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By Bill Cornwell
There are 40 new faces on the fall 2023 Marshall Football roster, with 25 of them being transfers. Players from all over the nation have found a new football home on the Marshall University campus. After nearly three weeks of practices, a few are already showing that they’ll see significant playing time this fall.
One of those transfers catching the eye of the Herd’s defensive coaches is a local project, former Cabell Midland Knight’s All-Stater J.J. Roberts, who transferred from Wake Forest after the 2022 season.
Roberts is a 5-11, 190 redshirt junior defensive back who played in ten of the Demon Deacons’ 13 games last fall. He picked up 20 tackles and 7 pass breakups.
He says he’s happy to compete in practice for a spot on Marshall’s highly-regarded defensive unit.
“The level of competition here is very high, and it’s exciting when I see this happen,” Roberts said. “Sometimes we might have a little drop-off during practice, but we’ve been stacking up plenty of good practices and continue to get better and learn from the mistakes that we make.”
Roberts gets plenty of attention from Marshall fans as a local product, but he says he feels no pressure, and he’s getting plenty of assistance from Head Coach Charles Huff and his staff.
“The coaching staff has made me feel like family since I came in,” Roberts said. “The connection I have with everybody on the team allows me to be comfortable in every situation on the field.”
Another defender who didn’t have to travel far to make a new home at Marshall is former Ohio University Bobcats linebacker Kylen McCracken, a 6-3, 306-pound graduate defensive lineman who joins a Herd defensive front that features preseason All-Sun Belt Conference defensive end Owen Porter and key returnees Sam Burton, Elijah Alston, TyQaze Leggs, and another key transfer, Brandon McElroy, who came from Arizona State.
McCracken is from Cleveland, Ohio, and totaled 31 tackles, two tackles for loss, and one sack in 25 career games at Ohio University.
He says there was a difference in spring ball in how Ohio and Marshall operate their programs.
“There is a lot more volume here, and it’s way more fast-paced,” McCracken said. “There’s a lot more attention to detail at Marshall, and everybody here has the hunger to win in their eyes.”
Although he left an Ohio program that won the Mid-American Conference East Division last fall, he knows that he’s taken a step up in talent while trying to compete for a job with the Herd.
“There’s talent from the young guys to the old guys,” McCracken said. “I’ve been around a lot of dudes over the years, but there’s something different here because everyone is serious, and the sky’s the limit.”
Coach Huff has been pleased with the early work of a group of receivers that he believes will bring quality play this fall at a position that suffered from postseason defections last winter, including the departure of 2022 leading receiver Corey Gammage.
One of the new faces in the Marshall receivers room is Kentucky Wildcats transfer DeMarcus Harris.
Harris played in all but one of Kentucky’s 13 games last fall, making four catches for 90 yards, including a 58-yarder against Youngstown State. In his UK career, Harris, who hails from Vero Beach, Florida, played in 39 career games with eight starts, catching 30 passes for 327 yards and one touchdown.
He’s reunited at MU with his former position coach at Kentucky, Herd receivers coach, and passing game coordinator Jovon Bouknight.
Harris is happy to work with Bouknight again.
“He’s definitely a technician with his work,” Harris said. “He’s very detailed, and he knows how to get to a higher level, and it helps with him being in the room.”
Marshall will hold its second closed scrimmage of fall practice on Saturday afternoon from 1:45 to 3:45 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.


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- Set aside until mixture is cool and refrigerate.
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- In a cocktail shaker, combine vodka, syrup, mandarin juice and yuzu.
- Add enough ice to fill half the shaker, and shake until mixture is cold.
- Place a few ice cubes in a glass, add mandarin slices, and then strain cocktail mixture into glass. Top with a splash of club soda or ginger beer and serve.

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Minnesota United 2, the MLS club’s developmental team, has acquired 18-year-old left-sided center back Geremy Rodas from Honduran club Lobos UPNFM.
A member of Honduras’ under-20 national team, Rodas will join MNUFC2 on a loan through July, with the Loons having an option to buy Rodas’ rights from Lobos, a top-flight club in the Liga Nacional.
The Loons have had success in Honduras with first-team midfielders Kervin Arriaga and Joseph Rosales, and are looking for more talent from the Central American country.
MNUFC2 said Thursday they will retain the following players for the 2023 season: goalkeeper Alec Smir; defenders Jason Romas and CC Uche; midfielders Emmanuel Iwe, Molik Jesse Khan, Juan Mosquera and Diogo Pacheco. They have no forwards on their current roster.
MNUFC2 has moved on from Tommy Williamson, Sagir Arce, Ignacio Gutierrez, Nick Mendonca and Veljko Petkovic.

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Bahrainis go to the polls this Saturday to elect a new parliament, in an election in which the government has not allowed the Shia opposition and its supporters to participate in the electoral process, something that has led several NGOs to describe the elections as "fraudulent".
More than 344,000 citizens will cast their ballots in 55 polling stations across the small island nation of 1.7 million people, less than half of whom are Bahraini nationals, the official Bahraini news agency BNA said.
These elections also saw an all-time record number of candidates: 507, more than double the number of contenders compared to the previous 2018 elections, including 94 women. Candidates are vying for a total of 40 seats in the lower house in an election marked by the opposition's ban on participation in the electoral process, which NGOs estimate will affect up to 11,000 of the kingdom's citizens.
The main Barein opposition group, the Shi'ite Al Wefaq, which has been banned since 2016, announced that it will boycott the elections as "a farce" without the participation of Shi'ite opposition forces. NGOs estimate that some 2,000 people, mostly Shi'a opponents but also human rights activists and critics, are imprisoned in Bahrain, many of them since the 2011 protests calling for reforms in the heat of the Arab Spring.
The elections also come just days after Pope Francis' visit to Bahrain, where he called for respect and the promotion of human rights in the Arab country.
Bahrain has a bicameral system with a total of 80 members. The upper house, called the Shura Council - a consultative body - has 40 members and is appointed directly by the king. The other consists of 40 seats elected at the ballot box, although several human rights organisations complain that the process is far from democratic.
The legislature has very limited capacities and some MPs have expressed concern that laws passed are routinely rejected by the government.


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Brothers Lazaroff 8th Annual Hanukkah Hullabaloo
Brothers Lazaroff take to the majestic theatre inside The Grandel, newly renovated by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation in the Grand Center Arts District, for their yearly Hanukkah bash featuring Rabbi James Stone Goodman and the Eight Nights Orchestra, DJ Boogieman, tributes to Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and more! As always, free latkes will be fried on-stage! All to benefit the fantastic work Metro Theater Company does in our community. Local food vendors will be on hand and STL-Style will be selling their St. Louis-inspired apparel. The event is sponsored by St. Louis-based accounting firm Brown Smith Wallace.

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Castro Exit Unlikely to Thaw U.S.-Cuba Relations
Warren Richey; Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor
Fidel Castro's announcement that he would neither seek, nor accept, another term as president of Cuba is not expected to have an immediate impact on US policy toward the communist island-state.
Rather, the announcement is viewed as a continuation of a transition of power orchestrated by Mr. Castro himself. Analysts expect his brother, Raul Castro, to be named president of Cuba on Sunday when the party meets to select the State Council and president.
In terms of US-Cuban relations, analysts say, the developments in Cuba fail to satisfy several conditions set by the Bush administration for improved ties. Washington has maintained an economic embargo for 46 years, and President Bush has refused to consider lifting the embargo or otherwise improving relations as long as Fidel Castro, or Raul Castro, holds the reins of power.
In comments from Rwanda, Mr. Bush repeated his administration's conditions for improved ties to Cuba. "I view this as a period of transition," he told reporters. "It should be the beginning of the democratic transition for the people in Cuba."
Bush said the Cuban government should mark the current transition by releasing political prisoners and by building democratic institutions within Cuba.
John Negroponte, deputy secretary of State, told reporters that Fidel Castro's announcement would not prompt a change in US policy and a lifting of the trade embargo. "I can't imagine that happening any time soon," he said.
Foreign-policy analysts agree. "This will have very little effect on US policy since the Bush administration has made it clear that it won't deal with any Cuban government led by either Fidel or Raul," says Wayne Smith, director of the Cuba Program at the Center for International Policy in Washington.
"However ... Raul has indicated he is open to dialogue with the United States; this could lead to some change under a new US administration," he says.
Peter DeShazo, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says he does not expect any substantial policy change in Washington.
"The administration's policy has been, Cuba should be democratic," Mr. DeShazo says. "The administration has already said, if it's Raul, or Fidel, it's still the same administration."
But he adds that there are potential openings now. "Raul Castro has been in de facto control of the country since July 2006, and really controls all the levers of power," DeShazo says. "The real change here is that it gives him still greater legitimacy for making reforms, making change, and I would expect those changes to come in the economic area and not in the political area."
Reaction from Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, the heart of the US Cuban exile community, was muted.
"It's a resignation on paper only," says Ramon Alvarez, a former Cuban government worker who escaped to the US soon after Castro took power. …


