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West Coast Real Estate Update: April 17, 2017
Holland & Knight Update
Susan Jennifer Booth | Stacie Andra Goeddel | Robert M. Haight Jr. | Karl J. Lott | Douglas A. Praw
California Assembly Member Proposes Bill to Limit Abuse of Service Animal Accommodations
As dogs have transitioned from children's backyard playmates to must-have accessories while their owners are shopping or dining, building owners and property managers have been faced with making an increasingly difficult determination as to whether a dog is a bona fide "service animal," an "emotional support animal" or an ordinary pet. Existing laws that allow individuals with disabilities to keep an "emotional support" or "comfort animal" have led to abuse of such accommodations by people who falsely claim they need their pets to cope with some fictitious disability. On the internet, a person can purchase an embossed certificate, a service animal identification card, a vest as well as a medallion purporting to give legal status to a service animal, even though such documentation is not required by law.
In the California legislature's first attempt to combat the abuse of disability laws that provide accommodations for service animals, Assembly Member Anna Caballero introduced AB 1569. Under the bill, if current or prospective residential tenants request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to keep an animal in their apartment and the disability or the need for a service animal is not readily apparent, the apartment owner or manager is authorized to request that a third party provide verification of the disability and the need for the service animal. To mitigate the use of "mail order" certifications, the bill would require that the third party, among other things, have specific knowledge of the tenant's medical condition based on an individualized examination. Additionally, the bill would declare certain types of documentation alone to be insufficient verification. Examples of this documentation include: 1) identification cards or certificates identifying the animal as a service animal; 2) emotional support animal prescription letters; 3) letters from doctors or other letters obtained from online sources; and 4) documentation that does not indicate the medical provider ever met the person or performed an individualized examination.
The bill has been referred to the Assembly Judiciary Committee, which will hold a hearing on April 18.
Los Angeles and Pasadena Advance Tenant Protections
Undaunted by the California Court of Appeal's recent decision striking down San Francisco's ordinance providing tenant protections against Ellis Act evictions (see Holland & Knight's West Coast Real Estate Update: April 11, 2017), Los Angeles and Pasadena are moving forward with their own tenant protections. On April 5, the Los Angeles City Council's Housing Committee unanimously approved a preliminary ordinance tightening restrictions on how and when landlords can evict tenants under the Ellis Act. In the same week, Pasadena removed an exemption — called a "loophole" by city council members — that allowed landlords to avoid paying relocation expenses to tenants evicted pursuant to the Ellis Act, so long as the landlord provided the tenants with at least 30 days' notice of the eviction.
Los Angeles' proposed ordinance would require developers to replace rent-controlled units taken off the market under the Ellis Act with affordable housing projects. It would also require landlords to make relocation payments to evicted tenants and file annual reports with the city on the status of units withdrawn from the rental market. While tenants' rights advocates applauded the proposed changes, questions remain about how effective enforcement of the rules might be. Currently, prosecutions of Ellis Act violations are rare in Los Angeles, and evidence of landlord infractions can be hard to find.
Pasadena's new ordinance greatly expands the number of tenants that qualify for relocation assistance. In the past 13 years, only 91 Pasadena tenants received relocation assistance after being evicted under the Ellis Act. With the new ordinance in place, Pasadena landlords will be required to pay between $1,894 and $4,454 per tenant, but tenants with household incomes greater than 140 percent of the median income for Los Angeles County will not qualify for the assistance.
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There are multiple reasons why you may select a dedicated server for your business; however, the most crucial factor when it comes to selection of a dedicated server is the control offered. Unlike the shared hosting platform, the dedicated server is completely yours and you can configure it as per your requirements. Although a dedicated server provides with complete remote desktop and console access, the level of control provided also comes in with a lot of responsibility.
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Lupinenreis bezeichnet eine spezielle Zubereitung von Samen der Süßlupine und geht aus einer Mischung von Toast- und Siebverfahren hervor, was zur verbesserten Aufnahme von Vitaminen und Aminosäuren im menschlichen Körper beiträgt.

Geschichte
Lupinensamen werden bereits seit 2000 Jahren im Mittelmeerraum als wertvolles Lebensmittel aufgrund ihrer Fähigkeit, hochwertiges Lupineneiweiß zu liefern, angesehen. Sie werden in Europa vor allem als Ersatz für importiertes Soja im Viehfutter eingesetzt.

Seit 1997 ist unter den verschiedenen Lupinensorten u. a. die blaue Süßlupine für den kommerziellen Anbau zugelassen, deren Samen aufgrund ihres geringen Alkaloidvorkommens auch von Menschen verzehrt werden können.

Das Wort "Lupinenreis" wurde 2013 erstmals vom Lebensmittelhersteller SALUVegan durch die Diplom-Ernährungswissenschaftlerin Sami Ebel (geb. 1972 in München) genutzt.

Inhaltsstoffe
Lupinenreis ist ernährungsphysiologisch wertvoller als nicht vorbehandelte Süßlupinensamen, da er nicht nur eine Mischung kleingehächselter Süßlupinensamen ist, sondern aus insgesamt sieben verschiedenen Süßlupinensorten, die als Mischung getoastet und gesiebt werden, besteht.

Süßlupinensamen sind, im Gegensatz zur Sojabohne, frei von gentechnischer Veränderung. Die Lupinensamen ähneln in ihrer Zusammensetzung zwar der Sojabohne, sind aber wesentlich fettärmer, haben ein deutlich geringeres allergenes Potential und werden auf heimischem Boden angebaut.

Süßlupinensamen enthalten keine Stärke und sind sowohl gluten- als auch purinfrei. Sie bestehen aus ca. 25 % Fett und 40 % hochwertigem Lupineneiweiß, u. a. aus den essentiellen Aminosäuren Methionin und Tryptophan.

Produktion und Handel
Süßlupinensamen gehören zu den reichsten pflanzlichen Eiweißquellen und lassen sich exzellent weiterverarbeiten. Damit sind Süßlupinensamen ein wichtiger Baustein vegetarischer und veganer Ernährung, werden aber auch im Leistungssport sowie im Rohkostbereich konsumiert.

Bisher gibt es aus diesem Rohstoff Milch- und Eierersatzprodukte, Bäckereierzeugnisse und Fleischersatzprodukte. Im Vergleich zu anderen Hülsenfrüchten besitzt die Lupine deutlich weniger blähende Substanzen.

Weblinks
 https://www.alnatura.de/de-de/magazin/faq/haeufige-fragen-produkte/lupinen-was-ist-das
 http://www.bfr.bund.de/cm/343/risikobewertung-des-alkaloidvorkommens-in-lupinensamen.pdf
 https://www.vegan-athletes.com/lupinen-statt-soja-vegane-eiweissquelle/
 https://veggieworld.de/was-ist-lupine-die-wichtigsten-infos/

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Panaji, Nov 6 (IANS) After languishing in a state hospital morgue for three years, the mortal remains of a former Roman Catholic priest and activist Bismarque Dias were formally interred in his village of St. Estevam on Tuesday.
The solemn burial ceremony at the St. Estevam island's St. Stephen church, located 15 km from Panaji, came months after a Bombay High Court-ordered probe by the Crime Branch into the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, ruled out any foul play in the former priest's death.
A crowd of villagers, family and friends converged at the church grounds to bid goodbye to the former priest, who in the years leading to his death in mysterious circumstances in 2015, had become a local icon for his protest against rapid concretisation of Goa, as well as the pristine area around his island village.
He also contested the 2012 state assembly polls, but did not win.
Bismarque went missing on November 5, 2015, after he went swimming with some friends at a water body near his home and his body was found subsequently.
His death had sparked a campaign, 'Justice for Fr. Bismarque', members of which alleged that powerful politicians and the real estate lobby were behind the murder of the former priest, who had even taken on the influential Roman Catholic Church in Goa for selling its land for commercial consideration.
After the police ruled out any foul play immediately after the post-mortem, members of the campaign filed a petition before the Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court, which later directed that the death be probed by the Crime Branch of the Goa Police.
Earlier this year, the police filed a closure report before a local Court claiming the death was accidental and no foul play was involved.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the funeral, Nestor Rangel, a close associate of the deceased, said while he was sad that his friends had failed to get due justice for Bismarque, he was glad that the mortal remains were finally laid to rest in his own village.
"I think we failed to get justice from the government. I think the time is now right (for the burial)," Rangel said.


