It can be difficult to find love when you’re an employee
slaving working hard every day, which leaves you with barely any time to have meaningful relationships. And this leads to annoying awkward questions from concerned relatives especially when Chinese New Year is just around the corner.
This company in China, Songcheng Performance has been gaining attention after a statement regarding days off during the upcoming Chinese New Year season went viral. That’s because they announced that unmarried women above the age of 30 are entitled to 15 days off for the festive season to encourage them to find partners. Wow!
According to Sinchew, the notice stated, “Dear female employees, the company has decided to give unmarried women in the company 15 days off for Chinese New Year and for matchmaking activities (Seven days for Chinese New Year, another eight days paid leave).”
The company said that they hoped by giving these holidays to their eligible female employees, it would help them meet their life partner especially during Chinese New Year when well-meaning family members like to matchmake single relatives. They even added that if needed, these female staff could request to extend their days off.
Yet, that was not the most surprising thing about the announcement. It seems that as an additional incentive to encourage these employees to get married, the company stated that if the couple can produce a marriage certificate before December 31st this year (2019), the employee will be able to receive a double year-end bonus.
However, female employees who are eligible for these benefits will need to submit their names to the human resources department before January 31. The head of the human resources department said that this was part of the company’s efforts to care more for their employees and explained that it is usually the women who would always get teased about getting married.
This was also partly why male employees did not get to enjoy the same benefits and the company said they did not hear any complaints from the men about not having time for a relationship. Netizens who saw this unusual notice were amused and envious as some of them said, “I should really ask my boss to do the same.”
Another said, “Even if I have a boyfriend I would pretend to break up with him and then take the extra days to go travelling.”
That’s a pretty unusual benefit! What do you think of these extra days off?
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The bodies of two dead Florida men were discovered Sunday morning at Talladgea Superspeedway, according to multiple news reports.
WIAT.com identified the two as 19-year-old Joshua Douin of Crawfordville, Florida, and 48-year-old James Cook of Tallahassee. The television station said foul play was not suspected in the deaths.
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"If my wife and I don’t have sex for 2 or more weeks, I start to get irritable, frustrated and every little thing about her bothers me. How do I cope with this frustration?"
“I feel upset with my husband when he doesn’t help me with the household chores. How can I feel sexual desire for him when I have so many resentments about this?”
“I only feel comfortable and open sexually when I don’t know someone very well. Why is it difficult to be sexually open after I get into a relationship?”

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Monday, June 14, 2010
Rocky Roads Lead to Calm Waters
Rocky Roads Lead To Calm Waters, by Sandra Aguirre-Herrera
I wanted to take the opportunity to congratulate my daughter "Anna Maricella Rodriguez" for her upcoming graduation. What better way to celebrate this then to write about it in my blog!
I address my daughter as "Maricella", always have and always will. That is her middle name and nickname for the family. She was born in September 1986 and I was only 14. I turned 15, only 15 days after her birthday! I knew from the beginning we were both faced with faced with challenges.
I knew from the moment you were born Maricella that my life would never be the same! I never imagined however what a wild ride we would both be on for the rest of our lives!
I would not trade a moment I have had you in my life for anything in this world! You were and have always been one of the princesses in my life. You will always be that in my eyes.
I know that the road has not always been easy for us and especially for you. There have been times I am sure that you felt you were carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders or in your arms.
I never doubted you for one moment because you had the makings of success since you were little. The signs were all there!
I know that you have come through so many hard times and rocky roads and the road may have obstacles, but I know that just like when you were little, you will overcome them successfully!
not every obstacle or ride will be as easy or as fun as when you were a kid,
Just know that you have family and friends who love you and believe in you! We know that just like you overcame your life obstacles and challenges, you will succeed in all you do! We are so very proud of you Maricella! We know that this is not the first success or only success for you in your life but the first of many to come! Therefore, go ahead, jump in feet first into all your future challenges, like when you were a kid!
We love you, congratulations and we are very proud of you! Remember after that long rocky road you just traveled, you have reached the calm waters, so enjoy it mija!
There is nothing you have not been able to do and nothing you won't be able to do in your future! Once you set your mind to it, you succeed and that is all that matters! Just don't ever forget that if you stumble and fall along the way, you have family and friends like us who love you and will pick you up and help you keep going on your path.
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do - Author Unknown"

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Protestant community is, on average, older than Catholic community
The differing age profiles of Northern Ireland’s Protestant and Catholic communities are key to understanding the region’s shifting demography, the head of the census has said.
The director of census and population statistics at the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra), Dr David Marshall, said the Catholic community was on average younger than the Protestant one.
“The religious demography of Northern Ireland in part is driven by age structures.
“What we found in the 2011 census was that the Catholic population was on average younger, so there was essentially a higher number of births in the Catholic population than deaths.
“That acted to increase the size of the Catholic population from 2011 to 2021.
“The converse is true for the Protestant population. On average, it was older 10 years ago and what we’ve found is that there’s more deaths than births in the Protestant population, and that acts to bring the Protestant population down in number.
“There are other factors as well but those are the two key things.”
Dr Marshall said research following the 2011 census also found evidence of an increasing number of people who would have previously described themselves as Protestant choosing to identify as having no religion.
He said there was a “fair chance” that trend had continued and was also a contributory factor to the falling Protestant population recorded in the latest census.
Dr Marshall said a surge in the number of people holding Irish passports in Northern Ireland was influenced by Brexit.
“Clearly, in part that’s driven by the impact of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union in 2016,” he said.
“Indeed, the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin has indicated additional demand for passports from people living here in Northern Ireland.”
Dr Marshall said the key message from Census 2021 was the increasing diversity it showed across Northern Ireland.
“We published today detailed information on country of birth, ethnicity, languages, nationality – all of those statistics point to a more diverse Northern Ireland than ever before,” he said.
“One point of interest would be the population of Belfast has increased from the 2001 census to the 2021 census – all of that increase over 20 years is down to people who are in the ethnic minority group.
“The white population of Belfast hasn’t changed dramatically over the last 20 years. It’s the ethnic minority groups.”


