The information on this page will enable institutions to prepare data to import to the REF submission system and provides further details of the data required in submissions, extending the guidance provided in the 'Guidance on submissions' (REF 20019/01) and 'Panel criteria' (REF 2019/02) documents.
The information in these documents may change to reflect any amendments to the submission system, which is currently under development. Any changes will be highlighted in subsequent versions of the documents.
This document provides details of the structure of the import/export file formats, including the names of the tables and fields and details of the expected data types and field lengths. It should be read in conjunction with the 'Guidance on submissions' and 'Panel criteria'.
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The Impact case studies template (REF3) and the Unit of assessment level environment template (REF5b) must be submitted as PDF and Word documents. Institutions should use the templates provided, with or without borders. These templates will also be available within the submission system.
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A "Peal" is (in simple terms) over 5,000 unique changes (i.e. no single change is repeated). Such an exercise typically takes about 3 hours to undertake, although this depends on the weight and ease-of-ringing of the bells.
During the 1990s , Peter Broadbent compiled a full list of true peals rung at Norbury since 1900. With several letters exchanged with Canon Felstead, confirming the accuracy of the data (there were a number of "false" peals included on Canon Felstead's lists which needed to be removed) this task was completed, covering the bands from over 500 peals at Norbury.
This data has now been scanned in so it can be viewed from this site. To access this data you will need the Adobe Reader which can be downloaded from here. Just click on the PDF link in the tables below to see the scanned records. In order to keep the file size down, the data has been broken up into groups of about 20 peals. For example the first document covers the peals from 5 May 1900 through to 30 December 1911.


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Storage and sharing of genomic data: Ethical issues and public perspectives
Storage and sharing of genomic data following diagnostic sequencing is critical to the future of genomic medicine. Data sharing increases the chance of finding a diagnosis for both current and future patients and can benefit clinical and pharmaceutical research. Yet, the storage and sharing of genomic data raise many ethical and practical challenges. Surprisingly few studies have explored public perspectives on how and where data should be stored, with whom it should be shared, and how to obtain meaningful consent to do so. In this presentation, Dr Danya Vears will discuss these challenges and discuss the results of a focus group study conducted with members of the general public that explored these issues.
Please register no later than the 21 June 2022 at 14:00 using this registration form
Dr. Danya Vears is a social scientist with a genetic counselling background who explores ethical issues relating to genetic testing. She is a Team Leader and Senior Research Fellow at the Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute and holds honorary positions at University of Melbourne and the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, University of Leuven.
Time: 23 June 2022, 11:00-12:00
Place: Zoom and Meeting room 6B-4-04, 4th floor, Njalsgade 76, DK-2300 Copenhagen S
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Religious faith can lead to positive mental benefits, writes Stanford anthropologist
Creating a relationship with a supernatural other takes effort that can lead to meaningful change, says Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann.
By Sandra Feder
People who believe their God or gods are real, even if the existence of those supernatural beings can't be empirically proven, have long fascinated and confounded scientists. In a new book, Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann explores the intersection of religion and science, linking profound religious faith to beneficial, scientifically proven practices like mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy.
In a new book, anthropologist Tanya Lurhmann explores how religious practices and narratives can create deep, positive changes for the people who engage in them. (Image credit: Nikki Ross-Zehnder)
In How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton University Press, 2020), Luhrmann explains that religious practices and narratives can create deep, positive changes for the people who engage in them.
"Prayer is a lot like cognitive behavioral therapy," Luhrmann said. "It's a way you attend to your own inner experience, let go of distracting thoughts and focus on more positive thoughts. By expressing gratitude, you shift attention from the way that things are going wrong to the ways they are going right."
In the introduction to her book, Luhrmann explains how her scholarship is inspired by two straightforward, but often overlooked, features of religion. "First, religion is a practice in which people go to effort to make contact with an invisible other. Second, people who are religious want change. They want to feel differently than they do," she writes. "Yet instead of exploring these features, most theories of religion begin by treating belief in an invisible other both as taken for granted and as a cognitive mistake."
Luhrmann argues that individuals of faith often have to work hard to make supernatural beings real and that those who are able to do so experience helpful changes. "If they're lucky, they're able to attend differently to their thoughts, feel calmer and more beloved," she said. And these positive outcomes reinforce religious practices, encouraging sustained commitment to ritual and observance.
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Relying on ethnographic studies of what she calls "active believers," including evangelical Christians, pagans, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann found that it takes considerable effort and regular practice to create worlds where supernatural others feel present and real.
That's because most people make a clear distinction in their lives between real and unreal. For instance, Luhrmann writes, most people, even those with deep faith, do not ask God to feed the dog or write their term paper. And religious traditions address this dichotomy. Referencing a famous Islamic hadith, or saying of the prophet Muhammad, Luhrmann writes: "Anas ibn Malik reported: A man said, 'O Messenger of Allah, should I tie my camel and trust in Allah, or should I leave her untied and trust in Allah?' The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings upon him, said, 'Tie her and trust in Allah.'"
For Luhrmann, the story is an example of how human beings instinctively understand the difference between the demands of the real, mundane world and the world of the spirit. Therefore, the puzzle of religion is not the problem of false belief, but rather of what Luhrmann calls "real-making" – how gods and spirits become real for people and what that does for those who engage in the practice.
Rather than presume that people worship because they believe, or build cathedrals because the belief is already present, Luhrmann flips the equation. She argues instead that people believe because they worship. In other words, the process of "real-making" and engaging fully in rituals and practices that bring one closer to God is so satisfying to practitioners that their faith endures.
