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SignalP 4.0 server predicts the presence and location of signal peptide cleavage sites in amino acid sequences from different organisms: Gram-positive prokaryotes, Gram-negative prokaryotes, and eukaryotes. The method incorporates a prediction of cleavage sites and a signal peptide/non-signal peptide prediction based on a combination of several artificial neural networks.
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Let's Get to...The Videos VHS je australske pjevačice Kylie Minogue. Objavljen je nakon njenog albuma Let's Get to It. Na njemu su 4 videospota za pjesme s albuma Rhythm of Love, dva videospota za pjesme s albuma Let's Get to It'' te materijal snimljen iza pozornice.

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and you sang an awful song.
oh yes, we all saw through.
But I was still the last to know.
Get out my dreams, I said.
I never want to look at you.
I never want to think about you.
when all your masks were worn.
to catch a heart unborn.


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package net.liquidpineapple.pang;

import javazoom.jl.decoder.JavaLayerException;
import javazoom.jl.player.Player;

import net.liquidpineapple.pang.logger.Logger;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Random;

import javax.sound.sampled.Clip;
import javax.sound.sampled.LineEvent;
import javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException;
import javax.sound.sampled.UnsupportedAudioFileException;

/**
 * Audiosystem for the application. Plays the background music.
 *
 * @author Govert de Gans
 * @date 2016-09-22
 */

public class AudioSystem {

  private static Player player;
  private static String loopingSound = "";
  private static boolean isRunning;
  private static boolean playMusic = true;
  private static HashMap<String, byte[]> cachedEffects = new HashMap<>();
  private static HashSet<String> effectsPlaying = new HashSet<>();
  private static Random rng = new Random();

  /**
   * Start the background music loop.
   */
  public static void start() {
    playMusic = true;
    new Thread(AudioSystem::playLoop, "AudioSystem").start();
  }

  private static void playLoop() {
    isRunning = true;
    byte[] buffer = null;
    try {
      String currentLoop = "";
      while (true) {
        if (!currentLoop.equals(loopingSound)) {
          BufferedInputStream resourceStream = new BufferedInputStream(
              Application.class.getResourceAsStream(loopingSound));
          buffer = new byte[resourceStream.available()];
          resourceStream.read(buffer);
          currentLoop = loopingSound;
        }

        if (buffer != null && playMusic) {
          Logger.info("Music loop is running");
          player = new Player(new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer));
          player.play();
        }
      }
    } catch (JavaLayerException | IOException ex) {
      Logger.error("The AudioSystem has crashed.", ex);
    }
    isRunning = false;
  }

  /**
   * Change the looping background music to another file.
   *
   * @param newLoopingSound {@link String} URL to the new looping sound.
   */
  public static void changeLoopingSound(String newLoopingSound) {
    if (!loopingSound.equals("") && isRunning && player != null) {
      player.close();
    }
    loopingSound = newLoopingSound;
  }

  /**
   * Stops the music from playing.
   */
  public static void stop() {
    playMusic = false;
    try {
      player.close();
    } catch (NullPointerException ex) {
      Logger.warning("Attempted to close player but was null");
    }
  }

  /**
   * Method to play a soundeffect.
   *
   * @param soundEffect The {@link SoundEffect} you want to play
   */
  public static void playEffect(SoundEffect soundEffect) {
    playEffect(soundEffect, true, 1);
  }

  /**
   * Plays a sound effect.
   *
   * @param soundEffect  The {@link SoundEffect} you want to play
   * @param allowOverlap Decides if this sound can play while the same sound is already playing
   * @param numSounds    The number of different versions of  this sound effect to choose from.
   */
  public static void playEffect(SoundEffect soundEffect, boolean allowOverlap, int numSounds) {
    String name = soundEffect.getName();
    if (!allowOverlap && effectsPlaying.contains(name)) {
      return;
    }

    String path;
    if (numSounds > 1) {
      int num = rng.nextInt(numSounds);
      path = "/sounds/" + name + num + ".wav";
    } else {
      path = "/sounds/" + name + ".wav";
    }
    Logger.info("Playing sound effect " + path);
    byte[] buffer;
    if (!cachedEffects.containsKey(path)) {
      try {
        BufferedInputStream inputStream =
            new BufferedInputStream(Application.class.getResourceAsStream(path));
        buffer = new byte[inputStream.available()];
        inputStream.read(buffer);
        cachedEffects.put(path, buffer);
        Logger.info("Loaded sound file " + path);
      } catch (IOException ex) {
        Logger.error("An exception was thrown while reading a sound file", ex);
      }
    }

    playTheSound(path, name);
  }

  private static void playTheSound(final String path, final String name) {
    effectsPlaying.add(name);
    new Thread(() -> {
      byte[] buffer = cachedEffects.get(path);
      try {
        Clip clip = javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem.getClip();
        clip.open(javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(
            new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer)));

        clip.addLineListener((lineEvent) -> {
          if (lineEvent.getType() == LineEvent.Type.STOP) {
            effectsPlaying.remove(name);
            clip.close(); // close resources when clip is finished.
          }
        });
        clip.start();
      } catch (UnsupportedAudioFileException ex) {
        Logger.error("The AudioSystem tried to play an unsupported audio file", ex);
      } catch (LineUnavailableException | IOException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
      } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
        Logger.error("Your system cannot play the specified audio file", ex);
      }
    }).start();
  }
}

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I'm experiencing a strange issue that's got me banging my head against the wall. Running the latest version of MySensors and the latest MYS bootloader, nodes start to send in corrupt readings after a period of time.
Restarting / rebooting the nodes doesn't help, only a restart of the gateway seems to resolve the issue.


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Q: Publishing paid application on Android market I need to publish a paid Android application. This means that the application is not free for download, payment is required before the user can download.
Can anyone help with the steps that I need to follow to achieve this?

A: Android's official site has all the explanations.

A: Have you read the Android Market help on the topic? It seems pretty exhaustive...
If you have any specific issues, it would help if you published them here to get the right answer.
If you are not eligible for a Google Merchant Account, you might consider hiring a proxy company.

