Governor Granholm Signs Directive to Better Protect Wetlands on Public Land
LANSING – Small wetlands areas, often home to rare animal and plant species, will be better protected starting today as Governor Jennifer M. Granholm signed a new executive directive authorizing the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to have a process in place in the next 60 days to preserve these unique ecosystems on public land.
The Governor signed Executive Directive 2004-4 as part of her efforts to honor Earth Day 2004. The directive was part of the Governor’s Special Message to the Legislature she delivered earlier this year.
“Wetlands provide critical functions in our state, and we continue to lose them to encroaching development,” Granholm said. “Our state has a proud history of strong wetlands protection, but we have up until this time failed to take the opportunity to protect some of the most biologically diverse wetlands in our state. This directive sets us back on course to protect these fragile places of natural beauty.”
State environmental laws outline that the DEQ may regulate certain small wetlands when it has determined that such wetlands are essential to the preservation of the natural resources of the state. In 1996, the DEQ completed a survey of critical, non-contiguous wetlands – the Michigan Natural Features Inventory (MNFI). The MNFI is the most accurate and comprehensive database of critical, non-contiguous wetlands in the state.
According to the MNFI survey, at least 37 state rare animal species occur in 109 isolated wetland sites. In addition, some 113 rare plant species were found in 389 non-contiguous wetland areas. Nine of these species exist in Michigan only in isolated wetlands.
“Michigan citizens should be pleased to learn that for the first time in 25 years, government is finally taking steps to protect some of the most extraordinary wetlands that exist in Michigan,” said DEQ Director Steve Chester. “This is part and parcel of the Granholm administration’s efforts to establish Michigan as the environmental leader in the Great Lakes Region.”
Directive 2004-4 supports a bill State Representative Paul Condino (D-Southfield) introduced in honor of Earth Day last year, which will require Michigan to protect smaller wetlands on public lands that are not currently being protected.
Approximately 5 percent of Michigan’s wetlands (271,534 acres out of a total of 5,583,400 acres of wetlands) are currently unregulated unless the DEQ or a local unit of government takes action to protect them.
Non-contiguous wetlands are those not connected to lakes or streams, more than 500 feet from a lake or stream, and more than 1000 feet from the Great Lakes. They are also less than five acres in size.
“As we approach Earth Day this week and National Wetlands Month in May, it is important that we recognize the critical role wetlands play in helping shape life in Michigan,” said Granholm. “This directive ensures that some of the most special places in the great outdoors of our state are protected and that rare species of plants and animals are encouraged to thrive.”
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WHSAC Communique May 2022
Council membership expiring in June 2022.
The Council’s current membership is due to expire in June 2022. An expression of interest was advertised for a full council. The process to appoint a new council will commence in the next few weeks.
Changes to Regulations – White Cards
From 1 June 2022, new construction industry workers or construction industry workers who request a replacement white card will be able to obtain a digital white card in the Territory. It is expected that digital white cards will reduce the likelihood that construction industry workers will forget, misplace or damage their physical white cards.
The next meeting is scheduled for 19 September 2022.

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As the winter snows give way to spring flowers, fat bikes remain relevant tools for ripping singletrack but with limitations due to the weight and low pressure of those big monster tires. A simple but costly modification can turn some fat bikes into summertime trail rippers known as 29+. Our contributor Steve Graepel swapped out his fat tires for 29+ on his Salsa Mukluk, a modification that creates a huge 31-inch outer diameter. This is his experience.
Last year, Surly released the beastly Krampus, a monster trail bike engineered around a 3” tire paired with the brand’s 50mm Rabbit Hole rims. Neither fat nor a 29er, the Krampus was an ode to speed in the golden age of fat. Surly crowned it a “29+” bike.
Keenly interested in riding my Salsa Mukluk into summer, I was already browsing a second set of wheels for my fat bike. I knew it could accommodate 29” (a fat tire sitting on a 26” fat rim reaches 29” size), but I was all-in when Salsa blogged that the Mukluk could fit a 29+.
*While it fits, the crew at Salsa does not endorse pairing of a 29+ wheelset with its Mukluk; the bike’s geometry is not formally designed to match the height offset.
A little haggling and a lot of eBay got me the parts to lace a pair of 29-plus in time for spring. A few hundred miles of riding so far has revealed a lot of smiles.
Seated on the rim, the Knard tire reaches a monstrous 31 inches in diameter. Mounted to the bike, the wheels are definitely beastly, but not as aggressive looking as a 4” tire. It looks more like a 29er on steroids.
I noticed the weight savings immediately off the stand. On the scales, it cut 2.5lbs. All complete, my bike weighed (still a heavyish) 28lbs — a little less than a stock Krampus.
The wheels cleared all the rear angles, with the tightest fit at the bottom bracket triangle (where the chainstays meet the bottom bracket). I had to slide the alternator dropouts all the way back to accommodate the girth. The rest of the frame had plenty of clearance to run a full mud-pie tire.
I’m running the Mukluk as a 1x, which is a great match with the wheels. There’s plenty of room for the chain to play even in the highest gear. The tires are filled just under 40 pounds (compared to 10psi or so in my fat tires). This stiffens the ride but translates power directly to the ground. I’ve noticed a lot less vertical bounce in the saddle.
My first ride out was up a local test piece, a sandy climb to the Boise ridge appropriately called Hard Guy. The oversized carousel-wheels rolled over obstacles and chewed up the terrain, spitting sand into my gritty smile.
As I approached the crux, I shifted into low gear, sat back in the saddle and watched the bike climb like an angel beneath me. It made short work of a sandy berm that I’ve previously spent an entire season walking.
On the way down, it quickly became apparent the real gain was speed. The bigger wheels and smaller footprint, which are run at higher pressure, yields a lot less resistance. The bike can go from zero to hell-yeah in a few pedal strokes.
All that inertia creates a bike you need to drive, less it drives you. And the wheels don’t take the hits like a fat tire. Its old school, like you’re riding into 1999. End of the day, it was a physical two hours; I felt beat in the arms and upper body.
A pair of wheels is an expensive purchase. It can be more than 1/2 the cost of a bike. Tires, rims, tape, spokes, hubs … cassette …all told, it can be upwards of $1000 for just a decent set.
And it should be noted that Surly’s Knards are the only 3” tires for 29+. They are offered in two versions: 27 and 120tpi (folding). These tires are thinner (and rumored to be more fragile) than most fat tires. When chatting a trip up with a friend who builds wheels for a living, he flipped “I think you should definitely use ‘em … the time you spend fixing flats I can use to shoot more pics!”
I’ve yet to get any flats, but I’d still be cautious if you are venturing off the map and into the sharp end of the void … bring a patch kit or consider a burly traditional 29 tire.
Is this setup a quiver killer? There probably is no such thing in my house. I like bikes too much. As I wrapped this story up, a friend shared a link to Surly’s soon to be released 26+ bike. And the fat wheels keep on turning….


