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All Sports Commissioner of the Known Universe: MLB Declaration
For immediate release
It is with great hesitation and reverence that I accept this position. I understand that all athletes, owners, coaches, and fans of every sport are placing a tremendous amount of trust in my judgment by making me the first All Sports Commissioner of the Known Universe. I will do my best to honor the office and justify the exorbitant compensation package that has already been transferred to numerous Swiss bank accounts in my name.
With this unprecedented unilateral authority over all athletic competition, rules, leagues, and associations on this planet and any others on which humans may eventually settle and compete, I will institute changes to make sports more enjoyable at all levels. However, in order to foster more interest in all athletic endeavors, my first actions will be to make professional sporting events more enjoyable for fans both at the actual event and watching on television. With this primary goal in mind, I have compiled a list of changes for the major professional leagues that will be addressed one at a time.
Unfortunately, “America’s pastime” is a very fitting description of the game of baseball. It is largely in the past and takes a lot of time. Therefore, my first declaration as All Sports Commissioner of the Known Universe is designed to make this once-great game worthy of primetime broadcast again. I will make the following changes for the 2015 Major League Baseball season:
- Behind the plate umpires calling balls and strikes will be replaced by the virtual strike box that is shown on TV (FoxTrax, PitchTrax, K-Zone, etc.).
- Since he does not need to call balls and strikes, the home plate umpire will be repositioned to stand to the side of the catcher, facing the batter so that he may accurately determine if the batter swung at a pitch or successfully checked his swing.
- Umpires will no longer be allowed to scream back at irate managers like a spoiled little girl whose brother crashed Barbie’s tea party. Either walk away or listen politely. If the manager yells, eject him. Upon ejection, managers must pitch a fit worthy of the “Not Top Ten” or face heavy fines and suspensions.
Length of Games
- A 12 second pitch clock will start as soon as “ball” or “strike” is displayed on the scoreboard, or when the ball is returned to the pitcher after a batted ball. A ball will be called if a pitcher has not entered his pitching motion when the clock expires. 5 seconds will be added for a throw to a base with a runner but no more than 10 seconds will be added between each pitch.
- Visits to the mound by managers or catchers will not be permitted. Pitchers, catchers, and, managers will be permitted to wear in-ear radios and microphones to discuss pitch strategy.
- No on-mound warm up time will be permitted for pitching changes after a half-inning has begun.
- Batters may not request time or step out of the box once the pitcher is on the rubber. Any pitch thrown while the batter is out of the box will be recorded as a ball or strike.
Increased Offensive Production (That’s what we’re paying to see)
- All teams in both the National and American Leagues will be permitted to utilize as many designated hitters as they wish in their lineups. No one buys tickets to see pitchers, catchers, and 2nd basemen hit routine grounders to pitchers, catchers, and 2nd basemen.
- I think we can all agree that baseball was much more exciting when Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGuire were hitting baseballs so far that TBS was reporting the distances in Astronomical Units. Random testing will be administered to ensure super-human levels of testosterone in designated hitters—players who have the sole responsibility of crushing the ball like Bruce Banner after someone insulted his momma.
- Opposing teams may not wear the same uniform color. Period.
- Managers with a Body Mass Index greater than 30 will not be permitted to wear the same uniform as players. During games, obese managers should wear officially licensed, business casual, MLB-branded clothing. During batting practice, they may wear officially licensed MLB athletic gear and run laps around the warning track.
Length of Season
- The regular season will be cut from 162 games to 124.
- The MLB playoffs will conclude before Labor Day. Let’s face it—once football starts, no one cares.
I will not be taking any questions at this time, but rest assured that changes will be made in the NFL and NBA soon. When professional leagues are in line I will turn my attention to amateur athletics from the NCAA all the way down to the youngest of youth sports. Spoiler alert: No more trophies for losers.

