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Never forget the Bulls bailed early on scouting the 2018 draft and instead went with #ThePromise
Say what you will about GarPax, but they are men of their word
By Jacob Bikshorn@OldManBikshorn Oct 22, 2018, 11:30am CDT
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If you punch the phrase "The promise" into any search engine, the top results will all point you towards a 2016 film starring Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale, and Charlotte Le Bon. The movie, set in Turkey around the end of World War I, looks fairly interesting, but sports a lowly 49% Rotten Tomatoes score.
I cannot stop the Google algorithms that associate The Promise with this romantic period piece. What I can do is ensure that in Chicago, The Promise shall from this year on be forever linked with Chandler Hutchison, Mark Bartelstein, and the covenant they forged with Gar Forman and John Paxson after what must have been the most impressive pre-draft workout ever staged.
On May 16, the day before the NBA Draft Combine, ESPN's Jonathan Givony reported that Hutchison was withdrawing from the event. The rationale, according to Givony, was that Hutchison and his representation had a guarantee from a team that would prevent the Boise State forward from sliding into the second round.
Chandler Hutchison has withdrawn from the NBA Combine and canceled all workouts after receiving assurances he's found a "safe landing spot." It appears that he has secured a promise from a team drafting in the 20-30 range. Hutchison is currently slated #24 on the ESPN mock draft
— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) May 16, 2018
Following the combine, speculation began to swirl as to which team picking in the latter third of the first round had made this alleged pact with Hutchison. The first credible connection between Hutchison and the Bulls came from The Ringer's Kevin O'Connor on May 21:
It's unclear who made the promise, if one was made at all, but it's no secret that Hutchison's agent Mark Bartelstein, the CEO of Chicago-based agency Priority Sports, is a family friend of Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf. The Bulls and Bartelstein have a successful working relationship. Bartelstein has represented a long list of former Bulls, from Steve Kerr and Jud Buechler to Taj Gibson and Bobby Portis, among many others.
By the time the Bulls were on the clock to make the 22nd pick in the draft, there was little mystery around who they had their hearts set on. Immediately after the pick came in, both O'Connor and Woj explicitly stated what many had been insinuating throughout the entire pre-draft process:
Source: Bulls are on Boise State's Chandler Hutchison. He was shut down in workouts with Chicago promise.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 22, 2018
To be fair, I did not hate the Hutchison pick when it was announced. Hutchison, an older prospect who didn't exactly flourish until he was a senior going against Mountain West Conference competition, at least had the physical profile of an NBA wing. And if there's one thing the Bulls lack in the early stages of this rebuild (or not rebuild, if you're reading this Pax) it is a player who at least appears to have the physique to play small forward.
Still, I have questions. How many other wing prospects did the Bulls bring in before deciding Hutchison was their man? Forget wings, how many players did the Bulls work out in total? I would hope that, a year after the humiliation of having no players left on the draft board at 36, GarPax were committed to seeing as many prospects as possible. And even if they thought Hutchison was so great, why signal to Bartelstein at all that they are committed to his client? Were they so afraid that a four year college player from Boise State would shoot up draft boards?
And finally, the most important question: What the hell did Chandler Hutchison do in this workout that so powerfully captured the hearts of Chicago's front office? Was he making full court threes with his eyes closed? Was he dunking from the foul line? Had he pulled off a full John Tucker?
Chandler Hutchison workout footage (dramatization)
Hutchison did not enter the Bulls' season opener until Fred Hoiberg was 100% certain the remaining minutes would be pure garbage time. Hutchison missed his only field goal attempt and recorded no other box score statistics. He did not play at all Saturday against Detroit. While a late first round pick not getting extended run early in the regular season shouldn't be concerning, I am sounding the alarm. The circumstances surrounding Hutchinson's perceived NBA readiness by the front office, and the team's complete void at the small forward position, makes Hutchison's absence from the rotation very worrisome.
The Bulls seriously do not have another small forward on the roster other than Hutchison. Justin Holiday starts at the position, but at 6'7 and 181 lbs, Holiday is a shooting guard masquerading at the three. The Bulls supposedly signed Jabari Parker to handle the position, but abandoned the idea after three preseason games. The five man unit that saw the second most time on the court in Philly featured the 6'4 Antonio Blakeney at SF. If the Bulls coaching staff has such little confidence in Hutchison that he's unable to crack the rotation with this level of competition at his position, that is a problem.
Unless Hutchison starts playing real minutes soon, I promise to make GarPax's Promise a promise they will forever regret promising. And with all due respect to Oscar Isaac, this is The Promise that will forever resonate with me.


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Commissions and Councils
Calendar:March, 2017
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Congratulations to Russia's women on International Women's Day March 8, 2017, 09:00 2017-03-07 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
March 7, 2017, Tuesday
Telephone conversation with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban March 7, 2017, 15:30 2017-03-07 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
Meeting with Russian Railways CEO Oleg Belozerov March 7, 2017, 13:40 2017-03-07 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia The Kremlin, Moscow
President of Turkey will visit Russia on March 10 March 7, 2017, 12:00 2017-03-07 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
Executive Order to pardon Oksana Sevastidi March 7, 2017, 11:30 2017-03-07 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
March 6, 2017, Monday
Meeting with Valentina Tereshkova March 6, 2017, 13:30 2017-03-10 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia The Kremlin, Moscow
Vladimir Putin will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 9 March 6, 2017, 11:00 2017-03-06 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
March 4, 2017, Saturday
Telephone conversation with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev March 4, 2017, 19:00 2017-03-04 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
March 3, 2017, Friday
Greetings to Roscosmos former and current employees March 3, 2017, 19:30 2017-03-04 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
Meeting with Accounts Chamber Chairperson Tatyana Golikova March 3, 2017, 17:00 2017-03-03 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region
Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin March 3, 2017, 14:30 2017-03-03 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia The Kremlin, Moscow
March 2, 2017, Thursday
Congratulations to Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies March 2, 2017, 10:00 2017-03-02 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
March 1, 2017, Wednesday
Congratulations to Raisa Smetanina, four-times Olympic champion March 1, 2017, 11:00 2017-03-02 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
Russia to take action to improve its anti-doping monitoring system March 1, 2017, 10:10 2017-03-02 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia Krasnoyarsk
Meeting on preparations for Winter Universiade Krasnoyarsk 2019 March 1, 2017, 10:00 2017-03-10 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia Krasnoyarsk
Meeting with the winners of Winter Universiade 2017 March 1, 2017, 09:00 2017-03-02 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia Krasnoyarsk
February 28, 2017, Tuesday
Congratulations to Russia's national team that won the 3rd World Winter Military Games in the overall team tally February 28, 2017, 21:00 2017-03-02 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
Vladimir Putin arrived in Krasnoyarsk February 28, 2017, 20:10 2017-02-28 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
Condolences to the family and friends of hockey player Vladimir Petrov February 28, 2017, 16:00 2017-02-28 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia
Joint news conference with President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev February 28, 2017, 14:50 2017-05-21 Team of the Official Website of the President of Russia Bishkek

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Liberty Bell Bank
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Liberty Bell Bank (NJ) Offers 15-Month CD Special, 3.00% APY
POSTED ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2019 BY Ken Tumin
Deal Summary: 15-month CD Special, 3.00% APY, $2.5k minimum deposit
Availability: Primary market area is South New Jersey, but anyone who can come into a branch is eligible (no residency requirement).
New Jersey-based Liberty Bell Bank is currently offering a 15-month CD Special (3.00% APY). The minimum deposit is $2.5k, with no stated balance cap.
The CD Special is also available as an IRA (Traditional), earning the same APY with the same funding requirements.
According to CSR, the Early Withdrawal Penalty is three months interest on the amount being withdrawn, with partial withdrawals allowed.
Headquartered in Marlton, New Jersey, Liberty Bell Bank became a division of Delaware-based The Bank of Delmarva in early 2018.
While Liberty Bell Bank only has branch locations in the New Jersey counties of Burlington and Camden Counties (greater Philadelphia metropolitan area), CSR stated anyone who can come into a branch is eligible to open a CD.
Liberty Bell Bank has three full-service New Jersey branches, located in Cherry Hill, Marlton, and Moorestown.
Bank Overview
As a division of The Bank of Delmarva, Liberty Bell Bank operates under The Bank of Delmarva's FDIC Certificate and shares its financial history.
Liberty Bell Bank/The Bank of Delmarva has an overall health grade of "B+" at DepositAccounts.com, with a Texas Ratio of 17.09% (above average) based on September 30, 2018 data. In the past year, the Bank has increased its total non-brokered deposits by $159.92 million, an excellent annual growth rate of 37.35%. Please refer to our financial overview of Liberty Bell Bank/The Bank of Delmarva (FDIC Certificate # 8810) for more details.
Effective March 1, 2018, Liberty Bell Bank, which was founded in 2003, merged into The Bank of Delmarva. The two banks have the same top shareholder, Florida lawyer Kenneth Lehman, who apparently was the matchmaker for the two institutions. According to a Philadelphia Business Journal article,
"Delmarva is excited about the opportunities this merger affords both of our fine organizations," Delmarva CEO John Breda said in a statement. "Liberty is a respected community bank, and provides a significant opportunity for Delmarva to expand our market area by capitalizing on the strong relationships Liberty has fostered over the years."
Established in 1896 as Bank of Delmar, The Bank of Delmarva is currently Delaware's eighth largest bank, with assets in excess of $737 million and more than 33,200 customer accounts.
How the CD Special Compares
When compared to 291 similar length-of-term CDs tracked by DepositAccounts.com, which require a similar minimum deposit and are available within the market area, Liberty Bell Bank's 15-month CD Special APY currently ranks fourth.
The above rates are accurate as of 1/12/2019.
To look for the best CD rates, both nationwide and state specific, please refer to our CD Rates Table page.
Related Pages: Philadelphia CD rates, 1-year CD rates


Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. So frankly, I'd rather you ate a Butterfinger bar than skip breakfast altogether. Was that the sound of torches being lit?
Healthy sandwich and wrap recipes Tuna or turkey, on whole grain bread, mostly cold, but sometimes hot with melted cheese. Sounds boring? That is what my sandwich was for too many years, sad, I know, but then I found these healthy sandwich and wrap recipes and now I look forward to lunch!
Try my grilled turkey with a luxuriously rich balsamic glaze, baked sweet potatoes and yummy garlic green beans. This dinner is so easy to make and so very yummy… I like to serve this dinner all year round!!!
Your daily cup of coffee may be doing more for you than providing that early-morning pick-me-up. The health impact of coffee has long been a controversial topic, with advocates touting its antioxidant activity and brain-boosting ability, and detractors detailing downsides such as insomnia, indigestion and an increased heart rate and blood pressure. But the latest wave of scientific evidence brings a wealth of good news for coffee lovers. Here are ten reasons drinking coffee may be healthier for you than you thought.


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Europace. 2010 Nov;12(11):1623-9. doi: 10.1093/europace/euq342. Epub 2010 Sep 29.
Heart rate-dependent variability of cardiac events in type 2 congenital long-QT syndrome.
AIMS: We aimed to examine the validity of heart rate (HR) at rest before β-blocker therapy as a risk factor influencing cardiac events (ventricular fibrillation, torsades de pointes, or syncope) in long QT type 2 (LQT2) patients.
METHODS AND RESULTS: In 110 genetically confirmed LQT2 patients (45 probands), we examined the significance of variables [HR at rest, corrected QT (QTc), female gender, age of the first cardiac event, mutation site] as a risk factor for cardiac events. We also evaluated frequency of cardiac events in four groups classified by the combination of basal HR and QTc with cutoff values of 60 b.p.m. and 500 ms to estimate if these two electrocardiographic parameters in combination could be a good predictor of outcome (mean follow-up period: 50 ± 39 months). Logistic regression analysis revealed three predictors: HR < 60 b.p.m., QTc ≥ 500 ms, and female gender. When the study population was divided into four groups using the cutoff values of 60 b.p.m. for HR and 500 ms for QTc, the cumulative event-free survival by the Kaplan-Meier method was significantly higher in the group with HR ≥ 60 b.p.m. and QTc < 500 ms than in the group with HR < 60 b.p.m. and QTc < 500 ms or that with HR < 60 b.p.m. and QTc ≥ 500 m (P < 0.05). Irrespective of QTc interval, LQT2 patients with basal HR < 60 b.p.m. were at significantly higher risk.
CONCLUSION: The basal HR of < 60 b.p.m. is a notable risk factor for the prediction of life-threatening arrhythmias in LQT2 patients.
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Tapan Raychaudhuri (8 May 1926 – 26 November 2014) was a British-Indian historian specialising in British Indian history, Indian economic history and the History of Bengal.

Early life and education
He was the son of Prativa and Amiya Kumar Raychaudhuri, the last zamindar of Kirtipasha in Barisal district of eastern Bengal. He came from a well-known Baidya family. He was a nephew of Kiran Shankar Roy and Hem Chandra Roychaudhuri, through his paternal aunts.

He was a student of Ballygunge Government High School, Calcutta and Barisal Zilla School, Scottish Church College, Calcutta, where he completed his I.A. and finally Presidency College, Calcutta, where he completed his B.A. (Hons.) in history with a high first class. He completed his first D.Phil. in history at Calcutta University under the supervision of Sir Jadunath Sarkar, who was his Additional Supervisor and his second D.Phil. at Balliol College, Oxford, under the supervision of Major (Dr.) C.C. Davies.

Career
He started his career as a lecturer at the Department of Islamic History and Culture, Calcutta University. After his return from Britain, he became a deputy director of the National Archives of India. He was a reader and then professor of history and director of the Delhi School of Economics and professor and the head of the department of history of Delhi University.

He was a reader in modern South Asian history from 1973 to 1992 and then ad hominem professor of Indian history and civilization and fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, from 1992 to 1993. He was an emeritus fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, after retirement. He also served on the inaugural Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009.

He became a national research professor in India in 2011

Awards
 Watumull Prize awarded by the American Historical Association, 1982. (jointly with Irfan Habib) for the Cambridge Economic History of India.
 Doctor of Letters 1993, University of Oxford
 Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of Calcutta
 Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of Burdwan
 Padma Bhushan in 2007 in recognition to his contributions to history.

Death
He died at home in Oxford (England) on 26 November 2014, after suffering a stroke.

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1926 births
2014 deaths
People from Barisal District
20th-century Indian historians
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Scottish Church College alumni
Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
Bengali historians
Bengali zamindars
Economic historians
Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford
Harvard University staff
Historians of South Asia
Indian autobiographers
People associated with Santiniketan
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
Scholars from Kolkata
Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
Academic staff of Delhi University
University of California, Berkeley staff
University of Pennsylvania staff
Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
People from Oxford
British people of Bengali descent
British autobiographers
20th-century British historians

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Q: Trying to load csv data i tried loading a csv file that I added to the working directory after I created the working directory in R, and it looks like it is in R, in the files window (bottom right hand corner), and it is located next to the current project file I am working on (top left window), but it wont 'read' the data file.
Error: 'Data/Bats_data.csv' does not exist in current working directory ('C:/Users/z3128898/OneDrive - UNSW/Desktop/R workshop materials/R_Rstudio_tidyverse-main (1)/R_Rstudio_tidyverse-main').

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Bi-Polar Mania - Happy and Sad.
You may be remotely familiar with the term Bi-polar disorder. It used to be called Manic-Depression - representing the two poles that the mind goes through - episodes of Mania and episodes of Depression. Mania is characterized by racing thought, delusional thoughts and grandiose speech. Here is my personal experience with Bi-Polar Mania - A Close-up Look.
For over a year, I had been on a drug called Lithium for mood stabilization of Bi-Polar Disorder. It is supposed to keep me from getting too revved up and keep my thoughts from racing.
Due to financial reasons, I stopped taking my medication in November of 2011. Over the next three months - December, January 2012, February 2012 - I began to go into a severe case of mania.
My thoughts were racing. I got new ideas every second, and all of them seemed possible. Each idea seemed like a million-dollar idea and I could do anything. But it was all an illusion.
Everything I thought was going to happen, was not going to happen. The ideas kept coming, though. Coming and coming.
Along with my racing thoughts, my mind was doing all it could to keep up with my fertile mind.
I talked to people about ideas I had and everyone believed me, at least I thought they did. Many, however, were starting to spot the mania and several people were telling me that I was going way too fast. I heard them and agreed, but I didn't see it as a problem.
I had some run ins with family and friends and was not nice about how I dealt with them. They cried out for me to slow down, "You need to get back on your medications." Well, I couldn't. I ran out of money and that was why I quit taking the medications. I didn't plan on quitting the medication, I had to.
This scenario sets the backdrop for a night of sheer madness, that I will cover in the next post.
What you'll read is how Bi-Polar Mania can get completely out of control. It's not pretty, when you see Bi-Polar Mania - A Close-up look.


