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From the 1919 March First Movement, the 1960 April Revolution, the 1987 June Democracy Movement, to what is now known as the 2016 “Candlelight Revolution” which led the resignation of President Park, Seoul’s squares and streets served as the main stage for millions of South Koreans forming new alliances to demand political and social changes.
This talk revisits one of the first times where the streets of Seoul were engulfed by mass demonstrators demanding political and social reforms in 1898. Having begun with a public forum held in a newly opened park on the outskirts of the city (Independence Park), demonstrators forced their way into the heart of the capital by taking to the streets, squares, and other public places. Here, the demonstrators deemed it necessary to come together to take public spaces inside the city walls to make themselves visible and their voices heard. This talk highlights how conflicts over the rights of speech and assembly between the government and demonstrators resolved itself into contestations over public space in the city. Through this discussion, this talk thinks about the role of public spaces for political participation in modern Korean history.
About the speaker:
Sinwoo Lee is a historian of Modern Korea and East Asia whose research interests lie in the fields of urban environmental history, border and boundary studies, and memory studies. Lee is currently working on a book manuscript titled City Beyond the Walls: Urban Politics and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1864-1914, which explores the importance of the destruction of Seoul’s city walls—both as physical and symbolic boundaries—in the city’s transition to modernity from the late Chosŏn to the early colonial period. Lee received her Ph.D. in Korean History from UCLA, and teaches a wide range of courses on East Asia at the California State University, Chico.

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Building a New Hub and a Natural Habitat
A Proposal for a Sustainable, Natural & Carbon Neutral Hub for Pets Corner
Pets Corner is a Sussex based pet retailer currently trading from 165 stores with over 1000 members of staff throughout England, with a funded expansion plan to have over 200 stores across the UK within the next 10 years.
Pets Corner also operates a pet product and pet food business called Great&Small that sells to retailers in the UK and exports worldwide.
Pets Corner’s operations currently operate from five different locations across Sussex, as the existing main facility in Gatwick cannot accommodate the needs of the business. Since 2013, the directors have been looking for a suitable site to house their new Hub, which would bring all five locations together under one efficient and coherent central base. The location, size and environmental requirements they demand for this means a freehold site is needed as no landlord would build a development of this type to rent.Download PDF
Respect for all animals and the environment is a key concern for Pets Corner. The challenge for this is to translate this philosophy into a contemporary and dynamic design, with genuine consideration for the environment. The objective is to create a cutting-edge development which delivers a minimum 85% score for a BREEAM outstanding rating.
The development brings together the five current separate operations of Pets Corner into one site. This integration will diminish both costs and the impact on the environment, but will simultaneously create an inspiring workplace for the Pets Corner teams.
The project consists of offices, training academy, retail and training shop, pet’s creche and vets, online sales administration and distribution, warehousing for export and distribution to the branch network.
The Project in Numbers
Minumun Breeam Rating
Staff supported by the site
Energy produced by our solar panels per year
The proposed and ideal site is located in Hickstead, West Sussex in the South of England about 2.7 miles west of Burgess Hill, 8 miles north of Brighton and 20 minutes drive from Gatwick Airport.
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Pets Corner initially expect to employ around 120 full time staff directly on the site
These employment levels are based on Pets Corner's 165 stores and will rise as the branch network increases as planned.
In addition the facility will support the employment of 1000+ staff working in our stores around the country.
1Timber Framed not Steel
Glulam beams made from timber lock away CO2 and use up to a 3rd less energy in manufacture. In fact, if the beams are burnt at the end of their life they will produce more energy than is used in their manufacture.
The same principles apply for the wall and roof cladding where cross-laminated timber will be used.
2Cedar Exterior Cladding
No metal or composite roof or wall panelling. The walls will be clad using sustainably sourced red cedar wood shingles. They are one of the most thermally efficient cladding materials (compared with traditional materials) and, being timber, lock away CO2
The building will be insulated above and beyond building regulation requirements to ensure as little energy loss as possible. Insulation will be provided using expanded cork board, which is a natural product and a crop. This means it is fully sustainable, locks away CO2 and is recyclable at the end of its use.
4 PV Solar Panels
The warehouse roof will house 2640m2 of British made solar panels which will generate enough power to run 62 average sized family homes. Pets Corner do not use fossil fuels to operate any of its stores and the Hub will be no exception. All heating, lighting and ventilation will run using electricity generated by the solar panels or bought from Good Energy, a renewable energy supplier.
All lighting will be provided by Goodlight Ltd, utilising their very low energy, long life LED lamps. Their effectiveness is further increased with the use of daylight and motion sensors, which means lights are only on when required, and will ensure the energy consumption for lighting is about 70% less than a typical building of this type.
6No Air Con, Naturally Cooled
A unique ventilation shaft inside the building will allow air to circulate. This will effectively work with automatic roof and window openers to keep the building cool without the need for air conditioning.
The warehouse will not be heated but will be very well insulated. All other areas will be heated using electric underfloor heating, powered by the solar panels.
Designed to soften the visual impact to the local area and to replace some of the natural environment the building will be taking because of its construction. It will be a relaxing place for our teams to recuperate and be inspired at break times.
The building will house one of the biggest insect walls in the UK, measuring 73m² and located near the wildlife pond to help feed creatures in that area.
At the front of the building a 500m2 balancing pond will be created to take rainwater from the roof. This will be planted and stocked with native fish to support local wildlife. Other surplus water will be stored in underground water storage tanks for use inside the building.
Natural stone will be used for pathways, with Grasscrete for roadways and car parking. This aids water run off and provides a more natural solution.
11Hedges not Fences!
Rather than erect an ugly 2m tall metal fence around the perimeter, existing hedges will be replanted with new native shrubs to create a hedge of at least 2m wide. This will ensure wildlife can nest securely inside without being disturbed.
12Beehives on the Roof
Lavender will be planted on the rooftop with a wild flower meadow. This will provide an essential resource for bees resident in the rooftop hives and a beautiful resting place for staff.
13 Bicycle Houses
Staff will be financially incentivised to encourage them to cycle to work. If they do, they will have a smart, dry and secure cycle house to keep their bikes in and use of showers and changing facilities within the building.
14 Greener Travel
To encourage staff to travel by train, Pets Corner will operate an electric mini bus to collect and return staff from the nearest railway station at the start and end of the day.


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Cute animal and kid raising on myspace, printable, artist clips to make the most of the creative zone in your home. And of course, these cute art crafts for kids will be sure to brighten your days. Project tree coloring ideas or tree decorating.
Ways to add color to your Valentine’s day drawing ideas, free printable Valentine and romantic Valentine's day art, creative candy arts and happy flowers for adults.
Other ways to brighten your home or workplaces with a little fun and creativity, printable and designed by Ziad Rifai.
Baby and toddler animal room free printable projects, coloring pages, coloring crafts, arts and crafts.

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This is mine. It's the view from our summer house located on an tiny island. The island is the size of a football field and my family has had it since 1946. It is located on the western coast of Norway.
If I ever learn that I am going to die, this is the view I will have to see for the last time.
(The case is that sometimes is it good to write about som small but important things in what makes a life a good life)

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Let the above chart sink in for a while. The BOJ now owns 75% of Japanese ETFs. The Swiss National Bank is now a hedge fund owning $85 billion of US stocks. The ECB is funding M&A deals at zero yields.
How can anyone be talking about the market economy in any major developed country? It was a casino before, but today even the casino owners would be surprised by the skill of governments and central banks.
Or should we all now start to invest in The Swiss National Bank? Price of their shares is up 11 days in a row, soaring 150% in the last two months. Where is the discussion about the risks involved? Is there any clear exit strategy and timeline for putting these assets out of central bank balance sheets? Will the productive economy end up being owned by governments in full as the time goes by? Is sky the limit?

