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How long is the diagnosis of Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) delayed in a region where FMF is common in Turkey?
Y Karaaslan1,2,
A Omma2 &
Similar to other autoinflammatory diseases, diagnosis of FMF is often missed and markedly delayed, particularly when its prevalance is very low in a community. It's reported that diagnosis of FMF might be delayed more than 20 years. Although Turkey is one of the countries with a high prevalence of FMF, the diagnosis of the disease is markedly delayed in clinical practice.
In this study, we aimed to investigate the delay of diagnosis in patients followed up due to, or new diagnosed with FMF in the newly established Rheumatology Unit of a big tertiary medical center located in Çorum region. Çorum province is one of the region where FMF is very common in Turkey.
Consecutive 112 patients (38 male, 74 female) who admitted for follow up in the previous 3 months, fulfilling Tel-Hashomer FMF criteria were included in this study.
The mean age of the patients was 32.9 ± 11.7 years (range 17-59, median 30), mean age at the onset of disease was 13.8 ± 8.8 years (range 2-40, median 10), and the mean age at diagnosis was 25.7 ± 12.8 years (range 3-57, median 23). The mean delay for diagnosis was found as 12 ± 11.8 years (range 0-49, median 8). There was a delay of 10 years or more in 53.6% of the patients, and the delay for diagnosis was 20 years or longer in 11.6% of them.
Among the patients with a delay of diagnosis more than 10 years, before diagnosis of FMF, 11.7 % of the patients were diagnosed with acute rheumatic fever, 5.0% of the patients were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis or juvenile chronic arthritis, 8.3% of the patients were diagnosed with spondylarthritis, and 10.0% of the patients were diagnosed with infection and 13.3% of the patients were diagnosed with other disease. 51.6% of the patients did not have any diagnosis.
There was abdominal pain in 92%, fever in 87.5%, arthritis in 35.7%, chest pain in 21.4%,, erysipelas-like rash in 12.5% and history of an increase in acute phase reactants during attack in 97% of our FMF patients. Family history was positive in 65.4% of the patients, and 43.9% of them had history of surgery.
It is not difficult to diagnose FMF after onset of its clinical symptoms. But the diagnosis of FMF delayed for more than ten years above 50% of patients in Çorum region in Turkey. The most important reason for delay of FMF diagnosis in this region may be lack of "clinical suspicion" for the FMF among primary care and other physicians. Therefore measures must be taken to increase awareness of FMF in physicians and in community in this region.
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Family of siblings who died during Texas storm hit out at officials 'who should have been prepared'
The family of three young siblings who died alongside their grandmother in a house blaze after using a fireplace to keep warm have hit out at officials 'who should have been prepared' for the Texas storm.
Olivia, Edison and Colette Nguyen and their grandmother Le Loan, 75, died in the early hours of Tuesday morning at their Sugar Land home in during the statewide blackouts.
Their aunt, Vanessa Kon, told The Daily Beast: 'We don't know what happened. We don't know why the lights went out like that. The city should have been prepared for it. Why was the power off? If the power wasn't off, this wouldn't have happened.'
Her comments come as Joe Biden's press secretary on Sunday confirmed the president may visit Texas 'as soon as this week'.
Jen Psaki said the president is 'eager' to help but added: 'He's also very mindful of the fact that it's not a light footprint for a president to travel to a disaster area. He does not want to take away resources or attention.
'And we're going to do that at an appropriate time in coordination with people on the ground. Could be as soon as this week.'
Biden had declared a major disaster in the state where 14million were without water at one point with towns cut off from the electricity grid for seven days.
The move – announced on Saturday – makes federal funding available to individuals across the state, including assistance for temporary housing, home repairs and low-cost loans for losses on uninsured property.
Olivia, center, Edison, left, and Colette, right, Nguyen and their grandmother Le Loan, 75, died in the early hours of Tuesday morning during the blackouts
Firefighters were called out around 2 am and tackled the blaze but the four victims were confirmed dead. The children's mom Jackie Nguyen and a friend were also injured and taken to hospital
The family had been without power at their Sugar Land home for eight hours when the fire broke out
Tragic Olivia, 11, Edison, eight, and five-year-old Colette' father, Nathan, stars in an HBO show called House of Ho, which chronicles the lives of the members of a wealthy Vietnamese-American family living the American Dream in Houston.
Firefighters were called out around 2 am and tackled the blaze but the four victims were confirmed dead. The children's mom Jackie Nguyen and a friend were also injured and taken to hospital.
The family had been without power at their Sugar Land home for eight hours when the fire broke out.
Mom Jackie is said to have been restrained by first responders from going back into the house to try and save her children.
At least 30 lives were lost in the Lone Star state.
Volunteers prepare to load food into cars during the Houston Food Bank food distribution at NRG Stadium on Sunday. Thousands of people lined up to receive food and water at a mass distribution site for Houston residents who are still without running water and electricity following winter storm Uri
Shoppers are seen wandering next to near empty shelves in a supermarket in Houston, Texas following winter storm Uri on Saturday
The Houston Food Bank is pictured Sunday. Joe Biden's press secretary on Sunday confirmed the president may visit Texas 'as soon as this week'
Other victims of the crisis include 11-year-old Cristian Pavon, who perished of hypothermia in his family's mobile home in Conroe, near Houston, a day after he was pictured enjoying the snow – the first he had ever seen in his life.
Another man reportedly froze to death in his recliner chair with his 'nearly dead' wife by his side and a mother and daughter died from carbon monoxide poisoning as they bundled in their car in a garage.
Two older men were also found dead in their homes in the small West Texas town of Buffalo Gap in Taylor County, officials said.
Texas is the only state in the continental United States with an independent and isolated grid. That allows the state to avoid federal regulation – but also severely limits its ability to draw emergency power from other grids.
ERCOT, which operates the grid, saw 4.5 million of their customers without power during the cold snap.
Texas had experienced a similar, though less severe, disruption during a 2011 cold snap. Still, Texas power producers failed to adequately winter-proof their systems.
Vehicles drive down East 7th Street amid power outages in East Austin, Texas on Wednesday
Before dawn on Monday, the state´s grid operator was 'seconds and minutes' away from an uncontrolled blackout for its 26 million customers, ERCOT CEO Bill Magness has said.
More than 14.5 million Texans endured a related water-supply crisis as pipes froze and burst. About 65,000 customers remained without power as of Saturday afternoon, even as temperatures started to rise, according to website PowerOutage.US.
Senator Ted Cruz has been mocked for sharing photos of himself handing out bottled water in a 'shameless' photo-op just days after he jetted off to Cancun with his family.
Late on Saturday night Cruz posted a series of pictures of himself on Twitter showing him delivering water to those in need together with the hashtag #TexasStrong.
The senator was forced to return from his Mexican beach resort vacation while millions of fellow Texans were left dealing with horrendous conditions.
At one hospital, workers stood outside to collect rainwater. Others stood in line at a running tap in a park. A mother of three took her children to shelter in a furniture store after she could see her breath forming in the family´s trailer. University professors fundraised so their students could afford meals.
Senator Ted Cruz tweeted a photo op late on Saturday night with the hashtag #TexasStrong. It only served to generate further anger online from those furious at the senator's recent behavior that saw him leave Texas for the beach in the midst of a crisis
It comes after Cruz decided to take take a trip to Cancun while his state was in crisis – he returned after a day
Senator Cruz caused himself a huge backlash from people for leaving the Lone Star State for sunnier climes during an unprecedented winter event which shut down most of the state for five days and left at least 30 dead
The state´s Republican leadership has been blamed for ignoring warnings that winter could wreak the havoc that it did, and for not providing local officials with enough information to protect residents now.
Power outages spiraled through the day Monday, ultimately cutting off more than 4 million people. Grocery stores shut down, and hotel rates skyrocketed.
Things got worse Tuesday; by Wednesday, some started to get their power back, but a new shortage emerged – drinkable water.
Frozen pipes burst across the state. And the water that did come out of taps was often undrinkable due to dangerously low water pressure levels. At one point, an estimated 13 million people were under a boil-water order, nearly half of Texas´ population.
At week´s end, as the cold weather began to loosen its grip, the power came back for most Texans.
But the effects linger: Some Texans on variable-rate power contracts faced electric bills in the thousands of dollars, leading the governor to hold an emergency meeting Saturday with lawmakers.
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In both 1961 and 1962, President John F. Kennedy sought to pass a general aid package for schools, which included federal subsidization of teacher salaries and building construction. At the heart of this legislation was Kennedy's desire to provide money for urban students affected by poverty in under-resourced American schools.
Kennedy took a keen interest in solving the problem of inadequate preparation and unequal funding for economically deprived students in urban areas. As previously mentioned, he twice sought to push legislation through Congress to fund these programs and address the disparity of resources between urban and suburban districts. Relative to the disbursement of this aid, Kennedy wanted to steer it directly to municipal governments and away from state agencies that tended to allow federal resources to flow disproportionately to suburban areas. This mounting emphasis on poor students in urban areas reflected not only the Kennedy administration's pursuit of urban renewal, but also the growing influence of the civil rights movement under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unfortunately, the legislation was defeated by southern democrats who feared that Kennedy's push for urban renewal and educational equality might hasten the desegregation of schools in their states. And when Kennedy died on that fateful day in November of 1963, so too did his vision for providing federal aid to municipal governments with the expressed purpose of addressing the opportunity gap in poor urban districts.
Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, made a deliberate effort to carry this banner of equity by way of his "Great Society" domestic policies. However, the legislation that made its way through Congress during Johnson's time in office (specifically, Title I) was easily manipulated by suburban districts and used to fund already affluent and successful schools. This was because, in order to win congressional approval, Johnson's legislation was written in such a way that nearly ninety percent of all schools in America qualified for the aid. Title I distributions, therefore, became the antithesis of Kennedy's vision for addressing the opportunity gap in urban schools.
Fifty years later, we are still greatly in need of the broad implementation of Kennedy's vision. One need only look at the manner in which twenty-first century education dollars are spent in America in order to justify this conclusion. Just as it was in the 1960s, those with less money still have fewer tax dollars spent on their public education than those with more money. In fact, spending on students at predominantly white, wealthy schools is sometimes two times that of schools attended primarily by students of color from low-income families. This is because many states operate under the notion that while a basic level of funding is a fundamental right of all students, that right does not require equality of spending among districts. Therefore, wealthier districts with significant amounts of money (much of it derived from property taxes) have better schools while students in poorer areas helplessly find themselves in under-resourced districts. Inequality has become an acceptable component of our country's policy for funding education.
Had Kennedy been given more time to cast his vision and see it through to reality, the American educational landscape may be far different today. Instead, we are having conversations about educational equity in under-resourced schools that should have ended in the 1960s. Kennedy knew that allowing the states to determine their own educational funding schemes was a recipe for inequity and sought to address the issue by bypassing the states altogether. Oh, what might have been if his dream had not been permanently bound in eternal sleep?


