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FAIRBANKS -- There was little common ground to be found as supporters and opponents of protecting the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil development argued their cases before the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Ritchie Musick of Fairbanks told the panel of five ANWR officials that there's no question the 1.5 million acre coastal plain should be designated as wilderness. "Safe oil development is an oxymoron," Musick said.
Others, such as Richard Glenn of Barrow, oppose a wilderness designation out of concern it will endanger the subsistence lifestyle of Alaska Natives on the North Slope.
The federal agency, which is updating its management plan for the 19.6 million-acre refuge, was on its next-to-last stop as it gathers public comment. Besides Thursday's gathering in Fairbanks, meetings have been held in Fort Yukon, Arctic Village, Venetie, Anchorage and Washington, D.C.
A final meeting is scheduled for May 20 in Kaktovik, the only village on the coastal plain.
A wilderness designation would prohibit drilling in the coastal plain, which is believed to contain an estimated 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil and also serves at the calving grounds for the Porcupine Caribou Herd. The debate over development there has been going on for decades.
Most people who spoke in favor of the wilderness designation said they distrust oil companies. Sharon Alden of Fairbanks was one of several people to mention the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in voicing support for a wilderness designation.
"Perhaps development could be done responsibly, but we've seen over and over and over again this doesn't happen," she said.
But Butch Lincoln, business manager for the Arctic Slope Regional Corp., said designating the coastal plain a wilderness area would be "shortsighted and a national security risk," given that it has the greatest onshore energy potential in North America. ASRC has some oil and gas rights on the coastal plain.
Morgan Solomon, a Native elder from Barrow, said a wilderness designation would create more rules and regulations for the Inupiaq people.
"Too much government is no good for Alaska," Solomon said. "We've been controlled under the U.S. government for a long time. We have an opportunity to develop oil and natural gas on the North Slope. You can't restrict that land for wildlife only. Human rights have the same opportunity as wildlife."
With Kaktovik the only village within the coastal plain, several Natives said the answer should rest there.
"The village of Kaktovik should decide what to do on their own land, not the federal Fish and Wildlife Service," said George Sielak from the North Slope village of Nuiqsut.


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Last week I talked about The Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards medal winners that were announced on Tuesday 20th and I told you about the outstanding Tin’s Thai Chilli Sauces, this week I have a look at another medal winner – Wildwood.
Wildwood produces a range of gourmet spiced cacao drinks, infused with the benefits of functional mushroom extracts. The owner Joe Dakin brings a huge amount of food experience to his craft, years of hard work and knowledge resulted in his Wildwood Spiced Cacao with Reishi and Lion’s Mane cacao beverage being awarded a Silver Medal.
Joe told me he has been working with food for the past 15 years. “My Journey into fine food is a story of solutions, when I was at university studying forestry science money was tight, my hedonistic desires were many and I needed a way to improve my culinary skills. My solution was to round up a group of friends and get them to chip in for a 5 course meal that I would pedantically plan, provision, prep and serve.”
While he is was a self-taught chef at the time, he worked in a range of places during the ten years he spent travelling after university. From cheffing in Chalets in the French Alps to cooking on private yachts that sailed from places like Antibes in France, Palma and Majorca in Spain and from the Greek islands.
“When I was working in chalets I was taking care of high end clients, I would cook for them and then share the meal with them. I met some great people along the way, worked with a cool team and cooked for really interesting guests each week.”
His time on the super yachts gave Joe cause to reflect on the waste, excess and disconnection from food that happens daily in the super yacht scene, “This unease led me to the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland. Set on a 100-acre organic farm, my time there helped to not only deepen my knowledge and refine my culinary skills, but gave me a deep reverence for where food comes from and a passion for using locally grown, quality ingredients.”
Joe says these experiences developed a hunger for growing food and sowed the spawn of starting a mushroom growing business. He told me he has taken a deep dive into the world of mycelium (mycelium is a network of fungal threads that often grow underground but can also thrive in other places such as rotting tree trunks and mushrooms can sprout from a mycelium).
He met his English partner Naomi (now his wife) in New Zealand, “she’s a yoga therapist and is training to be a counsellor but has a hospo background and has worked on boats too.
“We went back to the UK together for a couple years and I worked at Poco in Bristol, a Tapas bar that has a focus on sustainability and quality local Ingredients. From here I move to a dream job at The Ethicurean Restaurant, Barley Wood. The focus here was “rustic fine dining” we foraged many amazing ingredients and worked from an enchanting walled garden attached to the restaurant. I developed a lot as a chef during this time, learning many techniques from the incredibly passionate and skilled team of chefs I worked with.
“I love my work and enjoy the benefits of these superfoods and am passionate about sharing them with others, producing these delicious functional mushroom cacao blends is a great way for me to share my passion. Functional mushrooms are super healthy but the powders can be a bit bitter. By using a high quality cacao as a base, and then adding spices in a balanced way, I could create a flavorsome beverage for my customers to enjoy the benefit of these super foods.
Fresh Lions Mane tastes a bit like lobster but we have to import them because we can’t grow that variety in New Zealand. I’ve found a great organic grower who can provide everything we need, especially measurable levels of the active compounds that ensure the quality of the mushroom extracts we use.
“Our fair trade, organic cacao comes from Ecuador and we soften the cacao bitterness with a little organic coconut sugar. The idea is to sweeten them to the just point where all the flavours shine, while keeping them as healthy as possible. The mushrooms are a background flavour and are included to provide the health benefits.”
Joe’s road to creating these delicious beverages started by growing and selling fresh oyster mushrooms and preserved oyster mushrooms at the Nelson farmers market. He grew these on his section close to the inner city, “it’s nuts to be able to do that in town. We grew mushrooms on site and made value added products like the preserved mushrooms but when we started this new Wildwood venture, we realized we couldn’t do both.
Joe says he would often get chatting with customers about functional mushrooms when he was at the Farmers Market and that while chatting to people he found that many were having the same problems – how to make these bitter mushroom powders taste good, and where to find quality mushroom extracts. The chef in Joe found it impossible to ignore the challenge and Wildwood was born.
Wildwood also won the category for food and drink at the Best of Natural Awards 2022 with their cinnamon cacao chocolate drink “It’s Keto friendly, has no chilli which makes it a bit softer while the Spiced Cacao drink is full-flavoured and has lots of spice.”
You can use Wildwood powders to make hot or cold drinks “just like making a hot chocolate with milk” and Joe says it’s good for baking recipes, making smoothies and some people even sprinkle it on porridge in the morning. There’s even a great Mushroomisu (tiramsu but with mushrooms) recipe on the Wildwood website www.wildwood.nz
You can buy the Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards medal winner and other products from Joe’s website or you can pick up a pack from Bobby Franks, East Street, Benge & Co, The Junction, Red Gallery, Healthpost, Trouble & Fox or Little Beehive where you can also buy gift sets.

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SAUDI ARABIA: DRAMATIC DROP IN EXECUTIONS AFTER LAWS CHANGED IN 2020
January 19, 2021:
Saudi Arabia, for years one of the world's most prolific executioners, dramatically reduced the number of people put to death last year, following changes halting executions for non-violent drug-related crimes, according to the government’s tally and independent observers. (Source: AP, 18/01/2021)
The Saudi government’s Human Rights Commission said on 18 January it documented 27 executions in 2020. That's compared to an all-time high of 184 executions the year before as documented by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The change represents an 85% reduction in the number of people put to death last year, compared to 2019.
"The sharp decrease was brought about in part by a moratorium on death penalties for drug-related offences," the Saudi rights commission said.
When asked by The Associated Press, the commission said the new law ordering a stop to such executions came into effect sometime last year. The new directive for judges does not appear to have been published publicly and it was not immediately clear whether the law was changed by royal decree, as is typically the case.
The AP previously reported that Saudi Arabia last year also ordered an end to the death penalty for crimes committed by minors and ordered judges to end the controversial practice of public flogging, replacing it with jail time, fines or community service.

