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I think the first time I heard about Joe Vitale was when an internet friend of mine began to coach him in his weight loss program. I only began reading his book The Attractor Factor however after watching The Secret for the 5th or 6th time. I’ve had so many miracles occur since reading it that I had to share it with you. I want to give you a copy of The Attractor Factor for free, as a gift from me to you, so that you can experience it for yourself.
If you’re a reader of my monthly natural weight loss and health newsletter, you’ve heard me talk about the books I’m reading, the courses I recommend, the products that I’m using and The Attractor Factor has been the latest.
I sent out an email to my subscribers just before I went to Las Vegas on a Mini Vacation just a few weeks ago telling them about the book and recommending it. Then while I was in Vegas, I sent out another one asking for any comments about the miracles that they’ve experienced since purchasing their own copy.
I got quite a few responses,
I had not heard of the book before your letter but trust that I will begin trying to attract it into my life…it sounds like my kind of reading material.
by the way…since making a few modest changes, I have begun feeling more and more positive about my body and my health in general. just a positive sense of waking each day and telling myself that I am feeling healthy, strong and lean. and I’ll be darned if that isnt beginning to manifest…
its just plain amazing really
a huge “The Secret” fan
Scott L said
150 lbs of weight loss
Wow, good job buddy!
No I have not read this book yet by Joe V, but I have just read the “Secret” and watched the video. What a story Joe V had….just when you thought your life is so bad, you hear something about someone else who was much worse off then yourself!!
It really does make you thankful.
I’m using the weight loss part mentioned in the secret and I already see myself at my number!!!
Have a super day
And then of course, I had one that wasn’t so positive. There always seems to be 90% great responses and 10% not so positive (from my point of view anyway)
While I like your story, I’m not a fan of the repeat emails. I understand they are a marketing technique, just like the Scavenger Hunt (i.e. you get a tiny amount of money when people click on links through your site et al) and I’m just not interested. I follow Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle and am all set with great knowledge on how to create a life worth living.
I don’t want to attract lots of things, I’m busy with the dreams I currently have and don’t need new distractions.
Getting these emails urging me to try all these products is not something I like and I can see right through it.
You have a right to make as much money as you want, but not off of me, sorry! I have to keep mine to pay bills and save for retirement.
I’m betting others feel the same way.
The author of that email said “I am all set with great knowledge on how to create a life worth living”…
Please, if there’s one thing I can leave you with if you’re reading this… don’t ever stop learning. Ever. It’s our most precious commodity, to keep improving each and every day. Never stop investing in yourself, please.
Part of the message in The Attractor Factor is “what you focus on expands” and that “thoughts become things”, so if you’re focusing on paying the bills, guess what you get, just enough money to pay the bills and then more bills as well.
The Attractor Factor would explain how to attract abundance into your life, and how to switch from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking thereby attracting more money, more fun, better people and experiences into your life. It’s just a thought away.
As for the Scavenger Hunt, the idea is to have people search for a small hidden item on my websites and while they’re doing it, to learn more about health, fitness, weight loss and becoming better. I wanted to get people interested in learning about their health and then reward them with a free gift of their choosing for participating.
So far it seems to be working because I’ve heard from two people saying how much they’re learning
trawling through your sites searching for the big F has given me lots of new things to look at.
Keep up the good work.
and Jessie, a new writer for this blog, journaling her own weight loss story said this fairly soon after beginning the scavenger hunt
You know…..the most interesting things have happened around me since I found my way here. I am just going to run with them and see what comes about.
So here’s the deal.
In the email the author was talking about, where I was telling you I was reading it and recommended it to you and that I was told that I was sending repeat emails, I had said
you don’t have to “pay for” the book. Just ask someone if they’ve
read it and if they have, ask them if you could borrow it for a
week or two. Attract the book into your life. Just decide that
you would like to read it, and trust that it would change your life
and then just ask people if they have a copy you could borrow
Well, two of my readers too action and asked ME if they could borrow my copy of the book.
I’ve already lent it out to another friend.
I like to reward those who take action, and two of my readers took action.
I’m going to be buying and sending a free copy of The Attractor Factor to
Thank you for your wonderful communication. Am sorry I have not read
Joe Vitale’s book “The Attractor Factor”. can you led me yours for I would like to read it. The greatest miracle have seen is that after reading your emails, I now know that I should not lose hope over my life and health. I should keep on seeking more advice from people like you and I know long life will be my heritage. KEEP UP.
Thank you and God bless you.
Tim W (tim@******.us)
Do you have a copy I could borrow? 🙂
The email I sent out went to over 4 THOUSAND people, and two people asked.
Two people took action because they wanted to create change in their life.
I had planned to give two copies away anyway, and two people asked.
I Don’t think so.
It is my mission to help you get what you want, to help you to understand that the biggest part of any weight loss program, fitness program, health program or learning more about creating wealth and abundance or happiness in your life is to take action.
That is what this website and these guest authors are all about.
I want to create a community where we can all learn from each other and support one another to become better. This is what I’m attracting.
I want to put you in touch with the tools that have worked for me and helped me succeed so that you can duplicate it.
So I’m going to give away another two copies of The Attractor Factor for free with one catch.
I’d like to know what it is that you want to attract into your life.
What do you want?
- Do you want better health?
- A lean body?
- More money?
- More abundance in your life?
- The perfect partner for you?
- More passion in your relationship?
- More time to spend doing what you want to do?
- Better sleep?
- To Quit Smoking?
- To drop other addictions or bad habits?
- Or to find inner peace, joy and love?
Leave a comment describing what it is that you want in your life.
Focus on what you want, not what you don’t want. See the ideas above, they’re all the positive version of what you DON”T want. Focus on what you want.
Describe exactly what you want and how you will feel when you get it. Describe it as though you’ve already gotten it. Believe that you have it, and trust that it’s coming your way but know that it would be ok if you didn’t get it either. In other words, don’t be attached to the outcome. If you get it – great, if not – that’s ok too.
This will be open until Sunday August 26th, 2007 at midnight Mountain Time.
In the week following the close of this project, I will make a decision based on the content of the comments, who I will give a free copy of the Attractor Factor to.
Remember, thoughts become things, so choose them wisely.
Be descriptive, feel the emotion, know how wonderful it would be when you receive this thing that you want in your life.
As for Sarah and Tim who receive their free copy of The Attractor Factor, all I ask is that you do the same thing… leave a comment describing what it is that you want to attract into your life as well. Fair enough? Good.
When you enter your comment, you’re going to want to check off the little box that says subscribe to comments because I’ll announce the winners in the comments when the time comes.
This is your chance to take action.

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Evolving Standard Of Care May Be To Blame For Phase III Failure Of Ulimorelin, Tranzyme Says
This article was originally published in Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
An evolution in the methods hospitals use to speed gastrointestinal recovery after abdominal surgery may have undercut the Phase III efficacy results for the intravenous ghrelin agonist, which was shown to be no better than placebo in the first of two pivotal trials to report.
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Farewell to Christa Ludwig May 18 2021
Christa Ludwig, one of the greatest mezzo-sopranos of the
20th century, passed away at the age of 93 at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
Ms. Ludwig was a renowned singer and stage actor who brought power and charisma to every song and role.
Her career spanned close to half a century and took her from Berlin to the biggest stages across the world.
Her Wide Vocal Range and Charisma Captivated Audiences
From an early age, Christa Ludwig had a natural gift for singing, which is understandable considering her parentage. She was born in 1928 in Berlin to parents who were actively involved in the opera.
Anton Ludwig, Christa’s father, ran a local opera and was a singer himself. Her mother, Eugenie Besalla-Ludwig, was also a mezzo-soprano and performed at the Aachen Opera. Her parent's love of the opera soon passed to young Christa.
At the young age of eight, Ms. Ludwig sang an aria to Mozart’s The Magic Flute. However, her childhood also coincided with World War II. Her family moved to a small town outside of Hesse, Germany after their home was bombed toward the end of the war.
She made her debut at the age of 18 for the Frankfurt Opera in 1946. She stayed with the company for six years and performed on several other stages before finding her real home at the Vienna State Opera.
One of the Most Acclaimed German Chamber Singers
Christa Ludwig received several recognitions throughout her
lifetime, including being awarded the Kammersangerin (Chamber Singer) title in 1962.
The award came just three years after her first performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She would go on to complete 121 performances at the Met. However, the bulk of her career was spent with the Vienna State Opera.
Ms. Ludwig joined the Vienna State Opera in 1955 and gave a total of 769 performances with the company. While she toured the world, Vienna was her home base.
About two years after joining the Vienna State Opera, Christa Ludwig met her first husband – Walter Berry. The two stayed together until 1970 and had one son.
Working with the Top Conductors of the 20th Century
Ms. Ludwig’s prolific career allowed her to work intimately with several of the top conductors of the 20th century. At the Vienna State Opera, she worked under Karl Bohm. Bohm had a major influence on Ludwig’s career, helping to push her boundaries and range and take on more challenging roles.
