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By Marc Lichtenfeld
The following is a transcript of an episode of "State of the Market" with Marc Lichtenfeld. The video titled "Top 3 Dividend Payers to Beat Inflation" aired on Friday, September 24th.
Hi everyone welcome to State of the Market, I'm Marc Lichtenfeld Chief Income Strategist with the Oxford Club.
My daughter is taking her first economics class. She asked me to help her study and we were talking about core-CPI, which tracks the cost of goods and services – excluding food and energy. Because no one really uses those things.
Other than the occasional outfit, food and gas are about the only thing my daughter actually spends money on. She thought this indicator was ridiculous. I agree.
The current inflation rate, including food and energy is 5.3%, higher than its been in decades. The Fed says the high inflation is "transitory". That's the word they used. They think it's temporary.
And some of it may be. Pent up demand from the pandemic is certainly adding to frenzied buying which is pushing up prices. And so are supply chain disruptions that still haven't recovered from the pandemic that are affecting nearly every industry. Some of that may let up now that extended unemployment benefits are running out so folks will no longer get paid to sit at home and find out who the baby's daddy is on Maury.
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But the idea that inflation is transitory when the Fed is dumping trillions of dollars into the economy and keeping rates at rock bottom levels is laughable.
Housing prices have gone berserk all over the country, from small towns in Idaho to white hot South Florida. Considering you can get a mortgage for 3% and a jumbo mortgage for 3.2%, it's no surprise people are paying up for their dream house in their dream locations.
The Fed's inflation target is 2%. As I mentioned, it's currently over 5%. I expect it to go even higher.
How High Will Inflation Go?
Let's assume the Fed miraculously gets it right. I know, I know, but stick with me. Let's say inflation stays at 5% for another year and then dips down to the Fed target of 2% for the next nine years.
After 10 years, prices will still be 25% higher than they are today. A $40,000 car will be $50,000. A $50 meal at a restaurant will be $62.50 and the estimated $300,000 that a 65 year old married couple today is expected to spend on healthcare in their lifetime will cost $375,000. Of course healthcare is not going up 2% per year. It is rising about 5.5% per year. If that continues in 2031the $300,000 in healthcare costs that a 65 year old married couple will incur today, rises to $512,431.
The government has two levers to help tame inflation, neither of which they appear intent on using. They can stop printing trillions of dollars in stimulus for an economy that no longer needs it and it can move interest rates higher.
Higher rates would also help savers who are currently getting buried earning a tenth of a percent in their bank accounts while prices for everything they need is surging.
So what can you do so that the government's mismanagement of inflation doesn't ruin your buying power?
Buy Perpetual Dividend Raisers
When I wrote my international best seller Get Rich with Dividends, it was for exactly this moment. In it, I recommended buying Perpetual Dividend Raisers, companies that raise their dividends every year. That way you're increasing your buying power as you get paid more dividend income each year.
For years, inflation was quite low. So those ever increasing dividends were great and really boosted investors buying power. But now that inflation is surging, it's more important to have a growing income stream so that your buying power doesn't decline.
No one wants to be able to afford less as they get older. So you need an investing strategy that will not simply hand you a pile of money to draw down from . You want your pile of money to generate more money every year so you don't have to withdraw from your nest egg until it dwindles down to dangerous levels.
Investing in companies that raise their dividend every year is one of the very few weapons you have in your investing arsenal to make sure the government's mishandling of the economy doesn't affect your lifestyle.
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I'm talking about companies like tiny Missouri regional bank Hawthorne Bancshares, ticker symbol HWBK that has raised its dividend an average of more than 14% per year over the past 10 years, including a 14% hike in the past year. Or the much larger Magna International, ticker MGA, which makes technology for the auto industry and has boosted the dividend an average of 15% per year over the past decade
If you'd bought 100 shares of Magna International 10 years ago, you'd have received $100 per year in dividend income. Today, you'd receive $354 and your yield on your original investment would be more than 21% per year. Not surprisingly, since the company's earnings, cash flow and dividend all grew, so did the stock price. It's up nearly 356% over the past 10 years.
Performance like that will help you maintain and increase your buying power in this current or future inflationary environments.
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I discussed inflation, taxes and of course the government's role in the economy with former White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow recently. He had some pretty provocative things to say. Click the link below to hear our conversation.
Thanks for watching State of the Market. I'm Marc Lichtenfeld. See you next time.
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Marc Lichtenfeld is the Chief Income Strategist of Investment U's publisher, The Oxford Club. He has more than three decades of experience in the market and a dedicated following of more than 500,000 investors.
After getting his start on the trading desk at Carlin Equities, he moved over to Avalon Research Group as a senior analyst. Over the years, Marc's commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and U.S. News & World Report, among other outlets. Prior to joining The Oxford Club, he was a senior columnist at Jim Cramer's TheStreet. Today, he is a sought-after media guest who has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business and Yahoo Finance.
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Yogesh Jain November 24, 2020
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Spiraling health care expenses in India have been pushing more than 55 million Indians into a state of abject poverty every year. COVID-19 has only worsened the trend for even more families—like Aghan Singh's.
To ensure that his sick mother received the best treatment, Singh, a self-employed motor mechanic in the small town of Bilaspur, in Chhattisgarh, India, decided to take her to a popular private hospital nearby. She had been running a fever since July 7 and had also developed breathlessness by July 9. Singh rushed her to the hospital, and when they reached the emergency department around 8 p.m., her oxygen levels were dangerously low. The hospital ordered a battery of tests for COVID-19 and quickly admitted her to an intensive care unit to give her oxygen and medicine. In the first eight hours of his mother being admitted to the hospital, Singh deposited Rs 34,000 ($455) and then paid another Rs 1,96,000 ($2,627) over the next four days. To arrange money for his mother's treatment, Singh had to sell off two and a half acres of land that he owned in his native village. Despite all his efforts, his mother's condition worsened progressively, and she died on July 16. While still grieving the loss of his beloved mother, he was further stressed about how his family would survive the next month with most of his resources having been exhausted during his mother's treatment.
Also in the state of Chhattisgarh, when 60-year-old Savani Bai from the village of Dhanokhar developed mild symptoms of COVID-19, she spoke to a doctor on the state helpline and was advised to go to the hospital. Since all the government hospital beds were occupied, she had to be admitted to the same private hospital in Bilaspur as Singh's mother, where she was admitted to a general COVID ward. During her 10-day hospitalization, she was given acetaminophen and was kept under daily observation to ensure her condition was not worsening. For this basic treatment, she ended up spending Rs 85,000 ($1,137) and had to mortgage her one-acre farm to meet her hospital expenses.
"I took my mother to a private hospital near my home because it is cleaner and they admit patients swiftly throughout the day," Singh said. Due to inadequate funding and monitoring of quality control in public hospitals, a large number of people in India are being forced to go to private hospitals for both outpatient, and to a lesser extent, inpatient care. It is a cruel joke that such a move to seek treatment in private hospitals by people is seen as a 'choice' rather than a compulsion.
India, which is the "second worst-hit country behind the United States," has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with a fragile health system. The country saw one of the most draconian lockdowns anywhere in March, leading to a sense of panic and causing many private hospitals to simply shut up shop or turn away patients during the lockdown period. "I am 59 years old and [have been taking medication] for diabetes and hypertension for 10 years now—how could I expose myself to the risk of COVID? So I shut my hospital completely when [Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi] announced the lockdown, and reopened [the hospital] three months later," said Ajay Chandrakar, the doctor who owns the hospital to which Singh took his mother. As a result, the avenues for seeking health care in India during a pandemic-induced lockdown were limited to the inadequate public systems. And the private hospitals that left citizens in the lurch went unquestioned and unpunished by India's national and state governments.
In fact, this was an opportunity for the public systems to recapture their rightful position as the predominant health care providers in the country. But the public systems were unprepared for the task. There was hardly any increased funding by the center and state governments to build up the capacity of the public health care system in the country to provide treatment and care for the increasing numbers of patients during the pandemic. Instead, there was "a worrying disruption in India's basic health services in March as local administrations focused on containing the spread of COVID-19," reports Mint, using data provided by the National Health Mission.
Dr. Gajanan Phutke at the district hospital in Bilaspur said, "I am worried that more than 50 percent of my tuberculosis patients did not return for their drug refills in August, and I don't know if they are still alive or not. … Immunization rates have also dropped by 50 percent in our health service," lamented the doctor.
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Private providers are able to make massive profits by charging patients exorbitantly—and national and state governments aren't stopping them. Xavier Minz, who runs the largest private lab in Bilaspur, said, "It is time for me to make good on the losses I suffered when most hospitals were shut [during the lockdown in March]. I got permission to do the COVID Real-Time PCR lab [test] and can charge Rs 3,800 ($51) against my expenses of Rs 1,100 ($14) for a single test."
Hospitalization and, in particular, intensive care are where private health systems make their major profits. These profits translate into patients incurring catastrophic health expenditure. Private hospitals continue to profiteer during the pandemic by the same methods they used before it—by massively inflating bills for daily bed charges and intensive care.
India has been actively promoting privatization in various social services including in health care for the last 30 years. Private-public partnership (PPP) has been one of the most common models for allowing private systems to perform a task previously done by the public systems while having the state pay for such operations. In India, physicians working with public hospitals are allowed to practice outside their place of employment and treat patients for a fee. "I took my mother to a private hospital owned by Dr. Chandrakar, who is the best doctor in my town and [has worked] in the dharam hospital [government hospitals are called dharam, which means righteous or moral] for the last 25 years." The PPP system makes it tempting for doctors working in public hospitals to compromise their commitment to their primary role of providing care in the public system. Now in the time of the pandemic, when an acute shortage of doctors and nurses looms large, states still allow their staff to practice privately, causing this chronic problem to become worse.
Back at home after recovering from COVID, Savani Bai cursed herself on her way to work at her farm—which had been mortgaged for her treatment—wondering why she had not demanded that the packed government hospital make space for her too when she required it. Aghan Singh only blamed it on his karma, while trying to come to terms with his bleak future.
This article was produced by Globetrotter. Yogesh Jain is a physician and public health activist in central India. Jain is a Globetrotter/Peoples Dispatch fellow.
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How the Privatization of Medicine in India Is Accelerating Its COVID-19 Death Toll