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Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch
LR Cable News Analysis Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading 1/24/2007
Shaking off two years of disbelief and dismay, the cable industry has finally started dealing with the prospect of an impending bandwidth shortage.
Cable operators and equipment suppliers, alarmed by an explosion in bandwidth use by cable subscribers over the last couple of years, are now drawing up plans to boost capacity at both the headend and plant levels. Instead of debating whether the coming bandwidth crisis is genuine, they're looking at ways to confront the crisis by splitting fiber nodes in half, converting systems over to more efficient switched digital video delivery, testing pre-Docsis 3.0 channel-bonding technologies, and expanding their systems' RF capacity to 860 MHz or 1 GHz.
Cable technology strategists are also looking at boosting their QAM power, instituting out-of-band spectrum overlays, and upgrading to MPEG-4 video compression standards. They're even weighing such previously unthinkable moves as building fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks and adopting PON architecture, just like some of the big phone companies.
"We know there's a need for more bandwidth," says Bob McIntyre, CTO of Scientific Atlanta . "We just have to decide how to do it."
At a conference sponsored by PK Worldmedia Inc. in Houston Tuesday, McIntyre and other cable engineers spelled out these measures to cope with the approaching bandwidth storm. The conference, held the day before the opening of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) 's annual Emerging Technologies show, found cable officials soberly agreeing that skyrocketing subscriber bandwidth consumption is threatening to overwhelm even their fattest broadband pipes.
"Bandwidth consumption is definitely increasing, and the average consumption rate is definitely increasing," said Patrick Knorr, general manager of Sunflower Broadband , a small, independent cable operator based in Lawrence, Kan. "It's definitely a real problem; there's definitely a storm coming."
Cable technologists blamed the new bandwidth crunch at least partly on the surge in high-definition TV (HDTV) sets and channels. They noted that HD programming demands three to four times as much bandwidth as standard digital TV channels, leaving relatively little room for other fare.
Conference speakers also noted that such prime cable rivals as DirecTV Group Inc. (NYSE: DTV) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) seem determined to outflank MSOs by offering several dozens or, in DirecTV's case, even hundreds of HD channels to their customers.
"Video is going to drive this thing and keep driving it," SA's McIntyre said. "We know we're going to have to compete."
In addition, panelists blamed the startling increase in Internet video use over the past couple of years. In particular, they focused on the sudden rise of YouTube Inc. , which now serves up 120 million video streams per day and draws more than 34 million unique users each month to its Website.
Jeff Binder, senior director of Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT), warned that the big broadcast networks may soon pose an even greater threat to the cable industry's video business model than YouTube. He cited CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS)'s plans to stream its primetime programs on the Web for no charge a day earlier than their first run on the TV network.
"It's not so much that everyone is rushing to the Web to watch TV but that content providers are shifting that way," he said. "Prepare your networks for the primetime on-demand wave."
Knorr, whose cable system serves a major college town, said he's already seeing early signs that younger consumers are opting for Internet video downloads over traditional cable video service. In Lawrence, home to the University of Kansas, 5,000 of the cable system's 40,000 subscribers only take high-speed data service. These subscribers account for a sizable 20 percent of the system's cable modem customers.
"Customers are using the Internet more hours per day," he said. "There's an absolute risk of people dropping basic video service for Internet video."
Cable engineers also attributed the swiftly expanding bandwidth needs to the growth of video on demand, digital video recorders, and other time-shifting techniques. For instance, Dom Stasi, CTO of TVN Entertainment Corp. , pointed out that his company now supplies 3,500 hours a month of VOD content to cable operators, up from a mere 150 hours per month in 2001.
"The flood of content is what's really going to make the game or break the game," Stasi said. "It's content that's still king, not resolution or aspect ratios."
Thanks to these trends, some tech executives contended that the bandwidth crisis may never actually end for cable operators. They predicted that the industry will constantly find itself needing to add more capacity to satisfy its customers and fend off competitors.
"There will always be a need for more upgrades," McIntyre said. "We are always going to need more bandwidth."
— Alan Breznick, Site Editor, Cable Digital News
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sgan201 12/5/2012 | 3:16:00 PM
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch Read carefully.
They are admitting that they do not have enough bandwidth for more video channels. They are NOT admitting that they do not have enough bandwidth for data. In fact, if they give you more bandwidth for data, you will see more internet video as opposed to cable TV. That is NOT what they want to see happening.
lighten up!! 12/5/2012 | 3:16:00 PM
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch That they they don't have enough bandwidth to serve their customers adequately. In my area service goes down to crap after about 4:30 p.m. I am fedup of calling Optimum Online whose tech goes through all the B.S. procedures, (router resets, modem boot...)except admitting that their nodes and their UBRs can't handle the traffic. I am sure I am not the only one experiencing these problems as many people admit poor service during peak hours. They then have the nerve to ask you to sign up for Voice service. What are you friggin nuts?? I can't wait for Verizon's FIOS in my neighborhood so I can tell Optimum Online to go pound salt...
stephencooke 12/5/2012 | 3:15:59 PM
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch Hi InetUID,
The bandwidth issues have more to do with the way that the cable is deployed (a single wire 'bus' for cable vs. a dedicated connection for DSL) and the way that the information (both data & TV) shares the available bandwidth on that cable.
If you would like to research this more there are a whole bunch of tutorials and standards that you can read. See DOCSIS for cable systems and DSL for phone line-based systems.
fgoldstein 12/5/2012 | 3:15:59 PM
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch Dreamer, the article is talking about both data (DOCSIS) and video.
Lighten, it's unlikely that the congestion is in the cable plant. Your basic DOCSIS system has 30-40 Mbps of downstream capacity. Average residential usage just isn't all that high. The typical congestion point is upstream, where a large number of DOCSIS nodes are consolidated and interconnect with the Internet backbone. Cablevision still has to pay its upstream IbSP, not to mention run a router infrastructure to get there.
The advantage that HFC operators (cablecos) have is that they already put fiber into the field. If they need more data capacity, it's an incremental change. Node splitting puts fewer subscribers on a single DOCSIS shared channel. DOCSIS 3.0 will aggregate more than 6 Mbps into a single DOCSIS stream. And they can eventually bypass the coax completely and use glass for the last leg, should it become cost-effective to do so.
The bigger limit is video capacity. HDTV takes a lot of bandwidth, and there are an awful lot of ordinary cable channels out there. The lesser-watched channels may end up migrating to video-on-demand first.
InetUID 12/5/2012 | 3:15:59 PM
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch I've heard in the UK that cable is better because the 'wire' is thicker than the phone line to your house (DSL). If this is the case how come they are having bandwidth issues?
"Ill" Duce 12/5/2012 | 3:15:59 PM
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch If the MSO's move to an FTTH model (which I have heard outside LR,) what does that portend for the local franchise model and lack of regs? An MSO providing FTTH and MOCA is no diferent than and ILEC providing FTTH and MOCA.
What are local building codes going to say about the number of NIDs/ONU/whatevers on the side of houses, not to mention the retaliation of the ILECs.
Can the MSO's move from a regional decision making model imposed by the business structure to one of centralized planning?
AT&T and it's army of attorneys could argue that MSO's no longer get any relief from any regulation imposed on ILECs. MSO's could argue that if the ILEC's get nationwide video franchises, they should also giving them relief from local franchising.
And what pray tell of the bazillion dollars in local franchise taxes and other perqs extracted from MSOs by cities?
Smells like a heap o' pottage is cookin'
ozip 12/5/2012 | 3:15:59 PM
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch f...
Your right, all this talk about a bandwidth crunch is very misleading. The correct term is that some operators are experiencing a SPECTRUM CRUNCH because of increased demands of all services, data, on-demand and HD.
For further confusion, talk about DOCSIS 3.0 providing more bandwidth is also misleading, as I am sure you know. All it does in this context is provide a way of managing multiple channels combined to increase the agreegate. But to make it work, you still have to find more spectrum.
OZIP
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch Im sure that the guy from Sunflower knows what he is talking about, but with that exception the quotes are from vendors who stand to sell a lot of equipment if their claims are true.
If you going to take the position, how about support from some more credible operator sources instead of vendors peddling their wares.
tsat 12/5/2012 | 3:15:57 PM
re: Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch
yes, the cable-tv cable in itself can handle more bandwidth becuase it is coaxial. Just on a physical level, it will always be able to handle more bandwidth then the twisted-pair telephone lines that carry DSL.
However, there is more to the problem than that. Typically, cable-TV cables are shared amongst many users, while a twisted-pair coming to you home is unique just to your house.
-tsat
paolo.franzoi 12/5/2012 | 3:15:56 PM
MG,
You have an error in your statement. Downloaded content is more expensive than cable, if it is legally obtained.
Go download every episode that you receive off basic cable via iTunes. Now that is theoretical, but even with people watching 20 hours a week that would be $20 - $40/week for downloaded content.
Unless you think Youtube has suddenly made American Idol obsolete. In which case you are patently insane.
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Adrian Deeley apologised and left when asked to do so.
A Kilmarnock man admitted slapping his wife's face.
Adrian Deeley, 46, of Annan Road, pleaded guilty at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court following the incident which took place within a Sinclair Court property on March 16.
The court heard that the pair, who have been together for 15 years, were having an argument and were both in each others' faces.
Deeley was holding a bottle of beer when his partner reached for it, squirting the contents in his face.
He snapped and slapped her face – he apologised and left when asked to do so.
The woman suffered minor bruising to her left cheek but didn't require medical attention.
Sentence was deferred for good behaviour until June 25.


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The first two pamphlets ("numbers") of the Encyclopædia Britannica were issued in December 1768, being sold from the printing office of its originator, Colin Macfarquhar, in Nicholson Street in Edinburgh.  In 1968, several celebrations of the Britannica's bicentennial were held, and the three volumes of the 1st edition were reprinted in facsimile.