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I Give a Damn
My name is Sergio, and I am a Mexican-American, 16 year old from California. Having grown up in a not-so-great neighborhood, and my family being middle-class, my whole life I have had to work my butt off for anything I’ve wanted. With college coming quick, it’s something I have to do a whole lot more. But those are things I am incredibly proud of.
However, something I am not proud of is to be a part of a society that seems to run on hate.
Whenever I hear the words “illegal” or “alien” or ” beaner,” I just feel sorry for the amount of ignorance in the world. Whenever I see news headlines of people getting discharged from serving a country they love just because they love the same sex, I feel angry at the level of prejudice in the world. But whenever I am questioned why I support gays or immigrants or anybody “different”, I feel totally motivated to help the world change.
I give a damn because I do not believe that any human being is illegal. I do not believe that any love is wrong. I don’t believe that two people should be forbidden to marry. I don’t believe in stereotypes or prejudice. I don’t believe that being any race, religion, sexuality, gender, or age makes you any less of a human being.
And I give a damn because in my lifetime, I want to see hate be torn apart and buried in the ground, and I want to live in a world where to live your life happily, it doesn’t need to matter who you are or where you come from. I will live and die by that dream, and I will do anything and everything I can, along with everyone else who shares the same dream, to help change the world.
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Not long ago, there was a fire in my father’s house in Mexico City. It started in the furnace room, with a gas leak from the boiler. The flames quickly spread to the garage, across boxes full of books and family archives, sparing my old bicycle—unused since I rode it one last early morning to my final exams at the university—but melting all the car’s plastic parts and shattering all its windows. A couple of days after the fire, when the shock had passed, and the inventorying of losses was done, and the time had come to allow some fresh air and some humor to pass through it all, my father sent me pictures of the damage. In one picture, the remains of a map of Mexico hang above the debris on a soot-covered wall, looking like an amateur metaphor of the country in its current circumstances.
I remembered that map. I grew up in houses full of maps like it. The U.S.S.R. occupied an entire wall in the house where I was born. In another house, there were atlases and road maps on every horizontal-enough surface: kitchen countertop, sofa, toilet-tank lid. Later, a collection of terrestrial globes grew, and jigsaw puzzles of world maps were routinely handed out as birthday or Christmas presents. For some years, at dinnertime, verbalized maps filled the otherwise empty space of our conversations, and my siblings and I were not allowed to take leave from the table unless we were able to pass my father’s geography quiz, providing three correct answers in a row: The capital of Burkina Faso? Ouagadougou. Suriname? Paramaribo. Mongolia? This last one, I always fucked up.
A new series of maps slowly appeared. It was 1994, and we had just moved to Pretoria, South Africa. My father began working on a Ph.D. thesis about the urban history and future of Mexico City, and for months, he tacked or taped cartographic representations of the city along the walls of his studio. Some were geologic maps of the kind only specialists can read. Others were historical, and these my father organized chronologically, from the foundation of Tenochtitlán in 1325 to the late-twentieth-century D.F. There were facsimiles of an imagined, hand-drawn pre-Hispanic city, such as the 1542 Codex Mendoza, a sort of visual synthesis of the mythical and the historical foundations of the Aztec empire, at the center of which was an eagle, standing on a nopal cactus, eating a serpent. There were also facsimiles of the first European representations of the colonial capital, which perhaps attempted to impose spatial notions of “center” and “periphery” on the complex, possibly untranslatable urban layout of the Aztecs’ floating capital—a city erected on an island within a basin curving up toward high mountain ranges from where rivers flowed down into five different lakes, all connected by an intricate system of canals, chinampas, bridges, and causeways. And, finally, there were many maps of the postcolonial city, showing a grid that rapidly expanded across the basin, successively reproducing layouts imported from Spanish, then French, then American urban-planning models.
Mexico City has often been described as a sort of palimpsest. It’s a rather generic idea—an accurate-enough description of most cities, inasmuch as substrates of a city’s past can be read in its current appearance. But it’s perhaps particularly true of Mexico City, where the practice of repurposing ruins has been the rule and not the exception: the stones of Aztec ruins were used to build the first colonial buildings, and the ruins of those to build the neocolonial ones. The walls and façades of the older buildings, especially institutional ones, can be read as a brick-and-stone archive of the intense, decade-long debates that took place in Mexico City around an official architectural language that had to be established as its own singular style. Beyond the city’s architectural languages, the earthquakes that have struck still reverberate visually in all the cracks that scar its schools and houses; and the city’s lacustrine substrates have left all kinds of humid traces: floodmarks on walls, churches half sunk, plazas paved with mold-clad slabs, sidewalks that resemble solidified waves.
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is perhaps the structure that tells this layered story best. No other building still standing is as much a depository of the hydrologic and topographic determinants of the city. No other institutional building is as much an archive of the ideological battles and power struggles between social classes, successive governments, and different architectural schools. Bellas Artes was inaugurated in 1934, but its construction began in 1904, during the final years of the Porfiriato—the almost four-decade dictatorship headed by Porfirio Díaz, which ended with the Mexican Revolution, in 1910.
One of the recurrent debates during the early Porfiriato was whether modernizing Mexico City meant reconstructing the colonial capital in the style of European neoclassical architecture, rooted in Europe’s Hellenic heritage, or whether Mexico City had to rebrand itself in a neo-Aztec visual code, rooting the narrative of its past in precolonial history. Opinions were polarized, and, on some occasions, opposing visions were reconciled—with unfortunate results. The Mexican pavilion for the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, for example, was the conciliatory and hideous Palacio Azteca. The pavilion looked like the result of a one-night stand between the National Gallery in London and the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán. In the end, experiments with neo-Aztec architecture were abandoned, and Mexico City’s official nineteenth-century style aligned with Beaux Arts, a late form of European neoclassicism—perhaps because Beaux Arts was more resonant with universalist aspirations, at a time when Europe was still the undisputed owner of the universal. It’s easy to wonder, though, what Mexico City would look like—what it would feel like—if the proponents of the neo-Aztec had prevailed. Mexican bureaucrats would have to climb almost vertical stairs on their way to government offices, and presidential addresses would be delivered from the high platform of a neo-pyramid.
In any case, modernizing Mexico in the Porfiriato became synonymous with building in the style of Beaux Arts, and the Palacio de Bellas Artes, originally named Teatro Nacional, became the most emblematic and perhaps most ambitious project of the Díaz regime. During this period, foreign architects and engineers, mostly importing materials from abroad, were in charge of building turn-of-the-century Mexico City. Díaz’s favorite architect was the Italian-born Adamo Boari, who had graduated as an engineer in Bologna, later traveled to Montevideo, Buenos Aires, New York, and Chicago, and finally settled in Mexico in 1899. Boari received the commission for the Teatro Nacional, which Díaz conceived of as the space that would “import” European ballet, music, and opera for an educated upper class eager to remain in touch with the old continent’s trends and traditions. The theater itself also had to be an emblem of progress, “exporting” an idea of a Mexican modernity. It had to be as sophisticated and magnificent as the best opera houses in Europe.
The site for the new theater had been occupied by a convent, Santa Isabel, opened in 1601, which had been built on the muddy grounds of the old Tenochtitlán lake bed and so over the years had constantly flooded and sunk. In 1861, following the Reform wars led by Benito Juárez, in which the government expropriated all ecclesiastical properties, the convent closed. The twenty-four nuns who still lived there were relocated, and the building was repurposed as a mixed-use complex. Its central area became a cigarette and cigar factory; what had once been the church became a printing press; the nuns’ dormitories became housing for single mothers; classrooms became the offices of the first Mexican telephone company, the Central Telefónica; and in what was maybe the old canteen, a rehearsal space for the French Philharmonic Society was improvised. Then, in 1901, everything was razed.
Boari’s project was a sort of anthem to—or perhaps an unwitting requiem for—Art Nouveau. In his original plan, the theater was to be made of marble, mostly imported from Carrara, cladding a steel skeleton that was to be at least as large as a Byzantine basilica. Four marble statues of Pegasus would crown the structure, and a number of Doric columns and allegorical sculptures would decorate the exterior. Inside, there would be a complex system of electric lighting, large halls for people to meet and mingle with “the stars,” three grand domes to admit Mexico City’s intense altiplano sunlight, and even a garden.
Boari’s plan, however, turned out to be utterly dysfunctional. The theater was not exempt from the constant sinking that Santa Isabel and the later multipurpose complex had had to endure. In the course of a few years, the “white elephant,” as it was often called, sank ever deeper into the ground. Repeatedly, entire parts of it collapsed and workers had to start all over again. In 1910, the Dirección de Obras del Teatro came up with the idea of injecting concrete (Portland cement) into the substrates of the building in order to keep it from sinking. This was successful enough, but later that year the Mexican Revolution broke out. Funds became scarcer, materials and supplies more difficult to obtain, and the construction of the theater slowed down. Boari had to redraft and redraft his plans, simplifying his designs and relinquishing his high aspirations to the reality on the ground. By 1916, violence and chaos had spread on all sides of the country and besieged the city. Boari decided to return to Italy. In the years that followed, he continued to draw new plans for his theater, which he sent to Mexico, hoping to hear back. He never did, and none of his plans materialized. He died in Rome, in 1928.
The Mexican Revolution was an agrarian-led insurgence against the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship and the tight grip that the aristocracy had on the country. The construction of the Teatro Nacional, an emblem of bourgeois and aristocratic values and aspirations, now halted completely. It was as if something deep in the sediment of the lake repelled all the imported marble, iron, and concrete; as if something deep in the land’s memory repelled the idea of having to house European ballets and operas.
For years the building’s metal frame lay like the gigantic rib cage of yet one more decomposing skeleton in a death-stricken city. During that time, the Italian engineer Raymundo Frola, who had been brought to Mexico by Boari to work on the machinery for the theater, and the Mexican carpenter Simón Maldonado decided to occupy what was supposed to become the theater’s machine room. For some time, they both lived there, among the ruins, ropes, tools, and mountains of marble and stone debris. Slowly, cats, rats, and—especially—owls took over. Hundreds and hundreds of owls. Frola and Maldonado were either driven out by the owls or interred in the rubble during one of the building’s many collapses.
Twenty years went by before construction restarted. The revolution had passed, and the country was reimagining itself. The debates around Mexico City’s architecture that had begun in the Porfiriato now focused on the possible integration of the country’s many pasts, peoples, and social classes. The plans for construction of the theater were taken up again in 1930, within a very different paradigm of modernity. The new, revolutionary government determined that the building should not have the sole function of entertaining the bourgeoisie but had to be a multipurpose space for the education of “the masses.” The new construction plans were directed by the Mexican architect Federico Mariscal, a proponent of the neocolonial style who opposed European neoclassical architecture. Mariscal partly respected the surviving exteriors of the theater but completely redesigned its interiors. The new language he used was Art Deco—a peculiar, vernacular form of it, in any case. The areas of the building that still lacked cladding were covered with thin slabs of local marble and stone—instead of Carrara marble—and its metal skeleton was covered with concrete, copper, and porcelain. Instead of Greek gods and Muses, masks of the Mayan rain god Chaac were placed at strategic points along the walls. Then Mexico’s “three giants,” Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, were each commissioned to do a mural that depicted scenes of the Mexican Revolution. Finally, in 1934, the Teatro Nacional was rebaptized and inaugurated as the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Since then, Bellas Artes has been described as a horrid collage, a mausoleum, a gargantuan catastrophe. In her 1932 tourist guide to Mexico City, Your Mexican Holiday, the American journalist and anthropologist Anita Brenner referred to it as “the most pretentious building of all.” The New York–based dancer and choreographer José Limón, who was invited to Bellas Artes as resident choreographer in the 1950s, called it “monstrous and fascinating” and “possibly the ugliest thing I was to see in Mexico.” In her 1985 novel Arráncame la vida, Ángeles Mastretta described Bellas Artes as a “first communion cake.” Today, Bellas Artes is a space for concerts, theater, dance, art exhibitions, book launches. It’s as institutional and solemn as any public building. It’s also just a place where people meet, because—because it is a place. In high school, I had a poète maudit boyfriend—a little chubby, very maudit, and not so poète—with whom I spoke little but played a lot of chess and danced danzón. We’d meet in front of Bellas Artes, play a game of chess, then walk over to the Alameda, the adjacent park, where Mexico City octogenarians gather on weekends for a dance. He would tell me over the phone the night before: See you tomorrow in front of the Vestido de Quinceañera (the quinceañera dress).
I remember spending long Sunday afternoons in my father’s studio in Pretoria, in the early 1990s. While he made notes and sketched plans for his thesis, I drew or wrote, looking up now and then at his wall maps of Mexico City. Maps are synthetic abstractions of external space and interior space—a document both of what is seen and of how a mind sees it. But, perhaps because their abstraction supersedes their subjectivity, they do not impose a single definite narrative on the space they represent. For my father, those maps were the silent companions with which he held the solitary but always impassioned debates that marked his lifelong obsession with designing an urban plan for Mexico City that would recover all its lakes and rivers: a future city that “floated”—the way Tenochtitlán had. The cartographic archive on his walls was a window into the city where I had been born but not yet lived in. What they offered me, in hours of ennui and preadolescent melancholia, was not a key to understanding the abstract geopolitical changes in a landscape but the beginning of a wondering, of a fathoming, of an insistent question: What story or stories could possibly tie all those maps together?
Each drawn as if in a different language, in diverging scales and proportions—it was hard for me to see how they could all represent the same place. The landscape across which Mexico City expanded between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries had changed beyond recognition: a precolonial monad surrounded by a lake that had disfigured into a massive modern amoeba surrounded by an industrial, cancerous sprawl. Looking back, I understand that the thread that ran across the maps was water. The story they told was about the disappearance of a vast waterscape—lakes and rivers progressively diked, dried up, tubed, banished—and the simultaneous emergence of an equally large cityscape, where horrible things replaced beautiful ones, but where improbable stories, like the one of Bellas Artes, were also possible.
I don’t know if Bellas Artes is ugly, pretentious, monstrous, quinceañera-kitsch or what. It’s as megalomaniac a statement as London’s Big Ben or Agra’s Taj Mahal, as sad as an aging Marlene Dietrich, and as much an emblem of turn-of-the-century architectural flops as Kubrick’s Space Odyssey is of 1960s futuristic film flops. More than anything, though, Bellas Artes is a three-dimensional map of Mexico City. It’s a kind of hologram, or a Borgesian Aleph that contains, in its limited space, the entire history of the city’s many amphibian lives, real and imagined. If the story of Mexico City were an epic, it would be one of politics versus lakes, time versus rivers, mezcal versus morals, pulque versus progress, architecture versus water.
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa, and India. She is the author of Faces in the Crowd, Sidewalks, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends, all published by Coffee House Press. She is at work on her second novel, The Lost Children Archives, forthcoming in 2019 from Knopf.
What memory, asks Valeria Luiselli in her essay on Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, can be held within a slab of stone? What is washed away when the flood comes, and how can rubble make an architect?
"Make everything more flexible in every way, so that the building becomes more like a palm tree and less like a completely rigid structure, because that’s the one that will fall down. Rigid things collapse."

