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EDA: Compounding pharmacy won't be coming to Camden landmark
Chemistry RX, once expected to occupy a former library building, now has a lease for a Pennsauken site
EDA: Compounding pharmacy won't be coming to Camden landmark Chemistry RX, once expected to occupy a former library building, now has a lease for a Pennsauken site Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2019/08/13/chemistry-rx-camden-former-library-building-federal-street-pennsauken-eda/1996104001/
Jim Walsh, Cherry Hill Courier-Post Published 1:59 p.m. ET Aug. 13, 2019 | Updated 9:44 p.m. ET Aug. 14, 2019
Camden County freeholders have alloted $7.5 million for design and construction of a pedestrian bridge near the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden. Cherry Hill Courier-Post
CAMDEN - A company that was expected to help revive a landmark building in downtown Camden now plans to locate in Pennsauken.
The state Economic Development Authority approved the new site Tuesday for Madame RX, a Philadelphia firm that operates as Chemistry RX.
The EDA last year approved $8.4 million in state tax incentives to lure the business to South Jersey.
The firm, which makes specialty medications, at that time was expected to occupy 14,000 square feet in a long-unused library building on the 400 block of Federal Street.
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It now is proposing to occupy 15,600 square feet at a building on the 6900 block of Central Highway in Pennsauken, according to the EDA. The change would reduce the firm's 10-year tax credit to about $4.7 million, reflecting a lower capital investment.
The firm, founded in 2013, is still expected to create more than 50 jobs at its new location, the EDA said.
A Philadelphia-based compounding pharmacy has dropped plans to occupy a former library in downtown Camden and will instead move to Pennsauken, the state Economic Development Authority disclosed Tuesday. (Photo: Jim Walsh, Staff photographer)
Madame RX changed course after it was unable to agree on lease terms with the owner of the Camden building, according to the agenda for Tuesday's meeting.
The 30,000-square-foot property, vacant since 2011, is being redeveloped by Millennial Partners pf Camden.
A representatives of Madame RX could not be reached for comment.
Christopher DiGeorge, president and CEO of Millennial Partners, expressed disappointment at the firm's change of course.
A Philadelphia firm has dropped plans to occupy almost half of a former library building on the 400 block of Federal Street in downtown Camden. (Photo: Jim Walsh, Courier-Post)
"Everyone in Camden bent over backwards to meet Chemistry Rx's requirements to the proverbial "T," he said Wednesday. "And then as this highly anticipated project was a few months from breaking ground, Chemistry Rx simply walked away."
"That said, every setback creates new opportunities to develop something even better for the city," said DiGeorge.
"We think it's a missed opportunity for the business owner because the proposed location was exactly in the middle of the 'eds-and-meds' corridor," said Kris Kolluri, CEO at Cooper's Ferry Partnership, a nonprofit guiding Camden's redevelopment.
"As a matter of policy, we don't like to lose but we understand the ebb and flow of the business environment," Kolluri added.
According to the EDA, Madame RX has an executed lease for the Pennsauken site. It said a provision in the lease allowed its termination if the EDA had not approved the change by Aug. 31.
The EDA granted the original tax break in December under Grow New Jersey, its principal program to bring jobs to the state.
The authority said then that the incentives would have a net benefit to the state of only about $42,000 over a 35-year period. But it called the Madame RX proposal "a significant positive step forward for Camden's redevelopment efforts, bringing a new manufacturing project to the city."
A former library building, once a utility headquarers, is vacant on the 400 block of Federal Street in Camden. (Photo: Jim Walsh, Courier-Post)
City Council in August 2018 amended the downtown redevelopment plan to allow compounding pharmacies at the Federal Street site.
The neoclassical building was previously the headquarters for the city's former library system and originally held offices for a utility company.
Jim Walsh is a free-range reporter who's been roaming around South Jersey for decades. His interests include crime, the courts, economic development and being first with breaking news. Reach him at jwalsh@gannettnj.com or look for him in traffic.
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Q: How to refresh the datatable inline editor after getting data from service? I have added inline editing data features for my datatable.  I'm using service call to get the latest data and I'm binding to the datatable using dtOptions. I'm using datatable " ". intially empty data variable binding. as soon as i get data from service i'm binding to the dtOptions which is binding(showing) well. but inline editing is not working. I'm not sure how to add data to editor after getting from service. if i add accessing instance of  $.fn.dataTable.Editor. it's just not working. please help to solve this issue.
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A: Angular-datatables provides a dtTrigger you can use to manually trigger the rendering of the table.
What you need to do is calling the dtTrigger to manually render the table.
Example :
HTML :

    ID
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    {{ person.id }}
    {{ person.firstName }}
    {{ person.lastName }}

Typescript :
import { Component, OnDestroy, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs';
import { Person } from '../person';

import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-angular-way',
  templateUrl: 'angular-way.component.html'
})
export class AngularWayComponent implements OnDestroy, OnInit {
  dtOptions: DataTables.Settings = {};
  persons: Person[] = [];
  // We use this trigger because fetching the list of persons can be quite long,
  // thus we ensure the data is fetched before rendering
  dtTrigger: Subject = new Subject();

  constructor(private http: Http) { }

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    this.dtOptions = {
      pagingType: 'full_numbers',
      pageLength: 2
    };
    this.http.get('data/data.json')
      .map(this.extractData)
      .subscribe(persons => {
        this.persons = persons;
        // Calling the DT trigger to manually render the table
        this.dtTrigger.next();
      });
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    // Do not forget to unsubscribe the event
    this.dtTrigger.unsubscribe();
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  private extractData(res: Response) {
    const body = res.json();
    return body.data || {};
  }
}

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Well, Electronic Arts has officially revealed all of their games for E3 2018 this evening and my top three take away's are three titles that are completely apart from one another and yet I'd like to purchase and play them all. Kicking off my list is Unravel Two. Having played the first one I found it charming and a little heart warming. I also have to say that the puzzles although not difficult were entertaining and the fact that you can now play in a co-op form with another cute yarny by your side is going to be twice the fun! Check out the trailer below. Oh and don't forget that the game is in fact out right now.
Next up we have Sea of Solitude. Unfortunately I don't know much about this title but after watching the trailer I found a surprisingly haunting pleasure about it. A lonely world at first turned into ruins and what seems to be a sea of perhaps souls….who knows but be sure to check out the trailer which also shows a tiny bit of game-play.
Finally and actually why I tuned into the EA show is Anthem. A title which we saw last year and I absolutely loved. I immediately told my close co-op friends that I play with on a regular basis that we will be getting this game. Last year however we were told that the game will release this year and then the delay was announced and although disappointing as it was the rumors of micro-transactions was a little more worrying. However after watching the show and them announcing that there will be no micro-transactions except for cosmetics on the exo-suits known as Javelins I cannot wait to play and see more of this title!! Anthem is due for a 22nd of February 2019.


When it comes to storing jewelry, there is no shortage of organizing options. In fact, the choices can feel overwhelming. Fortunately, the best choice is usually determined simply by what kind of space is available.
But before you run out and buy hooks, trays, dishes or boxes, take an inventory of your collection. Pair earrings, untangle necklaces, make sure watches have batteries and set aside pieces you no longer wear.
Once you know what you have, you can consider which storage options make the most sense. As a general note, all jewelry is best kept away from extreme heat and bright light, in a relatively dry space with a consistent temperature.
If you have extra drawer space, try drawer inserts. The key is compartmentalization to prevent things from getting jumbled or lost.
In smaller drawers, you can stack padded jewelry trays. In larger drawers, you can customize storage with different types and sizes of trays, or an expandable tray. There are inserts made specifically for rings, earrings and necklaces, so you want to know how many of each you'll need. Using drawers to store jewelry has the dual benefit of allowing you to see everything when you pull it open, but also of having things out of sight, so surfaces feel less cluttered.
If you want to get creative, substitute ice cube trays for standard jewelry trays. You can also use items as fancy as antique teacups and as basic as colored or decorative gift boxes inside drawers to separate rings, earrings and bracelets.
Silver pieces are best kept in anti-tarnish bags or in closed boxes to limit air exposure.
There are ample other ways to organize and store jewelry to go with your decor using empty wall space.
One inexpensive and trendy option is hanging necklaces and bracelets on a pegboard, which allows maximum flexibility for rearranging pieces or adding new ones. Or try a decorative bulletin board, with pins called T-pins to hold up the jewelry.
You can buy a pre-made, wall-mounted hanger option. Open jewelry hangers are lightweight and easy to attach the wall. They're easy to take with you when you move, and come in a variety of finishes and sizes. If you would rather enclose your collection, consider a wall-mounted cabinet. Jewelry cabinets, or armoires, are available in basic designs; others are outfitted with mirrors, LED lights, locks and even specialty fabrics to prevent tarnishing. They are heavier, however, and require more work to install. They're also more difficult to move if you redecorate or relocate.
If those options seem too elaborate, hooks designed to hold keys, ties and belts also work, as do adhesive hooks, which can be stuck anywhere and won't cause damage when removed. These inexpensive hooks are also available in different colors, finishes and sizes.
Using surface space to store jewelry gives you maximum flexibility to move things around.
Jewelry boxes range from large and elaborate to small and basic, but all have limited storage capability. Other options include open-tiered stands and "trees," designed specifically for necklaces, bracelets, watches and rings. It's fun to add a little personality and color by using special dishes or even a tiered dessert stand.
If jewelry is your passion and you need things to be stored away but easily accessed, you may consider an actual piece of furniture. Jewelry armoires are available in a variety of sizes and finishes, and have the benefit of not actually looking like storage.
Understandably, jewelry is difficult for people to part with, as there's often a special memory attached or it is valuable.
If you can't part with particular pieces but know you'll never wear them, at least store them in a different space from your everyday jewelry.
Donate pieces you no longer want. Many charities, including Goodwill, the Salvation Army and Support our Troops, accept fine jewelry donations. If you're looking to unload costume jewelry, look into organizations such as Dress for Success, Suited for Change and I Have Wings.
Selling old jewelry requires substantial time and effort, including getting your items appraised. You must decide if you want to sell online or at a local store, which will require comparison-shopping and research.
If you're looking to part with diamonds, an engagement ring or an expensive watch, an online auction marketplace called Worthy provides an easy-to-use platform that reaches a wide audience of potential buyers. Worthy partners with the Gemological Institute of America to grade and authenticate pieces to sell and the works with sellers to guide them through the auction process.
—Anzia is a freelance writer and owner of Neatnik. She can be reached at nicole@neatnik.org.


