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Linearis Labs is expanding omics testing and discovery capabilities.
We work with leaders in both AI and metabolomics to generate quantitative and actionable AI-friendly data as part of their AI pipelines. Some recent work involves omics signatures for COVID-19 and cancer.
Linearis Labs operates from our recently acquired laboratory.
What we do | Our disease signature discovery platform
Linearis Labs couples high throughput technology and mass spectrometry to provide metabolomics analysis of blood plasma or serum for diseases including cancer, diabetes and anti-microbial resistance which have significant metabolomics components.
Using an AI pipeline, disease signatures are discovered and can provide actionable insights for of several types of metabolomic diseases, improve effectiveness of therapeutic interventions, and prevent the emergence of resistance and side effects of treatments.
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Linearis Labs offers metabolomics profiling services. Services include both targeted and untargeted LC-MS measurements. High throughput procedures are also available to process thousands of samples using laser diode thermal desorption mass spectrometry. The analyses are carried out in a certified environment and are of clinical grade.
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My husband, daughter & I stayed at the Conclare for 5 nights this was our first stay but it will not be our last! Their prices are very affordable compared to the rest of the circle; sure they do not offer daily maid service unless you want to pay extra but why do it? I was a sales representative for a major company traveled extensively in my past now when we go anywhere for a getaway I do not want anyone in our room to “clean”. I have my husband’s articles laid out, my items and the little ones all where I want them; the only item I need is fresh towels which are only a step away to the office.
It’s the closest you are going to get to the beach except for a beach front condo (this resort is at the very end of Sarasea Circle). The unit was very clean updated we had everything that we needed (plus really nice dishes)!
What more can you ask for reasonable rates, clean modern units, they furnish all the extra’s along with being so very close to the gulf plus great management Scott & Jane make you feel right at home.
- Also Known As:
- Conclare Aman`s Beach Hotel Siesta Key
- Conclare Amans Beach Hotel
- Conclare Amans Beach Motel
- Conclare Aman's Beach Resort Siesta Key, Florida

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Shop with your local shopping guru and have fun!
Shanghai has been famed as "the Shopping Paradise" and "the Oriental Paris' in history. Many poular shopping centers, department stores, hundred year old shops, shops for special commodities, tailor-made markets offering wide range of commodities, here you can find all kinds of souvenir , silk products, antiques, tea , pearls, porcelains, electronics .
This 4-hour private shopping tour is fully customized just for you, and you surely will get some good bargains plus local culture experience.
Join me for a fun shopping experience!
meet at your hotel or other place as requested
In general, your first stop will be at the most popular Shanghai Fabric Market, which have wide range of the fabric to select and different veteran tailors to customize the dress, suits, coats, shirts for you, scarfs, clothing accessories, hand-bags, belts, gloves are also available.
You will also stop at the old town bazaar market where you can find different kinds of souvenirs, tea, high quality pearls, porcelains, or you can choose to stop at the knock off market where you can find some good quality knock offs. Your local shopping guru will assist you in bargain . It's great fun and interesting experience to haggle with the local vendors. If you have any specific shopping requests, such to visit shops on the famous Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, please feel free to discuss with me. This tour is flexible to customize the itinerary to meet your interests. After achieving your shopping goal, you will be dropped off at your downtown hotel.
Meeting Point + Tour Duration
Meeting Point Options: Rail or Bus Station, Cruise Ship Port, Hotel, Address or Intersection, Monument/Building
Duration: 4 hours
This tour is for 4hours and it can be also extended to longer hours based on your shopping requests, extra hour will be USD 15.00per hour after 4hours.
Public transport such as taxi or metro. If more than 4 pax , private car can be provided at extra costs.
Estimated Local Cash Needed
300 CNY - taxi or food or drinks
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Sunny is an exceptional guide. Extremely outgoing and friendly, knows the city very well. We did the 1/2 day shopping tour and highly recommend her for this. Sunny's English is excellent


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|‘Resilient’ Aaliyah ready for secondary school |
By STACY MOORE Thursday, July 3 2014
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So happy: Aaliyah Felming, right, celebrates with her SEA classmates at St Paul's Girls' Anglican Primary School, San Fernando yesterday....
Among the thousands of SEA students breathing a sigh of relief yesterday was 12-year- old Aaliyah Felming who shot into the headlines three years ago when she became the victim of a vicious knife attack.
Felming passed for San Fernando East Secondary School. Two weeks ago, Felming a student of St Paul’s Girls’Anglican Primary School, San Fernando was awarded her school’s trophy for resilience and commitment to her studies at its graduation ceremony.
“I feel happy to know that I passed,” said a smiling Felming. The school was not among her choices, but she said she was excited and looking forward to pursuing her studies at the secondary school.
Felming who has been through a lot in her young life promised to make the best of her education. She promised to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a flight attendant. She also has a passion for singing. Felming said she had to cut back on watching televison while preparing for SEA. Her mother, Denise Felming, is now before the court for the offence. In 2011 her father Davis “Shero” Felming, 43, was shot and killed.
Felming could not contain her excitement as she also congratulated her other classmates. “I was thinking about this day. I was nervous and I could not sleep. But I am happy now,” she said. Felming’s determination also led well-wishers to start a fund for her at the school.
Her teacher Carla Cruickshank-Dickerson said she was proud of Felming and knew she had come a long way. She said Felming was determined to work hard despite everything she had been through. Principal Grace Mcquan was also proud of Felming. “In spite of what she went through she applied herself and we saw her progress over the years,” she said. Mcquan said overall she was pleased with the academic performance of the SEA students.

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Local Leaders Need to Know: $360 Billion in State and Local Relief Is Coming to Every American Community
March 12, 2021
Almost exactly one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, a massive relief plan has passed both chambers of Congress and been signed into law by President Biden. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is an historic achievement that will provide unprecedented resources to combat the health, economic, and racial equity challenges that have been caused, exposed, and exacerbated by the coronavirus.
While the above relief programs have understandably captured most of the headlines, another massive pool of ARPA dollars crucial to the community development field has received less public attention – the $360 billion in federal relief payments allocated to State, Tribal, territorial, city, and county governments nationwide. As our partners at the National League of Cities shared, this is the first time the federal government has provided direct relief to all of our nation’s 19,000 municipalities. It is critical for neighborhood stabilization stakeholders and community leaders to know how much funding has been allocated for their communities, and to be involved in the planning for how these funds are programmed. Now is the time to reach out to your local leaders, demand a seat at the table, and make your voice heard.
1. How much relief is coming to my community?
Estimated allocations for each American city, town, county, and State can be found now in a downloadable spreadsheet posted on the House Oversight Committee’s website. If you’re interested in viewing the allocations by map, communities can visit an interactive map provided by the Center for Community Progress that shows this data at the State, metro city, county, and local level at communityprogress.net/covid19.
Both resources allow the public to see how much funding is estimated to be coming to their community. For example, you can see in a search of Flint, Michigan that $99.33 million will be coming to the City of Flint, $78.7 million has been allocated to Genesee County, and $5.655 billion will be sent to the State of Michigan.
An important note for cities with populations below 50,000: these ARPA allocations are proportionate to population, and are limited to 75 percent of the locality’s most recent annual budget as of January 27, 2020. The estimates contained in the spreadsheet and mapping tool may not reflect this 75 percent cap.
2. When will funding be released?
Funding allocations to States, Tribes, counties, and cities with over 50,000 residents will be transmitted directly to these entities between now and May 10, 2021. Funding designated for smaller local governments with populations below 50,000 will be delivered to the States by May 10; States will then be required to distribute allocations to these communities based on population within 30 days of receipt.
Total allocations to counties, metro cities, and other localities will be released in two equal allotments, with the first half coming by May 10. The second half will be released 12 months later. In the Flint, MI example above, $49.66 million would be released to the city and $39.35 million would be released to Genesee County between now and May 10. 12 months after this first round of relief is delivered to the City of Flint and Genesee County, second installments of equal amounts will be transmitted.
3. How can ARPA funds be used?
State and local funds under ARPA must be used for:
- responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency and its negative economic consequences, including assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, or aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel, and hospitality;
- supporting essential workers;
- providing government services and offsetting revenue losses;
- necessary improvements to water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure.
Additionally, funds received by local or State governments may be transferred to nonprofit organizations or other jurisdictions to carry out eligible activities.
4. How long do communities have to spend these relief funds?
ARPA requires that these funds must be expended by December 31, 2024.
From land bank leaders and community development organizations to housing advocates and other allied nonprofits, every organization needs to engage with local, county, and State leaders about how this massive fiscal infusion should be used to meet their communities’ needs. This historic time and federal investment is a moment for us all to think big and be bold. With the right planning and community engagement, these recovery resources have the potential to be a game-changing event in the fight to mitigate the negative health and economic impacts of the current crisis. The challenges many communities now face are compounded by a complicated legacy of racial segregation and wealth inequality, disinvestment, and job and population loss. Today’s solutions cannot be divorced from these historic realities, and we urge community leaders everywhere to design a fair, equitable, and just recovery.
As more information becomes available, Community Progress will use our platform to share knowledge and engage partners about how the community development field can play a pivotal role in ensuring these funds are transformational.
 As of this blog post, the latest version uploaded to the House Oversight Committee’s website was updated on March 8, 2021.
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Fast scanning of many products with Märkas' RFID labels
RFID labels are a convenient solution that is hailed by e-commerce companies and postal service providers around the world. Märkas provides the smart label and can deliver it to you no matter where you are.
RFID, short for Radio Frequency Identification, is a technical solution that saves information in a tag that can be scanned from a distance. You’ve probably encountered RFID tags in your everyday life, because it’s a common solution in bus cards, access cards and as anti-theft tags in stores. We at Märkas are proud of providing these smart solutions with all associated equipment needed to print and scan RFID labels. In recent years, the technology has evolved at a rapid pace and even tiny tags can contain huge amounts of information. For e-commerce companies and mail providers, RFID labels have quickly become indispensable to meet today’s logistics challenges. The labels help companies to track and identify products quickly and reliably. It’s easy to track the package from warehouse to delivery, for the person who has ordered it, the supplier and the distributor. Märkas has close cooperation with the postal company Bring, which, among other things, delivers letters, parcels and goods in the Nordic countries. Watch the video about how they use RFID equipment in their daily work.
HOW RFID WORKS
The RFID tag sends a signal with an ID number or similar information. The signal is received by a special scanner, which then finds the corresponding information in a database. The scanner doesn’t need to see the label to scan the information. The amount of information and the distance at which it can be scanned differ depending on how advanced the RFID solution is. Advanced RFID tags can communicate at longer distances, such as from a container in a port.
CREATE YOUR OWN RFID LABELS
Would you like to know more about RFID and how to create your own tags? We have both labels, label printers and scanners to help you track and identify your goods. Feel free to contact us and we’ll tell you more!


