how you got involved?
Haley: The Motley Fools originally formed to create a month’s worth of Shakespearean-themed events for the Shakespeare400 celebration that took place world-wide this past April. We had so much fun working together, we decided we would continue working together on projects anytime anyone had a good idea for something.
Shortly after our events in April were over, Leslie and Jeff Martin produced a cabaret & auction event to raise money for their efforts to adopt a teenage girl. A few members of The Fools, including myself, were in attendance at that particular event (many of us in the group know and love Leslie Martin personally) and someone asked me, “Should this be the next thing we do?” I put it to several other members of the group, and we all agreed it was a great idea. We decided to name the project Bring Samantha Home and have been doing various events—readings, a play, a yard sale, a game show, and a karaoke night—to help assist The Martin family ever since. For more information on the project, folks can visit www.bringsamanthahome.com.
KRL: What are the details for the December 6 event?
Haley: The event is Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. at The 2nd Space Theatre in Fresno. Tickets are $12, general admission, and can be purchased online. Reservations are strongly recommended, as this is a very popular show.
KRL: What are some of the other upcoming events? Where can people go to watch for more events?
Haley: We definitely have more in store, even after this project has ended and Samantha is finally safe and sound in Fresno with her family. The details for our next project have yet to be solidified, but we’re definitely planning on bringing diverse, socially and politically charged works to town next year. After the success of our We The People event, which was performed outside of the Bring Samantha Home project, we’re planning something for inauguration night as well. Details will be made available on our Motley Fools Fresno website and on Facebook with The Motley Fools – Fresno as soon as they are available.
KRL: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Haley: First, I just want to thank Dan Pessano and the Good Company Players for hosting us for the second time. It’s incredibly generous on their part.
Secondly, I want to note how incredibly special it has been to see so many members of our community band together to help this family. Not just the members of The Motley Fools, who have been working tirelessly to make sure Samantha comes home. The Old Clovis Hotel Bistro, the California Arts Academy, Stageworks Fresno, the Theatre Arts Department at Fresno State, the Theatre Department at COS, Blimprov, and local artist Stephanie Bradshaw are just some of the groups and people who have helped make this project possible. Part of what is awesome about The Fools is we’re not just a typical theater company; we’re individual artists who are members of many local theater companies. We don’t have one person or small board who decides and plans our events; we try as often as possible to vote democratically. We don’t have one space in town we work from; we bounce all over and therefore have the opportunity to work with so many generous business owners and non-profits. And I’ve been able to work with so many artists in town that previously, I only admired from afar. It’s really something special.
Chris Mangels & A Christmas Carol:
KRL: When did you first get the idea to do a one-man show of A Christmas Carol? How long did it take to put it together? What was the process?
Chris Mangels: In 2003, I directed a large-scale version of A Christmas Carol of 30+ actors and huge special effects for The Enchanted Playhouse Theatre Company in Visalia. It was very successful. In 2007, they announced the production again as their holiday show but then lost their director.
They came to me in September and asked if I’d be willing to direct it again, but I had just been hired as a full-time professor at COS. I was directing my first show there, which was scheduled to close only two weeks before Christmas Carol would open, AND I was getting married in late October. I joked with my dear friend and collaborator, Karen Kirkpatrick, who was, at the time, on the EPTC Board, that the only way I could pull it off in so short an amount of time would be if I didn’t have to work with anyone but myself. She laughed, I laughed, and then, knowing that Patrick Stewart had a popular run with his own one-man adaptation in the late 90s, I said, “What if I DID do it as a one-man show?”
Over a few beers and some creative scheduling, we agreed that Karen would be my co-director and thus tell me if my ideas were working. We’d bring in a trusted friend, Sean McMichael, as tech director, and I would try to tackle the adaptation, design the show, and then perform it. I wound up crafting the first draft of the script in one night; Karen and I went to work on staging it, and three weeks later we opened the show. It was the most challenging and exhilarating artistic experiment I had ever done, and I cherish it to this day.
KRL: Why A Christmas Carol?
Chris: It’s one of the greatest and most timeless holiday stories of all time. No matter what’s going on in our world, it seems like Scrooge’s circumstances always resonate and his redemption is one of the greatest triumphs of spirit in English literature. I never get tired of new adaptations and iterations.