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Laureen Uy is the epitome of the millennial multihyphenate—mega blogger, TV personality, avid traveller. But while she was propelled into the public eye by her blog, Break My Style, this sartorialist has never confined herself to the world of fashion. When she isn't shooting editorials, serving up front-row coverage, and inspiring women across the country to dress for themselves, the lissome Laureen is exploring the nooks and crannies of unseen cities and hunting down the next treat for her taste buds.
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: Acting against commercial use of residential properties, the enforcement wing of department of town and country planning (DTCP
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. The action was taken after a complaint was filed on CM Window over the increasing use of residential properties for commercial purposes.
DTCP had issued notices to 26 houses two months ago for violation of the rule and directed them to restore the buildings strictly in accordance with the approved building plans. After receiving the notices, 14 of the houses stopped commercial activities while another eight sought a week’s time. Two houses that had not replied to the notice and continued to run a guest house and a health club, were sealed.
“The RWA filed a complaint against commercial activity in residential area. The movement of anti-social elements had increased in the colony due to these commercial activities, creating a threat to security,” said Harbansh Arora, secretary of RWA Uppal Southend.
District town planner (enforcement) Rajendra Sharma said the department will take strict action against commercial use of residential properties. “This was the first sealing drive in years,” said Sharma, adding similar drives will be carried out in other parts of the city.
DTCP has swung into action following an increase in number of residents’ complaints on CM Window. “Large residential areas are not designed to carry on commercial activities. Whenever any residential property is used for commercial purposes, it increases the movement of people and vehicles in the area, causing inconvenience to residents,” said an official.
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Coalition announces Dugong & Turtle Protection Plan
The Hon Greg Hunt MP Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage
Thursday 15 August 2013
Coalition announces Dugong & Turtle Protection Plan
The dugongs and turtles along the Great Barrier Reef will receive greater protection under a $5 million plan announced by the Coalition today.
Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage, Greg Hunt was joined by the Member for Leichhardt, Warren Entsch in Cairns to make the announcement following ongoing community concern about illegal poaching and the need for greater care of the dugong and turtle populations.
If elected, the Coalition will move quickly and constructively to implement a Dugong and Turtle Protection Plan which will work to protect the majestic dugong and turtle populations, of Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands, from the threats of poaching, illegal hunting and marine debris.
As part of this important environmental and marine conservation task, the Coalition will maintain existing funding and will provide an additional $5 million for dugong and turtle protection, including:
ï· $2 million for specialised Indigenous Ranger Programs for marine conservation along the Far North Queensland Coast and for strengthened enforcement and compliance. This will be done through supporting additional officers on the water and on land to crack-down on dugong and turtle poaching and the illegal trade in dugong and turtle meat. The Coalition will work with the Queensland Government on the potential for extending the authority of select Indigenous Rangers to take action to stop illegal poaching;
ï· $2 million for an Australian Crime Commission investigation into the practice of illegal killing, poaching and transportation of turtle and dugong meat; ï· $700,000 towards cleaning up marine debris along the Far North Queensland Coast, the Torres Strait Islands and in the Coral Sea. Marine debris - especially
‘ghost nets’ - provide significant risks to dugongs and turtles and the Coalition will take steps to clean up these threats. The Coalition will consult, support and work with Indigenous communities in dealing with these threats; and ï· $300,000 to support the Cairns and Fitzroy Island Turtle Rehabilitation Centres. The Coalition will allocate $100,000 per year to the Fitzroy Island Turtle Hospital - run by the Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre - for three years to help with capital works and to help the hospital achieve a permanent and sustainable future.
Within six months a Coalition Government will also:
ï· introduce Federal legislation tripling the penalties for poaching and illegal transportation of turtle and dugong meat; ï· establish a National Dugong and Turtle Protection Plan through the threatened species process; and ï· work with Indigenous leaders towards an initial two-year moratorium on the taking of
“The Coalition respects the traditional rights of the Indigenous community, however we will not tolerate illegal poaching of dugongs and turtles under the cover of so-called traditional hunting. We also do not support the taking of turtles and dugongs in green zones and we will work with Indigenous leaders on this issue,” Mr Hunt said.
“These actions are not supported by the Indigenous elders and we will work with them to stop this illegal practice which is impacting on dugong and turtle numbers and harming local tourism operations. The Coalition welcomed the recent action by the Queensland Government in passing legislation to outlaw cruelty to dugongs and turtles.
“I am also pleased to honour a commitment to the Fitzroy Island Turtle Hospital which I made when I visited their centre with Mr Entsch last year. They do tremendous work with a strong team of volunteers.”
Mr Entsch said the illegal slaughter of dugongs and turtles has been a significant concern of the local community.
“Not just from the impact of the numbers of dugongs and turtles, but also the negative impression it gives to tourists who have been horrified to witness turtles being killed while they should be enjoying the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef,” Mr Entsch said.
“I also know that funding for the Fitzroy Island Turtle Hospital will be well used in rehabilitating turtles and returning them to the sea. The clean-up of debris will assist in minimising those which are found injured and require care.”
The Dugong and Turtle Protection Plan will form part of the Coalition’s Reef 2050 Plan to ensure we have long-term and sustainable management of the Great Barrier Reef.
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It's not about ideas, it's about making it happen.
Three children in each year group can apply for a role in our Pupil Parliament. They present their credentials and are democratically elected by their classmates each September. Our Pupil Parliament members have an important responsibility to represent the views of their peers. They will attend regular meetings with the PSHE lead or senior member of staff to air their views and to suggest improvements. They make real changes and get things done!
Other pupil leadership opportunities
We also encourage children at our school to apply for roles such as digital leaders, sports leaders, eco-warriors and to be part of an enterprise team, setting up their own businesses. We understand that part of a child’s educational journey is to hold responsibility, see democracy in action and make a real difference. At Rugby Free Primary School we regularly ask children to feedback to us about their education, truly valuing the feedback that only they can give us.


