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By John Reid | Bay Area News Group
If Carlmont-Belmont is to win its ninth Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division softball title in 11 seasons, it is going to have to work for it. Hillsdale-San Mateo made sure of that, dealing the Scots a 3-2 setback on a dusty, windy Thursday afternoon in Belmont. It was the first Bay loss of the year for Carlmont (20-3, 9-1 Bay).
The Scots hold a one-game lead over the Knights (16-7, 8-2 Bay) with four games left in the regular season. Carlmont coach Jim Liggett rued missed chances to score, along with some uncharacteristic fundamental mistakes on defense.
"Hillsdale made the plays and we didn't," Liggett said. "We missed a fly ball in the first inning. We didn't hit the cutoff. We didn't cover first on a bunt. You can't do that against a good team like Hillsdale."
The Scots left three runners aboard in the first inning, stranding nine runners for the game.
"We had a lot of base runners and didn't get the key hit that would have opened up the game," Liggett said. "Their pitcher pitched well and deserved to win."
Knights sophomore hurler Tori Pierucci had herself quite a day. She went the distance on the slab, giving up six hits. And in the top of the fourth, Pierucci singled in two runs to give the Knights a 3-2 lead they would never relinquish.
Did the 5-foot-10 Pierucci enjoy pitching or hitting the Knights to a win over the Scots?
"I don't think I could choose one that was better than the other," said Pierucci, who gave the Scots fits with a dynamic changeup. "I loved both. That hit was amazing. I had been in a slump, but that hit helped me pitch better. I was getting them off balance, hoping they couldn't hit it."
The Knights put an unearned run on the board in the top of the first inning. Courtney Tyler, who will play at Cal Poly, lined one to left field that was mishandled for a two-out error. Sharona Mataele singled through the box to score Tyler.
Carlmont tied the game with a run in the bottom of the first, but the Scots are kicking themselves for not adding a run or two. Christy Peterson beat out an infield single, then Taylor Yzaguirre legged out a bunt single. Gabi Pons held back on a changeup and singled to center, filling the bases.
A force at home got one out, but Pierucci walked Mariko Kondo to force in a run. Another force out at home, an infield bounder and Pierucci had made like Houdini to escape the big inning.
The Scots forged ahead 2-1 with a run in the bottom of the third. Yzaguirre doubled off the glove of the Knights' center fielder to lead off the inning. Pons' bunt down the first-base line was muffed for an error. The ball got away far enough for Yzaguirre to come all the way around to score. The Scots, however, left two runners stranded.
Pierucci got two quick outs in the bottom of the seventh, but walked Pons and Rebecca Faulkner before getting the final out on a grounder to third.
The Scots had two web gems from Pons at first base. Pons took a hit away from Meagan Wells for the final out of the fifth inning when she went to her right to stab a line drive. When the Knights came up to begin the sixth, Pons fielded a hot grounder from Tyler then made the unassisted putout.
Faulkner (17-2) fanned seven batters, while yielding just four hits in taking just her second loss of the year.
"We beat ourselves," Faulkner said. "We had errors, but at the same time, we put up a good fight and didn't let down. Ball games like this are going to happen. You're not going to go out and play your best every game."
"We should have hit better," said Yzaguirre, who had a 3-hit game. "Their pitcher pitched a good game, but we should have worked the count a bit more. We would have had more productive at-bats."
Despite the defeat, the Scots still control their own Bay destiny.
"This game was a good motivator, especially getting closer to CCS," Yzaguirre said. "We'll be motivated to go harder."
Email John Reid at jreid@dailynewsgroup.com; follow him at twitter.com/dailynewsjohn.
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Pierucci and R. Wells; Faulkner and Yzaguirre. WP-Pierucci (2-3). LP-Faulkner (17-2). 2B — Yzaguirre (C). 3 hits — Yzaguirre (C). 2 hits — Mataele (H). 2 RBI — Pierucci (H).


He probably won't mention it publicly, but Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham in all likelihood has redemption on his mind as he prepares to face No. 11 LSU in the SEC opener on Saturday afternoon at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
It was a year ago in Baton Rouge when the Bayou Bengals rallied from a 20-0 deficit to shock Stidham and the Tigers, 27-23. It was an embarrassing effort for the QB, his worst as a college player. Stidham completed just 9 of 26 passes for a career-low 34.6 completion percentage.
To be sure, it was a low point in a season in which Stidham led the SEC in completion percentage (66.5, 246-for-370) and became one of only two quarterbacks in the conference to throw for 3,000 yards.
Now is the time to turn the tables. Stidham welcomes LSU to Jordan-Hare on Saturday in a renewal of a series that dates back to 1901 — a storied series that over the years has produced earthquakes, large campus fires and big-name firings.
It's a series in which the home team has won the last five meetings and since 2000 holds a 16-2 advantage.
"LSU is an outstanding team, I think that anyone who saw them play against Miami can say that," Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn said following his team's thrashing of Alabama State. "So it will be a traditional Auburn-LSU game. I think everybody knows that. It's always a good game when we play.
Stidham will certainly play a much bigger role against LSU than he was called upon to do in Auburn's 63-9 victory over Alabama State, a game in which he completed only 6 of 11 passes for 113 yards.
Auburn will not have the luxury of rolling up 429 rushing yards as it did against the SWAC foe. LSU ranks third in the SEC against the run, giving up 148 yards in two games. Relying on one dimension of their offense is not an option for Auburn.
Opening as a 10-point favorite for Saturday's game, Auburn will need Stidham to revert back to his opening-game performance against Washington, a 273-yard effort with a completion percentage of 72.2 (26-for-36), which is a program high (minimum 25 attempts) for a season opener.
And when you consider that LSU ranks eighth in the conference against the pass, yielding 448 yards through the air in two games, the stage appears to be set for Stidham to challenge his conference-best outing. That was a 268-yard showing last November at College Station in which Stidham completed 20 of 27 passes with three touchdowns.
Those are closer to the statistics Auburn will need to subdue its visitors on Saturday.
Stidham hopes to protect Auburn's 13-game home win streak, a string that began with a 2016 win over LSU. It's the fourth-longest active home winning streak in FBS and seventh longest in program history. During the current streak, Auburn has outscored the opposition by an average of 30.5 points and has beaten five ranked teams.
Auburn clobbered Alabama State but Stidham was only 6 for 11. Not a great completion % for a cupcake game.
I think the better stat would be his 26/36 vs. Washington…some real competitition and he completes 72%. We were trying some different things out against ASU.
6 for 11 was the stat but included in those 5 incompletions were two drops and a homerun ball that was intended for a receiver in his first game back from ACL surgery. That ball was going to him no matter what. I'll take Stidham at home any day of the week..
Lol, you win the dumbest poat of the day award. Congratulations!!!!
I agree. I think Joe Burrow will be a good QB for LSU, but I think he struggles against Auburn's elite D.
I think the combination of an improved and experienced Stidham playing at home will ultimately prove too much for LSU to overcome. However I see this as a mostly defensive battle, as both teams have great defenses. This is a crazy rivalry, so I could very well be wrong.