by Yogesh Jain, Citizen Truth
November 24, 2020

Spiraling health care expenses in India have been pushing more than 55 million Indians into a state of abject poverty every year. COVID-19 has only worsened the trend for even more families—like Aghan Singh's.

To ensure that his sick mother received the best treatment, Singh, a self-employed motor mechanic in the small town of Bilaspur, in Chhattisgarh, India, decided to take her to a popular private hospital nearby. She had been running a fever since July 7 and had also developed breathlessness by July 9. Singh rushed her to the hospital, and when they reached the emergency department around 8 p.m., her oxygen levels were dangerously low. The hospital ordered a battery of tests for COVID-19 and quickly admitted her to an intensive care unit to give her oxygen and medicine. In the first eight hours of his mother being admitted to the hospital, Singh deposited Rs 34,000 ($455) and then paid another Rs 1,96,000 ($2,627) over the next four days. To arrange money for his mother's treatment, Singh had to sell off two and a half acres of land that he owned in his native village. Despite all his efforts, his mother's condition worsened progressively, and she died on July 16. While still grieving the loss of his beloved mother, he was further stressed about how his family would survive the next month with most of his resources having been exhausted during his mother's treatment.

Also in the state of Chhattisgarh, when 60-year-old Savani Bai from the village of Dhanokhar developed mild symptoms of COVID-19, she spoke to a doctor on the state helpline and was advised to go to the hospital. Since all the government hospital beds were occupied, she had to be admitted to the same private hospital in Bilaspur as Singh's mother, where she was admitted to a general COVID ward. During her 10-day hospitalization, she was given acetaminophen and was kept under daily observation to ensure her condition was not worsening. For this basic treatment, she ended up spending Rs 85,000 ($1,137) and had to mortgage her one-acre farm to meet her hospital expenses.

"I took my mother to a private hospital near my home because it is cleaner and they admit patients swiftly throughout the day," Singh said. Due to inadequate funding and monitoring of quality control in public hospitals, a large number of people in India are being forced to go to private hospitals for both outpatient, and to a lesser extent, inpatient care. It is a cruel joke that such a move to seek treatment in private hospitals by people is seen as a 'choice' rather than a compulsion.

India, which is the "second worst-hit country behind the United States," has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with a fragile health system. The country saw one of the most draconian lockdowns anywhere in March, leading to a sense of panic and causing many private hospitals to simply shut up shop or turn away patients during the lockdown period. "I am 59 years old and [have been taking medication] for diabetes and hypertension for 10 years now—how could I expose myself to the risk of COVID? So I shut my hospital completely when [Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi] announced the lockdown, and reopened [the hospital] three months later," said Ajay Chandrakar, the doctor who owns the hospital to which Singh took his mother. As a result, the avenues for seeking health care in India during a pandemic-induced lockdown were limited to the inadequate public systems. And the private hospitals that left citizens in the lurch went unquestioned and unpunished by India's national and state governments.

