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As Fernandinho lifted the Premier League trophy on Sunday, Manchester City were finally able to celebrate their victory having secured the ultimate domestic prize. At the individual level, Harry Kane won the golden boot for the third time while the Premier League Manager of the Season award is still up for grabs (although Pep Guardiola was named the League Managers’ Association manager of the year on Monday night).
Rather than look towards the obvious accolades, we thought it more appropriate to dig into some alternative awards based on the underlying numbers of the Premier League season.
Who has the best goalscoring rate in the league? Which manager has got the most value out of his squad? Which player carries the most creative burden for their team? Some of the awards will be welcomed by the recipients, others will be accepted rather more reluctantly…
Statistical team of the year
A nice easy one to start. As you would imagine for a team who has just won the Premier League title, Manchester City have had the best underlying numbers overall this season when considering the quality of chances they have created (expected goals, or xG) and the quality of chances they conceded (xG against) — but a closer look reveals some interesting findings.
As opposed to previous title-winning seasons where City have blown teams away with their relentless attack, this season’s title win has had its foundation in a strong defence. On average, City have conceded chances worthy of just 0.6 xG per game, the best in the league. Going forward, however, City’s attack has been the least potent since Pep Guardiola arrived in Manchester. This season, City have created chances worthy of 1.6 xG per game, where previously they had not fallen below 2.0 xG per game in the last three seasons.
A shout-out for the statistical team of the year must also go to the analytics darling of the season — Brighton & Hove Albion. Their overall expected goals difference was the fourth-best in the league, driven in large part by their strong defence — only Chelsea and Manchester City conceded chances of lower quality than Brighton.
It has been well documented just how much they have underperformed against the quality of their performances, but if Graham Potter does stay at the Amex Stadium and Brighton continue with their performances into next season, the data suggests that the club could be pushing for places far higher in the league table next campaign.
Best goal-per-minutes ratio
The Premier League Golden Boot went to Harry Kane on the final day, who collected the award for the third time after taking his tally to 23 goals for the season. A well-deserved award, but as has been highlighted before, comparing player’s goalscoring performance based on total numbers can be a little misleading as it does not consider the number of minutes played by each player.
Therefore, we can provide an alternative award for the player who has the best goalscoring rate for the time they were on the field, per 90 minutes. Considering only players who have played 900-plus minutes in the Premier League, the player with the highest rate of non-penalty goals per 90 is Kane’s team-mate Gareth Bale.
Bale’s rate of more than one goal per 90 minutes is an incredible return. Using Opta data, that means that Bale averaged a goal every 84 minutes in the Premier League this season. Among players to have scored 10-plus goals in the Premier League era, only Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had a better minutes-per-goal ratio in the 1998-99 season, with one goal every 71 minutes.
You may have already identified a trend between the above two names in providing context behind these numbers. Although Bale has played in 20 league games for Spurs this season, 10 of them have been from the bench. Bale did not complete a full 90 minutes in the league all season, meaning his ratio may be slightly inflated when accounting for the minutes on the pitch.
As we saw against Leicester on Sunday, when the game opens up and opposition legs are tired, Bale still has the quality to pick teams apart and find the back of the net. For all of the commentary around the Welshman’s performances this season, there can be no denying that he has come up with the goods in front of goal — when he has had the opportunity.
Best-performing manager based on squad value
A lot of clubs are understandably unwilling to part with significant sums of money in a transfer market that has been hit by the impact of the coronavirus. For that reason, managers and coaching staff are being asked to eke out as much value from their squad as possible.
Financial clout certainly helps, but smart recruitment and good coaching contribute to a team’s success in the long term. So which manager has got the most bang for their buck in the performances of their squad this season?
The team with the “cheapest” squad assembled were relegation sufferers West Bromwich Albion, but Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United top the list for the best value of points gained per million pounds spent. Leeds spent wisely in last summer’s transfer market, but it is well established just how much Bielsa has stuck with — and improved — the core group of players who were key to Leeds’ promotion last year.
A bit of reflection is required on the table above, given that the accumulation of points in the Premier League is not necessarily a linear task. For example, spending money to build a squad that is capable of accumulating the “magic 40-point mark” may not require spending an extravagant amount of money, but for those competing for the top positions, clubs are often more likely to spend more money for the lucrative reward that more points — and a higher position — can bring.
As we have seen this season in the race for European spots, the margins within the top half of the table can be very small. A five-point difference between 30 to 35 points is not the same as a five-point difference between 75 and 80 points, which is why you see the top clubs in the Premier League spending such high values to build their squad to make that difference.
Player who most overperformed their xG
Statistically speaking, even a single season’s worth of shots is a fairly small sample to go from when evaluating a player’s goalscoring performances. A truly reliable barometer would be to look at them over multiple seasons, where you will often see players converge more closely in the number of goals scored vs their expected goals.
Nevertheless, looking within a season you can see which players have had a flyer by scoring goals at a higher rate than the quality of chances they had. This season, the award for such overperformance goes to Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min. The Spurs forward’s haul of 16 non-penalty goals from 8.9 xG is nearly double the rate that you would expect, given the quality of chances he found himself in.
With two goals off the bench on Sunday, team-mate Bale has also exceeded expectation by 4.7 goals, which tallies with his astonishing goalscoring rate per 90 minutes played mentioned earlier in the piece. Meanwhile, loanees Jesse Lingard and Joe Willock will have done their market value no harm as they scored eight non-penalty goals apiece, but a closer look at their underlying numbers suggests that you would be unlikely to see them keep up that goalscoring rate next season.
Looking at Son’s scoring rate across recent seasons, the Tottenham forward has largely performed above expectation in his goalscoring. However, looking at this season in isolation, you can see that his overperformance in the opening games was rather significant and, frankly, unsustainable.
A regression understandably followed, which meant that Son scored at a rate closer to expectation, but overall the 28-year-old still leads the way for a player who beat their xG most out of all Premier League players.
Player who most underperformed their xG
At the other end of the table, we can also assess which players underperformed in front of goal, scoring at a rate that was lower than the quality of chances they had. Again, it’s important to note just how more valuable it is to look at a player’s goalscoring against expectation over a longer period of time, but looking within a season reveals some interesting findings.
Despite the discussion around Timo Werner’s hard luck in front of goal for Chelsea this season, the player with the largest underperformance in non-penalty goals vs xG is Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy. This may seem quite a shock given that Vardy has scored 15 goals in the league this season, but it is worth noting that eight out of the 15 have come from the penalty spot.
On average, Vardy has not scored above expectation all season and looks to have been on the worst scoring run in open play since Brendan Rodgers arrived. The goalscoring performance of team-mate Kelechi Iheanacho has certainly helped take the heat off Vardy this season, with the Nigeria international chipping in with 4.6 goals more than the quality of chances he found himself in.
Vardy led the fight to secure Champions League football for Leicester on Sunday, converting two goals from the spot. While it was not to be this year, Vardy will already be eager to improve his goalscoring rate in open play when the new season is up and running.
Player who received the biggest share of their team’s chances
For teams like Manchester City, the interchange between the forward players means that the chances created can often fall to any number of players who are trusted to convert. For other teams, there is a clear focal point that the attack is built around, and you can be confident that a large proportion of the chances created are set up for a certain individual. Which player has the largest share of their team’s chances when on the field?
The top 10 list includes some usual suspects, with Burnley’s Chris Wood, Newcastle’s Callum Wilson and Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin all right up there. Interestingly, though, the award for the largest share of chances falls to Crystal Palace’s Christian Benteke.
Although the Belgian has played just over half of the available minutes for Palace this season, the numbers show that over 43 per cent of the chances created by Palace fell to Benteke when he was on the field. It is no secret that Palace have an important squad rebuild on their hands this summer, and with Benteke out of contract and looking to depart imminently, there will have to be a new focal point in the attack at Selhurst Park.
Player who created the biggest share of their team’s chances
Moving a step back from the players who received the best chances from expected goals, we can also look at which players were responsible for carrying the most burden for creating chances for their team.
To do this, we can look at expected assists, which measures the expected goals value of the shot that is assisted. This is a good proxy to explore which players are creating the most chances for their team when they are on the field. The top 10 list is not too surprising, and in some cases shows players who have outperformed the team they are in. The best example is the player who tops the list: Matheus Pereira.
The Brazilian attacking midfielder has been one of the few players in the West Brom squad who can say they have had a decent campaign this season, and while his expected assists per 90 was not as high as the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, the share of the overall chance creation fell most significantly onto Pereira, who created nearly one-third of West Brom’s chances when he was on the field.
Staying in the Midlands, the importance of Wolves’ Pedro Neto and Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish is also highlighted above, and underlines how the poor form that each of the respective clubs experienced this season had coincided with each player being out of the team with injury. Will all three of the discussed players remain at their clubs going into next season? That remains to be seen, but their creative importance is certainly borne out in the numbers.
As we have previously discussed, metrics such as save percentage can be a flawed way to assess goalkeeper performance, as it does not account for the volume of shots they have faced or where those shots were fired at them.
Using expected goals on target (xGOT) adds more context and provides a more accurate reflection of goalkeeping performance as it shows how many goals a goalkeeper is expected to have conceded based on the quality of the shots on target they have faced.
We can then use this to calculate the number of “goals prevented”, which compares how many goals a goalkeeper actually conceded against the number they were expected to. This is ideal for measuring the quality of saves produced, given the chances that a goalkeeper has faced. The higher the goals prevented number, the better the shot-stopping performance.
Although many may not have predicted it, the award for the best shot-stopping performance goes to Hugo Lloris at Tottenham Hotspur, who kept out 5.1 goals above expectation across the season.
The Spurs captain is one of only four goalkeepers to play every minute of the Premier League season, but even after accounting for minutes played, Lloris’s numbers stack up — alongside Burnley’s Nick Pope, who looks set to miss out on a place in England’s Euros squad to undergo minor knee surgery.
Honourable mentions must also go to Aston Villa’s Emiliano Martinez and Fulham’s Alphonse Areola, who have both performed admirably in their debut campaigns. The pair had been leading the way for most goals prevented for most of the season, but a late surge of form from Lloris means he gets the title for best shot-stopper this season, according to the numbers.
Team that won the most points from a losing position
Whether it is down to a lack of fans or a simply anomalous year, the 2020-21 campaign has had its fair share of comebacks. Per Opta, this season saw 56 victories from teams who conceded the first goal in a match — a new record within a single season.
The team who gathered the most points from a losing position this season were Premier League runners-up Manchester United, who acquired 31 points in total after falling behind.
That tally puts them as the second-highest in Premier League history, behind the Newcastle United team in 2002-03 (who won 34 points from a losing position) and marginally ahead of the title-winning Manchester United side of 2012-13 (who won 29 points from a losing position).
United were widely known to be masters of the comeback under Sir Alex Ferguson, but they have regained that title this year. All things considered, it is not a record they will be choosing to boast about, but it does show a grit and determination in Solskjaer’s side that they do not know when they are beaten.
As has been highlighted previously, a key reason Manchester United may be so good at coming from behind is that their fast, counter-attacking style can be a key strength when playing against teams who are searching for a second goal to kill off the game. This is particularly true in away games, where the onus is more on the home team which somewhat plays into United’s hands.
A full Premier League season unbeaten away from home is a record that United will happily take confidence from, but the main aim next season will be to avoid another record that involves them conceding the first goal, or any goal for that matter.
Team that lost the most points from a winning position
If we are looking at teams who have gained the most points from losing positions, it is only fair to dovetail it with the teams that have lost the most points from winning positions. Unfortunately, it is Brighton who will reluctantly collect that award, having dropped 25 points after taking the lead.
It feels balanced that we are bookending the stats awards by mentioning Brighton at the start and end, but the fundamentals of their season cut across both issues here. Their goalscoring issues against their expected goals have meant that games remain more tightly poised despite Brighton often being dominant in their performance.
There has been a lack of game management and experience to see games out in what is a relatively young and developing squad in the Premier League, and it is something that Potter himself has acknowledged recently.
Southampton and Spurs are not too far behind in this unwanted statistic, with Spurs in particular being renowned for sitting on leads and allowing the opposition to come back into the game — one of the key downfalls under the Mourinho regime.
Finally, Leeds fans will welcome being at the bottom of this table, in showing that when they have taken the lead, they are statistically the best team at holding onto their winning position.
Some fans will be glad to see the back of this Premier League season, but others will savour the memories that have come from a positive campaign.
Here’s to more weird and wonderful stories next season.
(Photo: Tottenham Hotspur FC/Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images)

