A DIY barn rustic barn venue allowed Hannah and James to put their own unique touch on their big day, with the help of their friends and families.
The couple tied the knot with a traditional Scottish wedding at Comrie Croft, with plenty of fun, laughter and cake – sounds like my idea of a perfect mix!
We wanted a relaxed wedding which incorporated both our personalities so decided to go down the DIY route. We both have big families so it was reasonably big wedding, with around 100 guests.
Most of our guests were travelling quite far so we wanted to make sure they had a great time and were able to make a little holiday out of it.
We knew Comrie Croft was our perfect venue as soon as we saw it. The barn was a blank canvas to decorate however we liked, but also a beautiful space in the middle of the picturesque countryside.
It has hostel accommodation attached and we had the whole place for two nights, which meant most of our friends and family were able to come up the day before. Everyone chipped in with the decorating which made it all the more special.
When everything was ready, we had a lovely chilled out evening. Everyone brought a dish and we had some drinks around the campfire.
My dress was by Ronald Joyce. It was completely different to what I had been thinking of and was picked out by my mum. On the hanger I wasn't sure, but when I tried it on I felt so glamorous and knew it was the one!
The bridesmaids' dresses were all different and from various high-street shops. I had seven bridesmaids and they all chose their own, my only request was sticking to a pastel colour scheme.
I was lucky as James was the perfect husband-to-be and was so enthusiastic and helpful. It was nice that he had so much input as it made sure the day was going to be about both of us.
We had a three tiered ˜Naked' cake made by my auntie Christine. I showed her a few photos from Pinterest and she even made ten extra, smaller cakes as she was worried we wouldn't have enough!
We didn't have a strict theme or colour but wanted it to have a traditional Scottish feel. We are both from Lancashire, England originally but we wanted to get married in Scotland as we have loved living here for the last 4 years.
We did some of the decorating ourselves, my mum made bunting, we hired some festoon lighting and James' family decorated the ceremony room with ivy and other greenery from their garden.
We weren't due to get married until September 2017, but due to James' mum being very ill, we decided to bring our wedding forward by 7 months. We are so proud of what we achieved in such a short space of time.
We were so grateful to have such helpful friends and family and all the companies we hired were fantastic and really understanding, I would not have changed a thing.
Our 3 year old niece, Evie, did such a good job walking down the aisle on her own. She went first and, when she got to the end, she surprised James by running over and giving him a massive hug. It's definitely one of my favourite pictures from the day.
The ceremony was quite emotional as we wrote some of our own vows, however when it came to the rings I couldn't get James' ring on his finger so I just burst out laughing!
We were so happy with how the day went. The weather for February was glorious and we even got to have our drinks reception outside.
We were relieved that everyone made it okay and, most importantly, that James' mum was well enough to be there and had a wonderful time.
James' family are Scottish and Northern Irish so he wore a kilt and his Uncle Peter, who is an award-winning piper, piped for the arrival of the guests and during the ceremony.
We also had a traditional ceilidh, which our friends and family all absolutely loved. A lot of them had never been to one before so it was a bit chaotic but hilarious. Everyone got up and had a go; my Grandad even managed to make it all the way through Strip The Willow!
Both my mum and I did a speech alongside James and his best man. I really wanted to get up and say a few words, particularly to thank my mum and James' family, who have become my second family for the last 12 years, as well as James, of course.
We have been through so much with each other and our families, particularly recently, that the speeches were very emotional and there were lots of tears!
Both of us were quite nervous about the first dance – we are not the best dancers and it took us a while to even a pick a song as we didn't want it to be too cheesy!
We decided to choose the Arctic Monkeys' Baby I'm Yours, which was a throw-back to the music we used to listen to when we first met.
Our band Kilter even planned a surprise dance-off between the bridal party and the groomsman which was great fun! Us girls won of, course.
We have been a couple since meeting at school, age 16, and have stayed together through university, living apart and moving to different cities.
Married life isn't hugely different but it has definitely brought us even closer together. We had already been together for such a long time beforehand, but it is amazing to officially be Mr and Mrs.


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Q: What is the largest integer $k$ such that $4^{k} \vert 100!$? What is the largest integer $k$ such that $4^k \vert 100!$. I understand the case where you have a composite number $n^k \vert 100!$ (where $n$ has two or more distinct primes), but I'm getting a little confused with the case where the prime appears more than once in the prime factorisation of $n$ (such as $4$). Thanks in advance.
Heres what I have so far...
$\lfloor{\frac{100}{2}}\rfloor = 50$, $\lfloor{\frac{100}{2^2}}\rfloor = 25$, $\lfloor{\frac{100}{2^3}}\rfloor = 12$, $\lfloor{\frac{100}{2^4}}\rfloor = 6$, $\lfloor{\frac{100}{2^5}}\rfloor = 3$, $\lfloor{\frac{100}{2^6}}\rfloor = 1$, $\lfloor{\frac{100}{2^7}}\rfloor = 0$
So the total number of factors of $2$ is equal to the sum of these numbers which is $97$.

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Sansolo Speaks: The Other Side of Covid
Someday soon, there will be an edition of MNB that lacks any mention of Covid 19, but that day hasn't come yet, for many good reasons. For months now and maybe longer, we've all been wondering if or how life will be changed by more than a year of Covid-related lockdowns. Maybe we shouldn't have asked.
The New York Times reported last week on one covid related change: people are showering less often, dropping from daily to, in some cases, weekly. Since I imagine we'll start traveling again soon all I can say is I hope those shower-avoiding folks aren't on my plane. But not everything has gone away. The Times also reported on how many women are starting to think - and not with complete happiness - about the return to shape wear (Spanx) and high heels.
Pandemic related changes will hit in other areas as well. The Washington Post recently reported that New York City schools are weighing the possibility of eliminating "snow days," those wonderful times when inclement weather caused schools to shut down. Thanks to a year of questionably successful remote schooling, the nation's largest school district believes snow or weather postponements are no longer necessary. Rather, those days can simply switch to remote learning, something that at least some students and parents in New York think is the worst idea ever.
The reality is that there will be some lingering changes due to Covid beyond the recognition that inclement weather is no longer an excuse to miss a day's work or an algebra exam. The remote skills we acquired in covid are likely to remain.
Again, the Post recently wrote about which ones might be lasting (such as wearing face masks when we're feeling ill) and which might be fleeting (sweat pants 24/7). One area of uncertainty is what happens at mealtime.
Certainly supermarkets are hoping that the forced return to home cooking for all meals will remain, at least to some extent. The Post agreed that to some extent, home cooking is back but with some twists. For example, thanks to product shortages and reluctance to make fill-in shopping trips many home cooks found creative ways to use whatever was on hand to get meals on the table.
The challenge to the entire industry is to figure out the best ways to retain at least some of those stunning sales gains produced by the almost complete shutdown of the restaurant industry for at least part of the past 14 months.
That would begin with recognizing (as we've written before here on MNB) that it's likely you were not the main reason sales jumped so spectacularly. But just because fortune favored you for the past year is no reason to think you can't hold onto some of the gains.
Recognizing that many homemakers are counting the minutes until the family can eat out again, it's also a great time to remind them of the benefits of eating at home - nutritionally economically and more. For years now, studies have shown the unexpected benefits of families eating at home together from improved scholastic performance among children to lower incidence of risky behaviors.
So let's redouble efforts to remind shoppers of all the labor saving steps offered by retailers and manufacturers to help them get meals on the table faster and easier than ever. And then double down on those benefits of home meals.
But consider the argument of the food critic writing in the Post about how the lockdown turned many homemakers into more creative and better cooks as they simply looked for ways to use whatever was in the pantry or they just worked to up their game in the kitchen. Perhaps, it's time for some in-store recipes competitions, challenging shoppers to share some of their covid-related creative solutions, which might help sustain the momentum to keep cooking at home.
At the Washington Post writer put it wonderfully: "When every day looks exactly the same as the last, paying attention to simple things — making better coffee in the morning, planning a fancy homemade dinner for you and your partner, decorating a layer cake — helps relieve the cabin fever. I hope that sense of care and adventurousness lives on, even after people feel free to dine out."
Sounds like a winning recipe to me.
Michael Sansolo can be reached via email at msansolo@morningnewsbeat.com.
His book, "THE BIG PICTURE: Essential Business Lessons From The Movies," co-authored with Kevin Coupe, is available here.