Ms. Ludwig also worked with Herbert von Karajan. However, her fondest memories were of working with Leonard Bernstein – the acclaimed American conductor and pianist. Christa Ludwig gave many lieder performances with Bernstein accompanying her on piano.
While she is mostly remembered for her opera roles, Ms. Ludwig was also a remarkable singer of classical music.
Christa Ludwig was preceded in death by her second husband Paul-Emile Deiber (2011) and was succeeded by her son Wolfgang Berry.
Farewell to Christa Ludwig
She will be remembered for her warm voice with tremendous range and charismatic personality that would leave audiences mesmerized.
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“I prided myself on being a good defensive catcher,” three-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove winner Johnny Edwards told the author.1 Edwards debuted on the Cincinnati Reds’ pennant-winning squad in 1961, inaugurating a 14-year career, including a one-year stop on the 1968 NL champion St. Louis Cardinals before spending his final campaigns with the Houston Astros. “I enjoyed catching all of my pitchers,” he declared. “That was my job. I didn’t concentrate on hitting. I concentrated on getting the pitcher by that day. Sometimes they didn’t have good stuff and then we had to try different things.”
John Alban Edwards and his twin brother James were born on June 10, 1938, in Columbus, Ohio, to Evan Alban and Marcella Beulah (Smith) Edwards. Sister Judy followed a year later. Growing up in the Midwest in the post-World War II years, baseball was the center of young Johnny’s universe. “We had knothole ball and no coaches,” he said about his earliest baseball experiences, which sound almost like those of Scotty Smalls from the cult movie classic Sandlot (1983). “We just formed a neighborhood team and went off and played.” His “key to baseball” was his mother, who had played some semiprofessional softball in her younger years. She taught him how to throw, catch, and hit. His father, a mechanical engineer and later employed as a civil servant, was sick, often confined to their home in a stable middle-class neighborhood, and “didn’t have any impact on my baseball career,” Edwards revealed.
Though Ohio’s capital city is located almost equidistant from Cincinnati and Cleveland, Johnny was an unabashed Indians fan. “They had all those pitchers, [Bob] Feller and [Early] Wynn, and also [Bobby] Avila and [Al] Rosen,” said Edwards, “but my hero was the catcher – Jim Hegan.” Edwards was a scrawny kid, only 5-feet-8 and 135 pounds, entering his senior year at West High School, and was “too small” to play football in the gridiron-crazed state commanded by legendary Ohio State University coach Woody Hayes.
But that didn’t deter his dream of following the footsteps of the Tribe’s sturdily-built 200-pound All-Star backstop. “I always wanted to be a catcher,” said Edwards, who began donning the tools of ignorance in junior high. Edwards found a willing mentor in high-school coach Dutch Schmidter. “He taught me a lot about catching,” he said. “He had a big influence on me.” Schmidter’s belief in Johnny paid off when the 17-year-old showed up for spring baseball standing 6-feet-4, the product of a Herculean growth spurt. Edwards also played American Legion ball for Post 98, but the admittedly awkward youngster had no suitors or scouts calling his name when he graduated from high school in 1956.
Always a good student, Edwards enrolled at OSU in the fall to pursue a degree in engineering. As big as some of the Buckeye football players, the left-handed-hitting Edwards earned a spot on the freshman baseball team as a walk-on in the spring, and never looked back. A prescient moment in Edwards’ career came after his sophomore season on renowned coach Marty Karow’s varsity squad. Based on Karow’s recommendation, Edwards was invited to play in the Basin League in South Dakota after earning second-team All-Big Ten honors. Established in 1953, the league showcased top collegians and minor leaguers, and developed into a showcase for big-league prospects. For the first time in his life, Edwards, who caught and played in the outfield, attracted the attention of scouts. He returned to OSU, but his situation had changed dramatically. “There were several clubs interested in signing me,” said Edwards. “Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New York Yankees, and St. Louis. It was just a bidding war really. My twin brother handled the negotiations. With my dad sick, my family needed the money.” Based on scout Paul Florence’s recommendation, the Reds signed Edwards at his parents’ house in the fall. His contact was worth $50,000, which included a $12,000 annual salary for three seasons, a then-exorbitant sum for a minor leaguer.
Interrupting his studies, Edwards began his professional baseball career at the Reds’ spring-training facility in 1959. “They needed a bunch of catchers. Every pitcher had to throw every day so they brought me to camp.” Suddenly finding himself next to All-Stars like Frank Robinson, Gus Bell, and catcher Ed Bailey, Edwards recalled how professionally he was treated. “There wasn’t any harassment or anything. I wasn’t expecting it.”
Edwards was assigned to the Class-C California League, where he torched the opposition (.320, 16 home runs, 99 RBIs) as a member of the Visalia Redlegs. The biggest impression on the still green catcher was from his manager and teammate, 26-year-old Dave Bristol. “He was a fiery guy,” recalled Edwards with a laugh. “We had at least 10 fights that year because he’d want to knock someone down. He’d get suspended, and because I was a college kid, I’d get to manage the team.” Bristol’s passion and uncompromising competitiveness rubbed off on the rookie. “I learned the will to play,” he said. “I like that attitude.”
After the minor-league season ended, the Reds invited Edwards to Cincinnati to see a game. He recalled vividly the first time he saw the aging steel and concrete Crosley Field with its famous terraced outfield. “I had never been to Crosley Field as a kid. It was a rude awakening to see the ballpark,” said Edwards. “It was shaped like a boomerang. I was a left-handed hitter and the farthest part of the ballpark was in right field with the Moon Deck. Then you had center field with a hill, and then there was the fence in left field with the big scoreboard in left-center.”
After another spring camp in Tampa with the Reds in 1960, Edwards jumped all the way to the Double-A Nashville Volunteers in the Southern Association. Facing much more mature competition, the majority of whom had or would have major-league experience, Edwards emerged as the circuit’s top catching prospect and fared well at the plate (.293-14-70) while playing in one of baseball’s most peculiar ballparks. “Sulphur Dell was a strange stadium with its outfield terrace,” recalled Edwards. “The fence in right field seemed like it was just behind second base. [It was 262 feet from home plate]. You’d have a better chance to hit a home run if you’d hit a long ol’ fly ball than if you really smacked one. If you hit a deep one to right, the outfielder was playing half way up the hill and he could throw you out at first.” Edwards credited his skipper, Milkman Jim Turner, a former big-leaguer hurler, for his development behind the plate. “He was the first to give me good insights on catching,” remembered Edwards. “Turner did a lot to help me learn to block [the plate], [set] my footwork.” The baseball lifer Turner was unequivocal in his praise of the prospect, “You could tell he was going to be an outstanding catcher. He has intelligence and a real good arm.”2
Assigned to the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians to start the 1961 campaign, it was just a matter of time before Edwards was promoted to the big-league club. That call came sooner than expected when Bailey was shipped to the San Francisco Giants in a multiplayer trade two weeks into the season. Edwards recalled excitedly how his skipper, Cot Deal, teased him with the good news in late June. “Deal called me into his office and said ‘You can’t play for me anymore.’ I said ‘Goddammit, give me a chance. I don’t want to go to A-ball,’” recalled Edwards, who had been in a slump at that time. “Then he said, ‘You’re going to the big leagues.’ I went from down in the dumps to really elated.”
Edwards joined the Reds in Chicago on June 26 and made a splashing debut, against the Cubs. After drawing a walk pinch-hitting for catcher Jerry Zimmerman in his first plate appearance and then taking his place behind the plate, he belted an RBI single the next time up. Edwards’ baptism of fire came the next day. “I got on the bus and sat next to Bob Purkey who was pitching that day. He starting going over the hitters with me. When we got to the ballpark, damn, I was playing,” said Edwards, surprised by skipper Fred Hutchinson’s decision. “I hit a home run off the right-field foul pole. After that my hitting was not very good the rest of the season, but my defense was. Hutch stuck with me.”
Edwards immediately won the starting job and less than two weeks after his call-up, he was described by Queen City sportswriter Lou Smith as a “cinch to blossom into one of the top receivers.”3 That assessment was not just blind homerism. Former big leaguer Lou Boudreau, who was then a Cubs announcer, quipped, “He handles himself well for a rookie and owns a gun for an arm.”4 Edwards struggled at the plate, batting only .186, but earned the respect of his pitchers and manager. The Reds got a scare when Edwards went down on September 9 with a serious groin pull while ducking a heater to his head against the Cardinals.5 He missed two weeks, but was behind the plate on September 26 when the Reds overcame a 3-0 deficit beginning with Edwards’ solo home run in the sixth to beat the Cubs at Wrigley Field and clinch their first pennant in 20 seasons.