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Indigo milk cap mushrooms (Lactarius indigo) are beautiful vibrant blue mushrooms that are also edible. In this article, you’ll learn how to find, identify, and eat indigo milk cap mushrooms.
Intro video: indigo milk cap mushrooms, bright blue mushrooms you won’t believe are real
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For both legal and practical reasons, any foraging articles we write also come with a warning… As detailed in our article Beginner’s guide to foraging, rule #1 is: Never eat anything you’re not 100% certain you’ve correctly identified AND you’re not 100% certain is edible. There are plenty of plants and mushrooms that can kill you or make you very sick.
Now, on to indigo milk cap mushrooms (Lactarius indigo)!
We’ve been foraging for gourmet wild mushrooms since 2010. Living at the base of the Appalachian Mountains in Greenville, South Carolina puts us in the heart of one of the best hiking and mushroom foraging regions in the US.
Outside of gardening, foraging mushrooms and plants is our favorite outdoor activity. It’s like going for a treasure hunt, but we get to eat the treasure at the end of the day. Even better, we get to exercise while learning about the amazing interspecific relationships that are taking place all around us.
Case in point: indigo milk cap mushrooms (Lactarius indigo), which fruit in our area (Upstate South Carolina) from late summer through fall. These vibrant, blue-colored mushrooms aren’t just visually stunning, they’re also edible to humans and beneficial to the trees with which they are symbiotic/mycorrhizal.
What exactly is a mushroom and what role do indigo milk cap mushrooms play in a forest ecosystem?
Many people don’t realize that mushrooms are just the small fruiting bodies of very large organisms, similar to apples growing on a tree.
How large can mushrooms get? Well, the largest living organism on earth is a four square mile wide honey mushroom. That’s pretty big!
Fungi play a critical role in maintaining the health of ecosystem’s the world over. For instance, every inch of soil in a forest is loaded with various species of fungi, some of which help form the “internet” of the forest, connecting trees together into a resource- and information-swapping network that survives more through collaboration than competition.
Indigo milk cap mushrooms are one such fungal species that serves to help their host trees gain access to more nutrients and water while also connecting them to other trees in the “wood wide web.” In exchange, the trees feed the milk cap mushrooms carbohydrates which they produce through photosynthesis.
Other species of fungi aren’t so friendly to trees. These saprobic and parasitic fungi infect sick and dying trees, hastening their death, after which other species of decomposing mushrooms come in to help recycle the tree’s components back into soil/bioavailable nutrients.
Thanks to fungi, there is no waste in a forest system – everything is reused and recycled. In fact, if modern fungi species had been around during the Carboniferous period, we’d have almost no fossil fuels today, because the mushrooms would have consumed the wood and plant materials that would eventually form our coal and oil deposits.
It’s hard to imagine how different human civilization might be if fossil fuels had never been a possible energy source!
How to find and identify indigo milk cap mushrooms (Lactarius indigo)
It’s important to note that indigo milk cap mushrooms can be found around the world, not just in North America. It’s highly likely that there are different subspecies of this fungi in different bioregions or even within the same region (which might help explain the flavor variability).
That means indigo milk cap mushrooms in our region (southeast US) most certainly fruit at a different time of year and form associations with different tree species than their cousins in other parts of the world.
Thus, the identification information below pertains only to indigo milk cap mushrooms in the Southeast US.
When do indigo milk cap mushrooms fruit?
In the Southeast US, indigo milk cap mushrooms fruit from late summer through early fall. The earliest we’ve ever found them is July and the latest we’ve ever found them is October.
Where can you find indigo milk cap mushrooms?
Indigo milk cap mushrooms can be found growing in mature hardwood or mixed forests. We’ve only ever found them associating with hardwood trees (primarily oaks and beech trees), but we’ve seen reports of them being found in coniferous forests in other regions of the country.
7 key identifying features of indigo milk cap mushrooms:
- Blue-grey in color; brightest color when they’re young to mature, fading to grey as they age.
- Blue-colored latex emerges when mushrooms are cut or scraped. The blue color oxidizes to green over time.
- Grow individually or in small groupings in leaf litter, emerging from hyphae on the underground roots of host trees.
- Mature size of caps ranges from 2-6″ depending on environmental conditions.
- Young caps are convex turning concave as they mature.
- Distinct attached gills; no veil.
- Spore print is creamy.
Are there poisonous lookalikes to indigo milk cap mushrooms?
For the uninitiated forager, there are blue/purple species of poisonous Cortinarius that might be mistaken for indigo milk cap mushrooms. Once you’ve seen both types of mushrooms, they’re hard to mistake.
The two easiest ways to tell indigo milk caps and Cortinarius mushrooms apart:
- Cortinarius species do NOT emit any latex when cut or scraped; indigo milk caps emit a *bright blue latex when cut or scraped (*see video at top of article).
- Indigo milk caps produce a cream-colored spore print; Cortinarius have a rusty brown-colored spore print.
If you want to dig deeper into Cortinarius mushrooms, check out their profile on Mushroom Expert.
What do indigo milk cap mushrooms taste like?
The flavor of indigo milk caps mushrooms varies more than most other edible mushrooms. This flavor variability may be due different subspecies. Or it could also depend on other factors such as the tree species they’re associating with, the soil they’re growing in, weather conditions, or other aspects of their growing environment.
We once cooked a small batch whose flavor ended up being too peppery to finish.
However, most indigo milk caps we’ve found meet the following flavor description: mild, sweet and nutty with a hint of cracked pepper on the finish.
Do indigo milk cap mushrooms stay blue when they’re cooked?
Unfortunately, indigo milk cap mushrooms do not retain their bright blue color after cooking (they will retain more blue color when frying, since that’s a much faster process). The longer indigo milk cap mushrooms cook, the more they take on a grey color.
We’ve read that there are methods for pickling indigo milk cap mushrooms wherein the high acid environment prevents oxidation thereby allowing them to retain their blue color, but we’ve yet to try this approach.
Indigo milk cap mushroom recipe
Our favorite way to cook and eat indigo milk cap mushrooms is to fry them and dip them in homemade barbecue sauce made from home-grown tomatoes.
Here’s our indigo milk cap mushroom recipe in case any of you other mushroom enthusiasts out there are searching for a recipe to try with your indigos:
Fried indigo milk cap mushrooms (Lactarius indigo)
A simple and delicious fried mushroom recipe featuring indigo milk cap mushrooms (Lactarius indigo).
- 1 cup flour organic all purpose for frying mix + 1/2 cup for "dredging" your mushrooms (explained in instructions)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine ground sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika + 1/2 teaspoon regular paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- dash of chili powder
- dash of fresh ground black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon mustard powder
- 1 large egg we use duck eggs
- 1/3 cup whole organic milk we use organic whole or raw milk
- enough organic sunflower oil or other frying oil to cover your mushrooms in whatever pan you're using we use a flat-bottomed wok
- 5 large Lactarius indigo mushroom caps or 10 small caps
Chop mushrooms into the desirable sized chunks. We quarter or half them.
Put 1/2 cup of flour in a medium sized bowl. This is your "dredging" bowl. You'll want to get a light dusting of flower on the entire outer surface of each mushroom before you dip in the milk/egg mixture.
Add your egg and milk into another mixing bowl, and whisk together. You'll dip your dredged mushrooms into your egg/milk mixture before placing them in your frying mix.
Prepare your frying mix by putting all dry ingredients (flour, spices, etc) into a large bowl. Whisk them together until evenly blended. Once your mushrooms have been: 1) dredged, and 2) dipped in your egg/milk mixture, you'll drop them into the big bowl of dry ingredients and cover them evenly.
Once uniformly covered with fry mix, shake off any extra fry mix. We like to place them on a drying rack on top of a cookie sheet until we're ready to put them in the fryer (you can just use a plate if you'd prefer).
Heat your cooking oil. Our stove top doesn't cook particularly hot or cold, so we put it on about 4.5. You'll know your oil is hot enough when you drop a bit of flour in and it starts sizzling.
Go ahead and get a drying/cooling sheet ready before you start frying your mushrooms. We like to use a cookie sheet with a drying rack on top. On top of the drying rack, we put down paper towels to soak up any extra oil.
Next start frying your mushrooms to golden-brown and crispy perfection. It should only take about 4-5 minutes to cook each mushroom if the oil is in the ideal temperature range.
Remove from oil with strainer and let dry and cool on drying rack. Serve as-is or with a homemade heirloom tomato bbq sauce (our preference).
*Do note that indigo milk cap mushrooms do not retain their bright blue color after cooking. The longer they cook, the more they take on a grey color.
Serve and enjoy!
Note: As mentioned above, Lactarius indigos will lose at least some of their blue color when cooked, turning grayish-blue. When fried, they’re wonderful served straight or with a bit of sauce (we dipped some in a homemade tomato-based bbq sauce).
Other fun fungi articles you might enjoy:
- How to grow and eat king stropharia mushrooms, the gardener’s mushroom
- 6 gourmet and medicinal mushrooms you can easily grow
- How to grow shiitake mushrooms (and boost their Vitamin D content)
- Complete guide to foraging and using chanterelle mushrooms
- ID, grow, and use chicken of the woods mushrooms
- How, when, and where to find and use morel mushrooms
- How to find and prepare maitake mushrooms, aka hen of the woods

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NUMBER 2 – CHELSEA VS LIVERPOOL – CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2003
“The game that changed everything, qualified for champions league football and without this Roman might have gone elsewhere.” says Terry Burtenshaw. And he is not wrong. Many speculate that this victory for Chelsea over rivals Liverpool in the Champions League is what persuaded Roman Abramovic to purchase the West London club as opposed to taking up an interest in London rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Chelsea did take the win, and Abramovic did indeed take over the club, and the rest as they say, is history.