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EVALUATION OF DIURETIC ACTIVITY OF CRUDE EXTRACTS OF LEAVES OF FILICIUM DECIPIENS AND ANALYSIS OF BIOMOLECULES PRESENT IN FRACTION OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT USING GC-MS TECHNIQUEHTML Full Text
EVALUATION OF DIURETIC ACTIVITY OF CRUDE EXTRACTS OF LEAVES OF FILICIUM DECIPIENS AND ANALYSIS OF BIOMOLECULES PRESENT IN FRACTION OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT USING GC-MS TECHNIQUE
A. I. Basarikatti, V. Uppar and B. Padmashali *
Department of Chemistry, Rani Channamma University, Belagavi - 591156, Karnataka, India.
ABSTRACT: Filicium decipiens belongs to the Sapindaceae family, which is commonly known as fern tree, is found in the Western Ghats of southern India, small highland areas of East Africa and Sri Lanka and it is a medium to a large evergreen tree. It is commonly cultivated in gardens and roadsides as ornamental, noise barriers and windbreak plant. Filicium decipiens traditionally used for the treatment of diabetes in India. The leaves of Filicium decipiens have been collected from the Western Ghats of southern India, shade dried and powdered well. The finely powdered leaves have been extracted with petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and water successively with an increase in polarity. The methanolic extract was column chromate-graphed using silica gel G 100-200 mesh to get brown color crystalline solid, which was analyzed for the presence of bioactive chemical constituents using Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique. GC-MS analysis revealed the presence of thirty chemical constituents. The four different crude extracts (petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and water) of leaves of Filicium decipiens have been tested with a diuretic activity using the Lipschitz method. The methanolic extract exhibits diuretic activity.
Bioactive chemical constituents, Diuretic activity, Filicium decipiens, GC-MS analysis and methanolic extract
INTRODUCTION: Medicinal plants are the “backbone” of traditional medicines. Plants have been used for medicinal purposes long before the prehistoric periods. India has been known for the rich repository of medicinal plants. The use of medicinal plants has always guided the look for new cures throughout the world for thousands of years and continues to endow with new remedies to humankind 1.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has projected that 80% of the earth’s inhabitants rely on traditional medicine for their primary health care needs, and most of this therapy occupies the use of plant extracts and their bioactive components 2. Filicium decipiens belongs to the Sapindaceae family. It is a large tree up to 30 m tall.
It is found in evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, which is native to Sri Lanka, the Western Ghats of southern India, and small highland areas of East Africa. Filicium decipiens is traditionally used as anti-diabetic agent in India and Sri Lanka 3. It also showed a variety of biological activities, such as anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and mollusicicidal activities 4, 5. The chemical constituents present in plant such as triterpenoidal saponins, norneohopane caffeate, sitosterol and flavonol glycosides 6. The four new saponins have been isolated from the stem bark of Filicium decipiens 7. But no report is available related to chemical constituents present in fraction of methanolic extract of leaves of Filicium decipiens. The aim of the present work is to investigate the bioactive chemical constituents present in a fraction of methanolic extract of leaves of Filicium decipiens using GC-MS technique and evaluation of the diuretic activity of four different (petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and water) crude extracts of leaves of Filicium decipiens.
GC-MS is an analytical method that helps in the identification of chemical constituents present in the test material. It is a very powerful and sensitive instrument used to study trace amounts of chemicals of volatile material. The GC-MS can detect chemicals in amounts as small as pictograms 8, 9.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
Collection of Plant Material: Filicium decipiens (Sapindaceae) leaves were collected from the campus of Sahyadri Science College, Shimoga (Karnataka). It was identified and authenticated from the ICMR-National Institute of Traditional Medicine Belagavi (Karnataka). The plant specimen has been preserved in the herbarium (RMRC-1388).
Preparation of the Extracts: The collected leaves were shade dried at room temperature (32 °C ± 2 °C), and it is made into a coarse powder. The powdered material (150 g) was subjected to Soxhlet extraction (48 h) with petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and water (1.5 liters) successively. The methanolic extract is rich in plant constituents as indicated by phytochemical investigation and has shown better anti-oxidant effect 10, 11. The methanolic extract was used for the separation of phytochemicals by a chromatographic method.
Isolation Method with Column Separation: Methanol extract (10 g) was subjected to column chromatography on silica gel (100-200) mesh and eluted with chloroform, ethyl acetate, and methanol with increasing polarity. Methanolic extract gave a brown color crystalline compound weighing 400 mg, which was named as AP1.
GC-MS Analysis: GC-MS analysis of the fraction of methanolic extract i.e., AP1, was performed using a Perkin Elmer Clarus SQ8C instrument. DB-5 MS capillary standard non-polar column of length 30 meters was used. He was used as carrier gas at a flow rate of 1ml/min. Injection of the sample was 1 microlitre and injection temperature 250 °C, ion sources temperature 280 °C. The oven temperature was programmed from 110 °C (isothermal for 2 min) with an increase of 10 °C /min to 200 °C /min then 5 °C /min to 280 °C /min ending with a 9 min, isothermal at 280 °C. The mass spectrum was taken at 70 eV, a scan-interval of 0.5 sec, and fragments from 40to 550 Da.
FIG. 1: GC-MS ANALYSIS OF FRACTION OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF LEAVES OF FILICIUM DECIPIENS I.E. AP1
Diuretic Activity: Diuretics are a class of drugs that increases the rate of urine flow; however, clinically useful diuretics also increase the rate of excretion of Na+ and an accompanying anion, usually Cl-. Sodium chloride in the body is the major determinant of extracellular fluid volume, and most clinical applications of diuretics are directed towards reducing the extracellular fluid volume by decreasing the total sodium chloride content of the body. Diuretics are used to treat heart failure, liver cirrhosis, hypertension, influenza, water poisoning, and certain kidney diseases 12.
Wistar strain albino rats of either sex, weighing between 100-200 g. They were housed at 22 ± 2 °C with constant humidity 50–60% on the 12-h natural day and night cycles. They were fed with standard diet and water ad libitum. The experiments were carried out in accordance with the directions of the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IEC/2016/Ph.D. FDD/AB-03).
Furosemide was used as the standard drug. All the chemicals used in the present study were purchased from reliable sources and were of standard quality 13. The diuretic activity was determined by following the procedure described by Lipschitz et al., 14. The selected animals were divided into 6 groups, each containing 4 animals. Group, I served as control and received 5 ml of 0.1% Tween-80 in distilled water orally. Group II received 40 mg/kg body weight of furosemide in 0.1% Tween-80 orally and served as standard. Group III, IV, V, and VI received the extracts at the dose of 600 mg/kg body weight suspended in 0.1% Tween-80 orally. Each group of animals was kept in different metabolic cages provided with a wire mesh at the bottom and a funnel to collect urine. Sieves made up of stainless steel were placed on the funnel to retain feces. Food and water were withdrawn 24 h prior to the experiment. Urine excretion was collected after 5 h. The results are tabulated in Table 2.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: GC-MS study of the fraction of methanolic extract of leaves of Filicium decipiens i.e., AP1, leads to the identification of thirty chemical constituents present in it. The identification of chemical constituents is based on a molecular formula, retention time, molecular weight, and area percentage. The results of the present study were tabulated in Table 1. The identification of thirty chemical components like tetradecanoic acid (C14H28O2), 1-(3- (Cyclohexylamino) propyl) guanidine (C10H22N4), hexadecanoic acid methyl ester (C17H34O2), n-hexadecoic acid (C16H32O2), 11 bromoundecanoic acid (C11H21BrO2), hexa-decanedioic acid dimethyl ester (C18H34O4), hexadecanoic acid 1- (hydroxymethyl)-1, 2-ethanediyl ester (C35H68O5), oxiraneoctanoic acid 3- octyl- methyl ester (C19H36O3), estra-1, 3, 5(10)-trien-17-ol (C18H24O), 11-octadecenoic acid methyl ester (C19H36O2), methyl stearate (C19H38O2), oleic acid (C18H34O2), trans 9-octadecenoic acid, pentyl ester (C23H44O2), octadecenoic acid 2-(2-hydroxy-ethoxy) ethyl ester (C22H42O4), 1-methyl-1-(3-tridecyl) oxy-1- silacyclopentane (C18H38OSi), octadecenoic acid (Z)-2-(acetyloxy)-1-((acetyloxy) methyl) ethyl ester (C25H44O6), 7-methyl-Z-tetradecen-1-ol acetate (C17H32O2), octadecane 3-ethyl-5-(2-ethylbutyl) (C26H54), 8-Androsten-3-ol, 17-(2-methylallyl)-4, 4, 14-trimethyl (C28H44O2), tetratetracontane (C44H90), heptadecane 9-hexyl (C23H48), diisooctyl phthalate (C24H38O4), 17-pentatriacontene (C35H70), acetyl betulinaldehyde (C32H50O3), androsterone acetate (C21H32O3), 9-hexadecenoic acid 9-octadecenyl ester (C34H64O2), beta-sitosterol (C29H50O), n-Butyl ricinoleate (C22H42O), heneicosane (C21H44) and heptadecane 9-octyl (C25H52).
TABLE 1: GC-MS ANALYSIS OF THE FRACTION OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF FILICIUM DECIPIENS I.E. AP1
TABLE 2: DIURETIC ACTIVITY OF THE EXTRACTS OF FILICIUM DECIPIENS
|Group||Compound||Dose (mg/kg)||Volume of urine (ml) collected after 5 h||T/S (Lipschitz values)|
|III||Petroleum ether extract||600||14||0.45|
CONCLUSION: The Lipschitz value for the standard drug Furosemide is taken as 1. The tested extracts of Filicium decipiens showed less T/S value compared to standard. Hence, the only methanolic extract exhibited diuretic property, and the other extracts showed less diuretic activity.
The methanolic extract was column chromate-graphed using silica gel G 100-200 mesh to get brown color crystalline solid, which was analyzed for the presence of bioactive chemical constituents using Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique.
GC-MS analysis revealed the presence of thirty chemical constituents. The identification of these compounds in the plant serves as the basis in determining the possible biological activities.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: We are thankful to the Rani Channamma University, Belagavi, and Prabhakar Kore Basic Science Research Centre, Belagavi, for providing necessary facilities to carry out the research work. We are also thankful to the ICMR-National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi, for plant authentication.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: Nil
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How to cite this article:
Basarikatti AI, Uppar V and Padmashali B: Evaluation of diuretic activity of crude extracts of leaves of Filicium decipiens and analysis of biomolecules present in fraction of methanolic extract using GC-MS technique. Int J Pharm Sci & Res 2020; 11(8): 3782-87. doi: 10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.11(8).3782-87.
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A. I. Basarikatti, V. Uppar and B. Padmashali *
Department of Chemistry, Rani Channamma University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India.
23 August 2019
09 February 2020
08 March 2020
01 August 2020


The Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies course (ENCOR) gives you the knowledge and skills needed to configure, troubleshoot, and manage enterprise wired and wireless networks. Learn how to implement security principles within an enterprise network and how to overlay network design by using solutions such as SD-Access and SD-WAN. The automation and programmability of Enterprise networks is also incorporated in this course.
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TBA Bairro Alto Theater
Through a small door we enter a world of experimentation and art. A safe space where the new and established artist meet , between hallways, stairs and stages.
The development of the concept is based on this small “door” to a stage that is the world of performing arts. A metaphorical door that is visually associated with physical space.
Within the TBA logo there is a hided frame where everything will happen, it’s a logo that opens itself and show what happens inside. There is a secondary reading of the TBA logo as an acronym for “To be anounced”.
The logo has an important role in the communication of the shows, being it what frames the arts. This frame is changeable and adapts to many formats. This characteristic allows us to work with vertical and horizontal imagens in an easy way. It’s in the center of the logo that we find the visual space where the events, artists, photographies and even videos will be revealed.