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It’s now official that NTR will be hosting the Telugu edition of Bigg Boss, which will be aired on Star MAA channel. Of late, there have been reports that the Young Tiger had demanded the channel heads to shift the shooting to Mumbai.
But NTR’s team has cleared the rumors and said that it was the TV channel’s idea to shoot in Lonavala, a picturesque hill station near Mumbai. Incidentally, NTR will shoot inside the house set where Bigg Boss’ Hindi version, hosted by Salman Khan, was shot.
Considering the nature of the show where participants may get involved in unexpected murky fights, over hundred crew members will also stay nearby to prevent any unwanted incidents. The was primarily the reason why the Hindi version was shot in Lonavala.
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by Lance Chilton
Marg Elliston has been on the job as Democratic State Party Chairperson for 21 months; she filled out her predecessor’s unexpired term and then was elected to her own two-year term in office. Previously she was Sandoval County Democratic Chair; during a recent interview, she quipped that now she has to deal with 33 counties, not just one. Marg makes a point of getting around, in person, to each of the 33 county committees, a considerable effort in a state as large as ours.
In addition to maintaining relationships with the 33 county committees, Marg and the Democratic Party look for opportunities to support common Democratic goals that are being championed by outside organizations such as Progressive Democrats of America, Indivisible, and the Working Families Party. They also work with Democratic campaigns and caucuses such as the progressive Adelante caucus to promote Democratic causes.
Asked what led to the remarkable Democratic advances in New Mexico, especially in Doña Ana and Bernalillo Counties in 2018, Marg points to the registration of new voters, especially in southern New Mexico, and involvement of young people throughout the state. She hopes to keep the momentum going by filling all ward and precinct slots and building a people-powered organizing machine from the bottom up. “It’s challenging to fill all positions,” Marg says, “especially in rapidly-growing areas where precincts are dividing and multiplying!”
Marg tells me that she is looking forward to the 2020 legislative session, hoping to support the Secretary of State in making voting easier, guarding “our sacred right to vote.” She’s looking for legislation to make campaign financing more transparent.
Marg hopes to support the Governor and the state Congressional delegation in their efforts, especially around making the immigration process more humane, working to minimize climate change, and supporting education, especially in early childhood.
In addition to leading our state’s party, Marg is half of a powerhouse political team at home: her husband Fred Harris teaches the political process at UNM and is a former US Senator (from Oklahoma) and a former Presidential candidate.


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Whatever the election outcome is, the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council is hoping for a mixed result.
“From our perspective, we just want a mayor and council that will engage with the Downtown Eastside a little more than they have in the past six years,” said co-president Matthew Greenwood in a phone interview with the Courier.
The neighbourhood council is part of the Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods, which formed last year after nearly 20 community groups banned together in an effort to change the city’s planning process.
“We didn’t feel like we had a voice, that everything that was said fell on deaf ears,” he said. “Jak King did a great job of organizing us. Frankly, we’d go to the consultation meetings and it seemed there’s not one thing that made it from the consultation meetings into the actual plan.”
Greenwood added having a variety of political views in city hall will allow for better representation, benefiting all neighbourhoods because “more voices are better than one.”
While critical of Vision Vancouver in the past, Greenwood said if incumbent Vision Mayor Gregor Robertson is handed the reins again, his council and the coalition will continue to work with the party.
“We don’t endorse any one candidate. We just want whoever is in power to work with us.”
If it were up to him, Greenwood would like to see a ward system put in place to accurately reflect the needs of each neighbourhood.
“Each area is unique and having councillors spread all over the city seems kind of the wrong approach. We need one person who knows Downtown Eastside issues, we don’t need 10 people that graze over a file whenever it comes up on the agenda at city council meetings.”
When asked who will win the city’s top job, Greenwood couldn’t call it, but anticipated a larger voter turnout than in 2011.
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'The author's real subject is the heave and crush of modern, polyglot Rome, and he renders the jabs of everyday speech with such precision that the novel feels exclaimed rather than written.' - The New Yorker
Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultural anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. He recently completed a Ph.D. thesis entitled Living Islam as a Minority. His first novel, Le cimici eil pirata (Bedbugs and the Pirate), was published in 1999. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, winner of Italys prestigious Flaiano prize, is his second novel. He currently resides in New York.
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Four American troops are dead after an attack on a military base in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the violence. This as they plan to meet with US officials soon. Nikole Killion explains why the two rivals are sitting down.
Salinas Police Chief Kelly McMillin wants his officers to wear cameras on their uniforms, but first, he must get the funding from the city's Measure V committee and convince his officers that it's a good idea.


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India third on list of countries with highest cumulative vaccination numbers: Health ministry
India is third globally, after the US and the UK, in highest cumulative vaccination numbers, the Union health ministry said on Thursday. Till 8 am on Thursday, the cumulative vaccination coverage of healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) against Covid-19 in the country has crossed 94 lakh, the ministry said.
Till 8 am on Thursday, the cumulative vaccination coverage of healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) against Covid-19 in the country has crossed 94 lakh, the ministry said.
The daily Covid-19 positivity rate has also seen a constant decline in the last seven days. From 1.89 per cent on February 1, it has dropped to 1.69 per cent on Thursday, it said.
A total of 94,22,228 vaccine doses have been given to beneficiaries through 1,99,305 sessions till 8 am on February 18, as per the provisional report.
These include 61,96,641 HCWs (first dose), 3,69,167 HCWs (second dose) and 28,56,420 FLWs (first dose).
The administration of the second dose of Covid-19 vaccination started on February 13 for those beneficiaries who had completed 28 days after receipt of the first dose.
The vaccination of the FLWs started from February 2.
As on day 33 (February 18) of the vaccination drive, a total of 4,22,998 vaccine doses were given across 7,932 sessions.
Of which, 3,30,208 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose and 92,790 received the second dose.
The ministry said 58.20 per cent of those who have received the second dose are concentrated in seven states while Karnataka alone accounts for 14.74 per cent (54,397 doses).
India's cumulative recoveries have surged to 1.06 crore (1,06,56,845) on Thursday, the ministry said.
"Rising recoveries along with contained daily deaths have ensured a sustained fall in the Covid-19 active caseload," the ministry underlined.
India's present active cases (1,37,342) constitute just 1.25 per cent of the total infections with 11,987 patients having recuperated in a span of 24 hours, it said.
The distribution of new cases depicts a positive picture. Only two states have registered more than 1,000 new cases during the period, it said.
Sixteen states and UTs have not reported any Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, it said.
These are Delhi, Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Ladakh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tripura, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Arunachal Pradesh. In a span of 24 hours, only one state has recorded more than 20 deaths, the ministry said.
Kerala and Maharashtra account for 75 per cent of the new cases, 72 per cent of new recovered cases and 55 per cent of new deaths, it said.
According to the ministry, 85.14 per cent of the new recovered cases are concentrated in six states.
At 4,932, Kerala has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries while 3,853 people recovered in Maharashtra followed by Karnataka (537).
A total 12,881 new daily cases have been recorded in a span of 24 hours.
The ministry said 86.61 per cent of the new cases are from six states.
Kerala continues to report the highest daily new cases at 4,892 followed by Maharashtra (4,787), while Tamil Nadu reported 454 new cases.
Meanwhile, 101 fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours, officials said, adding that five States account forÂ 76.24 per cent of the new deaths, it said.
Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (40) followed by Kerala (16) and Punjab (10), it said.


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For the quarter ended May 3, Hudson’s Bay posted a profit of $176 million Canadian (about $161.5 million), or 97 Canadian cents a share, compared with a loss including discontinued operations of C$82 million, or 68 Canadian cents, a year earlier.
Net retail sales jumped to $1.855 billion Canadian from $884 million Canadian. Total comparable store sales were up 2.8%. By department store, Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor had a 2.5% rise in comp sales while Saks Fifth Avenue rose 2.6%. Off Fifth outlet sales were up 15.1%.
Digital sales were $207 million in the quarter and included sales at Hudson’s Bay Company, Saks and Lord & Taylor.
They accounted for 11% of the company’s overall sales in the quarter–a figure HBC is hoping to raise to 20% over the next five years. One of the reasons HBC bought Saks last year was that its digital capabilities were more developed.
Gross margin rate improved by 30 bps to 40.6% on strong demand in key categories.
“Overall first quarter performance was in the range of our expectations,” CEO Richard Baker said. “We are encouraged by the business trends witnessed through the quarter, which bode well for the balance of this year.”
Baker also said the Hudson’s Bay Co. wants to increase digital sales across its retail brands and growth will also include new stores in the United States and Canada. The company has said two Toronto locations will open in the fall of 2015. Meanwhile, the retailer is bringing more high-end merchandise to its Saks stores while also moving ahead with plans to double the number of Off 5th outlet stores.
HBC said it completed the sale and lease back of its Queen Street flagship store and Simpson Tower office complex in Toronto for a purchase price of $650 million and used most of the net proceeds to reduce debt.
The company completed its acquisition of luxury U.S. retailer Saks late in 2013 for $2.9 billion including debt and is planning to bring the brand to Canada.
Hudson’s Bay Co. reaffirmed its outlook for fiscal 2014. Total sales are expected to be in the range of $7.8 billion to 8.1 billion Canadian. This implies low-to-mid single-digit consolidated same store sales growth calculated on a local currency basis, driven in part by strong digital sales growth.