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Boris Johnson And Conservative Party Win Large Majority In U.K. Parliament
Mark Katkov • Dec 13, 2019
Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson applauds during the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency count declaration at Brunel University in Uxbridge, London, early Friday.
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British voters have delivered a stunning victory to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party, giving the champion of Brexit a large majority in the House of Commons and the support he needs to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union in January.
With almost all results in, the BBC projects that Conservatives will win an absolute majority of 78 seats in the 650-seat chamber, giving Johnson a firm mandate to form the next government. Johnson has been prime minister since July following the resignation of his predecessor, Theresa May, and called early elections in a gamble that he has won handily.
Speaking to supporters Friday morning, Johnson said the results mean "getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people."
The opposition Labour Party suffered its worst defeat in decades, losing at least 59 seats. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, although he won re-election in his constituency, announced he will not lead Labour in the next election.
Corbyn, who sought to remake Britain in a socialist vision of nationalized industries, called for "a process of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward."
Since the 2016 national referendum in which a narrow majority voted to take Britain out of the European Union, Parliament has repeatedly rejected proposed exit agreements negotiated with the EU. The political dysfunction led Johnson to call early elections in hopes it would give him the majority he needed to pass a plan for Brexit.
It now appears likely Parliament will vote Brexit into law and the U.K. will meet the EU's most recent deadline for Britain to formally leave by Jan. 31.
The results closely tracked voting patterns in the Brexit referendum of three years ago.
Scotland, which had voted to remain in the EU, delivered a nearly clean sweep to the anti-Brexit Scottish National Party. Party leader and First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon suggested there should be a second referendum on Scottish independence.
"Just as I reluctantly accept … that Boris Johnson has a mandate now to take England out of the EU," Sturgeon told the BBC, "he must accept that I have a mandate to offer Scotland the choice of an alternative future."
Northern Ireland, which also voted to remain in the EU, for the first time elected a majority of Irish nationalists to the House of Commons. Its open border with Ireland is perhaps the major stumbling block for implementing Brexit.
Two party leaders lost their seats. Jo Swinson of the Liberal Democrats, who had suggested she could serve as a compromise prime minister in a coalition government, was tossed out by a candidate from the Scottish National Party. And Nigel Dodds of the Democratic Unionist Party, which had propped up the minority Conservatives in the previous Parliament, lost his seat to a candidate from the Irish nationalist Sinn Féin.
Markets reacted to the news Friday morning with apparent relief that the three-and-a-half years of political uncertainty over Brexit may finally be coming to an end. The British pound sterling rose nearly 2% and European exchanges were modestly up.

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Zack Snyder Reveals Another Green Lantern Hint That Would Have Been In His Justice League
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While a Green Lantern, whether it's Hal Jordan, John Stewart or someone else, has frequently been a founding member of the Justice League in the comics and other media, that was not the case in the DC Extended Universe. That said, Justice League did still throw in an Emerald Knight, who was shown battling Steppenwolf and his Parademon army thousands of years ago. But that wasn't the only Green Lantern reference filmed for the movie.
Earlier this week, director Zack Snyder shared a picture on Vero of a deleted Justice League scene where Ray Fisher's Cyborg sees a vision of himself looking fully human and with his mother and father again. That alone was enough to generate chatter, but if you look closely at the picture below, you'll notice there's a ship in the background.
Given that Steppenwolf and the Parademons hail from Apokolips, the world of hellfire ruled by Darkseid, one fan logically asked Zack Snyder if this ship was Apokaliptan. Snyder simply responded with "#GreenLantern."
Zack Snyder didn't elaborate on what this Green Lantern reference specifically meant, though there's been speculation that the vision as a whole was a result of Steppenwolf manipulating Cyborg when the tech-based superhero interfaced with the Mother Box. In any case, getting another hint towards the verdant mythology that's been a key part of the DC Comics universe for decades is fascinating.
Although a Green Lantern's ring allows them to fly, there have been instances where a Lantern has needed to pilot a ship to a destination, like Abin Sur, the Green Lantern of Sector 2814 who crash-landed on Earth and passed his ring on to Hal Jordan before dying. It's unclear which Green Lantern this ship in Zack Snyder's photo belonged to, let alone why it was in Cyborg's vision.
It should be noted that the Green Lantern mythos could have had a bigger presence in Zack Snyder's cut of Justice League beyond this cool-looking ship and the ring slinger in the flashback sequence. In one of the first Justice League trailers, Steppenwolf says that Earth has no Lanterns, which is one of the reasons he believes our world will be conquered easily. Oh, how wrong he was.
It was also reported the deleted Justice League scene where Alfred Pennyworth met Superman was originally supposed to depict Batman's trusty butler and confidant actually coming face to face with a Green Lantern. There were also rumors that Green Lantern Corps members Tomar-Re and Kilowog would have appeared before Bruce Wayne in a Justice League post-credits scene.
While the Green Lantern mythos barely ended up factoring into Justice League's theatrical cut, that doesn't mean the DCEU won't explore it further. A Green Lantern Corps movie is still in development, which Geoff Johns is writing and will star Hal Jordan and John Stewart.
Stay tuned to CinemaBlend for more updates concerning Green Lantern and the entire DCEU. If you're curious about what this franchise has coming up, look through our handy guide.
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"'Religion trough the window.' Walworth, At. Paul's. - We have now finished our summer's work, and have not only drawn up but already started our winter's programme. In reviewing the work of the past six months, whilst we have not nummerically increased to any great extent, a real, and we hope lasting, effect has been made in the spiritual life of many in this corner of our great and populous parish. Capt. Holmes has worked most assiduously, assisted by a little band of earnest and zealous workers, in conducting regular open-air services. These have been very much appreciated; though unable to attract large crowds on week-nights, the windows of the houses in the streets visited were invariably opened, and the short addresses and hymns were evidently listened to by many who have not cared to shew themselves. On Sunday evennings, when accompanied by the surplieced choir, large and attentive gatherings have been the result. The constant and systematic visiting of Capt. Holmes must, and will eventually, shew its effect. Though the utter indifference to all spiritual matters of the vast majority of people is depressing, yet it is cheering to find here and there someone who has desired to know more of the Gospel of good news, and to live a mor Christ-like life. Our lantern services, 'The Epistle and Gospel illustrated,' which have been well advertised, have so far been very successful. The mission hall on the opening night was well filled. The magnifcent slides, the hearty singing of the hymns shewn on the sheet, and the earnest ond thoughtful address of Capt. Holmes, made a most impressive service which cannot fail to influence those who came. S.P., for Capt. Holmes."