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< Calligra | Meetings | Begin 2011 meetingRevision as of 14:38, 9 January 2011 by PiggZ (talk | contribs) (→Scripting)(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Tell here about things you want to discuss, so that we can prepare an agenda. Please add yourself as an 'owner' of an idea and prepare something if applicable to make optimal use of our time. Indicates what you want to be developed in a general session (on Saturday), or in a BoF (on Sunday) Contents 1 General Session 1.1 Plugins 1.2 Release Cycle 1.3 Scripting 1.4 Going more Qt-only way 1.5 Abstraction and custom UIs topics 1.6 App UI and web page design topics 1.7 ODF compatibility 2 BoF General Session Plugins (Cyrille) There are several issues or lacking aspect in Calligra's plugins. First of all right now loading an applications tends to drag a lot of other applications stuff, for instance "the spread sheet shape" which is loaded by many application also load kspread. A solution would be to load shape-on-demand, this trigger a problem with shapes that share the same tag in an ODF file and need some way to know which shape to use (solution could be two c++ plugin, one with a factory one with the shape/tool, or if we can define which shape to use using a text description (like it is done by mimetype definitions) or a small js) UI for enabling/disabling plugin, shapes should probably allways be available for loading a document, but might be hidden in the UI Release Cycle (Cyrille) Keep a 6 month schedule ? go for a three features release cycle per year + 1 long-term-support ? allways summer in trunk ? IE define a new workflow. Scripting (piggz) Id like to see each application provide a scripting API, that is callable from all other applications E.g At the click of a button on a form in Kexi, i'd like to use the Tables API to parse, or write out to a spreadsheet, or the Words API to write out a document Or, in tables, run a script that gathers data from various sources, including a kexi database This would probably be possible by sharing the KexiAdapter Kross class? Perhaps..each application could provide a plugin, that exports a single QObject, that gives access to the application API/objects? (see facade pattern) All ideas open for discussion! Going more Qt-only way (jstaniek) i.e. going the smart way, take advantage of our core strengths Intended audience: all devs I propose to go with Qt-only libs a bit more, to make our offerings more independent each-other and drive potential contributions of new kind (Qt-only devs, non-KDE devs...). Filters are good candidates for this group, and especially the lower-level libraries like mso Smart Art, Diagrams. KoReports are nearly Qt-only already (as a fork of OpenRPT it has never used kdelibs in fact). The same for KoProperty lib. I am investing into Qt-only Predicate a lot too (), as you know it'll be dependency of Kexi, hopefully 2.4. Moreover I also believe that every app has some nontrivial bit of code that can be provided on the outside with a simple API, say, using the Facade pattern. For such APIs, KDE dependencies are not needed. At a conceptual level the idea may evolve into slightly different model of composing our building blocks: develop core functionality as Qt-only (but with cmake) and then extend for KDE, to get the integration level and look&feel we all want. A bit like it is in WebKit/QtWebKit tandem. Abstraction and custom UIs topics (jstaniek) Intended audience: library devs and Words, Tables, Stage devs I'll present possible extensions (recognized as low-hanging fruits) for the koabstraction Next steps for the abstraction can be discussed, ans also hopefully with 3rd-party users of the Calligra frameworks Think about examples, demo(s) providing reference code for 3rd-parties App UI and web page design topics this includes not just look & feel but: un-clutter, end-user-orientation, power-user-orientation-as-an-option Q: Why thinking both about quality of web page communication and the app? Isn't good app enough? A: Both build the image. Notes: Decide if it's better to have common knowledge within the Calligra Team about the product design (apps UX and web page UX), and agree on some most fundamental values e.g. see : For web pages and announcements and UI messages: "Don't talk to users in geek language" For web pages and UI messages: "Don't write long texts" For most of the UI: "Forget documentation, users do not read it" (does not apply to power-user features like scripting of course) For UI: "Don't overwhelm users with a multitude of elements" (our dockers is the best example) For UI: "Focus a screen on one task" (again, our dockers is the best example) For UI: "Have a clear and intuitive interface model" (pick the most appropriate as a good start: ) For UI: "Minimize clicks per action" (a plan at least for Kexi is to minimize number of dialogs, especially modal, or remove all) Calligra has still something to do regarding messages for end users. Proposal to improve quality of communication: always define the target audience of an announcement, changelog or other news if both specialists and users are the audience, split the content to two separate parts if it's hard to split with simple copy/paste, consider rewriting/recomposing and next time write the text with the above note in mind to identify parts not for end users, ask your wife/girfriend/grandma to read some of the text ODF compatibility (yue) What should be the strategy when there is a nice idea but the implementation have to break odf spec (For example the blur-shadow patch I made: to save blur information in drop-shadow you have to add undefined tags which other apps like libreOffice cannot recognize.) BoF plans for plugins could be discussed in more details by a smaller group of people (Cyrille) Retrieved from "https://community.kde.org/index.php?title=Calligra/Meetings/Begin_2011_meeting/Ideas&oldid=8290" Content is available under Creative Commons License SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.


LONDON, Aug. 20—And so we are about to try the great international monetary experiment. Willy‐nilly without the usual agreement in these matters of the leading central bankers and finance ministers, the float is on. One way or another, the dollar's value in terms of other major currencies is going to be established over at least the next several weeks in the market place.
That is a first striking result of President Nixon's monetary antarche. It will be a result welcomed in Washington—and by many reformers in the financial world. For in the float the other currencies will certainly go up producing the effective devaluation of the dollar that the President wants arid others have long termed necessary.
Rut is the result worth the resentment aroused by American tactics during this last extraordinary week of financial and political turmoil? The question is beginning to be asked. Putting it slightly differently, was it necessary for the President to be quite so brusque so uncommunicative with friends, so insulting and self‐righteous in his rhetoric in order to achieve what he wanted?
Mr. Nixon charged other financial powers, who happen to be America's friends and allies, with “unfair treatment” of the dollar. He Wanted our monetary troubles on “the international speculators.” In language reminiscent of Harold Wilson's bootstrap jingoism before the pound was devalued, he said, “We are not about to ease up and lose the economic leadership of the world.”
Even some foreign observers who approved of the President's actions found his rhetoric hard to take The Economist of London put it wryly: “The matter of Mr. Nixon's decisions deserves a bigger welcome than his manner of misexplaining them.”
The United States can rightly complain of discriminatory policies no longer justified by weakness, notably Japanese protectionism. But everyone knows that the dollar crisis has arisen in large part from American policy in recent years: the Vietnam war the huge capital outflow, the unwillingness to face domestic inflation and so on. As for the speculators, they are just a joke. If the dollar is overvalued, as Mr. Nixon has just conceded it is not speculation but common sense for anyone with financial responsibility to assume its eventual devaluation.
What gives concern abroad is not a little rhetorical bombast but the thought that the President's language could represent a real turn toward nationalist, fortress America That fear has been exacerbated by the fact of the import surcharge and its open use by the American Administration to twist arms; some called it blackmail.
But on the whole, all this has had an understanding reception among the officials and financial men of Western Europe. They are sophisticated people with an ear for American political realities and they tend to take Mr. Nixon's words as a political calculation. One experienced diplomat said:
“I found the tone of the Sunday night speech disturbing But there is a current of nationalism in the United States now and it is understandable if the President thought it right to respond to it by presenting his program as a way to kick the bloody foreigner in the teeth. The speech was an attempt to head off worse. We have to read it that way.”
The European response taken as whole, must be regarded in Washington as satisfactory. There is strong resentment at the surcharge but there is no real threat of the kind of retaliation that could lead to a trade war. The markets have been upset but that will appear as a minor inconvenience if the experiment with floating leads to a new stability — admittedly rather an uncertain if.
The political cost of the aggressive American tactics, if there is one will be paid in Japan. Sensitivities are greater there dependence on American strength more acute understanding of American politics less sophisticated.
The manner of President Nixon's new economic policy was inevitably taken in Tokyo as another example—like the way he broke the news about his visit to China—of failure of communication. There was a sense of wounded mutual confidence reflected in a business leader's remark that “Japan and America can in future be good trading partners, but not again members of the same family.”
The Administration would doubtless say that shock tactics were essential to get other governments moving But Were haste and secrecy so essential that Premier Sato could not have been given notice more than a few minutes before the President spoke? The end result of more reasonable exchange rates could justify the means used. But there remains a lingering feeling that Mr. Nixon's words and manners reflect an assumption of American ?? riomie hegemony that is no longer valid.