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Coalition to combat bullying is launched in El Paso schools
CANUTILLO -- An anti-bullying campaign was launched Thursday in hopes of educating the public and preventing bullying in schools and neighborhoods.
The Anti-Bullying Coalition, led by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, has the goal of raising awareness on how bullying can lead to serious physical and psychological harm, said coalition chairman Cmdr. Jesus Campa.
Campa defined bullying as making fun of somebody. It can be physical or emotional or through text or social media, he said.
Bullying involves the use of power or superiority to control or harm others mostly by words, and that makes it hard to report, Campa said.
The start of the coalition was announced at Alderette Middle School.
Sheriff Richard Wiles said the idea of forming a coalition started while authorities were looking at some concerns related to bullying.
While some agencies and school districts were already trying to prevent bullying, Wiles said, there wasn't a coordinated effort.
The coalition is working with the University of Texas at El Paso to conduct a survey of area schools to find out from students the extent of bullying.
Wiles said the study will help authorities come up with effective ways to confront the problem.
"Because it's my belief that black or white, gay or straight, big or small, athletic or not É every child should be able to go to school and feel safe," Wiles said.
County Attorney Jo Ann Bernal said the coalition was needed. She said the county attorney's office has had an increasing number of bullying cases referred to it for prosecutioin.
Early this week, the County Commissioners Court signed a resolution declaring a bully-free year, while the El Paso City Council adopted a proclamation against bullying.
County Judge Veronica Escobar said she supports the sheriff's effort to prevent bullying.
Escobar said it's hard enough for children to deal with challenges and stresses at school without outside factors such as bullying or a harsh environment.
El Paso Mayor John Cook said that to stop bullying, it is necessary to teach children to speak up for themselves.
On Thursday, Cook encouraged young students to not tolerate any type of bullying and to take that message to other children at their schools.
Sheriff's officials also introduced the coalition's mascot, Deputy Dog, similar to McGruff the Crime Dog.
Campa said the coalition will start its anti-bullying efforts by working with teachers this summer on what they need to do to prevent bullying. Starting next school year, presentations will be made to first-, fifth- and eighth-graders.
Members of the coalition include agencies of the county and city, the Canutillo, Tornillo, Anthony and San Elizario school districts and various public and private organizations.
El Paso County Sheriff's Office Anti Bullying Coalition Forum
On Saturday, February 4, 2012 the Sheriff’s Office Anti-Bullying Coalition held an Anti-Bullying Forum at the Region VIII Training Academy from 11 a.m.—3 p.m. The audience consisted of middle school and high school students and their parents. These students were referred from the Justice of the Peace Courts for violations ranging from truancy to disruption of classes. Our goal was to educate students and their parents on the serious issues related to bullying. Parents also received tips from presenters on the importance of being involved in their child’s life and how to look for signs of different behavior.
Speakers included: Sheriff’s Office Community Service Deputies, Laura Christopherson (County Attorney’s Office), U.S. Border Patrol Challenge Academy Agents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Gang Intervention Specialist Rob Gallardo. Presenters gave information to students and parents separately on the following topics: drugs, peer pressure, sexting, juvenile law, cyber bullying, negative consequences to social networking, attitude, and gangs.
Overall, the event to educate youths in our community regarding the negative consequences and feelings on bullying and peer pressure was outstanding.
El Paso County Sheriff's Office Anti-Bullying Coalition Mother Daughter Event
On January 28, 2012 the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Community Service Division was invited to participate in the annual Socorro Independent School District Mother Daughter Conference. This event was held at El Dorado High school with over 2,000 women in attendance. Deputies Eileen Lopez and Tony Provencio gave presentations on cyber bullying which ranges on issues from gossip to sending inappropriate photos through text message. Deputies Lopez and Provencio spoke on the negative consequences of posting on social networks in relation to applying for jobs and/or colleges. Overall the event was a success and the feedback from the participants and the staff was positive for the Sheriff’s Office and the Anti-Bullying Coalition.
Friday January 6, 2012
The Sheriff's Office partnered with Border Patrol Agents and presented drug and alcohol awareness and cyber bullying to an audience of approximately 300 students from the San Elizario School District.
January 4, 2012
Deputy E. Lopez gave a presentation to the boy scouts on cyber bullying awareness and shared tips with the parents on identifying victims of bullying along with preventive measures. Overall it was an interactive audience with positive feedback
El Paso County Sheriff's Office Anti Bullying Coalition Holds Special Event to Recognize October as National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month
October 12, 2011 the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Anti Bullying Coalition held a special event to recognize October as National Anti-bulling Awareness month. The event was held at the Walgreens Parking lot located at 1100 Geronimo, El Paso, Texas. The Sheriff’s Office was onsite placing black and white ribbons on the antennas of vehicles driving up to show their support for Anti-bullying awareness, and take a stand against bullying. Hit FM Radio 104.3 was also on hand to promote the event and do live remotes letting people know to come show their support. The black ribbon represents the mourning of those that have lost their lives due to bullying or have taken their own lives due to bullying. The white ribbon represents hope and peace. People who showed up to the event not only had a black and white ribbon attached to their antenna but were also given anti- bullying informational pamphlets and Krispy Kreme Donuts. The event was an all around success and helped raise awareness for the Anti-bullying initiative.
El Paso County Sheriff's Office Anti Bullying Coalition Strike Out Bullying Event
On Sunday, September 25, 2011, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Anti-Bullying Coalition hosted a bowling tournament at Oasis Lanes Bowling Alley located on North Zaragoza. The event was to raise awareness on the seriousness of bullying in our schools. Deputy Eileen Lopez did an outstanding job in organizing the whole event. The tournament consisted of five players per team to play a three game competition. A total of sixteen teams signed up and competed against one another for the top three finalists. First place was awarded to “Family Crisis” lead by Melissa Carrillo (Human Resource director). Second place was awarded to “Fab Five” (Jail Annex bowlers: D/O Mario Sanchez, D/O Ricardo Chavez, D/O Eduardo Rios, Cpl. John Filarski and Fernie Duchene). Third place was awarded to “Sixty-fours” (friends and family of Deputy Eileen Lopez), and the last place winners for the worst score was awarded to Secure Our Schools Section (SOS) who received a broken bowling pin. Everyone enjoyed watching the NFL games featured on the big screens while listening to the loud sounds of the bowling pins being struck by the bowling balls. Door prizes were also raffled during the event. Overall, everyone had a blast and showed their full support towards the children of this community and the Coalition. All teams had a lot of fun a close bowling tournament. Thanks to all for your participation.
2nd-Annual Raise Awareness Run hosted by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office to Run Out Bullying
On Saturday, August 6,2011 the El Paso County Sheriff's Office Explorer Post 2005, in partnership with 104.3 Hit fm hosted "The 2nd Annual Raise Awareness Run" held at McKelligon Canyon. A total of 320 participants joined us for the 8K/5K run, and 1 mile fun walk. Participants received a T-shirt, along with a gift bag. Medals were given out to different age group categories at the end of the race. Maribel Saenz–Hernandez from Secure Our Schools (SOS) won a 3rd place medal for the 5K run. This race was in-tended to raise awareness and send a message El Paso County to "Run Out Bullying." Overall, the run turned out to be an amazing event. The Sheriff's Office Anti-Bullying Coalition is ready to kick off the school year "Bully-Free"