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Anne Albert is the Katz Center's Klatt Family Director for Public Programs and executive editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Previously, she was a fellow in the years 2010–11 (Conversion) and 2013–14 (Early Modernity).
She is the author of Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam (Littman, 2022) and various essays on early modern Jewish cultural and religious history, political thought, and historiography. She is also the coeditor (with Noah S. Gerber and Michael A. Meyer) of Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship: Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders (Penn Press, 2022). She teaches in the Department of History at Penn and taught at Brown University, Swarthmore College, and Bryn Mawr College before coming to the Katz Center.
"Return by Any Other Name: Religious Change Among Amsterdam's New Jews," in Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present, ed. Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko (Penn Press, 2020)
"On the Possibility of Jewish Politics in Our Time: Scholem, Exile, and Early Modern Transformations" in All Religion Is Inter-Religion: Essays in Honor of Steven M. Wasserstrom, ed. Kambiz Ghanea-Bassiri and Paul M. Robertson (Bloomsbury, 2019)
"The Rabbi and the Rebels: A Pamphlet on the Herem by Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca," Jewish Quarterly Review (2014)
"'A Civil Death': Sovereignty and the Jewish Republic in an Early Modern Treatment of Genesis 49:10" in Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman, ed. Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner (Hebrew Union College Press, 2014)
Converts and Conversion To and From Judaism
Examining the boundary between Judaism and other religions with a concurrent study of parallel social and religious phenomena and historical contexts.
Constructing Borders and Crossing Boundaries: Social, Cultural, and Religious Change in Early Modern Jewish History
Investigating changes across the early modern Jewish world.
Q&A: Gender and Jewish Philosophy with Sarah Zager
by Anne Oravetz Albert, Sarah Zager
Meet the instructor of our upcoming online mini-course.
by Anne Oravetz Albert
The Katz Center has a trove of lecture videos useful for teaching
Our Children, Ourselves
by Anne Oravetz Albert, The Jewish Quarterly Review
A Moroccan Jewish newspaper's appeal to young readers a century ago has echoes in today's media.
The Case of Jewish History
Carlo Ginzburg and Francesca Trivellato spoke to the Katz Center about Jews, microhistory, and global paradigms.
Atlantic Jewish Worlds, 1500–1900
An upcoming conference opens new conversations about Jewish history in the Atlantic world.

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Team USA, The Olympics, NFL and College Football, MLB Diamond Dust + Free Plays for Thursday, August 9, 2012
June 21, 2021 August 9, 2012 by dmack
2012 London Olympic Games: Day Twelve
Team USA mauls Australia to reach semis
Kobe Bryant nailed three straight threes in the fourth quarter and Lebron James had a triple-double as Team USA used a big fourth quarter to blow out pesky Australia 119-86. Kobe had all 20 of his points in the second half while Deron Williams chipped in with 18, Mello 17, and Kevin Durant 14. Lebron had his usual solid game with 11 points, 14 rebounds, and 12 assists. Team USA will meet Argentina for the third straight time in the Olympic semifinals. The Americans beat the Argentines 126-97 on Monday in the final game of pool play.
Lolo Jones on media criticism and not medaling
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Treanor/Jennings win third consecutive gold in beach volleyball
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings defeated fellow Americans April Ross and Jennifer Kessy to capture their third straight beach volleyball gold medal. Treanor/Jennings were dominant throughout the competition dropping just one set along the way. Good stuff from two mid-30s that have now won 20 straight Olympic matches.
Around the horn at NFL training camps
Andy Reid returns to Eagles the day after son's funeral
A day after the funeral of his oldest son, Philadelphia Eagle head coach Andy Reid returned to Eagle practice Wednesday saying, "it was the right thing to do". Reid will be on the sidelines Thursday when the Eagles open their exhibition season at home hosting the Steelers. Garrett Reid, the oldest of Reid's five children, was found dead Sunday morning in his dorm room at Lehigh University where he was assisting the team's strength and conditioning coach during training camp. More than 900 people, including NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, general managers and coaches from other teams and current and former players, attended the funeral service Tuesday.
Andy Reid's Wednesday presser
Brown's Richardson might need surgery on left knee
Trent Richardson, the Brown's top pick and the third overall pick in the 2012 draft, is tentatively scheduled to have arthroscopic surgery Thursday to remove a "hang nail particle" of loose cartilage that is irritating his left knee. Richardson had had surgery on the knee in February after tearing a meniscus in the National Championship Game vs LSU. If everything goes well, Richardson is expected to be ready for the Browns season opener.
First female official debuts tonight in San Diego
Shannon Eastin will become the first female to work as an official of an NFL game when she takes the field tonight as line judge of the Packer/Charger exhibition game in San Diego. Eastin is a replacement official being readied to take the place of the NFL regular officials who have been locked out since their last contract expired. Commisioner Roger Goodell has hinted that there could be as a many as three women officials doing games this year. Eastin is a referee in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (FCS division) and also runs a company that trains officials in football and basketball.
MLB Diamond Dust
Rangers and Josh Hamilton suspend contract talks
The Texas Rangers have broke off contract talks with their soon to be free-agent superstar outfielder Josh Hamilton stating that the two teams are just too far apart. Hamilton is reportedly looking for an "elite" eight to ten year deal worth more than $200 million. Texas has been thinking more along the lines of five years and $100 million. The Rangers have held firm on negotiating deals of longer than five years and that may have been a factor in not being able to sign Cliff Lee and Prince Fielder. Though they love Hamilton, the Rangers are unlikely to give the 31-year old anything more than a five-year deal considering his substance abuse history.
MLB betting nuggets for Thursday, please note that this is a travel day with several matinee games. Josh Johnson is 2-0 with a 1.83 ERA in his L3 starts for Miami. Jordan Zimmermann is 5-1 with a 2.19 ERA in his L9 starts for the Nats. Doug Fister is 4-1 with a 1.62 ERA in his L5 starts for the Tigers. The Cubs have lost Chris Volstad's L10 starts. Felix Dubront rocks a 6.47 ERA in his L3 starts for the Red Sox.
The Giants have won seven of their last nine road games. The Brewers have won nine of their last 12 home games. The Tigers are 16-2 in their L18 home games. The Mets have lost nine straight home games. The Astros are 4-33 in their L37 overall. The Jays have lost eight of their last ten overall.
The Over is 19-6 in the Giants L25 with suitcase. The Under is 14-7-1 in the Pirate L22 games overall. The Under is 15-3 in the Ray's L18. The Under is 7-2 in Kuroda's L9 starts.
Holgorsen and West Virginia agree to six-year deal
West Virginia and football head coach Dana Holgorson have agreed on a new six-year contract. Holgorsen will earn $2.3 million this season under the new deal, athletic director Oliver Luck said Wednesday. The new contract includes $250,000 in base pay and the remainder in supplemental pay from athletic department revenue or private sources. Holgorsen, now in his second year, will receive annual raises of $200,000 in the second and third years of the contract, and $100,000 in the fourth and fifth years. The agreement also includes performance incentives, including for team academic achievements, regular-season victories, conference titles and postseason bowl appearances. One area spells out reasons Holgorsen can be fired. They include being convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor involving "moral turpitude," a plea of no contest, and if he is involved in substance abuse or habitual drunkenness. Holgorsen also would have to pay a $2 million penalty if he leaves before the contract expires.
(MLB) Miami (Johnson) +133 over NY Mets (Dickey) 12:05 PM EST
(MLB) Pittsburg (W Rodriguez) -122 over Arizona 4:05 PM EST
(MLB) Cincinnati (Leake) -151 over ChiCubs (Volstad) 8:05 PM EST
(MLB) BoSox (Doubront) -135 over Kansas City (Smith) 7:05 PM EST
Olympics, NFL and College Football, MLB Diamond Dust + Free Plays for Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Dwight Howard to the Lakers, The Olympics, NFLX, MLB Diamond Dust + Free Plays for Friday, August 10, 2012


