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Summary: A work of consciousness-raising with the visceral impact of a gut punch. One of the rare books that will transform the way you understand politics in America.
I’ve always been an advocate of legalizing recreational drug use. The drug war is stupidity, wastefulness and futility on a colossal scale, and the results speak for themselves: prisons crammed with hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug users, prohibitionist policies that ensure drug profits fuel criminal gangs rather than legitimate businesses, and police forces that employ ever more aggressive and draconian tactics in a futile attempt to stem the flow of a product for which there’s enormous demand.
But the missing piece of the puzzle, in my mind, has always been why there’s so much political support for the drug war. Who benefits from criminalizing harmless euphoriants? Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow answers that question definitively, in a monumental work of consciousness-raising. It’s the very rare kind of book that makes you almost feel your brain rewiring itself as you read it.
Alexander’s thesis is that America’s history can be understood as a cyclical struggle between social-justice advocates who want the races to be equal, and those who want to perpetuate a racial caste system that assigns people of color to a permanently inferior status. When the advocates of caste are in power, they create systems of racial control that perpetuate inequality through discriminatory law. Each of these systems reigns for a time, but inevitably the injustice is recognized, and mass movements arise to fight back against them. Finally, advocates of social justice succeed in overthrowing the current system of racial control. But inevitably, the other side regroups and creates a new system to take the place of the old one, using different language and justifications to achieve much the same result.
Alexander’s book makes the case that the War on Drugs is the latest incarnation of this racial caste system. This may seem like conspiratorial thinking, but she backs it up with a wealth of evidence, a consilience of facts that all point to the same conclusion.
She begins by surveying the historical parallels. At the country’s inauguration, racial control was achieved through slavery. It took a civil war to abolish that institution, and when it did, the racists were in retreat for a time. But then they regrouped and reestablished the old racial hierarchy through Jim Crow laws, a comprehensive system of segregation which consigned black people to a separate and lower status in every sphere of life. Again, it took several decades and a mass popular movement, but this system too was eventually overthrown.
The collapse of Jim Crow threw the segregationists back on their heels, but once again they regrouped. The drug war as we now know it began in the second half of the 20th century, as “law and order” arguments that Southern politicians originally used to justify cracking down on civil-rights protesters were put to a new purpose: stirring up racialized fears of mob violence and social breakdown brought about by black men running amok. The drug war proved to be the most convenient way to encapsulate this racial paranoia.
The sinister genius of the drug war is that, unlike the earlier systems, it’s not explicitly race-based. On their face, the laws against drug use and trafficking apply to everyone regardless of color. But in practice, there’s a huge racial disparity. Although surveys have shown that all ethnic groups use drugs at about the same rate, the drug laws are and always have been enforced overwhelmingly against people of color. Alexander argues persuasively that this isn’t an accident; it was intentional on the part of the people who planned and instituted it.
After several decades, the drug war has become part of the fabric of American politics, assented to by both major parties (including President Obama). Alexander marshals abundant evidence to show that drug-war rhetoric has been employed to oppress people of color in the same way as Jim Crow laws once were. I knew a lot of these facts: the erosion of Fourth Amendment rights in the name of drug interdiction; the horrendous abuse of asset-forfeiture laws; the way that police forces have become increasingly militarized, acting like an occupying army in many poor communities of color; the way mass incarceration has become a fact of life in America, how our prison populations have exploded as we lock up millions of men, far more than any other country, mostly for nonviolent offenses like simple possession. But the genius of Alexander’s book is that she throws them up in the air so they all land in a new pattern, emphasizing the connections among them.
She also cites some facts I didn’t know, including a series of court precedents that make it all but impossible for criminal defendants to allege racism on the part of police or prosecutors as a defense. More importantly, Alexander illuminates the way that social control continues even after convicts are out of prison, via a web of laws that bar them from public assistance like housing or food stamps, that take away their voting rights, that make it legal for employers to discriminate, that control their movements and their associations. She argues that the label of “felon” is the new Jim Crow: a legal stamp of inferiority that bars millions of men of color from full participation in society.
There’s much more in this book, more than I can do justice to in this review. But suffice it to say that Alexander’s argument will comprehensively transform your understanding of American politics. There’s just one thing I thought was missing: I want to see an updated edition of the book to get the author’s take on recent events! The voter-driven legalization of cannabis in Washington and Colorado, or the landslide victory of Bill de Blasio on an anti-stop-and-frisk platform, give me reason to hope that the drug war is beginning to totter. Of course, if her thesis is right, even the total collapse of the drug war would inevitably give rise to attempts to establish a new and different system of racial caste – but perhaps, with this book as a guide, forewarned will mean forearmed next time.

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Apple AirPods 3 expected to be launched along with MacBook Pro M1X today: Here's all you need to know
The Apple AirPods 3 will reportedly look similar to the AirPods Pro and will feature spatial audio support
- Apple will host its final event of the year at 10:30 pm IST today.
- The AirPods 3 are rumoured to arrive at the event, along with the MacBook Pro M1X.
- The AirPods 2 is currently available for Rs 14,990 (without wireless charger) in India.
Apple is all set to launch a bunch of new products at the 'Unleashed' event that will be streamed live at 10:30 pm today. This will be Apple's fourth and final event of the year, where the company is expected to launch the M1X MacBook Pro, and the AirPods 3. The company, however, is tight-lipped about the products it will be launching at the event.
The latest rumour by a tipster named @PandaIsBald on Weibo claims that the AirPods 3 will indeed arrive today alongside the MacBook Pro M1X.
While there is no information about the pricing of the AirPods 3, popular analyst Ming-Chi Kuo noted that the AirPods 3 will be much more expensive than its predecessor. The AirPods 2 is currently available for Rs 14,990 (without wireless charger) in India.
AirPods 3: Leaks and rumours so far
Besides the launch date, there isn't any solid rumour yet about the AirPods 3.
Some reports suggest that it might look similar to the AirPods Pro and will come with spatial audio support.
Another leaked image by Chinese publication 52 Audio suggests that the AirPods 3 could come with a pressure-equalising system seen in the AirPods Pro. This feature reduces discomfort while using the AirPods for a long duration. Also, the charging case looks similar to its predecessors but with the addition of an LED light.
Interestingly, supposed leaked images of the AirPods 3 corroborate with the rumours. This either means that the rumours are true or this could just be a case fo collective fallacy.
Besides this, the AirPods 3 are rumoured to feature a shorter stem, silicone ear tips. Also, the single and double touch control might be replaced by touch control.
Apple’s implementation of the miniLED is not special because of the tech, but because Apple will be the company to make the tech mainstream
miniLED isn’t new tech. You’ll find it in premium televisions and a handful of niche devices.
After 18 months of COVID-19, faint hopes are stirring among epidemiologists and doctors that the worst may be over
BJP Mahila Morcha national president Vanitha Srinivasan offered an interesting perspective on Priyanka's move
The Kushinagar airport will connect the Buddhist pilgrim site with South-East Asian nations
Villagers hoped that things would improve after Article 370 was revoked but now they say things have hardly changed
Since his unceremonious ouster as Chief Minister of Punjab, Amarinder has been soldiering hard to be back in the...
To say that digital art is not art, or to say that the highest grossing NFTs are not good enough to be called art, is just being naïve.
As the COVID-19 vaccination figures stand now, every seventh vaccine in the world was given to an Indian
All eyes are now on how the government resolves the prolonged agitation by farmers
Congress general secretary is wielding the bat like a tailender with no real intent of winning the match
Women leaders care more about people. And that’s a good enough reason to have more of them in politics
For all his BJP-friendly noises on nationalism and Pakistan bashing, Amarinder Singh holds no great promise for the BJP


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Recipe: Celeriac Remoulade from Janet
A nourishing, warm winter salad from Janet
This is a lovely salad at this time of the year, creamy and nourishing with the tahini sauce, fresh and warming with the lemon and chili.
It feels light and cleansing to eat, perfect as we emerge from our deep winter days and want something a little light but still deeply nourishing.
1 lemon (unwaxed) and its zest
1 or 2 garlic cloves
Bunch of Parsley
Pumpkin seeds (handful)
Making this delicious salad
Take off the leaves of the cauliflower and break it up into small florets. Put into a baking dish and add some olive oil, enough to coat, then sprinkle over a little paprika or garam masala.
Mix well so all the cauliflower is coated and bake at 180oC for 30 minutes or till lightly browned.
Toast the walnuts in the oven at 180oC for 8 minutes. In a separate dish toast the pumpkin seeds with the chilli flakes till they are lightly coloured. When you take the seeds out, sprinkle a little tamari and mix it in with a spoon so they are all coated. Leave to dry, then break up the walnuts into small pieces once cooled.
Make the dressing: zest the lemon and squeeze the juice out and put into a bowl with three times the amount of olive oil.
Crush the garlic and add a tablespoon of tahini. Whisk together until you have a smooth dressing and season to taste. You can also add a little yoghurt if you like.
Peel the celeriac then grate it coarsely, then put into a bowl and add the dressing - mixing it well.
Drain the capers and roughly chop, adding those with the walnuts, pumpkin seeds and the baked cauliflower.
Chop some fresh parsley and mix that it and add any seasoning needed.
Enjoy on its own as a simple dish, or alongside other salads, with a frittata, burger, baked tofu. It's great as an accompaniment to many dishes.