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Addiction is a complex disease characterized by compulsive, uncontrolled drug or alcohol abuse. Anyone can be affected by addiction, and you can get addicted to any mood-or-mind-altering substance. However, some drugs are considered more addictive than others. In this article, we’ll examine the most addictive substances and how to know when it is time to get help.
5 Most Addictive Drugs
Researchers have looked at factors like potential harm, treatment admissions, the potential for physical and psychological, dependence, and prevalence of use to determine what the most addictive drugs are. Five of the most addictive drugs are:
Heroin is the fastest-acting and most abused illicit opioid. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), an estimated 691,000 people ages 12 or older were addicted to heroin in 2020. Some people use heroin one time and become hooked because they are chasing the next high or “chasing the dragon.” Heroin is so addictive that it has contributed heavily to the ongoing opioid overdose crisis in the U.S., tragically taking the lives of more than 13,150 people in 2020 alone.
Meth, also known as crystal meth or “ice,” is another highly addictive drug. Meth is a stimulant that increases energy levels and activity in the central nervous system. Many people who abuse meth will binge on it, staying high for days at a time, and becoming addicted very quickly. Long-term meth abuse can lead to brain damage, psychosis, organ failure, and mental health issues. The NIDA reports that among people ages 12 and older in 2020, an estimated 1.5 million people were addicted to meth.
Cocaine is another highly addictive stimulant drug. It produces effects that are similar to meth, but shorter lasting. Cocaine is often glamorized in media and party culture, so people often underestimate the addictive qualities of this drug. The truth is that cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs out there, and about 1.3 million people ages 12 or older were addicted to it in 2020.
Alcohol is legal to purchase and consume in the U.S. if you are over 21 years old, but it is also considered one of the most addictive and dangerous substances. Because alcohol is so accepted in American culture, many people don’t realize they are drinking too much until they are already facing a drinking problem.
According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 14.5 million people ages 12 and older had an alcohol use disorder. Moreover, an estimated 95,000 people die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol one of the leading causes of health issues and death in the United States.
When people think of drug addiction, they often think of drugs like meth and heroin. However, one of the most addictive drugs is nicotine–a chemical found in cigarettes and e-cigarettes. In 2020, an estimated 23.6 million people were addicted to nicotine. Nicotine is not only highly addictive, but it is very harmful to your health and can increase the risk of several types of cancer. Nicotine is also considered one of the hardest drugs to quit.
Signs its Time to Get Addiction Help
Sometimes it can be difficult to know when it’s time to get treatment for addiction. Living with addiction can alter your judgment, and it often sends people into a state of denial, causing them to think their addiction really isn’t “that bad.” Others, such as those who are addicted to prescription drugs, may not think they need treatment because their medications were prescribed to them by a doctor.
So how do you know when it’s time to get help? If you relate with two or more of the following, it’s probably time to get professional help. Common signs of addiction include:
- Doctor shopping which means going from one doctor to the next to try and get extra refills
- Developing a tolerance that causes you to increase your dose to feel the same effects
- Experiencing symptoms of withdrawal when you don’t take drugs
- Isolating from friends and family
- Lying to loved ones
- Having trouble at work, school, or home
- Making excuses to get out of events or responsibilities so you can use drugs
- Spending excess time and money on purchasing, using, and recovering from the effects of drugs
- Wanting to get sober but feeling unable to function without drugs
- Making multiple failed attempts to stay sober
- Having regular drug cravings or urges
- Feeling out of control of your drug use
- Placing drugs or alcohol at a higher priority level than work, school, or family
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Professor David Hollander
David Hollander is an associate dean and professor at New York University. He’s well known for teaching the extremely popular course, “How Basketball Can Save The World.”
Through his class and upcoming book of the same name (releasing February 7th, 2023), professor Hollander examines how the underlying principles of the game can provide a new blueprint for addressing our diverse challenges and showing what’s possible beyond the court.
Like Dave and his students, we believe: Basketball transcends the physical. Basketball is a universal language. Basketball is as much a dance as a sport. Basketball is a sanctuary. Basketball can teach us new ways of interacting and relating to one another.
In January of 2023, David Hollander will also be co-hosting a new season of our podcast, 94&More, alongside Jake Fenster of Bristol Studio. They will speak with a variety of guests from authors to artists, academics to athletes, and many more. In these interviews, they will explorehow basketball can challenge us to rethink systems and ideologies in service of reimagining our world in new and unexpected ways. Stay tuned for more.