The Good FIFA 14 improves on the previous version, with excellent graphics, even more content, and improved skill move controls.
The Bad You can only use swipe controls in certain situations. You need to pay to unlock the extra game modes for each of your devices.
The Bottom Line This is easily the best sports game on mobile devices, bringing realistic soccer to your touch screen and a ton of content and game modes to explore.
FIFA 14 (iOS|Android) is this year's upgrade to what I think is the best sports game on iOS devices, and this latest version does not disappoint. Now with even more licensed teams, more leagues, more players, and refined controls, this game just seems to keep getting better.
Having played many of the previous versions of the franchise on consoles and all of the various soccer games on mobile, the FIFA franchise continues to be the best soccer game on iOS, adding even more content than last year's installment, with 600 fully licensed teams to play, over 16,000 players, 33 leagues, and 34 different stadiums. You can play as your favorite teams, pass to your favorite players with realistic attributes, and use an improved skill move system to get free and go for the goal.
Better than the last and freemium?
There are more and more games switching over to a freemium model, and as I pointed out in my Where's My Water 2 review, it's often not a good thing. When a game prevents you from playing with wait times, it takes away from the whole experience and can make the game almost unplayable. Fortunately, FIFA (and EA) didn't go in this direction.
This is the first time that a FIFA game has gone free to play, letting you play online matchmaking, penalty shootouts, and Ultimate Team mode to your heart's content if you don't want to pay. But where there are definitely freemium models that annoy and let you pay to be the best, with FIFA 14, the pay wall is pretty straightforward. You can either play the three game modes for free or pay $4.99 to unlock Tournaments, Manager Mode, and Kick Off, the single-game exhibition mode. FIFA 13 (last year's version) is currently $6.99, so I definitely recommend paying the $4.99 for the full experience of FIFA 14. There is one catch, however. While the app is iOS universal, you'll need to spend $4.99 for each of your devices. So if you pay to unlock the game modes on your iPad, you'll still need to pay again to unlock them on your iPhone, which is pretty annoying.
What you get for your cash is an excellent "football" game. FIFA 14, like its predecessor, has beautiful graphics with high frame rates, crowds that cheer you on with chants and soccer songs, and excellent animations and physics as you work your way to the goal. It's also got tons of customization, letting you tweak the controls, change camera views, and adjust just about every setting within the game itself. Play long or short matches, toggle offsides calls and injuries, and choose from five difficulty levels.


A group of students in favor of divesting the College from fossil fuels march in the Big Parade on Saturday, May 2. Students have submitted a divestment proposal to the Board of Trustees.
A group of five students — College sophomore Ellie Lezak, double-degree sophomore Hayden Arp, College sophomore Jasper Clarkberg, College first-year Naomi Roswell and College senior Stephen Lezak — is pushing the Board of Trustees to approve its proposal to divest the College's endowment from fossil fuels. The Board is currently in the process of deciding how to proceed and may begin discussing the issue at its next meeting in June.
Last June, the Board of Trustees released a divestment resolution that created a specific institutional pathway for divestment proposals. The resolution required successful proposals to meet three criteria.
The students began working on their proposal when they discovered that the College did not have a plan to divest from oil companies.
The proposal that they drafted asks the Board of Trustees to remove any direct holdings in the biggest-emitting fossil fuel companies from the College's endowment. In the document, they address the strains that fossil fuel emissions put on the environment, the repercussions of these emissions and how the College's investments in fossil fuel companies represent tacit approval of the environmental damage. The students also suggested that divesting from fossil fuel companies would not be a harmful financial decision for the College.
John Petersen, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, argued for divestment by describing how divesting from fossil fuels had previously proved financially beneficial for the city of Oberlin.
Petersen also said that refraining from divesting from fossil fuels would harm the College's chances of reaching its goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2025.
In the final portion of the proposal, the students proposed that the Board of Trustees oversee a reallocation of any direct endowment investment holdings over the next two years in the top 12 companies responsible for greenhouse gas emissions globally.
"Together, these corporations and their predecessor companies are responsible for 24 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions between 1854 and 2010," says the proposal. Among the 12 companies, some of the biggest emitters listed in the proposal include the Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil, Saudi Arabian Oil Company and BP.
The students hope that if the College divests from fossil fuels, other academic institutions will follow the College's practices.
To promote this proposal, the students looked for endorsements from different groups on campus. They received letters of support from the Committee of Environmental Sustainability and Student Senate, both of which were published in the Review last week.
"Our goal, as Student Senate's voice, as representatives of the student body, is for a larger push for it, so that we hope that our participation will lend more legitimacy to the work of the smaller group of students who are pushing for divestment by showing that the student body's representatives are in support of divestment from fossil fuels," said Student Senate member and College senior Molly Brand.
In addition, the students have received letters of support from different student organizations and two alumni groups: EnviroAlums and Oberlin Alumni for a Responsible Endowment. The five students said that they have been trying to work collaboratively with the Board of Trustees, as well.


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Flashpoint: Breaking down Whitmer's agenda for her 2nd governor term; How the future of AI could shape our future
Detroit offers help for renters facing possibility of eviction after moratorium ends
'Things have changed dramatically,' Mike Duggan says
Detroit offers help for renters facing possibility of eviction
DETROIT – The federal moratorium on evictions, which was put in place early during the COVID pandemic, expired last month and put millions of renters at risk of losing their housing.
On Friday (Sept. 17), Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan unveiled a plan to help Detroiters avoid getting evicted.
"Things have changed dramatically and we are gonna have people out of their homes if they don't pay rent," Duggan said.
The city wants to work with renters and landlords to keep people in their homes. There is $130 million in COVID emergency funds now available to prevent evictions.
Click here to apply for financial assistance for past due rent and utilities or call 866-313-2520.
Click here if you are facing eviction and need help or call 313-962-WORK.
"We're gonna get you a lawyer, help you get a job," Duggan said.
Who is eligible for assistance? The first is low income households including a single person earning less than $44,000 a year or a family of four earning less than $62,000 a year. You may also be eligible if your family suffered COVID-related financial hardship, such as reduced income or greater expenses.
The Detroit at Work Rapids Job program will prioritize those facing eviction.
How the end of the eviction ban is impacting Metro Detroit residents
What Michiganders facing eviction should do to stay in their homes
Michigan still has $500 million in unspent rental assistance grants as eviction moratorium expires
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DP – Wolverines 1. LOB – Buckeyes 7, Wolverines 6. 2B – Lockwood(5), McIlvain 2(5), Alcaraz(10), Bobeda(3), Tousa(2). 3B – Durant(1), Turner(2), Driscoll(3), Bush(4). HR – Trott(2), McIlvain(2), Bush(4), Bobeda(3), Parrish(3). SF – Middleton(3), Cervenak(5).
Lockwood struck out looking. Durant walked. Trott homered to right field, 2 RBI; Durant scored. Ehrnsberger struck out swinging. Turner struck out swinging. 2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Scales grounded out to ss. Alcaraz doubled to right center. Cervenak grounded out to 2b; Alcaraz advanced to third. Sanborn flied out to cf. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Driscoll struck out looking, out at first c to 1b. Middleton singled to center field. Mayor flied out to ss. McIlvain homered to left field, 2 RBI; Middleton scored. Lockwood struck out swinging. 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Bush flied out to lf. Seestedt grounded out to 3b. Bobeda homered to right field, RBI. Parrish flied out to cf. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Durant struck out swinging. Trott singled to center field. Ehrnsberger walked; Trott advanced to second. Turner singled to second base; Ehrnsberger advanced to second; Trott advanced to third. Driscoll tripled to right center, 3 RBI; Turner scored; Ehrnsberger scored; Trott scored. Middleton fouled out to lf, SF, RBI; Driscoll scored. Mayor struck out swinging. 4 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Tousa doubled to right field. Tousa advanced to third on a wild pitch. Scales singled to left field, RBI; Tousa scored. Alcaraz grounded out to 2b; Scales advanced to second. Cervenak singled to right field; Scales advanced to third. Sanborn walked; Cervenak advanced to second. Bush lined out to ss. Seestedt grounded out to 3b. 1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
Kelley to p for Bonner. McIlvain flied out to 2b. Lockwood singled to center field. Durant tripled to right center, RBI; Lockwood scored. Trott singled to center field, RBI; Durant scored. Ehrnsberger fouled out to 1b. Turner tripled to left field, RBI; Trott scored. Driscoll grounded out to 3b. 3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Bobeda grounded out to 2b. Parrish struck out swinging. Tousa grounded out to 1b unassisted. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Middleton out at first 1b to p. Mayor singled to left field. McIlvain reached on a fielder's choice; Mayor advanced to second. Lockwood flied out to lf. Durant singled to right center, RBI; McIlvain advanced to third; Mayor scored. Reid to p for Kelley. Trott popped up to 2b. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Scales lined out to ss. Alcaraz flied out to lf. Cervenak singled to left field. Sanborn walked; Cervenak advanced to second. Bush tripled to right field, 2 RBI; Sanborn scored; Cervenak scored. Besco to 1b for Seestedt. Besco walked. Bobeda singled to right field, RBI; Besco advanced to second; Bush scored. Laratta to p for Goodrum. Laratta to p for Goodrum. Laratta to p for Goodrum. Parrish homered to left field, 3 RBI; Bobeda scored; Besco scored. Goodrum to p for Laratta. Tousa flied out to lf. 6 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Ehrnsberger flied out to cf. Turner struck out looking. Driscoll singled to third base, bunt. Driscoll advanced to second on a wild pitch. Middleton walked. Mayor struck out swinging. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Scales grounded out to ss. Alcaraz flied out to lf. Cervenak flied out to rf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
McIlvain doubled to center field. Lockwood doubled to center field, RBI; McIlvain scored. Durant fouled out to 1b. Trott flied out to lf. Putz to p for Reid. Ehrnsberger grounded out to 3b. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Sanborn grounded out to p. Bush homered to left field, RBI. Besco flied out to cf. Bobeda doubled to center field. Parrish grounded out to ss. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Turner flied out to lf. Driscoll struck out swinging. Middleton struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
LaRosa pinch hit for Tousa. LaRosa fouled out to rf. Scales singled to third base. Alcaraz hit by pitch; Scales advanced to second. Alcaraz advanced to second; Scales advanced to third on a wild pitch. Cervenak flied out to cf, SF, RBI; Scales scored. Dines to dh for Sanborn. Cox to p for Goodrum. Dines struck out swinging. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
LaRosa to ss. Mayor struck out looking. McIlvain doubled to outfielder. Lockwood walked. Durant grounded into double play p to ss to 1b; Lockwood out on the play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Bush flied out to rf. Besco grounded out to ss. Bobeda grounded out to 2b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.


