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Top MLB Prospects Hot Sheet (9/3/19)
Joey Bart (Photo by Zach Lucy/Four Seam)
By BA Staff
Welcome back to the final Hot Sheet of the regular season, which ranks the 20 hottest prospects from the previous week. This installment of the Prospect Hot Sheet considers what minor league players did from Aug 26-Sept. 2. Contributing this week were Josh Norris, J.J. Cooper, Kyle Glaser and Ben Badler.
Remember, this simply recognizes what the hottest prospects in the minors did in the past week—it's not a re-ranking of the Baseball America Top 100 Prospects.
1. Joey Bart, C, Giants
Team: Double-A Richmond (Eastern)
Why He's Here: .538/.571/.885 (14-for-26), 5 R, 4 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 6 RBIs, 2 BB, 5 SO
The Scoop: The Giants' top prospect put an exclamation point on his season with an extremely strong finish to his brief tenure at Double-A Richmond. He produced an .868 OPS in August, which included four of his 16 homers in his first full season as a pro. He might not have any 80-grade tools on his card, but Bart has a plethora of pluses that should lead him to become the Giants' long-term answer at catcher. (JN)
2. Roansy Contreras, RHP, Yankees
Team: Low Class A Charleston (South Atlantic)
Why He's Here: 2-0, 0.75, 12 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 14 SO
The Scoop: The Yankees shuffled a great deal of pitching talent through low Class A Charleston this year, and Contreras put together a stellar season in his first extended taste of full-season ball. He shows poise and pitchability in a three-pitch mix, fronted by a low- to mid-90s fastball and backed by a pair of average or better offspeed pitches. He was particularly nasty in the second half, when he went 7-2, 2.21 with 63 strikeouts against 18 walks 69.1 innings. (JN)
3. Tyler Nevin, 1B, Rockies
Team: Double-A Hartford (Eastern)
The Scoop: Nevin ended a trying season on a high note, homering in four straight games in the early portion of the week and going 2-for-5 in the season finale. Nevin's surge pushed his final season line to .251/.345/.399. Most importantly, he avoided the injured list during the season for the first time in his career. (KG)
4. Bryan Mata, RHP, Red Sox
Team: Double-A Portland (Eastern)
The Scoop: Mata allowed his only two runs of the week in his first start again Binghamton, and he followed that up with seven scoreless frames against New Hampshire. While his walks are concerning, Mata pitched with confidence. He attacked hitters with his fastball while working to his secondary offerings to draw some swings and misses along the way. (JC)
5. Zac Lowther, LHP, Orioles
Team: Double-A Bowie (Eastern)
Why He's Here: 0-0, 0.75, 2 GS, 12 IP, 8 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 17 SO
The Scoop: Lowther's deception and seemingly invisible fastball continue to work, level after level. He finishes the 2019 season with a career 2.26 ERA, and his Double-A line (2.55 ERA, 102 hits in 148 innings, 63 walks, 154 strikeouts) remains impressive. At some point Lowther's lack of a true plus pitch may start to bite him, but he's running out of challenges where that may prove true. He's ready for Triple-A and could pitch in Baltimore in 2020. (JJ)
6. David Peterson, LHP, Mets
Team: Double-A Binghamton (Eastern)
Why He's Here: 0-0, 0.00, 6 2/3 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 10 SO
The Scoop: Peterson spun a gem in his final start of the season for Double-A Binghamton. The lefthander needed 88 pitches to make his way through 6.2 innings before making his exit. He got ahead of hitters early in counts and was able to put them away with relative ease, striking out two batters in four different innings. (JC)
7. Shawn Dubin, RHP, Astros
Team: High Class A Fayetteville (Carolina)
The Scoop: He's old for the level (he'll turn 24 this week), but Dubin's finish to the 2019 season is well worth noticing. Dubin allowed four hits and two walks in his final 18 innings of the regular season while holding his opponents scoreless. He struck out 25 batters over that same span. Dubin is rail-thin but has an extremely fast arm. He pumps mid-90s fastballs (touching higher) and has started to figure out how to control a nasty, hard slider that can start over the plate before diving out of the zone. Like most Astros minor leaguers, he also throws a curveball with more 12-to-6 break. (JJ)
8. Brian Mundell, 1B, Rockies
Team: Triple-A Albuquerque (Pacific Coast)
The Scoop: Mundell notched a hit in seven of his final eight games to cap the regular season, including a pair of home runs to push him into double digits. Mundell hit .333 on the year, but his 11 home runs in the high altitude of Albuquerque with the Triple-A ball soured evaluators on his power potential. Still, Mundell's natural hitting ability may get him to the majors, regardless. (KG)
9. Brady Singer, RHP, Royals
Team: Double-A Northwest Arkansas (Texas)
Why He's Here: 2-0, 1.29, 14 IP, 12 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 13 SO
The Scoop: Singer spun back-to-back gems for Double-A Northwest Arkansas, allowing exactly one earned run and six hits across each start. In his first start against Double-A Midland, Singer had his strikeout stuff working early before getting key ground ball outs to navigate his way through seven innings. His second start was a makeup from a contest on June 23, and he ended up throwing a seven-inning complete game. Singer's control was on point, throwing pitches in and around the strike zone while forcing hitters to swing the bat. (JC)
10. Evan White, 1B, Mariners
Team: Double-A Arkansas (Texas)
Why He's Here: .389/.500/.778 (7-for-18), 4 R, 1 2B, 0 3B, 2 HR, 5 RBIs, 3 BB, 4 SO
The Scoop: After entering pro ball with a reputation as a sterling defender, White has spent all of this season proving his skill set is well-rounded. He spent the entire season with Double-A Arkansas, where he produced an .838 OPS that ranked fourth in the league. He hit 18 home runs as well, which tied him for third on the circuit. White and the Travelers enter the Texas League playoffs with a bulk of the Mariners' now-enviable core of prospects. (JN)
11. Jeter Downs, SS/2B, Dodgers
Team: Double-A Tulsa (Texas)
Why He's Here: .310/.355/.759 (9-for-29), 9 R, 1 2B, 4 HRs, 6 RBIs, 1 BB, 7 SO
The Scoop: A late-season promotion to Double-A hasn't slowed Downs, who hit .333/.429/.688 in 12 games in the Texas League. Downs will probably return there to open 2020, and with the Dodgers having Corey Seager at shortstop and Gavin Lux now arriving to join him in the middle infield, there isn't any rush for the team to push Downs. (BB)
12. Luis Garcia, RHP, Astros
The Scoop: At this moment, there are three well-regarded Luis Garcias climbing through the minors. Coming into the year, Luis Heibardo Garcia, the Astros pitcher, was the least well-known of the three (Phillies shortstop Luis Jose Garcia and Nationals shortstop Luis Victoriano Garcia came into the year in the Top 100). But Luis H. Garcia is quickly catching up to them thanks to the typical Astros pitcher arsenal (fastball, slider, curveball and changeup). Garcia struck out nearly 15 batters per nine innings for Fayetteville this season. (JJ)
13. Taylor Trammell, OF, Padres
Team: Double-A Amarillo (Texas)
Why He's Here: .429/.529/.786 (12-for-28), 8 R, 2 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR, 5 RBIs, 5 BB, 9 SO, 0-for-2 SB
The Scoop: From a scouting perspective, the components are all in place for Trammell to be successful. There's quality bat speed, a short stroke from the left side and a good eye for the strike zone. He's athletic, a plus-plus runner and flashes the raw power in batting practice to put balls into the second deck. Yet he also ends 2019 with an underwhelming .234/.340/.349 slash line. Trammell is still an exciting prospect, but 2020 will be a critical one for him to show his talents translate into performance now that he's in the upper levels. (BB)
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14. Griffin Conine, OF, Blue Jays
Team: Low Class A Lansing (Midwest)
Why He's Here: .346/.485/.731 (9-for-26), 9 R, 4 2B, 2 HR, 8 RBIs, 6 BB, 9 SO
The Scoop: In just 80 games, Conine slugged 22 home runs in the pitcher-friendly Midwest League. A 2018 second-round pick out of Duke, Conine should be punishing that level, though his 36 percent strikeout leaves a bright red flag he will have to address in 2020. (BB)
15. Anthony Misiewicz, LHP, Mariners
Team: Triple-A Tacoma (Pacific Coast)
Why He's Here: 1-0, 0.82, 11 IP, 11 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 15 SO, 1 HR
The Scoop: Misiewicz struggled like many other pitchers in the Pacific Coast League this year, but he figured out the formula for success late. Misiewicz went 3-0, 1.56 in six starts over the final month of the season, capped by a six inning, 10-strikeout performance at Las Vegas on Aug. 31. Misiewicz kicked up his aggressiveness and tempo this year, and as a result finally made it to Triple-A after three seasons of topping out in Double-A. (KG)
16. Trevor Larnach, OF, Twins
Team: Double-A Pensacola (Southern)
Why He's Here: .417/.517./583 (10-for-24), 5 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBIs, 5 BB, 6 SO
The Scoop: Even with a .619 OPS in April, Larnach recovered to hit a combined .309/.384/.458 between two levels in his first full season, an encouraging sign for the 2018 first-round pick out of Oregon State. He's a potential above-average regular in a corner outfield spot, with a chance to make his major league debut in the second half of next year. (BB)
17. Julio Rodriguez, OF, Mariners
Team: High Class A Modesto (California)
The Scoop: One of the most gifted players in the minor leagues, Rodriguez was slowed this year only by a broken hand that cost him a good portion of the regular season. When he was healthy, he showed off the gifts that make him one of the two tentpoles in the Mariners' system. He's hit for average and power, gotten on base and showed off enough skills in the outfield to make him an asset on both sides of the ball. He will be a must-watch in the Arizona Fall League. (JN)
18. Will Stewart, LHP, Marlins
Team: High Class A Jupiter (Florida State)
Why He's Here: 1-0, 0.00, 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 9 SO, 0 HR
The Scoop: Stewart's first season with the Marlins after coming over in the J.T. Realmuto trade was largely disappointing, but he found his footing at the end. Stewart pitched eight innings at Lakeland on Aug. 21 and followed up with seven scoreless innings against Tampa in his final start of the year. Evaluators who saw Stewart this year largely did not view him as a future major leaguer, but his finish to the season was at least a step into the right direction. (KG)
19. Connor Wong, C, Dodgers
Why He's Here: .520/.571/1.080 (13-for-24), 4 R, 2 2B, 4 HR, 12 RBIs, 3 BB, 6 SO
The Scoop: Take a look at the Dodgers' farm system, remember how many player development success stories they have had in recent years, glance at just how many potential catchers they are developing and it's fair to wonder if the rest of the National League is just battling to keep up. Los Angeles is about to win its seventh consecutive NL West title. It's a favorite to make it to its third consecutive World Series. And when you look at how many players like Wong the Dodgers have on the way, it's likely they will remain battling for titles for years to come. (JJ)
20. Joey Wentz, LHP, Tigers
Team: Double-A Erie (Eastern)
Why He's Here: 0-0, 2.53, 10 2/3 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 15 SO
The Scoop: While Wentz did see some traffic on the bases, he managed to allow just three runs across his two starts. He struck out five batters in his first start, and then collected 10 in his second outing thanks to swing-and-miss stuff late in counts. His ability to command his fastball for strikes and feel for a plus changeup allow him to pour in strikes and keep his team in the game. (JC)
Pedro Martinez, 2B, Cubs
The Cubs aggressively assigned Martinez to the short-season Northwest League, and he responded with an excellent half-season. He showed on-base skills in the typically college-heavy league, and the team believes he has the ceiling to produce power and speed as he develops. (JN)
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Great night of Jammin Trivia at Buffalo Wild Wings. Had a lot of teams playing tonight and several lead changes. Team Tubby ended up winning overtaking the leader for most of the night Better With Bacon. See you all next week!