The Reds faced the heavily favored Yankees, winners of 109 games, in the World Series. More known for clubbing a then-record 240 home runs, the Bronx Bombers shut down the Reds, allowing only 13 runs in their Series victory in five games. Edwards, who started Games Two, Three, and Five against right-handed starters, was the Reds’ “most surprising player,” according to sportswriter Bob Broeg.6 Edwards went 4-for-11 and knocked in two runs, both in Game Two at Yankee Stadium, in the Reds’ only victory. More than a half-century after the Series, Edwards remained upset, but not necessarily because the Reds lost. “I still don’t like what Jim Turner did,” he said of his ex-manager, by then the Reds pitching coach. “He was an ex-Yankee. When we were practicing at Yankee Stadium, he took us around showing us the statues and stuff. I didn’t like that. We were playing the Yankees, not worshipping them.” No one ever doubted Edwards’ fire.
Over the next four seasons, Edwards emerged as one of the best all-around catchers in baseball, named to three consecutive NL All-Star squads (1963-65), and earned Gold Glove Awards in 1964 and 1965. “What can you say?” replied Edwards when asked about his reactions to those accolades. “They were the biggest awards in my life. [They were] voted on by your peers.” (After the Cincinnati Reds All-Star ballot-box-stuffing brouhaha in 1957, fans lost the right to choose All-Star starters until 1970; managers voted for the Gold Glove recipients.) Edwards went 0-for-3 with a walk and run in All-Star competition.
The Reds’ decision to send Edwards to the Florida Fall Instructional League in 1961 paid dividends the following season as the native Ohioan was named “Sophomore of the Year” by the Cincinnati Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America – and for good reason.7 He led the NL in games caught (130), assists (92), and attempted basestealers thrown out (31); he also proved he was no slouch with the bludgeon, hitting .254 with eight homers, 50 RBIs, and a career-high 28 doubles while the Reds pressured the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers in a tight pennant race, winning five more games (98) than in the previous season, but finishing in third place.
Expectations for Edwards were raised in 1963, and Big John delivered. He started off on a tear, hitting safely in his first seven games, culminating with a grand slam and all five RBIs in a victory over the New York Mets on April 17. At the end of the month he was hitting .411, and though he finished with comparable numbers from the previous season (.259-11-67), the Reds counted on him defensively, not offensively. He paced the majors in games played by a catcher (148) and putouts, and led the NL in fielding for the first of four times.
Like all the great catchers, Edwards’ importance cannot be quantified by empirical statistics. Said the Milkman, “[W]hen it comes to blocking home plate, Edwards is as tough as anyone.”8 Few baserunners wanted to test Edwards, who had filled out his frame to about 220 pounds and was as solid as a linebacker. Edwards’ intelligence – and not just the bookish engineering kind – set him apart, too. “He works as a team with the pitcher,” gushed Purkey. “He doesn’t catch a game by the book. He knows his pitchers and what they throw. And he knows the hitters.”9
Edwards admitted that one of the few things he dreaded was catching Purkey’s knuckleball. “When he had the wind in his face, that thing was dancing. When a knuckleball lands in a glove, it’s real light and you don’t really know where it hits. After seeing his catcher “run back to the screen so often,” Hutch suggested that Edwards use a larger catcher’s mitt. That tip gave both Edwards and Purkey confidence.
The transformation of the Reds into an annual pennant contender in the early 1960s can be attributed to Fred Hutchinson, the wildly popular manager, whom Edwards credited with helping him develop into an All-Star. “Hutch was the best coach in the world,” said Edwards. “He knew how to handle players. I was a guy who was always looking for him to tell me how well I played that day. He never did and so I tried harder to please him. He made me a better player. He had the ability to bring out the greatness in everybody.” With a chuckle, Edwards recalled that Hutchinson “had a temper,” but also noted that he was like a father to his players, a psychologist, and an innovative thinker. “He’d come out and ask me how the starting pitcher was doing,” said Edwards, adding that he was also among the first skippers to rely heavily on the bullpen.
The entire baseball community was shocked when Hutchinson announced on January 3, 1964, that he had inoperable lung cancer. Despite radiation treatment and chemotherapy, Hutchinson joined the team in spring training. While the disease withered his body, Hutchinson’s courage, pride, and concern for his team inspired others. Few players on the clubs were as close to the skipper as Edwards. “I’ll never forget Hutch sitting in the dugout during the game with cancer. He had a hard time getting up. I offered to help him back to the clubhouse and he wouldn’t accept it.”
While players were often moved to tears by Hutchinson’s battle, the Reds started off slowly, hovering around .500 in early June. By then, Edwards had found his stroke, batting .354 and driving in 19 runs over a 24-game stretch ending June 24. The inevitable came on August 13 when Hutchinson announced that he was taking a leave of absence, to be replaced by coach Dick Sisler. The Reds didn’t roll over as many expected. “I’ll never forget that season,” said Edwards. Trailing the Philadelphia Phillies by 8½ games on September 15, the fourth-place Reds stormed back, winning 12 of 13 games to move into first place by a game on September 29.
The “Phillies’ Phold” might be best remembered about one of the most dramatic pennant races in history, which almost ended in an unprecedented three-way tie; however, the Reds faltered too, losing four of their last five games, all at Crosley Field, and squandering a share of the title on the last day of the season. According to Edwards, the deciding blow came in the next to last game, against the Phillies on October 2, with the Reds up 3-0 in the bottom of the seventh. “[Chris] Short knocks down [Leo] Cardenas, and he charges the mound. When you are playing bad like the Phillies, you’re looking for something to motivate you. And Cardenas motivated the Phillies.” The Phillies won the game, 4-3, and tensions ran high. “After the game, [starting pitcher Jim] O’Toole went after Cardenas in the clubhouse and that upset everybody. It was just a bad scene.” Jim Bunning provided the final indignity, shutting out the Reds, 10-0, in the season finale. Edwards’ solace was another sturdy season with the bat (7-55, and a career-best .281) and his stalwart play behind the plate.
After another All-Star season in 1965 (a career-high 17 round-trippers to go along with 51 RBIs and a .267 batting average), Edwards’ career took an unexpected downward path resulting from an injury. “I made a real bad mistake in 1966,” began Edwards. “We were playing our last game in spring training, and dammit if I don’t fracture my finger on a foul tip. I should have gotten it fixed, but I wanted to play. So, I convinced them to put a splint shaped like a baseball on it. My finger kept popping out of its joint.” In a self-admitted “terrible year,” Edwards batted .191 and made just 84 starts.
Edwards had high praise for Reds speedballer Jim Maloney, who was a threat to toss a no-hitter any time he took the mound. He was behind the plate when Maloney tossed 10 no-hit innings and struck out 18 against the New York Mets in Cincinnati on June 14, 1965, only to yield a leadoff home run in the 11th and lose, 1-0. More than a half-century later, Edwards was still steaming about that game. He led off the 10th with a single, then was lifted for pinch-runner Chico Ruiz. “You don’t change catchers in a no-hitter,” said Edwards of skipper Dick Sisler’s decision. It was déjà vu for the batterymates just over two months later, on August 19 against the Cubs in the Windy City. “It was unbelievable,” recalled Edwards about Maloney’s 10-inning no-hitter, in which he emerged victorious on Leo Cardenas’s home run. “He walked 10 batters and every time I looked up it seemed like there was a man in scoring position. He was so wild, I had to do everything just to block the ball. He threw 187 pitches. He was worn out after the game, and I was right there with him.”10
“I was mentally not the same,” declared Edwards about his 1967 season. “I didn’t play all the time like I had in ’65. Of course, Johnny was coming up.” He was once again platooned with Don Pavletich, and made only 57 starts before 19-year-old Johnny Bench took over as full-time backstop on August 29.
“There were some excellent baserunners when I was a catcher,” recalled Edwards. “[Maury] Wills, [Lou] Brock, and others. A lot of catchers used to pitch out with those guys on base, but I didn’t. I asked for a fastball on the outside, and didn’t want to take the ball out of the pitcher’s hands by giving up a pitch. So maybe they stole bases on me. But, boy, when they came to the plate, they better avoid me. I could block the plate with the best of them.” Six times Edwards finished in the top three of total baserunners thrown out and three times in the top five for highest percentage of basestealers caught.
Edwards was in a rut in Cincinnati and knew he needed a new team to resurrect his career. His trade to the St. Louis Cardinals for catcher Pat Corrales and utilityman Jimy Williams on February 8, 1968, was not surprising, though Edwards regretted leaving Cincinnati. “I really enjoyed playing in Crosley Field,” he said. “I liked it because the fans were right down on the field. There was a fence, maybe three feet high, between the field and the box seats. We’d warm up before the game right next to the fans.”
