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Economy grows 6.2% in 2010
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Published : Mar 30, 2011 - 19:08 Updated : Mar 30, 2011 - 19:08
Per capita income tops $20,000 for first time since 2007
Korea's economy grew by 6.2 percent in 2010 in the fastest expansion for eight years, the central bank said Wednesday after revising an earlier estimate of 6.1 percent.
The bank also raised gross domestic product growth for 2009 to 0.3 percent from its earlier projection of 0.2 percent.
The country's gross national income, reflecting the actual purchasing power of the population, rose 5.5 percent on-year in 2010, the fastest growth in eight years.
Its GNI per capita stood at $20,759 last year, up from $17,193 the previous year, the central bank added. The GNI per capita surpassed the $20,000 mark for the first time since 2007 as the economy grew and the local currency rose against the U.S. dollar. The Korean won appreciated 2.62 percent to the dollar last year.
"The growth of the Korean economy accelerated last year, helped by a sharp upturn in facilities investment, expanded exports and a pickup of growth in private consumption," the Bank of Korea said in a statement.
The contribution of domestic demand to overall growth rose sharply in 2010, "pointing to self-sustaining recovery in the private sector," said Kim Young-bae, director general of its economic statistics division.
"This year, the country's GNI per capita is likely to reach a record high, given growth projections and the trend of the won's gain to the greenback," Kim said.
Quarterly growth has eased since the first quarter of 2010, but the central bank forecast that the economic growth rate is likely to accelerate to 1.3 percent in the first quarter of this year.
The data came as economic uncertainties linger while inflationary pressure is growing, leaving Korean policymakers facing difficulties in adjusting the pace and depth of policy normalization.
A recovery in advanced economies, including the United States, is expected to serve as an upside risk to economic growth, but the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11 are viewed as adding to economic uncertainty.
In Korea, however, oil price gains and continued economic growth are exerting upward pressure on inflation. BOK Gov. Kim Choong-soo said keeping price stability is "the greatest challenge" facing the economy as consumer prices will likely remain high for some time.
The BOK has hiked the key rate in four steps to 3 percent since July last year from a record low of 2 percent.
Exports of goods, which account for about 50 percent of the local economy, grew 15.8 percent last year, up from an earlier estimate of 14.1 percent. Private spending, one of the main growth engines of the Korean economy, expanded 4.1 percent in 2010, the same pace as earlier expected.
Facility investment jumped 25 percent, better than an earlier 24.5 percent expansion, while construction investment declined 1.4 percent, better than an earlier estimate of a 2.3 percent contraction.
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I saw Moon last night, and I can't really decide what I think about it. Before I go further there are some spoilers here, so don't read if you don't want them.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the film but bits felt iffy and I can't completely put my finger on why. I think it might be down to some of the most glaring factual errors you could think of. For instance, Moon gravity is a sixth of Earth gravity, folks! For some reason, whenever the characters were outside the base they moved much slower, as you'd expect them to in low gravity. But inside they moved normally. Hell there was a game of table tennis at one point, which struck me as particularly implausible. And also, they've somehow found a way to increase the speed of light, given the instantaneous communication between the Earth and the Moon.
It probably sounds like I'm nitpicking, but I don't think I am. For a film called "Moon", you would expect the film makers to have grappled with some of the fundamental physics of the place, and at least have come up with a reason why they choose to ignore them.
Regardless of that, it's still a pretty enjoyable film and I really like that it's a proper, pukka, science fiction film. Far too often sci fi just means "set in space", as opposed to what sci-fi actually means; stories based around some sort of scientific "what if?" – for instance, Star Wars isn't really sci fi, its just set in space. Of course, it's another thing completely to say how good a SF film Moon is. Given that it ignores fundamentals like gravity, you could argue possibly not…
Anyway, I enjoyed it. But then I should, because it steals elements from quite a lot of other Science Fiction. It takes bits from 2001 (sentient uber-computer – Kevin Spacey plays the part, and you can tell that his brief was "sound like HAL!"), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (implanting fake memories), The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (using a catapult to sneak people to Earth, amongst other things), a sort-of allusion to Asimov and the Laws of Robotics. I'm sure I've read a short story by Clarke too about clones which the film echoes quite a lot, but I can't be bothered to look through the books to find one.
It sounds like I'm being negative, but I did enjoy it and it's well worth watching. Frankly it's a much better film than most of the trite that gets released (mentioning no Avatars). The story may not be groundbreaking but it's watchable, and other things more than make up for it. It's rather nicely shot, especially the scenes which are set outside. And I also think Sam Rockwell is pretty good too as the main character(s). Kevin Spacey is ok as the computer, but it felt like he was trying to be HAL and failing – he didn't quite get the pure emotionless tone that Douglas Rain managed in 2001. And by the way if anyone hasn't seen 2001, you really should because (except for the first bit with the apes) it's stunning. But then Kubrick was a great director and Clarke a great writer, so it'd be odd if it weren't.
I think though that the best thing about the film is the soundtrack. It suits the film really well, helps the pacing and overal "feel" of the film, but it's also just really good music. At the end I actually left the end credits run, because I was enjoying the music that was playing. It's on Spotify so I suggest you all go listen now.
An interesting point came out of watching this. The other day I was having a discussion with a housemate about how you'd build on the moon, and specifically we were talking about concrete. We couldn't decide whether the curing reaction needs air to work (I'm not sure it does, looking at it now), but irrespective of that you'd need to ship materials up there, which takes a lot of energy. When I was reading about this film though I ran into an article on Lunarcrete, which uses stuff found on the Moon to make a concrete-like material. I think they've even suggested using lunar glass as reinforcement (glass has a ludicrously high tensile strength. Concrete has very little, so thats why reinforcement is used), which is pretty cool. Apparently Lunarcrete isn't airtight though, which is a fairly glaring flaw. And It also requires a lot of energy to produce, which is another issue. I presume the energy cost is still lower though than transporting a similar amount of concrete to the Moon.
Personally I think I'd just build underground, but then that probably also requires a lot of energy.
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Friday 19th March 2010, 3:38 pm
I really enjoyed moon, and faster-than-light comms and artificial gravity aren't enormous faux pas considering the film. I think adding in the scientific realism would have come at a cost to the entertainment value of the film – a worthy sacrifice, in my opinion.
As for building on the moon, if you can bring enough stuff to build yourself a decent solar grid you'll have the energy to build the lunarcrete, which you can make airtight with glass until you've got the infrastructure to use something less brittle. Were I to build on the moon, solar cells built and maintained out of a large lander module would be how I'd start, with infrastructure to follow. Costly, yes, but any endeavour on the moon will be. As for the cabling to carry the electric you're generating, depending on the size of your grid, I'm guessing (emphasis on the guessing, don't know enough about the reasons that microwave dish energy transfer is inefficient) that would be more weight-efficient to transfer it as microwave beams considering the lack of atmosphere. Less cost-efficient, but cabling is weighty so hmm. Don't know how cold the moon is, might be possible to have uninsulated superconductors. You'll know more about how advanced the tech is at present than I will I'd imagine.
I could write about hypotheses all day. I'll stop now.
Sunday 21st March 2010, 6:11 pm
I watched it again after I wrote this entry, and I have to say I was possibly a bit harsh on it first time round. Very good film, and amazing that it only cost $5 million.
Cabling would probably be more efficient anyway. The greater the transmission losses the more generating equipment you have to transport, which is probly more expensive than just shipping cable. Also with solar cells, you'd need of batteries because the lunar night lasts for like 15 days. Eventually a nuclear reactor would seem sensible, but that'd be a long-term project.
I'd still suggest it'd be better to build underground. Much easier to construct, and also provides more protection from things like radiation or vacuum, whilst also providing some insulation for heat. With lunarcrete, I dunno if it'd make sense to use glass for airtightness. Probably easier to develop some sort of sealant to spread on the wall.
I kinda wish I was thinking this a year ago, cos it would've made for a pretty interesting dissertation topic for this year. Sigh. Also I find it insane that no-one is seriously planning to do any of this. Twas probably the only sane thing Bush did whilst in office, but Obama cancelled it. Double sigh.
Friday 9th April 2010, 2:32 pm
I watched Moon the other day and I thought it was excellent. I was aware that there were problems with the gravity inside the base and obviously the faster-than-light comms, but it didn't seem to matter because the storyline was compelling and interesting and it was in all a fantastic film and, as you say, sci fi in the truest sense of hte word.
Saturday 10th April 2010, 1:22 am
I'm glad you liked it – desipite the somewhat negative tone of bits of this post, I think it's an absolute gem of a movie. Something I didn't mention in the post was that I particularly enjoyed the special effects. In a hell of a lot of movies made at the moment, CGI is used a ridiculous amount. And it looks good, but it also looks fake. Somehow things look too clean, too perfect to be real. I mentioned it in the post I wrote about Avatar, but when I watch old films like Das Boot or the original Star Wars trilogy or whatever, in my opinion the effects look so much more realistic because those films were shot using models. That means that they have some "filmic" characteristic which means that although sometimes it's obvious to the audience that they're looking at a model, it's more immersive because it feels more real than some completely artificial thing.