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Further details were not provided by the club, which said it would not be making additional comments about the nature of Hamonic’s absence at this time.
Hamonic did not opt out of the 2021-22 season despite not reporting to training camp while remaining at home in Manitoba for personal reasons.
“We’ve received confirmation that Travis Hamonic will not be opting out this season,” Canucks general manager Jim Benning said in a statement at the time. “He remains at home, dealing with some personal matters. We continue to support him, and out of respect for the situation, we will have no further comment at this time.”
The Canucks later placed the 31-year-old on waivers on Oct. 10.
Vancouver inked Hamonic to a two-year, $6-million contract back in July with expectations he would factor in amongst the team’s top-four defencemen. Hamonic had 10 points, three goals and seven assists, in 38 games during his first season with the Canucks last year.

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T&G Global launches new early ripening apple brand
T&G Global has launched a new early ripening apple brand which will be one of the first New Zealand apples of the 2021 season to arrive in key Asian markets.
The company describes Poppi as a sweet flavored, medium-sized apple with a rich red color and thin skin.
It’s the first variety to ripen on Hawke’s Bay trees, enabling an early entry of New Zealand apples in highly competitive Asian markets.
“The Poppi brand name was developed as a nod to the distinctive red color of the apple,” says Rachel Stotter, T&G Global’s Director International Sales. “This early season apple will appeal to consumers who prefer sweeter tasting, radiant red apples.”
Rachel says Poppi apples have been grown in small volumes at T&G’s orchards and Apatu Farms in the Hawke’s Bay as a trial to fill a gap in the market.
“We know Asian consumers love our apples, and because Poppi apples ripen early, we saw a strategic opportunity to extend the season for New Zealand export apples by launching a new brand and getting it quickly into our key high-growth Asian markets.”
Currently, the apple is grown in the Hawke’s Bay in early micro-climate orchard blocks, utilizing new growing structures and trees to open and maximize light for early harvesting. Gisborne has young plantings of the brand for future supply.
The first Poppi apples are being picked and packed with the first container heading to China today on the NYK Furano (11 February) from Napier Port.
“We’ll continue to pick over the coming weeks, exporting approximately 20,000 cartons (1.6 million Poppi apples) in total as part of the trial, with the majority going to China,” says Rachel.
“T&G’s success as an exporter has been built through harnessing Kiwi IP and growing great brands, based on robust consumer insights,” she says, “Behind our global program of premium export apples is a story of innovation – and this latest apple brand is no different.”
T&G’s strong in-market presence has brought nutritious premium fruit, including the internationally popular JAZZ and Envy to more than 60 markets globally.
“We’ve earned credibility with our premium apples in global markets which paves the way for our pipeline of new brands and varieties.”

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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Second baseman James Dozier hasn't hit anywhere but leadoff in the Twins' lineup since July 30, 2016, and it doesn't appear that's going to change to open the 2018 season.Dozier has hit first in all seven of his games this spring, including in Friday's 4-3 win
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Second baseman James Dozier hasn't hit anywhere but leadoff in the Twins' lineup since July 30, 2016, and it doesn't appear that's going to change to open the 2018 season.
Dozier has hit first in all seven of his games this spring, including in Friday's 4-3 win over the Rays, and Twins manager Paul Molitor said he's not looking to move Dozier in the lineup -- even though he's not a prototypical leadoff hitter with his combined 76 homers over the last two seasons.
"Knowing the person and what he does in that role and how much he enjoys that role and the fact that it's worked makes it hard for me to be overly eager to find something different," Molitor said. "From analytics or anything else that might suggest that you might want to try something different."
Center fielder Byron Buxton, who stole two bases on Friday, served as leadoff hitter early in camp when Dozier wasn't in the lineup, but has mostly been hitting fifth or sixth this spring, including batting sixth on Friday. Molitor said he expects Buxton to move up and down the lineup based on matchups, as he might hit earlier against lefties, but could bat later against tougher right-handers.
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"Against left-handed pitching, maybe sometimes [early in the lineup], but I kind of like the fact he stretches it out and rolls that lineup over to some capacity," Molitor said. "He played in the sixth spot a lot last year."
Shortstop Jorge Polanco is another interesting case, as he was the club's No. 3 hitter down the stretch last season when Miguel Sano was out with a stress reaction to his left shin. But with Sano healthy, Polanco is likely to hit in the latter third of the lineup, with the top of the order expected to include Dozier, Joe Mauer, Sano and then either Logan Morrison or Eddie Rosario hitting cleanup.
"He'll see different places, but I think the Morrison addition, in particular, is going to affect where some guys hit," Molitor said. "You just get them to try to see that if they're not hitting in the top third, we're just trying to stretch our lineup as best as we can."
Sano doubles up
Sano hadn't homered coming into the game, but crushed a pair of solo blasts. His first came off right-hander Andrew Kittredge in the opening frame and traveled to dead center, while the second was against lefty Vidal Nuno in the third and was a towering shot to left.
"I tried to make good contact through the middle," Sano said. "It was an inside pitch and I tried to react on the first one. And the second one I got out front."
Jose Berrios, who remains lined up to be the Opening Day starter, went four innings, giving up one run on three hits with one strikeout. He threw 56 pitches, with 41 going for strikes. The lone run he allowed came on an RBI double from C.J. Cron in the fourth.
"Between this start and the last one, I worked in the bullpen trying to be in line to home plate and not pull off," Berrios said. "That's what I felt today. I felt better."
• Right-hander Phil Hughes threw a simulated game of three innings and 40 pitches back at the club's Spring Training complex in Fort Myers, Fla. Hughes worked on his changeup and slider without having to worry about the results in a game. Hughes, competing for the final spot in the rotation, will start again Monday night against the Yankees.
• Robbie Grossman, competing for the final bench spot, went 1-for-3 with an RBI single, while first baseman Kennys Vargas went 1-for-2 with a stolen base and a run scored to improve his average to .318. Zack Granite went 0-for-2.
• Right-hander Tyler Duffey, who is competing for a long-relief role, threw two perfect innings with one strikeout to lower his spring ERA to 5.40. Rule 5 Draft right-hander Tyler Kinley threw a scoreless ninth with one hit allowed and two strikeouts. He lowered his ERA to 3.60 and is making a solid case to make the roster.
• First baseman/designated hitter Morrison was held out of the lineup on Friday after suffering a right glute strain while running the bases on Wednesday. Morrison is also expected to miss Saturday's game, but the injury isn't considered serious.
• Right-hander Kyle Gibson is slated to make his third start of the spring on Saturday against the Red Sox at 12:05 p.m. CT at Hammond Stadium on MLB.TV. Other pitchers scheduled to see action include Zach Duke, Addison Reed, Fernando Romero, Gabriel Moya and Jake Reed.
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Northwestern head men's basketball coach Chris Collins addresses the media after the Wildcats' 96-31 win over Chicago State on December 11, 2017.
Northwestern's Aaron Falzon and Anthony Gaines discuss the Wildcats' win over Chicago State on December 11, 2017.
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The best sights from the Northwestern women's basketball game against UW-Milwaukee on December 3, 2017 at Beardsley Gym in Evanston, Ill.
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The best sights from Northwestern Wrestling's 34-12 victory over Maryland on December 2, 2017.
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Northwestern men's basketball players Scottie Lindsey and Vic Law speak with the media after the Wildcats' win over Illinois on December 1, 2017.


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In this Dream Tour segment, the singer-songwriter, Doug Panton, reveals who he would want on their ultimate tour lineup. You can check out their picks, after the break.
James Bay – I’ve been following James’ music from when he first released his EP ‘The Dark Of The Morning’ in 2013, so after he rose to fame with his smash hit ‘Hold Back The River’ I was definitely where many fans have been when an artist they follow blows up and you’re left thinking ‘You’re all late to the party! I found them first!’.
I think the music that we both make is not dissimilar so hopefully, I wouldn’t be booed off stage with tomatoes clinging to my clothes if I ever had the chance to support him. I covered James’ new song ‘Bad’ recently (which is a gorgeous track), and I had to double-take when he shared my version with his followers on his Instagram. Thank you, James.. My manager is awaiting your call!
RHODES – If you’ve not heard of this guy then what are you still doing here? Go look him up. He’s probably most well known for his song with Birdy (who I also wouldn’t say no to supporting..) and again I’ve been a big fan from relatively near the start of his career. I’ve been lucky to see him perform twice and was blown away both times.
Stevie Wonder – Our music is nothing alike and I truly would be punching this time but to sing a duet with Stevie Wonder would be unparalleled and would make the kid inside me extremely happy. I used to listen to him over and over on long family car journeys when I was little, so much so that I wore out the cassette tape. Stevie if you’re also reading this, give my manager a call…….
Rhodes would start the night singing either ‘Raise Your Love’ or ‘Your Soul’ followed by James Bay singing ‘Bad’ and ‘Let it Go’. Stevie wonder would then fly down on a zip wire singing ‘Sign Sealed delivered’ (This is a dream. Anything goes) and he’d dedicate it to me and we’d all end the set by singing ‘I Wish’… Because I really can only wish.