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A Turkish police bomb disposal expert walks at the site of a blast in central Ankara. (Reuters)
Initial reports, from the Associated Press, claim that the explosion was triggered by either a bomb planted in a car, or a canister thrown onto vehicles from a nearby building. Turkey's interior minister says three people died in the explosion.
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Refunding app for price drops on retail buys, Earny, is adding hotel stays to its repertoire. Earny Hotels helps monitor and rebook hotels if the original price drops ahead of the date booked. What separates Earny Hotels from the rest is that it works with different booking platforms while also booking from the hotel website directly.
Earny works by monitoring hotel prices after booking, and notifying users if the price drops. Travelers can then cancel the original booking and rebook at the lower cost. Earny says the new hotel program saves an average of $75 a stay and that about 70 percent of reservations are refundable through the program. The company says the average traveler books around 42 days in advance and during that time, some prices see significant drops.
Run via a partnership with Priceline Partner Network (part of priceline.com), the service works with a number of different online booking platforms. While some platforms offer similar programs, Earny allows travelers to rebook lower rates while still comparing prices from multiple sources. The app also offers data on average price trends over the preceding few months.


Phun is a 2D physics simulator. There seem to be a lot of these recently (Crayon Physics, for example), I'm not sure why.
But Phun lives up to its name, it is phun to play with, and comes with a few sample scenes that are easy to fiddle around with and see what happens. The tower under attack by a catapult is especially good for experimentation. I recommend building a flimsy water tank on top of the tower for extra drama.
I took a few hours this evening to whip up a tool for Phun users. For those you you that haven't tried Phun yet, it's a sandbox physics simulator/game written by Emil Ernerfeldt for his Masters thesis.
The tool overcomes a few of Phun's shortcomings, namely the ability to draw straight lines and complex symmetric shapes, and is called the Phun Gear Creator.


Haven't met any of you guys (apart from Gerrit and Shannon) but keen to come out for the weekend and meet some fallow Datsun lovers, so count me in.
Hey team R18dat (Lincoln) and Karen will be there, as for the dinner plans we are keen for either option.
Me,lincoln and rony will be staying at Catellis motel.
Gutted would of been keen. Racing the rally car half way between Rotorua and TGA on sunday.


Rockstar last night revealed 3 new screenshots for their upcoming Grand Theft Auto title with all three showcasing different types of transportation.
Now they aren't the most exciting screenshots but if the heading means that we can commandeer all three of these then I know which one is going to be my favourite favourite.
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Q: Regular Expression to match cross platform newline characters My program can accept data that has newline characters of \n, \r\n or \r (eg Unix, PC or Mac styles)
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Alternatively, I could use universal_newline support on input, but now I'm interested to see what the regex would be.

A: The regex I use when I want to be precise is "\r\n?|\n".
When I'm not concerned about consistency or empty lines, I use "[\r\n]+", I imagine it makes my programs somewhere in the order of 0.2% faster.

A: The pattern can be simplified to \r?\n for a little performance gain, as you probably don't have to deal with the old Mac style (OS 9 is unsupported since February 2002).