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The ENERGY STAR® for New Homes Builder of the Year (Large Volume) award recognizes Minto Communities' commitment in 2018 to building and labeling ENERGY STAR® qualified large volume homes. The Leader of the Year award went to the company's Sustainability Project Manager, Roya Khaleeli, for her commitment, advocacy and leadership in driving the growth of energy efficient housing in Ontario.
"We're proud to be acknowledged for our commitment to green building and creating thoughtful spaces for our homeowners across Canada," says Roya Khaleeli, Sustainability Project Manager, Minto Communities. "Being recognized with the New Homes Builder of the Year (large volume) award for the fourth time since 2014 is a testament to our dedication to building homes that are healthier, more comfortable, and more energy efficient."
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How to Select and Work With a Composer for Your Film
Sam Fegan
Filmmaking Advice, From the Vault
Written by Kristin Cotts
Here are some thoughts based on an outline I created for a round table discussion for Women in Film Chicago, with some inspiration from the discussion and correspondence that followed.
Kristin Cotts working in the studio.
The first question to ask yourself regarding music for your film is whether or not you need it at all. Most of the time, the answer to this question is, "Yes, of course." However, by considering whether music needs to exist at all, this will help to bring into focus the role of music and sound in your film. Once you have decided you need music, you can start thinking about where you want it, and how much, in addition to what kind of sound you want, what emotion you want to convey, and what point of view the music will be taking in your film. At this point, these are questions to consider, but you do not have to have a definitive answer to any of them. It is the composer's job to help you answer them as you begin the process of working together.
When looking for a composer, I think the most important thing to look for is that the two of you communicate effectively with one another. Experience and musical style are not insignificant, but a composer's ability to help you articulate your vision for your film is paramount. Discuss your vision and ask her what she thinks about it—what it means to her as a spectator and as an artist. Pay attention to the kinds of questions she asks. This sort of connection matters more than the length of her resumé or the number of awards she has won.
One choice you'll have to make is whether you want to use live or electronic instruments. It is much cheaper to have your composer create sounds using computer software rather than having them recorded live in the studio. However, you might decide you'd rather have the visceral sound of a couple of live instruments. Some styles of music lend themselves to electronic instruments much more than others. Sweeping orchestral scores are much easier to create on a computer than rock band scores, but jazz and blues really benefit from real musicians with real instruments making the music. You can also do a combination of live and electronic instruments, which will help to add depth and contour to the musical mosaic of your film.
Breakfast at Ina's Premiere Chicago International Film Festival, Kristin Cotts (right) and director Mercedes Kane (left).
When explaining to your composer what you are looking for, imagine you are talking to an actor. If you are making a narrative film, you may want to use a lot of the same adjectives you use when speaking to actors. You do not need to know musical terms or even identify instruments. Rather, you want to be as specific as possible in describing the emotions you are looking to convey. Do not assume the composer knows what you are trying to elicit from watching the scene. Music can completely change the emotional statement you are making. Is the woman sad because her dog died, or does the dog symbolize the end of an abusive relationship and thus a new chapter of her life? Music changes everything.
At this point, you should also really get into the concept of point of view. Whose point of view does the music adopt in each scene? An omniscient commentator? One of the characters in the scene? A non-human thing like an oncoming storm? At the end of The Terminator, when Arnold Schwarzenegger is driving a truck and chasing Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn, the action is seen from the Terminator's point of view, but the music is following the fear and movement of his prey. This sort of tension between the music and the action can be very powerful.
In narrative film, one of the most enjoyable challenges for a composer is moving effectively between dialogue and action scenes and back again—creating tension, excitement, romance, or any other variety of landscapes—and then stepping back so as not to interfere with the dialogue. Generally, composers will use faster, more intricate, melodic lines during action sequences, and then move to sustained notes during dialogue to prevent taking attention away from what is being said.
In documentaries, the convention is to have richer, more complex music over the B-roll, and sustained notes or no music at all when people are speaking. I have, however, scored a film where the director asked me to have music only during the interviews and none during the B-roll. It was a documentary about a restaurant, and she wanted to emphasize the sounds of clinking glasses and china, the hum of conversation, and the shouts of the staff. It was an interesting challenge that ended up working very well.
Working on an arrangement for singer-songwriter Jenny Bienemann with Quartet Parapluie.
In experimental films, anything goes. But as always, music changes everything.
Finally, when thinking about music for a film, filmmakers will often turn to the music or performers they know and love already. Many film composers are used to replicating the sound of something that already exists, and I've always prided myself on my ability to do this without copying the original in any threatening sort of way. However, lately I've been thinking about the importance of originality in art. As I look at the film listings, I see that seven out of ten of the top films are sequels or reboots of some sort. Also, the market for original composition has dried up considerably in the past fifteen years or so because more films are using work that's already out there. While it is really helpful to composers when filmmakers give us a sense of what they're looking for through music they already love, I think that films would be richer and more poignant if they would be willing to allow the composer to express herself in her own way, rather than expecting them to sound like something that has already been approved. Giving up this kind of control can be scary, but when a director or producer requests that the composer replicate something that already exists, she is giving up a wonderful opportunity to comment on the world in a new way. And after all, that's why we love to make art!
To learn more about Kristin, you can visit her website here. She can also be reached at kcotts@kristincotts.com.
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On this day in 1942, 10 weeks after a Japanese carrier force bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that led to the forced removal of some 112,000 Japanese-Americans, most of them U.S. citizens, from their homes, to be relocated in internment camps in remote locations away far from the West Coast.
Of 127,000 Japanese-Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast. About 80,000 were second-generation, U.S.-born Japanese who held U.S. citizenship or third-generation children. The rest were first-generation immigrants born in Japan who were ineligible for U.S. citizenship at the time under U.S. law.
For the next 2 1/2 years, many of these Japanese-Americans endured difficult living conditions and poor treatment by their military guards.
In 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision, upheld the constitutionality of the removals. Justice Frank Murphy, one of the dissenters, wrote that the exclusion of Japanese-Americans "falls into the ugly abyss of racism," and resembles "the abhorrent and despicable treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy." Murphy also compared the treatment of Japanese-Americans with the treatment of Americans of German and Italian ancestry, who were largely unaffected by wartime controls, as evidence that race, and not the wartime emergency alone, led to the exclusion order.
For its part, the court limited its decision to the validity of the exclusion order, avoiding the sensitive issue of the incarceration of U.S. citizens without legal due process. The court's 1944 decision has never been reversed.
On Dec. 17, 1944, Maj. Gen. Henry C. Pratt issued a public proclamation which declared that, effective Jan. 2, 1945, Japanese-American "evacuees" from the West Coast could return to their homes.
During World War II, 10 Americans were convicted of spying for Japan. None of them were of Japanese ancestry.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill to recompense each surviving internee with a tax-free check for $20,000 and an apology from the U.S. government.
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state and a 2018 gubernatorial candidate, urged President Donald Trump to implement immigration registry controls like those called for in the now dormant National Security Entry-Exit Registration System for persons arriving in the United States from selected Middle East countries.


Due to their content in fiber, they help restore a normal bowel function. In addition, diarrhea usually depletes your body of important electrolytes (of which the most important is potassium, contained in high amounts in bananas). They also contain pectin, a soluble fiber (hydrocolloid) that can help normalize movement through the digestive tract.
About 190,000 cases of kidney cancer are diagnosed each year. Research published in the International Journal of Cancer has shown that daily consumption of whole fruits and vegetables, especially bananas, is highly protective to kidney health. The results show that, over a long timeframe (13.4 years), women eating more than 2.5 servings of fruits and vegetable per day cut their risk of kidney cancer by 40%. Among the fruits, bananas were especially protective. Women eating bananas four to six times a week halved their risk of developing the disease compared to those who did not eat this fruit. The conclusion of the study is that frequent consumption of fruits and vegetables, especially bananas, cabbage and root vegetables, may reduce risk of kidney cancer. This is because bananas and many root vegetables contain especially high amounts of antioxidant phenolic compounds, while cabbage is rich in sulfur, necessary for effective detoxification of potential carcinogens.
Bananas are extremely high in potassium (about 4673mg), yet very low in sodium (1mg), thus having a perfect ratio for preventing high blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. They contain vitamins B6 and B12 they contain, as well as potassium and magnesium: these substances help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
This is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicle cases. It also helps reduce acidity and reduces irritation. Bananas stimulate the cells on the internal stomach lining to produce a thicker mucus (which protects against acid). Additionally, bananas contain protease inhibitors that help eliminate bacteria in the stomach that have been pinpointed as a primary cause of ulcers.


