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It's finally the 114th Ephraim Regatta weekend!!!
There will always be an Ephraim Regatta
Lake Michigan at record water levels…but it's not too high for the EYC!
The high water level has not deterred the dedicated team at the Ephraim Yacht Club, who under Stacey Rieu's leadership is preparing for another successful regatta. With tie downs to the dock, our Scots on trailers have had no issue with the water. Competitors with private boats should remember to please bring long, adequate tie down lines (2 for side stays, 1 for bow). Competitors should also plan and be prepared to sail from the dock as quickly as possible after "splashing". Dock space is tight and the addition of jersey barriers to protect the club house has only made it tighter. Equipment that is not needed for education or the Ephraim Regatta will be moved offsite to accommodate Flying Scots for the regatta. Everyone's cooperation and understanding is appreciated. Good Luck and smooth sailing to all our competitors!
Interested in a gently used Flying Scot? Harry Carpenter's personal boat is being delivered to Ephraim
Harry and Karen are once again making the trip from Maryland to Wisconsin, to participate in the 114th Ephraim Regatta. He is bringing his personal boat, which he is offering to sell after the regatta.
FS 5248 – Built in 1998 – White hull and deck with navy blue waterline and trim stripes. Race rigged with 2 suits of sails (main and jib) and one AirX radial spinnaker (white and blue). All sails are weekend race quality. Boat is Harry Carpenter's personal boat and has finished in the top of the fleet in multiple national events and has won a North American Championship. The price does include a lightly used aluminum trailer that is a couple of years old and has never been titled. $15,000 delivered to EYC
EYC Merchandise Sales on the dock
Yes, we will be selling EYC Regatta Shirts and other EYC merchandise on Saturday and Sunday. These items will be available from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. on the dock. Additionally, regular Friday sales from 11:30-1:30 during the end of session picnic. All proceeds benefit the youth sailing program.
Bratfest- August 3 @ 6:00 pm
The fun begins at 6pm at The Klein's House -3282 Gibraltar Road, Fish Creek. As always, there will be brats, roasted corn, drinks and many tales of sailing prowess (or lack thereof). Adults 12 and up $15.00, Children 6-11 $6.00, and Children under 5 Free
Help needed for an easy and fun shift!
Additional volunteers are needed to collect money from the 6:30-7:30 shift and 7:30-8:30pm shift. This is a fun volunteer position to work along side another EYC member and to meet and greet people as they are going into Bratfest. Please sign up here- Bratfest
Commodore's Party August 10 @ Peninsula School of Art
Volunteers still need for this event. Sign up to help HERE
Women's Regatta- Thursday August 1st, during flying scot races and the annual EYC membership meeting- Saturday August 10th, 9:00 a.m.. The last junior activity of the year is next Wednesday! Check the clubhouse for more information.
Did Someone Say Regatta? What!? How is it August already?!


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Leaf Lorikeet (Trichoglossus weberi)
Leaf Lorikeet is also known as the Flores Lorikeet or Weber's Lorikeet. They are endemic to the Indonesian island of Flores. They use to be considered a subspecies of the Rainbow Lorikeet but are believed by many to be a separate species.
This species is found in rainforest, Casuarinas, and secondary forest at 1,200-1,550 m. Birds have been recorded in breeding condition in June and breeding has been reported between February and August (White and Bruce 1986, Reeve and Rabenak 2016).
Habitat destruction through the combined impacts of firewood collection, commercial logging, timber extraction for construction materials, and clearance for agriculture together may represent the most pertinent threat. The loss and fragmentation of forests is already extensive on Flores, where no semi-evergreen forest below 1,000 m is included within gazetted protected areas. These threats are compounded by human population expansion, with large volumes of timber required for housing construction, and the fact that there is little or no governmental enforcement of laws.
Moist deciduous forest is currently being extensively cleared through land grabbing and establishment of agricultural areas, a factor that is inevitably reducing the range and population of this species. Forest clearance continues in the coastal belt to make way for crops, and illegal logging continues in protected areas. It is presumed that trapping for the wild bird trade represents a further threat, as it does for other species in the T. haemotodus complex).
Flores / Leaf Lorikeet
Estimate population and assess population trend and scale of trapping pressure. Conduct a targeted survey for the species to identify important sites, with a view to affording them protection. Conduct research into its status and habitat use (with particular regard to feeding ecology and forest fragmentation) such that long-term management of the species is facilitated. Monitor trade to investigate whether this presents a significant threat. Initiate awareness campaigns to elicit the support of local people in protecting forests.

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Q: Validation of angular form without submit button I am using anuglar.js form validation.
I want to check validation without form submit button.
This is my html.
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A: To do it, the key is use the name attribute in your <form> and in all of your inputs.
Following this way, angularjs will create a form instance where you can access all fields like myForm.myInput.$invalid

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Check angular docs

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Interestingly enough, Trey (from the Naked Bible podcast) has found a workaround to the problem — not a solution, but at least a way to circumvent the problem. Though slower than the method we were using, it at least could in theory move tagging ahead. I'll be sharing that with Dino, who was working on the tagging, this weekend.