And, his book "Business Rules!" is available from Amazon here.
FaceTime with the Content Guy: The Book On Loyalty, Part 2
Different coast, similar story. KC reports on a retailer facing tough times, bailed out by customers who understand the difference between a simple store and something rare and wonderful.
Inside The Walmart vs. Amazon Top-Of-Mind Competition
The Financial Times has a piece about how Amazon's decision to open Amazon Fresh grocery stores around the country "is an acknowledgment by Amazon that it cannot take serious aim at America's $1.3 trillion grocery market without the traditional physical retailing it has done so much to disrupt. Amazon's grocery ambitions will help define the next stage of its more than two-decade battle with Walmart. It comes just as Walmart intensifies its efforts to break Amazon's dominance of the broader ecommerce market."
The story goes on: "Sinking billions into ecommerce Amazon and Walmart's sales have ballooned during the pandemic, making them the world's two largest public companies in any sector by revenues. Walmart's remain bigger by a comfortable margin, with net sales last year of $555 billion compared with Amazon's $386 billion. The crisis has encouraged Walmart to more closely integrate its 5,300 US stores and Sam's Club warehouse outlets with its web operations." However, FT points out, "despite sinking billions of dollars into ecommerce — technology is among its biggest areas of capital expenditure, which totaled $10.2 billion in 2020 — Walmart remains a digital underdog. It has just 7 per cent of the US ecommerce market next to Amazon's 40 per cent, according to eMarketer."
Here's the bottom line: "It's competition for top of mind: what is the place you think of when you think, 'I want to buy a soccer ball, I want a dress, I want ground beef'," Janey Whiteside, Walmart's chief customer officer, tells FT.
You can read the FT piece here.
This is shaping up to be an epic battle, to be sure. And there is so much that goes into it - the placement of distribution centers to put therm as close to consumers as possible … the embrace of technologies that can cut the time it takes to get orders to shoppers (drones, anyone) … and the strategic/cultural/tactical imperatives that define each company.
In the end, I continue to believe that each company subscribes to a different internal mandate. Walmart wants to sell more stuff to more people. Amazon has a more grandiose goal: to be inextricably intertwined with as many parts of our lives as possible.
But even these mandates are subject to evolution. Both companies are making health care bets, believing that investing in this sector will help them establish and sustain relationships with shoppers. And the betting here is that we'll see the same sort of competition play out in the financial services business.
Like I said. Epic.
Internal Memo Highlights Walmart's Grocery Struggles
Recode writes that a recent internal Walmart company memo "highlights its struggles to overcome competitors like Amazon, Instacart, and Target. The document also hints at challenges the company's new subscription service Walmart+ is facing in retaining new members."
According to the story, "The 100-page document from February, which was viewed by Recode, was created for advertising agencies that Walmart invited to compete to handle the planning and buying of ad placements for the retail giant. The memo makes several blunt assessments about the uphill battle Walmart faces to hold onto its once-dominant retail market position, including in the US grocery industry, where the company has long been No. 1 in sales."
Recode goes on: "Even in the online grocery market, where Walmart has held the No. 1 position thanks in large part to its popular curbside pickup service at its supercenter stores, the memo reports that the company is barely holding on to the lead position. Delivery company Instacart gained popularity at Walmart's expense early in the pandemic, when the retail chain could not keep up with the rush of customer demand, the memo states, and is seen on an enclosed chart as being nearly even with the retail giant for the top position in the US online grocery market."
Regarding the company's Walmart+ offering, the memo reportedly "says the company is seeing improvements when it comes to the percentage of members who renew when their membership lapses. But Walmart says the service still needs to improve renewal rates, as well as the rate at which free-trial participants convert to paying members and the number of members who purchase general merchandise alongside low-profit groceries."
You can read the Recode piece here.
I have one thought about this … which is that it strikes me as entirely possible that Walmart, in an effort to get concessions from ad agencies with which it is dealing, might actually benefit from playing up its challenges and casting its efforts in the harshest light.
It usually is the barrister who describes himself as a "simple country lawyer" who you really have to watch out for.
Kroger Highlights Expansion Of Diverse Supplier Spend Initiative
Kroger has announced the launch of its "Small Business Resource Guide – as part of its Framework for Action: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion plan, featuring steps developed in collaboration with associates and leaders to accelerate and promote greater change in the workplace and in the communities the organization serves.
"In 2020, Kroger achieved $4.1 billion in diverse supplier spend, representing an increase of 21% versus a year ago and build on our commitment to reach $10 billion in diverse supplier spend by 2030. We remain committed to doing the work to advance our longstanding and nationally recognized supplier inclusion program, reflecting partnerships with entrepreneurs of color, women, and veterans as well as companies founded by the LGBTQ+ community and business operators with intellectual and physical disabilities," said Rodney McMullen, Kroger's chairman and CEO. "Greater racial, gender, health, and wealth equity will drive true and long-lasting change and better outcomes in our country. And as America's grocer, we're honored to play a role in driving this change as an employer, grocery provider, and community partner."
The company says that last year it "introduced 107 new diverse suppliers, a 91% increase versus 2019. Of these suppliers, five played a leading role in supplying Kroger personal protective equipment during the peak of the COVID-19 public health crisis."
As Pandemic Concerns Shrink, People Deal With Expanded Waistlines
The New York Times reports that a business opportunity has been created by one of the byproducts of the pandemic - many people who stayed home gained weight, and now they want to lose it.
The Times frames the story this way:
"While some spent the year of the pandemic creating healthy meals or riding their Pelotons for hours, many others managed their anxiety and boredom through less healthy means. They spent the pandemic sitting on their couches, wearing baggy sweatsuits, drinking chardonnay and munching on Cheetos.
"Now, as the weather warms up across the country and people venture out of their homes and back into public or return to offices, many are looking to lose their pandemic pounds.
"The desire to lose that weight is the diet industry's gain. In recent weeks and months, companies that sell plans to help lose weight have seen jumps in new business.
"The privately held Noom, which offers customized health plans on its app starting at $59 a month, has seen that app downloaded nearly four million times in the United States in the past year, making it one of the most downloaded health and fitness apps, according to Apptopia. Similarly, with access to many of its studios all over the world restricted for much of the past year, WW International, formerly known as Weight Watchers, reported last week that it had 4.2 million digital subscribers, a 16 percent jump from a year earlier."
The story makes the point that one study suggested that it was entirely typical for people during the pandemic lockdowns to gain "more than a half a pound every 10 days. If they continued to live as if they were in lockdown conditions, they could have put on 20 pounds over the year."
I totally get this.
While the Times notes that there is a lot of skepticism out there about diet plans, I do think this is an opportunity for food retailers to get aggressive about promoting healthy food and focusing on helping customers deal with pandemic weight gains. This is a great time to get creative and to be ambitious.
H Mart Transcends Stereotypes As It Grows
The New York Times this morning profiles H Mart, the Korean food-centric grocery store chain that has grown from a single store that opened in Woodside, Queens, in 1982, to a 102-store chain with units "across the land, with vast refrigerated cases devoted to kimchi and banchan, the side dishes essential to any Korean meal. In 2020, the company reported $1.5 billion in sales. Later this year, it's set to open its largest outpost yet, in a space in Orlando, Fla., that is nearly the size of four football fields."
The story makes the point that H Mart creates an environment that allows customers with a Korean heritage to embrace their culture: "For an immigrant, cooking can be a way to anchor yourself in a world suddenly askew. There is no end to the lengths some might go to taste once more that birthday spoonful of Korean miyeok guk, a soup dense with seaweed, slippery on the tongue, or the faintly bitter undertow of beef bile in Laotian laap diip (raw beef salad)."
At then same time, "For many non-Asian customers, H Mart is itself a sneak attack. On their first visit, they're not actually looking for Asian ingredients; customer data shows that they're drawn instead to the variety and freshness of more familiar produce, seafood and meat. Only later do they start examining bags of Jolly Pong, a sweet puffed-wheat snack, and red-foil-capped bottles of Yakult — a fermented milk drink that sold out after it appeared in Ms. Han's best-selling novel-turned-movie 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before'."
The Times points out that the family behind H Mart has believed that the stores, while embracing the culture, had to be "clean, modern and easy to navigate, to defy the stereotype of Asian groceries as grimy and run-down." Signs are in both English and Korean.
At a time when there has been an alarming uptick in anti-Asian racism, it is worth pointing out that in 1982, when H Mart was founded, only about 1.5 percent of the US population as of Asian descent; today, it is close to seven percent.
