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We're giddy with all the amazing work that was accomplished on Saturday at the Volunteer Work Party. About 40 people came out to dig, saw, invent, organize, clean, scrape, wash, pull, and make Safe Harbor Stables shine for the ponies. A marvelous time was had by all, as proven by these photos. THANK YOU to everyone who made this day a success!!
A medicine cabinet for the tack room. Brilliant.
Terry loves the power blower, but she scares small children.
Jane and Shelley fearlessly plumbing the depths of drainage.
SAFE 1 Blackberry 0 — oh yeah!!!
…and the finished ramp in place! No more driving the carts off the edge!


2006 - One of the most challenging jobs I have ever had.
This multimillion dollar home was nearly wrecked after the home-owners decided to use the framing crew to do the "finishing work". I was here for 6 months on and off refurbishing the huge mess outside and in.


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Carex depressa é uma espécie de planta com flor pertencente à família Cyperaceae.

A autoridade científica da espécie é Link, tendo sido publicada em Journal für die Botanik 2: 309. 1799.

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Trata-se de uma espécie presente no território português, nomeadamente os seguintes táxones infraespecíficos:

 Carex depressa subsp. depressa - presente em Portugal Continental. Em termos de naturalidade é nativa da região atrás referida. Não se encontra protegida por legislação portuguesa ou da Comunidade Europeia.

Bibliografia
 Checklist da Flora do Arquipélago da Madeira (Madeira, Porto Santo, Desertas e Selvagens) - Grupo de Botânica da Madeira
 Carex depressa - Portal da Biodiversidade dos Açores
 Carex depressa - The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (consultado em 29 de setembro de 2014).
 Carex depressa - International Plant Names Index
 Castroviejo, S. (coord. gen.). 1986-2012. Flora iberica 1-8, 10-15, 17-18, 21. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.

 Ligações externas

 Carex depressa - Flora Digital de Portugal. jb.utad.pt/flora.
 Carex depressa - Flora-on
 Carex depressa - The Euro+Med PlantBase
 Carex depressa - Flora Vascular
 Carex depressa - Biodiversity Heritage Library - Bibliografia
 Carex depressa - JSTOR Global Plants
 Carex depressa - Flora Europaea Carex depressa - NCBI Taxonomy Database
 Carex depressa - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
 Carex depressa'' - Encyclopedia of Life

