OnMilwaukee's Molly Snyder got a handwritten letter from the Milverine and it was genuine and sad and funny and even a little mean.
In a 9-minute documentary video, Vice unearths new details about the Milverine that Milwaukeeans who are already fans of the burly, often-shirtless, fast-walking man will find incredible.
OnMilwaukee Creative Director Jason McDowell created a Milverine emoji. Earlier this week, McDowell saw the shirtless strutter cruising down KK and got to show him the emoji, which he was unaware of.
Kudos to Allison Miller who, via Facebook, posted this awesome class project of Milwaukee "super hero" Milverine.
A local Associated Press journalist has a done something that I haven't seen on any other media. Carrie Antlfinger talked with Milwaukee's Milverine.
I could have stopped Milverine, but honestly he seemed so focused and, damn, he's fast. And, really, what would I have said to him?


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Riverview is a lovely early Victorian House with a truly 'homely feel' that overlooks Cavell Gardens and the River Ness. A short walk away from the City centre, Eden Court Theatre, Bught Park sports facilities and the 'Ness Islands'.
Set high above the River Ness, Dunvegan-Inverness self catering is a recently-renovated Victorian stone villa in the centre of Inverness, looking out to the Castle.
The city centre is compact, so nowhere is more than 5 minutes’ walk away.
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Australian IT imports rebound
Out of the doghouse but spending still sluggish
Australia's IT imports rebounded in March, reaching $AUD789m.
February's imports were just $569m, only the fourth time since 2005 that imports started with a 5.
But the March figure is not cause for celebration, because $789m is down on March 2011's $844m. The new figure is also higher than only three months from 2011, but it is better than seven months from 2010.
March also saw a nice bump in imports for “Telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment,” with $825m crossing the nation's docks compared to $715m in February. Both figures lag 2011's best months, when imports topped $1bn. ®

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All deals featured this week are for the Xbox One:
- Zombie Driver Ultimate Edition — instead of shooting zombies mow them down with a wide range of vehicles including a bulldozer, fire truck and a tank. We rated it, “Try It” – was $14.99, is now $4.95
- The BunnyLord Pro Hater Pack — this bundle comes with two games: the skateboarding game OlliOlli2: XL Edition and and the political opus Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition. We rated OlliOlli2 “Highly Recommended” – was $20.99, is now $10.50
- Sword Coast Legends™ — a real-time Dungeons & Dragons online multiplayer game. You can read our preview here – was $19.99, is now $10.00
- Momentum — a physics based platformer where you choose one of many unlockable balls and try to maneuver it through the 3D labyrinths – was $9.99, is now $6.69
- Awesomenauts Assemble! — a MOBA fitted into the form of an accessible 3-on-3 action platformer. Can be played locally with friends or online with other players – was $9.99, is now $6.69
- The Long Dark (Game Preview) –an exploration-survival experience that challenges players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness. You can read our preview here – was $19.99, is now $10.00
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A Health Ministry report slated for release Monday revealed that infant mortality rates among Arab Israelis was significantly higher than among Israeli Jews, including in cities with mixed populations.
The report, titled “The National Challenge of Reducing Inequality in the Health System,” tracks differences in life expectancy and mortality rates across the country, as well as between Jews and Arabs.
Although Israel’s overall infant mortality rate in 2016 stood at 3.1 deaths per 1,000 births, which is lower than the average in developed countries, the rate among Arabs was nearly three times higher than among Jews — 6.2 to 2.2, respectively, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth daily, which published details of the report ahead of its release.
In the south, the infant mortality rate stood at a staggering 11 infant deaths per 1,000 births among Arabs, as opposed to the rate among Jews, which along with the north was the highest rate among Jews nationwide.
Even in cities with mixed populations, the infant mortality rate was noticeably higher among Arabs.
In Tel Aviv, which includes the largely Arab area of Jaffa, the infant mortality rate among Arabs averaged 8.2 deaths per 1,000 births, more than four times higher than the two deaths per 1,000 births among Jewish babies in the city.
In Jerusalem, there were six deaths per 1,000 births among the city’s Arab residents, as opposed to two for Jews, while in Haifa the rates were four and 2.2 deaths per 1,000 births among Arabs and Jews, respectively.
Nationwide, the locality with the lowest infant mortality rates for Arabs was Haifa, while for Jews it was the cities of central Israel, with 1.7 deaths per 1,000 births.
The average infant mortality rate in 2015 among countries in the OECD, a grouping of mostly wealth nations, was 3.9 deaths per 1,000 births, and Israel’s overall rate was lower than such economic powerhouses as Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The report also included data on the overall mortality rate, which was highest in Beersheba and the Jezreel Valley, at 5.6 deaths per 1,000 people. Jewish residents of the West Bank had the lowest mortality rate among Israeli citizens, at 3.8 deaths per 1,000 people.
In cities with over 100,000 residents, Ramat Gan had the highest life expectancy, at 84.4 years, while the major city with the lowest life expectancy was Beersheba, at 81.
While life expectancy in the so-called periphery — communities in Israel’s north and south removed from major population centers — continued to lag behind the center of the country, overall life expectancy rose among all major population groups in 2016.
Arab women have an average life expectancy of 81.4 years, up 0.3 years over the year before. Arab men saw a similar rise in their life expectancy, which averages 77.2 years.
For Jewish women, life expectancy rose by 0.2 years to 84.7 years, while for Jewish men it rose by 0.6 years to 81.5 — more than four years more than Arab men.
Moshe Bar Siman Tov, the director-general of the Health Ministry, said the report showed the need for Israel to better address health inequality, which he said stemmed largely from “socioeconomic gaps whose origin is outside the health system.”