While the idiots who commit atrocities against their fellow citizens because of imagined slights and conspiracies tend to get the headlines, it always is worth remembering that the family who founded and continue to grow H Mart are much more representative of the American dream.
Career Change & A Desire For Meaning Take Center Stage
From the Boston Globe this morning:
"It can take a big push to make a drastic change. And when it comes to people's work lives, there has been perhaps no greater disruptor than the COVID-19 pandemic. Many got laid off, or were suddenly allowed to do their jobs from anywhere. Some got sick, while countless others worried about their safety.
"However they got there, the global health crisis has caused people to take stock of their careers - and then take a leap they might not have had the freedom, or courage, to make otherwise."
According to the story, experts say that "the number of people considering a professional change appears to be at an all-time high … and more movement is expected as vaccinations increase and employers start calling people back to the office.
"In this liminal moment before our post-pandemic lives begin, many people are reevaluating what they're doing with their lives. Driving it all is a nightmarish pandemic that has made people realize life is short — so why not get a better job now?
"Career experts say they are seeing stirrings from people of all ages, from twenty-somethings rethinking their career paths to baby boomers starting their own consulting firms."
It is a really interesting story, and it once again brings us back to a word that was used a lot during the early days of the pandemic - essential.
People want to feel essential in what they do. People want to know that their employers view them as essential. And I think it is incumbent on retailers to consistently communicate this to their workers - they are not just stocking shelves or running checkouts, but are actively involved in the sacred mission of helping people feed themselves better and smarter. You can't just tell them to feel that way; you have to treat them differently and pay them differently and empower them differently.
The stirrings described in the Globe piece can't just be happening among workers. Some level of consciousness raising has to happen among employers, as well.
Pret a Manger Dives Deeper Into Tesco Relationship
The BBC reports that sandwich chain Pet a Manger, which earlier this year announced it would start selling packaged versions of its popular fresh items in Tesco stores in the UK, now is going one step further, opening actual sandwich ships inside four Tesco stores.
If the test works, expect more Pret shops to be opened inside other Tesco units.
The story notes that Pret a Manger has had a tough pandemic, with the center city locations where it primarily operated having been largely shut down as a reaction to Covid. "With more companies switching to hybrid working, chains such as Pret have been forced to respond," the BBC reports, with the chain saying, "We're transforming our business model to adjust to a new way of living and working."
I still think that a logical next step may be to make Pret locations in city centers collection points for Tesco orders placed online.
MNB Covid-19 Coronavirus Update
Random and illustrative stories about the global pandemic and how businesses and various business sectors are trying to recover from it, with brief, occasional, italicized and sometimes gratuitous commentary…
• The US Covid-19 coronavirus numbers: 33,515,308 total cases … 596,179 deaths … 26,507,427 reported recoveries.
The global numbers: 159,665,632 total cases … 3,319,567 fatalities … 137,378,593 reported recoveries. (Source.)
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is saying that 58.2 percent of US residents age 18 or older have received at least one dose of a vaccine, with 44.3 percent being fully vaccinated.
• The Washington Post reports that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has "cleared the first coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in children as young as 12 on Monday, expanding access to the Pfizer-BioNTech shot to adolescents ahead of the next school year and marking another milestone in the nation's battle with the virus.
The decision that the two-shot regimen is safe and effective for younger adolescents had been highly anticipated by many parents and pediatricians, particularly with the growing gap between what vaccinated and unvaccinated people may do safely.
"Evidence suggests that schools can function at low risk with prevention measures, such as masks and social distancing. But vaccines are poised to increase confidence in resuming in-person activities and are regarded as pivotal to returning to normalcy."
Worth Reading: Culinary Horrors On Display
The New Yorker has a terrific piece about Sweden's Disgusting Food Museum, which was created by psychologist Samuel West as a follow-up to his Museum of Failure, which was developed in the tradition of Croatia's Museum of Broken Relationships, New York's Museum of Sex, and San Francisco's Museum of Ice Cream.
The story starts with a visit to the Disgusting Food Museum by Arthur De Meyer, described as a twenty-nine-year-old Belgian journalist:
"There are eighty-five culinary horrors on display - ordinary fare and delicacies from thirty countries - and each tour concludes with a taste test of a dozen items. De Meyer, the son of a cookbook author and a food photographer, told me that he'd always been an adventurous eater. As a reporter, he also prided himself on his ability to maintain his composure. 'But the taste test was war,' he said. 'The kind where you're defenseless, because the bombs are going off invisibly, inside of you.'
"An Icelandic shark dish, called hákarl, was the first assault on his stomach. 'Eating it was like gnawing on three-week-old cheese from the garbage that had also been pissed on by every dog in the neighborhood,' he said. Next up was durian, a spiky, custard-like fruit from Southeast Asia that 'smelled like socks at the bottom of a gym locker, drizzled with paint thinner.' But worst of all was surströmming, a fermented herring that is beloved in northern Sweden. De Meyer said that eating it was like taking a bite out of a corpse.
"He vomited ten times, topping the museum's previous record of six. Mercifully, admission tickets are printed on airplane-style barf bags."
• Reuters reports that Amazon has "issued its first sustainability bond on Monday, raising $1 billion to invest in renewable energy, clean transport, greener buildings and affordable housing.
"The world's biggest company joins a growing list of debt issuers tapping the market for green and sustainable bonds, which is swelling as asset managers come under pressure from their investors to advance environmental, social and governance (ESG) causes … The money raised through the sustainability bond is a fraction of the total debt Amazon issued on Monday - some $18.5 billion. The company said it forms part of a new Sustainable Bond Framework and will be spent on new and existing projects."
• AZ Big Media reports that HelloFresh announced "plans to open a new distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona. The nearly 440,000 square-foot facility located at 1850 South 71st Avenue will become the company's largest shipping and fulfillment center globally, supporting growing demand for HelloFresh meal kits and enabling HelloFresh to better serve new and existing customers on the West Coast."
• TechCrunch reports that "Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store — provided you live in the U.S.
"The voice-based social network launched its beta Android app on the Play Store for users in the U.S. on Sunday and said it will gradually make the new app available in other English-speaking countries and then the rest of the world.
"The social network, valued at about $4 billion in its most recent fundraise, launched as an iPhone-only app last year. The app quickly gained popularity last year, attracting several high-profile celebrities, politicians, investors and entrepreneurs."
• Ahold Delhaize-owned The GIANT Company yesterday announced plans for four new stores in Philadelphia, accelerating its omnichannel growth in the city.
The company said that, Building on the success of its GIANT Heirloom Market format," it plans "to open a new 32,000 square foot store in the Fashion District at 801 Market Street. In addition, the company will open three new GIANT stores in the city including a 46,000 square foot store on Columbus Boulevard at the corner of Reed Street, a 50,000 square foot store on North Broad Street at the corner of Spring Garden Street, and a 40,000 square foot store on South Broad Street at the corner of Washington Avenue. Store amenities, as well as opening dates for each new store, will be shared at a later date."
• Chipotle yesterday announced that it is increasing its wages to an average of $15/hour, saying that the move will mean that p[art-time employees now will be making between $11 and $18 per hour.
The New York Times notes that Chipotle is going on a hiring spree - it plans to open more than 200 restaurants this year, and needs to hire some 20,000 people to staff them.
• Charles Choi, managing director of Long Island, N.Y.-based Fruit Tree Farm, affiliated with the Associated Supermarket Group (ASG), has been selected to attend the first PepsiCo Diversity in Leadership Endowment scholarship from the National Grocers Association Foundation (NGAF).
Choi is described as a second-generation Korean American "whose work is driving the growth of his family's independent supermarket business."
"Charles is a modern entrepreneur who understands the art and science behind merchandising as well as today's consumer preferences," said Michelle Mendoza, ASG VP of marketing and customer experience, who nominated Choi for the scholarship. "As the supermarket industry is transforming and the American consumer palate has an appreciation for diversity in food, Charles is at the forefront of this transformation."
Your Views: Challenged Assertions
Longo's said last week that it was the first North American retailer to exclusively sell fair trade bananas, an assertion that MNB reader Cindee Lolik wanted to challenge:
Food Cooperatives across the country, including our own here in Corvallis, OR, have been selling only fair trade bananas for year. What this chain is doing is nothing new, their marketers are taking credit where no credit is due for being the first, but I applaud them for their belated efforts.