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Customized Online Scheduling Added to the Healthy Outcomes® Patient Engagement Platform
InteliChart, the leader in patient engagement technologies, is pleased to introduce Patient Schedule a new, customized online scheduling solution for consumers and patients. Patient Schedule is now part of InteliChart’s comprehensive Healthy Outcomes® patient engagement platform with all eight solutions working in unison to deliver a consistent, positive experience for patients and healthcare providers.
“Research shows that nearly 75 percent of patient appointments are made after business hours,” explained Gary Hamilton, InteliChart CEO. “That’s why the after-hours scheduling system we designed in Patient Schedule is essential for healthcare providers. Consumers can make real-time appointments after searching and selecting a provider online anytime, anywhere.”
Converting consumers into patients
Patient Schedule gives healthcare providers the power to convert consumers into patients. The first critical step is consumers finding a provider through an online search. Next, they can read physician bios, see real-time availability, and make an appointment on the spot through Google, Facebook, Yelp, HealthGrades or the provider’s website. Once consumers are patients, they can enjoy the convenience of seeing their provider’s availability and scheduling their own appointments 24/7 without having to log into an account.
Convenient API integration and configuration
Patient Schedule sets itself apart from other scheduling solutions with InteliChart’s API integration and configuration. Patient Schedule integrates directly to the practice management schedule and picks up all the scheduling criteria and logic, mirroring the practice’s scheduling rules.
“The API also allows for two-way integration that ensures real-time scheduling accuracy and avoids unwanted overbookings and scheduling mishaps,” added Hamilton. “Patient Schedule provides the ability to fill provider openings faster than ever before – without burdening office staff.”
Orchestrated Patient Engagement
Patient Schedule communicates with each of the solutions on InteliChart’s Healthy Outcomes platform to orchestrate a holistic approach to engagement, resulting in a healthier, happier patient. (Watch a video about Healthy Outcomes.) In addition to Patient Schedule, the platform includes:
Patient Portal – a “healthcare hub” that gives patients instant access to their medical records plus houses intake forms, notifications, surveys, bill pay and interacts with InteliChart’s population health solution. Accessible from a full-fledged iOS/Android app.
Patient Intake - digitizes and automates patient registration and the intake process. Workflow-configured to deliver discreet data to EHR and PM systems.
Patient Notify – automated appointment reminders, appointment confirmations, and organizational announcements go directly into a physician practice's scheduling system.
Patient Survey - delivers automated surveys to measure patient satisfaction and capture patient-reported outcomes.
Patient Activate – automates patient care management. Define and manage concurrent populations through intervention and outreach campaigns to secure patient engagement and successful outcomes.
Patient eVisit - a fully integrated, patient-friendly, virtual-care experience with no downloads/apps required.
Family Portal - empowers family members and caregivers to stay informed about the health and well-being of loved ones who are in long-term care, skilled nursing, home health and senior living facilities.
“Patient Schedule can be used as a standalone online-scheduling solution or combined with other Healthy Outcomes solutions that synchronize in the common mission to improve patient outcomes,” said Hamilton. “For example, if a patient schedules an appointment online, they can immediately be sent electronic visit forms through Patient Intake, they can be reminded of and confirm their appointment through Patient Notify, they could receive a post-visit survey or ratings request through Patient Survey, or they could be prompted to self-schedule a condition-specific maintenance exam through Patient Activate.”
Designed as a true platform
Patient Schedule joins a platform that has been developing and thriving since 2007. Over the past 13 years, InteliChart designed solutions with a common source code to create a platform unlike any other on the market. “Some so-called platforms are merely disparate products stitched together through acquisitions or mergers, leading to poor integration and a lack of communication between products,” emphasizes Hamilton. “InteliChart’s Healthy Outcomes is a true patient engagement platform built from the ground up with a technical architecture that makes all the solutions work seamlessly together for a cohesive, reliable provider/patient experience.”
InteliChart delivers Healthy Outcomes, the market-leading, patient-engagement platform that helps providers attain superior patient outcomes. Industry-leading EHR vendors, hospitals, health systems and physician practices have selected InteliChart as their patient engagement platform, collectively representing 45 million patients. We integrate with 30-plus EHR products and a single integration accesses all the solutions in our Healthy Outcomes suite. For more information, visit www.intelichart.com.

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A source close to the Democrats has dismissed suggestions there will be a 'special relationship' between Joe Biden and Boris Johnson following the US election result.
“They do not think Boris Johnson is an ally,” the Democratic source told the Sunday Times. “They think Britain is an ally. But there will be no special relationship with Boris Johnson.”
The source told the newspaper that they see Dominic Cummings as the British version of Steve Bannon.
They said: “Biden’s got a long memory and Boris is not in his good books. Biden and Obama are like family. Many of the people around Biden have been talking about Boris Johnson. The Kenyan remark has never gone away. They see Boris and [Dominic] Cummings like Trump and Bannon.”
The comments were made as Tommy Vietor, a former Obama press aide, responded to Johnson’s tweet congratulating Biden by branding him a “shapeshifting creep".
He said: “We will never forget your racist comments about Obama and slavish devotion to Trump.”
Another US politician anonymously briefed that the next vice-president is even colder towards the prime minister.
“If you think Joe hates him, you should hear Kamala,” they explained.
A former US ambassador to the UK previously claimed that Biden would not give Johnson a "warm welcome" if he was elected to the White House.
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Michael Paulenoff is the author of MPTrader ETF & Stock Trading Diary.
A major price cycle on the daily S&P 500
chart, which shows reliability in bottoming about every 15.5 months, is due for its next low on or about October 31. The cycle appears to have been influencing prices since the 2002-03 lows.
The suggestion that such a major cycle is due to bottom next in the second half of October sends shivers down the spine of the most ardent market optimist.
The cycle is now 84% complete, which means that it is very mature and is in its "down-hard" position entering into its final phase prior to bottoming. Notwithstanding the recent vertical recovery rally from 1101.54 to today's high at 1204.49, or +9.4% in just five sessions, the strength comes within the most negative portion of the overarching cycle, but is way too early to be considered a significant cycle low.
No, the much more likely scenario suggests that the August 9 low is the first of at least two, and perhaps several, declines to lower-lows into the anticipated October bottom.
Finally, let's notice that this impending cycle low has emerged from weakness off of an eight- to nine-month topping formation. The last time the 15.5 month cycle bottom occurred in the aftermath of a multi-month topping formation was the SPX breakdown in September 2008 off of a major distribution pattern that started in January 2008.
This year's cyclic pattern is very similar, although not quite as potentially negative.Twitter: @mptrader
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Cultural Arts Grants
Everett Cultural Arts Commission Grants
We believe that everyone deserves equal access to a full, vibrant and creative life, which is essential to a healthy society.
The Everett’s Cultural Arts Commission is committed to funding grants that make a meaningful impact in our community by expanding access to arts and culture for residents and visitors throughout our city. We place a priority on funding grant requests that ensure that artists and audiences of all backgrounds and identities are included, reflecting the City of Everett’s values of equity, inclusion and diversity.
The application period for the 2022 Cultural Arts Grant program is now open.
Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021.
Do you need the application translated into another language? Please contact Tyler Chism at [email protected]
Grant Review Criteria
- Cultural equity embodies the values, policies, and practices that ensure that all people- including but not limited to those who have been historically underrepresented based on race/ ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, citizenship status, or religion are represented.
- Artistic Excellence and innovation
- Residence or base of operations priority will be given to projects involving Everett-based organizations and artists. Applications from organizations outside Everett will be considered if project takes place within Everett city limits.
- Organizations must be a tax-exempt nonprofit under section 501 (c) (3) of the IRS code or be fiscally-sponsored by a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit. For capital grant requests, nonprofits must have 2 years of operating history.
- be non-discriminatory in its policies and practices in regard to race/ ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography, citizenship status or religion.
- We fund artistic and cultural program costs -artist fees, facility costs, production costs
- We fund projects taking place within Everett city limits, that are open to the general public
- We do not fund scholarships, tuition assistance or staff time associated with the development and coordination of the project. Only time expended by the artist or artistic director is eligible for funding.
- The purchase, design, construction and remodeling of buildings used for performing arts, visual arts and cultural activities.
- The purchase of production equipment intended to be used by the recipient cultural organization for at least 10 years.
Contact Tyler Chism at [email protected]