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Finance 101. Oil!
We don’t just use it to drive. It’s in the roads we drive on. In fact, it is used in over 6,000 products that help make up modern life. Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea… And for a fossil fuel commodity supposedly going the way of the dinosaur, oil is looking pretty slick these days.
Oil hit $70 recently and then moderated down to a sweet spot in the mid-$60 range. But can $100 oil really be on its way down the pipeline? Spoiler alert: you might not be thinking big enough. $100 is just a number, not a cap.
For our investors, it’s not just an academic discussion. For instance, our Growth ETF Portfolio holds the Horizons S&P/TSX 60 ETF (HXT), which represents Canadian investments. The HXT holds the top 60 companies on the S&P/TSX. A significant number of them are energy producers (ie. oil companies). Oil is back. That means Canadian investors (or at the very least, investors in Canada’s oil-fuelled economy), a steady pipeline of profits is bubbling up.
Why does oil remain so important? Some call it the lifeblood of the world economy — and it’s been that way for a very, very long time.
An ancient fuel lights up our lives
The Babylonians constructed walls and towers with oil. The Chinese used bamboo drills to get at it, 800 feet under the ground. The streets of ancient Baghdad were paved with it. Marco Polo marvelled at the hundreds of shiploads of oil coming from the fields of Baku, Azerbaijan.
Today, we associate oil with images of hard-faced, sturdy workers on drilling rigs, sweating and cursing to an audience of lizards and cacti. The captains of industry who preside over small cities of infrastructure and personnel. Texas oil barons in ten-gallon hats, wheeling and dealing over territory. Saudi sheiks and Russian oligarchs. The pipelines and rail cars, moving the precious fuel to literally get the power to the people… But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
It wasn’t until 1847 that Scottish chemist James Young made discoveries that fuelled what was to become the modern oil industry. At the site of the first modern oil well in Baku, he refined crude oil and experimented with ways to extract oil from an exhausted coal mine. By the 1850s and ’60s, inventors and entrepreneurs scrambled to locate sources of oil around the world. At first, much of the output went to literally lighting up our lives, with kerosene or oil lamps. Motorized transport and the amenities of modern life were still out of reach. But the potential was clear.
Around this time of frenetic industry and inspiration, John D. Rockefeller switched over from the produce business to oil — and put himself on a path to become the world’s richest man. By 1868, he was in possession of the largest oil refinery in the world. In 1870, working with partners, he formed the Standard Oil Company, supplying as much kerosene as America could handle (and then some. Refining capacity outstripped demand for years).
Rockefeller’s strategy would have been familiar to today’s CEOs in Silicon Valley: expand by raising new money, buying up the competition, consolidating and streamlining operations. He added his own infrastructure. He also used the size of his operations to get discounts on shipping his product to the masses.
The result? By the 1880s, 90 percent of the world’s refined oil product came out of Rockefeller’s operation, which included 20,000 domestic oil wells and required over 100,000.
However, with success, came criticism — and serious consequences. Standard Oil was pilloried by a hostile press and politicians for being a monopoly. Eventually, it would be broken up into many companies that are still operating in some form today (Chevron, Exxon Mobil, etc).
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist
Oil greases the wheels for the rise of the modern world
America’s first energy giant pioneered a path for the oil industry worldwide. And with the invention of motorized transport, there was new demand. That came with increased urgency in exploiting oil reserves wherever they could be found. Around the globe, in the Texas oil fields, the Canadian oil sands, the Gulf states of the Middle East, Latin America, the UK’s North Sea and elsewhere, exploration continued apace. Drilling unlocked the energy potential literally millions of years in the making, to drive a century of rising prosperity.
Energy companies and investors in those energy companies had a steady pipeline to profit for decades. The promise of cheap nuclear energy that was supposed to change this situation as far back as the 1950s never materialized, significantly thanks to costly incidents like at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Renewable energy, also seen as a panacea by the latter half of the 20th century, has also struggled to find its footing until very recently. Oil has fuelled our growing modern societies and pumped steady performance into investors’ pocketbooks.
At least, that was the case until a few years ago. At that point, technological innovation and good old-fashioned greed created a sea of oil that didn’t have enough buyers.
The recent history of oil. Before the boom, the bust
If you filled up your car recently, the dog days of oil might seem like a distant memory. But it wasn’t that long ago. Thanks to a glut of supply on the world market, oil was down at $30/barrel in 2016. Fracking made it happen.
North American energy companies employed new technology to bump up energy production by exploiting fields formerly deemed uneconomical. This reduced the need for importing oil from abroad.
The world did not adjust, at least not right away. Russia and the OPEC countries are addicted to revenues from exported oil. They had few alternatives as a revenue pipeline. Therefore, these nations had continued to pump oil even as the price was clearly sliding. Soon, the world had an ocean of cheap oil on its hands.
Moving forward to the dog days of August 2017 and that glut was still choking down the price per barrel. Note the final bolded conclusion in this Bloomberg article:
When OPEC and Russia first embarked on their strategy to clear a global oil glut, it was expected to succeed within six months. It now looks like the battle could last for years.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners plan to wrap up their production cuts next spring, already nine months later than originally expected. Yet oil prices are faltering again as data from the International Energy Agency show world inventories could remain oversupplied even after the end of 2018. ESAI Energy LLC predicts that, rather than months, draining the surplus may take years.
With oil priced so low, North American energy companies struggled to keep pumping. At the height of the crash, tens of thousands of Canadians, mostly in Alberta, lost high-paying jobs. By 2017, our Prime Minister was even talking about phasing out the oil sands.
But predictions of oil’s demise were premature.
Oil slides back from the brink
The rebound in oil happened a lot quicker than the experts expected. Today, it is welling up past $70/barrel. Supply met demand.
Finally, after many false starts, in May 2017, OPEC and Russian producers agreed to cut production. At the time, commentators were pessimistic that it would have an effect in the long term (one factor: an agreement is one thing, but it’s quite another for these countries to go ahead with their pledges). But right on time, in the early months of 2018, those bloated reserves were finally depleted. The price of oil has spiked 50 percent in the past year.
The change didn’t all happen on the supply side, of course. The economy has been doing well lately and the good times look like they will keep flowing: “A strong world economy is expected to underpin solid increases in oil demand. The International Monetary Fund sees global economic growth at 3.9% in the early part of our forecast period with all regions expected to perform well.” We’ve seen inflation, a healthy job market and economic growth in general. We’re also seeing oil used for many new types of applications, like petrochemicals — or in new products, as in somewhat ironically, the manufacture of solar panels. With economies running on all cylinders around the globe, oil is essential.
As oil gushes ahead, investors are coming along for the ride
Energy stocks are up. As a result, the stock market as a whole is enjoying some better performance. This is mitigating the recent worries of earlier in the year.
And it’s not over, yet. The USA is looking to put sanctions on Iran again now that Donald Trump has canceled the nuclear deal negotiated by Barrack Obama. Oil surged to its highest level in three and a half years in the wake of the announcement. If Iran’s 2.6 million barrels of production per day are simply taken out of the equation, then $100-plus oil becomes not just a likelihood, but almost a certainty.
Of course, this latest variable of international relations does come with other risks attached. A healthy stock market is not solely determined by a healthy oil price. The Iran announcement caused volatility in other areas. And of course, if oil gets too high, there is a conundrum of diminishing returns. While energy companies will profit, companies that depend on oil for production will see profits dripping away. When oil jumps by 80%, the market as a whole gets into a danger zone that can lead to a recession. And that stock market activity doesn’t even take into consideration the pain of consumers at the pump.
That said, for now, the rise for oil seems to be helping more than it is hurting.

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Adapted from Comic strip “Luuna” Naked version limited edition, and dressed one for mainstream release.
Lazy ones, stuck on their bottoms for eternity. Some of the very first Hell Dorado…
Big bad Guy. All sculpted in Milliput. The intricate symbols in the armour were all…
Third miniature for Studio McVey, 40mm tall. He’s mesmerizing the fairy in his right hand,…
First new release for the Hell Dorado range under Cipher Studios.
One of the last minis I did at Ilyad Games, never got painted.