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About 10 days before Christmas we brought in our tree. Most people say they 'put up' their tree, but we say 'brought in' because our tree lives in a pot outside. It's much bigger than it was last year!
We were unable to locate our beautiful wooden Christmas tree ornaments from Russia (given to us by Lacey) so we decided to make ornaments with pictures of family and friends. Here's are a few of them on our tree of love, hanging by dental floss.


“Messy,” “chaotic” and “train wreck”: That’s how mainstream news outlets described the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden.
The debate, which took place at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, Sept 29, was moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who asked the candidates about their records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in cities and the integrity of the election.
But, while discussing these topics, the candidates often talked over each other, disregarded the moderator’s instructions and even launched personal attacks at one another.
Anna Busalacchi, sophomore public relations major, said she was upset the debate was more about personal jabs than actual policies.
“When Trump kept taking jabs at [Biden’s] son, [Biden] really got angry. You saw a rise in him,” she said. “I wish [Biden] had that same power in his voice when he talks about the policies that applies to the American people.”
Isaiah Moore, a senior double major in television and cultural studies, said the debate was “juvenile” and there was nothing that separated the candidates for undecided liberal and conservative voters.
“Getting into shouting matches isn’t productive,” Moore said. “They need to just answer the questions and let people know what they’re thinking.”
In case it got lost in the noise, here’s how the candidates answered some of the night’s most pressing questions:
Why is your position correct on selecting a Supreme Court nominee in an election year?
Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court following the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But, Ginsburg’s last wish was that she not be replaced until a new president is elected, according to NPR.
Trump said he was right in his decision to nominate Barrett, a judge on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, because he won the election and “elections have consequences.”
“[Barrett] is going to be as good as anybody who has served on that court,” Trump said. “We won the election, and we have the right to do it.”
Biden said the American people have a right to say who the Supreme Court nominee is through their votes for senators and the president. Because this nomination is taking place as people are casting early and mail-in votes, he said they will not get that chance.
“We should wait and see what the outcome is of this election because that is the only way the American people get to express their view,” Biden said.
Why should Americans trust you more on dealing with the coronavirus?
“[Trump] still hasn’t even acknowledged that he knew how dangerous [COVID-19] was going to be back in February, and he didn’t even tell you,” Biden said.
Biden said because Trump does not have a plan, 40,000 Americans have contracted the coronavirus each day and between 750 to 1,000 people die from it at the same rate.
The former vice president also addressed the financial impact of the pandemic.
“You’ve got to provide these businesses [with] the money to be able to reopen with a PPE, as well as with sanitation they need,” Biden said.
Trump said both Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health, and Democratic governors said he did a “phenomenal job” and “saved thousands of lives.”
Fauci did say Trump saved lives through his travel restrictions, and some Democratic governors thanked the White House for being responsive early in the pandemic but did so without using the same language Trump repeated, according to USA Today.
“We’ve found that elderly people with heart problems and diabetes are very vulnerable,” Trump said. “Young children aren’t, and even younger people aren’t.”
The risk for severe illness from the coronavirus does in fact increase with age, with older adults at highest risk, according to CDC. But there is “not enough data to show whether people with diabetes are more likely to [contract the coronavirus] than the general population,” according to the American Diabetes Association.
Trump said Biden wants states to shut down, which will hurt more Americans. Biden said he wants businesses to open, but only if it is safe to do so.
Why should voters trust you more than your opponent to deal with race issues?
While not yet accomplishing equity for every American, Biden said he never “walked away” from trying to achieve it like Trump.
“This is a president who has used everything as a dog whistle to try to generate racist hatred—racist division,” Biden said.
Biden said there is systemic racial injustice in America and although he is in favor of police reform, he said he is opposed to defunding police departments. If elected president, Biden said he will bring together civil rights groups and police officers at the White House to work out a solution so there is transparency and accountability when racial violence happens.
But when Trump had the mic, he refused to condemn white supremacists and militia groups when given the opportunity to by both Biden and Wallace. Instead, Trump answered with: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.”
Trump said he ended racial sensitivity training in federal agencies because the training itself is “racist.” He said people who taught racial sensitivity training were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach bad ideas.
How confident are you that this will be a fair election?
Millions of people are going to be voting by mail-in ballot—like Trump does—because of the coronavirus, Biden said.
“[Trump’s] own Homeland Security director and FBI director said there is no evidence mail-in ballots are a being manipulated,” Biden said.
Biden encouraged people to visit iwillvote.com to choose how they plan on voting and said poll watchers will ensure people are socially distant. He is confident it will be a fair election and that polling locations will open on time and stay open until all votes are counted, he said.
“Once the winner is declared after all the votes are counted, that will be the end of it,” Biden said. “If it’s me, that’s fine. If it’s not me, I’ll support the outcome.”
Trump said mail-in ballots are going to be a “fraud like no one has ever seen.”
“As far as the ballots are concerned, it’s a disaster,” Trump said. “They’re not equipped to handle it.”
Trump said he is urging his supporters to go in to the polls and watch carefully, and he is counting on the Supreme Court to settle any disputes with ballots.
The second presidential debate will take place Thursday, Oct. 15 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.


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Bill Status of HR0765 102nd General Assembly
Short Description: RECOGNIZES-MARY E. ROBINSON
Rep. Lamont J. Robinson, Jr.
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Synopsis As Introduced
Recognizes Mary E. Robinson on being named a Golden Soror of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Commends the sorority for its commitment to scholarship, leadership, civic engagement, and public service.
|Date||Chamber|| Action|| 3/28/2022||House||Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Lamont J. Robinson, Jr.|| 3/29/2022||House||Placed on Calendar Agreed Resolutions|| 3/29/2022||House||Resolution Adopted|