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Tips for Helping Children Cope with Divorce
Most are aware of the statistic that 50 percent of marriages end in separation or divorce. However, when couples get married and have children, they still want to believe that they won’t be one of those couples in this statistic, especially those who grew up in a two-parent household. So, when marriages end, it is difficult to move from couple status to single status. For those with children, this transition can be made even more difficult given that it is the responsibility of parents to ensure that children adapt as best as possible to life with divorced parents. And for this reason, parents should work together to help their children cope with divorce.
All children deal with the news of divorce differently. Some will wear their hearts on their sleeve and express what they think and feel, while others are silent and block their parents in every moment. Regardless of how children deal with the initial shock of hearing that their parents will no longer be together, all feelings are valid and should be treated as such. After all, not only do divorced couples see their worlds turned upside down, but their children too. Therefore, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, it wouldn’t be uncommon for children to still experience their feelings surrounding divorce for two to three years after it has happened before bouncing back. This is why it is so important to have parents who support you throughout the process.
Here’s how to help kids cope with divorce.
6 Have open lines of communication
Many times the lack of communication is what has contributed to the decline of the marriage itself. As such, parents need to figure out how to be open and honest with their children from the time the separation and divorce are discussed and through the weeks, months and years that follow.
According to Institute of the Spirit of the Child, parents must show unity when telling their children that they are divorcing. That way, it shows kids that even though their parents are going to live in two separate places, they’re still on the same page when it comes to parenthood and want their kids to be able to ask them whatever questions they want. might have regarding the situation.
By keeping these lines of communication open throughout the divorce, according to Divorce of men, children are more likely not to repeat the divorce when they are of marrying age. This is because even though parents may not have been able to communicate effectively and be vulnerable with each other, they are teaching their children how valuable these skills are as they get older. And when these skills are learned, children are less passive-aggressive and more direct with how they are feeling, which is healthier for all parties involved.
5 Don’t make them the source of parental support
There is no doubt that divorce can be emotionally and psychologically difficult for parents. However, when support is needed, outlets other than children should be used to express the distress felt.
According to Very good family, the key to helping children cope with divorce is to have a “healthy relationship” with them. This means that the parents are supposed to be the support of the children. Not the opposite. As such, when support is needed, relying on friends, family or professionals is the path parents should take to ensure that they are not unloading their emotional baggage on their children.
If this is done, according to the publication, the children will have “better self-esteem and better academic results” after the divorce.
4 Allow all the feelings to be felt
Parents want to protect their children from any negative feelings that divorce may cause. However, instead of coating everything in sugar, parents should make it clear that whatever children are feeling right now is not only recognized but normal.
According to American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, parents should admit to their children that the end of a marriage is “sad for everyone”. When parents do this rather than paint the divorce in a bright and happy light, children understand that their emotions are valid and that whatever they feel is appropriate for the situation.
3 Recognize that a change is happening
Sometimes parents feel the need to keep everything exactly the same after a divorce is announced. But in reality, things are changing and we have to admit it.
According to DivorceNet, there is an adjustment period that will take place in the days and months following the initial separation. Instead of hiding under the rug that a change is happening, acknowledging it and talking about it if necessary to help children cope with divorce.
2 Don’t let children choose between their parents
Children can feel torn when it comes to spending time with one parent rather than the other so that they don’t hurt any feelings. As such, it is imperative that children never feel pressured into choosing between their parents.
According to Psychology today, it can be hard to hear kids wanting to spend time with the other parent for an event or vacation. Even more difficult, we can hear that children want to live with one parent rather than the other. When this happens, according to the post, parents should do their best not to react to these comments and do their best to accommodate the children’s decisions. By never feeling like they have to choose between their parents and that there is a support system there, children will be able to overcome divorce in the healthiest way possible.
1 Reassure them repeatedly that the divorce is not their fault
Perhaps more importantly, parents need to reassure their children that the divorce is not their fault.
In many cases, children will have heard arguments between their parents on a variety of topics, some of which may revolve around them. As such, they may believe that they are to blame for the end of the marriage. In order to prevent this from happening, according to Surviving Divorce, parents should immediately “take the blame” for the reason for the end of the marriage and reassure children that no blame is on them. Let them know that they are loved and that even with the end of the marriage, that will never change. And by doing this, children may be able to successfully navigate the waters of their divorcing parents.
Source: American Academy of Pediatrics, Child Mind Institute, Men’s Divorce, VeryWell Family, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, DivorceNet, Psychology Today, Survive Divorce
Children may fear that their father or mother will divorce them, or they may blame one of the parents for the divorce.
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The immune system has never been more of a hot topic than right now in light of the past year we have had with COVID. Understandably people are more interested in finding ways to boost their immune system as much as possible. The immune system is multi-faceted and there’s no simple answer to this question, especially because people have different immune systems. That being said, there are some simple things you can do in order to improve your immunity and boost your system.
Most people don’t know that 70% of their immune system is housed in their gut. That means taking care of this system has a powerful impact on improving your immunity. While most people have heard that taking probiotics can help, there are some other things you can do as well that can be even more powerful.
Since every person’s system is in a different state of function, doing a simple at-home stool test can provide a vast amount of data on your unique body. Once we have this information we can assess what your body needs, and we use nutrition and supplements that have been customized for you. This is a most impactful way to improve your immunity.
After working with patients for many years now, I have found that most people need some repair of their GI systems. This requires specific protocols that are easy to implement once we know what is missing and what needs to be done.
Another type of testing that is helpful is a comprehensive nutritional panel. This gives us information on what your body specifically needs in terms of vitamins and minerals. Most people just take what they hear they need without ever knowing how much they uniquely need. This is a wonderful way to see what your body needs more of and what it needs less of.
If going the customized route is not something you choose to do at this point then there are some general things you can do to improve the immune system.
1. Improve your diet by eating more whole foods like fruits, vegetables and fiber, along with
eliminating processed foods.
2. Get more rest as this is vital to help maintain healthy hormone levels and allow the body
3. Take immunity boosting supplements:
4. Use stress reduction methods like meditation, massage, connecting with others and increasing fun in your life.
If you want to find out more about boosting your immunity through specific lab testing contact us at 847.873.0032. Many insurance companies cover at least a portion of the labs. Feel free to contact us with any questions.


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Alhambra Pumpkin Run
The Alhambra Pumpkin Run is celebrating it’s 6th year and is one of Alhambra’s largest annual city wide events. The race brings more than 1,500 runners and walkers to the beautiful streets of Downtown Alhambra starting on Main Street and moving in to east Alhambra. Get to know your neighbors and community businesses as they cheer you on during your run. Neighborhood families set-up lemonade stands, cheer you on with signs and bring you to the finish line with music, cheers and laughter.
Free Beer to all 21+ runners sponsored by Ohana Brewery
Proceeds from the run benefit Alhambra Educational Foundation
Swag bag for each runner
Free post run goodies for all runners
Free and fun festival for the entire family!
Trick-or-Treating at local Downtown Alhambra businesses on Main Street
Live entertainment including a band, dance performances and DJ
Certified Alhambra Farmers Market
Annual Downtown Alhambra Hallowscream Costume Contest
Kids Zone including petting zoo, rock climbing wall and carnival games
Free pumpkin patch for kids (first come first serve)
Annual Homebrew Beer Contest sponsored by Ohana Brewery
Annual Pumpkin Pie making contest hosted by Alhambra Chamber of Commerce
None offered on RaceLookup at this time.
View the event website for the most accurate and up to date information.