Edwards was initially upset about landing on the Cardinals, whose All-Star backstop, Tim McCarver, was one of the most durable in baseball. “It turned out OK because [manager Red] Schoendienst wanted to keep his catchers strong and I was a good thrower.” The now 30-year-old Edwards made 52 starts and batted a respectable .239 for the pennant winners in the “Year of the Pitcher,” when major-league teams cumulatively hit a paltry. 237. He caught Ray Washburn’s no-hitter on September 18 in San Francisco, one day after the Giants’ Gaylord Perry did the same to the Cardinals. [Coincidentally, the same situation happened the next season when Edwards was with the Astros. One day after former Reds teammate Jim Maloney tossed a no-hitter, Edwards was behind the plate when Don Wilson returned the favor on May 1 at Crosley Field.] Said Edwards about Bob Gibson, who won the Cy Young award with a 22-9 slate and 1.12 ERA, “[We] used to argue quite a bit. He loved his fastball, but he had a good slider too. When he was in a tough situation and you knew everyone was looking for a fastball, I’d call for a slider and he’d shake me off. I’d call for it again. Then he’d call me to the mound. He was a stubborn son of a gun, but we worked well together.”
“I was very disappointed in the World Series,” said Edwards, who struck out as a pinch-hitter in Game Six in his only appearance in the Redbirds’ upset by the Detroit Tigers in seven games. “I feel if I had caught Bob [Gibson] in the World Series, the result would have been different.” During the regular season Edwards had caught 10 of Gibson’s starts during which the hard thrower posted a 0.89 ERA. “I found out later the reason [I didn’t play]. After we lost the last game, Schoendienst called me in and told me that I had been traded before the Series.”11 The next day, October 11, the Cardinals announced that Edwards had been shipped to the Houston Astros for catcher Dave Adlesh and pitcher Dave Giusti.
“I went from first place to last place in one minute,” joked Edwards about his trade to the Astros, who finished 10th in a 10-team league in 1968, but it was the catcher who had the last laugh. To say that he resurrected his career is an understatement. Over the next three seasons, Edwards staked his claim as the NL’s best defensive backstop not named Bench. In fact, Edwards led the league in fielding percentage in each of the next three campaigns (1969-1971), and co-led the circuit in most games as catcher in his first two years in Houston, while batting in the .220-.230 range.
“The pitching staff had great potential,” declared Edwards about the 1969 Astros team, which finished fifth in the NL West in the first year of divisional play but also posted the first nonlosing season in franchise history. “We had [Larry] Dierker and [Don] Wilson, [Denny] Lemaster and [Tom] Griffin. They were all hard throwers, and helped me set a record for putouts (1,135).” Remarkably, Edwards still held the major-league record as of 2017.
Notwithstanding his fielding success, Edwards claimed it was difficult adjusting to the Astrodome, the world’s first indoor stadium, which opened in 1965. “I didn’t like the Astrodome very well or playing on the hard Astroturf,” he said honestly. “Popups behind the plate were hard to see [because of the painted ceiling]. I always had someone from the dugout pointing out where the ball was.” He acknowledged that the climate-controlled 68-degree Astrodome made the experience more pleasurable for the spectators in hot and humid Houston; however, he explained that the cooler temperatures made his accumulated aches from years of crouching that much more pronounced.
Edwards’ reputation as one of the slowest players of his era is perhaps not as warranted as his 15 stolen bases suggest, and he had a humorous anecdote on the subject. On August 7, 1970, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, the lumbering 33-year-old on creaky knees legged out two triples, scored twice, and knocked in three runs from his customary eighth spot in the lineup. “At that time, they were filming a movie with Peter Lawford (Step Out of Line, also starring Peter Falk and Vic Morrow),” said Edwards with a laugh. “I’m in the movie hitting two triples. Once you got me going I was pretty fast.” He had a point: He hit 32 triples in his career, including a career-best six in 1969.
Beginning his 14th and final season in 1974, Edwards “knew [retirement] was getting close. I was not a guy who wanted to sit on the bench and not play at all. It was getting to the point that the young kids were taking over. Getting up and down 20,000 times a year slows you down a little.” After making just 27 starts all season, he hung up his spikes for the last time. He ranked 20th all-time with 1,392 games caught, and finished with a .242 batting average with 81 home runs and 524 runs batted in. Along the way, he suffered enough injured fingers, bruised shoulders, and sore ankles, knees, hips, and back to last a lifetime – and it did. He had success against Glen Hobbie (12-for-27, .444 batting average), Bob Shaw (16-for-37, .432), and Lew Burdette (12-for-34, .353); and struggled against Steve Renko (3-for-36, .083), Claude Osteen (3-for-29, .103), and Don Cardwell (6-for-44, .136).
“When I played, we didn’t have all the fancy stats you have today,” replied Edwards when asked about the difference for catchers from his days and the current sabermetric-led era of 2017. Nonetheless, Edwards was always prepared and explained his routine. “The pitcher for the following day would chart where the batter would hit the ball. The pitcher from the day before charted balls and strikes and location. That info was given to me so I could see the trends of the hitter. It was my job to go over everything, where to position players in the field. The day of the game, I’d go over all the hitters with the starting pitcher.”
Edwards was especially well prepared to transition to life away from baseball. True to his promise to his parents, he had completed his engineering degree (with a specialization in metallurgy) by attending Ohio State University in fall and winter quarters, and graduated in 1963. During the offseasons he had worked as a research engineer for General Electric Nuclear Materials and Propulsion Laboratory in Cincinnati. Upon his trade to the Astros, he relocated to Houston with his wife, Barbara, whom he had married in 1959, and their two children, David and Lori. Beginning in 1970, he worked for Cameron Ironworks in Houston, Texas, gradually advancing to operations manager. Beginning in 1992 he was vice president for C.T.C. International in Houston and was promoted to plant manager when Baker-Hughes acquired C.T.C. in 1995. He retired at the age of 64, in 2002.
As of 2017, John and Barbara Edwards still resided in the greater Houston area.
Last revised: September 25, 2017
This biography was reviewed by Len Levin and fact-checked by Stephen Glotfelty.
The author expresses his gratitude to Johnny Edwards, who was interviewed on March 7, 2017. Edwards subsequently read this biography to ensure its accuracy.
In addition to the sources cited in the Notes, the author also accessed Retrosheet.org, Baseball-Reference.com, the SABR Minor Leagues Database, accessed online at Baseball-Reference.com, SABR.org, and The Sporting News archive via Paper of Record.
1 Author’s interview with Johnny Edwards on March 7, 2017. All subsequent quotations from Edwards are from this interview.
2 Earl Lawson,” Edwards Baby-Faced Toughie,” The Sporting News, May 11, 1963: 3.
3 Lou Smith, “Sport Sparks,” Cincinnati Enquirer, July 11, 1961: 30.
4 Lou Smith, “Reds Like 1960 Pirates – New Hero Each Victory,” Cincinnati Enquirer, July 16, 1961: 45.
5 “Brosnan Is Unsung Hero,” Cincinnati Enquirer, September 10, 1961: 1E.
6 Bob Broeg, “Sizing Up the Series: Duds and Dandies. What’s Your Pick?” The Sporting News, October 18, 1961: 21.
7 Lou Smith, “Edwards Is Wise Choice,” Cincinnati Enquirer, January 6, 1963: 45.
10 A video of the 10th and final inning of Maloney’s no-hitter is available on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=SoE6-JbGRDc&t=753s.
11 Rumors had swirled throughout the World Series that Edwards and utility outfielder Bobby Tolan would be traded. See Associated Press, “Cards Trade Them After Series Ends,” Quad City (Davenport, Iowa) Times, October 11, 1968: 19.


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HUNTINGTON — With current At-Large Huntington City Councilwomen Carol Polan and Rebecca Howe not up for re-election, seven Democratic and two Republican candidates are seeking four spots in the general election this November without an incumbent in the race.
Steven A. Buyers, Jason Farley, DuRon Jackson, Bob Bailey, Omar Ahmad, John P. Kinder and Bill Rosenberger will compete in Tuesday’s primary race representing the Democratic party.
David Harrington and Joshua Garnes with the Republican party will both presumably advance in the race.
Issues for the Democratic candidates
Several Democratic candidates cited issues related to the city of Huntington’s infrastructure, economy, recovery programs and communal safety as key components of their campaign.
Buyers said he and his family have lived in the Highlawn neighborhood for over nine years and he’s running to help support programs that are working well in the city, in addition to bringing fresh ideas to the table.
“This is the first time I’m running for any public position, and I’m doing it because I love the city of Huntington,” Buyers said. “I am for anything that supports improving infrastructure, such as the flooding on the roads, some of the old bridges, street lights, things that would make it a more aesthetically pleasing city, as well as safe.”
Buyers also said he is in favor of recovery programs and helping those with substance use disorder get back out into society.
“I’m not a big ‘punish, punish, punish, send people to jail,’ person,” he said. “I would rather see someone go through treatment and get sober to become a law-abiding tax-paying citizen versus just lock them up.”
In an election profile submitted previously to The Herald-Dispatch, Ahmad also said the opioid crisis continues to put a strain on the community and would be an issue he would like to address.
“The most important problems currently facing Huntington are population decrease and opioid abuse,” Ahmad said in the submitted profile. “We should continue to support local treatment initiatives for our residents who are struggling with addiction. We should also develop community-specific prevention programs that address the social issues that typically lead to substance abuse.”