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Henry is Kind, Linda Ryden’s book about heartfulness practice, is bright, fun and engaging, which is wonderful because it means kids will love it. And, the book provides an easy way for teachers and parents to help children understand and enjoy being kind, which means adults will love it too. It is a pleasure to think of the benefits Henry is Kind may bring to children and families.
– Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness and Real Love
In this engaging story, Ms. Snowden and her class practice sending kind thoughts to the people they love, and launch a class Kindness Project. There is only one problem: Henry can’t think of one kind thing he has done, and decides kindness is stupid!
Henry’s discovery of the many ways he can be kind will inspire young readers to use the simple mindfulness practice taught in the book to develop their own capacities for kindness.
Written by Linda Ryden; illustrated by Shearry Malone. Published by Tilbury House Publishers. Hard cover; 32 pages; full color. 9.25 x 10.25 inches. Copyright 2018, Peace of Mind Inc.

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(ORLANDO, Fla.) – Nick Chilelli had been driving his utility truck with a broken air conditioner for about 18 hours, all the way from Cincinnati, when his convoy got trapped behind a car wreck just outside Orlando, Florida, at about 2 a.m. Saturday morning.
They were among thousands of line workers racing through the night to stage their trucks and tools for Hurricane Irma, a monstrous storm expected to knock out power to half of the nation’s third most-populous state.
They had been told to expect to work at least a month of straight 16-hour days, with no breaks, trying to restore power to millions of homes.
Many of the journeyman linemen, as their union calls them, savored both the financial opportunity and the adventure of racing into a historic hurricane.
“I’ll probably make 30 grand this month,” said Chilelli, 48. “Everybody out here is killing it. Of course, you’re dealing with something that could kill you any minute.”
He has good use for the money. As he chased work in the storm, Chilelli left his wife behind with a new foster child, 11-month old Gage.
A far bigger threat to the electric grid than Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Irma threatens to knock out power to more than 4.1 million homes and businesses served by Florida Power & Light, affecting about 9 million people.
“Everyone in Florida will be impacted in some way by this storm,” FPL Chief Executive Officer Eric Silagy said on Friday, preparing the utility’s customers for a multiweek restoration process.
The NextEra Energy Inc unit is Florida’s biggest power company, serving almost half of the state’s 20.6 million residents. Utilities handling the rest of the state, including units of Duke Energy Corp, Southern Co and Emera Inc, have not yet estimated potential outages, which are likely to be substantial.
The utility workers whom FPL deployed shared their storm stories as they waited for more than an hour early on Saturday morning for authorities to clear an accident west of Orlando on U.S. Highway 27.
FPL had already amassed about 5,000 trucks in a staging area in Lake City, in northern Florida near Jacksonville, the utility workers said, just the first of legions more trucks and workers needed to restore the grid.
This is one example of the economic jolt from the enormous rebuilding process required after a storm of Irma’s magnitude.
“It’s a good gig – big bucks – we’re all union contractors” with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said Brian Wilson, 34, who rode in the truck in front of Chilelli in the stalled convoy. “You never want to see a disaster, but it’s good for me.”
The utility repair workers typically make about $50 an hour, which jumps to $75 for overtime and $100 on Sundays, Chilelli said.
Wilson, who is from North Andover, Massachusetts, drove in Friday morning with 30-year-old Russ Konicke from Connecticut, where the two had been working.
“It’s my first hurricane,” said Konicke, who is from Fairbanks, Alaska. “I just became a journeyman lineman last year.”
The industry appealed to Konicke, in part because of the adventure of traveling the nation chasing storms and work. In Connecticut, he lived out of his car and a tiny tent – really, just a boxy cover on a cot – while he spent his money exploring New England.
He also likes working outside in the weather, which made the journey into the hurricane all the more tantalizing.
“I’m really excited about it,” Konicke said. “It’s a completely new experience … I’ve been in extreme cold and extreme heat, and now extreme wind.”


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Reuben Foster, the 49ers’ inside linebacker, was arrested Sunday on charges of domestic violence, threats and possession of an assault weapon, police said.
This is Foster’s second arrest within a month. He was taken into custody on Jan. 12 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., for second-degree marijuana possession, meaning it’s for personal use, a Class A misdemeanor in the state.


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Microsoft Surface Pro X 2020 is currently available starting at ₹1,49,999
Microsoft Surface Pro X is an always-connected PC running on an ARM-based SQ2 processor. It can be used as a laptop or a tablet, thanks to a detachable keyboard. It was launched in India coinciding its global debut earlier this month. It is finally available for purchase. But there’s a catch. Here are the details —
Microsoft Surface Pro X Price and Availability
Microsoft is releasing the 2-in-1 pc for commercial buyers only via authorized resellers at the following prices:
- 256GB storage model costs Rs. 1,49,999
- 512GB variant is priced at Rs. 1,78,999
While the Surface Pro X is available in Platinum and Black colors, the keyboard is out in Platinum, Ice Blue, and Poppy Red variants.
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Microsoft Surface Pro X Specs and Features
The 2-in-1 Pro X sports a 13-inch PixelSense display with a 2,880×1,920 resolution, 3:2 aspect ratio, and a 10-point multitouch touchscreen. Inside, there’s an SQ2 processor co-developed by Microsoft and Qualcomm. The internals also comprises of Adreno 690 GPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR4x RAM, and Snapdragon X24 LTE modem for 4G connectivity. Speaking of which, you get nanoSIM and eSIM slots.
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Among other things, there are things such as WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/ A-GPS/ GLONASS, two USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2 sockets and a Surface Connect port. You can attach the keyboard using the pogo-pin connector. Microsoft claims up to 15 hours of battery life from both the storage SKUs.


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“If I had to limit my advice on health to just 1 tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.”
– Dr. Andrew Weil
Throughout the ages, healers, physicians, psychologists and spiritual guides have used the power of the breath to attain mental, physical and spiritual wellness. Today, their secrets are available to us to use as a pathway to a calm, focused mind, an energized, healthy body and a peaceful spirit.1
When you breathe properly, you can switch off your stress response and switch on your relaxation response, reduce your inflammation, balance your immune system, relieve your anxiety, enhance your health, improve your mental and physical performance, and re-energize yourself.2
If you breathe poorly, low-grade inflammation from chronic shallow breathing can compromise the function of your immune system3,4 and make you more susceptible to serious health conditions, including allergic diseases like asthma, arthritis and Crohn’s disease as well as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), certain cancers and certain infections.5,6 Chronic inflammation from chronic shallow breathing may also increase your risk of developing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and cardiovascular disease.6
Activate the natural anti-inflammatory healing power of your breath.3 “Breathe” is the first of the Vital 7 Healthy Habits.
1 Stevenson S. Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health and Bigger Success. New York, NY: Rodale, Inc; 2016:140-149.
2 Brown RP, Gerbarg PL. The Healing Power of the Breath. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications; 2012.
3 White MG. Inflammation, breathing and oxygen. Optimal Breathing Master Web site. http://www.breathing.com/articles/inflammation.htm. Accessed March 1, 2017.
4 Di Benedetto S, Müller L, Wenger E, Düzel S, Pawelec G. Contribution of neuroinflammation and immunity to brain aging and the mitigating effects of physical and cognitive interventions. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2017;75:114-128.
5 Axe J. Inflammation at the root of most diseases. Dr. Axe Web site. https://draxe.com/inflammation-at-the-root-of-most-diseases. Accessed March 1, 2017.
6 Mandal A. What is oxidative stress? News Medical Life Sciences Web site. www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Oxidative-Stress.aspx. Accessed March 1, 2017.