In fact, this was an opportunity for the public systems to recapture their rightful position as the predominant health care providers in the country. But the public systems were unprepared for the task. There was hardly any increased funding by the center and state governments to build up the capacity of the public health care system in the country to provide treatment and care for the increasing numbers of patients during the pandemic. Instead, there was "a worrying disruption in India's basic health services in March as local administrations focused on containing the spread of COVID-19," reports Mint, using data provided by the National Health Mission.

Dr. Gajanan Phutke at the district hospital in Bilaspur said, "I am worried that more than 50 percent of my tuberculosis patients did not return for their drug refills in August, and I don't know if they are still alive or not. … Immunization rates have also dropped by 50 percent in our health service," lamented the doctor.

Private providers are able to make massive profits by charging patients exorbitantly—and national and state governments aren't stopping them. Xavier Minz, who runs the largest private lab in Bilaspur, said, "It is time for me to make good on the losses I suffered when most hospitals were shut [during the lockdown in March]. I got permission to do the COVID Real-Time PCR lab [test] and can charge Rs 3,800 ($51) against my expenses of Rs 1,100 ($14) for a single test."

Hospitalization and, in particular, intensive care are where private health systems make their major profits. These profits translate into patients incurring catastrophic health expenditure. Private hospitals continue to profiteer during the pandemic by the same methods they used before it—by massively inflating bills for daily bed charges and intensive care.

India has been actively promoting privatization in various social services including in health care for the last 30 years. Private-public partnership (PPP) has been one of the most common models for allowing private systems to perform a task previously done by the public systems while having the state pay for such operations. In India, physicians working with public hospitals are allowed to practice outside their place of employment and treat patients for a fee. "I took my mother to a private hospital owned by Dr. Chandrakar, who is the best doctor in my town and [has worked] in the dharam hospital [government hospitals are called dharam, which means righteous or moral] for the last 25 years." The PPP system makes it tempting for doctors working in public hospitals to compromise their commitment to their primary role of providing care in the public system. Now in the time of the pandemic, when an acute shortage of doctors and nurses looms large, states still allow their staff to practice privately, causing this chronic problem to become worse.

Back at home after recovering from COVID, Savani Bai cursed herself on her way to work at her farm—which had been mortgaged for her treatment—wondering why she had not demanded that the packed government hospital make space for her too when she required it. Aghan Singh only blamed it on his karma, while trying to come to terms with his bleak future.

This article was produced by Globetrotter. Yogesh Jain is a physician and public health activist in central India. Jain is a Globetrotter/Peoples Dispatch fellow.

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XtDisplay - Retrieves the X server connection ID for a widget.
DefaultColormap -Macro that retrieves the Default Colormap ID.
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Kia India sells 14,005 units of Seltos in November 2019
The Seltos has proven to be a blockbuster for Kia Motors India as the company sold 14,005 units in November 2019, which is a 9 percent growth compared to October 2019 sales. With that, Kia claims the Seltos to be India's largest selling SUV.
The company added that more than 40,000 Seltos have been delivered since its launch in August 2019, and the bookings have crossed 86,800. The Seltos sold 6,236 units in August; 7,754 in September and 12,854 units in October 2019. With more than an overwhelming response, Kia is ramping up the production of the most sought after trims, the DCT and diesel automatic, to reduce the waiting period.
We are ecstatic to witness the tremendous responses for Seltos which is now leading the UV segment. The 100 day-journey of Kia Seltos has been nothing short of a delightful ride. This is a true testament to positive growth and the trust that the consumers have shown for us. We will continue to grow and surprise the country with Seltos and our upcoming products. – Manohar Bhat, Vice President and Head of Sales and Marketing, Kia Motors India
Kia's Anantapur plant in Andhra Pradesh is capable of producing 300,000 units annually and has already started second shift in its plant. The company plans to expand its network to more than 300 touchpoints by the end of March 2020. Kia is looking at the Northeast, the northern part of Telangana, Karnataka, and western Rajasthan for the said expansion.
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Q: What is the difference between the following two uses of `putchar`? I was writing some code where I was getting an unexpected output in one part of the program, which in turn disrupted the entire system.
The code can be simplified and shortened to:
char ch;
printf("Enter Number: ");

while ((ch = getchar()) != '\n') {
   if (ch >= 65 && ch <= 67)  {
         ch = 2;
   }
   putchar(ch);
}

As per the code above, I am trying to print a character/integer sequence of the user's choice. The numbers should remain unchanged whereas if the user enters letter A, then this should print 2.
Expected Output
Enter Number: 23-AB
23-22

Actual Output
Enter Number: 23-AB
23-☺☺

Once confronted with this problem, I decided to tweak some things and came up with the following code which worked perfectly.  It uses the same approach but produces different output:
char input;
printf("\nEnter Number: ");

while ((ch = getchar()) != '\n') {

    switch (toupper(ch)) {   //toupper function not really needed since I am expecting the user to enter upper-case letters ONLY
    case 'A': case 'B': case 'C':
        printf("2");
        break;
    default:
        putchar(ch);
    }
}

Expected Output
Enter Number: 23-AB
23-22

Actual Output
Enter Number: 23-AB
23-22

I am unable to comprehend why I am failing to convert the ASCII value of the characters entered in the first code to a single integer.  What is the reason for this difference in the outputs?  I have simply changed the type of controlling expression, from if-statement to a switch-statement (or so I think). How can I alter the first code to provide me with the same output as the second code?

A: In the first version, setting ch=2; makes ch the character with ASCII value 2, not the character 2.  ch=0x32; in your first version would probably work, since ASCII 50 = 0x32 is character 2.  Even easier (and better, as Weather Vane points out) is ch='2';.
In your second version, you are using printf("2").  As a result, the compiler is producing the ASCII value for you when it processes the string "2", just as it would for ch='2';.  Try printf("%d\n",'2'); and you should see 50.