This was one of my major criticisms of Avatar. The world looked good, very good. But it also looked completely artificial – because it was! To me, there was no real "connection" to the world, and therefore to the characters that reside in that world. Of course this was amplified in Avatar by the fact that many of the characters were also artificial…
One of the things I loved about Moon though was that the shots out on the Lunar surface looked absolutely sublime. There's a fantastic feel to those scenes – they felt real. The reason: the film-makers used models supplemented by CGI. These shots looked absolutely stunning and were completely immersive, without needing gimmickery. And the effects supplemented the story, rather than merely being the story. I daresay this film – with its $5million budget – will look much less dated in 5, 10, 20 years than Avatar – with its $300million budget.
It sounds like I'm picking on Avatar a lot, and I guess I am because it's hideously overrated. But it's also ostensibly a film with science-fiction themes, released at a similar time. I really wish more films were made like Moon, rather than like Avatar. Can you tell? :P
Thursday 15th April 2010, 11:03 am
See, it's films like Moon which make me believe that 3D will never be more than just a gimmick – or rather, not for a long time if ever. Because it doesn't *matter* that Moon is not 3D and watching Avatar in 2D would just be boring. But then they said motor cars would never take off.
But no, I completely agree with your points on both Avatar and Moon. Although that said although Avatar wasn't a great film in terms of originality of plot or whatever, the world-building and the imagination and the look of hte thing were all spectacular and I thought it was an amazing film to see in 3D in the cinema. I don't think I'd bother watching it outside of that though because like you said there was less connection to the characters and you cared less.
And yes. Avatar will date more than Moon. Moon could easily have been made at the same time as 2001 and no-one thinks 2001 is any the worse for being old, do they?
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Department of Justice announced today that Barbara Ann Battalino, 52, of Los Osos, California, has pleaded guilty to an information charging her with one count of obstruction of justice.
Battalino served as a staff psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Boise, Idaho from February 1991 to October 1991. She was assigned to the VA's psychiatric in-patient and out-patient units where she provided treatment to the hospital's patients who, in most cases, were combat veterans. In May 1991, Battalino was assigned a patient named Edward Arthur, a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, who sought treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a condition from which he suffered as a result of over four years of combat.
On October 31, 1992, Arthur sued Battalino and the VA in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, alleging that Battalino committed medical malpractice when she engaged in sexual relations with him during an office visit on June 27, 1991. Battalino requested, through the United States Attorney for the District of Idaho, that the United States "certify" her under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"). The FTCA provides that the United States will substitute itself as a defendant in a tort suit brought against a federal employee when the alleged tortious conduct occurred within the scope of the defendant's federal employment. If a defendant is granted full substitution, or "certification," she would not be liable for damages.
In December 1992, attorneys from the United States Attorney's Office interviewed Battalino about Arthur's allegations. She denied to them that she had engaged in sexual relations with Arthur in her office on June 27, 1991. Based on her denial, the United States Attorney decided to certify Battalino for her conduct through June 27, 1991, the date of the alleged office incident, but not thereafter. To the extent that Battalino was certified, she would not have been liable for damages to Arthur.
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Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin ruled out of second Ashes Test against England
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Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin will miss the second Ashes Test against England at Lord's for personal reasons, Cricket Australia has announced.
Haddin, 37, did not train on Tuesday and his absence from the side will lead to a Test debut for Peter Nevill.
The wicketkeeper had an unfortunate time in the first Test in Cardiff, dropping Joe Root in the first innings before he got off the mark with the Yorkshire batsman going on to make 134 of England's 430 runs.
"I can confirm that Brad Haddin has withdrawn himself from the second Test at Lord's for family reasons," the team's media manager, Kate Hutchison, said.
"He will remain with the team in London and we won't be making any further comment.
"Peter Nevill will replace him in the side."
Australia's reserve wicketkeeper Nevill is uncapped in any international format.
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Former Long-Term Care CEO to Lead CMS Innovation Center
By Alex Spanko | April 9, 2018
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has a new director.
Adam Boehler, founder and former chief executive officer of home health provider Landmark Health, was named CMMI director — a position that also comes with the title of deputy administrator — by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
Azar has pointed to the CMMI, which serves as a kind of sandbox for new payment models among providers and the government, as a key agent of change moving forward. Speaking to the Federation of American Hospitals last month, Azar said the CMMI gives HHS "tremendous power to experiment with new payment models," which he also identified as a main goal for his tenure.
"Simply put, I don't intend to spend the next several years tinkering with how to build the very best joint-replacement bundle," Azar said. "We want to look at bold measures that will fundamentally reorient how Medicare and Medicaid pay for care, and create a true competitive playing field where value is rewarded handsomely."
Sen. Bill Cassidy and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse also praised the work of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and CMMI in a March letter to Azar that urged him to investigate and develop new payment models while moving away from fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.
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One of Canada's largest oil companies is urging the Alberta government to intervene directly in the market to cut the province's crude production and boost severely depressed prices.
Cenovus Energy Inc. chief executive Alex Pourbaix said the province is facing a "wholesale economic catastrophe" that justifies the government departing from free-market principles and ordering companies to reduce their production of oil.
Any move by Alberta to enact limits on the amount oil producers can send to market would mark a strategic shift in a province that has long promoted free enterprise and open competition among players in its most important sector. But some say the current industry crisis calls for emergency measures.
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"The oil-price differential right now is absurd, and exactly why Premier Rachel Notley is fighting to build new pipelines and pushing Ottawa to step up and help fix the backlog in rail shipments," Cheryl Oates, the Premier's director of communications, said in an e-mail. Within the last month, Ms. Notley has urged the federal government to purchase rail cars that could be used for oil exports.
Mr. Pourbaix said the province, as the owner of the resources the companies are extracting, has the legislated authority to order them to cut their production. The power was used in the 1980s by then-premier Peter Lougheed during the province's dispute with Ottawa over the National Energy Policy.
Cenovus has announced its own temporary production cuts of up to 50,000 barrels a day. However, the CEO said some competitors who have large refining operations are making significant profits from the depressed crude prices and therefore have little incentive to cut production.
While he did not mention company names, both Suncor Energy Corp. and Imperial Oil Ltd. own refineries that profit from lower-priced crude.
Suncor maintains that it has invested billions of dollars in Alberta to process oil sands bitumen and is now benefiting from that strategy.
The company opposes the government action Cenovus is urging.
"Government intervention in a market would send the wrong signals to the investment community regarding doing business in Alberta and Canada," Suncor spokeswoman Sneh Seetal said in an e-mail.
Mr. Pourbaix did not give a precise estimate of how much production would have to be curtailed but noted the analyst reports put the figure at between 200,00 and 300,000 barrels a day.
Oil production from Western Canada is expected to average close to 4.5 million barrels a day this month, according to the National Energy Board. That's up by some 350,000 barrels a day from the beginning of the year.
Mr. Pourbaix said he believes that price discounts will slowly shrink through 2019 as more rail capacity comes on stream and, late in the year, when Enbridge Inc. completes the expansion of its main export pipeline to the United States.
Asked whether Ottawa should take emergency measures to deal with the crisis, the Cenovus executive said the federal government should focus on getting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion back on track and completed as quickly as possible.
The Peters & Co. Ltd. report said producers have already cut production by some 200,000 barrels a day for November and December.
"The Alberta government has a lot at stake with the wide differentials and should be motivated to improve the situation in the near term," it said.
Various companies – led by Imperial Oil – are planning to increase crude-by-rail capacity in the coming months. But the Peters & Co. report said expectations of an additional 150,000 barrels a day by the middle of next year are likely overly optimistic.
However, the Alberta government would face enormous challenges if it attempted to take up Cenovus's call for direct intervention, said Warren Mabee, director of Queen's University's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy. Companies that are profiting from the lower crude prices would oppose the action, as would some producers who might feel they were being shortchanged by the government, Mr. Mabee said.
At the same time, any provincial action to reduce production and prop up prices would likely trigger a response from the United States, where refineries and consumers have been the beneficiaries of the lower prices, he said. Mr. Trump this week criticized Saudi Arabia for planning to cut production in response to falling global crude prices.
Under the current North American free-trade agreement, the intervention suggested by Cenovus could trigger retaliation from the Americans, Mr. Mabee added.


