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STANFORD — Shayne Skov showed up for his postgame media session wearing horn-rimmed costume glasses. So did his teammates. According to one, the Stanford linebacker had handed out the glasses in the locker room.
“We’re proud to be Nerd Nation,” explained Skov. “This was Revenge of the Nerds.”
Well, more of a sequel. This was Revenge Of The Nerds Who Got Into The Heads Of Oregon And Made The Ducks Offense Largely Vanish.
You might remember that Ducks offense? Flashy uniforms? Touchdown machine? Unstoppable force of nature? That offense never showed up Thursday night until a brief (and much too late) cameo appearance in the fourth quarter of a game that the Cardinal won, 26-20.
Full marks to Oregon for never quitting and for making things tense toward the end. But those who watched the entire game will realize how deceptive the final score was.
The truth is, Stanford’s defense won the day, holding Oregon scoreless for all but the final 11 minutes of the game. The truth is, after the Ducks’ first offensive drive of the game, they never again had the ball with a chance to take the lead.
And the truth is, the words of Oregon running back De’Anthony Thomas were pinging in the Stanford players’ eardrums all evening. Earlier this week, Thomas said he expected the Ducks to score 40 points against the Cardinal.
The Stanford players, owing to their superior SAT scores and intelligence, did not publicly admit that the boast mattered at all and would not have an effect on how they approached the game.
But it did. And it did.
“People can write what they want and say what they want,” Skov said. “But what counts is the guys that take the field.”
His coach, David Shaw, was even more direct.
“Talk doesn’t win games,” said Shaw. “We talk with our pads. And we did that tonight.”
And not for the first time. For the second straight year in the Stanford-Oregon matchup, brains and brawn defeated flash and fashion. Last season, Stanford beat Oregon 17-14 in Eugene.
Thursday night was even more impressive. There are textbooks written by Stanford’s Nobel Prize winners that are not as comprehensively efficient as the textbook authored by Shaw, his staff and his players on Thursday.
Stanford’s offense controlled the ball most of the night. Stanford’s defense kept the Oregon offense from doing any major damage, at times exerting territorial control — if not dictatorial control — over Ducks quarterback Marcus Mariota, a Heisman Trophy candidate. As the night progressed, you could see Mariota start to hesitate and double-clutch, leading to off-target passes.
Was that the result of Cardinal nerds crawling into Mariota’s brain and making him think twice? Sure looked that way. Shaw said that one of the biggest keys was keeping Mariota’s feet from gaining too many yards when the pass plays broke down. That is his specialty. A banged-up leg might have been partially responsible — although Mariota was not officially injured — but he was held to minus-16 net yards on six official carries.
“He got outside a few times,” Shaw said, “but they weren’t touchdowns. They were first downs.”
Meanwhile, the Stanford tackles were hitting hard enough to cause four Oregon fumbles, two of which the Ducks coughed up to the Cardinal. There was also a fourth-down stop inside the Stanford 5-yard line. Add it all up and that’s why, when the Cardinal players gazed up at the scoreboard at the start of the fourth quarter, Oregon still had zero points. The Ducks hadn’t been held scoreless for that long in four years.
“I wasn’t surprised,” Shaw said, “because I know what we’re capable of defensively. … The biggest factors were the turnovers, first and foremost, and no big plays. … It’s making tackles. These guys are tough to tackle and our guys did a great job.”
Skov, mayor of the Nerd Republic, concurred in a policy speech.
“We don’t concede points,” Skov said. “What happens between the lines is dictated by us. That’s the only thing we can control. And that’s how we play. … It’s effort, intensity and communication.”
It’s also having an offense that scores 26 points against a pretty good Oregon defense. That helped, too. Kevin Hogan, the Cardinal quarterback, had the efficient game he needed to have.
“I was expecting something like this,” Hogan said. “I go up against our defense every day. I knew they weren’t intimidated. I was expecting something like what happened.”
Oregon finally scored with 10:11 left in the fourth quarter on a pass play from Mariota to Daryle Hawkins. This was followed by a blocked field goal return for another Ducks touchdown with 5:07 remaining and a recovered onside kick that led to another touchdown.
But Stanford stopped the bleeding when Jeff Trojan recovered the next onside kick attempt with 2:10 left in the fourth quarter. The Cardinal then held onto the ball and ran out the clock.
“You knew they were going to make a run,” Shaw said of the Oregon fourth-quarter surge. “We were ready for it, we knew it was going to happen, and then it started. It didn’t feel like it was ever going to end. But our guys didn’t panic.
“We talked about it, talked about not panicking. People play them tight, and then they make a play, and next thing you know it’s a waterfall. But we wanted to turn the faucet off. Our guys did that.”
So it turns out that the Stanford players were not just proud nerds but successful plumbers. If they stare hard enough with their new glasses, they might be able to see all the way to Pasadena.


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Great Wall Motor’s luxury brand Haval is a competitive player in the Chinese home market selling over a million SUVs per annum.
In less than a year since the brand entered the South Africn market it has garnered the “Company to Watch” award from our sister publication CAR magazine.
This was part of the CAR mag’s Special Awards as part of its “Top 12 Best Buys of 2018”, with the award ceremony taking place on Tuesday, 13 February.
Leisure Wheels tests the Haval H6 C at The Cradle of Humankind
CAR magazine noted that the brand made an impressive entry into the South African market last year, commenting that, ” Haval might be new here, but the premium sub-brand of Great Wall Motors (GWM) has been a heavy hitter in its domestic market of China, selling more SUVs than any other brand, and it’s making no secret of its global ambitions.
We tested two vehicles in its model line-up – the H2 and the H6 C – and walked away genuinely impressed by the marked leap in design, sophistication and build quality offered by both.”
We have to concur.
When we wrote about the Haval H6C that we drove at the Cradle of Humankind, we had this to say, “When we tested the H2, we stated that it was the best Chinese vehicle we had ever tested. That crown has been taken over by the H6 C, if only because it is a slightly better all-round package. ”
Says Tyrone Alberts, Haval’s National Sales Manager: “Haval Motors South Africa will be celebrating its one year anniversary on the 31st May 2018, and in a fairly short space of time has grabbed the attention of the South African media and consumer in an extremely positive way. We know that this is just the beginning, and want to assure our valued customers that we are here to stay, even in a time when certain other motor manufacturers have left our shores.”
Later this year we can expect the debut of the Haval H9.

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How Do You Get Enterococcus Infection
What to do if I have enterococcus faecalis infection. Could this infection be making my body tired?
Site of infection: Enterococcus is a germ that can cause serious problems, especially in someone who may already be weakened by another disease. It would be important to know 'from where' the germ was found, and if it is actually causing disease... since it can occur in the GI tract normally and not cause any problems. If you have a blood stream infection, then I would believe it. Best to talk to an ID doc who knows ...Read more
Infections are invasions of some other organism (fungus, bacteria, parasite) or viruses into places where they do not belong. For instance, we have normal gut bacteria that live within us without causing problems; however, when those penetrate the bowel wall and enter the bloodstream, ...Read more
What do you suggest if I have enterococcus faecalis infection. Could this infection be making my body tired?
Enterococcus: This germ is just one of many different kinds that in the 'wrong place' at the 'wrong time' can cause disease. If this germ showed up in your blood or urine, it might be responsible for feeling ill - which might include fatigue. It's best to find out 'from where' the microbe was isolated, then ask questions about that. You should be able to get treatment for a cure, and restoration of health. ...Read more
Can enterococcus faecalis infection in the prostate cause you to feel tired, achy, and muscle pains, etc?