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Marion Center Area School District is a rural school district located in Indiana County encompassing the townships of Canoe, East Mahoning, Grant, Rayne, South Mahoning, Washington and the boroughs of Creekside, Ernest, Marion Center and Plumville. The school district comprises approximately 198 square miles and is the region’s second largest district. The district is primarily rural with major economic activities of cola mining, natural gas well drilling and agriculture. The District is comprised of three schools. The Junior-Senior High school houses grades 7-12, and two elementary buildings have Pre K through 6th grade students.
You can visit each buildings site for more specific information by clicking on the school name to the right of the picture on the home page.
As of September 1, 2022, enrollments were as follows: 566 students in grades 7-12 at the Marion Center Junior-Senior High School; 344 PreK through 6th grade at W.A. McCreery Elementary and 294 PreK through 6th grade at Rayne Elementary, for a total of 1204 students. In tenth through twelfth, 104 high school students attend half day programs at the Indiana County Technology Center (ICTC) in Indiana, PA.
The first school house on the site of Marion was located on or near the barn of Henry Etxrott on North Manor Street. In the Indiana Weekly Register, April 3, 1860, an advertisement by J. Brady, president of the East Mahoning School Board, asked for sealed proposals for constructing a school in Marion, 36 feet by 40 feet, with a fourteen-foot high story, having two rooms, each to seat 60 pupils. In 1901 a new grade school was erected on North Manor Street. We do not have an exact date for the completion of the Lower Marion School by the East Mahoning Directors, but it may have been in the 1870’s. Although located in East Mahoning Township, it was considered on of the Marion Center Schools since it was so near the borough line. The two-room school on the hill was acquired about 1870 by the Marion Borough directors.
The Marion Center High School began in 1916 as a three-year high school located in the Marion Center Elementary School building formerly located on North Manor Street. In 1923 the four-year high school plan was adopted. In 1929 a new brick building was erected by E.E. Nupp Construction, Co of Starford, PA. This is now incorporated in to the present high school building. In 1951 an important change came with the organization of a new high school jointure consisting of Canoe Independent Township, East Mahoning Township, Grant Township, Rayne Township, South Mahoning Township, Washington Township, and the boroughs of Marion Center, Plumville, and Creekside. The new joint school board, comprised of representatives from each district, supplanted the old Marion Center-East Mahoning Joint Board effective July 1, 1951. In 1955 the jointure was extended to include the elementary grades. In July, 1966, the school district’s official name became Marion Center Area School District and it was established as a third-class district under the new Reorganization Act. In the Fall of 2011, Canoe-Grant Elementary School and Creekside-Washington Elementary schools were closed as part of district consolidation. Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, the district’s building configuration consists of two elementary buildings (Rayne and W.A. McCreery) for grades K-6 and one secondary building for grades 7-12.

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KINGDOM LIGHTERS MINISTRIES UGANDA
These are the children in the child care orphan school. A drought has made it impossible to grow food. I am raising money to send to the Pastor to buy food and pay the teachers.
The school must be moved. The cheapest land available will be $3150. Please share this campaign if you cannot donate.
Thank you for your continuing support. The kids have gotten mosquito nets and shea butter blended with citronella which will hopefully prevent malaria. A water tank has been purchased and shoes have been bought. God was good to me and I was able to make a sizable donation to help. There is an ongoing need for donations for food, clothing, school supplies, medical care and pay for the staff. No donation is too big or small. Thank you again.
I have set up an account with royal bank today for kingdom LIGHTERS Ministries with the consent of pastor James. I will administer the account on this end and I will now be able to do international money transfers directly to the Uganda account. Thank you again for the generous support which has kept these beautiful children fed . I'm so happy to be a part of something so important.

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The Escorts Mujesar metro station is a metro station located on the Violet Line of the Delhi Metro.It was opened for public transit on Sunday, September 6, 2015.The Address of Escorts Mujesar Metro Station is Mathura Rd, Pocket A, Sector 11, Faridabad, Haryana 121006. It has 2 platforms. The commuters can check the facilities available at Escorts Mujesar Metro Station, Escorts Mujesar First and Last Metro Timings and Entry & Exit Gates information.
|Address:||Mathura Rd, Pocket A, Sector 11, Faridabad, Haryana 121006|
|Station Name:||Escorts Mujesar|
|Station Opening Date:||Sunday, September 6, 2015|
|Operated By:||Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC)|
|Located on:||Violet Line|
|No. of Plateforms:||2|
|Preceding Metro Station :||Bata Chowk Metro Station|
|Following Metro Station :||Sant Surdas (Sihi) Metro Station|
|First Metro timing towards Escorts Mujesar||10:42:00 PM|
|First Metro timing towards Sant Surdas (Sihi)||5:30:00 AM|
|Last Metro timing towards Escorts Mujesar||5:48 AM|
|Last Metro timing towards Sant Surdas (Sihi)||11:15 PM|
Pin code of Escorts Mujesar metro station is 121006
|Post Office Name||Escorts Mujesar|
|Post Office Type||Sub Office|
|Source||Destination||Fare||Distance||Travel Time||First Metro||Last Metro|
|Escorts Mujesar||Paschim Vihar East||Rs. 60||48.4 km||1:29:13 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||R.K.Puram||Rs. 50||31.5 km||0:51:54 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Dashrath Puri||Rs. 60||45.8 km||1:11:20 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||ESI Hospital||Rs. 60||44.3 km||1:17:03 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Dilshad Garden||Rs. 60||40.5 km||1:26:46 Mins||5:48:00 AM||10:42 AM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Dwarka Sector 10||Rs. 60||51.2 km||1:37:04 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Mohan Estate||Rs. 40||17.4 km||0:26:27 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Jhilmil||Rs. 60||41.4 km||1:24:51 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Dwarka Sector 8||Rs. 60||49.3 km||1:40:52 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Jahangirpuri||Rs. 60||51.7 km||1:27:40 Mins||5:48:00 AM||10:42 AM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus||Rs. 60||36.6 km||01:01:13 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Rajdhani Park||Rs. 60||55.1 km||1:41:42 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Central Secretariat||Rs. 60||31.9 km||0:57:51 Mins||5:48:00 AM||10:42 AM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Anand Vihar||Rs. 60||37.2 km||1:16:57 Mins||5:48:00 AM||10:42 AM|
|Escorts Mujesar||Pandit Shree Ram Sharma||Rs. 60||64.2 km||1:55:50 Mins||5:30:00 AM||11:15 PM|
|Bus Route No||Source||Destination|
|Gate 1||north-SEC-7, SEC-11, YMCA Chowk, Park Hospital|
|Gate 2||south-Sec-07, YMCA University|
|Gate 3||west-Piyush Goyal, Mujesar Village|
Q1. On which line Escorts Mujesar metro Station is located?
Ans. Escorts Mujesar metro Station is located on Violet Line Delhi Metro
Q2. How many gates are available on Escorts Mujesar metro Station?
Ans. As per our records there are 3 gates are available on Escorts Mujesar metro Station.
Q3. Is parking available on Escorts Mujesar metro station?
Ans. Yes, parking is available on Escorts Mujesar metro station.