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The Coming Age of Cathedrals
by John J. Reilly January 1997
I rarely have occasion to walk through Times Square in Manhattan, so I found myself somewhat taken aback by how much it had improved when I walked through there one morning last summer. It was still noisy and crowded, of course, but surprisingly clean, with many new facades. If any of the stores specialized in pornography, they were discreet about it. Hustlers and pimps did not lurk under the eaves of storefronts. There was a policeman or security guard on every other corner. If Ridley Scott's dark, dystopic film Blade Runner is the popular image of the future American city, here seemed to be a city evolving in a different direction.
I was in Manhattan to see Richard Landes, a medievalist from Boston University and an authority on the year 1000. With the year 2000 getting closer, this previously obscure subject is becoming increasingly topical, and we were meeting to talk about several of the academic projects that are in the works in connection with the upcoming turn of the millennium. But as we talked, I began to think that his ideas about the eleventh century may have a great deal to do with the once and future Times Square.
It was perhaps the nineteenth-century historian Jules Michelet who was most responsible for popularizing the idea of the "terrors of the year 1000." Contemporary or nearly contemporary chronicles of the period describe the people of Western Europe as living in an agony of apocalyptic expectation. There are accounts of civil disturbances, of grotesque acts of mass public repentance, of popular prophets and their crazed followers.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, however, historians had begun to realize the flaws in this picture. While terror-filled accounts do turn up in some literature from the period, they do not dominate it, and Western Europe in the decades following the year 1000 did not generally act like a society paralyzed by fear of the imminent end of the world or disappointed by the failure of its eschatological schedule. The eleventh century saw the great cathedrals begun and the crusades launched, following decades of increasing contact with Byzantium and the Levant. Western Christendom was an expanding, curious, inventive society-which is perhaps the chief reason historians generally believe that the "terrors of the year 1000" existed largely in the minds of nineteenth-century Romantics like Michelet.
Well, maybe not. Landes and other medievalists are taking a third look at the primary sources and finding both more and less in them than did their predecessors. It is true that nothing catastrophic happened to society around the beginning of the second millennium. On the other hand, it is not hard to find discussion about questions of universal eschatology in the writings of the period. Evidence of popular interest in these questions is fragmentary, but it is there. More accessible is the scholarly debate that arose about when the age might be expected to end.
Landes believes he detects a preference among writers of the period for Augustine's model of history, which downplays the catastrophic and revolutionary. Augustine, in most interpretations, preserved the events of the Endtime depicted in Revelation and the Prophets as literal expectations for the indefinite future. However, he was very wary of attempts to discern eschatological significance in the events of secular history. The proper Augustinian reaction to millenarian enthusiasm, particularly enthusiasm sparked by calendrical considerations, is thus to declare the time of the end to be unknowable. What many of the authorities around the year 1000 did, however, was to quibble about chronology. Accepting the old thesis that the world would last six thousand years, they answered doom-mongers with estimates for the age of the world that put the beginning of the seventh millennium a comfortable distance into the future. Such arguments were not always wholly convincing, and they had the disadvantage of leaving time bombs for later Augustinians. (The excitement about the year 1000 was perhaps a time bomb planted by Augustine himself.) Whether by accident or design, however, their immediate effect was to channel millenarian excitement into socially constructive paths.
There is a great deal more to Augustinian eschatology, however, than the suppression of enthusiasms. Augustine is sometimes called "the father of progress," and though this view can be exaggerated, his model of time is certainly a basic template on which ideas about history as progress can form. Augustinian history need not be progressive, but it can be. It has, in fact, a predilection to be under certain circumstances. What distinguishes the Augustinian view of time is its ability to impart meaning to favorable historical trends.
Although the idea of historical progress has received its share of derision in recent years, the fact is that many facets of history, and even whole historical eras, really are progressive. Population and economic output in certain parts of the world often rise steadily for a long time. New arts and sciences appear and are perfected over the course of a few centuries. Western Christendom at the turn of the first millennium, however, may have been the first society to give historical meaning to "progress" by undertaking great social enterprises terminating only at a horizon of unguessable distance. The medieval cathedrals and crusades may be symbols of a wider cultural assumption that social development can be a moral enterprise, perhaps even a morally necessary enterprise. Augustine may have hoped for no more than that the Vandals would go away and future emperors would be more edifying. But he hoped with good reason, for his view of time is the only one on which the foundations for the great cathedrals could be laid.
Whatever the validity of these reflections with respect to the eleventh century, this interpretation of Augustine is alive and well and being expounded from the throne of St. Peter. John Paul II's 1994 encyclical on the celebration of the millennium, Tertio Millennio Adveniente , can hardly be described as a millenarian document. Nevertheless, it looks forward to the turn of the century as far more than an obvious occasion for historical commemoration. The Pope anticipates that the beginning of the next millennium will be a time of novel significance in the history of salvation. The encyclical puts the Second Vatican Council into perspective as a providential event whose true significance was to prepare for this new era. The specifics of the document are concerned with how the Church should ready herself to take advantage of these coming opportunities.
If in fact the next century is another time of constructive hope in progress, future historians may see this transformation as in part a reaction to the dark images of the future that have prevailed since the 1960s. While the sixties were a time of exhilaration for the young, we should not forget that one of the tenets of the counterculture of that era was also the coming collapse of civilization. William Irwin Thompson reported in his still-interesting 1971 book At the Edge of History that the San Francisco hippies in the summer of 1967 devoutly expected the end of civilization in a catastrophic chain of earthquakes or the arrival of flying saucers. But they were not alone. The leaders of what would become the New Age Movement confidently anticipated salutary effects from the breakdown of American society, which they called a "broken-back" technocracy. Afterward, they believed, a new spiritual age would emerge.
The hope for a new spiritual age has waxed and waned, but the expectation of a future with a broken back has shown a quarter century of resilience. Examples of it can be found from before the 1970s, of course. It is related to "post-apocalypse" stories, of which H. G. Wells' novel The Shape of Things to Come (1933) may be the classic example. And yet, while many of these older stories, including Wells', are about the rebuilding of civilization, the stories of the broken-back future are about civilization's progressive darkening, often with social chaos coexisting with high technology. Among the genre's prominent literary exponents are Doris Lessing, in her novels Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta , and John Crowley, notably in his Engine Summer . We find it in films from Soylent Green to the influential Blade Runner . The influence of the Mad Max series seems inescapable. In fact, in recent years it has become difficult to find fictional presentations of the near future that do not feature decaying cities, a ruthless ruling class, economic collapse, and impending ecological catastrophe.
These images have effects beyond the arts. They inform a great deal of social and economic thought of the last twenty years, like the "declinist" school of geopolitics, most notably associated with Paul Kennedy's provocative book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987). On a more serious level of ethical reflection, John Lukacs' The End of the Twentieth Century (1993) anticipated a new dark age of clashing ethnic nationalisms. This image of the geopolitical future is not original with Lukacs. It is close to being the consensus view of the post-Cold War world.
At various levels, however, the realization that this simply isn't true seems to be gradually seeping in. It is, perhaps, even affecting public administration, as projects like the renovation of Times Square illustrate. If you expect Mad Max to rule the future, then you are unsurprised by the decay of public places and disinclined to do much about it. What is perhaps most interesting about American culture today is the revulsion, sometimes inarticulate but emerging with increasing clarity, against the assumption of a dark future.
Attempts to predict the future are best kept to the briefest of outlines, unless you want to afford amusement to people who live in the future you attempt to describe. All I am suggesting, really, is that if the turn of the second millennium is significantly similar to the turn of the first, then we should look for a dynamic century of hope and progress on many levels. Many of our opinion leaders make a point of ignoring the current pope, but he may have sniffed a change in the eschatological wind far before anyone else. We live at the end of a chaotic interlude, but that it was going to end should not have surprised us: few conditions are so ephemeral as chaos. That insight is likely to be a commonplace in the civic order awaiting us on the other side of what John Paul II calls the "Holy Door" of the year 2000.
John J. Reilly , Reviews Editor of Culture Wars magazine, is a member of the Center for Millennial Studies located at Boston University.
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AMERIA RUSS LTD. For more than 26 years Ameria Russ has been the leading importer and distributor of European foodstuffs, such as grocery, confectionery and producer of Ameria and Federici branded pasta. Bldg. 1, 17, Krzhizhanovskogo Str., 117218, Moscow, Russia +7 (499) 685-4545 http://www.ameria.ru
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AGROSILA AGROSILA is a leading agricultural producer, including enterprises engaged in the cultivation of grain crops, production of mixed feed, poultry meat, sausages, semi-finished products, sugar and dairy products. 55, Tatarstan Str., 420021, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia +7 843 267-6600 https://agrosila-holding.ru
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AGROHOLDING ZHEMCHUGINA POVOLGIA Vertically integrated agricultural holding that focuses on the Vegetable Sunflower oil manufacturing. The Holding has got 2 own modern plants in Nizhny Novgorod and Voronezh regions of Russia. 19, Krasnoarmeyskaya Str., Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia +7 (8313) 36 71 29 http://www.prospektoil.ru
AFONSKIY SAD AFONSKIY SAD has been importing products from Greece to Russia since 2007. Our assortment includes olive oil, olives, groceries and natural Greek cosmetics. Moscow, Greece
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AFG National The AFG National Group is one of the largest Russian vertically integrated agro-industrial holdings.
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BASKET Comprehensive food product supply in the HоRеCа segment. 34, Promyshlennaya Str., Kaluga, Russia 88003336066 http://big-basket.ru
AGROSMAK CO. LTD Products of our own brand Dobrovita are made to our order under our strict control at factories located in Vietnam, China, Thailand. The range includes canned fruit and vegetables, sauces. Office 26, 65, Russkaya Str., Vladivostok, Primorsky Kray, Russia +7 (914) 672-2866 http://agrooptdv.ru
AKSHAYA INVITE LLC Manufacturer of several environmentally friendly and healthy food products: soups and quick dishes, cereal cutlets, vegetable chips, spelt pasta, unique cereals, and cane sugar. Office 08, 3rd Floor, Bldg. 145, 2, Ugreshskaya Str., 115088, Moscow, Russia +7 (499) 755-5038 http://zdorovedaru.ru
ALMAK Altai Macaroni JSC is a well-known Russian manufacturer of pasta under the ALMAK and Pasta Veneta trademarks. The company specializes in manufacturing and sales of pasta goods. 31B, Traktovaya Str., Barnaul, Altai Territory, Russia +7 (903) 909-4733 http://www.almac.ru
AGRO PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY OJSC The organization provides both public and private sector with local foods cooperating with farmers and implements various projects in agricultural sphere. 93 Zarifa Aliyeva Str., Sabail District, Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan +994 12 599 86 74 http://www.att.gov.az
DALPRYANA The company produces and sells spices and seasonings. The company specialises in roasting and selling coffee beans. The company's operational activities are distribution and packaging of honey from the Primorsky region. 14A, Makhalina Str., Artem, Primorsky Kray, Russia +7 (984) 208-03-00 http://www.dalpryana.ru
AVAKONDI (AVAKYAN K. S. IP) AvaKondi produces factory-made croissants with different flavours with the use of the European equipment. Benefits for our partners comprise high quality, designer package, favourable prices, various prepackaging! 47, Shosseynaya Str., Prikubanskiy Settlement, Novokubanskiy District, 352203, Krasnodar Territory, Russia +7 (918) 697-7706 http://www.avakondi.ru
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BELARUSIAN FOOD COMPANY Wholesale trade of edible evaporated vacuum extra salt, tablet salt, granulated salt and dry seasonings produced by Mozyrsalt JSC, curing salt and nitrite mixtures, canned fruit and vegetables for babies. Bldg. 1, 7, 2nd Alleya Str., Bryansk, Russia +7 (4832) 36-27-09 http://www.bpk-salt.ru
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BELYAEVSKAYA FLOUR Products under the TM Belyaevskaya are produced by some of the largest flour mills in Siberia. Products range includes wheat baking flour, macaroni flour, dumpling flour, cereals, feed mix. 58, Vokzal'naya Str., 654029, Novokuznetsk, Kemerov Region, Russia +7 (3843) 71-07-82 http://www.muka.pro
AVA TRADING LLC Direct deliveries of sauces, coffee, soft drinks, noodles, beer from Vietnam. Own trademarks Yami-Yami, Fruktoteka. Sales in federal networks, HoReCa. Distributor of products under the Vietnamese brands King Coffee, G7, Vinut. Office 10, Bldg. 1, 38, Khoroshovskoe Shosse, Moscow, Russia +7 (985) 544-6688 http://www.ava-asia.ru
BUGULMINSKY COMBINE OF BREAD PRODUCTS No.1 CJSC Bugulminsky Combine of Bread Products No.1 CJSC is a manufacturer of buckwheat groats, "Hercules" oat flakes, and compound food for all kinds of animals and birds. 56, 14 Pavshikh Str., 423236, Bugulma, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia +7 (85594) 6 21 44 http://bkhp1.ru
AstRis LLC The company sells rice grits. Premises 4, 6, Naberezhnaya Str., 416111, Narimanov, Astrakhan Region, Russia +7 (85171) 63-6-60, 61-1-43 http://www.baraleti.ru
ADMIRAL Manufacture of 9% table vinegar, 70% acetic acid, 6% natural vinegars (apple, white wine, red wine, liquor), natural soy sauce (classic and light). 2A, Lomonosova Pereulok, Kiyasovo Settlement, Kiyasovskiy District, Udmurtia Republic, Russia +7 (3412) 52-61-66, 51-04-94 http://Admiral18.com
ALTA TD Manufacture and sale of Ruzik and Petrusha corn sticks, Chyoshki, Gross Chips, Colorados and Lookup salty snacks, Lapshyn fast food, Petrusha lollipops. 12, Polevoy Proezd, 443022, Samara, Russia +7 (846) 228-2366 http://td-alta.ru
AMUR EXPORT SUPPORT CENTER We represent the interests of Amur companies producing honey, cream honey, honey nuts, granola, cookies, sweets, Japanese tofu, silk tofu, artisan cheese, soybean oil, etc. 287, Zeyskaya Str., Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, Russia +7 (914) 741-8813 http://www.amurexport.ru
ARTE BIANCA Production of biscuits, bakery and flour confectionery, marshmallow, marmalade, souffle, diabetic products, instant cereals, crackers, chips. 173, Popova Str., Barnaul, Altay Territory, Russia +7 (3852) 37-96-65, (3854) 37-28-47 http://www.arte-bianca.ru
ADYGEY SALT Sole Trader Aslan Khuazhev's manufacturing facility has been producing and selling unique foodstuffs since 2002. Adygeya Salt, Ulyapskaya Adjuka dry mix of condiments and spices as well as ethnic cousine foodstuffs. 9, Shosseynaya Str., Ulyap Settlement, Krasnogvardeisky District, Republic of Adygea, Russia +7 (918) 420-3084, (918) 120-2727 http://www.adygsalt.ru
AGROIMPORT Manufacture of groceries, healthy foodstuffs, including condiments and species, as well as delicious salt. Premises I, 2nd Floor, Office 3, Bldg. 11, 3, Lenivka Str., 119019, Moscow, Russia +7 (495) 775-1915
ARCTIC GRAIN Innovations for the food, cosmetics and health food industries. Food. Office 405, Litera A, 5, Torzhkovskaya Str., 197342, Saint Petersburg, Russia +7 (812) 962-7801 http://www.arcticgrain.ru
ANHUI SINOFARMS CO. LTD We are professional company producing all kinds of sesame products and spices. Our main products includes nature sesame seeds, hulled sesame seeds, roasted/toasted sesame seeds, garlic granular, garlic powder. 402, 5th, Hailiang Huafa, No. 2008, Huaihe Road, Fuyang City, Anhui, China +86 (558) 7166888 http://www.sinofarms.com.cn
ALTAI-ZANDDORN LTD Processing of sea buckthorn and wild berries, production of direct-pressed juices, production of concentrated Sea buckthorn oil. 129, Zagorodnaya Str., Barnaul, Altai Territory, Russia +7 (3852) 65-03-59 http://www.zanddorn.ru
AMANAT TH LLP The company is engaged in the production and sale of instant quick-cooking products — instant noodles, mashed potatoes, soup and egg noodles under the GRITO, Our Cup, Swallow, Mahabbat, Ramen YAKUZA trademarks. Promzona District, Bldg. 1/7, 40 Let Oktyabrya Str., Rudniy, Republic of Kazakhstan +7 (71431) 2-62-51 http://www.grito.kz
BEIJING SHIPULLER CO. LTD Beijing Shipuller is a company supplying all kinds of sushi and Chinese ingredients of high quality. Competitive price. The products range mainly includes noodles, vermicelli, wasabi, nori, ginger, konbu and more. Building C-10B, Keshi Plaza, Xinxi Road No. 28, Haidian District, Beijing, China +86 10 62969035 http://www.splfood.com
AZERSUN HOLDING (SUN FOOD LLC) As of today Azersun Holding Group is a leading company in Azerbajan in food production, trade and agriculture. 92 A, Prospekt Geydara Alieva, Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan +994 (12) 404-1919 http://www.azersun.com
ARGENSUN S.A. ARGENSUN is an Argentine leader company in the primary production, industrial processing and export of confection sunflower (in-shell and kernels) and dry prunes, both pitted and unpitted. Uruguay 4551, Victoria (1644), Buenos Aires, Argentina 5491163599639 http://www.argensun.com.ar
AGROPRODUCT PK A reliable B2B supplier of cereals, grain instant flakes and fast-cooking porridges in bulk and as a private label manufacturer in full accordance with customer requirements. Individual approach to each client. 69, Sovetskaya Str., Medvenka Settlement, 307030, Kursk Region, Russia 88003018184 http://www.pk-ap.ru
ATHA MAKINA A.S. ATHAPACK is a leading Turkish manufacturer of vertical packaging machines Doypack and horizontal packaging machines and special projects. 29 Ekim mah. 10001 sk. No:42. Izmir, Turkey 902323757422 http://www.athapack.com
AIDIGO Aidigo is one of the largest Russian manufacturers of spices, high-quality seasonings and ivan-tea (willow-herb tea). For more than 20 years we have been cooperating with the largest federal retail chains, delivering goods in Russia and for export. Office 207/1, 37, Komsomol'skaya Str., 620049, Ekaterinburg, Russia +7 (343) 288-7676 http://www.aidigo.ru
BASTION Food production. Assortment of horseradish, mustard, sauces, tomato group, fruit sauces, natural vinegars. 18, Tsentral'naya Str., Kobrinskoe Settlement, Gatchina District, Leningrad Region, Russia +7 (81371) 58-076
BANG AND BONSOMER LLC The company is a leading supplier of smart
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ANACOM GROUP (IMPROD) The first Russian manufacturer of Anacom TM instant food: vermicelli, noodles, mashed potato, broths. The company was established in 1991. 2, Mozhayskoe Shosse, Moscow, Russia +7 (495) 925-2323 http://www.anacom.ru
ADRIA FOOD LTD Adria Food is a direct wholesale importer and distributor of unique Italian and Portuguese healthy-nutrition products for the BIO, Gluten-Free, Vegan segment on the Russian market. Bldg. 1, 55, Admirala Kornilova Str., Moscow, Russia +7 (495) 166-1515 http://adriafood.ru
ALTAN Wholesale trade of pasta products, flour, groats and instant flakes under own trademark Granmulino. 71, Sotsialisticheskiy Prospekt, 656049, Barnaul, Altay Territory, Russia +7 (3852) 366-410 http://granmulino.com
ABRICO TRADING VENTURE LTD. Manufacturing of fruit and berry jams, honey, toppings, syrups, vinegar essence, table vinegar, apple cider vinegar, wine vinegar, rice vinegar in consumer and industrial packaging. Private label manufacturing. 106/1, Prospekt Lenina, 606000, Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia +7 (8313) 26-31-17 http://www.abrico.info
AGROMARKA PK The core business of the company is the production of instant flakes and cereals. The brand of the company is the Nashe Utro trademark. The product line consists of more than 40 items. 7A, Mirnaya Str., Svoboda Settlement, Zolotukhinskiy District, 306050, Russia +7 (47151) 4-14-28 http://nasheutro.ru
AGROPRODUKT LLC Production and sale of tomato sauces, ketchups, mustard, horseradish, adjika and other sauces. Uchastok 2B, Ulyanovka Settlement, Bagrationovsky District, Kaliningrad Region, Russia +7 (4012) 310835 http://koenigsauce.ru
BODEGAS BARBADILLO Producer of sherry wines, manzanilla and "vino de la Tierra" red and white. Red, rose and white wines from DO Ribera del Duero (Vega Real) and Somontano (Bodega Pirineos). Calle Luis de Eguilaz 11, 11540, Sanlucar de Barrameda, Cadiz, Spain 34956385500 http://www.barbadillo.com
ATAG ATAG Confectionery (IP Kislitsinа M.V.) has been producing the finest confectionery products of natural ingredients: chocolate, dragee, fruit jellies, brittles, soft drinks. Apartment 8, 6, Pervomayskaya Str., Sheksna Work Settlement, Sheksninsky District, 162562, Vologda Region, Russia +7 (817) 512-4348 http://atag.ru
ALTEYA Altai company Alteya specializes in production of cold press oils, herbal teas and fermented soft drinks, health supplements in capsule, natural instant porridges. Bldg. 2, 1, Sotsialisticheskaya Str., Biysk, Altay Territory, Russia +7 (3854) 30-32-02 http://www.alteya.su
ALTAISKII VKYS ТМ AltyBar is a manufacturer of bars from natural ingredients: only fruit, nuts, and berries. No preservatives, no sugar, no gluten. 19, Pavla Korchagina Str., Novoaltaysk, Altai Territory, Russia +7 (961) 995-6676 http://altayvkys.ru
ALEYSKZERNOPRODUCT NAMED AFTER STAROVOITOV S. N. CJSC Aleyskzernoproduct named after Starovoitov S. N. CJSC is the largest and oldest grain processor. It is a modern agro-industrial holding with a proper quality control during the whole technological process from the grain processing to manufacturing of the final product and packaging. 81, Pervomayskaya Str., Altay Territory, Aleysk, 658130, Russia +7 (38553) 2 12 72, 2 15 84 http://www.azpaley.ru
ALTAY SUPERFOOD Altay Superfood LLC created new format products — black tea with additives, herbal tea in the pyramids and Altai cream honey with natural additives. Office 1, 42, Proezd Rybozavodskoy, 656016, Barnaul, Altai Territory, Russia +7 (960) 951-0982 http://altaysuperfood.ru
BIO GEORGIA Manufacturer and exclusive distributor of Bio Georgia products in Russia. Environmentally clean products from Georgia. Original recipes and modern production facilities. Georgia
AGRO LINE Agro Line LLC produces fruit paste, fruit fillings, sauces, tomato paste. 27, Pridorozhnaya Str., Tambov, Russia +7 (910) 651-9339
ACETO BALSAMICO DEL DUCA DI ADRIANO GROSOLI Since 1891, a family company has been producing and selling Balsamic Vinegar of Modena (IGP) and Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena (DOP) with the experience of 5 generations. Via Medicine 2340, 41057 Spilamberto (Modena), Italy +39 059 469471 http://www.acetobalsamicodelduca.it
C-PRODUCT C-Product is a production company that is part of the C-Project holding and specializes in healthy food products, fast food products, grocery products, canned products. 41D, Kalininskoe Shosse, Torzhok, Tver Region, Russia 8 800 707-4556 http://www.c-project.ru
4FRESH LTD Easy Base is your new 100% natural secret ingredient to any dishes for your life and nutrition styles. Proportion is a popular brand of delicious popcorn, chocolate and granola for proper nutrition. Office 157, 3rd Floor, 17, Butlerova Str., 117342, Moscow, Russia +7 (985) 768-6068 http://www.4fresh.ru
AGROPROMYSHLENNAYA KORPORATSIYA YUNOST' Grain and grain products, flour products, dairy and fermented milk products. Premises 5, Litera A, 28, Revkova Str., Naryshkino Settlement, Uritskiy District, 303900, Oryol Region, Russia +7 (953) 611-9744
ALEKSEEVSKOE RPA LLC The producers and exporters of different seeds, spices and natural essential oils. Opytnaya Stantsiya Area, 309856, Alexeyevka, Belgorod Region, Russia +7 (47234) 3-05-66 http://www.eoprus.ru
BIOTECH RESOURCE Biotechnresource refines recipes and supplies natural glucose and fructose syrups for the production of juices, nectares, carbonated drinks, beers and kvas, syrups and toppings, confectioneries and pastries, canned fruit, vegetables and berries. We offer balanced animal feeds as well as raw materials for the production of combined animal feeds. Office 43, Bldg. 2, 25A, Pokryshkina Str., Krasnodar, Russia +7 (918) 028-7755 http://www.biotr.ru
AGROMASTER Agromaster produces packaged cereals under the Agromaster brand name. Thanks to the triple cleaning — by separator, magnetic separator and air — quality of our cereals are much better than that as per State Standards. 11/2, Proizvodstvennaya Zona, Marusino Settlement, 630512, Novosibirsk Region, Russia +7 (383) 362-1881 http://www.agromaster.expert
ASTON JSC ASTON produces vegetable oils under the ZATEYA, ASTON MAGIC VALLEY, SVETLITSA trademarks, as well as goods under the trademarks of leading supermarket chains. Tel. : +7 (863) 2-618-100. 3B, 1st Lugovaya Str., 344002, Rostov-on-Don, Russia +7 (863) 2-618-100 http://www.aston.ru
We invite small and large companies, manufacturers and suppliers of grocery items as exhibitors of the Prodexpo exhibition and as professional visitors from different areas of the food industry.