Possible, unlikely: A minority of prostatitis is caused by bacteria, but E. fecalis is one that can do it. Acute bacterial prostatitis is very painful, often with high fever. Chronic prostatiis causes discomfort in the prostate area, but usually no systemic symptoms. Your symptoms seem to fall between these extremes. My guess is they are unrelated to your prostate, unless due to anxiety about it. Discuss w/ your doc. ...Read more
I've been battling an infection after a knee replacement for a little over a year. Is there a natural way to cure Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus?
Oh my!: Very serious. The location of the infection is very important. If it is in your new joint, it may be impossible. In addition to taking your antibiotics right, it is important to make sure the rest of your body is able to fight infections well--e.g. proper nutrition, extra zinc, vitamins A, C, and D3 supplements, blood sugar and white blood count well controlled. ...Read moreSee 3 more doctor answers
As enterococcus thrives in vitamin c, does it mean that supplementing with vit c, while I fight an enterococcus infection in prostate is a bad idea?
I was just diag. W/ stool sample testing heavy growth of Enterococcus avium in my intestines. I am chronically ill with other infections. How do treat?
You need to.....: F/u with your health care provider.Get a more detailed answer ›
Enterococcus sp 80.000 found in urine with slight back pain but no burning or pain on urination. Why is that? Is enterococcus common in infection?
E Coli in urine: 28 F MS notes: Enterococcus sp 80.000 found in urine with slight back pain but no burning or pain on urination. Why is that? Is enterococcus common in infection? ANS: either you have an E Coli UTI or you did not collect a clean catch urine spec. Very common cause of UTI. If no Sx would recheck with good clean catch urine before Rx. Esp if not previous UTIs. ...Read more
I was diagnosed with enterococcus infection of the vagina. I got treated with clindamycin vaginal cream for 7 days but stil have the burning siptoms.
I have enterococcus urinary tract infection. I've heard UTI can cause miscarriage. How can UTI cause miscarriage an how likely is it? I'm 10w pregnant
Please go to see your obstetrician for detailed general and specific advice concerning UTI and pregnancy. In fact, you're a woman after giving two births and should have more knowledgeable than the average. Of note, all medical care is based on the indirect evidence from available knowledge, skill, technology, drugs, and common sense; that is experience.
Best luck. .. ...Read more
4, 000ml neg rods.10, 000 entercoccus species. 06/26/13 was diagnoised w/esbl ecoli.12mo history of infections, uti, kidney infections esbl hard to treat should this new result be treated aggressive?
Usually no: Unless the drink is contaminated with significant amount of VRE ...Read more
Urine culture detected enterococcus and pseudomanas. Antibiotics don't work. These bacteries can get transmitted to my wife with sexual ways?
Unlikely: Uncommon for a man your age to have a complicated urinary tract infection. This may be from a condition called prostatitis. You had stated cystitis glandularis which can be seen with urinary tract infections. It is an inflammatory response in the bladder. Please see your urologist or primary care physician to further diagnose and treat your condition. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Is there an antibiotic that will work to get rid of both enterococcus faecalis and mycoplasma hominis at the same time?
Dual Organisms: Yes, there are several. In your case, you had a reported culture and sensitivity (c&s) lab study that specifically tested the bacteria that have affected you with a panel of antibiotics. Since there is increasing antibiotic resistance emerging with many strains, only your individual c&s should be interpreted for you, not generalized to all patients. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Urgent care - anus bump path report id'ed resistant enterococcus faecalis and klebsiella oxytoca. Should I be isolated? Couldn't get into my doc.
GI infection: You do not have to be isolated but you and anybody with you has to use proper hand washing technique to avoid infection. I take it that they started you on antibiotics ...Read more
Chronic bacterial infection hi doctor, I m 30 years old marriied man, I am suffering from chronic bacterial prostate infection from last 6 months, the semen culture test showed 'enterococcus'. My urologist gave me many antibiotics, but it didn't help. I
The most qualified type of physician to answer this question would be a urologist with subspeciality training in male infertility.
An active infection and a high white count in the semen analysis may impact the funciton of the sperm.
It is encouraging that you report a normal sperm count on your most recent check.
I recommend reviewing your concerns with your current urologist and if that person cannot answer your questions - ask them to refer you to a urologist with subspeciality training in male infertility. I hope this helps! ...Read more
Enterococcus: Enterococcus is a bacteria that lives in the intestines of many animals, including humans. It feeds on whatever nutritive pieces are left after digestive processes up to that point. Most importantly, it's anaerobic -- living without oxygen. Staphylococcus aureus (in your additional info) is a different bug. Here's an older article about enterococcus: http://tinyurl. Com/ph6b2n4. ...Read more
No: Fluconazole is an azole class antifungal with activity against fungal infections with Candida albicans and non albicans Candida such as tropicalis, glabrata, and parapsilosis but not Candida krusei. Enterococcus faecalis is a gram positive bacteria that lives in the gut of humans and some animals. When pathogenic, E. faecalis infections are treated with antibiotics like linezolid & daptomycin. ...Read more
NO: In order to have motility, they should have cilia all around body of the bug or flagella whip like structure at one end of the bug, enterococcus has neither so non motile, they move with media they are in or in contiguity and spread. ...Read more

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Bountiful (True North #4) by Sarina Bowen
Publication Date: October 20th 2017
No last names. No life stories. Those were the rules.
Once upon a time a cocky, copper-haired tourist sauntered into Zara’s bar. And even though she knew better, Zara indulged in a cure for the small-town blues. It was supposed to be an uncomplicated fling—a few sizzling weeks before he went back to his life, and she moved on.

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THE SITUATION ROOM
Militant Leader's Deadly Experience; Immigration Battle; Crisis in Iraq; Top General: U.S. Role in Iraq Could Grow; McDaniel Challenges Mississippi Senate Runoff
Aired July 4, 2014 - 18:00 ET
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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: You are listening live to President Obama's 4th of July message to military families. Here it is.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: (Inaudible) -- have to practice a little bit, before that happens.
This is a gorgeous day, we want you to enjoy yourselves, so I'm going to keep my remarks brief.
But it is important to remember why we are here. Two hndred and thirty-eight years ago our founders came together and declared a new nation and a revolutionary idea -- the belief that we are all created equal, that we're free to govern ourselves, that each of us is entitled to life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And in the generations that have followed, through war and peace, through depression and prosperity, these truths have guided us as we have built the greatest democratic, economic, and military force the world has ever known.
So, today, immigrants from around the world dream of coming to our shores. Young people aspire to study at our universities. Other nations look to us for support and leadership in times of disaster and conflict and uncertainty. And when the world looks to America, so often they look to all of you, the men and women of our armed forces.
Every day, at home and abroad, you're working to uphold those ideals first declared in that Philadelphia hall more than two centuries ago. Every day, you give meaning to that basic notion that, as Americans, we take care of each other.
And so today we honor all of you, and we salute some of the folks who are here with us on this balcony.
We salute our soldiers like Chief Warrant Officer Tommy Arujo (ph), who has served this nation in uniform for 27 years, including deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two summers ago, Tom was at the beach, saw a young girl and her father who had been swept out to sea, and jumped into dangerous riptide, and pulled them back to safety. That's the kind of service we expect from our outstanding soldiers.