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The Community Breakfast, scheduled for 7:15-8:45 a.m., is a fundraiser that supports the 21st District Recovery Court, which is an alternative sentencing program in the 21st Judicial District of Williamson, Hickman, Perry and Lewis counties. The program affords local non-violent offenders with addiction issues the opportunity to complete an extensive two-year, court-supervised program in lieu of and/or in addition to traditional sentencing that enables them to receive the treatment and skills training necessary to become productive members of society.
Recovery Court (formerly Drug Court) was created in 2002 when courts were seeing repeated offenders over and over again for violation of probation rules that stemmed from drug and alcohol abuse. With the collaboration of two judges, the Honorable Judge Tim Easter and the Honorable Judge Don Harris and Attorney Gayle Moyer-Harris, a 501(c)3 was approved, and 21st District Recovery Court began accepting participants in August of 2002.
Marianne Schroer, who served as executive director of Recovery Court from 2011 to 2013 and who was the founder of the nonprofits’ two major fundraisers, Eat the Street and the Community Breakfast, will be honored at this year’s breakfast with the Gayle Moyer-Harris award. Two graduates of the court will also share their experiences and success with the program, and Puckett's will cater the breakfast.
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- Protein 17 g
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- Cholesterol 52 mg
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- Phosphorus 195 mg
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Scores of celebs, including numerous Star Wars cast members, have been sharing their sadness over Carrie Fisher’s death at the age of 60 following a heart attack. Including these strong women.
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The player: Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps
The play: KickApps provides Web sites with a full suite of social media tools to enable social networking, widgets, user-generated video and content syndication. Site owners can pick and choose the social media tools they need, essentially letting small and large site-owners build in the capabilities of a YouTube, MySpace or Flickr to their Web destinations.
The pitch: Media companies are intent on adding social media tools to their sites because they entice viewers to stay longer and share information with other visitors, building impressions and page views for a site. According to an Accenture study, about 62 percent of media executives expect to make money via ads and sponsorships of social media within the next three years. Mr. Blum said KickApps clients have reported traffic increases between 30 percent and 100 percent after adding social media tools. “If you look at the fastest-growing sites, they are social media sites. That leaves a huge universe of destinations who are trying to grow audiences and are looking for the most effective ways of doing that,” he said. KickApps offers its tools for free and makes money via a share of the incremental ad dollars generated from the new features. “If you implement this and nothing happens, we don’t get paid,” he said. n
The backstory: Chairman Eric Alterman founded the company in 2005. Mr. Blum joined in late 2005 as a board member and became CEO in February.
The money guys: Mr. Alterman self-funded the company in the early days. KickApps then raised $7 million last June from Spark Capital, Prism VentureWorks and Jarl Mohn. KickApps is gearing up for a B round of funding.
In the mix: KickApps powers the social media component for DIY at DIYnetwork.com, launching this week, and also has worked for Procter & Gamble, ABC, Disney and others. KickApps targets media companies but also vertically oriented sites centered around interests, such as autos, and independent producers.
The pros: “We believe social media is thought of as an add-on, but we believe strongly at some point in time it will no longer be thought of as an add-on but a baseline requirement for your site,” Mr. Blum said.
The cons: KickApps faces competition from other social media technology providers such as Ning and Neighborhood America.
Background: Mr. Blum was born and raised outside of Detroit. He attended the University of Colorado and earned a degree in mechanical engineering and then received an MBA from Seattle University. Prior to KickApps he was president and chief operating officer of IPTV network JumpTV. He also worked at AOL. The 45-year-old Mr. Blum lives in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife and son.
Who knew? Mr. Blum said in his spare time, when not with his family skiing in Colorado or on the golf course, he enjoys running his vintage Porsche on the Lime Rock Park race track in northwest Connecticut.


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"Thirty-three people were killed. Some were queer, and others were straight allies. The GLBT community at Tech grieves in the same way as others — deeply and as part of a greater whole.... Yes, there were gay people that were killed. One was a very close friend of mine. But I don't feel comfortable talking about it because I haven't talked to the families and I want to be respectful to the families, first and foremost. I don't want this to be a gay thing, because it's not a gay thing. It's an everybody thing."
-- Virginia Tech GLBT Student Alliance president Curtis Dahn, confirming gay students among the casualties in the massacre earlier this week.