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Don't blame Facebook for your own filter bubble
As the UK worked through the aftermath of the vote to leave the European Union, Tom Steinberg found himself frustrated. "I am actively searching through Facebook for people celebrating the Brexit leave victory," he wrote. But to no avail. He called on his friends in the technology industry to act on this 'echo-chamber problem'.
An appeal to everyone I know who works at Twitter, Facebook, Google etc, and for the people who influence them pic.twitter.com/TRBTbZHrxG
— Tom Steinberg (@steiny) June 24, 2016
A day later someone else I know – a former journalist now working in the tech sector – expressed the same frustrations — on Facebook, naturally. It seems we have a problem.
At the time of writing Steinberg's tweet has been retweeted almost 4,000 times. Clearly there is a desire for connection – and yet…
Why are they making the demand of social media companies — and not news organisations?
The key word to use in any search on Facebook is 'I'. If you want to find people on Twitter you might also try #useapen or #takecontrol.
Technology's role used to be our role
There is something in that tweet – and the volume of retweets it received – that says something about how we see technology now: both as something separate from society and something that we look to to 'solve' its problems.
Remember when we thought that was journalists' role?
The 'filter bubble' of the UK press is well documented, no more so than in SubScribe's thorough analysis of selective Daily Mail coverage, but that is "the British press".
We expect Facebook to solve the echo chamber problem, but not newspapers. Image from SubScribe
Why? Maybe we accept it as a price to pay for the freedom of the press. Maybe because the media is regulated in ways that Facebook is not.
Maybe we expect technology to be designed in ways that newspaper coverage is not.
Maybe we are just used to newspaper bias, indeed strangely proud of it, whereas social media bias still has the capacity to provoke outrage.
Facebook's leaked Trending Review Guidelines
Maybe we fear being seen as being 'complainers' or 'bad losers'.
Maybe we know the response: if you don't like it, buy another newspaper.
And we can say the same thing of social media: "If you don't like Facebook, try Twitter." But that's not the point.
A fixed algorithm
In time I believe we will come to terms with the biases of social media just as we have with the biases of journalism: and I do not mean just the obvious biases of the Daily Mail, Sun, Guardian and Telegraph, but the biases of a news system with an algorithm every bit as fixed as Facebook's, expressed in formulae like white lives > black lives and south > north.
That algorithm is expressed in recruitment too: in the last 3 years 98% of new hires had a degree and over a third had a master's. Although I teach one of those masters degrees myself, I do not think this is good for journalism's filter bubble. Half of the country is not represented in our newsrooms.
Tom's experience, meanwhile, was not mine: I saw Facebook updates from people who voted on both sides of the debate.
And the image that stuck out was the image below: shared by people who voted Leave suggesting that if Facebook was an echo chamber, well then it wasn't quite working well enough.
This meme was shared by Leave voters on Facebook
Design your filter bubble out
I do not live in London: this is a deliberate decision in part to avoid the filter bubble within which 60% of UK journalists live. I have lost count of the number of times a broadcast journalist from a national media organisation has called me for an interview — only for them to realise that I'm not based in the capital and cut the call short.
"Ah, we can't interview you then."
Fair enough. Journalists often resort to the path of least resistance when they need to hit a deadline (two words: Taxpayers Alliance). The fact that they're calling me in the first place is probably because they or a colleague already has my phone number. I'm white, male, and easy to find on social media and the web. I'm now part of the 'establishment' and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
Amidst the panic and confusion in the UK since Friday, though, one encouraging move has been visible: journalists visiting places like Meriden, Sunderland and Northampton in a search for the other half of the country. Trying to answer Tom Steinberg's question and give a voice to the until-the-referendum-voiceless.
Soon they will return to their desks and their computers, and their algorithms will resume normal service. But perhaps they will have a slightly different perception of their audiences; perhaps those newsroom algorithms might change by a degree.
You design your own filter bubble. And now a journalist's beat is not just the physical paths that they tread but the data trails that they leave behind as they navigate social media and the web: following accounts, liking pages and friending individuals they may not even like or agree with. In fact, preferably exactly those types of people and groups.
Designing serendipity into your workflow is now part of what makes a good journalist: curiosity expressed algorithmically. Design your way out of the filter bubble.
yesterday a friend said she likes things she doesn't like, reads range of stuff 2 ensure facebook serves her variety https://t.co/JW0rhvyYDc
— Nick Booth (@podnosh) June 28, 2016
Agree in part, but FB & Tw can also do more to guide users to alternative viewpoints – e.g. on opposing newspapers. https://t.co/PkPiTLCPgw
— Richard MacManus (@ricmac) June 28, 2016
This entry was posted in online journalism and tagged algorithms, echo chambers, facebook, tom steinberg on June 28, 2016 by Paul Bradshaw.
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13 thoughts on "Don't blame Facebook for your own filter bubble"
Jon Bounds June 28, 2016 at 6:59 pm
This type of 'filter bubble' ie what you see on social media rathe then the orginal meaning of what a Google search showed you s without doubt more about the separation of actual people. In the famous 'six degrees of separation' experiment the envelopes crossed the USA; but not social classes.
It's still rather the same challenge as a journalist has always had.
Yulia Mazykina July 3, 2016 at 11:29 am
There is nothing new in these thoughts. Everything is described in the Pierre Bourdieu's publication "On Television". I would say that Mr. Steinberg in this case is just an amateur)
Henk van Ess (@henkvaness) July 7, 2016 at 11:47 am
What a silly post this is! You forgot at least 3 things in your search. See http://www.screencast.com/t/g5BWf47ezX
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BGMI banned in India over 'data sharing' concerns: Report
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Google and Apple take down BGMI citing orders from the Indian government.
The government of India has banned the BGMI under section 69A of the Indian IT law, blocking public access to content in the interest of national security, among other reasons.
The Indian government has banned Krafton's Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI). Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple have taken down the Krafton game on July 28, 2022, citing orders from the Indian government. This development comes a year after the country banned popular game PUBG.
According to Reuters' report, the government has banned the royal battle-ground format game, using a section of the IT law that it has invoked since 2020 to ban Chinese apps on national security and data sharing concerns, a source told Reuters.
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BGMI is the Indian version of Tencent's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) that recently crossed more than 100 million registered users in India. The Krafton game was relaunched in India as BGMI, a year ago to the heavy demands of the gamers.
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Till now, the Government of India has banned more than 270 apps, suspecting the stealing of Indian users' data and sharing it with Chinese entities.
Many of these apps came back to India with rebranded and new identities while their competitor apps tried to sweep in and filled the void left by others.
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On Remand from the Supreme Court of the United StatesBefore Posner, Diane P. Wood, and Evans, Circuit Judges.
In our opinion reported at 207 F.3d 910 (7th Cir. 2000), we affirmed the conviction of Jackson and his codefendants (who are not involved in the current proceeding) but remanded with instructions to the district court to resentence Jackson because the court had erred in applying a sentencing guideline to his role in the overall offense. Before he could be resentenced, the Supreme Court granted his petition for certiorari, vacated our decision, and remanded the case to us (121 S. Ct. 376 (2000)) for reconsideration in light of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 120 S. Ct. 2348 (2000). Decided after our decision, Apprendi holds that any fact other than the fact of a prior conviction that increases the penalty for an offense beyond the statutory maximum penalty for that offense is an element of the crime and so must be submitted to the jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Id. at 2362-63. Jackson received a sentence of 30 years on the basis of the sentencing judge's determination that his offense had involved at least 5 grams of crack cocaine. 21 U.S.C. sec. 841(b)(1)(B). The maximum would have been 20 years had no determination of quantity been made, sec. 841(b)(1)(C), and since the jury had not been asked to determine quantity, the higher sentence violated the rule declared in Apprendi.
Overwhelming that evidence was. Jackson was an official of the Gangster Disciples, a very large Chicago drug gang whose principal commodity was crack cocaine. On one occasion alone Jackson sold 51.7 grams of crack, more than ten times the amount required to make a defendant eligible for a 40-year maximum sentence under 21 U.S.C. sec. 841(b)(1)(B). One of the counts on which he was convicted charged the conspiracy with trafficking in 51.7 grams of crack. Other counts on which he was convicted also charged amounts greatly in excess of 5 grams. No reasonable jury could have failed to convict Jackson of being involved in the sale of hundreds, if not thousands, of grams of crack. The failure to ask the jury to determine whether the amount was at least 5 grams was harmless far beyond a reasonable doubt.
We therefore reinstate our previous judgment.