Research has repeatedly shown that people of faith report feeling better and healthier. One of the most striking findings in social epidemiology, Luhrmann notes, is that religious involvement with God is better for your body in terms of immune functions and reducing loneliness. One explanation for this, Luhrmann writes, is that for those with an intense faith, God becomes a social relationship. MRI results indicate that in terms of brain function, talking to God resembles conversing with a friend.
But the nature of that relationship is also key in terms of health. The more that God is seen as judgmental and negative, the more mental health symptoms are reported. In contrast, people who represent their relationship with God as being loving and satisfying pray more and report fewer mental health symptoms. "The data suggest that when it's a good relationship, it's better for the body," Luhrmann said.
Even if one is inclined to cultivate that type of relationship with an unseen being, Luhrmann notes that it takes intense work and that some people may be more likely to be successful than others – namely those who are more comfortable using their imaginations. "People who have an Enlightenment mindset – focused on rational, scientific thought – those people often discount these things and don't trust their imaginations as much," she said.
But it is precisely imagination, or as Luhrmann writes, "the human ability to conceive of that which is not available to the senses," that makes possible a close relationship with a supernatural other.
Joy Leighton, Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences: joy.leighton@stanford.edu


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The proforma report was presented in the Annex A of the BOA Resolution No. 03, Series of 2016 (the Resolution). For CPAs accredited in Commerce and Industry, it is clear that the format of the compilation report is in accordance with Annex A of the Resolution.
The issuance of the resolution seemingly require the practitioners (those in Public Practice) to issue a separate report and a separate certificate: (1) the compilation report required under the Philippine Standard on Related Services 4410 (Revised), Compilation Engagements; and (2) the Compilation Certificate required by the Resolution.
A discussion between BOA and Auditing and Assurance Standards Council (AASC), however, resulted to an agreement that the report issued by a practitioner to the management as a result of the completion of the compilation engagement can be used for purposes of complying with the requirements of the Resolution. As of date of writing, the BOA confirmed this but formal written confirmation is yet to be released.
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Home // OARDC Report // September-October 2014 // Netting success: Video series shows how to get started in fish farming
A new set of how-to videos on the ins and outs of fish farming is now available online. Produced by OARDC's Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development, the five-part series takes an in-depth look at key fish farming issues in a short, easy-to-understand format.
The aquaculture center produced the series as part of its yearlong Aquaculture Boot Camp program at the Ohio State University South Centers in Piketon.
The videos are designed to help new and potential fish farmers, said Laura Tiu, OARDC aquaculture researcher.
"We're constantly getting calls from people interested in aquaculture and wanting to know more about what fish farming entails and how one can get started or expand their operations," she said. "The videos are designed to answer some of those questions."
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations projects that by 2030, aquaculture will provide two-thirds of the fish consumed globally.
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To contact the scientist: Laura Tiu at tiu.2@osu.edu.


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Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing some of our favorites from our lives this month.
I made a huge easter dinner even though it was just the two of us. Ham, sweet potato and chard gratin, deviled eggs, green beans with candied pecans, and a beet, citrus, and mint salad. For dessert we had lemon mascarpone and mango sorbet parfaits. And a Bellini bar. It was a beautiful day, so we had dinner outside and enjoyed the nice weather.
We had so much fun at the Tar Heel 10 Miler! It was a tough race, including a 1 mile climb up Laurel Hill at the end of the race. They gave us separate splits for Laurel Hill, and Nick finished third in his age group! Afterwards we explored Chapel Hill and Carrboro. We looked at plants at the North Carolina Botanical Garden (they have carnivorous plants!), then sampled some beers at the Steel String Craft Brewery, and had a lovely dinner at Kipos. We are definitely going to sign up for this race again next year!
Coming off of the race, Nick has decided he wants to run a mile PR (his PR was 6:14 back in high school) and will be using this plan. We'll keep you updated!
I cannot wait to make this pad thai salad. I LOVE pad thai, and this looks perfect for the hot summer months.
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Albert Brojka (ur. 19 października 1958 w Tiranie) – minister przemysłu, transportu i handlu Albanii w latach 1994-1995, minister spraw publicznych i turystyki Albanii w 1996 roku, burmistrz Tirany w latach 1996-2000. Jest członkiem Demokratycznej Partii Albanii.

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2015-08-01 2015-08-01 by CF Smith
Things are moving super fast! A little too fast! We can't keep up with all the good stuff that drops every day on the interwebs. While we try post every new track, album, mixtape, video, and MP3 download that we love on the site, it's impossible to post everything, which means some quality newness gets missed. So, we serve up The Leftovers.
THESatisfaction dropped the video for "EarthEE", the title track from the group's fantastic 2nd album. The new video, which director Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes calls a "A short visual meditation on the textile traditions of home, sacred Geo Metrics, theta based communication and the whirling dervish. A sonically driven work of ancient Afro continuum…" stars the group alongside label mates Porter Ray and Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces.
Golden Rules drop the fourth track from their highly anticipated debut LP called "Golden Ticket". Stream "It's Over" and be on the lookout for "Golden Ticket" which is due for release August 7th on Lex Records.
South African Shangaan Electro pioneer Nozinja spent a week at The VF Studio at Station To Station to record a new limited 12″ with a trio of London's finest producers and musicians, Mumdance, Micachu and Tirzah. Here's what went down.
South London duo Tidelines recently dropped their debut EP entitled "Say My Name". After hearing the lead single/title track, it is everything I had hoped for.Their first release is a bright debut that exists in its universe of pastel tones, sensual RnB and spaced out electronic pop. Listen and buy the 3-track EP here.
South London record label Coyote Records are set to release their first album, Letta's Testimony. The LA-based producer treats us to a taste of his forthcoming long-player by dropping off the first single, in the shape of "Ghost".