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The 3D-printing of glass objects is a modern version of an old Egyptian technique. But through time, this kind of 3D printing of became more and more beautiful. In fact, there is a new process which is developed by Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. This process is predicted to produce more complex glass products, with higher quality than ever.
The process of 3D printing of glass
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In an open letter published on the Daily Beast, Patti Davis—daughter of Ronald Reagan—chided Will Ferrell over Reagan, an upcoming comedy he’s slated to produce and star in, about the former president’s struggles with Alzheimer’s.
According to Variety, Reagan—written by screenwriter Mike Rosolio and listed as one of the best unproduced scripts on this year’s Black List—“begins at the start of the then-president’s second term when he falls into dementia and an ambitious intern is tasked with convincing the commander-in-chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie.”
Davis is not charmed by the idea.
“I watched as fear invaded my father’s eyes—this man who was never afraid of anything. I heard his voice tremble as he stood in the living room and said, ‘I don’t know where I am,” she writes, continuing:
I watched helplessly as he reached for memories, for words, that were suddenly out of reach and moving farther away. For ten long years he drifted—past the memories that marked his life, past all that was familiar… and mercifully, finally past the fear.
There was laughter in those years, but there was never humor.
Alzheimer’s is the ultimate pirate, pillaging a person’s life and leaving an empty landscape behind. It sweeps up entire families, forcing everyone to claw their way through overwhelming grief, confusion, helplessness, and anger.
Davis, who runs a support group for the caregivers and families of people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, then challenges Ferrell to visit a dementia care facility:
Perhaps for your comedy you would like to visit some dementia facilities. I have—I didn’t find anything comedic there, and my hope would be that if you’re a decent human being, you wouldn’t either.
A friendly reminder to Ferrell, Rosolio, and Davis (as well as filmmakers and critics at large): It’s definitely possible to create comedy that’s both compassionate and funny. Strive for both, favor the former.
UPDATE: Will Farrell is no longer attached to Reagan. A rep for Ferrell says, “The REAGAN script is one of a number of scripts that had been submitted to Will Ferrell which he had considered. While it is by no means a ‘Alzheimer’s comedy’ as has been suggested, Mr. Ferrell is not pursuing this project.”
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Doctors' Bruising Lawsuit against Hospitals Advances
Friday, October 26, 2007
by Roberts Staff Writer
According to the suit, the hospital defendants also engaged in frequent communications with one another and their managed-care partners to ensure that Heartland was shut out of all networks.
For instance, in 2004, after Cigna declined to include Heartland in Cigna's provider network, an HCA Midwest official wrote the following:
"Thanks for confirming what I thought was the case re (Heartland). I think they're desperate, hoping that they can convince an MCO that they're being added to everybody else's networks so that MCO will feel the pressure to also add. All he probably thinks he needs is one deer-in-the-headlights MCO to cave, and then the rest will fall like dominos."
United Healthcare Inc. became the first domino on March 1, allowing Heartland to become an in-network provider for about 350,000 members.
Before that, according to testimony from Laura Kozisek, United's former director of network management, there had been "kind of the understanding, unwritten but understood" among MCOs that none of them would extend contracts to physician-owned hospitals.
One of Heartland's founding physicians, Dr. Stanley Hoehn, testified that Shawnee Mission Medical Center's COO told him the medical center "was going to find a way to either put Heartland out of business or hurt Heartland's contracting so bad that Heartland would be crippled and unsuccessful."
David Ettinger, a lawyer with Honigman Miller Schwarts and Cohn LLP of Detroit who represents Shawnee Mission, said "that's not only untrue, it doesn't make any sense in light of Shawnee Mission's behavior."
Since Heartland opened in 2003, he said, Shawnee Mission has not entered into any contracts restricting managed-care payers' ability to contract with physician-owned hospitals.
In addition, two Heartland owners practice at the medical center, he said, "and Shawnee Mission not only doesn't retaliate against them, it promotes them heavily."
CONSPIRACY CASE ADVANCES
An April 1 federal jury trial date has been set in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that area hospitals and insurers conspired to drive Heartland Spine & Specialty Hospital out of the market.
The physicians who own the Overland Park specialty hospital allege that several acute-care hospital competitors pressured insurers to deny managed-care contracts to Heartland.
The trial date was set in an Oct. 1 order, which was sealed until Oct. 17 and also ruled against defendants' motions for summary judgment.
Hospital defendants include HCA Midwest Health System, Saint Luke's Health System, Shawnee Mission Medical Center and Carondelet Health. North Kansas City Hospital has settled, as have insurers Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, United Healthcare Inc., Humana Health Plan Inc. and Cigna Healthcare of Ohio Inc. Insurers who remain are Coventry Health Care of Kansas Inc. and Aetna Inc.
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U.S. OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL TRANSMITS REPORT OF INVESTIGATION IN
RESPONSE TO WHISTLEBLOWER'S ALLEGATIONS OF GROSS MISMANAGEMENT AT THE U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1/31/01
CONTACT: JANE MCFARLAND
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) today transmitted to the President and the Congress, an investigative report from the U.S. Department of Education (Education), into whistleblower allegations of violations of law, rule, or regulation, gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, and an abuse of authority at the Department of Education, in Washington, D.C.
The agency’s report of investigation addressed allegations made to OSC by Mr. John
Gard, a Systems Accountant in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) at the agency. Mr. Gard alleged, among other things, that the OCFO has failed to properly account for billions of dollars of Federal grant money. He alleged that the grantee payment arm of the agency’s new financial management system, known as the Grants Administration and Payment System (GAPS), implemented in late 1997, does not contain proper internal and external security controls, audit trails, or accounting functions. As a result, Mr. Gard alleged, Education has been unable to fully account for grant monies, audit its accounts, or produce financial statements necessary for year-end
OSC reviewed Mr. Gard’s allegations and determined that they established a substantial likelihood that violations of law, gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, and an abuse of authority had occurred in
OCFO. Accordingly, pursuant to its statutory authority, OSC referred the matter to The Honorable Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education, for an investigation.
The agency’s report partially substantiates Mr. Gard’s allegations, which had already been investigated independent of the OSC referral by, among others, Education’s Office of Inspector General
(OIG). According to the report, Education has addressed most of the concerns raised by the OIG regarding GAPS, and is currently addressing additional concerns raised by the General Accounting Office and the agency’s independent financial statement auditor.
Education’s report included a GAO review of its use of a deposit fund known as the grantback account. GAO issued a report critical of the agency’s financial management system and manual internal controls over grantback activity and related funds control. The GAO report found that financial management system deficiencies, inadequate systems of funds control, and manual internal control weaknesses continued to exist in the
OCFO, creating an increased risk of fraud, waste, and mismanagement.
The Education report concluded that while it did identify violations of federal financial management laws, Mr. Gard’s allegations did not rise to the level of “gross mismanagement,” a gross waste of funds, or an abuse of authority, in part because it did not act in deliberate disregard of known deficiencies. In transmitting the report, the Special Counsel noted her disagreement with the agency’s legal conclusion. She observed that the agency’s failure to maintain adequate accounting controls, to produce auditable financial statements, and to account for billions of taxpayer dollars, suggests management action or inaction that has created a substantial risk of significant adverse impact upon the agency’s ability to accomplish its mission.
Among its other functions, the Office of Special Counsel provides federal employees with a secure channel for blowing the whistle on violations of law, rule, or regulation, gross mismanagement or waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety. The OSC is empowered to require agencies to conduct investigations whenever it finds a substantial likelihood that a federal employee’s disclosures demonstrate the existence of one of these conditions, and to report back to the OSC its findings along with any corrective action taken. After the OSC reviews the report to insure that it contains the necessary information and that its findings appear reasonable, the OSC transmits the report to the President and the Congress for further action, if appropriate.
Copies of the Department’s report, Mr. Gard’s comments, and Special Counsel Elaine Kaplan’s transmittal letter may be obtained by contacting the


A FLORIDIAN is infected with a rare and usually deadly brain-eating amoeba, health officials told Your Content late Sunday night.
According to the Department of Health, the patient contracted Naegleria fowleri in Hillsborough County.
Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled living amoeba, the department said in a statement on Friday.
The amoeba can cause a rare infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) that destroys brain tissue and is usually fatal.
According to health officials, the amoeba is commonly found in warm freshwater such as lakes, rivers, ponds and canals.
Infections can happen when contaminated water enters the body through the nose.
“It is essential to seek medical attention right away, as the disease progresses rapidly after the start of symptoms,” the health department said.
Those symptoms include headaches, fever, nausea, disorientation, vomiting, stiff neck, seizures, loss of balance or hallucinations after swimming in warm water.
Officials said this type of infection usually occurs when temperatures increase for prolonged periods of time. The peak season for this amoeba is July, August and September.
While the amoeba is found in many freshwater lakes, ponds and rivers, health officials said it is more common in southern states.
Health officials also listed recommendations for residents who have plans to swim in bodies of freshwater.
“Hold the nose shut or use nose clips when taking part in water-related activities in bodies of warm freshwater such as lakes, rivers, or hot springs,” officials said.
Lastly, people should avoid “digging in or stirring up the sediment while taking part in water-related activities in shallow, warm freshwater areas.”


Samsung’s desire to introduce the world’s first foldable smartphone appear to be at last getting off the ground as the South Korean organization has got its Samsung Galaxy X foldable smartphone guaranteed in its nation of origin.
The South Korean certification body has ensured Galaxy X (Let’sGoDigital, the handset’s model number SM-G888N0), according to a report, which doesn’t generally reveal any insight into the what the last gadget will resemble.
It has just passed Bluetooth confirmation and subsequently radio certification, the means new cell phones take before they go on sale. On the certification result page, the model number SM-G888N0 is set apart as “Equipment of radio equipment for LTE mobile communication”, which implies that it could be any gadget, yet a gadget bearing a similar model number was beforehand spotted on the Wi-Fi organization together as a smartphone. While the things look foggy right now.
To review, Samsung’s portable boss DJ Koh earlier this month said that the South Korean giant is intending to present a foldable smartphone in its Galaxy Note smartphone series by as early as 2018. The smartphone has already been referred to Galaxy X, however this name isn’t authenticAccording to Bloomberg, the president of mobile business Koh Dong-jin said “As the head of the business, I can say our current goal is next year. When we can overcome some problems for sure, we will launch the product.”
Insight view – Samsung Galaxy X
Presently, Samsung is good to go to make the iPhone X resembles an out-dated gadget with its new Samsung Galaxy X smartphone. Samsung beat the iPhone X at its bezel-less diversion even before it was released.
The Samsung Galaxy X will go up against the most recent Apple’s iPhone X that highlights an all-screen show with only a notch at the top. With its trapezoidal bezel at the best, iPhone X has an 82.9% screen-to-body apportion while the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ remain at 83.6% and 84% respectively.
Samsung aims to take an OLED screen and make it bend in half. The phone is also supported by security software, including the best VPN for Android devices.
- Inward-folding device with a 3R curvature
- 4K (3840×2160 pixels) resolution screen
- Flexible OLED Display
- Latest Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
- The phone screen is rumored to be in the 5inch that could overlap out into an 8inch tablet, yet it’s presently suspected to overlay out into a 7inch.
- Dual camera.
It seems the Galaxy X will launch in South Korea first, with other regions later in 2018. The smartphone could be coming sooner than we expected. The dispatch of Galaxy X now seems inescapable. Other companies including LG and Lenovo are also eyeing up foldable phones as the next big thing.