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Compromised Indoor Air Quality Causes Occupational Risk in the Rubber Industry
Whether you compete for a club championship trophy, spend afternoons on the clay with friends, or are simply a pet owner who passes time playing fetch with your dog at the park, you are no stranger to that universally recognized ball wrapped in bright yellow felt. The tennis ball.
Tennis as we know it was first played in the 1870s but before that, the balls used were considerably different than those of today. Fabricated from cloth or leather and filled with rags or horsehair, tennis balls during that time weren’t uniform in design. Modern tennis adopted improvements to the ball that including stitched flannel around the rubber surface and air pressurizing the balls for a reliable bounce. Then along came vulcanized rubber, which quickly became a manufacturing mainstay. Felting was the last major change. (1)
Today, over 300 million tennis balls are produced each year with more than 200 brands worldwide. It takes a lot of rubber to turn out that many balls. As a result, rubber workers are at risk for illness due to air pollution caused by the industrial methods employed during manufacturing. (2)
Harmful Byproducts of Rubber Production
According to the EPA, the occupational risks affecting the rubber industry are directly related to the rubber-making process. In addition, the EPA has identified rubber manufacturing facilities as a major source of HAP (hazardous air pollutant) emissions. (3)
While rubber goods are an important part of modern life, their production involves subjecting varied combinations of hundreds of chemicals to heat, pressure, and catalytic action during the various manufacturing processes. As a consequence, toxic substances and chemical byproducts abound.
The rubber manufacturing industry employs a considerable number of workers. Though the current US Department Of Labor statistics is not available at this time. The fact that in 1989 there were approximately 132,500 workers employed in non-tire rubber production is telling. There are many thousands of rubber workers potentially at risk, many of whom, make tennis balls.
How Does It Happen?
Beginning with a rubber-based core, there is a five-step process for making a tennis ball.
- Crushing – The rubber compound is repeatedly crushed in an open mill
- Compressing – The forms are cut from the rubber core and then compression molded into a thin shell
- Sheeting – The shell is made into a sheet and rolled up, then cooled and cut into semi-circles
- Buffing – Shell halves are combined then buffed and then placed into a cylinder to add grooves before felt is added
- Felting – A machine cuts the fabric so felting may be stuck to the rubber core to create the finished product
Steps 1-3 present the highest risk for unhealthy exposure, according to the National Institute Of Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH). Indoor air quality concerns such as contact with amine composites (which are organic derivatives of ammonia) (5) and exposure to hundreds of different chemical emissions in the form of vapors, dust, gases, and fumes (4) are at the top of the NIOSH caution list. Workers are exposed to these toxins – some of them carcinogenic compounds – by way of inhalation and dermal absorption. OSHA, too, has warned workers in the rubber industry about specific health problems affecting the kidneys, lungs, skin, and eyes. Headache, nausea, fever, and dizziness are only a few of the possible symptoms.
Protecting Rubber Industry Workers
Most rubber manufacturing plants (including those that produce tennis balls), comply with OSHA recommendations for minimizing worker risk by way of wearing protective clothing and using engineering controls. (5) But it proves prudent to make sure that source capture equipment is modern and up to date and all ambient air cleaning systems are sufficient to adequately purify the air so workers are not at occupational risk.
At Air Systems Inc., we serve our customers in the rubber manufacturing industry by providing indoor air quality management solutions in addition to our stellar air cleaning products. Contact us today for a free air quality assessment with one of our skilled and experienced indoor environmental specialists.