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Eating a Mediterranean diet that contains olive oil and nuts can leave you with a healthier heart. In a randomized trial of nearly 7,500 people at risk of heart disease in Spain, researchers discovered that people who stuck to what they called the "Mediterranean diet" — supplemented either with extra virgin olive oil or nuts — had a lower risk of having a "cardiovascular incident" after four years. The best part? These diets were not intended to restrict calories, nor were participants asked to increase their amount of daily exercise. They were just encouraged to maximize healthy food intake.
The study was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, and in a supplement to the study the researchers explain that the people who were on the Mediterranean diet got the following advice from a dietician:
The general guidelines to follow the Mediterranean diet that dietitians provided to participants included the following positive recommendations: a) abundant use of olive oil for cooking and dressing dishes; b) consumption of ≥ 2 daily servings of vegetables (at least one of them as fresh vegetables in a salad), discounting side dishes; c) ≥ 2-3 daily servings of fresh fruits (including natural juices); d) ≥ 3 weekly servings of legumes; e) ≥ 3 weekly servings of fish or seafood (at least one serving of fatty fish); f) ≥ 1 weekly serving of nuts or seeds; g) select white meats (poultry without skin or rabbit) instead of red meats or processed meats (burgers, sausages); h) cook regularly (at least twice a week) with tomato, garlic and onion adding or not other aromatic herbs, and dress vegetables, pasta, rice and other dishes with tomato, garlic and onion adding or not aromatic herbs. This sauce is made by slowly simmering the minced ingredients with abundant olive oil. Negative recommendations are also given to eliminate or limit the consumption of cream, butter, margarine, cold meat, pate, duck, carbonated and/or sugared beverages, pastries, industrial bakery products (such as cakes, donuts, or cookies), industrial desserts (puddings, custard), French fries or potato chips, and out-of-home pre-cooked cakes and sweets.
So it's not as simple as eating out at the local falafel joint every day. You have to stick to meals that balance fresh vegetables and low-fat meats with healthy oils and grains. Plus, no french fries or pastries — which seems particularly unfair given that Mediterranean fried potatoes are amazing, as is baklava. Still, it's a fascinating study which reveals that what you eat is perhaps more important than how much you eat.
Plus, extra virgin olive oil for the win.
You can read the entire study in the New England Journal of Medicine
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Enjoy a memorable vacation doing what you love - playing tennis!
At the Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre Costa Mujeres, located inside the facilities of the TRS Coral Hotel and the Grand Palladium Costa Mujeres Resort & Spa resorts, players train following the guidelines of the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar coaches and the standards of the brand as they enjoy their family vacation in the unique destination in Costa Mujeres, Mexico.
Clients can choose the tennis program with the accommodations that best suits their tennis and fitness needs. They can also shop and take home a souvenir by purchasing exclusive sports products or premium merchandising brand items, have their rackets strung and enjoy the bar-cafeteria service with large TV screens where they can watch tennis matches and other sporting events.
Want to share your experience with players from all over the world? At the Total Tennis you can train in small group sessions and share amazing times on the court. Palladium’s Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar coaches give all the players a level test before the program begins to assign them a training group according to their level of play.
Here you can improve your tennis game while you enjoy group training according to your level of play that allows you to learn and compete against other participants.
• Duration: 1 week (from Monday to Saturday)
• Hours of weekly training: 12 hours
• Schedule: 8:00am – 10:00am / 10:00am – 12:00pm from Monday to Saturday 2hours/day
• Objective: To improve your tennis level while you train with other players who have your same level of play. Improve your technique and compete
• Ratio: 1/4
• Program level: HIGH intensity
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Need to prepare your game for competition? This group tennis program allows you to train with the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar coaches by using a complete exercise point system where real tactical situations of competition are created.
During the program you work and improve on different aspects of the game: hitting the ball from the baseline, attack, net game, first strokes after serving and receiving, etc.
• Duration: 5 days (Monday to Friday)
• Hours of weekly training: 10 hours or 7,5 hours
• Schedule: 5:30pm. – 7:30pm; 6:30pm. – 8:00pm. * Holiday Camp Calendar
• Objetive: To compete based on the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar training and value system
• Ratio: 1/3
• Program level: MEDIUM Intensity
Improve your fitness level while you have fun playing your favorite sport. Combine workouts on the tennis court with cardiovascular exercises that help you to improve your fitness level and maximize your performance. Palladium coaches adapt the class to the rhythm of the group and their tennis level to obtain the best results.
• Duration: Weekly (Monday – Saturday); 1 day (Sunday morning / Afternoon)
• Hours of weekly training: 1 hour or 6 hours
• Schedule: Weekly – 7:00am. – 8:00am. (1hour per day); Sunday – 7:00am. – 8:30am. / 5:30pm. – 7:00pm. (1,5 hours per day)
• Objetive: To improve your fitness level in a fun way with functional exercises while you train and acquire new skills to improve your current tennis level
• Ratio: 1/8
• Program level: VERY HIGH Intensity
If you are looking for a high intensity tennis experience, this is your program. It’s an individual training or small groups package with the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar coaches who adapt each session to your needs and level of play to improve your performance and game.
Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre Costa Mujeres consists of:
• 8 clay tennis courts (5 outdoors and 3 indoors)
• 1 soccer 7 field
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The following review appeared 19 April 1997 on the Mark Twain Forum.
Copyright © Mark Twain Forum, 1997.
This review may not be published or redistributed in any medium without permission.
Barbara Schmidt <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Tarleton State University
Commissions are donated to the Mark Twain Project
Occasionally a book comes along that fills a long-standing void in Mark Twain studies and paves a smoother way for additional Twain research. Jim McWilliams' Mark Twain in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874-1891 is such a book.
McWilliams began researching the microfilm of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper in 1987 with the intention that what he found would be destined for a Mark Twain Journal article. McWilliams' research is all the more impressive when viewed in light of the fact that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has no comprehensive index of stories. Thus, McWilliams' research involved examining every page of every paper that was published over an eighteen-year period.
Eighteen years of newspaper reports produced over 300 articles related to Missouri's favorite son, Mark Twain. In the interest of scholarship and a desire to produce a comprehensive picture of the way Mark Twain was portrayed in one of the leading papers of the Midwest, McWilliams declined to eliminate even the slightest references to Twain--the Journal project died and his collection has now been released in book form with full text of most of the articles.
McWilliams begins his volume with a brief history of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Each article that has been retrieved from microfilm is referenced by date, day of the week, and page number. McWilliams also provides well documented reference notes to many of the news items, giving background information related to the story and informing the reader when the story was inaccurate, completely false, or couldn't be verified. In addition, McWilliams provides the original source of the story when the Post-Dispatch reprinted it from another newspaper or journal.
Mark Twain in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874-1891 is a varied potpourri of items written by Twain; interviews of Twain; speeches by Twain; anecdotes about Twain; and extracts from letters not since reprinted. Numerous gossip column items designed to amuse and entertain the newspaper reader--and sometimes designed to launch an insult at Twain--are also presented.
The collection begins with a 9 January 1874 article that quotes from a letter written by Charles W. Stoddard describing his activities in England with Twain, and ends on 6 December 1891 with a Twain essay sent from Bayreuth, Germany. Between 1874 and 1891 are noteworthy articles such as those relating to Twain's John Calvin bust, written by an anonymous correspondent; interviews with Horace Bixby, Twain's mentor during his river pilot days; Twain's 1881 letter to President Garfield, written in support of Frederick Douglass for a public office; a backstage interview with Twain during his lecture tour with George Washington Cable; an interview with Twain reminiscing about his days in Washington when he was secretary to Senator Stewart; an anecdote on the Hartford house plumbing; Twain's letter written in response to a pension fund mix-up; a humorous and salty letter written in response to new postal regulations; an account of a George Washington Cable April Fool's joke; an article on the obscene Huck Finn engraving; Twain's eulogy to a watch; and Twain's account of how he removed his own tattoo via the wart removal method. The Post-Dispatch also provided continuing coverage of Twain's efforts on behalf of an international copyright agreement. Some of the longer articles and essays that appeared in the Post-Dispatch will be familiar to Twain scholars from having appeared in Twain's Sketches, New and Old, A Tramp Abroad, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Scattered throughout the news reports are priceless Twain quotes relating to the Bible, mosquito netting, and newspapers: "I shall never start a newspaper so long as I can buy three for less than it costs to have my boots blackened" (209).
On a deeper level, however, Mark Twain in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874-1891 provides an overview of the critical treatment a native son received at the hands of the St. Louis press. At times it is a disturbing picture, comparable to twentieth-century supermarket tabloid journalism. A preoccupation with Twain's financial affairs, his Hartford mansion, and his book sales runs rampant through the gossip columns of the Post-Dispatch. The newspaper kept its readers informed of such trivialities as Twain's case of the mumps; the Quarry Farm water troughs; the number of cigars Twain smoked a day; and his feud with George Washington Cable.
A surprising number of slurs and insults written by the Post-Dispatch staff were hurled at Twain through gossip columns with titles such as "Spice Box," "Post Pencilings," and "Men of Mark." Whether the "Men of Mark" column was so named because of the number of times Mark Twain's name appeared in it is a question McWilliams has left unanswered. Following Twain's embarrassing Whittier banquet appearance, the Post-Dispatch wrote, "Had Mark Twain lived at that early day he would have made the apostles appear ridiculous at the last supper" (80). In 1887 another anonymous columnist wrote, "Mark Twain talks of endowing a home for pumped-out humorists, and there are those who believe that Twain ought to be given a front room in it" (212). A more comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Twain's critical treatment at the hands of the Post-Dispatch is a topic McWilliams plans to address in a future essay.
McWilliams ends his research in 1891--the year Twain and his family departed for an extended stay in Europe. McWilliams explains, "He did not literally die until 1910, but it is not an exaggeration to say that creatively he had died in 1891" (4). Some Twain scholars may disagree.
Mark Twain in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874-1891 should prove itself a useful tool in Twain research and it is hoped that it will inspire similar research to retrieve additional writings long-since forgotten.


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|My painting combines figuration and abstraction. Papers and canvases are designed from picturial objects, often things, but also landscapes, figures, inscriptions, etc. These realities are like a pretext to the exercise of painting, of composition. What matters is the space of the canvas or the paper . My painting does not aim to erase the realities; but it's a world in itself.
Drawings, canvases and papers can be organised according to four sets, Animality/Humanity, Thing/Nothing, Fruit/Flower/ City/Landscape. These sets represent the parts of reality I use to the exercise of pictorial composition.
|Five canvases and a paper, a set : we are the things of what we produce and use
Five canvases, a second set : things and a human bird
Nine papers, a third set.
And a diptych.

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Holding a Book, Having a Disability, Having a car breakdown – while being Black
Recently I have been silent on police killings of people who are black, because I could not come up with anything unique or helpful to add to the discourse on social media -- posts, blogs, articles, many of which are more articulate than I could hope to be. I didn’t want to be sanctimonious, redundant. Nor did I wish to inadvertently disrespect the dignity of each life lost, each unique soul who was gunned done by those charged with protecting public safety.
Just as we hear or read the details of one death and see a new hashtag, we hear of yet another brutal killing.
I cannot speak with the righteous anger of my black friends and colleagues so I try to find my own voice. I try to imagine what it would be like if people who look like me were gunned down on a daily basis while carrying on the business of their lives. I could invoke the purge and genocide of Jews during the Holocaust. And I don’t wish to lessen the dignity of those 6 million lives lost, nor deny history, nor say that one genocide is more important than another. My family was lucky – we made it to the US in the late decade of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th. I pay homage to my ancestors, and their brethren who were not so lucky.
Never again, we say.
Genocide happened, and is happening again here. If our nation’s Original Sin was genocide of Native Americans, then the legacy of slavery is our Second Sin.
I try to imagine -- and I keep coming back to what it must have been like when white slave owners sought to recapture slaves who had escaped in search of a free life. I have been reading Homegoing and I reflect on the relationship between our nation’s Second Sin and what is happening in our world today. I think of Ness and Sam’s escape, capture, the brutal punishment they both received -- and Sam’s fate.
We cannot distance ourselves from this traumatic legacy
So, as a white person, what can I do? Here is what Derrick Weston says:
1. Don’t Silence Us
3. Use your privilege for good
4. Amplify black voices
5. Transfer resources
Read Weston's full post>>


A world of garagey grooves we've never heard before – and a tremendous counterpart to the American Nuggets scene of the 60s! The music here is all from Australia, and shows a really hard, heavy style already in place at the time – one that kind of snuck up beneath the more polished surf acts of the period, and which emerges here with all the raw, nasty energy that made the American Nuggets generation a key precursor to later punk rock! The vibe here is great – very much in the spirit of Lenny Kaye's original Nuggets collection – and the music is even more obscure, given that almost none of these artists circulated outside of Oz
in the 60s – even thought many recorded for labels in the larger Festival family of labels. The notes are great – very detailed, and a history lesson that really supports the music – and tracks include "I Want Need Love You" by The Black Diamonds, "By My Side" by The Elois, "Buried & Dead" by The Master's Apprentice, "Raining Teardrops" by Barrington Davis, "Ain't Got No Feeling" by Derek's Accent, "Rum Drunk" by The Moods, "Early In The Morning" by The Purple Hearts, "Ugly Thing" by The Creatures, "No Next Time" by Bobby & Laurie, "There's Time" by The 5, "Black" by Throb, and "Krome Plated Yabby" by The Wild Cherries.