Ahmad said he supports the harm reduction program in the county, but would also like to begin formulating prevention plans.
In addition, Ahmad said improving Huntington’s job market would assist in tackling its decreasing population.
Jackson, who was born and raised in Huntington, also cited growing the community’s economy as a first step in addressing other troubling issues.
“One of the main things for me is the local economy. Once you can grow the local economy, it’s going to take care of a lot of issues that we have,” Jackson said. “With a healthy local economy, you start giving your citizens other avenues besides things not in their best interest — once you start seeing people become a little more prosperous, some of that negativity, I believe, will go away.”
Jackson said he was inspired to run for City Council after years working with the YMCA.
“I realized one of the reasons I want to run is a lot of times through the day you have conversations with people, you talk about the issues in our city and ways to improve, and a lot of times at the end of the conversation, that’s just it, you go your separate ways,” he said. “I decided to throw my hat in the ring and put myself in the position to help out my community and city.”
Similarly, Farley said if elected to council he would work to become a voice for the people of the community.
“I think a lot needs to change within the city,” Farley said. “I want the citizens to be heard and I’m trying to get their voices out there, even if it’s against the people that I’m working with.”
Farley said as a property owner in the city, he’s hit several roadblocks, which inspired him to run for the position.
“I’ve made something of myself, and a lot of the things against me were usually the people on the council, the mayor, that’s where I’ve always hit road blocks,” he said. “I bought a house that was condemned, but once I took possession of it, I ended up losing it, they didn’t honor their agreement.”
Farley said he hopes to see Huntington become a city where people are excited to live and work in.
Rosenberger previously said in an election profile submitted to The Herald-Dispatch that he would like to implement plans to help the city become more clean.
“Our downtown is thriving and some neighborhoods are flourishing. But we’re a dirty city,” Rosenberger said in the profile. “Litter is a problem that cannot be addressed by neighborhood groups having spring cleanups. We need a year-round approach, which can be achieved with the addition of a beautification coordinator who can utilize a vast number of people who need community service hours.”
Rosenberger also said he would like to continue on the track the city is on in addressing the drug problem as well as helping recruit more candidates for Huntington’s police and fire departments.
Similarly, Bailey, who served as Cabell County Sheriff for eight years in addition to spending eight years on Huntington City Council, said he would like to see an increase in police officers and fire fighters.
“I think we need to bring our police up to par,” Bailey said. “I would like to help the fire department, too, I think the fire department needs new equipment, they’re first responders, they are good people.”
Bailey also said he has plans to combat the ongoing substance abuse issue in the city, primarily through education and outreach.
“I’m big on education, we need to teach these kids about the dangers of deadly drugs, and I think if we can start them out in the first or second grade, I truly believe it could help,” Bailey said. “I’d also like to help form a task force to go into schools — I gave over 300 drug seminars as sheriff.”
Bailey said while rehabilitation facilities are a step in the right direction, keeping people away from drugs in the first place should also be a priority.
Bailey is also the president of the Cabell County Community Services Organization and said if elected he would bring ideas to the table to help the seniors of Huntington, specifically the West End.
“I will not take any money from the city of Huntington from serving on council,” Bailey said. “My money will go to CSO to feed the seniors.”
Candidate John P. Kinder was not able to be reached and does not have an election profile on file.
Issues for the Republican candidates
The two Republican candidates running for the At-Large City Council seat are focused on safety and infrastructure, both as avenues to bring prosperity to the city of Huntington.
Harrington, who served for eight years in former Huntington Mayor Jean Dean’s administration and worked in small business development and with unsafe buildings, said he would like to see the city continue aggressively demolishing dilapidated structures.
“I’m impressed with what the city has done in recent years with demolition, I’m also impressed with this new vacant registry of homes,” he said. “But I think it needs to go one step further.”
Harrington said he would like to see property maintenance codes more heavily enforced in the city.
“Properties don’t need to get to that state of disrepair,” he said. “The thing that is unique is because of our brick homes, those homes have solid foundation and are solid structures, and sometimes they just need to be redone in terms of infrastructure, but they are still viable structures. Unfortunately, people leave them empty too long and elements take their toll eventually.”
Harrington also said he believes the abandoned structures attract unwanted attention to areas and could be the cause of some crime.
“They deteriorate and they also become an unattractive nuisance, and abandoned homes attract vagrants,” he said. “So if we can eliminate that, we can help deal more effectively with our homeless population.”
Garnes, who has lived in Huntington for 15 years, has owned businesses and rental properties in the city and said he has seen similar issues with break-ins to empty, and occupied, residences.
“I’ve seen a lot of problems in the past few years, probably in the past five I’ve seen the town go downhill,” he said. “Personally, I own some business and real estate, I rent houses, and I’ve had every house I own broken into, I’ve even had my personal house broken into — I’ve had to call the police many times over vagrants.”
Garnes said he believes the crime rates need to be addressed, as well, and would make it a priority to increase police staffing.
“I think a lot of people kind of gave up on the police, and that’s why the crime numbers look like they’ve gone down,” he said. “But I don’t see how it’s possible, because it’s every day almost.”
As a small business owner, Garnes also said he would bring creativity to the council with ideas to add new jobs and projects like development at Harris Riverfront Park.
Two Democrat and two Republican candidates will be chosen by voters in the city of Huntington on Tuesday, who will then advance to the general City Council At-Large election in November.


Jabalpur, Feb 18 (UNI) The ashes of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introduced transcendental meditation in the West, were immersed in the Narmada here today with full state honours in the presence of hundreds of people.
The Maharishi was cremated at Allahabad. An urn containing ashes reached here last night and was placed at the Maharishi Vidya Mandir this morning where hundreds of people paid their respects.
They included Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Ishwardas Rohani, Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi, MP Rakesh Singh, MLA Sharad Jain, Mayor Susheela Singh, the Maharishi's kin and devotees from abroad.
The urn was taken as part of a procession to Gwarighat on the Narmada bank. It was later placed in a flower-decked boat.
UNI RG-AC AKJ RS2113


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The Western Jets, Majak Daw Multicultural Squad will again play a series of matches to complete the 2014 program. 50 players have been identified throughout the region from local football and matches conducted by the Western Jets in the second term school holidays. Matches will now be played between the Majak Daw Squad, the Laguntas Squad, Northern Knights and Dandenong Stingrays. There will be two rounds of matches. The first will be played between the Majak Daw Squad and the Laguntas Squad on Saturday, July 19th at Punt Rd Oval, commencing at 11:15am. The second round will be a round robin series of matches between all of the above mentioned sides. These games will take place on Sunday August 10th also at Rund Rd.
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Despite the video game industry kicking many popular trends and features from the older generation, there are still a few features prevalent today. One of them is the ability to play a multiplayer game in split screen co-op, which essentially means playing with two people on a single system.
One of the most popular games that players look to play split screen in is Call of Duty. The franchise’s newest title, Modern Warfare 2, allows players to play in Split Screen like it has for so many years. However, there are a few hitches that could prevent players from actually pulling this off.
Nevertheless, we will fully explain how to activate the Split Screen mechanic in MW2 in this guide. We will also go over what could prevent players from using the mechanic as normal.
Playing Modern Warfare 2 in split screen
Unfortunately, split screen is only a feature for console players, so PC users are out of luck. If you are on a console, then you’ll simply need two controllers and one copy of Modern Warfare 2.
Boot up MW2 using your primary controller, go to the main lobby screen, and then connect the second controller to your console. This should trigger the new controller to pop up in the main lobby. Press A or X to activate the new controller, depending on what console you’re on. Then, the new controller should be active and you can head into a multiplayer match. Ideally, this should make turn your game into split screen, with the primary controller having one side of the screen and the second controller having the other side.
However, in MW2, there have been some problems with getting split screen to work. For some, the feature doesn’t work at all. The game won’t let players see both screens or even get into a match with both controllers connected. Other times, the game simply won’t recognize the other controller. Players are hoping that a patch from Infinity Ward comes through to solve the strange functionality with split screen in Modern Warfare 2.
For now, though, players can simply try to enable the feature and see if it works for them.

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The future of mobile payments in government
- By Nolan Jones
- Mar 09, 2015
The addition of near-field communication (NFC) chips to Apple’s iPhones and Watches opened the doors for broad-based deployment of the technology, which enables smartphones to exchange data with retailers’ contactless readers, moving us closer to a world in which credit cards are resident on our mobile phones, rather than in our wallets.
And with mobile phone subscriptions worldwide approximately equaling the number of people on the planet – about 7 billion – it’s not much of a stretch to forecast that mobile phones will become the world’s primary financial transaction platform – even for government payments – in the not-too-distant future.
For government agencies, mobile payment will be a significant development on several fronts, in part because it will increase convenience and efficiency for both citizens and the agencies themselves.
Mobile payment readers someday will be commonplace in government offices, such as department of motor vehicle locations, where people will use their mobile devices to pay for license renewals.