Carlos Burle - does he know the meaning of fear?
My mission to travel as far as is possible within the UK begins in about an hour. Given that I live near Land's End a trip to the Shetland Isles is definitely one of the more challenging I've ever undertaken. Here in the balmy far south-west we had a hint of cold this morning, but otherwise it's shorts and T-shirt weather (well, nearly). But tomorrow, having tonight got myself as far as Exmouth via meetings with the dudes of Surfers Against Sewage and Finisterre in St Agnes, I arrive in Newcastle. This is courtesy of www.flybe.com, who run a handy number of flights from Exeter airport, and once there, if Newcastle United football matches are anthing to go by, the locals don't bother with T-shirts even when, as is currently the case, there's heavy snow. Then I heard on up to the Orkney Islands, most likely with North-East charger Jesse Davies, where we'll meet Al Mackinnon and hopefully score some swell. Then it's a rail-to-tail Northlink ferries ride overnight to Lerwick on the Shetland Isles for more waves and a Viking Festival by the name of Up Helly A, which I had never heard of until a trip to the Hebrides last October, when Cheggs mentioned it to me. Trips by boat and plane involving Aberdeen will also happen. If all that sounds confusing, imagine trying to organise it. But before I go please check out Sam's posting on Surfcore - good waves in NZ are under threat. Post some comments on Surfcore and add your voice to Sam's. Meanwhile, here are a couple of shots of Up Helly A courtesy of a search on www.flickr.com.
Surfing or boxing - which would you choose? Sennen Cove's Sam Smart is one of the few people who might one day have to make this decision. The 26-year-old goofy-footer is not only a highly-regarded professional surfer, but also an amateur boxer whose growing mastery of the sweet science could soon yield an offer to turn pro. Smart's double-life as a boxer - he has won all nine of his bouts so far, seven by KO - is surely unparalleled in British surfing. While Jersey free surfer and big wave charger Ian Battrick is an amateur boxer - as was long-time Newquay standout Jamie Owen - there do not appear to be any other surfers who have demonstrated such ability at two ostensibly unrelated sports. Boxing and surfing, indeed, would not appear to be naturally compatible. The conventional image of surfing is of a free-spirited, hedonistic activity, one whose sole purpose is the enactment of the pleasure principle. Boxing, on the other hand, involves hours of training, immersion in a disciplined and hard world, and the prospect either of hurting someone else or taking a few shots yourself. How, then, does Smart combine the two at all, let alone to such a high level?
I've just spent an hour or so trying to find the Old Spice ad from the Seventies - the one of the surfer emerging from an awesome barrel, set to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. My memory is playing tricks and I can't remember if it's a right or a left, just that it was a great wave. It worked for me - I covered myself in Old Spice for years. But I can't find the footage, so instead I had another look at some of the highlights from last year's Billabong Pro in Mundaka. I was there for a couple of days - what a location. Typically the moment I arrived the sea went flat, and only improved after I'd gone, but this footage shows just why Mundaka's temporary disappearance (owing to dredging of the sandbars in the river to enable a newly built ship to reach the ocean) caused dismay among surfers everywhere. The wave is unquestionably one of the best lefts in the world, even if (I am sure) it has but the most tenuous connection to the Old Spice ad.


Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells -- a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases.
The study, published Dec. 7 in the-peer reviewed online journal PLoS ONE, provides proof-of-principle -- that is, a demonstration of feasibility -- that human stem cells can be engineered into the equivalent of a genetic vaccine.
Taking CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes -- the "killer" T cells that help fight infection -- from an HIV-infected individual, the researchers identified the molecule known as the T-cell receptor, which guides the T cell in recognizing and killing HIV-infected cells. These cells, while able to destroy HIV-infected cells, do not exist in enough quantities to clear the virus from the body. So the researchers cloned the receptor and genetically engineered human blood stem cells, then placed the stem cells into human thymus tissue that had been implanted in mice, allowing them to study the reaction in a living organism.