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Les Productions le Moulin présentent William Prince et Digging Roots!
(Cette production fait partie de la série Canada 150.)
le dimanche 11 mars à 19h30/Sunday, March 11 at 7:30
Marc-Lescarbot theatre (Université Sainte-Anne)
Billets/Tickets: $25 in advance; $30 at the door; $15 for students
en vente/on sale: Ocean Blue Music (Yarmouth); Saulnierville Pharmacy; Weymouth Drugstore; La Shoppe Verte (Concession) Contact: firstname.lastname@example.org; (902) 769-3288
Merci/Thank you to Heritage Canada; Atantic Presenters Association; RADARTS; Clare Dodge Chrysler; Hugh Robichaud, Barrister
Digging Roots consist of husband and wife Raven Kanetakta and ShoShona Kish and a 4-piece back-up band.
-Juno Award Winner: Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for Best Group (2007)
-Juno Award Winner: Aboriginal Album of the Year (2010)
-Juno nominee: Album of the Year (2015)
-Canadian Folk Music Award: Aboriginal Album of the Year (2015)
-new album coming out soon!
-Inaugural recipient of the Cobalt Prize (2015), a contemporary blues composition award presented at the annual Maple Blues Award. "The prize composition was ‘Hwy 17’ from the album ‘For The Light‘ that speaks to the incomprehensible issue of the near 1200 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women."
"It is absolutely inspiring to hear these artistic people make such luminous musical statements." -Winnipeg Free Press
"Funky native music fuelled by a sexy soulful blend of reggae and blues." -Detroit Metro Times
William Prince is a folk and country singer-songwriter from the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba.
Juno Award Winner: Contemporary Roots Album of the Year 2017
Western Canadian Music Award: Aboriginal Artist of the Year 2016
Praised by both Bruce Cockburn and Neil Young
"Prince all by himself is a force to be reckoned with." -The Manitoban
"William Prince draws musical inspiration from long relationships, deep voices and Johnny Cash. His voice and songs evoke Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson, and more than a dash of Barry White, and he is a rising star on the Indigenous music scene." -CBC Radio. (He was often featured on CBC national radio in 2017.)
-William just returned from Nashville where he recorded with Dave Cobb, the man who produced two albums that won Grammys a few weeks ago (Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson).
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Hong Kong coach Kim Pan-gon hits back after criticism over local players
Korean says Dreams FC teenagers Tse Ka-wing and Cheng Chin-lung deserve their shot as he looks to transition from old guard
Hong Kong head coach Kim Pan-gon has knocked back suggestions he is under pressure to select more local players in his squad as he prepares for the crucial Asian Cup qualifier against Lebanon next week.
Just 10 of the 23-man squad – who will also play host to Bahrain on Thursday as preparation – are local players, including two young newcomers, goalkeeper Tse Ka-wing and forward Cheng Chin-lung, both of Dreams FC.
The Korean has been under fire for recruiting too many naturalised players since he was appointed to the job in 2012.
Just last month, three Spanish-born players – Jorge Tarres, Fernando Recio and Daniel Cancela – were all drafted into the team immediately after they obtained Hong Kong passports. All three players keep their place in the squad.
“My position is always under pressure, I know that clearly as I have been in Hong Kong for 17 years,” said Kim after leading his side’s first practice session at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground on Monday.
“But this is not the reason I picked more local players. From time to time, I have to recruit up-and-coming players into the squad as we need a smooth transition from some of our older players.
“Also, these young guns are performing well in the league and they deserve the opportunity. I know the two coming games are important but I always try to give chances to young players if possible.”
Kim was especially impressed by 19-year-old Cheng, the diminutive forward having played a key role in attack for his club despite his age, while Tse, 18, had a brief training stint with English League One side Bury in 2016 before returning home.
Other young players include Li Ngai-hoi of Pegasus, Tsui Wang-kit of Rangers and Tan Chun-lok of Wofoo Tai Po while veteran Lam Ka-wai is back into the squad after missing the last two international games.
The coach also defended his decision to keep most of the practice sessions behind closed doors as he wants the players to keep focused.
“We need concentration at this stage as we want to protect our players from some outside political influence,” he said.
Captain Yapp Hung-fai was also not worried the arrival of new young players would weaken the squad as they prepare for the two important games.
“They are not selected because they are young but because they have proved themselves on the field,” said the goalkeeper.
“Their arrival will certainly bring more stamina and energy into the squad. They may even have chances to play if they can convince the coach they are good enough with their form.”


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Herbie [Adopted 3/1/13] is a 3 year old black cocker male who came to us from a shelter in IL. He has an undocked tail. He gets along with most of the dogs in this foster home and would benefit from an obedience class.
He is crate trained and working on house training. He does a good job if he gets outside often. Herbie likes his toys and sleeps in a crate at night.

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essays on literature and theory
A book-length collection of my writing is forthcoming from Zero Books in January 2015. Here’s some blurbage from the excellent Evan Lavender-Smith:
David Winters is the smartest young critic to emerge in recent years. His writing is marked by a desire for the unorthodox, and an attention to our most daring logophiles—Lish, Lutz, Marcom, Schutt—so often overlooked by others. An intimacy with continental philosophy and literary modernism elevates his work well beyond the obvious exegetical formulas of mainstream criticism, and yet it always remains eminently readable and accessible, eminently fun. In Winters I’ve found a critic whose writing I can read without having to chalk it up to a guilty pleasure—he makes me smarter, there’s no doubt about it.
an essay on recent trends in critical theory
Perhaps the real power of theory (and, in its own way, of fiction) resides as much in unknowing as knowing. To call “clarity” into question, or at least to qualify its epistemic value, is to partake of one of theory’s defining insights. The specifically theoretical character of theory could be said to depend on its critical distance from the “details of life,” and on the resultant defamiliarization of those everyday intuitions which its technical terminology redescribes as ideology. If this is the case, then the problematic status of “clarification” would need to be borne in mind by any properly metatheoretical project. Second-order studies of theory must strike a balance between clarity and singularity; between a reflective familiarity with theory’s concepts and contexts, and a fidelity to the radical (and at times necessarily alienating) force of theory itself. In this sense, the finest of lines separates reflection from reconciliation. Looking ahead, the push and pull of such tensions will undoubtedly continue to condition—and perhaps even define—what it means to do “theory on theory.”
a review of Michael Sayeau’s Against the Event
In moving away from a representational model of the everyday—that is, from a direct mimetic mapping of lived experience onto literary works—Sayeau aims to examine the manner in which this temporal quality expresses itself within literature, as an immanent principle, organizing and orienting narrative logic. On this reading, then, modernist novels do not merely contain representations of everyday life; more importantly, they seek solutions to the specifically “formal challenges” posed by modernity’s “empty time.” According to this formulation, the everyday manifests itself in fiction as a force that threatens to stall the narrative production of meaning. At a formal level, Sayeau shows how his chosen modernist—and proto-modernist—texts “share a particular dilemma: how to maintain the coherence of the text, a rhythm of meaningful experiences, in a world in which time itself seems to be flattening out, softening into circularity, reiteration, and stasis.” In this way, the everyday emerges as an internal element of the economy of the novel, pulling against plot progression, towards entropic dissolution.
an essay on Gabriel Josipovici’s novel Hotel Andromeda, and on Joseph Cornell
Glory and sadness, stars and despair: the box’s “unsayable” truth consists of a combination of contradictory qualities. Within the bounded world of the box, “reality and the ideal” are constellated but not reconciled, so that the viewer’s gaze moves through that world “as in a Möbius strip, perpetually from one to the other.” In this vein, we might even say that the box combines conflicting ideas in its mind, much as our own minds can sometimes hold two antithetical thoughts in tension. In other words, this work of art could be said to possess a cognitive power; a kind of knowledge, whose nature resides in something like what Adorno once called “the consistent consciousness of non-identity.” Not only this, but that knowledge contains an existential component. Specifically, the box seems to “know” something about the relation—or rather, to recall Victoria Best’s word, the “entanglement”—that always links art and life.
an interview with Lydia Davis
A large part of writing a story, after all, has to do with structure, proportion, the ordering of events and facts, and of course the choice and handling of the language itself – in description, striving for precision and minutely observed detail (à la Flaubert), and in dialogue, the economical expressiveness of one’s characters. The material can be invented, or it can be real. In a way, it doesn’t matter. Invented material can be wonderful. As for a story using ‘real’ material, what makes it read as fiction is the tone, the stylised nature of the writing, the selection and shaping of the material, and of course those (optional) fictional elements that may be needed for the structure or drama of it. Out of a hundred people reading this sort of story, though, only three might know that it has many ‘real’ elements; to the other ninety-seven, it could just as well be wholly invented. So, these days, I’m simply more interested in the manipulation of material taken from everyday life – which of course can include texts. When I am working with reality, the material is all there, or almost all, and my challenge is to put it into a form that suits it, and then to arrange it and word it effectively, making little adjustments or fictional additions to the ‘truth’ as necessary. Invention is not obligatory. Maybe it is my long practice of translation that has biased me toward the pleasure of working with found material – an important difference, however, being that I have a great deal more freedom with a story of my own.
an essay on Lydia Davis’s novel The End of the Story
The “story” is deceptively simple. An unnamed narrator (who, like Davis, works as a translator) looks back on a love affair long since over. As with any such loss, she “couldn’t let go of it later.” So, looking back at herself not letting go, she tries to imprint an order upon her experience. Specifically, she sets out to turn the story of the failed affair and its aftermath into a novel. Already though, this apparently straightforward story of love and loss is mediated through multiple optics. Firstly, there are the facts; secondly, the narrator’s slanted experience of those facts. Next, there are the mechanisms of memory—always frail and fallible—through which this experience is recalled. Finally, framing this nested structure, we confront the encompassing act of writing—an act which, as Blanchot would have it, “issues from its own absence, addressing itself to the shadow of events, not their reality.” More confusingly still, if writing is the final stage of this sequence, it is also the first, since writing is what renders recollection. And this is to say nothing of the difference between the novel the narrator is writing and the one we are reading—the one written by Lydia Davis. Writing is a shadow that casts its own shadow.
a review of D.N. Rodowick’s Elegy for Theory
If theory moves forward by looking back, then Rodowick’s own work epitomizes the metacritical spirit it describes. In this essential respect, Elegy for Theory surpasses its humbly stated aim of “clarifying” the history of a concept. While it is true that readers of Rodowick’s book will discover new insights into the story of theory, the exhilaration aroused by those “steep turns and surprising vistas” stems as much from the structure and form of the story’s telling: to follow Rodowick’s argument is, in a way, to witness the spiraling swerve of theory enveloping and comprehending itself. It remains to be seen where Rodowick’s next book will lead—he hints that it will relinquish high theory in favor of a new conception of philosophy. And yet his elegy’s very existence suggests, somehow, that whatever animates theory is alive and well. Toward the end of this book, Rodowick writes of the era of theory that “to feel one’s self at the end of something inspires reflection on its ends.” In itself, his inspired reflection revives the stream of ideas on which it reflects; if this is only an elegy, it’s one that instills its object with endless energy.