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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin walks from Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland in August 2017.
Overshadowed by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's resignation Friday afternoon, Veterans Affairs chief David Shulkin is the latest Trump cabinet member to be found mixing personal trips and expenses with government travel. The VA secretary cruised the Thames, took in sight-seeing at Westminster Abbey, and watched a Wimbledon tennis match during a 10-day European trip with his wife, according to an itinerary obtained by The Washington Post.
The VA secretary's 10-day trip—which also included the department's undersecretary and her husband, Shulkin's chief of staff, an aide, and six security people—was approximately half business, half pleasure, the itinerary reportedly details. The government paid for Shulkin's wife airfare and provided a per diem for her meals because she was traveling on "approved invitational orders," reports the Post.
The Shulkins' July trip was revealed as the personal travel and government expenses of other cabinet officials have also come under scrutiny. In his first three months in office, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt reportedly travelled home to Oklahoma at least 10 times, according to records acquired by a watchdog group. In addition, the EPA is building a $25,000 soundproof booth for Pruitt, the first agency head to have an aroud-the-clock security detail.
In August, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and his wife reportedly used a government plane to travel to Lexington, Ky. to watch the solar eclipse, a trip that came to light after Mnuchin's wife, Louise Linton boasted on Instagram about traveling with her husband on a government plane. Mnuchin has denied that he took the trip to view the eclipse. He has also said claims about him requesting the use of a government jet during his honeymoon with Linton earlier this year were about national security.
HHS secretary Price's spending has been the most audacious of the cabinet so far. The former Georgia congressman may have taken more than $1 million in chartered, private jets, according to reporting by the Post. The revelation ultimately led to his resignation on Friday.
As for Shulkin, the VA Secretary is likely hoping Price's exit helps his own spending to fly under the radar. One of few Obama administration holdovers, Shulkin was most recently the VA's undersecretary before being promoted by President Trump. Considering his previous boss and the current president's unfavorable views of how the VA has been run, Shulkin may now be on thin ice—if he wasn't already.


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Main
 Bill Paxton as Detective Frank Roarke, maverick head of LAPD's SIS whose penchant for operating in a gray area to fight the war on crime is called into question.
 Justin Cornwell as Officer Kyle Craig, a rookie cop posing as Frank's new partner in order to keep an eye on Frank.
 Julie Benz as Holly Butler, a Hollywood madam who is in a romantic relationship with Frank.
 Katrina Law as Detective Rebecca Lee, an officer with the SIS, a unit that goes after the worst of the worst. She was rescued from human traffickers by Frank when she was four years old, and looks up to him as the father she never had.
 Drew Van Acker as Detective Tommy Campbell, another SIS officer and a former pro surfer.
 Christina Vidal as Detective III Valeria Chavez, an investigator in Robbery Homicide Division.
 Lex Scott Davis as Alyse Arrendondo, a history teacher who is Kyle's smart, cynical wife.
 Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Deputy Chief Joy Lockhart, Frank's former supervisor and Kyle's current supervisor who sent him undercover to investigate Frank.

Recurring
 Noel Gugliemi as Moreno, who had appeared in the original film.
 Max Martini as Jack Ivers

Guest
 Jamie McShane as Special Agent Gerald Lynch
 Charles Baker as Clancy Trussell
 Louis Herthum as Henry Hollister
 Lou Diamond Phillips as Thurman Ballesteros
 Brian Van Holt as Jeff Cullen
 W. Earl Brown as Chief Wade
 Eugene Byrd as Detective Windowski
 Jim Piddock as Abel Cribbs
 Thomas F. Wilson as Gary Millstone

Episodes

Production

Development
On August 7, 2015, it was announced that Antoine Fuqua had decided to develop a television series based on a movie, and had teamed with Jerry Bruckheimer to develop the concept. Warner Bros. Television was shopping the show to the American broadcast networks. Will Beall would write the series, while Fuqua would serve as executive producer, and would direct the potential pilot. CBS ordered a pilot on August 14, 2015. In addition to Fuqua, Bruckheimer, Beall, and Jonathan Littman will serve as executive producers for the series, which is set 15 years after the original film. On February 19, 2016, it was announced that Danny Cannon would direct the pilot instead of Fuqua.

Casting
On February 26, 2016, it was announced that Bill Paxton had joined the production as Frank Rourke, an older, veteran police officer similar to Denzel Washington's character Alonzo Harris in the original movie. Several additional cast members were announced in March 2016. Katrina Law plays Detective Rebecca Lee, an officer with the LAPD's Special Investigation Section (S.I.S.), a unit that goes after the worst of the worst. Drew Van Acker is Tommy Campbell, another S.I.S. officer who is a former pro surfer. Lex Scott Davis is Alyse Arrendondo, a history teacher who is Kyle Craig's wife. Julie Benz is Holly Butler, a Hollywood madam who has a tacit understanding with Frank. Finally, Justin Cornwell was cast as Kyle Craig, Frank's young partner and an analog of Ethan Hawke's character Jake Hoyt in the original movie.

Cancellation
On February 25, 2017, lead actor Bill Paxton died of a stroke at age 61 due to complications from heart surgery. A day later, CBS stated that all 13 commissioned episodes had already been filmed before his death, as shooting already wrapped up in December 2016.

On May 17, 2017, Training Day was cancelled after one season by CBS.

Reception
Training Day received generally negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a rating of 24% based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Training Day falls short of recapturing the excellence of the film in its television incarnation -- and fails to distinguish itself from the current squad of tired police procedurals." On Metacritic, the season has a score of 38 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

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In a medium pot, melt the 3 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat. Add the onions, salt, pepper, and nutmeg and cook, stirring, until soft, 3 minutes. Add the garlic and thyme cook, stirring, until fragrant, for 20 seconds. Add the flour and cook, stirring until the mixture is well blended and smells fragrant, 2 minutes. Slowly add the pareve chicken stock, whisking constantly, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes. Add the broccoli and cook, stirring, until tender, for 10 minutes.
Add the cream and bring to bare simmer to heat through. Add the cheese and cook over low heat, stirring, until melted. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons cold butter, stirring to blend.
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Q: Tunneling of alpha particles Consider this explanation of the alpha decay: It says

The Coulomb barrier faced by an alpha
  particle with this energy is about 26
  MeV, so by classical physics it cannot
  escape at all. Quantum mechanical
  tunneling gives a small probability
  that the alpha can penetrate the
  barrier.

The explaining sentence and the attached picture suggest that the alpha particle has to overcome the coulomb barrier in order to escape - and as is hasn't  enough energy to do that, it must tunnel through it.
But the Coulomb force is a repulsive force in this case as both the nucleus and the alpha particle are positively charged. So why is there any Coulomb barrier at all, shouldn't the Coulomb force "help" the alpha particle to escape? (The other way round, it's obvious - the particle wants to enter the nucleus, but it is hindered by the repulsive force. But when it wants to leave the nucleus, it is only retained by the nuclear force, as far as I can see.)
Why does the alpha particle have to go trough the coulomb barrier - or am I just misinterpreting the explanation and the tunneling occurs somewhere else?