Please give it up for Tom. Thank you.
OBAMA: We salute our sailors, like Seaman Reverly Thomas (ph), who came to America 21 years ago from Trinidad. She served a tour in the Persian Gulf for the Navy. Just a few hours ago here at the White House, I was proud to welcome Seaman Thomas and 24 other service members and military spouses as our newest American citizens.
Thank you, Reverly. Congratulations.
OBAMA: We salute our airmen, like Technical Sergeant Cheryl Ulakie (ph), who manages the Fisher House at Dover Air Force base, ensuring the families of our fallen are always provided comfort and care worthy of their profound sacrifice.
We're so grateful to you, Cheryl, for your great work.
OBAMA: We salute our Marines, like Sergeant Isaac Gallegos (ph), who was severely wounded after an IED explosion in Iraq eight years ago, suffered burns on almost every inch of his face, was pronounced dead three separate times, undergone 161 surgeries. But he is here standing with us pursuing a master's degree, working full time for the Navy.
OBAMA: That's what we're talking about when we talk about Marines. Give it up for Isaac.
OBAMA: We salute our Coasties, like Lieutenant Commander Sean Plankie (ph), who helped lead a cyber-team in Afghanistan that supported our troops during firefights and help prevent the detonation of remote- controlled IEDs, saving countless of lives.
So thank you, Sean.
OBAMA: And we salute our military families, the spouses who put their careers on hold for their loved ones, the children who pick up extra chores while mom or dad is deployed, and the siblings, parents and extended family members who serve the country every single day.
And you're the reason Michelle and Jill Biden started the Joining Forces Initiative, to make sure America is supporting you too, and today we honor your service here today.
(APPLAUSE) OBAMA: So, as we pause on this Fourth of July to celebrate what makes us American, we salute all of you whose service and sacrifice renews that promise of America every single day.
On behalf of the entire country, Michelle and I simply want to say thank you to all of you for your courage and your strength and your unending service to this nation.
Happy Fourth of July, everybody. Have a great party. Have a hot dog. Have a hamburger. We want to see you dancing.
God bless you all. Got bless the United States of America. Thank you.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
OBAMA: Thank you.
KEILAR: President Obama's Fourth of July message there to military families at the White House celebrating Independence Day, also his daughter's 16th birthday, but he has a full plate right now.
He's also dealing with an immigration crisis, thousands of children streaming across the border, and perhaps unexpectedly the epicenter for this battle, this protest, protests over this, are now taking place in a Southern California city.
That's where we find our Kyung Lah.
Kyung, tell us about where you are. There's a lot going on behind you.
KYUNG LAH, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is the entrance to the Border Patrol station here in Murrieta. It's a small town. It's a relatively small town for Southern California.
The reason that all of these people have come out here -- and I want to say, Brianna, it actually does look like the crowd is thinning out. We have people who are pro and against the immigrants who are scheduled to come here.
They were anticipated to come here, but so far we haven't seen them. These are immigrants, undocumented immigrants that have come from Central America, and they have been held at different centers in Texas. Well, because those centers in Texas are full, the government is moving them to places like this, but so far those buses have not arrived.
Both sides are extremely passionate today on this Fourth of July. Here's what one woman told us. She supports the migrants. Here's what she says.
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DARA GLANZER, PRO-MIGRANT PROTESTER: Europeans came here in droves in the 1800s up to the 1900s. And now when we (INAUDIBLE) and they're trying to come through the border, suddenly, it's different, because we have these divisions based on race, based on language, and based on tokenism.
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LAH: So she is on the counterprotest side.
The people who live here in Murrieta, overwhelmingly, what we have heard, Brianna, is that they simply do not want them. But where they are, where that 140 who were expected to arrive today, we just don't know. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Brianna, has said that they don't want to say where they're being taken due to safety concerns.
KEILAR: Yes, understandable. Kyung Lah in Murrieta, thank you so much for that report.
And actually the mayor of Murrieta, Alan Long, joining us now on the phone.
Mayor, you urged your citizens to protest the movement of immigrants Murrieta. Explain that.
ALAN LONG, MAYOR OF MURRIETA, CALIFORNIA: Well, actually, if you go and view the press conference, that's not what I did.
In fact, the protest was being talked about well before the city's involvement. In fact, a lot of information came from those who were involved in the protest, and the press conference had the intent of squelching rumors and putting facts out there, and letting everyone know that Murrieta was going to maintain its safety.
I did encourage those who wanted to funnel their energy to do two things. One, write their U.S. representative and voice their concerns there, and, two, come to a town hall meeting so we can constructively come up with some solutions.
KEILAR: Well, explain your opinion on the fact that there is -- it's essential an overflow of undocumented immigrants who are being moved to your city. Explain the city's involvement in terms of contact with the federal government in this decision being made and where you stand on it.
LONG: Well, it started two weeks ago. We were told we would receive 500 every 72 hours, and we opposed that, because the local Border Patrol office did not have that capacity.
Then they said 300, and we still opposed it. Then last Friday, they said 140 coming Tuesday every 72. And that was within the capacity. That was the message we sent to the community, that this is within the capacity, we have a plan in place, Murrieta will remain safe. On a much larger issue, contact your U.S. representative.
The concern we have is the sustainability of 140 every 72 hours. While this has all been going on, we have been researching, finding out, why is this happening now? And in that research we're looking at the numbers, and we don't see this stopping any time soon.
And right now, we're only able to sustain 140 every 72, because we have shifted our resources to focus on that one operation alone. You know, operationally, we cannot keep the same footprint we had before, because everyone's mission has changed. So the officers that have been patrolling the streets, watching neighborhoods now are focused on this one event.
KEILAR: Where would you suggest that these immigrants are brought to instead?
LONG: Well, it's not where really they're brought to instead. Again, during all of this research, we found out that, you know, it's another thing about making sure there's the appropriate facility, making sure that they have had appropriate health care.
One of the first things we identified when we were talking with Border Patrol that this so-called screening process was not effective nor efficient, and so we offered up the resources. We offered up a mobile health clinic staffed with doctors and nurses to give a thorough health cleaning, give free inoculations, and we were told they could not accept that, because the approval process would take too long.
And that's the unfortunate part. The world really hasn't been able to see how compassionate our community is, because we have never gotten there. We have nonprofit groups, faith organizations lined up to help, willing to help, but we never got to that point because it took a turn of unfortunate events on Tuesday, which were not endorsed by the city.
Some of the actions during that protest were deplorable. And it's unfortunate that it's now reflecting on the community.
KEILAR: So, you don't feel that the protesters are reflecting on that compassion that you're talking about in your community? So you don't endorse what you're seeing there at the transfer station?
LONG: Not what I saw -- a portion of what I saw Tuesday. What I have always said and maintained to this date is that we will protect everyone's constitutional rights.
If you're protesting peacefully, we are going to ensure your safety. And that goes for both sides of the protests. What I saw last night was very encouraging. I saw the two sides working together, talking about solutions, and the common ground they have. Everyone wants the same thing. They want a legal, effective, efficient process for these immigrants to come to the U.S.
And we just feel that the inability at the Texas border is circumventing that process, and we're sending people in inhumane conditions and dispersing them across the nation. And, fundamentally, we can't agree with that.
KEILAR: Do you feel that ICE officials are not properly securing the facilities that they're using and that they want to use?