KRL: Why a one-man show?
Chris: I think that A Christmas Carol is ultimately a VERY intimate story about one man’s solitary journey through his own sad life. The solitary nature of a one-man show, I think, really accentuates that.
KRL: Have you done any other one man shows?
Chris: No. This may be the only one I have in me. It is incredibly rewarding, but it’s also exhausting.
KRL: How long does it take each night that you perform it to get ready-make up, etc.?
Chris: When I do the full performance, I spend about an hour putting on make-up and getting myself centered to tackle all 26 characters in such a relentless fashion.
KRL: When and where have you performed it so far?
Chris: I have performed it at The Enchanted Playhouse as part of their 2007 season and then again in 2010. I have been anxious to bring it to Fresno and have even discussed it with some of the local companies, but I think it seems like a gamble to many of the higher-ups. Do people want another Christmas Carol, and do they want it from me? The Motley Fools are betting on me, so I guess we’ll see on December 6.
KRL: Are you doing it this time as a one man show or a reading for this event?
Chris: It is a concert reading of my one-man-show. I will be in costume and make-up, but I’ll be performing on the stage at the Second Space Theatre, where they are currently producing the fantastic It’s a Wonderful Live: Live Radio Play. Since I will not have my set and the show comes hot on the heels of COS’s White Christmas, 11/25-12/4, I will have my script in front of me on a stand, but there will still be much more of a ‘performance’ than people usually expect from a normal reading. The show is in my blood, and it wants to come out and play!
KRL: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Chris: All proceeds go to benefit the Bring Samantha Home project. I couldn’t be prouder to be performing the show to help the wonderful Martin family!
Once again, the Christmas Carol concert reading is Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. at The 2nd Space Theatre, 928 E Olive Ave. in Fresno. Tickets are $12, general admission, and can be purchased online.
I know this will be an amazing shows, so don’t miss your chance to enjoy A Christmas Carol this season, and help out a wonderful family all at the same time!
You can find more theatre articles, and other entertainment articles, in our Arts & Entertainment section.

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A low-key documentary that gradually, impressively reveals the complexity and depth of experience of its two HIV-positive subjects.
Life in the isolated nooks of the Hellenic Pindus Mountains is affectionately portrayed in "The Grocer," an engrossing if straightforward docu from scribe-helmer-producer Dimitris Koutsiabasakos…
Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday of a stroke, age 87, was one of the U.K.'s most politically divisive figures in recent history — and, as a result, was a media favorite. She became a pop-culture…
Barbra Streisand has signed a helming deal with production and sales company Aldamisa International.
A manhunt for suspected killer Christopher Dorner in the Los Angeles area ignited a media frenzy Thursday it was revealed that Dorner sent packages to on-air personalities including Anderson Cooper…
"Spinning Plates" enjoyably profiles a disparate trio of U.S. eateries ranging from the loftiest emporium of gastronomical innovation to the humblest mom-and-pop operation.
Chung-hoon Chung, who was born in 1970 in Seoul, South Korea, started out as a child actor and cinephiles everywhere can be thankful that he turned out to be "a horrible one -- really bad."
Barnstorming swordplay, pretty faces and a no-brainer plot combine to fizzy effect in "Rurouni Kenshin," the screen adaptation of a Meiji-era manga series about a ronin who kicks ass while preaching…
Stilted and stiff, the show's actual contents are virtually irrelevant, and the subject matter alone augurs a hit by basic-cable standards.
Members of the below-the-line Scenic Artists have ratified a three-year successor deal with the companies, covering about 3,800 members working in New York City, Nassau County and the Meadowlands…
Athena Karkanis has landed a prominent role in AMC drama pilot "Low Winter Sun."


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Later this year, Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, and Game Freak will release the very first Pokemon RPGs to have launched on a home console- Pokemon Let’s GO Pikachu and Let’s GO Eevee will be remakes of Pokemon Yellow, and revisit the Kanto region in full HD ahead of next year’s Gen 8 Pokemon game. They will also be compatible with Pokemon GO, having been made specifically to appeal to a more expanded audience than Pokemon already does.