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Welby, Israel and the meaning of persecution
Jake Wallis Simons
Christians celebrate east in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's old city (Getty)
I arrived in Colombo the morning after the attack and went straight to the morgue to identify some of the 269 victims. The concrete building, with its pretty wooden roof, had been overwhelmed by the sheer number of Christian dead. Several bodies lay on the floor of the entrance, some only partially covered up. One had gone black. It was very hot and humid and the smell lingered in my clothes for weeks. Outside the morgue, a computer had been set up. Distraught relatives were encouraged to view a slideshow of body parts to see if they could recognise a clump of hair, a fragment of ear or a finger still wearing a ring.
This was the 2019 Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka, in which three packed churches and three hotels were targeted by Islamist suicide bombers. Forty-five foreign nationals, of whom nine were children, were among the dead. Eight were British, including brother and sister Daniel and Amelie Linsey, aged 19 and 15. Little Zayan Chowdhury, who was blown up while having breakfast with his father, was a relative of Labour MP Tulip Siddiq.
I recall this grim episode mainly for the benefit of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Take heed: this is what the persecution of Christians looks like.
Yesterday, Mr Welby and Hosam Naoum, an Anglican bishop in Jerusalem, jointly penned an article in the Sunday Times entitled: 'Let us pray for the Christians being driven from the Holy Land'. In it, they drew readers' attention to the 'frequent and sustained attacks by fringe radical groups' in Israel, arguing that this was behind the sharp decline in the Christian population in Jerusalem. Nowhere else in the region. Only the Jewish state.
About half way down, the clergymen did briefly say that 'in Israel, the overall number of Christians has risen'. They also acknowledged that 'Christians in Israel enjoy democratic and religious freedoms that are a beacon in the region'. But these comments — inserted, one presumes, for the sake of accuracy — were quickly pushed aside. The Archbishops took care to remind readers that the 'first Christmas' had taken place 'against the backdrop of the genocide of infants', carried out by King Herod. 'There's not much in there about lullabies and cuddly farm animals,' they wrote. The negative parallels were hard to ignore.
Marie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies, British Jewry's representative body, has already responded with a fiery letter to Mr Welby. 'In the past century,' she wrote, 'both in Israel's heartlands and the West Bank, the demographics show that the Palestinian population has increased significantly.' She continued:
'If the overall Palestinian population has greatly increased, but the Palestinian Christian population has significantly declined, then clearly there are more complex reasons than those raised in the article, which appeared to attribute this decline to Jewish settlers.
Quite. But such awkward conclusions, however obvious, were ignored.
It goes without saying that no 'fringe radical group' in Israel has ever carried out anything like the Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka. The Archbishops were curiously silent on who these 'fringe radical groups' are or what motivates them. Yet in the examples they pointed to, cases of arson and vandalism against church buildings, it is hardline Jews who have been blamed. These attacks must of course be condemned. But this does not detract from the fact that overall, Christians in Israel are flourishing.
The education figures alone tell their own story. More Christian Arabs leave school with grades that will get them into university than any other group in the country (71.2 per cent). More Christian women attend higher education than from any other background, excelling particularly in medicine, engineering, architecture and law. As a case in point, the first-ever Arab to hold a permanent appointment as a Supreme Court justice in Israel was Salim Jubran, a Christian — who sat in judgment over former prime minister Ehud Olmert. Much of this is thanks to schools run by the Christian community itself. But it should be noted that Christian schooling is a rarity in the Middle East. In Israel, they operate freely and with the full support of the state.
Compare this to the routine anti-Christian carnage across the region, which the Foreign Office has described as 'coming close to genocide'. A government report stated that 'the inconvenient truth is that the overwhelming majority (80 per cent) of persecuted religious believers are Christians'. This ranges from routine discrimination in education, the workplace and wider society all the way to kidnap, assassination and mass murder against Christian communities. It might not be the Holy Land, but surely such persecution deserves at least a mention by the Archbishops.
In countries like Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Egypt, the anti-Christian oppression is carried out by Islamist terrorists; in Iran, Algeria and Qatar, it is the state that carries out systematic discrimination and persecution. The effects are depressing. The Christian population in the region has declined from 20 per cent a century ago to just 5 per cent today (echoing the almost total exodus of Jews that took place in the late 1940s and 1950s).
Islamist groups in Syria, Iraq and Egypt, as well as northeast Nigeria and the Philippines, seek to erase Christian civilisation by the sword, driving believers out and destroying churches. 'The killing and abduction of clergy represented a direct attack on the church's structure and leadership,' the report said.
In Iran, Saudia Arabia and Egypt, arrest, detention and imprisonment are common. Christian festivals are often a target. In 2017, 99 Egyptian Christians were killed by Islamist militants, with 47 massacred on Palm Sunday in Tanta and Alexandra. A year later, in the six days leading up to Christmas, 114 Christians were arrested in Iran on trumped-up charges.
In Iraq, Iran and Turkey, anti-Christian state propaganda is commonplace. Ankara, for instance, often depicts followers of Christ as a 'threat to the stability of the nation', stereotyping them as western collaborators. In Saudi Arabia, the very school textbooks that are used to mould the minds of the next generation foster hatred of Christians and Jews.
Yet this Christmas, the Archbishop of Canterbury is ignoring all this to draw our attention to the Jewish state alone, which by his own admission is a 'beacon in the region', in the pages of the Sunday Times. Yes, Christians in the Holy Land deserve greater protection. Yes, attacks by Jewish hardliners are appalling, as is all sectarian violence. But by far the greater Christian persecution lies elsewhere in the Middle East.
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Rick Fox: Lonzo Ball has 'more to say than what we're hearing' on LaVar Ball
When accosted by TMZ Sports at LAX, former Los Angeles Lakers swingman Rick Fox declined to directly answer a question about the beef between the Big Baller Brand and the Better Business Bureau by saying he would rather hear from Lonzo Ball than LaVar Ball.
"LaVar says a lot of stuff. What does his son say?" Fox said. "I want to hear from his son."
"I think he's got a little more to say than what we're hearing from him," he added.
As for the growing movement of media outlets declining to cover the Big Baller, Fox cited "freedom of speech" as a reason to follow LaVar's musings.
"If people want to hear what you have to say then that makes you entertaining, but it doesn't necessarily make you news," he said.
We'll see how much (if at all) Lonzo has to keep answering for the sins of the father when the Lakers touch down in Texas to play the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday.
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Pan fried duck livers in a cream and herb sauce on toast.
Trim the sinew from the livers. Peel and finely dice the shallot and garlic. Pick the parsley leaves from the stalk and finely chop. Then cut the chives as thinly as possible and toast the bread.
Heat the butter in a large frying pan. When the butter foams and starts to brown, add the shallots and livers and cook for a minute on each side. Then add the garlic, madeira and seasoning and cook for a further minute or until the alcohol has reduced by half.
Remove the livers, then add the cream and parsley to the pan and reduce until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
To serve, place the toast in the middle of a plate and top with the livers. Then spoon the reduced sauce over the top and finish with the chopped chives.