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Pardies, Ignace Gaston
PARDIES, IGNACE GASTON
(b. Pau, France, 5 September 1636; d. Paris, France, 21 April 1673)
A Jesuit, Pardies deserves a place in the history of physics for having intervened in the debate on the ideas of Newton and of Huygens at certain decisive moments. His work, which is not extensive, is characteristic of a transitional period. The establishment of the Jesuits at Pau in 1622 determined the course of Pardies’s life. His Christian name resulted from the friendship of his father, a royal counselor at the Parlement of Navarre, for the Jesuits. It was at their college that he began his studies.
After finishing his secondary education in 1652, Pardies decided to become a Jesuit. He entered into the novitiate and with it the remarkably well-organized network of Jesuit studies and schools. From 1654 to 1656 at Toulouse he completed the philosophical phase of the curriculum by the study of logic and physics. From 1656 to 1660 he taught humanities at Bordeaux. After studying theology, he was ordained a priest in 1663 and was admitted to the order in 1665.
During the remaining eight years of his life Pardies taught at La Rochelle (1666–1668), Bordeaux (1668-1670), and the College Clermont in Paris (1670–1673). During this period he demonstrated his ability to conduct scientific research while teaching—without neglecting his clerical duties. Indeed, it was while carrying out his ministry at the hospital of Bicetre during the Easter season of 1673 that he contracted a fatal illness.
”A good a cleric as a scientist,” according to the Jesuit chronicler of the Mémoires de Trévoux (1726), Pardies nevertheless presented a problem to his order. From the time of his appointment at La Rochelle his superiors distrusted him because he was known“to pursue strange opinions avidly,”and until his death he was continually obliged to compromise his true views on philosophy and science, to the point that they cannot be established with certainty.
Pardies’s first work, Horologium thaumanticum duplex, dates from 1652; it is not known whether it was ever published. He discussed the subject more completely in a treatise published in 1673. His correspondence from 1661 to 1665 with Kircher offers insight into the source of his initial inspiration, the influence of Maignan on him, and reveals the originality of his “two marvelous clocks.”This originality consists not only in the optical device—a cone receiving light on its base that transformed a stopped-down pencil of solar rays into a luminous plane perpendicular to this pencil; its originality is also reflected in the use of this plane, which rotated with the sun, with either a sundial or a translucent terrestrial sphere. Thus, while still a student of theology, Pardies was engaged in scientific research at a level indicating that he possessed a good education, keen intelligence, and skill in handling instruments.
These qualities also marked his subsequent work. In Discours du mouvement local (1670), Elemens de geometrie (1671), and La statique ou la science des forces mouvements (1673) he presented his material tersely and suggestively. Despite certain inadequacies (notably his account of the laws of impact) it is easy to see in these writings a striving for the most economical axioms obtained through rational reflection on empirical data. During this period Pardies also wrote works of a more philosophical character; the titles indicate criticism of Descartes and reveal how greatly their author felt the need to clarify his position. Discours du mouvement local was published with additional remarks designed to counter the charge of Cartesianism. Yet although Pardies clearly derived a great deal from the Cartesian heritage and felt obliged to defined himself in this regard, Cartesianism was not his principal source. Through the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society he was directly informed of the advances of English science (quadrature of the hyperbola and the competition concerning the laws of impact); and in Paris he closely followed the work of the newly established Academie Royale des Sciences and especially that of Huygens, with whom he was in personal contact.
Pardies’s last book offers more of his ideas, which were based on knowledge derived from widely different sources. It contains, for example, his critical study of Descartes’s letter to Beeckman on the speed of light (1634) and his demonstration of the tautochronism of the cycloidal pendulum.
Hindered by the philosophical climate, Pardies made his most important scientific contribution not in his writings, but in his correspondence. It is there that we find the objections that Pardies expressed to Newton concerning his theory of colors and the experimentum cruets—objections that enabled Newton to clarify certain difficult points. Pardies’s unpublished manuscripts contain a theory of waves and vibrations that—judging from the fragments presented by Pierre Ango in 1682—might well have played an important role in the development of physics.
Although Pardies did not have the time to devote the full measure of his abilities to science, he was undoubtedly one of those vigorous intellects that science always needs, along with great discoverers, especially in an age of transition. That he was just such an intellect is evident from his pedagogical writings and his contacts with the pioneers of physics. Leibniz’ impression of him confirms this view. A member of the great line of Jesuit scientists that persisted throughout the seventeenth century, he was, to a greater degree than his predecessors, embroiled in philosophical disputes. Beneath the Aristotelian language that he sometimes sought to preserve, new meanings emerge. His notions, as bold as they were naive, purported to demonstrate the spirituality of the soul by virtue of its capacity to understand the infinite through the “clear and distinct ideas”of certain geometric arguments.
I. Original Works. Pardies’s writings include Horologium thaumanticum duplex (? Paris, 1662); Dissertatio de motu et natura cometarum (Bordeaux, 1665); Theses mathematicae ex mechanica (Bordeaux, 1669); Discours du mouvement local (Paris, 1670), also translated into English (London, 1670); Elemens de geometrie (Paris, 1671), also translated into Dutch (Amsterdam, 1690), Latin (Jena, 1693), and English (London, 1746); Discours de la connaissance des bestes (Paris, 1672); Lettre d’un philosophe a un cartesian de ses amis (Paris, 1672); La creance des miracles (Paris, 1673); Deux machines propres a faire les quadrans avec une tres grande facilite (Paris, 1673); La statique ou la science des forces mouvantes (Paris, 1673); Atlas celeste (Paris, 1674); and Oeuvres de mathematiques (Paris, 1691, 1694, 1701, 1721).
Letters written by Pardies or concerning him can be found in The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, H. W. Turnbull, ed., I (Cambridge, 1959); Oeuvres completes de Huygens, VI-VIII, passim; and The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, R. Hall and M. Hall, eds., VIII. Portions of his correspondence remain unpublished.
II. Secondary Literature. See Pierre Ango, S.J., L’optique (Paris, 1682), which draws on Pardies’s MSS; and the unsigned article in Memoires pour servir a l’histoire des sciences et des beaux-arts (Memoires de Trevoux) (Apr. 1726), 667–668. August Ziggelaar, S.J., Le physicien Ignace Gaston Pardies S.J. (1636–1673), vol. XXVI of Bibliotheca Universitatis Havniensis (Odense, 1971), contains the most complete documentation available and eliminates the need to present a more detailed listing of secondary works here.

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Born and raised in Pontianak, West Borneo of Indonesia. Aben Raditya started his career as a DJ since June 2009. At the beginning of his lessons at 1945MF DJ school, DJ Echa 1945MF was his main instructor.
Aben’s style is truly unique, pumping house is his staple theme. However, he takes inspiration from anything Electro, B’more, Progressive, Tech-House to slightly tougher beats and gets people moving and grooving.
From natural love of house music and all things funky then took step ahead to further his skills with kills, filter, flangers, echo, roll to produce a distinctly unique sound.
Ambition, motivation and drive have seen his name change from regular clubber then coming to be a professional DJ. Next on his agenda is his success within the dance music scene that has now taken profound and successful production.

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BLUE ROUTE - Lo Svevo offers reserved car park spaces to its guests in the covered parking lot called Mercantini, near the city walls. The parking has 320 free spaces and is situated in Viale della Vittoria. Take the staircase to exit in Via Mercantini. Then, make a left and walk to Porta Garibaldi, entering the city walls in via del Fortino. When you are in Piazza Federico II, turn into Via Pergolesi. After 15 metres you will reach Piazza Ghislieri. At number 3 you will find the arch that takes you to Lo Svevo. We inform you that the we are inside the limited traffic zone (ZTL).
RED ROUTE - You can reach Lo Svevo with the lifts. From Parcheggio Mercantini take the internal lift to Piano 2 (Second Floor). When you are in Via Nazario Sauro, turn left and walk for 30 meters, cross the street and take the escalator to enter the city walls. When you leave the escalator, walk for 10 meters to reach Piazza Ghislieri. At number 3 you will find the arch that takes you to Lo Svevo.

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Personalized name labels for school
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The 100% poly-satin is abrasion resistant, perfect for those rough-and-tumble moments. The woven material is not embroidered, it is printed, allowing you to fully appreciate the amazing color reproduction and the ability to add even the finest detail, for exceptional readability.
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A piano master uses a serious health scare to craft more of his miraculous music.
Category: Music Notes
The brothers who made up The Blasters find common ground after lost time.
One of America’s most successful musical duos ever find their way back home.
Talented band American Aquarium postpones the end to find a new beginning.
Powerful and modern folk-bluegrass sounds keep things going strong for Pennsylvania band, Mason Porter.
On several levels, literally, the astounding Mansion on O is something to be experienced.
This super couple works with legendary rock producers and tours the world together.
Lucky for us, Gregg Allman is largely at peace with his past, present and future.


text: Plate, one of a pair (to LL 66), with slanting rim. Egg-shell porcelain, painted in enamel colours with scenes illustrating various methods of fishing. In the centre are fishermen with nets and creel. On the rim, landscape with boats and men fishing with rod, spear, nets, etc. The water is represented by washes of a lustrous green enamel. On the back are three sprays of flowers.