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The CMT Music Awards were Wednesday at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
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Robert Nairac – the anger never fades
By Stuart Major
WHEN I was growing up in England in the 1970s and 80s, Ulster cast a gloomy shadow. Sour news marred salad days. Through the familiar memory-scape of blithe youth we danced to a playful tune; then the day's discordant, dumbfounding announcement: 'A British soldier has been shot dead in Northern Ireland.'
Ten fleeting words, yet for the family ten thousand shards of shattered dreams; a cathedral of life's possibilities desecrated.
The young squaddie's picture is released; carefree or – in uniform – quietly determined; proud. He is one of us; we, the British tribe – save the craven clique of appeaser-MPs – mourn too.
We pose instinctive, 'naive' questions. How could they? Why kill a British soldier? Discernment of the other side's perspective comes later, and slowly. But the incomprehension – and yes, controlled anger – never fully fades. Nor should it; there were democratic alternatives to murder.
In that long, sanguinary conflict no single image emblematises. Yet one poignant photo stands out; a young officer on patrol in the Ardoyne, surrounded by children. Robert Nairac, progeny of a mixed Protestant and Catholic marriage, found an affinity for Ireland through an Irish school pal, going on to visit friends in Dublin and stay with a family in Connemara.
He read medieval history at Oxford, where he excelled in rugby and boxing. Angling was a favourite hobby, falconry too; a bird he kept in his room was used in the film Kes.
After graduating in 1971 he went to Sandhurst before joining the Grenadier Guards. A former guardsman in the same regiment recalled: 'He volunteered for Northern Ireland because he loved Ireland and thought he could make a difference. He interacted with the Irish community and genuinely believed peace should be brought back to Ireland.' The Provos called it British imperialism.
Aged 28, Captain Nairac, now working in intelligence, was on undercover duty in a pub in County Armagh, posing as an IRA member. Witnesses said he got up and sang a republican folk song with the pub band. Near closing time, he was set upon in the car-park. His George Cross citation reads:
'On the night of 14/15 May 1977 Nairac was abducted from a village in South Armagh by at least seven men. Despite his fierce resistance he was overpowered and taken across the border into the nearby Republic of Ireland where he was subjected to a succession of exceptionally savage assaults in an attempt to extract information which would have put other lives and future operations at serious risk. His assassin subsequently said, "I shot the British captain. He never told us anything. He was a great soldier." Captain Nairac's exceptional courage and acts of the greatest heroism in circumstances of extreme peril showed devotion to duty and personal courage second to none.'
Nairac's memory is revered in the Grenadier Guards; his portrait hangs in the officers' mess in Wellington Barracks. Perhaps creeping military wokification will put the emergence of future Nairacs in doubt, but for now his like still grace the armed forces, as more-recent conflicts testify.
The ex-guardsman said of Nairac, who would have turned 73 later this month: 'He was an officer and he led by example. He did not expect his men to do anything he would not do.' Somehow, we already knew.
The IRA never revealed the location of Nairac's grave. His parents went to theirs unable to say goodbye; the same fate awaits his two elderly sisters. Had that rite been granted, perhaps Shakespeare's words would have comforted:
'Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt . . . Your cause of sorrow / Must not be measured by his worth, for then / It hath no end.'
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Tomatito, nome artístico de José Fernández Torres (Almería, 1958) é um guitarrista de flamenco espanhol. Tendo iniciado a sua carreira acompanhando o famoso cantor flamenco Camarón de la Isla (com Paco de Lucía), ele fez uma série de álbuns colaborativos e seis álbuns solo, dois dos quais ganharam Grammy Latino.