More Than Just A SAHM: Let's Party!
There's another event on Sunday and this will be held in one of the biggest mall in Asia. The staff just emailed me to wear the best rock fashion clothing and added that I can bring my kids along with me. It's about fashion show and this is going to be an exciting event again not only for me but for my kids as well. I wonder if I can wear a vintage t shirts at the event. It's a grand fashion show featuring selected models and I wonder why we were asked to wear something like this. Will they give prize for those who will win the best attire? Anyways, we're going to rock the party and if we will be asked to do a parade or modeling, then we will. Carry on! We will rock the mall this time! Let's party!


Oscar® nominee Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge!") directs the film in 3D from a screenplay co-written with frequent collaborator Craig Pearce, based on Fitzgerald's book. Luhrmann produces, along with Catherine Martin, Catherine Knapman, Lucy Fisher and Academy Award® winner Douglas Wick ("Gladiator"). The executive producers are Academy Award® winner Barrie M. Osborne ("Lord of the Rings – Return of the King") and Bruce Berman.
Two-time Academy Award®-winning production and costume designer Catherine Martin ("Moulin Rouge!") also designs with the director. The editors are Jason Ballantine, Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond, and the director of photography is Simon Duggan.
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Director Baz Luhrmann who lost with Moulin Rouge and lost again with Australia, takes a chance with an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby turning it into a pop-up book for the screen. While the CGI and sets do sparkle, he turns the storyline into a simple predictive tome set in an era of flappers and illegal booze. Luhrmann gets caught up inside of Fitzgerald's bittersweet romance while undervaluing the class struggle between the newly rich and the struggling underclass.
The movie centers on Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) who narrates the story about love, lust and retribution after moving in next door to millionaire Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). With wild parties nearly every weekend the Gatsby estate attracts the rich and famous. One day he gets an invitation to one of his massive events and decides to go over and meet his neighbor in person. With the revelry in full swing he walks onto the estate with invitation in hand. What puzzles him most however is why the other guests did not receive a printed invitation.
During the party he finally meets Gatsby who takes a shine to the budding novelist. Carraway, seemingly the only person in the story with less than 100 dollars in his pocket, enjoys this new found amusement and relishes in the fairytale atmosphere. But there's more to his invitation that meets the eye as Carraway finds out when Gatsby asks about his cousin Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) a socialite who lives in the estate with the blue light. The plot spools out involving Daisy the golden girl, her husband Tom (Joel Edgerton) and several other intriguing characters drawn together over Gatsby's rise to big money and a love loss past.
Luhrmann's makes his sets in The Great Gatsby the center of attraction much like he did in Moulin Rouge. Each setting has its own visual style with billowing white sheets for curtains at the Buchanan residence, huge bouquets of flowers at the Gatsby estate and then turns to the dimly lit speakeasies along roads that connect the island to New York City for contrast. His costumes feature flapper dresses, furs, flowing gowns, wide lapel tuxes, and Gatsby's pink suit providing the feel of wealth prevalent throughout the film. The visuals at Gatsby's social events steal the show as the characters finger long cigarette holders, males thumbing suspenders, wrists laden with jewels, flashy 20's expensive cars and shimmering sequenced outfits don curvaceous dancing party goers. The movie's a set decorator's dream come true with the help of some excellent CGI.
While the characters are well acted, they seem to be paper cutouts on a stage that's a pop-up book. As the scenes change, another set pops up to view and we see the actors being lead around as if on strings as they deliver their lines. Although the movie feels very shallow at times what entices however, are the pop-ups that create underclass showing the unprivileged who scrape out a living running gas stations at pennies per gallon with a speakeasy in the rear. A very interesting part of the film's story that I feel Luhrmann could have developed showing the mire and treatment of a part of society that survived serving the rich or providing a release from their boring lives.
Luhrmann does an injustice to his actors by making them string puppets that he leads around on a stage so lavish that it detracts from their performances making them readers of scripts rather than character developers. Some of his characters do survive Luhrmann's garishness however, including Joel Edgerton who creates Tom Buchanan a man whose future starts slipping away from the moment he meets Gatsby and Jason Clark as the gas station attendant that's crazed with jealousy over his suspected cheating wife Myrtle. Unfortunately, while Isla Fisher does an excellent job of portraying Myrtle, her character's lack of screen time doesn't give her enough importance. Her character development is so weak that it loses the empathy needed for the audience to accept her lowlife situation and the tragedy that besets her.
While I usually like the acting of DiCaprio, his character in The Great Gatsby seemed at times too fragile and sometimes overstated. There was very little chemistry between Gatsby and Daisy (played by Carey Mulligan) for me to believe that the romance between them was ever real. The two seem to get lost in the script and it becomes more of a Joel Edgerton film as the rebuked husband and his settling of the rivalry between Tom and Gatsby. While Tobey Maguire does his best to be the good guy avoiding confrontations from both sides of the affair, his turgid performance negates any true value for his Carraway continuing in the film after the initial coupling of Gatsby and Daisy.
If you feel an urge to go see the film you will at least takeaway the breathtaking beauty and wonder that Luhrmann always brings to the screen. And, if you read the book, you'll find F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby pretty close to the storyline within the long winded two hour and twenty minute narrative.
The Great Gatsby has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some violent images, sexual content, smoking, partying and brief language. The story itself will probably keep anyone under 18 away from this costume period piece even the tweens trying to poke their heads into the auditorium. The 3D is not necessary unless you want the full effect of the depth of field, some swirling cameras that spin around the room at lavish parties, confetti in your face and other effects that only the special eye glasses can give you.
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This movie is good, not great.
I Would say: The Great Leo! Fantastic?!
Leonardo DiCaprio FANTASTIC ACTOR! The Great Gatsby Gonna Awesome!