The Britannica Banquet

On 15 October 1968, the Britannica threw a banquet for itself celebrating its 200th birthday.  Queen Elizabeth herself was not present, although she sent warm thanks for the gift of a fresh copy of the 14th edition.  Hundreds of guests were arranged at 13 tables and served an exceptional dinner with well-chosen wines and tasteful music:

During the reception, the music was provided by Pipe Major L. D. V. de Laspee of the London Scottish, by kind permission of Lt. Colonel A. F. Niekirk, TD Officer Commanding. During the banquet itself, music was provided by the String Orchestra of the Royal Artillery Band, as directed by Captain R. Quinn, MBE, LSRM, RA, by kind permission of the Director, Royal Artillery. Later in the banquet, a programme of fanfares was performed by the Guild of Gentlemen Trumpeters. As Sir Gilbert Inglefield, the Lord Mayor of London, put it during his speech, "This, surely, is yet one more memorable episode in our chronicles of time."

Five speakers gave brief speeches at the banquet:

 Dr. Robert Hutchins, Chairman of the Board of Editors for the Britannica
 Sir Gilbert Inglefield, the Lord Mayor of the City of London
 the Right Honorable Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 William Benton, Chairman and publisher of the Britannica
 Sir William Haley, Editor in Chief of the Britannica

Many amusing episodes in the Britannica's history were recounted. Several speakers reiterated the Britannica's commitment to being not merely a reference work (an "enchantingly vast cornucopia of erudition", in Sir Gilbert Inglefield's words), but a great educational instrument of all humanity; in the words of Dr. Hutchins, "the Britannica seems destined to become a world university" and "Senator Benton...will go down in history as one of the most influential educators of our time." Prime Minister Harold Wilson stated that he and Jennie Lee were inspired to begin the Open University by the Britannica's push into international markets, as well as by the Soviet Union's dedicated broadcasting of educational propaganda. Finally, the Britannica's view of itself as the summa of all civilization can be gleaned from its publisher Bill Benton's speech.

The Exhibition at the Newberry Library

From 9 April 1968 through 31 May 1968, the Newberry Library in Chicago offered an exhibit celebrating all encyclopedias, but most particularly the Britannica.  The exhibit was accompanied by a book by James M. Wells, who wrote an overview essay dated 9 January 1968.

Re-issue of the 1st edition

On the occasion of its 200th anniversary, Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. published a facsimile of the 1st edition, even including "age spots" on the paper. This has been periodically reprinted and is still part of Britannica's product line.

See also

 History of the Encyclopædia Britannica

References

Encyclopædia Britannica
Bicentennial anniversaries
1968 in Scotland
1968 in Illinois


These words, spoken by James and John, are words that many people feel like saying at various times in their lives. Perhaps you can relate. These Apostles spoke this way because Jesus was not welcomed in a Samaritan town they had just entered. He wanted to dine there and the townspeople rejected Him and His Apostles. As a result, James and John were hurt and angry and wanted to call down the wrath of God upon that village.
Whenever we experience hurt in life, it's understandable that we feel this way. We tend to want justice and revenge and want those who hurt us to pay for their sin. But Jesus' attitude was much different. He rebuked His Apostles for their desire of wrath and moved on not allowing this rejection to affect Him.
Rejection and other forms of hurt caused by others can be difficult to let go of. It can easily sit within our hearts, acting like a mold that slowly grows and takes over. When this happens, you may have a very hard time forgiving and letting go of the hurt.
The best way to approach the hurt caused by another is to immediately act as our Lord did. It must be let go of right away and you must move on. God is the only one to issue vengeance, not us. When we fail to do this and harbor the hurt feelings, they ultimately do us more harm than anyone else.
Reflect, today, upon any feelings of anger or hurt that you still harbor in your heart. Make the conscious choice to forgive and move on. Forgiving does not mean that you act as if the hurt caused you was okay. On the contrary, an act of forgiving another is also an acknowledgment that there was wrongdoing. Forgiveness allows you to keep that hurt from doing you more unnecessary damage. In the end, it is also an open invitation to the other to repent and reconcile with you. Leave vengeance and wrath to the Lord and seek to keep your heart at peace.
Lord, I pray for the grace to forgive. I especially forgive those who have hurt me the most and offer them to You. Free me from any feelings of vengeance I harbor and help me to love with Your pure and merciful heart. I love You, dear Lord. Help me to love others as You love. Jesus, I trust in You.


The Lost Tomb of Jesus, a documentary aired on the Discovery Channel, claims an ancient tomb discovered in Jerusalem may have held the bones of Jesus. Author Louis Lapides argues that the implications of such a find could drastically alter the historic faith of Christianity.
What if the bones of Jesus of Nazareth were discovered? How do we respond to claim that the tomb contains an ossuary inscribed with the names of Mary Magdalene and Yehuda the son of Jesus? Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene secretly married and gave birth to a child named Yehuda?
Using apologetic tools to support the resurrection of Jesus, in Burying the Jesus Family Tomb Controversy Lapides explores the major claims professed by the Discovery Channel documentary and refutes the validity of these arguments.
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I am looking for an owner to take over a team in a 12 team H2H points league. Draft is over but it is a solid team. Email jsenff@hotmail.com if interested or for more information.
http://fantasy.espn.com/baseball/league/join?leagueId=159058&inviteId=277ed4b3-a144-426e-b1c7-23f755c0c5e5 ESPN 12 team H2H points. Need one replacement owner for Manitoba Saints. Drafting tonight at 9:00 CST. 10 keepers. Snake draft. $20 entry fee. Email jsenff@hotmail.com if interested or for more information.
You pick your keepers for this year. They must be selected by 8:00 pm CST. Send me your email address and I can put you in as the new owner.
You pick your keepers for this year. They must be selected by 8:00 pm CST.
We only have one spot for sure but one owner is on the fence. How certain would both of you join?
http://fantasy.espn.com/baseball/league/join?leagueId=159058&inviteId=277ed4b3-a144-426e-b1c7-23f755c0c5e5 We are drafting Monday March 25 @ 9:00 pm CST. 10 keepers. Looking for a replacement owner for the Manitoba Saints. $20.
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Email jsenff@hotmail.com if you're still looking. We draft Monday March 25 @ 9:00 pm CST. If interested, I'll send an invitation.
Email jsenff@hotmail.com if you're still looking. We have one spot and draft Monday March 25 @ 9:00 pm CST.
ESPN 12 team H2H points. Replacement owner. 10 keepers. Snake draft Monday March 25 9:00 pm CST. jsenff@hotmail.com if interested.
ESPN 12 team H2H league needs one replacement owner. 10 keepers. Draft day is Monday March 25 @ 9:00 CST. $20 CDN entry fee. 2/3 to championship winner, 1/3 to regular season best record, $20 to championship runner-up. Email jsenff@hotmail.com if interested or for more information.


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accessing a path outside csentry in the memory card
I´m trying to have access to this path:
Card/Android/data/science.foto/files/csentry/u
The path exists in the card, and it has some contents (some files that I want to syncfile to the server).
I´ve tried a path concat like
x = pathname(CSEntryExternal);
y = "..\..\science.foto\files\csentry\u";
dirSource	= pathconcat(x,y);
I displayed dirSource and it seemed well
/storage/extSdCard/Android/data/science.foto/files/csentry/u
but when I executed a dirlist on that directory the list.length() came as 0, meaning that there wre no files there.
Is there another way to get those files outside csentry?
Re: accessing a path outside csentry in the memory card
For security reasons Android won't let you access the private files of another app. Anything under Android/data/... is considered app private data so CSEntry can only access files under Android/data/gov.census.cspro.csentry. It can't access files under Android/data/someotherapp. Depending on the version of Android you are using you might be able to put the files outside of the Android/data directory such as /mnt/sdcard/, /mnt/sdcard/Pictures or /mnt/sdcard/Downloads. Google has been making it progressively more difficult to work with files in each new version of Android. I'm pretty sure that would work in versions 9.0 and earlier and pretty sure it will not work in Android 11. In Android 11 apps are not allowed to directly read or write files outside of their app private directories which is why in CSPro 7.5 we moved the CSEntry directory from /mnt/sdcard/csentry to Android/data/gov.census.cspro.csentry for new installs (on devices that had CSPro 7.4 and earlier access to the old csentry is grandfathered in). It is unfortunate that Google has added all of these file restrictions as it makes it very difficult for apps like CSEntry that do a lot of operations on files.
What kind of file are you trying to access in the science.foto directory? Are they generated by an app that you wrote (and could modify) or is something that you cannot change? I ask because maybe we can figure out another way to share the data.
Thanks, Josh, for the prompt (as always) answer.
My Android version is 5.1.1, and it has not this mnt directory.
In any case, I do not want to depend on something from Google that might not be working tomorrow.
The application I´m calling is an in-house (written by a colleague of mine) to take photos of "vaccine booklets" of the children being interviewed.
These booklets have information about the vaccine type anda date for the children.
These photos (more than one per child) are .jpg files stored in the card (using that science.foto path that I wrote before)
Then, we would transfer those photos to the server by the menu-control program, and that is the point when I need to hace access to the card directory outside csentry.
Is there a way that these two applications (science.foto and csentry) could share a common directory?
By the way, my knowledge of Android is very limited.
On Android 5.1 you should be able to create a directory in the top level fo the sd card. The full path on the device would be /mnt/sdcard on most devices but when you look at it from Windows by connecting to the device by USB it won't show the /mnt/sdcard part.
Android has some other mechanisms for sharing files between apps described here: https://developer.android.com/training/ ... le-sharing Unfortunately I'm not sure those mechanisms would work in CSPro without some modification of CSPro itself. If you were sharing text data you could use the systemapp object to send it from the foot app back to csentry through an Intent but I don't think that would work with photos since it is binary data and we don't have a way to handle that kind of data in CSPro. This is something that would be useful to be able to handle so we will consider implementing some kind of file sharing solution for CSEntry in the future but for now I don't have a good solution.
Suppose I can write the photo files with my app on this /mnt/card directory.
How do I access it from csentry in order to syncdata them to the server?
You can just do syncfile("/mnt/sdcard/fotos/" + my filename, ...)