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Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, defended traditional lectures in a New York Times op-ed titled “The trouble with online education”. He described how he teaches. When he teaches, he fails to
1. Pay attention to what students want to learn.
2. Treat different students differently (beyond giving them different grades).
A few weeks ago, I described how doing these two things made teaching much easier. It’s like swimming with or against the current. You can take advantage of human diversity (my approach) or you can ignore it (Edmundson’s approach), which means fighting against it.


text: The Modine indoor separated combustion duct furnace was designed for use with a building’s heating, heating/cooling and make-up air systems. Modine separated combustion duct furnaces are specifically designed for buildings with hostile atmospheric conditions, such as high humidity or negative pressures. Available in 11 power exhausted model sizes, the unit covers a wide variety of applications. They have input ranges from 75,000 to 400,000 Btu/Hr and can operate on either natural or propane gas. The airflow direction can be specified when ordering the unit. The duct furnace is certified for location either upstream or downstream from cooling coils and has a drain pan that allows connection to a condensate drain line.


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The Rocky Mountain Chapter (RMC) of the National Corvette Restorer’s Society (NCRS) is one of more than 30 local NCRS organizations. We formed shortly after NCRS itself, back in 1974, making us one of the oldest chapters going.
Our domain includes Colorado, Wyoming, western Nebraska, South Dakota and western Kansas. We are proud to have members from places as distant as Argentina, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, New Zealand, and Australia! We are active on a global scale and love to get around…
Our membership numbers in the 100-150 range and resides principally in the Denver metropolitan corridor of Colorado. You’ll find a wide variety of Corvette and NCRS judging knowledge here with member owned cars of many different years.
We meet approximately once a month targeting the third Saturday for our get togethers. We conduct Flight Judging meets, provide judging schools technical sessions, run group road trips and host several social events each year. We’re a fun group of people sharing a common interest in Corvettes!
RMC has been active on the national level by hosting a number of NCRS Regional meets as well as National Conventions. Not every Corvette owner wants to turn ‘baby’ into a museum piece, but a little bit of knowledge goes a long way. Discover what’s what and then keep your car the way YOU want it. We’ll help!
We invite you to join us. Learn about your car, meet fellow enthusiasts, and get active with your our local group of good guys!


A marijuana company just bought a whole entire town in California, and we've got some questions
California is becoming known as a pretty marijuana friendly state. Especially now that a marijuana company bought an entire town there. As marijuana becomes more and more legal across the country, we’re learning of all the amazing things it can do — Like help with those period cramps or other health issues. And we’re also looking into doing cooler things with it. Like making pumpkin spice edibles. But we’ve never heard of a whole marijuana town before.
So what exactly is this new town going to entail? Well, right now, we know that the grower, American Green Inc., spent 5 million dollars to buy the town of Nipton, California. So what are they going to do with Nipton? There are a lot of speculations.
Obviously, they’ll be growing weed, right?
According to some, it is going to become a pot-centric tourist destination. false
They believe that showing the importance of cannabis can help the acceptance of it. The choice for buying Nipton is, in part, because of when the town itself was founded.
But what exactly will this city run on? While yes, a tourist destination for pot lovers, what else is going to keep Nipton alive? Or is that the grower’s only plan for this city?
From the videos and news coming out about Nipton, it’s clear that this city is pretty empty right now.
So will this new tourist attractive help bring life to this almost ghost town? Who knows, but at least there’s going to be a new place to go for all your marijuana needs. We’ll just have to wait and see exactly what the plans are for this little town. Maybe a movie theater that shows all our favorite pot inspired films? Seth Rogen movies will definitely have a new life there!
But until we know more about Nipton, we’re just going to have to wait and see what this grower chooses to do.


After trying out a variety of solutions, mounting different breather catch tanks in different location, we decided to create a solution that used as little space as possible in the GT-R engine bay. Locally made for us in the UK, our combined tank allows for the same volume of coolant as the Forge item, but with the addition of a breather catch tank on the rear.
The engine breather kit separates the engine oil breathers from the engines intake system. This helps reduce the amount of oil that can cover the inside of the intake tract reducing the performance of the intercooler and causing the engine to ingest unnecessary oil. The baffled Catch Can separates the oil from the moisture and allows the pressure to be released underneath the car and the oil droplets to be caught in the bottom of the tank. The tank can be drained simply as part of the cars maintenance. A must for higher performance GT-R engines.
The combined tank is sold as part of the Litchfield breather system upgrade which includes all the lines and unions needed to make it fit correctly on the GT-R
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The highest, most exposed ridge in our vineyard inspires my wife, Eva, the writer in the family. From this ridge, The Writer’s Block Riesling displays the kind of intensity, focus, and pureness of expression writers desire. Harvested a little later that our Chockstone Riesling, the grapes benefit from a touch more sun, resulting in a crisp structure and layers of subtle flavours. Nine months on lees in ten-year old French barriques lend a softness and inviting textural element.
Pure expression of Great Western minerality and delicate Riesling fruit characters. Wildflowers and citrus, with hints of passionfruit and guava.
Focussed, crisp, structured and precise right now, a decade or more in the cellar will unearth unexpected new layers of flavours and elegant complexity.


The teacher evaluation system passed by the state legislature which was vigorously promoted by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his so-called education expert, Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryo,r is turning out to be nothing more than a political foil [Feb. 12, op-ed, "Tight Budget Threatens Key School Reforms"].
Most education experts have made it absolutely clear that using student performance on standardized tests to evaluate the performance of teachers is nothing more than a waste of time. The governor must wake up to this fact and place a very large stop sign on this ill-conceived approach to teacher evaluations, and meet with those who can truly provide leadership and expertise on this important issue, that being the public school teachers in Connecticut.
To continue down this present road is not only a waste of time and resources, it will prove that ignorance is more important than sound educational policy.
Clifford Silvers, Milford


19. August 2019 Stuttgart / London
- Biffa is bringing 43 new Mercedes-Benz Econic refuse collection trucks into service in the UK
- British refuse and recycling specialist is testing five skip loaders and hookloaders based on the Econic in London
- DirectVision cab: 5-star rating for excellent all-round visibility
Stuttgart / London – Integrated waste management and recycling leader Biffa has expanded its fleet with 43 new Mercedes-Benz Econic trucks. The British refuse collection and recycling specialist now has a fleet of around 1500 refuse collection and recycling vehicles in active operation across the UK. A large part of that fleet is made up Econic refuse collection trucks.
The majority of the 43 recently delivered brand-new Econic vehicles are refuse collection vehicles based on the Econic 2630 L and feature a steered rear axle as well as a compactor body. Colin Bagnall, Fleet Project Engineer at Biffa, is truly impressed by the Econic: “The Mercedes-Benz Econic is our vehicle of choice for refuse collection. It is reliable and cost-effective in operation, while our crews appreciate its comfortable, air-conditioned walk-through cab.”
Alongside the 38 three-axle, 26-tonne trucks with compactor body, Biffa has also ordered two novel vehicle types: skip loaders and hookloaders based on the low-entry Econic chassis. The five new refuse collection vehicles are currently being tested in London. There are three two-axle Econic 1827 L skip loaders and two Econic 3235 L hookloaders with four axles. By equipping the trucks with a steering front axle, a tandem axle unit with two driven rear axles and a single-tyre trailing steered axle, the Econic hookloaders are especially well-suited to waste collection in heavy urban traffic thanks to the particularly good manoeuvrability which this combination offers. Initial feedback from the drivers was encouragingly positive.
The new Econic vehicles from Biffa are powered by frugal OM 936 LA six-cylinder inline engines with 7.7 litres displacement. Engine output on the refuse collection vehicles is 220 kW (299 hp); on the skip loaders, that figure is 200 kW (272 hp), whilst the hookloaders deliver 260 kW (354 hp). On the Econic 2630 L refuse collection trucks, a fully automatic Allison 6-speed transmission handles gearshifts, whilst the skip loaders and hookloaders are equipped with a 12-speed Mercedes PowerShift 3 transmission.
Cab with five-star rating – direct line of sight with cyclists and pedestrians
The “DirectVision cab” of the Econic makes a decisive contribution towards protecting weaker road users: thanks to its deep, panoramic windscreen and full-height, glazed folding side door and the low driver’s seating position, the driver enjoys excellent all-round visibility of surrounding traffic. As a result, the driver has direct eye contact with cyclists and pedestrians, e.g. at junctions or in traffic jams. The Mercedes-Benz Econic was therefore honoured with a five-star rating as part of London’s “DirectVision Standards” guideline.
Biffa was founded in 1912. The company is based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and has a total of 195 branches across the UK. Its Municipal Division services over 2.4 million households and collects 4.1 million bins every week.