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St. Croix County
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
The St. Croix County Board of Adjustment has scheduled a public hearing for Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 8:30 a.m. at the St. Croix County Government Center, 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin, to consider the following request under the St. Croix County Zoning Ordinance. The Board may view the site in question, after which the Board will deliberate and vote on the request.
LOCATION:Parts of the NW of the NE and the SW of the
NE and the SE of the NW , all in Section 32,
Town 30N, Range 19W, Town of Saint Joseph
ADDRESS: 456 Old E East, Hudson, WI 54016
REQUEST: Conditional Use Permit for limited commercial
recreational activities, pursuant to Section 17.15(6)(m)
All interested persons are invited to attend said hearing and be heard. Additional information may be obtained from the St. Croix County Community Development Department, Hudson, Wisconsin at (715) 386-4680.
St. Croix County Board of Adjustment
_______________________________ (Pub. 05/09/19, 05/16/19) WNAXLP


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PROVO — Jake Toolson's first professional game will come in an unfamiliar location but against an all-too-familiar opponent.
The former BYU and Utah Valley wing will open his first season Wednesday with the Salt Lake City Stars in the NBA G League's single-site campus bubble, an 18-team, 15-game reduced season played entirely at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney World in Florida.
It's unfamiliar territory for the G League, which opted for a shortened season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the same bubble where the NBA finished the 2019-20 season.
But there will be one familiarity for Toolson when the Stars tip off at 1 p.m. MT on NBA TV and Twitch: the former BYU wing will be lining up across from ex-Cougars teammate Yoeli Childs and the Eerie Bayhawks.
Former Utah State star Sam Merrill, the Bountiful High product selected with the final pick of the NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks, will open the G League season Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. MT when the Memphis Hustle face the Austin Spurs (ESPN+).
But for Toolson — and the rest of the G League players, from rookies to NBA vets looking for another chance — the chance to simply play is all they wanted.
"I think after the (nearly) year-long break of basketball a lot of us took — we're just excited to have any basketball back to play again," said Toolson, 24, whose senior season at BYU was cut short when the NCAA canceled its annual postseason tournament due to the pandemic. "I think the biggest challenge will be being able to come together in such a quick time. But at the end of the day, we're playing basketball. We've got some smart players that can pick things up quick."
The players have been housed in a similar bubble as their NBA counterparts last summer, with full practices, treatments, training rooms and dining facilities available every day in their on-campus environment.
They even have local non-basketball activities available to them following training, which usually lasts from 1 to 4 p.m. and dinner each evening. But for Toolson, the biggest thing he's found in his off-hours is just thinking about that end goal: basketball.
"I think we're all excited to just play basketball," he said. "That's the No. 1 reason why we're here. We've all got our own unique circumstances that we're putting behind to be here. But for the most part, it's been a lot of optimism and positivity, and that's where we want to live and stay."
The nephew of former BYU star and NBA veteran Danny Ainge, Toolson signed a contract with the Utah Jazz last fall, an Exhibit 10 deal that incentivized him to stay with the team's developmental affiliate rather than make his way overseas.
A former 47.2% shooter in his senior season at BYU, Toolson averaged 15.2 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game in his senior season en route to WCC Newcomer of the Year honors with the Cougars. So the Jazz know what they are getting in him: shooting.
Of course, there's a fair amount of that on the current roster, which leaves Toolson's role to develop into a professional in the G League, gaining valuable minutes and experience against likeminded rookies like Jazz first-round pick Udoka Azubuike, two-way players Jarrell Brantley and Trent Forrest, and a handful of ex-NBA talents like Yogi Farrell, who spent the 2019-20 season with the Sacramento Kings.
Toolson will learn from each of them, and he'll also grow into his own professional game. The Jazz don't want to change who he is — but if they can add another shooter in their organization with Toolson's skillset, they'll do it.
It just takes time — which is something the G League bubble allows.
"Like all rookies transitioning into the professional process, you have to go through an adjustment process," Stars head coach Nathan Peavy said. "A lot of the rules are different from the NCAA, and he has to adjust to that. And he has been. He's been improving every day, to getting used to how fast the game moves, with the 24-second shot clock and bigger, more athletic players.
"He's so methodical, but he can use his skill set — which is shooting the ball — to gain advantages for his teammates."
After Wednesday's game, most of the Stars' 2021 season will air online on ESPN+. The lone exception is the Feb. 26 game against the G League Ignite, a brand-new, one-year program for developmental prospects coached by Brian Shaw that features Isaiah Todd, Jonathan Kuminga and Jalen Green.
The first-time professionals will debut at 9 a.m. MT against the Santa Cruz Warriors on ESPN2.


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Hey there!!! If you know anything about me and my hand lettering journey, you know that it kinda got started due to my love for planners. It wasn’t until I started decorating in my planner that I really understood how Instagram worked. After I got a little more active on IG, I noticed this real pretty writing – which I now know as hand lettering. So, I guess I can say that if it weren’t for the interest of decorating my planner, I would have never found hand lettering.
With that being said, let’s jump right into this blog post on how to make your own hand lettered journal cards. If you’re unfamiliar with journal cards, they are typically 3” x 4” cards that have inspirational quotes/sayings, beautiful images, etc. that some people use to decorate their planners as well as Project Life projects…the list goes on and on. Before I started lettering, I didn’t own many 3×4 cards. I didn’t get a huge stash of 3×4 cards until I decided to start Project Life. Sometimes though, you want cards that say something specific and you may not have a card that says it, so you can definitely make your own! That’s what I’m going to share with you today. A step-by-step guide on how to create your own hand lettered 3×4 cards and tags!
Step 1: Determine how many 3×4 cards and tags you want to make.
Step 2: Decide what you want to letter on your 3×4 cards and tags. Like I said before, most of the time they’re inspirational or they have beautiful images. Because I am going to use mine for my fall TN set up, I went with a couple of fall themed sayings and inspirational words for both my cards and tags.
I landed on: “you are brilliant,” Welcome fall,” “today is going to be AWESOME,” “hello fall,” “smile first,” and I actually used a couple of stamps and a punch for my last tag. It says “today is a good day” and “right now.”
Step 3: Measure and cut your paper. Like always, depending on what type of pens you are using make sure that you have appropriate paper to protect the life of your pens. I went with Bristol Smooth paper. Because I knew I wanted to make three 3×4 cards (one to go on each of my TN inserts), I cut those first and used the excess for the tags. I have a tag punch and one of the measurements is 2 inches, so I had to trim a little extra off to ensure that the hole would be centered on the tags.
I cut these two strips of paper into three 3″ x 4″ cards each. I will keep the remaining three for something else.
I used these two (actually three – the third is pictured below) for the tags.
Step 4: Letter away! This is the fun part…well…if you love lettering like I do. I used Tombow Fudenosuke Hard Tip and Soft Tip for this project.
Step 5: Be a little extra. I’m a little extra. LOL!!! I added some bordering to my tags and cards as well as some die cuts. I think it adds a little something to the cards. I also added some twine to the tag holes to give them a completed look.
Step 6: Depending on what you are doing with your cards and tags (like I stated before, I am using my for my fall TN set up) decorate. Decorate. Decorate! I adhered my cards to my TN insert covers and I added the tags to the pockets in my TN.
That’s it! A simple, easy way to showcase your lettering in a practical way. I love the way it turned out! I’m looking forward to setting up my TN for the winter with some new papers, cards, tags and die cuts!!!
Here’s a look at the interior pockets where I stuck the tags.
Here are some pics of the supplies used:

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Long time East Meadow resident Warren Kalmenson has been nominated for "Small Businessperson of the Year."
The Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce recognizes local business owners every year at a breakfast held in their honor. East Meadow Chamber of Commerce president Dolores Rome nominated Kalmenson.
"I picked Warren because he has always been involved with the chamber even after his reign as president," Rome said. "He is a dedicated and devoted person."
Kalmenson has lived in town for nearly 40 years. His business, Wellcare Financial Planning Service, Inc., has been located on Hilton Avenue in Hempstead for nearly 30 years.
"I am very honored to represent the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce and East Meadow," he said of the honor.
Kalmenson has been an active chamber member for 25 years. He served as president and was subsequently presented with the Marvin Bernstein Humanitarian award, given to an individual or organization that has shown outstanding service to the East Meadow community and its neighbors during the year.
Kalmenson is also a longtime member of East Meadow Kiwanis, having served as distinguished past president and distinguished past lieutenant governor. Fellow Kiwanis member Ivan Launer said Kalmenson introduced him to an "outstanding organization filled with fine, caring people" when he sponsored his membership.
"He is a likable, down-to-earth person who has enthusiastically lead and participated in countless projects that helped improve the lives of local children and families," Launer said. "His attitude and accomplishments make him a natural choice for Small Business Person of the Year."
Married 42 years, Kalmenson has two children and two grandchildren. During his spare time, he often enjoys reading to elementary school children in East Meadow.
The Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce breakfast is being held this year at Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury Friday, Oct. 18 from 8 to 10 a.m.