A: This model is something that I've seen a lot of students (including myself) struggle with, and a big part of it is that calling it the "Coulomb barrier" is quite over-simplified.
Going back to fundamental physics principles, the Coulomb force is repulsive as you say, so I'll write this as $F\propto 1/r^2$, where $F$ is the force and $r$ is the distance from the center of the nucleus and the positive sign indicates that the force is in the positive $r$ direction, away from the nucleus.  The potential, which is what's shown on the graph, is the negative of the integral of the field (which is proportional to the force), this results in $E\propto 1/r$.  For an analog, imagine lifting a weight where "up" is the positive z-axis.  The path involves an increase in z-coordinate and the force from the field (gravitational) is negative.  The negative integral of the field over distance is the potential.
The missing part is why they "chop off" this $1/r$ function at some radius, presumably the radius of the nucleus.  Well, this allows us to infer some things about the other force present, which is the nuclear force.  It would appear that the force acts weakly beyond the radius of the nucleus, since the $1/r$ form is unaltered beyond that point.  It also absolutely must have a potential that increases faster than $1/r$ as $r \rightarrow 0$.  Both of these would be loosely satisfied if the nuclear potential was $-1/r^n$ (note the negative) where $n>1$.  The alpha particle, while in the nucleus, by the way, has kinetic energy which is the reason its energy is higher than the hypothetically lowest energy level possible for it.  This has to do with the fact that quantum mechanics only allows certain (quantized) energy levels.
Just For an example of how this is possible, I'll say $E_{nuclear}=-1/r^4$ (I am not saying this is how the force acts, it's just for utility).
$$E(r) = E_{nuclear}(r) + E_{Coulomb}(r)$$
$$E(r) = 1/r - 1/r^4$$
$$F(r) = -\frac{d}{dr} \left( E_{nuclear}(r) + E_{Coulomb}(r) \right)  = F_{nuclear}(r) + F_{Coulomb}(r) $$
$$F(r) = 1/r^2 - 1/r^5$$

My intent is that this answer allows you to explicitly answer to yourself what the potential and force contributions are, and give some very rudimentary example for how the "edge" can appear.  Beyond that I hope it's clear how someone may take the shape of the above curve and lump it into a "wall".

A: As you state the Coulomb force is repulsive, this is why the potential increases with smaller spearation. But at small enough distances the strong force takes over which has an attracting nature. The strong force is stronger (hence the name) than the Coulomb force, which is why in total the alpha particle in the nucleus sits at a lower potential than the Coulomb force at the edge.
The strong nuclear force can be modeled as a rectangular potential well to first order.

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Denmark is hosting the P4G Summit to accelerate the transition to a sustainable global economy. The focus will be on developing, diffusing, and financing public-private partnerships that provide concrete solutions to food waste, plastic in the oceans, overuse of resources, water shortage, pollution and congestion in big cities.
The Summit will take place over two days. On the first day, Danish Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, will give a welcome address at the Confederation of Danish Industry. Later, the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food, the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate, the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, and the City of Copenhagen, will host a number of sessions on food and agriculture, water, energy, sustainable cities, and circular economy. On the next day, Heads of States and Governments will convene in the Danish Radio Concert Hall. The focus will be on political leadership at global level. Not only for politicians, but also for global leaders from cities, businesses, civil society and academia.
Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark is hosting a dinner at Christiansborg Palace on occasion of the P4G Summit.
See the program for the Summit here.
Press, who wishes to cover the summit and H.M. the Queen's dinner at Christiansborg Palace, must apply for accreditation on the International Press Center website http://ipcd.dk/. The application for press accreditation is open. The accreditation will close on Wednesday 10 October at 10:00am. The press program is available at www.ipcd.dk and www.p4gsummit.org.
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Brookstone opens new headquarters in Nashua
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NASHUA – With the cut of a ribbon on Wednesday, a new era officially began for Brookstone, as the company that experienced bankruptcy and a change of ownership within the last 10 months opened its new corporate headquarters.
After the former owners were forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the assets were jointly acquired by Bluestar Alliance LLC, who acquired the company's intellectual property and products, along with Apex Digital Inc., who bought the company's retail locations and their online store.
With the new ownership comes a new headquarters, as the company has set up shop at 22 Cotton Road in Nashua.
With the change in ownership, the company will have a renewed focus on what it offers. Paul Donovan, the company's director of digital marketing, said Apex will be gearing the company's focus toward catering to the 80,000-plus individuals who visit airports, as well as customers interested in the online retail presence.
"It's a whole new company. The ownership is what changed, and there is a laser-like focus on developing the Brookstone airport stores and the Brookstone e-commerce site," Donovan said.
"That's what Apex is investing in," he added. "Apex sees the value of – and is investing in the brand, the team and the channels."
With 45 employees hired to work at the Cotton Street headquarters, the company – while keeping with their old identity and branding – will merge new and old ideas, working to cater to retail customers.
"I've worked at Brookstone for the last 15 years and many of the faces have remained the same," Donovan said. "Working for Brookstone is still a blast."
The reason Apex decided to keep the headquarters in southern New Hampshire is because of the company's strong roots in the Granite State.
"We could have moved anywhere," Donovan said. "New Hampshire is a big part of who this company is — we love it here."
"Nashua is where all the Brookstone airport operation teams live," Donovan added. "We have a great team of experts in a very competitive field, and we want to run the stores from this area."
While the plan is for the company to eventually start offering new products, Donovan said stores will continue to offer the high quality, fun and innovative products customers are accustomed to receiving.
"There will be products coming out later in the year, bigger and better products. A huge assortment of Brookstone branded," he said. "They're things that are fun to own, fun to use and, fun to show your friends."
Mathew Plamondon can be reached at 594-1244, or at mplamondon@nashuatelegraph.com.
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Healthcare Stakeholders Urge Senate to End REMS Abuse Increase Generic Drug Competition
In response to a recent hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging to examine factors contributing to price spikes in off-patent drugs", the Generic Pharmaceutical Association and 10 stakeholder groups representing pharmacists, chain drug stores, pharmacy benefit managers, public and private retirement systems, and others, sent a letter to the Committee calling for consideration of the Fair Access to Safe and Timely Generics Act (H.R. 2841) to improve competition in the pharmaceutical marketplace.
WASHINGTON, DC — In response to a recent hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging to examine factors contributing to "price spikes in off-patent drugs", the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) and 10 stakeholder groups representing pharmacists, chain drug stores, pharmacy benefit managers, public and private retirement systems, and others, sent a letter to the Committee calling for consideration of the Fair Access to Safe and Timely (FAST) Generics Act (H.R. 2841) to improve competition in the pharmaceutical marketplace. The FAST Generics Act would strengthen Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) and prevent some brand drug manufacturers from exploiting loopholes in the law that block patient access to safe, effective, affordable generic drugs.
"Misuse of FDA REMS patient safety programs is one way that certain brand drug companies delay generic competition," said Chip Davis, president and CEO, GPhA. "Failure to address the loophole that makes these abuses possible is a missed opportunity to encourage more competition in generic drugs and to generate billions of dollars in additional savings for patients and the health system."
REMS are FDA-mandated programs that provide additional information to patients and providers, and in certain cases restrict distribution of the product so that only specified entities have access to it. Some companies establish voluntary restricted distribution networks to deny manufacturers of generic and biosimilar drugs access to product samples they need to obtain FDA approval and market entry. H.R. 2841 would cut down on these abuses and would save the federal government approximately $2.4 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
As the letter states, "Companies that exploit restricted access programs delay generic competition and undermine the intent of Hatch-Waxman at the expense of America's patients and healthcare systems."
"Any policymaker seeking ways to lower health costs should consider increasing competition from generic drugs by embracing measures such as the FAST Generics Act," said Davis.
"Competition from generic drugs has saved the health care system $1.68 trillion over the past decade and $254 billion in 2014 alone, according to the 2015 Generic Drug Savings in the U.S. report. We can do more to expedite patient access to safe, effective and more affordable generic drugs."
The FAST Generics Act is just one more way to curb practices that unnecessarily increase prescription drug prices in this country. Congress can also take these steps to increase pharmaceutical competition:
• Ensure a fully-resourced Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can address the backlog of more than 3,800 generic drug applications stalled while waiting for approval and shorten FDA median generic drug approval timelines, which, at the industry's best estimate, currently stand at 48 months.
• Increase generic utilization among the low-income Medicare and Medicaid populations, which could save up to $17.7 billion over 10 years.
• Work closely with industry and regulatory partners to ensure that the framework for biosimilars, safe and effective alternatives to costly brand biologic drugs, expands and expedites patient access. Estimated biosimilars savings range from $44 billion to $250 billion.
• Repeal Sec. 602 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. The Medicaid rebate increase for generic drugs in the budget deal is bad for Medicaid and its beneficiaries, bad for taxpayers, and it should be immediately repealed.
The letter to the Senate Special Committee on Aging in support of the FAST Generics Act is available here.
About GPhA
GPhA represents the manufacturers and distributors of finished generic pharmaceuticals, manufacturers and distributors of bulk pharmaceutical chemicals, and suppliers of other goods and services to the generic industry. Generic pharmaceuticals fill 88 percent of the prescriptions dispensed in the U.S. but consume just 28 percent of the total drug spending. Additional information is available at gphaonline.org. Follow us on twitter: @gpha.