How Does Alameda Treat its Most Vulnerable?
As a neighbor of Jean Sweeney Open Space Park and a proud resident of Alameda I would like to convey my deep concerns with Measure B in the upcoming April 9 special election. Since its opening, Jean Sweeney Open Space Park has proven to be a truly wonderful addition to our town. The play area is often crowded and the bike paths are being utilized with wonderful regularity. My family very much enjoys walking our dogs there (on leash, of course).
Despite being only about one-third complete, this wonderful space is clearly one of the many jewels of Alameda.
Measure B's proponents desire for the abandoned federal buildings on McKay Avenue to be repurposed into open space. This far-fetched plan, estimated to cost $11 million, is far from a viable reality as the East Bay Regional Parks District has stated unequivocally that the site is not suitable for parkland.
If this measure passes, the City of Alameda would be required to fund the ongoing maintenance of these dilapidated buildings without allocated funds to turn it into a park. This irresponsible measure would create a real risk that the funds needed to complete Jean Sweeney Open Space Park will be redirected toward a rudderless "plan" that could shamelessly gut our local parks.
As someone who resided near abandoned buildings for many years, I am acutely familiar with the unpleasantness that they can attract. I believe that APC's plan to repurpose blighted buildings in our community is a wonderful manifestation of the best of Alameda — a beautiful mix of revitalization and compassion.
Since moving to Alameda, I have regularly been blown away by the kind, thoughtful people who reside here. Just this morning I was stopped at a crosswalk when a pedestrian noticed my electric car's charging cover was left open. He walked over to my car, shut it for me, gave me a thumbs up and continued on his way. I could give example after example of the kindness I've seen in Alameda.
This city has shown me, on a near-daily basis, that it is full of people willing to take care of their neighbors.
I hope that these, kind, thoughtful neighbors who have so warmly welcomed my family from across the bay will vote to pass Measure A. How Alameda treats those most vulnerable in our community is a real barometer of its communal soul. APC has repeatedly done great work to make our city better and to serve people from all walks of life. This important project — to take care of our vulnerable and ill senior citizens — is a beautiful example of the city I have learned to love.
And for anyone, especially those looking to keep ill senior citizens on the street, looking for some wonderful open space, I would strongly recommend spending some time at Jean Sweeney Open Space Park. Let's direct our money toward finishing that amazing park instead of preserving abandoned buildings.
Please vote "yes" on A and "no" on B to show that Alameda cares.