A Case Study on Machining the Cell Phone Shell
This paper presents a fast and effective methodology for the optimal process conditions of an injection-molded thermoplastic part with a thin shell feature based on the orthogonal array with the grey relational analysis and fuzzy logic. The proposed optimal procedure in solving the optimal multi responses problem applies the grey relational co-efficient for each machining response and converts a grey fuzzy reasoning grade to evaluate the multiple machining responses. One real case study in the injection molding process of Poly carbonate Styrene (PC/ABS) cell phone shell has been performed to substantiate the proposed optimal procedure in order to indicate its feasibility and effectiveness. Through the grey fuzzy logic analysis, the principle injection molding parameters, namely the opening mold cavity time, mold temperature, melt temperature, filling time, filling pressure, packing time, packing pressure and cooling time, are optimized with considerations of multiple machining responses including the strength of welding line, shrinkage and difference of forming distributive temperature. The results of confirmation test with the optimal levels of process parameters have obviously shown that the above machining responses in the injection molding process can be improved effectively together through this procedure. In addition, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) is utilized to find the effect of machining parameters on the multiple machining responses problem of the injection molding process.
The objection of design concept for an injection molded thermoplastic part with a thin shell feature in the computer, communication and consumer electronic (3C) products have more space for the tightly packed components inside the housing. Therefore the wall thickness of the housing parts will reduce to 1 mm or less in thickness from the original of 2 or 3 mm in thickness. As a result, the selection of appropriate process parameters for the injection molding operation is becoming more difficult increasingly and important as the wall thickness of these thermoplastic products becomes thinner. It is an unstable cyclical work in the process of injection molding, which includes filling, packing, cooling, opening the mode cavity, injecting and closing the mode cavity. During production of these thermoplastic products, many factors easily cause the defects of an injection molded thermoplastic part with a thin shell feature, such as warp-page, shrinkage, sink marks, residual stress, and so on. Due to the complexity of injection molding, numerous mathematical models have been proposed and extensively developed by a growing numbers of papers for the analysis of different stages of the injection molding process. Huang and Tai had applied the Taguchi optimization method to deduce the optimum sets of effective factors in the injection molding process in order to produce plastic parts with minimum warpage. Ozcelik and Erzurumlu also had presented the optimal process parameters for minimization of wrapage of thin shell plastic parts using integrated response surface method and genetic algorithm. Liao et al, had investigated the optimal process conditions of shrinkage and warpage of thin wall parts with the consideration of interaction effects between process parameters. Therefore, selection of appropriate process parameters for an injection-molded part with a thin shell feature in the status of considerations of multiple machining responses including strength, shrinkage and warpage is enormously difficult and complicated, and relies heavily on huge experimental operation, more details.
The optimization of the multiple machining responses in the meantime is much more complicated than optimization of a single machining response. The grey relational analysis theory initialized by Deng makes use of grey relational generating and calculates the grey relational co-efficient to handle the uncertain systematic problem under the status of only partial known information. The grey relational co-efficient can express the relationship between the desired and actual experimental results and the grey relational grade is simultaneously computed correspondent to each machining response. The single grey relational grade can provide an optimal constitute of process parameters in which manufacturing simultaneously requests multiple machining responses. The optimal level of process parameters were confirmed through the level with the highest grey relational grade. The theory of fuzzy logic which was originated by Zadeh is an effective mathematical module of resolving problems which contain the uncertain huge information. The fuzzy logic analysis including the max min fuzzy inference and centroid de-fuzzification method adopts the fuzziness of human concepts to deal with multiple responses.
Therefore the fuzzy logic can also be applied to establish the optimal set of control parameters with considerations of multiple machining responses. The main objective of the present study is to apply the grey relational analysis and fuzzy logic to establish the optimal set of control machining parameters with considerations of multiple machining responses including strength, shrinkage and warpage during the plastic injection molding process of an injection molded thermoplastic part with a thin shell feature, complete report read here. One real case study in the injection molding process of Polycarbonate Styrene (PC/ABS) cell phone shell has been performed to substantiate the proposed optimum procedure in order to indicate its feasibility and effectiveness. The market scope of smart cell phone has been especially overtaken the other electronic consumer products. The shell of cell phone is not only durable, enduring fall and well looking, but also convenient and with many variable style. It is great challenge to the manufacturers of cell phone. Especially, for original equipment manufacturers (OEM), it is critically important to acquire the optimal process parameters effectively and adjusting factors for decreasing trail and error time and consuming cost in which the size, thickness and construction of this product were restrained and not modified again. The experimental results for the optimal setting through the grey fuzzy logic will confirm the above machining responses in the injection molding process of PC/ABS cell phone shell and reveal that it can be improved effectively together through this approach.
In this study, a fast and effective methodology using the grey relational analysis and fuzzy logic analysis is introduced for the optimal process conditions of an injection molded thermoplastic part with a thin shell feature.
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A sweet cat toy. A pink bag with and hot pink bow. What could be better than this?
The cat toy is removable from the bag, and the bag can be undone so they can be played with, together or separately. The little pet can be taken wherever your little one goes. perfect gift for children birthday.
Recommended for ages 3Y+

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|GET FROM||Unknown Scroll, Mystical Scroll, Mystical Summon, Social Summon, Fire Scroll, Temple of Wishes|
|AWAKENED BONUS||Increases Resistance by 25%.|
|STATS||Level 40 (Awakened)
Skill 1: Breeze: Attacks the target and increases the Attack Bar of the ally with the lowest Attack Bar by 15%.
- Lv.2 Damage +5%
- Lv.3 Damage +5%
- Lv.4 Damage +5%
- Lv.5 Damage +5%
- Lv.6 Damage +10%
- Lv.7 Damage +10%
Skill 2: Rabbit’s Agility: Fills up an ally’s Attack Bar to the MAX and increases the target’s Attack Speed for 2 turns. (Reusable in 5 turns)
- Lv.2 Cooltime Turn -1
- Lv.3 Cooltime Turn -1
Skill 3: Little Humming Bird (Passive): Removes up to 2 harmful effects of the ally with the lowest HP and heals 10% of the ally’s HP in each turn. [Automatic Effect]
- Swift+Energy (Spd/HP%/HP%)
- Violent+Revenge (Spd/HP%/HP%) – Nemesis instead of Revenge works too.
- Debuff cleaner. Really helpful in stages like dragons, where your monter with less HP generally has DOTs.
- Attack bar filler plus Attack Speed boost with only 3 turns Cooldown. This skill combined with Violent proc can make your team attack non-stop. Used with Verdehile will make a difference.
- Team HP balanced thanks to 3rd skill.
- Less than 10,000 HP at level 40 makes him an easy target.
Worth evolve to: 6 stars
Verdehile. Using 2nd skill on Verdehille will not only boost his Attack Bar but your whole team as well once Verdehile attack. Both together can make your team attack non-stop.

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text: Nathan Adsit is a Tribal Rites homegrown artist. He has worked in all three shops, but now has a home in Longmont. Nathan was an incredible artist before he started tattooing. Now he lends his unique style to ink on the skin. If you are looking for portraits or the very popular (but hard to do right) water color style, then Nathan is the artist for you. Nathan is very laid back, and he is happy to work with you on any custom art. Let him take a little license and add his own flavor and you will end up with an amazing tattoo you will cherish for life.