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Wehrmacht Lombardo - Tight Crossed Legs [Ominous Recordings - 2016]
Wehrmacht Lombardo's 'Tight Crossed Legs' is a c60 tape out on the Swedish label Ominous Recordings, it takes in two sides to one wall each, the first being 'Fijaciones' and the second side being 'Las Piernas Cruzadas'. The artwork is by label head JSH and features the eponymous 'crossed legs' of a woman who appears to be wearing tights.
In opening, before the first side has even begun, the release is well presented to immediately smack the listener with its thematic representation of a long-running and well-known arena in the world of noise and HNW - nylon fetishisation. Ominous has been doing its own bit to fan the flames, while labels such as Signora Ward have trailblazed the thematic style to the point that, for me personally, it has very quickly come to lose its edge and interest, and even begun to seem a bit mawkish to those who are well aware of its historic trajectory and particularly on the lookout for interesting and new ways of HNW being presented. That said, I came into this release with these thoughts and feelings preparing me to be underwhelmed by the sounds contained within, but was pleasantly surprised on the first side to discover a blissfully raspy and airy crackling affair, replete with an illusive sinkhole ringing that could change its pitch at a turn of the head and a lucidly calming and rain-like patter and drizzle.
'Fijaciones' opened with a vocal sample in which a woman was speaking, the language was not English and I am going to assume it was Spanish from what I heard but I could very easily be wrong and if I am I apologise. There were key words that banged a gong as I listened and pointed in the direction of this being some kind of monologue pertaining to sexual fetishisation, the delivery was in a somewhat cold and clinical tone and the 'drop' into wall at first seemed like an anti-climax of sorts when the expected 'blare' of some heavy slab was replaced by a shower of hailstones and grit falling sporadically across the ears. There are moments when the crackling whir lets up into very sparse moments in which the punctuating silences really scream at you - whilst the sound itself begins to conjure new images, for me, I suddenly realised how close the crackling sound was to the crackle heard on vinyl records (only for that brief moment of particular sparsity).'Fijaciones' seemed to approach a bridge between the world of HNW and something more ambient, I might not venture as far as to say it should be called ANW (ambient noise wall) - and if anything, from what I gather from the release and the artist, the artist might not have that intention at all and might even regret to hear that some are describing his work as such. However, rather than let this review derail into my many thoughts and feelings surrounding the term, it is suffice to say that this first wall is a particualr breed of slow-going and incredibly relaxing and listenable HNW that the well-versed ear will be fairly accustomed to (even outside of the newfound usage and adoption of ANW).
On the second side, 'Las Piernas Cruzadas' opens without any sample introduction into a slightly lourder and thicker wall - perhaps still not blaring though, and feeling very much like a natural amalgamation and progression onwards from the soothing sounds of the first side. Where 'Fijaciones' was the gentle patter of light rain on rooftops, 'Las Piernas Cruzadas' is the approaching and building storm. There is still something very airy and almost lo-fidelity about the sound, perhaps something done intentionally with a nod to the masterfully airy, lofi and brittle HNW works of early pioneers such as Sean Matzus in particular (I mention this because the wall in question really did make me hark back to a particular wall of Sean's). I cannot help think whilst listening to this slightly more loud and chaotic side that the thematics are very much away from my mind whilst listening here, which is perhaps sometimes the case even with topics I am genuinely interested in or even obsessed with myself - but here I find myself catching myself and questioning how my ambivalence and indifference towards a particular theme affects my reception of a work in the world of HNW. It is very easy in this world for a theme to feel 'tacked on' and for a listener to completely bypass artistic intention which is at a purely conceptual and thematic level. The sound here is all-encompassing and enveloping and I am driven to make attempts towards a mindless zone of calm - and yet, deep down in its core, this release and its walls do seem to speak to me of their close bond with 'obsession'. There is something here that drives at me and makes me doubt that this release could be gratuitous in any way - although perhaps there is some personal bias, having long been a fan of the Ominous Recordings label and long having appreciated and admired JSH's abilities as a curator of noise.
This is a project I have explored very little of, only having listened to one or two digital releases before taking on this review and I walk away from it pleasantly surprised and eager to further explore the projects catalogue, which seems to be fairly extensive. Ominous Recordings recently had their 100th release and it was a fairly special occasion, I bid all listeners to do their best to support this amazing European label which is always growing and improving thanks to the stalwart efforts of the crazed man at its helm. There are also two copies of this release in particular still available for sale according to the Bandcamp page as of writing.
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This third edition of the hall of fame awards is the biggest and most glittery yet, with a long list of top performers and artists from the Latin and mainstream entertainment worlds. They include Café Tacuba, the groundbreaking Mexican alternative rock band; Rita Moreno, the only Hispanic EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winner; La Ley lead singer Beto Cuevas; Colombian singer and bandleader Fonseca, and rocker Alejandra Guzman; each of whom will receive special awards. Gloria Estefan will be accompanied by her daughter Emily on drums. Non-Hispanic figures include singer Dionne Warwick and famed producer and composer Quincy Jones, who will accept the Desi Arnaz Pioneer Award via video. The show is being directed by veteran Broadway and concert producer and director Richard Jay-Alexander, and it includes an orchestra conducted by Miami Symphony Orchestra's Eduardo Marturet.
Six composers will be inducted: hitmaker Emilio Estefan; Gustavo Santaolalla, a pioneering rock producer and Oscar-winning film score composer; Chilean singer Myriam Hernandez; Argentine singer-songwriter Diego Torres, renowned Colombian songwriter Hector Ochoa Cardenas, and Salvadoran composer Alvaro Torres.
The Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, which is headed by Child and co-founder and president Rudy Perez, also a successful songwriter and producer, has a broad group of top music industry names on its board and advisory committees. But while candidates for the Hall of Fame are chosen by a committee of music professionals, membership in the hall of fame, which includes the ability to vote on inductees, is open to anyone who registers on the group's website. The number of members has soared from 119 in 2013 to 2,000 last year to 15,000 this year. They hail from 21 Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries in Latin America and Europe, as well as the United States.
Child started the Latin Songwriter Awards after he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a longtime dream, and was dismayed to find that he was only the third Latino to be included. He and Perez, who was on the group's board and had been quietly agitating for a Latino version of the organization for years, joined forces. They launched the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame at the end of 2012 and quickly assembled their first awards show, in April 2013, at the New World Center in Miami Beach.
Many of the stars who are appearing Thursday, such as Moreno and Jones, are receiving special La Musa awards named for Child's mother, Cuban songwriter Elena Casals. One honoree who will be known only to industry insiders is Jose Antonio Perdomo, a Brazilian music executive who instituted a process for songwriters to collect royalties in Brazil. But the show also includes figures whom organizers hope will draw younger audiences, such as Yotuel, the Cuban songwriter, rapper and co-founder of the group Orishas; and Anthony de la Torre, a 21-year-old singer and actor on the Nickelodeon show 100 Things to Do Before High School.
In recent years the media has paid a lot of attention to Latinos' demographic growth into the largest minority in the United States, their importance as a political voting bloc, and as the center of debates over immigration. But there has been much less focus on Latinos' cultural influence.
That means U.S. audiences are missing out on a rich culture, says Moreno, who will receive the La Musa Legacy Award on Thursday. Although Moreno, 83, has worked in entertainment since she was a teenager, she has just recorded her first album in Spanish, Una Vez Mas, produced by Emilio Estefan. On Thursday she'll perform one of the record's tracks, a Spanish language version of Somewhere from the musical West Side Story — for which Moreno became the second Hispanic to win an Oscar for her performance as Anita.
What: Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards.
Singer and actor Anthony de la Torre will perform at the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame awards Thursday.
Mexican rock group Cafe Tacuba will receive the La Musa Icon Award and perform at the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame awards Thursday at the Fillmore Miami Beach.
Colombian musician Fonseca will perform at the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame awards Thursday at the Fillmore Miami Beach.
Desmond Child is co-founder and CEO of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.