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Cummins Inc., the Indiana-based diesel and herbal fuel engine producer, will spouse with two truck producers and China’s EVE Power Co. to manufacture a battery plant in the USA.
Cummins, Daimler Truck Keeping AG and Paccar Inc. be expecting to speculate $2 billion to $3 billion within the joint-venture manufacturing facility, the corporations mentioned Wednesday. The 3 companies will every personal 30 % of the enterprise, past EVE Power will stock 10 % as their era spouse.
With electrical automobiles turning into extra popular, battery-powered vans are then in form as a part of world efforts to let go emissions from the delivery sector. However the fee and measurement of batteries required to energy heavy-duty automobiles has been a problem.
The untouched manufacturing facility, all set to start out making batteries from 2027, will first of all focal point on lithium-iron-phosphate cells for industrial automobiles. Those will trade in lower price, longer presen and larger protection than alternative battery chemistries, the corporations mentioned. A space of U.S. places are into account, and a call is due throughout the then six months, a Daimler Truck spokesman mentioned.


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Press Advisory- NH Great Apple Crunch
CONCORD- In celebration of National Farm to School Month, the New Hampshire Department of Education’s Office of Nutrition Programs and Services is hosting the state’s very first New Hampshire Great Apple Crunch on October 20th. Crunch into a locally grown New Hampshire apple to celebrate! We are looking forward to the event as students and staff at schools and centers across the state will be able to participate on October 20th, and feel a sense of connection, safely whether on-site or remotely learning.
The Department is encouraging New Hampshire students and educators to share pictures and videos of themselves crunching into fresh apples to social media with the hashtag #NHGreatAppleCrunch2020.
For more information, contact Alexis Dwyer
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Food and environmental groups back in court to stop sulfoxaflor use
Two groups have gone to back court to prevent sulfoxaflor from being used. The Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a brief with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California this week saying EPA failed to consider endangered and threatened species when approving the insecticide.
Sulfoxaflor use started in 2013, but the court stopped its use because EPA didn’t assess the chemical’s impact on bees. It was approved again in July of 2019, and opponents have been back in court trying to stop it since. The EPA wants to allow continued use while they conduct an endangered species review, estimated to take seven years. The opponent’s new motion filed this week asks the court to stop usage and vacate the registration of sulfoxaflor.
Sulfoxaflor was developed by Dow Chemical and is now part of Corteva. It is marketed under the Transform and Closer brand names for use on more than a dozen field and forest crops.


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Boggle and Sneak by Fritz Bogott
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Boggle and Sneak
by Fritz Bogott
Publisher: Pressed Duck 2008
Number of pages: 230
Tiny inventors Alvy and Alby break into homes and play Rube Goldberg practical jokes. When Alvy suddenly disappears, Alby enlists the help of two of his young victims -- but they find they are dealing with forces of an unexpected scale.


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In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl in Dhaka, Bangladesh was allegedly gang-raped. The heinous incident took place in Kalabagan area. However, police have arrested accused Fardin Iftekhar and three others in this case.
The minor girl was an ‘O’ level student at the Mastermind School in Kalabagan area. News 24 reported that the Fardin was the victim’s boyfriend and they were in a relationship for 2 months.
On Thursday night, the accused lured the victim to his house in the absence of his family members. Reportedly, Fardin brutally gang-raped her along with his friends and then murdered the victim. Caught in a state of fix, the accused decided to take the victim to the hospital. Her body has now been sent for post-mortem.
Jamuna TV reported that the girl had gone out to attend a group study session with her friends when she was lured by Fardin to his house in Kalabagan. “Children don’t die if they get into a relationship? Why did my child die? Is she was not sexually assaulted, why would she die? Why would she bleed so profusely?” the victim’s mother said.
She denied claims made by the accused that Anushka was in a relationship with him. “When I saw my daughter, her face had turned pale. She was bleeding excessively.” Jamuna TV further informed that there were injury marks on her stomach. Following a complaint by the father of the victim, the police swung into action and arrested Fardin and three other accused. The main accused has confessed to his crime, in a statement to the police.
On Friday, Fardin was produced before the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court wherein he gave his confessional statement under Section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). The police had sought for 10-day custody for Fardin in the gang rape-murder case of Anushka. The District Magistrate Judge Mamunur Rashid sent the accused to jail after his statement was recorded.

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November 19, 2005
SYDNEY 19th November 2005: Habitat for Humanity Australia and Challenger Financial Services have entered into a substantial partnership in which Challenger and its employees will assist Habitat accelerate its Australian domestic community housing and house-building programs.
The partnership begins with a A$80,000 (nearly US$59,000) commitment from Challenger towards the acquisition of land for at least one house in Queensland during 2006.
As with Habitat’s other community partnerships, Challenger staff will work alongside community volunteers and selected Habitat families to build the house.
Publicly-listed Challenger operates proprietary investment funds, is Australia’s sixth largest mortgage company, and offers wealth management services (www.challenger.com.au ).
It is anticipated that successful execution could see Challenger-Habitat partnership extending for a further two years with a total commitment of A$240,000 over the three years, in a significant initiative aimed at addressing poverty housing in Australia.
HFH Australia chief executive George Macdonald said, “We are inspired by the community commitment of Challenger to make a difference to the community at every level and to provide practical and tangible philanthropy. We welcome their support which will make an immediate difference to Australian families in desperate need of adequate housing.
“This will provide a model for other similarly-motivated corporates to join with local Australian communities and make a lasting difference.”
Challenger joins ANZ, PMI, CSR, Orica, Whirlpool, James Hardie and other major corporations that are already partnering with Habitat to address poverty housing issues in Australia.
Habitat’s Australian program is already closing in on 60 houses and is targeted to double its total every three years. HFH Australia is also responsible for over 500 houses being built as part of Habitat’s tsunami reconstruction program in the Indian Ocean basin.


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Tess and Tattoos by H.A. Leuschel
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I read Tess and Tattoos in H A Leuschel’s compilation Manipulated Lives. It was the first short story out of the five, and although they were all great stories, this was definitely my favourite. I always enjoy reading about older characters. There’s something very heartwarming and poignant about the older generation, they seem to have a way with words, looking at the world through older and wiser eyes.
The author absolutely nailed it with the main protagonist in this story. Tess, an octogenarian is spending her final years living in a care home, the highlight of the day is when her carer, Sandra, does her rounds and the two women bond and form a touching friendship which is the basis of the story.
This novella is divided into short chapters with clear paragraph spacing which is something I always appreciate in a book.
On starting this, I was given very clear visuals of the scene the author created, vividly placing the characters in a setting that was easy to picture in my minds eye. The character personas were portrayed with precision and simplicity, I connected with them instantly, particularly Tess.
This story has mystery, feel good factor, and a touch of sadness. I was pleasantly surprised by the conclusion, I had an inkling as to where it was going, but the writing was stylised in such a way that it kept me hooked, drip feeding little details at perfectly timed moments.
H A Leuschel has a knack, she gently builds insight into the human psyche in story form, adding feeling and creativity which creates powerful stuff. In Manipulated Lives, Tess and Tattoos was the one novella that stood out the most, and it deserves an individual review in its own right. The other four are also exceptional, so I’d go read them all, they won’t disappoint!
A well deserved 5 star rating from me! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟