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Silver Medal for Vienna Airport: Second Place rating for the "Best Airport Staff Europe" Top-notch performance in the Skytrax rankings: 4th worldwide in the category "20-30 Million Passengers"
Silver Medal for Vienna Airport: Second Place rating for the "Best Airport Staff Europe"
Top-notch performance in the Skytrax rankings: 4th worldwide in the category "20-30 Million Passengers"
This year's silver medal was won by Vienna Airport. The international aviation rating agency Skytrax ranked Vienna Airport second in the category "Best Airport Staff Europe". Vienna Airport is still among the very best after being rated first in this category for three straight years (2015, 2016, 2017). Moreover, Vienna Airport is rated fourth in the world globally in the category "Best Airport 20-30 Million Passengers." The Skytrax Awards are recognised quality assessments in the aviation industry and are bestowed annually on airports and airlines. The service orientation, friendliness and competence of employees in passenger-related areas, the level of comfort in airport terminals, the offering of passenger services, the quality of the shopping and food & beverage facilities and many other factors are evaluated. The basis is a worldwide passenger survey featuring more than 13.7 million participants and encompassing in excess of 550 airports across the globe. Vienna Airport has boasted the 4-Star Airport rating from Skytrax since the year 2015.
"The silver medal this year still represents a top performance on the part of our staff after three straight years of the number one ranking. Vienna Airport and all employees at the entire site display the highest level of dedication every day in order to offer a good experience staying at the airport and in their travels. We are pleased that this commitment has gained international recognition. This year in particular, the strong growth in European flight traffic poses major challenges to the aviation sector. The entire industry is being called upon to become even better", state Julian Jäger and Günther Ofner, Members of the Management Board of Flughafen Wien AG.
Silver medal in Europe and fourth-place global ranking in the category of airports with 20-30 million passengers
Vienna Airport moved up to the top five of the best airports worldwide in the 2018 Skytrax rankings. In its category "20-30 Million Passengers", Vienna Airport is rated fourth in the world. At the same time, the employees are once again considered among the very best in Europe. After three straight years (205, 2016 and 2017) as the number one airport, it is rated second in 2018 in the category "Best Airport Staff Europe". In particular, the service quality provided by employees is analysed in those areas which have direct contact to passengers, for example in the terminals, security checks, shops and restaurants and many other customer-oriented facilities. This year the performance of Vienna Airport in Europe was only surpassed by Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Furthermore, since 2015, Vienna Airport has featured the "4-Star Airport" quality seal bestowed by Skytrax.
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Blue Water Navy Veterans Are Still Fighting for Agent Orange Compensation
Though most didn't step foot in Vietnam, some 90,000 Navy vets who served offshore may have been exposed to the chemical brew and seek benefits. The battle is playing out in the courts and in Congress. It boils down to a comma.
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The destroyed Edson, shown in this undated photo, re-fuels from the aircraft carrier Hancock off the coast of Vietnam. (Photo: Naval History and Heritage Command)
To the best of his knowledge, Jim Smith never saw or handled Agent Orange on the Navy ship he served on during the Vietnam War.
"I never sprayed the stuff, never touched the stuff," said Smith, 65, who lives in Virginia Beach. "I knew later, vets started getting sick from it, but I didn't think it had any impact on me."
It turns out, he might have been drinking it.
The realization came in 2011—almost 40 years after his one-year tour aboard the ammunition ship Butte—when Smith was diagnosed with prostate cancer and started doing some research.
He learned that he and other so-called Blue Water Navy veterans may have been exposed to Agent Orange and other herbicides even though most of them never set foot in Vietnam, where the spraying took place.
That's because the chemicals, used to kill vegetation and deny enemy cover, could have washed into rivers and out to sea, where patrolling Navy vessels sucked in potentially contaminated water and distilled it for use aboard the ships—a process that would have only concentrated the toxin. Every member of the crew would have been exposed: Distilled water was used in showers, to wash laundry, and to prepare food. It was used to make coffee, as well as a sugary beverage known as "bug juice," which flowed from fountains in the enlisted mess.
"Of all the hazards we faced at sea, I don't think the drinking water registered on anyone's list," said Smith, who's among thousands of former sailors now seeking compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their ailments, which the Institute of Medicine says could plausibly be related to Agent Orange exposure, though there's no proving it.
"I was there," Smith said. "Agent Orange was there. Would I have gotten cancer anyway? Maybe. But maybe not."
Agent Orange contained the toxic chemical commonly known as dioxin, which has had harmful effects on Vietnam veterans. The VA presumes any vet who served on land in Vietnam or on boats in its inland waters was exposed to the herbicide, and it compensates them for a litany of associated illnesses, including diabetes, various cancers, Parkinson's Disease, peripheral neuropathy, and a type of heart disease. But the agency has repeatedly argued there's no scientific justification or legal requirement for covering veterans who served off the coast.
The group of Blue Water vets—so named to set the sailors apart from their Brown Water Navy counterparts, who patrolled the murky rivers of South Vietnam—has been fighting the VA for more than 10 years. They were initially deemed eligible for compensation under the Agent Orange Act of 1991, only to have the VA change its interpretation a decade later.
The VA said it is once again considering its policy on Blue Water vets after an appeals court ordered it to do so in April. There is no timetable for a decision, spokesman Randal Noller said.
In the meantime, vets are pursuing legislation in Congress that would force the VA's hand. "We've got the momentum on our side," Smith said. "And the science too."
Smith is among more than 2,700 Vietnam veterans and family members from across the country who've shared Agent Orange-exposure stories with ProPublica and the Virginian-Pilot in recent months. A few dozen have identified themselves as Blue Water veterans.
Smith's experience during the war was typical among Navy vets: He was the personnel officer aboard the Butte, a ship that steamed up and down the southern coast of Vietnam, re-supplying destroyers. They usually stayed within a few miles of land but rarely saw the shore, where tens of thousands of Americans waged a ground war.
Smith, who spent another seven years in the Navy before going to work as a military analyst, had assumed Agent Orange was a problem only for the soldiers who came in direct contact with the chemical on land or those who sprayed it along river banks—"the guys who were in the thick of it," he said at his kitchen table last month.
"But like the King himself, Elvis Presley, sang," Smith said before crooning in a baritone: "'Like a river flows, surely to the sea....' Of course our ships came in contact with Agent Orange out there. Where else was it going to go?"
The story of Blue Water veterans' exclusion from Agent Orange benefits is long and complicated, with the fight still playing out in Congress and in federal courts.
But at the most basic level, it has come down to the inconsistent placement of a comma.
One section of VA regulation broadly defines service in Vietnam as including "service in the waters offshore, or service in other locations if the conditions of service involved duty or visitation in Vietnam." That definition entitles Blue Water veterans to compensation for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a relatively rare cancer that the VA associates with service in Vietnam and surrounding waters—although it's not made clear what specifically about service in those areas heightens a veteran's risk.
In a separate section of VA regulation—the chapter that describes who's presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange—service in Vietnam is defined as including "service in the waters offshore and service in other locations if the conditions of service involved duty or visitation in the Republic of Vietnam."
It's nearly the same sentence, but because there's no comma after "offshore" in the second definition, a federal appeals court in 2008 upheld the VA's 2002 policy decision to exclude Blue Water veterans from Agent Orange compensation unless they can prove they set foot in Vietnam.
In a letter to the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs this year, VA Secretary Robert McDonald wrote that the "VA is obligated to assess the factual and scientific basis for granting disability compensation for all claims, including those associated with Agent Orange exposure. For Veterans who served in the offshore territorial seas of the Republic of Vietnam, there is insufficient evidence to establish a presumption that they were exposed to Agent Orange, which was used over the Vietnam land mass to destroy enemy food crops and reveal enemy activity hidden by jungle foliage."
The inconsistency in VA policy is "maddening," said John Wells, a Louisiana lawyer who's spent more than a decade advocating for Blue Water veterans.
"The VA has a way of making simple things complicated," Wells said. "To me, it's simple: Agent Orange was mixed with petroleum and sprayed in the rivers. Diesel fuel floats. The rivers lead to the bays, and bays lead to the sea, and seawater was pulled into ships and turned into drinking water."
A 2011 Institute of Medicine report seems to support that description, at least in theory. The committee report said there was no way to prove Blue Water vets were exposed to the chemicals, but it identified plausible routes that Agent Orange could have traveled out to sea and into a ship's distillation system. Although military policy at the time recommended against distilling water closer than 10 miles to shore—where the chemical concentration would have been highest—veterans said doing so was often unavoidable, and their commanding officers routinely ordered it.
The Institute of Medicine used a theoretical model to assess the desalination process from the 1960s, which used a high-heat flash to evaporate saltwater and collect the salt-free condensation. The researchers found that the process wouldn't have removed dioxin from the water, but instead would have enriched it by a factor of 10.
The institute also couldn't rule out the possibility that some amount of Agent Orange sprayed from airplanes over Vietnam wafted out to sea. Since 1994, the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the congressionally chartered National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, has reviewed evidence on the long-term health effects of Agent Orange and advised the VA.
Both Blue Water veterans and the VA have cited the Institute of Medicine report. On one hand, advocates point out, the report says it's possible Navy vets were exposed; on the other, VA officials note, the authors say it's possible they weren't.
Due to a lack of physical evidence, the researchers conceded that they "could not state with certainty" that any Vietnam veteran was exposed to Agent Orange. "Indeed," the authors wrote, "the committee believes that given the lack of measurements taken during the war and the almost 40 years since the war, this will never be a matter of science but instead a matter of policy."
Based on a similar study conducted a decade earlier, which actually replicated the shipboard distillation process, the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs made a different policy decision: It presumes its navy veterans were exposed to Agent Orange off the coast of Vietnam and compensates them for associated ailments.
Advocates estimate as many as 90,000 potentially exposed Blue Water veterans were cut off from compensation as a result of the 2002 policy change. Any veterans who had received benefits before were supposed to be grandfathered in, but at least one Blue Water veteran reported losing compensation that had been given to him prior to the change.
Veterans argue the rules are "arbitrary and capricious."
"I think when we get through with all of this, we'll find that there's no difference ... between those who served in country and those who served off the coast of Vietnam," said John Rossie, executive director of the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Association. "For years, infantry grunts who served on the ground have been watching all their buddies get sick and die from their Agent Orange exposure. I've been watching the same thing happen to guys I served with in the Navy. It's the same story, only the VA says we're different."
A pair of bills being pushed by Rossie's group would change that. The Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act has more than 260 co-sponsors in the House and 21 co-sponsors in the Senate. It would require the VA to provide presumptive compensation for any veteran who has a condition associated with Agent Orange exposure and whose ship came within 12 miles of Vietnam's coastline or barrier islands (in some places, about 90 miles from the mainland).
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), introduced the Senate version. "Agent Orange did not discriminate between those who stood on boats on rivers and those who stood on boats off-shores," Gillibrand said in testimony before the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee this spring. "So why should the VA discriminate between the two?"
The VA opposes the legislation, as it has several previous iterations dating back to 2008. It estimates the bill would cost taxpayers $4.4 billion over 10 years, and the first year would cost the most—$1.3 billion—because of pent-up demand. By comparison, the VA spent $21 billion to compensate Vietnam-era vets in fiscal 2013 (the most recent year for which data is available), a figure that includes monthly cash payments but not health-care services.
The Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Association says extending compensation to Blue Water vets will cost closer to $1 billion over a decade.
Rossie said this year's bill has more co-sponsors than in the past, but even without congressional action, many Blue Water vets may soon be eligible for coverage. In April, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims struck down VA rules that denied presumptive Agent Orange compensation for sailors whose ships docked at certain harbors in South Vietnam, including Da Nang. Those ports, the court determined, may have been in the Agent Orange spraying area.
Depending on how the VA interprets the court ruling, as many as 90 percent of Blue Water veterans who entered territorial waters may be covered, Wells said, because most Navy ships that came that close to shore also docked in Vietnamese harbors. At that point, the legislation to cover any remaining Blue Water vets would cost only about $100 million over 10 years, Wells said.
But his clients aren't counting on it.
"We're going to keep pressing Congress to act," Wells said. "The problem is, all our people are dying now, so we're going to push forward. If we wait on the VA to make this change, who knows how long we'll be waiting."
Mark Spiegel, 68, who served aboard the attack transport Pickaway, came down with a number of different cancers after his service. Initially, no one mentioned Agent Orange as a possible culprit. He didn't apply for benefits at first because of the hostile reaction troops received upon coming home.
"It just wasn't a real positive kind of experience," said Spiegel, who lives in Idaho. "The Navy was OK, but the reaction of the people to the service people wasn't, so it was something that I kind of stayed away from afterwards."
He now believes such compensation is essential for him and those with whom he served.
Wilson McDuffie, 70, was a postal clerk and courier aboard the aircraft carrier Bennington when it deployed to the South China Sea in 1966. Although most aircraft carriers stayed farther out to sea and didn't enter Vietnam's territorial waters—and therefore sailors who served on them wouldn't be covered under the bills in Congress—McDuffie believes he was exposed. He frequently rode in a helicopter to deliver and pick up documents and other items to and from Vietnam. Supplies used on the ship were flown in daily from Vietnam, and vets say much of the haul was coated in the chemicals.
The South Carolina resident suffers from diabetes and other ailments he attributes to Agent Orange exposure, but because he doesn't have documentation to prove he set foot in country, the VA has denied his claims for compensation. Many veterans say they lack documentation of their movements during the era because it was a time of war, and records were lost or destroyed.
At this point, after years of fighting for coverage, McDuffie's primarily concerned about former sailors suffering with more grave ailments.
"The problem is, we are all facing our mortality," he said. "My feeling is, they're waiting it out until the Vietnam veterans die and they don't have to deal with it. Because it's certainly no hurry-up to get it done for those who are suffering."
This post originally appeared on ProPublica as "40 Years After Vietnam, Blue Water Navy Vets Still Fighting for Agent Orange Compensation" and is re-published here under a Creative Commons license.
*With Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbough, the Virginian-Pilot
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Rapid repeat pregnancy among women with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a population-based cohort study
Hilary K. Brown, Joel G. Ray, Ning Liu, Yona Lunsky and Simone N. Vigod
CMAJ August 13, 2018 190 (32) E949-E956; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170932
Hilary K. Brown
Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society, University of Toronto Scarborough (Brown), Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Brown, Liu), Department of Medicine (Ray) and Department of Psychiatry (Lunsky, Vigod), University of Toronto; Women's College Research Institute (Vigod), Women's College Hospital; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Brown, Ray, Liu, Lunsky, Vigod); Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Ray), St. Michael's Hospital; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Lunsky), Toronto, Ont.
Joel G. Ray
Ning Liu
Yona Lunsky
Simone N. Vigod
BACKGROUND: Rapid repeat pregnancy within 12 months of a live birth is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes. We evaluated the risk for rapid repeat pregnancy among women with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with whom sharing of information about pregnancy planning and contraception may be inadequate.
METHODS: We accessed population-based health administrative data for all women with an index live birth in Ontario, Canada, for the period 2002–2013. We used modified Poisson regression to compare relative risks (RRs) for a rapid repeat pregnancy within 12 months of the index live birth in women with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities, first adjusting for demographic factors and then additionally adjusting for social, health and health care disparities.
RESULTS: We compared 2855 women with intellectual and developmental disabilities and 923 367 women without such disabilities. At the index live birth, women with intellectual and developmental disabilities were more likely to be younger than 25 years of age (46.8% v. 18.2%) and to be disadvantaged on each measure of social, health and health care disparities. These women had a higher rate of rapid repeat pregnancy than those without such disabilities (7.6% v. 3.9%; adjusted RR 1.34, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.18–1.54, after controlling for demographic factors). This risk was attenuated upon further adjustment for social, health and health care disparities (adjusted RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.87–1.14).
INTERPRETATION: Rapid repeat pregnancy, which was more common among women with intellectual and developmental disabilities, may be explained by social, health and health care disparities. To optimize reproductive health, multifactorial approaches to address the marginalization experienced by this population are likely needed.
Accepted May 25, 2018.
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Here's a great article from Todd Spodek, a top rated Long Island Divorce Lawyers / Bronx Criminal Lawyer / Long Island Criminal Lawyer – about the great benefits of using video conferencing. Video conferencing refers to the use of computers to provide a visual connection between two or more people from different locations in order to communicate. The simple form of video conferencing provides the transmission of text and static images between two locations, such as a law firm in Los Angeles and a law firm in Queens. while the sophisticated form involves the transmission of high-quality audio and full-motion video between multiple locations. Here are some reasons video conferencing should be applied in modern businesses.
The most compelling reason to apply technology in your business is in order to be more productive. Technology advances for offices have always been applied to speed up businesses, transforming some of them from local shops to global entities in the last 50 years. Video conferencing is one of those technological advances that enable people to make and maintain that connection between or among humans, irrespective of their distance apart.
Naturally, people are brought into sharp focus by videos, allowing you to view the impact that your idea contributions have in your decision-making. However, when you distribute or share screens among participants of video conferencing you get more bang for your bucks. This makes collaboration a breeze and enables you to develop and refine fast ideas, designs, content, and pretty much anything you and your team need to accomplish.
Traveling by automobiles, trains, or planes in order to hold meets can make your business quite expensive. Allowing teams to meet virtually saves time and cuts unnecessary costs. But it is critical to making sure that the chosen video solution provides both a formally scheduled meeting set-up and the aptitude to jump instantly on a multiparty meeting. Productivity gaining is not just the time that has been saved but the usability of the system as well. Ideally, the system of the video should just work without requiring any complicated expertise or set-up.
There will be times when employees who are essential are out of the office and working from home or needed out-of-hours. Video conferencing of today should be unleashed to every employee, who in turn can reach anyone and stay tuned regardless of where they're located. This great flexibility can be achieved by giving each employee a mobile video end point. Be sure to choose a solution offering this for a wide variety of phones, PCs, and tablets.
There is no lack of free video conferencing or inexpensive options. Google Hangouts and Skype are great, but by using these, you are using systems that can be unreliable and glitchy even on a good internet connection. For video conferencing systems to work in the right way, it is essential to consider solutions that can be trusted to deliver the greatest quality video and sound every all time.
Video conferencing have for a long time been thought of as a technology used by the other half—bigger guys handling acquisitions and mergers and not something that the average business can afford or make use of. But it isn't like that anymore. Many medium-sized and small businesses with limited resources are highly benefiting from the reach video conferencing allows them to have.
Through video conferencing, these businesses are able to meet more people, access global supply chain, and access more customers, allowing collaboration with customers and partners in real time. It is true that businesses that use technology leverage their competitive advantage.
The usage of video conferencing technology comes with some benefits to the businesses that utilize it; thus, it's advisable that any business that does not utilize the technology should highly incorporate the use of the technology.