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Senator Feinstein Chairs Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on Worldwide Threats Facing the United States
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, today presided over the committee's hearing into current and projected threats facing the United States.
Following are Senator Feinstein's remarks prepared for delivery:
"The Committee meets today in open session to receive the coordinated analytic assessment of the Intelligence Community of the threats to the United States. We welcome our witnesses:
Admiral Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence, who will provide a summary of the written statement on behalf of the Intelligence Community;
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta;
The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller;
The Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Ron Burgess; and
The Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, Ambassador John Dinger.
This hearing presents an annual opportunity to focus on the threats our nation faces and provides a rare forum for the public to receive strategic intelligence analysis.
I think that right now, the top threat on everyone's mind is the heightened terrorism threat, especially against the U.S. Homeland.
The Committee has held hearings in the past two weeks to review the Christmas Day attempted attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and the Ft. Hood shootings by U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan. We have also reviewed the attack on CIA's Khowst Base in eastern Afghanistan on December 30, the most deadly attack against CIA personnel in decades.
These three events are reminders of the ongoing threats the nation faces from within and without, and the challenges and dangers with which the Intelligence Community must deal on a daily basis.
We have been briefed on the continuing terrorist threat, and I want to thank Director Mueller for our discussion yesterday. I received a lengthy follow-up briefing on the status of ongoing terrorism investigations and intelligence we've received as part of those investigations.
I know this is a very sensitive matter and will ask that if Members have questions relating to counterterrorism operations, please hold them and we can go into a classified session at the end.
The written testimony provides an important reminder, stating that 'the recent successful and attempted attacks represent an evolving threat in which it is even more difficult to identify and track small numbers of terrorists recently recruited and trained and short-term plots than to find and follow terrorist cells engaged in plots that have been ongoing for years.'
Our Committee stands ready and willing to provide the tools you need to make sure our counterterrorism efforts are the best they can be.
Despite the Christmas Day and Ft. Hood failures, the Intelligence Community has thwarted numerous terrorist plots and apprehended several suspects in 2009:
Al-Qa'ida operative Najibullah Zazi – living outside Denver – was identified through good intelligence work as having trained in Pakistan and conspiring with others to detonate a bomb in the United States. Two of Zazi's associates were arraigned in January, and his father has also been charged.
Chicago-based David Headley was identified for his involvement in the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba attacks on Mumbai in 2008 and for his connection to a plot to bomb a Danish newspaper.
Fourteen people were charged in Minnesota this year for recruiting Somali-American youth to travel to Somalia, train, and fight alongside terrorist groups.
In October, Tarek Mehanna was arrested in Boston and charged with plotting to attack shopping malls and seeking out terrorist training.
In September, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested for plotting to bomb a Dallas skyscraper.
And earlier in the year, Daniel Boyd was identified as having traveled to terrorist training camps and plotting an attack on U.S. military personnel at the Quantico Marine Base. He was charged, along with six others, on charges that included conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
So clearly, there have been both counterterrorism successes and failures. Also clear is that the threat to the Homeland is high, and that terrorist groups have identified ways of getting operators and facilitators into the country without raising suspicion.
Let me shift from terrorism to the topic that DNI Blair highlights in his written testimony – the threat to our government, public, and private sector from cyber espionage, crime, and attack. Your description of the problem is very blunt, and I believe it to be accurate.
The need to develop an overall cybersecurity strategy is very clear. This Committee has carefully examined cybersecurity through five hearings in the past year; carefully reviewed various cyber attacks and penetrations from foreign actors; and appointed a cyber task force of three Members – Senators Whitehouse, Mikulski, and Snowe – to conduct a six-month analysis of the government's current plans. That task force will be reporting to the full Committee shortly.
It is my belief that certain nations represent serious cyber attack potential to our country. I believe that robust diplomatic efforts should be made with the goal of effecting international agreements among key actors regarding cyber behavior. The time has come to look at the value of a cyber treaty with built-in mutual assurances of behavior.
It is noteworthy and commendable that the State Department has, for the first time, demarched another country for its cyber activity. It is also worth noting that this country has stated its willingness to 'cooperate internationally' on these matters.
There are far more developments around the world that threaten the national security interests of the United States. The past year saw a Taliban surge in Afghanistan that led to the President's decision to shift strategy and increase troop levels. Pakistan continues to be an uneven partner in our counterterrorism and counterinsurgency efforts. Somalia and Yemen are failed and failing states that require enormous attention.
These and many other threats are outlined in the DNI's testimony, so I let me turn now to Vice Chairman Bond for his opening statement."