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I'm having trouble deciding whether or not I should reveal what the major themes of the next episode of Khalid – The Untold Story is going to be. The reason for that is because, while I have many topics planned, my focus at this point is to preserve the secrecy of the story and keep it as true to the source material as possible. Here's why.
In the United States and in several European countries (including the United Kingdom), real estate agents cannot represent properties to prospective clients unless they have been trained in the legalities of the industry. In fact, even when agents do choose to pursue real estate sales, they are usually required to take a number of continuing education courses about real estate law. So how does a real estate agent to learn about a person's legal rights when selling a home? By going through personal background checks and doing research on the subject matter, of course.
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The agent may then conduct a background check on the client's current residence and the neighborhood surrounding their current property. These are important because the agent will need to determine if the client has lived there in some fashion and also in which neighborhood they currently live in.
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Of course, it doesn't take a great real estate agent to figure out if a client will be trustworthy or not before he or she hires a new agent. But what will happen when the agency you hired comes calling, the year is already almost over, and you suddenly find yourself stuck with a problematic client who will only buy the home because the potential buyers of your old property have already been informed that the home they've been targeting for sale has just gone on the market for sale to a completely different and unaffiliated party.
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Who Wants to Renovate These Historic Ft. Thomas Military Homes? Apparently No One.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 17:09 RCN Newsdesk
The VA homes redevelopment project hit a major snag, and city officials were left puzzled, when not a single developer offered a bid to acquire and rehabilitate the residential properties located in Tower Park.
According to the city's own timeline for the project, the deadline to submit a bid was Monday by 2 p.m. -- a deadline no one chose to meet.
The city received approval last August from the Dept. of Veterans' Affairs to go ahead and sell the properties to a developer, after spending nearly a decade working with the federal agency to hammer out terms and conditions for the sale.
But when it finally came time to put the homes to market, no one showed.
As recently as last summer's approval, developers were still expressing hesitation at the project's viability, and, for many, that's because any developer would be required, per federal regulations, to preserve the homes' historical accuracy. The homes are currently listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
Throughout the process, beyond federal requirements, the city has also remained steadfast in its commitment to the buildings' history. "We are most interested in keeping the integrity of the homes. When people walk by, we want them to see what visitors saw 100 years ago," said Debbie Buckley, Fort Thomas Economic Development Manager, to Fort Thomas Matters shortly after the agreement was reached.
Multiple factors have been working against the VA homes as seeming like a worthwhile investment. The value of the properties has diminished from nearly $3 million in 2007 to just over $500,000 this past year, according to figures Fort Thomas Matters has acquired from the city.
City Administrator Don Martin has also estimated the historical restoration costs at just over $900,000, which does not include the installation of new utility lines and other infrastructural necessities that re-populating the homes will require.
Currently, the city has the minimum bid set at $900,000.
In 2011, when bids were solicited and nothing was returned, the city talked to developers about why that occurred at they said the biggest barrier was price, specifically getting under the $1 million mark.
"We were surprised that the city did not receive any bids this time. Setting the minimum bid under a million dollars was something that we felt would have developers lined up for - and quality contractors at that," Martin said.
"We are not to the point where we are ready to wash our hands of this and we have to be close to the point where this is still going to be profitable for someone."
The next step, Martin said, will be to call developers and start identifying the obstacles that prevented potential bidders from taking action.
But the commitment to preservation, at least for now, seems to be the biggest factor keeping would-be developers at bay.
"With any historical development, there are going to be hurdles," Bill Kreutzjans, of Ashley Developers, told FTM shortly after the approval was granted. Ashley had initially expressed interest in developing the project back in 2011.
"Back (in 2011) the abatement required and those historical guidelines, as well as the price, made it very difficult to work out. We'd like to pursue if the city were in a position to incentivize the deal," he said.
Mick Kennedy, President of Kennedy Homes, was also one of the developers to submit a letter of interest three years ago. For him, the VA homes is starting to feel like a charity case. "Unless you have someone like Bill Gates that's going to come in and see this project through, there's just no way," he told FTM last fall.
Mark Ramler, owner of Mansion Hill Properties, said he is disappointed but not surprised the city did not receive any bids. "It's a huge project, and an incredible amount of risk for any single developer to take on," he said. "Unless the city is willing to structure the deal differently, and work with multiple developers, then I fear they'll never find anyone to touch those houses."
Ramler also mentioned that having to develop all ten properties at once -- which the city currently requires of any agreement -- could be posing an obstacle to developers.
"If the city wants to see these homes saved, then they need to assume some more of the risk. The city's ideal scenario to find a single developer to take on this project has not panned out, so its time to get creative and look at alternative options to save these homes," Ramler added.
Martin said he hopes to have a revised bidding plan to present city council next month.
Written by Pat LaFleur and Mark Collier for Fort Thomas Matters. This story is published here with permission.
Photo: VA Homes in Ft. Thomas (via Fort Thomas Matters)


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Style Group rescue deal completed, Tillman hints at menswear move
Over 1,700 jobs appear to have been saved at Style Group after a group of investors including Harold Tillman mounted a successful rescue bid for the troubled womenswear firm and hinted at a possible move into menswear.
Some 272 redundancies are being made with almost 100 of them at the London head office and at the company's County Durham warehouses. But that is a smaller number than might have been expected. Seventeen of its 22 standalone stores are not part of the deal and, along with the business in Belgium, will close immediately.
KPMG, which is handling the sale said the firm's concessions in Britain, Ireland, Canada and the Middle East will continue to trade, saving almost 1,300 UK jobs and almost 450 abroad.