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Nobody gets into the creative game for the joy of the admin, and yet most of us end up spending more time wrangling email than actually doing any creative work – or at least, that's how it feels.
There are, though, some easy techniques for taming your inbox especially for those of us working in the creative industries, all designed to let you spend less time in Mail, Outlook or Gmail and more time in Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC and Maya. You can also see our guide to the productivity tools you can't live without. Meanwhile, read on for some pragmatic, practical tips for email management.
01. It's okay to let email pile up
The secret to managing email is that sometimes it's okay not to manage it. Seriously: one of the most liberating things you can do is banish the mounting sense of nagging guilt most of us feel as the unread count on your inbox soars. Sod it. Trust your instincts; if you thought it was safe to ignore when you saw it arrive, it probably was – and if it wasn't, chances are someone will follow-up again.
Your job is design, not correspondence. (And while we're about it, many of us would do well to turn off the unread badge on computers and smartphones; unless you're super on top of email, the number is pretty meaningless.) You have our permission – our blessing – not to reply to every email you receive.
02. Don't check your emails first thing
The habit of checking emails when you first sit down at your desk, groggily sloshing a bucket of caffeine over your metabolism as you get up to speed for the day, is as fatal to your productivity as it is completely understandable. By definition, instead of cracking on with some real work and finishing what on your to-do list you failed to check off yesterday, you'll just be given a whole load of other tasks to add to that to-do list, and you'll probably get sidetracked by them before the day even begins.
Replace that email check with another ritual that provides that gentle on-ramp for the day – checking Behance, a half hour of directionless doodling, or might we modestly suggest seeing what's new on Creative Bloq – and then do a solid couple of hours' creative work before you even open your email client.
03. Don't use your email as a to-do list
It's easy to use techniques such as flagging emails or marking them as unread to denote 'I must deal with that later' but if we're honest we know that the relentless torrent of new emails will push those marked messages off your screen soon enough and then you'll just forget about it. Get into the habit instead of transferring tasks that arrive in your inbox to an actual to-do list.
If Post-its stuck to your Mac work for you, knock yourself out, but do investigate apps too – popular ones include Wunderlist, Todoist and OmniFocus, as well as built-in options such as Reminders on OS X/iOS – since these can help prioritise your jobs, show you when deadlines are approaching, and importantly prompt you to do jobs at particular times or places.
04. Colour-code your emails
We're visual people, us creatives, so one tip that's likely to resonate is colour-coding. Outlook, Mail and pretty much every mail client under the sun can do this, and the process is basically the same whichever you use. Basically, you define some rules for incoming mail, so that, for example, emails from a particular client are highlighted in blue, while those containing a particular word in the subject line become orange. This is especially handy for agencies or freelancer juggling dozens of clients; it makes your inbox glanceable.
05. Use filtering and the like
Another thing you can use rules for is to filter email into different folders. Now, some people go nuts with this, defining intricate and subtle rules to ensure basically nothing arrives into the main inbox, but you don't need to go that far. Consider just a handful to route some of the most egregious emailers into particular folders, to make it easier to manage.
A good example is if you work with a system such as issue tracking software that automatically spits out an email whenever a task is assigned to you, routing these notifications to a particular folder not only means you get them out of your inbox (making it easier to browse), but means you specifically have to set aside time to go and parse what's there.
Gmail uses Labels rather than folders – and you can apply more than one to each message – but the effect is the same.
Note too that some clients such as Mail on OS X let you define so-called smart mailboxes; these are dynamically updating folders based on criteria you set, so instead of messages actually being moved to a folder, a smart folder just gives you a different temporary view or grouping of your email. You can link them too, so you might create a smart folder for each client, define a smart folder called Clients which shows all mail from any of your client smart folders, and another smart folder called Client Assets whose rule is 'Message is in Mailbox: Clients' and 'Contains attachments' – all this makes it easier to root stuff out.
06. Use signatures as standard emails
You probably send similar emails frequently – a covering note with an invoice, a cold pitch to a new commissioning editor, or instructions for clients on how to submit to your FTP site, say – and you can save yourself hours or retyping with preset emails.
The nicely hacky way of doing this, which will work in pretty much any email client, is to paste these boilerplate emails into different signatures (complete with your usual signature as well, of course). Now, whenever you compose an email, whether it's a fresh conversation or in reply to a query, you can just select the appropriate 'signature' to have the email repopulated, then tweak it to suit. Recently, Gmail also added a feature where it suggests possible responses, named Smart Reply. You could also experiment with this, though make sure you properly read its suggested responses and don't just blindly click them.
07. Use out of hours time to triage email
If you're self-employed or at a managerial level in a company, the temptation to check your email out of office hours is immense. And you know what? We're not going to tell you not to do it – that's your call, and we understand. But you should consider, as a way of balancing work and life, using these impulsive checks only as a way of triaging email.
What we mean by this is: while your partner might, we're not going to beat you up for glancing at your phone when you're watching telly at home, but do so with one goal in mind: to make your morning easier when you actually get to work tomorrow.
If you must check your email out of office hours, use that time to swipe and delete irrelevant crap, reroute queries that aren't for you, and keep yourself abreast of what fires you're going to have to put out tomorrow. Crucially, however, unless it unequivocally cannot wait, don't actually put them out now; wait till you're at work.
08. New email notifications aren't evil
Similarly, most email management articles will tell you to turn off new email notifications, and sure, we get the point they're making. But if, and only if, your email client's notifications are actionable – that is, the notifications themselves let you do something with the new email – and you're self-disciplined enough not to use them as an excuse to procrastinate, they can be a great triage tool.
Being able to trash incoming junk as it arrives just from a notification in the corner of your screen (without having to switch away from Photoshop) means you don't have to wade through rubbish when you finally do switch to email, and firing off a quick reply to a question immediately means both that projects can progress faster and that your inbox doesn't get clogged with lots of bitty correspondence.
09. Know when to switch email off
The corollary, however, is that if you're truly in the zone – the words are flowing, the design building beautifully, the melodies singing – then shut yourself away from anything that can break that flow. Honestly, we suspect that many creatives need the novelty and stimulation of distractions to put their minds in a place where they can come up with creative solutions to problems, but once you're there, once everything's clicked, quit everything, maybe even use an app such as Focus to prevent you sneakily checking Facebook, lock the door and let the muse take you.
10. Embrace the two-minute rule
Okay, so we promised no life-hack book bullshit, but one of the central tenets of the seminal Getting Things Done philosophy applies here, hard: if a job takes less than two minutes to do, do it now. Basically, while this doesn't absolve you from dealing with the big, difficult emails, you'll feel much less swamped if you zip quick replies back to easy emails either as soon as they arrive or in little bursts of productivity.
11. Consider migrating away from email
Think about what you use email for – and think if in fact you can dispense with it or at least dramatically reduce the amount of time you spend using it. It might still be a necessary evil for dealing with the outside world, but if 80 per cent of your email traffic is dealing with people inside your company or a few select colleagues, you'd do well to investigate other options such as Slack, which can be better-suited to modern communication than email – and then you'll spend even less time in front of your email client.
We think adopting these techniques will have you back doing the stuff you love in double-quick time.


Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton says decisions are being made on a day-by-day basis on the ongoing Melbourne lockdown
- Australia’s vaccine rollout numbers: progress state-by-state
- Victoria Covid-19 exposure sites; NSW exposure sites
- Victoria’s lockdown restrictions explained
Victoria has reported 11 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday, all linked to existing outbreaks, as the prime minister urged for the lockdown in Melbourne to be lifted as soon as possible.
Victoria’s chief health officer, however, said the state’s authorities were still making decisions on a day-by-day basis regarding the ongoing lockdown in Melbourne, which is due to end on Thursday.
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Buenos Aires (UPI) Mar 21, 2011
Lithium and lithium carbonate markets are set to grow in Latin America with the commissioning of a new lithium carbonate processing plant in Argentina and plans by Bolivia to use Iranian help in exploiting its deposits of the mineral.
A new lithium carbonate processing plant that opened in the Argentine province of Salta, close to the country's borders with Bolivia and Chile, aims to become the world's largest processing facility of its kind, officials said. Currently Chile is the world's largest lithium producer.
The lithium carbonate processing plant is a joint venture between Australia's Admiralty Resources and Argentine interests. ADY helped set up the plant in a region rich in lithium deposits, about 10,000 feet above the sea level.
The Argentine plant has come on stream while Bolivia considers how to move forward with its ambitious plans to exploit its vast lithium reserves. Bolivia's plans to enter into a joint venture with Iran raised opposition among the country's internationally connected financial interests.
Argentine officials said the Salar del Rincon plant aimed to be the largest in the world for the processing of lithium carbonate, a key mineral with diverse industrial and scientific uses, including rechargeable batteries, digital products and medicine.
ADY Resources has said it plans to invest $300 million in addition to about $75 million it says it has already spent on developing the facility.
Salar del Rincon generated about 100 jobs in one of the remotest locations of Argentina and would aim to exploit the Argentine part of an estimated 9 million tons of proven reserves said to be located in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.
Argentina exports lithium to the United States and Britain, China, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and Russia.
Last year, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced he would partner with Iran to push forward development of the country's lithium reserves. Earlier, Bolivia announced other countries and international companies and consortiums had also approached with offers to develop the country's lithium deposits.
Little has been heard since last October of Iran's offer to lend Bolivia about $283 million to finance development projects, some with Iranian assistance.
Market analysts said global demand for lithium is set to rise, partly amid expectations that lithium as a crucial ingredient for hybrid and electric cars could fetch high prices in the coming years.
About 60 mining companies have done feasibility studies in Latin America, Nevada and as far afield as Serbia. New lithium projects were started recently in Canada, China, Finland and Mexico.
Analysts said recycling of lithium from used batteries was also poised to become a major business.
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NEW YORK -- Pilot Scott Kasprowicz departed New York at approximately 3:00 a.m. Thursday in an attempt to set a new speed record for an around-the-world helicopter flight; the goal is to complete the trip in less than 14 days. The record-setting flight dubbed "The Grand Adventure" is being attempted in Kasprowicz's twin engine, factory standard, executive configured AgustaWestland Grand helicopter.
"In order to succeed in a trip like this, you need an aircraft like the Grand that has above average fuel efficiency and exceptional reliability," says Kasprowicz, who is the former CEO of Texel Corporation. "What will make this record setting flight even more meaningful is the fact that we will make the trip in a factory standard aircraft that has not been specially outfitted or modified for this kind of application."
Unlike previous flights to break the world helicopter speed record, no additional fuel tanks or mission specific modifications have been added to the AgustaWestland Grand aircraft to improve performance.
The Grand Adventure will cover more than 20,046 nautical miles, 15 countries, 24 time zones, 30 states and make 65 fuel stops. The crew will travel eastbound across the Atlantic into Europe via Greenland, traverse western and eastern Europe into Russia, cross 14 time zones in Russia, return to North America over the Bering Strait and cross the U.S. and return to New York City.
"Scott and Steve's confidence to break the world speed record with the Grand confirms the superior reliability and speed this aircraft offers. The Grand's unequalled features continue to achieve greater and greater success," says Lou Bartolotta, AgustaWestland's executive vice president of commercial sales for the Americas. "We wish them a safe journey on this challenging mission and look forward to seeing them back in New York in less than two weeks."
During his 14-day journey, Kasprowicz, who is also the former Deputy Secretary of Transportation of Virginia, and his co-pilot Steve Sheik will also attempt two other world record flights -- Washington, D.C. to New York and New York to London. In February, Kasprowicz and Sheik broke the speed record for the fastest transcontinental helicopter flight from New York to Los Angeles. The record-breaking flight was achieved in just 15 hours, 9 minutes and 10 seconds, resorting to only six fuel stops and covering 2,139.8 nautical miles.
During his journey Kasprowicz's aircraft must cross every meridian on the globe but is prohibited from traveling into the poles due to time and distance advantages. To track the journey online through TracPlus, visit http://www.grandadventure08.com.