The 707 Entertainment Group proudly presents the return of Marc Brown, voice talent and stand-up comedian to the live stage, appearing this month in the Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia tri-state area.
It was fun for all when Marc Brown took the stage for open mic night at Touchdown Sports Bar & Grill, in D.C. on Wednesday night. Marc is re-emerging on the scene and bringing back his old school twist on real life, the life we all live and need to take in stride. Down to earth and easy to relate to, The Voice of MBC and his fresh take on the humor will light up a room any day of the week.
You can catch Marc Brown performing again this weekend at the Hyatt Regency, 7400 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814. Brought to you by Curt Shackelford at http://www.Standupcomedytogo.com. Shows run 8 – 10 PM $10 cover. Get there early for a good seat.
For those whose weekend calendar is already booked you can still catch a good laugh when you come to see Marc perform his set at Underground Comedy DC' s popular Wednesday Night Comedy Show at The Big Hunt, 1345 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC next Wednesday September 11th. This show features DC's best stand-up comics along with a few newer comics performing in Hells' Kitchen in the basement of The Big Hunt in Dupont Circle. There is no cover or drink minimum. Doors open at 7:30; show starts at 8:00.
For details on booking The Voice of MBC for your event or audio production needs please contact the 707 Entertainment Group, Rockville MD call today 202-599-4707 and connect with Marc on social media @thevoiceofmbc and like his Facebook page for more info.
Marc Brown is an versatile and skilled voice over professional. He is "The Voice of MBC" and his portfolio includes radio/TV voiceover, public service announcements, narrations, web scripts, recorded promos and more. Marc Brown also entertains crowds with his charming, humorous, and creative comedy act and has also been seen on the stage as a Master of Ceremonies, as a discussion panel moderator and he is the resident host for Russett Sharks swim team. His voice has been used in both the public and private sector projects nationwide. Marc is comfortable not only at the microphone but also on camera and in front of large crowds where he delivers your message right on cue and with a textured voice that is inviting and distinct; a voice that is leaves the right lasting impression.


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XPRIZE's $10M Contest May Transform Sex with Robotic Avatars
The field of teledildonics stands to gain a lot from new competition.
The renowned XPrize Foundation plans to kickstart the development of robotic avatars for long-distance communication with a $10 million competition—one that will likely open up tremendous possibilities for the future of human sexuality and intimacy.
Founded by Peter Diamandis in 1995, the XPrize Foundation is a non-profit that runs contests designed to promote technological and scientific advances that better the world.
The latest competition, the ANA Avatar XPRIZE, will award prize money to the top teams that create a multipurpose avatar system allowing the transfer of human experience and skills to places they are needed.
According to competition requirements, the robotic avatar system must enable remote seeing, hearing, and interaction with settings and people at least 100 kilometers away from the user.
Bridging the gap between distance, time and cultures
In a statement, Diamandis explained that having such an alternative to physical travel would allow "us to more rapidly and efficiently distribute skill and hands-on expertise to distant geographic locations where they are needed, bridging the gap between distance, time and cultures."
As mentioned earlier, there's a good chance the resulting technology could bring incredible changes to how humans experience sex, love, and intimacy.
Sex and the XPrize: teledildonics
There is growing mainstream interest in teledildonics, which is the long-distance communication of devices that exchange and send sexual touch between users. Most teledildonic devices today are in the form of haptic sex toys controlled through smartphone apps.
The ANA Avatar XPrize competition could give teledildonics a massive boost with significantly enhanced sensory quality and ease of use—a trickle-down effect gained from the higher-quality avatars developed as proxies for emergency workers and doctors.
More importantly, the ANA Avatar XPrize could allow people to experience, as Diamandis has already stated, other cultures with the added benefit of also giving people an opportunity to engage in sexual activities they might not be able to otherwise.
People with physical disabilities could also benefit from using the technology to give themselves added flexibility in interacting with the world and other people.
Then there's the possibility that it could give users a chance to become something more than themselves. Couple this technology with, say, gynoids or other sex robots and people could experience what it would be like to be another gender—or even create their own hybrid forms.
Finally, there's the idea that being able to become someone, or even something else, will help tear down prejudices by allowing people to expand their experiences and gain empathy.
Tech and our sexual futures
If this all seems like a stretch, keep in mind that Diamandis himself has already opined at Futurism about how technology will drive the next sexual revolution.
He has also stated that importance of not shying away from discussions how human sexuality:
"Sex is one of the most powerful, fundamental human drives. It's caused wars and built and destroyed kingdoms. It occupies a significant percentage of most people's thoughts. As such, it's worth a conversation about how exponential technologies will change our relationship with sex."
That we have the founder of such a the most forward-looking organization saying this is mind-blowing, especially in light of how people like Cindy Gallop are saying that the stigma against sex—especially women's sexuality—is holding back what could the next technological wave.
While Diamandis doesn't directly address his remote avatar competition in his article, he does expound on the impact of virtual reality. However, he's more cautious than optimistic, writing there is a chance it could lead people to prefer the artificial to the natural.
He does end on a more positive note, mentioning the sexual potential of VR and a remote robotic avatar system, especially for disabled people.
"Perhaps a bit of intimacy (if even technological) for those who are infirmed, aged, crippled and thereby alone," he wrote.
Will sex and pornography fund the future?
While Diamandis's article is not exactly positive and ends with a somewhat ableist tone, he does conclude with a prediction on what will finance the future of tech.
"One thing is for sure: as with every technology in history, from the printing press to VHS and the internet, pornography will be on the front line funding the advance of technology."
Image source: XPrize Foundation


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Jane Clare Cooper
Researcher and writer
The Canadian Nightingale
Bertha's Playlist
Illustrations from the Book
Who has been reading about Bertha?
Complete the puzzle yourself
1907: Metcalfe Wins the Cup!
Supporters of the hockey book
Private Sully Goes to War
Embroidering History
A Historical Tour of 1900 Metcalfe
1907: Metcalfe Wins the Cup!. Vernon, ON: Osgoode Township Museum, 2017. ISBN 978-1-927333-00-6. 14 pages.
1907: Metcalfe Wins the Cup! is the true story of the scrappy team from Metcalfe village that took home the trophy in the inaugural season of the Russell County Hockey Association, in 1907. Building on artifacts and photographs from the collections of the Osgoode Township Museum, Metcalfe Wins the Cup! tells the story of local classic hockey through colourful pictures and short texts aimed to appeal to young readers.
Available from the Osgoode Township Museum.
"Released to coincide with the NHL Classic game in Ottawa, this Canada 150 project is an entertaining and informative look at real classic hockey played in the Ottawa area 110 years ago." The Winchester Press.
"This book is very accessible, with lots of pictures, and bubbles with explanations, making it easy for people to get a sense of what this game was all about." Kristy Cameron on CFRA Newsfeed, December 9, 2017.
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See some of the many supporters of the book here.