Of the new investors, the best-known is serial entrepreneur, ex-Jaeger owner and former BFC chairman Tillman. Less well-known are entrepreneurs Sundeep Vyas, Haseeb Aziz and Arvind Vij.
They are now in charge of a group that includes Jacques Vert, Precis, Dash, Eastex and Windsmoor and that has struggled in recent years. Style Group has battled on in a middle market that has been squeezed by lower-priced online labels, by department store own-brands and by more on-trend labels like Mint Velvet. They are some of the same pressures that recently undermined Jaeger's business.
The purchase of the group is believed to have been for a multimillion pound figure, although the actual purchase price has not been disclosed. But the new owners did say they want to boost sales with a new online focus and plan to grow Style's existing non-UK business.
Style is one of the biggest specialist fashion groups in the UK, The brands were previously owned by private equity investor Sun European Partners. Targeting the 35-plus customer, the management team had undertaken some intensive restructuring work and while some positive noises had been coming out of the firm over the past year, it clearly hadn't managed to turn around its fortunes and recent months saw KPMG called in to advise on options.
Despite the problems, Tillman said he saw a "significant opportunity" in the takeover. In a newspaper interview at the weekend, he said: "This company is in the right space – the same space as Jaeger. These are premium brands." He has looked closely at the product ranges and said he could see "a lot of potential. Jacques Vert is sexy and glamorous. Dash is in the 'athleisure' market, which is growing significantly, and I also think there is an opportunity to expand it into menswear."
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Q: Plugin nativescript-local-notifications triplicates the notification and there's no text I'm using the plugin nativescript-local-notifications on a background service, so when I schedule a notification to right now, it shows 3 notifications (instead of just one), and also there's no text at all:

My code:
  LocalNotifications.schedule({
    title: 'Alerta',
    body: `Uma ocorrência de ${occurrence.category.name} foi registrada próxima ao seu local atual`,
    bigTextStyle: true
  })

On the first time I was testing, it was showing 2 notifications, but now it always shows 3 notifications.
Worth mentioning that I'm using nativescript-firebase to receive remote notifications, but this one should be local.
I tested this on an emulator on Android 5.1, but also on both emulator and device running Android 9, and it happens the same thing on all devices.

A: It's a blunder mistake, neither I noticed it.
schedule([...]) - expects array of objects, you are passing an object. The program gets confused, try to convert every attribute in the object into a notification, you see as many notification for as many attributes in your object.
Should be,
LocalNotifications.schedule([{
    title: 'Alerta',
    body: `Uma ocorrência de ${occurrence.category.name} foi registrada próxima ao seu local atual`,
    bigTextStyle: true
  }])

This is why I love working with TypeScript :)


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BBC has released its first official search for My nicotine came season doctor who, where he will take over Jodie Whitaker as the Fifteenth Doctor. Also seen in the picture is his companion, Ruby Sunday, as played by her Millie Gibson.
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Revisiting the above daily cohort – which is an acquisition cohort.
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For other people named Andrew Friedman, see Andrew Friedman (disambiguation).
Friedman in 2011.
(1976-11-13) November 13, 1976 (age 42)
President of the Los Angeles Dodgers
Andrew Friedman (born November 13, 1976 in Houston, Texas)[1] is a baseball executive who is currently the President of Baseball Operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously served as the general manager for MLB's Tampa Bay Rays, where Sporting News named him Executive of the Year in 2008. That year, for the first time in franchise history, the Rays both qualified for the playoffs and played in the World Series.
1 Early and personal life
2.1 Baseball
2.2 Tampa Bay Rays
2.3 Los Angeles Dodgers
Early and personal life[edit]
Friedman was born to a Jewish family in Houston, Texas.[2][3] His father J. Kent Friedman, a lawyer, had played college baseball for Tulane.[4][5] Friedman attended and played baseball as a center fielder and leadoff hitter for Episcopal High School in Houston.[6]
He subsequently attended Tulane University on a baseball scholarship, where he played center field for the Green Wave but was hit by a pitch that broke his left hand in the fall of his freshman year, and then after returning from that injury the following year separated his left shoulder while sliding headfirst into third base.[6][7] He earned a B.S. in management with a concentration in finance at Tulane's Freeman School of Business in 1999.[6][8]
Friedman was then an analyst with Bear Stearns from 1999–2002, and then was an associate at MidMark Capital, a private equity firm, from 2002-04.
He and his wife, Robin, live in Pasadena, California, with their sons Ethan Jack and Zachary Evan, and their daughter Sadie Rose.[9]
Baseball[edit]
Tampa Bay Rays[edit]
In 2003, Friedman met Stuart Sternberg, the new owner of the Tampa Bay Rays. They realized they had similar ideas about the game and wanted to work together.[10]
From 2004 to 2005, Friedman served as the Director of Baseball Development for the Rays. He was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager after the 2005 season, at the age of 28, replacing the club's first general manager, Chuck LaMar, who was fired following the club's eighth losing season in its eight years of existence.[11]
Friedman gradually rebuilt the team, and it paid off in 2008 when the Rays made the postseason for the first time in franchise history, and advanced all the way to the World Series. For his efforts, he was named as Baseball Executive of the Year by Sporting News.[12] They also made the playoffs in 2010, 2011 and 2013 under his tenure.
Los Angeles Dodgers[edit]
On October 14, 2014, it was announced that Friedman had left the Rays to become the President of Baseball Operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers.[13] His contract with the Dodgers was reported at $35 million for five years, making him the highest-paid front-office executive in baseball.[14] Upon joining the Dodgers, team president and CEO Stan Kasten called Friedman "one of the youngest and brightest minds in the game today."[15]
Friedman hired former Oakland Athletics executive Farhan Zaidi as the Dodgers' new general manager and brought in former Padres general manager Josh Byrnes as Vice President of Baseball Operations.[16] The hirings cemented in place a highly accomplished front office, consisting of Kasten, Ned Colletti, Friedman and Byrnes -- all former GMs -- and Zaidi, a former assistant GM.