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It's a new year, and a new recipe book for the Cake Slice Bakers! I loved baking through Little Everday Cakes...but small, simple cakes are SO 2021.
In 2022, insta-worthy cakes are all the rage! We are baking out of Zoe Bakes Cakes by Zoe Francois.
For my first bake, I chose this almond sponge cake called a Joconde. To see what the other bakers chose, check out the links at the bottom of this post!
Joconde cakes are pretty much the Legos of the pastry world. Generally, they aren't just a stand-alone cake — they are a part of something. A canvas, so to speak!
Gorgeous opera cakes.
Fancy Swiss rolls.
Layers in entremets.
Ooo la la.
The book describes this Joconde as "nutty and rich, but still light."
All the cake choices for our inaugural 2022 bake were tempting.
But the thing that sold me on this one was a little factoid: the Joconde cake is named after Da Vinci's model for the Mona Lisa, Lisa Goconde. (The French version of her name starts with a "j").
As a lover of random information, how could I not try it out after learning that?
Since it's named after the inspiration behind a painting, I decided to add some designs on the outside. I considered doing an elaborate piece of edible art — and I will in the future! But this time, I stuck to a simple pattern to show the flavors inside. I used this tutorial from Sugar Geeks to make the inlaid design.
Basically, you just color some batter, pipe a design on parchment, freeze it for a little bit, and then spread the sponge cake batter over it with an offset spatula. It's really pretty easy, but you can get super elaborate and detailed. (Look up patterned Swiss roll cakes. People are amazing.)
The cookbook author recommended filling the Joconde with whipped cream and berries. One of the options for whipped cream she listed was a "jammy" version. Since I had a jar of blackberry preserves in the fridge, I chose that variation.
It was light as air, sweet but not too sweet (like the Mona Lisa's smile), and an overall successful first bake!
I'm so excited for what 2022 holds for life, and I'm looking forward with hope. If this Joconde is any indication...it's gonna be a great year ;)
Follow our Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest pages where you can find all of our cakes, as well as inspiration for many other cakes. You can also click on the links below to take you to each of our cakes. If you have a blog and are interested in joining The Cake Slice Bakers and baking along with us, please send an email to thecakeslicebakers at gmail dot com for more details.
The Cake Slice Bakers also have a new Facebook group called The Cake Slice Bakers and Friends. This group is perfect for those who do not have a blog but want to join in the fun and bake through this book.

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The British Horse Society (BHS) has published the results of research to determine the effect of self-closing gates on horse riders.
30 July 2012
The British Horse Society is calling for all equestrians to have their say on the future of equestrian access.
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The British Horse Society has encouraged equestrians to submit applications for new bridleways as part of the Paths for Communities project, a Natural England initiative to encourage local communities to help provide new bridleways.
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Horse riding centres in China and Singapore have become the latest overseas establishments to join The British Horse Society Approvals scheme.
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16 Apr 2012
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14 Mar 2012
A report released by The Country, Land and Business Association has given horse riders and carriage drivers great cause for concern, according to The British Horse Society.
23 Jan 2012
We’ve made it through to the finals for the second year running!
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Kids Memory !!!
Kids Memory is the classic kid's board game, a memory game to improve memory skills for kids. This is an educational, engaging and entertaining game for children of all ages. Rule is simple: making the same couple of image to get point.
To achieve the highest score, match pairs of adorable image as quickly and with the fewest mistakes as possible.
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Van Jefferson of the Rams arrives from the Super Bowl in time to see the birth of a child
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Van Jefferson has two big reasons to celebrate.
The sophomore wide receiver won his first Super Bowl and welcomed his third child on Sunday, Feb. 13 night.
Athleticismit is Jourdan Rodrigue reported Jefferson’s wife, Samariagave birth in the middle of Super Bowl LVI and the catcher “grabbed her daughter as she and her father” arrived on the field and rushed to the hospital.
Shortly after, Jefferson announced the birth of his son on instagram live.
“It was a great day, bro. Got three awards today. My wife, my son, and the Super Bowl,” Jefferson said on Instagram Live.
The sophomore wide receiver finished Sunday’s game with four receptions for 23 yards in the Rams’ 23-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Jefferson, son of former NFL wide receiver and current Arizona Cardinals wide receivers coach Shawn Jeffersonwas selected by the Rams 57th overall in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft.
Jefferson wasn’t the only Rams player whose Super Bowl victory coincided with another major milestone in his life.
Ram Safety Taylor Rapp proposed to his girlfriend, Dani Johnsonduring the celebration on the field of his team.
“MORE THAN ONE RING TONIGHT!! CONGRATULATIONS, @trapp07,” the Los Angeles Rams confirmed Twitter account posted, along with the video of the proposal, Sunday evening (February 13).
Rapp recorded seven tackles in the Rams’ 23-20 Super Bowl LVI victory.
Rapp is in his third season with the Rams after being selected 61st overall in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft.
The former University of Washington standout recorded 64 tackles, four interceptions and six passes defended during the 2021 regular season.