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What Was The Great Depression?
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place in the 1930s. It was the longest deepest most widespread depression of the 20th century. The collapse of stock markets combined with a wave of bank failures a decline in raw materials led to a dramatic decrease in international trade industrial production employment rates.
Several factors contributed to the onset severity of the Great Depression. One of the primary causes was the stock market crash that occurred on October 29 1929 also known as Black Tuesday. This event marked the beginning of a rapid economic decline as investors lost confidence rushed to sell their stocks. Additionally the excesses of the 1920s including widespread speculation an overreliance on credit an unequal distribution of wealth were key contributors to the economic downturn.
The Great Depression had far-reaching consequences on both a national global scale. Unemployment soared reaching an all-time high of 25% in the United States. This led to widespread poverty a decline in living standards. Many individuals families lost their homes shantytowns known as “Hoovervilles” appeared across the country.
The banking system was also severely affected. Over 9000 banks failed resulting in the loss of savings for countless individuals. Poverty unemployment desperation fueled social unrest leading to protests strikes the rise of extremist political movements in some countries.
To combat the effects of the Great Depression governments around the world implemented various policies. In the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal a series of economic programs aimed at providing relief recovery reform. These included job creation initiatives financial reforms public works projects.
Other nations also pursued similar measures such as public infrastructure investments monetary policies aimed at stabilizing their economies. However it was not until the outbreak of World War II the subsequent increase in military spending that the global economy began to recover from the Great Depression.
The Great Depression was a devastating economic downturn that had profound lasting effects on societies worldwide. It highlighted the need for effective government intervention during times of crisis served as a lesson for future generations. While it took years for the global economy to fully recover the Great Depression remains a seminal event in history reminding us of the fragility interconnectedness of the world’s economies.

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The ongoing territorial squabble with China has brought Japan’s Coast Guard into the spotlight, causing a surge in job applications and even inspiring a local box-office hit film. But behind the scenes, the once-obscure civilian maritime force is being stressed and tested to its limits.
Due to the territorial tug of war over the Senkaku (Diaoyu in China) Islands, China has been sending patrol ships near the disputed waters. To fend them off, Japan has also sent maritime patrol ships. But in order not to escalate the situation, the government isn’t using the military Self Defense Forces. Instead, it has tasked the Coast Guard, composed of civilians and run by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism. Although somewhat on par with their Chinese counterparts, the Coast Guard is being stretched thin. Its crew, used to shifts of at most two weeks, are on duty without time off for months. They are also forced to skip crucial training, in a time when they are expected to be able to ward off and restrain offenders both on sea and on remote islands. Ships also receive only temporary repairs instead of much-needed overhauls.
Although the number of applicants have double this year, the Coast Guard lacks the resources to train them. A number of older vessels need to be retired as well. The situation has become a rallying and unifying point of many of the political parties and candidates running for election in a few days, with promises of allocating funds and beefing up the Coast Guard to empower it to respond to situations and emergencies that the pacifist nation hasn’t faced in decades.
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Iron Solomon releases a self-produced track, “Breathe,” which will appear on his debut album, Monster, that drops March 27th.
Download: Iron Solomon: Breathe
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new? he’s been around for a minute, although he was mainly a battle rapper. Dope track tho…
Pretty good!!! especially from someone who was a battle rapper…he needs to raise the volume on the hook. The hook should not be the same volume as the verses. But its overall proper…..1
wow this is a big track. not many battle rapper can cross over like this dude.

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By Jack Edward
Hello again guys!
I’m back with some more entertaining stats on the players that lost most frequently to the eventual champion of a tournament this season. We focused on the men last time; this time we’re delving into the WTA. There are some interesting storylines here — strap in!
Joint-Third: Six Losses
In 2022, 141 WTA players lost to a tournament’s eventual champ.
Of those 141, three players lost to a tournament’s eventual champ six times, the third-most of anyone on tour.
The first isn’t much of a surprise. Belinda Bencic was low-key scary at times this year so her inclusion here is understandable.
- Badosa in Sydney (QF)
- Kontaveit in St. Petersburg (QF)
- Jabeur in Madrid (3R)
- Jabeur in Berlin (F)
- Martic in Lausanne (QF)
- Krejčíková in Tallinn (SF)
A Wimbledon champion isn’t much of a surprise either – still Elena Rybakina had five tough heartbreakers to stomach after winning the biggest title of her career, three of them coming in first or second rounds.
- Barty in Adelaide (F)
- Kasatkina in San Jose (1R)
- Siniakova in Portoroz (F)
- Samsonova in Tokyo (1R)
- Krejčíková in Ostrava (SF)
- Pegula in Guadalajara (2R)
Someone that did surprise me however? In a testament to her future and her current quality, Qinwen Zheng makes the list, twice falling to the eventual tournament champion in Grand Slams!
- Halep in Melbourne (SF)
- Fernandez in Monterrey (QF)
- Świątek at Roland-Garros (4R)
- Rybakina at Wimbledon (3R)
- Samsonova in Tokyo (F)
- Świątek in San Diego (2R)
Joint-Second: Seven Losses
Three players went one further with seven losses to TEC’s throughout the year.
Aryna Sabalenka was repeatedly foiled by this year’s cream of the crop. Though Sabalenka’s season was rocky, this list shows she was often in the running or thereabout. (Note those four losses to Swiatek!)
- Świątek in Doha (QF)
- Świątek in Stuttgart (F)
- Świątek in Rome (SF)
- Alexandrova in s’Hertogenbosch (F)
- Kasatkina in San Jose (QF)
- Garcia in Cincinnati (SF)
- Świątek at the US Open (SF)
7.5 Garcia at the World Tour Finals (F) *Round-robin events not included*
Coco Gauff had a similar experience to Sabalenka, losing to Świątek three times when the Pole won the tournament. A couple of these losses actually came relatively early in tournament draws, perhaps shedding a new light on the American’s season.
- Barty in Adelaide (2R)
- Keys in Adelaide 2 (2R)
- Świątek in Miami (4R)
- Świątek at Roland-Garros (F)
- Jabeur in Berlin (SF)
- Halep in Toronto (QF)
- Świątek in San Diego (QF)
To nobody’s surprise, Maria Sakkari rounds out the list. Being a four-time runner-up this year was always going to put her ahead of most. A small silver-lining for Sakkari fans? A sneaky loss to Garcia in the second-round of Cincinnati makes her poor North American swing a little easier to swallow.
- Kontaveit in St. Petersburg (F)
- Swiatek in Doha (SF)
- Swiatek in Indian Wells (F)
- Haddad Maia in Nottingham (QF)
- Garcia in Cincinnati (2R)
- Sherif in Parma (F)
- Pegula in Guadalajara (F)
(7.5 Garcia at the World Tour Finals (SF))
Stand-Alone First: Eight Losses
If you’ve been following the tour closely, you might have a good idea of who comes at top of our list.
Jessica Pegula racked up eight losses this year to a TEC! Not overly surprising. The nature of some of the losses however…
- Barty at the Australian Open (QF)
- Świątek in Miami (SF)
- Jabeur in Madrid (F)
- Świątek at Roland-Garros (QF)
- Halep in Toronto (SF)
- Garcia in Cincinnati (QF)
- Świątek at the US Open (QF)
- Świątek in San Diego (SF)
Pegula lost to the eventual champ at the Australian Open, the French Open and the US Open. Each of these losses came in the quarterfinals. There’s a 1 in 7 chance Pegula is drawn against the tournament favourite at this stage of each of these Slams (FYI, she would have played Rybakina in the fourth-round of Wimbledon if she’d won her third-round match).
The chances of drawing the tournament favourite in the quarters three times in three Slams?
1 in 343.
To boot, Pegula then had to deal with brutal losses in four WTA 1000s. There were four Slams and eight WTA 1000s this season. Pegula won Guadalajara, so for the other 11 events? Pegula was beaten by the eventual champion in 7 out of 11 of them. Just look at the list: all late rounds, all big events, all very tough opponents.
As big an OOF as there is.
Hope you enjoyed the rundown. Let me know how aggrieved you are on Twitter (@ontheline_jack)!