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Most British consumers want electricity from clean sources and are prepared to pay more for it through their electricity bills. This is a key finding is from an opinion poll conducted by MORI for the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG). According to the poll, two out of three people -- 66% -- think that some or all of the existing fossil fuel levy should be kept to fund renewable energy rather than abolished simply to reduce electricity bills. Until the end of October the levy was 10% of electricity bills and mostly used to subsidise nuclear, while only around 10% went to renewables. Now that most of the nuclear industry is privatised, the government is phasing out the levy which has fallen to just 3.7% of electricity bills.
Yet the opinion poll -- conducted in October -- found that one in three people would prefer to see the levy kept in its entirety to fund environmentally friendly forms of energy. At its present level it will raise some £400 million annually. One in five people were prepared to go further, saying they would buy renewable electricity despite higher electricity bills.
The poll was the first serious attempt to gauge British attitudes to the prospect of paying more for renewable-generated electricity. The findings were revealed at a conference in London organised by PRASEG -- a House of Commons all party group. Presenting the results Fanny Calder from PRASEG commented: "The British public wants a green energy future and they are prepared to pay for it."


Recently, a patient’s mom asked me why I was prescribing an antidepressant, fluoxetine (the generic form of Prozac), for her son’s anxiety disorder. Jeremy had started on this medication in the past few weeks. When I first prescribed it, I carefully outlined the target symptom of anxiety and explained how the medicine would help treat the anxiety through the serotonin system.
Since starting the medicine, Jeremy’s anxiety levels were declining – he was getting better. But mom became concerned when her own mother and some friends of hers asked her why the doctor prescribed an antidepressant for anxiety. They thought he should also be on something “for his anxiety” – an anxiolytic.
We had a long discussion about this that cleared up the confusion. Mom felt comfortable with the explanation. But this is a conversation that I frequently have, in one form or another, with patients and families. The problem is that the names we give the various classes of medications can be misleading. The so-called “anti-depressants,” for example, are used to treat a wide range of disorders and symptoms, including anxiety.
This morning I watched a highlight video of some senior experts from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology who were summarizing the findings of their meeting in Paris this month. One of the most interesting discussions came from Doctor Joseph Zohar from Tel Aviv who described an effort among many of the world’s researchers and clinicians in this area to develop a new language or “nomenclature” for psychiatric medications.
The group would like the formal and casual names of medications to focus first and foremost on the mechanism of action; for example, describing a medicine Prozac as a serotonin reuptake inhibitor rather than simply as “antidepressant.” A medicine such as Abilify, which is routinely referred to as an “antipsychotic,” would be more accurately described as a “partial dopamine D2 receptor agonist, partial serotonin 5HT1A agonist and serotonin 5HT2A antagonist.”
That’s quite a mouthful and obviously not something the press and the general public is likely to adopt. But the idea of naming medications according to their mechanism of action instead of the diagnosis they are typically used to treat is a step in the right direction.
The Congress actually would like to expand the naming process to a “multi-axial” or categorical system, something like the following:
- Axis 1: Mechanism of action in the brain.
- Axis II: Descriptor of the neurological systems the medication affects; that is, which brain circuits are affected.
- Axis III: Actual behaviors and activities affected, such as sleep or memory or cognition.
- Axis IV: The diagnoses that the medicine is used for.
Such a system is quite complex. Even the first Axis is far more complex than simply saying “antipsychotic.” Certainly we would need some shorthand terms to use in our conversations. Yet the idea of shifting our focus to the mechanism of action rather than an inaccurate general term is actually important at many levels, not the least of which is emphasizing the brain science behind psychiatry.
Changing language in a planned way is a significant challenge – mental health professionals and perhaps more importantly, the media, would need to adopt the new language and use it consistently and daily for it to become accepted and established.
But I welcome anything that moves us in the direction of better and clearer language and conversations about mental illness and its treatment, and I think this is an interesting approach and one worth serious discussion by caregivers and consumers alike.
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Sayfullo Saipov: Truck driver then Uber driver now New York terror suspect
Uzbek national arrived in the US in 2010 and is said to have since earned a green card
The arrival of Sayfullo Saipov - who is accused of killing eight people and injuring 11 others in a terror incident in New York - to the United States in 2010 was quite unceremonious.
“My dad introduced him as, ‘He’s new to the United States, and he’s going to stay with us,’” recalled 22-year-old Bekhzod Abdusamatov, who met him in Ohio.
Saipov arrived from Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, knowing little English, Abdusamatov said. He spent his early days in the United States looking for a job and trying to improve his English. The 29-year-old was noted as a late sleeper.
At one point, Saipov made his way to Fort Myers, Florida, where he met a fellow Uzbek immigrant, Kobiljon Matkarov (37). Saipov was working as a truck driver at the time.
“He was a very good person when I knew him,” he said. “He liked the US. He seemed very lucky, and all the time he was happy and talking like everything is OK. He did not seem like a terrorist, but I did not know him from the inside.”
After a move to New Jersey, Saipov eventually settled in Paterson, New Jersey and began driving for Uber. On Tuesday night, law enforcement officials converged on an apartment building near Genessee and Getty avenues that was believed to be Saipov’s home.
Saipov had earned a green card, according to a law enforcement official who spoke under the condition of anonymity because the investigation was proceeding, and had entered the country through Kennedy International Airport.
An Uber official said Saipov had passed the company’s background check. “We have been in contact with the FBI and have offered our assistance,” the official said. “We will remain in close contact with law enforcement and the FBI to assist with their investigation.
“We are aggressively and quickly reviewing this partner’s history with Uber, and at this time we have not identified any related concerning safety reports.”
Eight people were killed and at 11 others were injured on Tuesday when a rented pickup knocked down cyclists and pedestrians near the World Trade Centre, before striking a school bus.
Saipov was identified as the man responsible and was shot in the abdomen by police after jumping out of the truck with what turned out to be a fake gun in each hand. Witnesses said he shouted was “Allahu Akbar!,” Arabic for “God is great”.
NBC News reported that police had found a note in the truck used in the attack which claimed the attack was carried out on behalf of the Islamic State.
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Banner Wireless Connects Wine Maker With Environmental Data From Vineyard
The IOT Journal recently published an article detailing the deployment of a solution to track soil moisture levels, air temperature, and other environmental metrics at a vineyard. This data is wirelessly transmitted via Sure Cross 900 MHz Wireless Radios deployed throughout the vineyard.
At Hahn Family Wines, a single gateway is installed on the weather station, while another is located at the water-pump station. To transmit its measurements, each moisture sensor is wired to a Banner Engineering SureCross 900 MHz radio.


Having been canceled in previous years due to the pandemic and genuine concerns that organizers at Colne Town Council were planning to cancel the festival for good, the news of its return this year will be music to the ears of thousands of fans.
The long-awaited festival returns to Colne bigger than ever with over 50 acts over three days.
From Friday 26th to Sunday 28th August the festival will feature a fantastic range of live music on the two main stages (Colne Muni and Pendle Hippodrome) as well as outlying venues around town.
For 2022, the fringe venues are programmed by the Colne Blues Society, a small charitable trust whose members are passionate about the local music scene and ensure the longevity of the festival.
As well as fabulous live music offerings, there will also be funfair rides and various food outlets as well as an array of street entertainment, acts and artists.
‘Shock and anger’ as Colne’s iconic Rhythm and Blues Festival is permanently…
Nathan Cutler, Colne Town Council Events Manager, said: “The Blues Festival is part of Colne, it puts the town on the map and we look forward to welcoming people from all over the world to Colne for the festival. Tickets are selling out fast, so don’t miss out and get yours now.
The iconic festival is not only a major event in Colne City Council’s calendar of events, but also a major event in the UK blues festival calendar.
To book tickets, visit www.colneblueslineup.com.