Stoke are two-thirds of the way through their first Championship campaign in a decade so how do they comparels?
There are lies, damned lies... and statistics. So with Stoke City two-thirds of the way through their first Championship campaign in a decade, how are they faring in the numbers game?
The Potters have found their reintroduction to second tier football much tougher than expected. And after the arrival of two managers and a host of new players, they are still struggling to compete.
The above quote suggests stats can be used to prove any point, however contrary the evidence in front of your eyes may be. But in Stoke's case, it seems the numbers do add up correctly.
That's because a quick perusal of the Opta figures below clearly reflects the Potters' ability to boss possession in most games. But then look for their numbers in the attacking third and they are virtually nonexistent. That is a neat summary of Saturday's defeat to West Brom and several other games this season.
For example, they are equal sixth in the number of passes they have made this season on 13,772, with an accuracy of 78 per cent, which equals that of leaders Norwich City.
But take a look at the stats for goals, shots on target and conversion rates and there is no sign of the Potters. They do figure well in the numbers for corners won - fourth equal on 178 - but then give the game away by not registering in the top 10 for crossing accuracy.
As for top scorers, Benik Afobe leads the way for Stoke with seven, way behind Billy Sharp on 22. It seems that the majority of those thousands of passes have not been in the right direction.
The one area where they do buck the trend slightly is on goals conceded and clean sheets. The perception earlier in the season and even at the weekend was that Stoke's defence is a soft touch. But they are midtable when it comes to the number of goals they have left in since August, while Jack Butland is equal fourth for clean sheets on 10.