In his first offseason with the Dodgers, Friedman and the new front office made a huge splash. Through free agency or trades, the Dodgers parted ways with shortstop Hanley Ramírez, outfielder Matt Kemp,[17] second baseman Dee Gordon, and pitchers Brian Wilson and Dan Haren. However, they bolstered their farm system and added key players such as catcher Yasmani Grandal, infielders Howie Kendrick and Jimmy Rollins, and pitchers Brett Anderson & Mike Bolsinger. Friedman helped lead the Dodgers to their third straight National League West division title in 2015, his first season, but the team fell to the New York Mets in the National League Division Series (NLDS), 3–2.
After the 2015 season, MLB penalized the Dodgers with a record $43 million luxury tax after determining their payroll was nearly $300 million, also an all-time record.[18] The Dodgers mutually parted ways with manager Don Mattingly following the 2015 season, and Friedman hired former Dodgers outfielder Dave Roberts to succeed Mattingly as manager. Starting pitcher Zack Greinke left the Dodgers for the Arizona Diamondbacks in free agency, and Friedman responded by signing pitchers Scott Kazmir and Kenta Maeda. The Dodgers, Reds, and White Sox completed a three-team trade, that netted the Dodgers outfielder Trayce Thompson, among others. For the first time since 2014, Friedman returned to Tropicana Field on May 3, 2016, when the Dodgers played the Rays. [19]The Dodgers won their fourth straight National League West division title in 2016, in part due to mid-season trades for pitchers Rich Hill and Josh Fields and outfielder Josh Reddick. The Dodgers won the NLDS against the Nationals in 5 games, but fell to the Cubs in the NLCS.
The Dodgers opted not to spend big money on any outside free agents after the 2016 season, and instead re-signed their own three notable free agents: Rich Hill, Kenley Jansen, and Justin Turner. The 2017 Dodgers opened the season 35-25, but then won 44 of their next 51 games. Friedman's front office was again aggressive at the non-waiver trade deadline, trading for Right-Handed starting pitcher Yu Darvish and left-handed relievers Tony Watson and Tony Cingrani.
Much of the Dodgers' success under Friedman has been due to young players that Friedman although did not draft or sign, refused to include in trades, including infielders Corey Seager and Cody Bellinger, outfielder Joc Pederson, and pitcher Julio Urias. The Dodgers' farm system is consistently ranked among the best in the MLB.
^ "Andrew Friedman — BR Bullpen". Baseball-reference.com. November 6, 2008. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
^ Schwartz, Alan (October 2, 2008). "Religion and baseball, a scheduling conflict". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
^ Koren, Daniel (October 8, 2015). "Here Are The Jewish Players And Sportspeople Looking To Dominate The MLB Playoffs". The Canadian Jewish News.
^ Jeremy Evans (December 5, 2015). "Andrew Friedman: Myths and Expectations". Dodgers Nation. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
^ Topkin, Marc. "Tampa Bay Rays' Andrew Friedman: Father's business has 'no bearing'". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
^ a b c Dodgers' Andrew Friedman doesn't go just by the numbers - LA Times
^ Tulane alumnus Andrew Friedman pivotal in assembling Tampa Bay Rays | NOLA.com
^ Los Angeles Dodgers hire ex-Tampa Bay Rays GM Andrew Friedman
^ Leitereg, Neal J. (April 2, 2015). "Dodgers president Andrew Friedman strikes a deal in Pasadena". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
^ "Passionate, and tough as nails". .tbo.com. October 22, 2008. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
^ "Sternberg takes over Rays, fires GM LaMar". ESPN.com. Associated Press. October 6, 2005. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
^ Miller, Doug (February 16, 2010). "Youthful generation of GMs taking charge: Six clubs will break spring training camp with GMs under 40". MLB.com. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
^ Shelburne, Ramona (October 14, 2014). "Andrew Friedman to join Dodgers". ESPN.com. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
^ Stephen, Eric (October 24, 2014). "Andrew Friedman's contract reportedly $35 million over 5 years". truebluela.com. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
^ Kenneth, Andrew Friedman (October 14, 2014). "Dodgers hire Rays' Andrew Friedman as president of baseball operations | FOX Sports". FOX Sports. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
^ Gurnick, Ken (November 14, 2015). "A's executive Zaidi named Dodgers' general manager". MLB.com. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
^ Sanders, Jeff (September 3, 2015). "Do the Dodgers miss Matt Kemp? Dodgers offense scuffling as Padres' right fielder pens another strong second half". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
^ Wells, Adam. "Dodgers to Pay MLB-Record $43.7 Million Luxury-Tax Penalty". Bleacher Report. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
^ Shaikan, Bill (May 3, 2016). "Dodgers' Andrew Friedman gets a warm welcome in return to Tampa Bay". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
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Chinese woman claims she has not slept in 40 years
Li Zhanying, a resident of Henan province in China has been troubled by mysterious disease which does not let her sleep, not even for a second.
The 45-year-old woman claims that she has not slept even for a minute for the last 40 years.
A condition confirmed by her husband and their neighbors, some of whom actually put her to the test, only to fall asleep themselves.
Li Zhanying
Li last remembered getting some sleep when she was five or six, but now in her mid-40s, sleep is nothing but an old memory.
Li's many wakeful nights have made her a celebrity in her small village after local media reported on the case.
Thinking her claims were nonsense, several years ago her neighbours tried to stay awake with her all night playing cards.