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Life in Somaliland
Women and girls often lack a strong voice in society, as decisions in the home and government are made almost exclusively by men.
In Somaliland, 97% of girls aged between four and 11 have endured female genital mutilation (FGM), a brutal procedure that can cause death and countless health complications.
Low literacy rates and limited awareness of legal rights also make women vulnerable to domestic violence and sexual abuse. After the war, Somaliland’s education system collapsed. While schools are reopening and primary school enrolment increasing, the quality of education is poor and many teachers remain unqualified.
Somaliland in statistics
- 3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14115069 ↩
- 4. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/01/29/new-world-bank-gdp-and-poverty-estimates-for-somaliland ↩
- 5. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/01/29/new-world-bank-gdp-and-poverty-estimates-for-somaliland ↩
- 6. https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/2818/download/39898 (PDF) ↩
What we do in Somaliland
Our work in Somaliland displacement camps
- We are distributing women's survival kits, which include clothes, underwear, soap, torches, baby lotion and whistles.
- We are providing families with cash transfers, which go directly to women and empower them to decide how best to prioritise their families' needs.
- We are training women's coalitions in leadership skills, empowering them to lead their camps.
Our work ending hunger in Somaliland
ActionAid works to end hunger among small farmers and pastoralists in Somaliland.
We work mainly with women who are left to fend for themselves when men migrate to cities or coastal regions in search of water for cattle. We provide tools such as rakes, pickaxes and tractor rental to help increase harvests and improve nutrition.
During the East Africa food crisis we supported at least 64,000 people, distibuting 6,000 tonnes including rice, sugar, wheat flour and cooking oil, and thousands of litres of water.
Getting children into school
In 2014, we ran a campaign which brought education ministers face to face with more than 1,000 parents to discuss how to get children into school.
ActionAid now works with parents and teachers to build classrooms and separate toilets for girls and boys, and with the Ministry of Education to develop training programmes for newly qualified teachers.
These raise awareness of the importance of girl’s education, and challenge the view that FGM and early marriage are safe ways to protect girls from pre-marital sex.
Protecting girls from FGM
We are working to end FGM in Somaliland by helping communities to learn and openly talk about its damaging effects, running youth groups to help boys and girls speak up to end FGM, and supporting groups to lobby governments to help pass anti-FGM laws.
Women are at the centre of our work, but to end FGM we need whole communities to say no, so including men is essential.
Through our work, teenage boys and men are publically declaring that they will not marry women who have had the cut and are being powerful ambassadors.
Supporting women in Somaliland affected by hunger
35-year-old Nimo and her children walked for eight days in search of water.
For rural communities like hers, land and livestock are key to survival, but after years of drought she was left with nothing. Her animals were now too weak to make meat or milk.
On the journey to find water, Nimo instead found a trail of animal carcasses.
Learn more about our work ending hunger
I breastfeed my six-month-old son, but he cannot get enough milk as I don't have food."
Ending FGM in Somaliland
Zeinab underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) when she was just four years old.
Her father didn't want her to have it, but her mother organised it while her father was away on a trip, as she thought the social consequences of not being cut outweighed FGM's damaging effects.
"It was very painful," Zeinab told us.
I always remember. I can still hear the sound of the cutting."
Having FGM has caused Zeinab serious health problems for the rest of her life. Now, she is determined that the next generation of girls does not face the same trauma.
As women’s rights coordinator of ActionAid Somaliland, she is leading a programme that is training boys and girls, men and women, to understand the harmful effects of FGM.Read the full story


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Evidence of windmills in England date back to the 12th century. Most windmills these days don’t serve their original purpose, but some still produce flour.
Whilst London is rightfully known as the culinary capital of the UK, there are lots of great restaurants outside of London. Here’s our list of the best fine dining outside the Capital… 1. The Great House Restaurant and Hotel, Suffolk Source Here we have one of Britain’s premier fine dining restaurants that is also a […]
The modern country of Cambridgeshire is historically and archeologically rich and significant and a number of important archeological and paleontological discoveries have been made in Cambridgeshire in the course of history. You can discover majestic cathedrals, quaint and idyllic English villages, trekking, walking and cycle tours in Cambridgeshire and also find the latest designs and […]


Selection committee to release four rankings in place of BCS standings
Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the BCS and College Football Playoff, told Tim Brando that the playoff era will have four selection committee rankings instead of seven BCS standings.
As the Executive Director of both the BCS and the College Football Playoff, Bill Hancock has and will spend most of his 2013-14 academic year working on the transition to college football's new four-team playoff, which will begin in the 2014-15 season.
One aspect of the BCS that has helped shape the chase for a national title has been the release of seven different BCS standings during the year. With so many comparisons to the college basketball selection committee, which only meets at the end of the season to select and seed the field, there has been some concern that transparency is being removed from the process.
Hancock previously announced that there would be some type of rankings released by the selection committee during the season, but on Thursday he shared some of the specifics regarding that process.
"It's a new paradigm," Hancock said of the new system. "There will not be any master computer rankings. There will not be weekly announcements, like we have our BCS standings show, although the committee will be making about four announcements during the season -- so that will be pretty close. We have seven BCS standings, so going to four in the future, I don't think folks will notice a lot of difference in that."
As Hancock said in the video above, there is plenty more planning to come over the next few months before we have a full understanding of the new system.
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Despite the extension to comply with the final phase of the uncleared margin rules, major operational challenges remain for buy-side firms.
Pimco will use OpenGamma’s technology in a bid to reduce margin financing costs for derivatives trading.
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NMB is pleased to announce the re-release of Music from a Sussex shore as a digital album – an album of piano works played by Stephanie Cant. It’s now available for download at our bandcamp site.
You can download in the format of your choice mp3, wav, aif, and flac and a redesigned set of liner notes in pdf format is included with the digital album. Please feel free to embed the album on your website or facebook page, Bandcamp has a share/embed button to help with this. Click on the cover above to hear the album.


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If you call 911 from a cell phone, there's a chance help may not be able to find you.
Hamilton County's Executive Director for Emergency Communications John Stuermer says less than half of calls made from a cell phone actually give your location.
"People should be concerned and we in the industry are very frustrated," Stuermer said.
When you call 911 from a landline it will show your exact address and phone number.
When cell phones became popular in the 1990's Stuermer says it made finding people difficult.


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Head of UGCC meets with Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine
On January 24, 2020, at the residence of the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, head of the UGCC, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Ukraine Larisa Galadza. The meeting was held at the request of the Ambassador, who started her diplomatic mission in Ukraine in November 2019.
According to the Information Department of the UGCC, at the beginning of the meeting, his Beatitude Sviatoslav congratulated Galadza with the beginning of her Ministry in Ukraine and wished him fruitful work for the good of the Ukrainian and Canadian peoples. The head of the UGCC also thanked for the presence of Bishop Stepan Sus in the Patriarchal Cathedral during the ordination.
The Ambassador thanked His Beatitude Svyatoslav for the sympathy he expressed on the day of the Ukrainian plane crash in Iran. "It is important that your sympathy was directed to all the relatives and friends of the victims without regard to their nationality and religious affiliation," said Larisa Galadza.
Consequently, the parties discussed a wide range of issues, especially paying attention to the role of the Church in the current circumstances of the Ukrainian state.