Now, we know more about what to expect from the games, courtesy of the Nintendo Treehouse stream at E3, information from which was collated and collected on ResetEra. Apparently, the game will still have full fledged Pokemon battles with trainers, gyms have returned, all your Pokemon automatically follow you (and you ride them automatically where necessary), your Pokemon still have four moves, Eevee and Pikachu always stay out of their Pokeballs, perched on you, catching Pokemon is slightly more elaborate than in Pokemon GO, and grants experience to every Pokemon in your party, wild Pokemon show up in the overworld, your Pokemon wag their tails when they find hidden items, and they have all the regular six stats that they have in a normal Pokemon game- which is added together to calculate their CP, a stat that is used in Pokemon GO.
All said and done, it sounds like these games, while more streamlined, will still be the core Pokemon game that fans have come to know and love. Pokemon Let’s GO Pikachu and Eevee launch on the Nintendo Switch exclusively on November 16.


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Colon Cancer Awareness Month often brings new and helpful resources for patients and their physicians. This March let’s not forget the caregivers who often sacrifice so much in their personal lives to support loved ones in their fight against colon cancer.
As a Caregiver, You Deserve Resources
Who is a caregiver? Caregivers often wear many hats that it is hard to define their important role in the lives of patients. Patients may have more than one caregiver as well.
Some of the critical responsibilities of a caregiver can include:
- Ensuring the patient keeps up with eating, resting, bathing, and taking medications in a routine way
- Keeping track of various appointments, treatments, and procedures
- Recording any questions that arise in advance of appointments that the patient will want to ask their physician
- Helping with household chores, errands, and projects
- Providing emotional and spiritual support to the patient
Caring for a colon cancer patient in both physical and emotional ways can be very draining on new caregivers. There are some things you should know about the new role you are taking on.
Listen and Learn
At the core of being a caregiver in any capacity is supporting the patient. As their go-to person, you’ll need to listen to how they would like to receive care. Maybe they are very emotional and receive care best through open discussions. On the other hand, they may be leaning on you for a distraction, for you to be someone that keeps daily life feeling as it did prior to a colon cancer diagnosis. Often, a patient’s needs will fluctuate between these and other mindsets—so the key is to pay attention and anticipate their needs.
Listening and learning should also be applied to learning about the disease itself. Act as a second set of eyes and ears at all appointments, soaking in the diagnosis and treatment details, plus any words of advice from physicians. Be prepared with questions, but don’t overtake appointments. Always allow the patient to be their own advocate first unless they have explicitly agreed that you should lead discussions.
After a diagnosis, a patient may feel overwhelmed and look for your support in establishing their new routine.
Work together and set some ground rules for the patient, yourself, and other loved ones:
- Do we have all the information we need to begin making care decisions? If not, start planning next steps to get what you need.
- Who will help the patient and in what capacities? Be specific, realistic, and timely. It may not seem important to establish if one person will do the patient’s laundry each Thursday, but it can save added stress later.
- Who will be the point person to keep everyone updated? Everyone else should know how to contact the point-person and when the point-person may be unavailable for their own personal lives.
- Have we taken advantage of all provided resources? If a physician has referred the patient or loved ones to a support group, take advantage of it. If a nurse navigator or similar guide also offered their services, get in contact.
- What are the expectations for appointments moving forward? Gather all necessary records in one place. Determine if the patient wants others’ involvement in their care decisions.
In addition to establishing these with the care team, set rules for yourself. Begin by asking yourself some difficult questions:
- What are your boundaries?
- Do you have role clarity?
- Who will be your own go-to person? Is there another loved one to support you, or is can you hire someone to take on any extraneous household tasks?
- … And Then Break Them
Contradictory to the rule-setting, it is important to understand that ultimately, managing cancer is a very fluid and emotional situation. Furthermore, while the patient and caregivers should have some form of normalcy and routine, you should never feel guilty for deciding to break your own rules once or twice for the good of everyone’s mental health.
Don’t Forget to Care for Yourself
Caregivers often battle “caregiver burden”, or the unmet physical, emotional, social, and financial needs of a caregiver sacrificed by providing care. Most commonly, caregiver burden manifests in psychological struggles—anxiety, depression, worry, or loneliness.