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– With the opening of the new £188 million Library of Birmingham it seems that, with a bit of pomp, libraries may still survive into the future. Of course, there is no veering from the course of technology…
…iPhone-using Booklovers in the US have something to smile about, as the new reading app, Oyster, has recently launched. Not to be confused with the London transport scheme; this app, which aptly (pun!) takes its name from Shakespeare’s “the world’s mine oyster”, offers unlimited eBooks to readers for around $10 a month: basically the Netflix of the modern literary world. Unfortunately there are no current plans to expand the app beyond US borders, but this is exciting (possibly) news nonetheless for the future of virtual libraries.
– The tactile appreciation of book covers is one thing that cannot be replicated virtually – proof of which can be found over at Hypable, who have featured the gorgeous-looking Bloomsbury covers of the new UK Adult Edition release of the Harry Potter series. These books will be released September 26th: http://bit.ly/1e5MHYl
– On 5th September, Faber and Faber in the UK released Sylvia Plath: Drawings, a collection of sketches created by the poet and author in the period from 1955, printed and published now for the first time. Of great interest to those eager to see more of Plath’s work.
– In DC Comics news a rather high-profile dual resignation has occurred. J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman announced their exit from the Batwoman series last week, claiming that editorial decisions concerning the character’s storylines were to blame. Having successfully re-launched the character, Kate Kane, as a lesbian in a pioneering storyline from DC, the writers were apparently continually ordered to drop extensively planned story arcs at the last minute, namely Kate’s wedding to her girlfriend, Maggie.
– In less disconcerting DC news, the New 52’s latest gimmick is coming into effect with Villains Month, where superhero series will be replaced with one-shot villain-led books during September.
– British bookies are calling Haruki Murakami the favourite to win the Nobel Prize for Literature this October, with US writer Joyce Carol Oates a close second.
– Flavorwire have compiled a far-in-advance-of Halloween selection of famous authors as their monstrous alter-egos: http://bit.ly/1fN0Sgk
– And finally, Agatha Christie’s master sleuth Hercule Poirot will be returning in a brand new tale for September 2014, which is to be penned by British novelist and poet Sophie Hannah.

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Humana Inc. has announced plans to place 650 associates – 200 of those jobs new to Greater Cincinnati – in a newly leased 175,000-square-foot office space at the Executive Centre office complex in Springdale, Ohio by December 2012.
The move is part of Humana's expanding RightSource mail and specialty pharmacy operations. The new offices will be Humana's third location in Greater Cincinnati, with a regional headquarters and customer service center located in East Walnut Hills and a RightSource mail order pharmacy distribution center in West Chester.
"We are excited to announce this important expansion and job creation for the Greater Cincinnati area," said William Fleming, vice president of Humana Pharmacy Solutions. "We chose Ohio back in 2008 as a location for this important piece of our business and look forward to continuing to service our members nationwide from this location. We expect that more public and private employers will begin utilizing RightSource for their prescription needs – generating even more opportunity for local job creation here in Ohio."
Alan Martin, general manager of RightSource operations in Ohio, said that the company expects to begin occupying the new office space later this year with about 200 Humana associates scheduled to move in by spring 2012, and another roughly 450 associates moving in by the end of 2012.
With the new Springdale office space, Martin expects Humana's total RightSource employee count in Greater Cincinnati to grow to 1,200 in the next two years, bringing Humana's overall Greater Cincinnati employment level to 1,800.
For more information about the new positions at Humana or to apply online, please visit www.humana.com/resources/about/careers/.


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Founded in Canada, MakerKids is the first and largest makerspace for kids and is set to launch internationally. Selected amongst hundreds of entrepreneurs and startups around the world, MakerKids is the winner of the 2017 NextGen Franchising Global Competition. MakerKids is an educational trailblazer providing after-school programs and a playful space dedicated to giving kids the resources they need to feel empowered by the digital world. Their mission is to empower the leaders of tomorrow with the skills and mindsets to change the world.
CEO Jennifer Turliuk has been invited to participate in a 90-day accelerator program and to attend the International Franchise Association’s Annual Convention in Las Vegas, for the NextGen in Franchising Summit.

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The mod adds nude textures for Merrin to Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order that remove belt/clothing, leaving her torso fully naked. There are two versions: with tattoo and no tattoo. Credits: MaxVeers23.
- Main folder
Base nude textures.
- Optional folder
Optional textures with better/more accurate tattoo patterns.
Optional textures without body tattoos.
How to Install Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Naked Merrin
- Extract the “SWJFO_Naked_Merrin.7z” file anywhere you like. The are two folders inside such as “main” and “optional”.
- Go to the “main” folder and copy the “pakchunk99-NakedMerrin_99_P.pak” file to your “Paks” folder. Directory: “Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Fallen Order\SwGame\Content\Paks”.
- [Not Necessary] Open the “optional” folder and select one of the files you want to use. Just drop that file in the “Paks” folder.
- Done! Have fun!

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My car is the first I’ve had with no spare, it came with a bottle of sealant and a little compressor.
Had a very slow puncture right in the middle of the tread, no nail or screw and so fixed it as directed. Frankly I was going to keep driving that tyre until it’s all out (Until MOT in November when both fronts will be replaced)
Any reason why I shouldn’t as replacement now seems an unnecessary expense.
I would have taken the car to a garage to get the puncture sealed properly instead of using the sealant as I think the sealant kits are regarded as an emergency ‘get me home’ temporary fix for a faster puncture.
The “Slime” stuff (same s as MTB) is water washable so you shouldn’t get problems with a tyre company, though most of the OEM stuff isn’t so be cautious as spoon says as it can be costly if they are new tyres (which you said yours are not anyway)


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Spiral phase plates for the generation of Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) beam with non-null radial index were designed and fabricated by electron beam lithography on polymethylmethacrylate over glass substrates. The optical response of these phase optical elements was theoretically considered and experimentally measured, and the purity of the experimental beams was investigated in terms of LG modes contributions. The far-field intensity pattern was compared with theoretical models and numerical simulations, whereas interferometric analyses confirmed the expected phase features of the generated beams. The high quality of the output beams confirms the applicability of these phase plates for the generation of high-order LG beams.
© 2014 Optical Society of America
Diffraction and Gratings
Original Manuscript: June 20, 2014
Revised Manuscript: July 28, 2014
Manuscript Accepted: July 28, 2014
Published: August 21, 2014
G. Ruffato, M. Massari, and F. Romanato, "Generation of high-order Laguerre–Gaussian modes by means of spiral phase plates," Opt. Lett. 39, 5094-5097 (2014)


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McConnell Says Obama Health Care Address Will Make Little Difference
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled that Republicans will not fall into line behind President Barack Obama’s plan for a health care bill even after he addresses a joint session of Congress next week.
“I don’t think the problem is messaging,— McConnell said Wednesday in a conference call. “The problem is what he’s trying to sell. I think there is a serious blowback and a negative reaction across the country to what they are proposing.—
Obama is expected to outline more details on the health care bill he wants Congress to pass in a Sept. 9 speech to Congress. Democrats have said they don’t expect Obama to unveil any new proposals, even though the White House has said Obama will be much more specific on which policies the president can endorse.
It’s unclear whether Obama will say that he would only support a health care bill that includes a public insurance option. Even if Obama doesn’t address the public option, McConnell said there are other significant problems with the health care proposals, including tax increases on small businesses and cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

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The Microsoft Flight Simulator development team has released the eighth aircraft in the Local Legends Series, the de Havilland DHC-4 Caribou.
Local Legends 8: DHC-4 Caribou is based on the twin-engine, short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft. It made its maiden flight in 1958 and was introduced into mainline services in the 1960s where it was primarily operated by the US military and also globally, where its rugged retractable tricycle undercarriage and full-span, double-slotted flaps made it ideally suited for operations on untreated strips.
The aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator was designed by Orbx and features an exterior model based on laser scans, a custom sound set and an authentic 3D cockpit with functional circuit breakers. It also sports a realistic flight model, which captures the STOL capabilities of the real aircraft.
The Caribou is available in the in-sim Marketplace for $14.99.