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1987 - Rosas del amor
1991 - Barrio negro
1997 - Guitarra gitana
2000 - Spain (com Michel Camilo)
2001 - Paseo de los castaños
2004 - Aguadulce
2006 - Spain Again (com Michel Camilo)

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In light of the recent publication of the Snapshot of Today's Philanthropic Landscape, which contains data from Giving USA and other sources, several CCS Fundraising executives hosted a webinar to discuss the changing landscape of charitable giving in the US, and what organizations can do to prepare for the future. In this post, we recap some of the highlights of this presentation. The full recording can be accessed here.
How Did the Landscape Change?
Americans once again broke record by donating $427.71 billion to nonprofit organizations across the country and internationally. At the same time, giving from individuals decreased slightly to 68 percent of the total, which in 2017 was 70 percent. This change, coupled with concerns about the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, led to increased speculation that 2018 was a challenging year for philanthropy.
However, nothing could be further from the truth. On average, $1.1 billion was given for each day of 2018, which goes to show the enduring generosity of Americans. In fact, 2018 was a year of leveling off after the unusually high giving in the previous year. During the fourth quarter of 2017, charitable giving saw a tremendous increase, likely due to uncertainty surrounding the potential impact of the incoming tax law. This contributed to the already significant total, and led to 2017 being such a banner year for philanthropy.
As for where the funds are going, there were no significant changes in 2018. The top five sectors remain: religion, education, human services, foundations, and healthcare. But while the main priorities of Americans have not changed greatly, there were some minor shifts that could point to further change. The sectors that saw the largest increase were international causes and environmental/animal causes. This could be an indication of a larger presence of younger donors, as these causes tend to be more popular with younger generations. Other sectors saw flat growth or even declines, but this could simply be a result of donors doubling down in 2017 and now returning to previous levels of giving.
Current Unique Trends in Giving
Donor Demographics
From 2000 to 2014, giving decreased in every age group, which supports the overall trend that there are fewer donors giving to fewer organizations, but they are increasing the funds they give to those organizations. 83 percent of total giving is coming from 20 percent of the population, and only 1 percent of the population is providing 49 percent of total giving. This highlights the influence that high net worth donors have, as well as the need to create strategies around developing and maintaining relationships with them.
The Impact of Volunteers
Volunteering remains a great stewardship practice, as 80 percent of volunteers also donate. Gaining volunteers is a reliable method to not only acquire donors, but to also retain them, since they have experienced the impact of your mission. This is particularly important because volunteer rates went up nearly 24 percent between 2016 and 2018. From serving on a board to operating a food bank, there has been a general increase in volunteer activity across all generations.
A Shift in Giving Vehicles
A noteworthy change in 2018 was that, while individual giving decreased, giving by foundations saw a significant increase. Part of the reason for this is that major donors and high net worth individuals are directing more of their giving into vehicles like donor-advised funds and private family foundations. Giving to donor-advised funds alone has more than doubled between 2009 and 2016, and many speculate that the trend will increase. But there is reason for optimism here, because while the sources of giving may be shifting, the overall total is still rising. This means that the giving decisions are still being made by those major donors that so many organizations hope to reach and inspire.
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In closing, here are some things to keep in mind, both when you evaluate your organization now, and when you plan for your organization's future.
Relationships are very important, maybe now more than ever, to create meaningful engagement and to invite investment. Organizations can be overly reliant on mass communication methods without supplementing that approach with the one on one discussions that can make the difference.
If the majority of your support is coming from large donors who are aging, consider preparing for the future. What may be needed is support from more families who are mid-tier donors now, but could become large donors later in their lives.
Efficiency is an important metric for trust. Donors demand transparency, and presenting the efficiency of your organization is one way to gain that trust. Donors are increasingly sophisticated and should be treated in a way that respects their interest and time.
Now is the time to make your case and ensure that your organization is at the top of your donors' list of priorities. In order to achieve this, it is paramount that you find meaningful ways for donors to experience your mission.
It's competitive out there, so put effort into the things you can control: making donors feel like they made a difference by thanking them and being transparent with them. Make sure they understand your organization's vision and how their gift affects the mission.
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From an Oblique Angle
Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend
The Fire Ant Wars
The Forteans
Henry G Hoernlein as a Fortean
The Fortean the universe wants to remain hidden.
Why? There doesn't seem anything especially infernal about him. Dangerous. But he proved hard to find in the first place, the computer ate my write up of him—twice!—and destroyed another file that would allow me to track him through the pages of Doubt. Finally, my attempt to get a copy of his one short story was stymied by a terrible bookseller.
Nonetheless, I will tempt fate, and write him up again.
Henry Gus Hoernlein was born August 1915 in Baltimore. His father was also a Henry G—although in his case, the G stood for George—and his mother was Catherine. Catherine had immigrated from Germany when she was about three; Henry George's parents had also come from Germany, but Henry George was born in Maryland. By 1920, Henry Gus had two younger brothers, William and Vernon. The family was supported by Henry George's steelwork. I cannot find the Hoernleins in the 1930 census, but according to Hoernlein's own later account, the 1930s were hard on the family, and they survived only on welfare—which they reproached and forced the younger Henry to fetch for the family. By 1940, the family had grown to include two sisters and another brother. Henry Gus was no longer at home, though.
In 1940, he was living as a boarder in Baltimore, employed, like his father, as a steelworker. He was married. His wife's name was Birdye, née Meyer in North Carolina on the 19th of July 1936. Her father, Joe, had been born in Germany; her mother was a native of the Bay State. In 1920, the family was in Washington, D.C.; back in Enfield, North Carolina, in 1930; presumably there in 1935, too. According to Birdye's social security application, she was living in Baltimore by December of 1936, working at Hochschild Kohn's, a department store.
Birdye, with her unusual name, is helpful in tracking Henry's later movements. Her name appears in records from Washington state, and newspaper articles also have a Birdie Hoernlein living near Seattle. As it happens, there is, too, a Henry Hoernlein in Renton.
Apparently, Henry had developed a talent for writing, for by the 1950s he was in advertising, for a time advertising and sales promotion supervisor with Sweden Freezer, then joining Trojan Lithograph in Renton. As with other Forteans, he also seems to have had an interest in fantastic literature. He read James Branch Cabell, for example—yet another Fortean fan of Cabell. A 1945 issue of Doc Savage includes a story by a Henry G. Hoernlein called "Letter Home." I have not seen it: I ordered a copy from an on-line bookstore, but never heard back from the seller. The year that story came out was around the time that he joined the Fortean Society. It was also around the time he suffered what he called a 'nervous breakdown' and was placed by thoughts of suicide. (These personal asides all came from a letter he had published in The Public Relations Journal.)
By this point, Hoernlein was well established in the white collar world, having started writing technical military manuals. Although his father had been in a union, and he had once been working class, he was leery of liberal impulses within the government, fearing a lurch toward totalitarianism. The Renton, Washington, city directories from the 1950s list Hoernlein as living alone. Apparently, he and Birdye had divorced, in the early 1950s, if not sooner—although 1951 would be in fitting with other changes in his life, a a new career, a leaving of the Fortean Society. Her name appears in a March 1964 issue of the Jewish Transcript, a Seattle newspaper, which raises the question of her religious beliefs. Likely she was born to a Jewish family, which further raises the probability that Henry Gus was also Jewish. Later in 1964, she married Kenneth S. Keesling in Seattle. Birdye would marry at least once more, Daniel Desjardins. She passed away in 2004.