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Mark Dolan: It's only a mask, it's only the next three weeks, it's only next year, it's only forever - except it's only one life
And only one chance to live it
Mark Dolan gb news Presenter
Published friday 03 December 2021 - 21:12 Last updated friday 03 December 2021 - 21:50
It's only a mask, they said.
It's only three weeks to flatten the curve, they said.
It's only until Easter.
It's only until summer, it's only until winter.
It's only Joe Wickes, Netflix, podcasts and Zoom drinks parties at 5 in the afternoon.
It's only a restaurant, a pub, a museum, an art gallery, a library.
It's only a school, it's only children.
It's only an office, it's only an office party.
It's only a school nativity, a sports day.
It's only the vulnerable.
It's only one injection.
It's only two, it's only three.
It's only furlough.
It's only borrowing, it's only half a trillion.
It's only mental health, it's only cancer, dementia, heart disease, Type II diabetes.
It's only a lump, it's only a bad back, it's only a headache.
It's only a funeral.
It's only Christmas.
It's only a gym, it's only a family business, it's only a job, it's only a marriage, it's only a roof over your head.
It's only your bills, it's only your past, your present and your future.
It's only your degree.
It's only your family abroad.
It's only teenagers.
It's only young people.
It's only the old.
It's only arrows in the supermarket, it's only a squirt of hand sanitiser, as you go in.
It's only a Perspex screen, it's only a one in, one out, policy.
It's only a nightclub, it's only a football match, it's only a mask.
It's only proof that you've been vaccinated.
It's only a health pass, it's only temporary, it's only permanent.
It's only essential shops, it's only the difference between travelling the world and not.
It's only a request, it's only a mandate, it's only the law.
It's only for your own good, it's only for the best.
It's only for you.
It's only for others.
It's only three weeks, it's only a mask.
It's only a Zoom meeting, rather than face-to-face, it's only a zoom lesson, rather than being in the classroom.
It's only a playground, a tennis court, a swimming pool.
It's only a cup of coffee on a park bench.
It's only a cancelled event.
It's only your opinion, it's only the science, it's only advice, it's only an order.
It's only a small march, it's only a conspiracy theory, it's only a journalist, it's only a troublemaker.
It's only democracy, it's only a vote, it's only your rights, it's only the Nuremberg code, it's only freedom.
It's only history, it's only our values, it's only what others fought for.
It's only the next three weeks, it's only next year, it's only forever.
Except, it's only one life.
And only one chance to live it.
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PGA Tour Leaderboard: Golf Championship Scores and Live Stream For FedEx Cup With Rory McIlroy
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Sep 11, 2014 12:44 PM EDT
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Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland walks off the second green during a practice round prior to the start of the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola at East Lake Golf Club on September 10, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia."
The PGA Tour Leaderboard is live from the TOUR Championship in East Lake CC as Rory McIlroy leads the scores for the time being with the second round going live into the third round for the FedEx Cup and he is one of the leaders with Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Justin Rose and Matt Kuchar all in the mix and live stream coverage is from NBC and the Golf Channel while scoreboard coverage is live from ESPN.com and the PGATour.com website.
The PGA Tour golf leaderboard is live from the TOUR Championship from East Lake CC in Atlanta and the FedEx Cup tournament has Rory McIlroy and a number of other big name players teeing off live and things will go through the weekend as Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler, Sergio Garcia, Jim Furyk, Bubba Watson and Jordan Spieth as well as Adam Scott try and win the title here.
Heading into this tournament after the BMW Championship, Chris Kirk is in the lead and he has a lead over Billy Horschel, Bubba Watson, Rory McIlroy, Hunter Mahan and Jimmy Walker as well as Furyk, Matt Kuchar and Fowler and now those names all will try and get a win here to keep moving up. McIlroy has had a great year and he comes in after winning two majors and he has been in the mix for the Cup heading into this tournament and he will be looking to play well.
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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson each had terrible years and they are not in on this tournament and with the Ryder Cup coming up as well, McIlroy is looking to get sharp and stay that way. McIlroy spoke about the age of those two players and about how they are on the back ends of their careers and now it's time for the young guns to step up more. McIlroy has done that by winning two more majors and now it looks like he is the player to beat moving forward over the next few years.
McIlroy has played very well at majors this year and that could set him up for success here and it comes after he came in eighth at the BMW. McIlroy was in fifth in the tournament before that and that came after his 22nd place finish at the Barclays. Coming into this, McIlroy had won three straight and that included the PGA Championship and he also won the WGC Bridgestone and he has been playing very well all around this year, including his drives and his putting.
Woods has had a disaster of a year and it came after a season when everyone thought he was about to get back on track. Last year Woods won five times last year and three times ahead of the Masters and many felt he was on his way back after that performance. Woods ended up getting his number one rank back, but this year has been a disaster. Woods missed cuts and played badly and he also was injured and now he will be out of action as he continues to recover and this could be the last chance for him to get back into shape before he hits the twilight of his career.
Check here for the PGA Tour golf leaderboard live from ESPN.com and coverage from the PGATour.com websites.
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Home/US/NYC comes roaring back with spectacular Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
NYC comes roaring back with spectacular Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
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The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade returned to its pre-pandemic glory on Thursday morning with a full parade filled with spectators on the streets.