They are also likely to become an important part of the government identity authentication backbone. A smartphone enabled with NFC could allow employees to use their own phones as their access credential to get into a building or to log into networks.
They will create even greater efficiencies in the field. An NFC credit card reader attached to a mobile device, for example, would allow a government inspector to accept and issue a permit payment on the spot, even if the inspection takes place in a remote location that doesn’t have land-line access.
Potential public sector uses extend well beyond the realm of financial and identity transactions, however. The Drive Safely app, part of a public safety app development challenge last year, uses NFC to determine if a smartphone user is in the driver’s seat of a vehicle entering an intersection. If so, the app sends an auto reply message to incoming calls and texts while the vehicle is moving.
Some states are exploring mobile pay, as well. Idaho, for example, already is using equipment that enables true remote payment processing through a store-and-forward capability, even when wireless access is unavailable.
Apple already has announced plans to bring its mobile pay system to certain government-owned parks and government-issued credit cards before year-end.
An endorsement by the federal government and increasing uses of the technology by state and local governments may provide the push necessary for the public to adopt mobile as a standard method of making payments. This, in turn, will open doors to additional government agencies adopting NFC-based mobile payments as part of their processes.
Constituents will expect mobile pay
Offering mobile payments as an option will increasingly become a sign of good customer service. Fewer and fewer constituents use paper checks to transact business with government, and mobile phones will diminish use of physical credit cards. Because that’s where the market is going, government needs to adapt to the use of electronic devices as currency.
Mobile payments also have potential to provide greater security for users’ information than traditional credit cards do because they use the two-step chip-and-PIN system Europe has used for decades.
When the user touches or waves a mobile phone by a reader, the NFC chip generates a one-time authorization code. The user then enters a PIN number or approves the transaction with a fingerprint, a more secure approach than using the information on a credit card’s magnetic stripe.
In the consumer marketplace, a mobile payments war is underway. Merchant Customer Exchange, a company developed by a consortium of Best Buy, Target, Walmart and other large U.S. retailers, launched a merchant-owned mobile payment system in 2012. Called CurrentC, it uses a QR code scanning system rather than NFC technology, and its merchant members are forbidden from accepting ApplePay. Apple, likewise, prevents other payment systems from accessing its phones’ NFC chips.
While government undoubtedly will have to offer mobile pay, it may be challenged to support all of the emerging – and yet-to-emerge – platforms. Because these systems leverage the same bank and credit card infrastructure that exists today, government likely will decide to accept a subset of the available platforms, just as it now might accept a Visa, but not a Kohl’s card.
It will be important for government agencies to choose the platforms they will support based not only on which technologies are building momentum toward making physical wallets obsolete, but also on those that provide the greatest security.
Even though the major players are reputable companies, government has specialized requirements for protecting citizen and business data. Agencies therefore must understand how mobile pay companies are collecting, handling, storing and using data they gather.
Citizens who use government services might be rightly concerned, for example, if Apple collects individual data beyond what a traditional credit card company would collect. Government must evaluate the process from beginning to end to make sure it meets strict standards and keeps private information private.
Agencies also must determine how each mobile pay system will integrate with its current infrastructure. If an agency’s back-end system isn’t equipped to accommodate mobile pay, the agency needs to determine what additional costs and workload it will incur before it commits to offering the service.
We can’t completely foresee how mobile pay will evolve, but it eventually will have an impact on every government agency. Because it will change the way we all do business, agencies need to put away assumptions, learn all they can and prepare to take advantage of its benefits.
Nolan Jones is director of e-government innovation at NIC.


25 July 2013
Source: HRO.org (info)
The Presidential Human Rights Council plans to present draft amendments on the law governing non-profit organizations to Vladimir Putin. The head of the Council’s commission on the development of the non-profit sector, Elena Topoleva-Soldunova, told Kommersant the draft amendments will be given to Putin during his meeting with the Human Rights Council which is planned for September.
Members of the Council have prepared a number of variants of amendments since the the wave of inspections of NGOs began last April. In particular, the Council calls for the term ‘foreign agent’ to be completely removed from the legislation, or that a definition near to that in the Civil Code be used, Rosbalt reports.
According to one of the variants, NGOs acting as ‘foreign agents’ would be considered to be organizations which use money from a foreign state, its organs or a foreign principal to conduct matters in the name of this state or principal, receiving payment for their work as an agent.
According to another variant, a 'foreign agent' would be an organization which, at the expense of a foreign state or foreign principal, pursues political purposes and receives payment for this.
In addition, the Human Rights Council wants to concretize the notion of ‘political activity’ as participation by NGO representatives in elections, or in financing a political party.
If the head of state does not like these variants, the Human Rights Council is ready to introduce amendments to the law ‘on public associations’ which contains a definition of a ‘public association pursuing political purposes.’ ‘You can ban organizations of that kind from receiving foreign funding,’ Topoleva-Soldunova remarked.
According to the Nils Muižnieks, human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, the legislation regulating the activity of NGOs in Russia needs to be reviewed in order to create clear, consistent and uniform guidelines that correspond with international standards.
HRO.org in English >


text: Since at least the early twentieth century, U.S. housing polices have consistently promoted homeownership. While historically homeownership has been a significant source of wealth for many non-Hispanic Whites, this has not been the case for most Blacks, due in large part to differences in homeownership rates between the groups. Scholars have attempted to explain the differences in non-Hispanic White versus Black homeownership rates by analyzing structural factors as well as the recent negative impact of the Great Recession on Black homeownership and wealth. One particular focus to explain the lower Black homeownership rates has been the intergenerational drivers leading to differences in wealth between non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks. Non-Hispanic Whites often have more frequent and earlier access to homeownership than Blacks. This chapter analyzes how homeownership is facilitated through financial transfers from parents to children using data from the National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC) survey. The chapter provides evidence on the relationship between parental race and the prevalence of indirect and direct wealth and wealth transfers that enable homeownership. We also investigate non-Hispanic White versus Black differences for five metropolitan areas.

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Haringey Council: Say "No!" to the plan the rip down Rowan's Ten Pin Bowling in Finsbury Park
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Six Reasons Why Rowans Is So Important To Finsbury Park
1. Rowans is quite simply one of the best things about the area. Rowans offers a fun, diverse activity that brings the community together, massively enhancing the vibrancy and vitality of the area. It isn't a bland chain, it isn't an identikit. Rowans is far more than that. It is an independent and full of character.
2. Rowans attracts an extremely wide range of people from all social & ethnic backgrounds. It is rare to find somewhere where there is a genuine “mixing” of people from all walks of life. This will never be replaced. This can’t be emphasised enough. The intersection of so many people from so many backgrounds is something very rare. Don’t destroy it.
3. Rowans provides one of the few evening activities that do not require drinking. Evening activities that do not involve alcohol is something that is extremely useful, and again something that is all too rare.
4. Bowling is a genuinely mixed sex activity. This is in contrast to say, the provision of skate boarding facilities, or the pubs in the area which tends to attract a predominately male user base. Activities that appeal to both sexes even in winter are few and far between.
5. Families and children have been going bowling there for years, with countless birthday parties and celebrations including weddings taking place there. This type of amenity is what makes the area attractive and fun.
6. Youth groups, community groups and disability groups all use Rowans as activity where those people given a great sense of belonging to community and take part in a great sport. Where will these people go if Rowans is pulled down?
Rowans is an institution that is integral to the character of Finsbury Park. Don’t destroy it.
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Delilah S. Dawson’s The Perfect Weapon is an e-novella starring blink-and-you’ll-miss-her Bazine Netal from The Force Awakens. You’ll remember Bazine as the Harley Quinn-esque bounty hunter who made the call to the First Order on seeing Han Solo & co arriving at Maz Kanata’s bar. And while her screen time was limited, it was enough to make this a character fans wanted to see more of.
The Perfect Weapon fills in the blanks with this enigmatic character, sending her on a mission requiring her to revisit the ghosts of her past. In many ways, Bazine mirrors those Harley Quinn tropes, a deadly assassin with more empathy than you’d expect, but Dawson also does a great job creating a fully-rounded character in her own right as opposed to just “the best bits” from other franchises. The story is fun, a modern noir combining the smoky jazz feel of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and the mischief of Christa Faust’s Angel Dare series for Hard Case Crime, the seedy outer rim our playground for the most part. And the writing is excellent – sharp, witty and engaging making for a super-fast and rewarding read.
The Perfect Weapon succeeds brilliantly in developing the character of Bazine Netal, hopefully in preparation for her appearance in future movies. I could see her becoming the new Boba Fett of the franchise, playing more of a pivotal role as the story of Rey & co progresses. Either way, if this is anything to go by, further Bazine novels/ novellas would be very welcome.
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So, this is Christmas.
And I’ve got a new book out, co-written with none other than David Moody (AUTUMN, HATER).
Grab it right here at the special festive price of 99p/ 99c.