Using digital technologies and related mentalities, Digital Transformation Institute (DTI) aims to promote an innovative digitalized transformation that emphasizes the integration across industries.
The mission of DTI is to develop digital-centered system integration capabilities which consider the characteristics of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan, and allow those in different fields to benefit from the sharing of knowledge across industries. DTI aligns R&D with industry-oriented digital transformation solutions to bring about an industrial transformation and enhancement of the relevant sectors.
DTI is dedicated to researching and developing technological solutions which organizations need for enterprise transformation under the trend of the digital economy. It also develops suitable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) techniques and platforms for industry transformation to create additional value for the sectors. DTI integrates the knowledge of multiple foundations across industries in Taiwan and provides consultant services and technical support for enterprises at their stage of digital transformation.
Mainly focusing on the digital transformation of existing industries such as Smart Manufacturing (Textile, Plastics, and Metals), Smart Healthcare, Smart Energy, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry as well as Digital Environmental Foundation.
R&D of digital transformation technologies and services that enhance the added value or innovative application of focused industries; create digital transformation toolkits for vertical fields and introduce online analytical services; and cross-border cooperation between domain-based legal entities to provide the transformational architecture required by enterprises and industries technology and consulting services, leading the digital transformation of the enterprise towards the digital economy.
Under the wave of AI, DTI is dedicated to developing related applications for the industries, including manufacturing, healthcare services, natural language processing services and more. DTI also focuses on developing domestic AI communication system to boost the performance of Taiwan manufacturing and service industries, and to create an efficient, intelligent service model.
DTI has assisted SMEs to deploy adjustable fog and cloud computing platforms which help to enhance quality control and production efficiency of factories. Meanwhile, with DTI's data analytic tools and machine learning platforms, companies are able to optimize production parameter and the accuracy of facility diagnosis.
Developing medical imaging AI tools, medical big data analysis, and promote the transformation and upgrading of domestic e-medical medical care. (1) Medical imaging AI model has been established to assist physicians in image interpretation. Taking mammogram as an example, it can assist physicians in detecting and discovering suspicious areas and improving interpretation efficiency. (2) Analysis of physiological big data to improve the quality of medical care. (3) Medical data authorization platform, to make use of medical resources in China, to build the cornerstone of smart medical care.
The department has been dedicated to developing of cloud-based and IoT applications in energy-saving. The Automated Demand Response platform (ADR) and cloud-based energy management system aims to drive the approaches and mechanism of Taiwan's demand-side management (DSM) to maximize the efficiency of energy using.
By utilizing open source and cloud technology, DTI has developed Food Industry Real-time Safety & Tracking (FIRST) Platform which locates food ingredients either upstream or downstream in the supply chain. The platform aims to prevent food contamination and deliver safe quality products to consumers.
Includes a variety of cloud services such as cloud resource management platform "iServCloud", cloud development test platform "Cloud Open Lab", and cloud Blockchain node resource management platform "iServChain". Above items covering SaaS, PaaS and IaaS layers, operated in telecommunications, industry cloud services, smart park services, system integration projects and other fields.
The medical image analysis platform includes medical image recognition technology and medical image marking system. Medical image recognition technology detects and identifies based on deep learning to assist physicians in accelerating image interpretation efficiency. The medical image marking system allows medical professionals to mark lesions on medical images through a browser. As a preparation tool for the fuel "data" of the AI engine.
Users can easily complete the process of data creation, marking, training, and deployment through the platform. Through this platform, users can quickly verify their ideas and experience the power of deep learning.
At present, face recognition can identify gender and age, and can also track the walking trajectory of people, and perform body shape search under different cameras. Item identification has now completed bread identification, fruit identification, and can be used for self-checkout.
Using high-accuracy natural language understanding technology, it provides virtual assistants and dialogue robots for various fields.
Such as virtual customer service assistants, combined with manual customer service, providing 24 hours of uninterrupted service, effectively shortening customer waiting time, double brain collaboration to reduce the burden of customer service personnel and assist in business sales.
DTI's smart manufacturing solutions have assisted the enterprises in Taiwan to upgrade and optimize the production process. By collaborating with information technology service providers and system integration companies, DTI delivers solutions to both high-tech and traditional manufacturers such as textile, plastic and food industries. DTI aims to help the domestic manufacturers to provide customized production while lower the production and maintenance cost.
Through sensor and RFID, the products and machine data are automatically collected, and the production history of the whole product is established. The production line data can be visually monitored and abnormally alerted. Integrate a variety of data analysis modules to provide intelligent functions such as machine capacity, utilization rate analysis, machine parameter optimization recommendations, equipment health prediction and early warning. The new development order resolution solution replaces the manual input form and automatically serializes the supply chain information, which is 24 times faster.
Cross-industry universal device networking technology, networking does not require program development, non-IT personnel can also be easily used as the biggest feature, suitable for small and medium-sized or non-IT personnel manufacturing import, significantly reducing the threshold of industrial IoT import. In addition, the technology has built-in complete artificial intelligence development environment, users can complete modeling and equipment health module development in one machine, and have introduced industrial practices such as printed circuit board (PCB), use of hand tools, water hardware, textiles and machine tools.
The platform has provided transparent information on the ingredients for over 6,000 schools from kindergartens to universities in Taiwan, as well as 400 catering service companies and over 2000 restaurants. By far, the platform has secured food safety for over 4.36 million students. Till July 2017, it has assisted more than 200 food manufacturers to establish food traceability mechanism and successfully increased the transparency in food supply chain. Moreover, the concept of tractability is expanded to the construction industry as well. In 2015, "Building Material Tractability Platform" was developed. Leading domestic construction companies, for instance Huaku Development and RUENTEX, joined this platform in 2016 to safeguard residence safety.
DTI's Cloud Open Lab has already assisted the examination of 20 government clouds and 200 industry clouds. It has become one of the official pre-testing tools for cloud services under the Inter-Entity Supply Contract with Taiwan government. By far, 13 government agencies consider it as an important indicator when examining cloud projects. Major achievements include the launch of government cloud – "Central Geological Survey Soil Liquefaction Query (Pro Edition)" database.
Currently, over a dozen of private organizations are using iServCloud to offer services. The platform has already been utilized by two leading domestic IDC cloud service providers, and over 2,000 virtual machines are currently running on the platform.


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Passive acoustics represent a low-cost approach to detecting and avoiding other marine vehicles using limited computing and power resources. We present a robust safety behavior for long-term environmental sensing of rivers and estuaries demonstrated on a smartphone-driven, diving robot. The detection method is based on energy detection from the hydrophone output. Field testing demonstrates detection and avoidance of motorized vessels of various sizes with 94.1% accuracy and a 12.1% false positive rate. Dives are triggered with a median approach distance of approximately 700 m, and they are completed within 500 m of the detected vehicle.


Wema Bank has appointed Ademola Adebisi as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.His appointment followed the retirement of Segun Oloketuyi in September.
Until his appointment, Adebisi was the former Deputy Managing Director of the bank with over 28 years' experience in the banking industry.According to a statement, Adebisi Adebisi has been part of the Bank's executive management team since 2009 and has played pivotal role in the execution of the strategic turnaround plan of the bank.
The lender also announced the appointment of Moruf Oseni as its new Deputy Managing Director. Before now, Oseni was the bank's former executive director in charge of retail business.
The statement explained that Oseni contributed immensely to growing the bank's retail business was instrument to the launch of ALAT, Nigeria's first digital bank.The Chairman of the Bank, Babatunde Kasali, said, "In Ademola and Moruf, the bank has two financial veterans with a wealth of experience in senior executive positions across a wide range of countries.