Feb03 Comments Off on 4 years on, Karo's exclusive chair design for Unilever is still on the shopfloor.
Unilever's Indonsa Savoury factory had a recurring and expensive problem: industrial chairs that kept breaking and needed replacing every three months. Their chairs were also failing to meet the necessary hygienic health and safety requirements required in a food producing environment. Furthermore, productivity was negatively affected by the chairs' bad ergonomics.
In 2015 Unilever turned to Karo.
Specific ergonomic requirements for different workstations. These included: height adjustability, stability and offering the operator back support.
The new chairs needed to be robust and existing chairs needed to be upgraded to a higher spec to endure the 24/7 factory environment.
Chairs needed to be easily cleanable to comply with the hygiene requirements of Unilever's food production environment.
No standard foam or fabric could be used as bacteria would get inside too easily.
Chairs were being used in different production areas and needed to be uniquely identified as belonging to the respective production areas.
The workstations were higher than normal, thus sturdy foot rings were required for the majority of the chairs.
Karo's goal was to design and supply 141 of these specialized chairs to Unilever.
Karo went through a rigorous process to create chairs of a correct standard.
Overall Karo designed a series of 7 prototypes to develop the final design. Through close communication with Unilever's Health and Safety department, Karo reworked initial designs until Unilever was satisfied. John Karle described the outcome, "We combined the gaming chair strength and aesthetics – this is an industry we have a lot of experience in – with the adjustability and expertise acquired through the creation of our standard office chairs." Karo took the strength from the casino chairs and made the steel components wider and thicker, made the backrest hairpin stronger than their standard spec, and significantly thickened the wooden seat support. "All of the components are hardier," said John.
For the seats, Karo used their in-house manufactured flexi-molded polyurethane foam, which is much harder wearing. The same foam is also used in automotive seating.
Imported heavy duty vinyl, which is used overseas for taxi seating. This ensured that the complete chair could easily be cleaned.
Additionally, the chairs were colour coded per production section to keep track of where certain chairs belonged.
A unique "Nugen" footring which offered the operator continuous leg support.
During a recent trip to Unilever, three years later, all of the chairs were still on the shopfloor!
This is a substantial accomplishment in such a hard-wearing industry where chairs were normally replaced four times a year or more. Barring some backrests where the fabric had torn due to the backrest being knocked against the production lines, the chairs were still working perfectly.
Thus Karo's specialised design and industry knowledge, combined with the use of heavy duty materials has led to a robust chair creation that has fulfilled all of Unilever needs.
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Major Complaint with DM
September 2, 2021 Ron Thomson	578 Views 1 Comment	Conservation, Dailey Maverick, TRUTH	1 min read
Editor. Daily Maverick.
I have a major complaint with the Daily Maverick.
You say that you tell the truth, the truth and nothing but the truth and, to achieve that, you claim to publish articles that are written ONLY by experts in their fields. In the very breath that you claim to be telling THAT so-called 'truth', therefore, you are telling a lie. Why do I say that? Because you regularly publish so-called wildlife management articles written by Don Pinnock who is far from being any kind of 'expert" in any 'conservation' subject. Indeed, he has neither academic qualifications in wildlife management, nor has he any kind of hands-on-experience in that field. Don Pinnock, in fact, is a very avid animal rightist. So, the Daily Maverick is acting as a vehicle to spread untrue animal rights propaganda into the public domain. And that fact is not doing our wildlife resources any good at all. And, in that regard, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I challenge you to publish this letter in your next issue of the Daily Maverick, and to ask your readership if there are any other people who agree with me.
I am very happy to record that many of your previous and once regular aficionados are now writing for the DAILY FRIEND which does publish "THE TRUTH".
It is amazing what you can achieve when you DO tell the truth; because people recognise 'the truth' and they want to hear more of it. Unfortunately for the Daily Maverick your readers also know when you are publishing disinformation.
Our wildlife needs YOUR help just as much as YOU need the public's help, to keep your news outlet afloat. I, for one, therefore, would support the Daily Maverick , and write true articles for the Daily Maverick, if it ever acknowledges its lack of judgment in this regard, and if you made a greater effort to determine what articles you receive are true, and which are false.
Ron Thomson. CEO – The True Green Alliance
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I am NOT a 'trophy hunter' - and never have been. I am not involved in the trophy hunting safari business. I am also not a game rancher. But I have 'administratively controlled' professional hunters and safari outfitters in my capacity as a government game warden. I am an 80 year old ex-game warden with 60 years of continuous experience in hands-on wildlife management, and national park management, in Africa (1959 to 2019). In breakdown, I have 24 years experience in the management of national parks in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe - and in the management of the wild animal populations that lived inside those national parks; one year as the Chief Nature Conservation of the Ciskei in South Africa; three years as Director of the Bophuthatswana National Parks Board in South Africa; and I worked for three years as a professional hunter in the South African Great Karoo (taking foreign hunters on quests for plains game trophies). I discovered, however, that professional hunting was not my forte. I worked as an investigative wildlife journalist for 30 years in South Africa. I have written fifteen books and hundreds of magazine articles on the subject of wildlife management and big game hunting in Africa. Five of my books are university-level text books on wildlife management. I am a university-trained ecologist; was a member of the Institute of Biology (London) for 20 years; and was a registered chartered biologist for the European Union for 20 years. I have VAST experience in the "management hunting" of elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards and hippos (as part of my official national park work in the control of problem animals); and I pioneered the capture of black rhino in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley (1964 - 1970). My university thesis was entitled: "The Factors Affecting the Survival and Distribution of Black Rhinos in Rhodesia". Look at my personal website if you want any further details about my experience: www.ronthomsonshuntingbooks.co.za.
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Poachers, Animal Rights Groups Curiously Benefiting from Rhino Poaching
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…. you write an interesting response to the journal concerned. I say 'interesting' because you've given the editor a way to redeem his claims of being truthful and so, presumably, transparent.
I would though advise that you don't hold your breath whist waiting for a reply; I have twice written to the editor of The Yorkshire Post, a journal which was previously held in high regard and concerning one of his journalists who repeatedly writes ~ and seemingly with the editor's support, articles which are disingenuous and to the point that her articles are usually direct quotes from an AR Activist who has served prison sentences because of his illegal activities and his previous physical attacks upon the innocent ……..
Our MSM today appear to work on the basis that to impress their advertising sponsors ~ those who provide the very finance for their existence, so they increase their readership by scurrilous, disingenuous and often salacious articles which bear no relation to the truth.
Black Rhinoceros is in a Dangerous Situation in Kruger
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Sandoval's Error In 9th Sends Hunter, Twins Over Red Sox
By KEN POWTAK
Associated Press |
Jun 04, 2015 | 10:30 PM
Minnesota Twins first baseman Joe Mauer, left, tags out Boston Red Sox's Xander Bogaerts diving back to first on an unsuccessful steal attempt in the fifth inning during a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Thursday, June 4, 2015. (Charles Krupa / AP)
BOSTON (AP) — A surprising strategy by first-year manager Paul Molitor fit the way the Minnesota Twins have been playing so far this season.
Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval mishandled a throw on a bunt by star Joe Mauer in the ninth inning, and the Twins broke away from Boston 8-4 Thursday for a four-game split.
The Twins trailed 4-0 going into the fifth. It was 4-all in the ninth when Minnesota put runners on first and second with no outs against Koji Uehara (2-3).
Mauer bunted and catcher Blake Swihart threw to third — low, but catchable— and the ball went under Sandoval's glove, allowing Brian Dozier to score the go-ahead run.
"Nobody expected that one," Minnesota's Torii Hunter said. "I think that's why everything went kind of haywire. Rough throw right there and different things like that."
"I don't think anybody in baseball, or TV or anything thought Joe Mauer was going to bunt. He did and caused the havoc right there," he said.
Trevor Plouffe followed with an RBI single. Eduardo Escobar doubled home a run and Shane Robinson had a sacrifice fly off Craig Breslow.
Hunter hit his 200th home run in a Twins uniform and added two singles. Hunter's career 339th homer was a three-run shot.
Kurt Suzuki singled three times, helping Minnesota to its ninth win in 12 games that raised its surprising record to 11 games over .500.
"They might not be looking for it," Molitor said of the bunt. "Realistically, the bunt defense is just trying to get an out."
Swihart hit his first major league homer and Dustin Pedroia also had a solo homer for Boston, which has lost eight of 11.
But it was a bunt that sent the sloppy Red Sox reeling.
"I tried to do everything I could to stop the ball," Sandoval said. "(It got) under my glove."