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Do you feel stuck with no escape, ungrounded and flighty? Are old addictions coming back to haunt you during the pandemic and the times of social distancing and isolation?
I offer another way to calm and soothe yourself in times of high anxiety.
Find a quiet and calm space and get comfortable. Take a few deep breaths to settle yourself. Now bring your awareness from your monkey mind with its whirring machinery of worry and fear, its endless capacity for self argument, the unkind inner critic, the constant mindless chatter, the never ending ego complaints to thepeace of your heart.
Tune into the gentle beat, the quiet rhythm. You might be able to feel your pulse by gently placing a hand on your neck right below where the ear and jaw meet.
Now hold your heart with both palms on the center of your chest. Imagine that you can breathe through your heart. Feel the exhalation, the emptying. Imagine the breath flowing from your heart, releasing the stale worries, the old thoughts that bring you down, spent energy you are ready to let go of.
Now as your lungs fill, know that you are bringing in fresh new air, new energy, new possibilities to your heart, the seat and center of your life.
Tune into the steadiness the cadence of your heartbeat that’s been with you since before your birth. Even before your heart began to beat, you knew your mother’s heartbeat, and before her birth she knew her mother’s heartbeat, the underlying rhythm, the legacy of life.
Trust that right now as your heart beats you are alive. You are safe. You belong here.
Do your intentions flow directly from your heart and spirit, or are they products of your thinking logical brain that knows what’s best, what you should, what you should not?
The part of your brain trained up by your schools and parents and society knows the “rules”. It knows what is physically possible and impossible, (you learned it in a book) what you can and cannot, how to get ahead, which careers will bring you the most money, and who is misbehaving according to your code of conduct.
To be effective potent and powerful, your intentions must flow from your heart and spirit, the part of you where dreams are created. The part of you that existed before your cultural training set in and upset the balance of your creativity and grace and flow and restricted you self concept.
When you tap into this reservoir of creativity and power, you can imagine yourself moving beyond old limitations. Then you can set your intentions for your life based on expansion and possibilities you dream of.
Leave behind the old restrictive rules and boxes and limitations you’ve placed on your dreams!
When you can feel it, dream it, imagine it, define it, and intend it, you can become it.
Have you come to a point where you must choose one way or the other way? Do you have trouble making up your mind and holding firm to your choices? Is your attention is scattered unfocused, spread too thin?
You need the facts, my friend. And the most important fact is what your heart desires; how you feel!
Yes, you can gather and glean the sort of facts and figures that can be found in an encyclopedia, a reference manual, an expert opinion. You can do this til the cows come home and your brain is overstuffed and you can recite the reasons why and why not in your sleep.
Yet if the facts and figures and rational thought of your logical mind tell you one thing, and your heart tells you another, you must pay attention and give equal weight to your heart.
The energy and intuition of your heart is connected to all that is – the wisdom, the knowing, the love. It extends beyond the “logical zone”.
When you tune into your heart with compassion awareness and acceptance, you are no longer in the logical zone. You are in a new dimension entirely. Do not fear, for here you are supported and uplifted by the loving heart of the universe.
If your mind tells you you may not have what your heart desires, ask your higher self – How can I make this work? Please show me and guide me to the solutions my heart desires that also work for me on a practical level. Let go of fear and trust your heart!
Have others defined success for you? Do you subscribe to the popular view that bigger and more is better?
How do you define success? Is it a big house and three car garage in the fashionable part of town? Is it a stressful high powered career in which you get to boss others? Is it lots of money in the bank?
Is your definition of success winning at your game of choice? Are their losers in your game?
Is your idea of success feeling happy in the life you’ve chosen? Is it thriving in the place you’ve chosen, doing what makes you heart sing, feeling comfortable in your body? Is it having time to relax and enjoy your family and friends; the simple but soul satisfying moments of a life well lived?
Decide what matters to you, what success is to you. Take the time to quiet your mind and get in touch with your inner spirit, beyond thought. Your heart will know the truth.
You are the master of your life, your time, your energy. You choose how to spend these most precious resources. Spend them wisely! Spend them in support of a life that satisfies your soul!
As you have gained in book learning, – “the 3 Rs” science, and technology, you have forgotten and minimized the ancient and powerful wisdom of your heart.
What good is your technical knowledge if you are seething with anger and rage? Who cares if you can recite a speech, a pledge, an epic poem if you have no empathy and compassion for your fellow earth inhabitants? Who cares that you have statistical “proof” that all is well when you feel unhappy, heartsick and physically ill?
Emotional wisdom is far more important to your survival as a species than book learning. Feel the emotion in your body, name it, put your awareness on it. Breathe and feel.
It won’t bite. I might make you feel uncomfortable. Can you live with uncomfortable? Do you want to numb the discomfort? Try to stay with it. If you can’t, find someone who can help you through this.
Be your own best friend! Accept the feelings as they come and go. If you reject an emotion you reject yourself.Love and accept yourselves and allow your feelings to be what they are. Learn from them.
True riches, the infinite fountain of abundance are only to be found by those who look inward with compassion and courage.
It takes your so called guts to live a beautiful life here on this planet where uncertainty reigns, where nothing is guaranteed, where life is exquisitely beautiful, where death is a given.

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I looked back at my posts over the last few weeks and found little enthusiasm and a lot of criticism of the cause marketing efforts I’ve seen lately.
I’m beginning to wonder if I’m like the drunk test performed on Steve Martin in the 1983 movie “The Man with Two Brains.” Martin’s character, who is in Germany, gets pulled over by the polizei and given a sobriety test that requires him to stretch out his arms and touch his nose, walk a straight line and then return doing a two-handed and one-handed handstand, perform cartwheels and backflips, and then juggle and tap dance while singing a German song.
Martin pauses before undertaking that last part and says to the police officer, “…damn your drunk tests are hard.”
Watch the clip here.
What can I say? Everyone thinks that cause marketing is easy. And it is. If you’re the type who can juggle, tap dance, and sing at the same time.
So gird up. Because I’m going to be hard on another cause marketing sponsor.
The weekly sales flyer for Fresh Markets, a local grocery chain, included the inset image at the left. Libby’s, which produces canned vegetables, is asking for help for the local Habitat for Humanity chapter. Buy an extra can of Libby’s vegetables and they’ll go local Habitat for Humanity families so that they “can enjoy a meal together.”
It’s a subset of Libby’s “Get Back to the Table” promotion. The website lists a number of reasons why family mealtime is vitally important. As a father of young children, I buy that argument.
But what, pray tell, does any of this have to do with Habitat for Humanity, which Libby’s apparently supports here in my market and elsewhere across the country?
The copy just can’t draw the connection.
Is a connection possible between Libby’s and Habitat?
Could be. Libby’s could frame this as a way to stock the pantries of new Habitat home move-ins. Or maybe there’s a statistic that says Habitat families experience greater food need in the Fall. Or that socio-economic realities tear harder at the fabric of Habitat families more than most, so dinner-time is vital in more ways than one.
Instead, Libby’s just drops its Back to the Table effort into the grocer’s ad, slaps on a Habitat logo and says to consumers, ‘you figure it out.’
Good luck with that.
And don’t get me started on the sad-sack image of the little girl…
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Why has depression in America Tripled since the first row of Covid?
Published on September 19, 2022 17:50 PM by Sally Harbor
Depression is a mental health issue that has tripled in the early 2020 months of the global coronavirus pandemic as it jumped from 8.5 percent before the pandemic to a staggering 27.8 percent.
But now, new research from the Boston University School of Public Health has revealed that the elevated rate of depression has persisted into 2021 and even worsened, increasing the numbers to 32.8 percent and affecting 1 in every 3 American adults.
The first and the only research
The study, which compares the prevalence of depression before and after the Covid epidemic, is the first nationally representative one to be conducted in the US. The study found that the most significant reasons a person experienced depressive symptoms during the pandemic were low household income, not being married, or experiencing multiple pandemic-related stressors, which were almost experiencing then.
According to senior study author and dean of BU School of Public Health Sandro Galea, "the continued high frequency of depression does not follow the same patterns that we found following prior traumatic events, such as the Hurricane and the Ebola outbreak." "Depression is typically thought to reach its height right after a distressing occurrence and then gradually subside over time. Instead, we discovered that depression levels remained high 12 months after the pandemic began."
Survey for identification
Sandro Galea and collaborators used the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a popular and accurate self-administered depression screening tool, to check depression symptoms and gather demographic data from survey respondents. The people who undertook the questionnaire included 5,067 correspondents.
The first survey of the respondents was conducted between March 31 and April 13, 2020, when the majority of the US people were advised to stay at home. Then, between March 23 and April 19, 2021, a follow-up poll was conducted among the same population. The PHQ-9 was utilized in both the NHANES and CLIMB studies. The CLIMB surveys also gathered information on stressors connected to COVID, such as losing a job, losing a loved one to COVID, having financial difficulties, feeling lonely, and not having access to childcare.
The devastating results
The survey suggested that the adults with lower incomes were the most ones who suffered from the burden of depression, and it slowly intensified through the pandemic. Most people who earned around $20,000 in spring 2020 were 2.3 times more likely to experience elevated depressive symptoms compared to people making $75,000 or more; by spring 2021, low-income adults were seven times more likely to experience these symptoms.
People who experienced four or more stressors were more likely to have elevated depression symptoms and were least likely to be able to cope with those stressors, even though population-level stressors generally decreased over the first year of the pandemic.
According to study lead author Catherine Ettman, a doctoral student at Brown University School of Public Health and chief of staff and director of strategic initiatives in BU's Office of the Dean, "the sustained and increasing prevalence of elevated depressive symptoms suggests that the burden of the pandemic on mental health has been ongoing—and that it has been unequal." "Efforts going forward should keep this demographic in mind," the statement reads. "Low-income populations have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic."
She also added that stimulus packages and economic relief, as well as the speedy development and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, may have prevented even worse depression outcomes in the US, which did not happen in reality.