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package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/koepkeca/goSafeDataStruct/safeStack"
)

const (
	//The GO Race detector can manage a max of 8192 concurrent routines.
	//Read more about this here: https://golang.org/doc/articles/race_detector.html
	nbrOfRoutines = 7654 //The GO Race detector can manage a max of 8192 concurrent routines.
)

func main() {
	S := safeStack.New()
	for i := 0; i < nbrOfRoutines; i++ {
		go func(j int) {
			S.Push(j)
		}(i)
	}
	fmt.Printf("%d elements", S.Len())
	next := S.Pop()
	for next != nil {
		fmt.Printf("%d\n", next.(int))
		next = S.Pop()
	}
}

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Collective appeals against law to privatise public enterprise
The collective "Save Public Enterprise" will lodge an appeal in respect of the law around the privatisation of public enterprise with a view to repealing this law. This emerged on Friday in a communiqué.
A petition requesting that the law of December 16th, 2015 be repealed has also been instigated. To date it has been signed by more than 1000 individuals.
These are, in particular, members of the company VEGA, the Leftist Movement political party, Christian and Socialist trade unions, MOC (Christian Workers Movement), Attac (Association for tax on financial transactions and active citizenship), and CADTM (the group for cancelling third world debt).
University lecturers have also signed it.
The reform introduced by the law puts an end to the legal obligation upon authorities to hold majority shareholdings in public companies such as Proximus and bpost. This opens the floodgates for privatisation.
This law must be resisted as "these companies, besides the services which they provide the public, also offer that which is apparently most important. This is allowing the distribution of bumper dividends to the state," the collective maintains.
It goes further saying that "transferring shares or public activities towards the private sector does not respond to a legitimate public utility aim." Besides the new law amounts to "outlawing parliamentary debate through the intervention of special powers granted to the Council of Ministers."
The appeal will be lodged before Tuesday July 12th, with the Constitutional Court or within six months of publication of the law in the Moniteur belge (Belgian Official Gazette).
Christopher Vincent (Source: Belga)


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Replacing the outgoing VK Commodore at the beginning of March, 1986, the VL Commodore was a distinctly different car from the one it replaced, not least thanks to a complete cosmetic overhaul.
Like its predecessor, the VL Commodore was only made available to customers in two body styles; a four-door sedan and a five-door wagon.
Power was derived from either the heroic, Nissan-sourced RB30E inline six-cylinder motor which could be had as a naturally aspirated or a turbocharged unit, or, for fans of the uneven warble of a bent-eight motor, Holden's powerful 5.0lt V8.
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This particular VL is an extremely rare and desirable 1987 HDT VL LE Calais Turbo and comes equipped with the RB30ET turbo six-pot and five-speed manual 'box.
According to the seller, the vehicle has travelled an original 229,000 kilometres from new as indicated by the odometer.
The seller adds that the VL Calais, finished in factory Eucumbene Blue, is a fully matching numbers vehicle and the engine, gearbox and clutch have all been recently rebuilt.
The HDT VL Turbo is up for auction at Lloyds auctioneers and anyone interested in this Aussie classic can view the full listing here.


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Can I set up a tour time?
I work with youth too.
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Egypt court overturns sentence for policeman convicted of El-Sabbagh's murder
The former court verdict against the CSF officer was deemed the first and toughest such sentence against a policeman for killing protesters since the 2011 uprising
El-Sayed Gamal El-Din , Sunday 14 Feb 2016
In this Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 photo, 32-year-old mother Shaimaa el-Sabbagh holds a poster during a protest in downtown Cairo (Photo: AP)
Egypt court sentences policeman to 15 years over protester's murder
Cairo court detains policeman over El-Sabagh's killing
Forensic authority spokesman dismissed after El-Sabagh 'thinness' comments
PHOTO GALLERY: Female protest in downtown Cairo against the killing of Shaimaa El-Sabbagh
Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Sunday a 15-year jail sentence issued to a police officer for the fatal shooting of protester Shaimaa El-Sabbagh during a peaceful march last year in downtown Cairo ahead of the fourth anniversary of the January 25 uprising.
The court ordered a new trial of the Central Security Forces (CSF) officer Yaseen Mohamed Hatem in front of a different district court.
The policeman's lawyer, Fareed El-Deeb, said that the march where El-Sabbagh was killed took place under "exceptional circumstances" due to the timing of the anniversary, adding that if his client had an intention to commit murder, dozens of casualties would have fallen.
El-Deeb added to his defense that the march, organised by Egypt's Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP), was not given a permit by the interior ministry, claiming that the demonstrators created a state of confusion for the forces.
The lawyer pushed to prove the absence of criminal intent and murder for his defendant by adding that the killing of 32-year-old El-Sabbagh resulted from the "indiscretion" and "inexperience" of a young 25-year-old police officer.
In June 2015, a Cairo court sentenced the CSF police officer to 15 years in jail after it convicted him for "beating that led to the death" of El-Sabbagh -- a charge similar to manslaughter, as well as "deliberately wounding" other protesters.
El-Sabbagh was killed after being hit with birdshot fired by the CSF police officer.
Egypt's CSF often disperse protests using birdshot and teargas.
The former court verdict against the CSF officer was deemed the first and toughest such sentence against a policeman for killing protesters since the 2011 uprising.
Shaimaa El-Sabbagh
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Lime or Lemon?: Is food turning into soap?
In the last century the soap did usually not bring along thoughts about food. The fragrances of the washing products were often flowery – roses, lilacs, water lillies. About a decade or two ago some food ingredients like apple, almond, vanilla, mint, olives, citruses found their place in the shampoos, shower gels and creams.
Also some geographic relevance has been and still is widely used by the soap industry. Examples are Florida Sunshine, Japanese Cherry Blossom, Morrocan Rose. And why not an Estonian Spruce or Estonian Forest Dew shower gel as 50% of the country is covered with trees?
I walked into a store to buy some shower gel and was rather astonished looking at the choice I had. Hmmm, cucumber and mint, watermelon and eucalyptus, lemon and thyme, fig and rosemary, pear and lemongrass, apricot and basil….most of them I use in my food, not necessarily in these combinations, but all relevant for savoury or sweet dishes. The products actually contain the extracts of these ingredients. I ended up buying a Cucumber and Mint as well as a Lemon and Tthyme.
What makes the food now so strong in the choice of the body products? Do they want me to become hungry, are they playing on the association of the ingredients triggering a feeling of satisfaction or perhaps craving?
By now my mind was hooked on why are the food ingredients so dominant also in the soap manufacturing. I visited more stores and found that the most popular seem to be the citruses: grapefruit and bambus, citrus and melisse, lime, sweet lemon, etc. Sometimes a catchy name is achieved through alliteration like Vitalising Vitamins or Paradisiac Pink Pepperpod, even a triple one, the latter.
The funniest shower gels that caught my eye that day were a Mojito shower gel from foods and Energizing Seamoss from non-foods.
By chance I had cucumber, mint, lemon and thyme at home and I actually tried both combinations. Not so sure about the cucumber and mint, but the lemon and thyme are nice, I have had it with some white fish before.
This trend is either all an advertising trick on the unconscious or we are moving towards the era when the food nutrients can be obtained by the immersion through the skin, a way to fight obesity but I doubt that it would satisfy the hunger to experience the actual taste in your mouth.