The Red Sox committed three errors and had at least three runners cut down by questionable baserunning.
"Absolutely," manager John Farrell said when asked if he takes mistakes personally. "That was a poor display of baseball today. Those situations are addressed individually, it's addressed collectively, and we will continue to do so."
Aaron Thompson (1-1) worked one scoreless inning for the victory.
Boston built its early lead on the homers by Swihart and Pedroia, and two unearned runs.
The Twins rallied in the fifth when Hunter homered off a billboard above the Green Monster seats.
In the sixth, Sandoval threw away a two-out grounder for a two-base error and Suzuki singled home the tying run.
Swihart hit his home run completely out of Fenway Park, clearing the Monster seats to make it 3-0 in the third. Pedroia led off the next inning with a drive to left.
Twins starter Tommy Milone, recalled from Triple-A before the game, gave up four runs — two earned — and nine hits in five innings.
Red Sox starter Steven Wright gave up six hits in six innings.
CLIMBING UP THE CHARTS
Hunter was thrilled to be moving up the Twins' all-time HR list.
"It means a lot," he said. "Two hundred with the Twins — that's longevity. You've got to play a long time to do that. I'm happy to go out there and have 200 home runs in this uniform — one by behind (Gary) Gaetti, that's what they told me today."
Hanley Ramirez, on second with one out in the seventh, was tagged out by the third baseman on a groundball to third. Xander Bogaerts then singled to right-center and Mike Napoli was cut down easily trying to score all the way from first.
"It was an aggressive decision," Farrell said. "We're forcing the issue there a little bit. Unfortunately, it did not work out."
Twins: Put RHP Ricky Nolasco on the 15-day disabled list because of an injured right ankle he sustained in his previous start. He had a side session on Thursday before the club decided it was best to put him on the DL. "It became apparent rather quickly when he started trying to load off his right side and get some torque created when he needed to push off the rubber," Molitor said. "You could see him start to grimace a little bit. The session didn't last very long."
Red Sox: RHP Justin Masterson, on the 15-day DL with shoulder tendinitis, was scheduled to make his second rehab start Thursday, working for Double-A Portland.
Twins: RHP Kyle Gibson (4-3, 2.61 ERA) is scheduled to go against Milwaukee RHP Kyle Lohse (3-6, 6.50) when the Twins open a six-game homestand.
Red Sox: LHP Wade Miley (4-5, 4.97 ERA) is slated to face Oakland LHP Scott Kazmir (2-3, 2.93) when the clubs start a three-game series on Friday at Fenway. Miley was tagged for six runs in four innings, taking the loss last Saturday at Texas.
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Dance and Be Merry
Ballet Edmonton brings it annual Christmas show to Varscona Theatre, and it's anything but traditional
By Cory Schachtel | December 15, 2022
Courtesy Ballet Edmonton
Ever since Wen Wei Wang took the reins as Ballet Edmonton's artistic director in 2018, he's steered the company in new, exciting directions — and that includes its Christmas show.
"The holiday season is about Christmas, and a celebration of life, of course," Wang says. "But life is not always sweet." The Nutcracker is sweet, Wang continues, but it's more for children, and it's been around for well over 100 years. "We're trying to build something for adults, with new works every year. Some are tied to Christmas, some are not, but they're all a celebration of life and dance."
For Be Merry, Ballet Edmonton company members have created short, seasonally inspired new works, and special guest local musicians — jazz pianist Chris Andrew, vocalist Andrew MacDonald-Smith, ESO cellist Ronda Metszies and violinist Neda Yamach — will join them on stage to help bring their works to life.
Executive Director Sheri Somerville will host the evening, and says "Be Merry is a one-of-a-kind event combining contemporary ballet, jazz and a classical music. It is a relaxed way to ease into the holiday vibe while sipping on our signature cocktail!" Before performances, some dancers and choreographers will come on stage and talk about the inspiration for their works, because, Wang says, "I think our audience members want to hear those stories and then see the pieces. I'm really excited about how the evening opens, but I don't want to say what it is because I want it to be a surprise."
Tickets are only available for tonight's dances, stories and surprises at the Varscona Theatre. (The December 16 & 17 performances of Be Merry are sold-out).
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The United States and China are taking a step toward trade peace after 18 months of economic skirmishing.
President Donald Trump and China's chief trade negotiator, Liu He, signed a modest agreement Wednesday that would ease some U.S. economic sanctions on China and have Beijing step up purchases of American farm products and other goods. The deal would lower tensions in a fight that has slowed global growth, hurt American manufacturers and weighed on the Chinese economy.
But the phase-one agreement would do little to force China to make the major economic changes such as reducing unfair subsidies for its own companies that the Trump administration sought when it started the trade war by imposing tariffs on Chinese imports in July 2018.
Details of the agreement were expected to be released Wednesday.
Larry Kudlow, Trump's chief economic adviser, said the agreement vindicated the president's strategy of using tariffs in trade negotiations, though not in every instance. "I think with China he was exactly right," Kudlow said. "I think the tough tariffs hurt their economy and made them much more amenable to a good deal."
Most analysts say any meaningful resolution of the main U.S. allegation — that Beijing uses predatory tactics in its drive to supplant America's technological supremacy — could require years of contentious talks. Skeptics say a satisfactory resolution may be next to impossible given China's ambitions to become the global leader in such advanced technologies as driverless cars and artificial intelligence.
This first phase "hardly addresses in any substantive way the fundamental sources of trade and economic tensions between the two sides, which will continue to fester," said Eswar Prasad, a Cornell University economist and and former head of the International Monetary Fund's China division.
The thornier issues are expected to be taken up in future rounds of negotiations. But it's unclear when those talks might begin, and few observers expect much progress before the U.S. presidential election in November.
"Phase two -- I wouldn't wait by the phone,'' said John Veroneau, who was a U.S. trade official when George W. Bush was president and is now co-chair of the international trade practice at the law firm Covington & Burling. "That is probably a 2021 issue.''
The U.S. has dropped plans to impose tariffs on an additional $160 billion in Chinese imports, and it cut in half, to 7.5%, existing tariffs on $110 billion of goods from China.
Beijing agreed to significantly increase its purchases of U.S. products. According to the Trump administration, China is to buy $40 billion a year in U.S. farm products — an ambitious goal for a country that has never imported more than $26 billion a year in U.S. agricultural products.
The deal may be most notable for what it doesn't do. It leaves in place tariffs on about $360 billion in Chinese imports — a level of protectionism that would have been unthinkable before Trump took office.
© Provided by Associated Press A container vessel moves past the port in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. China's exports rose 0.5% in 2019 despite a tariff war with Washington after growth rebounded in December on stronger demand from other markets. (Chinatopix Via AP)
Beijing's retaliatory tariffs affect more than half of American exports to China. The average U.S. tariff on Chinese imports has risen from 3% in January 2018 to 21% now.
The administration argues that the deal is a solid start that includes Chinese commitments to do more to protect intellectual property, curb the practice of forcing foreign companies to hand over sensitive technology and refrain from manipulating their currency lower to benefit Chinese exporters. In advance of Wednesday's signing, the Treasury Department on Monday dropped its designation of China as a currency manipulator.
By maintaining significant tariffs on Chinese imports, the administration retains leverage to force Beijing to abide by its commitments — something the United States says Beijing has failed to do for decades.
The administration contends that however narrow the first phase may be, it represents a significant breakthrough.
Derek Scissors, China specialist at the American Enterprise Institute, said the trade war has already delivered a benefit for Trump, even if it hasn't forced Beijing to make major changes to its economic policy: Trump's tariffs have reduced Chinese exports to the United States and narrowed America's trade deficit with China.
The president has long lambasted the U.S. trade gap with Beijing as a sign of economic weakness, though many economists disagree. A wide trade deficit can actually reflect economic strength because it means that a nation's consumers feel prosperous and confident enough to spend freely — on imported goods as well as on home-grown goods.
So far this year, the U.S. deficit with China in the trade of goods has declined by 16%, or $62 billion, to $321 billion compared with a year earlier. The deficit will narrow further if Beijing lives up to its pledges to buy dramatically more American imports.
Trump's tariff increase have proved to be a headwind for China's economy, which was already slowing, though the damage has been less than some expected. Chinese global exports eked out a 0.5% increase in 2019 despite a plunge in sales to the United States, according to Chinese customs data.
Chinese exporters responded to Trump's tariff hikes by shipping goods to the United States through other countries and by stepping up sales to Asia, Europe and Africa. The government reported double-digit gains in 2019 exports to France, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Southeast Asia.
Economists said the tariff war slowed Chinese growth, which hit a multi-decade low of 6% in the quarter ending in September, by as little as 0.6 percentage point. Weak domestic demand and the cooling of a construction boom inflicted more damage.
AP Business Writer Joe McDonald in Beijing and Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.