By the time Formula 1’s new car regulations arrive in 2021, the Drag Reduction System will have been part of the sport for 10 years.
The adjustable rear wing was originally introduced in 2011 as a means of helping cars get closer to each other in order to overtake. It has divided opinion between those who consider it a unfair gimmick, and those who believe overtaking would be almost impossible without it.
DRS has been described as a sticking plaster solution to the difficulty of overtaking in F1. As the new 2021 regulations are intended to make it much easier for cars to follow each other closely, will that be the time to ‘rip off the Band Aid’?
F1 believes its 2021 car designs will allow drivers to race each other much more closely. The changes are much more drastic than the alterations to front wings made this year.
Currently a car running two car-lengths behind another loses around 50% of its downforce, which is why drivers find it so hard to stay close. This figure is expected to fall to 5-10% in 2021.
This is the very problem DRS is designed to mitigate. It shouldn’t be needed any more in two years’ time, so why keep it on the cars?
Past attempts to improve the quality of racing in Formula 1 have not always been successful. The 2009 Overtaking Working Group-inspired changes made some gains, but these were cancelled out as teams developed their designs in pursuit of performance. The same situation could happen again in 2021.
DRS currently provides an easy means to adjust how closely cars can race each other. Leaving it on the car would allow F1 to ensure the racing remains close even if the 2021 regulations don’t produce the intended results.
Toto Wolff once said he wanted to take a chainsaw to the Halo. That’s basically how I feel about DRS.
DRS is fundamentally unfair: it hands a significant advantage to a driver following another car closely. I wouldn’t have put it on the cars in the first place. Forget 2021, I’d take it off tomorrow.
Because DRS creates easy, push-button passing, it weakens the incentive to improve how closely cars can follow each other by other ways. The exhaustively-research 2021 proposal looks by far the best chance yet of fixing this problem properly. To give it its best chance of success, DRS has simply got to go.
Do you think Formula 1 should scrap DRS in 2021? Cast your vote below and have your say in the comments.
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The one indulgence you would never forgo? An early-morning walk on the farm connecting with nature as I start my busy day: a type of walking mediation.
What are your essential lotions and potions? I am rather particular about what I use on my skin, as I have a super-sensitive skin. I am also specific in using products that have no chemicals and are not tested on animals. We have started to stock a brand called Handmade La Conner, which I am loving.
Which tech gadget couldn’t you live without? I am not big on technology; I’m a bit old fashioned — a hardcover book or the clacking of a beautiful old typewriter is more my thing. Having said this, I do love the worldwide web: the convenience and the connection it has brought with it.
What is your single most sentimental object? Recently, I acquired a vintage Moroccan wedding pillow in vibrant purples.
What is your drink of choice? Gin. I was on a trip to a little island in Greece, when the night air and the sea breeze led me to a restaurant that served rose-scented gin — heavenly!
When you eat out, where do you go? My go-to place at the moment is Salvation Café: the food is so fresh, and the vibe is super-relaxed. The Asian calamari is my absolute best — with a tall glass of Pimm’s on the side.
What was the last object that you fell in love with? While in Cambodia, we stumbled across a small ceramics studio that had embraced the use of Japan’s slip glaze. Each potter had a signature feel to their pieces; the ethereal nature of these pieces touched me deeply.
A watch brand that you love? I am on a reuse, repurpose drive: the world is so full of product and we continue to make more. I love the old vintage Rolexes with leather straps. Definitely on my list.
The last place you travelled to that captured your heart? Recently, I travelled to Cambodia: I truly feel that this has changed my life. The Khmer people are humble, and so keen to connect and share.
Which books can we find on your bedside table? I am reading The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama.
Do you remember the last meal that really blew you away? While in Bangkok, we stumbled on an antique shop that moonlights as a restaurant. We ate the best green curry, served with fresh herbs and greens.
Which musician really appeals to you at the moment? Anything jazz, especially Stan Getz, and anything on vinyl.
What’s your next must-have item? A massive Beni Ourain Rug from Morocco. I love the tactile nature, the colour, the pattern, and the knowledge that it has been handcrafted by a group of women in the Atlas Mountains.
What is the first thing you add to your grocery cart and the one item you’ll always find in your fridge? Basil and fresh veggies.
The best gift you’ve been given recently? I was woken early on Sunday by my six-year-old daughter: she had been awake for hours making me a paper crown decorated with glitter and flowers.
A gift that you’ve recently bought for someone? One of our leather, handmade-paper notebooks for my 16-year-old daughter.
What place inspires and rejuvenates you? I live out in the Cradle of Humankind on Monaghan Farm: the bush and nature refuel me.
An event that’s recently caught your attention? Georgia Black’s Littlegig Festival. Music, good food, and the sense of community.
The last item of clothing you added to your wardrobe? A gilet from Cambodia made by a community of women who acquire discarded fabric from large retailers. I love the story and the care for our future they promote.
Your favourite city? San Francisco, because I like to be at the forefront of innovation, and be inspired by pockets of design and experimental, like-minded people.

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, November 15, 2010.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Prints and Photographs Collection, Library of Congress
Photographic image of George P. A. Healy painting by Detroit Publishing Company, circa 1910.


One of the advantages of being to ready to take a shot at cruisers is that you can by and large discover them truly shabby when deal with them is required. Commonly, a bicycle that requirements work has been sitting for some time, more often than not with the tank purge. This implies after some time that rust has assumed control, similar to the case with a 1981 Honda CB650 that I had obtained. To state that this thing had rust in it was putting it mildly; it had pieces of rust. Fortunately however, the tank had no stick opening breaks or anything and was totally strong. Presently to the fun part! I will clarify the way toward expelling rust from a cruiser gas tank. As I expressed, this was done on a 81′ CB650, so it’s custom fitted to that, yet I’m certain it’ll take a shot at most different bicycles.
What you’ll require:
- Refined water (it’s imperative that you just utilize refined water)
- Two stroke oil
- A length of tie 4 to 6 feet long
A remark the fuel outlet (I utilized a little bit of hose a little cloth and a bit of dark tape)
Imperative NOTE: CH3)2CO AND Elastic Don’t Blend! On the off chance that you utilize elastic to seal the fuel yield supplant it each time you deplete the CH3)2CO blend as the CH3)2CO will consume it.
Now I will expect that you have the gas tank off the bicycle and that it’s vacant. Here is a well ordered.
- Attachment the fuel yield and ensure it is fixed
- Fill the tank about ½ brimming with CH3)2CO and let it sit turning once in a while
- Hold up overnight
- Shake the tank and discharge the CH3)2CO/rust blend into a can
- Fill the tank ½ route again with CH3)2CO and this time drop the chain in
- Shake the tank regularly and enthusiastically. The chain will thump staying rust off
- Purge the CH3)2CO/rust blend into the pail
Top the tank off with refined water and purge it out. Do this until the point that exclusive genuinely wipe water turns out and no rust can be heard rattling around. I put a hairdryer in the fuel gap and dried it out instantly after
Fill the tank about ¼ with two stroke oil and shake it around then purge it, It would be ideal if you discard the CH3)2CO and other awful chemicals legitimately
I exceedingly recommend introducing an inline fuel channel on the fuel line in the middle of the tank and carburetor. It will sift through any little particles and keep them out of the fuel framework. This framework worked for me, my CB650 pursued like a fantasy cleaning the tank this way!