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
|Original work||Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984)|
|Owner||Mirage Studios (1984–2009)
Nickelodeon (Paramount) (2009–present)
|Comic strips||Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic strip)
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|Films||List of films|
|Role-playing||Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness|
|Toys||Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures|
|Characters||List of characters|
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American media franchise created by the comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, four anthropomorphic turtle brothers (named after Italian Renaissance artists) trained in ninjutsu who fight evil in New York City. Supporting characters include the turtles' rat sensei Splinter, their human friends April O'Neil and Casey Jones, and enemies such as Baxter Stockman, Krang, and their archenemy, the Shredder.
The franchise began as a comic book, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which Eastman and Laird conceived as a parody of elements popular in superhero comics at the time. The first issue was published in 1984 by Eastman and Laird's company Mirage Studios and was a surprise success. ..... About US$1.1 billion of Turtles toys were sold between 1988 and 1992, making them the third-bestselling toy figures ever at the time.
The action figures were promoted with an animated series, which premiered in 1987 and ran for almost a decade. In some European regions, the franchise was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles due to the violent connotations of the word "ninja". Three live-action films were released; the first, released in 1990, became the highest-grossing independent film up to that point. Numerous video games have also been released. In 2009, the franchise was purchased by Viacom, now Paramount Global. Viacom commissioned a new comic series, two new live-action films, and new animated series.
- Television series
- Video games
- In other media
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1983–1986: Conception and first comics
The comic book authors Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird met in Massachusetts and began working on illustrations together. In 1983, Laird invited Eastman to move in with him in Dover, New Hampshire. That November, Eastman drew a masked turtle standing on its hind legs armed with nunchucks.' Laird added the words "teenage mutant". The concept parodied several elements popular in superhero comics of the time: the teenagers of New Teen Titans, the mutants of Uncanny X-Men and the ninjas of Daredevil, combined with the comic tradition of funny animals such as Howard the Duck.
Eastman and Laird developed the concept into a comic book. They considered giving the turtles Japanese names, but instead named them after the Italian Renaissance artists Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo, which Laird said "felt just quirky enough to fit the concept". They developed a backstory referencing further elements of Daredevil: like Daredevil, the Turtles are altered by radioactive material, and their sensei, Splinter, is a play on Daredevil's sensei, Stick.
In March 1984, Eastman and Laird founded a comic book company, Mirage Studios, in their home. Using money from a tax refund and a loan from Eastman's uncle, they printed copies of first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and advertised it in Comics Buyer's Guide Magazine. This attracted the interest of comic distributors, and all 3,000 copies were sold in a few weeks.' Sales of further issues continued to climb.'
1987–1989: Toys, animation and video games
..... About US$1.1 billion of Turtles toys were sold in four years, making them the third-bestselling toy figures ever at the time, behind GI Joe and Star Wars.'
..... It introduced Turtles elements such as their color-coded masks, catchphrases, love of pizza and distinct personalities. To make it acceptable to parents and television networks, the series had a lighter tone than the comics, with no expletives, less violence and less threatening villains.' In the United Kingdom and some other European regions, the franchise was renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles for the violent connotations of the word "ninja".
The first Turtles video game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1989, the first of several developed by the Japanese company Konami. It sold approximately four million copies, making it one of the bestselling NES games.' In response to concerns that the series was drifting from its origins, Eastman and Laird published an editorial in the comic in 1989, writing: "We've allowed the wacky side to happen, and enjoy it very much. All the while, though, we've kept the originals very much ours." Eastman later said there was "some stuff that we wish we hadn’t said yes to", and Laird wrote of his dislike for the softer tone of the animated series.'
1990s: First films, franchise expansion and commercial peak
The early 1990s saw the commercial peak of the franchise. The first Turtles film was released in 1990, featuring costumes designed by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. It was based more closely on the comic than the animated series, with a darker tone. It was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1990 and the highest-grossing independent film at that point, earning more than US$200 million worldwide. A sequel, The Secret of the Ooze, was released the following year. With a rushed production and a lighter tone, it received weaker reviews and was less successful at the box office. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) was aimed at the Japanese market, the largest foreign market for US films at the time, but failed to see release there and saw weaker reviews and sales.
In 1990, a stage musical, Coming Out of Their Shells, featuring the Turtles as a rock band, played 40 shows across the United States.' The musical was sponsored by Pizza Hut and promoted with an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. A soundtrack album and VHS were released.' After the animated series ended, a live-action television series, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, was created in 1997 with Saban Entertainment. It introduced a fifth, female turtle, Venus de Milo. The series was canceled after one season;' Laird later said it was the only licensed Turtles project he "truly regrets".'
2000s–present: Sale to Nickelodeon and further series
Eastman sold his share of the Turtles franchise to Laird in 2000. In 2003, 4Kids Entertainment launched a new animated Turtles series, which ran for seven seasons, concluding with a television film Turtles Forever in 2009.' Laird had a role in the production, creating a closer adaptation of the original comic.' A computer-animated Turtles film, TMNT, was released in 2007 and earned $95 million at the box office.'
On October 21, 2009, it was announced that Laird had sold the franchise to Viacom. He said he had tired of working on Turtles, writing: "I am no longer that guy who carries his sketchbook around with him and draws in it every chance he gets." In August 2011, IDW Publishing launched a new Turtles comic series, with Eastman as co-writer and illustrator. A third animated series' premiered in September 2012 on Nickelodeon, and ran for five seasons before ending in 2017.
A fourth live-action Turtles film, produced by Platinum Dunes, Nickelodeon Movies, and Paramount Pictures, directed by Jonathan Liebesman and produced by Michael Bay, was released on August 8, 2014. It received negative reviews, but was a box-office success. A sequel, Out of the Shadows, directed by Dave Green, was released in June 2016.
A fourth animated series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, premiered in 2018 and ran for two seasons. A film sequel to the series released in 2022 on the streaming service Netflix. Two additional films are in development; Mutant Mayhem, produced by Seth Rogen, and a live-action reboot produced by Bay.
In most versions, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are created when four baby turtles are exposed to radioactive ooze, transforming them into humanoids. They fight evil in New York City, where they reside in the sewers.
Leonardo, the leader, is the most disciplined and skilled turtle; an expert swordsman, he wields two katana and wears a blue bandana. Raphael, the strongest and most reckless and hot-headed turtle, wears a red bandana and uses a pair of sai. Donatello uses his intellect to invent gadgets and vehicles; he wears a purple mask and uses a bo staff. Michelangelo is the least disciplined and most fun-loving turtle, and is usually portrayed as the fastest and most agile. He wears an orange bandana and uses nunchucks.
Splinter is a mutant rat who is the wise adoptive father of the Turtles and teaches them ninjitsu. In some iterations, he was once the pet rat of ninja master Hamato Yoshi; in others, he is a mutated Yoshi. The Turtles are assisted by April O'Neil, who is variously depicted as a news reporter, lab assistant or genius computer programmer. In most versions, she is pursued romantically by Casey Jones, a hockey mask-wearing vigilante who usually becomes an ally of the Turtles.
The Turtles' nemesis is the Shredder, who leads the criminal ninja clan known as the Foot. His real identity is usually the ninja Oroku Saki. In most versions, the Shredder's second in command is Karai, a skilled martial artist; in some iterations she is the Shredder's daughter. The Shredder allies with Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist, and Krang, an alien warlord. Krang was introduced in the original animated series, and was inspired by the Utrom race from the comics. Also created for the series were the Shredder's buffoonish henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, a mutant rhinoceros and warthog.
Mirage Studios (1984–2014)
Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered in May 1984, at a comic book convention held at a local Sheraton Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It was published by their company Mirage Studios in an oversized magazine-style format using black and white artwork on cheap newsprint, limited to a print run of 3000 copies. It was initially intended as a one-shot, but due to its popularity it became an ongoing series.'
After publication was temporarily assumed by Image Comics for the third volume (see below), Laird (by then the sole owner of the franchise) and Lawson relaunched the main series at Mirage with a fourth volume in 2001. Following the sale of the franchise to Nickelodeon in late 2009, Laird retained the right to continue the Mirage series, but no issues have been released since the release of No. 32 in 2014, and Mirage Studios was wound down in 2021.
All total, the main Mirage series lasted for 129 issues, spanning four separate volumes of 62, 13, 23, and 32 issues, respectively.' Additional one-shot issues and miniseries were published over the years. Mirage also published a companion book entitled Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which was designed to fill in the gaps of continuity in the TMNT universe.
Image Comics (1996–1999)
In 1996, Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen, seeing they there were no TMNT comics in active publication, oversaw a relaunch of the comics through Highbrow Productions, his studio at Image, with writing by Gary Carlson and art by Frank Fosco. This third volume of the main series, intended as a continuation of the Mirage comics, saw Splinter become a bat, Donatello a cyborg, Leonardo lose a hand and Raphael become scarred and assume the identity of the new Shredder. The series was canceled in 1999 after 23 issues without a conclusion. In 2018, IDW began reprinting the series in full color as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Urban Legends, and commissioned Carlson and Fusco to create three additional issues to tie up the unfinished story.
Archie Comics (1988–1995)
From 1988 to 1995, Archie Comics published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, a series aimed at a younger audience. Initially adapting episodes of the first animated series, it soon moved to original storylines. The main series ran for 72 issues; in addition, there were numerous annuals, specials and miniseries. An ongoing spinoff series, Mighty Mutanimals, features a team of supporting characters.
Dreamwave Productions (2003)
A monthly comic inspired by the 2003 TV series was published by Dreamwave Productions from June to December 2003. It was written by Peter David and illustrated by LeSean Thomas. In the first four issues, which were the only ones directly adapted from the TV series, the story was told from the perspectives of April, Baxter, Casey, and a pair of New York City police officers.
IDW Publishing (2011–present)
In 2011, IDW Publishing acquired the license to publish new collections of Mirage storylines and a new ongoing series. The first issue of the new series was released on August 24 that year. Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz wrote the book, with Eastman and Dan Duncan providing art. In 2017 issue No. 73 of the comic was published, making it the longest running comic series in the franchises history. In addition to the main series and spin-offs set within its continuity, IDW also published comics based on the 2012 Turtles animated series and the 2018 animated series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Turtles have appeared in several manga series.
- Mutant Turtles (ミュータント・タートルズ, Myūtanto Tātoruzu) is a 15-issue series by Tsutomu Oyamada, Zuki mora, and Yoshimi Hamada that simply adapted episodes of the original American animated series.
- Super Turtles (スーパータートルズ Sūpā Tātoruzu) is a three-issue miniseries by Hidemasa Idemitsu, Tetsurō Kawade, and Toshio Kudō that featured the "TMNT Supermutants" Turtle toys that were on sale at the time. The first volume of the anime miniseries followed this storyline.
- Mutant Turtles Gaiden (ミュータント・タートルズ外伝, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Gaiden) by Hiroshi Kanno is a reinterpretation of the Turtles story with no connection to the previous manga.
- Mutant Turtles III (ミュータント・タートルズ３, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Tsuri) is Yasuhiko Hachino's adaptation of the third feature film.
- Mutant Turtles '95 (ミュータント・タートルズ９５, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Kyūjūgo) is a 1995 series by Ogata Nobu which ran in Comic BomBom.
- Mutant Turtles '96 (ミュータント・タートルズ９６, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Kyūjūroku) is a continuation of the 1995 series when it continued to run through 1996.
A daily comic strip written and illustrated by Dan Berger began in 1990. It featured an adventure story Monday through Friday and activity puzzles on weekends (with fan art appearing later). The comic strip was published in syndication until its cancellation in December 1996. At its highest point in popularity, it was published in more than 250 newspapers.
First animated series (1987–1996)
Debuting in 1987 as a five-part miniseries and becoming a regular Saturday-morning syndicated series on October 1, 1988, the first animated series follows the adventures of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their allies as they battle the Shredder, Krang, and numerous other villains and criminals in New York City. The property was changed considerably from the darker-toned comics, to make it more suitable for children and the families. Produced by Fred Wolf Films, the series ran for ten seasons and ended in 1996.
Original video animation
In addition to the American series, a Japan-exclusive two-episode anime original video animation (OVA) series was made in 1996, titled Mutant Turtles: Choujin Densetsu-hen. The OVA is similar in tone to the 1987 TV series and uses the same voices from TV Tokyo's Japanese dub of the 1987 TV series. It featured the Turtles as superheroes, that gained costumes and superpowers with the use of Mutastones, while Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady gained supervillain powers with the use of a Dark Mutastone.
Live-action series (1997–1998)
In 1997–1998, a live-action series, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, aired on Fox. It introduced a female turtle, Venus de Milo, skilled in the mystical arts of the shinobi. The Next Mutation Turtles made a guest appearance on Power Rangers in Space. The Next Mutation was canceled after one season of 26 episodes.
Second animated series (2003–2009)
In 2003, a new TMNT series produced by 4Kids Entertainment began airing on the "FoxBox" (later renamed "4Kids TV") programming block. It later moved to "The CW4Kids" block. The series was co-produced by Mirage Studios, and Mirage owned one-third of the rights to the series. Mirage's significant stake in creative control resulted in a cartoon that hews more closely to the original comics, creating a darker and mature tone than the 1987 cartoon, though still considered appropriate for younger viewers. This series lasted until 2009, ending with a feature-length television movie titled Turtles Forever, which was produced in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the franchise.
Third animated series (2012–2017)
Nickelodeon acquired the global rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. and announced a new CGI-animated TMNT television series. The 2012 version is characterized by anime-like iconography and emphasis on mutagen continuing to wreak havoc on the everyday lives of the Turtles and their enemies; in addition, the tone of this version is similar to the original series, but also features a handful of serious episodes as well. The series ran for five seasons and ended in 2017.
Fourth animated series (2018–2020)
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the second Nickelodeon-produced animated series in the franchise and premiered in September 2018. It returned to using 2D animation, while also using some anime iconography, and was characterized by its lighter humor. The series aired between 2018 and 2020, and was followed by a feature film released on Netflix in 2022.
|Film||U.S. release date||Director(s)||Screenwriter(s)||Story by||Producer(s)|
|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles||March 30, 1990||Steve Barron||Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeck||Bobby Herbeck||Kim Dawson, Simon Fields and David Chan|
|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze||March 22, 1991||Michael Pressman||Todd W. Langen||Thomas K. Gray, Kim Dawson and David Chan|
|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III||March 19, 1993||Stuart Gillard|
|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles||August 8, 2014||Jonathan Liebesman||Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec and Evan Daugherty||Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Galen Walker, Scott Mednick and Ian Bryce|
|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows||June 3, 2016||Dave Green||Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec||Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Galen Walker and Scott Mednick|
|TMNT||March 23, 2007||Kevin Munroe||Thomas K. Gray, Galen Walker and Paul Wang|
|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem||August 4, 2023||Jeff Rowe||Brendan O'Brien||Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver|
The Turtles have starred in six theatrical feature films. The first three are live-action features produced in the early 1990s: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993). The Turtles were played by various actors in costumes featuring animatronic heads, initially produced by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The fourth film, a computer-animated film titled TMNT, was released in 2007.
A reboot, also titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles produced by Platinum Dunes, Nickelodeon Movies, and Paramount Pictures was released in 2014. A sequel titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows was released in 2016. A computer-animated reboot titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is set to release in 2023.
The franchise generated merchandise sales of US$175 million in 1988 and US$350 million in 1989. By May 1990, it had generated US$650 million in domestic retail revenues. By 1994, it was the most merchandisable franchise, having generated a total revenue of US$6,000,000,000 ($10,970,000,000 in 2023) in merchandise sales up until then.
..... Staff artists at Northampton, Massachusetts-based Mirage Studios provided conceptual designs for many of the figures, vehicles, and playsets and creator credit can be found in the legal text printed on the back of the toy packaging. .....
Never before in toy history did an action-figure line have such an impact for over two decades, generating billions of dollars in licensing revenue. The series was highly popular in the UK, where in the run-up to Christmas, the Army & Navy Store in London's Lewisham devoted its entire basement to everything Turtle, including games, videos, costumes, and other items. .....
A number of TMNT video games had been produced, mostly by Konami. The first console video game based on the franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) under Konami's "Ultra Games" label in 1989 and later ported to home computers and eventually for the Wii on the Virtual Console. Also released by Konami in 1989 was an arcade game, also titled simply Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, later ported to the NES as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, leading to an NES-only sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, with gameplay taken from the arcade game, as opposed to the first NES game. The next Turtles game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, was released in 1991 as an arcade game, and was later ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES) in 1992, titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, with a sequel numbering to the NES titles appended. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist was also created for the Sega Genesis in the same year, and used many of the art assets from TMNT IV.
There was also a trilogy of TMNT video games for the original Game Boy system made by Konami, consisting of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue. A PC-exclusive game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions was also released. Konami's last entries during the original run were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, a set of one-on-one fighting game released for the NES, SNES, and Genesis; each version is a wholly distinct game, sharing only the title and genre in common.
In September 2002, Konami also acquired the license to adapt the 2003 TV series into a video game franchise, resulting in a new series of games with 3D gameplay inspired by the old TMNT beat 'em up games, consisting of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 video game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee.
In 2006, Ubisoft acquired the rights for TMNT games, beginning with a game based on the 2007 animated feature film, along with a distinct game for the Game Boy Advance similar in style to the Konami arcade games. A beat 'em up game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack was released for the Nintendo DS in 2009, to coincide with the series' 25th anniversary.
In 2013, Activision released the downloadable game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, based on the 2012 TV series and developed by Red Fly Studio for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Steam.
In 2016, Activision and PlatinumGames developed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. The game is described as a third-person, team-based brawler. The campaign is playable either single-player or co-op and has an original story written by Tom Waltz, IDW comic writer and editor. The art style is based on long time TMNT comic artist Mateus Santolouco.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles appear as playable characters in the DC Comics fighting game Injustice 2 as a part of the "Fighter Pack 3" DLC, with Corey Krueger, Joe Brugie, Ben Rausch and Ryan Cooper voicing their roles.
Leonardo, Michelangelo, April O'Neil and Shredder appear as playable characters in the 2021 platform fighting game Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, with Cam Clarke, Townsend Coleman and Jim Cummings reprising their roles from the 1987 animated series while Abby Trott voices the role as part of the June 2022 update of the game. All four of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles also appeared as playable characters in the fighting game Brawlhalla.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, a beat 'em up with all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, April, Splinter and Casey Jones as playable characters was released in June 2022. It is inspired by the 1987 Turtles animated series and borrows stylistically from the arcade and home console games, developed by Konami during the 80s and 90s.
In other media
Tabletop role playing game
In 1985, Palladium Books published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness. It is a standalone game, but uses the many key mechanics from Palladium's Megaversal system and is compatible with material from other Palladium games. It introduced rules for creating anthropomorphic animal mutants. Examples of mutants are included in the appendices as potential antagonists, including the Terror Bears, Caesars Weasels, and Sparrow Eagles, as well as including stats for the Turtles and other characters. A series of supplements were released over the next few years, which remained in print until, due to the cost of maintaining the license, Palladium decided to end its license with Mirage Studios in January 2000.
During the height of their popularity, the Turtles had a number of food tie-ins. Among the most notable of these products was Ninja Turtles Cereal, produced by Ralston-Purina as a kind of "Chex with TMNT-themed marshmallows." The cereal featured many different in-box premiums during its production run. Ralston also produced Pizza Crunchabungas, which were pizza-flavored corn snacks in the shape of whole, circular pizzas (the commercial starred the Ninja Turtles as Will Vinton-created claymations); Hostess Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pies, featuring a crust covered in green glaze with vanilla pudding inside. Each pie came with either one of five yellow stickers with an illustration of one of the turtles on it, or one of 5 different TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze trading cards inside.
There were also four TMNT mail away items available to order from Hostess and Royal OOZE Gelatin Desserts, distributed by Nabisco under "Royal Gelatin" in three different flavors: orange, strawberry, and lime. Shreddies was a Canadian cereal with TMNT-themed box art and promos. One example of a TMNT prize was rings featuring a character from the cartoon (1992). Chef Boyardee also released a canned pasta with the pasta in the shapes of the four turtles. There were multiple versions of the pasta released, including one with Shredder added into the shapes. ..... This Shredder is one of the more valuable TMNT action figures today.
To capitalize on the Turtles' popularity, a concert tour was held in 1990, premiering at Radio City Music Hall on August 17. The "Coming Out of Their Shells" tour featured live-action turtles playing music as a band (Donatello on keyboards; Leonardo on bass guitar; Raphael on drums and saxophone; and Michelangelo on guitar) on stage around a familiar plotline: April O'Neil is kidnapped by the Shredder, and the Turtles have to rescue her. The story had a very Bill & Ted-esque feel, with its theme of the power of rock n' roll literally defeating the enemy, in the form of the Shredder (who only rapped about how he hates music) trying to eliminate all music. A pay-per-view special highlighting the concert was shown, and a studio album was also released.
The tour was sponsored by Pizza Hut; thus, many references are made to their pizza. Empty Pizza Hut boxes are seen onscreen in the "Behind the Shells" VHS. As part of a cross-marketing strategy, Pizza Hut restaurants gave away posters, audio cassettes of "Coming Out of Their Shells", and "Official Tour Guides" as premiums. The first show of the tour was released on video with a making of video also released. The song "Pizza Power" was later used by Konami for the second arcade game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. Cam Clarke and Peter Renaday reprised their roles as Leonardo and Splinter during spoken portions of the concert's kickoff event in Radio City Music Hall, though they went uncredited in the event's VHS release.
Roller coasters and amusement rides
Nickelodeon Universe at American Dream Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which opened in 2019, contains several TMNT themed rides, including two coasters that broke world records upon their opening. The TMNT Shellraiser, a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter, is the steepest roller coaster in the world at 121.5 degrees. The Shredder, a spinning roller coaster themed to the Shredder, is the world's longest free-spinning coaster where riders could spin the car freely along the track, with a length of 1,322 feet (403 m) and a maximum height of 62 feet (19 m).
Nickelodeon Universe at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, also contains rides themed to the TMNT franchise. These include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shell Shock, a roller coaster that opened in 2012, and Shredder's Mutant Masher, a pendulum ride that opened in 2015.
Although the TMNT had originated as something of a parody, the comic's explosive success led to a wave of small-press, black and white comic parodies of TMNT itself, including Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos, and a host of others. Dark Horse Comics' Boris the Bear was launched in response to these TMNT clones; its first issue was titled "Boris the Bear Slaughters the Teenage Radioactive Black Belt Mutant Ninja Critters". Once the Turtles broke into the mainstream, parodies also proliferated in other media, such as in satire magazines Cracked and Mad and numerous TV series of the period. The satirical British television series Spitting Image featured a recurring sketch "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turds".
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Ricardo delivers production transmission control software to CEVT
CEVT (China Euro Vehicle Technology AB) is a Swedish-based innovation centre that develops mobility solutions for the Geely Group brands – Ricardo was selected by CEVT to deliver the crucial safety-critical transmission control software for a 7-speed dual clutch transmission with a lead 2020 model year application in a compact luxury crossover SUV
Ricardo developed the software according to a ‘systemized track’ approach, in which the vehicle level requirements were used to define the software of the transmission controller. A thorough approach to software engineering was used, conforming to industry standard ‘A-Spice Level 2’. This included testing at a software module, transmission system and vehicle level, and providing full traceability between the specification of each vehicle-level requirement, the point at which it has been implemented in software, and the test procedures and results. This approach is key to providing a long-term robust and maintainable production software implementation.
In addition to the above, the control software was developed according to ISO26262 (Road vehicles – Functional safety) to provide in-built monitoring functionality to ensure that, in the event of software- or hardware-related fault, the maximum operational availability of the transmission is maintained that is compatible with its safe operation.
“Ricardo is pleased to have been able to deliver the production software for CEVT’s DCT in its vehicle product,” commented Ricardo project director, Andy Beaumont. “Production software engineering for road vehicles requires a robust and systemic approach to ensure the required level of operational performance, fault tolerance and safety, while also providing the flexibility required of a modern automotive model year product development programme. This is an area in which Ricardo excels and aims to maintain its position at the forefront of technology as, through electrification and hybridization, the software demands of vehicles and their on-board electronic systems become ever more complex.”
“We were impressed with the speed, flexibility and robustness of the work carried out by Ricardo on this project,” added Chao Zhang, director of project controls & calibration at China Euro Vehicle Technology AB. “As a supplier, Ricardo hit every timing milestone, provided the specified releases we required for winter and summer testing, and resolved all critical issues identified well ahead of the start of production date.”