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Home Tag "Watch Dogs"
May 10, 2014 Ciaran Nolan
Yes that's right folks, as I am sure you are already aware, the Arcade has reached its fourth birthday this weekend! I am one of the newer members of the staff here, but I ready feel right at home. In only a couple of months I've started the Weekly Recap, Release Roundup and At A […]
May 3, 2014 Ciaran Nolan
Watch Dogs Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer
April 24, 2014 Declan Doody
"Set in Chicago, where a central network of computers connects everyone and everything, Watch_Dogs explores the impact of technology within our society. Using the city as your weapon, you will embark on a personal mission to inflict your own brand of justice." This video takes us through the multiplayer mode of the highly anticipate game […]
Ubisoft Release The Crew Gameplay Footage
April 8, 2014 Anthony McGlynn
Ubisoft today finally gave us some information on their promising open-world driving game The Crew. The game was meant to hit our shelves before March 31st of this year, but was pushed back indefinitely along with Watch Dogs. Finally, we have a launch window, and more importantly, some game-play footage. The clip below shows some […]
Watch Dogs to have Exclusive Game Content for Playstation 3 and Playsation 4
March 24, 2014 Anthony McGlynn
Ubisoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have announced that Watch Dogs, the highly anticipated open world action adventure title, will offer additional content only available on PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3. The exclusive content includes four extra missions, representing one hour of exclusive gameplay, as well as a unique 'White Hat' Hacker Outfit. By playing this additional content, […]
Weekly Recap 08/03/14
March 9, 2014 Ciaran Nolan
Hello, and welcome back to the weekly recap of all the biggest news in gaming. Let's get this started with the headlines. 'Luigi' Special Offers 'Dark Souls II' Prologue Part I 'Arkham Knight' Details Eidos Montreal lays off employees following Thief release With the recent release of the Thief Reboot, developer Eidos Montreal has had […]
February 16, 2014 Ciaran Nolan
Watch Dogs still on track for April to June, Wii U version delayed One of the biggest games of 2012's E3 was without a doubt WatchDogs, but in recent months the hype has certainly died down. Well if you still have a interest in the cyberpunk style open world adventure, its gotten a update in […]
Weekly News Recap 27/10/2013
October 27, 2013 Ciaran Nolan
Welcome back to the weekly round-up of all the news in the gaming world this week. So where better to get this ball rolling than with some news about our favourite video game Quantum physics genius… Ciaran Nolan
Watch Dogs Delayed
October 15, 2013 Declan Doody
"Our ambition from the start with Watch Dogs has been to deliver something that embodies what we wanted to see in the next-generation of gaming…It is with this in mind that we've made the tough decision to delay the release until spring 2014." Communications Manager, Gary Steinmann posted the announcement on the Ubisoft blog today, […]
News: Watch Dogs / Hacking is your Weapon
"Watch_Dogs takes place in a fully simulated living city. Using Aiden's smartphone, you have real-time control over the city's infrastructure. Trap your enemy in a 30-car pileup by manipulating the traffic lights. Stop a train, and then board it to evade the authorities. Narrowly escape capture by quickly raising a drawbridge. Anything connected to the […]


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Ontario Modernizes Regulations to Increase Transparency, Cut Red Tape and Protect Patients and Workers
New Regulation and Fee Changes Coming into Effect July 1
Starting July 1, legislation and regulation changes come into effect that will increase government transparency, strengthen protection for patients and workers, cut red tape for business and make life easier for Ontarians.
The appointment of Ontario's first-ever Patient Ombudsman to help meet the needs of patients who have not had their concerns resolved through existing complaint mechanisms, with the office officially opening on July 4, the first business day of the month
Changes to the Lobbyists Registration Act to give the Integrity Commissioner the authority to investigate alleged violations of the act, the ability to prohibit lobbying for up to two years and the ability to provide guidance and direction on lobbyist conduct
Amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act and associated regulations to improve workers' safety, including extending noise protection to all workplaces covered under the act and adopting new international standards to provide employers and workers with consistent health and safety information about hazardous workplace chemicals
Allowing manufacturers of beverage alcohol to have a bar or restaurant at each of their licensed manufacturing sites, and for the patrons to carry the same open serving of liquor (e.g., a glass of wine) from one licensed area (e.g., an on-site store, restaurant or tour area) to another
Amendments to reduce the burden on franchise businesses by providing rules for more efficient ways to disclose documents.
Updating laws and regulations to better serve Ontarians is part of the government's economic plan to build Ontario up and deliver on its number-one priority to grow the economy and create jobs. The four-part plan includes helping more people get and create the jobs of the future by expanding access to high-quality college and university education. The plan is making the largest infrastructure investment in hospitals, schools, roads, bridges and transit in Ontario's history and is investing in a low-carbon economy driven by innovative, high-growth, export-oriented businesses. The plan is also helping working Ontarians achieve a more secure retirement.
Twice a year, the government releases a list of the regulations and fees coming into effect on January 1 and July 1.
Regulation and Fee Changes Coming Into Force July 1, 2016
"Legislation and regulations always need to evolve in order to increase transparency, protect patients and workers, save time and money for business, and make life easier for people across the province. These changes will help our government deliver on our top priority to grow the economy and create good jobs."
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Geração rasca foi uma expressão usada pelo jornalista Vicente Jorge Silva em 1994, num editorial do jornal Público, aquando das manifestações estudantis contra a então Ministra da Educação Manuela Ferreira Leite do governo de Cavaco Silva. Os estudantes protestavam contra as provas globais no Ensino Secundário e, mais tarde, contra as propinas universitárias. A expressão provocou muitas críticas e tornou-se mais tarde um símbolo de contestação e rivalização de valores entre gerações.

Em 2011, a expressão foi ajustada como mote, desta vez para manifestações da geração seguinte, batizada Geração à rasca por ser alvo das políticas de austeridade implementadas pelo governo de Passos Coelho.

Antecedentes
Em 1989, o Governo de Portugal decretou que o acesso ao ensino superior se daria com uma Prova Geral de Acesso, um teste de cultura geral, que colheu pouco consenso na comunidade escolar. Estudantes do ensino secundário imediatamente contestaram a medida, e assinalaram o descontentamento com manifestações de rua, juntando-se a alunos do ensino superior que contestavam o aumento de propinas. Foram os primeiros protestos que uniram os estudantes portugueses desde o movimento estudantil da década de 1960. Os protestos iriam marcar a primeira parte da década de 1990, culminando nos protestos contra a então Ministra da Educação, Manuela Ferreira Leite em 1994.

Cronologia de protestos

 29 de Novembro de 1991 "Bolsas sim, propinas não" - Diamantino Durão altera comparticipação do alunos nos custos do ensino superior, o que leva cerca de mil estudantes a protestar em Lisboa, reclamando um ensino "tendencialmente gratuito", conforme consta na Constituição portuguesa.
 1992 "Não ao aumento das propinas" - Milhares de estudantes do ensino superior protestam em Lisboa em 26 de Fevereiro, concentram-se frente ao Ministério da Educação, e quando não recebidos por Diamantino Durão, param o trânsito no Rossio. A 13 de Março, Durão é demitido pelo Primeiro-Ministro Cavaco Silva. É substituído por António Couto dos Santos. A 24 de Março, milhares de jovens de Portugal inteiro participam de manifestação em Lisboa protestando a política governamental, particularmente o aumento das propinas. A lei é promulgada em Julho. A 18 de Novembro, dez mil estudantes de todo o país manifestam-se em frente ao Parlamento Português contra as propinas. Passaram barreiras policiais, invadindo os jardins da Assembleia da República e partindo vidros, sem intervenção da polícia.
 1993 - Protestos em Maio em frente ao Ministério da Educação resultam em confrontos com a polícia. Em Novembro, 1500 estudantes de Lisboa protestam a regulamentação da Lei das Propinas. O Corpo de Intervenção, composto por 50 elementos, detem alguns manifestantes e utiliza os bastões para dispersar os manifestantes. Mário Soares, então Presidente da República, insurge-se contra a violência policial utilizada. Ainda em Novembro, estudantes fazem greve às aulas. Em Dezembro, o ministro da Educação Couto dos Santos demite-se. É substituído por Manuela Ferreira Leite. A 7 de Dezembro, milhares de estudantes dos ensinos secundário e superior fazem novas manifestações, destroem e queimam bandeiras do Partido Social Democrata, e apupam Cavaco Silva e Manuela Ferreira Leite.
 1994 - Protestos a 24 de Março, Dia do Estudante, juntam alunos do secundário e ensino superior, contra as provas globais e propinas, respectivamente. A 3 de Maio, representações de associações de pais reunem-se com a Ministra Ferreira Leite, tentando anular a realização das provas globais, argumentando que uma prova mal realizada provocaria atrasos no ingresso na universidade e por seguinte a obtenção de um grau académico por parte dos alunos. Em vésperas das manifestações convocadas para 5 de Maio, universitários manifestaram-se junto ao Ministério da Educação, construindo com blocos de cimento uma estrutura frágil que simbolizava as condições precárias das residências escolares universitárias. Isso levou a confrontos entra a polícias e esses jovens.