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The American political system that is the US Constitutional brand of government is all about the process. For instance, the required outcome is affordable healthcare for all citizens. That includes globally competitive performance metrics reflected in quality and cost measurements. The place to begin the discussion is understanding the as-is and to-be situation and scenarios.
What is the as-is performance of the healthcare system today that includes the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid: number of citizens covered, healthcare quality, and associated costs?
What is the to-be performance of the healthcare system as envisioned and proposed by President-elect Trump, addressing the same measurements?
Do Americans truly know and understand the starting position? The US Congress is working hard to hide the facts. They don't want the Congressional Budget Office telegraphing the situation. That is an impeachable offense for all involved. That is not transparency.
Just as the Democratic-controlled Congress under Nancy Pelosi found the task of producing legislation to address the needs challenging, the Republican congressional members have had years to produce an alternative. They have failed and that is a fact. They failed for not trying. They failed Donald Trump for not having alternative legislation ready for his review.
Now, it is impossible that Donald Trump who is not a lawyer, and his newly appointed and yet-to-be-confirmed HHS Director have somehow engineered new legislation that will suddenly appear and will have been vetted by the process.
Donald Trump is yet to be fully vetted. It is highly unlikely that his solution will be miraculous, unless, of course, it is plagiarized and modified from the Affordable Care Act. Let's compare when there are contents to analyze.
"Trump insists health care replacement will have 'insurance for everybody.'
Published January 16, 2017 FoxNews.com
What does health insurance 'for everybody' really mean?
President-elect Donald Trump revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that he’s almost finished with a plan to replace ObamaCare and vowed to have “insurance for everybody.”
Trump declined to reveal the pertinent details of the new health care plan, but told The Post in the interview published Sunday night that drug companies will be forced to negotiate on Medicare and Medicaid prices. He also plans to fight pharmaceutical companies over drug prices.
The president-elect insisted that his plan for replacing the Affordable Healthcare Act is all but finished, and added that care would have “lower numbers, much lower deductibles.” He went as far to say that he’s ready to reveal it alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
“It’s very much formulated down to the final strokes. We haven’t put it in quite yet, but we’re going to be doing it soon,” Trump said during the interview with the paper.
He added that he’s still waiting for Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to be confirmed as his secretary for health and human services. A hearing for his confirmation has yet to be scheduled.
PAUL PREVIEWS OBAMACARE REPLACEMENT PLAN FOCUSING ON LOWER COST POLICIES
Congressional Republicans took the first big step last week in their seven-year trek to dismantle President Obama’s health care law, passing a budget that would ease the passage of a bill that would replace ObamaCare. The budget — the Senate approved it Thursday — bars Democratic senators from blocking that future legislation with a filibuster.
The budget "gives us the tools we need for a step-by-step approach to fix these problems and put Americans back in control of their health care," Ryan, R-Wis., said after the vote."
I am working on a healthcare tweet

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The Thanks Obama meme is now a beer.
Surly Brewing will be tapping its new Thanks Obama beer on Friday to mark Inauguration Day. The winter rye IPA features an experimental hop variety (it's called 06297), and has a complex, spicy malt character with candied grape and vanilla cream hop aromas, as well as a little honey and malt sweetness, Surly says.
The beer is for "red and blue folks alike" and to "reflect on the last eight years, look to the future, and enjoy a pint with your fellow Americans," Surly says.
But the brewery knew it would get some controversial comments about the beer's name, writing in a news release "please don’t yell at us about the name on the internet, even though we know you’re going to anyway."
Surly was right. Check out the comments on Surly's Facebook post, Twitter and Instagram, which range from people saying they're done drinking Surly to being excited to read the comments about people being mad at Surly for making a Thanks Obama beer.
You can get the beer in Surly's taproom in Minneapolis starting at 11 a.m. Friday.


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Explore Undiscovered Food, Fashion & Fun.
Madison Valley’s always-inventive vegetarian kitchen serves vegan, gluten-free, organic, and raw foods with its traditional herbivore fare — all while keeping things undeniably fresh and homey.
Cafe Flora, 2901 East Madison Street (206-325-9100 or cafeflora.com).
Stuck in a what-to-bring-for-lunch rut? We snagged a sneak peek at recipes from an upcoming vegan cookbook.

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If we are going to successfully transition to a low-carbon economy, organizations need to collaborate with a common purpose and in new ways across systems.
Recent studies reveal the considerable global warming potential of a fuel that many fossils see as their industry’s best hope for a second life.


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Since the seal cuts off and connects, regulates and distributes, and mixes media on the valve channel, the sealing surface is often corroded, eroded, and worn by the medium and is easily damaged.
There are two reasons for sealing surface damage: man-made damage and natural damage. Man-made damage is caused by factors such as poor design, poor manufacturing, improper material selection, improper installation, poor use, and poor maintenance. Natural damage is the wear of the valve under normal working conditions, and it is the damage caused by the inevitable corrosion and erosion of the sealing surface by the medium.
The reasons for the damage to the sealing surface can be summarized as follows:
1. The processing quality of the sealing surface is not good.
It is mainly manifested in defects such as cracks, pores, and inclusions on the sealing surface, which are caused by improper selection of surfacing welding and heat treatment specifications and poor operation in the process of surfacing welding and heat treatment. The hardness of the sealing surface is too high or too low, which is due to incorrect material selection. Or caused by improper heat treatment, the hardness of the sealing surface is uneven, and it is not resistant to corrosion, mainly because the underlying metal is blown to the top during the surfacing process, which dilutes the alloy composition of the sealing surface. Of course, there are also design issues here.
2. Damage caused by improper selection and poor operation.
The main performance is that the valve is not selected according to the working conditions, and the cut-off valve is used as a throttle valve, resulting in excessive closing specific pressure and too fast or lax closing, causing erosion and wear on the sealing surface.
Improper installation and poor maintenance will cause the sealing surface to work abnormally, and the valve will run with a disease, which will damage the sealing surface prematurely.
3. Chemical corrosion of the medium.
When the medium around the sealing surface does not generate current, the medium directly reacts with the sealing surface and corrodes the sealing surface. Electrochemical corrosion, the contact between the sealing surfaces, the contact between the sealing surface and the closing body and the valve body, the concentration difference of the medium, the oxygen concentration difference, etc., will cause a potential difference and electrochemical corrosion will cause the sealing surface on the anode side to be corroded.
4. The erosion of the medium.
It is the result of wear, erosion, and cavitation of the sealing surface when the medium flows. When the medium is at a certain speed, the floating fine particles in the medium collide with the sealing surface, causing local damage. The high-speed flowing medium directly scours the sealing surface, causing local damage. When the medium is mixed and partially vaporized, air bubbles burst and impact the seal. surface, causing localized damage. The erosion of the medium and the alternating action of chemical corrosion will strongly erode the sealing surface.
5. Mechanical damage.
During the opening and closing process, the sealing surface will be damaged by scratches, bruises, squeezes, etc. Between the two sealing surfaces, atoms penetrate each other under the action of high temperature and high pressure, resulting in adhesion phenomenon. When the two sealing surfaces move relative to each other, the adhesion is easy to tear. The higher the surface roughness of the sealing surface, the more likely this phenomenon will occur. During the closing process of the valve, the valve disc will bruise and squeeze the sealing surface during the process of returning to the seat, which will cause partial wear or indentation on the sealing surface.
6. Fatigue damage.
During the long-term use of the sealing surface, under the action of alternating load, the sealing surface will be fatigued, and cracks and peeling layers will appear. Rubber and plastics are prone to aging after long-term use, resulting in poor performance.
From the above analysis of the cause of damage to the sealing surface, it can be seen that in order to improve the quality and service life of the valve sealing surface, it is necessary to select appropriate sealing surface materials, reasonable sealing structures and processing methods.