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This was the heartwarming moment a man on his deathbed got his dying wish - to feed a horse one last time
The 87-year-old was not well enough to move so his bed was wheeled outside to give a handful of apples, carrots and polo mints to Victor
Jeff Reines
this is the touching moment a man on his deathbed was granted his dying wish - to feed a horse one last time.
Lifelong horse lover Patrick Saunders, 87, was even wheeled outside in his hospice bed to give a handful of food to Victor the horse, as he was too unwell to move around.
Having spent most of his adolescence around horses and started his working life at a stable, he always had a strong connection with the animals.
So the hospice staff contacted a local equine rescue centre that arranged for Victor, a large stallion, to visit Patrick in his final days so he could pet and feed a horse one last time.
On the day, Patrick was not well enough to get out of bed so his bed was wheeled outside where he fed Victor a handful of apples, carrots and polo mints.
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Patrick's daughter Jayne, who had come to visit her dad and arrived to see him stroking the gentle animal outside the hospice, said: "I simply didn't expect him to have an experience like that at the hospice.
"He'd actually had a couple of bad days and wasn't himself at all but he was absolutely full of beans when I arrived and you could see the joy on his face from being able to interact with such a gorgeous animal.
"Horses have played a big part in our family's life, so this was a very special moment.
"When they told me that a horse was coming to visit Dad, I thought that maybe he would be able to see the animal from his balcony. I had no idea he would be able to get so close.
Patrick Saunders, 87, was granted his dying wish to feed a horse by caring hospice staff (Image: SWNS)
"It's something I'll never forget."
Patrick died at the North Devon Hospice just three days later but Jayne said his final days had been brightened no end by his visit from Victor.
During his time at the hospice, Patrick would regularly regale nurses with tales about horses, declaring his love of all things equine that he inherited from his father, also called Victor.
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Over the years Patrick, of Braunton, Devon, introduced many people to horses and even taught his wife-to-be, Wendy, to ride when she was 15. The two were later married and in 2017 celebrated 66 years of happy marriage.
Patrick's smile says it all (Image: SWNS)
Cathy Whattingham, one of the nurses caring for Patrick that day, said: "His passion for horses was so clear and they'd obviously played a big part in his life.
"We happen to be next door to the North Devon Equine Rescue Centre, so we thought we'd see if they might be able to bring a horse to the hospice to visit Patrick.
"One phone call later and there was a beautiful brown stallion stood outside the front door of the hospice.
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"I'll never forget Patrick's smile when he was stroking that horse's face. You could see they had real connection and it is experiences like that which make hospice care so special.
"We may not be able to put days into life, but we can put life into the days of our patients."


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Preston North End transfer rumours: Lilywhites eyeing League Two swoop, Blackpool reject second Bowler bid
Chorley manager is proud to see striker Harry Cardwell earn a big move to Southend United.
Loan ace Ryan Cooney seals permanent switch to Morecambe from Burnley
Morecambe have sealed the permanent signing of full-back Ryan Cooney on a two-year deal.
By Craig Salmon
Thursday, 24th June 2021, 12:18 pm
Updated Thursday, 24th June 2021, 12:21 pm
Ryan Cooney
The right-back has spent the last 18 months at the Mazuma stadium, on two separate loan deals from Burnley, and has made 57 appearances for the club to-date.
Manager Stephen Robinson believes Cooney's presence will prove to be an important part of the squad.
"Ryan's a young boy, he did well last year," he said.
"We've secured him on a two-year contract, not a loan deal this time so we create an asset straight away."
The Manchester-born defender has played 4,362 minutes so far for the Shrimps, scoring two goals and providing two assists as well as delivering 79 crosses and regaining possession 45 times in the opposition half.
Robinson added: "I think there's a lot more to come from Ryan, he's a young boy still learning the game and I think in certain games he's been excellent.
"Ryan has a big future ahead of him if he continues to do the right things, which we believe he will."
Stephen RobinsonBurnleyMorecambe
Preston North End transfer rumours: Lilywhites leading race for Aston Villa ace, Brentford target valued at £18m
Ched Evans happy to assist after playing key role in Preston North End's fight back against Sheffield United
Former Wigan Warriors and St Helens star Bryn Hargreaves is reported missing in the USA
Preston North End transfer rumours: Lillywhites midfielder set sixth loan spell away from Deepdale, Brentford still £3m short of Nottingham Forest's Jonson valuation