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How to Make Boba and Bubble Tea
What You Need
1/4 cup dried boba tapioca pearls per serving (NOT quick-cooking boba)
1-2 tea bags per serving, any kind
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
Milk, almond milk, or sweetened condensed milk
Fruit juice or nectar (optional)
Bowl for holding the cooked boba
1. Cook the Boba: Measure 2 cups of water for every 1/4 cup of boba being prepared into a saucepan. Bring the water to a boil over high heat. Add the boba and stir gently until they begin floating to the top of the water.
Turn the heat to medium and cook the boba for 12-15 minutes. Remove the pan from heat, cover, and let the pearls sit for another 12-15 minutes.
2. Prepare Sugar Syrup for the Boba: While the boba are cooking, make a simple sugar syrup to sweeten and preserve them once cooked. Bring 1/2 cup of water to a boil over high heat on the stove or in the microwave. Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 cup sugar until dissolved. Set aside to cool.
3. Prepare a Strong Cup of Tea: This can be done either while the boba are cooking or ahead of time. Allow enough time for the tea to cool completely before making the boba. Bring 1 cup of water to a boil. Remove from heat and add the tea bag. Use one tea bag for regular-strength bubble tea or two for a stronger tea flavor. Remove the tea bag after 15 minutes and chill the tea.
4. Finish the Boba: Once the boba have finished cooking, drain them from the water and transfer them to a small bowl or container. Pour the sugar syrup over top until the boba are submerged. Let sit until the boba are room temperature, at least 15 minutes, or refrigerate until ready to use. Boba are best if used within a few hours of cooking, but will keep refrigerated for several days. The boba will gradually harden and become crunchy as they sit.
5. Make the Bubble Tea: Pour the prepared tea into a tall glass and add the boba. Add milk for a creamy bubble tea, juice for a fruity tea, or leave plain and add a little extra water. Sweeten to taste with the simple syrup from soaking the boba.
• Very Chilled Bubble Tea: For an extra-chilly bubble tea, combine all the tea, milk, and/or juice, but not the boba in a cocktail shaker. Add a few ice cubes and shake for 20 seconds. Pour into a tall glass and add the boba.
• Shortcut Boba: If you want immediate gratification, just cook your boba until they are tender, 5 to 10 minutes, and use them as soon as they’re cool. This kind of boba don’t keep for very long (turning rock hard in a few hours), but are delicious if eaten right away.
• Saving Leftover Boba and Making Boba for Later: Boba are best if used within a few hours of cooking, but will keep refrigerated with simple syrup for several days. The boba will gradually harden and become crunchy as they sit.
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DIY Salt Dough Cookie Custom Cookie Stamps Recipe and Tutorial from Alphamom here. Elaborate cookie stamps are so expensive and these are so easy a child could do it. The dough recipe has 3 ingredients that you already probably have - water, salt and flour. I also like this tutorial because these are food friendly stamps - unlike polymer clay stamps. First seen at Dollar Store Crafts here.
3 cans Pillsbury Buttermilk Biscuits (10 ct)
60 pepperoni slices (2 per biscuit)
Block of cheese (Colby/Monterey Jack or Cheese Stick)
1 beaten egg
1 jar pizza sauce
Slice cheese into approx. 28 squares (or if using cheese stix, cut in 3rds). Flatten each biscuit and stack pepperoni and cheese on top. Gather edges of biscuit and secure on top of ‘roll’. Line rolls in greased 9x13 pan. Brush with beaten egg. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning & garlic powder. Bake at 425°F for 18-20 minutes. Serve with warm pizza sauce for dipping.
Fish Pie - Kiki’s Delivery Service
Howdy y’all! The mysterious roommate here, and I’m going to tell you all about dis fish pie hurr! Remember in Kiki’s Delivery Service when Kiki helped the lovely ladies made this fancy fish pie for their granddaughter’s birthday? Well, this was just like that time… but different. My mom was in town, and the purveyor of this blog and I decided to make some yummy dinner for us all. And the best part of all was that she didn’t turn up her nose and say, “Oh… another one of those crummy fish pies again,” in fact, she loved it! I even got to make the fish on top!
That was the best part about it.
- 4 fillets of herring, or 3 fillets of another larger, white fish (we used rockfish, you could use sole, tilapia, or cod)
- 1 leek
- 1 medium while onion
- 1 carrot
- 5 medium potatoes (bakers or russets)
- 2 cups spinach
- 3 eggs
- 2 tablespoons deli style or whole ground mustard
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 cups milk
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 2 tablespoons pepper
- Cut up the potatoes and put them in a pot of boiling water. Boil for about 5 minutes, then add in two eggs and boil for 5 more minutes. Take out the eggs, and strain the potatoes. Then mash the potatoes in a bowl with 2/3 cup of milk.
- Add the mashed potatoes to the bottom of your casserole dish, saving about 1 potato worth of mash in the bowl.
- Slice all of the vegetables and the hardboiled eggs and saute them in a pan with some oil or butter and the bay leaves.
- Add in the rest of the milk, the mashed potato that you saved, mustard, salt and pepper. Cook everything on medium heat stirring occasionally, until the milk reaches a thick consistency, then add it into the casserole pan. Remember to remove the bay leaves.
- Cut the fish fillets into 3 inch wide chunks, and then add it into the casserole pan.
- Unroll the pie crust and put it on top. You can cut it into strips, and cut out a fish if you want to make it like the one in Kiki’s Delivery Service. Once you finish covering the casserole pan with the pie crust, beat an egg and brush it on top of the pie crust.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20-30 minutes, or until the crust is to your liking.
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Decmil wins new contracts in WA, Vic
UPDATE 2.25pm: Decmil says it has won $24 million in new contracts.
The company said it had won a $14 million Main Roads WA contract to build the New Norcia bypass on the Great Northern Highway, with the project comprising a three-span bridge and 6km of road.
Decmil subsidiary Cut & Fill has also won $10 million worth of new contracts including bridge work for VicRoads on Monash Freeway bridges, construction of a bridge at Bendigo and another bridge for the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in the Barmah Forest.
Decmil shares were up half a cent to 78.5 cents at the close after hitting an intraday peak of 81.5 cents.
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Frank Ocean’s fans were left dismayed after YouTube announced there would be no livestream of the star’s first performance in six years at Coachella.
The 35-year-old star’s livestream was pulled from the schedule, and there was an uproar from fans.
The streaming platform tweeted: “Frank Ocean is not scheduled to appear on the Coachella livestream. The current schedule is in the description.”
Frank’s set kicked off at 10.05pm PDT, but fans not attending the music festival in Indio, California, have no way of viewing the performance, having to rely on fan footage.
One user fumed: “Are you f***ing kidding me?”
It was also suggested that the livestream may have been pulled as Frank might be debuting his entire new album live.
Another user wrote: “What if Frank Ocean performs an entirely new album that drops tonight and all of our lives just drastically improve and the world heals.”
He did end up giving the live debut of the likes of ‘Florida’ and ‘Come On World, You Can’t Go!’, plus new versions of ‘Chanel’ and ‘White Ferrari’.
Earlier this year, Frank suggested he had a new album on the way.
The ‘Nights’ star had previously made it known that he would release new music as one-off singles instead of album form, but he seemingly had a change of heart and teased a potential follow-up to 2016’s ‘Blonde’ on a poster for his merchandise.
The print notes that a “fictitious recording artist” (seemingly Ocean) preferred “the singles distribution model as opposed to the long-form album model,” as it was “more suited to modern consumption habits.”
The biggest hint yet that another LP is on the way came with the admission that: “The Recording Artist has since changed his mind about the singles model, and is again interested in more durational bodies of work.”
The ‘Novacane’ hitmaker wiped his Instagram page clear back in September, suggesting new music was imminent.
Since ‘Blonde’, fans have had a slew of singles, including ‘DHL’, ‘In My Room’, ‘Cayendo’ and ‘Dear April’.
Frank also aired unreleased music on his ‘Blonded Radio’ show.
Frank hadn’t performed since 2017’s Flow Festival and the headline slot at Coachella was delayed after the 2020 event was axed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.


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Independent Bank Corp. (NASDAQ:INDB), operating in the financial services industry based in United States, saw a double-digit share price rise of over 10% in the past couple of months on the NASDAQGS. As a mid-cap stock with high coverage by analysts, you could assume any recent changes in the company’s outlook is already priced into the stock. However, could the stock still be trading at a relatively cheap price? Today I will analyse the most recent data on Independent Bank’s outlook and valuation to see if the opportunity still exists.
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Is Independent Bank still cheap?
The stock seems fairly valued at the moment according to my relative valuation model. In this instance, I’ve used the price-to-earnings (PE) ratio given that there is not enough information to reliably forecast the stock’s cash flows. I find that Independent Bank’s ratio of 17.89x is trading slightly above its industry peers’ ratio of 13.53x, which means if you buy Independent Bank today, you’d be paying a relatively reasonable price for it. And if you believe Independent Bank should be trading in this range, then there isn’t really any room for the share price grow beyond what it’s currently trading. So, is there another chance to buy low in the future? Given that Independent Bank’s share is fairly volatile (i.e. its price movements are magnified relative to the rest of the market) this could mean the price can sink lower, giving us an opportunity to buy later on. This is based on its high beta, which is a good indicator for share price volatility.
Can we expect growth from Independent Bank?
Investors looking for growth in their portfolio may want to consider the prospects of a company before buying its shares. Although value investors would argue that it’s the intrinsic value relative to the price that matter the most, a more compelling investment thesis would be high growth potential at a cheap price. With profit expected to grow by 70% over the next couple of years, the future seems bright for Independent Bank. It looks like higher cash flow is on the cards for the stock, which should feed into a higher share valuation.
What this means for you:
Are you a shareholder? It seems like the market has already priced in INDB’s positive outlook, with shares trading around its fair value. However, there are also other important factors which we haven’t considered today, such as the financial strength of the company. Have these factors changed since the last time you looked at INDB? Will you have enough confidence to invest in the company should the price drop below its fair value?
Are you a potential investor? If you’ve been keeping tabs on INDB, now may not be the most optimal time to buy, given it is trading around its fair value. However, the positive outlook is encouraging for INDB, which means it’s worth diving deeper into other factors such as the strength of its balance sheet, in order to take advantage of the next price drop.
Price is just the tip of the iceberg. Dig deeper into what truly matters – the fundamentals – before you make a decision on Independent Bank. You can find everything you need to know about Independent Bank in the latest infographic research report. If you are no longer interested in Independent Bank, you can use our free platform to see my list of over 50 other stocks with a high growth potential.
To help readers see past the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements.
The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned. For errors that warrant correction please contact the editor at email@example.com.