This week on the show, Steve, Mike and Mike join together to discuss Midwest Media Expo, Transformers, HasCon, Bourne, Power Rangers, Television, Game of Thrones, Captain America Civil War, GI Joe and more! All this and more on another exciting episode of Altered Geek!
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ATTF v3.0 - 53 - Botcon 2016 - The LAST Conning of the Bots!


having points 1,2,3 and 4 we need to remove point 2 but keep point 3.
If it is greater that some delta - so we have visible shift. And we store point 1 and 3 in result set.
Next iteration will begin from point 3.
In any case - it works!
Just zoomin and out, and set different deltas(end press enter) to see how it works!
Пошел как-то Кащей Бессмертный топиться.
Развлекался, в общем, как мог!


If there is one athlete who put Asia on the map of the international sporting scene, it is boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao.
Pacquiao's in-ring achievements speak for itself as he is the only pugilist in history to capture major world titles in eight different weight classes and was long rated as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world by most sporting news and boxing websites.
However, boxing's popularity in the Asian region is slowly ebbing due to several factors, including Pacquiao's imminent exit from the sport and the growing reputation of another form of combat sport like mixed martial arts.
Boxing promoters such as Bob Arum of Top Rank tried to replicate Pacquiao's magic and rise to stardom with Chinese boxer Zou Shiming, but the 86-year-old American businessman failed to get the desired result.
As the demand for boxing continues to wane in Asia, the sport has found an unlikely ally in ONE Championship, a mixed martial arts organization that was established in Singapore seven years ago.
Already solidified itself as one of the premier mixed martial arts promotions in the world, ONE Championship has set its sights on boxing.
ONE Championship recently announced its partnership with Nakornloung Promotion to co-promote the world title defense of WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai in the main event of ONE: KINGDOM OF HEROES, which is set to take place at the Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand on October 6.
Sityodtong described the organization's venture into boxing as akin to ONE Championship's buoyant effort in elevating mixed martial arts in Asia.
"When we started seven years ago, nobody wanted to talk to us. They didn't even want to work with us. Of course, that changed eventually. We have experienced such exponential growth in all areas. If we could do for it mixed martial arts, we can do it for boxing as well," Sityodtong stated.
Since its inception in 2011, ONE Championship has taken mixed martial arts in Asia into greater heights, broadcasting to over 1.7-billion potential viewers across 136 countries around the world.
In line with ONE Championship's strategy of developing local and homegrown mixed martial arts athletes, the promotion ventured and scouted talents into new markets like Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, India and Vietnam as well as untapped areas of the Middle East, China and Russia.
Sityodtong attributes the promotion's success to its content and its extremely-loyal fans that are growing in number every single day.
"ONE Championship captures the essence of entertainment similar to a show in Las Vegas, but combines it with the sporting excellence of elite martial artists. It also breaks the mold of being a global sports media property that is based in Asia," he explained.
Sityodtong's claim was supported by Filipino boxing standout Jerwin Ancajas, who was at ringside to watch ONE: HEROES OF HONOR live in Manila, Philippines this past April.
Ancajas, the reigning IBF super flyweight titleholder, commended ONE Championship's work in its production and promotion of athletes.
"This is the first time I've watched a live mixed martial arts event. I've always watched it on TV, but it's a whole different experience seeing it live. I really had a delightful time. The production value is truly world-class," the boxer shared.
The 26-year-old native of Panabo City, Davao del Norte pointed out that ONE Championship's dive into the boxing scene would make a huge impact on the sport.
"ONE Championship is a huge promotion. It will be good for boxing because there are only few big boxing promoters in the Philippines and in Asia. This kind of support is needed, and should boxing have this kind of events, it will be a huge help for boxing in the region," Ancajas stressed.
Sityodtong admitted that he is fully aware of the vastness of boxing history in Asia, giving birth to boxers who left indelible legacies in the sport with the likes of Pacquiao, Gerry Peñalosa, Pancho Villa, Gabriel "Flash" Elorde, Chang Jung-Koo, Yoko Gushiken and Yuh Myung-Woo.
With ONE Championship trying its hand in boxing, Sityodtong believes that the organization will breathe new life into the sport in Asia to produce more top-notch pugilists.
"I consider ONE Championship as the caretaker of every form of martial arts in the world, including boxing. We will make sure that the new generation of boxers in Asia will be fully nurtured. The legacy that Manny Pacquiao and other boxing greats have created must continue. We are reaching out. We shall grow together," he ended.