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SIX NATIONS: Ireland's Garry Ringrose will cause 'havoc' insists Keith Earls
Garry Ringrose
Published: 08:15 Tuesday 06 March 2018
Garry Ringrose is ready to transfer his attacking "havoc" from the training field to Ireland's NatWest 6 Nations Grand Slam bid, according to Keith Earls.
Ringrose is expected to ease Ireland's midfield injury glut by starting Saturday's crucial clash with Scotland in Dublin, having hit full fitness following a January ankle injury.
The Leinster centre could partner Bundee Aki to offset long-term injuries to Robbie Henshaw and Chris Farrell, as Ireland chase a fourth-straight Six Nations victory at the Aviva Stadium.
Ireland expect British and Irish Lions duo Tadhg Furlong and Iain Henderson to be fit to start against the Scots, with Munster flyer Earls admitting he faces the "biggest week" of his Test career.
"Ringer's been in here for the last couple of years, we all know how good he's been," said Earls of Ringrose.
"He's been training the last two weeks with us and it doesn't look like he's been out long. He's still sharp, he's been causing havoc.
"Look, we've been unfortunate to lose Robbie (Henshaw) and Chris (Farrell). They're two world-class players, but we've another world-class player coming in so we've been quite blessed the last couple of seasons with 13s and centres after Drico (Brian O'Driscoll).
"Before I would have had to step in a few times, or someone else would have had to step in, but we've got out-and-out 13s in depth now, which is great.
"I am not even looking past Scotland; it is the biggest week of my Irish career, yeah.
"It is a massive match for us and the pressure of playing in the Aviva; we have a good record there but the Scots are on a high at the moment."
Henshaw may not play again this season after dislocating a shoulder in Ireland's 56-19 win over Italy in the Six Nations' second round.
Farrell suffered knee ligament damage in Ireland's open training session last week, having impressed in the 37-27 win over Wales the previous weekend.
Earls has hit prime form amid Ireland's bid for a third Six Nations title in five years, admitting that aged 30 he is enjoying his career more than ever.
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The Munster stalwart also revealed he has been working with Irish hypnotist and magician Keith Barry in a bid to boost his performances.
"The last 18 months is probably the most I have enjoyed rugby since I was about 13 years of age," said Earls.
"When you're enjoying something and it doesn't seem like work you enjoy it a lot more. It's what a lot of us do. It is our job, but we think it is everything, which it isn't.
"I have been relaxing a bit as well. As I am getting older I am trying to find the one per cents between diet and stuff, the psychology and the visualisation; I have been working a bit with Keith Barry as well, just trying to get them one per cents, which seems to be working.
"I don't want to get into the detail but he knows the brain better than anyone and just in terms of visualisation and stuff like that."


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06/14/2010 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011
A Wealthy Few Pick Up The Cash, We Pay The Costs
By Dave Johnson
A few weeks back I wrote about Whirlpool closing their Evansville, Indiana plant and moving the work to Mexico. I wrote about the lunacy of an economic system that encourages companies to destroy lives, communities and the very economy that the Whirlpools depend on. This company was taking stimulus dollars with one hand and laying people off with the other.
Whirlpool did this because they could do it, making a wealthy few a bit more wealthy, and because you and I - not Whirlpool - have to pick up all the costs. This is called externalizing costs. It means you and I pick up the costs and an already-wealthy, connected few pick up the cash. It's the way our system currently is designed.
A step toward a solution to this problem would be to require companies to start estimating the externalized effects of their actions. What is the cost of cleaning up all the discarded cigarette butts? What is the cost of cleaning up the trash near a McDonald's? What are the costs from the health effects of added salt or sugar? So how about requiring companies to just estimate externalized costs so that We, the People can start getting a handle on this problem. Just start Is that too much to ask?
Now there is a study of the ripple effects of the Evansville plant closing. The full study, Layoff at Whirlpool: Costs to the Evansville Metro Area and Indiana Taxpayers, written by Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, concludes that direct costs to the community (us) will include:
- An additional 1,536 "ripple effect" jobs, for a total loss of 2,502 jobs;
- The loss of $138 million in income, including about 90 cents in additional income lost for every dollar lost by a Whirlpool employee; and
- A decline in tax revenues of $17.7 million, especially property, sales and both personal and corporate income taxes.
But that's not all.
This taxpayer-cost estimate... does not include substantial lost federal revenues... Nor does it include social safety-net programs to assist the dislocated workers. However, for one such program alone we conservatively estimate that:
- Unemployment Insurance Benefits for the dislocated Indiana Whirlpool workers will cost more than $4.15 million....
Combining tax losses with Unemployment Insurance costs generates a conservative taxpayer-cost estimate of more than $21.8 million--or $22,588 per worker dislocated in Indiana.
WE pick up those costs. A wealthy few get a bit wealthier. Welcome to the system.
The surrounding retail stores, gas stations, and all other places these workers spend will see a drop in sales. Teachers, police, etc. will be under pressure as the local economy dries up. Homes will be foreclosed and property values for all will drop. The costs of those foreclosures will fall on others. Etc. All so a few already-wealthy will get a bit wealthier.
At least skim through the study to see all the ways the rest of us will be affected.
WE pick up those costs. A wealthy few get a bit wealthier. WE CAN CHANGE THE SYSTEM.
Past posts on Whirlpool's Evansville plant closing:
Whirlpool: Mexican Workers Paid $70/Week Can't Buy Refrigerators
Whirlpool Tells Callers: Call Congress. They're Right!
Whirlpool Exec Responds: The System Made Us Do It
Whirlpool Bites Hands Of American Taxpayers That Feed It
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Lava Therapeutics announces collaboration with Johnson & Johnson to develop bi-specific gamma-delta T-cell engager therapeutics
Utrecht (the Netherlands), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) – Dutch biopharmaceutical start-up Lava Therapeutics B.V., today announced that it has entered into a research and license agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, to discover and develop novel bispecific antibodies to gamma-delta T cells for the treatment of cancer. The collaboration was facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation.
Under the terms of the agreement, Lava Therapeutics will perform discovery and product development activities, and is eligible to receive an undisclosed financial package consisting of an upfront payment and potential development and commercial milestones, and future tiered royalties.
"We are excited to enter into this collaboration with Janssen, a global innovator and leader in the development of new medicines," said Stephen Hurly, CEO of Lava Therapeutics. "We strongly believe in the strength of our bispecific gamma-delta T cell engager platform and are committed to creating highly potent, target-specific therapeutics with increased durability and safety over current T cell-based approaches."
Gilde Healthcare acted as lead investor in the first institutional investment round of €16M in 2018. Gilde Healthcare's Operational Partners Prof. Dr. Paul Parren and Dr. Andrea van Elsas are actively involved as Head of R&D and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, respectively.
About Lava Therapeutics
Lava Therapeutics is developing a proprietary bispecific antibody platform that engages gamma-delta T cells for the treatment of hematological and solid cancers. The company's first-in-class immuno-oncology approach activates V?9V?2 T cells upon binding to membrane-expressed tumor targets. Lava was founded in 2016 based on intellectual property originating from the Amsterdam University Medical Center, and is backed by Lupus Ventures, Biox Biosciences, Versant Ventures, Gilde Healthcare and MRL Ventures Fund. The company has established a highly experienced antibody research and development team located in Utrecht, the Netherlands (headquarters) and Philadelphia. For more information, please visit www.lavatherapeutics.com.
About Gilde Healthcare
Gilde Healthcare is a specialized healthcare investor managing over €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) across two fund strategies: venture & growth capital and private equity. Gilde Healthcare's venture & growth capital fund invests in fast growing companies active in digital health, medtech and therapeutics. The venture & growth companies are based in Europe and North America. Gilde Healthcare's private equity fund invests in profitable European lower mid-market healthcare companies with a focus on the Benelux and DACH region. The private equity fund targets healthcare providers, suppliers of medical products and service providers in the healthcare market.
For more information, visit the company's website at www.gildehealthcare.com.
Gerelateerd aan: Lava Therapeutics
Gilde Healthcare is een gespecialiseerde Europese investeringsmaatschappij met €1.4 miljard ($1.5 miljard) onder beheer in twee aparte fondsstrategieën: venture & groeikapitaal en private equity. Gilde Healthcare's venture & groeikapitaalfonds participeert in medische technologie en nieuwe geneesmiddelen. De venture & groeibedrijven zijn gevestigd in Europa en Noord Amerika. Gilde Healthcare's private equity fonds neemt deel in winstgevende Europese bedrijven met een primaire focus op de middenmarkt in Benelux en Duitstalige landen. Het private equity fonds is gericht op zorgverleners, toeleveranciers en producenten van medische producten en overige dienstverleners actief in de zorgsector.
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After slapping away the 1,000th flying vampire to feast on us this summer, we got an itch to learn more about nontoxic mosquito repellents. Turns out the subject has long nettled the HOMEGROWN community.
• applying rosemary oil to the skin and spritzing clothes and hair, courtesy of Cammy; there's a similar recipe beginning on page 5 of this article from Mother Earth News.
• The same article offers suggestions for a few other types of leaves to crush and apply topically (basil; lemon thyme, pictured below; lemongrass; and mountain mint—although avoid the latter if you're pregnant), in addition to some common-sense tips for curbing the greater mosquito population. (That bucket of standing water in your backyard? Dump it.) Other ideas include turning a fan on any outdoor areayou're planning on occupying (several portable models run onrechargeable batteries, alleviating the need for an outlet) and delegating some of the work to mosquitoes' natural predators, such as dragonflies, ants, spiders, water striders (a.k.a. mosquito eaters), and frogs.
• Good Housekeeping's The Daily Green offers a couple of recipes for homemade mosquito repellents, including a soap to use before and after going outside, as well as tips for finding the right human- and pet-friendly concentrations of essential oils.
• Lifehacker recommends using Scotch tape or nail polish to take the itch out of a mosquito bite.
• Farmers' Almanac offers a few ideas for topical salves, including a diluted mixture of tea tree oil and aloe vera gel, a fresh-cut onion, crushed parsley, and toothpaste.
Speaking of things that bug us, we're looking for advice on another bloodsucker, the tick. Have ideas for how to check for, avoid, and remove these shiver-inducing critters? Post a comment below, then visit the Herb Lovers! group for tips on how to grow your own mosquito-repelling basil and lemon thyme. Plus, find more DIY projects in the Make and Craft archive of HOMEGROWN 101s.
My neighbors had an all natural mosquito repellant that contained cedar scented essential oil... just bought myself some today, I will have plenty of chances to test it out soon!
Aliza: When you try out the cedar-scented mosquito repellent, let us know what it's called and how it works—and best wishes for a bite-free weekend!
One thing I've found to be pretty amazing when you do get bitten is a common "weed". It's called plantain (no, not the banana!). Pick a leaf, chew on it, and slap the soggy chewed-up leaf on a mosquito bite, bee sting, ouchie scratch, and it'll help out. After putting on a chewed up plantain leaf, the mosquito bite stops itching completely in less than 10 minutes (maybe even 5 minutes, i never actually counted) and never itches again. It's purdy awesome :) You can even eat the leaves like spinach, best to cook it lightly first.
Lemon eucalyptus has the repellent power of DEET and has the benefit of being natural. In studies, the lemon eucalyptus oil actually repels mosquitoes BETTER than DEET, but over a shorter period of time. I've used the Repel version of this oil, which is really just ethanol (alcohol) and the essential oil, and it works really, really well even in the swamps of Central Florida.
that said, i've had good success with citronella, cedar sprays used in closets, and generally just keeping moving.