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The family behind troubled clothing retailer Noni B has accepted a takeover offer from investment and advisory firm Alceon Group, reports Fairfax.
The Kindl family’s agreement to sell their 42% stake to Alceon Group, comes after Noni B shares were placed in a trading halt on Monday. Last week, Noni B posted a $7.8 million loss for the 2013-14 financial year.
According to Fairfax, the Kindl family have agreed to sell their shares for 51 cents a piece and are recommending other shareholders follow suit.
The bid from Alceon values the clothing retailer at $16.4 million, substantially less than the company’s value in 2000 when the Kindl’s floated the company at $1 a share.
Noni B will be the first direct retail investment for Alceon Group, which has interest in shopping malls and residential developments.
Australia Post profit drops 34.5%
Continued declines in mail volumes continue to plague Australia Post, with the national postal service’s profits dropping 34.5% during the 2013-14 financial year.
Australia Post recorded a full-year profit after tax of $116.2 million for the last financial year, attributing the fall to continued declines in mail volumes.
However, Australia Post said earnings before interest and tax rose by 20.8% in the year to $337.5 million.
Managing director and chief executive Ahmed Fahour said in a statement that gains in parcel delivery were not enough to stem the losses.
“For the first time since corporatisation, we have posted an overall company loss in the second half of the financial year,” said Fahour.
“Despite three months of benefit from the 10% increase in the basic postage rate, the profits from our parcels business were overwhelmed by losses in our mail business, resulting in an overall loss of $105.9 million and a trading loss of $42.9 million before restructuring costs, in this six month period.”
Shares down on open
Aussie shares have opened lower this morning, with local investors cautious in the wake of another drop in the price of iron ore.
The S&P/ASX200 benchmark was down 18.2 points to 5637.9 points at 12.08pm AEST. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones closed 10.72 points higher, up 0.06% to 17078.3 points.


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Our Fearless Writer Took on a Spicy Curry Challenge—And Lost
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Crying, vomiting, fainting, nose bleeds, calls to 911: they’re all part of doing business for some of America’s longest-running restaurants. You may not think ambulance sirens would be a boon to business, but you’d be wrong, at least when it comes to restaurants with spicy food challenges. While these “emergencies” are by far the exception, the promotional competitions have been key to longevity for many neighborhood restaurants.
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But after two more characters died at the hands of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in Sunday's midseason finale, it looks like the survivors are finally about to take back control the only way they know how: war!! Reports that co-stars and real life couple Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols got engaged have been making the rounds lately, but according to the actress, it's all bull shiz! But we suppose their fictionalized marriage will have to suffice for now!
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Here they are at the peak of their love story on-screen: Sadly, just five months into married life, our hopes and dreams for the real-life Brooke and Lucas fell apart as their marriage crumbled following reports that Chad had cheated on his wife with Paris Hilton. Following her turbulent break-up with Chad, Sophia didn't beat around the bush and began something with co-star James Lafferty.
In May 2008, they officially became an item before ending it exactly a year later. The actress dated her third man from the series in the shape of Austin Nichols.
Mc Casland The acts of generosity and good will that flourish in December often fade quickly, causing many to say, “I wish we could keep the Christmas spirit all year long.” Why does it seem that kindness and compassion are chained to the calendar?
Sophia Bush has broken up with long-term boyfriend Austin Nichols.
'It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic–another joke marriage,' Sophia has said about that chapter in her life. because I knew what I was getting into and will always believe in love.'In 2008 Chad indicated that Sophia had moved on with co-star James Lafferty, 28, saying 'Sophia and I are both professional and mature enough to get through it ...
One Tree Hill may have ended years ago, but the characters that made up the show still linger in our memories as we hope and pray for a happy reunion one day.
She was an aspiring model, whose beauty had caught the eye of companies like Nike.
"Tell me about this," Van Sant asked while holding up a photo of Rhonda."That was part of her modeling portfolio.


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His natural practice-field enemies, the defensive tackles, might be the most talented position on the Bucs’ roster, led by Pro Bowler Gerald McCoy.Cora likely doesn’t want to provide any false hope to fans and especially Pedroia, who’s probably the most anxious to return to the diamond.The most memorable moment of the night, however, came during the postgame celebration, where both teams took part in honoring the Finnish wholesale nfl jerseys china Flash.Joining Penn are Kelechi Osemele, Cameron Hunt, Brandon Parker, Jamar McGloster, Johnny Townsend, Ryan Yurachek, Darren Waller, Paul Butler and Clinton McDonald.Recorded a half sack of QB Philip Rivers on Dec.
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With respect to Kariya, hopefully this is a sign that perhaps down the road, the Ducks will finally raise his conspicuously absent No.Edwards, last season’s leading scorer for Pepperdine, made his first appearance in the last 10 games and finished with 13 points.Gandy-Golden caught four passes for 123 yards and Damian King had eight for 108, including a 22-yard TD reception.I thought the worst had happened, Irving said.Andre Kennedy added 16 points and nine rebounds.
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Planning for retirement is a decades-long journey. Throughout this journey, you continue to learn more and more about ways to save for retirement, your different options for retirement accounts, tax strategies, and retirement planning in general. However, there may still be aspects of retirement accounts that you are not aware of. Continue reading to learn three things you didn’t know about retirement accounts.
1. 401(k) Fees Can Be Lowering Your Growth
You may just be contributing funds to your 401(k) without looking at the expense ratio of the fund. The expense ratio is how much it costs to invest in the fund based on a percentage of the total assets in your fund. The expense ratio varies from fund to fund. It is important to understand this cost of investing since it cuts into your overall annual return on your investment. If your 401(k) fund is supposed to have a return of 6% and the expense ratio is 2%, your actual gain is only 4%. To combat this and get a true return, you will need to contribute your return percentage plus your expense ratio.
2. You Can Switch A Life Insurance Policy For An Annuity
If you have a cash-value life insurance policy that is paid up and don’t need it anymore, you could exchange the policy for an annuity. Section 1035 allows this exchange tax-free. You could trade in the life insurance policy for an income annuity to provide you with a guaranteed stream of income. For the income annuity, you can choose a deferred or immediate type to decide when you begin receiving income from the annuity. You are also able to choose the payout term, whether it’s several years or the rest of your life.
3. IRAs Can Be Transferred And Rolled Over
You are not stuck with the same brokerage you opened your IRA with. As long as you keep the same type of IRA account, you can transfer to another brokerage or roll over your account.
To transfer, you will have the funds from your IRA directly delivered to another financial institution. These transactions are not reported to the IRS but could come with account closeout, account set-up, and/or annual fees so be aware before making a transfer.
For a rollover, you are moving funds from one type of retirement account into another within 60 days of withdrawing the funds yourself. A common rollover is to move funds from your 401(k) to an IRA. However, you can also roll your IRA funds into a 401(k). This is a great option to prevent having to take required minimum distributions (RMDs) since 401(k) funds where you currently work are not subject to RMDs, therefore not having to pay taxes on the funds.
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Saturday we took on second in the table Broadbridge Heath and in a great game we ran out 4-1 winners with a hat-trick from captain Jack Barnes, another goal from Dominic Johnson-Fisher, and a complete midfield performance from Dayvarn Downer. Well done the whole squad and management team.
On Sunday saw a roller-coaster where having gone one down to Maidstone United we took a 3-1 lead with goals from Ellie, Leigh, and Abby C, (all great goals btw) which in the end we could not hold and the final score was 3-3. Another good crowd in attendance. And well done to our mascots – all players in our growing girls section. A community club.