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Kate Middleton looks regal and radiant in 40th birthday portraits
* Photographer Paolo Rovers shot the photos at Kew Gardens in London last November and they will enter the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, of which Kate is Patron
Forty and fabulous! In honor of Kate Middleton's 40th birthday this Sunday, Jan. 10, Kensington Palace has released three new portraits of the Duchess of Cambridge looking regal and more radiant than ever in three different Alexander McQueen dresses.
Photographer Paolo Rovers shot the photos at Kew Gardens in London last November and they will enter the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, of which Kate is Patron.
In one picture, Prince William's wife and mother of Prince George, 8, Princess Charlotte, 6 and Prince Louis, 3, wears a one-shoulder, ruffled red dress with pockets and diamond earrings from Queen Elizabeth II's collection. In another photo, Kate sports a white ruffled dress and diamond and pearl drop earrings that belonged to the late Princess Diana. A third image shows her wearing an off-the-shoulder white dress with side ties. In all three pics, the duchess' hair is styled in breezy waves.
"Taking the portrait of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was a true honor for me and a moment of pure joy," the photographer said, according to multiple outlets. "I was moved by her warmth and friendly welcome and enchanted by her shining eyes that reflected the loveliness of her soul and her smile showing the generosity of her heart."
He added, "It was a profound and rich experience for me, an unforgettable moment. I have met a wonderful person, a person who, with her positive energy, can bring hope to the whole world."
"Thrilled to welcome the new portraits into our Collection!" read an Instagram comment from the National Gallery.
Kate's new portraits were released a month after she wowed audiences at her first public musical performance as a royal. The duchess performed piano onstage with Scottish singer Tom Walker at the Royal Carols: Together at Christmas that was broadcast on Christmas Eve.
"Without doubt, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience," Walker said of their duet, per ITV, which aired the event. "I thought she absolutely smashed the performance; it's not easy to just jump behind a piano with a bunch of musicians you've never played with before and record live takes to camera, but she completely nailed it."
Earlier in December, Kate and William released a Christmas card showing them and their kids during a trip to Jordan that they took earlier in 2021.
The duchess will reportedly celebrate her 40th birthday in private with her family at their home in Norfolk, England.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — After an anemic first couple months of the season, the Dodgers are powering balls out of the stadium at a near record rate.
Max Muncy and Cody Bellinger each hit a solo home run, Joc Pederson added a two-run shot and Los Angeles defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-5 on Wednesday night.
The Dodgers improved to 17-6 in June and have slugged a major league-leading 51 homers this month. That's the second-most during any month in franchise history. With three days remaining, they have a chance to overtake last year's team that set the record with 53 while the single-season record of 58 in a month is within reach, too.
"It just seems like they're taking really good swings," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "When there's a mistake in the strike zone, we hit it hard."
The Dodgers hit 25 home runs in late March and April and 31 in May. The current surge is being generated by a variety of players.
"It's scary facing us," Bellinger said. "We're clicking right now."
After not homering in a 9-4 loss to the Cubs on Tuesday that snapped their four-game winning streak, the Dodgers got going early despite not having Matt Kemp in the lineup. The outfielder, who is hitting .311, served a one-game suspension after losing his appeal with Major League Baseball for a scuffle with Texas catcher Robinson Chirinos on June 13.
Muncy homered over the center-field wall in the first for his ninth long ball this month and 16th of the season. The ball hit something beyond the wall and bounced back onto the field, grazing center fielder Albert Almora Jr. in the head.
Later in the inning, Yasmani Grandal's two-run double with two outs gave the Dodgers the lead for good, 3-2.
Pederson followed in the second with his 10th homer of the month to make it 5-2. Enrique Hernandez extended the lead with an RBI single.
Alex Wood (4-5) allowed three runs and seven hits in seven innings to earn his third straight win. The left-hander struck out six and walked none, retiring the final seven batters he faced.
Kenley Jansen earned a four-out save, his 21st of the season.
Chicago made it close after Wood exited. He was replaced in the eighth by Scott Alexander, who walked Jason Heyward and gave up a single to Javier Baez before Willson Contreras hit a two-run double to pull the Cubs to 6-5.
Ben Zobrist grounded back to Alexander, putting the potential tying run on third, but Jansen came in and struck out Addison Russell to end the inning.
"The at-bats had great approaches," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. "I thought we hit the ball all over the place. Javy hit it to right and right center. Same with Contreras. Good approaches. We played our butts off, we just didn't get it."
Bellinger homered leading off the eighth against Randy Rosario, tying Muncy for the team lead with 16 homers and making it 7-5.
"I'm just searching right now, it's just bad," Hendricks said. "I don't know mechanics and I'm trying to focus mentally and go pitch-to-pitch. Something is just off. I've had troubles in my career, but this is up there as one of the toughest."
Chicago took the lead in the first on a two-run homer by Contreras.
In the fifth, Heyward reached on an infield single that Wood raced to pick up along the first base line. He flipped to Bellinger, and first base umpire Alan Porter signaled that Heyward was out. But the ball came loose and second baseman Logan Forsythe, backing up the play, fired to the plate. Ian Happ, who singled leading off, was called safe to leave the Cubs trailing 6-3.
Cubs: Chicago closer Brandon Morrow (lower back tightness) was activated off the DL. He had been sidelined since June 20 after experiencing back spasms while taking his pants off. ... RHP Tyler Chatwood will be available soon. Chatwood has been on paternity leave after his wife gave birth last Sunday.
Dodgers: RHP Walker Buehler (right rib microfracture) will throw three innings in a rehab start at Triple-A Oklahoma City on Thursday. If it goes well, he will have a bullpen session this weekend and could possibly return to the rotation next week. ... INF-OF Chris Taylor (left hamstring) wasn't in the lineup for the sixth straight day but pinch hit in the seventh and will start on Thursday.
Cubs LHP Jose Quintana (6-6, 4.26 ERA) starts the series finale against LHP Clayton Kershaw (1-4, 2.94). Quintana is better on the road (3.22 ERA) than at home (6.00). Making his second start since coming off the disabled list, Kershaw is 5-3 in nine career starts against Chicago with a 2.64 ERA.