HO HO HO!
A longtime favourite of the Star Wars universe, Ahsoka Tano first appeared in the animation, Clone Wars, before joining the cast of Rebels in Season 2. This book is set between those two series: although once a Jedi, and Padawan of one Anakin Skywalker no less, when we meet Ahsoka here, she is neither. She is but a fugitive, operating on her own, trying to stay one step ahead of the Empire following the lethal Order 66.
I’ve never read any Jack Kerouac but if I did, I imagine it might be a bit like Sion Smith’s CITIES OF THE DEAD. Beat Poetry, to me, sounds like a sort of noirish slam on regular poetry and that’s kind of what’s going on in this book. It’s like hard-boiled travel writing. Like the author, Sion Smith, has captured the true feelings of the various cities he visits – their hopes and fears and dirty secrets – and he’s telling us about it in a language we can all understand.
It’s like that bloke, Jonathan Pie, who does the satire news reader thing, you know the one. He’s on Youtube and he’ll deliver the news like it’s usually delivered and then it cuts to his ‘off camera’ rant where he tells you what he really thinks. CITIES is like that, in a way: the bits of the travel guide that Smith put together after hours in his dimly lit hotel room – banged out on an old typewriter, cigarette dangling from his lips.
It’s primarily historical figures Smith’s interested in with the cities he visits – dead people – but always from a completely fresh angle, again digging deeper than what’s in your average guide. And then there’s the living characters he meets along the way – damaged people who seem, at least to me, somewhat dead themselves, ghostly and ethereal in their interactions.
CITIES OF THE DEAD is the elegant, accessible and emotionally engaging story of a man on a different type of journey. And it’s one which the reader can feel part of, too. So, grab your hat and climb on board – it’s going to be a rocky ride but, trust me, well worth it in the end.
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I’ve always been tempted by the Star Wars tie-in novels or Extended Universe, as it is known by fans. I even dipped my toe into the water, trying one of the X-Wing novels but, to be honest, while there was nothing at all wrong with the writing, I felt the story required you to have at least some knowledge of the many, many books and comics and games and whatever else that had gone before it. So while Disney’s decision to reboot the EU, rendering its back catalogue as ‘legends’ and releasing its own slew of canonical novels, was understandably met with derision by many fans, it was an opportunity for people like me to reconnect. And reconnect I have.


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It's not often you go to a hip-hop show these days and not a single swear word comes through the speakers.
But Jurassic 5 aren't your typical rap group. The Californian six-piece revel in throwback beats, communal rhyme schemes and the kind of summery vibe beloved of back-in-the-day groups like De La Soul, Jungle Brothers and A Tribe Called Quest.
Their sold out show at Auckland's Powerstation last night - their first in New Zealand since 2006, following their 2007 break-up and reunion at last year's Coachella festival - was a 90-minute trip through their very own hip-hop history.
Their mission statement came as the group's four MCs - Akil, Zaakir, Marc 7 and Chali 2na - rapped together perfectly in unison over the crackling piano lope of early highlight Concrete Schoolyard: "Let's take it back to the concrete streets, original beats with real live MCs."
Since reforming last year, Jurassic 5's show and setlist has become so perfectly paced, seamlessly mixing in medleys of songs from all four of their albums, it's hard to single out highlights.
But there were many: the still-brilliant all-in MC rap attack that opens Quality Control, Freedom's fist-in-the-air chorus, the whistle-along sample of early single Jayou, the full throttle throb of A Day at the Races, and the jazz-infused funk of Jurass Finish First and High Fidelity.
Best of all was the mid-set turntable display between their two DJs, as Nu-Mark and Cut Chemist used a variety of sample pads and vinyl gadgets to cut, scratch and battle each other. At one point, they recreated Baauer's Harlem Shake and Dead Prez' Hip-Hop from scratch. At another, Cut Chemist strapped on a turntable guitar while Nu-Mark donned a sample-pad vest made out of vinyl. Even that giant turntable in the middle of the stage got a work out.
It was, without question, the happiest hip-hop show the Powerstation has seen. There were no swear words, no drug references and not a single moment that could be labelled as gangster rap. Even a small scuffle in the front rows was dealt with smiles as the instigator was forced to sit out the show on a chair at the back of the stage.
Perhaps Jurassic 5 summed up the vibe best during the show's celebratory final song What's Golden. The chorus? All together now: "We're holding onto what's golden."
* Chali 2na is back in April for two solo show with the House of Vibe: April 23, The Studio, Auckland; April 24, Bar Bodega, Wellington.
Where: Powerstation, Auckland
When: Wednesday, March 26
* What did you think of the show? Post your comments below.


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Drake Bell Files For Bankruptcy
Bell, 27, claims that he is $2.166 million in debt and is worth $1.575 million in real estate and an additional $10,500 in personal property, according to court filings obtained by E! News. Of the more than $2 million that Bell owes, $46,000 is to the IRS.
In 2012, Bell claims he made $408,000 and dramatically less – $14,099 – in 2013. He estimates that he now makes roughly $2,820 per month, however, his expenses apparently total more than $18,000 monthly, reported TMZ.
Bell last made headlines back in January when he dissed Justin Bieber, calling him “talentless” and “artless” on Twitter and calling for people to sign the petition to deport the singer.
When is someone going to tell this idiot he can't draw.His art is almost as bad as his music. Talentless artless pic.twitter.com/N3xiPFfQNz
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Oct 01, 2014 · Locate the OpenWRT image for your router (there’s one you need for flashing over a factory image and another one you use for upgrades – choose the factory image if your flashing OpenWRT for the first time) Download the image; Load the image into your router via the management web interface that your router has.
Home Infrastructure Part 1: Espressobin v7. I've been running DD-WRT on my router / WAP, a Linksys 1900ACS v2 for a few years. It's a fine router, but I'd been seeing some stability issues with the temperature sensor after setting up HomeAssistant's DD-WRT integration for detecting which devices are currently active on the home network. The GL-MT300N-V2 OpenWrt router is working with Proton VPN by useing other than 10.8.0.1 DNS. If you configure 220.127.116.11. as only one DNS its working too. Thats looks like, the Proton DNS 10.8.0.1 still not working. OpenWrt, DD-WRT and LEDE are all Linux-based, custom firmware for your router. They give you a whole lot more features than your average stock router firmware, and they are more often than not better maintained than the firmware provided by the router vendor. From what I can see, OpenWrt, DD-WRT, and LEDE have enough in common that if one of them works well on a router, it’s a fair chance it I am using a Linkys WRT54G v3 router with OpenWRT v10.03.1. My end goal is to use Traffic Control (tc) and Network Emulator (netem) on the router, which are in the ip package (this is the iproute2 package in most linux distributions). However, my computer is connected to a work network, and the router is connected to my computer via an ethernet Nov 07, 2014 · Ich musste lediglich meinen im Router eingestellten DNS Dienst auch nochmal im Windows LAN Adapter eintragen, dann lief's wie gewohnt. Die Ganzen Probleme mit den Dateien aus der /etc/init.d kamen bei mir nicht zum tragen, wegen der kompletten Neuinstallation. Meine letzte Baustelle die Firewall-Regel zum umschiffen des VPN für einzelne Geräte. Jun 11, 2017 · Ok, so I found an old BT Home Hub router in the cupboard a few days ago, and would like to make it useful by installing openwrt on it so it can potentially replace our current router, which suffers very badly from bufferbloat.
OpenWrt, DD-WRT and LEDE are all Linux-based, custom firmware for your router. They give you a whole lot more features than your average stock router firmware, and they are more often than not better maintained than the firmware provided by the router vendor. From what I can see, OpenWrt, DD-WRT, and LEDE have enough in common that if one of them works well on a router, it’s a fair chance it
V2Ray for OpenWrt. Contribute to kuoruan/openwrt-v2ray development by creating an account on GitHub. Nachdem ich dann wieder das DSL-Modem mit dem TP-Link TL-WDR3500-Router (mit OpenWRT als Firmware) verkabelt hatte, stellte ich plötzlich erstaunt Folgendes fest: Die Ping-Round-Trip-Zeiten gingen von 31-32 ms (unter Windows 7 als PPPoE-Client) deutlich herunter auf 21 ms (mit OpenWRT Barrier Breaker r39582 als PPPoE-Client). Das ist insofern Apr 03, 2017 · The device now resets to OpenWrt default configuration. During this process all LEDs may blink; Wait till the lock LED flashes constantly again; Now your device is reset to OpenWrt defaults and we can start to configure our LAN/WLAN bridge. 3. First steps. Connect your desktop/laptop via network cable to the router using port 1
LibreCMC – An FSF-endorsed derivation of OpenWRT with the proprietary blobs removed; Roofnet – A now defunct experimental 802.11 based mesh network project developed at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The technology developed by the Roofnet project formed the basis for the company Meraki, now owned by Cisco.