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Urlwin Park Agricultural Museum
Urlwin Park Agricultural Museum is one of two sites operated by Balaklava Museum Incorporated. Opened in 1986, Urlwin Park houses a collection of vintage farm tractors, tillage and harvesting implements, and stationary engines. There is a replica of Anders Blacksmith Shop, an Anders working windmill, an early rural bank building, a telephone exchange and working telephones. The Zacher Pavilion showcases the district's early manufacturing industries with a collection of 'Balaklava made' horse drawn vehicles and farm machinery (for example Walter Blake, Brebner and Keefe, Ahrns Bros, Illman and Sons), plus tributes to the wool industry and to Dean Zacher, after whom the pavilion was named. Enjoy a trip through history.
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Balaklava Museum Centenary Hall
Centenary Hall is one of two sites operated by Balaklava Museum Incorporated. It was built in 1878 and has a colourful history, having been occupied by the Church of Christ, Druids and Rechabite Lodges, schools, a kindergarten and the Lutheran church. It was also used for town band and choral society practice, before being purchased by the local branch of the National Trust in 1975.
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Balaklava Golf Club
Balaklava Golf Club is located just over 100 kilometres north of the city of Adelaide and three kilometres east of the lower north township of Balaklava. It has been a colourful and integral part of the community since 1923.
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Balaklava Courthouse Gallery
The historic old courthouse at Balaklava, built in 1913 and converted into an art gallery and separate gift shop, is managed entirely by community volunteers. Varied exhibitions lasting six weeks range from paintings and sculptures to quilting and craftwork. Exhibition space is free to artists. A popular attraction is the Balco Art Price held in July/August each year with associated prizes up to the value of AUD3000.00. The shop is stocked with locally hand-crafted gifts.
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Share your talents, background and expertise.Sarah E. Hoffman is a pamphleteer, blogger, academic and gastronomist. She enjoys picnics, the smell of freshly baked bread, bubble tea, brewing kombucha and other kitchen experiments. When stressed she bakes until the flour runs out. Sarah is married to a very understanding non-foodie, whom she is in the process of converting. She has been cooking vegan/vegetarian for a decade, owns over 300 cookbooks and loves experimenting in the kitchen.


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Brush fires threatened several Santa Cruz homes
By Calvin Men | men.calvin@gmail.com and Santa Cruz Sentinel | Santa Cruz Sentinel
PUBLISHED: August 27, 2016 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 am
SANTA CRUZ >> Several Santa Cruz houses were threatened after downed powerlines ignited several brush fires near the houses Friday night, coming as close as 25 feet, according to a Santa Cruz Fire official.
About 7:30 p.m. Friday, there was a report of a wildland fire on the 100 block of Alamo Street.
Fire officials responding found the electrical wires had broken and came down, causing fires in four spots and threatening houses on the 500 block of Arroyo Seco, Santa Cruz Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Venezio said.
The fires were in a high brush area between houses. While two fires were relatively small, one fire was 5 feet by 5 feet while another was 20 feet by 20 feet, Venezio said.
"There were multiple homes threatened by the fire but we were able to keep the fire back from the houses," he said.
But fog in recent days likely prevented the fire from spreading faster, according to Venezio.
After PG&E Co. officials shut off the power lines, firefighters quickly doused the fires. None of the houses were damaged and there were no injuries, Venezio said.
The downed power lines created a power outage for more than 1,000 Westside residents, Venezio said. Power was restored by Saturday afternoon.
The cause of the downed power lines is unclear.
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Designed to give safe heat to any room, Ashley Direct Vent heaters come in 3 sizes, from 8, 0000 BTU's to 17,000 BTU's. They are easy to mount and install. They come in gas or propane and require no electricity.


They want to register your IMEI Number on their server, because they have no option to know who is the owner of your mobile. Due to Q-Mobile or chine mobiles, their programmer use one IMEI number on a large number of mobiles. One IMEI number registered on many mobile, so it is impossible to know who is the person using mobile.


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The Media Development Center (MDC) finds the latest Draft-Law to supplement and amend the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (LAAMS), proposed by the Government, is yet another attempt, in an opaque and urgent procedures, for behind-closed-doors interventions in a law the directly concerns the freedom of information and freedom of the media in the country.
MDC believes it is the highest time for the Government to stop ignoring the media and journalistic organizations and associations when intervening in laws and other legislation that directly concern the media community and the general public. The latest attempt to intervene with changes in the list of authorized nominators for members of the Programming Council of MRT (the public broadcasting services) which should replace the existing provision listing the majority journalist association to introduce a second association, without prior consultations with the media community and proper public debate and consultations on the proposed changes, is another indicator of Government's approach to the media and media professionals. At the same time, the question arises why the proposed changes should be conducted in an urgent, and not in regular adoption procedure in the Assembly.
MDC would like to remind the Government of the obligation it accepted publicly to propose, within six months from the adoption of the media legislation, changes in the financing of the public broadcasting service that would increase its independence and autonomy.
MDC believes that only a full financial and editorial independence would transform MRT into an independent and transparent public broadcasting service that will truly protect the interests of the citizens and the public in the Republic of Macedonia.
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There are a total of 5 assisted living facilities in Rigby, Idaho area. This list includes Rigby senior housing, assisted senior living communities and residential care homes for the elderly. Rigby assisted senior living facilities also provide dementia and Alzheimer's care (also known as memory care in Rigby, ID).
Rigby Lake Assisted Living is an assisted living community in Rigby, Idaho. It can house a maximum of 16 retirees at a time. It is located at 470 Rigby Lake Drive, 83442 zip code in Jefferson county. Rigby Lake Assisted Living helps seniors who require help with daily living tasks. Rigby Lake Assisted Living is a state-licensed senior living facility with License # RC-1158.
Gardens Of Rigby provides senior living in Jefferson county, Idaho. It contains a total of 24 assisted living apartments for 55 and older adults. Gardens Of Rigby provides affordable, pet-friendly assisted elderly housing and is located at 130 + 144 Stockham Boulevard, Rigby, Idaho 83442.
Rigby Country Living - Rural Assisted Living Facilities is an upscale senior assisted living facility in Rigby, Idaho. It supports a total of 23 assisted living units. Rigby Country Living - Rural Assisted Living Facilities is available to all Jefferson county elderly adult residents in need of assisted living. Rigby Country Living - Rural Assisted Living Facilities is situated at 4202 East 300 North in Rigby, Idaho.
Assisted Living Facilities in Rigby, ID. List of all of the best assisted living, senior living and elderly housing options in Rigby for 2019.