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All of these men have had a profound influence in my personal spiritual growth, and I believe many are indebted to each of them (if not all) to some extent. One of the great things about this particular frame is the unity and diversity among pastors and teachers. They are leaders of churches or seminaries (in some cases, both! ie: John Macarthur), Baptists and Presbyterians, young and old, and of different ethnicities (though I'd say they're missing a token Asian!). I think groups like T4G and the Gospel Coalition are great examples of the kind of impact that humans can make for the gospel if we are willing to humble ourselves, set aside some differences (though not compromising orthodoxy) and partner with one another – knowing that no single church, group, seminary, or organisation can win the world for Christ. We need all hands on deck.


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(Photos) George Clooney in Armenia to Mark Genocide Anniversary
by Gregory Pappas April 24, 2016
written by Gregory Pappas April 24, 2016
Actor George Clooney on Sunday joined ceremonies in Yerevan, Armenia marking the 101st anniversary of the genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
Clooney is a staunch advocate of the massacres that took place and has fought, using his celebrity status, to bring more awareness of the historic events.
Countless scholars and academics throughout the world, as well as numerous governments agree on the terminology and recognition of the events that began in 1915 as "genocide."
The government of Turkey— and successive U.S. administrations— reject the nomenclature of the killings as "Genocide."
In a statement from the White House, Obama– despite a campaign promise to term it a "genocide"– stopped short once again, calling it instead "the first mass atrocity of the 20th century."
Although President Obama has been criticized– many say he doesn't want to upset the Turks and upset the fragile relationship between that country and the United States– no President before him called it a genocide, either.
Several U.S. politicians, local and state governments have gone on record calling the events a "genocide," including U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, who shared his views via Twitter today:
On the 101st anniversary, I call on the Administration to recognize the murder of 1.5 mil. #Armenians as genocide. https://t.co/3YSB9nm4Ss
— Mark Kirk (@SenatorKirk) April 24, 2016
"We honor the million and a half lives that were lost 101 years ago. And we honor those lives by calling their tragedy by its true name. Genocide. The Armenian Genocide," Clooney said at a ceremony making the events.
Clooney and the French Charles Aznavour, who is of Armenian origin, joined President Serzh Sarkisian and thousands of Armenians to lay flowers at the eternal flame, an imposing memorial in Yerevan.
Clooney isn't the first celebrity to take bring attention to the Armenian Genocide. Last year, members of the Kardashian family— also of Armenian descent— visited the country and laid wreaths at the memorial on the 100th anniversary.
The Armenian Genocide is closely tied— and most scholars agree- to a bigger and broader genocide of all Christian people in Turkey. In addition to the estimated 1.5 million Armenians who were murdered in systematic campaigns by the Turks, millions more Greeks, Assyrians and other Christian minorities were also massacred, culminating in 1922 with the burning of Smyrna when the large Greek population was decimated.
Lou Ureneck, author of the book The Great Fire said in an editorial that we should not forget the Assyrians and the Greeks, when remembering the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
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The Philippines is catching up with the rest of the world when it comes to investing. In the country, one of the recommended forms of investment is real estate for its favorable returns. Before one can invest in real estate, however, it is important to know the different avenues for investment–and know which of them has positive yields in the near future.
These were some of the topics discussed in "Changing Face: Uncovering Alternative Ways to Invest in Real Estate" from The Outlook: Philippine Real Estate Conference 2019 held last October at the Makati Shangri-La and co-presented by Philippine Daily Inquirer Property and Holcim Philippines. The track zeroed in on what's driving investor demand, the new investment opportunities available in the market, and how the market can tap into these to encourage a robust real estate economy.
The moderator was Danie Laurel, News Anchor of Cignal TV's One News. Panelists include Richard Raymundo, Managing Director of Colliers; Mikko Barranda, Associate Director of Leechiu Property Consultants Inc.; Iluminada Sicat, Assistant Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas; and Noel Rapadas, Senior Vice President and Chief Finance Officer of Torre Lorenzo.
Always an All-time High
According to moderator Laurel, everyone agrees that real estate is a good investment, especially in the Philippines. The big question now is: To what extent are real estate prices sustainable? This sparks an inquiry into the sustainability of investments and the growth areas that Philippine investors need to explore to get the most of their money.
Asked whether there will be dire consequences if POGO companies pull out, Raymundo responded by taking a look back into the BPO market. "The BPO market used to take up about 60% of the market before POGO," he said. Now, they are down to 30-40%.
The slack that was left from the BPO industry was taken up by POGO. However, if POGO did not come into the Philippines, the rents would have corrected anyway, he added.
Barranda also mentioned that "POGOS are here and here to stay."
Citing Bonifacio and the Bay Area, where most locators are POGOs, he said developers take advantage while POGOs are here. And with a set-up like this, the Philippines can be considered as "always at an all-time high."
Rapadas also agreed that the Philippines has reached an all-time high. However, there is still a long way to go for it to be sustainable. According to him, in terms of benchmarking and the price of real estate, one of the reasons the Philippines is an ideal destination for foreign investors is because "we're still cheap" compared to our neighbors.
POGOs came to the Philippines at an opportune time–three years ago, when they entered, lots of developers were finishing their projects, which added to the leasable areas in some of the now-famous POGO hubs in the country.
Sicat, however, shared that the Philippine economy does not necessarily need POGO. "We did an assessment of the impact of POGOs on the price of our residences. There was a sudden increase in the price of rent, but if you look at the net contribution of POGOs, it's not that big, actually."
The survival of the real estate sector, then, does not rely on POGOs, and given the current numbers of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, "it's not big enough to contribute much to our GDP."
BPO and POGO businesses have similarities in the way they conduct their business, shared Sicat. Their presence in the country "added pressure" on lease rates, which is enough for the industry leaders to hope they continue to conduct their business in the Philippines. However, there is a need for balance in maintaining a good source of income for the country and having these "guests" observe Philippine rules.
Be Vigilant and Diversify
Veering away from the subject of POGO, experts suggest investors follow a plan to see measurable results.
The Philippines is one of the largest markets in Asia. When it comes to sustaining prices, however, the country has a long way to go. It is important that investors are vigilant when it comes to the prices of real estate, and to diversify their portfolio to protect their investments.
"We have to understand the drivers of prices," Rapadas added. "It's about demographics and economic growth."
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A beneficiary of the Sikh charity has lost his privileges after he used his charity in the committing of migration crimes, the commission of the charity stated.
The beneficiary's name was not publicly mentioned by the Commission, but reports have placed the man to be named Ravinder Singh from Manchester. Singh was the only beneficiary of the Khalsa missionary community.
A statement from the body said that the charity supported permit applications for Sikh holy leaders to come into the United Kingdom for work at the charity for a defined period. The report also said that the charity was informed by the Home Office in 2013 that it had opened up a case against the charity for migration fraud.
The home office also disclosed to the commission that the charity was permitting Indian nationals to come into the country without proper documentation.
The beneficiaries were paying a particular amount to the charity, and in turn, the charity rewarded them with salaries as religious leaders.
The commission also began an investigation into the charity body on the 16th of September, 2014 after the home office had finished its inquiry and tendered the situation to the prosecution service.
Ravinder acknowledged to the crime on the 25th of April and was sentenced to jail for 27 months by a court in Manchester on the 16th of May, 2016.
The report published by the Commission stated that the charity body had been used to engage in a plethora of non-charity purposes since 2011 and had been misused inappropriately, with Mr. Ravinder not being able to tender enough evidence to prove the legitimacy of the charity's businesses.
As such, the Commission used its privileges to remove the beneficiary from the charity on the 7th of January, and on the 23rd of February, the fund was delisted from its register.