Regarding consumer shopping trends, one MNB reader wrote:
I guess my question on this is: Will this remote type of shopping continue at the level it has over the past year +? It would seem to me that supermarkets are building a barn after the horse has already left. Would it not be a more long-term direction to make the in-store shopping experience better, instead of the other way around? That could create a greater point of difference. Plus, to those retailers and manufacturers that rely on the "impulse buy" to drive sales; See Ya! You cant tell the professional shopper " hey, if you see something interesting grab it for me."
BTW…we've been arguing here for making in-store experiences better for a long time.
Regarding the current employment situation, one MNB reader wrote:
One anecdote on Jobs.
Met a fellow the other day. He and his wife worked hospitality and were pulling down close to $15/hour each, prior to the pandemic. Both lost their jobs.
Both receive both regular unemployment and the supplemental unemployment, which totals out to $15/hour each, and that will continue through September, for NOT working.
AND, he IS working on construction (booming here, and elsewhere) for cash WHILE learning a new skill (electrician).
And his wife is watching over their kids and their schooling since they go to a school district which has a pretty spotty record of providing a quality education during the pandemic.
Making the same dough as before PLUS putting away some cash based money while watching over their kids education and learning a new trade that pays pretty well. I kinda think that people are pretty smart and are doing their best at taking care of their families.
Responding to the piece about the growth of dollar stores, one MNB reader wrote:
In my area there have been 2 new ground up Dollar Generals open in the past 2 years. They have a small footprint, provide same like or like variety on items, and have gone into areas with low population density. So the only comp is a convenience store. I have also seen them pop up in other areas right across the street from supermarkets. Their low cost of entry and minimal cost of operation, make them a formidable competitor. I would be curious to see the basket size and the shopping frequency numbers for these guys.
MNB reader Rich Heiland chimed in:
We are road-trippers, off the interstates. In my opinion Dollar-type stores go where others won't. For many rural isolated areas, Dollar is all they have without a long drive.
I've seen the same thing while on my cross-country drives.
Yesterday we had two stories - one about regulation of diesel trucks in California because of the pollution they create in poor communities where giant distribution centers often are built, and another about Marc Lore's new upscale food truck venture.
Prompting one MNB reader to write:
Wait, 2 stories up, trucks were "bad" – but you're a big fan of the food truck model? Let me see if I have this straight – trucks are evil in e-commerce but good if they sell more food, serve more people, and bring their brands to areas they're not currently serving. C'mon Kevin, this is a textbook example of "cognitive dissonance".
I'm not sure I agree, though I take your point.
I think there is a difference between giant tractor trailers and small food trucks … and even the smaller, increasingly electrified vehicles that can serve smaller MFCs.
I'm not saying we should get rid of trucks. I am saying that we need to make a major investment in technologies that don't use fossil fuels.
Another MNB reader responded to the diesel ruck piece:
After his 20 year stint maintaining a squadron of fighter jets for the US Air Force, my son is now in charge of maintaining a fleet of tractor trailers for Wegmans. He's been involved with some R&D on hybrid electric/natural gas powered vehicles with Volvo, Cummins, American Natural Gas, and Hyliion. Good stuff.
We'll get there. But the clock is ticking.

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Military Sexual Trauma and VA Benefits
Awareness of Military Sexual Trauma or MST is on the rise as more veterans, not just female veterans, are filing MST related VA Disability Claims. There are plenty of questions surrounding VA benefits for MST and how to even go about filing a claim for compensation. Dealing with the effects of MST along with trying to figure out the VA claims process is certainly not easy. In this blog post, we will discuss how you can prove MST, how to file a claim, as well as the benefits that may be available to you.
Proving Military Sexual Trauma
In any VA disability case, credible supporting evidence is one of the most important factors. In MST cases, sometimes finding supporting evidence to corroborate the sexual assault can be difficult and can lead to denied claims. Often times, MST goes unreported due to fear of retaliation. Because most veterans do not have any documentation showing that the MST occurred, the VA does not require that service medical records contain proof of the MST. There are many forms of proof that the VA will accept for proving MST such as:
Lay statements from fellow service members, family members, roommates or counselors
Pregnancy tests and/or any tests for sexually transmitted diseases
Journals or notes that you wrote during the time of the trauma
A really good tip when looking for evidence to help prove MST is to read through your service records and service treatment records. You can search for "markers" in your record that help prove that an event happened in service that changed your behavior. Markers can be any behavior changes such as:
Substance abuse problem
Marital difficulties or sexual dysfunction
Documentation of request for transfer of duty station
Changes in work performance
Social and economic behavioral changes
Unexplained depression and/or anxiety, panic attacks
When it comes to MST claims, VA disability compensation is not given for MST alone. Disability compensation can be awarded for a mental health condition that is related to MST. Like any other VA disability claim, you must file for the mental health condition that is related to your MST on the proper form such as filing MST-related PTSD claims. You can easily file your claim for disability benefits online or by using a VA Form 21-526EZ to get started on service connection veterans benefits.
VA Benefits available for Veterans who suffered MST
The VA has designated an MST Coordinator at every VA Health Care System that is used as a contact for MST-related claims or issues to help veterans access VA services and programs and/or local and state programs found at the regional office. These people can help Veterans find and access VA services and programs. The VA also provides treatment for mental and physical conditions that are related to MST for free. To learn more about VA health care for MST, please click here.
It is important to remember that Military Sexual Trauma is nothing to be ashamed of. If you are a veteran who is dealing with the effects of Military Sexual Trauma, do not delay in filing an MST-related claim. It is also very important to get the help and treatment that you need. Claims for MST can often be difficult, but with the right tools and evidence, it is not impossible for your veteran's claim to be won and to receive service connection benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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A girl hails from Dubai in Pune has registered a physical exploitation case against local boy. The victim said in her complaint that she was in love affair with accused during her study last year. Both came in physical relationship meanwhile and she conceived. The victim alleged that the young man was threatening her constantly to be got rid of it.
The case is from Yarvada. A victim woman, 20, reached pune from Dubai for her study and was in relationship with Akshay Manoj Jaishinghani, age 21. Akshay took her his flat one day and did physical exploitation. A few months later she expected that she had conceived.
She told about her pregnancy to Akshay. Akshay took her statement lightly and gave her some abortion pills for consuming instead of taking her to a doctor. The victim believed on Manoj and took the pills thinking that she would be aborted after she came back in Dubai her home.
She felt again later a few months that she was still expecting. The confused woman reached once again to pune and she told akshay that she was still pregnant. Akshay forbade taking her responsibility instead of helping her and began to ignore.
The investigating officer, Seema Dhakne told that she had registered a case against the accused Akshay under IPC 376,504,506 and arrested him after the women's complaint. The accused has filed for anticipatory bail against the case.
The IO Seema Dhadakne told that,when the victim tried to meet Akshay, he threatened him for dire consequences and used to say to make distance from him which resulted into lodging complaint in police.