This year's 95th annual parade features 15 giant character balloons, 28 floats, 36 novelty and heritage inflatables, more than 800 clowns, 10 marching bands and nine performance groups and the ever-popular Santa Claus. Overall, about 6,500 performers are featured in this year's celebration.
'For our 95th celebration, Macy's has created a spectacle to remember featuring a dazzling array of high-flying balloons, animated floats and incredible performers,' Will Coss, the executive producer of the parade, said in a statement.'
This year's upcoming parade comes after the downsizing of last year's which had cut thousands of participants, limited the route to one block, and of course requested spectators to watch the anticipated holiday tradition solely on their television screens.
The 95th annual Macy's Thanksgiving parade kicked off on Thursday morning
Snoopy, in his Nasa attire, was among the first of 15 giant character balloons to make their way through the Big Apple
The parade was open to all spectators after a scaled back version last year due to the pandemic
Some came fully dressed a turkey's to celebrate the parades triumphant return to form
The parade kicked off at 9 a.m. and goes on until 12 p.m.
The parade features 10 marching bands among its many acts of the day
The parade also features 28 floats. The Jolly Green Giant float was among the first to hit the streets
New balloon giants joining the line-up include Ada Twist, Scientist; the pint-sized hero from 'The Mandalorian' and the Pokémon characters Pikachu and Eevee on a sled.
Snoopy was among the many mainstays of the parade, appearing in his NASA suit as the longest-running character to appear at the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
There will also be new floats led by the cast of 'Girls5eva' – Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell and Busy Philipps – Nelly and Jordan Fisher, while Jon Batiste will be on an alligator-themed float celebrating Louisiana's music, food and culture.
Other celebrities on hand will include Carrie Underwood, Jimmie Allen, Kelly Rowland, Rob Thomas, Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss, Foreigner, Andy Grammer, Mickey Guyton, Chris Lane, Miss America Camille Schrier, Muppets from 'Sesame Street' and the three past and current hosts of 'Blue's Clues' – Steve Burns, Donovan Patton and Josh De la Cruz.
The Tom Turkey float kicked off the Big Apple's celebration on Thursday morning, with 27 floats set to follow
Red Titan, from Ryan's World, soars over New York City with an entourage of superheroes guiding his path
Ada Twist, the pint-sized scientist, was among one of the newest characters to fly at the parade
SpongeBob SquarePants graced the skies with an all-yellow entourage pulling him along
New York City's outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared at the beginning of the parade in front of a holiday Pikachu balloon
Children watched the parade from nearby buildings and stared at the giant balloons passing by
Some of the returning balloons will be 'The Boss Baby,' 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' Chase from 'Paw Patrol,' the Pillsbury Doughboy, Ronald McDonald, Red Titan from 'Ryan's World,' Papa Smurf, Sonic the Hedgehog and SpongeBob SquarePants.
As in years past, the New York Police Department blocked off all vehicle access points to the parade route with sand-filled garbage trucks, other heavy vehicles and approximately 360,000 pounds of concrete barriers.
Thousands of officers are assigned to the parade route, including counterterrorism teams.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said there were no specific, credible threats to the parade.
Paw Patrol's Chase was among the balloons, with the mascot from Diary of a Wimpy Kid following behind
The Boss Baby also made an appearance at the Big Apple
More than 6,500 performance walked down the streets of Manhattan as part of the holiday celebration
The New York Police Department are stationed throughout the parade to maintain safety
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BURLESON, Texas – Academy at Nola Dunn students in Burleson Independent School District (BISD) placed 1st in the Great Reading Games, a national reading competition hosted by Learning Ally.
Holden Frantz finished 2nd in the nation for reading 18,880 pages.
Marley Buck finished 5th in the nation for reading 14,240 pages.
Parker Manners finished 6th for reading 12,870 pages.
Logan Briggs finished 8th for reading 12,798 pages.
Georgia Bobo finished in 9th place nationally for reading 12,788 pages.
This achievement has been three years in the making, as students placed 8th in the nation in 2017 and 3rd in the nation in 2018.
"While earning the title of national champion is a tremendous achievement for our students, I am more proud of students' hard work and commitment to reading," said Dr. Bret Jimerson, BISD Superintendent.
Students receive Chromebooks, headphones and national recognition for their achievement. In addition, students who finished in the top ten nationally win gift cards and other prizes.
The Great Reading Games is a reading engagement competition designed to motivate struggling and non-readers to read for more than 20 minutes each day. As students read and learn through human-read audiobooks, they get excited about reading and begin to improve their reading comprehension, fluency, critical thinking and vocabulary skills to become more confident learners.
The annual event coincides with the National Education Association's Read Across America to empower students with learning differences to read with frequency and build strong reading habits. The goal of the event is to get students reading with frequency, which Learning Ally defines as reading for twenty minutes a day for thirty-three days.
Students who compete in the Great Reading Games are three times more likely to excel in reading frequency and 300% more likely to achieve levels of success that tie directly into their academic achievement, and emotional and social well-being.
Learning Ally is a leading education solutions organization dedicated to transforming the lives of struggling learners. Our proven Audiobook Solution includes high quality, human-read audiobooks that align to schools' curriculum in grades 3-12 and a suite of educator resources to help students who struggle to read due to learning differences succeed in school and beyond. Today, Learning Ally is successfully used in more than 16,000 schools nationwide. To learn more visit LearningAlly.org.
Burleson Independent School District serves more than 12,400 students and is recognized as a premier school district in the Dallas/Fort Worth-area. The mission of Burleson Independent School District is to engage and support every learner with a rigorous curriculum so that they graduate college and career ready.