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The dragon thrownaxe, like all throwing axes, is a members-only Ranged throwing weapon and is the most powerful type of throwing axe. It is obtained as a possible reward from the Chambers of Xeric, granting 100 thrownaxes should the team receive it.
To wield a dragon thrownaxe, the player must have at least 61 Ranged.
The dragon thrownaxe has a special attack, Momentum Throw, which consumes 25% of the player’s special attack energy. It improves the player’s accuracy by 25% along with guaranteeing that the player will attack on the next game tick.
The special attack could be used to attack several times in quick succession with improved accuracy. However, unlike the granite maul’s special attack, it would not be possible to use all of these special attack hits at once in the same game tick. Only one can be launched per game cycle.
Dragon thrownaxes are instantly consumed when they are thrown using the special attack.


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USC Takes Game One Against Oregon State, 5-3
May 16, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Sophomore right-hander Brad Boxberger (Tustin/Foothill HS) struck out Ryan Ortiz to halt a ninth inning rally as the USC Trojans defeated the Oregon State Beavers, 5-3, in the Pac-10 Conference series opener. The Beavers scored three times in the ninth and had the tying run at first as Boxberger picked up his second save on the year as USC registered its 700th victory at Dedeaux Field since the field's inception in 1974.
Tommy Milone (6-5) almost went the distance for the Trojans, throwing 8 2/3 innings and giving up three runs on seven hits with a walk and nine strikeouts.
USC improved to 25-26 and 8-11 in Pac-10 play while Oregon State fell to 25-21 overall, 11-11 in conference.
Senior first baseman Derek Perren (Chatsworth/Granada Hills HS/L.A. Pierce College) went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI while sophomore catcher Robert Stock (Westlake Village/Agoura HS) was 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI for the Trojans.
Daniel Robertson was 3-for-4 with a home run for Oregon State while Chris Hopkins had two RBI in a 2-for-5 night.
Stock put the Trojans on the board in the third with his fourth home run of the year with a solo shot to right. Nick Buss then rifled a double down the right field line, but was thrown out at third when Roberto Lopez hit a ground ball to short. Grant Green walked to put runners at first and second and Perren followed with a two-run double to right to give USC the 3-0 lead.
Anthony Vasquez walked to lead off the bottom of the fourth and advanced to third on Mike Roskopf's single. Hector Rabago struck out as Roskopf stole second. Stock then lifted a sacrifice fly to left to plate Vasquez and Buss hit an infield single with Roskopf making a heads-up running play to score with USC taking the five-run lead.
Milone worked out of several jams throughout the game as Oregon State put a runner at third in the first and second innings, but could not score off the junior lefty. Robertson hit a one-out home run in the ninth as Milone allowed his first homer this season (89 1/3 innings). Milone ran out of gas after giving up back-to-back singles to pinch hitter Dale Solomon and Joey Wong. Freshman Ryan Cabral came in and gave up a walk to load the bases before Boxberger entered the game. On a two-strike count, Hopkins blooped a two-run single to center for a 5-3 USC lead, but Boxberger followed with the strikeout.
The series continues tomorrow with a 1:30 p.m. start and concludes on Sunday with a 1 p.m. start. Both games will be broadcast live via video webcast on usctrojans.com, courtesy of TrojanTV All-Access.
OSU 000-000-003---3-8-0USC 003-200-00x---5-8-0
WP - Milone (6-5) LP - Stutes (3-7) S - Boxberger (2)T - 2:52 ATT - 336Records: OSU (25-21, 11-11), USC (25-26, 8-11)
Stutes, Nygren (8) and Ammon.Milone, Cabral (9), Boxberger (9) and Stock.


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I’m being darn good progress in my 2014 film-watching endeavours, even if I do say so myself!
A Dangerous Method
(2011) stars Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender as Freud and Jung respectively, with Keira Knightley as Sabina Spierlrein, a student and colleague of both. All three put in masterful performances, the first two conveying emotional truths whilst presenting as models of self-control, the latter putting in a wonderful physical performance that is slowly laced up. Although not strictly a gripping plot, it is a great character drama that is worth a watch if you haven’t seen it already.
This film was on my list because the Cronenberg
– Mortensen combination is one of my favourites, and I do love my psychoanalysis! I didn’t know a lot about of the biographical details surrounding Freud and Jung, though, as my academic interest is more towards Lacan and Kristeva, so the film was almost entirely fresh to me.
Although billed as a description of the relationship between Freud and Jung, the film is more properly a chronicle of the relationship between Jung and one of his patients/colleagues/lovers, Sabina. It begins with their first meeting, follows her through her analysis with him into an affair, and out the other side into colleagueship. Freud is an initial inspiration to Jung, and later to Sabina, and moreover gets drawn in between them after Jung breaks off the affair and Sabina pursues Freud as her analyst. Her wavering between the two men’s theories – and personalities – is part of the intellectual and emotional tussle between the two men.
I like that the film has a genuinely biographical feel to it. Characters come and go, such as another analyst, Otto Gross, played by Vincent Cassel, children are born without great fanfare, and we see only the merest snippets of the characters’ lives, the ones that they might consider most memorable. Without any strongly guiding plot trying to force emotional connections, between the characters or between the audience and the characters, it is fascinating to see these three great actors try to navigate their characters’ emotional relationships whilst inexorably drawn to critical (intellectual) analysis of each other, which despite its ostensible objectivity is so obviously biased so much of the time. Their knowning analyses are sometimes, but not always, blind to their interpretative choices, and each of those moments is convincingly acted but not overweighted. Overall, the film is wonderfully balanced between the three main characters, and it’s a very pleasant watch.


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The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes – and thousands more — to the American plate.
In the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. But as a new century approached, appetites broadened, and David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable lust to explore and experience the world, set out in search of foods that would enrich the American farmer and enchant the American eater.
Kale from Croatia, mangoes from India, hops from Bavaria. peaches from China, avocados from Chile, and pomegranates from Malta. Fairchild’s finds weren’t just limited to food: From Egypt, he sent back a variety of cotton that revolutionized an industry, and via Japan he introduced the cherry blossom tree, forever brightening America’s capital. Along the way, he was arrested, caught diseases, and bargained with island tribes. But his culinary ambition came during a formative era, and through him, America transformed into the most diverse food system ever created.