The villagers soon gave in to the appeal of sleep with one catching some shut-eye on the table and another returning home.
Li has been to many doctors but no one could suggest anything useful or something that might help her, reports Bastille Post.
A team of doctors concluded that Li did in fact sleep, but not in the same way most people do. Bastille Post reports that Li in fact gets light but not while laying down in bed with her eyes closed but instead when she is talking to her husband.
When the two would converse, Li's eyes would slow down and she would begin to sleep while still being able to talk.
Experts claimed the phenomenon was similar to sleepwalking, in that her body was still active while she was asleep.
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When I was planning my trip to Sardinia, I heard that the north of the island was where the yachts and the European fanciness resided. I wanted the exact opposite in my Sardinian vacation. I looked for a town to relax in, where the vibe was chill, and where the white sand beaches were more about the heat and the view than the scene.
I found the town of Villasimius at the southern tip and there, the Club Delfino. It's pay-by-the-day beach chairs were my home for several days and the turquoise blue waters and black volcanic rock, my relaxed view.
One can fly into nearby Cagliari on Easy Jet from mainland Europe and rent a car to drive to Villasimius.
Note: The map is incorrect, see the link below for the actual Club Delfino location.


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How the sport of tennis may save your relationships
If an argument were a tennis match, many of us would tear right through the net during a frenzy of back-and-forth spatting.
That's a situation hundreds of Stanford students learned to avoid in one of the business school's most popular electives for decades. Now the masterminds behind the course, David Bradford and Carole Robin, want everyone — not just those who can afford Stanford — to know the secret to staying on "your side of the net" during an argument.
The solution, which Bradford devised in 1969, is one simple sentence: "When you do [insert action], I feel [insert feeling]."
An argument has three pillars, which Bradford and Robin describe as "realities":
Your intention and motivation, which only you can see
Your behavior, which everyone can see
The effect of your behavior, which only the other person can see
If you make a comment that implies you know what someone else's motives or intentions are, you're over the net. "We think we know, but it's really a guess," says Bradford, a psychology expert who focuses on business leadership at Stanford.
Bradford and Robin explained this thinking, and other tactics from their interpersonal dynamics class, nicknamed "touchy-feely" by students, in their book, "Connect." Robin, who no longer lectures at Stanford, incorporates these lessons into a program for Silicon Valley executives called Leaders in Tech.
Crossing the net sparks defensiveness and leaves you vulnerable to endless rebuttals. You can say, "You just want to show how smart you are," and the other person can say, "No, I don't," and then you're stuck, Bradford explains. But addressing your own point of view — how you feel — is indisputable. The other can't say, "No, you don't," because they can't say how you feel.
That's where the sentence comes in. It can be hard to grasp at first. Sometimes, people slip into "I feel" without actually including an emotion.
"When I show up late repeatedly to meetings and you're feeling annoyed, the tendency for most people is to say, 'I feel that you don't care.' Well, there is not a single feeling word in there," Robin says. "Then what you've done is you're over the net. Unless I say I don't care, then you're making up a story based on my behavior."
For those still struggling to stay on their side of the net, Robin says you need to eliminate two words.
"It is grammatically impossible to express a feeling in English followed by the word that or like. I feel that angry? I feel that disappointed? I feel like happy? No, it's grammatically impossible," Robin says. "Drop the 'like' and the 'that.' Get disciplined about 'I feel [insert feeling word].'"
Messing up is inevitable. Trying to figure out others' motivations is a way for people to get a sense of control in a confusing world, Bradford says. Even he doesn't follow his own advice perfectly, but an apology can go a long way. He recommends accepting that you'll mess up sometimes and teaching yourself to recognize when you do.
"I can say, 'I'm sorry I said that. What was really going on for me is I was feeling ignored and put down,'" Bradford says. "We don't have to do it perfectly. We can correct ourselves."
Robin often hears from alumni about how they used the sentence to preserve a relationship, whether it be with a partner, friend or colleague. Years after taking the class, a former skeptical student turned big-time Silicon Valley engineer emailed her about how the sentence helped his staff. During a disengaged meeting, he instructed everyone to go around and use the sentence. When some said, "I feel like we're wasting our time," he advised them to use feeling words. By the end, the energy shifted as people unpacked how they felt so he could address the underlying issues.
One of the biggest relationship challenges is that people don't tell each other the truth about their feelings and the impact of someone else's behavior, Robin says.
"They're not willing to be vulnerable enough to say, 'This really matters to me' or 'I'm scared or hurt.' And so they don't build the kind of trust that's built if you're willing to say more to each other," Robin says. "The main hallmarks of building strong relationships, it starts with disclosure. You have to be willing and allow yourself to be known by the other person." That applies to people on both sides of the net.
"One of the things we really stress in the course is all of this is a choice. So when people say, 'Well, I can't,' we say, 'No, you choose not to,'" Bradford says. "We want people to take responsibility for their behavior. And that, I think, is really important because so often we don't take responsibility for our actions."
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To shine or not to shine a spotlight on Steve Patterson. That is not debatable.
Today we shine our spotlight on a Canadian Triple Threat. He can sing, he can joke, he can...write letters! Steve Patterson is featured.


Agent Provocateur, inspired by seductive belles of all time (Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Salome and Caesonia), has issued another luxurious lingerie collection called Soiree for Spring-Summer 2015.
The entire collection is gorgeous, it is shaded with thin mist of intoxicating decadency and exaggerated carnality. But the heart of it is Dimiya dress made of French Guipere with embroidery and naked back (you can see it on the cover), while the soul of the collection is definitely Czarinah set (on the photo below), that shines and glitters like the starry arch.