Influence of an Elastic Plate Surface Impedance on Backscattered Sound.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV STATE COLLEGE APPLIED RESEARCH LAB
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The acoustic pressure field backscattered from the edge of a semi-infinite elastic plate is investigated. Malyuzhinets Theory of Diffraction for wedges with given surface impedances is applied to the derivation of a number of analytic models of the backscattered field. This includes a simplification of the Malyuzhinets wedge functions that has been recently obtained by Dr. E. J. Skudrzyk of ARLPSU.
- Acoustic Detection and Detectors


You can’t do the same things that other people are doing and expect to outperform them. When you do what everyone else does, you’re going to get the same results everyone else gets. But it’s not enough to be different — you also need to be correct
Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform – Farnam Street Blog
Market Outlook Update for May 29, 2018
Each week, we review the stock market using a specific set of information sources in order to cut through the noise generated by media publishing attention grabbing headlines. Weekly updates give e the opportunity to play trends while not overreacting on a daily basis.
Performance of a handful of macro indexes, as well as index and ETFs on specific sectors of particular interest.
○ Volatility [VIX] has risen considerably in the last week
○ SPY and VTI have dropped slightly over last week, remain positive for last 30 days
○ Financials [VFH] and [MJ] performed worse over past week
○ Homebuilders [XHB] performed strongly over past week
Based on data and info from TradingView (Click for 30% off a pro subscription)
Scores based on the cumulative total of positive and negative technical indicators signals over three time horizons on Trading View. Scores are weighted by multiplying total as follows: daily (x 1) weekly (x 2), and monthly (x 3).
○ Indicators for SPY and VTI have dropped and remain positive over longer term
○ QQQ, HACK signals remain very strong
○ Signals for international markets [VEA, VEU] turned significantly worse
○ VIX has turned significantly more positive, which indicates a signal towards increased volatility
OldProf’s Risk Analysis
Each week, at the Dash of Insight blog, OldProf takes a look at a variety of sources to gauge overall market risk on both a short and long-term basis. He tracks a handful of indexes, economic indicators from respected sources, and volatility indicators. His weekly updates include a discussion of events with potential to effect markets, as well as general insight. Highly recommended reading.
This week, OldProf writes that Short-term trading conditions improved dramatically.”
He also writes that this week is a very busy week for economic news this week and believes many will be wondering it it’s still worth listening to. Our typical preference is to ignore headlines about what might happen and instead react to what we see happening.
There is an avalanche of economic news in the shortened week ahead. While this will provide plenty to talk about, I expect many to be asking:
Should investors basically ignore the daily geopolitical news?
The Pundit-in-Chief commented that the market is getting it wrong every day, mistakenly trying to trade every swing in the news flow.
Art Cashin observed that traders seem to be learning a pattern. Aggressive statements by world leaders, including the Trump Administration, followed by more moderate policies. Art sees this understanding as part of the recent reduction in volatility.
Mark Hanna publishes a weekly Market Recap full of charts and insight on news and market trends at StockTrader.
This week, Mark writes that it was “The second week in a row of low volatility which is usually advantage bulls” and goes out to point out positive signs in the Nasdaq.
“Short term: The S&P 500 is consolidating while the NASDAQ tipped its head over this trend line connecting highs of the year.
Long term: Still very positive for the “buy and never sell” crowd.”
Technical Analysis Update
Hacked (subscription-only) publishes a weekly technical update on U.S. indices with a weekly analysis of the S&P 500, NASDAQ, and DJIA, as well as a general market outlook. Other posts include trade recommendations (stocks, crypto & forex markets), worldwide-market updates, ICO analysis, and much more.
This week, Hacked has not yet posted an update.
Articles of note
“Real Bear Markets, “The Big One” we hear so much about today is what produces excruciating, prolonged equity market declines. They have recessions attached. There is no sign of that I can find today. None.”
If You Want To See Bears, Go To The Zoo
Lloyd Clucas Seeking Alpha
“In my view we are experiencing a global economic “dead-cat bounce”. That worked for ’17 and should suffice for 2018. I hope it will be longer. But hope is not an investment strategy. Earnings have turned up and are accelerating again. How long? I have no idea. But you take what is there. [If you don’t, you can have tea with John Hussman or Jeremy Grantham.] And earnings are looking good for 2018. The tax cut for corporations is a big deal for 2018. It pushed up central value for many companies and hiked this year’s earnings estimate growth materially.”
“Now, with public and private funding flowing into Chinese start-ups, entrepreneurship has become an appealing alternative for a generation disillusioned with the conveyor-belt career paths of their forebears.”
How China’s Tech Revolution Threatens Silicon Valley
Alec Ash The Atlantic
“The tech revolution in China is ubiquitous in urban life. I use the messaging app WeChat for work calls and vacation bookings. I pay for a cup of coffee or a ride in a car with a scanned QR code on my phone. I go to work at a rented desk in an “experimental life space” called 5Lmeet, built in an old soy-sauce factory, which offers pop-up cuisine, a cashless, staffless convenience store, and an office space, the entrance gate to which uses face-recognition software to let me in. Every time I come out of a subway stop in Beijing, I have to fight through a mass of the cheap, rentable bicycles that have transformed transportation in the city. Dai Wei, the CEO of the leading bike-rental firm, Ofo—reportedly valued at $2 billion—is 27 years old.”
“Amazon had lowered prices at Whole Foods by an average of 5% over the last year. ”
Shopping at Whole Foods is finally a good deal—if you have Amazon Prime
Alison Griswold Quartz
“On May 16, Amazon announced that Prime members could get an extra 10% off sale items by downloading the Whole Foods mobile app, signing in with their Amazon account, and scanning a code at checkout. The “member deals” are available now at Whole Foods in Florida and will begin rolling out to the rest of the US this summer, Amazon said”
From 4 years ago and still a great read on common knowledge and where to look for big challenges
When Does the Story Break?
” I believe that public markets today are essentially hollow, as what passes for volume and liquidity is primarily machines talking to other machines for portfolio “positioning” or ephemeral arbitrage rather than the human expression of a desire to own a fractional ownership share of a real-world company. I believe that today’s public market price levels primarily reflect the greatest monetary policy accommodation in human history rather than the real-world prospects of real-world companies. I believe that the political risks to both capital market structure and international trade (which are the twin engines of global growth, period, end of story) have not been this great since the 1930’s. Simply put, I believe we are being played like fiddles. That does NOT mean, however, that I think anything has to change next week … or next month … or next year … or next decade. The human animal is a social animal in the biological sense, and as such we are cognitively evolved to maintain our beliefs and behaviors far beyond what is “true” in an objective sense. This is, in fact, the core argument of Epsilon Theory, that there is no such thing as Truth with a capital T when it comes to the institutions and the social organizations that we create. There’s nothing more “natural” about our market behaviors than there is around, say, our fashion behaviors … the way we wear our clothes or the way we cut our hair. For 150 years everyone knew that everyone knew that gentlemen wore wigs. This was the dominant common knowledge of its day in the fashion world, absolutely no different in any way, shape or form than the dominant common knowledge of today in the investing world … everyone knows that everyone knows that it’s central bank policy that determines market outcomes. And this market common knowledge could last for 150 years, too.”
“This is ultimately the most important distinction between platforms and aggregators: platforms are powerful because they facilitate a relationship between 3rd-party suppliers and end users; aggregators, on the other hand, intermediate and control it.”
Ben Thompson Stratechery
“Third — and this is the point of this article — what Yelp seems to want will only serve to make Google stronger”
“it is suggestive of further growth in the year ahead and this should be positive for stocks, all else being equal.”
Only The Good News
David Templeton, CFA The Blog of HORAN Capital Advisors
“The purpose of this post is to highlight a number of the positive data points that one would expect to see in a strong economic environment like we are in now”
Volatility has increased today after a few weeks of relatively low volatility. It’s still best to ignore more headlines as there appears to be more headlines than real changes.
We’re remaining mostly invested and believe there are short term opportunities. Risk has increase greatly from a year ago though no obvious reason for a general market downturn on the horizon, historically speaking.


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The ones on the top picture I actually made last christmas,
but I only got around to stitching it together now.
The three on the bottom picture I crocheted one evening last week.
Used up small scraps of yarn I had laying around.
very satisfying with a quick result once in a while.