No one can be a caregiver 24/7 without pausing to meet their own needs. Some ways to lessen or relieve caregiver burden can include:
- Eating a healthy diet
- Increasing support from others in caring for the patient
- Spiritual or meditative time alone
- Social time with friends
Remember, while these can help offset caregiver burden, you should talk to a trained mental health professional when you need to.
This article was originally published on Feb. 16, 2021, on the PE GI Journal Blog. PE GI Solutions is a strategic service line of SCA Health.

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ST. LOUIS, MO- In the very short term, the answer to the question in the headline is…..nowhere. The team is now on a bye week before heading for a matchup against Kentucky in Lexington October 7. The longer-term question is much harder to decipher.
You may have heard Head Coach Barry Odom’s fiery defense of his program after the Tigers lost to Auburn 51-14, where he declared, “I’m gonna win here…that’s gonna happen….I’m the man to get it done, with this staff, with this team, with this program.”
The emotional appeal comes as Odom now sits on a coaching record of 1-3 this season and 5-11 for his career as a head coach at his alma mater.
On Saturday night, He referenced the struggles his college coach Larry Smith endured in breaking a long bowl drought in Columbia in 1997, and how Gary Pinkel survived a rough early stretch despite calls for his ouster. He talked about what he had learned by being part of those turnarounds, and how this was another. In an appearance on a teleconference this week, he again referenced the idea that this a turnaround project
But here’s the thing: we’re no longer in the mid-90s or the early 2000s, and Barry Odom isn’t Larry Smith or Gary Pinkel. When Smith got the MU job, he’d already had 17 years of experience as a head coach. Pinkel had 10 years in charge at Toledo after learning from Don James for nearly a quarter century as a player and assistant.
They weren’t going to get run off the job after two seasons. That’s just not how it was done back then. But that was then, this is now. Barry Odom is an accomplished defensive coach with all the heart and fire and passion for the University of Missouri that an alum (full disclosure, I’m an alum) would want. But the jury is clearly still out if he can grow into a successful head coach, if he’s learned enough along the way to make it work. While football has always been a big deal to an athletic department’s bottom line, multiply that pressure by 100, and you’re probably at where we are now, in the world of the SEC. Coaches can get run out of town after two years nowadays, and the Kim Anderson experiment in basketball also doesn’t help his case, even if a third year allowed MU to ultimately get lucky with Cuonzo Martin and the Porter family.
I won’t pretend that I can get into Jim Sterk’s head on this one, except to say that Sterk wasn’t here when Odom was hired, so he’ll have a slightly different calculus when evaluating the future. As we stand right here, I don’t see many wins left on the table barring a stunning “turnaround”.
— FOX2now (@FOX2now) September 25, 2017
But that’s not all that will go into it. You can’t make a move without having a reasonable idea of who might be out there to hire. And in this coaching cycle, that figures to be tricky. Just look at what’s happening in Lincoln, Nebraska, where an Athletic Director was just fired, essentially for the failures of the football program to restore past glory. Mike Riley is 17-13 in year three with the Cornhuskers, but suffered a defeat at the hands of Northern Illinois. With Riley’s boss fired, speculation has already turned to who may get Riley’s job. Other jobs that could open: Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Florida, Kansas, Kansas State and potentially Michigan and UCLA if NFL jobs come calling. Where would Mizzou fall in this pecking order?
When I listened to Odom’s postgame remarks, the “with this staff” part stuck out to me. Assistants have come and gone, either for new opportunities or because of disciplinary issues or philosophical differences. The offense, under the near total control of Josh Heupel, has not found its footing against Power 5 opponents. The “fastball” approach that worked at Oklahoma isn’t working here. Instead, it is putting a gassed defense back on the field all too soon. A quarterback with a Sunday arm in Drew Lock has not grown in his time in Columbia and hasn’t been helped by a ton of dropped passes.
Gary Pinkel’s extreme loyalty to his staff was admirable, and in the world of college football as we know it, very rare. It may be a trait that Barry Odom will not be able to afford if he wants a third season at the helm in Columbia.