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Abilene City Council candidates talk city growth, infrastructure
ABILENE, Texas - The three candidates for the Abilene City Council Place 3 seat went head to head -- to head -- Tuesday evening at the Abilene Public Library Mockingbird Branch.
The Hispanic Leadership Council held a public forum for Place 3 candidates who are all vying for the seat currently held by Anthony Williams, who's running for mayor.
Cory Clements, Donna Albus and Ryan Marrs addressed several issues in the community, including road infrastructure, the city's after-school program and future bonds.
We caught up with each candidate after the forum.
"If we don't secure water, we don't secure commerce, we don't secure our infrastructure, then we will push people away," Marrs said.
"We do have to do some other things to help bring in the young people, bring in business, better paying jobs, and overall quality of life that doesn't necessarily have to cost the tax payers money," Clements said.
"I know it takes partnerships to make it successful, and so I am an advocate for us all working together and accomplishing great things in our city," Albus said.
Weldon Hurt was also on hand to answer questions. He's running unopposed for the Place 4 seat.
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by Mike Pyatt
A compelling question, worth consideration, regarding honesty, may be, “Why would anyone rather be dishonest?” In “Gulliver’s Travels,” Jonathon Swift confronts his readers in a “Voyage to the Houyhnhnms.” This race of horse creatures were so rational they found dishonesty incongruous, nearly unintelligible. One explained to Gulliver, “the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts; now if anyone said the thing which was not, these ends were defeated.” This was the Houyhnhnms locution for shining light on the practice of telling lies. Apparently, our human race, unlike the Houyhnhnms, aren’t fully rational, Swift pointed out.
Most mature adults know we harbor a disparate array of impulses and tendencies that are inimical to reason and honesty. Every act of social intercourse demands people to act in concert with honesty. In “Homer’s Iliad,” Achilles decried the pervasive speed of dishonesty, “I hate that man like the very Gates of Death who says one thing but hides another in his heart.” Genuine disdain for dishonesty is a prerequisite to honesty. It isn’t pliable and flexible as we’ve distorted in daily life. It is being real, genuine, bona fide, upright, authentic, versus fake, feigned or duplicitous. If we were cursed with Pinocchio’s lie-lengthened proboscis, like the nineteenth century Italian tale, by Carlos Lorenzini, we may relent, at least publicly. The wooden puppet was recovering from a bout of having fallen in with the “wrong crowd.” Predictably, for some of us, our nose would rival an elephant’s trunk.
It’s easy to point one’s long bony finger at those whom we deem more dishonest than ourselves. Our favorite targets are politicians. More often than not, politics focuses on a desired outcome, ignoring honesty. Bill Bennett said honesty is best cultivated, “Like most virtues, it is best developed and exercised in harmony with others. The more it is exercised, the more it becomes a settled disposition.” His point: take it seriously. We do so when approaching our daily physical exercise regimen. The too familiar bromide, “Honesty is the best policy,” is woefully inadequate when absolutes reigned. Parents are often knavish by warning their offspring, “Don’t let me catch you doing that again.” The savvy little cookie grabber translates that message, “I should avoid getting caught.” We’re reminded that moral development isn’t a game of “Catch me if you can.” Rather indefatigable inculcation. Half-heartedness won’t work. Kids smell it like freshly baked cookies.
History is long regarding parents reading bed-time stories to their children-a tradition that may render eternal dividends. Stories with moral underpinnings designed to reach one’s inner core. Even if one must download it to the i-Phone, it’s possible. While it sounds counter intuitive to this culture, Aesop’s fables undisputedly underscore upright character. “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” final line is still relevant, “That is the kind of thing that happens to people who lie: even when they do tell the truth they will not be believed.” The serial liar has written a script that’s hard to revise. An obscure folktale, “Someone Sees You,” reminds us that the act of dishonesty is never truly hidden. A thievish father plotted to “sneak into his neighbor’s field and steal some wheat.” He not only purloined his neighbor, but implicated his youngest daughter in the act. He told her, “you must stand guard, and call out if anyone sees me. Fortunately her internal compass pointed in the right direction. Four times she cried out, “Father, someone sees you.” The scheming father didn’t understand. The final line, thrust a dagger into the heart of his duplicity, “Father,” murmured the child, “Someone sees you from above.” A Biblical Truth from the lips of a child is forever contemporary. It’s not abstruse.
The confluence of the Old and New Testament is a unrelenting torrent of truth and honesty. It also reveals the outcome of those choosing another path, and the disastrous outcome, when that path excludes genuine repentance. The Book of Amos chronicles Israel’s growing callousness to God’s disciplining hand. Famine, drought, death, destruction and plagues-yet nothing forced them to their recalcitrant knees, and repentance. Like a basket of rotting fruit, his people stood ripe for judgment. Dishonesty, hypocrisy and injustice reigned. God’s oracle, Amos, a promoted sheepherder, reminded them of the outcome. God asked, “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt.” The story of Israel’s forty year wandering in Exodus is compelling to young curious, developing minds. Parents learn too. A great gig for grandparents. The Brothers Grimm moral of the “The Frog Prince,” is the king’s conscience, “That which thou hast promised must thou perform.” Kids raptly absorb the story line of an ugly, speaking frog, who in the end, as he fell to the ground, turned at once into a charming prince. Transformed by honesty.
Nowhere is honesty more on display than Hans Christian Andersen’s, “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” We see the pestilence of feigned flattery, and that honesty, unlike new clothing, is always in vogue. Called out by a child, the Emperor was foolishly determined, though his intuition was the people were right. “I must face this out to the end and go on with the procession,” he said, continuing undaunted, “So he held himself more stiffly than ever, and the chamberlains held up the train that was not there.” Dishonesty corrupts not only the perpetrator, but spreads like a plague to those roundabout, when one’s authority influences others to advance that charade.
Pathological liars fool a polygraph. Prevaricators once possessed the capacity for honesty. The youngest daughter was right, “Someone sees you from above.” We all fall short. It takes a Savior bigger than our universally stained nature. Whether it’s swaying a political crowd with soaring rhetoric, or whispering in someone’s ear, be honest. Dishonesty defeats the outcome of understanding. Sadly, honesty has been supplanted by moral relativism, as an incidental byproduct of expediency. What do you think?
Mike Pyatt’s a Natrona County resident. His email’s email@example.com


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Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress have been linked with many pathological conditions. Studies suggest that antioxidants able to accumulate in the inner regions of the mitochondria as well as possessing the chemical entities to cross membranes such as the blood brain barrier, could potentially overcome many of the limitations found with current antioxidants.
Nitrones have demonstrated great antioxidant potential due to their free radical scavenging properties, cardio and neuro-protective activities. In this research, several synthetic studies were performed with the aim of synthesizing a novel hydroxylamine of potential utility for the preparation of mitochondria targeted nitrones. These studies resulted in the generation of a synthetic intermediate, N-(3-(1H-imidazol-1-yl)propyl)-2,2,3-trimethyl-3-nitrobutaminde, that although lacking the desired hydroxyl- amino functionality, this intermediate is, in theory, an immediate precursor to a molecule that is endowed with the structural characteristics to deliver tethered nitrones to the inner regions of the mitochondria.
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This is the Coombabah Conservation Preserve. If you have sharp eyes you can spot koalas maxin’ and relaxin’ in the trees. The kangaroos and wallabies are everywhere. They’re old hat now.
Man, that black marsh sure was creepy.
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Toyota GR86 2022 Price in Pakistan. For the 2022 model year, the Toyota GR86 is completely new, and it follows the same rear-wheel-drive formula as the first-generation car.
The 2022 GR86 will be powered by a horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine and a standard six-speed manual transmission developed once again in collaboration with the Subaru BRZ.
Toyota has addressed our primary concern with the previous model by increasing the GR86’s horsepower for 2022. The new model is driven by a 2.4-litre horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine that produces 228 horsepower, up from the 2.0-litre mill in the previous model. Toyota GR86 latest model Price in Pakistan.
The end effect is a fantastic driving experience for the money, earning it positions on our 10Best and Editors’ Choice lists. Toyota hasn’t disclosed the official price, but the GR86 is expected to start at under $30,000.
The Premium variant adds 18-inch wheels with Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tyres, leather upholstery, a rear spoiler, and aluminium pedal covers to the list of standard features. Toyota GR86 2022 Price in Pakistan.
Toyota GR86 2022 Price in Pakistan
|Toyota GR86 2022||PKR 5168820 (Estimated)|
|Toyota GR86 Premium 2022||PKR 5653980 (Estimated)|
Toyota GR86 2022 Price in USA
|Toyota GR86 2022||$27,700 US Dollar (Estimated)|
|Toyota GR86 Premium 2022||$30,300 US Dollar (Estimated)|
Toyota GR86 2022 Interior
The 2022 GR86 is similar in size and shape to the previous model. The GR86 and the Subaru BRZ are the only two cheap sports cars that offer seats for four people.
The rear seats aren’t particularly pleasant or roomy, but they are convenient. The interiors of the Subaru and Toyota versions look to be similar, with the exception of slight differences on the dashboard surrounding the infotainment display.
For 2022, an 8.0-inch infotainment touchscreen replaces the previous-generation car’s smaller 7.0-inch display; the GR86 also includes a 7.0-inch digital gauge display with Normal, Sport, and Track settings.
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are both standards, and all models come with a three-month subscription to SiriusXM satellite radio. The base model has a six-speaker sound system, but the Premium trim has an eight-speaker system.
Toyota GR86 2022 Exterior
The 2022 GR86, like the first-generation car, is powered by a Subaru naturally aspirated horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine.
The outgoing model’s acceleration was quite rapid, at 6.2 seconds to 60 mph, but the 2022 model should be somewhat faster, owing to a more powerful 2.4-litre engine with 228 horsepower.
The GR 86 comes standard with a six-speed manual transmission, with a six-speed automatic transmission available as an option.
We noticed that the more powerful engine felt and sounded better on our initial test drive and that the car’s razor-sharp handling gave thrills both on the road and at the Monticello Motor Club race track.
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I refer to the “top 8” at least once or twice a week… to friends, relatives, to the public, and sometimes I forget what life was like before I learned about food allergies, so I wanted to share some information on this in preparation for a challenge that I’m hosting on August 8 to eliminate the top 8 from your diet.
People can be allergic to any food but the following eight foods account for 90% of all food allergies: milk, eggs, peanut, tree nuts, soy, wheat, fish, and shellfish. When I thought about food allergies the first ones that come to mind were peanuts, fish, and wheat – the others were more of a surprise to me – and the fact that just 8 foods make up 90% of food allergies was really surprising to me.
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With the hopes of spreading awareness and educating the public about food allergies I will be challenging you to see if you could you eliminate these foods from your diet for a day? If not for a day could you do it for one meal?
Stay tuned for more details of the Top 8 Free Challenge happening on 8/8!