Manifestações de 5 de maio de 1994 e editorial no jornal Público
A 5 de Maio de 1994, manifestações convocadas por associações de estudantes de ensino secundário contra as Provas Globais de Acesso ocorreram a nível nacional. Aos estudantes do secundário, juntaram-se alunos do ensino superior, contestando o pagamento de propinas, e o baixo valor do apoio da ação social escolar para os estudantes mais carenciados. Durante as marchas pelas ruas o trânsito foi cortado, e alguns estudantes baixaram as calças expondo rabos e órgãos genitais, sendo as imagens capturadas pelas câmaras fotográficas e de televisão dos repórteres a acompanhar as manifestações e publicadas nos jornais e transmitidas nos telejornais. Os estudantes empunhavam também cartazes, alguns com insultos dirigidos principalmente à Ministra da Educação. Vários jovens apelaram à calma durante a manifestação empunhando megafones, discordando do uso de calão e tentando impedir o confronto com a policia.

No dia seguinte, Vicente Jorge Silva escreve no Público um editorial intitulado "Estamos a assistir ao nascimento de uma geração rasca?" onde o colonista alude a comportamentos dos estudantes durante as manifestações como "expressões de má-criação, estupidez e alarvidade". Jorge Silva acusa também os jovens de usarem os protestos como um pretexto e "[...] transformaram os seus cortejos num desfile de palavrões, cartazes e gestos obscenos, piadas de caserna ou trocadilhos no mais decrépito estilo das velhas 'repúblicas' coimbrãs" O editor culpa também os jornais e especialmente as televisões por registar de "[...] forma frequentemente acrítica e benevolente [...] manifestações onde os sinais de festividade rasca eram já perfeitamente visíveis e intoleráveis".

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THOR: DEFINING MOMENTS Concludes JMS' Historic Run With THOR This September
One of most acclaimed comic runs of the decade concludes this September as award-winning scribe J. Michael Straczynski brings his historic Thor story to a stunning conclusion! Thor: Defining Moments Giant-Size #1, from JMS and Young Guns '09 artist Marko Djurdjevic, is an action-packed conclusion to the Eisner-nominated epic that IGN.Com calls "The best Marvel comic on the stands." As the final curtain falls, will Thor's closest allies save him from the machinations of Loki? What does Dr Doom have planned? And just who will rule Asgard? JMS delivers the Thor finale that no Marvel fan, new or old, can afford to miss.
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Two-Rock was purchased by the Premier Builders Guild in 2010 along with a few other top brands. However, things didn't work out as planned and PBG folded in late 2016.
Fortunately, the brand and rights were acquired by long-time enthusiast Eli Lester and former Two-Rock general manager Mac Skinner. Better still, original designer Bill Krinard has rejoined the operation. Since then, the newly independent Two-Rock, still based in the original Rohnert Park premises, has lost no time in re-establishing its catalogue, with the arrival of two new models, the tweed-inspired Burnside and this head, the eagerly awaited TS-1.
Originally released in 2010, the TS part of the model designation stands for 'Tone Secret', and ever since, designer Bill Krinard has been developing and evolving the circuit, with several refinements including a clever half-power switch that doesn't need the usual change of impedance to work.
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The FET input was originally intended for acoustic guitars with low-output piezos. The FET preamp boosts this signal with very little added noise, then passes it into the front of the valve preamplifier section, while the Normal input bypasses the FET stage. Most passive guitars will work just fine plugged into the Normal input.
The TS-1's clarity and headroom in clean mode is exceptional, perfectly balanced across the guitar's natural frequency range so that highs and lows don't overpower each other, with a crisp snap to bass notes and chiming highs with more detail than practically any other amp we've experienced. The Bright and Mid switches act as handy presets to dial in single coils or humbuckers; we achieve similarly impressive results with variety of guitars with both kinds of pickup.
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For the first look we decided for playful and a bit girly combination. Pink skirt from Zara, and cool t-shirt with lace also from Zara. We rounded up the whole look with a cool denim jacket from Zaful, leather boots from Topshop and double buckle belt also from Zaful.
What says more Western than a fringe jacket and cowboy boots? We teamed them up with baggy jeans from Topshop, beautiful white blouse from Zaful, and cool backpack also from Zaful. If the fringe jacket isn't your thing, you can wear belted wool coat instead.
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Wasted costs ordered against Amanda Cunliffe Solicitors and serious concerns raised by trial Judge over conduct
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As well as successfully defending a fast track claim for compensation for personal injuries brought against their insurer client, Haven Insurance Company Limited, Flint Bishop Solicitors later secured a wasted costs order against the firm of solicitors representing the Claimant. During that subsequent hearing, serious criticisms were made by a senior Judge regarding the conduct of Amanda Cunliffe Solicitors, the Claimant's solicitors.
The claim arose from a road traffic collision, which occurred in August 2014.
At the opening of the trial in July 2015, the trial Judge (Judge Lingard sitting as a Deputy District Judge) expressed concerns regarding a claim for physiotherapy charges being pursued by the Claimant. No such treatment had been undertaken and so the claim was for prospective treatment. However, during the trial, the Claimant confirmed that he was not suffering from symptoms and had no wish to pursue such a claim. Flint Bishop was represented at the trial by Mr Andrew Sugarman of Parklane Plowden Chambers.
At the end of the trial, as well as dismissing the Claimant's claim in its entirety and making an order for costs against him, Judge Lingard (who had previously sat as a District Judge for over 20 years) also made an order for the Claimant's Solicitors to show cause as to why they should not pay the wasted costs of the claim for physiotherapy charges. A wasted costs order is an extremely serious sanction against a solicitor or firm of solicitors directly for instances including improper, unreasonable or negligent conduct during court proceedings.
The case was listed for an oral hearing in November 2015, where the "show cause" issue was considered. Flint Bishop retained and was represented at this hearing by Mr Alex Poole of Deans Court Chambers.
The judgment given by Judge Lingard at the hearing on 26 November 2015, contained criticism of Amanda Cunliffe Solicitors' practices and conduct and raised specific concerns in relation to:
The possible internal processes of the Claimant's solicitors and its relationship with the medical agency it utilised;
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The signing of Statements of Truth without having the authority of the client to do so;
The signing of a "false" statement of truth.
Of particular interest were Judge Lingard's conclusions in ordering wasted costs on the indemnity basis:
"This is a case where whatever costs were wasted must be paid. It is also a case where I express grave reservations of the practice of a practice of solicitors in possibly putting too much pressure on employees or alternatively not supervising employees properly and in this case a solicitor ignoring the grave importance of the consequences of a statement of truth signed by a solicitor when clearly there was no authority to do it and in any event what was being signed was manifestly incorrect."
Judge Lingard was also damning in his assessment of the unfortunately all too common practice of claimant personal injury solicitors instructing medical agencies in which they have an interest, stating:
"If solicitors dabble in running medical agencies as well, they should be completely transparent, not use it as a way of increasing costs… it is a very sad reflection of the state of affairs of litigation."
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Catching Coincidences with Joseph Heller
By Lauren Corba. Apr 30, 2014. 3:12 PM.
Topics: American Literature, History
American writer Joseph Heller is notably recognized for writing Catch-22. Published in 1961, the novel takes place during the latter half of the Second World War, telling the story of John Yossarian, an Air Force captain for the United States military. Although the novel did not instantly top the bestseller's lists, it has since gained popularity, adding the phrase "Catch-22" into the English Language.
Now, What Exactly is a "Catch-22"?
A "Catch-22" refers to a paradoxical situation where a solution contradicts the course of action, making a resolution impossible. For example, in Heller's novel the ongoing predicament is to be honorably discharged by means of being declared mentally insane, without literally telling that you are losing your mind, because recognizing that your thoughts are not sane, indicates that you are mentally stable because someone truly insane cannot differentiate between right and wrong. Still following?
But is this term all that Joseph Heller can take credit for?
In the late 1990s, Lewis Pollock wrote to the London Times, pointing out the uncanny similarities between Heller's Catch-22 and Louis Falstein's Face of a Hero (1950).
Falstein's novel was published eleven years prior to Catch-22, and was based on Falstein's own experiences in the United States Air Force during World War II. Face of a Hero was immediately well-received and positively reviewed in The New York Times Book Review with claims that it was "the most mature novel about the Air Force that has yet appeared", according to Review writer Herbert F West. Despite this acclaim, Hero was soon out of publication until this controversy arose.
The characters of Face of a Hero and Catch-22 have similar personalities, physical descriptions, and experiences; it's easy to see Pollock's concern. However, there are just as many differences which make both novels unique in their own ways. For instance, Face of a Hero is narrated in first person, while Catch-22 is narrated in third-person omniscient, allowing the reader to know what is going inside the mind of every character. Falstein's account retains a very factual and realistic tone, while Heller uses outlandish names—Major Major Major Major to name the most extreme—in addition to manifesting an imaginary aura in the minds of his readers.
Falstein died four years prior to this controversial stir, so reporters were unable to ask the author his thoughts on Heller's book. Falstein's son briefly stated that his father never discussed Heller or Catch-22. When Joseph Heller was asked to account for the coincidences, he replied "If I went through the Iliad I would probably find as many similarities to Catch-22 as other people seem to be finding between Falstein's book and mine." Heller's editor at Simon & Schuster further commented that in all his years of working with Heller, he would never describe him as a dishonest man and the accusations that Heller would plagiarize is absurd.
While this may be a beautiful instance of coincidence, one cannot help but wonder.
Lauren Corba
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Telling a lie is never ok. Well, except maybe the one about the fairy that's going to flutter her way into your kids room at night and replace their tooth with some cash. Or, the one about the giant bunny that hides eggs and ... you know what, sometimes a little white lie isn't so bad, especially when it doesn't do harm to others.
As an entrepreneur, sometimes it takes a bit of grandstanding, exaggeration and yes, even white lies to get ahead.
1. "I've stretched the number of clients I have to make my company sound less new. I guess I felt our credibility was at stake.I also probably stretched the amount of Accounts Receivables in order to get a bigger line of credit for my startup.Also, I have probably lied on some personal expenses to reduce my taxable income.Now that I think about it, I didn't realize how much I have lied."
2. "I set up an automated phone system to make it appear as though we had a large office with a secretary and numerous employees when in actuality it was a home-based business with one person. I also set up fake email accounts for "employees" and would email prospects as the secretary sending out contracts, the Account Executive, etc. The clients never found out and eventually we grew into the office I had always dreamed of having."
3. "The biggest lie I told was that I knew what I was doing, period. And I have said it several times. When you have your reputation on the line and have to deliver, it blows away a masters degree in learning. The kicker is my new found skill set always blew away the competition because I had better motivation and it was up-to-date that very minute."
4. "I've told all our customers and vendors we are doing "awesome!" even during times we were doing horribly! I figure it's like junior high ... nobody wants to sit at the unpopular kids' table for lunch. And, nobody wants to work with a company that's not successful!"
5. "No business would likely entrust their website to a 14-year old working out of his parent's house. So I often lied. I said I was 30, sometimes 40. I always told them I had a large team of experienced professionals behind me. 1,000 clients and several dozen bottles of gifted booze later, no one ever knew."
6. "When the Mayo Clinic newsletter balked at running a story about my new career as an artist, I told the editor that prints of the drawing (a conceptual rendering of the facility's flagship hospital) were already being sold in the hospital's gift shop. In fact, the gift shop manager refused to sell copies of the strange drawing, until I assured her that the Clinic newsletter was featuring the art in their next issue. The subsequent support of both entities constituted the first marketing effort and retail sales of a product line that has lasted nearly thirty years."
7. "I exaggerated the type of clients I've worked with. In order to get new business and sell myself, I would tell the prospective client that I had worked with a certain client in order to impress them, even though I never worked with that client. While I understand the business, I just use big names to impress others."
Are you guilty of any of these? What lies have you told to get ahead?