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SF Shoots: Muni's Bullshit
by Eve Batey | May 5, 2010 11:20 am	| in Culture | 1
Photographer: Appeal Reader Mike D.
Photo taken when: Tuesday, May 4
Where: Powell Station
Mike tells us "Someone hates Muni's bullshit enough to risk being another of its victims. What am I saying? They probably wrote this during one of the 20 minute outbound gaps at Powell."
We just like the three exclamation points on the vandal's note — we pumped up the contrast so you could read his or her words in their entirety.
Have you recently taken a San Francisco-set shot you'd like to see here? Send it to us at sfshoots@sfappeal.com, with your name and how you'd like to be linked to, date and where you took it, and any other text you'd like to see accompany it.
Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal. She used to be the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and started at the Chronicle as their blogging and interactive editor. Before that, she was a co-founding writer and the lead editor of SFist. She's been in the city since 1997, presently living in the Outer Sunset with her husband, cat, and dog. You can reach Eve at eve@sfappeal.com.


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1. As a bath/soak: Brew the contents as a tea in an infuser bag. If using a sitz basin, use 2 heaping tablespoons in hot water. Let cool and immerse your bottom and perineum area in the basin for 15-20 minutes.
2. As a wash, in lieu of toilet paper after using the toilet. We recommend using this in a high pressure squirt bottle (also known as a peri bottle).
3. As a compress. Brew the "tea" and use it to soak old school thick maxi pads or cloths. Freeze these and then sit on them.