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UML, Maoist and Naya Shakti announce leftist alliance
Participants attending the press conference organized to announce the unification of three parties including CPN-UML, CPN(Maoist Center) and Naya Shakti Nepal on Tuesday, October 3, 2017. Setopati/Narayan Maharjan
CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Center) and Naya Shakti Nepal Tuesday have agreed on forging an electoral alliance in the upcoming federal and provincial elections and forming a unified communist party.
Chiefs of the three parties have signed the agreement organizing a press conference in Nepal Academy today.
As per the agreement reached, UML and CPN (Maoist Center) have shared 60 and 40 percent of filing candidacies respectively in the elections.
The UML- Maoist alliance has decided to allocate seats for Naya Shakti and other leftist parties as per the agreement.
The agreement also mentions the announcement of unification of three parties duly following the elections. The parties have also agreed on not making a negative comment to each other until the party unification.
An-eight member unification coordination committee has been formed for the unification of the party. The members include UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, senior leader Madhav Nepal, Vice-Chairman Bamdev Gautam and Ishowr Pokharel.
Meanwhile, CPN (Maoist Center) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Ram Bahadur Thapa are in the committee from the Maoist. Baburam Bhattarai from Naya Shakti Nepal is also in the committee.
- Election fever grips Parbat
SC order helps election management: EC
Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav has urged all voters not to doubt on the scheduled date of the elections. During a press meet organized Wednesday, CEC Yadav said, "EC is confirmed the elections of the House of Representatives and of provincial parliament will be held on the slated date. EC also hopes all sides' cooperation to make the elections free, fair and credible."
Dr KC breaks fast after 10-point agreement with govt
Dr Govinda KC has ended his 14th fast unto death on the 14th day Wednesday evening after signing a 10-point agreement with the government. The government will bring medical education law through an ordinance to address Dr KC's demands as per the agreement signed in presence of education and health ministers.
Govt committed to timely elections: Minister Bishwakarma
Commerce Minister Min Bahadur Bishwakarma has said the government would, at any cost, conduct the elections of the House of Representatives and State Assemblies on time.
- RPP in government for ensuring election: DPM Thapa
Amendment of Education Act: A betrayal to capable candidates
Not all, but many of the temporary teachers who have been wishing to become permanent, no doubt, appointed on the basis of their political ideologies. They couldn't succeed in the examinations despite repeated attempts. They carried the bags of those parties during their teaching career.
The Doklam dilemma
Being a buffer state between the two giant neighbors, Nepal should conduct its foreign policy vis-à-vis China and India in a very sensitive manner. Nepal has always maintained that it would not allow its soil to be used against any neighbor. At the same time, Nepal should make sure that its own national interests are never compromised.
Gaurab Shumsher Thapa
To dogs, with love
Many find talking about basic animal rights stupid when no basic rights of people are guaranteed. However, there are still few people who are aware how humane behavior has turned toward cruelty and indifference which can be vividly seen through the way street dogs and other animals are abused around us.
Unanswered questions on recent leftist alliance
Although they seem to be very much communist while in opposition, whether about the 'Indian semi-colonial status' in Nepal or American hegemony, this has never been evident while they actually come into power and rule Nepal.
Dr Chandra Sharma Poudyal
What we need to learn from Thailand?
Thailand is a developing country. But it seemed like a developed country at first sight. It is hard to believe that Thailand is a developing country. There are big buildings, and clean and broad roads. The city is clean with no trace of pollution.
Traffic Police in Kathmandu
As busy and hassling as the traffic system in Kathmandu is, the Traffic Police here have to handle an equally strenuous job. Over 1,400 traffic officers in and around the Kathmandu Valley battle against the pestering traffic and air pollution each day.

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We’re delighted to announce Dropbox has won the Gold award for Best File Share and Sync category in ChannelPro-SMB’s 2017 Readers’ Choice Awards for the second year in a row. Over 500 IT integrators and resellers participated in ChannelPro-SMB’s survey, which asked for the most “SMB and partner-friendly solutions, services, or programs in the channel today.”
ChannelPro asked readers to select the option that best satisfies the unique business requirements, work styles, and budgets of their small and midsize business clients, as well as those that best serve their own partner organizations.“
The results are a true snapshot of the top IT product and service providers in today’s SMB channel,” says Michael Siggins, publisher of ChannelPro-SMB.
The award reflects our commitment to our thousands of global partners. Dropbox has been focused on expanding internal processes to support program requirements and benefits to ensure a seamless welcome into our Partner Program ecosystem. Our channel team continues to identify and develop new ways for SMB partners to succeed, specifically by deploying specialized training curriculums, technical services, and vertical support.
In addition, over the last 12 months, Dropbox has expanded its global private infrastructure, improving file transfer speeds for users around the world. We’ve also introduced simplified team management and new features like Smart Sync, helping our customers achieve their goals.
Dropbox is honored to be have been chosen by ChannelPro-SMB’s readers, and remains committed to giving our partners and customers the tools they need to succeed. For more details about our partner and reseller program, click here.