Hoernlein had an extensive history with the Fortean Society. I had nailed it down pretty well, when the computer decided to eat the two files that contained the information and, also, their on-line back-ups, and then make inaccessible the back up on the external hard drive. Sigh. I think I can reconstruct most of the material, but only an exhaustive re-reading of Doubt would be certain to re-create the data I had compiled before. And it just wouldn't be worth it. But from what I was able to rescue, a portrait of Hoernlein's Forteanism does emerge.
Hoernlein was a frequent contributor—"old faithful," Thayer once called him—his name appearing in the pages of Doubt more than 60 times between 1944 and 1950, which classes him with the many Forteans who were in the 1940s, then dropped out with the coming of the new decade. Thayer mentioned him living in Seattle in 1945, which gives the latest possible date for his move from Baltimore. (1940 would be the earliest.) Also in 1945, he was in a three-way correspondence with Frederick Hehr and Don Bloch, both active and notable Forteans. They were supposed to be passing some thing among themselves, but what that thing was, I don't know. It is probably also not a coincidence that Hehr was once a sheet metal worker, too. Indeed, it may be that Hehr introduced Hoernlein to Forteanism, although Hoernlein's own reading in the pulps would have exposed him somewhat. However he came to Fort, Hoernlein made a study of him, and was able to quote him by July 1947.
Many of Hoernlein's contributions ran to the conventional—or, conventional for Forteans, at any rate. He sent in material on lake monsters; mysterious beasts; flaming lights in the sky; a 25-foot swan; the failure of a geophysical device for locating ore to find the missing bodies of two men; a weird stink in Seattle (which he personally attested to); gases escaping the supposedly extinct volcanoo at Crater Lake, Oregon; pyrotics; grapefruit-sized hail; a cloud that hovered over France for three weeks; rare whale sightings; a fish that short-circuited a telegraph pole, and a cat that did the same at a 24,000 volt substation in Los Cruces, New Mexico, without being killed; controversies over dinosaurs; a fish with a five-inch head, two-inch fins, and no body; unexplained blasts; a sinking Japanese island; an Australian cattle stampede that lasted for weeks; inexplicable earthquakes; fish falls; four-legged fish; lightning strikes; red tides;and several flying saucer reports.
This interest in the anomalous was paired with a skepticism of science. One of his early contributions was a column by astronomer J. Hugh Pruett, which tried to explained astronomical techniques, such as using gravitational theory to find the mass of Jupiter—but which only made Thayer (and presumably Hoernlein) apoplectic with what they saw as double-talk. Another clipping he sent in seemed to approve the claims of a French man that he could calculate faster than an electronic computer. (Thayer relayed a number of such stories.) Other clippings considered an asteroid so fast that, a scientist said, its speed could not be put in terms understandable by the lay public; contrasting reports about the size of an explosion on Mars; comets that might or might not be visible to the naked eye; Auguste Piccard, a French explorer Thayer often made sport of; and a celestial explosion astronomers noticed just by chance. He also contributed a clipping about an earthquake (or maybe not) in Niagara Falls that a scientist attributed to a natural movement of the earth—whatever that meant!
Unfortunately for Hoernlein, his poking fun at science—or science's popular accomplices, in the form of science writing, science fiction, and movies—revealed actual ignorance. Once he wrote in, "By now you have probably realized that I am not too bright. So—I don't mind exposing my ignorance farther. Re rocket ships. The boys, from Jules Verne on, keep telling us about 'initial velocity' required—roughly seven miles per second, I believe. This is all very lovely, and maybe you would have to go even faster to catch the moon, or Mars, or avoid one of Buck Rogers space-cyclones. But why the hell do they have to go so fast so soon? V-2's take off a helluva lot more slowly, judging by the movies, and still go up. Or does gravity get stronger as you go up higher? In short, why can't they start off like a V-2 and steadily increase velocity to an m.s. rate, instead of smacking everybody flat at takeoff? Hanh?" (Shades of Fortean Charles W. Ward, a Fortean engineer who was not convinced that the earth did not move.) The Fortean I.O. Evans set Hoernlein right in a later issue, and warned against using science fiction as a guide to actual science.
Science, though, was not Hoernlein's only bugaboo: as with many Forteans, his politics ran toward the left branch of libertarianism (which in practice often overlapped with some kinds of anarchism); he distrusted the powers-that-be in general. It may be of only incidental interest, but his father had served during World War I, and went to work with Bethlehem Ship Company for World War II, while I can find no records relating to his own military service: maybe he was also attracted to the Fortean Society's pacifist stand. The letter he wrote in Public Relations Journal had him worried over the growth of government, and upset that businesses were trying to demonize it with the term 'welfare state': Welfare state sounded good to people, especially after the Great Depression. He preferred the term 'bureaucratic state,' and feared the US was on the road to totalitarianism. His analysis was rooted, at least in part, in what he had learned from Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics.
His first contribution to Doubt was sending in the Emanuel M. Josephson's Your Life is Their Toy, which claimed to expose most medicine and medical advocacy—TB research, cancer studies, the March of Dimes—as various species of grifts. Thayer, who was a vocal proponent of the same liner of politics, loved these contributions: Thayer's idea Forteanism was political, an acid dissolving all forms of authority, not just science. Hoernlein sent in clippings about a scientist who said people should work more than forty hours per week, as the human body could withstand much more; a Harvard astronomer naming a comet after a Vatican employee; a report that the U.S. purposefully botched autopsies after the bombing of Nagasaki; a baby that died five days after being seen by a doctor—but the coroner said the doctor did nothing wrong; a California proposal to make the reading of the Bible mandatory in schools; the boon missionaries gave to textile companies by encouraging modesty in those to whom they preached.
He was most acute in his attack on chemical pesticides, and the ironies of their use. (Presumably, the story about autopsies in Nagasaki implied that authorities wanted another chemical to seem safer than it was—nuclear fall-out.) He won first prize in Thayer's modk contest for a story about he U.S. spraying DDT over Kobe, Japan, to stop the spread of sleeping sickness. Swallows were supposedly one of the vectors of the disease—and yet the same paper that reported on the spraying also celebrated the arrival of swallows in Seattle, the birds coming back every year for the past five, as though Seattle was another Capistrano. He won first prize again for a related story. Scientists noticed that flies were developing resistance to DDT—but that the resistance could be stopped with pepper. Thayer acerbically concluded, "So—catch your fly, sprinkle him with extract of pepper, THEN dose him with DDT and he's a goner." It was an early example of what would come to be known as the pesticide treadmill, each problem caused by a chemical solved by another, and another.
Like many outsiders, Hoernlein positioned himself as a speaker of common sense: he wasn't a scientist, didn't have a scientist's credentials, probably wasn't even as smart as a scientist, but he had clear sight. That clear sight led him wrong—as in the case of his commentary on rockets—and it also led him to question other Forteans, although more sympathetically than scientists and politicians. Doubt 21 had published an essay by Ernest W. Brady, "Metaphysics Becomes Magic," which, in high-falutin' language, laid out A Kantian argument for taking metaphysics seriously. Hoernlein's response came in Doubt 26—wrestling not just with Brady, but the philosophical inclinations of many Forteans. He acknowledged that at times he could be led astray by his own thinking; and needed to alloy his (over-)analysis with a rejection of abstractions.
"Just received DOUBT #21 . . . and read it promptly . . . and found myself disturbed by MFS Brady and his his metaphysics. The way it looks to me, Brady's beating a path through the tough part of the jungle. He's a good man gone astray: only a good man could go so far astray. Why is it that these good minds keep getting lost in the Cloudcuckooland of multi ordinal abstracts? I've done the same myself, many times, and for many years . . . even with Fort to keep me straight."