There is no doubt that when we think of search engines, we think of Google. In fact, the term Google has become synonymous with online searching. How many times we have told someone to just Google the information! As far back as 2006 Oxford English Dictionary added Google as an Official English word with meaning "search something on the web". More than 65 % people use Google as their preferred search engine. This is the reason why for any website to have a strong online presence, it should always feature in the top of Google search results.
Google released a video sometime back showing some common shopping trends. Some interesting facts emerged from that video like 89 % of holiday shoppers start their shopping online, 75 % of all patients research their symptoms before visiting a doctor, or 60% of mothers search the web for special offers, coupons, or other discounts before they go shopping. These are just a few examples which highlight the importance for any business to have a very good online visibility.
For any business to succeed, making use of the right Search Engine Optimization services is essential. Proper SEO services ensure that your website is not lost among the millions of websites available on the internet, but is always there for the people to see when they search for the relevant keywords.
At Helback Affordable SEO, one of the fastest growing Toronto SEO Company, it is our commitment to bring your website to the top of the search engine results. Our search engine optimization Toronto company has the knowledge and skill to deliver consistent results. To give your website a new look and your business the visibility it deserves, contact us for your Toronto SEO needs.


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require_relative '../../spec_helper'
require 'trick_bag/collections/linked_list'

module TrickBag
module Collections

describe LinkedList do

  let(:sample_array) { [1, 2, 3] }
  let(:sample_list) { LinkedList.new(*sample_array) }

  specify 'to_a should return an array equal to the array with which it was initialized' do
    expect(LinkedList.new(*sample_array).to_a).to eq(sample_array)
  end

  it 'should push correctly' do
    list = LinkedList.new(1)
    list.push(2)
    expect(list.to_a).to eq([1, 2])
  end

  it 'should pop from a list of multiple elements correctly' do
    expect(sample_list.pop).to eq(3)
    expect(sample_list.to_a).to eq([1, 2])
  end

  it 'should pop from a list of 1 element correctly' do
    list = LinkedList.new(1)
    expect(list.pop).to eq(1)
    expect(list.to_a).to eq([])
  end

  it 'should raise an error when popping from an empty list' do
    list = LinkedList.new
    expect(list.length).to eq(0)
    expect(->{ list.pop }).to raise_error(RuntimeError)
  end

  it 'should unshift correctly' do
    list = LinkedList.new(1)
    list.unshift(0)
    expect(list.to_a).to eq([0,1])
  end

  it 'should shift correctly from a list containing multiple elements' do
    expect(sample_list.shift).to eq(1)
    expect(sample_list.to_a).to eq([2, 3])
  end

  it 'should shift correctly from a list containing 1 element' do
    list = LinkedList.new(1)
    expect(list.shift).to eq(1)
    expect(list.to_a).to eq([])
  end

  it 'should raise an error when shifting from an empty list' do
    list = LinkedList.new
    expect(->{ list.shift }).to raise_error(RuntimeError)
  end

  specify 'to_ary should return an array identical to that returned by to_a' do
    a = sample_list.to_a
    ary = sample_list.to_ary
    expect(ary).to eq(a)
  end
end
end
end

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Imagine the beauty of an Adirondack wedding where the bride makes a grand entrance by horse and carriage. Or perhaps you need a 30-passenger limo party bus for the entire bridal party. No matter your style, check out these vendors to find the perfect wedding transportation to suit your needs.


Open the window of Junior Suite and enjoy the views of the Riviera ... you are right on the beach!
The layout of the rooms has been designed in detail, light and dark colours blend in a refined design.
The living area has comfortable sofas to enjoy cocktails or dinner served in your room whenever you want, is adjacent to the night area and creating more intimate, reserved surroundings.
Every particular detail gives off a precious atmosphere... enveloped in a little gem.
Other services provided include: air conditioning, mini bar, electronic safe, direct dial phones, courtesy tray with kettle, TV, Sky Gold package and free Wi-Fi.


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u"""ci_play setup script

:copyright: Copyright (c) 2022 RadiaSoft LLC.  All Rights Reserved.
:license: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
"""
from pykern import pksetup

pksetup.setup(
    name='ci_play',
    author='RadiaSoft LLC',
    author_email='pip@radiasoft.net',
    description='ci_play',
    install_requires=[
        'pykern',
    ],
    license='http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html',
    url='https://github.com/radiasoft/ci_play',
    classifiers=[
        'Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha',
        'Environment :: Console',
        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
        'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
        'Natural Language :: English',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
        'Programming Language :: Python',
        'Topic :: Utilities',
    ],
)


OmniFocus is even more powerful and convenient when combined with complementary apps and services. There is a growing number of Mac, iPhone, iPad and web-based apps that support OmniFocus and others that can be integrated using AppleScript. This directory contains some of our favourites.
Apps with this icon have built-in OmniFocus integration. Mac integrations typically require the Pro Upgrade.
Quickly process your emails and take action when you're on the go. Built-in OmniFocus integration allows you to conveniently create OmniFocus actions that reference your emails.
Quickly and conveniently and capture text and then send it to OmniFocus and other destinations through the use of flexible, customizable actions.
Evernote is a natural complement to OmniFocus. Use it to store ideas for upcoming projects and as a repository for project reference material.
An alternative to Apple's Calendar app for Mac and iOS that provides enhanced functionality, a natural language interface and OmniFocus integration (Mac).
An email client that combines Gmail's web interface with a slew of additional features, including integration with OmniFocus.
An email client for Mac and Windows that is speedy, customizable and extensible. The Mac version includes native support for OmniFocus.


It's been going on for a while. New hires for restaurant kitchen duty were proving not to be as skilled as they said they were. And applicants for upper-level positions that required certifiable experience, such as executive chef or general manager, were fewer and farther between. Many new hires couldn't even make it through the season. And nowhere was this trend more obvious than in seasonal resort communities.
Chefs and restaurant owners agree: Skilled help in busy kitchens is getting harder to find. Seven years ago you would not have seen job fairs here at the beach in the late winter. Now, you need look no further than the Cape Gazette to see display ads and classifieds that include job fairs held by giants such as SoDel Concepts, Big Fish Restaurant Group and Touch of Italy - some with refreshments and other goodies to attract potential culinary professionals to their ranks.
The Delaware Restaurant Association stepped up to the plate with the well-regarded ProStart program: a nationwide, two-year, industry-written curriculum for high school students.
The elective program introduces students to the culinary and management skills needed for a career in the restaurant and foodservice industry. A significant number of these students continue into nationally accredited culinary schools. Some even return to Sussex County to become part of the business of eating here at the beach. Wouldn't it be nice to increase those numbers!
To that end, Touch of Italy restaurants and RehobothFoodie.com have teamed up to form the nonprofit Culinary Scholarship Fund. Tuition assistance is available primarily to students who successfully complete the classroom/practical levels of DRA's ProStart program. However, exceptions have been made, including students attending the well-regarded culinary programs at Wor-Wic Community College and Delaware Technical Community College. Not every Delaware high school is equipped to teach the programs, but more are in the works.
Applicants who successfully complete the ProStart programs will be eligible for tuition assistance for their first two years at an accredited postsecondary culinary school, i.e., a culinary school that can demonstrate successful educational outcomes; specifically job placement. Students will be required to maintain a certain grade level in order to qualify.
On Tuesday, April 9, the scholarship foundation kicks off the fourth annual Carnevale fundraiser to benefit budding candidates for culinary and management careers. The event is modeled after Italy's celebrated Carnevale - the Italian Mardi Gras. The Rehoboth Touch of Italy morphs into a traditional street fair with masks, auctions and bountiful food, wine and beer from five of Italy's notable regions. For 2019, Carnevale is spotlighting five secret Italian culinary regions! Curious? Buy a ticket!
The live auctions at Carnevale are always highly spirited. And it's no wonder! One-of-a-kind prizes and events are up for bid, including a limo-based progressive dinner at four SoDel Concepts restaurants, a wheelbarrow-full of Dogfish Head brews, and an in-home dinner for 10 catered by none other than The Rehoboth Foodie, Touch of Italy boss Bob Ciprietti and the Cape Region's undisputed cheesemonger, Bill Wilson. Another highly coveted prize is a limo-centered day trip to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx - where Bob Ciprietti grew up. The trip includes lunch, dinner, snacks, and a tour of his old haunts, including many of the mom & pop shops that still provide ingredients to Touch of Italy restaurants.
As if that were not enough, an all-expenses-paid trip to Rome, Italy will be raffled off, with the winner selected and announced live on The Rehoboth Foodie's Sip & Bite radio show. Raffle tickets and admission to Carnevale can be purchased at any Touch of Italy restaurant, at www.CarnevaleDE.com or by calling 302-212-0171.
Help keep our fledgling chefs, line cooks, restaurant owners and managers right here in Sussex County by being a part of Carnevale Tuesday, April 9. I promise you that you will NOT leave hungry!