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Tamoxifen's Benefits Long-Lasting for High-Risk Women
The hormonal therapy medicine tamoxifen continues to reduce risk in high-risk women who haven't been diagnosed more than 10 years after they stop taking it.
After about 16 years of follow-up, a study shows that the hormonal therapy tamoxifen offered long-lasting breast cancer risk reduction for high-risk women who hadn’t been diagnosed with the disease.
The research was presented at the 2014 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and published online by The Lancet Oncology on Dec. 11, 2014.
Read the abstract of “Tamoxifen for prevention of breast cancer: extended long-term follow-up of the IBIS-I breast cancer prevention trial.”
Tamoxifen is a SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator). SERMs block the action of estrogen in breast and certain other cells by sitting in the cells’ estrogen receptors. SERMs don’t affect all estrogen receptors the same way because they’re selective (as the name says). In bone cells, SERMs interact with the receptors the way estrogen does and strengthen bones. In breast cells, SERMs block the receptors’ interaction with estrogen and limit cell growth.
In this study, called the IBIS-I trial, 7,154 pre- and postmenopausal women at high risk for breast cancer but who hadn’t been diagnosed were randomly assigned to one of two treatments:
- 20 milligrams of tamoxifen per day for 5 years (3,579 women)
- placebo pill daily for 5 years (3,575 women)
The placebo pill was a sugar pill that looked exactly like the tamoxifen pill.
The women were between the ages of 35 and 70 and mostly had a higher risk of breast cancer because of a family history of the disease.
Half of the women were followed for more than 16 years and half of the women were followed for fewer than 16 years.
During the follow-up, fewer women in the tamoxifen group were diagnosed with breast cancer:
- 246 women in the tamoxifen group were diagnosed
- 343 women in the placebo group were diagnosed
This means that overall, tamoxifen reduced the risk of breast cancer by 29%.
The researchers looked at tamoxifen’s effects on the risk of specific types of breast cancer:
- tamoxifen reduced the risk of estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer by 35%
- tamoxifen didn’t reduce the risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer
The researchers also looked to see if tamoxifen offered more benefits for women who didn’t take hormone replacement therapy:
- tamoxifen reduced the risk of breast cancer by 38% in women who didn’t take hormone replacement therapy
- tamoxifen reduced the risk of estrogen-receptor-positive disease by 45% in women who didn’t take hormone replacement therapy
“The International Breast Cancer Intervention Study-I was designed to investigate the long-term risks and benefits of taking tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer in women at high risk for developing the disease,” said Dr. Jack Cuzick, Ph.D., John Snow professor of epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. “We found that the reduction in breast cancer incidence remains strong and unabated for 20 years.”
Both the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommend that doctors talk to women at high risk of breast cancer who haven’t been diagnosed about taking medicine to lower that risk.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is a group of experts that makes recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policies to prevent diseases. ASCO is a national organization of oncologists and other cancer care providers. ASCO guidelines give doctors recommendations for treatments and testing that are supported by much credible research and experience.
The most recent ASCO guidelines on using hormonal therapy to reduce breast cancer risk in high-risk women who haven’t been diagnosed recommend doctors to talk to premenopausal women at high risk about using tamoxifen or Evista (chemical name: raloxifene), another SERM, to reduce risk. For postmenopausal high-risk women, the guidelines recommend doctors discuss tamoxifen, Evista, and the aromatase inhibitor Aromasin (chemical name: exemestane) to reduce risk.
Both Evista and tamoxifen are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be used to prevent breast cancer in women who haven’t been diagnosed. Aromasin isn’t approved by the FDA to be used for breast cancer prevention. ASCO experts decided to recommend that it be discussed as a preventive medicine based on research showing that high-risk postmenopausal women who took Aromasin were 65% less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than women who took a placebo.
“For postmenopausal women, the aromatase inhibitors anastrozole [brand name: Arimidex] or exemestane are probably better alternatives, both in terms of greater effectiveness and better side-effect profiles, but for premenopausal women, tamoxifen remains the only choice and it is a good one,” said Dr. Cuzick.
Tamoxifen may cause some serious side effects, including blood clots, stroke, and endometrial cancer. Other common side effects of tamoxifen are:
- hot flashes
- night sweats
- bone pain
- loss of libido
- mood swings
- dry skin
- hair thinning
As this and other studies have shown, tamoxifen is effective at reducing risk in high-risk women, but other research has found that it’s not widely prescribed by doctors or taken by women at high risk because of concerns about side effects.
To figure out if a woman has a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer, most doctors use some form of the Gail model, a standard breast cancer risk assessment tool. The Gail model assesses breast cancer risk based on a series of personal health questions that women and their doctors answer together. The questions ask about risk factors such as age, child-bearing history, family history of breast cancer, and breast biopsy results. The result is a Gail score, which estimates the risk of developing invasive breast cancer in the next 5 years. Some more recent versions of the Gail model also include alcohol use, menopausal status, and body mass index. Some doctors wonder if genetic testing or other information should be added to the Gail model. More research needs to be done to figure out the most accurate way to assess a woman’s risk of breast cancer.
If you have a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer, it makes sense to do everything you can to keep your risk as low as it can be. There are lifestyle choices you can make, including:
- maintaining a healthy weight
- exercising regularly at the highest intensity possible
- limiting or avoiding alcohol
- limiting processed foods and foods high in sugar
- eating healthy, nutrient-dense food
- not smoking
You and your doctor also may be considering medicine to reduce your risk. This study offers reassuring evidence that taking tamoxifen for 5 years offers benefits for many years after you stop taking the medicine.
Talk to your doctor about your preferences as well as the risks and benefits of each medicine you’re considering to reduce risk. If you’re a postmenopausal woman and already taking tamoxifen or Evista and having unacceptable side effects, you may want to ask if Aromasin might be a better option for you. Together, you can make the best choice for your unique situation.
You can learn more about using tamoxifen, Evista, or Aromasin to reduce risk in the Breastcancer.org Hormonal Therapy section.
Read more news from the 2014 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium:
- Aromasin Plus Ovarian Suppression Reduces Recurrence Risk Better Than Tamoxifen Plus Ovarian Suppression in Premenopausal Women Who’ve Received Chemotherapy (with video)
- Low-Fat Diet and Weight Loss Improves Survival in Some Women
- Male Breast Cancer Is Different in Terms of Biology and Outcomes
- Abraxane Offers More Benefits Than Taxol When Given Before Surgery to Treat Early-Stage Disease
- Faslodex Offers Better Survival Than Arimidex as First Treatment for Women With Advanced-Stage Disease
- Oncotype DX DCIS Test Helps Predict Risk of Recurrence
- High Levels of Immune Cells in HER2-Positive Cancers May Mean Tumors Need Only Chemotherapy
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article below is from the Burlington Free Press Issue October 5, 2012
Hip to local hops
Matt Ryan Free Press Staff Writer
October 5, 2012
JERICHO — If you grow it, Joe Lemnah will try to turn it into beer. "Next week I'll probably brew a squash ale," Lemnah said from the makeshift brewery he's set up inside his parents' defunct horse barn in Jericho. "I just found this wicked cool local blue Hubbard squash, which are these absurd, gargantuan squash that have that whole orange flesh. You know, because pumpkin ales are so passé. It's been done to death. Like, there's other orange fruit out there. Let's use them. "
An Essex High School grad, Lemnah, 30, has brewed beer professionally for six years and recently founded the Burlington Beer Company. He has a company website, business cards, stickers and bottled beer, just not a brewery in Burlington. It's coming, he said, within the year.
The brewery will produce some flagship beers, including an India Pale Ale that Lemnah has dubbed "Another IPA."
"So it's easy to order another, badum, tish!" he explained.
Lemnah said his larger objective, however, is to brew an evolving lineup of beers, changing with the seasons and the availability of ingredients.
"I want localization to be at the center of everything, and really be kind of, like, farmers market-inspired, seasonally-focused beers," he said.
Localization beginning with local hops, although "definitely not exclusively local hops," Lemnah said, because "there's too many fun hops from far away." He plans to use Vermont hops for a particular line of beer that would have a "sense of time and place."
Localizing the process lowers his carbon footprint by reducing the shipping distance of ingredients, Lemnah said.
"You're supporting the local economy, the whole 'buy Vermont first'... But like I said before, it really gives that sense of time and place. The hops are going to have a unique character."
East Coast hops
Lemnah gets his local hops from backyard growers like his buddy Zach Summerfield.
Summerfield, who has known Lemnah since high school, said hops have grown up the side of his mother's house in Jericho for nearly 10 years. The hops grow along a 30-foot span of wall to a height of about 25 feet.
"As far as what we've experienced, they've grown like wildfire," said Summerfield, 29, of Colchester. "They're fairly intrusive. They grow onto the deck and into the doors of the house."
Vermont's humid climate, however, isn't particularly conducive to large-scale hop production, according to Heather Darby, an agronomist at the University of Vermont.
"They (the hops) like it, but so does everything else," Darby said, specifically diseases and insects. "When you're in Oregon with dry summers, they don't get the same disease and insect pressure that we do."
Darby began studying hop production in Vermont three years ago when colleagues at Washington State University asked her to do so. They wanted to compare West Coast hops with East Coast hops.
"And simultaneously, there was this sort of new interest in growers and brewers to produce local hops," Darby said. That interest, she said, grew from the localvore movement and a spike in hop prices.
"A lot of brewers want to buy local," she said. "They want a product that is very high quality. It's understanding what that is, and then figuring out, how do we get there."
In studying the vitality of 19 strains of hops at UVM, Darby has found that some hops can and do thrive in Vermont, despite the climate. But she cautions that much work remains to be done if Vermonters want to grow their local hop market.
"Even if we can grow them, which we can, they're very labor intensive to harvest," Darby said. "It requires special equipment to do that, and special equipment to handle them after harvest."
Darby figures upwards of 50 Vermonters have taken to growing small quantities of hops in their yards or on their farms.
"We have a few one-acre hop yards, and then everyone else is under an acre," Darby said. Put together, they make up an estimated total of 5-10 acres. "Once you get above a quarter of an acre, you gotta think about how to mechanize the process."
During the summer, UVM Extension lent a mobile hop harvester, a "shared piece of infrastructure," to two farms, Darby said, in an attempt to push mechanization.
Without a mechanical harvester, the hops have to be picked by hand, which can take upwards of an hour per vine. Impractical for a large harvest, Darby said, even if a grower invites over friends for hop-picking "parties."
"You're gonna run out of friends," Darby said. "It's only gonna be fun once."
However you get them, Summerfield recommends harvesting local hops when you can to brew beer.
"I always find that stuff you grow yourself tends to taste better," Summerfield said. "The hops tend to be very strong. Very large flavor profiles."