Hoernlein found an answer to his question in General Semantics—which, apparently, he had come to through reading the science fiction author A. E. Van Vogt. As he read Korzybski and General Semantics, the brain's main function was interpreting stimuli and arranging them into patterns. "And the 'good mind' abstracts to much: it develops abstracts from abstracts and keeps on wildly stewing in its own juices without attempting to co-relate the developed patterns to limitations of the organism itself, and to unverbalized assumptions all the way down to the engram level" He wasn't convinced his theory was true, but it was the best he was "capable of at the moment . . . and methodology based on this theory seems to be working out, to the better functioning of this organism I call 'me.'"
Hoernlein's perspective—as a novice semanticist—allowed him to see errors, large and small, in Brady's Forteanism (and, presumably, the Forteanism of others inclined to philosophize abstractly). First, he mentioned that no one could understand Brady because he cited so many different philosophers—in terms of General Semantics, there were no referents. The biggest error, Hoernlein said, was that Brady smuggled religion back into the discussion, referring to a giant magician trying to become self-conscious as the motor of history. "Great flying discs, what a world of unverbalized assumptions . . . Brother Brady here differs no more from conventional 'religious' mythology than Communism differs from Capitalism. Communism offers no new concepts: it merely offers a different slant on the same concepts. Questions of degree, not kind."
There was yet another layer of irony, though—that for all their very different approaches to the problem of existence, Hoernlein and Brady were not so different themselves: "The hell of it is, I think Brother Brady and I would be in general agreement if only he would iron the orthodoxy out of his views, and then communicate in terms I can understand." Hoernlein recommended—to Brady, and others like him—"read Chase, Hayawaka and Kouzybski. Not once: but several times. Then try again. And better luck next time."
The letter, in concert with Hoernlein's other activities, gives us a lot of insight into his thinking, at least during the late 1940s, those strange days after the end of World War II. It is safe to say that Hoernlein was not—as he called himself—"a stupe"—though he did have areas of ignorance (as do we all) and wasn't afraid to try to score points based on his ignorance. He read, he thought, he worked hard, moving from the working class to the white-collar world. He had a philosophy of life, and he tested it against the world. That sounds pretty smart to me.
And Fort was a central part of that philosophy, again at least in this period of his life. There is a reason that Korzybski's General Semantics appealed to so many Forteans and science fiction writers—it made some of the same points, that the categories with which humans think are constructed and unreliable. They should be challenged. Korzybski was not skeptical like Fort, though, certain that a science could be founded discovering the best way to think and talk. Fort not so much. Hoernlein tacked between these two impulses. He questioned authority, viewed politicians and scientists with a jaundiced eye, posed problems that they could not solve. And all of this, apparently, was done to counteract his own tendencies to create abstract theories: he wanted to stay grounded. At least in the letter, he suggests that it was Fort keeping him the most grounded. He had adopted Korzybski and his General Semantics as a kind of lodestone, but was skeptical enough to admit the theories might not be right—they just worked for him.
Hoernlein continued to contribute to The Fortean Society for a while after his letter, but not much longer. His last contribution came in 1951. And there's a final mystery there. That year was also when he switched job, going from advertising—to writing military manuals. It is a long distance between reading Fort, studying Korzybski, and questioning the legitimacy of all authority—to writing military manuals. Perhaps he compartmentalized, and only dropped out of the Fortean Society because he was newly busy, or lost contact when his life was disrupted. Perhaps he had tired of all those recourses to Cloudcuckooland among the Forteans—but even then, why write for the military? Perhaps there was some radical break in his thinking. I don't know. It's a mystery.
I can find no records relating to Hoernlein after the mid-1950s, and those are only listings in the city directory. He died in Oregon on 28 August 1972. He was 57.
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A note about Cabell: At the time, he was quite popular, and sanctified by all the major critics. He was seen as a major novelist, not as a fantasy writer. Even Mencken championed him! I suspect a fondness for Cabell may be due more to the period than to an affinity for Fort...
Josh Buhs
Doug, You're almost certainly right; I still find it an interesting red thread.
Dina Holscher
I am Henry Hoernlein's neice. I would love to know anything else you may know about him. Please email me.
Thank you, Dina
Joshua Buhs
Hi, Dina!
This is everything that I was able to find out about Henry Hoernlein. Sorry--but hope something here was useful for you.
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Last name: Bravey
Recorded as Brave, Bravey, Bravy, Bravery, Bravo and Bravi, this unusual surname is English, but of probably Spanish or Portuguese and ultimately Roman (Latin) origins. If so then it was probably introduced into the British Isles during the medieval period when links between England and Portugal were very close. The literal meaning is "one who is fierce", and as such it was probably a descriptive nickname for a soldier or sailor. The development is from the word "bravo", the modern spelling being a form of patronymic or diminutive implying son of Bravo, or Little Bravo. There are a number of continental coats of arms for the surname in Spain, Italy and Holland. The name recordings in Britain include the following examples - Elizabeth Bravy christened at the church of All Hallows the Less, in the city of Londoon, on August 3rd 1578, John Brave, christened at St Botolpsh without Bishopgate, on July 15th 1608, John Bravey, who married Elizabeth Galle at St Mary le Bone, on April 10th 1694, Susannah Bravery who married Jonathan Greek at St. Dunstans in the East, Stepney, on August 27th 1760. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Another site that I've never seen before, or maybe never paid enough attention to it, here we go, GenYoutube.Net. According to alexa, this site has been around for a while and is most popular in India. It is on the verge of breaking into top 10k world's most used sites. Below is the traffic graph. We can see, that this site didn't get any extra traffic after youtube-mp3.org was shut down in mid October.
After submitting the video link and being presented with all the download options, the video is also shown, and it auto-plays.. This is 1 star off the final rating. Maybe even 2. Who wants to have their downloaded video to play? I've just seen it elsewhere, that's why i come to your site to download it now. i don't want video to be playin, i just saw it!!
Now the download options screen from step 4 below is seriously overcrowded. Again, if i wanted related videos section – i would have stayed on youtube and continued watching those videos there.. As for downloading, show me someone who wants webm audio format… Or video sized 240×160 or something.. who wants such small sizes?
After seeing this bunch, beginning to appreciate sites that start download after you submit the link, only offering 1 option for video, and 1 option for audio. Very easy and no confusion, no need to pick the right one, which later will be the wrong one.. etc..
Https is available, but is not functional. Site tries to load some scripts from none-https source. Google Chrome, the one i use most, really doesn't like it, and page that shows is seriously ugly and misshapen. Same goes for mobile https – very very unusable.. Needs a fix! This can be observed in tutorial steps 2 and 3 below.
Mp3 download was very slow, while video came directly from youtube, and download speed there was really fast. The only option that comes downloaded from their site is the mp3. Everything else is supplied by youtube video servers themselves..
for the tutorial, we're going to download this new NoCopyrightSounds release called Killabyte – Wicked Ways (feat. Danyka Nadeau). Please, never download any copyrighted materials, such as famous new songs or movie previews. It is against the Terms of Service that Google imposed on Youtube users.
Only download videos that you have the right to. Such as this NCS stuff. all of those videos have special mp3 download links in them anyways… So we can proceed downloading this video safely and legally, or rather its audio. or both.
as I've talked about it, this video auto plays and page has all the youtube attributes – comments, description, related videos, everything.. WHYYYYY???
As you've seen in the review above, this site, while without nasty ads or popups (again maybe because of script not loaded ads weren't shown). It is very unfinished, bad user experience, download options are too much, making one cowe under pressure… https is there but broken. Video starts playing automatically with download options shown,, Very unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest… 2 stars from savetube editor.
If you're looking for youtube mp3 converter, try y2mate or ytmp3.cc, very easy to use and clean design. Same goes for video downloads, nothing beats keepvid or savefrom there. Do not use GenYoutube.net!
The video downloads not actually working on chrome I prefer use https://ytfrog.com instead.