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In Conflict Minerals Hearing, First Amendment Front and Center
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As American industry pressed its legal challenge to a new federal rule seeking to cut the links between popular consumer products and bloody conflict in the Congo, federal judges in Washington on Tuesday questioned the government's right to demand that companies disclose whether their own goods were "conflict-free."
The questioning by a three-judge bench at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals underscored the perils facing the rule, adopted as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 — an unusual attempt to use U.S. securities laws to starve combatants of money in a war estimated to have killed 5 million people since 1998.
Industry groups led by the National Association of Manufacturers have raised a litany of objections to the requirement that retailers and manufacturers disclose whether the goods they sell contain tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo or any of nine neighboring countries,
In July, a federal judge upheld a disclosure rule the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted in 2012, rejecting industry arguments that the S.E.C. had failed to properly analyze the rules costs and benefits and that the rule violated companies' First Amendment rights by forcing the disclosures.
But Republican-appointed appellate judges on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to industry arguments that compelling corporations' speech should be subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment.
"We also object to being compelled to make any public statement that our products have been found to be non conflict-free," said Peter D. Keisler, a former acting U.S. Attorney General now representing the manufacturers' association.
"That is an ideological judgment denouncing our products that is frequently going to be false and misleading."
Tuesday's arguments came as Intel Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of computer processors, announced that its products were free of conflict minerals.
Mary Jo White, the recently installed SEC chairwoman, has herself expressed critical reservations about the conflicts rule, telling law students in New York in October that it strayed from the commission's core function and that such voluminous disclosures could drown investors and regulators in an "information overload."
A separate Dodd-Frank resource transparency rule — which would have required U.S.-listed oil companies to disclose payments to governments on a per-project basis — was vacated in July by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, who found that the SEC had misread the law by requiring detailed public disclosure of payments. The commission has yet to draft a new version.
The views underscored the novelty of using U.S. securities laws, normally intended to protect investors, as a means to achieve humanitarian goals or as a check against corruption.
The arguments were heard Tuesday by a three-judge panel comprising Circuit Judge Sri Srinivasan, a former principal deputy solicitor general appointed by President Barack Obama, and Senior Circuit Judges David B. Sentelle and A. Raymond Randolph, both Republican appointees.
The Circuit Court often hears challenges to Executive actions, meaning its ideological makeup can be crucial to the regulatory agenda of the president.
The manufacturer's association has assailed the rule as overly burdensome, counterproductive and unworkable, saying that trace amounts of the minerals can exist in a vast array of products, such as toothpaste, home pregnancy testing kits, shoe soles and zippers. Citing the S.E.C.'s own calculations, the manufacturer's association said the conflict minerals rule would initially cost $3 billion to $4 billion and up to $600 million per year thereafter.
The commission has said that reducing the rule's cost, as industry advocates, would undermine its purpose.
Keisler, representing the manufacturers, argued that trace amounts of minerals should be exempt from the disclosure requirement. He offered the hypothetical example of catalyst minerals that General Motors used to manufacture of seat belts.
"If the catalyst is completely washed away and no residue remains on the seat belt, then it doesn't have to be traced," said Keisler. "The only way G.M. would know is if it tested every batch of the product."
Appearing for the S.E.C., Assistant General Counsel Tracey A. Hardin faced spirited questioning from the bench by Sentelle and Randolph. Hardin stressed that in adopting the conflict minerals rule, her agency was interpreting a law enacted by Congress which was not itself at issue in the industry lawsuit.
"That was the decision that Congress made and we're not here discussing a challenge to the statute," she said.
However Randolph returned to the question of compelling companies to make potentially damaging statements about their own goods, asking how the law was meant to achieve its goal.
"Is it because of a boycott of the seat belts by General Motors that Mr. Keisler talked about?" he asked. "The objective is to stigmatize the companies?"
"The objective here is more careful sourcing practices, not an embargo," said Hardin.
Industry bodies including the American Chemical Council and the Society of the Plastics Industry have lined up as "friends of the court" to support the plaintiffs in their opposition to the rule.
The S.E.C. is supported by the transparency campaigners Global Witness and 12 current and former Democratic senators and members of the House of Representatives. The measure was introduced by former Sen. Sam Brownback, now the Republican governor of Kansas.
A group of three friends of the court billed as experts on the D.R.C. and supporting the industry case, including former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer, are represented by Arnold & Porter LLP, a firm which also represents 100Reporters.
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Chapter 1: East Goes West
Chapter 2: Ghana
Chapter 3: Niger
Chapter 4: Senegal
Chapter 5: Sudan
Chapter 6: Ecuador
Chapter 7: Brazil
Chapter 8: Mexico
Unfair Trade: The Broken Promise of Fairtrade Farming in Africa
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Fitah, 32, Somalia
Fitah has been a refugee for ten years but has only been in Brazil for a few months. After leaving his home country in 2007 due to the civil war, he went to South Africa, where he stayed until March 2017. Paying $4,000 USD to smugglers in Johannesburg, he managed to enter Brazil posing as a South African refugee. He wanted to travel on to the United States, but the "travel package" offered by his smugglers only gave him two options, Turkey or Brazil. He chose the latter.
Afonso, 28, Congo
Upstairs in one of the big bedrooms of the Scalabrinian Mission Afonso, a 28-year-old migrant from Congo, explained how he came from Kinshasa in 2015 by boat, escaping from the violent conflicts raging in his own country. He hired the service of smugglers and came on a cargo ship with a number of others. He paid for part of the trip by working on the ship. He was left in the coast of Santos, a city 55km away from Sao Paulo. He is now searching for a job.
"K.", 39, Sierra Leone
At Caritas, a non-profit providing support to refugees and migrants, we met "K" (who asked not to reveal his full name), who had left Sierra Leone three months ago. His grandfather was a chief priest of a secret society for whom it is a tradition to initiate the oldest son of the family when the former elder dies. A Christian and a graduate in Information Technology, "K" refused to take part in the ritual and says he was then targeted. He fled to stay with family in the interior of the country, but was kidnapped and held captive in the forest. One night he managed to escape to the city and met a woman from a Christian organization which provided airplane tickets so he could leave immediately for Brazil.
Jorge, 25, Guinea-Bissau
Jorge is a trained engineer who came to Brazil two years ago, who is now selling counterfeit and smuggled clothes in a local market. His Brazilian girlfriend is now pregnant and he is waiting for a work permit in order to get a job as mason. He said that when Federal Police went to his home address to confirm he was living there - an essential step in the process of issuing a work visa to a migrant - his house mates thought they wanted to arrest him and denied he lived there. It delayed his chance of getting a permit that would allow him a legal and better-remunerated job. The lack of trust in Brazilian law enforcement is a huge issue among refugees and migrants, many say that they rarely provide help or support, but instead only make their lives more difficult.
Abu, 37, Senegal
In República Square in the downtown Centro neighbourhood, African migrants sell clothes - some of them counterfeit designer wear,, some not - and handicrafts. Abu, 37, from Thiès in western Senegal, came to Brazil in 2010 with the hope that World Cup would make Brazil a prosperous country and offer him a new life. He says migrants should be respected for having the courage to leave everything behind and restart from nothing. Discrimination and lack of jobs are an issue for Abu, so he says his plan now is to save money and go to Europe as soon as possible. When he first arrived, he had money to stay in a hotel for seven days. After that, he met people who got him a job as a street vendor for contraband and traditional Senegalese clothes sewn in Brazil with African fabrics. Every time the police come and seize the goods he sells, it can take up to five months to recover the money lost.
Ibrahim, 41, Senegal
Members of the Senegalese community gather in República Square every week for a party, mounting up their own sound system, bringing drums and singing. On the night we visit around 50 people were dancing and chanting traditional Senegalese songs. Later they take a seat and discuss issues important to the community. Ibrahim, one of the group, has a talent for sewing fake Nike and Adidas logos to clothing in an improvised atelier nearby. Although he is a professional tailor and prefers to dedicate his time to his own original work, he says financial pressures meant he was forced to join the market of counterfeit designer-label clothing.
Guaianazes street, downtown Sao Paulo
On Rua Guaianazes there is a run-down mosque on the second floor of an old and degraded building, which is frequented by many African migrants. Outside, the smell of marijuana and cheap crack is inebriating. Crowds gather on the streets in front of the packed bars, while different people ask us if we want cheap marihuana. We enter one bar that has literally no chairs or tables: there is a poster of Cameroon's most famous footballer Samuel Eto'o on the wall, and a big snooker table in the centre while all around customers gamble, argue and smoke. The bar tender tells us it is a Nigerian bar, but that it is frequented by Africans of all nationalities. Among the offers of cheap marijuana, crack and cocaine, laughs, music and loud chat, you can barely hear to the imam's call. Rua Guaianazes is considered to be the heart of Cracolandia, a territory controlled by organized crime for more than a decade and now reportedly home to some African-led drug trafficking gangs.
Santa Efigenia neighbourhood
Santa Efigenia is an area of around ten street blocks in the heart of the Centro area where locals says you "won't find anything original product or any product that entered the country legally". There are dozens of galleries with local merchants, migrants and hawkers selling their wares, and crowds shouting and grabbing to sell counterfeit and contraband electronics late in the night. When we visited, a homeless old man was setting a campfire out of trash to heat himself on the corner, the people passing by aggressively yelling at him due to the black smoke his improvised urban survival mechanism was generating.
"H", 42, Angola
"H" is an Angolan woman now living in a house rented from the Baptist church. The area outside the house is a "boca de fumo" - an open drug dealing spot managed by armed guards. "H's" house is annexed to the church building itself, and is very rustic and simple. She arrived a year ago with two of her children, and also pregnant. She says that after the family of the Angolan president took over the market of smuggled goods in her country, her small import business started to crumble. Her husband and two more daughters are still there. She is currently unemployed, but happy that her young son is studying, although often he comes home complaining about racism at school. "H" does not want him to play with the neighbourhood children, she is afraid he will be drawn to narco-trafficking if he gets in with the wrong crowd. In the long run, she wants to go back to Angola, but only under "a different political situation."
Lalingé restaurant, Sao Paulo
Arami, the owner of the bustling restaurant Lalingé – which means "The Princess" in her language – has been in Brazil for seven years. She opened the restaurant a year ago so that the African community in the Centro neighbourhood has a place to gather and eat food from their continent. It's the kind of place people arrive at any time of the night or day, order their food and chat.
Scalabrinian Mission, Canindé neighbourhood
The Scalabrinian Mission in the neighborhood of Canindé provides philanthropic aid to migrants. Soror Eva Souza, the director, says they have helped people from Africa (Angola, Congo, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, South Africa, Mali, British Guyana, Somalia, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Uganda), North Africa and the Middle East (Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt), Asia (Cambodia, South Korea, the Philippines, Bangladesh), Europe (The Netherlands, Russia, France) and Latin America and the Caribbean (Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Haiti, Cuba). The Mission provides housing, food, clothing, medication and facilities for migrants. They only receive a small amount of financial support from local government, but work to help migrants find a job so they can live independently. Souza says many of those who arrive at the house are ill: some are seriously injured, others sick from the journey or the conditions they were living in before arriving in Sao Paulo. Since 2015, she says she has seen human trafficking and slavery victims, drug mules, political refugees, and people who have lost their families en route. When we visit 40-year-old Mohamed Ali, from Morocco, was trying to find a job with the support of the Mission.
Clement Kamano, 24, Guinea-Conakry
Kamano was studying Social Sciences at Université Général Lansana Conté when he took part in the protests of September 28th, 2009, which ended up in a massacre with more than 150 people killed. Afterwards, he was repeatedly harassed because of his involvement in social movements. Fearing he might be killed, his father bought him a ticket to Brazil. Now he is a political refugee, who is almost fluent in Portuguese, and who enjoys talking about the sociologist-philosophers Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, even Leibniz and Nietzsche. He is currently applying to join a federal university in Sao Paulo.
What's "cereza" in Arabic?
In a bright classroom in the centre of Quito, a group of students sit around a whiteboard. "Yo veo la televisión con mis amigos en la tarde," they repeat after the teacher, "I watch television with my friends in the afternoon." "Yo tomo el bus par ir al trabajo," "I take the bus to go to work."
Around the table are two Syrians who fled the war, one Cameroonian who says he wanted to escape the Anglo-French conflict in his homeland, two Afghans, one a former top-ranking police officer, an Egyptian and a Sri Lankan who wanted to go anywhere where he could make enough money to help his family. Migrants who arrive in Ecuador from Africa, Asia and the Middle East face a steep learning curve: it might be relatively easy to enter the country, thanks to Ecuador's liberal open-border policy, but finding work here and learning Spanish can be difficult. Today their teacher is translating between Arabic, Spanish and English. "Market"? asks one. "Souk" replies another member of the group, while a fellow student does a quick translation into Pashtu.
Experts say some of those who come through language centres like these are planning on continuing their journey north, others on staying in Ecuador.
A little piece of Nigeria, in Quito
As the night closes in, Grace, a 25-year-old law graduate from Cameroon, dashes between a barbeque out on the street and the kitchen in the small Nigerian restaurant where she is working the night shift, as a television showing an African football league plays in the background. She wears a dark top, and her hair pulled back, as she fans the tilapia grilling on the coals. When she was denied a Canadian visa, despite having a scholarship, she decided she still wanted to leave Cameroon, where she complains of a lack of jobs and opportunities for the country's English-speaking minority. With three friends, she bought a ticket heading west for Ecuador where she heard she could enter with her invitation to study at a language school. She soon converted to a missionary visa, and now works here and sings in the choir at a church up the hill, teaching Sunday school at the weekends. Like many of her customers, she also wants to travel north to the US or Canada, but only with the correct papers. "If you go without papers and through the jungle, you might be lost. Then my family is lost as well."
The Afghan police officer
Asadullah, a former police officer, spent 31 years training new recruits and fighting terrorist groups in his country. Among the documents he smuggled out with him is a photograph of him with Robert Gates, the former US Secretary of Defence, paperwork from a training programme at the National Defence University in Washington DC, and training certificate from the George C Marshall centre in Europe, signed by the German defence minister.
His career had been high-profile and illustrious, but while that brought recognition from the Americans and their allies, it also brought him the unwelcome attention of the Taliban and other extremist groups.
For three years before he fled, he says terrorists were calling him saying he needed to end his work with the police. "Come and work with us," they'd coax. When he refused, someone tried to throw acid on his child at school – that was when he decided to leave.
Today the family are renting a spacious flat in central Quito, with a big beige sofa and swept wood floors. A big TV is mounted on the wall behind him, and one of his children brings in sweet tea and fruits. His wife and six of his children are with him, awaiting a decision from the migration authorities on their asylum case. For the sake of his children – who all speak English – Asadullah wants to go to the US.
"I want to go to America, but it's a process: it will take a lot of time," he says. "We have been waiting to get an answer. I only came here because the bad people wanted to kill us. I'm just here so I'm safe." He considered going to Europe, but considered the route there more dangerous. "Many Afghan people wanted to go to Europe, to Turkey, but many people died in the sea."
Mughni Sief's paintings once made him a well-known artist in his native Syria: he taught fine art in a top university, and was invited to Lebanon to show his work. But since the war, and his decision to flee, his paintings have taken on a darker tone. One , "Even The Sea Had A Share Of Our Lives, It Was Tough" touches on the horrors so many Syrians have seen as they try to flee to safety.
"This painting is about Syrians crossing the sea to go to Europe from Turkey. I put this fish head and cut the head off to show the culture of ISIS. This here is the boat people," he explains in his spartan apartment in Ecuador's capital, Quito. "Syria was empty of people, and there are so many people dying in the sea."
From the windows of his bedroom-come-studio, you can see the mountains, washing hanging in the sunshine on a neighbours balcony, beige tiles. Behind him the bed sheets – which came with the house – are adorned with images of teddy bears and the phrase "happy day."
In the corner is a small, rolling suitcase in which he brought his wood carving tools, crayons, and charcoals from Syria: everything from his old life that he dared bring without alerting attention that he was leaving the country. In a small backpack he bought a Frederick Nietshce paperback, a birthday present from a friend, and a book he bought in Syria: "Learn Spanish in 5 days". He didn't bring any photos, in case his bag was searched.
Frustrated by restrictions he faced as a Syrian in Lebanon, he started to research other places where he might make a new start. He read that Ecuador was "one of the few countries that don't ask for a visa from Syrians. I had problems leaving Lebanon, and in El Dorado in Colombia but at Quito I came in no problem. The only question was: why are you coming to Ecuador, do you have money? I said nothing about asking for asylum so they just gave me a tourist visa."
Soon after he made his asylum application, and today, he paints while he waits for a decision. "Before the war I was focused just on humans, on women, but when the war started that changed, and I began focusing on the miserable life that we live in Syria," he says as he arranges three paintings on the bed. In one, he explains, is a woman who can' face something in her life, so prefers to stop speaking.
Although many of the migrants that make their way to Ecuador are able to travel more independently than those making the journey across the Mediterranean, examples abound of exploitation of some who arrive here. Mohammad, for example. He's a 24-year-old from Sri Lanka who first tried his luck in Malaysia, but was cheated by a travel fixer who took his money while promising him a work visa that never materialized. When he was arrested for working without the proper documents, a friend had to come and pay the police to get him out. Travelling west, to Ecuador, after religious violence broke out in his hometown, he says he paid someone he knows to help sort out his travel, unsure of how much he took as a cut. When he flew in, alongside a Sri Lankan family, the agent arranged for him to be picked up by an unknown woman who charged each of them again to take them to a hostel. He is now renting a room from a man he met at the mosque. Every day continues to be a struggle, he said.
"At home, I saw so many troubles each day. I decided to come here thinking maybe things will be good. But I did one week working in a restaurant, they treated me like a slave. For three months I was searching for work. They are good people here but I have no opportunities here. Seven months I have nothing, I'm wasting my time."