LONG: Well, we don't know. That's another problem.
We have had no information from Department of Homeland Security, and Border Patrol at the local level has been very good explaining to us the process. When you get to the ICE agencies, that's where it's a bit sketchy.
We don't get a whole lot of answers, because everything depends on something of and there's a lot of moving parts. And they don't know until they get here. And what we did uncover is, one of the rumors was ICE agents takes these buses and they just go dump them off.
Well, what we found out at the town hall meeting, that is in fact true. It's a past practice, but it was true. So those are all the questions and concerns our community had when they heard these immigrants were coming. And, again, they had people in the Border Patrol agency feeding them this information.
So, going back to that first press conference, the intent was to squelch rumors, let people know that you're going to be safe, and if you wanted to make a difference, contact the representatives, because it will be done at the federal level. And I did send a letter to the president of the United States yesterday outlining all of this, and offering solutions, and hopefully he will take that to heart, and he and key members of Congress will sit down and we can meet to discuss solutions.
KEILAR: All right, Mayor Alan Long, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us, the mayor of Murrieta, California, where those protests continue against undocumented immigrants who are being transferred to that city.
Another story that we are following, storm watches and warnings, they are up from Cape Cod all the way to Canada, as Hurricane Arthur is continuing this dangerous push north. The storm is still packing some pretty damaging winds. The flooding, that is really a concern here. It's a possibility with up to half-a-foot of rain forecast in some areas. Six inches of rain, that is a lot.
And residents of the Northeast are hoping that they will be as lucky as the people in North Carolina who were spared widespread destruction.
Our correspondents are on the ground there and in the CNN Hurricane Center.
We are going to begin with Rene Marsh. She is in Beaufort, North Carolina.
Looks pretty sunny there, Rene. Tell us the scene.
RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brianna, you remember just 24 hours ago yesterday, we were talking and there was rain coming down. The winds, they were pretty strong. Same thing last night. The wind was pretty strong.
And fast forward to today, and it is absolutely picture-perfect for this Fourth of July. Still, though, now that Hurricane Arthur has blown through coastal North Carolina, there are some folks who are still cleaning up.
MARSH (voice-over): Trees down, power out, and streets flooded. The Category 2 struck North Carolina with winds topping 100 miles per hour, making landfall between Cape Lookout and Beaufort, rattling homes and for some rattling nerves.
VANIA WOODS, NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENT: Oh, it was really scary. I heard a noise, a strong noise. And I said, something happened.
MARSH: That strong noise was this tree crashing onto the home she was in.
WOODS: We put the mattress against the glass in the bedroom and we stayed there.
MARSH: Arthur tossed sailboats, and its storm surge was nearly five feet in some areas.
GOV. PAT MCCRORY (R), NORTH CAROLINA: We're seeing some beach erosion. There are shingles off some houses. We have some dock debris.
MARSH: But for this seasoned coastal community, no stranger to hurricanes, Arthur had more bark than bite.
ANNETTE BOULIN, NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENT: We practically slept right through it.
MARSH: The Coast Guard scanning from above for damage, most of it minimal, Arthur's impact more of a nuisance, knocking out power for about 44,000 people and disrupting July 4 celebrations.
Now it heads north as a Category 1 storm, tracking parallel to New England, bringing rain to the Northeast. But, in North Carolina, where the skies are blue and the sun is shining, Arthur is old news.
WOODS: Today's Fourth of July. Let's celebrate.
MARSH: All right, and talk about Arthur being a nuisance here.
Not only are Fourth of July celebrations put on hold mainly here in Beaufort, North Carolina. They're actually going to do their fireworks tomorrow. A great day like this, you can't help but want to cool off at the beam, but we still have this threat of rip currents. So, they are warning people still it's not safety to go into the water. So, that is that.
As far as the repairs go, there's still a couple roads, as well as one bridge by the name of Bonner Bridge, which is shut down because essentially the overwash left a pile of sand there, so it's really impassable. You have downed power lines, dangerous situation. So, as they address that, people are trying to forget about Hurricane Arthur in the meantime and, as you heard that woman there say, celebrate the Fourth of July -- Brianna.
KEILAR: That's right, Rene. The sun is out, but there's still cleanup to be done. All right, thank you so much.
The danger also may be out of the way there, but it's not over entirely yet.
KEILAR: Still ahead, blunt talk about the U.S. commitment to Iraq by the president's top military adviser. How far is the U.S. willing to go to keep militants from seizing Baghdad?
Plus, it is -- let's be honest, it is a beautiful, but it is a tough song, right, notoriously difficult. We will be meeting the man who teaches the stars how not to butcher the national anthem.
KEILAR: A pretty blunt assessment of the crisis in Iraq by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who says the U.S. role there could grow beyond the hundreds of military advisers President Obama has committed.
CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has more on this.
Barbara, tell us exactly what General Martin Dempsey said here.
BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brianna, it was an extraordinary press conference here at the Pentagon. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made it crystal-clear, brutally clear that if U.S. interests are threatened in Iraq, U.S. military force could be called into action.
STARR (voice-over): Iraqi forces launch a rocket attack, trying to push militants out. It comes as General Martin Dempsey, the president's top military adviser, is leaving the door open to possible deeper U.S. military involvement in Iraq against Sunni militants.
GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF CHAIRMAN: We may get to that point if our national interests drive us there, if ISIL becomes such a threat to the homeland that the president of the United States with our advice decides that we have to take direct action. I'm just suggesting to you we're not there yet.
STARR: U.S. ground combat forces have been ruled out, according to senior Pentagon officials.
But intelligence-gathering continues for potential U.S. airstrikes, Dempsey adamant that the U.S. is only assessing Iraqi forces for now. DEMPSEY: If the assessment comes back and reveals that it would be
beneficial to this effort and to our national security interests to put the advisers in a different role, we will provide that option, and we will move ahead.
STARR: The preliminary U.S. assessment? Iraqi units will defend Baghdad. But is it too late for Iraqi forces to recapture lost ground in Northern Iraq?
DEMPSEY: Will the Iraqis at some point be able to go back on the offensive to recapture the part of Iraq that they have lost? Probably not by themselves.
STARR: Dempsey sober on the prospect of Iraq closing the divide between Sunni, Shia, and Kurd.
Now the Kurdish president, Massoud Barzani, wants a referendum on independence from Baghdad. Photos distributed by militants in the north show destruction of Shia and Sunni holy sites, the Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's senior Shia cleric, who called for Iraqis to take up arms to oust the Sunni militants jabbed by Dempsey.
DEMPSEY: When Sistani made that proclamation, he talked about an Iraq for all Iraqis. I hope so. We will see.
STARR: If Iraq doesn't end the sectarian crisis:
DEMPSEY: Everything we're talking about makes no difference.
STARR: And Dempsey went on even further.
He said, if the sectarian divide is not solved, the future is bleak, in his words. General Dempsey, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is a guy who likes to keep his options open, and that's exactly what he's doing -- Brianna.
KEILAR: That's right. He's saying we're not there yet, but it certainly does raise questions here.
Barbara, join this conversation.
We're going to CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd, and CNN military Lieutenant General Mark Hertling.
First, I want to go to you, General Hertling.
We heard Dempsey there say, we're not there yet, but he said if ISIL -- or ISIS, as many of us know it -- is a threat to the homeland, that that mission could change. We have been talking a lo the about mission creep. That certainly I think perks up a lot of ears when we hear the chairman of the Joint Chiefs say that.