The St. Patrick’s Day Parade, as well as the South Boston Boys and Girls Club Road Race, will be held in South Boston on Sunday, March 15, 2020. The parade and road race will result in street closures and reduce on-street parking availability. People coming into the City for the event are encouraged not to drive their personal vehicles. Information on Bluebikes, the regional bike share service, may be found at http://bluebikes.com and information on the MBTA may be found at www.mbta.com. For a faster return trip, the MBTA advises riders to purchase a round-trip rather than a one-way ticket. Walking is also a great way to move around Boston.
The parade route will be closed to traffic from approximately 10 AM to 4 PM.
The parade will begin at 1 PM on West Broadway at the Broadway MBTA Station and continue left onto East Broadway, right onto P Street, right onto East Fourth Street, left onto K Street, right onto East Fifth Street, left onto G Street, right onto Thomas Park, right onto Telegraph Street, left onto Dorchester Street, ending at Dorchester Avenue. Disbursal will be on Dorchester Avenue from Dorchester Street to Damrell Street.
The road race will begin at 11 AM on West Sixth Street at the Boys and Girls Club and is expected to end at Noon. Traffic will be delayed along the route as runners make their way to the finish line. The route will be from West Sixth Street to Dorchester Street, right onto East Broadway, down and around the Farragut Statue at Day Boulevard, to East Broadway, right onto West Broadway, left onto E Street, left onto West Sixth Street, ending at the Boys and Girls Club at #230 West Sixth Street.
“Tow Zone No Stopping Boston Police Special Event Sunday” parking restrictions will be in effect as follows:
- Dorchester Ave, Both sides, from Gillette Park to Old Colony Ave, and, both sides, from Dorchester Street to Damrell Street
- Foundry Street, Both sides, from Greenbaum Street to Dorchester Avenue
- West Second Street, Both sides, from Dorchester Avenue to A Street
- A Street, Both sides, from Binford Street to West Second Street
- Binford Street, Both sides, from A Street heading northwesterly to end at 45 Binford Street
- West Fourth Street, Both sides, from A Street to Dorchester Avenue
- West Broadway, Both sides, from Dorchester Avenue to Dorchester Street
- East Broadway, Both sides, from Dorchester Street to P Street
- P Street, Both sides, from East Broadway to East Fourth Street
- East Fourth Street, Both sides, from P Street to K Street
- K Street, Both sides, from East Fourth Street to East Fifth Street
- East Fifth Street, Both sides, from K Street to G Street
- G Street, Both sides, from East Fifth Street to #96 G Street
- Thomas Park, Both sides from G Street to Telegraph Street
- Telegraph Street, Both sides, from Thomas Park to Dorchester Street
- Dorchester Street, Both sides, from Telegraph Street to Dorchester Avenue
- West Sixth Street, Both sides, from F Street to Dorchester Street
- F Street, Southeast side (Boys & Girls Club side), West Sixth Street to Bowen Street


A High Court murder trial in Christchurch has heard conflicting views from pathologists over how a woman died.
Nikki Roper is accused of murdering Christchurch mother Alexsis Tovizi at her home in Stanmore Road in December 2010, taking her car and laptop and using her eftpos card.
The 24-year-old is accused of choking her in the days after he was released from prison and has
denied all charges.
The second week of trial began on Monday with evidence from pathologist Kenneth Anderson who told the court that Ms Tovizi's lungs were full of water.
The Crown has suggested Mr Roper's defence will be that he was assisting her suicide by drowning her in a large pot of water.
But forensic pathologist Kenneth Anderson told the court that suicidal drowning in a pot of water would be almost impossible, because it is a situation that a person can get out of when the overwhelming animal instinct to save themselves takes over.
Under questioning from Crown prosecutor Pip Curry, Dr Anderson said the body showed signs of strangulation, but no evidence of any kind of struggle. He said that would be consistent with Miss Tovizi already being unconscious when she drowned.
Another pathologist, Martin Sage, told defence counsel Simon Sharmy under cross-examination on Monday there was evidence that Ms Tovizi had been strangled.
However, a third pathologist, defence witness David Ransor, says he cannot see a positive piece of pathology evidence to explain the cause of the death.
Choke hold explained
Evidence was also given by Graham Spinks, a former Olympian and Commonwealth Games medalist, for the defence. Mr Spinks holds a black belt in judo and represented New Zealand at the 1984 and 1992 Olympics.
The Crown says Nikki Roper strangled Alexsis Tovizi in a choke hold.
Mr Spinks told the jury if a carotid hold (choke hold) is carried out unskilfully, the victim will suffer bloodshot eyes and a bruised jawline and, possibly, reddened, cut gums among other symptoms.
He said victims became unconscious quickly and stopped struggling as their postural muscles gave way.
Earlier, the court heard the post-mortem on the woman's body showed no signs of a struggle.


The Nissan X-Trail is a compact crossover SUV that Nissan has built since 2001 but never sold in the U.S. Canada, however, got the X-Trail from 2004 to 2006. It was replaced in 2007 by the current Rogue, which then also became available in the U.S. The second-generation X-Trail/Rogue is sold in Europe with a 2.2-liter diesel engine and is called the X-Trail or Renault Koleos. A Japanese market GT version uses a 280-hp gas engine, while the Australian version gets a 177-hp model, similar in output to the 170-hp U.S. Rogue.


Authorities recovered 204 bales of marijuana totaling 3,570 pounds from a panga boat found Monday abandoned on the beach north of Piedras Blancas Lighthouse and San Simeon, a federal official said.
The Department of Homeland Security has seized the boat and the investigation is continuing, said Lori Haley, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No arrests have been made.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Stuart MacDonald said Thursday, “If it was not the whole load, it was a substantial part of it. It looked to me to be about all the vessel would carry.”
An anonymous call reporting the panga’s location on the beach at Arroyo de la Cruz came in late Monday afternoon. A large contingent of ICE investigators, sheriff’s deputies, State Parks rangers and CHP officers went to the scene as dusk fell.
Hoping to catch the alleged smugglers, the law enforcers set up a perimeter before going in to the boat’s location. But the boat’s crew apparently had disappeared in the remote area, which includes rolling ranchland, State Parks property and the light station.
Panga crews normally put their boats ashore after nightfall. While investigators haven’t determined why this panga landed in daylight, some possible reasons are being considered.
“I don’t know what their reason was for coming onshore at that time,” MacDonald said. “Obviously, it was still light at the time the call came in. … It did wind up getting foggy, so maybe they were trying to get to shore before the fog did. Or maybe they were having fuel issues” or engine problems.
The bales had been offloaded onto the beach. The smugglers then fled, perhaps realizing they had been spotted.
“I think it’s safe to say the shoreside logistics were not in place,” MacDonald said. “There appears to have been no vehicle to load the drugs into.”
On Tuesday, members of the Sheriff’s Dive Team, North Coast Ocean Rescue Team and U.S. Coast Guard convened to relaunch the panga at high tide and take it to federal officials in Morro Bay.
Team member Richard Stacy said the boat itself may have been worth about $10,000, and he estimated each of the two 225-HP Yamaha motors had a value of about $20,000.
At least 10 panga boats have been recovered from San Luis Obispo County shores since May 2012, when a panga with 1,800 pounds of marijuana was found beached just north of Piedras Blancas.
Pangas are used as open-top fishing boats in Central America. Over the past few years, high-speed pangas increasingly have been used to transport people and drugs from Mexico to the United States. But as law enforcement in Southern California became more successful at intercepting the boats, the smugglers started heading farther out to sea — and pushing farther north.
The boats have been stopped and confiscated from San Diego to San Luis Obispo counties, though the number discovered locally has been far fewer than in other areas of the state. Most of the boats found locally have landed along the North Coast, from San Simeon to an area south of Ragged Point.
The scenic but remote North Coast shoreline provides landing sites that can't be seen from the highway, such as the Arroyo de la Cruz beach. Many of those spots allegedly were used by smugglers in other areas, especially during such periods as Prohibition and the mission-building years of the 1800s.
Searching for pangas is painstaking, time-consuming work. Sheriff Ian Parkinson asked for federal assistance about a year ago, and the department received a federal grant that it has used to increase coastal patrols in search of panga boats.
However, that funding doesn’t begin to cover the expenses of patrolling the county’s long coastline, much of it in remote areas that are difficult to access, Parkinson said last month. So he’s pushing for more money to help stem the tide.