When we reviewed the number of haunted hot spots at US colleges and 3 campuses stood out. We were surprised they were all in the Midwest. You'd think New England would win because it has the oldest colleges in the country. That's not the case.
The first campus on the list is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Normally, dorms and residence halls tend to have more haunted activity than classroom buildings. In Illinois' case, it's the classroom buildings and administration building that have the ghosts.
The most active areas on the campus are the English Building and Lincoln Building. You can also find some spirits toiling around the main quad, and elevators in the Natural Resource Building and the A.A. Harding Band Building.
The English Building seems to be the most haunted building. It used to be a girls dormitory. Now, the dorm has an urban legend attached to it. You see, there was a girl named Christie, who was murdered in her room. It's the "Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the lights?" tale: A roommate comes home late and doesn't want to wake her roommate, so she leaves the lights off. If she would have turned them on, she would have been murdered, too.
Anyway, Christie haunts the English Building to this day. There are always electrical anomalies and furniture can move by itself. Slamming doors are common. Some people believe there's another spirit in residence, Clarabelle. She haunts the top floor of the English Building. We're not sure why Clarabelle haunts the building.
Next door is the Lincoln Building, the home to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It has a female spirit that looks out windows on the upper floors. She has a very sad expression and she's only active after the building closes at night. Some people believe the ghost is a long-dead teaching assistant. Others say it's a young co-ed who jumped to her death from the top floor. This one's still open for debate.
Did we mention the ghost in the Psychology Building? It's known for unexplained cold spots, whispers and strange footsteps. No one says it's really haunted. It's just creepy and that makes your imagination run amok.
The first president of the university tends the haunt the quad. President Gregory has been known to appear as a wavy figure crossing the Kentucky Blue Grass lawn to get to Altgeld Hall. He'll wave at you as he hurries by you. There's nothing to fear from this spirit.
The elevators in the Natural Resource Building are the scariest and the hardest for ghostly data collection. In order to have an experience, you have to be in the building after it closes and you have to be alone. Then, the elevators will act like they have a mind of their own. They'll randomly stop on floors, or stop on every floor. They'll also ignore your floor selection. The doors may even remain open on a random floor and you'll have to take the stairs. No one knows who could haunt the elevators. There are no reports of deaths in the building. Maybe it's some sort of interdimensional energy?
In the A.A. Harding Band Building, the elevator will fill with the smell of cigars, even though no one has smoked in building for years. No one knows who could be the spirit in the elevators. There haven't been any suicides or murders in the building. The elevators are very creepy. It could be fun just to take a ride in them. Bring a digital camera, if you do: We want that evidence!
The next university on the list is Iowa State University.
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For a number of years in the late 1970s, Larry Rosenberg and I taught back-to-back classes in a church in Harvard Square. He would teach vipassana meditation (a Buddhist practice of mindfulness) from six to eight p.m. on Thursday evenings, and I followed with mindful hatha yoga from eight to ten. These were big classes–upwards of 50 to 100 people–and the idea was that everyone would take both. But Larry and I were always bemused by the fact that most of the people in the meditation class didn't want to do the hatha yoga, and most of the "yogis" didn't come for the meditation class.
We saw the hatha and meditation as different but complementary doors into what is ultimately the same room–namely learning how to live wisely. Only the view from the doorways was different. We had a definite sense that the meditators would have benefited from paying more attention to their bodies (they tended to dismiss the body as a low-level preoccupation). And the hatha yogis, we felt, would have benefited from dropping into stillness for longer stretches of time and observing the arising and passing away from moment to moment of mind/body experience in one sitting posture–interspersed with periods of walking meditation. We didn't push our view of this on either group, and we tried not to be too attached to who showed up for what, especially since we saw the essence of what we were both teaching as identical. Nonetheless, it was an interesting phenomenon.
Over the years, my own experiences of combining mindfulness meditation practices and hatha yoga into a seamless whole prompted me to experiment with different ways of bringing these ancient consciousness disciplines into contemporary mainstream settings. I wanted to explore their effectiveness in transforming health and consciousness. How might they be connected?
For one thing, the hatha yoga had the potential, I thought, to help reverse the huge prevalence of disuse atrophy from our highly sedentary lifestyle, especially for those who have pain and chronic illnesses. The mind was already known to be a factor in stress and stress-related disorders, and meditation was known to positively affect a range of autonomic physiological processes, such as lowering blood pressure and reducing overall arousal and emotional reactivity. Might not training in mindfulness be an effective way to bring meditation and yoga together so that the virtues of both could be experienced simultaneously as different aspects of one seamless whole? Mindfulness practice seemed ideal for cultivating greater awareness of the unity of mind and body, as well as of the ways that unconscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can undermine emotional, physical, and spiritual health.
This personal exploration led ultimately to developing a clinical service for medical patients in which we used relatively intensive training in mindfulness meditation practices based on the vipassana and zen traditions, along with mindful hatha yoga, with medical patients suffering with a wide range of chronic disorders and diseases. This program evolved into an eight-week-long course, now known as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
MBSR is now offered in over 200 medical centers, hospitals, and clinics around the world. Many of these programs are taught by physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists, as well as other health professionals who are seeking to reclaim and deepen some of the sacred reciprocity inherent in the doctor-caregiver/patient-client relationship. Their work is based on a need for an active partnership in a participatory medicine, one in which patient/clients take on significant responsibility for doing a certain kind of interior work in order to tap into their own deepest inner resources for learning, growing, healing, and transformation. Hatha yoga has played a large and critical role in this work from the very beginning, and many yoga teachers have been drawn to teach MBSR.
Through a seamless integration of mindfulness meditation and hatha yoga, MBSR taps into the innate potential for healing that we all have. It mobilizes our ability to cultivate embodied wisdom and self-compassion; and by so doing it teaches us to live our life and face whatever arises with integrity, clarity, and open-hearted presence.
Mindfulness lies at the very core of Buddhism in all its forms. Yet its essence is universal in that it is about refining attention and awareness. It is a powerful vehicle for cultivating deep insight into the ultimate causes of suffering and the possibility of liberation from that suffering. In that sense, it is exquisitely appropriate that such practices be readily accessible to a wide range of those who are faced with pain, stress, suffering, and uncertainty. What better place to offer such training than in hospitals, which function as dis-ease magnets in our society?
The ancient stream of hatha yoga practices is another of the great consciousness disciplines. My first taste came in 1967 at a karate school in Boston, where a young Viet Nam veteran named Tex was using it as a warm-up. I quickly fell in love with the yoga. I was training in the Zen tradition at the time, and the two seemed to complement each other perfectly. That conviction has only deepened over time.
The appeal of hatha yoga is nothing less than the life-long adventure and discipline of working with one's body as a door into freedom and wholeness. Hatha yoga was never about accomplishment or perfection, or even about technique by itself. Nor was it about turning one's body into an elaborate pretzel, although the athleticism that is possible in hatha yoga (if one can manage to steer clear of the shoals of narcissism) is a truly remarkable art form in its own right. Certainly, we are seeing a marvelous flowering of interest in many different kinds of hatha yoga in mainstream circles now. The question is, how mindful is it, and is this flowering oriented towards self-understanding, wisdom, and liberation–or is much of it just physical fitness dressed up in spiritual clothing?
To my mind, hatha yoga is potentially beneficial to huge numbers of people at every level of physical conditioning. In China, and in Chinese communities in America, you can see hundreds of people, most quite elderly, out in the early morning in city parks, practicing tai chi and qi gong, breathing the air, moving their bodies, and "playing" with inner and outer energies. If hatha yoga is to be accessible and meaningful in a similar way, beginners have to be encouraged to start wherever they find themselves, with an attitude of gentleness and kindness toward themselves. And they must be continually reminded that there is really no place they have to get to in any conventional sense. For mindful yoga is a yoga of wholeness that has nothing to do with what your body can or can't do in any given moment, or with how your posture looks. It has everything to do with the sincerity of your effort, with how awake you are in your life, and how embodied you are in the only moment in which you are ever alive–which is always now.
Mindful yoga is a lifetime engagement–not to get somewhere else, but to be where and as we actually are in this very moment, with this very breath, whether the experience is pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. The body will change a lot as we practice, from moment to moment, from day to day, and from year to year as we move though the different ages and stages of our lives–and so will our minds and our hearts and our views. But hopefully, whether a beginner or an old-timer, we are always reminding ourselves in our practice of the value of keeping this beginner's mind.
But what exactly do I mean by mindful yoga? After all, it is not a conventional yoga lineage or school, although some traditions, such as the viniyoga of T.K.V. Desikachar and Kripalu yoga have strong currents of it, and some hatha yoga teachers are also well-trained and deeply experienced vipassana or Zen teachers. Mindful yoga is a specific attitude and attentional stance that we bring to our practice, both on the mat and in daily life: namely, a refined moment-to-moment non-judgmental, non-striving attending to the entire range of our experience. This orientation is in complete accord with the core principles of yoga as a science of the body and its energies as well as an art of inquiry, exploration, human development, and ultimately liberation. The yoga of Patanjali is, after all, a complete sadhana in its own right, a profound and multi-faceted spiritual discipline.
Of course, the body dimension is only a small part of yoga although it gets the most press. Nevertheless, through our work with medical patients and people in various work settings (from law offices, to schools, to businesses, to professional athletes) we find that hatha yoga and its emphasis on the body through asana has unique virtues: it is extremely valuable as one cornerstone of a comprehensive mindfulness-based mind/body approach to reducing stress and enhancing health. It leads to a sense of well-being, effectiveness at work, and ongoing spiritual development.
Doing any exercise or workout mindfully turns it into meditation practice, no matter the speed at which it is done. In mindful yoga, we teach hatha yoga as a form of meditation. Within the primary focus on inhabiting the poses themselves, the postures (and flowing movements into and out of them) become occasions to cultivate a seamless continuity of awareness and discernment, just as one would in a traditional meditation posture.
In mindful yoga exquisite attention is paid to the body and body sensations (which are so rich because of the various configurations the body assumes and rests in during asana practice). But our field of awareness also includes the full spectrum of thoughts, moods, and emotions, obvious and subtle that are part of the interior landscape in any given moment. Allowing the field of awareness to be inclusive enough to contain our feeling states (however neutral, joyful, or painful they may be) expands our ability to become intimate with our own heart as well as our body. It allows us to experience the connection between emotions, thoughts, and sensations in the body, often in specific and meaningful locations. It invites us over and over again to observe the arising and passing away of sensations and thoughts and emotions like clouds or full-blown weather patterns within the all-embracing sky-like spaciousness of awareness, and to observe our reactions to them. And in making a gesture of this magnitude, moment by moment, as we practice in any posture, for any length of time, we may actually experience ourselves as being larger than we think we are, larger than our feeling states and our thinking mind. We may experience our essential self as being more akin to awareness itself, and we can listen to our thoughts and feelings and come to know them as events in the field of this awareness.
What is more, however painful or seductive our experience in any moment, even as we are doing the postures, we can begin to observe right then and there (which is always here and now) how easily we are caught in prisons of our own creation through a strong self-identification with our thoughts and feelings. We can begin to see that we can actually choose not to get caught identifying with them or with the body (or to see it when we do, for we invariably do). In this way, we cultivate both insight and equanimity. Mindfulness of our emotions lies at the heart of what is now known as "emotional intelligence"; it is a key ingredient in recognizing the wholeness of our being, its beauty in our relationship to others, and to the world and its fleeting nature.
In a hospital or clinical setting, mindful yoga is consistently gentle and inviting. Whether standing or on the floor, its orientation is grounded in mobilizing the body to move into a posture to whatever degree might be possible, lingering within it in a spirit of "taking up residence" for awhile in this perhaps totally unfamiliar space, and cultivating a high degree of non-reactive intimacy with the full spectrum of breath and body sensations, thoughts and feelings that may be arising from moment to moment. This includes experiencing the body's limits in any given moment within the posture, wherever they happen to be. Then, at one's own pace, usually quite slowly, one moves out of it, maintaining mindfulness from moment to moment, into a neutral posture such as the corpse pose.
This approach to hatha yoga makes it possible for those with a wide range of chronic conditions (including various kinds of pain such as low back pain, neck and shoulder pain, and arthritis) to explore the boundaries of their range of motion and their limiting ideas about their own bodies. Using this exploration as the object of meditative awareness, our patients often discover that they can reclaim far more movement and comfort than they ever thought possible because they have shifted from a fear-based mode of relating to the body to a gentle adventure-based mode. As a result, their confidence builds as they become more familiar with the interior landscape of body and mind–the thoughts and emotions related to the body as well as the sensations within it.
As we explore the boundaries of the body (and mind) through mindful hatha yoga, we readily discover that they are often much less fixed and permanent than we had thought. This is in itself a profound revelation. It shows us the limits of our tacit thought patterns (and the emotional charge they can carry) about how inadequate the body is–or how great. But this kind of attention is not merely for those who have medical problems and their attendant limitations, or for out-of-shape beginners. This quality of attention can transform the experience of hatha yoga practice at any and every level of physical fitness and proficiency.
Mindfulness of breathing is, of course, an essential dimension of this practice. The breath becomes an ever-present, ever-available anchor for the attention and a vehicle for helping us locate, feel, and give ourselves over to the sensations in the body. Paying exquisite attention to the breath in any asana or movement reveals the life of the breath within the body in all its beauty and complexity. The sensations of renewal and expansion that accompany each inbreath as well as those of release (and sometimes relief) that are present with each outbreath become infinitely more vivid. And these sensations, especially on the outbreath, can be powerfully felt in both body and mind as built-up tension in particular regions releases and dissolves. And along with this awareness of breath and body can come a profound sensitivity to the air around the body, bathing and caressing the envelope of the skin.
With mindfulness even the simplest yoga asanas promote greater intimacy with and appreciation for one's body. The basic invitation is to move gently and with exquisite attention to wherever one finds a limit or a boundary, whether the posture is evoking strength, flexibility, balance, or (most usually) a combination of all three. The challenge is to be with the breath all along the way, dwelling in this side of the boundary and exploring it in stillness and through the more subtle dimensions of sensation and movement that accompany the inbreath and outbreath.
We attend to all sensations moment by moment as breath and sensations interact in regions of the body most energized by the posture. And, to a degree we, attend as well to all the other regions that are not involved, since the body is one indivisible whole in every moment. Thus, we refine an awareness of the body as a whole from moment to moment, breath by breath. Every posture then becomes its own universe. Every time one comes to it, it will seem different and therefore new, fresh, mysterious, and potentially revelatory.
It is important to see such a practice as a way of life and to nourish it regularly, daily if possible, both on the mat and in the ways we carry ourselves in everyday life. On the mat we attempt to work from a place of non-striving, even as we continually listen to what the configuration of the posture is telling us and make adjustments accordingly. We simply settle in where we find ourselves for a stretch of time–it could be outside of clock time altogether if we let go into what Krishnamurti called "choiceless awareness." We work in this way as best we can without a spirit of competition, either with others or with ourselves through our idealizations of what we "should" be able to do or look like or feel like. Instead, we give ourselves over to experiencing things as they actually are in this very moment and drop into unconditional acceptance, total surrender to what is. And we always err on the side of being conservative, with a spirit of letting the yoga do (and undo) us rather than thinking that we are doing the yoga. In this way, we minimize the possibility of injury, even tiny muscle pulls that can occur when the mind gets overly enthusiastic and stops listening to the body.
Intentionally cultivating mindfulness within our hatha practice invites us to inhabit the postures more fully. We become aware of what is technically called "proprioception," the body giving itself feedback on how and where one part of it is in relation to the whole, and to what the overall status of the whole is in time and space. It is the body intelligence, the body knowing itself, feeling itself. And we watch what happens moment by moment as we respond to our own intuition about where the posture is pointing (or to our instructor's suggestions) by adjusting or shifting in ways we might not otherwise have chosen or even seen. We dwell in this interior landscape as best we can without forcing or striving. And if such impulses come up, as they sometimes do with exasperating persistence, we can at least greet them without judgment and with kindness and acceptance.
The implication is obvious. We can potentially benefit in profound and unexpected ways from inviting the mindfulness dimension inherent in the practice of yoga to blossom, whatever our "level" of practice might be. Through mindful yoga we can come to see how much the mind's incessant noise, the vritti (fluctuations of mind), keep us from being truly in touch with and accepting things as they are in the body and in the world. And we can come to know how valuable it is to recognize the waves of the mind for what they are and hold them in awareness without losing touch with the silence and the stillness, the heart of yoga that is always lying beneath the surface of the mind. It is available to us in any moment we can relax our judging and our striving, and surrender to clear seeing and awakening.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is the author of Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, and co-author, with his wife, Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.
Copyright © 2003 Yoga International. Reprinted with permission from Yoga International, www.yimag.org, 952 Bethany Turnpike, Honesdale, PA 18431-9718. 570.253.4929.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is the recipient of the 2005 Infinity Foundation Award and will be the keynote speaker at Infinity's benefit May 7, 2005. On May 8, he will be giving a workshop on Coming to Your Senses. For ticket information call 847.831.8828 or infinityfoundation.org.