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It was a familiar scene at the U.S. Supreme Court: states argued that allowing certain couples to marry would impose long-term harms upon children, families and social institutions. They contended that it is not the judiciary’s place to scrutinize restrictions upon the freedom to marry. And they fell back upon the claim that the definition of marriage is a longstanding tradition.
No, I’m not talking about last week’s argument on same-sex marriage; I’m referring to the 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia, which ultimately struck down bans on interracial marriage as unconstitutional. Switch a few names and adjectives and you could have approximated swathes of the oral argument from 48 years ago, listening to Virginia defend a central vestige of segregation. Indeed, Virginia now acknowledges that it had supported interracial marriage bans and school segregation with “the same arguments offered by marriage equality opponents today” and powerfully concedes that it was on the “wrong side” of those issues.
Read the full op-ed here.

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Before the ban by the US, Huawei was one of TSMC’s biggest clients, in fact, the second biggest after Apple. Thus, the directive by the US government stopping all companies utilizing US technology from shipping components to Huawei was expected to affect TSMC’s revenue. However, that didn’t turn out to be the case as the world’s largest contract semiconductor foundry may have gotten more than enough clients that the absence of Huawei isn’t noticeable.
The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is reportedly having more customers that it needs to hike production. A report by the Asian Times hints that the company is planning to deploy over a thousand engineers to its factory in Tainan’s Southern Taiwan Science Park in order to increase production. The extra workforce is expected to lead to an increase in its 5nm capacity from 60,000-70,000 wafers per month to 120,000 wafers per month.
Most of TSMC’s orders are for 5nm chips that are used on the latest flagship SoCs around like the Snapdragon 888. The 5nm chips come with a larger transistor density and transistor count which give them more power and energy-efficiency compared to older chips. TSMC presently manufactures 5nm chips for Apple, MediaTek, AMD, and Qualcomm. The last supply of 5nm chip to Huawei was in the middle of September 2020 after which it stopped taking orders from the Chinese tech giant due to the US embargo.
The surge in 5nm chip order ensured the loss of Huawei didn’t affect the company’s revenue.
- TSMC stops taking Huawei chip orders after new US restrictions
- Apple to account for 53% of TSMC 5nm chips production in 2021
- Apple to develop ultra advanced micro OLED displays in partnership with TSMC
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Masturbating is a habit. How do I get myself to stop?
Most teens masturbate at some point. Masturbation is part of the way people explore their bodies and learn about their sexual feelings. Because masturbation is a private thing, sometimes people feel embarrassed or worry if they should stop.
Although doctors know that masturbation is common (and even considered a healthy thing to do by many), there are lots of old myths about how it can cause problems. The truth is that, in almost all cases, masturbation doesn't cause problems. So it's not a habit you have to break, like smoking.
So when is masturbation a problem? If masturbation feels like a constant need and a person can't stop thinking about it — or when it keeps someone from doing other things like homework, getting to school, etc. — it's probably time to talk to a therapist, doctor, or nurse.
Reviewed by: D'Arcy Lyness, PhD
Date reviewed: October 2010
* Names have been changed to protect user privacy.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
© 1995-2016 The Nemours Foundation/KidsHealth. All rights reserved.

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Met with applause and often audible approval from the crowd, spoke to the Thursday night.
Read Patch's from the meeting .
Among Franchot's proposals for state and county government were the following:
- Stop the tax cuts for casinos and slots, while increasing taxes for businesses and individuals. Vote against Question 7: "It's an act of political corruption ... The current program doesn't work."
- Put a two-year freeze on all state taxes and fees: "My solution is to link arms and have a moratorium on tax increases and figure out how spending can be reduced and the product improved ... That's what we need and we've done it before. There's a common sense consensus for that."
- Air condition all Baltimore County schools: "For some reason ... one of the richest counties in the state ... almost half of all the classrooms don't have air conditioning ... these classrooms are as hot as ovens." He added, "You guys got to join the rest of the state ... I got a lot of gobbledygook from them about how expensive it is ... they could if they wanted to ... just like how they air condition the offices of every elected official in the state."
- Begin the school year after Labor Day: "[Summer vacation] is what makes life worth living ... spending time with kids and grandkids."
- Refocus state government on customer service, and serving private sector business: "You have to be responsive ... you have to be fair ... if we had more of that in state government and county government, the state would not have the disappointing business relationship we have." He added, "I'm not sure how Maryland got into this habit of treating the private sector like it's interrupting our lunch break."
Dennis M. Robinson, Jr., PHIA president, called the comptroller's statements a "breath of fresh air."
Do you agree or disagree with Franchot's proposals? Do you feel like his ideas are realistic? Tell us in the comments.


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Paris has sentence halved
Convict Hilton rewarded for being a good girl
Celebrity socialite Paris Hilton had her jail sentence cut in half, all thanks to what the judge called Good behaviour.
26 year old Paris was arrested after violating her probation on a drink driving conviction and was sent down earlier this month.
The sometime actress and singer, but full time party girl, will now serve 23 days in a California prison instead of 45.
Paris has recently made an effort to portray herself as a positive role model, despite previous sex tapes and drug allegations.
During her sentence she will be sharing a cell with one other person and will be allowed only one hour a day to shower, watch TV or to use the phone. She begins her jail time on June 5.
Seems the heiress will be living the simple life indeed!