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(NewsReady.com) – Some people save money for years until they can afford their dream car. Others just go out and steal one. Police are now looking for suspects who were part of the second group after luxury cars were stolen.
On July 22, Toronto, Canada, police responded to a call about a car theft at 3:40 p.m. local time. According to reports, three male suspects entered a car dealership in broad daylight in the downtown area and drove off with three luxury vehicles. The stolen cars were a 2020 Rolls-Royce Cullinan, 2021 Rolls-Royce Dawn, and a 2022 Bentley Bentayga. They were worth a combined $750,000 USD.
Law enforcement hasn’t explained how exactly the suspects were able to steal the three cars. However, car thefts are up in the Canadian city by more than 38% compared to 2022.
Canada isn’t the only place that has experienced such brazen car thefts. In June, three male suspects went to a dealership in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood after 3:30 a.m. and stole three vehicles. They returned to the scene of the crime after 5 a.m. and took three more cars.
In January, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office (the county where Chicago is located) released video footage of a gang of at least 10 masked suspects breaking into a dealership in the middle of the night and making off with six luxury cars in about 10 minutes. Those vehicles included a 2018 Mercedes-Benz GLS 450, 2014 Audi S7, 2019 Mercedes-Benz E300, two 2017 Audi Q7s, and a 2014 Maserati Ghibli.
The month before that theft, thieves broke into another Chicago dealership and stole two vehicles. Fortunately, the cars were later recovered.
In early July, down south in Bradenton, Florida, thieves stole 15 cars from an auto-body shop. Two of the stolen vehicles were later involved in a fiery crash in a residential neighborhood, and one hit a home. Police later arrested four teenagers in connection with the thefts.
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WOOSTER — Two suspects who fled a traffic stop Tuesday afternoon caused a brief modified lockdown at Wooster City Schools.
The lockdown lasted from about 1:30 to 2 p.m., after police stopped a vehicle at the intersection of West Highland Avenue and Norway Drive, and the two occupants of the car, a man and a woman, got out and ran from officers.
Police received an anonymous tip that a man in the vehicle had warrants for drug trafficking and failure to appear, Chief Matt Fisher said. Police located the female suspect with a K9 and took her into custody, but did not find the male suspect, Fisher added.
At no point did police believe the two suspects were armed, dangerous or posed any threat to the schools, Capt. Anthony Lemmon said.
Each of the buildings in the Wooster City School District was on a modified lockdown over the course of the incident.
Contacted by an officer, the district made the decision to be "conservative" and put the district on a modified lockdown, said Superintendent Michael Tefs on Tuesday afternoon. Fisher said one of the officers responding to the traffic stop saw students on the playground at Kean Elementary and stopped to notify school administrators of the situation.
During the modified lockdown, no students went outside for recess and no visitors were admitted to any of the district buildings, Tefs said.
Inside, the buildings functioned as usual, he said, with movement from classroom to classroom permitted. Had a full lockdown been conducted, Tefs said, no movement would have occurred inside buildings, in which barriers would have been deployed.
Tuesday’s modified lockdown was intended "to be more of a precaution," Tefs said.
Procedurally, conducting the lockdown from start to finish required about an hour.
The lockdown was lifted when the police department "did not feel there was a threat," Tefs said.
The district contacted parents and other community members on its call list at the beginning and end of the modified lockdown.
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Amid demands from several quarters that the age limit for Covid-19 vaccination be relaxed, the Centre on Tuesday said the aim is to protect those who are most vulnerable.
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said the aim is not to "administer the vaccine to those who want it but to those who need it".
Bhushan said that even Western countries have conducted the vaccination drive in phases.
"The basic aim is to reduce death through vaccination. The other aim is to protect your healthcare system. If healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, paramedics and others fall sick, who will work in hospitals? So the aim, for any country, is to protect those who are the most vulnerable. The aim is never to administer the vaccine to those who want it but to those who need it," Bhushan said.
NITI Aayog member Dr V K Paul said the narrative has to be seen in a scientific way.

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Brick-laying, plastering and finishing works are underway throughout Galeria Katowicka. Also preparations started for the construction of a dome-like structure over the mall’s main entrance.
The dome will offer a view onto the pedestrian area of Stawowa St. and part of 3 Maja St. The development of the building’s elevation is also in progress. The installation of a frame which will hold metal panels finished from the side of 3 Maja and is now going on at Szewczyka Sq. The movie theater’s elevation is being made in the west and south.
Workers had finished the metal structure of skylights over the Fashion Valley in the shopping mall and have commenced to frame glass slabs. In tenants’ premises, floors are being laid, leveling works carry on and surfaces are being prepared for the application of finishing materials.
Sufrace-laying is now underway in the underground car park located at the levels -2 and -3. Builders use a newly installed goods lift which helps to deliver building materials to all levels between -1 and +3.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The dust had barely settled after Golden State’s fourth-quarter collapse in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, but Warriors point guard Steph Curry could sense which version of forward Draymond Green was going to show up in Game 2. Curry estimated that only five or so minutes had passed after the final buzzer, but he could already tell that Green, his teammate of 10 years, was about to ramp things up a notch in a way that only he can.
“That was all I needed to see and hear from him, just in terms of what he knew he needed to do,” Curry said.
Curry was right. The version of Green that showed up to the Chase Center Sunday evening was exactly what the Warriors needed en route to a 107-88 blowout victory. After a poor individual performance in Game 1, full of bad shots and missed defensive assignments, Green made it a point to increase his intensity and physicality in Game 2.
Everybody, from coach Steve Kerr to the Warriors bench to the sellout crowd, could tell.
“What Boston did in the second half, the fourth quarter the other night, we knew we had to come with a much better focus and sense of aggression,” Kerr said. “I thought that started right from the beginning. Draymond played a huge role in that.”
Added guard Gary Payton II: “We knew our backs were against the wall. We couldn’t go into Boston being down 2-0. He lit the fire under us, as he has this whole season. He lights it and everybody else follows.”
In the first quarter, Green took some extra time to flex after he drove to the hoop and drew a foul on his first bucket of the game. Although he missed the free throw, Green was clearly ready to make a statement.
The basket was just one of two field goals for Green, who finished with 9 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and a steal. His numbers, however, are hardly reflective of his impact.
Throughout the game, Green pestered the Celtics, helping force turnovers and occasionally getting tangled up because of his physicality. In the first quarter, after officials called a foul on Celtics forward Grant Williams, Green and Williams continued to go at it after the whistle, leading Green to pick up a technical foul.
Then, in the final minute of the second, Green had to be separated from Jaylen Brown after he fouled Brown on a 3-point attempt. Both players ended up on the floor, with Green’s feet resting on Brown’s upper body. Brown forcefully pushed them off as he got up, but before he could walk away, Green must’ve said something that bothered him because he immediately turned around.
Jayson Tatum held Brown back while Marcus Smart contained Green, preventing the sequence from escalating.
Officials reviewed the play and assessed no further penalties.
“That’s what Draymond Green does,” Brown said. “He’ll do whatever it takes to win. He’ll pull you, he’ll grab you, he’ll try to muck the game up because that’s what he does for their team. It’s nothing to be surprised about. Nothing I’m surprised about.
“He raised his physicality to try to stop us, and we’ve got to raise ours. I’m looking forward to the challenge.”
Even though he already had a technical foul, Green didn’t care. There’s no line that he’s trying to stay behind. There’s nothing that will make him turn it down a notch. Not even the risk of an ejection.
“For me to sit back and say, ‘Oh, I’m going to push it to this edge and try to pull back,’ that doesn’t work,” Green said. “I got to be me. With the first tech, it is what it is. That’s not going to stop me from being aggressive or doing what I do on the basketball court.”
Green also backed up his intensity with better play on both ends of the floor.
Save for an ill-advised 3-point attempt that he missed badly in the third quarter, Green’s shot selection improved tremendously from his abysmal Game 1, when he connected on just 2 of his 12 attempts. Green is not a reliable 3-point shooter — 29.6 percent during the regular season and just 21.4 percent this postseason — yet he took four 3-point attempts in Game 1 and missed them all.
In the first quarter of Game 2, Green had an open look from range and almost went for the shot. But he ultimately passed to Curry. He attempted just three shots from the field Sunday.
On the other end, Green set the tone. After sagging off the Celtics in Game 1, he was much more active. According to Second Spectrum data, Green’s average distance to the ballhandler as the closest defender was 6.1 feet, over a foot closer than his average of 7.5 feet in Game 1. According to the NBA’s tracking data, the Celtics shot 3 of 14 (21.4 percent) when Green was the primary defender.
He accomplished exactly what he wanted with his aggressiveness.
“For me, you have to send a message,” he said. “Guys follow me on that side of the ball. If I’m not sending a message, who is sending that message?”
Curry made sure to point out that stats still don’t tell the full story with Green.
“You feel him and his presence,” Curry said. “The other team feels him and his presence and his intensity. That’s contagious for all of us. It was great to see.”
Even after Green subbed out for the night in the fourth quarter, he stayed engaged. When Warriors forward Klay Thompson fell to the floor after getting fouled on a layup, Green, with his sweatshirt on, ran out from the bench to help Thompson up. Green’s presence was noticeable from start to finish — and he’s going to ensure it stays that way.
“I have to continue to do that in this series,” he said. “It’s not going to get any easier. It’s only going to get tougher. I have to take that up another couple notches.”
More Celtics stories
- The Celtics ran into the world-beating Warriors in Game 2, and couldn’t pick up the pieces as they crumbled
- Tara Sullivan: The Celtics should have expected the Warriors to respond, and they should be happy with a split on the road
- On Basketball: Make no mistake, Game 2 was a harsh lesson. Now the Celtics need to learn from it.
- Instant analysis: Another awful third quarter does Celtics in, and other observations as Warriors even up NBA Finals
- Watch: Ime Udoka said he wanted to get called for a technical foul during Celtics’ Game 2 loss
- How it happened: Celtics collapse in third quarter, lose Game 2 of NBA Finals to Warriors, 107-88