Fair Housing begins at home!
Educate yourself. Housing access is an issue that affects all of us, especially in the tight housing market we have in greaterBoston. Where we live determines so much about the quality of our lives: where we work, where our kids go to school, our daily interactions with neighbors. Federal and state laws protect us all from behaviors that limit housing choice. Find out about your rights and responsibilities.
Get trained as a speaker, tester, or trainer in your field. It doesnÕt take much to make a difference in your own corner of the world. Be an example, and a resource, for colleagues in your field. The Center offers trainer trainings for professionals in the fields of real estate, banking, and development. And anyone, no matter what profession, can help enforce fair housing laws as a tester. Contact the Center for the next scheduled professional training series.
Organize a tester recruitment event. The FHCGB is always in need of volunteer testers from all backgrounds to help document instances of housing discrimination.
Support public and private efforts to create and maintain affordable housing. Contact your legislators. Attend town meeting, planning board meetings, city council meetings and speak up in favor of zoning and development decisions that increase housing opportunities for people of all backgrounds and abilities.
Talk with your pastor, rabbi, or imam about what your community of faith can do to promote housing access. From interfaith services and welcome wagon outreach efforts to rehab projects and housing development, religious institutions nationwide are making housing a priority.
Get involved with your local fair housing/human rights commission, or start one. Most cities and towns have a fair housing officer or committee on the books, but not all of them are active. Check with your town hall or the MA Association of Human Rights Commissions.
Sponsor storybook readings in kindergarten classes of ÒWhen Chocolate Milk Moved InÓ by Ken Harvey or other books about living in a multicultural community.
Set up trainings for realtors and bankers, home buyers/home seekers, landlords, Housing Authority and other city/town employees to educate them on their fair housing rights and responsibilities.
Sponsor the Race and Place Dialogue series in your town. The series utilizes the documentary Race: the Power of an Illusion to explore why we see race the way we do and how our communities became, and remain, so segregated.
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#MeFuckingToo
I'm going to take the Jimmy Kimmel stance on this one.
I love being silly and making light of things. I like creating laughter from true stories, often representative of real pain. I've learned the best way to cope and move forward is to find the humor, to laugh at the big scary things so they seem less scary. And sometimes that's easy. Other times, it requires many jokes.
And then there are those few unfortunate things that don't feel attackable with laughter.
So while laughter is important and I, like Jimmy, would much rather do that, there's a point to addressing things seriously, too.
This week on social media, #MeToo ripped through my Facebook feed. It started from a celebrity tweet in light of the Weinstein allegations, resulting in multiple women finally feeling comfortable enough to come forward. It's appalling that somehow there's still this idea that these women are in cahoots with each other. In what world do you find a group of people all claiming the same heinous thing was done to them and still question it?
This kind of movement is often, annoyingly, met with, "Well, why didn't they come forward sooner?"
"Why didn't they come forward?" SHE ASKED INCREDULOUSLY. ALSO IN OUTRAGE.
Have you opened up your soul to someone, have you told them something real, heartbreaking, impossibly frightening, only to be met with disbelief? To feel like the recipient of painful, gut-wrenching, soul-squirming news is questioning YOUR integrity? YOU? The one who was mistreated and disrespected?
Uh oh. Sass pants ACTIVATED.
Yeah, okay. Get out of here with that fuckboy shit.
I can't speak for other victims; I haven't felt their feelings or lived their pain.
But I've lived mine.
The sadness splattered in status format on my screen wasn't over the sheer volume of stories, but for what's behind each confession. They varied in detail; some simply tagged #MeToo, others left vague summaries, and some posted stories rich in as much detail as could be tolerated. Behind every story is MORE. It's not just what we see, or what we are able to share. It's years of pain, suffering, questioning, wondering.
I wrote a lengthy post, and yet still, as I reflected back over my statements, more and more details rushed my memory.
"Oh," I thought, "It still isn't that bad… but look at all these things I'd forgotten."
Let's pause for a second. Look at that. Look at me, dismissing what happened to me, minimizing it, making it less. Why?
A close friend asked who the older businessman was that I detailed in my post, and why he didn't know about this when it was going on. This was my response:
I didn't want to talk about it when it happened because it made me feel really gross. I kept wondering if I had done something that put me in that situation. I didn't want to make a big deal about it. But I should have. I was afraid, like most females, that I would be slut-shamed or discredited or bullied into silence, and I didn't feel strong enough to take that on, so I chalked it up to some creep and tried to move forward. I didn't tell my parents what happened until this summer. They kept asking, but I kept providing BS brush-offs because I felt gross and weird and icky about it. And it makes me angry because that's fucked up. Someone in a position of power was inappropriate toward me, and I felt gross. I wasn't the one being gross, but still I felt ashamed. There are so many women who have been through so many horrors, and men, too – my gay friends have been through some shit that's not okay, either – that are all still too afraid, and that has to stop.
But You're Such a Strong Person
I heard an interviewer say to Jane Fonda in an interview about the Weinstein scandal, "Why didn't you say anything? You're so bold."
Fonda stammers that she wasn't that bold, and it reminded me: When I retell what's happened to me, it sounds strong and bold, but I did not feel that way.
I felt small, uncomfortable, and sick. And yet somehow I felt the need to be graceful, polite. ME. The person this was being done to felt the need to make it feel less gross.
A good friend once said, "Stop apologizing for what he did to you. It's not your job to fix what he broke; it's not your job to make it better."
It's not our job to fix what was done to us. But it is our divine right to speak out about what happened, and we need to feel empowered to do so.
At the end of my post, I shared that I don't know what to do to minimize the #MeToos we saw in our timelines, other than to come together, support each other, and LISTEN when someone is trying to tell us something. Stand by their side, pick up the torch when they cannot, and fight the fight.
So, this is my version of carrying the torch and taking on the fight.
#MeFuckingToo because #INeverFuckingAskedForIt
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Plotkin Road is the title track from Voltergeist's second EP on Microrave Records.
Influenced initially by the unique drone-guitar playing techniques of James Plotkin (OLD, Atomsmasher) and the grubby vibes of dubstep producers Benga and Burial, the tracks on the release are simultaneously downbeat and upbeat, inside, outside and to the left a bit, ooooh. Sick with joy, all over your face.
Plotkin Road (the first original Voltergeist release since 2008's "Earthen Spirit Loops" EP) develops the trademark V-Geist sound, fusing microscopic minimal clicks with ossiclewobbling dub basslines, and some of the wackiest tech drum programming of the genre.
WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY SHAUN PAUL DOWSE (2010). COVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAMELA MCWILLIAM. THE COPYRIGHT IN THIS SOUND RECORDING IS OWNED EXCLUSIVELY BY MICRORAVE RECORDS (2010).