Cleopatra is known as one of the most outstanding temptresses in the world history. No doubt she knew what to wear to highlight her strong points, giving preference to exquisite glimmering fabrics and sparkling veils. Dimiya dress with the wet-looking lace and provocative naked back, Milanna set with its sensuous satin ribbons and golden lining, shimmering Anelia with the criss-cross straps — all that is sure to satisfy the most sophisticated girl and to accentuate her sexuality.
Nefertiti was famous in Egypt and beyond for her incredible beauty and superlative style. Her contemporaries called her "The Perfect One". The ender Latuta lavender set would have probably become one of the most precious treasures in her boudoir wardrobe.
The dance of the seven veils, performed by young Salome before Herod Antipas and his guests on his birthday, charmed the King so much that he agreed to grant her every wish. This dance is considered one of the most voluptuous and dangerous displays of seduction (if you know what she asked Herod for). But what would Salome of today select? Maybe, this almost-naked Lulie set for her dance? Or perhaps the glittering pink stars of Czarinah set?
Caesonia's sexuality was so powerful that Caligula, the Emperor known for his carnality, married her and shared his bed only with her, which was absolutely not typical of him. They say, when she danced she wore nothing but jewels. Varvarra playsuit, made of sparkling golden paillettes assembled with chains, would send her into raptures.
Besides lingerie the collection of the new season offers swimwear.
The new collection is partially available in the official brand website. The rest of it will appear there in the neatest future.


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Volkswagen ID.R now the fastest at Festival of Speed
It managed to break a 20-years old record, set by Nick Heidfeld.
Volkswagen ID.R is quite an interesting piece of machinery. While it may not be a part of any specific racing series, it is still one of the fastest cars out there, which has now been proven numerous times on very different racetracks. For instance, it has become an overall winner on last year's Pikes Peak hill climb with all-time record. After that and not too long ago, it has set the fastest time for electric cars on the famous 'Ring. Now, another important track has been conquered.
ID.R was one of the guests at the annual Festival of Speed at Goodwood of which the main part is a hill climb, a category at which it is particularly good. After all, it managed to beat the whole competition and on top of that to break a 20 years old record, set by Nick Heidfeld in McLaren MP4/13 formula 1 race car. The latter managed to get to finish in 41,60 seconds, 0,42 slower than Romain Dumas, who has now added another record to his collection.
"The Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb is one of the most iconic Hillclimbs in the world. The track is so narrow and difficult to master, with zero room for error. Dumas and the whole Volkswagen team performed flawlessly to set the record," said Director Sven Smeets from Volkswagen Motorsport division.
For ID.R this has been the second time in Godwood, since visitors were able to see it also last year and while it was far from any records in still managed to win with the time 43,86 second. This year's thus showed also the importance of aerodynamics.
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Volkswagen I.D. R won a new speed record, this time in Goodwood
Volkswagen I.D. R won another record, this time for electric cars at the Goodwood Speed Festival. Romain Dumas managed to finish the track in record time of 43.05 seconds.
Video: Volkswagen I.D. R has started it final stage of preparations for the record
Romain Dumas has already made some maiden laps in the 'Green hell'.
Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak is the fastest car on Pikes Peak ever!
It smashed five years old all-time record by a full 16 seconds and became the first car to set sub-8 minutes time.


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The King of Alaska! Trivia Quiz
The king salmon, the state fish of Alaska, is the largest of all the Pacific salmon. With an average length of 2-3 feet and weighing in at 10-50 pounds, king salmon have long been an important animal in Alaska, known as The Last Frontier.
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1. What is another name for the king salmon? Hint
Chum
2. The king salmon is an anadromous fish. What does that mean? Hint
It migrates from the sea up to fresh water to spawn.
It does not migrate.
It migrates from fresh water down to the sea to spawn.
It spawns in the ocean.
3. On the average, how long does a king salmon stay in the ocean before making the trip back to home rivers to spawn? Hint
4. As the male king salmon makes its way to spawn, its physical appearance noticeably changes. What grows longer?
His dorsal fins
His tail
His teeth
His gills
5. It is easy to tell the difference between a male and female king salmon getting ready to spawn just by looking at their appearance. Which of the following changes? Hint
Their tail fins grow longer.
The color of their bodies.
They grow more dorsal fins.
They have more spots.
6. What is the name of the nest where a female king salmon lays her eggs? Hint
7. What does a female salmon do immediately after her eggs are laid? Hint
She guards her eggs.
She eats the eggs.
She travels back to the sea.
She eats her mate.
8. After the king salmon egg hatches, the fish is called an alevin. It remains at that stage until it can eat on its own and is called a fry. What is the next stage of the life cycle, during which time stripes are grown for reasons of camouflage? Hint
Kelts
9. How does the diet of a king salmon change as it begins its migration to spawn? Hint
It has a strictly vegetarian diet, and only eats moss and lichens.
It only eats other fish that are high in protein.
It quits eating.
It scavenges for remains of dead animals in the water.
10. Many king salmon go back to the river where they were born to spawn.
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1. What is another name for the king salmon?
Answer: Chinook
Actually the king salmon has a lot of different names, including Quinnat salmon, spring salmon, and Tyee salmon. The name Chinook, however, comes from the native peoples who live in the Pacific Northwest who spoke the Chinookan languages. Today many of the tribes have joined into a confederation called the Chinook Indian Nation.
As described by Lewis and Clark, they lived along the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean and were skillful canoe-makers, traders, and fishermen. Salmon was one of the mainstays of their diet, and was so plentiful that it was never necessary for them to keep animals or learn how to farm.
The king salmon not only provided food, but it also became important to their religious beliefs and formed the basis of their way of life.