... Low-grown teas, at an elevation below 2000 feet, produce good colour and strength and are popularly drunk with milk?
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... Lavender Tea relieves tension and it is a traditional home remedy for insomnia?
... Akbar Brothers ships more than 150,000 kg of tea every day?
... Tea contains antioxidants, vitamins and trace elements?
... Once mature, the bush will yield tea for fifty years?
... The U.S. is the only nation in the world that consumes more iced tea than hot tea?
... Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world next to water?
... Some 75 million cups of fine Ceylon tea shipped by Akbar Brothers are drunk around the world?


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HKI combats the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition by establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health and nutrition.
HKI's VAS work is highly likely to be constrained by funding next year. HKI has provided details of VAS programs that it could support with additional funding of up to about $37.8 million for its vitamin A supplementation program in 2018-2020. HKI appears to have limited prospects for funding these programs from other sources.
Vitamin A is an essential nutrient that serves many purposes in the body; in particular, the immune and visual systems require it to function properly. Essential nutrients must be obtained through diet since the body cannot produce them on its own. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) can cause stunting, anemia, xerophthalmia (dry eyes, which can lead to blindness), increased severity of infections, and death.
WHO notes that vitamin A from high-dose supplements can be stored in the liver and used as needed in the body for several months.To prevent childhood morbidity and mortality, WHO recommends vitamin A supplementation (VAS) every four to six months for all children aged 6 to 59 months in areas where VAD is a public health problem.
GiveWell estimates that it costs $0.75 to deliver a vitamin A supplement through HKI-supported mass distribution programs.
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Munsiganj (Bengalisch: , , auch , ; Englisch auch als Munshiganj) ist eine 14,17 Quadratkilometer große Stadt in Zentralbangladesch. Die im östlichen Teil des Distrikt Munsiganj gelegene Distrikthauptstadt liegt unweit des Flusses Meghna. Die Einwohnerzahl Munsiganjs liegt bei über 60.000.

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To understand the importance of page speed, all e-commerce business owners have to do is think about what it's like when they shop online.
You make a search, usually on Google. You click on one of the results, usually one of the top three. And if you go to the site and have to wait more than a few seconds for the web page to load, you hit the back button on move on to another result.
It's that simple. A slow page load speed is killer for an online business.
"Website visitors tend to care more about speed than all the bells and whistles we want to add to our websites," according to Kissmetrics, a site that focuses on analytics and marketing.
The average online business owner might not know all the technical issues involved with how a site looks and how fast its pages load. That's why they turn to agencies such as Bayshore Solutions, which works with e-commerce companies to improve their site's performance and marketing efforts.
Developers know how site speed affects performance across all metrics. That's why, in discussing improvements in the latest version of nopCommerce, Jody Roberts, a senior developer at Bayshore Solutions, focused on issues involving speed.
He noted that improvements, including better caching of information between requests and response compression, helped make the newest nopCommerce version even better for improving site performance. Especially in the area of speed.
This has become more of an issue as consumers have grown accustomed to shopping online. Back in 1999, people said in surveys they were willing to wait up to eight seconds for a site to load. Among today's consumers, eight seconds would seem like sitting in a traffic jam.
Ten years later, according to Shopify, that number was three seconds. And today, almost half of online customers say they expect a page to load in two seconds. That's a shorter amount of time than it just took you to read this sentence.
"No customer wants to wait for a page to load, no matter how compelling the brand story, how hot the product or how good the deal," wrote Jennifer Overstreet for Verizon's digital media services blog.
Site speed also is a determining factor in how high Google ranks your site in its search engine result pages. Google always seeks to promote pages higher up in its rankings when they provide quality information and a good user experience.
Obviously, a slower site does not provide good user experience. And a lower ranking with Google is not good news for e-commerce sites.
Of course, Google also uses many other factors to determine page rankings, such as quality content. But speed increasingly has become an issue. Google first announced page loading speed as a ranking factor in 2010, and by 2013 they announced they would penalize mobile sites for slow page loading times.
All of this adds up to a situation where page loading times should be an area where e-commerce owners focus. A good move is hire knowledgeable consultants and to go with a system such as nopCommerce 4.0.
The adage is that speed kills. But in this case, speed is your friend.