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Brian’s Top Three Games of the Year (#2)–Dying Light
Yesterday, I kicked off my top three games of the year list with the b-horror movie masterpiece, Until Dawn. For the second game on my “best of” list, we’re going to another corner of the horror universe for a fresh take on a tired genre–Dying Light.
I think it’s safe to say that Dying Light pretty much blew everyone’s expectations away. Techland developed the original Dead Island, which I had a ton of fun with. I (along with many others) expected Dying Light to be a spiritual successor to that game, with slightly better visuals and perhaps an extra coat of polish. And Dying Light definitely is that spiritual successor, but it’s also an evolution of what Dead Island was, and it’s superior in every way to that game. In fact, it’s superior to many other open world games that were created with much larger budgets and development teams.
Dying Light takes place in a Turkish city (Harran) that is under quarantine due to a virus that has turned the majority of the population into rabid, zombie-like maniacs. You play Kyle Crane, an operative for the Global Relief Effort, who is hired to retrieve information related to the virus outbreak that could paint the GRE in a very bad light. Crane is sent into the quarantine zone, and everything goes to hell after that.
Dying Light is a game that is so much more than the sum of its parts. There are so many systems working together to make the overall experience a blast to play. In addition to the open world, the crafting and weapon upgrade systems and the character leveling system, there are two aspects of Dying Light that really set it apart–the day/night system and the movement system.
In Dying Light, the freaks come out at night–seriously. In addition to normal enemies being faster and more powerful after the sun goes down, there are special enemies that only come out at night, and they are brutal. But taking down enemies at night is worth more XP, so there’s a tangible reward for the risk you take when you venture out into the darkness. Of course, there are some missions that force you to go out at night, but for much of the game, you can avoid the darkness if you don’t want to deal with the added challenge night brings. The day/night cycle really lends a sense of dread to each sundown, and getting caught out in the city at night can be a terrifying experience–so keep an eye on the sun.
From a gameplay standpoint, the star of Dying Light is its movement system. The Parkour-based traversal is equal parts Mirror’s Edge and Assassin’s Creed, and it works better than both of them. From the outset of the game, you can glide around the rooftops of Harran, and as you level up, it only gets better. When you get the grappling hook later in the game, you basically become Spider-Man.
The fact that Dying Light implements all of the aforementioned systems well is truly an achievement. Everything just works, which means you as the player can just dive into that sandbox and have fun.
Dying Light might be the surprise hit of 2015, and I can’t wait for the expansion (The Following) that will be arriving in February.
We recorded a bunch of Dying Light videos and dedicated an episode of the Co-Op Critics podcast to the game, which you can listen to right here.
Come back tomorrow for my top game game of 2015!
*P.S.–Dying Light also has an amazing soundtrack, composed by Paweł Błaszczak. Totally worth grabbing, it’s very John Carpenter-esque and makes great writing music.


Last week, a judge found Meek Mill in violation of his probation, a decision that could could him an astronomical sum of money, not to mention his freedom.
Yet even when viewed through all of this, Meek Mill is still trying his best to show the judge he is a changed man who simply made a mistake.
Earlier this week, Nicki Minaj and Meek stopped by a women’s group home in Meek’s hometown of Philadelphia.
Nicki posted a photo on her Instagram account which shows the couple with staff from the Dare 2 Dream organization.
Meek Mill will report back to court for sentencing in early February.


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Thalidomide Not Linked to Better Lung Cancer Survival
Thrombotic events more likely in small cell lung cancer patients taking thalidomide than placebo
MONDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with thalidomide in combination with chemotherapy in patients with small cell lung cancer was not associated with improved survival, but was associated with a higher risk of thrombotic events, according to research published online July 16 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Siow Ming Lee, M.D., of the University College Hospital in London, and colleagues analyzed data from 724 patients with small cell lung cancer who received up to six cycles of etoposide and carboplatin, and were randomly assigned to also receive either placebo or thalidomide daily for up to two years.
In patients with limited-stage disease, the researchers found that survival was similar in both treatment groups, but in patients with extensive disease, those in the thalidomide group had worse survival (hazard ratio for death, 1.36). Compared to placebo, thalidomide was linked to a higher risk of thrombotic event, typically pulmonary embolus or deep vein thrombosis (hazard ratio, 2.13).
"Thalidomide might not be an effective anti-angiogenic drug as initially assumed. Although thalidomide was shown to suppress angiogenesis 15 years ago, the responsible mechanism has remained largely elusive," write the authors of an accompanying editorial, who also point out that "small cell lung cancer might be the wrong disease to test thalidomide and possibly other anti-angiogenic drugs. Clearly, not every tumor is equally angiogenic or equally dependent on angiogenesis."
Pharmion Ltd. provided thalidomide and placebo capsules for the study, and an editorial co-author reported financial relationships with Diagnoplex and Novartis.


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Vulnerable. It’s a word I am loathe to describe myself.
But it’s true in so many ways. I’m surprisingly sensitive and cry way too much. The tiniest negative comment can hurt me, even though I won’t let it show.
Underneath this tough shell lies a completely sappy softie. Not a lot of people know that because my facade is a tough-talking biotch. Once you get to know me, though, you’ll see how fragile I really am.
And that’s what scares me. The fact that people can worm their way into my heart and all of a sudden, I’m exposed. My weaknesses are laid on the table and I’m left feeling naked. The mask of disaffection that I wear comes off, and I’m left with nothing to hide behind.


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Breaking up prolonged sitting with 5 minutes of standing every half hour can improve postprandial glucose metabolism just as well as can 5-minute walking bouts among overweight, postmenopausal women with prediabetes, a new study finds.
The results were presented December 1, 2015 here at the World Diabetes Congress 2015 by Joseph Henson, MD, of the Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and were published online simultaneously in Diabetes Care.
"I was surprised by the standing condition, because from previous studies I would have thought that it had to be driven by energy expenditure, so people would actually have to get up out of their chair and do something physical such as walking in order to get the reductions in glucose and insulin," Dr Henson told Medscape Medical News in an interview.
"But this probably points toward something happening at the muscle level, when you change your posture from sitting to standing," he noted. The fact that there was no significant difference between standing and walking "just shows really that getting out of the chair is important. It doesn't necessarily matter what you do," he added.
Session moderator and Diabetes Care editor William T Cefalu, MD, executive director, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, told Medscape Medical News, "There's a lot of research going on now about increasing energy expenditures while at work, whether it's bicycling or standing at workstations. This is one of many papers suggesting that reducing sedentary time seemed to have a benefit."
Dr Cefalu added, "I think this information needs to be disseminated to patients. We've known for years that individuals who increase their walking in any 1 week will have fewer metabolic risk factors and better outcomes. Increasing activity will have benefit. Reducing sedentary time is an important message."
Sitting, Standing, and Walking
Study subjects were 30 postmenopausal women with impaired glucose tolerance as detected by postchallenge glucose of 7.8 to 11.0 mmol/L on oral glucose tolerance or an HbA1c between 5.7% and 6.4%.
They arrived at the lab at 8:00 am following a 10-hour fast and were all asked to sit quietly for 30 minutes, then were given breakfasts consisting of 58% fat, 26% carbohydrate, and 16% protein at 9:00 am. They were given identical lunches at noon. Blood samples were drawn at 30, 60, 120, 180, and 210 minutes postprandially.
One group was randomized to simply sit still for 7.5 hours straight (lavatory visits were made via wheelchair), while a second group stood for 5 minutes every 30 minutes, and a third group walked on a treadmill for 5 minutes every 30 minutes (total 6.5 hours sitting and 1 hour standing or walking).
All were asked to return the next morning after another 10-hour fast, and repeated the all-day sitting with the same meals and blood measurements.
Compared with uninterrupted sitting, standing reduced the postprandial rise in glucose by 34% (P = .022) compared with a 28% reduction for walking (P = .009).
Postprandial insulin concentrations rose by 20% with standing (P = .045) vs 37% for walking (P = 0.008) on the day of the intervention.
On day 2, those who had interrupted their sitting with standing on day 1 had a 19% reduction in postprandial glucose levels compared with those who had been sitting on day 1 (P = .039), while walking on the previous day reduced the glucose levels by 17% on day 2 (P = .027 vs sitting).
Differences in postprandial glucose levels on day 2 were not significantly different between those who stood or walked on day 1 (P = .877)
Insulin responses did not persist into the next day following the standing condition, but they were still significantly lower the day after walking (P = .038). Again, there were no significant differences between standing and walking groups from day 1 (P = .529).
On the other hand, neither standing nor walking reduced triglyceride levels compared with prolonged sitting.
Dr Cefalu said: "I think it was an incredibly well-done study, the way they carefully evaluated the intervention and then 24 hours later compared it with prolonged sitting.
"When you look at the reductions in glucose and insulin, it's information with great public-health benefit."
Dr Henson noted that results of previous studies of breaking up sitting time in overweight and obese adults have also demonstrated benefit and suggest that the same effect would likely be seen among other populations in addition to postmenopausal women with prediabetes.
"Logic would dictate that you'd probably find similar if not stronger associations in people with established type 2 diabetes. It appears to follow a dose-response effect," he noted.
Of course, actual exercise is still important, he pointed out.
"But the problem is a lot of individuals, particularly those with dysglycemia, many of whom are overweight or obese, don't do it. So, we need to find new ways to incorporate activity throughout the day, even if it's just standing or walking."
The research was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit, which is a partnership between University Hospitals of Leicester National Health Service Trust, Loughborough University, and the University of Leicester; NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care; and Rutland and East Midlands and the University of Leicester Clinical Trials Unit. Dr Henson has no relevant financial relationships; disclosures for the coauthors are listed in the paper. Dr. Cefalu is a consultant for Intarcia Therapeutics and Sanofi and has been a principal investigator of studies for GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, and Janssen.
Diabetes Care. Published online December 1, 2015. Article
Medscape Medical News © 2015 WebMD, LLC
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MARQUINHOS has put Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal on red alert after telling Paris St Germain bosses he wants to leave, according to reports.
But the Premier League clubs will face competition from Barcelona for his signature.
The 21-year-old Brazil defender is said to be furious at a lack of playing time in the French capital.
Mundo Deportivo report: “The highly-rated centre-back is hungry for action after facing limited time in Laurent Blanc’s starting XI, with David Luiz and Thiago Silva being preferred.
“It was also claimed he was angry at being benched for the French Ligue 1 winner’s Champions League quarter-final first leg clash with Man City, although he did start the second leg which City won 1-0.
“As a result he has made it clear to club chiefs that he wants to assess his future at the end of the season and could push for a move.”
A final decision on Marquinhos’ future is likely to be made when he holds talks with PSG’s board after their French Cup final clash with Marseille on May 21.
Earlier this season Marquinhos said: “My future is in Paris? At the moment, yes.
“But I can only speak of the present.”
“We’ll see how the season will finish. Afterwards, there will be a reflection.”
However, despite strong interest from big Premier League clubs, it looks likely the talented defender will opt instead for a move to Spain, having recently expressed a preference to join Barcelona.