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Let $M\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ be a smooth closed embedded mean-convex surface. Then there exists a unique evolution $\mathcal{M}=\{M_t\}_{t\geq 0}$ by mean curvature flow, which can be viewed both as level set flow and as unit-regular integral Brakke flow (see e.g. \cite{HK_meanconvex,White_size} for background on mean-convex mean curvature flow).\\

A fundamental open problem for the mean curvature flow, and in fact for many partial differential equations, concerns the selfsimilarity of blowup limits. To describe this, for any $X=(x,t)\in\mathcal{M}$ and $\lambda>0$ we denote by
$\mathcal{M}_{X,\lambda}=\mathcal{D}_{\lambda}(\mathcal{M}-X)$
the flow which is obtained from $\mathcal{M}$ by translating $X$ to the origin and parabolically dilating by $\lambda$. Now, given $X\in\mathcal{M}$, and arbitrary sequences $X_i\to X$ and $\lambda_i\to\infty$, one can always pass to a subsequential limit of $\mathcal{M}_{X_i,\lambda_i}$. Any such limit $\mathcal{M}^\infty$ is called a limit flow at $X$.

\begin{conjecture}[{selfsimilarity of limit flows, see e.g. \cite[Conj. 6]{Ilmanen_problems} and \cite[Conj. 1 and Conj. 3]{White_nature}}]\label{conj_selfsim_limit}
For the mean curvature flow of a smooth closed embedded mean-convex surface all limit flows are selfsimilar (either static, shrinking or translating).
\end{conjecture}

We note that while tangent flows, i.e. the special case of limit flows where $X_i=X$ is fixed, are always selfsimilarly shrinking by Huisken's monotonicity formula \cite{Huisken_monotonicity}, there is no general mechanism which indicates whether or not limit flows are selfsimilar. The only other available tool in this direction is Hamilton's Harnack inequality \cite{Hamilton_Harnack}, but to apply it to get a selfsimilarly translating limit flow the sequence $X_i$ has to be chosen in some very special way.\footnote{An illustrative example is  the rotationally symmetric degenerate neckpinch from Angenent-Velazquez \cite{AV}. To get the selfsimilarly translating bowl soliton as limit flow one has to choose the sequence $X_i$ along suitable ``tip points".} In particular, White \cite{White_nature} (see also Haslhofer-Hershkovits \cite{HH_ovals}) constructed examples of ancient convex noncollapsed mean curvature flows that are not selfsimilar; these examples are called the ancient ovals, and it is an open problem whether or not they can occur as limit flows.\\

It seems to be known among some experts in the field that there is a close relationship between the potential scenario of ancient ovals as a limit flow and the potential scenario of infinitely many singularities (see also \cite{AAG,CM_arrival,White_ICM} for related discussions regarding the finiteness of singular times, and a heuristic relationship with analytic functions). The purpose of this short note is to state and prove a precise equivalence. To this end, let us first recall another well-known conjecture concerning the finiteness of spherical singularities:

\begin{conjecture}[{finiteness of spherical singularities, see e.g. \cite[Conj.~Q]{Ilmanen_monograph} and \cite[Conj. on p.~1237]{Wang}}]\label{conj_finiteness}
For the mean curvature flow of a smooth closed embedded mean-convex surface there are only finitely many spherical singularities.
\end{conjecture}

Here, we say that the flow $\mathcal{M}$ has a spherical singularity at $X$, if the tangent flow at $X$ is a round shrinking sphere, c.f. \cite{HK_meanconvex,White_size,White_nature}. It is known that there can be at most countably many spherical singularities, c.f. \cite{White_stratification}. Conjecture \ref{conj_finiteness} is known to be true for smooth rotationally symmetric initial surfaces by work of Altschuler-Angenent-Giga \cite{AAG}. The smoothness assumption cannot be dropped. Indeed, Miura \cite{Miura} gave examples of singular mean convex initial surfaces, whose flows have countably many spherical singularities.\\