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text: i've never seen harder evidence of two planted reviews. . take it from someone who worked there. every bad review of this place couldnt be truer. too bad thier employees get treated the same as the customers do. this isnt just a few angry customers.. it's status quo.

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Arsenal FC narrowly escaped another shambolic result on last game weekend fixture after they won 3 goals against Cardiff City despite the newly promoted club humbling them with two shocker goals.
The Wenger-less club could have easily let their win slip away the same way they dropped their points to Man City and Chelsea, but thanks to a Nigerian juju man who ‘blessed’ spirits of players before they went on to win their second game in a row.
The Juju man is seen administering ‘blessings’ on player’s jersey as he keeps mumbling and fumbling with slightly audible words. His insatiable appetite to ‘bless’ country man Alex Iwobi was also a moment of hilarity in his mission.
Unai Emery who replaced Arsene Wenger no doubt has struggled in his first four matches.
So after two unfortunate results by @Arsenal, I stormed their dressing room to bless it and boom the boys won the third game against West Ham. Can I hear Cheeee 😂😂.
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Samuel Bayer's Masterclass, photo by Wojciech Gruszczyński
First times are hard, although for Samuel Bayer they would usually turn out to be quite lucky. When this year's recipient of the Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Music Videos decided to quit his career as a painter, he took out for lunch a person who could help him with his plan. He could afford to pay just for her meal, but he got his first commission; he had to shoot a music video for an unknown band from Seattle to a song with a rather strange title - Smells like Teen Spirit.
At Camerimage Festival Samuel Bayer made his debut as a lecturer. Did the first time turned out to be lucky again?
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Even though it was the last day of the festival, people were crowding in front of the room where Bayer was supposed to hold a master class. Nobody was more surprised by it than the filmmaker himself: “I had a couple of drinks before I came here because I was really scared. I thought there would be five people at most, which would be really bad for my ego."
With his looks and his behavior he resembled a rock star, rather than a director and cinematographer with a staggering body of work. Although he wouldn't admit his age, it was betrayed by the lack of familiarity with recent bands. “What's the name of this band, Sugar Rose?" - he asked, meaning popular musicians from Iceland. On hearing the right answer, he just shook his head: “I'm like your father who doesn't have a clue about anything."
Samuel Bayer used to work with the best, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that he was throwing anecdotes left and right. He told amused listeners that after taking too much acid the lead singer of Blind Melon tried to seduce...a cow, how he ruined Robbie Williams' career in the United States and about Mick Jagger's untamed libido, who spent years chasing after a beauty who played in a music video to Anybody Seen My Baby. Her name was Angelina Jolie. “She was a completely unknown, twenty-two-year-old girl, I even saw her naked...what I was saying?" - he muttered plunging into pleasant memories.
He showed music videos that still make him proud after many years: Smells Like Teen Spirit and Anybody Seen My Baby, which were already mentioned before, Zombie by The Cranberries which was shot in Ireland, Until It Sleeps by Metallica, alluding to the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Bullet with Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins, inspired by Sebastião Selgado's photographs, No Rain by Blind Melon, What Goes Around...Comes Around by Justin Timberlake and antiwar Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day. The last one holds a special place in his heart: “I'm friends with Sean Penn and with my friend Dave we went to maneuvers with him in the desert, and this really hardcore guy from SEAL team 6 which was training with him hated my guts. He thought I was some hippie kid and was really mean to me (...) Sean wrote me an email that he showed him this video on the last day when they were doing maneuvers and the guy started bawling like a baby."
Still from "Zombie"
Music has always played an important part in his life, he considers the opportunity to meet his heroes, get drunk with David Bowie, hang out with Johnny Lee Hooker and The Stones as the most wonderful thing in his career. "It has been amazing working with these guys. Jagger has never been on a subway system before and Keith Richards was smoking pot on set, he threw a joint down on the floor and my crew went leaping through the air. I don't know if they were trying to get some pot or see what was keeping him alive."
Bayer wasn't trying to hide that working with such strong personalities often meant that conflicts and even fights would break out on set. However, after so many years he is proud that he was fighting to save his vision at all costs: “I have my name on a horrible movie and I tell people that it was like a Stockholm syndrome. I wanted to please my captors, the producers, I was a really nice guy and at the end of the day I got screwed over because the movie sucks. And when I did music videos, I was arrogant enough and egotistical enough, but also strong enough as an artist that I never let them. You have to fight for what you want." His collaboration with Nirvana, on which depended his whole career, turned out to be one of the worst experiences he has ever had. Nevertheless, he didn't back down: “I look at this video now and I think it's pure emotion, raw and nasty. The only advice I can give you guys is to fight for what you want, because no one is going to give it to you."
On set he was always both a director and a cinematographer because, as he noted, he has to look through the lens himself. Images, not words, were always the most important. “When I see The Shining by Kubrick, this blood coming through the elevator, these twins at the end of the hallway - these are like music video images in a way. When I see certain images I don't care about the story, I'm just so enamored with the visual. The last thing I ever want to know is what the lyrics were about. It's the absolute last thing. Wake Me Up When September Ends is about Billy Joe Armstrong's father dying, that's really what it's about. I came up with this idea to make it about the war."
This year Bayer was the head of the Jury of the Music Videos Competition and he was impressed by what he saw: “I don't really watch music videos anymore and I don't really do them, I do commercials. I thought that s... was better that what we did back then, and I come from a generation where there was Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze, and Fincher was doing stuff, and Mark Romanek, so from a very competitive time in music videos." Even though he still makes music videos from time to time (last year he made Payphone by Maroon 5), he considers that chapter of his life to be over: “The music has changed. I don't hear a lot of stuff that I want to do videos for. I don't want to do Katy Perry's video, Justin Bieber's video, One Direction video. It's a young person's game. I thing music videos should be done by young people, not by middle-aged people (...) I am proud of what I did, but I think my time is kind of over." More than one person in the room felt regret on hearing these words. Not bad for the first time.