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Crafting an ear from scratch
7 Aug 2018, 3:33 p.m.
During Paul O’Grady’s Little Heroes, we’re shining a spotlight on the wonderful staff across the hospital who help children get better and fulfil their potential. Mr Neil Bulstrode, a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, featured in Episode 1 as one of the team who looked after Mackenzie.
Mr Bulstrode, working as a Consultant at GOSH since April 2006, treats a lot of children with microtia, a condition in which one side of the face does not develop at the same rate, resulting in one ear being smaller than the other. In this video he explains how he builds a new ear for his patients, using their own cartilage.
"What is so rewarding is seeing how the confidence of these children changes," says Mr Bulstrode in the film. "I think these children will be able to follow their dreams," says Mr Bulstrode. "To achieve what they want to. That's the real value-add."
Meet the brilliant people behind our clinical trials
We are committed to carrying out pioneering research to find treatments and cures for some of the most complex illnesses. We often have over 500 research projects active at one time. Meet the people who help make this happen.
Industrial action at GOSH: update for families and visitors 18 February 2022
Yesterday (17 February), we came to an agreement with the union and protesters are now legally required to adhere to the provisions of a Court Order which includes keeping protests within three specific designated areas.
How we bring critically ill children to GOSH: then and now
Since opening our doors in 1852, we’ve experienced many breakthroughs in research, technology, and our practices. The technology that enables us to transfer critically ill children has improved significantly.
GOSH Non- Executive Director awarded in New Year's Honours list
Professor Russell Viner, a non-Executive Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to child and adolescent health, particularly during Covid-19.


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WASHINGTON -- The Nationals and Phillies are 2-for-2.
Tuesday night's game was postponed following a two-hour rain delay. Monday's game was postponed after a three-hour rain delay.
Tuesday's game will be made up as part of a split day-night doubleheader Sept. 24 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., bumping a four-game series to a five-game series. The Nationals and Phillies are scheduled to also play a split day-night doubleheader Wednesday.
The day was not without news. Nationals ace Max Scherzer broke his nose in batting practice when a ball bounced off his bat and struck him in the face. Scherzer was attempting to bunt at the time.
Scherzer's injury and the multiple postponements throw the Nationals' pitching plans into disarray. They're not sure if Scherzer will pitch as expected Wednesday. It appears Austin Voth, who was scratched from his Thursday start for Triple-A Fresno, will be available to pitch in one of the Wednesday games -- should they be played. More rain is expected Wednesday.
The Nationals will bump Patrick Corbin, who was slated to pitch again Tuesday, into a Wednesday spot. Wednesday's other starter is TBA. It could be Scherzer if he is ready. It could be Erick Fedde, and Voth could be used in the bullpen as the 26th man. That would provide Scherzer a chance to pitch Thursday and Strasburg on Friday against Atlanta.
Or, Scherzer could be provided more time off. There's a lot to sort out once again thanks to the rain.
MORE NATIONALS NEWS:
- Ready to Work: Rutledge signs with Nats
- Mr. Walk-Off: 13 years since Zimmerman's first game-winning HR
- Bryce in Philly: Phillies fans think Harper's overpaid, but like his hustle


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It all started with SHAUN OF THE DEAD, a hilarious parody of zombie films starring Simon Pegg as the Man Least Likely to Be a Badass. After most of his friends and neighbors turn into brain-eating monsters, Shaun (Pegg) fights for survival with his housemate Ed (Nick Frost), all while attempting to reunite with his ex-girlfriend, Liz (Kate Ashfield).
The brilliance continues with HOT FUZZ, a fantastically funny buddy cop satire which follows a straight-laced officer (Pegg) forced to work in a crime-free village alongside his bumbling partner (Frost). When a string of brutal murders occurs, the duo relies on inspiration from Hollywood blockbusters to turn into the ultimate pair of tough guys.
The trilogy comes to an epic conclusion with THE WORLD'S END, in which a group of chilldhood chums reunites to complete the pub crawl they started twenty years earlier. Their lives, along with their friendships, have changed dramatically since their teenage days, but their differences cease to matter when they're presented with the challenge of not only drinking their way through twelve pubs but of saving the entire planet. Filled with the uproarious humor and madcap adventures we've come to expect from Wright, THE WORLD'S END insures that this trilogy will go out with a bang. (Sarah Pitre)
Wright and Pegg dubbed it the “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy (also known as the “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy) because each film features a double scoop of blood and ice cream. Specifically a different flavor of Cornetto - a tasty frozen treat famous in the UK (the equivalent of our Good Humor King Cone) - that represents the theme of each film (red strawberry for zombie gore, blue original for police action, mint choc-chip for alien invasion).
THE WORLD'S END opens in theatres everywhere August 23rd.


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Key West is often referred to as "Mile 0" due to its location at the southernmost point of U.S. Route 1, which runs along the East Coast of the United States. The designation "Mile 0" signifies the starting or ending point of U.S. Route 1, depending on the direction of travel.
U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south highway that spans over 2,300 miles, connecting Key West in Florida to Fort Kent in Maine. The mileage along U.S. Route 1 is measured from north to south, and Key West is at the southern terminus of this iconic highway.
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I went out for another route inspection today. I’d already spotted a few issues on a previous ride, and wanted to check the rest of the route again too. I only found a few places in need to attention.
First in Santon Downham, the sign on the telegraph pole as you enter the village from the north-east had been removed and needed replacing. I also did a bit of pruning of the hedge around the sign before the right turn on to the C622.
Secondly, two of the lamp-posts that I had attached signs to near the Brandon level crossing had been replaced by the council, so I needed to put signs up on the new posts. I also added an additional sign to help riders approaching from the north along the cycle path.
Because of the unusual road layout at the junction, I created some custom arrows for use here, to give riders a better indication of where the route goes.

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Dow 15,000: Will Stocks Keep Going Up?
The Talking Heads are all over this one. The consensus is that the Dow Jones along with U.S. stocks will continue to head higher. Thus the Dow Jones at 15,000 is not the end for 2013. We expect more and it's likely we will get it.
Tony Dwyer of Canaccord Genuity (CF) has the most bullish estimate of all major Wall Street equity strategists, with a 1760 yearend target on the S&P 500.
Birinyi Associates, an independent shop, was among the first to advise getting into U.S. equities before they reached their low a little more than four years ago. With its prediction that the S&P 500 would hit 1600 already successful, the firm now thinks the index could ascend to 1900.
Bill Berger in a 1995 speech at a Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference in Boston, and it was almost as laughable then — with the Dow at 4,500 — as it seems now, when it stands more than 100,000 points into the Dow’s future.
There’s a decent chance the Dow hits 116,200 before 2050.
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