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Please join us for a book discussion led by Arthur Seltzer. We will review themes and interesting facts of Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled its Founders’ Dreams? by Daniel Gordis. There have been many changes “on the ground” since the publication date in April 2023. Our discussion will also address how the events and aftermath of October 7th has impacted the “successes” considered in the book, and the evolving views of Israelis.
This book talk and meeting is dedicated to the memory and inspiration of Reena Seltzer, z”l, a passionate Zionist and advocate for Israel.

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Blockchain is the technology that allows for secure transactions without the need for a central authority. And since banks are central authorities, it makes sense that they might be unnerved. But there are plenty of ways that banks can benefit from blockchain—and not just by using it in back-end systems.
The big question facing banks is this: Will blockchain actually work?
Our answer: Yes and no.
We see lots of potential for financial services firms to use blockchain in their internal processes, but we aren’t so sure about the utility of cryptocurrencies in consumer-facing applications. Instead, we think the most promising use case for blockchain will be as a tool for banks to develop new kinds of products and services, potentially with nonbank partners.
In recent weeks, the cryptocurrency space has been filled with the sound of the blockchain’s potential application to the banking industry. For example, there have been headlines that “Bank of America files Blockchain Patent” and “Chinese Central Bank Is Testing Digital Currency Based on Blockchain Technology.”
However, in my opinion the blockchain will not be used for retail banking. The blockchain is not a solution for data security, and it is not a solution for financial inclusion. We don’t need the blockchain for those things.
Banks already have their own secure networks for sharing data safely and securely, and one of their most pressing needs right now is figuring out how to deal with the customer privacy issues that have arisen following recent data breaches (the most notable of which was at JPMorgan Chase). The idea that they would use an open public ledger instead of a secure private network seems ridiculous to me.
The blockchain could bring about a financial revolution. Yet, many banks are more concerned with the technology’s potential to disrupt their business models than they are excited by its possibilities, says Oliver Bussmann, Group Chief Information Officer of UBS.
The Blockchain is the most important invention since the World Wide Web. It has the potential to replace traditional banking and payment services completely. Nevertheless, current discussions in the banking sector mostly focus on how the Blockchain could threaten banks’ core business with disintermediation and unbundling.
Blockchain technology might be useful for security and transparency, but it’s not clear whether it will help banks save money or win over new customers. The threat of disruption posed by FinTechs coupled with low interest rates means that banks have less money to invest in innovation projects. This creates a situation where banks engage in Blockchain innovation out of fear of missing out (FOMO) rather than because they see a real opportunity to grow their business.
There is no doubt that the financial services industry has become an early adopter of blockchain, and for good reason. There are multiple use cases that can benefit from the technology, including payments, asset management and capital markets. But will this actually work?
Many banks have already begun to experiment with blockchain by creating their own ledgers or running proof-of-concept (POC) programs. Most POCs have a limited scope and are generally run without any connection to other institutions.
However, there are a few consortiums — R3CEV and Digital Asset Holdings — that are working on distributed ledger projects with a much wider reach. The reason behind these partnerships is simple: it is nearly impossible to replicate the entire blockchain ledger system on your own due to the complexity of coordinating with all participants within the ecosystem. Every transaction must be verified by multiple parties, which requires a lot of coordination.
The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently, and very efficiently. Through the use of a peer-to-peer network and distributed timestamping server, a blockchain database is managed autonomously. In the case of bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies like it, the technology is used to create a digital currency that can be used to make payments of any amount anywhere in the world.
As promising as this sounds, there are still many obstacles that need to be overcome before blockchain can truly be considered a legitimate banking solution. These challenges include scalability (the ability to handle large loads), interoperability (the ability to communicate with other systems), security and privacy (how data will be protected), and data governance (who owns the data).
The bottom line is this: Blockchain may present a revolutionary new way for people and businesses to interact with each other, but we are not quite there yet.
Cryptocurrencies, in particular Bitcoin and Ethereum, are poised to disrupt the financial services industry by reducing costs and facilitating new business models.
The impact of cryptocurrencies on financial services will be profound, but it is not inevitable. To realize their potential, cryptocurrencies must address two major challenges: scaling transactions and providing a stable value store.
By now, we should all be familiar with blockchain, the technology underpinning Bitcoin. It’s a brilliant piece of engineering that allows for anonymous, distributed, cryptographically secure transactions.
Banks and other financial institutions are incredibly eager to harness it for themselves. As reported by Bloomberg, banks spent $1 billion on blockchain projects in 2016. Goldman Sachs estimates that blockchain could save banks $12 billion in infrastructure costs per year.
But there is one fundamental problem: banking requires an irrefutable record of identity. You need to know who you’re dealing with when you give them money. And right now, there is no way to establish identity on blockchain.
There are people trying to build such a system. Many of them are focusing on “proof of authority” systems where blockchains are secured by trusted entities (i.e., the big banks). These solutions may work well for some internal needs within the industry but won’t work for open blockchain systems like Bitcoin or Ethereum. In this case, it would be very easy for one bank to collude with others and rewrite parts of the transaction history in order to claim more money for itself (the Byzantine Generals Problem).
Others are looking into “proof of stake”