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Helmets are optional for bikers inKentucky so state police said motorcyclists need to use common sense when decidinghow much protection to wear. Police are also stressing bikers and other driversto look out for each other while sharing the road.
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TRANSPORT OF MERCURY FROM A MINED AREA AND UPTAKE OF MERCURY BY FISH IN THE TIBER RIVER, ITALY
Stream sediment, stream water, and fish were collected from the Tiber River to evaluate downstream transport of mercury (Hg) from inactive mines in the Monte Amiata Hg District (MAMD), Tuscany, Italy. The Tiber River is the third longest river in Italy, with a drainage basin is about 17,400 km2, flowing eventually into the Mediterranean Sea near Rome. Concentrations of Hg in stream sediment samples varied from 20-1900 ng/g, and only 5 of the 17 samples exceeded the probable effect concentration for Hg of 1060 ng/g, the concentration above which harmful effects are likely in sediment-dwelling organisms. An estimated 11 kg of Hg were discharged in 2011 from the Paglia River, a large tributary of the Tiber River proximal to the MAMD. Methyl-Hg in Tiber River sediment samples ranged from 0.12-0.52 ng/g (n = 9), and although there is no guideline established for methyl-Hg in sediment, these concentrations greatly exceeded methyl-Hg in stream sediment collected from a regional baseline site (<0.02 ng/g). Concentrations of Hg in Tiber River water varied from 1.2-320 ng/L (n = 9), all of which were below the 1000 ng/L Italian drinking water guideline and the 770 ng/L guideline for Hg recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to protect against chronic effects to aquatic wildlife. Concentrations of methyl-Hg in Tiber River water ranged from <0.02-0.53 ng/L (n = 9) and were generally elevated compared to the baseline site (< 0.02 ng/L). Concentrations of Hg in freshwater fish ranged from 0.052-0.56 µg/g (muscle, wet weight), mean of 0.17 µg/g, but only 17% (9 of 54 samples) exceeded the 0.30 µg/g (wet weight) USEPA fish muscle guideline recommended to protect human health. Concentrations of Hg in freshwater fish collected from the Tiber River generally decreased with increasing distance from the MAMD. Fish with the highest Hg concentrations were collected proximal to the MAMD, whereas all fish collected most distal from the Hg mines contained Hg below the 0.30 µg/g fish muscle guideline. Conversion of inorganic Hg to methyl-Hg and uptake of Hg by fish was observed on the Paglia River, but less Hg methylation and Hg uptake by freshwater fish was found on the larger Tiber River.