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Time immemorial, fundamental rights have come to the rescue of
all living things including animals and birds. The Indian
constitution has taken under its wings every harmed soul whose
basic humane right has been infringed. The Apex Court in Animal
Welfare Board v. A. Nagaraja & Ors as reported in MANU/ SC/
0426/ 2014 have recognized the fundamental right of every animal to
live with dignity and have had also imposed stringent conditions
upon the Government and its authorities to stop any form of cruelty
upon Animals. In the said case, the apex court held that bulls
cannot be used as performing animals either for Jallikattu events
or for any Bullock-cart Races in State of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra
or elsewhere in country. It is this backdrop, the principles of
fundamental rights are again being reinforced and this time, it is
Delhi High Court which has unclipped the wings of caged birds.
Justice Manmohan Singh of the Delhi High court in People for
Animals v. Md. Mohazzim as reported in 2015 SCC OnLine Del 9508
have observed that running the trade of birds was in violation to
the fundamental rights of the Birds. The court while issuing notice
to the alleged respondent owner observed that birds have a
fundamental right to live with dignity and they cannot be subjected
to any form cruelty by anyone including the alleged owner of the
birds. The courts observed that the birds will have to be set free
in sky and cannot be caged. This petition was being heard against
the trial court order which had allowed the return of birds to the
alleged respondent owner despite upon arriving at categorical
findings that the respondent was not the owner of the birds since
they were not exotic. The birds were released to alleged respondent
owner on superdari basis on the ground that respondent had not
committed any cruelty on the birds and respondent cannot be denied
to the property that he is otherwise entitled to. In response to
the said trial court's order, the court observed that birds
cannot be caged and they have a fundamental right to fly. The court
also observed that these birds were being caged and exported
illegally to foreign countries without any care and without being
provided with any food and medication. The court took into account
the pictures of birds taken from the shop of the respondent wherein
the birds were kept in cages. The question as to whether the wings
or tails of the birds were clipped or cut could not be answered.
The matter has been put for hearing on May, 28, 2015.
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This paper presents a new speech feature extraction technique for use in automatic speech recognition (ASR). The technique is based on a new two-dimensional series expansion that is applied to the spectrogram of a sampled speech signal. The series expansion allows for global analysis in frequency and local multiresolution analysis in time. Multiresolution analysis in time is useful because the duration of vowels is almost an order of magnitude greater than that of consonants.


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Setting: Summer time
Characters: Me, and aunt (who unknowingly supplied me with some materials)
Plot: In my room, I have a Bath & Body Works Wallflower air freshner. I collected all the used up “cartridges” of scent and wanted to make something from them. To me, they looked like tiny vases, so I grabbed a wire coat hanger bent it up, and made it into just that.


This photo makes me laugh. That’s me in the excavator. It’s all a fake. It’s really a picture representing two bullheaded people.
Allen is determined that I can learn to run the excavator.
I am determined that I’ll try no such thing.
Allen has a hard time understanding why I resist such a “simple” task. He forgets, in the moment, how hopeless I am with machinery. He forgets that no matter how many reminders he gives me, I always spin out of the driveway. He forgets that I regularly neglected to remove the tin can off my tractor exhaust (thus accidentally shooting it 25 feet in the air). He forgets that I can’t reverse anything on a hitch or back with mirrors. Even unlocking the excavator gas cap for refueling is sometimes a challenge for me. No, no. To Allen it is all easy. A no-brainer. So why not?
Finally yesterday during our lunch break Allen got me to climb up into the seat. But you can see I’m doing everything but sit on my hands.
Working with the guys, I have heard many, many stories of fatal and near-fatal accidents. The friend who was beheaded when loading a feller-buncher onto a trailer — and a co-worker mistakenly closed the cutting pincer. Allen’s uncle Forrest Peck, who tipped over a tractor onto himself. “Squashed him,” Allen recalls.
Long ago I had asked Allen why he’d taught his son Damon to operate heavy equipment but not his daughters.
“Didn’t teach him nothing. He teached hisself. Only thing I ever did was cover up the picture, wall of the cab. Can’t be readin’ directions. Got to do it by feel, got to know it.” Allen moved his hands on invisible controls to show me how automatic the moves were. “Got to stop and look at directions, somebody’s gonna get killed.”
I am of course one of the most obsessive readers Allen knows, someone who always looks at directions. Many women now run big machines — but not this girl. “Typing,” I remind him. “That’s my skill, Allen. Typing.”
Nevertheless, he keeps hoping. He stood on the tracks yesterday, leaning into the cab to point out the various pedals, levers, and joy sticks.
“You ain’t dumb. You can do it.”
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A comprehensive fight review of Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez's second fight, held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on March 15, 2008.
A comprehensive fight review of Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez's colossal first clash, held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 8, 2004.
Manny Pacquiao hasn't lost since a fateful decision against Erik Morales in 2004. When Don Steinberg went back to examine the tape of the fight, he learned this: Shane Mosley should do the same.
Shane Mosley has never faced anyone quite like Manny Pacquiao, but that won't keep us from examining some of Mosley's past battles to draw conclusions about how Saturday's fight might unfold.
With wins over Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales and Juan Manuel Marquez, it's no wonder why fight fans have dubbed Manny Pacquiao "The Mexicutioner." Don Steinberg looks at several pivotal fights in Pacquiao's career.
Juan Manuel Marquez's rematch with Manny Pacquiao isn't the first promotion to be called "Unfinished Business."


The 2021 Ford Ranger Is Crushing the Jeep Gladiator
Holy moly, the 2021 Ford Ranger just pulled off a significant victory. It turns out that the Ford Ranger is more popular than the 2021 Jeep Gladiator. The Ranger feels like an underdog in this situation but deserves its victory.
The 2021 Ford Ranger vs. the 2021 Jeep Gladiator
The battle between which truck is best will continue for decades, but at the moment, the 2021 Ford Ranger is more popular than the 2021 Jeep Gladiator. According to CarProUSA, the Ford Ranger is outselling the Jeep Gladiator this year.
In the first quarter of 2021, the Ranger sold 24,166 units, and the Gladiator sold 18,822 units. During the second quarter, the Ranger sold 20,988 units, and the Gladiator sold 15,258 models. However, the semiconductor shortage and Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak may have limited production. Either way, let’s see how the Ranger and Gladiator compare.
How do the Gladiator and Ranger perform?
Under the hood of the 2021 Ford Ranger, you’ll find a 2.3-liter turbo-four engine with 270 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque. When properly equipped, the Ranger can tow up to 7,500 lbs and carry a payload of up to 1,860 lbs.
The 2021 Jeep Gladiator has a 3.6-liter V6 engine with 285 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque. You can also upgrade to the 3.0-liter V6 diesel engine for 260 hp and 442 lb-ft of torque. The Gladiator can tow up to 7,650 lbs and carry a payload of up to 1,700 lbs.
You can equip the Ranger with the new Tremor Off-Road package to enhance its off-roading capabilities. It won’t get you as far as the Gladiator Rubicon but adds more features for a reasonable price.
The Jeep Gladiator can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 8.5 seconds, which is a little slow for a midsize truck. It has a smoother ride than the Wrangler, and its off-roading setup contributes to road and wind noise in the cab. But the seats are supported, and the powerful climate control system keeps everyone comfortable.
The Ranger can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 6.8 seconds, which is pretty quick. It’s a little slow to downshift, and the suspension is unsettled over bumps. Plus, according to Edmunds, sudden braking may cause a nosedive. Wind and road noise are nicely controlled, and the seats are well padded, but the climate control system is a little frustrating to use.
Does the Ranger or Gladiator have better features?
Both the 2021 Jeep Gladiator and 2021 Ford Ranger struggle with cargo space. But the Gladiator has a larger backseat that easily folds out of the way. The one-piece bench in the Ranger makes storing items with passengers in the back a little tricky.
The interior of the Gladiator is described as spacious, durable, and comfortable. The Ranger’s interior is described as a little dull with the use of cheap plastic materials. The base model of the Ranger comes with an AM/FM audio system, but you can upgrade to the 8.0-inch touchscreen.
With the Gladiator, you get a standard touchscreen and can upgrade to the 7.0 and 8.4-inch sizes. Both trucks come with standard Apple CarPlay and Android Auto if you upgrade to larger screens.
The Ford Ranger starts at about $24,820, while the Jeep Gladiator begins at around $34,040. But the Gladiator provides standard 4×4. The lower price may influence buyers. While the Ranger serves as a more practical option, the Gladiator is built for adventuring. Both trucks can work and play hard, so we recommend test-driving both.