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February 26, 1880 -- The Chicago Lakefront: A History
encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org
February 26, 1880 – The Chicago Daily Tribune offers a lengthy dissertation on "the legislation affecting and defining the rights of the Illinois Central Railroad to a location on the Lake-Front …" [Chicago Daily Tribune, February 26, 1880] In the winter of 1851 the Illinois legislature granted the Illinois Central Railway Company a charter to build a railroad from the terminus of the Illinois and Michigan canal to Cairo with a branch line extending to Chicago and another to Galena. A section of the charter stated, "The said corporation shall have the right of way upon, and may appropriate to its sole use and control for the purposes contemplated herein, land not exceeding 200 feet in width through its entire length … All such lands, waters, materials, and privileges belonging to the State are hereby granted to said corporation for said purposes." There was a limitation contained in the charter, though, an important one for Chicago – "Nothing in the act contained shall authorize said corporation to make a location of their track within any city without the consent of the Common Council of said city." An amendment to the charter gave Chicago the "power of exercising a police supervision over the harbor for the distance of one mile from the shore line." In 1852 the Illinois Central asked for a right-of-way into Chicago and the Common Council passed an ordinance granting it on June 14. The ordinance granted the railroad the right to enter the city at a point that would eventually become Thirty-First Street and, following the boundary of Lake Michigan, north "to such grounds as the said Company may acquire between the north line of Randolph street and the Chicago River … upon which grounds shall be located the depot of said railroad within the city, and such other buildings, slips, or apparatus as may be necessary and convenient for the business of the company." The charter also granted the railroad the right to "use in perpetuity" a width of 300 feet from Twelfth Street to the northern line of Randolph Street, ground that had to be not less than 400 feet west of Michigan Avenue and parallel to it. By 1856 the company had created land from the lake according to the distance specified in the charter. On September 15, 1856 the Common Council gave the company permission to create additional land east of its right-of-way. Thirteen years later the Illinois legislature, in what came to be known as the "Lake-Front Bill," gave the city control, formerly exercised by the state, of the lakefront between Monroe Street and Park Row, today's Twelfth Street. The bill also gave "all the right and title of the State of Illinois in and to the submerged lands constituting the bed of Lake Michigan and lying east of the tracks and breakwater of the Illinois Central Railroad Company for the distance of one mile" to the Illinois Central from today's Roosevelt Road to the river, provided the railroad continue to pay to the state seven percent of its gross earnings, an amount specified in the railroad's original charter. Under this law the three railroads running along the lakefront – the Illinois Central, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Michigan Central – were directed to pay the city $800,000 at intervals within a year of the passage of the act. On April 15, 1873 the legislature repealed this act. Despite the repeal, however, in 1880, the year this article appeared in the Tribune, the company maintains that its riparian rights are still intact, holding that "it is a well-established principle in law that the land under navigable waters, to which no private owner has any claim by virtue of his land abutting the water's edge, belongs to the State, and not to the Federal Government, with the limitation, however, that nothing shall be done to it to interfere with navigation." The Illinois Central asserts that it has followed all of the stipulations of the 1869 act "and no subsequent action of the Legislature of a repealing character can be of any avail." The city maintains, though, that a quid pro quo was established at the time of the 1856 agreement in which the city ceded an extra 100-foot strip of land from Randolph Street to what is now Roosevelt Road and, in return, the railroad agreed to erect a breakwater along that stretch of shoreline to prevent erosion that was threatening to wash Michigan Avenue into the lake. City lawyers also state that the city never accepted the $800,000 specified in the 1869 law, further noting that when the 1869 law was passed, there were "Several property-owners on Michigan avenue, in the immediate vicinity, who had an easement in that portion of the property north of Madison street, and believed that the erection of a depot thereon would seriously damage their lands fronting Michigan avenue". A judge granted them an injunction, writing that "in view of the original dedication of the property in question as public ground to be forever free from buildings, it was not in the power of the State or the city to alienate it for another purpose." Therein lies the issue in 1880 – the railroad was forbidden to put up any buildings between Randolph and Monroe "but there was no prohibition … against filling in or laying tracks." The issue of riparian rights and the struggle between the city and the railroads over the lakefront would not stop here. It would continue for another century. The photo shows the lakefront sometime around the time of the Tribune article.
February 26, 1954 – The Chicago Daily Tribune reports that two of the city's oldest buildings will soon fall to the wrecking ball. Plans are to replace the first, the 62-year-old Wilkinson Building at the southeast corner of Washington and Wells Streets, with a three-story parking facility for 500 cars. Known as the Teutonic Building when it was constructed, it was renamed for Theodore Roosevelt before the new owner, John C. Wilkinson, gave the family name to the structure after purchasing it for $175,000 in 1946. The second building, a five-story structure at the northwest corner of Washington and Dearborn Streets, will have its three top floors demolished and the remaining two floors rebuilt into a "modern two-story shop and office building." [Chicago Daily Tribune, February 27, 1954] The building was purchased in October of 1953 for $400,000 with the rebuilding of the structure estimated to cost $135,000. You won't find anything left of the building there today … the location is approximately where the flagpoles stand on Daley Plaza. Pretty good job of peeking into the future for the 100 North Dearborn Corporation, the owners of the property – it picks up a corner lot a block away from the seat of city and county government for a half million bucks that ten years later the city would have to acquire in order to build its slick mid-century modern civic center. The original Teutonic Building is shown in the Rand McNally drawing in the top photo. The second photo shows that the parking facility that took its place in the mid-1950's is still parking cars just east of the Wells Street elevated tracks.
February 26, 1912 -- Ebenezer Buckingham dies at his residence, 2036 Prairie Avenue. A graduate of Yale University, Buckingham came to Chicago in 1850, and in 1865 took over management of the grain elevators located at the Illinois Central depot at the mouth of the Chicago River. By 1873 he and his brother, John, had increased the capacity of the elevators from 700,000 bushels to 2.9 million bushels. Investing wisely as the city exploded both in population and in industry, Buckingham became the president of the Northwestern National Bank in 1890. In 1853 Buckingham married Lucy Sturges, and a son, Clarence, and two daughters, Kate and Lucy, were born to the couple. It was the death of Clarence Buckingham that led Kate Buckingham to provide the generous gift of the fountain dedicated to the memory of her brother that sits today at the head of Congress Avenue.
February 26, 1903 -- With the payment of $100,000 the Studebaker brothers become absolute owners of the Fine Arts Building and the ground beneath it. The ground on which the building stood had been held in a 99-year lease that began in May of 1885 with an annual ground rent of $2,000. The building, designed by Solon Spencer Beman, opened in 1886 with a four-story annex added for use by the Art Institute in 1898. On July 7, 1978 the building was declared a Chicago City Landmark. The photo below shows the building as it looked in 1900.
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Qatar's Reconstruction Committee provides food, health parcels to quarantined, needy families in Gaza
QNA/Gaza Published on December 10, 2020 | 01:06 PM
Qatar's Reconstruction Committee provides food, health parcels to quarantined, needy families in Gaz
Chairman of Qatar's Gaza Reconstruction Committee Ambassador Mohammed Al Emadi affirmed that the committee, in coordination with Qatar Fund for Development, started providing thousands of food and health parcels to the quarantined and needy families in the Gaza Strip.
HE Ambassador Al Emadi said that the committee will provide the Ministry of Social Development in Gaza with 3,000 food and health parcels within days in order to distribute it to the quarantined and needy families.
His Excellency pointed out that this aid comes as a grant of the State of Qatar to confront the spread of the Coronavirus and to support various groups in the Gaza Strip who suffer from difficult economic conditions. (QNA)
Crowd-puller events will make it a winter to remember in Qatar
Qatar Charity provides cash assistance to flood-affected families in Pakistan


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Protect section of Waikiki Beach
Honolulu Star Advertiser
EDITORIAL| OUR VIEW
May 23, 2018 Updated May 23, 2018 12:05am
For nine decades, the Royal Hawaiian groin has shielded Waikiki structures and the famous strip of beach that has attracted countless visitors. These days, though, any passerby can see that the thin and frail concrete- block breakwater jutting into the ocean near the Royal Hawaiian and Sheraton Waikiki hotels is poised to collapse.
Its toppling could destabilize the area and essentially erase a 1,730-foot stretch of sandy shoreline that's valuable to the state's tourism-focused economy. What should be equally alarming is that in the absence of a strong check against erosion and other emerging climate change threats, Waikiki is increasingly vulnerable to damage tied to high waves and storms.
When an environmental assessment was published in early 2016, officials weighed various fixes — and it was widely assumed that a new groin project would be tapped as high-priority, with construction wrapped up by now. That has not happened, unfortunately. And apparently due to the ongoing delay, state funding set aside for the project that lapses in June did not get re-appropriated during this year's legislative session.
Given the design, permitting and funding hurdles ahead, it now appears that construction will start no sooner than fall 2020. That's a precariously long time to wait, considering that experts have been saying for for well over a year that collapse could occur any day now. If there's a way to fast-track the project, it should be seized.
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources makes a persuasive case for a 180-foot T-head rock-wall groin, which engineers say would improve protection against summer swells and expected sea-level rise. But stalling progress is the state Board of Land and Natural Resources' call for a second design review, which is still in progress.
In March 2017, BLNR member Keone Downing opposed the T-head design along with fellow Save Our Surf members, and pushed for the additional review to satisfy concerns that the proposed structure — about 10 times larger than the aging groin — might change wave quality that surfers now enjoy or attract predatory eels.
While the T-head structure would change the ocean floor footprint from about 550 square feet to more than 5,000 square feet, the proposed sloping rock rubble mound would provide good wave energy dissipation and minimal wave reflection — little impact on shore breaks. That's according to Sea Engineering Inc., the lead design firm on the groin project and on the state's 2012 Waikiki beach nourishment project. The firm has put in place nine similar groins at Iroquois Point, which are holding that beach together nicely.