LT. GEN. MARK HERTLING (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Well, I think, Brianna, General Dempsey is very precise in his language. Hi job is to provide options to the president, to his commander in chief. That's what he's doing.
You know, the forces that are there now have three main goals. They're there to protect American citizens that are in Baghdad and in Iraq, they're there to assess the situation, and then they're there to determine what to do next.
They're doing all those things very well under General Pittard's guidance in Iraq. And I think once General Dempsey gets the assessment -- we have got to remember these advisers have only been there less than two weeks.
As soon as he gets those kinds of input, he will make some more options presented to the president. I think that's his job.
KEILAR: And, sir, you're very familiar with General Dempsey. You were, I believe, his deputy, right, in Iraq in to 2003 and 2004?
HERTLING: I was. I was his deputy and we're very good friends.
KEILAR: OK, so you have a -- you're very familiar when you say that he's precise with his language.
I just really kind of want to drill into that. Is this just him keeping his options open? Is this in case for some reason American forces need to use force? Is he talking about something that could be more protracted and involved? How do we read into that?
HERTLING: He's keeping his options open, what he has to present to the president. That's General Dempsey's job. And he's doing that very well.
And I heard his conference the other day as he was testifying. And that's what he was doing. He was being asked some very hard questions, and he doesn't want to rule out anything, because the situation could change, the assessment could be different than what we think it is now, and the government of Iraq could start broadening their inclusion of other groups like the Sunni and the Shia and the Kurdish tribes.
So I think General Dempsey is really doing a fine job walking that rope, and saying, hey, we have got to provide some options to the president, but we need information first.
KEILAR: And, overall, Phil, on this, we heard in Barbara's piece there this is about finding a way to get over that sectarian divide. Is there anyone in Iraq -- it seems so many are casting doubt on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Is there anyone, an Iraqi who can help bridge that divide?
PHILIP MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST: I'm not certain there is now.
And that's because I think in America we don't understand that there's a transition between revolution and democracy. We're seeing problems in that transition in Egypt. We're seeing problems in Libya. We have seen problems in Lebanon decades ago. We're seeing a problem in Iraq. And the reason is quite simple. When a majority is oppressed --
remember, Saddam Hussein was a Sunni. He oppressed Shia. When the majority is oppressed and they take power -- now we have the Shia in control in Baghdad -- they start to say we own the turf and we get to decide the rules.
So, I think what we're seeing is the Shia represented by Nouri al- Maliki saying, we now own Baghdad and we are going to rule as we see fit.
KEILAR: And yet, look, there's certainly a stalemate there as well that I want about, that Nouri al-Maliki not withdrawing his name from consideration.
But I really have to drill into what Dempsey said, Barbara, with you here. He's keeping his options open, but that scares a lot of people who are very war-weary. And, really, they don't want that to be an option at all.
STARR: Well, you know, it's interesting. Behind the scenes, when that press conference ended yesterday, you had a lot of senior Pentagon aides, you know, the strap hangers, moving around the hallways, very concerned that reporters would take too seriously what General Dempsey said, trying to maybe suggest that he -- you know, his words were being misinterpreted.
I agree with General Hertling: General Dempsey's words were not misinterpreted. This is a guy who says exactly what he means.
And one of the most interesting things I thought he said -- and I want to ask Phil about this -- is he said, "Look, we are going to be dealing with this kind of militancy in this country for one or two generations, possibly, to come. ISIS is not going to go away" and that there is no U.S. military solution. This is not Iraq 2003.
So, you know, even if -- if the Iraqis can get some territory back, if they can get a government going, it seems like we're dealing once again with a major turn into how this militant movement is in the Middle East.
MUDD: Look, I think that's correct. Focus -- I thought the general was very precise in his language. And remember, he talked -- let's go inside the Beltway, inside baseball for a moment. He talked about threat to the homeland. He didn't talk about threat to Baghdad.
When you're seeing the Islamist insurgencies we've seen for 20 years -- in North Africa, in Somalia, in Yemen, in Afghanistan -- a sliver of these Islamist insurgencies tends to focus on what they view as the head of the snake. That head of the snake is New York and Washington.
As long as you see this version of Islamist insurgency in Iraq, you have to worry that some of the leaders in Iraq are going to start to say, "When we get comfortable in Mosul, when we get comfortable in Anbar province, we have to start thinking about attacking New York."
So I think if you're looking at the representation of U.S. forces in Iraq now, what they're doing is not just collecting for tomorrow. They're collecting intelligence because of concerns that someday the insurgency is going to start thinking in 2015, in 2016, about attacks in western Europe and the United States.
KEILAR: And that may be what he's talking about when he's obviously having concern for the homeland and that he's looking very much into the future.
Really important comments to dissect here. Really appreciate it, all of you. General Hertling, Phil, Barbara Starr, thanks to all of you.
And just ahead, the race is over, but not the battle. Details of post-election ugliness in a very closely watched vote.
And he's the unlikely public face of the militant group seizing broad regions of Iraq. Now we are learning details of his deadly background.
KEILAR: Returning now to the political climate in Mississippi, which is anything but calm. In fact, the loser in the recently Republican Senate runoff is not going away quietly.
And CNN's Tom Foreman joining me now with a post-primary challenge.
And this, quite frankly, Tom, is just getting very, very ugly.
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. This is something we don't see that much, even in the atmosphere of politics we have today. The simple trust is the Republican primary has turned into an all-out brawl right now. It's filled with cheap shots and shady actions, and what looks like a desperate last stand by a Tea Party candidate.
FOREMAN (voice-over): Accusations of race baiting, a suspected plot to exploit a suffering woman, reward money for witnesses, and even death. The Mississippi Republican primary is as bitter as politics can be, and it has infuriated Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel, who told CNN's "NEW DAY"...
CHRIS MCDANIEL (R), MISSISSIPPI STATE SENATOR: We believe the people of the state want to see the truth. They want to understand what happened that night. And that's exactly what we plan to show them.
FOREMAN: The truth, according to McDaniel, is that longtime incumbent Senator Thad Cochran was shocked when he finished the primary behind McDaniel, so Cochran reached out to traditionally Democratic black voters, asking them to vote in the Republican runoff to help him defeat his Tea Party challenger.
MCDANIEL: They called me a racist. They race baited.
FOREMAN: Nonetheless, Cochran won by 7,000 votes. Then things got weird. In a conference call with reporters, an unknown caller lit into Cochran.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Black people are harvesting cotton. Why do you think it's OK to harvest their votes?
FOREMAN: The McDaniel camp says it has no idea who the mystery caller was, and it condemned the racial tone, but his supporters were accused of strange behavior earlier in this race.
Tea Party leader Mark Mayfield, for example, was suspected in a plot to break into a nursing home and photograph Cochran's wife, who suffers from dementia. Police arrested Mayfield and he died, an apparent suicide. And now comes the latest twist.
McDaniel is offering a $1,000 bounty to anyone who can prove that some people illegally voted in the Democratic primary and the Republican runoff. He believes there are thousands of examples.
MCDANIEL: What this is about is the integrity of the election.
FOREMAN: Cochran's response: "Chris McDaniel doesn't care anything about the integrity of the process. Chris McDaniel cares about staying in the spotlight."
Maybe, maybe not, but McDaniel is doing all he can to stay in this very peculiar race, which he appears to have already lost.