ECCTG Blinder HP-905 Test – Featuring the Laser Ally (DALA) and the TruSpeed S
It has been a while since the countermeasure industry has produced a jammer worthy of our praise; ECCTG is proud to announce that this day has finally arrived. We threw a plethora of LIDAR guns at the Blinder HP-905 and based on the results, it’s easy to conclude that the Blinder HP-905has joined the ranks as one of the major players in the countermeasure industry. We will explain our reasoning in this article.
Blinder HP 905 Specifications
– Wavelength/Bandwidth: 905nm/33MHz
– Classification: 1M Laser (Eye Safe); compliant with 21 CFR 1040.10 and 1040.11; compliant with EC Directive 2002/95/EC (RoHS)
– Operational Temp: -25C + 80C / -13F + 176F
– Power Requirement: 10V – 16V
– Current Consumption: Max. 150m A (Active), 25mA (Stand By)
– Sensor Dimensions:
— 51 mm (W) x 34 mm (D) 12.7 mm (H)
— 2 inch (W) x 1.35 inch (D) 0.50 inch (H)
Cable Length: 5.2 meters / 17 feet
– Parking Assist / Jamming / Detection, Modes
– Ultra Compact Laser Sensors (World Smallest)
– High Power Laser Diode Based
– Ultra High Detection Performance
– Anodized Aluminum Sensor Housing
– Waterproof Sensor (Rubber Gasket)
– Easy Stealth Installation
– Control Module 4 Sensor Capable
– Internal Audible Alert (Authentic Voice)
– Voice and Jamming Software Updatable
– Personal Setting and Upgradeable Firmware
– 2 Year Warranty
In an effort to give a clearer picture of the performance brought by the Blinder HP-905, we also used a Laser Interceptor 8.9 (non-HP version) mounted in the same location. No jammer was donated by any manufacturer or vendor; each jammer was purchased by an ECCTG straw buyer for the purpose of ensuring no device was juiced or overclocked beyond retail specifications. Each jammer was mounted separately; both jammers were inspected for proper level and angle, and were unmounted before the next jammer was tested. Both jammers were not mounted at the same time.
In this test, the LIDAR users were ECCTG members. The LIDAR guns were aimed by keeping the beam centered on each target location for during each testing iteration. “Trick shots” were not performed. Each location was tested multiple times for error correction. If we believed something interfered with a result, such as a reading from another car, we threw out that result and performed that specific run again. These are the true, unadulterated results which ECCTG is proud to provide.
Here is an example of our testing style (note that HUD-view videos are subject to the parallax distortion error):
LIDAR Guns Used In Testing
We used thirteen guns against the Blinder HP-905 and eleven guns against the Laser Interceptor 8.9.
|LIDAR Gun||Blinder HP-905||Laser Interceptor 8.9|
|Laser Ally (“Law Enforcement” version A) (ECCM ON)||✓||✓|
|Laser Ally (“Law Enforcement” version B) (ECCM ON)||✓||✓|
|LaserAtlanta SpeedLaser S (Stealth Mode)||✓|
|Ultralyte LR-200 (100 pps)||✓|
|Ultralyte LRB 20/20||✓||✓|
|Stalker (v 3.5)||✓||✓|
|Stalker (v 5.7)||✓||✓|
A straight, real world course nearly 1250′ in length was used for this test. The shooter was positioned 30 degrees off-axis horizontally from the center of the car. Here is a photograph of the course taken from the exact point of view where the LIDAR operators were positioned:
We are using the typical ECCTG test car – a 2009 Hyundai Sonata – mainly to keep results consistent, and because the style of the vehicle is common nowadays (in regards to grill/headlight configuration, etc). Photos of the heads on the vehicle:
|Laser Interceptor 8.9|
** NOTE: Regardless of how the heads appear in the photos, the mounting was done and tested on a completely level surface.
Results of the Blinder HP-905 and Laser Interceptor 8.9
For the most part, we did three runs per location for the Blinder HP-905, and only two runs for the Laser Interceptor 8.9 (since there has been extensive testing done on the Laser Interceptor 8.9, which can be found on our website). There were a couple runs which didn’t make much sense to us so we performed additional runs (dubbed “Extra Shots” in the results table). After finishing the test, it was clear there was not a leveling/canting issue.
It should be noted that the Blinder HP-905 uses a 75W laser diode while the Laser Interceptor 8.9 uses a 115W laser diode (unlike the predecessor of the Laser Interceptor 8.9, which uses a 75W laser diode). In the end, more power output may play a role in jamming capabilities (at this point in the countermeasure game, no real data exists on this yet), however it is generally the algorithm (on the jammer side of things) which makes the most difference.
ECCTG tests in real world conditions. We aren’t like other testers who use perfectly straight courses or have a monetary incentive to promote a product. We test based on what countermeasure users are most likely to encounter in the real world. The lab, and the real world, are two completely different things. Off-Axis has been known to chew through all jammers, as it has clearly done so in this test. That said, we believe that theBlinder HP-905 could use some work on their ProLaser 3 and ProLaser 4 algorithms (which can be said for the Laser Interceptor 8.9 in regards to the ProLaser 4 as well, however this is an easy fix). Either way,Blinder has truly created a jammer worthy of ECCTG recognition. We believe that the Blinder HP-905 will pressure the competition and breed innovation, resulting in a better market for the casual countermeasure user and enthusiast alike. If you would like to participate in discussions related to this, follow us here on the forum.


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MANAURE, Colombia, April 8 (UPI) -- A 10-year-old Colombian girl gave birth to a healthy baby girl, doctors said.
The mother, only identified as a young girl from Manaure, delivered her daughter, who weighed 5 pounds, by Caesarean section, ABC News reported Friday.
"The baby's head needs to come through a bony outlet. But in a young girl, the pelvis may not be ready or big enough to deliver a baby," said Dr. Kimberly Gecsi, an OB/GYN at UH Case Medical Center in Cleveland.
Doctors said the girl is from a member of the Wayuu people, an indigenous tribe in northern Colombia. The age of the father is unknown.
"We've already seen several cases [of pregnancy] in girls of the Wayuu ethnicity," said Efrain Pacheco Casadiego, director of the hospital where the girl gave birth. "When in fact [the girls] should be playing with dolls, they are having to care for a baby. This is shocking."

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More individuals with type 2 diabetes use oral medication to control their condition
As new treatment options become available, fewer individuals with type 2 diabetes are using insulin to control their condition, according to a recently released report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Health News Digest
reports that the findings of the national survey show a 28 percent increase in the number of diabetics who used oral medications to control their condition between 1997 and 2007. Additionally, the portion of people who took insulin fell from 38 to 24 percent.
Experts say that the numbers mark a shift in treatment strategy among healthcare providers, according to USA Today
. Doctors are now treating individuals who begin developing type 2 diabetes at an earlier stage in the condition's progression. This often involves prescribing oral medications, rather than insulin.
"In the past, physicians may have recommended first lifestyle changes without other medical therapy," Susan Spratt, an endocrinologist at the Duke University Medical Center, told the news source. "The new paradigm is lifestyle changes and the oral anti-diabetic metformin at diagnosis."


I recently found some old video from a few years ago, of my Spyderco FB05 Temperance. This is truly a classic Spyderco fixed blade design. I edited the clips together and decided to dig out my Temperance for another round of carry and use during this lockdown.
Looking back on the design, I think the Temperance was part of the so-called ‘tactical kitchen knife genre’ that arose in the late 90s and early 2000s. Internet-famous knife aficionado Joe Talmadge coined the term when he collaborated with knife designer Trace Rinaldi on the TTKK, or Talmadge Tactical Kitchen Knife. I can’t recall, nor seem to find, any detailed explanation on the design philosophy right now. But what I remember is that the compact TTKK was designed for fine cutting and slicing, with a comparatively thin edge supported by a wide full flat grind. The handle was both comfortable in use, but also secure and grippy enough for ‘tactical’ use. A multi-carry kydex sheath rounds out the package for this very sharp and practical fixed blade design.
I have never seen one. Looks like a great all around knife.
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Cancellation of summer school comes with costs
The cancellation of summer school due to the teachers' strike could end up being a hit to Burnaby school district's bottom line.
Summer school programs usually bring in about $2.1 million in revenues, said district secretary-treasurer Greg Frank. But the direct costs of putting on the programs total about $2 million.
"We're still trying to determine whether or not we're able to avoid all of those costs or whether or not some of those costs may continue," Frank said.
The majority of the expenses would be paying for teacher staffing, which is no longer an issue. But there may be different levels of salaries for planning the programs and supplies already purchased for them that would still be on the books.
The true financial impact isn't known yet. "It may be a few weeks yet before we really have got a clear handle on that picture," he said.
"The good news for the district is the summer school is not a large net contributor to our bottom line. So loss of the revenues—as long as we can avoid the majority of the costs—the impact on the bottom line should not be too significant."
But the loss of that revenue will just add to the continuing financial challenges faced by the district, just like others around the province.
In the spring, the district made cuts to offset a $3.1-million budget shortfall for the for next school year. Frank said in an interview at the time that Burnaby is expecting a $4.2-million shortfall in 2015-2016 and $1.6-million in 2016-2017 while the government has so far said its operating grants to schools will stay the same.