The following theorem shows that Conjecture \ref{conj_selfsim_limit} (selfsimilarity of limit flows) and Conjecture \ref{conj_finiteness} (finiteness of spherical singularities) are equivalent. Specifically, we prove:

\begin{theorem}\label{thm_equivalence}
Let $\mathcal{M}=\{M_t\}_{t\geq 0}$ be the mean curvature flow of a smooth closed embedded mean-convex surface. Then all limit flows of $\mathcal{M}$ are selfsimilar if and only if $\mathcal{M}$ has only finitely many spherical singularities.
\end{theorem}

In particular, as a corollary (of the proof) we obtain:

\begin{corollary}\label{cor_ovals}
The ancient ovals occur as a limit flow of $\mathcal{M}$ if and only if there is a sequence of spherical singularities converging to a cylindrical singularity.
\end{corollary}

More generally, we establish a local version of this equivalence that holds for neck singularities in arbitrary dimension. To describe this, given any smooth closed embedded hypersurface $M=\partial K\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, as in \cite{HW} we denote by $(\mathcal{M},\mathcal{K})$ and $(\mathcal{M}',\mathcal{K'})$ the outer and inner flow, respectively.\footnote{In particular, we have that $M_t=M_t'$ and $K_t'=\overline{\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\setminus K_t}$ for at least as long as the level set flow does not fatten.} As in \cite[Def. 1.17]{CHHW} we say that the mean curvature evolution of $M$ has an inwards or outwards neck singularity at $X$ if the rescaled flow $\mathcal{D}_\lambda(\mathcal{K}-X)$ or $\mathcal{D}_\lambda(\mathcal{K}'-X)$, respectively, converges for $\lambda\to \infty$ locally smoothly with multiplicity $1$ to a round shrinking solid cylinder $\{\bar{B}^n(\!\!\sqrt{2(n-1)|t|})\times \mathbb{R} \}_{t<0}$, up to rotation. Using these notions, we can now state our local result in arbitrary dimensions:

\begin{theorem}\label{thm_equivalence_general}
Suppose the mean curvature evolution of a smooth closed embedded hypersurface $M$ has an inwards (respectively outwards) neck singularity at $X_0=(x_0,t_0)$. Then there exists an $\varepsilon>0$ such that $[t_0-\varepsilon,t_0+\varepsilon]\ni t\mapsto M_t\cap B_\varepsilon(x_0)$ (respectively $M_t'\cap B_\varepsilon(x_0)$) has only finitely many spherical singularities if and only if the ancient ovals do not occur as limit flow of $\mathcal{M}$ (respectively $\mathcal{M}'$) at $X_0$.
\end{theorem}

To establish these equivalences we proceed as follows. First, we show that if there is a sequence of spherical singularities converging to a cylindrical singularity, then we can rescale by suitable factors around suitable centers to get a limit flow that is not selfsimilar. Next, we show that the ovals cannot occur as limit flow if there are only finitely many spherical singularities. Together with recent results from Brendle-Choi \cite{BC}, Angenent-Daskalopoulos-Sesum \cite{ADS} and Choi-Haslhofer-Hershkovits-White \cite{CHHW} we can then conclude the proof. For the sake of exposition, we first give the proof in the simpler $2$-dimensional global setting of Theorem \ref{thm_equivalence}, and afterwards describe the necessary generalizations needed for the proof of Theorem \ref{thm_equivalence_general}.\\

Finally, it seems reasonable to expect that similar results should hold for $3$-dimensional Ricci flow through singularities, as introduced by Kleiner-Lott \cite{KL_singular}.\\

\bigskip

\noindent\textbf{Acknowledgments.} RH has been partially supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant (RGPIN-2016-04331) and a Sloan Research Fellowship. OH has been partially supported by a Koret Foundation early career scholar award.\\

\bigskip

\section{The proofs}

To prove Theorem \ref{thm_equivalence}, we proceed by establishing the following three propositions.

\begin{prop}\label{prop1}
If there is a sequence of spherical singularities converging to a cylindrical singularity, then there occurs a limit flow that is not selfsimilar.
\end{prop}

\begin{proof}
Fix $\varepsilon>0$ small enough. Given $X\in\mathcal{M}$ we consider the rescaled flow $\mathcal{M}_{X,1/r_{\alpha}}$ on diadic annuli of radius $r_\alpha=2^\alpha$, where $\alpha\in\mathbb{Z}$.
Denote by $S(X)$ the last spherical scale, i.e. the supremum of $r_\alpha$ such that $\mathcal{M}$ is $\varepsilon$-close around $X$ at scale $r_\alpha$ to a round shrinking sphere.
Denote by $Z(X)$ the first cylindrical scale, i.e. the infimum of $r_\alpha$ such that $\mathcal{M}$ is $\varepsilon$-close around $X$ at scale $r_\alpha$ to a round shrinking cylinder.

Now assume $X_i\in \mathcal{M}$ is a sequence of spherical singularities converging to a cylindrical singularity $X\in \mathcal{M}$. Since we have spherical singularities it holds that $S(X_i)>0$. On the other hand, since the flow has a cylindrical singularity at $X$ and since $X_i\to X$, for $i$ large enough we have $Z(X_i)<\infty$, and in fact
\begin{equation}
\lim_{i\to \infty} Z(X_i)=0.
\end{equation}
By Huisken's monotonicity formula \cite{Huisken_monotonicity}, we clearly have $S(X_i)\leq Z(X_i)$. By quantitative differentiation, see e.g. \cite{CHN}, the ratio between these scales is bounded, i.e.
\begin{equation}
\frac{Z(X_i)}{S(X_i)}\leq C.
\end{equation}
Consider the rescaled flows $\mathcal{M}_{X_i,S(X_i)^{-1}}$ and pass to a subsequential limit $\mathcal{M}^\infty$. Then, $\mathcal{M}^\infty$ is $\varepsilon$-spherical at scale $1$ and $\varepsilon$-cylindrical at some scale between $1$ and $C$. Hence, the limit flow $\mathcal{M}^\infty$ is not selfsimilar.
\end{proof}