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The Technology Behind Psychographic Marketing Can Be Used For Good, Evil Or Advertising
On 11/30/2017 by Brian Solis
This year, I was given the opportunity to present in Dubai at OMD Predicts, an event that explores the future of media, consumerism, and brand. To be honest, it was my first time stepping out of the Dubai airport. In the past, Dubai was only a stopover en route to other countries. I was excited.
Following my presentation, I met with Austyn Allison from Campaign Middle East in the lobby of the Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort (what a beautiful hotel!) During our discussion, we covered so many topics, but, for the first time, I talked about how my psychographic research going back 10 years ago, predicated some of the manipulative campaigns we saw in past election. At the time, I wrote a paper for a government entity that discussed how psychographic targeted advertising and content could be used to create informed and productive online communities. Instead, we saw this work used to polarize communities and incite negative interaction.
I hope you find it helpful.
An Interview with Campaign Middle East
Brian Solis is principal analyst at Altimeter Group in the US, where he studies disruptive technology. He was introduced at last month's OMD Predicts event in Dubai as "a keynote speaker, digital anthropologist, and futurist,"and he has always looked at how technology affects society.
He began his career looking at ways to bypass the media most people were consuming in the early to mid-1990s. "I moved to Silicon Valley in 1996," he says. The internet was growing more pervasive and "we started to see the onset of the consumerisation of technologies, and that led to a lot of experimentation. A lot of that experimentation was: could we bypass traditional intermediaries and go directly to people through [chat forums and message boards]?"
That sort of thinking spread throughout the Valley and gradually gave birth to social media. Today much of people's news and information is gleaned not through television, radio and newspapers but through platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
People are using these channels on the go, through mobile phones in what Google likes to call 'micromoments'. Solis says those micromoments are "really upsetting the balance" of marketing and "democratising branding".
He explains: "In our research we found when people reach for their phone to make a decision [about where to go to dinner, for example], 90 per cent of people in that moment are looking for information without a brand in mind, per se. And 73 percent make a decision about who they are going to work with or buy based on the information they find."
That information isn't necessarily from a website, he adds: "It's from a YouTube video or an Amazon review."
Today Solis says marketers should be wary of trying to pull people away from how they choose to connect.
"You can judge phone over-immersion all you want," he told the audience at the OMD Predicts conference. "But that's not going to change itbehaviors
At the same event, marketing consultant Martin Lindstrom lamented that now we have smartphones we seldom get bored. Rather than looking around, pondering random thoughts or talking to strangers when we have being, we are more likely to check our screens.
And Solis also worries, telling Campaign: "As we heard Martin Lindstrom talk about, boredom and downtime are now being filled with connectivity, and that keeps us moving to the next, moving to the next…" He snaps his fingers on each "next", but stops when he says: "I think we need time for reflection. At the end of the day we have other things that define who we are, and we have to bring that back online."
We need to re-learn to connect better as people. Speaking on a day Mexico was rocked by a massive earthquake, and hurricanes were hitting the mainland US and its territory of Puerto Rico, he says: "I have a good friend who lost all her belongings and home in the Houston floods. And to see our community of friends help her out and bring her back to a home, you can see humanity can be good when technology is used."
Even in the less selfless world of marketing, we can use cutting-edge data crunching to make things a little better. "Imagine if we are using the same techniques at scale, or branding at scale, that is more human or aspirational," he says.
This shift all begins with "being smart about who we are and then bringing that back to work on how we control information and don't let information control us".
On the stage, he suggested: "What if a brand was built upon somatic markers, upon the things that you felt and that you shared because they meant something to you?"
This philosophy is of its time, he adds: "We are now living in an era where the experiences are the product; it's more important than stuff."
For this reason, smartly designed retail stores are more Instagrammable.
Kodak is often held up as a brand that didn't evolve with the times, but often the reasons given for its decline stop at its failure to adapt to the old technology of film being surpassed by digital cameras and then smartphones.
Solis goes further, saying: "What happened to The Kodak Moment is we … stopped taking those pictures and using them as memories. Now our pictures become real-time experiences … or they become ephemeral. But they are just instances, and Kodak lost touch with what The Kodak Moment meant to a new generation of customers."
He cites the Canadian academic Marshall McLuhan, who declared: "The medium is the message." This applies today not only to the selfie culture of smartphone photography but to social media in general.
"About ten years ago I wrote a paper for a secret government entity that talked about how at some point social media could be used in ways to create information that– going back to bypassing the traditional intermediaries – could reach people directly and influence their perceptions and behaviours," says Solis.
Much of what he anticipated a decade ago has since been used by the likes of Cambridge Analytica, the psychographic marketing firm that helped Donald Trump win last year's US presidential election through microtargeting of voters, and may have been instrumental in steering the UK to vote to leave the European Union.
"I wrote that paper on a positive note, that we could do good for the world," says Solis. "But I was interested to see how that [Trump's] exact playbook was the opposite of that, in that we were using fake news, we were using consumer data and psychographic data as a way of creating content that could manipulate [voters] based on their weak points."
Using psychographic data to sell products or to influence voters is ethically different, though, he says. "I think at the end of the day [the social networks that colluded] liked the revenue and the ability to show the muscle of Facebook with its own internet, if you will. In those cases there were moral challenges, and I think that's what's different from [selling] a soft drink."
People are understandably much more cynical and skeptical now about their manipulation by marketers, through social media and the distribution of false information.
"But the problem is that [people] don't know when they are being manipulated," says Solis. "I hate to say that, but [the techniques] are so compelling, so efficient and so effective that it is scary. And, as I said as a result when I wrote that original paper, with this technology comes great responsibility."
People are aware that fake news exists, but not necessarily when they are being manipulated by marketers and propagandists through social media. "Unfortunately, nobody is really unifying against it," says Solis. "There's a lot of little disparate things, but we are learning every day just how deep this was within Facebook, that the Facebook team met with the Trump campaign, that they helped guide the strategies, and that the YouTube team helped guide these strategies."
But Solis still maintains he is an optimist.
"We need to learn and unlearn a bit about what's happening, and to be a bit more open-minded and maybe embrace a bit more critical thinking, which is so difficult to do," he says.
The article reposted with permission and was originally published at BrianSolis.com.


The National Marine Aquarium's astounding club for teens, Ocean Squad, is perfect for anyone aged 11 – 15 with a passion for all things marine. With behind-the-scenes tours, science experiments, sustainable seafood cooking, snorkelling safaris, and so much more, these are jam-packed weeks with loads to get involved with!
Not only is the week packed with activity, teens will also get their own Ocean Squad t-shirt, a memory stick with highlights of their time and a year's pass to the Aquarium. The next weekly sessions starts on 27 August. For more information email joe-farrow@national-aquarium.co.uk.
New for 2018, the National Marine Aquarium has been holding extra special Boat Tours around the gorgeous Plymouth Sound. Guided by one of the Aquarium's Marine Biologists or Ocean Conservationists, it's bound to be a fascinating and scenic event for all family and friends to enjoy! Suitable for all ages this is the sure way to connect with your Ocean and see some of the amazing local wildlife for yourself.
The next trips are running on 25 August and 15 September, book here.
Throughout this Summer Holiday, you can meet the hosts from the National Marine Aquarium out on the seashore for some fantastic fun! There's loads for the family to enjoy including rockpool rambling, beach cleans, and beach activities based on exploration and discovery. It's a great way to make the most of the incredible weather and connect with your ocean.
Outreach activities continue from Tuesday 14 August at Jennycliff Beach. They'll also be doing outreach on Teats Hill Beach (just outside the NMA), Mount Batten Beach, and Hannafore Beach (Looe). Find out more, including dates and times, here.