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|Heraldry of the World |
Wappen der Welt
Civic heraldry of Germany
State : Bayern
The eagle is the Imperial eagle and symbolises the former Imperial cities in the area. The lower right part shows the red and silver arms of the State of Augsburg, as a large part of the area belonged to Augsburg until 1803. The golden pale on the silver and red shield in the lower left part shows the arms of the County Burgau, one of the old territories in the area.
The former Kreis Schwaben, which existed until 1945 used different arms:
These arms combine the arms of Burgau, with the traditional arms of Schwaben. The latter were not taken into the new arms of the Bezirk, as the State of Baden-Württemberg also used the lions.
The arms in the Deutsches Wappenmuseum
Literature : Image and information taken from here : http://www.stmukwk.bayern.de/blz/bezirke/bezirke.html; Hupp, O: Kaffee Hag albums, 1920s
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A Denver school system has introduced a school kiosk to educate students and staff about the dangers of playing online games.
Key points:A teacher with the Denver Public Schools kiosk will be in charge of providing educational information about the kioskThe kiosk, called a GameStop, will be installed at the Denver International AirportThe Denver Public School System said the kiosks would be installed in the Denver area to educate about online gaming safetyKey pointsThe kiosks will have teachers and students participating in a hands-on video, and students will have a “game room” to play the gamesCommunity members will be able to interact with the kioske during the school dayThe kioski, which is being installed at Denver International International Airport, is designed to help educate students about online safety.
“We want our students to be able and confident in playing online and the fact that they’re not in the control of the game maker,” said Sarah Lohmann, a Denver Public Safety Department spokesperson.
“Our students have been playing games since they were toddlers, but today we’re talking about a whole generation of children who are playing games like League of Legends, Battlefield, Hearthstone, and Overwatch,” she said.
“I’m not saying that we should not have a game room where we have interactive learning with our kids.
But we have to be clear that our goal is to keep them safe.”
Students will be given a “Game Room” to watch the games as they play, and teachers will be involved in a video presentation about the risks of playing.
Ms Lohann said it would be possible for parents to watch their children in the “game rooms” at home, but parents had to provide the correct ID.
“Parents who are worried about their child playing online or not playing online should be concerned and we want to make sure that they are,” she added.
“If they are concerned and want to discuss it, we will be happy to discuss with them how we can do that.”
The kioskh is being built to educate school employees and students about the safety of playing games, and a teacher with experience in the field will be the “superintendent” for the system.
“The kiosking will be located in the same room as the classroom and teachers’ meeting room, which means the students will be at home in their classrooms and the teachers’ office,” Ms Lohman said.
The kiosker will be staffed by a school safety officer, and Ms Lohmann said the school system hoped it would encourage more students to play online.
“This is the next step in the educational revolution, so this is a critical step for our students and educators,” she explained.
Topics:game-industry,schools,school-safety,public-schools-in-5163,denmarkFirst posted September 23, 2018 07:50:02More stories from Australia


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Not that I had any reason to believe that Ronnie B would actually get an invite or anything.
Here are your Slam Dunk participants this year,
2009 Sprite Slam Dunk champion Nate Robinson of the New York Knicks will attempt to become the first three-time winner of the competition when he defends his title on NBA All-Star Saturday Night, Feb. 13, at American Airlines Center (8 p.m. ET on TNT) in Dallas. Robinson will compete against the Charlotte Bobcats' Gerald Wallace and the Los Angeles Lakers' Shannon Brown.
The 2010 Sprite Slam Dunk participants were unveiled today at a special event at New York's Pennsylvania Station, where artist Dan Dunn brought each player's image to life in a speed painting display on giant canvases.
The Toronto Raptors' DeMar DeRozan and the Los Angeles Clippers' Eric Gordon will compete in the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk-In, a single-round slam dunk competition that will be held at halftime of the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam on Friday, Feb. 12. Fans will be able to vote via SMS text message and at NBA.com to determine who will advance to the Sprite Slam Dunk the following night.
I hope they get away from the gimmicky stuff and get back to creative dunks. I wouldn't mind them getting rid of non-human props all together.
Maybe we should have a Ronnie B campaign to get him into the dunk contest?


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How can Republicans prove they care about the poor?
James Carville, the former aide to Bill Clinton, recently summed up the GOP's problem with the sequester — $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts that took effect last week — this way: "The sequester, many people don't know what it is," he told NBC. "But it sounds stupid and cruel, so they think it's a Republican thing."
Fairly or not, polls bear out Carville's pithy assessment. And the GOP's image has only hardened in recent weeks, with Republicans rejecting President Obama's plea to replace the sequester with a balance of entitlement cuts and taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations. While Democrats have sought to underscore the impact the sequester will have on middle- and lower-income Americans, many Republicans have dismissed such warnings as wildly overblown. But local administrators for federal aid programs say the cuts could do real damage to poor Americans, according to Annie Lowrey at The New York Times:
Unless a deal is reached to change the course of the cuts, housing programs would be hit particularly hard, with about 125,000 individuals and families put at risk of becoming homeless, the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated. An additional 100,000 formerly homeless people might be removed from emergency shelters or other housing arrangements because of the cuts, the agency said…
"These people are very, very, very poor," said Sheila Crowley, the president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, speaking of recipients of federal housing support across the country. "They don’t have resources to fall back on"…
Other programs that assist low-income families face similarly significant cuts, including one that delivers hot meals to the elderly and another that helps pregnant women. Policy experts are particularly concerned about cuts to the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children known as WIC, which provides food and baby formula for at-risk families.
It is considered one of the most effective social programs in government, reducing anemia and increasing birth weights. But up to 775,000 low-income women and their children might lose access to or be denied that aid because of the mandatory cuts, according to calculations by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit research group. [The New York Times]
Seeking to put pressure on the GOP, the Democratic National Committee has already released a web video that juxtaposes Republican leaders dismissing the damage of the sequester with local news reports highlighting the concerns of average voters. The ad ends with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) proclaiming, "I got 98 percent of what I wanted; I'm pretty happy."
It's not just the sequester. Republican governors, for example, have recently come under fire from their conservative brethren for expanding Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor and disabled. As Paul Krugman at The New York Times writes, the controversy over the Medicaid expansion, a key component of ObamaCare, bolsters the impression that for Republicans "it's all about comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, about giving more to those who already have a lot."
Republicans, of course, see the matter quite differently, arguing that their policies would free individuals to lift themselves out of poverty. But a growing chorus of conservatives argues that the Republican Party's focus on spending cuts and taxes are not resonating with middle- and lower-income votes. In a recent manifesto in Commentary titled "How to Save the Republican Party," Bush administration veterans Michael Gerson and Pete Wehner laid out a new economic agenda that stresses social mobility over tax orthodoxy. And Arthur C. Brooks, writing in The Wall Street Journal this week, is even blunter about the GOP's problem:
In his best-selling 2012 book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, [social psychologist Jonathan] Haidt demonstrated that citizens across the political spectrum place a great importance on taking care of those in need and avoiding harm to the weak. By contrast, moral values such as sexual purity and respect for authority — to which conservative politicians often give greater emphasis — resonate deeply with only a minority of the population. Raw money arguments, e.g., about the dire effects of the country's growing entitlement spending, don't register morally at all.
Conservatives are fighting a losing battle of moral arithmetic. They hand an argument with virtually 100 percent public support — care for the vulnerable — to progressives, and focus instead on materialistic concerns and minority moral viewpoints. [The Wall Street Journal]
The problem, however, is that as the party fractures over immigration, the Medicaid expansion, and social issues like gay marriage, a hard line on spending and taxes may be one of the few issues around which Republicans can coalesce. As Richard W. Stevenson writes in The New York Times:
Four months after Mr. Obama won a second term, the only issue that truly unites Republicans is a commitment to shrinking the federal government through spending cuts, low taxes and less regulation. To have compromised again and agreed to further increase taxes or roll back spending cuts would have left Republicans deeply split and, many of them say, at risk of losing the core of the party’s identity. [The New York Times]