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The Pretenders releases new song "Turf Accountant Daddy"
The Pretenders continues to reveal new songs from their upcoming album Hate For Sale. The latest song released by Chrissie Hynde and company was "Turf Accountant Daddy". The 11th album of their career will be released on July 17th.
"This is my favorite from the new album. I love the atmosphere of Top of the Pops that it has", says Hynde. "The song was inspired by some bad characteristics of some ex-relationships. Despite never having a boyfriend with someone who works with gambling," she adds.
Hear The Pretenders new song "Turf Accountant Daddy":
The clip was made entirely during the quarantine. In addition, the video was produced and directed by the band itself in partnership with longtime collaborator John Minton. Who has also made videos for Noel Gallagher, Portishead and Savages previously. In addition to making the clip for the title track and The Buzz, also on the next Pretenders album.
The band was already inducted to Rock n 'Roll Hall of Fame and have more than four decades on the road. The group was formed in England in the late 70s, by vocalist Chrissie Hynde, an American who had already participated in the groups: Jack Rabbit, in the United States and Gallie, in France. The other members were Pete Farndon (bass), James Honeyman-Scott (vocals, keyboards, guitar) and Martin Chambers (drums).
After the compacts "Stop Your Sobbing" and "Kid", they went on an English tour, receiving some press coverage. The compact "Brass in Pocket" entered the hit charts of 1979, the year of the release of the first LP, which quickly reached the top of the best sellers.
They participated in the benefit concert for refugees from Cambodia (they have three tracks on the album Concerts for People of Kampuchea) and went on tours in Europe and the USA, being very well received by critics and the public. Rolling Stone magazine awarded the Pretenders as the great revelation of 1980. In addition, in 1982, Honeyman-Scott died, a year later Farndon died, but Chrissie Hynde announced that the set would not end, and is currently in operation.
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Oscar gets eight-match ban for petulant display in China
By Nicholas MendolaJun 22, 2017, 8:30 AM EDT
Oscar's antics aren't missed in the Premier League, and they won't be missed over the next two months in China.
The 25-year-old Brazilian has been banned for eight matches after igniting a brawl between Shanghai SIPG and Guangzhou (video here) by lashing a pair of shots at defenders and then hitting the ground in comical fashion.
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It's amazing Oscar lived through the vicious shove (at least this dive didn't influence a UEFA Champions League match).
While his antics won't be missed, his playmaking will; It comes as no surprise that Oscar has thrived in the nascent Chinese Super League, posting nine assists and a goal in 13 league matches.
Tags: Brazil, Chinese Super League, Oscar, suspension
Former Chelsea man Oscar sparks brawl in Chinese league
By Kyle BonnJun 18, 2017, 1:54 PM EDT
Former Chelsea attacking midfielder Oscar, who now plays for Shanghai SIPG in the Chinese Super League, sparked a brawl in hilarious fashion on Sunday.
In first-half stoppage time in Shanghai's match against Guangzhou – who is managed by longtime Serbia manager Dragan Stojkovic – Oscar put all his might into a pair of kicks, smashing both against the bodies of opponents, one in each direction.
Guangzhou player Chen Zhizhao didn't take too kindly to Oscar's actions during the course of play, and with play stopped after the ball was launched out of play, Zhizhao shoved Oscar to the ground. This sparked a massive brawl with plenty of pushing and shoving.
And now former Chelsea man Oscar finding out that you don't boot the ball at players in the Chinese Super League…twice. pic.twitter.com/xQyTVpniWL
— Alasdair Gold (@AlasdairGold) June 18, 2017
In the end, each side saw a player sent off, while Zhizhao got away with just a caution. Guangzhou received the brunt of the discipline, picking up three yellow cards and the straight red during the scuffle, while Shanghai only saw the one player red carded and nobody else cautioned.
The match ended in the 1-1 draw, with nobody scoring in the second half.
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Tags: Oscar, Shanghai SIPG
Penalty problems: Hulk, Oscar miss 3 in a week for Shanghai SIPG
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By Andy EdwardsApr 16, 2017, 4:11 PM EDT
It was a week to forget for Brazilian internationals Hulk and Oscar, both of whom now ply their trade for Shanghai SIPG of the Chinese Super League.
[ MORE: Saturday's PL roundup — Spurs apply pressure to Chelsea (again) ]
The duo, which earns a combined $839,000 per week in wages, failed to convert not one, not two, but three penalties in two games this week (below videos) — first in Shanghai SIPG's 1-0 defeat to Urawa Red Dragons in the AFC Champions League on Tuesday, and again in a 1-1 draw with Tianjin Quanjian in CSL action on Saturday.
Oscar saw his first attempt against Urawa saved by the goalkeeper and pushed onto the crossbar, before blasting another spot-kick attempt over the bar 11 minutes later. Penalty-taking duties were thus bestowed upon Hulk this weekend, and he responded by completely fooling the 'keeper before pushing the ball well wide of a wide open post.
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Through five league games this season, Hulk has three goals and three assists to his name; Oscar is yet to find the back of the net himself, but has tallied three assists.
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Tags: Brazil, Chinese Super League, Hulk, Oscar, Shanghai SIPG, Oscar
Oscar drops linesman, scores opening goal in SIPG debut
By Kyle BonnFeb 8, 2017, 10:20 PM EST
Oscar had a pretty good start to life in China.
Having signed for Chinese club SIPG in Shaighai over the January transfer window, and while the Chinese Super League season doesn't begin for some time, Oscar made his debut in the Asian Champions League against Thai club Sukhothai. In simple terms, it went well.
Well for Oscar, that is. Not the linesman, who the Brazilian happened to leave in a heap on the ground with his funky fresh moves.
😁⚽#ShanghaiSIPG 🔴🔴 pic.twitter.com/7AMxxKeLLo
— Oscar (@oscar8) February 8, 2017
It took two defenders AND a linesman and they still couldn't hold him down. Especially because he went on to score the opener of a 3-0 win, his first goal for the club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzmAfIudzR0
Oscar was always best on the counter in his days with Chelsea, and he did it again here. Also, terrible job by the goalkeeper to cover his near post.
The win puts SIPG, managed by Andre Villas-Boas, into the group stage of the competition, drawn in with FC Seoul, Western Sydney Wanderers, and Japanese club Urawa Red Diamonds.
Tags: Chelsea, Oscar, SIPG, Oscar
Conte urges players "money is not everything" amid Costa rumors
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By Matt ReedJan 15, 2017, 9:30 PM EST
While new reports are suggesting that China will have to curb its massive spending, Antonio Conte has urged his players that they don't have to be tempted by the Chinese Super League.
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Chelsea currently sits atop the Premier League — seven points clear of Tottenham and Liverpool — but the club has recently been at the center of controversy as star striker Diego Costa has been linked with a move away from the club.
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Costa missed his side's 3-0 win over Leicester City on Saturday after several outlets reported a rift between the Spaniard and Conte.
The Chelsea manager told reporters following the match that Costa wasn't available due to a back injury he suffered in training, but there has been continued speculation that the 28-year-old could head to China.
Conte has made it clear to his squad though that the quality of competition in England supersedes the money offered abroad.
"The money is not everything," Conte told reporters. "When you play for a great team like Chelsea, you must be pleased.
"I think we are a great club and it is a great honour to play for Chelsea. For this reason I don't see [China] as a threat for my players.
The Blues have lost a number of high-profile players over recent seasons to the high spending of Chinese football, including Brazilian duo Oscar and Ramires, as well as John Obi Mikel.
Oscar departed Chelsea this month to join Shanghai SIPG for a reported $72 million.
"I have to look at the past," Conte said. "Oscar played with us, had a good offer from China and he went.
"But this league is really competitive and every player wants to come and play in this league.
"This league is the first in the world because of a lot of positive things, so I don't think these offers from China are a threat for our league."
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Tags: Antonio Conte, Chelsea, Diego Costa, John Obi Mikel, Oscar, Premier League
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Obama's father was plagued by fears after Mboya's death
Wednesday November 5 2008
Mr Pake Zane (right), a friend of Obama Sr. They attended the University of Hawaii together. Photo/ALPHAYO OTIENO
Has it ever occurred in anyone's imagination that the assassins of Labour minister Thomas Joseph Mboya would have also wanted to eliminate the man who would gain the global limelight posthumously as the father of the first ever formidable Black presidential candidate in the United States?
Details gathered from a series of interviews with Barack Obama Sr's confidants in the US reveal that at some point of his life, the controversial yet brilliant man claimed that Mboya's killers also "had me in their list of targets".
As an ardent critic of former President Jomo Kenyatta, Obama Sr believed that he was in the Government's bad books for his voluble criticism of the style of governance in post-independent Kenya.
Pake Zane, who was with Obama Sr at the University of Hawaii, says: "Obama told me that he strongly believed that the people who killed Mboya were the same ones who had hit him (Obama) with a car and left him for the dead a few years before Mboya died."
Wonderful voice
In describing his Kenyan friend, Zane, who now runs an antiques shop a few miles from the university says: "Obama Sr was handsome in his own way. But the most impressive thing was his voice; his voice and his inflection.
"He had this Oxford accent – you heard a little Kenyan English, but more this British accent with this really deep, mellow voice that just resounded. If he said something in the room and the room was not really noisy, everybody stopped and turned around. I mean he just had this wonderful, wonderful voice. He was charismatic as a speaker."
The 66-year-old Chinese Hawaiian speaks of Obama Sr as a careerist who was ultimately consumed by alcohol and women.
"I see very little that he shared with his son Obama Jr, if not for the intellect and a driving ambition," says Zane, who recalls the man as exhibiting an equal share of charm and arrogance.
Even though it is never mentioned in his son's book, "Dreams From My Father", Obama Sr, according to his comrades, may have had his fate sealed when he agreed to testify before the commission that looked into the killing of Mboya.
Whereas his decline was fast and tragic, it is the veil of mystery that still clouds Obama Sr that has not been discussed in public domains.
According to press accounts at that time, the elder Obama did not handle his political exile well while in the United States as a student. A variety of microfilmed newspaper cuttings show that he was involved in a series of car crashes, often involving drunk-driving.
Like his son, Obama, Zane says, bridled with the enthusiasm to help shape the destiny of Africa.
"My memories are vivid of him jabbing his ubiquitous pipe in the air for emphasis and telling us how he would return to help better govern his country, Kenya."
Besides his elegant style of dressing, Obama Sr, recalls Richard Hook, who worked with him as a development adviser for Harvard University's Institute for International Development in Kenya, had a deep resonant base with a timbre you could not forget.
Outsize persona
It was not just the voice, says Neil Abercrombie, who went on to become a congressman from Honolulu, but Obama's entire outsize persona -- the lanky 6-foot-1 frame, the horn-rimmed glasses, the booming laugh, the pipe and an "incredibly vital personality." He was "brilliant and opinionated".
"Those who scantily understood him were in for a shock. He would have no patience for idiocy and spoke his mind in politic or not. Obama Sr spoke his mind even to the point that he was quite discourteous," says Hook.
Richard, who, like most of his friends, still pronounces Barack as "Bear-ick" – with the accent on the first syllable – unlike the younger Obama's "Buh-rock" recalls how Obama Sr intrigued them with the events in Africa from the university snack bar to the Stardust Lounge or George's Inn.
As they listened to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee on the hi-fi, Obama pontificated on Kenya, nationalism and colonialism and his fears about what might happen.
"He was very concerned that tribalism would trump nationalism," Neil Abercrombie says. "And that people like himself would not be properly recognised or fully utilised, and there would be discrimination and prejudice."
So proud was the son of a cook and a village elder from Kogelo in Alego that sometimes, according to Hook, he introduced himself as Dr Obama, even though he never completed his doctorate.
The man who had three wives and many girlfriends, according to his friends, had a lot of grey areas in his personal life.
In his son's memoirs, his daughter, Auma Obama, admits that "my dad's life was scattered and we only knew scraps and pieces of it".
Obama Jr's memoir reads like a painful story of a young man in search of a father; culminating in him weeping next to his father's grave in Alego, Siaya District.
The book is mute about a number of issues but an interview with his close associates shows that the man who bubbled intellect also had a sharp eye for girls early in life.
In 1959, when he boarded the Britannia aircraft for the US, Obama was 23 and already married to a woman named Kezia, with whom he had one child and another on the way. He was among 81 young Kenyans selected to travel on the first of three "airlifts" to American universities.
Although Hawaii had a somewhat diverse cultural mix in the 1960s, there were very few African Americans on the streets of Honolulu by then, according to Zane, who says that Obama was the first "real" Black he ever met.
Opinionated emissary
He says a lot of people were eager to meet the young Obama Sr, who was seen as an "enthusiastic, high-spirited, opinionated emissary from Africa."
"He hardly shied from the spotlight. He addressed churches and community groups on race and politics. He chided the local newspaper for its position on the Congo, suggesting in a letter to its editorial writers, that 'maybe you needed more first hand information.'"
In a 1959 interview with the Honolulu Star, in microfilmed archives, Obama described the absence of racial prejudice in Hawaii as "unique". No one," he marvelled, "seems to be colour conscious."
After some time in Honolulu, Obama Sr began appearing with a young white girl, Ann Dunham, whom he had met at a Russian language class in African student social gatherings.
During his time in Hawaii, the elder Obama seemed adept at walling off various aspects of his life. He eventually told Ann about a marriage in Kenya but said he was divorced, which she would discover years later was a lie.
Zane says that Ann listened keenly and was hardly involved in Obama's discussions with his friends. He never bothered to draw her into his discussions.
For any woman he was in a relationship with, "she was in his life, he was not particularly in hers," says Zane.
He never told his friends that he had a wife and two children in Africa.
In 1961 they moved to Maui and this was the prelude to the second Barack Obama, the hapa (half caste).
In the fall of 1962, Obama arrived in Cambridge and rented an apartment in a rooming house in the shadow of Central Square, which soon became known as the hangout for African students.
Mr Double Double
Paul Nyangani, Tom Mboya's uncle, recalls that whenever newcomers arrived from Kenya, they were assured a night in Obama's apartment, as well as information about life in the United States.
Madelyn Dunham, grandmother to Obama Jr, has steadfastly declined requests for interviews this year, but a few years ago she talked to the Chicago Tribune's David Mendell, who was researching his biography, "Obama: From Promise to Power."
Dunham, known for her practicality and scepticism in a family of dreamers, told Mendell that Ann had always been stubborn and nonconformist and often did startling things, but none was more stubborn or surprising than her relationship with Obama Sr.
When Mendell pressed her about Obama, she said she did not trust the stories the Kenyan told. Prodding further, the interviewer heard that Obama had "a great deal of charm" and that "his father had been a medicine man."
"She raised her eyebrows and nodded to herself," Mendell wrote of Madelyn. "He was . . ." she said with a long pause, "strange." She lingered on to emphasise "straaaaaange."
Those who went out with him like veteran Kenyan journalists, Leo Odera Omolo and Philip Ochieng', have disclosed that Obama Sr earned himself the nickname "Mr Double Double" from the bar counter, thanks to his way of alerting the waiter to add his Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch whenever he was done with a round.