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If you can't change a person or situation...
This notion brings to mind another of my favorite axioms: "Life isn't about what happens to you, but how you react to what happens to you."
Let's face it: People are hard to change. Trying to change someone's tendencies, beliefs, or attitudes is often an exercise in futility. People get stuck in routines, and old habits die hard.
I wish my wife were more organized and into sports and exercising. As much as I may entreat her to do these things, she will never ever be a neat freak or fitness enthusiast. At times, she makes half-hearted attempts to put in a workout or watch a baseball game, but it's obvious -- from the bored look on her face and her clear lack of enthusiasm -- that she's only doing it to appease me. It can be frustrating to have to almost beg someone to do something,
So what's my only option? To change how I feel about the situation.
I convince myself that these things aren't worth getting all bent out of shape over. Her lack of interest doesn't mean she doesn't care about me, but she just can't bring herself to feel excited about these things -- as much as she tries. Many people in the world are messy, loathe exercise, and find baseball utterly dull.
Sooner or later, you have to lower your expectations to some degree -- or else you'll be left feeling hurt or resentful. It goes both ways, though. If someone else refuses to change, they should not request that you change anything about yourself that you're happy with.
I also have an old friend who makes every excuse in the book whenever I propose we hang out. At first, I was really bothered by this, but over time I realized it just isn't worth it to waste precious time and brain cells on someone who doesn't deserve it.
I have since decided that if he only wishes to remain friends via text and messenger, that's what we'll do. I have other things and people to worry about.
The moment you let a person or situation hijack your thoughts, you give them control over you. Whenever you feel tempted to dwell on anything or anyone, shift your thinking. Read a book, watch TV, have a beer with a close friend, continue with your home improvement project -- anything to transition from a negative mental state to a positive one.
We may not be able to change a person or situation as we'd like. But we do have control over the extent to which we'll allow the person or situation to affect us.

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Islamabad is the capital city of pakistan. It is very beautiful city with highly average of trees and plants. It is located next to rawalpindi and thus both the cities are called twin cities. Islamabad is very famous for Faisal Mosque build by Saudi Arabia. Here one can find lake view park amazing place to […]
Chitral is located in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,it is the capital of the Chitral District. Chitral is a hilly area and the coldest district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is surrounded by Gilgit Baltistan, Dir, Swat and Afghanistan.It is famous for its tremendous culture. Chitral Gol National Park, Chitral Fort, Bumburet Valley and much more places […]
Ayubia is located in east corner of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in district Abbottabad.It is worth watching place for visitors,people are very friendly with visitors.In ayubia beautiful mountains and different types of trees.Chair lift and zigzag roads make it very beautiful for the visitors.Its weather is very pleasant in summer and very cold in winter.
places to visit in Peshawar Top places you must visit in Peshawar. PESHAWAR is the Historic city of Pakistan and is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Peshawar is more famous for his rich culture and Historical places. Pashto is the local language of Peshawar. Majorities People live in Peshawar are Pashtoons and they are famous for […]

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Senate Will Vote Today on Bill to Overturn Administration’s Indefensible Waterways Regulation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding Senator Ernst’s resolution of disapproval on the ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule:
“The Administration’s so-called ‘Waters of the U.S.’ regulation would grant federal bureaucrats dominion over nearly every piece of land that has ever touched a pothole, ditch, or puddle at some point. It would force the Americans who live there to ask federal bureaucrats for permission to do just about anything with their own property.
“We’re not talking about just a few acres falling under bureaucratic control here and there. According to an analysis by the American Farm Bureau, we’re talking about centralized federal control extending to nearly 92 percent of Wisconsin, 95 percent of California, 98 percent of New York, 99 percent of Pennsylvania and — if you can believe this — 100 percent of Virginia.
“This isn’t some clean-water regulation, it’s an unprecedented federal power grab that clumsily — and poorly — pretends to masquerade as one.
“It’s obvious why Waters of the U.S. would be a left-winger’s dream.
“It’s equally obvious why Democratic leaders would want to pretend this rule is about clean water, rather than admit what it’s really about.
“Because the true purpose and scope of this regulation is basically indefensible.
“Thirty-one states have already filed suit against it.
“Two federal courts have already ruled that it is likely illegal.
“And one court found that the rule was so flawed that it had to be the result of ‘a process that is inexplicable, arbitrary, and devoid of a reasoned process.’
“That’s why we considered the bipartisan Federal Water Quality Protection Act yesterday.
“The legislation is a bipartisan and it’s simple. It says that the EPA’s resources should be used to actually protect the lakes and rivers we all cherish, rather than for the Administration to launch arbitrary ideological attacks on middle-class homeowners and family farms.
“This bipartisan legislation would have required America’s clean-water rules to be based on the kind of scientific, collaborative process the American people expect — not some ‘arbitrary’ or ‘inexplicable’ process that’s ‘devoid’ of reason like we had with WOTUS, but a balanced process that actually takes the views of those it affects into serious consideration.
“I thank the Senator from Wyoming for his impressive work on the bill. A bipartisan majority of the Senate voted to support it. But most Democrats chose an ideological power grab over sensible clean-water rules yesterday.
“To many Kentuckians, this regulation feels like just the latest in a sustained Obama Administration regulatory assault on their families.
“Well, the Senate is going to pursue another avenue today to protect the Middle Class from this unfair regulatory attack.
“Our colleague from Iowa has introduced a measure that would allow Congress to move forward despite the Democrat filibuster. It would overturn the regulation in its entirety. A majority of the Senate voted to support this bill yesterday. We’ll vote on final passage later today. And because this measure cannot be filibustered, we expect it to pass.
“I ask my colleagues who voted against bipartisan, common-sense clean-water legislation yesterday to think differently today — work with us to protect the Middle Class instead of defending an ‘inexplicable, arbitrary’ regulation that’s probably illegal and almost certainly violates the Clean Water Act.”
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Mazda Australia keen on inline six-cylinder engines
Inline six-cylinder engines under development as Mazda eyes performance return
20 May 2019
MAZDA Australia’s large-sized models such as the Mazda6 passenger car and CX-8 and CX-9 SUVs could soon be available with petrol and diesel inline six-cylinder engines with the choice between rear- and all-wheel drive, potentially leading to the Japanese brand’s return to the high-performance segment.
In its recently released investor report for the fiscal year ending March 31, Mazda Motor Corporation quietly confirmed that it is developing inline six-cylinder versions of its SkyActiv-X petrol and SkyActiv-D diesel engines after decades of shunning anything with more than four cylinders.
Critically, Mazda revealed that both engines will be longitudinally mounted – a hallmark of most rear-wheel-drive vehicles – while its i-Activ all-wheel-drive system will also be available.
In order to satisfy ever-tightening emissions standards, both engines will be electrified, with the choice of either 48V mild or plug-in hybridisation. No other details, including timing, have been released.
Speaking to GoAuto, Mazda Australia marketing director Alastair Doak stopped short of confirming the new powertrains and drivetrains for a local launch but was upbeat about their prospects.
“It’s nice that that confirmation has gone public,” he said. “Obviously we were aware of them, but we’re very excited by that prospect and what the future will bring. Can’t wait.”
Asked if the addition of inline six-cylinder engines could signal a return to high-performance models, which most recently fell under the MPS sub-brand, Mr Doak said the company’s recent product moves indicate it is trending that way, although he did not confirm any plans.
“I think you can see where we’ve gone (recently),” he said. “We’ve introduced 2.5 turbo into Mazda6 and the CX-5 as well.
“Obviously, there’s still an appetite for high performance. I think we’ve been consistent over the years to say that we would always be interested, and obviously we brought those engines and those vehicles to market.
“So, absolutely we would be interested (in high-performance inline six-cylinder engines), and we’ll keep having those discussions to see what’s possible down the track.”
The last two MPS models were the second-generation Mazda3 and first-generation Mazda6, both of which were motivated by a 2.3-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder engine that produced 190kW of power and 380Nm of torque, mated to a six-speed manual transmission.
The most potent engine in Mazda’s current model line-up is the aforementioned 170kW/420Nm 2.5-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder unit found under the bonnet of the Mazda6 mid-size car, CX-5 mid-size SUV and CX-9 large SUV. The CX-8 also offers it in Japan.
While BMW has remained faithful in an industry where engine downsizing is rife, Mazda joins Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover as brands that have developed new inline six-cylinder engines with mild hybridisation after either replacing them with four-cylinder units or instead opting for V6s.
As reported, Mazda’s upcoming SkyActiv-X technology is claimed to be the world’s first compression-ignition petrol engine – or Spark Controlled Compression Ignition (SCCI) in Mazda speak. As such, it promises diesel levels of fuel efficiency.
SkyActiv-X will debut in 2.0-litre four-cylinder form in the new-generation Mazda3 small car, with the powertrain due in Australian showrooms in December as an option on some higher-specification grades.
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Marie Brennan’s staggeringly imaginative DRIFTWOOD is exciting delve into a land filled with magic and mystery
In a STARRED review, KIRKUS praises the work.
An exciting delve into a conglomerate land filled with magic and mystery.
At REDDIT r/fantasy, MikeOfThePalace loves the book.
DRIFTWOOD is probably the most creative thing I’ve read since The Library at Mount Char. It was just … staggeringly imaginative.
This is not a large book. I started reading it shortly before going to bed, intending to read only the first chapter or so and get a feel for my new book. Three hours later, I’m done, and have so many thoughts and emotions bouncing around inside me that I still can’t even think about sleep.
BENEATH A THOUSAND SKIES feels much the same.
The writing itself is beautiful, but it is the world-building (or perhaps more correctly world-breaking) where this book really stood out. The idea of this place where worlds come after their apocalypse, broken and merging, and breaking even more until they disappear is fascinating, and I would love to see more stories or even a longer novel set withing this concept, because there is something heart-breaking but intriguing about the idea.
Pamela Scott of THE BOOK LOVER’S BOUDOIR enjoys her first Brennan experience.
I’d never heard of the author before but I loved the title, the cover and the premise of the book. I thought Driftwood was amazing. I need to read more of the author because I enjoyed this so much. This is different than the books I normally read, a blend of dystopian and science fiction with a dash of fantasy. I loved the concept of the book, a wasteland where dying worlds finally end up and the last members of their communities struggle to survive before everything is wiped out. The world building is excellent. The characters are all well developed as well. I thought this was a fantastic book.