Built with boulders as hefty as 4,500 pounds, a rubble mound's crevices do invite more marine life, including eels. But contending with that is preferable to the painful financial bite that will result from continuing to delay replacement of the deteriorated groin.
Within the past few years, the project's price tag has spiked. Due in part to a construction boom linked to infrastructure grades needed to fend off the now-surfacing effects of global warming, the project, which was initially tagged at $1.5 million, is now estimated at $2.5 million. The Waikiki Beach Special District Improvement Association, meanwhile, has pledged to pick up half of the cost, and is standing by.
What's more worrisome, of course, is that further deterioration of Waikiki Beach could turn off tourists, touching off drops in the annual tally of billions of dollars in visitor spending.
The primary purpose of the new groin is to provide effective protection of the coast area in coming decades. Yes, the BLNR should aim to preserve the beach and nearshore ocean as it is. But the apparent search for a perfect fix is leaving us with rising levels of risk.
For now, the important thing is to put in place something better than what's barely there.
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Lloyd's of London Under Criminal Inquiry by U.S. Justice Dept.
Bloomberg News Service, May 11, 1998
Neil Roland
Washington May 11 (Bloomberg) – Lloyd's of London faces a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department involving allegations that the famed insurance market concealed the extent of its exposure to loss claims during the 1970s and 1980s, a Lloyd's spokesman said.
American investors, known as "names," have charged Lloyd's never told them about its exposure to asbestos and pollution claims that they say ultimately cost them $800 million – and, in some individual cases, their life savings.
Lloyd's spokesman, William Pitt said the U.S. Attorney in White Plains New York, has started a preliminary fraud inquiry that is focusing on investor allegations about asbestos claims.
"We regard the allegations of conspiracy and fraud as being without foundation," Pitt said in an interview. "The asbestos claims weren't anticipated by Lloyd's. The situation now is quite simple: The names have come up with conspiracy theories, but haven't succeeded in proving anything of the kind."
The U.S. attorney's office, a branch of the Justice Department, first learned of investor allegations nearly two years ago, Pitt said. Lloyd's is cooperating with investigators and has provided background documents, he said.
The U.S. attorney's office declined comment. Lloyd's is a 310-year-old insurance market comprising 155 underwriting units known as "syndicates." American names, who pledge their estates to cover loss claims on Lloyd's policies, were recruited during the 1980s by member agents regulated by Lloyd's.
Prosecutors obtained hundreds of documents two months ago from the American Names Association, which represents 350 U.S. investors, said association president Jack Shettle of Beaufort, South Carolina. These documents relate to Lloyd's recruitment of investors, their contracts with the insurance market, and Lloyd's asbestos exposure. He said.
Years of Litigation
The federal investigation follows years of private lawsuits by hundreds of American names, who have largely been unsuccessful because U.S. appeals courts have held that their cases should be heard in British courts.
"These are rich people who are trying to renege on their obligations to millions of policyholders," said Lloyd's attorney, Harvey Pitt, co-chairman of the Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson law firm in Washington and New York. Harvey and William Pitt aren't related.
Lloyd's lost more than $12 billion from 1988 to 1992 as a result of policyholder claims for financial losses from asbestos, pollution, and catastrophes. It initiated a $5 billion debt-relief and settlement plan in 1995 that paved the way for its reorganization and refinancing.
About 95 percent of Lloyd's 34,000 names agreed to the restructuring and dropped any lawsuits they might have filed. Some others, however, are continuing to pursue private litigation against Lloyd's.
The U.S. Postal Service, which is assisting the Justice Department investigation, also is seeking to contact representatives of British names, according to a May 7 letter from London police to a British names' lawyer.
The London police letter asked a lawyer for hundreds of British names, Michael Freeman of London, to meet with U.S. postal inspectors.
"The government of the United States of America has received numerous complaints from U.S. citizens who invested in insurance syndicates at Lloyd's of London," said the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Bloomberg News. "Allegations of fraud have been made that are now under investigation by the U.S. Postal Service."
Neither Freeman nor the London police responded to requests for comment. The (London) Observer, without naming sources, reported last month that U.S. Justice investigators were due to interview former Lloyd's chief Ian Hay Davison – along with other former syndicate employees, investors and "market professionals: -- at the end of April.
All seven U.S. appeals courts to consider various investor suits have ruled that the complaints must be heard in the United Kingdom. In the only broad U.S. case still pending, 275 American investors last week asked the Supreme Court to overturn a decision along those lines by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
American names have won some victories.
Lloyd's agreed to a $54 million settlement with 49 states in 1996, in which the states agreed to drop their lawsuits contending that the insurance market deceived investors about their claims exposure. That settlement was folded into the $5 billion resettlement plan. One federal judge in Richmond, Virginia, who addressed the merits of the fraud allegations rule in investors' favor before he was overturned by an appeals court that said the case should be heard in Britain.
"The names are being asked to forego claims against Lloyd's insiders (for) one of the most far-reaching and serious insurance frauds of record anywhere," U.S. District Judge Robert Payne wrote in August 1996. In the alleged fraud, Lloyd's "knowingly" shifted risks from earlier policies to the new names, he said.
Shettle, a spokesman for American names, said the number of investors in this country increased from several hundred to more than 3,000 between 1977 and 1988.
"None of these people would have invested in Lloyd's if they knew of its exposure," he said.
About 8% of American names are millionaires, Shettle said, and 29% have less than $10,000 in assets. Forty have filed for bankruptcy in the last year, he said.
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Sharks' players react to Torres hit and pending disciplinary hearing
May 15, 2013 By John Hoven
Sharks forward Raffi Torres will appear before the NHL Disciplinary Committee in New York on Thursday afternoon. As such, Torres will definitely miss Game 2 in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, the status of Jarret Stoll's availability for the game remains unknown at the time of this post.
Regardless, San Jose defenseman Jason Demers thumbed out a tweet in support of his teammate on Wednesday… and soon thereafter, Logan Couture replied with his agreement:
"@jasondemers5: #freeraffi" Yes sir
— Logan Couture (@Logancouture) May 16, 2013
Following the Sharks' practice on Wednesday, here's what a few of their players had to say about the situation…
Joe Pavelski also shared several thoughts of his own, including '(We're) surprised he was hurt on it' – watch the full quotes here…
RELATED CONTENT: VIDEO: Torres hit on Stoll in Game 1
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Mayor, I don't recall you doing reactions to Brownie's suspension or the news of his pending suspension when it came out. Was it because they were on a B2B in Detroit at the time?
I checked the archives and I didn't see anything about any of Brown's teammates reacting.
It's worth noting that of course they Sharks are all going to think the hit was clean while the Kings will all think it's questionable. I still hope Torres gets suspended but then again I'm a die hard Kings fan.
LGK.
Just sounds like they'd do anything to win.. Lie, Cheat, Steal….. Anything.. Oh and I forgot DIVE… I have to give it to Stoll, He didn't flop around and try to draw a Major, Instead he got up and went to the Bench..
He is and always will be a real Champion..
There was no need for that kind of hit on that play, He didn't try to get the puck. Sure looks like he sped up and hit Stoll Very hard, And he had plenty to decide not to HIT Stoll. He wasn't playing the puck, He went after another player and now it will cost him, AGAIN!
Bryson Otanjah says
The Sharks aren't villains and Raffi wasn't head hunting. Watch the hit, then watch it again… pause it, have a cigarette and then watch it one more time. Love my Kings, but I'm not going to be a part of the Salem Goon Trials just because this dude didn't float few times. He went in for the shoulder and missed his intended point of contact. How many of us can say we always delivered the hit we had originally anticipated? If he gets two games because he did actually make contact with the head (intended or not) and because he's dogged by his past, so be it. But if people are calling for 4 game suspensions or more… come on now.
After Brown was suspended because a player ran into his elbow, I think that Torres should at least sit a game. And because he's Torres, probably 2. Stoll wasn't standing tall when he was hit, he was leaning forward, and if Brown was called in for a hit to the head of a guy doing the same thing, we'd be up in arms about it being the players fault. Maybe Torres should have seen Stoll was in a vulnerable position and not gone for the hit, but this isn't the jump to nail Hossa in the head he did last year.
All that being said, I don't care what Shark players say, and haven't since Thornton said that Clowe's play from the bench was the play of the year. Clowns.