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Picture of the Day: Obama Meets With Bahrain's Crown Prince
Since the island nation cracked down on pro-democracy protesters and declared a state of emergency, the U.S. alliance has come under scrutiny
Garance Franke-Ruta and Chris Good
Obama met Tuesday with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa at the White House, though the meeting wasn't on Obama's daily schedule. An administration official told the Wall Street Journal that Obama would "drop by" a meeting between Salman and National Security Adviser Tom Donilon. Crown Prince Salman heads Bahrain's defense force and is reportedly known as a liberal reformer within Bahrain's ruling family.
The Obama administration's continued alliance with Bahrain has come under scrutiny during the wave of Arab Spring protests, as the island nation's government cracked down on pro-democracy protesters, first opening fire on them in March and imposing a state of emergency that ended last week, with Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa calling for a national dialogue on reform. Bahrain grants the U.S. military access to its facilities; the nation serves as headquarters for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.
Above, Obama sits directly across from Salman, next to Donilon. From CNN's report on the meeting:
"President Obama's support and understanding regarding Bahrain's forthcoming national dialogue were most welcome, as were his comments on the circumstances required to ensure its success," Crown Prince Salman said in a prepared statement. ...
Obama had a "productive discussion" with the crown prince on Tuesday, the White House said. He "reaffirmed the strong commitment of the United States to Bahrain" and said both the government and the opposition must compromise.
Image credit: White House photographer Pete Souza