If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be living in Spain, but not in the BIG city like Barcelona, you'll enjoy meeting Kai Langel from Finland. Kai lives with his family in Cambrils (maybe 1 h from Barcelona by car), a small fishing town 20km from Tarragona. Everyone's story is unique, let's hear HIS story.
I've always been a bit of an adventurer and traveler, probably partly because my mother works for Finnair and I'm used to traveling all over the place ever since I was a kid. My father is Spanish and I lived here when I was 2 years old and spent all my holidays in Spain with my grandparents when they were still living here. Spain has always felt like a second home country. However, most of my life I've spent in Finland, studying and working. In 2003, I got an opportunity to move into the US and lived around Boston with my family for 5 years or so and then returned to Finland. The plan was to settle down in Finland and let the kids finish their school there, but pretty soon we all realized we don't really feel like we belong there anymore and didn't want to commit to buying a house etc if we're not comfortable.
What is THE thing about Spain captivates you the most?
Probably the outdoors lifestyle, compared to Finland or even Boston, we now spent so much more time outdoors.
Do you think living in Spain has in any way enhanced your work experience?
Yes / No. I work from home, so I miss some of the social interaction I'm used to previously, but I don't have to deal with commute, sitting in traffic, etc, which leaves me more time and flexibility to do stuff I like. I also see my family much more than I used to. However, I could not see myself working in a typical Spanish job with siestas and long hours extending late into the evening. I have a good balance with work.
If someone asked you what I should NOT miss while in Spain (this area), what would reply?
Around Costa Dorada, I would advise visitors to go to the mountains nearby. The whole places changes totally when you go 2 km inland and becomes much more authentic. The mountains have rugged beauty that is hard to describe and visiting the small rural villages give you much more insight into the real lives of the Catalan people.
What do you do in Barcelona when you feel like you just want to chill out?
Because I work from home, I often get a little crazy inside the house and need to escape and see some people. For this, visiting one of the local tapas bars works well and this is a Friday tradition. During the weekends, I usually go trail running in the mountains, which is a great way to decompress. I also spend a lot of time at the sea, kayaking, SCUBA diving and swimming.
Anything truly memorable that has happened to you since you have lived in Spain?
Can't really name any single one thing. There are lots of small ones, like discovering new foods, nature, language, way of life, etc. I'd say the whole experience has been truly memorable.
What really annoys you about Spain – or maybe nothing does?
Of course. Perhaps the customer service in some places, like having to deal with the phone companies. It seems that a lot of the employees don't really care much about the customers and they're there just to work. Sometimes the laid back attitude is great, but when you need to get things done, it's not. Finns are often used to efficiency and things just often don't work that way. Also the way banks are set up, you often have to deal with the manager at a specific branch where you have your account, whereas in Finland you could just do all that online. It's nice to get personal service, but it's not very efficient. Also, it's surprising how much the individuals can affect things, we've had very different experiences dealing with two different managers at the same bank. With one, it was impossible to do anything and with the other one things went really smoothly.
Also, the high tourist season gets pretty annoying with increased traffic and too many people. That's the time when we sometimes can't find a table at our favourite restaurant. The very high season lasts surprisingly short time, basically only July and August and after that things get more pleasant and the off season is very quiet and we can almost have the whole place for ourselves. It's a good balance too to have different tourist seasons, it's also refreshing to see the crowds come in and the whole place becoming more lively after the quiet time.
Do you have a favorite local restaurants and why?
Yes, we have a couple of long-time favorites. One of them is a very busy Basque tapas bar, which is great as they have a good selection of wines by the glass and lots of different tapas which are good value. This is my standard place to go socialize on Friday's when I'm half-crazy after having worked home all week. The other favourite place is a restaurant, where the owners know us well and we always get a bit of special service and they also have a good selection of different foods. This is where we often take our visitors as they have food that will suit most tastes.
Do you see there are benefits for someone from abroad to come to Spain for a few years?
Yes, there are many things that are very different and it will show a different perspective to life. For most people here, enjoying life is the first priority and other stuff comes second. Family is also very important. These are good values and I feel that many people would benefit from being reminded about this and not only focus on efficiency and performance.
What do you think about the cost of living in other countries vs Spain and the standard of life and life style?
Compared to Finland, almost everything is cheaper. The only things that might be more expensive are mobile phone and Internet expenses. Eating and drinking out is more affordable and people do it a lot more than in Finland. Standard of living is quite good, but some things like public schools are more basic than in Finland and for example, don't offer free meals for students. Lifestyle is certainly different, people spend a lot of time out of the house and together with the family. Many people have meals together with their parents / grandparents almost every weekend and are much less independent than in Finland. Of course with the lower cost of things, that also means that salaries are also quite low and taxes are surprisingly high.
Being a Finn, I miss the sauna and good Finnish rye bread.
In your opinion what is the best time to visit Spain?
September – November. Also the spring is great, from about April to June. I would avoid July and August, it's too expensive, crowded and hot. The wintertime has some magical days with +20 degrees and sunshine, which means you can eat out in a t-shirt, but you'll have to be a bit lucky to be here on the right day.
Anything else you feel you'd like to share with us about Spain or yourself?
It's quite easy to move here, because the costs are so low, so I encourage everyone to do it. It was very clear to us that we want to try to integrate into the country so we intentionally avoided the expat circles. We expected it to be far easier to learn the language and really get integrated, but it has turned out to be quite difficult. Part of it has to do with working from home, but also the Spanish / Catalan people are actually surprisingly private and it can take a long time to make friends with them and feel like you belong here. It's probably much easier in bigger cities with lots of expats like Barcelona, where most people speak English and where there are many people in the same situation as you. In Cambrils, we're the only Finns and almost the only expats too.
If you visit the blog, you'll find a million pictures about us / from here.
"TARRAGONA , located in the northeastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula, is Catalonia's southernmost capital city.
Thanks to the temperate climate, with an average yearly temperature of 18ºC (25ºC in summer, 12ºC in winter), the clean, sweeping beaches with their fine, golden sand and the singular artistic and architectural patrimony, officially declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO, Tarragona is one of the most important tourism hubs in Europe.
Well-connected to Europe and the rest of the Iberian peninsula, it offers easy access to two airports: the first in Reus, just 7 kilometres away, and the second in Barcelona, 82 kilometres away. It also has direct rail links to all major Spanish and European capitals.
What's more, the city is home to one of the busiest commercial ports in the Mediterranean, as well as Port Tarraco, a stopover for luxury cruise ships.
Tarragona also marks the junction of two major Spanish motorways, the Mediterranean Motorway, which runs from Alicante to France and the rest of Europe, and the Northern Motorway, which begins in Tarragona and runs through to the Basque Country." Quote from Tarragona's official tourism site.