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ALBANY, Ga. – Albany State University continues to make its presence known with the millions of dollars that it pumps into the local and regional area. The university had more than $59 million in research grants flow into the Albany and Southwest Georgia economy over the last several years.
Additionally, almost three times as much — $141 million is the total economic impact that ASU has on the Albany region, according to a study released in 2014 by the University System of Georgia. The report also shows that Albany State created 1,816 jobs in the region, which includes Dougherty, Lee, Worth, Mitchell, Terrell, Colquitt, Baker, Sumter, Calhoun and Tift counties.
“At Albany State, we have outstanding, cutting-edge research and instruction taking place that reaches far beyond our laboratories and classrooms,” said Interim President Arthur N. Dunning. “We are proud that the research dollars we bring into this university are solving problems that will make life better for residents here in Southwest Georgia and far beyond our borders.”
Dunning said research dollars received by Albany State can be felt through public policy, economic development and the quality of life. He said that the university is continuously reviewing and where appropriate, revising its organizational infrastructure to ensure that ASU research and research dollars are having the highest possible impact on the service area. He cited a few examples of the way residents of Albany and Dougherty County benefit directly by having a university in their community. Read Full via ASU


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Dr. Courtney Watkins Bogunovic received her doctorate of podiatric medicine from the California School of Podiatric Medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008. After graduation, she relocated to Florida where she completed a three year surgical residency at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Miami. Her main focus is diabetic foot care, sports medicine, and conservative treatments.
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English rock and pop band Mike + The Mechanics was formed as a side project in 1984 by Mike Rutherford, member of Genesis. The band also consisted of vocalists Paul Carrack and Paul Young (formerly of chart band Sad Cafe), keyboardist Adrian Lee and drummer Peter Van Hooke. After 2000 only Rutherford and Carrack remained as the original members of the band. (Paul Young died in 2000).
Mike & The Mechanics debuted with a self-titled album in 1985. They are known for hits like "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)", "All I Need Is a Miracle", "Word of Mouth", "Over My Shoulder", and "The Living Years". "The Living Years" became a US #1 single "All I Need Is a Miracle" reached #5 on the US Hot 100.
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