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|January 16, 2013 02:17 PM EST||
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) COO Mark Roenigk today unveiled plans by the San Antonio-based open cloud company to support and partner with Open Compute suppliers that provide open source datacenter solutions.
Rackspace launched the industry’s first OpenStack powered cloud platform of compute, storage and networking in 2012.
“Rackspace will support those companies and organizations that share our vision for an open cloud,” said Roenigk. “Rackspace is committed to supporting like-minded companies who are dedicated to open standards and breaking down the engineering barriers that lock users into proprietary technologies.”
Rackspace COO and Open Compute Foundation board member Roenigk delivered his remarks today during his keynote address at the Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, CA.
Rackspace has contributed a server design to the Open Compute Project community and expects to announce plans later this year to purchase servers from Open Compute Project suppliers for one of the company’s new data centers.
“Open Compute Project members like Rackspace are breaking down the barriers for open cloud adoption,” said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation Chairman and Vice President of Hardware Design & Supply Chain at Facebook. “Today’s announcement by Rackspace shows the progress that the Open Compute Project is making in advancing open source infrastructure technologies.”
Rackspace is a founding member of the Open Compute Project and has worked closely with technology leaders who share a common vision for the future around open standards. As a founder of OpenStack, Rackspace’s work with the Open Compute Project aligns with this vision.
The Open Compute Project is a rapidly growing community of engineers around the world whose mission is to design and enable the use of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing. Open Compute members believe that openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property is the key to maximizing innovation and reducing operational complexity in the scalable computing space.
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 197,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company, is featured on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For and is included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Rackspace was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the “2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.” Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and data centers around the world. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
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On Dice.com, the number of job postings asking for skill in Amazon Web Services increased 76 percent between June 2015 and June 2016. Salesforce.com saw its own skill mentions increase 37 percent, while DevOps and Cloud rose 35 percent and 28 percent, respectively. Even as they expand their presence in the cloud, companies are also looking for tech professionals who can manage projects, crunch data, and figure out how to make systems run more autonomously. Mentions of ‘data science’ as a skill ...
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Manufacturers are embracing the Industrial Internet the same way consumers are leveraging Fitbits – to improve overall health and wellness. Both can provide consistent measurement, visibility, and suggest performance improvements customized to help reach goals. Fitbit users can view real-time data and make adjustments to increase their activity. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mark Bernardo Professional Services Leader, Americas, at GE Digital, discussed how leveraging the Industrial Internet a...
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Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings in the last year, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their back-end AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT – especially in the connected home and office. Amazon is extending its reach by building on its dominant Cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strategy, recently announced Replenishment Services, the Echo/Alexa voice recognition control platform, the 6-7 strategic...
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In addition to all the benefits, IoT is also bringing new kind of customer experience challenges - cars that unlock themselves, thermostats turning houses into saunas and baby video monitors broadcasting over the internet. This list can only increase because while IoT services should be intuitive and simple to use, the delivery ecosystem is a myriad of potential problems as IoT explodes complexity. So finding a performance issue is like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.
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There will be new vendors providing applications, middleware, and connected devices to support the thriving IoT ecosystem. This essentially means that electronic device manufacturers will also be in the software business. Many will be new to building embedded software or robust software. This creates an increased importance on software quality, particularly within the Industrial Internet of Things where business-critical applications are becoming dependent on products controlled by software. Qua...
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Big Data, cloud, analytics, contextual information, wearable tech, sensors, mobility, and WebRTC: together, these advances have created a perfect storm of technologies that are disrupting and transforming classic communications models and ecosystems. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Erik Perotti, Senior Manager of New Ventures on Plantronics’ Innovation team, provided an overview of this technological shift, including associated business and consumer communications impacts, and opportunities it ...
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportuni...
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IoT is rapidly changing the way enterprises are using data to improve business decision-making. In order to derive business value, organizations must unlock insights from the data gathered and then act on these. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, and Peter Shashkin, Head of Development Department at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how one organization leveraged IoT, cloud technology and data analysis to improve customer experiences and effi...
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The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the develo...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MangoApps provides modern company intranets and team collaboration software, allowing workers to stay connected and productive from anywhere in the world and from any device.
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The IETF draft standard for M2M certificates is a security solution specifically designed for the demanding needs of IoT/M2M applications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Brian Romansky, VP of Strategic Technology at TrustPoint Innovation, explained how M2M certificates can efficiently enable confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity on highly constrained devices.
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“delaPlex Software provides software outsourcing services. We have a hybrid model where we have onshore developers and project managers that we can place anywhere in the U.S. or in Europe,” explained Manish Sachdeva, CEO at delaPlex Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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The IoT is changing the way enterprises conduct business. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how businesses can gain an edge over competitors by empowering consumers to take control through IoT. He cited examples such as a Washington, D.C.-based sports club that leveraged IoT and the cloud to develop a comprehensive booking system. He also highlighted how IoT can revitalize and restore outdated business models, making them profitable ...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 19th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world and ThingsExpo Silicon Valley Call for Papers is now open.
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We all know the latest numbers: Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from last year, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. We're rapidly approaching a data production of 40 zettabytes a day – more than we can every physically store, and exabytes and yottabytes are just around the corner. For many that’s a good sign, as data has been proven to equal money – IF it’s ingested, integrated, and analyzed fast enough. Without real-ti...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that 910Telecom will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and ...
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You think you know what’s in your data. But do you? Most organizations are now aware of the business intelligence represented by their data. Data science stands to take this to a level you never thought of – literally. The techniques of data science, when used with the capabilities of Big Data technologies, can make connections you had not yet imagined, helping you discover new insights and ask new questions of your data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sarbjit Sarkaria, data science team lead ...
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WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications platform that is changing the communication dynamic in the financial sector. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Leo Papadopoulos, CTO of Cloud9, discussed the importance of WebRTC and how it enables companies to focus...
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ReadyTalk has expanded the capabilities of the FoxDen collaboration platform announced late last year to include FoxDen Connect, an in-room video collaboration experience that launches with a single touch. With FoxDen Connect, users can now not only engage in HD video conferencing between iOS and Android mobile devices or Chrome browsers, but also set up in-person meeting rooms for video interactions. A host’s mobile device automatically recognizes the presence of a meeting room via beacon tech...
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IoT generates lots of temporal data. But how do you unlock its value? You need to discover patterns that are repeatable in vast quantities of data, understand their meaning, and implement scalable monitoring across multiple data streams in order to monetize the discoveries and insights. Motif discovery and deep learning platforms are emerging to visualize sensor data, to search for patterns and to build application that can monitor real time streams efficiently. In his session at @ThingsExpo, ...
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Storing the energy produced from renewable sources is a significant challenge, and one that a number of players, including Tesla, are looking to address. Add Alphabet’s X (formerly Google X) to the list of those making an attempt: Its new Malta project is focused on building storage facilities that can support full-scale power grids.
The Malta project, described by Bloomberg, uses cold antifreeze and hot salt to store power, in a system designed to keep power in reserve for longer than lithium-ion batteries, which are what Tesla uses to keep its power using the commercial-scale Powerpack stations that populate installations like its Kauai-based facility.
Malta is another “moonshot” from the ambitious X lab, which also spawned initiatives like the self-driving car project at Google that became Alphabet, as well as Google Glass. It’s also been looking at a few different energy-focused projects, but Malta seems one of the more promising.
Here’s how it works: Two tanks get filled up with salt, and another two are filled with antifreeze (or a similar hydrocarbon liquid), and then the system takes in electricity generated by renewable sources like wind or solar. This is converted into both hot and cold air, which heats up the salt and cools down the antifreeze. Then, the process is reversed, with hot and cold air pushed towards each other and resulting in gusts of wind that move a turbine, generating usable electricity again for the grid.
This kind of thing is needed because renewable generation has typically had trouble dealing with peak and off hours of power consumption. A fuel-based power generation facility can spin up when the grid needs the power on-demand; solar and wind generate when nature makes it possible to do so, and the schedules don’t necessary line up with human use.
Rather than just discarding excess energy, and falling short during off-peak times, storage solutions like Malta and Tesla’s Powerpack allow generation at peak generation times, and distribution at peak consumption times. As governments and utilities globally look to invest more in renewable power generation, storage will be an increasingly valuable commodity.