Rosemary plant is a member of the mint family. It is a woody, perennial fragrant herb; its leaves are needle-like and it bears flowers of white, pink, purple or blue in color. Its oil extract is widely used in the diluted form for cosmetic, medicinal, and culinary purposes. This article provides information on its uses and possible side effects of the topical and oral use.
In mythology, a legend says: The 'Virgin Mary' spread her blue cloak over a white-blossomed bush of this plant when she was resting, and the flowers turned blue. This shrub was then known as the 'Rose of Mary'. People have been using this herb since centuries for medicinal and culinary purposes. This plant grows to about a meter in height, and is widely grown across America. The first use of rosemary oil extract (ROE) can be traced back to the Egyptians, but it was later widely used in the Mediterranean region by the Greeks and Romans. It is believed to be a preservative, but in fact it's an antioxidant which helps remove free radicals from the product, thereby preventing these products from turning rancid. It differs from a preservative as it does not possess the quality of inhibiting bacterial growth. Since, there are numerous benefits of the ROE, it is always in demand around the world.
Water Distillation: In this method, the needles of this plant are immersed completely in water and boiled. As this method prevents overheating, the oil extracted is protected to an extent. Once this is condensed and cooled, the oil floating above the water is separated and bottled.
Steam Distillation: This is a more common method of extracting this oil. In this method, both dried or fresh needles can be used. These are then placed in a container and steam is passed through. The droplets of the oil evaporate and attach themselves to the passing steam. The steam is then condensed by passing through a cooling system. And then as in water distillation, the oil floating above the water after condensation is collected.
Maceration: This is not a very popular method of extraction. In this method, the rosemary needles are soaked in a solvent such as oil, water, or alcohol. If it is soaked in vegetable oil, it is heated and cooled, however, in water or alcohol, it is soaked for about 5 - 6 weeks. While using this for cooking, the alcohol evaporates, leaving only the essence of the extract.
Cosmetic Uses: It can be used in different concentration for several beauty products and soaps. The hair oil is also believed to be an effective cure for premature graying and hair loss. It is also beneficial for treating dry scalp and dandruff. It is also used as a massage oil to smoothen and reduce skin dryness.
Medicinal Uses: As a disinfectant, it is used as a mouthwash for removing bad breath. It is considered to be a pain reliever, and is highly beneficial for headaches and muscle aches. It improves memory, decreases mental fatigue, and is also used as an antidepressant. It is also useful for alleviating the symptoms of respiratory problems such as throat congestion, allergies, and bronchial asthma. People affected by cold, flu, and sore throat have also benefited by the use of ROE. It is also used for indigestion, stomach cramps, and flatulence cure, which is why it is often added in preparation of many meat dishes.
Skin Allergies: Though topical use is considered safe, few people develop dermatitis when they use it with thyme extract.
Bleeding: Some people bleed severely due to its use with ginkgo biloba. It can also induce bleeding, when taken with drugs like aspirin, Coumadin, and Plavix.
Anemia: Though topical use is safe, people affected by anemia are recommended not to use it orally, as it can inhibit the absorption of iron from daily food.
Epilepsy: Intake of this oil extract in large doses has been found to cause seizures in otherwise healthy people.
Diuretic: This oil is most popularly used as a diuretic. However, when used in combination with lithium, it can lead to adverse effects due to excess water loss. Water loss due to this extract can also effect the absorption of drugs such as furosemide (Lasix) or hydrocholorothiazide.
Despite the various therapeutic uses, the aforementioned side effects cannot be ignored. Pregnant women need to refrain from the use of this herb, due to its abortion-inducing properties. Even nursing mothers should not use this herb without consulting a physician.