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Sunderland’s international contingent are due to report back for pre-season training tomorrow.
John O’Shea, Seb Larsson, Steven Fletcher and Duncan Watmore were all given extra time off during the summer after representing their respective countries last month.
But they will return to the Academy of Light tomorrow to begin their pre-season schedules, ahead of the Sunderland squad flying out to North America at the weekend for their three friendlies in California and Toronto.
New signing Sebastian Coates, whose loan deal was converted into a £2million permanent switch last week, has been given an extra couple of days after his involvement with the Uruguay squad at the Copa America.
But Coates is also expected to among the party heading across the Atlantic.


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LNR Free- Dice and Puzzle Game description
Lock 'n' Roll is an intriguing puzzle game requiring a combination of luck and skill. Roll four dice at a time and arrange them on a 4x4 grid. Receive points for various combinations according to number and color.
You must place all four dice and once you lock them down, they are fixed in place! the most difficult combinations are cleared from the board.
Earn enough points and be rewarded with a Joker! The game keeps going until there are no more places for dice. How high can you score? That's entirely up to you...
Prove your smarts in this fun dice game. Make the right patterns to score and keep the board clear. Show everyone on the score boards!


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Treatment Rest. Avoid activities that cause pain, swelling or discomfort. Ice. Use an ice pack or ice slush bath immediately for 15 to 20 minutes and repeat every two to three hours while you’re awake. Compression. To help stop swelling, compress the ankle with an elastic bandage until the swelling stops. Elevation.
How long should it take for a sprained ankle to heal?
Mild, low-grade ankle sprains will usually heal in one to three weeks with proper rest and non-surgical care( such as applying ice). Moderate injuries may take between three and four weeks. Because of limited blood flow to the ligaments of the ankle, more severe injuries may take between three and six months to heal.
Is it OK to walk on a sprained ankle?
Do not walk on a sprained ankle. The inflamed tissue needs time to heal, and walking on it too soon may cause more damage. Ankle sprains are common musculoskeletal injuries that can occur from playing sports or from everyday activities.
Can an ankle sprain heal in 2 days?
After 2 to 3 days protocol, a mild sprain will be mostly healed and ready for you to resume normal activity. A moderate or severe sprain may require you to keep up these treatment steps for longer—up to several weeks.
Is my ankle sprained or rolled?
A sprained ankle is similar to a twisted ankle but to a greater degree. When you sprain your ankle, it means you have stretched, and possibly even torn, the ligaments of your ankle. If your ankle is swollen, bruised and painful after you twist it, then you have most likely sprained it.
How should you sleep with a sprained ankle?
Healthguidance.org recommends how to sleep with a sprained ankle is by elevating it slightly to drain fluids and prevent unnecessary swelling, so place a pillow or some blankets under the offending ankle while you sleep. Also apply some ice before going to bed to reduce inflammation.
How do you heal a sprained ankle in 2 days?
Doctors often recommend these tactics to reduce swelling and inflammation in the days after an injury. Rest. Resting the ankle is key for healing, and wearing a brace can help stabilize the injured area. Ice. Using an ice pack may reduce blood flow to the injury and help ease pain and swelling. Compression. Elevation.
How do I know if my ankle sprain is serious?
People with a more severe ankle sprain — characterized by extreme bruising or swelling and an inability to bear weight on the foot without significant pain, or when there doesn’t seem to be any improvement over the first several days after the injury — should seek medical attention, Drs. SooHoo and Williams say.
How can you tell if you tore a ligament in your ankle?
If you have torn your ankle ligament, symptoms include: Swelling around your ankle joint. A feeling of instability. Bruising – sometimes up your lower leg and into your foot. Tenderness to touch. Pain when putting weight on your ankle. Popping sound at the time of injury.
Should I ice my ankle overnight?
If icing your sprained ankle provides relief, do it. Use an ice pack for 15 to 20 minutes every two to three hours for the first 72 hours. This may not be appropriate for people with health conditions, such as diabetes, damage to the peripheral nervous system (peripheral neuropathy), or vascular disease.
Is hot water good for sprained ankle?
Give your injured ankle a few days to recover after the initial injury. When the swelling goes down, you may want to warm your ankle before rehabilitation by soaking it in warm water. Warm tissues are more flexible, and less prone to injury.
Should I go to ER for ankle injury?
Go to urgent care if your pain level and swelling is significant and you have difficulty walking, to the point that you need assistance, due to the pain. Go to the emergency room if your foot is bruised, deformed, or you are unable to walk at all. You may have a fracture, broken bone or serious ligament damage.
Should a sprained ankle still be swollen after a week?
This level of sprain shouldn’t result in any instability or muscle weakness but can cause minor swelling. Grade 1 sprained ankle recovery time is anywhere from 2 weeks to a month, normally closer to the two-week mark with proper treatment.
What does a fractured ankle feel like?
If you have a broken ankle, you may experience some of the following signs and symptoms: Immediate, throbbing pain. Swelling. Bruising.
How can you tell the difference between a sprained ankle and a torn ligament?
“A mild sprain should take approximately seven to 10 days to heal,” Mufich said. “A torn ligament is considered a severe sprain that will cause pain, inflammation, bruising and result in ankle instability, often making it difficult and painful to walk.
Is a compression sock good for a sprained ankle?
Conclusions: Compression stockings failed to significantly modify the time to return to normal painless walking in ankle sprain. A beneficial effect was observed only in a subgroup of patients, as compression stockings significantly decreased the time to return to sport activity.
How often should you ice a sprained ankle?
You should only use ice for up to 20 minutes at a time. If your skin feels numb, it’s time to remove the ice. Use ice treatments every 2 to 4 hours for the first 3 days after your injury. Compression: You can wrap your sprained ankle to avoid swelling and bruising.
Why is my sprained ankle throbbing?
Your nerves are more sensitive after a sprain. The joint hurts and may throb. It’s often worse when you press on it, move your foot in certain ways, walk, or stand.
What happens if a sprain is left untreated?
If they’re left untreated, sprains will often cause the ankle to become unstable, which can lead to chronic pain, swelling, instability and, ultimately, arthritis. Don’t delay treatment. Sprains should be immobilized quickly, with the ankle ligaments in a stable position.
How do I know if my foot is sprained or fractured?
In general, a broken foot tends to be more painful than a sprained foot, and the pain lasts longer. Bruising, swelling, and tenderness are also more severe if your foot is broken. Another way to tell the difference between a broken foot and sprained foot is the sound the body makes when the injury occurs.

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Electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian is expanding its South San Francisco presence, and will soon utilize its existing service center in the city to offer sales of its futuristic trucks and SUVs.
The Southern California based manufacturer is currently using a site at 206 Utah Ave. as a service center, and the Planning Commission last week approved plans for the renovation of the location as a modern space for service and vehicle delivery serving the greater Bay Area market.
“It’s really clean, it makes sense for the space, and I’m really excited for an electric car company to be in South San Francisco, I think it’s great,” Planning Commissioner Sarah Funes said of the proposal.
Unlike traditional automakers, Rivian customers will order vehicles online and have them delivered directly to their homes, meaning the location will operate as a hub for deliveries but will not house inventory for sales vehicles.
When complete, the 44,786-square-foot facility, which will retain the footprint of the current building, will accommodate 30 employees. The bulk of the space will be used for service, with some office space and a customer lounge.
Rivian is expected to begin delivery of its first vehicle, a $69,000 electric pickup truck, to customers this month. The company is also producing an SUV and delivery vehicles for Amazon.
In other developments, owners of the Golden Gate Produce Terminal site just across the freeway are offering up the property for a massive new biotech research and development facility and new building to house the produce market.
The 17.6-acre site at 131 Terminal Court, as well as a portion of an adjacent parking lot, is being marketed as a 1.1-million-square-foot life sciences development to investors, with a stipulation to fund construction of a new produce market, according to the San Francisco Business Times.
The site is offered by commercial brokerage firm Kidder Mathews, with initial design work done by San Francisco-based real estate developer SKS Partners, according to the city. Additional details or a price tag have yet to be made available.
The produce market, opened in 1962, is home to 30 produce companies and claims to be the largest and busiest produce markets in Northern California.