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Silvia Yong is the Associate Artistic Director of T.H.E Second Company, the youth training company of T.H.E Dance Company (T.H.E). She is also one of the founding members of T.H.E, and has performed in most of the company's works since its establishment in September 2008.
Trained in Contemporary Dance and Chinese Classical Dance, Silvia's career began with the People's Association Dance Company in 1990. She was a principal dancer with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Singapore from 2000 to 2004. Silvia has also been invited to work with local and regional dance companies and artists including the Arts Fission Company (Singapore), ECNAD (Singapore), E-Side Modern Dance Company (Hong Kong), and "Xin" Dance Workshop (Malaysia).
She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Dance Education and Training from the London Contemporary Dance School, as well as a Masters of Arts in Contemporary Dance under the NAC Arts Bursary awarded by the National Arts Council of Singapore.
In addition to teaching at School of the Arts Singapore (SOTA), Silvia has taught at National University of Singapore Dance Synergy and Anderson Junior College Dance Society, and has lectured part-time at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA).
Silvia is also the creator of several original works on a collaborative basis in Singapore namely Simple Trouble (1993), Simple Trouble II (1995) and in Malaysia, Beyond the Window (2002). Her choreographic works received Gold with Honours at the Singapore Youth Festival (2005, 2007 & 2009) and the 21st Century International Dance Festival in West Malaysia, and received the 1st degree award in Contemporary Dance at the Barcelona Dance Award 2010 in Spain.