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Der Schreckliche Pfeilgiftfrosch (Phyllobates terribilis), auch als Schrecklicher Giftfrosch, Schrecklicher Blattsteiger, Gelber Blattsteiger,  Goldener Giftfrosch, Zitronengelber Blattsteiger oder Goldener Blattsteiger bezeichnet, gilt als eines der giftigsten Tiere und als die giftigste Froschart. Sie wurden von den Chocó-Indianern Kolumbiens als Pfeilgiftfrösche benutzt, wie von anderen indigenen Völkern Südamerikas besonders giftige Arten der Familie Baumsteigerfrösche (Dendrobatidae), um mit ihrem Hautgift Blasrohrpfeile zu bestreichen.
Tiere in Gefangenschaft verlieren ihr Gift, ihre Nachkommen sind ungiftig. Für die Synthese des Giftes (Batrachotoxin) werden Alkaloide spezieller tropischer Futterinsekten benötigt.

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Der Schreckliche Pfeilgiftfrosch wird bis zu fünf Zentimeter lang und zählt damit zu den größten Vertretern der Baumsteigerfrösche. Die Weibchen sind im Durchschnitt geringfügig größer als die Männchen. Der Körper ist einheitlich gelb, metallisch gelbgrün oder orange gefärbt, selten auch grau. Die Bauchseite und die Beine sind im Gegensatz zu anderen Phyllobates-Arten nur unwesentlich dunkler. Die Jungtiere sind anders gefärbt als die erwachsenen Exemplare. Sie sind schwarz mit zwei seitlichen Rückenstreifen.

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Der Schreckliche Pfeilgiftfrosch kommt nur in einem sehr kleinen Areal um den Fluss Rio Saija nahe der Pazifikküste Kolumbiens im Department Cauca vor. Das Gebiet weist bis zu 200 m hohe Hügel auf. Die Frösche bewohnen dort den tropischen Regenwald und leben primär auf dem Waldboden und in Flussnähe. Sie sind außerhalb der Paarungszeit tagaktive Einzelgänger. Innerhalb des kleinen Verbreitungsgebietes soll die Bestandsdichte sehr hoch sein.

Die Männchen verfügen über Schallblasen, mit denen sie zur Fortpflanzungszeit trillernde Rufe erzeugen. Die Eier werden an Land abgelegt. Die schlüpfenden Larven werden von den Männchen auf den Rücken genommen und zu dauerhaft wasserführenden Gewässern transportiert, wo sie ihre Kaulquappenphase durchlaufen.

Die IUCN stuft Phyllobates terribilis unter anderem wegen des kleinen Verbreitungsareals als endangered (stark gefährdet) ein.

Literatur
 Ralf Heselhaus: Pfeilgiftfrösche. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-8001-7937-7.