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Fans can sign up for Miami Heat presale of individual game tickets Tuesday
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Individual game tickets for the Heat’s 2012-2013 season will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Fans can sign up online at Heat.com for presale access to tickets from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s presale will feature individual game tickets for as low as $25. Fans can preorder as many as eight tickets per game. Variable pricing based on opponent and ticket demand will apply.
According to the Heat, “Fluctuations in ticket prices are based on market conditions, and not an intent to discriminate against purchasers.”
On Thursday, an Internet presale will offer tickets for the bargain price of $10 for select games. Season tickets are sold out for the 2012-2013 season but fans can join the team’s “Priority Access Club” to receive priority access for individual game tickets as well as waitlist priority when season tickets become available.
The Heat also features a multi-game “Partial Plan.” Starting at $250, fans can purchase tickets to 10 games of their choice to better accommodate budgets and schedules.
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Employers will be given £1,000 for every worker they bring back from furlough as part of a £9.4 billion jobs retention bonus scheme, Rishi Sunak has announced.
Under the new programme, businesses will receive a one-off payment for each employee that they have retained at the end of January.
Individuals must be paid at least £520 per month for their employers to qualify for the support in order to ensure they are in “decent work”.
“It is vital that people aren’t returning for the sake of it,” the Chancellor told the Commons during his summer statement.
Mr Sunak hailed the “significance” of the policy, noting it could cost the Treasury in excess of £9 billion if all 9.4 million furloughed workers return to their jobs.
“Our message to business is clear; if you stand by your workers, we will stand by you,” he vowed.
The Government is in the process of winding down its flagship Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, with Mr Sunak insisting it will end in October.
He said: “The truth is calling for endless extensions to the furlough is just as irresponsible as it would have been back in June to end the scheme overnight.
“We have to be honest, leaving the furlough scheme open forever gives people false hope that it will always be possible to return to the jobs they had before.
“And the longer people are on furlough, the more likely it is that skills could fade and they will find it harder to get new opportunities.”
Inside the Treasury it is hoped that the new “bonus” programme will act as an additional incentive for employers to keep staff on.
However, shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds questioned how the Chancellor could ensure the £1,000 bonus would “not just go to those employers who were already planning to bring people back into work” and asked for further support for firms which “lack the cash flow to be able to operate” irregardless of the cash reward.
Her concerns were echoed by think tank the Resolution Foundation, which warned that the scheme would make little difference to employment levels, with payments mainly going to firms who would have brought back those workers anyway.
Chief executive Torsten Bell said that the scheme was “poorly targeted at those jobs that are most at risk of being lost”.
Meanwhile, business leaders said that the £1,000 payment, which will be rolled out in February, could come too late for many struggling firms.
Jonathan Geldart, director general of the Institute of Directors, said: “The Chancellor pulled a few rabbits out of his hat today, but many directors will feel like he missed a trick. We fully understand the Treasury’s desire to focus on the young, and particularly badly-affected sectors, but coronavirus has crippled many parts of the economy.
“The JRS bonus offers something of an off-ramp from the furlough scheme, and firms will certainly be doing all they can to keep people on board. However, with cash so tight now, January may feel like a long way off for some businesses.”
The Government has been warned this week that unemployment will hit five million unless urgent steps are taken to help businesses survive.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development forecast that almost one in seven people could be employed by the end of this year, with the UK’s unemployment rate rising to 14.8 per cent.
Mr Sunak said the Government "understand that those businesses that have had to furlough employees have been through a difficult time", insisting that was "why" the Government had announced the bonus scheme.
To counter exploitation of the programme, the Treasury set the minimum monthly wage necessary to apply for the payment at £520, which is in line with the lower earnings limit of National Insurance.
This covers over 90 per cent of all furloughed employees and will stop businesses from gaming the system by keeping workers on minimum hours and collecting the £1,000 payment.
Despite the additional support announced, Ms Dodds urged the Chancellor to “abandon his one size fits all approach to withdrawing the job retention and self employed schemes”.
Mr Sunak said he would make “no apology” for winding down the furlough scheme.
“We remain committed to protecting people in their jobs,” he said.


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Entertainment highlights this week in Wausau
Marketplace Thursdays, Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., The 400 Block
Take an hour for lunch on June 18 and head to the first Marketplace Thursday of this season. The weekly event brings vendors, cooks, artists and other entrepreneurs to the downtown to sell their goods.
Summer Kickoff Night, Friday, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., Oak Island Park.
This family-friendly event will offer crafts, balloon animals, henna tattoos, face painting and entertainment from magicians and other recreational devices, such as an obstacle course and inflatable bounce house. A showing of the 1964 original "Mary Poppins" movie will also commence at 9 p.m.
Caribbean Market, Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., The 400 Block
Head over to The 400 block Saturday for a dose of Caribbean culture. The annual market offers crafts, Caribbean food and drink, a family treasure hunt and vendors selling spices, jewelry, fabric goods, flowers and more. This year, the event will also feature a new community scavenger hunt. Go to www.goodnewswi.com for more information.
Father's Day Classic Car Show, Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., The 400 Block.
Celebrate Father's Day on Sunday by checking out some old school rides from The Road Knights Auto Club. The event will also feature music, food vendors and crafts for kids.


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Euro weakens, cost of borrowing may increase
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A currency exchange counter in London. [Jason Alden / Bloomberg]
SINGAPORE / SYDNEY - The euro extended its decline against the dollar to a third day after Standard & Poor's (S&P) cut Italy's credit rating, adding to concern Europe's debt crisis will raise borrowing costs for countries in the region.
The euro fell toward its lowest since 2001 versus the yen before Greece resumes discussions with its creditors over the next installment of rescue funds.
The dollar gained against most major currencies before the Federal Reserve's policy meeting on Tuesday.
"We're going to see the euro continue to come under pressure," said Chris Weston, an institutional trader at IG Markets in Melbourne. "One of the big things we're very concerned with is what's going to happen with Italian borrowing costs and this could see some further selling of bonds."
The euro slid to $1.3619 as of 6:41 am in London from $1.3686 in New York on Monday. It declined to 104.24 yen from 104.82 on Monday and touched 103.90 on Sept 12, the least since June 2001. The dollar bought 76.54 yen from 76.58.
The rating for Italy, which has Europe's second-largest debt load, was lowered to A from A+, S&P said on Monday in a statement.
The European Central Bank last month started buying Italian and Spanish government bonds after the region's debt crisis pushed their yields to euro-era records.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's government was scheduled to hold another call with European Union and International Monetary Fund officials on Tuesday night in a bid to secure a sixth installment of rescue funds, amid concern that the austerity measures demanded are deepening a three-year recession and making it harder for the government to meet its deficit goals.
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos held "substantive" discussions with the officials, the finance ministry said in an e-mailed statement after a teleconference on Monday night.
South Korea's won reached 2011 lows as Asian stock losses and the European debt crisis damped demand.
"Risk aversion has gone to the next level and the losses are justified, given that European officials have not been able to reassure the markets on the default risk," said Suresh Kumar Ramanathan, a strategist at CIMB Investment Bank Bhd in Kuala Lumpur. "Asian assets are getting sold off in favor of cash."
The won dropped 1.4 percent to 1,153.48 for each dollar after earlier touching 1,156.50, the lowest level since Dec 22, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Background The association of several autoimmune diseases (AID) is not a rarity, few recent studies highlighted high incidence of this phenomenon in series of Systemic Sclerosis patients1.
Objectives To assess the frequency and types of AIB associated with SSc, in our group of patients.
Methods Data on demographic, clinical and laboratory features of 153 SSc patients were retrospectively collected from medical records of EUSTAR centre Institute of rheumatology, Belgrade, Serbia, as well as the aviable data on previous or concomitant expression of other rheumatic or nonrheumatic AID. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS14.
Results Out of 153 SSc patients with average duration of disease of 9.2 years and average age of 59.1 years, 138 (88.8%) were females, 67 (43.7%) had diffuse cutaneous subtype of disease (dSSc), while 86 (57.3%) had limited disease (lSSc). In 61 (39.8%) ACA positivity was found, ATA postitivity in 75 (49%), yet, all 153 pts were ANA positive. We found another rheumatic AID in 24 (25.6%) SSc pts: Rheumatoid arthritis - RA 10 (6.5%), Sy Sjögreni - SS in 5 (3.2%), inflamatory myopathy - IM in 4 (2.6%), Systemic Lupus Erythematodes - SLE in 3 (1.9%), Sy antiphospoholipida – APS in 1 (0.6%). Among nonrheumatic AID the most frequently found was Hashimoto’s thyroiditis 18 (11,7%), with hypothyroidism in 13 SSc pts, Sicca sy in 14 (9,15%), vitiligo in 4 (3,2%), PBC, thyrotoxicosis in 2 (1,3%), while each 1 (0,6%) SSc patient had hepatitis autoimmunis and M. Adissoni. Overall, association of SSc with AID was found in 45 (29,4%), more thet one AID was found in 14 (9%). Not any clinical SSc manifestation was correlated with development of AID, while coexsistence of it with SSc was statistically significantly associated with female gender (42 vs 3, p<0,001), lSSc (34 vs 11, p=0,04), ACA positivity (38 vs 7, p=0,01).
Conclusions The prevalence of associated AID with SSc, in our group of patients is 29,4%, the most frequently autoimmune thyroiditis with hypothyroidism and sicca sy.
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Confession: i am some of those annoying people that, every February, covers exactly how valentine’s is a crock of you-know-what given that it must not just take a special, sickeningly sweet, Hallmark-y trip to advise you to love your partner. From year to year it will get hipper to dislike on Valentine’s Day, to the stage your scales almost appear poised to point back others way. In 2015, will the cooler-than-thou young ones need to begin celebrating V-Day instead of condemning it? What a strange globe that will beâ¦
Although anti-Valentine’s time forces are loud, it appears that the majority of us tend to be covertly honoring anyhow. eHarmony requested 3000 individuals as long as they had programs for valentine’s 2014 and about 64% of those asserted that they’d end up being investing the holiday with special someone. Here is what that they had prepared (or perhaps not):
- 17per cent men and mature white women near me mentioned they’d perhaps not in the offing anything during the review (that was done only three days before Valentine’s Day!).
- 6per cent mentioned they’d placed a lot of planning inside event.
- Most people, unsurprisingly, decrease someplace in the center â they would place at the very least a little bit of idea into the holiday, but just weren’t heading all-out.
- Men happened to be the romantics of bunch. While women had been more prone to state that they had done hardly any to no planning at all, men had been prone to say they had completed a reasonable quantity of preparing or a lot of planning for their unique valentine.
Very good news for wedded folks: relationship may get a terrible hip-hop for dulling the spark, however the harm â at least in which Valentine’s Day is worried â is honestly overstated. Partners who have been internet dating solely were almost certainly for strategies, at 89%, but at 82% married couples were not much at the rear of. Partners who had been engaged were the least expected to are making any ideas, perhaps since they are also busy planning their unique wedding parties.
Whenever the special day ultimately arrives, some tips about what we are to:
- 37per cent of men and women check out dinner with their honeys.
- 26% choose an enchanting dinner in.
- 18percent miss out the dinner one half totally and get straight away to a motion picture day.
- 71percent of people intend to give their particular valentine a gift (79per cent of males, 65per cent of women).
- Females rated their unique present preferences similar to this: blossoms (17percent), precious jewelry (16per cent), intimacy (17per cent), a credit (12%), and a spa time (11per cent).
- guys voted highly in support of intimacy once the ideal valentine’s gift (40%), but next in line had been a card (11percent).
as well as the naysayers, eHarmony additionally learned that the largest explanations men and women state they celebrate Valentine’s Day tend to be relationship, connection, and authentic satisfaction associated with the trip.