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One of the many reasons we love Teen Mom 2 is that we love to keep up with the cast. They go through the ups and downs of life just like the rest of us — with a few added trials — and their journeys never get old.
And even though on Teen Mom 2, she would never get married again, Leah shared an Instagram post on Aug. 21, 2022 in which she announced her engagement to Jaylan.
It came as a huge shock to some fans who were sure she meant it when she said she had no intention of walking down the aisle again. But things got serious with Jaylan both on and off the show and apparently it was only a matter of time before he changed her mind on that matter.
Leah Messer from 'Teen Mom 2' is officially engaged.
When Leah shared the Instagram post featuring a photo of Jaylan on one knee in front of her on a beach, she wrote in the caption, "Two souls, one heart. It's official!!" Jaylan shared an identical post on his own Instagram account.
And a week before that, he posted a photo with Leah and a caption that said, "You are my greatest adventure." Maybe we should have seen this coming.
There's no word yet from the happy couple on whether or not their nuptials will be on TV on the new spinoff series Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. But, given the fact that it has been done before, it wouldn't be a total shock if Leah opted to share that milestone of her life with cameras.
Leah Messer said she never wanted to get married again.
In the May 10, 2022, episode of Teen Mom 2, Leah said that she never wanted to get married again. She has already been married and divorced twice and said she did so at a young age for "crazy reasons."
Of course now we know she changed her mind. But for a little while, Leah was sure that a third marriage wasn't on the table for her.
In October 2010, Leah married her first husband and father of her twins, Corey Simms. The two got divorced the following year in June. Then, she married Jeremy Calvert in April 2012. The two have one child together and divorced in June 2015. In the May 2022 episode, she alluded to only getting married because she had sex before marriage and ended up pregnant.
When Jaylan asked how Leah felt about getting remarried during the Teen Mom 2 episode, she said she never would.
"I'm enjoying the moment," she said on the show. "Whatever's meant for us is meant for us."
But when she asked him if he wanted to get married, Jaylan seemed excited about the idea. "Hell yeah, I wanna get married," he said. "I wanna get married, I wanna have kids, I wanna do the things that most people get to experience."
To some people, Leah and Jaylan are already living like a married couple. In an Instagram post Teen Mom made about this episode, one of the comments pointed out that even though the couple isn't married, they have made other kinds of serious commitments like living together: "They already have a house together, so they're basically married — she just doesn't want the paperwork."
Soon, they'll be more than "basically" married.


By Steve & Tamami Laser
The talented folks at Honda R&D Americas have come up with a new concept that merges the automaker’s Ridgeline pickup with its Pioneer 1000 side-by-side off-roader. The result is the stunning Honda Rugged Open Air Vehicle.
Making its debut at the SEMA show in Las Vegas today, the concept is called “the ultimate open-air off-road Honda adventure vehicle.” While Honda has no plans to put this into production, it makes us wonder if a more aggressively styled Ridgeline might be headed to showrooms in the future?
Starting with a production Ridgeline, a great deal of sheet metal, including the doors, plus all the glass, has been removed while the truck’s substructure and suspension remain intact. Honda hasn’t provided specs yet, so we’re assuming the Ridgeline’s 3.5-liter V6, 6-speed automatic transmission, and i-VTM4 AWD remain intact.
With the roof and doors gone, a beefy Pioneer-style roll cage has been installed to help retain chassis rigidity and withstand the rigors of off-road driving. Components borrowed from the production Pioneer include the doors used in the side-by-side, with an extra set for rear seat passengers.
The concept’s big, bold wheels are wrapped with Dick Cepek Extreme Country off-road tires. The Open Air is a much wider vehicle compared to the Pioneer, so it appears that the front body panels have been custom fabricated.
Out back the custom-designed bed and tailgate are modeled after the Pioneer. The bed looks large enough to tote an array of bulky adventure gear, or possibly a dirt bike.
The Ridgeline-based interior has been modified for outdoor use and features a Pioneer 1000 steering wheel adapted to fit the steering column.
Racing-style seats transplanted from a Civic Type R have been reskinned with the Pioneer’s waterproof material. A set of RAM mounts on the dash are designed to hold smartphones.
This cool concept should turn plenty of heads at SEMA and wherever else Honda takes it. And while it’s not possible to buy one, here’s a quick look at the donor vehicles now available in Honda showrooms:
2019 Honda Ridgeline
Honda offers the Ridgeline pickup in a wide array of models for the 2019 model year. Two-wheel-drive versions come in RT, Sport, RTL, and RTL-T trims, while the AWD line features the Sport, RTL, RTL-T, RTL-E, and Black Edition.
Neat features include a Dual Action Tailgate that offers easy access to a lockable In-Bed Trunk®, an available 115V AC power outlet, and what Honda calls the “world’s first Truck Bed Audio System.”
Under the hood is a direct-injected i-VTEC™ V6 engine that puts out 280 horses and 282 lb.-ft. of torque. It’s teamed with a 6-speed automatic transmission. Honda’s advanced Intelligent Variable Torque Management™ (i-VTM4) all-wheel drive with Normal, Snow, and Mud and Sand settings is available.
The comfy cabin can be equipped with an 8-inch Display Audio system with Android Auto™ and Apple CarPlay™, 3-zone climate control, and an 8-way power driver’s seat with adjustable lumbar.
2019 Honda Pioneer 1000
Honda calls the Pioneer the industry’s benchmark multipurpose side-by-side that “boasts the market’s only 6-speed automatic Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT).”
For 2019, two limited-edition models are equipped with i-4WD, including brake traction control that combines with a torque biasing limited-slip front differential. LE models offer hill-start assist, electronic brake force distribution, and upgrades to improve suspension performance and exterior style.
For more information on Ridgeline visit Honda.com
For more information on Pioneer visit powersports.honda.com
Features and specifications for Ridegline and Pioneer 1000 apply to U.S. models and are subject to change without notice. The Honda Rugged Off Road Vehicle is a concept and not available for sale.
News source and photos courtesy American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Story © 2018 CarNichiWa.com


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Avatar Generations has finally launched worldwide, and is available via the AppStore and Google Play. Players can now master the elements and create their own Team Avatar with all their favorite characters from the hit television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. While they relive the iconic story of Avatar Aang as they explore the world of the Four Nations, players will also get the chance to enjoy tales featuring The Rise of Kyoshi and The Legend of Korra. New, original storylines will be added in future updates.
📣AVATAR GENERATIONS IS OUT NOW!! Available on both iOS and Android!
App Store: https://t.co/ikUFjzvA8s
Google Play: https://t.co/DgDqwIxvl8https://t.co/1BTdC9Rqgw#AvatarGenerations #AvatarTheLastAirbender #MobileGames
— AvatarMobileRPG (@AvatarMobileRPG) January 31, 2023
All of the preregistration milestones for Avatar Generations have been met. Players who downloaded the game during launch will receive rewards in the form of in-game currency, upgrade materials, summon tickets, the Last Airbender Aang and his companion Appa, as well as a guaranteed 5-star hero ticket.
There is also a new gameplay trailer for Avatar Generations which was released alongside its launch announcement. Take a look at the combat animations and battle effects to see what’s in store, then download today to claim your rewards while they are still available.

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Sanchith Sanjeev, who is the nephew of Kiccha Sudeep, is about to make his film debut with a movie called 'Jimmy.' Notably, this movie is Sanchith's debut as both an actress and a director. On June 25, the first look at 'Jimmy' was shown, along with a promotional movie and poster.
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Sanchith Sanjeev, who is also known as Kichcha Junior, is in charge of directing the movie 'Jimmy.' The Kannada movie is being made by Priya, who is married to Kichcha Sudeep. She is working with Lahiri Films and Venus Entertainers under the name Supriyanvi Picture Studio.
The character preview video was released at a big event that was attended by many famous people, including Kichcha Sudeep, Shivarajkumar, Ravichandran, MLA Muniratna, music director Gurukiran, and director R Chandru.
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In the first view of the movie, Sanchith, who plays the main character, Jimmy, wears a rough look. Sanvi Sudeep, who is Sudeep's daughter, wrote the words and sang a song for the movie 'Jimmy.' This added to the film's talent pool. The people in the crowd liked what she did at the event. The movie's directors haven't said who will be in it all yet.
Sanchith shared a character peek and a behind-the-scenes video from 'Jimmy' on Instagram to show how excited he was about the project. Lahiri Films also posted a picture for the movie on their Instagram account. The poster introduced Sanchith Sanjeev as the sensational Kichcha Jr. and promised an action-packed, adrenaline-filled thrill.
During the launch event, Sanchith thanked everyone who helped with his first business and pointed out how important their work was. Kichcha Sudeep also thanked everyone who was there and thanked the director of "Vikrant Rona," Anup Bhandari, for his work on 'Jimmy.'
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With the release of 'Jimmy,' Sanchith Sanjeev, with the help of his uncle Kichcha Sudeep, hopes to make a big splash as both an actor and a director in the movie business. Fans are excited about the movie and can't wait for it to come out and for the talented newcomer to make his or her start.