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Weblinks

 [ IUCN Redlist: Phyllobates terribilis] (Engl.; unter anderem mit Verbreitungskarte)
 World Association of Zoos and Aquariums

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It'll be a non-conference interprovincial battle at the Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday as the Ottawa Senators host the Calgary Flames. The Sens are playing well at the moment and have a hold on second place in the Atlantic Division. They're 6-3-1 in their last ten games and are two up on Toronto (who won last night) and 8 back of the Atlantic leading Montreal Canadiens. They're also 3 up on fourth place Boston and 7 up on fifth place Florida. They're 14-7-5 on home ice this season and given their difficult goaltending issues (more about that in a moment) they have to be pleased with where they're at heading into the All Star Break.
The Calgary Flames, on the other hand, are watching their season swirl down the drain. The Flames enter this contest having lost four straight and are 3-6-1 in their last 10 games. They've been the picture of mediocrity all season long and that's not going to get it done in the Western Conference. They're 24-24-3 on the season, 13-13-0 at home and 11-11-3 on the road. They've also been a money loser in non-conference games (7-11 -5 units). The Senators are 10-7 +4.4 units against the West.
Neither team has confirmed their goalies at this point but Ottawa doesn't really have any options other than former Montreal backup Mike Condon. Condon is playing well under very trying circumstances as he's for all intents and purposes the only goalie on the roster at this point. Starter Craig Anderson is out indefinitely as his wife battles cancer and backup Andrew Hammond out indefinitely due to an ankle injury. Chris Driedger is on the roster as an 'emergency' fill in but the Senators haven't thought enough of him to give him a start. Instead, Hammond has started 20 consecutive games and 22 of the last 23. So far he's been up to the workload and is coming off an excellent performance in a 3-0 win over the Washington Capitals. As far as Calgary goes, they've got Chad Johnson penciled in but neither goalie has performed well of late. Johnson has started 7 of the last 10 games though you could just as likely see Brian Elliott here.
Toronto the better team at this point and playing with a lot of heart despite their goaltending issues. They should get the win here.
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Sheryl Crow releasing soundtrack album to accompany her new documentary, 'Sheryl,' in May
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Sheryl, a new documentary about Sheryl Crow, gets its world premiere tonight at the South by Southewest festival in Austin, Texas, and now comes word that a companion soundtrack album will be released on May 6, coinciding with the date that the movie will debut on Showtime.
Sheryl: Music from the Feature Documentary is a 35-track compilation that features the Grammy winner's biggest hits, including "If It Makes You Happy," "Soak Up the Sun," "All I Wanna Do," "Strong Enough," "Everyday Is a Winding Road" and many others.
The album also is packed with deep tracks and three newly recorded songs, as well as collaborations with such famous artists as Stevie Nicks, Eric Clapton, Sting, Keith Richards and the late Johnny Cash.
Sheryl: Music from the Feature Documentary, which can be pre-ordered now, will be available digitally and as a two-CD set.
The Sheryl documentary premieres tonight at SXSW starting at 8 p.m. CT. According to a press release, the doc "[n]avigates Crow's seminal yet hard-fought musical career battling sexism, depression, perfectionism, cancer, and the price of fame — before harnessing the power of her gift."
Here's the full list of songs on the soundtrack:
"If It Makes You Happy"
"What Can I Do for You"
"Run, Baby, Run"
"Hard to Make a Stand"
"Sweet Rosalyn"
"A Change Would Do You Good"
"Love Is a Good Thing"
"Can't Cry Anymore"
"Everyday Is a Winding Road"
"The Difficult Kind" (Live with Sarah McLachlan)
"I Shall Believe"
"Real Gone" (Live)
"My Favorite Mistake"
"Riverwide"
"Crash and Burn"
"Soak Up the Sun"
"Out of Our Heads"
"Be Myself"
"Prove You Wrong" (featuring Stevie Nicks & Maren Morris)
"Tell Me When It's Over" (featuring Chris Stapleton)
"Beware of Darkness" (featuring Brandi Carlile, Eric Clapton, and Sting)
"The Worst" (featuring Keith Richards)
"Story of Everything" (featuring Gary Clark Jr., Chuck D, Andra Day)
"Everything Is Broken" (Live with Jason Isbell at The Ryman)
"Redemption Day" (with Johnny Cash)
"Live with Me"


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JACQUES KALLIS APPOINTED AS BATTING CONSULTANT OF ENGLAND FOR SRI LANKA TOUR
JACQUES KALLIS APPOINTED AS BATTING CONSULTANT OF ENGLAND
Ex-South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis appointed as the batting consultant of ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) for the tour of Sri Lanka on Monday, December 19th. England will play two test matches at Galle International Stadium.
Jacques Kallis has helped South Africa in 2019 during their tour of Sri Lanka as a batting consultant. So, possibly her inputs will be very instrumental for England. Kallis has amassed 13289 runs in 166 test matches with an average of 55.4. He has scored well in the sub-continent also, smashing 8 hundred here.
Kallis's peers for the Sri Lankan tour will be Jeetan Patel (spin consultant), Carl Hopkinson (fielding coach), Jon Lewis (fast bowling coach), and wicket-keeping coach James Foster.
Moreover, Kallis's appointment as batting consultant might be extended for the tour of India also. Because last in 2016 India lost the test series by 4-0. So they must want to beat India on their home ground. Because India barely loses series in India.
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England have appointed South Africa legend Jacques Kallis as batting coaching consultant for their Test series in Sri Lanka.
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Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer have been given rest for the tour. They are likely to be included for the series of India which will commence on 5h February.
The series was supposed to be played in March this year but it was abandoned due to the deadly Corona outbreak. Now there is one more concern that has been born as the UK has found a new variation of Coronavirus which is 70% more effective than the current one. As It is spreading swiftly the UK government has imposed lockdown again.