If anyone wants to be really inspired, you should check out MathRL written as a Megazeux game. It's a roguelike with arithmetic driven combat. Pretty fun concept.
I'm in. Dusting off my FreeBASIC skilz.
And for one horribly awful pun - you might consider a dentist wielding Novocaine to be a mouth number.
Brainstorming here, interested in feedback.
I'm thinking I'll use a double-six domino set to begin, allowing each game to take up to 28 turns. You'd have a small hand of dominoes (four or five) that you can choose from to make your next move. The board would likely be a reasonably sized grid - if it's 10x10, you'd have 100 spaces on the map with 56 total spaces of dominoes (each domino covering two spaces when placed).
Any ideas? Details are a bit vague, as this is an unfiltered first conception.
That's a horrible idea, because there's no way I can beat that in gameplay.
I like your idea Ryan! I think you just have to test it out to see what works.
so numbers will be used in different situations, i'm still throwing ideas, but i know that the name will be "PipeVenture"
I will hopefully have a BETA of my game ready to post by this weekend if I can just stop re-doing parts!


D. Nuno da Cunha was a governor of Portuguese possessions in India from 1528 to 1538. He was the son of Antónia Pais and Tristão da Cunha, the famous Portuguese navigator, admiral and ambassador to Pope Leo X. Nuno da Cunha proved his mettle in battles at Oja and Brava, and at the capture of Panane, under the viceroy Francisco de Almeida. Named by João III ninth governor of Portuguese possessions in India, he served from April 1528 to 1538.


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Q: d3 text cut off / goes beyond chart area Text is going beyond the chart. The idea is if i is greater than 1500 and title length is greater than 5 characters long then text is shifted to the left by 100px.
What am I doing wrong?

Codepen
Here is my approach:
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A: The i refers to the index of the selection elements, since you have just one, i never exceeds 0.
If you want to prevent cutting off the text, you should have a condition like:
if (d3.select(this).attr("x") > 400)
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or better you set the text-anchor based on the position to achieve this.


Tablet Education or tLearning has really advanced over the last couple of years accompanying the hardware advances that have been made. On the face of it, portable hand-held devices that can augment learning are a natural ask from the consumer today in many markets. In my opinion, tLearning will succeed where mLearning (m=mobile) failed, primarily because of the increased screen estate and touch based technology makes it viable.
There are a spate of offerings & initiatives now on the ground to leverage the power of tLearning. Here are a few interesting ones.
As a result, a lot of companies are getting into or promoting tLearning. From my perspective, tLearning offers a fresh new field for instructional designers, technologists, graphics people and eLearning solution designers where research and innovation is required to leverage the new collaborative features of the medium. For example, Prazas combines online tutoring/collaboration with an "upload any content" feature, which makes it easy to access, share and co-annotate learning material.
This is an exciting time to be in the industry. Hopefully researchers will take a strong look at tLearning and start contributing to learning solutions design thinking for this medium.