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After 6 years together, WWE power couple Nikki Bella and John Cena have ended their relationship.
The couple, who got engaged last year at Wrestlemania 33, released a statement online to ET announcing that they were going their separate ways and calling off their wedding:
"After much contemplation and 6 years of being together Nikki Bella and John Cena announced today their decision to separate as a couple," read a statement posted to Bella's Instagram account. "While this decision was a difficult one, we continue to have a great deal of love and respect for one another. We ask that you respect our privacy during this time in our lives."
John Cena opened up about his relationship with Bella to US Weekly magazine last month, which led to speculation of trouble in paradise…
"Relationships are hard. Don't ever think that love is easy. Love is beautiful, but we've had to come to the realization after being together for five years that love is not easy," Cena said. "We work every day on us. We have our problems just like everybody else. Some of our problems are very public, some of them aren't. But we work every day on us. Anytime I get upset, I always just realize that I can't live without her and I love her and that's why I cave in on a lot of stuff."
Best wishes to both John Cena and Nikki Bella during this difficult time.
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Are you looking for a great way to spend time with your family? A weekend brunch at home will give you the perfect occasion for some cosy, quality time. Keep everything easy, relaxed and enjoy delicious food that you can snack on all morning – it's the weekend after all! And once you are all full, keep everyone entertained with games or get some fresh air with outdoor activities or sports.
The weekend is finally here! And what better way to spend it, than with all your friends, over a fun and relaxing brunch. Set the mood with your favourite brunch playlist, bring in extra chairs, big cushions and enjoy bite-size dishes, as you hang out and lounge all day. Have a few games or quizzes lined up to keep the fun going as you are chatting and snacking away on those lovely brunch dishes.
Anything goes! That's right! Be innovative and try new flavour combinations for your brunch with a great mixture of sweet, salty and savoury snacks that will surprise and delight your guests.


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As uusual, there were many releases this weeks and here is one I like in particular! Serving as the ending theme for the anime adaptation of Gunslinger Stratos is MIRAI by GARNiDELiA!
This display at Akihabara Gamers is really well made, and I just had to take a picture of it. MIRAI consists of the title track, the dance number PINK CAT and the insert song pledge! First print copies comes with the MV for MIRAI, as well as PRIDE from the 1st album! I really liked this single, I hope you guys will be getting it too!


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Also this week, we had yet another case of tech exuberance, as internet users prematurely interpreted an announcement by a Hangzhou-based chip company as a sign of a sudden and historic breakthrough freeing China from European and American obstacles.
In early August, two former monks at Beijing's Longquan Monastery (龙泉寺) posted a 95-page academic-style paper online in which they exposed various rumors within the Buddhist order. Called "Report on Matters of Importance" (重大情况汇报), the paper alleged repeated sexual harassment by the monastery's abbot, Xuecheng, of numerous nuns. The paper has since been removed from the internet in China. On August 15, the Buddhist Association of China posted a notice to its website saying that a recent conference had decided to accept the resignation of Xuecheng from his post as association president and all other positions in the organization. The notice, which emphasized that the group was guided by "Xi Jinping Thought of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era," made no direct mention of the allegations against Xuecheng, who is a Communist Party member.
On August 14, Xinhua Daily, the official Party mouthpiece of the CCP provincial committee in Jiangsu province, published an article called "Raising Birth Rates: New Tasks for Population Development in the New Era" (提高生育率:新时代中国人口发展的新任务), which said that the birth rate in China was down 15-20 percent in the first half of 2018, and that in the next 2-3 years China's birth rate would be in steady decline.
The Mingin post clocked more than 100,000 reads, and was quickly shared by other media on the WeChat platform.
On August 13, Qianjiang Evening News, a local Hangzhou newspaper, cooled off expectations about the domestic 7 nm chip, saying that "China's high-end chip sector still has a long road to go." The National Business Daily reported that while China may be able to design a 7nm chip, mainland Chinese enterprises would as yet be unable to mass produce them, and for this would require the services of Taiwanese original equipment manufacturers because advanced laser lithography is still a major bottleneck.
New Media (网络传播), a magazine published by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) reported through its official WeChat account on August 16 that the CAC had organized 567 websites to publicly promote newly implemented systems through which members of the public can inform on cases of illegal and harmful information. According to the report, this is actually the fifth batch of websites to announce their reporting systems.
Websites in this group of 567 include news websites, commercial websites, government websites and community forums as well as search engines, online commerce sites, video-sharing platforms. Websites on the list included, for example, the widely-used map site Amap, and the music video and social platform Tik Tok.
The China Center for Reporting of Illegal and Harmful Online Information (中国互联网违法和不良信息举报中心) was formed in August 2005, and in May 2014 was placed under the newly-formed Cyberspace Administration of China.
On August 16, Xinhua News Agency, the People's Daily, The Paper and other state-run news media issued harsh criticisms of the writings of "online celebrity" Chen Jieren (陈杰人), an independent blogger from Hunan province who was arrested in June. The reports alleged that Chen's crimes were "of the nature of online criminal forces" (网上黑恶势力性质的) with a "clan dynamic" (家族式). Chen was also quoted as having "confessed" his crimes.
Chen's lawyer, Tong Zongjin (仝宗锦), responded to these allegations in a statement posted to his WeChat public account, where it was quickly deleted, though it was shared elsewhere as a long image file. On July 7 this year, authorities in Hunan province announced that criminal compulsory measures (刑事强制措施) were being taken against Chen for "illegal business activities," "extortion" and other crimes.