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A native of Grenoble, Marc Folly trained at the School of Applied Arts in Lyon. He quickly adopts watercolor and devotes himself to it, developing a style associating a figurative drawing with intense hues and finely worked values. The artist Lyonnais exposes today in many countries, including China, Taiwan and the United States (2017).
Profoundly memorable, the watercolors of Marc Folly never leave indifferent. The work of the Lyon artist is always instantly recognizable, whatever the subject. These have moreover tended to vary lately. Beside the workshops, which he still loves to paint and in which he returns with pleasure, Marc Folly allows himself a new incursion into the landscape (a genre he had already treated in the past), as well as in painting almost monochrome. However, if there is one thing that has not changed, it is the rigor of its approach and technique, based on the triad drawing, values, colors. Everything begins with a base drawn with a streak a nervous strand, on which the artist poses its values, before adding, enf in, the colored hues. The technique is only a tool at the service of the will, conscious or unconscious, of the painter.
Hard to describe his own work! The style is a way of doing, modeled by learning, habits, experience ... It is created over time and it is complicated to define it in a few words. But each way of painting has dominant characteristics. One of mine is undoubtedly a particular attention to the trait. As I often say during an internship, being a good draftsman is like being a good painter: the good stroke of a pencil gives the right brushstroke. And I work a lot on the drawing of my watercolors ...The Art of Watercolour #33, p77 Marc Folly


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A popular fast-food restaurant on Lakeshore Drive will be welcoming guests this week.
Officials with McDonald's Canada have informed BayToday that the interior portion of the restaurant that has been closed since October 16 for renovations will re-open on December 9.
"The renovations to the restaurant include upgrades to both the back of the house and front of the house, improving the restaurant’s capacities and enhancing the overall guest experience," McDonald's Canada stated in an email.
To celebrate, local franchisee Colin MacWhirter and his team will be hosting a Friends and Family night on Thursday, December 7, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
During this time, they'll be selling $5 Happy Meals and Extra Value Meals, with 100 per cent of the proceeds directly supporting Ronald McDonald House Charities.
" As part of Colin and his team’s commitment to positive community connection, a brand-new modern PlayPlace will also be opening, providing a free and fun place for families to build memories and spend quality time together," the release stated.
The ownership team will be hosting a grand opening event on Saturday, December 9, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., featuring family activities such as face painting, a photo booth, and a surprise special guest appearance.


Norway's global pension fund has dropped three companies with a role in producing nuclear weapons or cluster munitions, including GenCorp Inc.
The Norwegian government's pension fund -- worth more than $377 billion and managed by the central Bank of Norway -- also cited Hanwha Corp. of South Korea and Serco Group plc of Britain for their weapons-related operations. The fund found that Hanwha was involved in making cluster munitions and that GenCorp and Serco had a role in producing nuclear arms.
Norway, a NATO alliance member, has been campaigning against cluster bombs, which often go off long after the conflict ends.
Shares of GenCorp (NYSE: GY) closed down 37 cents -- or 3.4 percent -- at $10.43 Friday, a 52-week low for the defense and aerospace manufacturer based near Rancho Cordova.


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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is caused by a virus; the main symptoms are pneumonia and fever. The virus is passed on when people sneeze or cough. In 2003 there were over 8,000 cases and 774 deaths worldwide. The situation was alarming, because the first ever cases only appeared in 2002, in China, and so the best way to treat this new disease was unknown.
Not many drugs are effective against viruses and all doctors can usually do with a viral disease is to treat symptoms like fever and inflammation, and rely on the body's own immune system to fight off the virus. However, in recent years a number of antiviral drugs have been developed (for example, there are several in use against HIV/AIDS) and there was hope that some of them might be active against SARS. Steroids have also been used in SARS treatment to try to reduce the inflammation of the lungs. To find out which, if any, of the potential treatments were effective, a number of research studies were carried out, both during and since the outbreak.
The World Health Organization (WHO) established an International SARS Treatment Study Group, which recommended that a 'systematic review' of potential SARS treatments should be carried out. In particular, it was considered important to bring together all the available evidence on the use of certain antiviral drugs (ribavirin, lopinavir and ritonavir), steroids, and proteins called immunoglobulins which are found naturally in human blood. The WHO group wanted to know how these treatments affected the virus outside the body ('in vitro') and whether it helped the condition of patients and reduced the death rate, especially in those patients who developed a dangerous complication called acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Researchers conducted a comprehensive search for information from research studies that fitted carefully pre-defined selection criteria. They found 54 SARS treatment studies, 15 in- vitro studies, and three acute respiratory distress syndrome studies. Some of the in-vitro studies with the antiviral drugs found that a particular drug reduced the reproduction rate of the viruses, but most of the studies of these drugs in patients were inconclusive. Of 29 studies on steroid use, 25 were inconclusive and four found that the treatment caused possible harm.
From the published studies, it is not possible to say whether any of the treatments used against SARS were effective. It is now many months since any new cases have been reported, but it is possible that the same or a similar virus might cause outbreaks in the future. It is disappointing that none of the research on SARS so far is likely to be useful in helping to decide on the best treatments to use in such an outbreak. The authors examined the weaknesses of the studies they found and urge that more effective methods of research should be applied in any future outbreaks. Their recommendations mean that researchers should be better prepared to learn from potential future outbreaks.
Citation: Stockman LJ, Bellamy R, Garner P (2006) SARS: Systematic review of treatment effects. PLoS Med 3(9): e343.
3D images of cancer cells in the body: Medical physicists from Halle present new method
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So-called quantum many-body scars allow quantum systems to stay out of equilibrium much longer, explaining experiment | Study published in Nature Physics
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The historic first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes far outside our galaxy opened a new window to understanding the universe. A...
A team led by Austrian experimental physicist Rainer Blatt has succeeded in characterizing the quantum entanglement of two spatially separated atoms by observing their light emission. This fundamental demonstration could lead to the development of highly sensitive optical gradiometers for the precise measurement of the gravitational field or the earth's magnetic field.
The age of quantum technology has long been heralded. Decades of research into the quantum world have led to the development of methods that make it possible...
Cardiovascular tissue engineering aims to treat heart disease with prostheses that grow and regenerate. Now, researchers from the University of Zurich, the Technical University Eindhoven and the Charité Berlin have successfully implanted regenerative heart valves, designed with the aid of computer simulations, into sheep for the first time.
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A team of scientists of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg investigated optically-induced superconductivity in the alkali-doped fulleride K3C60under high external pressures. This study allowed, on one hand, to uniquely assess the nature of the transient state as a superconducting phase. In addition, it unveiled the possibility to induce superconductivity in K3C60 at temperatures far above the -170 degrees Celsius hypothesized previously, and rather all the way to room temperature. The paper by Cantaluppi et al has been published in Nature Physics.
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The performance of a hypothetical multiprocessor back-end database machine is compared to that of a mainframe database system. The hypothetical database machine uses standard microprocessors and disks as well as processors and disks projected to be available in the future. The class of workloads considered is high-volume transaction processing. Analytic queueing models of the two architectures are constructed and used in parametric performance studies. The performance sensitivities with respect to transactions complexity, the amount of overhead required to implement the distributed database function, the amount of skew in the data access pattern, and the buffer miss ratio are determined.