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A gallery featuring Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931; collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, gift of Albert M. Bender; and Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935; collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, gift of Albert M. Bender in memory of Caroline Walter; and Diego Rivera, Girl with Coral Necklace, 1926; collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, Albert M. Bender Bequest Fund purchase; photo: Henrik Kam. All images © 2022 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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"Rivera was one of the most aesthetically, socially and politically ambitious artists of the 20th century," says James Oles, guest curator for Diego Rivera's America.
Rivera's vision of Mexico and the United States comes to life in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's (SFMOMA) Diego Rivera's America. In anticipation of the new exhibition, SFMOMA reveals five anecdotes to know about the artist and his work.
Rivera's America. Rivera's idea of "America" transcended political borders. He believed that the U.S. and Mexico had a similar historical foundation with a rich indigenous past that had been suppressed by colonial violence. As a result, he believed that both countries shared a creative force and revolutionary impulse.
Bay Area influence. San Francisco was particularly important to Rivera. It was the first place he painted murals in the U.S., and his work was deeply influential to artists and muralists across the Bay Area.
More than murals. SFMOMA is home to more than 70 works by Rivera, one of the largest collections of the artist's work in the world. Diego Rivera's America will feature more than 150 paintings, frescos and murals by the artist, and iconic works such as Flower Carrier (1935) will be shown alongside paintings that have not been seen publicly since leaving Rivera's studio.
Art for social change. Rivera considered art to be an essential tool in the struggle for greater social equality and justice. His works featuring labor, popular culture and family life highlight his desire to focus on everyday people as the protagonists of national narratives.
Larger-than-life works. The last mural that Rivera painted in the U.S. is a colossal work measuring 22 feet high by 74 feet wide, painted for the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1940. The mural, commonly known as Pan American Unity, is free to view at SFMOMA for all visitors
// Diego Rivera's America opens at SFMOMA on July 16th. Celebrate the opening of this highly anticipated experience with a free community day of revelry, activism, and art at SFMOMA on Sunday, July 17th. Buy tickets in advance and save at sfmoma.org.
Diego Rivera, Dance in Tehuantepec, 1928 (detail); collection Eduardo F. Costantini, Buenos Aires; © 2022 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Juan Millás
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Guatemala fishing has a long-standing reputation for fantastic bluewater action. After all, this is the Sailfish capital of the World we're talking about! Once an integral part of the Mayan Empire, this Latin American country is home to some of the best offshore fishing around. An explorer's paradise on both land and sea, it's a treat for anyone who likes to go off the beaten path.
The local sailfishing records are far from being tall tales or once-in-a-lifetime events. Guatemala is an angler's dream throughout the year. Probably best known for having a single boat catch and release 166 Sailfish during three days of fishing back in 1997, these waters make legendary hook-ups an everyday thing.
Tourism greatly contributes to the local economy, which makes sense considering the number of Mayan archeological sites open to sightseeing. Guatemala also boasts breathtaking natural sights, the most famous one being Lake Atitlán, the deepest lake in Central America.
While the Guatemalan Pacific coastline stretches for approx.250 miles, the local fishing scene has two main points of interest – Puerto de Iztapa and the Port of San Jose. Sure, local anglers will be spread throughout the coast, but this is where international anglers flock every year to witness the best sailfishing money can buy. One of the main reasons for this is the absolute abundance of baitfish in deeper waters. It goes a long way towards ensuring that fishing is viable throughout the year.
Some would say the real treat of Guatemala sailfishing is the fact you can do it using fly fishing gear. Targeting a 100 lb fish with a 16 wt rod is not your standard fly fishing experience, which is what makes it so attractive for more experienced anglers. Of course, a standard trolling trip is always a good option, and something you'll have no trouble finding a charter for. Most local captains have years of Sailfishing experience, and know how to get the job done.
As you can see, Sailfish hog the spotlight but there are definitely more fish in the sea. These include species like Marlin, Mahi Mahi, and Yellowfin Tuna. Those in the market for a quick inshore trip can also look forward to great Roosterfish action year-round. San Jose is one of those places where you'll be hooked on fish within 20 minutes of casting off on a good day.
The best time to go fishing here is anywhere from the middle of October until the end of May because of the lack of rain when compared to other parts of the year. It can also get quite hot during the summer, with temperatures reaching the high 90s. Another point in favor of winter fishing in Guatemala is that the calm seas make fishing on light tackle easier.
You might not be able to tell by looking at a globe, but Guatemala also has access to the Caribbean Sea. Thanks to the small stretch of land on the northeast end of the country, it shares Amatique Bay with southern Belize. Puerto Barrios is the main port on this side of the country, and the place where you can easily find someone to take you fishing.
Inshore fishing is king here, as everybody who wanted to go offshore is having a blast in the Pacific. With plenty of Bonefish and Permit to go around, it's a great option for a more relaxed experience. The kind where you can enjoy the sights with your family and have a couple of tamales along the way.
Going out with a licensed charter service is not only the safest option, but that way you can be sure you're getting your money's worth. They can also help arrange lodging for you, as many of them have decades of experience with anglers hailing from the US to go after Billfish. Getting an individual fishing license, while possible, involves a lot of time and bureaucracy which is not something you want to deal with when going on a relaxing trip. This makes charter trips the most hassle-free option.
Guatemalan charter captains have a wide and varied offer of fishing experiences they can offer to potential guests. You can choose from quick inshore trips for about $50 an hour, to multi-day trips that can cost as much as several thousand dollars per day for a single person (with lodging included).
The biggest thing that can make or break the bank here is the lodging for longer stays, so be sure to check out several charters while looking for the best deal.
The Pan-American Highway goes through Guatemala, so a scenic car trip is always on the cards. Most US anglers, however, prefer to take a plane down to Guatemala City and get transport to Iztapa from there. Whenever you need to use a taxi, make sure it's radio-dispatched like Taxi Amarillo so you avoid any unpleasantries.
Guatemala is a dream come true for any angler who's the least bit interested in going after Billfish. As long as you use common sense and stay safe, it will be one of the most rewarding places you've ever been to.
It's a strong start of the year as far as fishing is concerned. Great time to go on a longer trip and find a bunch of Sailfish in the waters of the Pacific.
Fishing in winter is a great idea because the waters are calm and well-suited for light tackle casting and fly fishing. Expect plenty of Bonefish and Permit in the north.
March is still a great time to be fishing both inshore and offshore. Whether it's Tuna, Marlin, or Sailfish you're interested in, get ready to have your hands full.
If you've never been fly fishing for big sportfish, this is definitely the time and place to do so. Scoring a Sailfish using fly equipment is an impressive feat.
You've got until the end of the month to experience the high season of Guatemalan fishing. If you can spare a couple of days for a longer trip, all the better!
High season is coming to a close, but that's not to say people will go home and call it a year. If you're fine with hot weather, it's still world-class angling for Billfish.
July is a time to be merry, and the Cobán Festival will show you how it's done in Guatemala. Fishing tends to be sparser due to the weather.
Just one of the many things anglers love about Guatemala are the double-digit Sailfish trips. This time of year is no exception, so go for it!
September 15 is when Guatemalans celebrate Independence Day, feel free to join in on the fun. You can also celebrate great fishing as high season is about roll in!
Looking to break a personal record? Now's the time to do it! Mid-October marks the start of high season in Guatemala, the time when legends are forged.
The Sailfish Capital of the World shows its true colors come winter. Anyone feeling confident in their fly fishing skills should test their skills against a proper Sailfish.
The year might be about to end, but the fishing in Guatemala is just about to kick into high gear. Welcome to the country where four Sailfish hooked marks a very slow day!
Multiple Sails a day with an occasional Marlin. Unreal action!