FOREMAN: McDaniel is suggesting he may even file a court case on this. That could come as early as Monday, when the Republican Party certifies the results of this election.
But the bigger question for the Republican Party, Brianna, is how much does this keep alive this destructive rift between the mainstream Republicans and the Tea Party? Probably not enough to give the Democrats some long-shot win in Mississippi in the fall. In the general election, that's probably not going to happen, but even if the rift stays alive, you know how much that resonates across this country and scares the GOP heading into the midterm.
KEILAR: It does not look good for them. Tom Foreman, thank you so much on that.
And joining me to talk about all of this, we have CNN political commentator Ryan Lizza, who's the Washington correspondent for "The New Yorker." We're also joined by Todd Zwillich, Washington correspondent for Public Radio International's "The Takeaway."
I guess the point is Tom sort of laid out here what he's trying to do moving forward. Does McDaniel have a case, you think?
RYAN LIZZA, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, "THE NEW YORKER": So far he's made a lot of pretty serious allegations and talked about all this evidence that he has, but he hasn't shown anything, right?
KEILAR: He hasn't been able to prove anything. It's hard to prove. LIZZA: He says he's got -- that the election was stole, and that he's
positive that liberal Democrats voted both in their own primary and then in the Republican runoff. You're not allowed to do that. You can't vote in both.
KEILAR: Yes. You can't vote early and often, right? Or often.
LIZZA: He's offered absolutely -- this is real important, because there's been a lot of crazy allegations out there. He's offered absolutely no evidence of that happening. Not a single voter has come forward.
TODD ZWILLICH, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL'S "THE TAKEAWAY": There's also the general term of irregularity. McDaniel's camp says they have thousands of examples of irregularities. That is a legally meaningless term, what an irregularity is, if it would even disqualify someone from voting. So you have to know about that.
And there's another part of the McDaniels [SIC] charge, which is outright vote buying, which is a criminal offense. Now, there hasn't been any evidence of that, either, but you saw in Tom Foreman's piece there that the McDaniels [SIC] campaign not only is offering $1,000 a head for any arrest or conviction, where they can prove vote buying.
If you go on McDaniel's website, he's also raising money from his supporters, saying, "Cochran Democrats were paid $15 to vote for my opponent. Give me $15 a head, and we'll go after them." So that it's a fund-raising effort, as well.
KEILAR: So is it all rumor? Is it all rumor, the idea that there may have been vote buying?
LIZZA: Look, he shouldn't be fund-raising off of this, with that kind of gimmick.
KEILAR: It's unseemly.
LIZZA: If there's serious allegations that there's wrongdoing, he should show what the evidence is, but then as Tom and I were just talking about before his piece, even if he prove that, you know, voter John Smith voted in both the Republican primary -- which is the Democrat primary and the Republican runoff, that's not going to make him the Senate candidate. Right? We don't know how that person voted.
KEILAR: Right. It's a private ballot.
LIZZA: It's private. So if he can find examples of Cochran buying votes, he can find examples of wrongdoing, I don't see how he gets to the point that it overturns the results.
We don't rerun elections. There's no mechanism for him to rerun the election. KEILAR: It speaks to the bigger issue here that Tom was talking
about, the divide between the establishment Republicans and the Tea Party Republicans. How does this play -- like bigger picture how does it play?
ZWILLICH: Well, I think a lot of the allegations, you know, we don't know yet if there's solid evidence for some of McDaniel's allegations, but they do play into a broader narrative of conservative grievance against conservative Republicans. They definitely do. You are the ossified party in power. You exert undue influence. You buy votes. You know, this story -- a lot of them are general accusations, maybe with merit, maybe without. But it...
KEILAR: And may truly -- you know, McDaniel may truly believe this, and it reflects that sort of narrative.
ZWILLICH: I think it defines a broader narrative. Also, you know, in terms of the divide between conservatives and party Republicans here in Washington, it's taken on a circus atmosphere that there are operatives on both sides now doing opo research on one another, on the Internet. Some of it's gotten extremely ugly, with individuals going after each other on Twitter. So it's really -- it's really exposed -- I think it's widened a lot of wounds that already exist.
KEILAR: Is it like Republican kind of cannibals in a way? Is it really going to have -- and is it going to have any real effect?
LIZZA: I think so. Look, this Tea Party versus establishment thing, this is not a media, imaginary debate. This is very, very real, and we're seeing it play out over several cycles now.
And this -- I think a lot of Tea Party members will believe that this election, no matter how this ends, they will believe that McDaniel had this election stolen from him. And they will wave this election as a bloody shirt going forward. So it's, you know -- it's going to continue to drive a wedge between these two factions.
ZWILLICH: Chris McDaniel, win or lose, has made a name for himself. He will be a cause celebre for conservatives, even if this election is never overturned and he never gets a revote to defeat the incumbent, Thad Cochran. He will have been a cause celebre. He will have been talked about on TV and the Internet a lot, and he will have raised plenty of money.
KEILAR: For years to come, we will refer to this race. This is one for the records.
LIZZA: It's absolutely wild.
KEILAR: It is wild. Thank you so much, Todd and Ryan. Really appreciate you breaking all of this down for us. Happy Fourth to both of you. Thank you for coming in on the holiday.
LIZZA: Of course.
KEILAR: Now coming up, the fighter who is now the public face of ISIS, how this Chechen veteran rose to the top of the militant group.
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: We're learning more about the fighter who has become the public face of ISIS, the terrorist group that seized broad swaths of Syria and Iraq.
CNN's international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh has details.
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): ISIS has endless publicity videos but its leaders prefer to hide. The spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani here reveals the plan to resolve Syria and Iraq's borders but not his face.
To his left is a different story, Omar, a Chechen.
Distinctive, speak Russian, the closest thing that ISIS has to a public leader. And his long assent among global jihadists echoing the complex patchwork of brutality behind the group's rise.
A former soldier in the Georgian army he was briefly jailed on firearms offenses in 2010. Jail, he reportedly said, turned him to jihad and he arrived in Syria two years later, where he was quoted an extremism newspaper, expressing his shock at how liberal rebels allowed "people smoking, shavings instead of letting beards grow. They listened to songs, he said. I wondered where had I landed. It all seemed discouraging."
But soon, his military experience earned respect shown here in a regime base that foreign jihadists helped lackluster rebels overrun.
RAFFAELLO PENTUCCI, SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, RUSI: Chechens in particular held in a very high veneration. On top of that, he has a lot of experience in his past as a former soldier. All of these things combine likely into sort of ego on his behalf sort of meant that he has turn into a substantial figure within the group.
WALSH: In a movement that court staff (ph) in battle, he grew as a figure through surviving. Chechens and other foreign radicals bickered yet he led some from this group on Muhajarin al-Ansar (ph) to join ISIS, reportedly attracted to their plans for a caliphate.
USAMA HASAN, SENIOR RESEARCHER, QUILLIAM FOUNDATION: They've been many people like him who've actually adopted the puritan values of good al Qaeda and ISIS, and they are happy to accept that official simple message which ISIS has, as long as they're given an opportunity to fight, to be on the battlefield.
WALSH: He's so flaunts his Chechen past, here mourning the death of their militant leader, Dokka Umarov. (INAUDIBLE) said to have limited reach, which helped his rise to ISIS's failed commander, perhaps now in Iraq too.