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"These are times when the strong can get stronger," Nike chief executive John Donahoe said in September, as he celebrated the digital investments and robust brand that helped the sportswear group to increase its earnings even as Covid-19 closed its stores.
Nike was far from the only household name boasting of resilient profits and a growing share of a market it already leads. From Amazon to Starbucks, McDonald's to Mondelez, many of America's biggest businesses got bigger this year, even as the turmoils of Covid-19 plunged smaller rivals into crisis.
Just as Blackstone had been "a huge winner coming out of the global financial crisis", chief executive Steve Schwarzman told analysts who follow the private equity group recently, "I think it's going to turn out to be another one of those acceleration moments."
The unequal, "K-shaped" recovery that economists fear is dividing the wider US economy is also playing out across corporate America, as the pandemic deepens the gulf between the largest, best-financed companies and those lacking scale, leading brands or robust balance sheets.
Bank and central bank policies coupled with shifts in consumer behaviour have accentuated trends that were already putting more wealth and growth in the hands of a few large companies, according to academics, consultants and corporate advisers.
That, some of them warn, threatens to reduce competition, stifle innovation and hold back smaller businesses that are supposed to be sources of job creation and economic dynamism.
"The last year's clearly been K-shaped," said James Manyika, chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute, noting that an MGI analysis found almost all of the "superstar" companies at the top of its rankings had become stronger in 2020.
That partly reflected the fact that the group featured many technology and pharmaceutical companies, and that most of its members had the global reach to ride out local Covid-19 waves.
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But the year's winners had also typically invested more in the digital tools which became critical as employees and customers scattered.
Even within sectors, "the variations between the most and least digitised companies were huge", Mr Manyika said. From retailers forced to step up their ecommerce offerings to banks needing to move more transactions online, "the digitally enabled ones were ready for this moment".
'It reminds them of their childhood'
The trend towards corporate concentration began long before the pandemic, with large US public companies seizing a growing share of economic activity since the mid-1990s, Dartmouth professor Vijay Govindarajan and colleagues found in a study last year.
Small companies have found it increasingly hard to "escape their class", they wrote, while the biggest businesses have had the resources to invest in assets including their brands.
The companies that went into the pandemic with the strongest brands mostly extended their lead, as customers retreated to familiar suppliers.
"Consumers are really looking during this time for brands they trust," Michele Buck, Hershey chief executive, said on the chocolate maker's last earnings call. Dirk Van de Put, chief executive of Mondelez, which owns Cadbury, attributed its market share gains to the same phenomenon: "Consumers . . . went to brands that they felt comfortable with. It reminds them of their childhood," he told analysts.
Safety-conscious consumers also frequented fewer stores, favouring companies that could supply a wide array of goods. Walmart and Target both cited such "trip consolidation" as playing to their advantage.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data show the human impact of a divergence that happened partly along sectoral lines.
Courier and warehousing companies fuelling the ecommerce boom, tech groups, and big banks and insurers were among the few to add jobs in 2020. In the more fragmented arts and entertainment world, and at hotel and airline companies which were singularly stricken by the pandemic, the lay-offs fell heavily.
The same data set also reveals the divide between winners and losers within certain sectors. The only retailers beyond those selling food and alcohol to have created jobs in the year to November were big box retailers such as Walmart and Costco, and those selling building materials and garden supplies, such as Home Depot.
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In their latest earnings statements, Walmart, Costco and Home Depot reported year-on-year sales increases of 5.3 per cent, 16.9 per cent and 23 per cent respectively.
Each has seen its shares rise more than 20 per cent this year, even as Amazon's growing ecommerce dominance lifted its stock more than two-thirds.
Much of the divergence stems from bigger companies' easier access to capital, according to Olivier Darmouni, a Columbia Business School economics professor.
Large public companies with investment-grade credit ratings led a record $2.5tn of corporate borrowing this year. That positioned existing industry leaders such as Ford and General Motors to be ready when demand for their products began to recover.
By contrast, a study led by Mr Darmouni showed that the more costly bank loans on which smaller companies are more dependent became much harder to access this year as banks tightened their lending standards. The increase in bank credit in the first half of 2020 "came almost entirely from drawdowns by large firms on pre-committed lines of credit", his research concluded.
"There's a very clear premium from being large," he said. "The contracts that were signed in good times are . . . only reliable if you're a big firm."
'It doesn't trickle down'
The past year has shown not only how unequally credit flowed, but also how policy responses to the crisis risked amplifying the trend, Mr Darmouni said.
"The Fed and the Treasury are used to helping big companies like big automakers and big banks. They're not used to dealing with smaller companies. The big lesson there is it doesn't trickle down," he said.
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The biggest corporate casualties of 2020 were those which went into the pandemic with fragile balance sheets, such as Hertz, the car rental company, and out-of-favour operators in markets such as retail, restaurants and property which suffer from overcapacity.
"The pandemic has exacerbated the strength of the good and similarly highlighted the weaknesses of the worst companies," said Mohsin Meghji, chief executive of the restructuring advisory group M-III Partners.
Poorly capitalised companies outside their industry's top two or three competitors could "muddle along" in a strong economy, he said, but now "people will direct their capital to the survivors and remove it from the ones that shouldn't survive".
Mr Meghji now expected "significant rationalisation" in those overcrowded sectors, with some weak companies selling to their industries' winners and others collapsing altogether.
If that happened, he argued, "Covid could end up being a significant catalyst for making the American economy a lot more clear and competitive because it's forced what should have taken place over five, seven or 10 years to happen much faster."
According to MGI's Mr Manyika, roughly half of the winners of one business cycle fall out of the "superstar" ranks in the next cycle. That, he said, raised questions about how long the K-shaped dynamic would last.
Those companies that benefited from stimulus-boosted consumer spending this year could suffer if policy interventions fall short in 2021, while those that depended on a forgiving debt market "can only rely on [their] balance sheet for so long before shareholders say 'we can't keep supporting this'", Mr Manyika observed.
"Eventually, demand has to show back up."
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All those tap handles, and the kegs they're attached to, are owned by the separate breweries represented at places like Growler USA.
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Mark Antonation | September 12, 2017 | 6:55am
A keg is more than just a large vessel for holding beer; it's a valuable piece of property that makes its way from a brewery to a distributor and then on to a liquor store, restaurant, bar or even your back patio. But kegs belong to the breweries that fill them with the beautiful golden (or mahogany or garnet) liquid we all love, and a delay in returning kegs to those breweries can tie up tens of thousands of dollars — and losing those kegs can mean losing that money for good. That's why the sudden closing of a restaurant with a large inventory of kegs causes alarm in the craft-beer industry.
That alarm was sounded in August when A-Town Pizza closed its two Aurora locations and its property was seized by the city for unpaid taxes. Aurora officials also seized dozens of kegs that didn't belong to A-Town; they belonged to some fifteen or twenty breweries around the state. And although the names of those breweries are stamped on the kegs, it's not a common practice for brewers to require signed lease agreements for the kegs, which is what the city would require as proof of ownership.
So instead of being returned to the breweries, the kegs will now be part of an auction on Wednesday, September 13, that will be run by Dickensheet & Associates, Inc., which often handles property auctions on behalf of Colorado cities looking to recoup unpaid taxes. (On September 8, Dickensheet handled the auction of property from the recently closed Stella's on 16th for the City and County of Denver.)
Dry Dock Brewing Co. in Aurora is one of the breweries with quite a few kegs now tied up in the auction. Dry Dock co-founder Kevin DeLange got wind of the proposed sale and talked with several departments representing the City of Aurora, which is how he learned that without lease agreements, he and his fellow brewers had no choice but to buy the kegs back (though at auction, at least this would be at a significant discount on their original cost). DeLange says he was was willing to buy the whole lot, approximately 100 kegs in 15.5- and 5.16-gallon sizes, and hold or deliver them to the original owners, who would repay him.
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But he got a surprise while he was making his plan: He found out that Dave Shaw, president of Growler USA, had a similar idea...only Shaw was planning on taking a loss on the deal, returning the kegs to their owners at no cost as a show of goodwill to the Colorado craft-brewing industry that has helped Growler USA gain a foothold in the Denver market. Growler USA has taprooms at 11405 East Briarwood Avenue in Centennial and 1071 Courtesy Road in Louisville, and is planning new locations near Sloan's Lake and Lone Tree.
"At Growler USA, we serve 100 different beers, so we deal with these guys all the time," Shaw says of the brewers he buys beer from. "It's our intention to buy up all the kegs and give them back to the breweries."
Once DeLange heard of this positive development, he dropped his purchase plan and instead volunteered his time and resources to help move, store and deliver the kegs once Growler USA purchases them. This also put a lid on a possible bidding war that could have driven up the cost of the kegs (potential buyers are not allowed to confer with each other during the live auction).
"Hopefully, the city will put all of the kegs and tap handles together in one lot," DeLange says, to make it easier for one buyer to keep all of the equipment together. Still, there's always a danger that one person could bid on the entire A-Town inventory and purchase everything before it's broken down into smaller lots (which is how auctions of this type generally work).
"This is a really nice thing that Dave is planning," DeLange adds. Dry Dock is one of the local businesses that will benefit from the plan, since it costs the brewery an average of $100 to replace a keg.
So the next time you're drinking a cold brew and your buddy reminds you that you never really buy beer, you just rent it, remember that the same is true for all those craft-beer kegs stacked behind the wall of your favorite taproom.
Mark Antonation is the Westword Food & Drink Editor. He got his start by eating at and writing about every restaurant on Federal Boulevard and continues to cover metro Denver's diverse international food scene, as well as the city's quickly changing restaurant landscape. Mark was awarded Outstanding Media Professional by the Colorado Restaurant Association in 2018.
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