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What Canada's Conservatives can teach Republicans about diversity
In a country once thought of as a liberal bastion, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's success story is one that the GOP's 2016 contenders should emulate.
By Matthew Hays
August 11, 2015 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at a news conference in Toronto. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press/AP)
Despite the fatigue one might expect within the American electorate after two terms of a Democratic president, there's anxiety within Republican ranks that their party may lose the 2016 election. Younger voters, voters of color and women voters (particularly if Hillary Clinton does, indeed, land her party's nomination) will almost certainly favor the Democrats, and those demographic odds may well mean defeat for Republicans.
But there's a way the GOP can avoid this demographic destiny: Look north to Canada's Conservatives.
Since first winning election with a minority government in 2006, Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper — leader of the Conservative Party — has reshaped much of the direction of the country, and subsequently won a majority in 2011. Some pollsters are predicting the prime minister will once again sail into another majority government in the October election, though it's difficult to tell because of Canada's parliamentary system and three popular parties, as opposed to the two-party U.S. system.
How did the Conservatives manage to do this? After all, Canada is a notoriously liberal country, previously led for over 13 years by a liberal government. It's country famous for its peace-seeking reputation abroad, no death penalty, gun control, universal healthcare, official bilingualism (federal government services are guaranteed in both English and French) and multiculturalism, and home to thousands who avoided the Vietnam-era draft (Canadian forces were not involved in the Vietnam War nor the 2003 Iraq invasion). The reverence the American left has for Canada is reflected by the view of progressives such as filmmaker Michael Moore, whose documentaries portray Canada as a veritable utopia, and who once boasted on Twitter that "Canada's poverty rate is 40% lower than the U.S.'s."
In part, Harper benefited from timing. A decade ago, the Canadian right became fatigued by years of being shut out of power due to vote splitting between the traditional Progressive Conservative Party and the upstart Reform Party. (Harper had been a key part of the latter.) The two parties merged and with the right united, Harper had to figure out how to appease crucial swing voters who might be put off by his party's potential to move away from the center and toward the political margins. So he visibly embraced racial and ethnic minorities; this may sound like an obvious approach, but given that he had played such a key role in the Reform Party, it was actually a huge roadblock.
Harper first cut his teeth in politics with the Reform Party, which, throughout the 1990s, offered the messages of limited immigration and ending multiculturalism as official policy. Supporters, who sounded a lot like Tea Partiers-in-waiting, often offered up little defense when asked if their views were less about immigration policy and more a xenophobic stance against Canada's communities of color. This made his proactive campaign to attract racial and ethnic minorities that much more surprising.
The Reform Party's rhetoric was often hostile to non-European immigration and to refugees. Harper began to change the tone by speaking in community halls and houses of worship to majority nonwhite audiences, making the case that their values —conservative, family values — were more aligned with Conservatives than with those of the Liberals or the left-leaning New Democratic Party.
"Immigrants have the same values as us," one of Harper's senior ministers, Jason Kenney, said in 1994. "We have to talk to them, to convince them," he told Maclean's Magazine. Harper reached out to the key demographics of Canadians of Chinese and Indian descent — two communities that are, in effect, voter goldmines in key suburban districts of both Vancouver and Toronto, places where Conservatives had to make inroads.
In April of this year, Harper welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a state visit. The two appeared onstage at several rallies where Indian Canadians cheered for the leaders' statements about new joint economic and cultural ventures. There are 1.2 million Canadians of Indian descent, and in a country of roughly 30 million people, that's a significant voting bloc. Even Harper's critics acknowledged this was a coup in terms of wooing the Indian Canadian vote. "Barriers have turned into bridges," Modi said of his successful visit to Canada.
Snatching the mantle of multiculturalism from the Canadian Liberal Party was something once seen as unimaginable. It was Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who declared that multiculturalism would be official government policy in 1971. Since then, immigrant communities have shown their loyalty by overwhelmingly favoring the moderate Liberal Party at the voting booth. Liberals declared Canada a nation where everyone was welcome. But by reaching out to minority voters and steadfastly reminding them that their values are his, Harper has managed to change that perception.
The other key to Harper's outreach was moving past the issue of same-sex marriage. Harper knew that when members of his own party spoke about gay rights, they usually came across as intolerant and out of touch. But as in the U.S., voters' discomfort with the idea of same-sex marriage eroded rapidly as a series of lower court decisions and the Liberal government's eventual championing of same-sex marriage came into effect. Images of gays and lesbians getting married saturated the media as courts and provincial parliaments made the unions a legal reality and thus more accepted in Canadian society.
But Harper had his base to contend with, and he had promised them that if elected he would reopen the issue in parliament, and on December 7, 2006, he did. But the move was a shrewd: at that point, his government was still in the minority; he knew that the opposition parties would vote down his motion to reopen the debate on same-sex marriage, and that enough of his own members would dissent, effectively killing the motion. Harper could tell his base that he kept his promise, while simultaneously putting the contentious same-sex marriage issue behind him.
Granted, the comparison is imperfect: the U.S. and Canada are different countries, with different conservative voting bases. America has a much more powerful religious right, and the porous U.S.-Mexico border makes the issue of immigrants entering the country illegally much larger.
Harper's success at the polls, however, has allowed him to reshape a country once regarded as staunchly liberal. Since coming to power, he has scrapped a major piece of gun-control legislation (the long-gun registry), pulled Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol (and Canada was in fact one of the architects of that deal), enacted a foreign policy adamantly defensive of Israel, all while making as many Conservative appointments to the Senate and judiciary as possible. By shifting tone, Harper was able to reshape Canada in a Conservative direction.
It's something Republicans have paid lip service to, but not really tried.
If the GOP really wants to win more nonwhite votes, the party has to be seen as fully embracing minorities, not merely tolerating them. And if Republicans want to win over swing voters, or get a bigger share of the youth vote — imperative in terms of winning the White House—they're going to have to put opposition to same-sex marriage behind them once and for all.
GOP candidates have been breathing fire about same-sex marriage and Mexican citizens crossing the border. ("They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists," Republican front-runner Donald Trump said of Mexican immigrants.) While reaching back to these contentious "wedge" issues to fire up the party's base may seem a good idea during the process of choosing a nominee, when the actual election arrives, they'll again look like the party of yesteryear, out of step with a changed America — a more tolerant, diverse and Canada-like country.
And they will once again be shut out of the White House.


Baptism and local church membership records are the two most frequently requested materials. The General Commission on Archives and History does not hold such records. In United Methodist practice these records are kept at the local church. If the local church has closed and merged with another church then the records should be transferred to the new church. If a church closes and there is no successor then the records are transferred to the annual conference archives - the regional depository. When searching for such records the best place to start is with the annual conference archvist. The Directory of Annual Conference Archives for The United Methodist Church will list the appropriate contact person. Look for the contact information for the archivist, historian or researcher.


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I've bought the instrument last summer. It was ordered straight from the Ko'olau factory in Hawaii and shipped to me in the Czech Republic. It is still exactly the same as new. Beautiful materials and craftsmanship. The only flaw I've found on the instrument is tiny dent in the neck lacquer - so tiny that it can't be seen in the picture. Took me a few weeks before I noticed it. The instrument made me really happy as it sounds and feels great. The reason I'm selling it is to help me finance my dream guitar.
So the whole instrument is made of mahogany with ebony fretboard, saddle and bridge. Strang with Southcoast strings (wound C).