Todd S. Jenkins says
Torres might not be under this much scrutiny if he wasn't inarguably a dirty player to begin with. He has enough talent that he doesn't need to play the goon card, but he's not intelligent enough to control himself and just play the friggin' game like a professional.
J. Aralica says
Brown is no comparison to Torres. Come on? I was at the game and really didn't see much of the hit, it looked more of a collision. But when you see the replay, he looks quickly twice at Stoll coming with his head down and planted him an elbow with an upward motion, that shows it was intentional. The two quick glances makes him a premeditated criminal in my book. Torres's history of dirty play is why he is New York. Anyone else, maybe just a minor, but they replay might have gotten someone in trouble too. The guy is a complete idiot and has no right to play in the NHL as his history of dirty play has proven.. The moron wore black face last halloween at a team party. Now if thats's not an idiot, please tell me what it is.


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Q: If $S$ is the set of all numbers of the form $3k + 1$, prove that any number $a$ in the set is prime or product of primes. $S = \{1, 4, 7, 10, \ldots \}$
$10$ and $25$ are prime with regard to the elements of $S$ but $16 = 4 \times 4$ and $28 = 7 \times 4$ are not.
I have been stuck on this problem as I am not sure of the approach I need to take.

A: This is a question that becomes a lot more interesting if you distinguish between primes and irreducibles. For $p$ to be prime, we require that whenever $p \mid ab$, either $p \mid a$ or $p \mid b$ holds true, maybe both.
But $100 = 4 \times 25 = 10^2$, yet $4 \nmid 10$ and $10 \nmid 25$ either.

A: Since $1$ is in your set $S$ every number is a multiple of a number in $S$. So if you consider $1$ being a prime, we are done.
If you don't consider $1$ being a prime read this:
Is your definition for $p$ being a prime in $S$ the following?
$$a\in S \Rightarrow  ( a=1 \lor a\nmid p)$$
In that case your assertion is trivial: Take an arbitrary element $a\in S$ with $a\ne 1$. If it is not prime, there is a $p\in S$, $p>1$ with $p\mid a$ by definition of $a$ not being prime. Take the least such $p$ then $p$ is prime in $S$ because the $\mid$ relation is transitive. Note that we didn't use the structure of $S$ for the proof. It works with every subset of $\mathbb N$.

A: It's very simple. If $a > 1$ and $a \in S$, let's say $a = pq$, where $1 < p < a$, and $1 < q < a$, and of course $p, q \in S$. $p$ and/or $q$ might not be "prime" either, in which case we can drill down one level further, and keep drilling down as needed (e.g., factor $280$). But if you can't find $p$ and $q$ such that $pq = a$, that doesn't change the fact that $a \in S$, which therefore means $a$ is "prime."
So for each $1 < a \in S$, it is either "prime" or it can be factored into a product of two or more "primes" in at least one way.
Although not strictly necessary, it might help to reassure yourself that this set is closed under multiplication, which means that whichever numbers from $S$ we multiply together, we will get yet more numbers that are also in $S$. For example, suppose $m = 3j + 1$ and $n = 3k + 1$. Then $mn = (3j + 1)(3k + 1) = 9jk + 3j + 3k + 1$, so if you compute $3jk + j + k$ and reset $k$ to that, then you have restated $mn$ as $3k + 1$.

As for this business about "prime" and irreducible": in $\textbf{Z}^+ = \{1, 2, 3, 4, \ldots \}$ there is no need to worry about that distinction, because all primes are irreducible and all irreducibles are primes. If $p \in \textbf{Z}^+$ is irreducible, it is enough to check that it's not divisible by any smaller positive integers.
But the irreducibles in $\textbf{Z}^+$ satisfy the stronger condition that if $p|ab$, then $p|a$ or $p|b$. For example, $2$ and $5$ are primes in $\textbf{Z}^+$, they both divide $100$, and $100 = 2 \times 50 = 4 \times 25 = 5 \times 20 = 10^2$; verify that for each of those pairs, $2$ divides at least one of the multiplicands, and the same goes for $5$.
Now, as Alonzo already showed, the "primes" of $S$ satisfy the condition for irreducibles but not the condition for primes.

A: I will first clarify the question being asked. Let $S$ be any subset of the positive integers. Say that $n\in S$ is prime (relative to $S$) if there do not exist $a,b\in S\setminus\{1\}$ with $ab=n$. (As Alonso del Arte points out, maybe it would be better to say irreducible instead of prime; but never mind for now.) The question, presumably, is to show that every element of $S$ can be written as a product of prime (relative to $S$) elements of $S$. This includes a product of one prime (i.e., a prime), and it also includes a product of no primes (i.e., $1$) if $1\in S$.
The proof, as André Nicolas comments, is via strong induction on elements of $S$. (Exercise: show that the validity of regular induction or strong induction in $\Bbb N$ implies the validity of either for any subset of $\Bbb N$.) Base case: it's easy to show that the smallest element of $S$ is either prime (relative to $S$) or $1$. Inductive step: given $n\in S$, suppose that every $m$ in $S$ that is less than $n$ can be written as the product of primes. Then either $n$ is prime, so done; or else, by the definition of prime relative to $S$, there exist $a,b\in S$ such that $ab=n$. These $a,b$ must be less than $S$, so by the strong induction hypothesis, both can be written as products of primes; hence their product can be as well.


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U.S.-EU Trade Negotiations Will Have Some Sticking Points
Fran Smith • 01/08/2013
A Financial Times article today focuses on possible negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union and some of the potential sticking points in completing such a pact. Chief among these, the article notes, are "behind-the-border" domestic regulation, such as differing technical standards in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical services, and advanced electronics, as well as "safety regimes for conventional cars" and foodstuffs.
In dealing with differing regulatory standards, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce cautioned that the parties, however, shouldn't aim for full regulatory convergence:
"The aim in many instances is not to drive immediately for full regulatory convergence but to try to make sure that regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are making decisions with their eyes wide open," says Sean Heather, vice-president of the chamber's centre for global regulation.
CEI made that point strongly in its comments on February 3, 2012 to the U.S. Trade Representative on possible negotiations on a U.S.-EU trade agreement:
Often policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic, in reviewing the regulatory state's complexity and lack of uniformity, call for "harmonization" of regulations. However, such harmonization can lead to conformity and stagnation – resulting in superior alternatives not being explored. Rather, policymakers should look to competition among regulatory regimes. This "discovery process" is a better way to reduce transaction costs and thus increase voluntary wealth creation.
Providing companies with a choice of regulatory regimes often works better than a single uniform regulatory structure or a harmonized system. Centralized regulators can suffer from limited information and pressures from special interest groups. Dispersed regulatory structures can satisfy different preferences, try varied approaches to regulating, gain information about what works and what doesn't, and provide feedback to learn more about the cost effectiveness of specific rules. Regulatory competition provides these benefits.
The FT article also pointed to some serious philosophical differences between the U.S. and the EU approaches to regulation. Many of the EU's "safety" regulations are based on the Precautionary Principle, which has a built-in bias against innovation, since new products have to prove a negative – that they don't harm human health or the environment.
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Nothing is totally without risk, and the reason for adopting new technologies in the first place is that they often improve our well-being by protecting us from the risks of older, more established products. Even very risky new technologies may often be better than the alternatives. However, from industrial chemicals to consumer products and everything in between, advocates of precautionary regulation insist that the mere possibility of increased risk should be sufficient to take useful products off the market or prevent them from ever being used.
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Okay, well, game 3 of the 2022 Mississippi State football season didn't go the way we had hoped, but game 4 is upon us and it's the perfect opportunity for Mike Leach and the Bulldogs to bounce back. After losing an incredibly disappointing game against the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge, Mississippi State is back in Starkville for a non-conference match up with the Bowling Green Falcons.
Yes, it's been mentioned before and it'll be mentioned again. Mississippi State should've been in position to beat LSU last week. That game should've been a very winnable contest. Unfortunately for Leach and the Bulldogs, multiple ill-timed mistakes doomed MSU and kept State from winning.
So that makes this week pretty important. There are a number of fans out there that are, for one reason or another, disappointed with that they believe this season will end up being. If the Bulldogs can cruise to an easy win over Bowling Green, that will give MSU a 3-1 record before State heads into a pretty interesting part of its schedule.