ISIS spreads fast, Thursday, activists saying they controlled an area of northeastern Syria five times the size of Lebanon.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The police station --
WALSH: A rise as jarring as how a former Georgian soldier became the only public face of this earthquake of religious extremism the world is struggling to respond to.
Nick Walsh, CNN, Beirut.
KEILAR: And just ahead, it is the Fourth of July in the U.S.
Boston actually got a jump on the fireworks a day early, thanks to the weather and when we come back, we will head to the National Mall.
But first, this, "Impact Your World."
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Looking at these kids, it's hard not to smile.
MIA FARROW, UNICEF GOODWILL AMBASSADOR: You can't look at children's faces and continue to feel hopeless. What you see in every shining face is all the potential of the human spirit.
CUOMO: Actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow knows many of these children have seen or experienced unthinkable violence in the Central African Republic, where Christian and Muslim militias have been battling for control since last year.
FARROW: It has been said that the seeds or ingredients are present for a massive genocide where one side completely slaughters another. The people are fleeing. Some have fled deep into the bush.
CUOMO: Around 300,000 children are thought to have been displaced, and most schools are closed according to UNICEF.
FARROW: They have dreams, strong dreams. If only they had opportunity, safety, nutrition, clean water, and education, there would be no stopping these kids.
CUOMO: To give those kids a fighting chance, Farrow hopes to bring awareness to the situation in their homeland.
FARROW: I don't like the term "give people a voice," because people have voices, but sometimes they need amplification.
KEILAR: Well, here in Washington, a couple hundred thousand people are expected for the concert and fireworks on the National Mall, and surely, a stirring rendition of the "Spar-Spangled Banner." And as we all know, when it is sung well, it is sung so well. But when it's sung poorly, ouch-ouch our ears, right?
CNN's Sunlen Serfaty has more.
SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brianna, one man is on a personal mission as a music teacher to stop those cringe-worthy moments when the singing the national anthem.
SERFATY (voice-over): It's a song that can soar. Or sink.
Enter Michael Dean -- on a mission to save singer's egos and our ears.
MICHAEL DEAN, MUSIC DEPARTMENT CHAIR, UCLA: The worst part is those performances are bad for everyone. They are bad for the singer and they are horrendous for the listeners.
SERFATY: Call it the how not to butcher the national anthem class. Scores of pop stars a list so exclusive it's kept secret have come to him to prep, and avoid the humiliation by not only learning the technique but its meaning. The song has its hazards, a sprawling vocal range of an octave and a half, setting up this crucial moment that well -- usually crashes and burns, and the tricky lyrics written not in normal speech patterns but in poetry.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, say can you see by the star shining bright --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the rockets red -- red glare --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, the ramparts we watched.
SERFATY: Dean says so many people forget the words because they don't understand them.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So gallantly streaming.
DEAN: If it's just a lot of nonsense words, then the audience is going to receive it as a lot of nonsense words. So, studying why this piece was originally written is very important for the singer to do.
SERFATY: Sadly it seems these days the anticipation of a bad anthem is now the norm.
DEAN: A lot of people have told me when they listen to the national anthem and it goes reasonable well, the only feeling they feel is relief. They don't actually feel moved or changed or inspired. They're just relieved it wasn't awful.
SERFATY: Cringe-worthy moments one note at a time to avoid.
KEILAR: And very wonderful Fourth of July to you, Sunlen. That was a great piece. Really enjoyed it. It is a tricky song, for sure.
SERFATY: It absolutely is.
KEILAR: Happy Fourth to all of you watching as well.
I'm Brianna Keilar in THE SITUATION ROOM. Thank you so much for being here with us on this Independence Day.
Next up, we have "ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN". It begins right now.

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Did you know that Southeast Asia is a powerhouse in palm oil production? Let's dive into the facts and figures:
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Thailand: Emerging as a key player, Thailand has steadily increased its palm oil production, implementing policies to address environmental and social impacts.
Vietnam: Making strides in the industry, Vietnam has seen growth in palm oil production, focusing on sustainable practices and mindful expansion.
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Buckwheat, which is grown in the fields, belongs to the buckwheat family. It includes several varieties of plants. The following varieties grow in Europe: cultivated buckwheat and Tatar buckwheat.
Fields are usually sown with a cultivated species of buckwheat, and the second species is a weed. The Tatar species is a low plant, the bushes are highly branched, the foliage is wide petiolate. The flowers are greenish with a yellow tinge, small, completely devoid of aroma.
The origin and botanical description of buckwheat
Buckwheat was cultivated as a culture several millennia ago in Southwest Asia (in India and Nepal). This cereal "came" to Russia from Greece, which is why it is called "buckwheat".
That buckwheat, which is sown on an industrial scale and that we are used to seeing on our table, has a straight stem, green in color, with a slightly red tint. In the process of ripening, the color of the stems gradually turns bright red. The foliage is in the shape of triangles, green. The foliage is naked, the lower leaves grow on the petioles, and the upper ones sit on the stem.
The root system of this cereal is the pivotal, the length of the main root can reach 45 - 48 cm. But the mass of buckwheat roots is small and makes up only 12 - 13% of the total mass of the plant.
The flowers are small, consist of 5 petals, they are painted in different shades of pink. The flowers are collected in racemose inflorescences, each numbering from 500 to 1800 pieces of male and female flowers. If the weather is favorable, then this cultivated plant blooms about 45-60 days. This annual is maintenance free., therefore, on one bush of buckwheat you can find buds, blossoming flowers and starting to ripen the fruits. Harvested usually in the last decade of September.
Blooming buckwheat looks unusually beautiful - a field covered with white and pink flowers, over which tireless bees buzz, looks like a large veil, swaying from the slightest breath of breeze.
This cereal plant is one of the main crops grown by many farms in our country. And buckwheat, obtained after processing ripe fruits, is one of the most popular food products.
Where does buckwheat grow in Russia
Although this cereal crop is not too capricious, it grows much better on certain types of soils. Also, the yield of this crop depends on the climatic conditions of the growing region. The best yield of this crop is observed in the forest-steppe, as well as in Polesie.
The best soil for planting this crop is light, loose, which quickly warm in the spring in the sun. In the soil there must be a sufficient amount of nutrients, if it is depleted, then in the fall, under plowing, it is necessary to add organic and mineral substances. The soil should not be strongly acidic, the optimum acidity of the soil is neutral (or slightly alkaline).
Heavy soils in which moisture may stagnate are not suitable for planting buckwheat - on such soils, the crop yield will be too small.
Buckwheat as a siderat
This culture is usually planted quite late, so the main task during soil treatment is to preserve moisture. In addition, it is necessary to observe the rules of crop rotation, planting buckwheat after the "right" crops. The best precursors of buckwheat are:
- winter crops;
- peas, beans, soy;
- row crops.
After cereal crops, it is better not to plant this cereal, since the soil is heavily contaminated with weed grass, which significantly reduces buckwheat yield. Also, the yield of this cereal crop will be low if it is planted after potatoes, a sick nematode, or after oats.
But buckwheat itself most often displaces weeds from the field, therefore, where it grows, herbicides are not used.
The healing properties of buckwheat
In our country, until the middle of the last century, green buckwheat was eaten - this color is explained by the method of processing cereals. And such cereal is much more beneficial for the human body - it helps to restore the body more effectively after serious diseases.