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CIVIVI Chevalier Black G10, Stonewashed (C20022-1)
- Chevalier Black G10, Stonewashed, EDC knife with sheepfoot head made of 14C28N stainless steel. Manufactured by CIVIVI Knife, the in-house brand of WE Knife producing the highest quality knives in the world!
Chevalier Black G10, Stonewashed single edge knife aimed at the discerning consumer. Easy to carry, perfectly balanced, E.D.C. craftsmanship with a versatile, utility blade. Excellent price/quality ratio. Bestseller!
Civivi - sub-brand of WE Knife, a company producing knives of the highest world quality. Production takes place on the same production lines as WE, thanks to which the highest assembly standards are maintained.
14C28N - a martensitic chrome stainless steel is the latest development in the range of knife steels produced by Sandvik's Swedish mills. An optimized chemical composition with a unique combination provides superior quality, excellent edge performance, high hardness and corrosion resistance. By reducing the amount of carbon 0.62% and increasing the chromium content 14.0%, as well as adding nitrogen 0.11%, the corrosion resistance has been significantly improved. Considered an improved version of 13C26 steel. Unbeatable in price/quality category!
Sheepsfoot type, perfectly presents Stonewashed finish. The smooth Plain blade has been given a high Flat Grind for strength, cutting edge geometry and extreme cutting performance. Ceramic ball bearings support the smooth operation of the blade's opening mechanism, which can be opened by gravity with a release button on one of the handles or with a quick flipper (index-finger flipper). When opened, the flipper creates a mini-guard to prevent your hand from slipping on the blade. On the back of the upper jimping blade, a notched thumb rest. All locked with proven Liner Lock.
Black G10 (compression-moulded fibreglass with synthetic resin) textured grip for better grip. Open-backed design secured to each other with steel spacers reduces weight and makes cleaning easier. Simple, solid construction gives assurance of many years of use. The pivot is decorated with a stylized Civivi brand logo. Metal double sided deep carry clip allows you to carry the knife discreetly in your pocket in tip-up position.
The knife is packaged in a zippered nylon soft pouch with the brand logo for safe carrying and storage of the folder.
Product number: C20022-1
Product name: Chevalier Black G10, Stonewashed
Overall length: 200.0 mm / 7.87"
Blade length: 88.0 mm / 3.46"
Handle length: 112.0 mm / 4.41"
Blade thickness: 3.0 mm / 0.12"
Handle thickness: 13.2 mm / 0.52"
Weight: 98.4 g / 3.47 oz
Blade material: 14C28N
Blade hardness: 58-60 HRC
Blade grind: Flat
Blade finish: Stonewashed
Handle material: G-10
Handle finish color: Black
Backspacer material: Stainless Steel
Backspacer color: Black
Clip: Right/Left, Tip-Up
Clip material: Stainless Steel
Pivot mechanism: Caged Ceramic Ball Bearing
Lock: Liner Lock
Designer: Civivi Knife
Brand: Civivi Knife
Manufacturer: WE Knife
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Vet care costs in Tulsa, like everywhere else, can sneak up on you. Be prepared for the best pet care possible with these tips and tricks.
Vet Care Costs In Tulsa: How To Save For It, Afford It, & More!
There is no way to truly predict how much it will cost you to care for a pet from the start of their life with you until the end. It will depend on where you live, what their genetics are like, sheer luck, and a whole bunch of other variables that can change in the blink of an eye.
Accidents happen. Mistakes happen. Little things add up to a whole lot of trouble. The good news is that there are ways to plan for vet care costs in Tulsa!
Being prepared can be a huge help. Before you get a pet, start saving! Research common vet costs in your area, remember that the high end of estimates say it could cost as much as $3,470 to care for a dog for one single year!
The more you can save before you get a pet the better! Consider figuring out what it would cost to feed, groom, and care for a pet for one month with no emergencies figured into that cost.
Once you have that number you can start saving that amount for as long as possible so that when you do get your pet you have a little bit of a cushion. Keep adding to that savings if you do not purchase pet insurance so that when an emergency comes up you’ll be covered.
There are tons of companies that cover pet insurance. They sell policies based on age, current conditions, breed, and more. They’ll figure out how much it might cost to care for your pet and sell you a policy according to that estimate. These plans cover everything from emergencies to routine care depending on your policy selections.
Credit cards are an option for paying for pop up medical bills but you can also consider special credit cards like CareCredit which works at a lot of vet offices as well as human medical offices. It’s a nice security blanket for surprise medical bills for both humans and pets alike.
Check out their billing options too! You can usually end up with several months to pay interest free if the bill is a certain amount.
Don’t be afraid to shop around for the best price for supplies for your pet as well as care for them. Vet’s offices can have just as much difference in pricing as stores and restaurants. Call around and check pricing on specific care or just general visits and more!
It’s also great to call and get a second opinion when something unexpected happens. This will allow you to get the best price and the best care for your pet.
Research Your Breed
Do a lot of research on the pet and breed of your choice. Before you get any pet it is best to know what medical issues your breed will be prone to having. That will help you plan for prices and vet care costs for your pet, or have knowledge on how to take preventative measures to best avoid issues!
Once you know how much it will potentially cost for your pet and their potential medical problems you can decide if pet insurance is worth the price or if you can save that amount before you get your pet then you’ll be prepared. It’s always best to be prepared for the worst case scenario. That means you won’t have to consider putting your pet down or surrendering them to a shelter because the costs for care are too expensive.
Options for a Tulsa Veterinarian:
If you are new to Tulsa or just new to owning a pet in Tulsa we have some recommendations for Tulsa veterinarians. Here are some of the wonderful options for vet centers, emergency clinics, and more in the area.
Heritage Veterinary Hospital
4011 S 79th E Ave, Tulsa, OK 74145
Oklahoma Veterinary Specialists
1501 West 78th Street South, Tulsa, OK 74132
Marina Animal Clinic Inc
9968 E 21st St, Tulsa, OK 74129
Affordable Pet Care
13111 E 11th St, Tulsa, OK 74108
City Veterinary Hospital
3550 S Peoria Ave, Tulsa, OK 74105
Riverbrook Animal Hospital LLC
3750 S Peoria Ave, Tulsa, OK 74105
Woodland West Animal Hospital
9360 S Union Ave, Tulsa, OK 74132
Tulsa General Veterinary Hospital
7910 S 107th E Ave, Tulsa, OK 74133
Animal Emergency Center
4055 S 102nd E Ave, Tulsa, OK 74146
Cedarwood Veterinary Clinic
1412 S Harvard Ave, Tulsa, OK 74112

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FOX News projects that Republican Marco Rubio will win the three-way Senate race in Florida against Democrat Kendrick Meek and independent Charlie Crist. Crist fled the GOP after Rubio's grassroots surge put the nomination out of reach for the incumbent governor, who had supported the Obama stimulus. Meek's performance in the race was so weak that national Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton and, reportedly, the Obama White House, tried to convince him to drop out of the race in favor of Crist.
FOX News can now project that Democrat Richard Blumenthal will emerge victorious in Connecticut's rough Senate battle between he and Republican Linda McMahon. In this brutal and expensive contest in deep-blue Connecticut, Blumenthal's exaggerations about his military service and McMahon's wealth from her family's pro wrestling business might have helped turn the seat to Republicans. But Democrats turned the WWE into a weapon against her. The seat is currently held by retiring Democrat Chris Dodd.
FOX News can now project that Democrats will hold the Senate seat in Delaware, where Democrat Chris Coons is defeating Republican Christine O'Donnell. This seat was considered an easy win for Republicans until O'Donnell, a perennial candidate and TV commentator, defeated Congressman Mike Castle in the GOP primary by attacking castle's more liberal stances. This was the seat formerly held by Vice President Joe Biden.
FOX News projects that Kelly Ayotte (AY-yaht) will win the Senate race in New Hampshire, retaining the seat for the GOP. Ayotte, the state's former appointed attorney general, faced Democratic congressman Paul Hodes and led steadily throughout the contest. She will replace retiring Republican Senator Judd Gregg.
A projection in Missouri's Senate race - Republican Roy Blunt will win handily in his contest with Democrat Robin Carnahan. Polls were once close in this battle between the heirs of two powerful Missouri political families, but the deep unpopularity of the Obama agenda in the Show Me State pushed eight-term Congressman Blunt over the top.
FOX News can now project that Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski will win reelection handily over Republican Eric Wargotz (WAR-gotz) in this very Democratic state. This will be Mikulski's fifth term.
In Alabama's Senate race, FOX News can now project that Republican Richard Shelby will cruise to reelection over Democrat William Barnes, an attorney and political newcomer. This will be a fifth term for Barnes.
FOX projects that New Hampshire Governor John Lynch will win reelection in his bid for a fourth two-year term, defeating Republican John Stephen. Republicans tried hard in this race, but moderate Lynch's popularity was too much to overcome.
The race for President Obama's former Senate Seat in Illinois is too close to call. Republican Mark and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias are still locked in a tight battle.
In Pennsylvania, the race between former Congressman Pat Toomey and Democrat Joe Sestak is too close to call. Democrats have poured money into this blueish state and President Obama made multiple visits. The seat is held by Democrat Arlen Specter, who was defeated my Sestak in May's Democratic primary.
And in Florida, the gubernatorial race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink is too close to call.
The race for Pennsylvania governor between Republican Tom Corbett and Democrat Dan Onoroto (Ah-no-ra-to) is too close to call.
The race between Republican Bill Brady and Democrat incumbent Governor Pat Quinn in Illinois is too close to call.