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TRAIN OPERATIONS: Adopting Leading Practices Could Improve Passenger Boarding Experience
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Progress Made Installing Video Surveillance Systems, But Coverage and Performance Could Be Improved
Our objective for this report was to assess the outcome of the company's efforts to install an integrated and effective national VSS network.
GOVERNANCE: Controls to Avoid Duplicate Medical Payments of Agreement Employees Appear Generally Effective, but Some Payment Errors Still Occur
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This is to inform you that we are initiating a review to monitor Amtrak's (the Company's) activities associated with the Gateway Program.
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Man residing at day care accused of child porn was also handivan manager
A Marshall man accused of sexually assaulting children and distributing child porn also worked for the Lloydminster HandiVan Society
Lisa Joy
After appearing in Lloydminster Provincial Court, Joseph Sproull, 40, was released on bail.Saskatchewan Court photo
Warning: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers
LLOYDMINSTER - A man residing at a home-based day care - who is charged with sexual assault and distribution of child porn - was also the manager of the Lloydminster Handivan Society.
Joseph Sproull, 40, of Marshall was arrested in July and charged with three counts of sexual assault and three counts of sexual interference against a child, as well as possession of, and distribution of child porn.
RCMP say it was determined that a home-based day care was operating at the residence where Sproull lived.
SASKTODAY.ca has learned that Sproull was also the manager of Lloydminster HandiVan Society. In 2018 Lloydminster Handivan Society changed its name to Border City Connects Society. They operate BCCareavan, which provides transportation for able bodied and physically challenged people to out-of-town non-emergency medical appointments.
An employee with BCCareavan said Sproull no longer works with them, adding, "Absolutely not. It would not be right if he was working for the handivan."
He wouldn't confirm when Sproull stopped working for them.
The employee said Sproull was with them for "many, many years," and they had no complaints against him.
He stressed that Sproull never worked in a driver capacity for the handivan society.
Residents of Lloydminster and area, however, say that not only did Sproull drive the handivan but he also drove school bus for elementary students at Jack Kemp School.
Lacey Oickle said Sproull was her son's bus driver.
"He was my son's bus driver for years, from Grade 1 up to recently and he picked him up nearly every morning."
Amber Rivera said when she worked for a company in Lloydminster that supports people with developmental disabilities, Sproull was the handivan driver.
"Some of the clients were definitely vulnerable females," said Rivera.
The Jack Kemp School was contacted but declined to comment other than to say the bus drivers are contracted out and to contact the school division. The Lloydminster Public School Division was contacted but didn't respond.
Sproull was released on no cash bail with strict conditions after appearing in Lloydminster Provincial Court Sept. 28. He has a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., must not be near any public parks, swimming areas, school grounds, playgrounds, daycare centres or community centres where there are children under 16.
He isn't to obtain or continue any employment or be a volunteer that involves being in a position of trust or authority towards a child under 16. He isn't allowed to use a computer to communicate with children under 16, not possess or access a cell phone or any device capable of accessing the Internet, except as required for employment, educational or other purposes approved by his probation officer.
Sproull was also ordered to submit to any search of himself, his vehicle, and residence without a warrant.
There is a ban on publication of the location where Sproull will be residing.
According to court documents, the alleged incidents occurred between Aug. 26, 2020, and March 12, 2021, at or near Marshall.
According to RCMP, on July 14 Saskatchewan Integrated Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) and the Maidstone RCMP executed a search warrant at a residence on 1st Avenue East in Marshall after receiving a report from an online application that child pornography videos were uploaded on their platform.
The police investigation determined that a home-based day care was operating where Sproull lived and investigators alerted the Government of Saskatchewan Ministry of Education the same day. The Ministry of Education suspended the day care licence two days later and advised all parents.
At the day care, police found two cell phones and two laptops allegedly belonging to Sproull. After a forensic examination investigators located images of unknown children being sexually assaulted by a male.
Investigators are working to identify the children in the images and meeting with the parents of the children who attended the day care. Police believe three young children were being assaulted in the photographs. The Saskatchewan RCMP says they won't release the specific age of the victims to protect their identity.
All those affected by the alleged incidents are receiving support from victim services.
The charges against Sproull haven't been proven in court. He appears next in Lloydminster Provincial Court Oct. 18 to elect how he wants to be tried.
Police say they are still investigating. Anyone who suspects they or their child has been a victim, or has information about these incidents, is asked to call North Battleford RCMP Provincial General Investigation Section at 306-446-1615. Anyone who requires support during this investigation is asked to contact the Midwest Victim Services Program at 780-874-5021.
Story updated to reflect comments from Lloydminster and area residents.
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Josie Crimi is Executive Vice President of Development and Production at Scott Brothers Entertainment, where she has been part of the SBE team since 2015. She oversees more than 60 hours of original programming production per year, including the hit shows Property Brothers: Forever Home and Celebrity IOU.
Josie began her career in commercial production before entering documentary production with partners including Discovery, History, and National Geographic. Before arriving at SBE, Josie spent a decade at General Purpose Pictures, where she developed and produced numerous programs.
Josie lives in Toronto with her husband and their two children. She enjoys cooking and traveling!


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Mail carriers beware of dogs in LA
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has earned the dubious distinction for the second year in a row as the U.S. city with the most dog attacks on mail carriers, the U.S. Postal Service said.
California's biggest city accounted for 69 such attacks in fiscal year 2012, which ended in September, compared with 42 attacks each in Seattle, and San Antonio, which tied for second place. Chicago ranked fourth with 41 attacks.
The Postal Service said there were 5,879 dog attacks on mail carriers in the United States that year.
In 2011, Los Angeles led the pack with 83 dog attacks on mail carriers, Postal Service spokeswoman Eva Jackson said.
The year-round fair weather of cities like Los Angeles and San Diego could be a factor, she suggested. "People are out more with their dogs, things like that."