MSU welcomes the Texas A&M Aggies to town next week. After that contest, the Bulldogs host the Arkansas Razorbacks. On Oct. 15, the Bulldogs hit the road for a meeting with the Kentucky Wildcats before going to Tuscaloosa on Oct. 22 to face the Alabama Crimson Tide.
So yeah. There are some winnable games in there, but folks who checked out after the LSU game won't view it that way. And it's hard to really blame them. That's a tough stretch of SEC games and the Bulldogs did not look great in their SEC opener.
Let's get a solid win vs. Bowling Green and then maybe get some SEC wins? Who says no?
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Storyline 3: How does Mississippi State respond to its first loss of the season?
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Matt McDonald – Bowling Green's quarterback hasn't been great, but he's been effective and efficient and he's certainly minimized any sort of mistakes that he could make. He's only completing 56.3 percent of his passes, but McDonald has 10 touchdowns and 0 interceptions. That's pretty solid.
Odieu Hiliare – The Falcons have turned to multiple receivers throughout the season so far, but Odieu Hiliare appears to be the most reliable pass catcher they have available to them. So far this season, Hiliare has caught 12 passes for a team-leading 143 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Karl Brooks– While the Bowling Green Falcons may not have the best pass rush ever, Karl Brooks has been pretty good at pressuring quarterbacks this season. So far, Brooks has recorded 2 sacks and has 3 tackles for loss. At 6'4″ and 280 pounds, he's not a guy that I'd want colliding into my quarterback.
One thing that is truly great for Air Raid offenses is when the opposing team just simply can't stop your offensive game plan. Or really anything that resembles your style of attack. If they can't defend the pass, which is something you tend to exclusively do, then you have no reason to not score a lot of points as you exhaust their defense while enforcing your will on an outmatched and overwhelmed opponent.
Unfortunately for Mississippi State, the Bulldogs had a rough time trying to throw the ball a week ago. Fortunately for Mississippi State, it doesn't appear as if Bowling Green is even remotely competent at slowing down offenses where the ball is thrown frequently.
Eastern Kentucky threw for 324 yards in a 53-51 win over the Falcons. Bowling Green allows 345.7 passing yards per game.
Let's Raid the Air.
Mississippi State got exhausted against LSU and the Bulldogs have played in a few late night games so far this season. Things haven't exactly been the most relaxing for Mississippi State so far this season! Will Rogers and company played late against both the Arizona Wildcats and the Memphis Tigers.
It would be absolutely great to see MSU quickly build an insurmountable lead and then subsequently cruise to a victory by letting the guys further down the depth chart get some experience.
Oh. Can't forget. Mississippi State hosts Texas A&M next week and the Arkansas the week after that. The Bulldogs follow that up with a trip to Kentucky and then a trip to Alabama. Can we please find a way to make sure the starters are able to get a breather in this game?
Last week sucked. The Bulldogs' offense stalled out on multiple occasions and the defense got worn out as the game kept going. Ultimately Mississippi State lost in a contest it very well could have won, but ultimately didn't. And here's to hoping that this loss to LSU does not haunt the Bulldogs in any way shape or form.
How is Mississippi State going to respond to losing in frustrating fashion? Will MSU be able to come out and cruise to an easy win over Bowling Green, or will mistakes continue to pile up and add up and then cost State at various different occasions?
Here's to hoping for the former and not the latter.
The Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Bowling Green Falcons don't have an extensive history of facing off against each other. These two programs have only met once and it was back when the Falcons were a pretty intriguing team to try and beat.
In 2013, Mississippi State welcomed the Falcons to town and got a little more than they expected. The Bulldogs, led by Dak Prescott, were able to come away with a 21-20 win over the Falcons, but that game left a bad taste in the mouth of many MSU fans.
However, that particular Bowling Green team is among the most successful that program has ever seen. Dave Clawson, who is now turning the Wake Forest Demon Deacons into one of the most fascinating teams in the ACC, led the Falcons to a 10-4 records that season.
That includes a win over #16 NIU (who finished 12-2 on the season) in the MAC Championship Game. Bowling Green was pretty good in 2013!
The Falcons are nowhere near that interesting or good now. Maybe they can be fun to watch at some point in the future once more. But for right now, I'm hoping the Bulldogs are able to run away with a dominant home win over the Falcons.
MSU sure needs a solid win here.
Hey. Good news. Mississippi State is favored this week. But, that said, given who the Bulldogs are playing, it shouldn't be a shocker that MSU is the favorite in the fourth game of the 2022 Mississippi State football season.
Mike Leach and company are HUGE favorites at home over the Bowling Green Falcons. Bowling Green, led by Scot Loeffler, hasn't been all that great in recent years. Loeffler, since 2019, has compiled a record of 8-24 during his tenure with the Falcons.
They haven't had a lot of fun in recent years.
So, again, Mississippi State being favored by quite a few points shouldn't be a huge surprise for really anyone. Of course, the Bulldogs can't afford to get complacent. Even with the talent differential that exists between these two programs, MSU can't overlook any opponent right now.
We've seen the Bulldogs play some mistake-filled football so far this season. Missed extra points. Muffed punt returns. Interceptions. Less-than-ideal pass protection. MSU hasn't played a game without at least some sort of mistake and it's been frustrating at times.
At the moment, MSU is a 30.5 point favorite over the visiting Falcons. I will, admittedly, be disappointed if the Bulldogs aren't able to take care of business and win by at least that many points. There is no reason for MSU to not win by a lot here.
This is a game that Mississippi State absolutely should win and it's a game that Mississippi State should win in overwhelming and absolutely dominant fashion.
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What: Game 4 of the 2022 MSU football season
When: Saturday, Sept. 24 at 11 a.m. CT
Where: Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field in Starkville, Mississippi
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Fall is (theoretically) here and the Mississippi State Bulldogs are getting set to face off against the Bowling Green Falcons. The weather in Starkville is pretty pleasant, all things considered, though it might get a little toasty during the Bulldogs' game against Bowling Green on Saturday.
Around the time of kickoff, it's supposed to be around 79 degrees in Starkville, according to Weather.com's forecast. That's not bad! Not bad at all! However, as the game goes on, it'll get into the mid to upper 80's. If you're planning on tailgating after the game, make sure that you're drinking some water and staying properly hydrated. The high on Saturday is currently set to be 90 degrees.
The wind shouldn't be blowing around too much and it looks like it'll cool off in the evening, making a trip to Starkville a pretty pleasant one.
But hey, I'm no meteorologist. Just a writer. And things can absolutely change between the publishing of this article and the time you get to Starkville. So make sure to keep your eye on the weather and enjoy your trip to Starkville this weekend.
This is a game where the Mississippi State football team has to be firing on all cylinders. Not because the Bowling Green Falcons are some sort of juggernaut (they are actually pretty far from being any sort of good), but because Mississippi State needs to restore some confidence with some of the Bulldogs' fans.
It seems like some folks have checked out on this season. Right or wrong, I've seen folks talk about how this season is already doomed to be one of mediocrity. Despite how unpredictable Mike Leach-coached teams can be at times, there are some who have already assumed that the Bulldogs can't accomplish anything other than just maintaining mediocrity this year.
The loss to the LSU Tigers was pretty bad. There's no solid excuse for losing to that team and there's certainly no reason that game should have been as sloppy as it was. The Bulldogs looked flat and just got run over by LSU.
That's a problem.
That said, there's still plenty of season left for Mississippi State to get moving in the right direction once again. The Bulldogs are being presented with an opportunity to get a solid win over the Bowling Green Falcons to kickstart what will be a really interesting stretch for Leach and his team.
But just because things are about to get intriguing with MSU's football schedule does not mean that Mississippi State can really afford to overlook Bowling Green. The Bulldogs need to take care of the Falcons and then they can start focusing on all of what is up ahead of them.
Bowling Green is off to a pretty rough start so far this season. The Falcons were flattened by UCLA to start the season and then were knocked down by Eastern Kentucky. Somehow, they rebounded and secured a 34-31 win against Marshall.
Now they've arrived in Starkville.
There's a pretty notable talent differential here and Bowling Green is horrendous when it comes to defending the pass. Right now, the Falcons are allowing an average of 345.7 passing yards to their opponents. That should present plenty of opportunity for Will Rogers and company to build some momentum and get a much-needed, fan confidence-restoring win.
We've got a lot of football left up ahead of us. We'll see if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Prediction: Mississippi State 48, Bowling Green 17
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