Some tricks are driving in high gears and putting the car in neutral during long retentions.
The summer outing is characterized by kilometers of caravans on the main roads in Spain, large traffic jams forcing the driver to spend more time behind the wheel, subject to a changing rhythm of the march depending on the influx of vehicles and exposed to the continuous solar radiation. This situation causes stress, fatigue and higher than normal fuel consumption.
Plenoil, an automatic filling station company, has decided to prepare a series of recommendations for the start-up operation in 2022 with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of taking measures to ensure safety and efficiency while driving.
First of all, the service station network wanted to focus on savings and good practices in order to cope with a context characterized by rising fuel prices. So to ensure a smooth and comfortable journey, without unnecessary diversions, it is recommended to find the nearest gas stations.
In order to drive efficiently, it is essential to maintain a steady speed during the journey, in addition to driving as long as possible at high gears or not exceeding 120 km/h, the legal maximum speed.
On the other hand, it is recommended to use the engine brake, that is, reduce the gears so that the car slows down gradually, it will also prevent the consumption of gasoline or diesel fuel from increasing, while at the same time protecting the brake pads, brake and discs. In addition, it recommends putting the car in neutral during long stops, as this prevents wear on the clutch bearing. If it’s going slow, it’s best to move forward with the clutch instead of pressing the accelerator.
Checking the tires properly is another action that can help reduce fuel consumption. These should be inflated to the pressure specified by the manufacturer and depending on the weather conditions, as driving with a tire pressure 0.5 bar lower than the correct one will increase consumption by 2% in urban areas and 4% in inter-urban areas. In this regard, it should be noted that the pressure must be adapted to the load on the car, and the best way to save is to rationalize the weight, since driving with 100 extra kilograms will increase consumption by up to 6% .
The gas station network also warns that the worst travel times are 4pm to 10pm on Fridays, 9am to 1pm on Saturdays and 7pm to 12pm on Sundays.
Plenoil would like to remind us of the importance of taking care of postural hygiene, a defining element when it comes to relieving tension and reducing fatigue while travelling. Among the good habits drivers should adopt in this regard are the following:
– Install the seat belt correctly and adjust the mirrors.
– Adjust the seat: tilt the backrest slightly so that the seat tilts between 15 and 25 degrees, so that the thigh and hips form an arc of 110 to 120 degrees.
– Adjust the headrest: the middle part should be at the level of the ears.
– Keep your arms on the wheel: It is advisable to form the ‘ten past ten’ position, imagining a clock face.
– Finally, the network of automatic filling stations advises you to rest for 20 minutes every two hours of driving or every 200 kilometers, a measure that ensures that drivers have a safe ride.
Source: La Verdad
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Conceived in Chicago and established in a Tribeca loft in 1978 at the height of the Downtown experimental arts revolution, Roulette is one of the few surviving organizations to maintain its identity as an Artists’ Space and its commitment to bringing the experimental performing arts to a wider public. Roulette’s mission is to support artists creating new and adventurous art in all disciplines by providing them with a venue and resources to realize their creative visions and to build an audience interested in the evolution of experimental art. Its history of performances (preserved in the Roulette Archive—a comprehensive collection of more than 3,000 concert listings with historic audio, video, limited-edition concert posters, publications, press, and ephemera), leaves a detailed and distinguished record of four decades of artistic development, experimentation, and achievement.
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Question Period Note: Federal Actions Taken to Improve Access to Mental Health and Substance Use
- Reference number:
- Date received:
- Dec 21, 2023
- Health Canada
- Name of Minister:
- Saks, Ya'ara (Hon.)
- Title of Minister:
- Minister of Mental Health and Addictions
In collaboration with provincial and territorial partners, the Government of Canada is working to increase access to the full continuum of mental health and substance use services to better support the needs of Canadians.
Key federal actions include increasing investments to provinces and territories to improve access to mental health and substance use services, as well as on targeted initiatives on key priorities, such as integrated services for children and youth, suicide prevention, and addressing the overdose crisis and toxic drug supply.
Increasing access to the continuum of mental health and substance use services through a compassionate and person-centered approach is central to our health care plan.
The significant federal investments committed in Budget 2023 will help better integrate mental health and substance use services within health systems, enabling Canadians to access the care they need.
We are also working with provinces and territories to advance key initiatives, such as the implementation of integrated youth services hubs, development of a National Suicide Action Plan, launching 9-8-8 – the suicide prevention crisis line and to address the overdose crisis.
IF PRESSED ON HOW FEDERAL FUNDS ARE USED TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE SERVICES…
Our government is providing $25B over 10 years through tailored bilateral agreements to provinces and territories for four shared health priorities, with mental health and substance use supports addressed by or integrated within them.
Provinces and territories are free to allocate the funding according to their local needs and circumstances.
The goal is to promote a compassionate and patient- centered approach so that Canadians can access the full continuum of mental health and substance use supports they need for their health care.
IF PRESSED ON WHETHER THESE INVESTMENTS WILL ACHIEVE CHANGE …
As part of the historic federal investments in health care in 2023, provinces and territories will collect and report on three headline indicators for mental health and substance use services:
o Median wait times for community mental health and substance use;
o Percentage of youth aged 12-25 with access to integrated youth services for mental health and substance use; and,
o Percentage of Canadians with a mental disorder who have unmet mental health care needs.
These indicators will allow better measurement of progress in increasing access to needed services.
Budget 2023 confirmed the Government of Canada’s commitment to improve health care in Canada through additional investments in health care of close to $200 billion over ten years, of which $25B will flow to provinces and territories through tailored bilateral agreements. These bilateral agreements will support progress on four shared priorities to improve access to health care, with mental health addressed by or included within all four priorities.
This investment builds on previous federal commitments for mental health and substance use, including an investment of $5 billion over ten years in Budget 2017 to provinces and territories to improve access to mental health and substance use services, coupled with agreement by federal, provincial and territorial Health Ministers on the importance of promoting mental wellness and addressing gaps in mental health and substance use services and supports, including for children and youth.
Since then, the federal government has been working with provinces/territories, Indigenous communities, and stakeholders to help develop and expand Integrated Youth Services, which provide a “one-stop shop” of supports in the community for youth. In addition, a “network of networks” as well as a national data framework and infrastructure are being developed.
The federal government launched Wellness Together Canada (WTC) portal in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the companion app, PocketWell, in 2022. WTC has provided free, 24/7 supports to Canadians for mild to moderate mental health and substance use issues.
Through engagement with partners including provinces and territories, the federal government is leading the development of a National Suicide Prevention Action Plan which builds on the existing Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention. The Plan will strengthen a collective approach and identify key areas for action that will have the greatest impact in reducing suicide rates in Canada.
A key pan-Canadian initiative aimed at improved access to effective suicide prevention services is the launch of 9-8-8 in November 2023, an easy to remember, three-digit number for suicide prevention and emotional distress. Stakeholders from a range of sectors, including provinces and territories, Indigenous partners, public safety officials, and people with lived experience have been and continue to be engaged as implementation progresses.
The government has also invested more than $1 billion to directly address the overdose crisis and toxic illegal drug supply.
Budget 2023 provided a total of $359.2 million over five years to support a renewed Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy. The renewed strategy will continue to address both public health and public safety and guide the Government's work to save lives and protect the health of Canadians.