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The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.
The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin's groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the horrors of Nazi eugenics, to present day and beyond - as we learn to "read" and "write" the human genome that unleashes the potential to change the fates and identities of our children.
Majestic in its scope and ambition, The Gene provides us with a definitive account of the epic history of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans - and paints a fascinating vision of both humanity's past and future.
For fans of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Being Mortal by Atul Gwande.
'Siddhartha Mukherjee is the perfect person to guide us through the past, present, and future of genome science' Bill Gates
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This NEW YORK TIMES bestselling book is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty,THE GENE gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity and a vision of both humanitys past and future.


Damianitza was founded in 1940, just before the Second World War and for over half a century produced wine drawing from the exquisite grape that grew in the pristine areas near Bulgaria's Southern border. When it was purchased in 1997, as part of the country's post-communist privatization process, the winery underwent a dramatic organizational and equipment overhaul to enable it to bring exclusive wines to domestic and international customers. The current bottling capacity is 2 000 000 bottles and Damianitza produces above 1 400 000 on average yearly. Nowadays the winery is a dynamic modern facility employing advanced vinification techniques.
Giving top priority to quality, Damianitza emphasizes control throughout the entire production process, from incoming materials through manufacturing to marketing, distribution and use. Therefore, we invested in a new filling line, labeling machine, precision grape processing equipment, fermentation tanks, barriques and vineyards.
The mission of Damianitza Winery is to make premium wines that appeal to cosmopolitan wine drinkers while reviving a venerable legacy of winemaking in Bulgaria. Damianitza is best-known for brands: No Man's Land, Uniqato, ReDark, Kometa: these wines have won many awards at world competitions.


The Park School of Baltimore has an opening for a full-time leave replacement Physical Education teacher for the fall of 2019. We anticipate that this position will run from late August through mid-November. We are seeking an individual with a strong background in Physical Education and an interest in coaching. This teacher will join an experienced Physical Education department in teaching students in Kindergarten through eighth grade and coaching several seasons.
Park's philosophy of Physical Education emphasizes the development of physical skills while fostering cooperation, teaching sportsmanship, and developing an enjoyment for physical activity and sport. All students take Physical Education throughout the Lower and Middle School years; the eighth grade program features a series of elective offerings that allows students to explore varied interests and talents.


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Store clerk uses Siri to call for help during armed robbery
ICE makes 6 arrests at southwest Houston apartment complex Monday morning, FIEL confirms
Suspect identified in DeKalb County bar stabbing
Police ID man accused of stabbing security guard
Stabbing at sports bar
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - DeKalb County Police are have identified a suspect in the stabbing of a security guard at a Tucker restaurant Saturday night.
The incident happened at Major League Bar and Grill located in the 2000 block of Northlake Parkway in Tucker.
Authorities said Tory Major, was escorting out 38-year-old Michael Thomas after witnesses say Thomas "was intoxicated and causing trouble inside" that night.
In the parking lot, police say Major and Thomas got into an altercation, which ended with Thomas stabbing the security guard in the chest.
Thomas then got into a silver Nissan and drove off.
Medics transported the Major to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
Police are still searching for Thomas. No weapon was found at the scene.
A FedEx truck driver stepped in to help four people get to the emergency room, police said.
Police officer swarmed the area around Grady Memorial Hospital near Jesse Hill Jr. Drive and Decatur Street around 6:30 p.m. Monday. Officials told FOX 5's Morse Diggs the delivery driver spotted the injured victims and drove them to the hospital.
Investigators were questioning the driver as the victims were being treated inside the emergency room.
Confirmed cases of legionnaires' disease at Sheraton Atlanta
Health officials and managers at the Sheraton Atlanta in downtown said they are working hard to find the source after confirmed cases of legionnaires' disease. The cases have prompted a voluntary shut down of the hotel.
" Late this afternoon the Sheraton Atlanta voluntarily decided to temporarily close until the source of the Legionella is located and remediation is complete. Questions about their decision to close and relocation of guests should be directed to the Sheraton Atlanta. "
By Portia Bruner, FOX 5 News
Neighbors in this stretch of apartment buildings along Henderson Mill Road were stunned to hear a killer is still on the run after shooting a taxi driver overnight.
"It's just sad. I used to be a Lyft driver and you just never know who's getting in your car. It can be very dangerous and it's very easy to get set up by somebody," said Luis Grinillio who lives near the crime scene.
DeKalb County Police said officers initially responded to a call in front of the Sierra Hills apartment complex about a single-car crash at a tree. Inside the taxi, they found the driver dead from a gunshot wound. Police said the man was driving the taxi when he was shot.
2 brothers found dead in small Georgia town
Disaster group seeks those needing help after Hurricane Irma