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NORTH BERWICK, Maine — Struggling at the plate toward the end of the high school season because he was trying to pull the ball too much, Nate Curtis decided to sacrifice power for average.
The approach seems to be working.
He went 5 for 5 with three RBIs as Staples Crossing Post 188 rallied for a 12-5 win over Noble in a Zone 4 American Legion baseball matchup Thursday at Noble High School’s John W. Sullivan Field.
It was the opener for both clubs.
Curtis singled home runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to help the visitors overcome a 3-0 deficit.
“He’s a great guy to have in the middle of the order,” said Staples coach Rich Luciano.
With the score tied after six innings, Staples erupted for eight runs in the top of the seventh as the first nine batters reached base.
The key blow was a two-run, opposite field single to right by Shane MacNeill that put his team ahead to stay, 6-4. McNeill reached base three times from the leadoff spot and scored a game-high three runs.
Batting right-handed, Curtis was able to spray the ball around with two hits to left, two to right and one to center.
“I’m not trying to drive the ball right now,” he said. “I’m trying to go opposite field. Everyone preaches that and when you buy in it really does work.”
The rest of the offense was spread out. Jack Cahill was the only other repeat hitter for Staples. He had a bunt single and a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Staples also took advantage of four errors and four walks in the seventh when they sent 13 batters to the plate. Staples benefited 10 walks overall.
“We kind of came out and put some alright swings on the ball but weren’t making contact,” Luciano said. “Once we started taking the line-drive approach and hitting the ball on a line, good things happened.”
Noble grabbed a 3-0 lead in the fourth on an RBI single by pinch hitter David Hamme and Ian Dudley’s two-run single. Staples got one back in the fifth on Curtis’s RBI single and added three more runs in the sixth.
Max Horton ignited the uprising with a lead-off triple. The rally included RBI singles by Trevor Salema, Eli Janetos and Curtis. Trailing for the first time 4-3, Noble pulled even in the home half of the sixth on four consecutive walks to force in the tying run.
Dudley, Dalton Meagher and James Hashem each had a pair of hits for Noble.
“For the first six innings it was a closely contested game,” said Noble coach Brett Burke. “We had a chance to pull it out but we didn’t execute all the way to the end.”


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I never was a party person. Then again, I was never invited to a party. But if I was invited, and if there was a toast to be made, this would be mine. It’s rather long and may be the reason I was never invited to the party 😉 – Kelly
Here’s to all of our mountains: past, present and future. May they enjoy their place in the sea. (Matthew 17:20)
Here’s to faith, hope and love being action verbs and not buzz words.
Here’s to forgiveness, not just for others, but more importantly for ourselves.
Here’s to being our best cheerleader, instead of our own worst critic.
Here’s to moving on.
Here’s to letting bygones be bygones.
Here’s to polite selfishness, putting yourself first in a nice way.
Here’s to purging your MySpace friends list without warning.
Here’s to purging people from your life. It’s needed and very healthy.
Here’s to never being content. I feel if you are content, you never grow. You never push yourself forward.
Here’s to meeting in the middle.
Here’s to realizing you can’t please all the people all the time and being totally okay with that.
Here’s to peace. Real, true, unbelievable peace. (John 14:27)
Here’s to goals. Screw resolutions.
Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson.
Here’s to being humble. Realizing you aren’t the smartest person in the room. However, if you are the smartest person in the room, you need a bigger room.
Here’s to a world free of egos but not Eggos.
Here’s to open doors. May we never simply walk through, but burst through, taking full advantage of every opportunity.
Here’s to blind faith even if it’s really really really blind.
Here’s to stupid questions. My dad once said, there is no such thing as a stupid question. If someone spent their time to ask (and maybe even think), you should always honor him/her with a polite response. This is the easiest way to make friends.
Here’s to ignoring good advice and the consequences it brings.
Here’s to the letter “U” always following the letter “Q”.
Here’s to speaking up and out instead of thinking in and down.
Here’s to family being redefined as a group of people who love you unconditionally, not limited to people you are related to.
Here’s to saying no and the freedom that comes with it.
Here’s to letting love rule.
Here’s to you.
Here’s to me.
Here’s to 2009.


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it looks like they are finally starting to show what their real agenda is:
Animal rights group Peta has targeted Jamie Oliver’s flagship restaurant Fifteen in a protest against the celebrity chef’s promotion of British pork. The move will surprise many, as the chef’s television show investigating pig welfare standards urged people to buy British rather than cheaper pork produced abroad under poorer conditions.
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But Peta argued: “The answer to saving pigs is not to buy British pork, it’s to go vegetarian.”
GO VEGETARIAN thats their whole message, do as we say or else. no suprise really from one of the stallwart bastions of liberal intolerance.


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Illumination, Revelation, Transformation, by Patricia Tull
Excerpt: This column offers an overview of central ecological themes for each week of Epiphany. The progression moves in a logical sequence, beginning with creation’s celestial light on Epiphany itself, to the fundamental elements of water and fire and then God’s gracious gifts, likewise visible in the creation story of Genesis 1, of diversity and relationality, which shine through both in nature overall and in human society.
Complete Article: http://www.workingpreacher.org/craft.aspx?m=4377&post=5268
The journey of the wise men, by the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas
Excerpt: As I pondered today’s Gospel, I got to thinking: what would happen if the wise men walked out of those crèches and into our lives? What would happen if these figures — so easy to trivialize as nothing more than decorative props for a mid-winter festival that we pack away when the festival is done — what if the wise men actually came to life for us? What if their journey informed and deepened our own spiritual search, and propelled it forward? What if their experience of seeking and finding the Christ child was an archetypal journey, one that could lead us into a move vivid and lively relationship with Christ? So I began to read the story for its spiritual significance, as a sacred story about how to grow in intimacy with God.
Four parts of the story stood out for me.
Complete Sermon: http://revivingcreation.org/the-journey-of-the-wise-men/
Reflection by the Rev Wanda Copeland
As I interact with and respond to that part of myself that wants to succumb to a literal reading of Scripture. I’ve always been curious why magi could follow a star for countless miles and days to a foreign land and pinpoint their destination. Yet, King Herod for all his own wisdom and sage advisors could not or did not notice the same star that was said to hover over his own skies.
Similarly how can it be that some clearly see environmental degradation and human participation in exacerbating it, while others insist global warming is not so, a hole in the ozone may have always existed and species die all the time. Is it a matter of physical sight versus spiritual sight? Do we really only see what we want to see? Does our encounter with God give us new eyes – eyes that are open to the pain and suffering of “the other”?
Reflection by the Rev Wanda Copeland
In the ancient Near East, people thought of the stars as supernatural beings. As such, the stars influenced the course of human history. Astrologers who could interpret the stars (and hence the future) had great power. Looking at the stars, watching for patterns or unusual occurrences was important work. Imagine the excitement, and perhaps the terror, in seeing the Star of Bethlehem. Whether a comet or a periodic, but unusual alignment of planets, or something entirely different, the appearance of the star recorded in Matthew must have drawn lots of attention.
While we don’t know Matthew’s reason for recording this piece of information for us, we can imagine that reverence and importance would have been added to Jesus’ birth if it was known that other “gods” acknowledged Jesus’ birth. Even the heavens bowed down to Jesus, and foreign gods worshipped him. We say, in our Nicene Creed, that through him all things were made. Whether supernatural, or entirely natural, it seems appropriate that all of creation recognized Jesus and came to him at the time of his birth. In what ways does nature still acknowledge Jesus’ birth? In the lengthening of days (coming of the light from the darkness, warming of the earth for those in the Northern Hemisphere.) The signs of welcome and rejoicing are many, if we but take the time to look.
Isaiah 60:1-6; Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12; Psalm 72:1-7,10-14


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According to some users, the build quality of the iPad Air (2022) does not match the previous generation model.
Several early adopters of the new iPad Air have taken to online platforms to complain about the poor design of the back. Users claim that the back of the iPad Air (2022) feels much thinner than the previous model. Some consumers note that the thin body leads to creaking. Apple didn’t confirm any build level changes to the iPad Air (2022) during its Peek Performance announcement.
During the presentation of the new iPad Air, Apple said in a statement that the body of the device is made from 100% recycled aluminum. The latest generation iPad Air, the iPad Air (2020), was also made from 100% recycled aluminum. The exact data on whether any changes have been made to the build quality level of the new iPad Air compared to the old model has not yet been disclosed. However, given user complaints, it’s likely that Apple might have thought of a thinner chassis to make room for upgraded hardware that includes the M1 chip. Interestingly, the dimensions of the iPad Air (2022) are identical to those of the iPad Air (2020).