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E. Michigan 2010 schedule & forecast
Projection Straight up: 0-12 Cumulative: 3-9
The award for Best EMU Season Preview of the Week (and yes, there were several this week!) goes to SportsRatings. In addition to a reasonably thorough team writeup, they project the odds of winning each game and use them to make both a straight-up projection (favored team always wins) and a cumulative projection (because if a team plays 3 games, with only a 33% chance of winning each, they have a 71% chance of winning at least one of those games).
MAC-Sports.com “gets to know” junior offensive tackle Bridger Buche. Unfortunately, with regard to the interview, there’s no there there.
Phil Steele ranks Eastern Michigan football last in yet another category: home field advantage. Although I don’t agree with his methodology here, I can’t argue with the statement that EMU has no home field advantage.
According to this press release, Eastern Michigan is making “stadium enhancements” at Rynearson.
“We want to improve the front porch of the stadium,” Gragg said of the main entrance to Rynearson Stadium.
To that end, $15,000 in stadium fixes were recently approved and will be completed in time for the first game.
Changes will include enhancements to the main concession area, repairs to the sidewalk around the stadium; power washing the ticket booths; changing the front entrance from chain link fencing to more appealing black aluminum fencing; removal of barb wire on the fence and updating the graphics around the stadium.
I hate to say it, but these are small changes that 1) should have been done long ago and 2) are probably more “maintenance” than “enhancement”. Next week, I expect to run a long post about some needed changes at Rynearson.
Eastern Michigan’s 1970 men’s cross country team recently held a reunion, celebrating the 40th anniversary of their dual national championship year. The team won both the NCAA College Division title (now NCAA Division II) and the NAIA title that year.
In response to the (somewhat manufactured) furor over comments he made at the MAC media preview a few weeks ago, Ron English sent a letter to several media outlets, including the Detroit News and AnnArbor.com (the letter is exactly the same, so read it at whichever site you prefer).
I don’t cover baseball much, mainly because I don’t like it, but EMU’s baseball team, which very nearly won the MAC Championship this spring, will hold open tryouts Wednesday, September 8, at 6 am.
Jeff Arnold at AnnArbor.com profiles senior EMU defensive back Latarrius Thomas. A top high school recruit from Florida, Thomas sat out a year in order to follow English from Louisville to Eastern Michigan.
“I would have followed him anywhere. If he would have gone D-2, I would have gone…It’s about me being with someone with a guy that I trust, my father trusts,” Thomas said. “He’s a good guy, and that’s what it is really about.”
If English can inspire this kind of devotion in players and their parents, he will win at EMU.
Andrea Adelson of ESPN.com asks, “Who would you rather be in 2010?”
19. Eastern Michigan or Western Kentucky? This has been a week to forget for Eastern Michigan coach Ron English, who has taken criticism for his comments about single moms. Both teams went winless last season, and both should get at least one win this season. Eastern Michigan might be further along because this is Year 2 of the English era. Willie Taggart just started at Western Kentucky.
In 2010, I’d rather be the Eagles. Personally, I think WKU administration made a mistake in firing head coach David Elson, who served as defensive coordinator for the 2002 FCS National Champion team, and as the head coach for the seven years since then. He lead the Hilltoppers to a 37-22 record his first five years, but the team struggled to make the transition to FBS, going 2-22 in 2008-09. Given his record of success, and the difficulty in making that jump, I’d have been inclined to give him another year, and a trigger-happy AD is always cause for concern.
Alex Varone of Rush The Court picks the Eagles men’s basketball team to finish 7th in the MAC overall, and 3rd in the West, about where they ended last season.
Eastern Michigan was the most improved team in the MAC last year, going from eight wins in 2009 to 17 in 2010. The Eagles could have been even better if not for a lack of experience in close games. In the team’s nine league losses (including the MAC tourney), seven were by eight points or fewer. This season, Eastern Michigan will push forward without the services of two of its top three scorers, Carlos Medlock and Justin Dobbins, a pair that combined to produce 29 points per game. The bright spot for Eastern Michigan is the return of senior forward Brandon Bowdry, a double-double machine who averaged 16.3 points and 10.0 boards per game last year. The Second Team All-MAC selection needs help on the outside, and could get it from senior wing Jay Higgins (8.0 PPG) and junior Antonio Green (6.7 PPG). If one of those two can emerge as a legit scoring option to complement the league’s best post player, the Eagles could be a team to watch for in the West division.
Former EMU football coach Jan Quarless will be inducted into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame in 2011, though probably not on the strength of his 1-6 record as EMU’s head coach. In all fairness, he was thrust into a bad situation as a first-year offensive line coach taking over a program that had gone 5-20-1 in Jim Harkema’s final 2 1/3 years, and it sounds like he’s had a fairly distinguished career in school administration.
For 27 years, Jan Quarless was a college football coach at seven NCAA Division 1 schools, serving as head coach at Eastern Michigan University and Southern Illinois University and offensive coodinator at New Mexico and Wake Forest. He was offensive line coach for the Rhein Fire in NFL Europe in 2005. Quarless was an All-U.P. football player at Iron River High School in 1969 and a four-year football letterman at Northern Michigan University, and is a 2000 inductee in NMU’s Sports Hall of Fame. He earned his PhD and became a school administrator after he left coaching and is now superintendent at Dollar Bay Schools.
According to ESPN.com, Ron English has scored his first commitment for the class of 2011. Brandon Watson, a tight end from Peoria High School in Peoria, IL, has picked EMU over Illinois, Northern Illinois, and Eastern Illinois.
“It was like they already knew me. They showed me a lot of love,” said the 6-foot-5, 250-pound prospect.


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The "Game of Thrones" showrunners are urging fans be kind, rewind their divisive opinions of "The Sopranos" finale.
The showrunners that worked on Game of Thrones' final season are worried the ending they've chosen will split the fanbase the same way the "Made in America" ended on a middling note for The Sopranos. While I personally like and understand the rationale behind David Chase's open-ended finale. With that said, David Benioff and fellow executive producer D. B. Weiss don't want their creative baby to suffer a similar unjust fate.
Bienoff and Weiss spoke with Entertainment Weekly yesterday in the building to Season 8's premiere date. "A good story isn't a good story if you have a bad ending," Bienoff said when given the chance to voice his concerns over the episodic screenplay. "Of course we worry."
Bienoff also spoke about how the expectations over GOT's climactic push is similar in scope to the anticipation that built over The Sopranos 6th and final season - to the point where he's refusing to shield himself from the ongoing debate, even if it keeps him up at night.
"I've gotten into a lot of arguments with people about why that was a great ending, but people felt legitimately cheated and that's their right to feel that way, just as it's my right to feel like they're idiots," he told EW.
And yet, there's nothing Bienoff or Weiss can do about it now, since the Season 8 premiere date (Sunday, April 14) is already locked and loaded. Perhaps by broaching the subject of The Sopranos presumed "bad finish" Bienoff, they can reshape the way people conceive of a poor ending or a cliff hanger. Nothing lasts forever folks.


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I actually just pulled off a trade, that will send my 2nd rounder and 6th rounder out for Alex Pietrangelo and 14th and 15th round picks in return.
It was kind of a knee jerk reaction trade, but I think AP is a special Dman. Could be a keeper for years to come.
Now i just have to wait patiently til the 4th round to start drafting.
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Potential Keepers: Pavelec, Elliott, Anderson, Boyle

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A bombshell was dropped on the NBA world one day prior to the start of free agency. According to multiple reports, James Harden informed the Philadelphia 76ers that he would pick up the player option in his contract for next season, only it would come under the condition that he would like a trade. While there have been a few teams kicked around as potential landing spots for Harden, the Sixers have made pretty clear that they won’t rush into making a move.
The team is willing to drag this out and bring Harden back this year, with Joel Embiid going as far as saying his preference is for Harden to change his mind. It’s an understandable stance for Embiid to have — he’s close with Harden and it stands to reason Philly won’t be able to turn him into another All-Star caliber guard — and there’s even been some optimism that Harden could change his mind. But unfortunately for the team, Ramona Shelburne of ESPN reports that Harden took some time to think about things and still wants out.
“James Harden has spoken to Daryl Morey since the first trade request, and I think there was some cooling off period. ‘OK, let’s let this lie and see how things play out,’” Shelburne said. “And they’ve spoken again, and he still reiterated he wants to be traded. Now, this isn’t a demand, it’s a request. And I think the Sixers have said, ‘OK, we will try to trade you, but there is no hurry to do this.
“I think the Sixers understand here that they have the leverage here,” Shelburne continued. “[Harden] picked up his option, this is an opt-in to a contract and he’s going to be a free agent after this season. And so, at some point, he needs to play, whether that’s in Philadelphia or elsewhere.”
Shelburne did note that there’s a belief that Harden’s relationship with his teammates could potentially lead to him coming around on the idea of playing in Philly next season, although he’s not at that point yet.


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HGTV will receive the Academy of Achievement Award at the 22nd annual ARTS Awards, taking place in January at Dallas Market Center. The award is given each year to honor significant contributions to the industry.
“HGTV has promoted the home décor industry more completely and to a wider audience than any other institution over the last 16 years,” said Bill Winsor, president and CEO, Dallas Market Center. “We are pleased to extend this well deserved honor to such an important industry partner.”
Launched in 1994, HGTV is a media and marketing company in home and lifestyle television programming. Currently distributed to more than 98 million U.S. households, it is currently one of cable’s top-rated networks. The HGTV Web site, HGTV.com, is the nation’s leading online home-and-garden destination and attracts an average of 5 million unique visitors per month.
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The fifth-generation Corvette, aka C5, is where things get interesting. A much stronger chassis was centered around the rear-mounted transmission and rear axle, known as a transaxle, which has remained a Corvette feature through the C7 generation. An LS-series engine powered the C5, while the Z51 suspension package was available for improved handling. Magnetic adjustable dampers also made their first appearance on the C5 Corvette.
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