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If you've ever watched Flip or Flop or Flipping 101 on HGTV, you're probably familiar with home reno expert and also real estate agree Tarek El Moussa. The 40-year-old, who is currently engaged come Selling Sunset star heather Rae Young, is passionate around transforming run-down residences into beautiful family members homes.
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But together I'm sure we currently know, a home is more than just fancy furniture and also amenities. It's a place to invest time through your family, of course! Luckily because that Tarek, he has two adorable youngsters to do memories with at home. Check out on come learn more about Tarek's kids.
Tarek El Moussa share his 2 children, Taylor El Moussa and Brayden El Moussa, through ex-wife Christina Haack.
Tarek shares Taylor El Moussa, 11, and also Brayden El Moussa, 6, v his ex-wife, Christina Haack, who is additionally a hold on Flip or Flop. Tarek and also Christina were married indigenous 2009 to 2017 and currently have actually joint custody that Taylor and Brayden.
While co-parenting deserve to be difficult, the exes each acquire to see the children for a couple of days every week. Follow to People, Tarek look at Taylor and also Brayden every Wednesday through Saturday, and the 3rd weekend that every month. Christina is granted custody every Saturday v Wednesday.
Tarek adores his children and also frequently short articles photos of castle on society media. He's previously opened up up ~ above Instagram around how important they room to him. "'You constantly have time because that the things you put first.' A quote that i live by," the Flip or Flop star wrote. He described that while that is "constantly top top the move and constantly working" he told self that when he had kids, "They would come first, no issue what."
In a birthday short article to his first-born Taylor, he also revealed that the day she to be born "was the greatest moment the
Don't worry, Tarek likewise has some kind words for Brayden. "No words can define how lot brighter this boy provides my day," he wrote of his son on Instagram. The HGTV star continued, "Raising him and also seeing him thrive up renders me the happiest dad alive."
While Tarek certainly has his hands complete with two children, two TV shows, and his upcoming wedding to Heather Rae Young, he's not versus having much more little ones. In fact, Heather appears to it is in on board, too!
In September, the pair spoke with ET about the possibility of having much more kids. While Heather admits the she never thought she'd it is in a mom, she perspective changed when she met Tarek and stepped in as a bonus mommy to his kids. "Now I recognize I have the right to do it," she explained. "And so, I'm like, 'Well, babe, what's one more?' friend know, our life's already crazy and, friend know, maybe."
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Tarek had the perfect response to that: "There's one point I know around children. I would never regret having a child since I love mine babies so much, so if us have more kids, we have much more kids."
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Phillies rightfielder Hunter Pence can only hope the series finale on Monday against the Chicago Cubs at Citizens Bank Park goes better for him than the first three games.
Pence is 2 for 12 in the series with one RBI, and has had lapses on defense.
A defensive miscue in the second inning led to Chicago's first run in the Phillies' 5-1 loss on Sunday. With a runner on second, Pence misplayed Jeff Baker's liner to right, coming in on the ball and then failing to recover in time.
Baker was awarded a double and the Cubs scored the first run on an RBI groundout by Ian Stewart.
Pence said he didn't get the right read on the ball.
During Friday's 5-1 loss to the Cubs, Reed Johnson was credited with an RBI triple after Pence failed to make a sliding catch. In a 6-1 loss to San Diego on April 22, he unsuccessfully dove for a ball and gave Nick Hundley a triple.
"He has been making mistakes in the outfield," manager Charlie Manuel said.
Pence, always a standup person, addressed the issue.
"I got to get better, I guess," he said. "I have to continue to work every day."
Even though he leads the team with 11 RBIs, Pence has struggled recently at the plate, hitting .171 (7 for 41) in his last 10 games.
Catcher Carlos Ruiz, who took a foul ball off his knee Saturday but remained in the game, didn't play Sunday, but said he was feeling fine.
Jim Thome, who left Saturday's game with back tightness, said "It's no worse, and about the same as [Saturday]."
Cubs righthander Matt Garza made quite an impression on the Phillies by striking out 10, walking one, and issuing just one hit in seven shutout innings Sunday.
"Usually he gets a little wild, but he was right around the plate and controlled three pitches and was on today," Phillies leftfielder Juan Pierre said.
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CEO’s Message – July 2020
COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE: Democratic Member Control
Cooperatives are a vital part of our nation’s economy. Especially in rural America, we rely heavily on agriculture, food and energy cooperatives. It is estimated that approximately 30,000 co-ops serve nearly every business sector in the United States.
Our unique co-op business model is based on the seven cooperative business principles:
2020 ELECTION RECAP
This month, I want to focus on Democratic Member Control. The most obvious example of this cooperative principle in action at our Cooperative is through our annual election. Every year director elections occur for three Stearns Electric Association districts, and members in those districts get the opportunity to vote for a director to represent their district for a three-year term on the Cooperative’s Board.
Additionally, in 2020, we asked all of our members to engage in Democratic Member Control by voting to approve amendments to the Cooperative’s Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. The proposed amendments were overwhelmingly accepted by Cooperative members.
Stearns Electric Association recently wrapped up the annual election and Cooperative update. Due to COVID-19, we had to rearrange our traditional plans for our in-person Annual Meeting in 2020, but look forward to returning to our usual meeting format in 2021. Since we couldn’t safely meet in person this year, we put together a video update for members. If you haven’t done so yet, you can view the Annual Meeting update on our website, www.stearnselectric.org/annual-meeting.
BOARD MEMBER FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITIES
As elected representatives of their district by Cooperative members, Stearns Electric Board members serve as fiduciaries. This means Board members are required to make informed decisions for the Cooperative, comply with federal, state, and local laws and regulations, act in the best interest of the Cooperative and avoid conflicts of interest.
There are many hours of behind the scenes work that the Co-op Board completes. All Board members are required to complete training through the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) to better understand what an electrical cooperative is, how Boards operate, and how to effectively make financial and strategic planning decisions. In addition, before monthly Board meetings, directors review reports compiled from employees from every Cooperative department, special Board committees and the Cooperative’s legal counsel. When making decisions, your Board members must consider the impacts on the Cooperative’s members, employees, suppliers and finances.
Directors are members themselves, elected by other members through the annual election. They are trusted by Cooperative members to represent the members of every district.
In addition to serving members, Board members also serve as ambassadors to the communities that we serve, and to state (and even national) legislators. The Cooperative’s Board members must be respectful, professional and confident, and practice legal and ethical integrity. Board members discuss decisions in depth and disagree sometimes, but ultimately, the Cooperative’s Board speaks as one voice for your Co-op.
A sage community member once told me that “local control is the best control.” Stearns Electric Democratic Member Control is local control making decisions on services, rates and community needs that will benefit Co-op members. The Stearns Electric Board and Cooperative employees will continue to work efficiently in ways to best serve the needs of our local members. Thank you.
Robin C. Doege
November 30, 2020
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January 9, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Eugene Braunwald, MD, (Hon.), ScD (Hon.)
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Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) for cardio-renal failure: 2 paradigm shifts.
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'Tomorrow People': New Trailer Teases First Eight Episodes (Video)
The CW drama, starring Robbie Amell, had its debut on Wednesday.
One day after The Tomorrow People debuted, a new teaser featuring scenes from the first eight episodes has debuted.
The two-and-a-half minute trailer of The CW update, which just received an order for three more scripts, gives a glimpse into what viewers can look forward to in the first half of the rookie season. It was first unveiled at New York Comic-Con on Thursday.
Notable moments include Stephen Jameson (Robbie Amell) deciding to become a double agent, his best friend Astrid (Madeleine Mantock) witnessing his powers for the first time, Stephen and Cara (Peyton List) sharing a kiss, the desperation behind foiling Jedekiah's (Mark Pellegrino) desire to kill the Tomorrow People, John (Luke Mitchell) on a quest to find a traitor in their midst, a mean battle between Cara and John, and Stephen possibly injecting Cara with a fatal dose.
Watch the trailer below:
The Tomorrow People airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on The CW.
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