Oy - Vegas is really calling for points in the Oklahoma-West Virginia game this week.
Oklahoma boasts the No. 1 offense in college football with their Big 12 rival, West Virginia, ranking 10th, so expect plenty of scoring.
Now, after opening at 80 o/u, the point total is climbing and may not be done before kickoff.
Oklahoma-WVU total is up to 84 points after opening at 80. That makes it the second-highest total we've ever seen for a West Virginia game. Highest was 85 vs Baylor in 2012.— Jon Campbell (@JonnyOddsShark) November 21, 2018
NO SPEEDING! Oklahoma State Troopers will be located every 20 miles of I-40 on Wednesday and Sunday! pic.twitter.com/HL21gXz3Xz— Damon Lane (@KOCOdamonlane) November 20, 2018
Bad jokes aside, point totals this high have historically been reserved for the BIG 12. And with Kyler Murray battling Will Grier, it should be a shootout.
In 2015, the over-under for Texas Tech at Baylor hit 90.5. That was a match-up that featured a quarterback duel between Patrick Mahomes and Seth Russell. That game ended with a Baylor victory, 63-35.
How bad is Oklahoma's defense? West Virginia is next-to-last in the Big 12 in opponent red zone touchdown percentage at 64.71 percent.— Barrett Sallee (@BarrettSallee) November 20, 2018
Oklahoma is last at 86.49 percent.
Also, a bit of trivia, that game featured at least one throw from each Davis Webb and current Auburn quarterback, Jarrett Stidham.
Point being, the over is always more fun, especially out West. Keep a close eye on that OU-WVU line. History tells us that it's not done moving.
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Citizens Banking Corp. in Flint, Mich., will take a trip down the aisle this year with Southfield, Mich.-based Franklin Bank.
Bank West Financial Corp. in Grand Rapids, Mich., should fall for Ottawa Financial Corp. in Holland, Mich.
And Union Planters in Memphis will sweep Evansville, Ind.-based CNB Bancshares off its feet.
Those are just some possible "love connections" that could occur in banking circles this year, said Michael M. Moran, an analyst at Roney Capital Markets in Detroit.
Though predicting mergers is serious business for most equity analysts, Mr. Moran takes a light-hearted approach to the consolidation wave with his annual list.
And Mr. Moran has a strong record as a matchmaker. Since he began his "romance" list five years ago, half of the takeover targets he has listed have reached deals-though not always with the buyer he predicted.
Still, his predictions are not entirely scientific. Last year's list cited Security First Corp. in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, as a takeover candidate in part because the company's chairman had a romantic name: Charles F. Valentine.
A month after Mr. Moran matched Security First with FirstMerit Corp. of Akron, Ohio, the companies announced they were engaged. "Sometimes I get lucky," Mr. Moran said.


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Adventures of a Transplanted Gardener
There's gold in our meadows
Apparently people blamed goldenrod for ragweed's rambunctious pollen generation, because they could see the goldenrod's beautiful flowers and not the inconspicuous ragweed blossoms that often occur nearby.
Ragweed is a native plant and birds will eat its seeds, but there is nothing else good about this plant. I pull it out when I spot in in our meadows. Its genus name, Ambrosia, means food for the gods and it was named by Linnaeus, the inventor of our scientific binomial system. Linnaeus gave all kinds of reasons for assigning the Latinized names, but this one must have been a joke.
<< This ragweed plant (A. artemisiifolia) was about ten inches tall before I yanked it out. Individual plants can range in size from six inches to six feet. Ragweed lurks in meadows or ditches waiting for a chance in invade a newly disturbed site with bare soil where it will grow taller.
Yes, there's another lovely golden late-bloomer in our meadows this year. It's the six-foot tall perennial sunflower (Helianthus maximiliania) with its array of three-inch flowers on six to ten-inch stems all along the stalk. Now in the middle of September, many of them are blooming. I planted the seeds in the spring. One set of instructions on perennial sunflowers stated that it would be unlikely to flower the first year. I guess "they" didn't consider our long growing season here in northern Florida. Maybe these late bloomers will provide color until frost. I'll let you know.
Next spring, I will transplant some of these sunflowers to areas farther back in the meadows and in places where I can fashion some support for them. Like some of the other species I described in my sunflower column, Maximilian's sunflower tends to flop over in the wind or rain and stays on the ground, but then the flowers down its stalk poke up from there. While this provides an interesting groundcover, that's not really what I was after. Plus, they've tended to fall into paths and onto other plants.
Like goldenrod, sunflowers attract a wide variety of pollinators while in flower. Once the seeds set, birds come in for a feast. Maybe some of the seeds will hit the ground and sprout next year, but if the birds get them all, that's fine with me.
The gold in our meadows, and all the critters it attracts, makes my life richer. How about you?
If you're interested in learning more about native plants, join a local chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society www.fnps.org
For more and up-to-date information on our front meadow and the other meadow areas, ny meadow article.
Read more about Linnaeus and botanical names in A plant by any common name
Ginny Stibolt is a life-long gardener, a botanist, a naturalist, and a garden writer. You may contact her or read more of her articles posted on her website: www.greengardeningmatters.com.
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Ree Drummond is making her acting debut in a Discovery + movie called Candy coated Christmas. The pioneer woman star portrays a baker who is not too far from reality. Fans have been getting into the holiday spirit and have started seeing Drummond on screen and have a lot of ideas.
What is ‘Candy Coated Christmas’ about?
Drummond is one of the beloved stars on the Food Network and it was a no-brainer casting her for a Christmas-themed movie. Kathleen Finch, director of lifestyle brands for Discovery Inc., said in a press release that “nearly 60 million viewers watched the Food Network between Halloween and New Year’s Day.” This is the main reason Discovery is now entering the Christmas movie business.
Candy coated Christmas It also stars Molly McCook, Aaron O’Connell, Jae Suh Park, John McCook, Lee Garlington, Landry Townsend, among others.
Drummond plays Bee, owner of Bee’s Bakery, who befriends Molly when she arrives in Peppermint Hollow, the mint capital of the world.
The movie is now streaming on the discovery + service.
RELATED: ‘The Pioneer Woman’: Ree Drummond Invited Two ‘Fans’ To Thanksgiving Day On Book Singing And Fan Reactions Are Hilarious
What are fans saying about Ree Drummond’s performance?
Drummond’s work as an actor is now in the open for all. After the debut of Candy coated Christmas, many fans have taken to Drummond’s Instagram profile to leave their thoughts on his performance. The reviews are positive and most of them support the celebrity chef in this new endeavor.
“It was adorable and you did an amazing job, Ree!” replied a fan.
“Seen! You were a natural! The real star of the show!” Added a follower.
“I saw it this morning on discovery plus. I loved it, ”said one Instagram user.
“This is great…. Just when you thought you had done it big… YOU WON IT VERY BIG !!! Very proud of you !!!” another fan mentioned.
“I just saw Ree !!! I loved it, of course, I am a fool for a good family wins, love story !! You did great !! Please send in brownie sandwiches! “another follower commented.
“I just saw the movie. It was so cute! You were great! “Said another Instagram user.
RELATED: ‘The Pioneer Woman’ Fans Have The Weirdest Names For Ree Drummond’s Egg In The Basket Recipe
Ree Drummond was nervous about acting
The pioneer woman Star is used to being in front of a camera, but she’s used to playing herself. Upon Candy coated Christmas, Drummond plays a fictional character and has to follow a script. It was in August that the Food Network star spoke about making her acting debut in a movie.
“Look at those tight knees, I was sure I would end up passing out like those bridesmaids / groomsmen we used to see fall into America’s Funniest Home VideosDrummond said in an Instagram post where he shared photos from the film set.
Drummond continued: “I was nervous filming this movie because I’m not an actor, and being on a film set in Utah was a completely different experience than filming a cooking show in my own kitchen. Fortunately, once a woman reaches fifty, the possibility of embarrassing herself doesn’t really stop her from doing anything in life. “
And that’s the reason the fans love The pioneer woman because she always takes risks and is not afraid to make fun of herself either.


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The Pershing fins are identical to the T-34 Tank fins but they feature a classic length of 78 cm and are therefore more suitable for spearfishing in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, where conditions are more difficult than in the Mediterranean during the winter.
However, these fins can also be chosen for those who fish in the southern European seas and who are looking for a high-performance carbon fin that is more robust than a normal carbon fin. It is also possible to use them all year round on depths of over 20 meters. They are available in 25 soft and 30 medium.
- Material: 100% Carbon fiber T300
- Fins dimensions: 780 x 190 mm (including tip protection)
- Sail hardness: 25 soft and 30 medium
- Weight of the fin: 237 gr
- Compatibility: model 300 or 400 footpocket
OPS (Overmoulding Protection System) :
OPS is a revolutionary manufacturing process that consists in overmoulding thermorubber on carbon fiber fins to create a protective cover. No one had ever succeeded in making such a process before.
After more than a year of research and tests in the water, C4 rose to the challenge and brilliantly passed the tests with more than 300 hours in the water. Overmoulding thermorubber, compared to traditional gluing, has allowed C4 to work with specific dimensions and geometries without compromising on lightness, elasticity and power.