OpenWrt is a community project and works a lot of platforms, these are just a few ones that are “easy” to get working. There are a lot of other products/boards that OpenWrt runs on so be sure to check out the Table of Hardware for more supported hardware. This page isn't obviously for the hardcore user, if you were you wouldn't be here.


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interpreting city charterSummary of this case from Pexsa v. Disabled Am. Veterans of Minn. Found.
October 31, 1941.
Municipal corporation — sinking fund certificates — right of owners to income or gain from securities.
The owners of sinking fund fractional ownership certificates issued by sinking fund committee of city of St. Paul are entitled, in virtue of §§ 219-223 of city charter, to interest on certificates at rate fixed by said committee, but not to gain or income from securities held by committee against such certificates.
Action in the district court for Ramsey county by Esther Weiss as guardian of the estate of Marvin Weiss, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, as holders of sinking fund fractional ownership certificates issued by defendant Sinking Fund Committee of the city of St. Paul, to recover the amount representing gain or income from the securities held by the committee against such certificates. From a judgment, Carlton F. McNally, Judge, entered pursuant to an order granting defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings, plaintiff appealed. Affirmed.
Allen L. Ginsburg and Milton Ginsburg, for appellant.
Harry W. Oehler, Corporation Counsel, and H.J. Flynn, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for respondents.
Plaintiff appeals from the judgment granted on motion for judgment on the pleadings. The material facts are stated therein at length.
On July 1, 1937, plaintiff purchased a sinking fund fractional ownership certificate of the city of St. Paul in the face amount of $2,400. Prior to the commencement of this action she resold to the city $1,100 face value of the certificate, retaining $1,300 thereof.
The certificate was issued by the sinking fund committee, which is composed of designated city officials, pursuant to the provisions of the city charter. Section 219 provides for the creation of the sinking fund to be used for the payment and retirement of bonded indebtedness of the city out of moneys derived from certain specified sources. Section 220 provides that the fund shall be under the management of the sinking fund committee. Section 221 provides that the sinking fund committee shall cause the money accumulated in the fund to be invested in specified securities, prescribing a preference among them. It also provides that all bonds purchased by the committee shall be stamped, "Property of the City of St. Paul transferable only on endorsement of the sinking fund committee." Section 222 reads as follows:
"The gain or income arising from any moneys or securities held for the sinking fund shall belong to the said fund and used for the same purpose as the moneys or securities from which said gain arises."
The issuance of fractional ownership certificates, including the one here involved, is authorized by § 223, as amended, which after first imposing the duty on the sinking fund committee, among others, to "make all purchases and sales for the Sinking Fund with a view to serving the best interests of the City," provides:
"Bonds of the City of St. Paul and interest-bearing certificates of the City of St. Paul, held by the Sinking Fund Committee may be sold in fractional parts in multiples of ten dollars. Such sales may be evidenced by certificates of ownership in such form as the Sinking Fund Committee may determine, and the Sinking Fund Committee may sell, repurchase and resell such fractional parts of bonds and interest-bearing certificates in such manner as it may deem to best serve the interests of the City. Bonds and interest-bearing certificates of indebtedness of the City of St. Paul, which may be sold in whole or in part in fractional parts, shall be kept separate from all other securities held by the Sinking Fund Committee; and a complete and detailed schedule of such securities shall be kept by the Commissioner of Finance and a duplicate filed with the Comptroller.
"The certificate of fractional ownership may bear a uniform rate of interest, to be determined by the Sinking Fund Committee, and the schedule above described shall show the proportion of ownership sold and the proportion owned by the Sinking Fund. All profits arising out of fractional purchases and sales shall be credited to a Special Fund, and all expenses incurred in such operations shall be charged to said Fund. All receipts and disbursements shall be reported daily to the Comptroller."
Each certificate recites that it is "a registered Participating Certificate representing the ownership of an undivided interest in a BOND OF THE CITY OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA and Other Interest-Bearing Securities"; that it is evidence that the purchaser "is the owner of an undivided interest in certain bonds and other interest-bearing securities" of the city in the face amount of the certificate; that the securities are held by the sinking fund committee "against this and similar certificates"; that the sinking fund committee will pay the owner, semiannually, interest at the rate of two per cent per annum, reserving the right to recall, discharge, and cancel the certificate and to change the rate of interest, both according to the conditions set out upon the back thereof; and that it will repurchase the certificate at par with accrued interest upon demand and surrender thereof by the owner.
Upon the back of each certificate are numerous "conditions." Those material here are:
"This Certificate represents the investment of the owner in certain bonds and other interest-bearing securities of the City of St. Paul, held for the owners in trust, by the Sinking Fund Committee of said City.
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"This certificate is purchased subject to the foregoing conditions and to such rules as may hereafter be made by the Sinking Fund Committee."
The sinking fund committee determined the rate of interest on plaintiff's certificate to be two per cent, which was paid to her semiannually.
During the period from 1916, when the amendment of § 223 authorizing the sale of fractional ownership certificates was adopted, to December 31, 1939, the gain or income earned by the sinking fund committee on the bonds and other securities held by it against outstanding fractional ownership certificates amounted to $1,183,065.23.
Plaintiff contends that the sinking fund committee held securities in an amount equal to the outstanding fractional ownership certificates in trust for the certificate owners and that the gain or income from such securities belongs to the certificate owners as the beneficiaries of the trust. Defendants deny that there is any trust and contend that the relationship of the parties is that of debtor and creditor.
The rights of the parties with respect to the gain or income from the securities are determined by the city charter without regard to the legal relationship arising from a purchase of a certificate. The charter provisions are explicit that all sinking fund operations shall be for the benefit of the city; that all gain or income therefrom shall belong to the sinking fund; and that the fractional ownership certificate owners shall be entitled only to the rate of interest fixed by the sinking fund committee. Section 223 provides that all profits arising out of the purchase and sales of fractional ownership certificates shall be credited to a special fund which shall be charged with the expenses incurred in such operations. The balance belongs to the sinking fund in virtue of the all inclusive provision of § 222, that all gain or income from sinking fund operations shall belong to that fund.
True, there is the "condition" on the back of each certificate that the sinking fund committee holds the securities belonging to the fund in trust for the owners of the certificates. Assumption for purposes of decision that the city charter authorized the sinking fund committee to make the condition as incident to its power of determining the form of the certificates does not compel a different conclusion. The condition contains no provision concerning the right of a certificate owner to the gain or income from the securities. Such a right must arise, if at all, by implication from application of the rule that a beneficiary is entitled to the income from the corpus. The implication, however, would be contrary to the explicit provision that the gain or income shall belong to the city. The implication goes further. It would give the certificate owner the right to the gain or income from the securities in addition to the stipulated rate of interest on his certificate. Such an implication is not permissible, since the city charter specifically defines the rights of the parties with respect to the matter by providing that the city shall have such gain or income and the certificate owner shall have the stipulated interest. Specific terms covering a given subject matter will prevail over general language which otherwise might be controlling. It is a well settled rule of construction that the expressed prevails over what might otherwise be implied just as does the definite over the indefinite, the particular over the general. Quimby v. Shearer, 56 Minn. 534, 58 N.W. 155; Cohen v. Gould, 177 Minn. 398, 225 N.W. 435. It is hardly necessary to add that ordinary rules of construction apply to city charters. State ex rel. Board of Education v. Erickson, 190 Minn. 216, 251 N.W. 519.
A certificate owner is entitled only to the stipulated interest and no more. The gain or income from the securities belongs to the sinking fund of the city.

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I stayed one night at this lovely Inn. There was a slight issue with my room (In error my room was supplied with a shared bathroom), however the owner was quick to rectify this situation and also upgraded me from a single bed to a double bed. The owners and staff were very friendly. My room and the dining area was very clean. I enjoyed a quite stay with a good night's sleep, as there was no entertainment at the downstairs pub that night. The price of the room was very acceptable and included breakfast (of my choice). I'd certainly recommend this Inn to anyone who is capable of walking up stairs as there is no elevator.

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Victims of domestic abuse do not have to suffer alone – that is the message from police at the launch of a national campaign.
Suffolk Police has backed the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Domestic Abuse week to raise the profile of support available to sufferers.
Detective Superintendent David Cutler, head of protecting vulnerable people, said: “Suffolk Police, working closely with its partners, is committed to supporting and protecting those who suffer domestic abuse.
“We do understand how very difficult it can be for someone to take that step in speaking about what they have endured and suffered.
“We know the things that go round someone’s mind when making the decision to seek help and we know it is often a very difficult thing to do.
“Being hurt, threatened, intimidated, called names, told who you can talk to, stopped from going out, harassed and isolated from your friends and family are all signs of domestic abuse.
“This is not acceptable behaviour and you do not have to put up with it.”
From October 1 to 31 December 2013, there were 2,102 recorded incidents of domestic abuse – an 11 per cent increase compared to the same quarter in 2012.
Of the crimes committed, 74.6 per cent were of a violent nature, with 38 per cent resulting in the victim suffering some form of injury.