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America’s cars, trucks and SUVs took a record step in 2012 toward a cleaner future, with the average fuel economy for new vehicles hitting an all-time high of 23.6 miles per gallon, according to a new report released by the EPA.
That average is...
| Feb 12, 2014
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Toyota Motor Corp. launched a massive global recall of its popular Prius hybrid to fix a software glitch that could cause the car to stall, an aggressive reaction to counter past criticism of its slow response to defects, experts said.
| Mar 11, 2014
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The Chrysler Group has announced it is issuing two separate recalls that will affect nearly 37,000 vehicles in the U.S.
The first recall affects 18,700 Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs from the 2012 and 2013 model years. The vehicles are being...
| Jul 30, 2013
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Matching a trend set last week by its domestic rivals, Chrysler Group reported healthy second quarter earnings Tuesday, helped by the strong U.S. auto market and a boom in profitable truck sales.
The Auburn Hills, Mich., automaker said it posted...
| Sep 23, 2013
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Chrysler Group filed plans Monday to resume trading its shares on the stock market, part of a high-stakes game its parent company, Fiat, is playing against a big union trust.
The stock sale would not be a normal initial public offering, in which a...
| Oct 1, 2013
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U.S. monthly auto sales declined in September for the first time in more than two years, in part because of a calendar quirk that landed Labor Day weekend sales in the August report.
Auto information company TrueCar.com estimated that by the time all of...
| Dec 3, 2013
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A month-end sales surge helped automakers post strong November sales.
General Motors Co., the nation’s largest auto seller, said its U.S. sales rose 14% in November to 212,060 vehicles, compared with the same month a year earlier.
It was the...
| Nov 25, 2013
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WASHINGTON -- Fiat on Monday said it would postpone an initial public offering of Chrysler Group stock until early 2014.
The move ends an attempt to sell shares owned by a United Auto Workers trust by the end of this year to help resolve a dispute...
| Mar 18, 2014
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Chrysler Group is recalling more than 43,000 Dodge Chargers to fix an issue with the vehicles’ headlights.
The automaker said the voluntary action will affect 43,450 Chargers in the U.S. from the 2011 and 2012 model years. The recall is to inspect...
| Oct 2, 2013
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Jeep is recalling nearly 92,000 of its Grand Cherokee SUVs to fix an issue with the vehicles’ warning lights and instrument panel.
The recall affects 91,559 Grand Cherokees in the U.S. from the 2014 model year, according to Jeep’s parent...
| Apr 2, 2014
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Chrysler Group is recalling almost 650,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango sport utility vehicles sold in the U.S. during the the 2011-14 model years to fix a problem with the brakes.
It will recall another 200,000 of the vehicles sold in other...


If you thought that you could escape destructive viruses and bacteria by moving to some perfect corner of the world, you are horribly mixed up.
A new research has uncovered that a disturbing number of microorganisms rain ceaselessly from the sky. So there’s no possibility that you can get away from the viruses and bacteria, nowhere on this planet of ours.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have recorded the quantity of viruses which get cleared from Earth’s surface to the troposphere consistently. The researchers at that point made sense of the quantity of the organisms that fall back to Earth’s surface.
The researchers found that once the viruses achieve the troposphere, they can make a trip up to thousands of kilometres before they fall back to the Earth’s surface.
Troposphere alludes to the layer of the environment where the planes fly, it is arranged beneath the stratosphere.
Seaspray and soil-clean particles can send virus and bacteria into the environment.
“Roughly 20 years ago we began finding genetically similar viruses occurring in very different environments around the globe,” said Curtis Suttle, author of the study, was quoted by Mail Online.
“Bacteria and viruses are typically deposited back to earth via rain events and Saharan dust intrusions,” Suttle added.
The accomplice of researchers needed to discover how much material would go to the height of 2,500 – 3,000 meters, past the barometrical limit layer. Particles can be transported to longer separations at these heights, spreading the organisms over the globe.
Suttle, who is based out of Canada, teamed up with researchers from Spain and US for this investigation.
The quantity of viruses and bacteria saved on Earth per square meter every day were recorded by researchers in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains which achieves the stature of more than 3,400 meters.
Viruses tend to stick to lighter and littler natural particles which are suspended in gas and air, this permits the viruses to remain noticeable all around for more.


As one of the largest solar companies based in the United States, chances are you’ve heard of First Solar. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, this company has been in the news recently, in part due to the unique solar product they manufacture.
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In a world where new solar panels and breakthroughs in solar technology are emerging almost every month, homeowners have a lot of panel options to choose from in 2018. Among the many innovations in the panel manufacturing space, none may be more appealing and visually exciting than thin film (TF) solar panels. In this article we’ll dig into what makes thin film stand out from standard silicon photovoltaic (PV) panels and offer some insight on when thin film solar is an ideal option for homeowners and the residential market.


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Make This Lovely Crochet Roanoke Dishcloth
This beautiful crochet Roanoke dishcloth has a lovely pattern that is created by clusters of double crochets. This gives the finished dishcloth a great texture.
This is a quick and easy crocheting project. It is is also a great pattern for newbies to crochet who want to perfect their double crochets.
A completed crocheted dishcloth should measure 10 inches by 10 inches. In metric measurements, that is approx. 25 cm square.
You can download the FREE crochet pattern for this beautiful dishcloth from Willow Yarns. To access the download, please click here: Roanoke Dishcloth Pattern.
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