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Enemy of the New Silk Road Paradigm: Saudi Genocide in Yemen
Posted on September 18, 2017	by LaRouche Irish Brigade
Destroyed house in the south of Sanaa. Photo: Mr. Ibrahem
New revelations on the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, pose the imperative: the ongoing Saudi genocide against Yemen must stop; the Saudi-related networks perpetrating such crimes against humanity must be brought down. Acting on this, opens the way wide for the entire world, including the Mideast, to participate in the New Silk Road—the Belt and Road Initiative—development drive, which is the necessary "peace through development" process needed to end the perpetual warfare in the region.
What is required, is the creation of an international investigative commission into Saudi Arabia's actions against Yemen, and a set of immediate actions. China this week, indicated its support for such an investigation, and a "political" solution.
Stop the Saudi bombing and all other attacks on Yemen.
Stop the Saudi blockade of Yemen's ports.
Stop all outside interference in Yemen, to allow a return to the process of negotiation which existed before the start of the bombing, to proceed to resolution of domestic differences.
Provide immediate food, water, sanitation, medical, power, public health, and all other social relief in full.
Provide any and all other humanitarian and economic aid urgently required, especially for transportation, shelter and logistics.
Initiate stand-by preparations for international collaboration to re-build Yemen, and welcome its participation in the development drive of the 'Maritime Silk Road' of Eurasia-Africa.
Yet Britain has blocked every attempt at even an international investigative commission, while the UK and the United States continue to supply arms to the Saudi "Coalition" perpetrating the criminal assault. On the American side, the very same backers of Saudi crimes are working to bring down the duly elected government of President Donald Trump. In turn, these interconnect with the British sponsors of the Saudi royalty, going back to the founding of the Saudi Kingdom.
SEE: Shut Down the London/Saudi Terror Network
New Evidence; Bob Mueller Complicit
The new 9/11 revelations, which came out on the eve of the 16th anniversary of the attack, concern specifically evidence of direct Saudi government involvement in the 1999-2001 preparation of the aircraft attacks—including a "dry run" flight attempt in 1999, and show a pattern of cover-up by then FBI-Director Robert Mueller. This is the same Bob Mueller who ran the "Get LaRouche Task Force" in the 1980s, and now leads the investigation-assault against Pres. Donald Trump today, on the bogus charge of Russian interference in the U.S. election.
The new, damning documentation comes in a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, filed in New York Federal District Court, by a group of families of 9/11 victims. These plaintiffs have filed an amended complaint, citing FBI documents, showing that the Saudi government employed and financed two Saudi "students" in the U.S.— Mohammed al-Qudhaeein and Hamdan al-Shalawi—whose attempts to gain access to the cockpit of an America West flight from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., in November, 1999, were of such a threatening nature that the plane made an emergency landing in Ohio.
The two were arrested when the plane landed, and questioned by the FBI, but were released. The FBI later "discovered" that the two had been trained in Afghanistan, had regular contacts with one of the Saudi hijacker-pilots and a senior al Qaeda leader from Saudi Arabia, now held in the Guantanamo prison; were employed by the Saudi government; and were in "frequent contact" with Saudi officials while in the U.S., including attending a symposium hosted by the Saudi Embassy and chaired by the Saudi Ambassador. The Saudi Embassy even paid for the pair's tickets for the "dry-run" flight.
There is also new attention to the attempted cover-up by then-FBI Director Robert Mueller, which puts him into the spotlight for his role against Trump today. At the time of the investigation by the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11, Mueller prevented the Congressional investigators from interrogating an FBI informant, Abdussattar Shaikh, who had harbored two of the 9/11 Saudi hijackers in San Diego before the attack. Mueller removed Shaikh to an undisclosed location so he couldn't be questioned, defying even a Congressional subpoena for his testimony. Sen. Bob Graham, Co-Chairman of the Joint Congressional Inquiry, thinks that Mueller acted on authority of the White House, indicating the Bush family's alignment with British/Saudi geopolitical crimes.
Yemen—Stop the Carnage; Investigate the Crimes
In Yemen today the death and destruction are solely at the hands of Saudi Arabia. The latest U.N. report (Sept. 5) estimates the civilian death toll at at least 5,500 in the past two-and-a-half years (over 10,000 deaths total); with thousands more injured. Cholera cases have exceeded 600,000, with at least 2,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Water and sanitation services have been devastated. Millions are dislocated. There are at least 19 million people in need of humanitarian aid, and over 7 million in desperate need of food. But the Saudis are blocking relief shipments. The Saudis have bombed multiple hospitals, schools and social gatherings. Britain and the U.S. are supplying arms; the U.S. is providing re-fueling and surveillance. In releasing details, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Sept. 5 that Yemenis are suffering from "an entirely man-made catastrophe." On Sept. 11, for the third time in three years, Commissioner Zeid asked the U.N. Human Rights Council (of 47 nations) to launch an investigation into violations of international humanitarian law.
On Sept. 13 at a Geneva meeting of the Council, China and several other nations indicated their willingness to back such an international inquiry into the atrocities in Yemen. The Chinese delegate said of the idea, that, "We agree with the moves, including the COI [Commission of Inquiry], to promote the political solving of the Yemen crisis." Canada and the Netherlands provided a draft text for the Council to establish a COI. But Britain and the U.S. opposed it; Saudi Arabia and cohort nations boycotted the discussion altogether.
Rescue, Rebuild
As horrible as the destruction of life is in Yemen, it is not a "special case." It expresses British/American policy over the past 60 years, of perpetual war under various banners: regime change, R2P (Responsibility to Protect,) human rights, and other lies. Look at the series of battleground nations: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Yemen. Syria has been able to resist, with the assistance of Russia. Before that, Vietnam. This must stop.
We can now break with this horrible legacy, and its perpetrators, whose system opposes the general welfare. We can join together in the policy of the New Silk Road, whose capability and intent to serve the common good of mankind, are evident in the way that millions of people in many nations, are collaborating in projects of mutual benefit.
In the United States, there is a new, deep wave of compassion for humanity, and will for development, in the aftermath of the devastation in the Americas from the hurricanes and Mexican earthquake. Americans are looking forward to the economic projects which must be done for the future, and looking back, on how essential projects were not done—flood defenses, water systems, advanced power infrastructure, space-based climate analysis—because they were claimed to be too "costly," given the U.S. commitment to the various wars, from Vietnam, to Afghanistan, to Iraq, and now Yemen.
No more. Never again. We now can rescue and rebuild.
The first version of the above statement was issued Sept. 12; it was updated Sept. 16, 2017
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La Parva
La Parva is one of the three ski resorts that are only 50 kilometers from Santiago. It is characterized by its courts, restaurants and activities that take place throughout the year.
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Summit: 3.720 mts / 12.205 ft
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Located about 2000 meters above sea level, La Parva stands out in the Three Valleys (El Colorado, Valle Nevado and La Parva) as perhaps the most exclusive of the 3 and the one that receives the least international visitors. This is because it works more like an exclusive ski club than a ski resort (not that it does not work as such) due to the large number of condominiums that exist, whose owners are mainly wealthy families from Santiago. Most owners ski in the morning and during the afternoon settle in their magnificent terraces to share with friends and family, which is great for the average skier, since the center is rarely congested.
The resort is medium in size, with a vertical drop of 960 meters and many areas for beginners and intermediate (basically 75% of the resort are blue or red tracks). The resort has a small snow park that year after year has been improving but still cannot conduct international competitions although they work constantly to exceed the level.
For the more advanced, there are several black tracks and plenty of areas off the accessible tracks of the ski resort. Some years ago, La Parva opened the Valle de Fabres area within its ski area but preserved in its natural state.
Experts can access the chimney, a ravine with a very narrow and steep entry whose greatest grace is that it is in full view of everyone, so you can go show everybody what you're made of (or give a good show, if you fall).
The resort has 16 cable cars, of which 5 are chairs and they all are slow (the resort does not have any express cable car). To eat on the mountain, we have the famous 3100, so named because it is located at 3,100 meters above sea level. Here you will find mainly sandwiches, beer and drinks. It's not an amazing restaurant and like everything else in the mountains of Chile, it is quite expensive.
At the base, near the condominiums, we find La Marmita de Pericles, with international food and tables with towels. Near the Marmita is also the Saint-Tropez, specializing in French cuisine.
On the slopes we also have the Olimpico Cafe, whose owner is the famous Patricia Anguita who was director of the ski school of La Parva for many years, mother of prominent Chilean Olympic skiers and last but not least is the current president of the Chilean Ski Federation. In this cafe, we can find a varied menu, with pizzas, tables, dishes and drinks. It is located next to the ski school at (Golondrina sector). In the Águilas sector we find two more restaurants: El Mirador del Cóndor and La Pirca del Águila.
La Parva is a pure wonder: the most uncongested of the 3 resorts and with excellent access to the track. It has a good ski school, with teachers who have national and international certifications, will make your lessons an experience to remember.
In terms of accommodation, La Parva works as a condo so if you want to rent something, you should do it for an entire week because it's rare to find flexible rentals (although not impossible). Most of the tourists stay in Farellones due to the ease and offer we can find there, and also many of the accommodations offer free transportation from Farellones to La Parva.


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