The composition of this cereal contains a large number of vitamins and minerals, which explains its benefit as a low-calorie product, indispensable for people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, in addition:
- contributes to the improvement of the brain;
- contributes to the improvement of metabolic processes;
- promotes the formation of "good" cholesterol in the body;
- helps to "clean" the vessels;
- increases the level of hemoglobin in the blood,
- improves the genitourinary system;
- boosts the immune system;
- Helps to heal skin wounds faster.
What are the fruits of the plant
The main value of buckwheat lies in its fruits. Buckwheat contains the following beneficial substances:
- trace elements: P, Al, K, B, Sr;
- vitamins: A, E, B;
- folic acid;
- some amino acids;
Porridge from this cereal helps cleanse the liver of harmful substances and toxins, improves blood circulation and brain nutrition, vision, hearing. It is buckwheat (along with oatmeal) that is included in the diet for patients with type 1 diabetes.
What are the flowers and leaves of buckwheat valued for?
Buckwheat flowers and foliage also have medicinal properties, they actively used in traditional medicine in different countries with the following diseases:
- bronchitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis and other inflammatory processes in the airways;
- to relieve pain with radiculitis;
- to strengthen the vessels and their walls.
On the basis of flowers and leaves make decoctions and infusions that can be used for internal use, and in the form of lotions and compresses - for external use.
Traditional medicine recipes using buckwheat flowers
For coughing, as well as for the treatment of inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract, it is worth brewing an infusion of buckwheat flowers. It should be 18 - 20 g of flowers, pour 2.5 cups of boiling water and leave for 120 minutes. The container with the infusion is then closed on top with a plate or a lid. An adult should drink this infusion instead of tea several times a day.
The dried aerial parts of this cereal crop (0.5 cup) are brewed with a liter of boiling water, insist. Drink should be cooled infusion with:
- arthritis (up to a liter of infusion per day);
- decrease in pressure and general weakness.
Infusions based on the ground parts of buckwheat are used to treat tonsillitis or laryngitis.
Buckwheat sprouts in diet food
It is better to sprout green buckwheat - it is it that is usually included in the menu for dietary nutrition. Sprouted green buckwheat normalizes the metabolism in the body, it has very few calories, so such buckwheat seedlings allow you to fight excess weight.
This cereal is very useful for the human body, so many are convinced that there are simply no contraindications to its inclusion in the diet.
but some contraindications for buckwheat still exist:
- this cereal contributes to the active formation of bile;
- gassing in the intestines;
- increased intestinal motility.
And green buckwheat often and in large quantities should not be eaten by people who have increased blood clotting.
Buckwheat as a honey plant
Buckwheat honey is considered one of the best among beekeepers. Buckwheat flowers are wonderful honey plants, the time of their flowering directly depends on weather conditions. In the sunny season, buckwheat inflorescences do not bloom until 1.5 months. The aroma of small flowers attracts bees. These flying insects from one hectare of buckwheat collect up to two hundred kilograms of honey that is very useful for health, which has a rather sharp aroma and taste.
Fresh buckwheat honey is brown. It does not crystallize for a long time. BUT regular buckwheat honey should be eaten by people with the following diseases:
- with high blood pressure;
- various diseases of the cardiovascular system;
- improves metabolism in the body;
- increases hemoglobin, contains a large amount of iron, therefore it is recommended for future mothers as food;
- necessary for those who recover after surgery or a large loss of blood.
Nutritional value and chemical composition of Greek groats
Unroasted buckwheat contains:
- 20% protein;
- 4% fat;
- 76% carbohydrates;
- vitamins of groups B, U, P, K;
- a number of natural acids;
- a number of macro- and microminerals.
The proteins that make up buckwheat are easily absorbed by the digestive tract of the human body, and carbohydrates, on the contrary, are processed for a long time in the digestive tract, so buckwheat gives a person a feeling of satiety for a long time.
The benefit of this cereal is undeniable, it is not for nothing that doctors usually include cereals based on it in the diet for many diseases in which you need to sit on fairly strict diets.
The benefits of buckwheat honey
Not only cereals, but also buckwheat honey is a very useful product that should be eaten even by completely healthy people. And the husk remaining on the grits after processing buckwheat is used for stuffing orthopedic pillows and mattresses.


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NHL lockout ends
NEW YORK (AP) -- NHL hockey is finally back, and this time it's official.
Nearly one week after a tentative labor deal was agreed to by the league and its players, the sides agreed to a required memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Saturday night that truly makes the lockout a thing of the past.
Training camps will open on Sunday, and a 48-game regular season will begin next Saturday. The signing of the MOU also paved the way for the NHL to release the long-awaited revised schedule.
Twenty-six of the 30 teams will play on opening day. All games during the season will be played within the two respective conferences.
In all, 720 games will be played over a 99-day regular season. There will be at least one game on each day of the season, that will end on April 27. Again, 26 of 30 teams will be in action that day.
The playoffs will begin on April 30. The latest the Stanley Cup finals will end is June 28.
Teams will play 18 games within their division: four games (two home and two away) against two of the teams in the division, five games (three home and two away) against another team in the division, and five games (two home and three away) against the remaining divisional opponent.
To complete the 720-game schedule, clubs will play three games against each of the 10 remaining non-divisional opponents in their conference.
Outside the division, a team will face five clubs twice at home and once away, and play once at home and twice on the road against the other five teams.
It took another lengthy negotiation to end the four-month lockout. The sides worked on the MOU all week, after a tentative deal was reached last Sunday morning -- the 113th day of the lockout -- and needed all day Saturday to finish it.
The announcement that the deal was signed came several hours after the union easily ratified the tentative agreement that was reached after an all-night, 16-hour bargaining session last weekend.
The more than 700 union members had a 36-hour window from Thursday night until Saturday morning to vote electronically. The NHL board of governors unanimously approved the deal on Wednesday.
The NHL hoped to open camps on Sunday, and that prospect seemed in jeopardy Saturday until the document was signed at 10 p.m. EST.
The new deal is for 10 years, but either side can opt out of it after eight. The previous agreement was in effect for seven seasons.
While this negotiation was long, the sides were able to rescue at least part of the season. The NHL also played a 48-game campaign following a lockout in the 1994-95 season.
The 2004-05 was completely canceled because of a lockout. This one forced the cancellation of 510 regular-season games, the Winter Classic and the All-Star game.
No preseason games will be played in the seven days before the regular season gets under way.
2013 Red Wings schedule
Jan 19: Red Wings at Blues, 8 p.m.
Jan 21: Red Wings at Blue Jackets, 7:30 p.m.
Jan 22: Stars at Red Wings, 7:30 p.m.
Jan 25: Wild at Red Wings, 7:30 p.m.
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Feb 9: Oilers at Red Wings, 2 p.m.
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Feb 24: Canucks at Red Wings, 5 p.m.
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Mar 7: Oilers at Red Wings, 7:30 p.m.
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Mar 22: Red Wings at Ducks, 10 p.m.
Mar 24: Red Wings at Ducks, 8 p.m.
Mar 25: Red Wings at Coyotes, 10 p.m.
Mar 28: Red Wings at Sharks, 10:30 p.m.
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Apr 14: Red Wings at Predators, 7:30 p.m.
Apr 17: Red Wings at Flames, 9:30 p.m.
Apr 20: Red Wings at Canucks, 10 p.m.
Apr 22: Coyotes at Red Wings, 7:30 p.m.
Apr 24: Kings at Red Wings, 7:30 p.m
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