Kolkata: When bitter rivals-turned-friends Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati announced a partnership in Uttar Pradesh to take on the BJP in the 2019 general elections this morning, they received support from another regional powerhouse – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Ms Banerjee, who has been a loud critique of the BJP, has been touring the country over the last one year trying to build an opposition alliance to take on the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Ms Banerjee had earlier suggested that a Samajwadi Party-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh would wipe out the BJP from the state that sends 80 lawmakers to the lower house of parliament.
BSP chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Saturday, in Lucknow, announced their alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, sharing 38 seats each out of the state's 80 parliamentary constituencies.


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R v Smith [2018] NZDC 20850
Sentencing — aggravated robbery — possession of methamphetamine — possession of utensils — possession of ammunition — offering a class B drug for supply — supplying class B drug — burglary. The defendant appeared for sentencing on a raft of charges, the most serious of which was aggravated robbery. Armed with a knife, he had robbed a convenience store in the company of others. Later his address was searched, revealing methamphetamine, glass pipes, a round of ammunition and a mobile phone containing messages relating to the supply of a class B controlled drug. He had previously burgled a school. The Court set a starting point of five years on the aggravated robbery charge and applied an uplift of 21 months for numerous other offences. The final sentence was four years three months, and the Court also gave the defendant a first strike warning. Judgment Date: 2 October 2018.
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Catherine Selden commented on Fax Bill Shorten to Stop Adani! 2018-10-24 15:39:21 +1100
I used to vote Labor but until you #stopadani Labor is dead to me!
Fax Bill Shorten to Stop Adani!
In the lead-up to a Federal election, we're annoying the heck out of our politicians until they commit to stopping Adani and new coal mines.
You know what's as outdated as coal? Fax machines!
Add your message and we'll fax it - with hundreds of others - to Bill Shorten's office. Heaps annoying, and a surefire way to get our point across!
Your message can be as short or long as you like. Here are a couple of examples:
"Dear Mr Shorten, I wanted to express my concern over the Adani Carmichael mine project. In 2018, we cannot afford to open any new coal mines if we want to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Coal power is even more outdated than using a fax machine - and it's time to supercharge renewable energy. Will your party commit to a position against new coal mines?"
"Dear Mr Shorten, as a young person thinking about my future, I am writing to express my strong opposition to the Adani coal mine - and any new coal mines in the Galilee Basin, which would wreck our chances of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees for a safe climate future. Like fax machines, coal is outdated technology and we don't need it when people right across the world are switching to renewables. I hope your party will commit to a position of no new coal."
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Just months before BP was set to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight they pulled the pin on the risky project. This was testament to the incredible defenders who fought for years to stop BP and protect the unique southern coastline.
But the fight is not over, there are 4 other companies waiting to drill for oil in the Bight. We urgently need a ban on all oil drilling in the Bight.
Please sign this petition today and we'll deliver your voice to Parliament House with thousands of others, together we'll be impossible to ignore.
Dear Prime Minister,
We're extremely concerned that your government may allow oil companies to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.
The Great Australian Bight is a pristine marine environment that supports 36 species of whales and dolphins. It sustains one of the world's most important nurseries for the endangered southern right whale, as well as important industries like fishing and tourism. These would all be put at unacceptable risk by oil exploration.
The waters of the Great Australian Bight are deep, rough and remote. Drilling for oil here is risky and irresponsible.
Independent oil spill modelling has shown almost all of Australia's southern coast could be at risk from an oil spill in the Bight.
Searching for new oil reserves in the Bight runs directly counter to the urgent need to stop burning oil, coal and gas to prevent catastrophic climate change. It is inconsistent with the Paris Climate Agreement goals your government signed to protect our climate.
The Great Australian Bight is the wrong place to drill for oil. And this is the wrong time in history to allow oil companies to look for more of it.
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Catherine Selden posted about Tell Westpac to ditch fossil fuels! on Facebook 2016-09-26 13:22:51 +1000
Sign the petition: Adani says game on. We say bring it!
Tell Westpac to ditch fossil fuels!
Tell Westpac to turn their back on Adani and out of date fossil fuels:
To Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer,
You say you're committed to strong action on climate change. It's time to prove it. Keeping global warming to below two degrees requires urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - that means ruling out investing in Adani's Carmichael coal mine.
Your investments are key to avoiding dangerous climate change. If you want to maintain your "World's Most Sustainable Bank" title, you're going to have to do the following:
● Publicly rule out any involvement in Adani's dangerous Carmichael coal mine,
● Make no further investments that expand the size of the fossil fuel industry, and
● Reduce your exposure to the thermal coal sector to zero by 2020, and all fossil fuels by 2030.
Thousands of Australians and bank customers.
Although the Great Barrier Reef has just sweated through its worst ever bleaching event, all hope is not lost. We really need the big banks to stop funding climate destruction and save our reef. This means ditching funding for fossil fuel projects like Adani's Carmichael coal mine.
Adani are trying to push ahead to secure financing for a coal project near the Reef, but we will not let them pass us.
As Adani ramp up, so do we, every avenue they try, we block.
Over the next few weeks we've got to ramp up the pressure on the banks in the lead up to their big annual shareholder meetings. Together we'll hold them accountable to keeping the Reef and our future safe, and make sure they don't waste our money on Adani's dangerous coal mine.
Catherine Selden posted about Malcolm, you said you'd repower Port Augusta, now make it happen. on Facebook 2016-07-26 14:33:07 +1000
Sign the petition: Malcolm, you said you'd repower Port Augusta, now make it happen.
Malcolm, you said you'd repower Port Augusta, now make it happen.
To the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for Energy and Resources Josh Frydenberg MP,
As a matter of urgency, lock in the finance for building Australia's first large solar thermal plant with storage in Port Augusta.
Clean power on demand and new clean jobs is something the Port Augusta community has fighting for over the last five years. In the wake of the old coal stations closing, building solar thermal in Port Augusta has never been more urgent.
It's time to make solar thermal in Port Augusta happen. With the Liberal, Labor, Nick Xenophon and Greens parties all supporting solar thermal before the election and serious companies ready to build it together we can turn that support into funding for solar thermal in Port Augusta.
Sign the petition to Prime Minister Turnbull and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg asking them to come through on their promise to the Port Augusta community and sign the dotted line for funding for solar thermal in Port Augusta.
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Welcome to Dancing Crab, serving a mix of robust, country-style Cajun seafood and the distinctive richness of Creole cuisine. Dancing Crab is a refreshing, American counterpart to Singapore's equally famed preferences for seafood, shellfish and rich flavors. Backed by one of Singapore's oldest seafood restaurant leaders, TungLok Group, Dancing Crab sources their shellfish from the same vendors used at the group's best seafood restaurants, offering a range from Boston lobster to Dungeness crab. New Orleans, Louisiana is known for its happy atmosphere, lively music, and high spirits. Dancing Crab brims with life, bringing the same emphasis to its colorful location at The Grandstand, welcoming its guests to eat, drink, and be merry.