The First Salmon ceremony is still held to insure the annual return of salmon; it is believed that this ceremony must take place before fishing can begin.
2. The king salmon is an anadromous fish. What does that mean?
Answer: It migrates from the sea up to fresh water to spawn.
Two of the types of fish migrations recognized by scientists are anadromous and catadromous. Fish like salmon and striped bass are anadromous; they migrate from the sea to fresh water to make their nests and spawn. Catadromous fish, like eels, do the opposite.
They migrate from fresh water down to the sea to spawn. In the 1940s another term, diadromous, was coined. At first it was used to describe all fish that migrate between the sea and fresh water. However, now it includes all aquatic creatures that do the same.
3. On the average, how long does a king salmon stay in the ocean before making the trip back to home rivers to spawn?
Answer: 3-4 years
King salmon have been found to spend as little as one year or as many as eight years in the ocean before they migrate to fresh water in order to spawn. The average age, however, is 3-4 years, according to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Speaking of averages, the length and weight given in the introduction are nowhere near indicative of how large some of the king salmon can grow.
The largest king salmon on record weighed in at 126 pounds!
Answer: His teeth
When they are at sea, it is very difficult to tell the difference between a male and female king salmon; when their migration begins, however, the male's appearance begins to radically change. His teeth, commonly called "breeding teeth", grow longer and stronger, packing quite a sharp bite. Male salmon will bite other males who are competing for nests to fertilize.
In addition, his snout develops a curve, like the fish in the picture, which is called a kype. He also becomes more hump-backed. Why? These changes are believed to make them sexually more attractive during spawning; apparently the size of the kype determines the frequency at which a male king salmon can spawn!
5. It is easy to tell the difference between a male and female king salmon getting ready to spawn just by looking at their appearance. Which of the following changes?
Answer: The color of their bodies.
Before spawning, adult king salmon males and females are both silvery in color and almost indistinguishable from one another. When it is close to time to spawn, however, their colors change. As they acclimate from living in salt water to living in fresh water, the male will typically change to an orange or red color - sometimes it might even be green or brown - while the female will become a darker silver color that is described as being almost black.
It is believed that the change in color makes them easier to spot and might signal that they are ready to spawn.
It also helps them to better absorb the oxygen in the water.
6. What is the name of the nest where a female king salmon lays her eggs?
Answer: Redd
The female salmon, known as a hen, will make several nests called redds. She will move gravel with her body and deposit her eggs - 2,000-6,000 in each redd, which are then immediately fertilized by the male before she covers them with gravel. Each female will make several nests and, according to the Togiak Refuge (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), can lay up to 17,000 eggs! Each redd is easy to spot as the digging process uncovers clean gravel; they typically measure 1-2 square meters in size.
7. What does a female salmon do immediately after her eggs are laid?
Answer: She guards her eggs.
Some scientists believe that the salmon hen is very successful at guarding her eggs, but the truth of the matter is that her time to guard is limited. It is estimated that she can stay on guard 4-25 days and dies before the eggs hatch, 90-150 days after they have been laid. Why is there such a wide span of days in hatching time? The water temperature affects the incubation period of the egg. What is the male doing during this time? While some sources say that he is also guarding the eggs, it seems more likely that he is looking for other eggs to fertilize.
It is estimated that only about 15% of the eggs deposited will hatch; factors such as water pollution and predation play a role in the survival of the young salmon, which is called an alevin after it hatches.
At this point the young alevin uses its yolk sac to meet its nutritional needs.
8. After the king salmon egg hatches, the fish is called an alevin. It remains at that stage until it can eat on its own and is called a fry. What is the next stage of the life cycle, during which time stripes are grown for reasons of camouflage?
Answer: Parr
After hatching the alevin will spend the first part of its life hiding in the gravel bed of the stream where it is born, eating its yolk sac. When it no longer needs the yolk sac and can find food, such as plankton, on its own, it is called a fry. At this time the young fish continues to live in the stream where it was born; as it develops its camouflaging stripes and spots, the fry becomes a parr.
It may then stay at this stage for 1-3 years, living in the stream and growing into a smolt. It is at this stage that it begins to live in brackish water, where its body begins to adapt for the changes necessary to begin to live in the sea. King salmon are called kelts after they have spawned. Roe is a common term used to describe the mass of eggs of a female fish.
9. How does the diet of a king salmon change as it begins its migration to spawn?
Answer: It quits eating.
A young fry will eat plankton; as it grows, however, the salmon will also eat insects and small crustaceans. As it matures and swims to the sea, it will also begin to eat other fish. When the king salmon returns to fresh water to spawn, however, it quits eating altogether.
This is quite shocking, considering the long, arduous journey ahead. It uses all the reserves it has to make what, for some, like the king salmon that spawn on the Yukon River, can be a 1,900 mile migration just from the sea to where it was born! And that after it has already swam that far to get to the sea in the first place! It is estimated that king salmon can travel 18 miles a day! Every bit of energy it has is used to complete the migration and spawn, after which its death is inevitable.
Answer: True
Scientists are actually still trying to determine how the king salmon knows where it was born! While some say that it may have something to do with the animal's sensitivity to the Earth's magnetic fields, others think that it is possible to remember smells that may have been present at the birth stream.
These smells apparently are imprinted when they are smolts, preparing for their journey to sea. Experimental research in the 1950s led scientists to believe that smolts become sensitive to odors in the stream where they were born and they are able to remember that exact smell. Of course, it has also been proven that not all salmon find their way back to the exact place to where they were born, but many believe that to be a rather low percentage in comparison to the number that do.
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This needs to happen...this should have happened...why hasn't it happened?
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LatinFunko wrote: Great idea. These would definitely sell.
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