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Talking Stick Resort Arena, Phoenix, Arizona Attendance: 16,004
Booker scores 50 in back-to-back games but Suns lose again
NBA Headlines
76ers extend Simmons for $170M, 5 years
Warriors GM Myers moves on from Durant
Cavs waive G Smith after eventful tenure
MVP Antentokounmpo takes in Yankees game
Grizzlies, Wolves reach Vegas title game
Ex-Nets think Durant, Irving can succeed
Davis joins Lakers with hopes of title
Westbrook to Rockets for Paul, picks
Dad of Celtics rookie Waters found dead
New-look 76ers introduce Horford
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By JOSE M. ROMERO
PHOENIX (AP) Devin Booker has scored 109 points in the past two games and every last one of them went to waste.
Status quo for the last-place Phoenix Suns.
Booker became the youngest player in NBA history with consecutive 50-point games, but his latest scoring binge was squandered once again by the Suns in a 124-121 loss to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night.
"The fans in Phoenix have been behind us the past four years since I've been here," Booker said. "They deserve that. It's entertainment for them. They come to the game and hopefully I try to put on a show for them and hope they enjoy, and make memories that last forever."
Thomas Bryant's three-point play with 2.8 seconds left put Washington ahead for good in a back-and-forth game. Bryant caught Bradley Beal's pass off a baseline drive and banked in the winning bucket while getting fouled. After he added the free throw, Phoenix had one more chance to tie it, but Troy Daniels missed a 3-pointer from the corner just before the final buzzer.
"Luckily he saw me just going down the lane and everybody committed to him and he saw me right there close to the basket, where I'm able to make that shot," Bryant said of Beal.
The 22-year-old Booker finished with 50 points and 10 rebounds as the Suns, with the worst record in the Western Conference at 17-59, dropped their fifth straight. Booker scored 59 points in a 125-92 loss Monday night at Utah.
It was the first time a Phoenix player reached 50 in back-to-back games. Tom Chambers had been the only member of the Suns to score even 40 in successive games.
"It's a blessing. It's an honor, I say it every day, to lace it up and play a sport that I love," Booker said. "I think right now it's time for me to be more aggressive, being down a couple of men. Teammates helping me, setting good screens. ... Fell short, but a lot better fight today than we did have in the last game."
Beal and Jabari Parker had 28 points apiece for the Wizards, who snapped a five-game skid. Bryant added 18 points and a career-high 19 rebounds.
The game featured 23 lead changes and neither team led by more than seven points.
Booker scored his 46th point when he missed his initial shot, fell to the floor, got back up to catch the rebound and rattled in a second shot with 5:08 to play. His 50th point came on a layup with 1:30 left, tying the score at 118.
He tied the highest-scoring game for a Suns player at Talking Stick Resort Arena, matching Amare Stoudemire (2005) and Clifford Robinson (2000).
Booker missed a 3 that could have put Phoenix ahead with 48 seconds left, and Bryant drained a 3 at the other end to give the Wizards a 121-118 lead with 28.6 seconds to go.
"I give it all to my teammates because they believe in me to make that shot, time and time again after I've missed so many shots this month and year," Bryant said. "Knowing they have that confidence in me to shoot the ball, it feels great."
Jamal Crawford tied it again on a 3 with 17.1 seconds to go before Beal's drive and dish to Bryant for the winner.
Phoenix center Deandre Ayton broke Alvan Adams' franchise record for most double-doubles in a rookie season (37) when he reached double digits in points and rebounds in the third quarter. Ayton finished with 14 points and 10 boards.
Booker's layup and free throw with 0.7 seconds left in the first gave the Suns a 30-27 lead going into the second period. Booker scored 18 points in the opening 12 minutes.
His transition 3 with 44.1 seconds left in the first half gave the Suns a 59-56 lead and gave him 30 first-half points. Washington's Jordan McRae dropped in a layup just before the halftime buzzer, tying it at 59.
GREEN MEANS GO
Wizards forward Jeff Green made the hustle play of the night in the second quarter, tip-toeing along the sideline to keep a loose ball from going out of bounds, then continuing to run the floor after passing the ball. He got a return pass from Parker and dunked hard over Bender, causing teammates to leap off the bench in celebration.
"I'm glad I was on the good end of it this time," Green said.
Wizards: Washington (31-45) avoided being eliminated from playoff contention. ... McRae, who spent seven games with the Suns in 2015-16, had a career-high 21 points. ... Trevor Ariza sat out against his former team with a strained left groin.
Suns: F Josh Jackson missed his third straight game with a sprained right ankle. ... F Kelly Oubre Jr. didn't get to face his former team because of a thumb injury that required surgery and will sideline him for the rest of the season. ... G Jimmer Fredette didn't play in what could have been his home debut, five days and two road games after signing with Phoenix.
Wizards: At the Utah Jazz on Friday night.
Suns: Host the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night.
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Q: Is there a difference between connecting the input of a logic gate to the anode or cathode of LED I am still learning about basic circuit analysis and I was wondering if there is a difference between the two circuits in real life. Technically the polarity at the anode of the LED will be higher than the cathode to allow current to flow, so i'm which is the more "correct" way to connect the logic inputs.

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A: You have made "life hard on yourself" by not simplifying the circuits such that it is easier to see what their difference is.
I have re-drawn your circuits, they are exactly the same circuits as yours. But don't take my word for it, check that yourself!

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Now note how the only difference is in the way that the input of the AND gate is connected.
From the LEDs point of view, the circuits are the same. Each LED is directly in parallel with the input voltage source.
Do realize that this circuit doesn't "do" much. LEDs always need a series resistor. Also LEDs need more than 1 V to light up.
Your question doesn't make much sense either, don't think of connecting the input of the logic gate to anode or cathode, think of it in terms of connecting to supply voltage or ground.

A: There is a difference, not really regarding polarity afaik, however, a LED is a diode. And a diode has a forward voltage. Depending on the LED color (among others) this can be typically between 1.8 and 2 or more volts.
This means the input voltage of AND1 logic gates is lower than the output of V1/V2.
What even is more important, you need to add a resistor to prevent the LED from burning. A LED needs a resistor to limit the current.  If you add the resistor, and you don't want the resistor to be inside the circuit from V1/V2 to AND1/AND2, than you have to add the resistor according the left scheme where the resistor is just before or after the LED (and not in the path of V1 to AND1).


It's hard to miss the exterior of this LA institution—it's covered with massive topiaries of every variety. Inside, the possibilities are endless with the exceptional selection of fresh flowers and the experienced staff's know-how, garnered from years of crafting spectacular florals for just about everyone in town. Owner Saeed Babaeen started Empty Vase in 1988, and it's his background in architecture that sets the tone for the company's aesthetic—bold, luxurious and contemporary. They only do show-stopping here as evidenced by their unparalleled selection of incredibly diverse flowers, exotic plants and hard-to-find seasonal blooms. For those swinging by the West Hollywood destination for a bouquet for others—the store's lovely selection of gifts, lighting and other home décor items might just mean you'll be taking something else home for yourself.
The Empty Vase first opened its doors in 1988 in West Hollywood. When we first opened, it was a very simple and straightforward storefront with a flower market style set-up inspired by the flower markets of Paris. Since then, the Empty Vase has expanded to include a luxury home décor boutique, floral sculpture and topiary specialists, and has gained a reputation as one of the most highly recognized high-end special events floral boutiques in Los Angeles. From carefully crafted classic rose arrangements to an octopus made of flowers hanging from the ceiling of a ballroom, we do it all.
At any given day at the Empty Vase, there are metalworkers welding custom frames for larger-than-life topiaries, event coordinators dreaming up special events out of a fantasy novel, designers teaching clients the basics of how to create their own arrangements, and sales staff helping customers browse our bloom bar to curate their own personalized bouquets. There are a lot of moving pieces at Empty Vase, and the energy and passion for the floral arts is palpable upon stepping onto our large corner property. The transformation of Empty Vase from a simple flower-market storefront to a creative artists' studio with a life of its own has created a culture here based on attention to high quality design and emphasis on the value of personal relationships. Empty Vase is not just another florist – we are a lifestyle.