Six things self-help author Robert Kiyosaki says you should do with your money right now.
Kiyosaki built his Rich Dad Poor Dad empire on the shoulders of his 1997 book by the same name. It is estimated the investor, speaker, consultant and lightning rod for controversy has parlayed his original success into an $80 million fortune, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Here are six things he thinks you should do with your money right now.
• How long will I live?
• At what rate will inflation rise?
• How will the markets behave?
Since no one can answer those questions, saving for retirement is gambling with your future, according to Kiyosaki. Instead, develop cash-flowing assets, not a finite pile of money.
"By purchasing and saving cash-flowing assets, you could build a pipeline of cash flow for life — a pipeline that would produce cash in good times and bad, in market booms and market crashes," he told blogger Jeff Rose in a post on DailyFinance. "Your cash flow would increase automatically with inflation and, at the same time, allow you to pay less in taxes. (This) means your standard of living does not have to decrease, but can actually increase.
You can earn cash flow from real-estate rentals, stocks via dividends, from bonds via interest, or from oil, books and patents via royalties. In other words, there are many ways to stress-free retirement freedom.
Most people want to accumulate savings or give to charity, but they view those goals as luxuries that they can only dabble in after their bills are paid. Kiyosaki wants you to pay yourself first. When you view the accumulation of surplus as a bill that — like the rent and utilities — simply must be paid, you will treat your own financial goals as seriously as you do your traditional expenses.
Kiyosaki is constantly bombarded with pitches from people who believe their amazing product is worth his investment. He rarely invests, even when he loves the product. Why? Kiyosaki thinks the best product is nothing without a business system to back it up. Similarly, a great system can lift an average product.
Kiyosaki started his journey toward wealth while he and his wife spent three weeks living as a homeless couple. His overarching philosophy is that you don't need money to invest — you need ideas. People with money will buy into ideas if you develop them and articulate them correctly.
Many people rely on the direction of their broker. Kiyosaki wants you to take the opposite approach and use your broker as a tool, which you direct into and out of transactions.
The Rich Dad philosophy is based on control — control of your finances, control of your expenses and control of your life. Kiyosaki thinks you should always extend that control further and further into your financial life, including to the terms that bind you to your investments.


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U. of I. library system has unique collection of Indian comic books
Jan 28, 2015 9:00 am by Jodi Heckel | Arts and Humanities Editor | 217-300-2751ArtsHumanities
South Asian Studies librarian Mara Thacker holds some of the comics from the Undergraduate Library's collection of Indian comic books.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The artwork in the comic books would look familiar to any comic book fan. A well-muscled, green-skinned man and a Wonder Woman-type character square off against several figures with the faces of humans and bodies of snakes. There are explosions, a superhero climbing up the outside of a building and another breathing what appears to be green fire.
The Undergraduate Library has what is believed to be the largest collection of Indian comics in North America.
The comic book - written in Hindi and published by Raj Comics - is one of about 1,000 Indian comic books in the University of Illinois library system. South Asian Studies librarian Mara Thacker began collecting the comics for the University of Illinois in 2012, and its libraries now have what she believes is the largest collection of Indian comics in North America.
"We're the only collection like this. We're the only ones buying at this level of comprehensiveness," Thacker said.
The comic book collection is a collaborative project between the International and Area Studies Library and the Undergraduate Library. Thacker started the collection after attending a workshop of the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, of which she is a member. One of the goals of the organization is for each member library to create its own area of specialization that will benefit a national collection of material and not duplicate another collection.
Thacker chose Indian comics because the Undergraduate Library already had a graphic novel collection, and it was beginning to add foreign-language comics. And, she added, "we already had a pretty good Indian film collection, so we had a good start on Indian pop culture material. Comics seemed really doable, and nobody was doing it."
Thacker herself has a particular interest in India, and in pop culture and visual culture.
"You can learn a lot about a culture or group of people from its pop culture products. And I love the art" in the comic books, she said. "Some of it is really stunning."
The collection includes comics from India's most famous comic publisher, Amar Chitra Katha. Thacker said ACK's comics tell stories from Hindu mythology or Indian folk tales.
"The focus is really a celebration of Indian culture," she said.
The U. of I. also has comics from publishers such as Raj Comics, Vimanika Comics, Holy Cow Entertainment and Pop Cracker. Some feature stories and artwork in the tradition of Marvel Comics, with lots of superheroes, and others reflect Indian folk art themes.
"There are some superhero comics that would be very familiar to an American audience, although they are put in an Indian context," Thacker said.
Most of the comics are in English or Hindi, although there are some in Bengali and a few other South Asian languages.
"With graphics to supplement the text and the easier language that is used, maybe some language learning students might like to use them," Thacker said, adding that reading the comics has helped her to practice Hindi.
Thacker believes scholars in various areas will want to use the comics - for example, religious studies scholars might be interested in comics that retell religious myths. They'll also be available to the local South Asian population to share stories with children.
Thacker works with the Library of Congress and two agencies to get new titles. She is now focusing on finding old and rare comics, as well as acquiring comic books from Bangladesh.
"I'm really excited to see what's available in Bangladesh," she said, adding the U. of I. library system could be one of the first in North America to have comics from Bangladesh.
Most of the comics are in the Undergraduate Library, and a few that are rare or in fragile condition are in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
To reach Mara Thacker, call 217-300-5717; email mthacker@illinois.edu.


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Justin Alaric Holiday (ur. 5 kwietnia 1989 w Mission Hills) – amerykański koszykarz, występujący na pozycjach obrońcy oraz skrzydłowego, obecnie zawodnik Dallas Mavericks.

Kariera sportowa
W lipcu 2015 został zawodnikiem Atlanty Hawks. 18 lutego 2016 roku w ramach wymiany między trzema klubami trafił do Chicago Bulls.

22 czerwca 2016 w ramach wymiany trafił do New York Knicks. 10 lipca 2017 został po raz drugi w karierze zawodnikiem Chicago Bulls. 3 stycznia 2019 trafił w wyniku wymiany do Memphis Grizzlies.

31 lipca 2019 zawarł kontrakt z Indianą Pacers. 8 lutego 2022 został wytransferowany do Sacramento Kings. 6 lipca 2022 trafił w wyniku wymiany do Atlanty Hawks. 9 lutego 2023 trafił do Houston Rockets w wyniku transferu. 13 lutego 2023  opuścił klub. Dwa dni później został zawodnikiem Dallas Mavericks.

Osiągnięcia
Stan na 17 lutego 2023, na podstawie, o ile nie zaznaczono inaczej.
 NCAA
 Uczestnik rozgrywek:
 Sweet Sixteen turnieju NCAA (2010)
 II rundy turnieju NCAA (2009–2011)
 Mistrz:
 turnieju konferencji Pac-10 (2010, 2011)
 sezonu regularnego Pac-10 (2009)
 Zaliczony do I składu Pac-10 (2010)

 Inne
 Mistrz Węgier (2014)
 Zdobywca pucharu:
 Węgier (2014)
 Belgii (2012)
 2-krotny uczestnik EuroChallenge (2012, 2014)
 Zaliczony do:
 III składu D-League (2013)
 II składu defensywnego D-League (2013)
 Uczestnik konkursu rzutów za 3 punkty podczas meczu gwiazd D-League (2013)

 NBA
  Mistrz NBA (2015)
 Zaliczony do składu Honorable Mention podczas rozgrywek ligi letniej w Orlando (2012)

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Profil na NBA.com
 Statystyki z NBA na basketball-reference.com
 Profil na landofbasketball.com
 Profil na draftexpress.com
 Profil na nbadraft.net
 Profil na espn.go.com
 Profil na rotoworld.com
 Profil na sports.yahoo.com
 Profil na nbadleague.com
 Profil na usbasket.com

Amerykańscy koszykarze
Koszykarze Idaho Stampede
Koszykarze Philadelphia 76ers
Koszykarze Santa Cruz Warriors
Koszykarze Golden State Warriors
Koszykarze Atlanty Hawks
Koszykarze Washington Huskies
Koszykarze Chicago Bulls
Koszykarze New York Knicks
Koszykarze Memphis Grizzlies
Zawodnicy NBA niewybrani w drafcie
Koszykarze Szolnoki Olaj
Koszykarze Indiana Pacers
Koszykarze Sacramento Kings
Koszykarze Atlanty Hawks
Koszykarze Dallas Mavericks
Urodzeni w 1989


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