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Tiger Woods was arrested early this morning after being pulled over and charged with a DUI. Woods was booked and realeased this morning. According to report, Woods was arrogant and refused a breathalyzer at 3am when he was pulled over.
Woods has just released a statement regarding the DUI and he is claiming he had a “reaction to prescription meds”
— Steve DiMeglio (@Steve_DiMeglio) May 29, 2017
Apparently Woods is still drunk. A reaction to prescribed medicine? Sure, and Elin was taking swings at mosquitos when she bashed you up side the head. I didn’t know they gave prescription for Jack Daniels. Good to know I guess. Tiger screwed up, there’s no doubt about it. Nothing good ever happens when you leave your house at 3am. In fact, a little message should pop up on your windshield when you get in your car saying “c’mon man, you sure you really gotta do this?”. Look at that mug shot, that man is clearly wasted:


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Cory Booker's lackluster campaign
Cory Booker is all but certain to win the New Jersey special election for U.S. Senate.
But as polls show Republican rival Steve Lonegan tightening the race, Booker is getting an uncomfortable reminder that he will have to campaign hard to defend the seat just a year from now, when he’d be up for a full term.
Booker faces a tough test of the truncated race against Lonegan on Friday, when the Newark mayor and the former Bogota mayor face off in their first debate. For Lonegan, it’s a chance to test whether Booker has a glass jaw.
For Booker, it’s a chance to show he is engaged in the race, and not the celebrity candidate who’s off giving donors attention out of state, as Booker has, during the waning days of the campaign. It’s that sense of distance that has caused the race to close in recent days – so much so that Booker is underperforming Republican Gov. Chris Christie in a blue state.
Working in Booker’s favor is the fact that the debate is on a Friday, in the middle of the day. It won’t be widely broadcast, meaning most voters will learn about it from the media. It minimizes the potential impact of any gaffe or slip-up.
Still, Booker’s team is aware the race has become more competitive. If he wins by a relatively close margin, it could be an invitation to other Republicans to try their hand at challenging him next year. At a minimum, it would take the sheen off a national brand that Booker has cultivated for years.
“As long as he wins, he’ll end up dealing with whatever [the] margin” is, said Monmouth County pollster Patrick Murray. “He’s got a year to get over that, and it’ll be a wakeup call to work harder next year. … If he doesn’t win by a lot, I think most people are going to put the blame squarely on Cory Booker, and not on his advisers.”
He added, “What we’ve always known about Cory Booker’s popularity is it’s broad but it’s not deep.”
Among New Jersey politicos, one thing is not in dispute: Booker has, by almost any measure, run a flawed race. And many people have all but forgotten that this is a special election for a seat that will be up again in Nov. 2014.
Unprepared for the abbreviated special election called by Christie after Sen. Frank Lautenberg died in June, Booker hastily assembled a team to help him during the split-field primary election.
He has become rather relaxed since that August vote, and has resumed traveling out of state frequently to raise money, a fact that Lonegan has made great hay of in radio ads. Booker has painted a portrait of a celebrity who prefers to boost himself on the national stage than to be around the voters of New Jersey, and the attacks have worked.
Booker’s campaign responded in a statement that the criticism is misguided. Booker “has worked relentlessly throughout this campaign, balancing the imperatives of guiding the city he leads, talking to voters directly and raising the resources necessary to communicate effectively with voters in an expensive media market,” the statement read.
The latest Monmouth poll, released this week, showed Booker at 53 percent to 40 percent for Lonegan. By contrast, Christie leads his Democratic rival, Barbara Buono, by about 20 points — despite the natural advantage Democrats have in the blue state.
Booker spokesman Kevin Griffis declined to discuss Booker’s potential margin.
“If the mayor’s successful this year,” Griffis said, “ultimately what’s going to matter is how well people perceive him doing the job of senator and representing the people of New Jersey.”
In a sign that Booker knows his lead is shrinking, he launched his first attack ad against Lonegan this week, painting the Republican as “too extreme” for the Garden State.
Discipline has not come easily to Booker, who for years handled most of his own media and runs an impossibly active Twitter account, with more than 1 million followers.
Unable or unwilling to avoid the national spotlight, he’s given ill-advised, rambling interviews, including one with The Washington Post’s Jason Horowitz in which Booker held forth on speculation that he might be gay. The remarks sparked days of coverage.
So did his back-and-forth over Twitter’s private messaging service with a stripper in Washington state. He’s been called out for accepting payments from his old law firm while he was still mayor, even as that firm did business with the city.
Booker has also gotten tripped up over whether some of his personal stories are more apocryphal than accurate, like his dealings on the streets of Newark with a drug dealer street dubbed “T-Bone”, who Booker at one point acknowledged was a composite.
The campaign, according to people close to him, has been a jarring experience for someone accustomed to nearly universal glowing media coverage over the years, starting with the 2002 insurgent campaign against Newark Mayor Sharpe James that helped him take on the reformer mantle.
“This is his first statewide race in New Jersey,” said former state Democratic Party chairman John Wisniewski. “No matter how long you’re involved in politics in New Jersey, if you’re involved regionally or locally, that experience is not always translatable to statewide experience.”
He added, “He’s going to have to do this all over again next year. My guess is that he will be in a better situation next year having had the experience of [this race].”
Lonegan, meanwhile, has run an effective race, in a state where his positions on abortion and gay marriage are not aligned with the majority of voters. His ads have flayed Booker with personal attacks, and Lonegan has nationalized the race without having it backfire on him. An unabashed conservative, he has made clear he is siding with Republicans in the government shutdown, a contrast to Christie, who has tried to invoke “leadership” to distance himself from a dysfunctional Washington.
What’s more, Booker has done little to tie Lonegan to a troubled national Republican brand, despite endorsements from Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Sarah Palin and the Freedomworks PAC.
Instead of finding his stride as the race progresses, Booker appears to be running out the clock.
Lonegan, a former state-based official with the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, insists he sees victory close at hand. And he says he will use the debate to show Booker “is nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Obama administration.”
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misidentified when Booker ran against Sharpe.

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Phasmid by Rohan Cleave
The book I read and chose to do a review on is Phasmid Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect by Rohan Cleave and Coral Tulloch.
Phasmid tells the story of the life of the Lord Howe Island stick insect. Phasmids life changes when a ship runs over ground on the coral reef releasing black rats. The rats are so hungry that they eat most of the stick insects. There are only 30 left on the island. Somehow they get to a close by island called Balls Pyramid. Scientists are unsure how they got there and miraculously stumble across them by mistake.
I recommend reading this book because it is very informative and taught me a lot of the Lord Howe Island stick insect. The illustrations all throughout the book are amazing. I give this book 8/10. This book is suitable for scientists and people interested in insects and living things.

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Evan Schneider is a professional colorist and cinematographer based in LA.
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Evan Schneider (@evanjschneider) is a Colorado-born, LA-based colorist and cinematographer. Specializing in commercials, documentaries and music videos, his eye is drawn to good light, strong compositions and compelling stories. His work seeks authenticity, depth and emotion through the rich tones and balanced colors of the projects he works on. Evan's deep passion for his work drives him to constantly improve every detail of the process. His background working at a leading color facility in Hollywood means he understands cameras and color inside and out. Transitioning to freelance 5 years ago has pushed him creatively and led him to discover a passion for sharing his knowledge with other filmmakers through YouTube. Evan is most proud of starting his new business, LUT Co, as well as working with clients including Nike, Fight Camp, Nordic Luxury, GQ and more.


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We cordially invite you to join the SUTP webinar „National decarbonisation strategies in the transport sector: the example of Germany“on Monday, 8 May 2017.
In this webinar Christian Hochfeld, Director of Agora Verkehrswende, provides a detailed insight into the decarbonisation strategy of Germany’s transport sector and the intention behind Agora Verkehrswende – Transforming Transportation. The initiative is a division of the non-profit organisation Smart Energy for Europe Platform (SEFEP) gGmbH. Its shareholders are Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation.
Dr. Tania Rödiger-Vorwerk, Deputy Director General for Environment & Infrastructure at BMZ, has launched the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) at the UN Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016. She will reflect the necessity for a global transformation of the transport sector and how the German development cooperation plans to empower particularly local stakeholders in our partner countries.