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'He is failing': Putin's approval rating slides as Covid-19 grips Russia
Backseat president announces easing of lockdown on day of record high infection numbers
Vladimir Putin during a video conference with Russian government officials. Photograph: Alexei Nikolsky/Tass
Mon 11 May 2020 13.06 EDT Last modified on Wed 1 Jul 2020 12.28 EDT
A day of record high coronavirus infection numbers is an odd time to announce a route out of lockdown, but that is what Vladimir Putin did on Monday as he announced that the "non-working days" imposed by the Kremlin at the end of March would come to an end from Tuesday.
"We have a long and difficult process ahead of us with no room for mistakes," said Putin by video link from his residence outside Moscow on a day when the country registered more than 11,000 new infections. Russia now has the second fastest rate of infections in the world after the US. The prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, is among those in hospital with the virus.
Rather than an invitation to Russians to stream back into the streets, however, Monday's announcement seemed to be the latest gambit in Putin's plan to delegate responsibility for tackling the crisis to local leaders, who he said would make their own decisions on when to end lockdown.
Certainly, Russia's vast size means there is little point in lockdown restrictions in Vladivostok being tied to the epidemic growth seven timezones away in Moscow. But the health minister, Tatiana Golikova, later clarified that so far only 11 of Russia's 85 regions had an epidemiological situation that could allow for a loosening of restrictions, making Putin's announcement look to some like passing the buck.
"This is abdication of responsibility, the architect of Russia's hyper-presidential system suddenly discovering local authorities when it is convenient," said Mark Galeotti, a Russia analyst and author of a book on Putin. "Putin is giving them the responsibility to fight the pandemic without the funds or the powers."
Putin has rarely shone in crisis management, something noted as far back as the sinking of the Kursk submarine 20 years ago during his first months in office, and this one appears no different.
Since donning a yellow hazmat suit to visit coronavirus patients back in March, Putin has been largely confined to his residence, where he appears by video link to address the nation and cabinet. Russians who are used to seeing their president atop a horse or motorbike instead see a static-screen Putin who often seems bored.
Putin attends a meeting on the transport system development via video. Photograph: Alexei Nikolsky/AP
Last week he was spotted distractedly playing with a pen as his health minister discussed the regional response with him. On Monday Putin again looked less than enthusiastic as he simultaneously addressed the nation and his government. On several occasions he let out audible sighs in mid-sentence.
The virus is asking hard questions of the Kremlin and the political system constructed by Putin over the past two decades.
"Putin's detached initial response to the spread of the coronavirus outbreak was at least partly a result of his staff's tendency to sanitise information and to portray events in the most optimistic light possible. Putin's staff reports about its achievements, not problems," wrote Tatiana Stanovaya in a recent report for the Carnegie Moscow Centre.
Coronavirus has also disrupted plans for a vote on constitutional amendments that would have paved the way for Putin to rule until 2036. That was set for April, but instead he has found himself up against a pernicious, frustrating and invisible foe, and seen his approval ratings slide.
"This is arguably the most serious challenge to Putin as national leader in the 20 years he has been in power, and he is failing it," said Galeotti.