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Looting, Casualties, And Civil Unrest In South Africa
Gypsy-Lee Marsh
Civil unrest across South Africa has led to severe looting and violence, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces. Crowds have looted and set fire to over 200 shopping centres, whilst trucks, factories, warehouses, and other infrastructure have also been targeted. On 16 July, roughly 25,000 troops were deployed in the largest deployment of soldiers since the end of the Apartheid. As of 16 July 2021, "at least 117 people have been killed in the violence and over 1,234 people have been arrested." There are concerns over a state of emergency being declared and basic food supplies being cut short. Further, the unrest throughout the country has increased the spread of COVID-19 and has disrupted vaccination programs.
President Cyril Ramaphosa in his address to the country said that "the events of the past week were nothing less than a deliberate, coordinated and well-planned attack on our democracy" and that the "constitutional order of [the] country is under threat." Ramaphosa also expressed concerns over the "fake news and misinformation" being spread through social media that have "sought to inflame racial tensions and violence." Further, Police Minister Bheki Cele has warned that "no amount of unhappiness or personal circumstances from our people give the right to anyone to loot, vandalise and do as they please and break the law." State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo said officials were "busy sorting fact from fiction" after receiving information that former security agents linked to [former president] Zuma had instigated the violence.
In early July, former president Jacob Zuma was jailed for 15-months after being convicted of contempt in court during a corruption inquiry of his government. Zuma pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering, and money laundering, as reported by ABC. This event was the catalyst for these riots, and they demand his release. Legal experts believe his chances of escaping imprisonment are slim. The country is also suffering from low-income levels and unemployment. The latest government figures released in 2015, as reported by ABC, a record that half of the population lives below the poverty line. The situation has only declined since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. ABC also records that unemployment in early 2021 stood at 32.6%, a new record high for the country.
The violence across the country is causing severe concerns for the safety and security of the people of South Africa. Government officials are likely planning on deploying more military personnel to quell the riots; however, it is likely this will cause more violence. There are unfortunately no signs of the violence ending in the country without more casualties. Furthermore, as the violence continues, the spread of the pandemic continues. These events are placing the population at severe risk, and it is up to the government to ensure the unrest subsides as quickly and as peacefully as possible.
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