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Tools: Tows off the sand are expensive. Save yourself some money by keeping enough tools onboard to get you back to the blacktop.
Jack and Jack Board: A jack will sink into the sand; a three-foot by two-foot piece of ¾-inch plywood will keep it on top.
Water: Driving slowly on the sand is taxing, and the lack of airflow can lead to overheating. Keep a few gallons of water (potable, so you can drink it in a pinch) on board in case of overheating.
Fire Extinguisher: Rocking your vehicle back and forth is a good way to get it unstuck. It's also a good way to heat up your transmission fluid enough that it leaks out a vent hole and onto an exhaust system component, causing a fire.
Recovery Gear: Tow straps, chains, shackles, and other means to get your rig going again if you do succumb to the sand. Recovery points front and rear makes it easy on whoever helps you out of the jam.
Emergency Gear: I always have enough supplies to get me through a few nights should the unthinkable happen. This includes tarps, blankets, extra clothes, fire making kit, and plenty of nonperishable food.
Full-Size Shovel: Save the E-tool for latrine duty. A full-size shovel is much easier on your back if you need to dig your rig out.
Traction Aid: Some sort of traction aid goes a long way in getting you out of trouble. Sand ladders, like those carried in the Camel Cup, are great, though lower-cost options such as fiberglass-reinforced grate discarded from an industrial site also works. In a pinch, floor mats can get the job done.
Full-Size Spare: The beach is no place for a donut. A smaller tire will only get you stuck, and possibly damage your four-wheel drive system in the process.
Tire Repair Kit: If you have a compressor in your truck, it is often easier to plug a tire than it is to change it. Practice on some old tires before you go off-road. Spare valve cores are useful because you will lose some if you loosen them to deflate your tires.


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North Kansas City Schools Board of Education approved rolling back the operating tax levy rate by 22 cents on Tuesday, Aug. 27. This means homeowners will pay less in taxes than they would have to North Kansas City Schools without the rollback, regardless of whether or not they were reassessed and saw an increase in the value of their property, according to a district press release. Last year’s total levy was $6.42.
Operating levies provide funds for classrooms, instruction and other school operating costs.
Tax revenue for the district comes primarily through two sources: state funding through the Missouri Foundation Formula and local real and personal property taxes. This past year, new commercial construction within the district totaled more than $35 million. However, due to economic incentive programs, NKC Schools only received funding based on $1.1 million.
Economic development incentives are causing a dramatic shift as to where the district’s tax dollars are generated, states the district release.
“In years past, the district relied on a fairly even split — a 50/50 split from residents and commercial business for tax dollars,” states the release. “The district now relies on residents for 76% of its tax dollars and 24% from businesses. This puts a larger portion of the burden on Northland families while relieving some larger businesses of their responsibility to fund schools.”


Rowse Honey and Blenheim Estate to create over 50 acres of wildflower meadows and 124 miles of hedge
The Blenheim Estate is joining forces with Rowse Honey on a major conservation project to create a sustainable nectar source for local wild bees and other pollinators, as well as introducing new habitats for insects and birds, in and around the Oxfordshire estate.
The new five year partnership will see the creation of at least 50 acres of pollinator rich meadows on agricultural land within Blenheim Estate’s pioneering regenerative farming project, as well as help fund new research into the role diverse mixes of pollinators have in farmed landscapes. In addition to introducing over 70 different species of wildflowers – that have been native to Britain for centuries – to various areas on the land, the project will also see the planting of 200 km of hedgerow. All flora will be introduced to the landscape slowly, to ensure no damage is caused to the existing ecosystem, ultimately securing legacy for future generations.
Dozens of wild honey bee colonies have been discovered living in the ancient woodland of the Oxfordshire UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is hoped the wildflower meadows will enable Blenheim’s existing population of bees, and other invertebrates, to expand and colonise surrounding areas, and in doing so become a catalyst to revive the health of the local countryside. Reports conclude that approximately 97% of wildflower areas and approximately 118,000 miles (c 50%) of hedgerows have disappeared in the UK since World War II, largely due to intensive farming methods. This loss of habitat and forage supply, along with disease, have caused populations of pollinating insects to dwindle. The project forms part of Blenheim Estate’s wider land strategy, as well as Rowse’s Hives for Lives programme. ‘Enhancing habitats for pollinators is one of the key building blocks to a thriving countryside and a big part of our overall strategy to become carbon negative by 2027 across all scopes at Blenheim,’ said Blenheim’s Estates director Roy Cox. ‘In the World Heritage Site, we are fortunate to care for part of Oxfordshire which has remained relatively untouched for centuries. This makes it a haven for native pollinator species, which can forage on the estate’s extensive natural flora and wildflowers. ‘Working alongside Rowse’s Hives for Lives programme, Blenheim Estate is seeking to expand this precious habitat by ‘regenerating’ a significant part of our landholding. ‘The aim is to create a natural environment where the wildlife can not only survive, but thrive.’ Rowse’s managing director, Ian Ainsworth, added: ‘We are delighted to be working with the Blenheim Estate, close to our home in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, to help provide rich nectar sources, at scale, helping to secure the future of bees, raise awareness of their plight and highlight what we can all do to help protect them and other local pollinators. ‘As well as significantly increasing the native wildlife diversity by connecting areas of forest and ancient woodland, the aim of this groundbreaking partnership is to engage consumers and visitors to the heritage site and wider Blenheim estate in the importance of nature, pollinators and sustainable land management. ‘At Rowse, we understand the need to balance providing an abundance of nectar rich flowers from early spring right through to the end of the foraging season, and providing more nectar supply, for longer, for as many native pollinator species as we can. ‘The ultimate goal is to use this project to demonstrate what is possible, to inspire and influence other landowners and the general public to support the creation of sustainable nectar sources for bees and other pollinators nationwide.’ Visitors to Blenheim will be able to learn more about the project by walking the network of grass routes across the Estate and at a specific exhibition in the World Heritage Site.


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What are some of your other favorite cartoons and comics that Greg worked on? Mine:
- His run on the 1986 Captain Atom comic book (though I don't have the full run).
- His Gargoyles/Justice League Europe/Captain Atom parody in JLA Showcase #1.
- Season 2 of W.I.T.C.H.
- Kim Possible episode "Big Bother".

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used an interesting phrase on Monday in response to a question about his stance on marijuana policy.
In an interview with the Denver Post, Romney was asked to weigh in on the future of the state’s highly active medical marijuana industry.
“I oppose marijuana being used for recreational purposes and I believe the federal law should prohibit the recreational use of marijuana,” he said.
As the Washington Post points out, his decision to use the “recreational” distinction is strange, especially in the context of a question about a state that has legalized marijuana for non-recreational use. Be that as it may, the Romney campaign later reiterated its steadfast support for continued prohibition on the substance in a statement to the Post.
“Governor Romney has a long record of opposing the use of marijuana for any reason,” a spokesperson said. “He opposes legalizing drugs, including marijuana for medicinal purposes. He will fully enforce the nation’s drug laws, and he will oppose any attempts at legalization.”
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