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« Field Hockey Playoffs: Wednesday, October 24 | Scoreboard: Thursday, October 25 »
Field Hockey: Playoff Outlook
Emily Kenul (left) of Sherwood and Anna Galeano (right) of Blake may meet again in the 4A South regional final.
Sherwood (14-0) will host Richard Montgomery (3-8) at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday in the regional quarterfinals. The Warriors scored the most goals in the county (75) while allowing the fewest (6), boasting a speedy high-powered offense led by junior forwards Emily Kenul and Gabrielle Yore and a stingy defense anchored by junior goalkeeper Christina Ricciuti. Sherwood did not allow a goal in its last six regular season games, outscoring opponents 39-0 over that time. Their toughest competition in the 4A South bracket should come from the Blake Bengals, who gave the Warriors a scare on September 22nd in a game Sherwood ultimately won, 3-2. Should the Warriors prevail in their region, a challenging state semifinal game would await against the survivor the tough 4A East region. Leonardtown, South River, Broadneck and defending champion Severna Park are all strong teams with legitimate hopes of taking the state title. Sherwood won championships in 1980 and 1985, but has not made it as far as the state semi-finals since then.
Blake (9-3) will host Springbrook (4-7-1) on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the regional quarterfinals. A 4-1 loss to Springbrook in the regional finals ended the Bengals season in 2011, but they are well positioned to exact revenge this year. Blake's offense is largely powered by Maryland lacrosse recruit Caroline Wannen, who had 13 goals and 13 assists in the Bengals' 12 games in the regular season. Fran Inman and Lillian Watkins added 10 goals each to balance out Blake's offensive attack.
4A West
Wootton (11-0-1) will host Clarksburg (6-7-1) at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday in the regional quarterfinals. The Patriots finished the regular season on an 11-game winning streak, the only blemish on their record being a season-opening tie against Springbrook in a game cut short by lightning. Wootton has never won a state championship, and made its only trip to the finals in 1978.
Walter Johnson (11-1) beat Gaithersburg 7-0 on Wednesday and will play either Churchill or Quince Orchard in the regional semifinals. The Wildcats' beat both teams in the regular season, each victory coming in double overtime. Their only loss was a 4-2 defeat to Wootton on September 11th. Walter Johnson won its only state field hockey championship in 1989.
Churchill (8-4) will host Quince Orchard (4-7-1) on Thursday at 4:00 p.m. in the regional quarterfinals. The Bulldogs got a strong offensive season from senior forward Jennifer Shim, while goalkeeper Melanie Maino and the Churchill defense allowed only 10 goals against in 12 regular-season games.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase (7-7) will host Northwest (5-7) at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday in the regional quarterfinals. The Barons topped the Jaguars 6-0 earlier in the season. B-CC lost the 2011 4A championship game to Severna Park, but have won 10 state titles in the past 20 years. They had a streaky regular season, at one point winning five straight games during which they outscored their opponents 23-0. Though the Barons ended up losing as many games as they won, they have a playoff-tested roster that still has the potential to make a run at the finals.
Watkins Mill (8-4) will host Thomas Johnson (2-10) at 5:15 p.m. on Thursday in the regional quarterfinals. The Wolverines made it as far as the regional semifinals last year before suffering a 9-0 loss to Urbana to end their season.
Poolesville (11-1) received a double-bye as the result of being the top seed in the lightly populated 2A West region, and will host either Wheaton or Walkerville in the regional semifinal round. Allie Greene paced a high-scoring offense as the Falcons opened the season with nine consecutive victories before suffering a 2-0 loss to Walter Johnson on October 10th. Poolesville lost last year's 2A championship game to Glenelg, and has been the state runner-up four times since their lone title in 2002.
Damascus (8-3) will host Seneca Valley (2-10) at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday in the regional quarterfinals. The two teams previously met on September 21st, with the Hornets winning, 9-0. Highlights of the 2012 regular season for Damascus included victories over 4A schools Northwest, Clarksburg and Blake. The Hornets fell to Poolesville in last year's regional final and have their sights set on a rematch.
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Horror PG,
PG, 1h 54m
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Strange and creepy happenings beset an average California family, the Freelings — Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Diane (JoBeth Williams), teenaged Dana (Dominique Dunne), eight-year-old Robbie (Oliver Robins), and five-year-old Carol Ann (Heather O'Rourke) — when ghosts commune with them through the television set. Initially friendly and playful, the spirits turn unexpectedly menacing, and, when Carol Ann goes missing, Steve and Diane turn to a parapsychologist and eventually an exorcist for help. Courtesy of Gracenote.
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'Cake Boss' star may never bake again after freak injury, more ICYMI celeb news
By Mark Gray 3:38pm PDT, Oct 2, 2020
"Cake Boss" star Buddy Valastro fears he may never be able to bake his elaborate cakes again following a gruesome hand injury. The hugely popular baker was recently hospitalized after he impaled his hand several times during an accident at his in-home bowling alley. "I have a thing with my hands. If I get a paper cut on my hand, I'm p***** off. My hands to me are my lifeline of everything I do," he told People magazine on Sept. 30. "And I wonder, 'Am I ever going to do what I used to be able to do?'" Due to the accident, which caused nerve, tendon and muscle damage, Buddy had multiple surgeries on his right hand — his dominant hand. There may be more in his future too. In discussing the incident with "Today," Buddy said, "I thought I was going to faint, I looked at my hand and there was blood everywhere and I was stuck, the rod going back and forth because the machine goes back and forth." He added, "Something told me to stay calm."
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Secret song drop
On Sept. 30, Demi Lovato stunned her own team when she leaked her own breakup song on Twitter. The abrupt release of "Still Have Me" sent her team into a frenzy. "Her team is scrambling to get the single on streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify so that fans can purchase it and streaming numbers can be collected," TMZ reported. The release of the song came a week after Demi ended her two-month engagement to actor Max Ehrich. "Music is always there for me…" Demi wrote on Twitter. Reports claim that the track was written a while ago but that the pop star changed the lyrics — which are rather heartbreaking — after her split. "I'm a mess and I'm still broken … I don't have much but at least I still have me … and that's all I need," she sings.
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Absolutely heartbreaking
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend suffered a family tragedy this week. On Sept. 30, the model and cookbook author announced that they'd lost their third child well into her pregnancy. "We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we've never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn't enough," she wrote in an Instagram post. "We never decide on our babies' names until the last possible moment after they're born, just before we leave the hospital. But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my belly Jack. So he will always be Jack to us. Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever." The sad news came following two blood transfusions the model received for severe bleeding. In a gut-wrenching tweet on Sept. 30, Chrissy wrote, "Driving home from the hospital with no baby. How can this be real."
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Voice heard
Talk about influence! On Sept. 28, Kylie Jenner posted two bikini photos to Instagram. At first glance, it looked like an attempt to seek praise. However, the caption made it clear her intentions were far different, as she encouraged her 196 million followers to register to vote and posted a link her bio to Vote.org's voter registration page. "Let's make a plan to vote together," the reality TV star said. Her post worked. The Instagram post sparked a 1,500% user increase to the voter registration site (compared to the previous day). Say what you want about Kylie, but that, ladies and gentlemen, is power!
Kevin Hart and wife Eniko Parrish welcomed their second child together on Sept. 29, she announced on Instagram. "thankful • grateful • blessed," she wrote. "A little bit of heaven sent down to earth..welcome to the world baby girl.. we couldn't love you more.." They named their little girl Kaori Mai. She joins the couple's toddler son, Kenzo, and Kevin's two children from a previous marriage.
Living situation
Naya Rivera's ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, is denying rumors that he and the late "Glee" star's younger sister, Nickayla Rivera, are dating months after Naya's tragic drowning death. Romance speculation emerged after reports confirmed that the two are now living together as Nickayla helps the actor raise his and Naya's 5-year-old son, Josey. The living situation, Ryan said, was arranged at Josey's request. "She's now the closest thing that he has to a mom," Ryan said on Instagram. "Because you're going to need all the help you get as a single parent, trying to build your career, and navigate this disaster with your child. You deal with it every hour of every day for 80-plus days now." Ryan denied that anything romantic is happening between him and the model and blamed the media for "creating such absurd narratives" and "trying to create false realities." Nickayla also defended their move. "I'm not concerned with the way things look because no one can see each agonizing moment we all endure," she wrote on Instagram. "What matters most I've learned, is to show compassion, not to judge others, & never take a moments of life for granted. I hope you all can do the same."
Lawsuit denial
This week, Kris Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian were hit with a lawsuit from a former security guard who alleged the momager made unwanted sexual advances toward him. Kourtney was named in the lawsuit for essentially retaliating against the man. The women, via their attorney, have called the lawsuit "fabricated and false fiction." The accuser, Marc McWilliams, claims he was subjected to "a pattern of unwanted and unwelcome sexual advances and other harassing misconduct" from Kris in 2017. She also made unprofessional comments of "an overt sexual nature," he said. The reality TV star's attorney denies any wrongdoing. "Kris had very little interaction with him. After the guard was repeatedly caught sleeping in his car while on the job, the security company was asked not to assign him to work there in the future," the attorney said. "Although Kourtney is named in the suit, she is not accused of doing anything improper with the guard, nor did she do so… It is outrageous that anyone can sue anyone in America and believe there is no recourse when pursuing fictional and meritless claims."
Baby bliss
Hey, mama! On Sept. 30, Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth "Zoo" Petty, welcomed their first child, multiple reports indicated. TMZ broke the news that the rapper delivered her baby in Los Angeles. People magazine later confirmed it. Kenneth was with Nicki when she gave birth.
Hollywood reacts to news President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have COVID-19
Dozens of comedians, actors and other Hollywood stars took to social media on Oct. 2 in the hours after President Donald Trump confirmed he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 to share their reactions. "I don't get how Melania got it – she's been social distancing from trump since they got married," comedian Whitney Cummings cracked on Twitter. Comedy star and real-life medical doctor Ken Jeong tweeted, "DON'T DENY THE SCIENCE!!!!!!!" Comedian Billy Eichner was incredulous, tweeting, "He went to a fundraiser with his own supporters without a mask knowing he was exposed. I can't get over it." Actress Alyssa Milano — a noted Trump critic — made it clear she was not happy he was infected with the coronavirus. "As someone who has had #COVID19 and still suffers from post-covid syndrome," she wrote on social media, "I can honestly say with all that I am that I wouldn't wish this virus on my worst enemy. Please wear a mask." In the early evening of Oct. 2, POTUS was airlifted to the hospital, where he planned to be for several days.
Not so "Pretty" response
While everyone knows that Jason Alexander starred on "Seinfeld," it's his role in "Pretty Woman" that left a mark on him… literally. Jason this week said he was slapped by strangers after his villainous role in the 30-year-old film. "Women hated me. I would walk down the street and women would say mean things to me," Jason said on the "At Home with the Creative Coalition" podcast. "I got punched many times, I got spit on by one woman. It was a rough year." The role was Jason's big break in Hollywood."It was an odd way to meet a national audience because I was known around the world as the a****** that tried to [sexually assault] Julia Roberts," he said.
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Up Next Golden Bday


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Naturaleza es el nombre de una serie filatélica emitida por la Sociedad Estatal Correos y Telégrafos de España entre los años 2002 y 2009, dedicada a los principales espacios naturales de la geografía española. En total fueron puestos en circulación 14 sellos en 8 fechas de emisión diferentes.

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Series filatélicas de España


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    channel.py

    :copyright: (c) 2015 by Fulfil.IO Inc.
    :license: see LICENSE for more details.
"""
from trytond.pool import PoolMeta
from trytond.model import fields

__all__ = ['Channel']
__metaclass__ = PoolMeta

def submit_to_google(url, data):
    import requests
    import json

    return requests.post(
        url,
        data=json.dumps(data),
        headers={
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            'Authorization': 'Bearer ya29.5AE7v1wOfgun1gR_iXwuGhMnt8nPNbT4C-Pd39DUnsNGb9I6U5FQqRJXNyPb3a0Dk1OWzA',  # noqa
        }
    )

class Channel:
    __name__ = "sale.channel"

    website = fields.Many2One('nereid.website', 'Website', select=True)

    @classmethod
    def upload_products_to_google_merchant(cls):
        pass

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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