\begin{prop}\label{prop2}
If there are only finitely many spherical singularities, then ancient ovals do not occur as limit flow.
\end{prop}

\begin{proof}
Suppose towards a contradiction that there are $X_i=(x_i,t_i) \to X_0=(x_0,t_0)$ and $\lambda_i\to\infty$ such that $\mathcal{M}_{X_i,\lambda_i}$ converges to an ancient oval which becomes extinct at $t=0$ at the origin. Since $\lambda_i\cdot(M_{t_i-\lambda_i^{-2}}-x_i)$ converges to the time $t=-1$ slice of the oval, which is compact and strictly convex, there exists an $i_0$ such that, for $i>i_0$, the oval-like component of $\lambda_i\cdot (M_{t_i-\lambda_i^{-2}}-x_i)$ is strictly convex and hence the flow of that component has a spherical singularity at some $(y_i,s_i) \in \mathcal{M}_{X_i, \lambda_i}$. Consequently, the unrescaled flow $\mathcal{M}$ has a spherical singularities at $(x_i+\lambda_i^{-1} y_i, t_i+\lambda_i^{-2} s_i)=:(x_i',t_i')$.

By the convergence to the oval, we have $y_i\to 0$ and $s_i \to 0$, and thus it is not hard to see that $\mathcal{M}_{(x'_i,t'_i),\lambda_i}$ also converges to an oval, which becomes extinct at $(x_0,t_0)$. Since there are only finitely many spherical singularities, and since $(x_i',t_i')$ converges to $(x_0,t_0)$, we infer that $(x_i',t_i')=(x_0,t_0)$ for large $i$.

In summary, $\mathcal{M}_{(x_0,t_0),\lambda_i}$ converges for $i\to\infty$ to an ancient oval; this is a contradiction to the fact that tangent flows are always backwardly selfsimilar.
 \end{proof}

\begin{prop}\label{prop3}
If the ancient ovals do not occur as limit flow, then all limit flows are selfsimilar.
\end{prop}

\begin{proof}
By White's regularity and structure theory for mean-convex mean curvature flow \cite{White_size,White_nature} (see also Haslhofer-Kleiner \cite{HK_meanconvex}) all limit flows are noncollapsed, convex, and smooth until they become extinct. Thus, by the recent classification of Brendle-Choi \cite{BC} and Angenent-Daskalopoulos-Sesum \cite{ADS} every limit flow must be one of the following: a static plane, a round shrinking sphere, a round shrinking cylinder, a translating bowl solition, or an ancient oval. All except the last one are selfsimilar. This implies the assertion.
\end{proof}

We can now establish the claimed equivalences.

\begin{proof}[{Proof of Theorem \ref{thm_equivalence}}]
If there are only finitely many spherical singularities, then by Proposition \ref{prop2} the ancient ovals cannot occur as limit flow. Together with Proposition \ref{prop3} this implies that all limit flows are selfsimilar. Assume now there are spherical singularities at infinitely many points $X_i$. After passing to a subsequence, the points $X_i$ converge to some point $X$. By the semi-continuity of Huisken's density \cite{Huisken_monotonicity}, the point $X$ must be a singular point. Since for the flow of mean convex surfaces all tangent flows are either round shrinking spheres or round shrinking cylinders by \cite{White_size,White_nature} (see also \cite{HK_meanconvex}), and since spherical singularities are isolated, it follows that $\mathcal M$ has a cylindrical singularity at $X$. Hence, applying Proposition \ref{prop1} we conclude that we get a limit flow that is not selfsimilar.
\end{proof}

To deal with the general case of neck singularities, we employ the recent resolution of the mean-convex neighborhood conjecture for neck singularities from  \cite{CHHW}, which we now quote for convenience of the reader.
\begin{theorem}[{\cite[Thm. 1.17]{CHHW}}]\label{mean_convex_thm}
Assume $X_0=(x_0,t_0)$ is a space-time point at which the evolution of a smooth closed embedded hypersurface $M\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ by mean curvature flow has an inward neck singularity. Then there exists an $\varepsilon=\varepsilon(X_0)>0$ such that
\begin{equation}
\quad K_{t_2}\cap B(x_0,\varepsilon)\subseteq K_{t_1}\setminus M_{t_1}
\end{equation}
for all $t_0-\varepsilon< t_1< t_2 < t_0+\varepsilon$. Similarly, if the evolution has an outward neck singularity at $X_0$, then there exists some $\varepsilon=\varepsilon(X_0)>0$ such that
\begin{equation}
\quad K_{t_2}'\cap B(x_0,\varepsilon)\subseteq K_{t_1}'\setminus M_{t_1}'
\end{equation}
for all $t_0-\varepsilon< t_1< t_2 < t_1+\varepsilon$. Furthermore, in both cases, any nontrivial limit flow at $X_0$ is either a round shrinking sphere, a round shrinking cylinder, a translating bowl soliton or an ancient oval.
\end{theorem}

\begin{proof}[{Proof of Theorem \ref{thm_equivalence_general}}]
Applying \cite[Thm. B3]{HW}, we get a unit-regular integral Brakke flow $\mathcal{M}$ in a neighborhood of $X_0$, whose support is equal to the outer respectively inner flow, with multiplicity one.

Arguing as in Proposition \ref{prop1}, if there are spherical singularities at $X_i$ with $X_i\rightarrow X_0$, then blowing up by $S(X_i)$ and passing to a limit we would obtain a limit flow $\mathcal{M}^\infty$ at $X_0$, that is not selfsimilar. By the classification of potential limit flows from Theorem \ref{mean_convex_thm} (which generalizes the classification results from \cite{ADS,BC} that have been used in the proof of Proposition \ref{prop3}), $\mathcal{M}^\infty$ has to be an ancient oval.

Conversely, as the argument in Proposition \ref{prop2} only uses the appearance of the ancient ovals as a limit flow, it applies in this context as well. Thus, if the ancient ovals occur as limit flow at $X_0$, there must be a sequence of spherical singularities converging to $X_0$.
\end{proof}

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