Global leaders from Industry, Academia and Government participated in the 2nd Edition of Semicon India
Posted On: 29 JUL 2023 9:29AM by PIB Delhi
India is leading the technology revolution with focus on electronics. As part of the revolution, semiconductors play an indispensable role and have applications in nearly all sectors, including communication, defence, automobiles and computing devices. Strengthening the important pillar of progress of the country – ‘Electronics’ and reinforcing the vision of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, India is poised to broaden and deepen its value chain and facilitate a world class semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.
To showcase India as a hub for semiconductor design and manufacturing, SemiconIndia 2022 Conference was organised in Bengaluru last year. Building on its success, India Semiconductor Mission organised SemiconIndia 2023 Conference with the theme ‘Catalysing India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem’ at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. More than 8,000 persons from over 23 countries participated in the Conference. SemiconIndia 2023 witnessed participation of industry leaders from major global companies such as Micron Technology, Applied Materials, Foxconn, Cadence and AMD, and the industry association, SEMI.
The three-day SemiconIndia 2023 was inaugurated by Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and in his special address he emphasised the role of semiconductors in day-to-day lives of the people and how India is committed to build the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem under the Semicon India Programme. Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Communications, and Railways, Government of India highlighted Hon’ble PM’s role in transforming every sector in India with a focus on electronics manufacturing, particularly semiconductors. Shri Bhupendra Patel, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat addressed the gathering and applauded the visionary guidance of Hon’ble PM around manufacturing landscape, especially electronics and semiconductors.
Various global industry leaders delivered keynote address on topic “Catalyzing India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem”. Mr. Sanjay Mehrotra, speaking on behalf of Micron, highlighted the significant opportunities for India to strengthen and expand its manufacturing ecosystem. Micron, a major player in the semiconductor industry, is proud to be a part of India’s semiconductor journey. Mr. Anirudh Devgan, President and CEO, Cadence said that India’s key strengths in the semiconductor industry include strong government support and initiatives, a pool of technology talent, the presence of multinational companies, and the ongoing Digital India transformation.
Mr. Prabu Raja, President, SPG, Applied Materials said that semiconductor industry is experiencing growth driven by factors such as Artificial Intelligence, Clean energy initiatives, and digital transformation through cloud computing, advanced data generation, and transfer systems. Mr. Siva Sivaram, President, Western Digital, a leading company in flash memory and essential storage infrastructure, was of the view that to establish a semiconductor supply chain in India, intellectual property creation is essential.
Mr. Mark Papermaster, CTO, AMD spoke about the AI inflection point and its tremendous potential for India. AMD is actively driving innovation in this domain, investing US$ 400 million in India over the next 5 years to establish India as the world’s largest design center for AMD. Mr. S.Y. Chiang, Chief Strategy Officer, Foxconn presented the challenges and opportunities in the post Moore’s Law Era. He pointed at emerging requirements in semiconductor industry in the areas of system design and partition, packaging and PCB technology and in meeting requirements of applications like IoT.
Additionally, panel discussions were organised to deliberate on various pertinent themes encompassing the semiconductor and display ecosystem. Dr. Manish Hooda, SCL; Mr. Vivek Sharma, STMicroelectronics; Dr. Yee Shyi Chang, Technology Ambassador, ICEA; Mr. Rohit Girdhar, Infineon Technologies; Mr. Sriram Ramakrishnan, Business Head, Reliance Industries Ltd.; Mr. Darshan Hiranandani, Hiranandani Group discussed about the advantages of manufacturing compound semiconductors in India. The speakers suggested prioritising Silicon Carbide for EVs and focusing on system design and Gallium Nitride research.
In the panel discussion on dynamics of display manufacturing involving industry experts, Dr. G. Rajeswaran, Grantwood Technologies; Mr. Suraj Rengarajan, Applied Materials; Dr. Y.J. Chen, CEO, Vedanta Displays Ltd.; Mr. Achintya Bhowmick, President, SID; Mr. Ajit Aras, EVP, Sharp, emphasised the need to understand the growth trajectory of the display sector, economies of scale in manufacturing, and the building blocks of LCD and OLED assembly.
Ms. Nivruti Rai, MD and CEO, Invest India talked about the sustainable semiconductor manufacturing, investment opportunities in India and how India can turn sustainability goals into a competitive advantage. During the panel discussion on “ISM: Attracting Semiconductor Investments to India”, the experts, Mr. Ajit Manocha, SEMI; Mr. Cyril Patrick Fernandez, CTO & MD, AFT; Mr. Ajay Sawhney, Former Secretary, MeitY; Mr. Neelkanth Mishra, Chief Economist, Axis Bank; Mr. Suneet Shukla, IFCI and K. Mukundan, NIIF discussed about Government of India’s approach to emphasize the techno-financial expectations from the proposals. They highlighted that the viability of business plan and execution plan will serve as the guiding principles for evaluation of future proposals by the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM).
India has a big role to play in the growth of global semiconductor sector and SemiconIndia 2023 offered a platform to the participants to deliberate on various aspects shaping the semiconductor ecosystem in India.


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Wilmar was the former name of a then-unincorporated district of San Gabriel Township in the San Gabriel Valley, about eight miles east of the center of Los Angeles. In the 1940 census, Wilmar had a population of 11,590. Wilmar was combined with the unincorporated communities of Garvey (to the east of Wilmar) and Potrero Heights (to the south of Wilmar) to become the unincorporated community of South San Gabriel in the early 1950s. It was named for the city of Wilmar, Arkansas by "Arkies" who migrated to the area as a rural counterpart to their roots in Arkansas.
Most of South San Gabriel was later annexed by the city of Rosemead (mostly during the mid-1960s), though parts of it were annexed by other adjacent cities and part of it remains unincorporated today. Most of the area of South San Gabriel which had been called Wilmar was annexed by Rosemead, but one section of it lying north of the San Bernardino Freeway between New Avenue and San Gabriel Boulevard was annexed by the city of San Gabriel.
The main streets of Wilmar were Del Mar Avenue, Graves Avenue, Hellman Avenue, Ramona Boulevard, and Garvey Avenue. It was the site of a Los Angeles County branch library, and of three schools of the Garvey School District.
The area of Wilmar known as Potrero Heights, south of the intersection of Del Mar and Graves Avenues, came to be known in the 1950s as Garvey Hills. This area was first home of the Wilmar gang, members were identified by their tattoo of the name Wilmar and a picture of a donkey. Later as the ethnicity of the area changed, it became home to the infamous Lomas gang, one of Los Angeles' earliest Hispanic gangs.


After rumors started circulating that Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey were living separately, Nick decided to confirm that their marriage of six years is on the rocks: "There is trouble in paradise," he told The Insider. "We have been living in separate houses for a few months."
He didn't elaborate on the cause of the couple's issues—or whether a divorce is imminent—but he did say that any rumors of infidelity are false. "My main focus is my kids," he added about three-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe.
What do you guys think? Will the couple divorce or work through their issues?


Water Level Sensor
Hydrostatic Pressure Sensor, used to measure the depth of water in a tank or river, stream or more.
Various options are available for different use-cases including sewage, oil, milk, sediment traps and more.
The product includes the following:
- Sensor and specific length atmospheric equalizing cable.
- Junction box with breathable gland for atmospheric equalisation.
- Controller connection cable (4 position waterproof, 2 meters).
The sensor plugs into the ModuSense Controller Gateway.