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Focused on protecting business interests, T. Chase Garrett is a pragmatic and experienced business attorney who represents high net worth individuals and businesses in high-stakes cases. Chase focuses on early strategic planning for his clients to help them avoid the courtroom; however, when necessary, Chase has the experience to handle complex litigation matters including breach of contract, employment law, shareholder and partnership disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trade secrets, violations of non-compete agreements, deceptive trade practices, interference with contracts, claims brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act, construction disputes, and business disparagement. Chase also has a niche practice representing the business interests of individuals going through divorce. In these cases, Chase guides clients through complex business issues that often arise in cases where the divorcing parties have ownership in a business, and he handles litigation between divorcing parties (often times after the divorce has been finalized) with respect to business issues and obligations incident to a divorce.
Contract Drafting & Negotiation
Entity Selection & Business Formation
Non-Competition Covenants
Co-Author, "The Intersection of Texas Citizen's Participation Act and Family Law", State Bar of Texas Family Law Section Winter Report, December 2018
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
Chase has successfully tried cases to juries, judges, and arbitrators in numerous counties across Texas. A few of his accomplishments are listed below:
Three weeks after a $100 million lawsuit against Chase's client had been filed for defamation, he obtained a complete dismissal of all claims by using the Texas Anti-SLAPP Motion to Dismiss. An award of attorney's fees and sanctions in favor of Chase's client was mandatory. Cause No. 429-02109-2018; Collin County, Texas.
In an employment case, Chase obtained summary judgment on $2 million worth of claims asserted under the Texas Sales Representative Act, the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the Texas Theft Liability Act, and for numerous other common law causes of action. Cause No. DC-15-13638; Dallas County, Texas.
When an out-of-state engineering firm asserted that it had a $12 million contract with a Collin County business, when it did not, Chase was part of the trial team that obtained a favorable jury verdict in a declaratory judgment action. The jury also gave an award of $430,000 in attorney's fees to the client. Cause No. 429-03624-2015; Collin County, Texas.
In a multi-million dollar real estate fraud matter, Chase helped reach a favorable settlement on behalf of a plaintiff group involving the purchase and construction of real estate for an oil terminal in Corpus Christi. Cause No. 2015-63174; Harris County, Texas.
When a technology services company had been sued for $2.75 million in alleged deceptive trade damages, Chase successfully obtained summary judgment in favor of his client on all counts. Chase then negotiated a settlement in favor of his client for its unpaid invoices. 366-00888-2015; Collin County, Texas.
In a case brought under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by a consumer seeking $180,000 in damages, a Dallas arbitrator awarded a take-nothing award in favor of Chase's client. Cause No. DC-14-02536; Dallas County, Texas.
Chase defended and obtained a dismissal and an award of attorney's fees in favor of his client in a fiduciary duty case. Cause No. 429-01389-2017; Collin County, Texas.
In a dispute over business ownership by a divorced couple almost ten years after their divorce, Chase sued to recover ownership and millions of dollars in unpaid distributions for his client. The case settled privately prior to trial. Cause No. 380-00865-2017; Collin County, Texas.
In a real estate litigation matter, the Plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his claims against a real estate agent who had been sued for fraud and deceptive trade practices immediately after Chase filed a Rule 91a Motion to Dismiss. Cause No. DC-16-00599; Dallas County, Texas.
In a construction litigation matter, Chase obtained a removal of a mechanic's lien from the property records, and a take-nothing summary judgment in favor of his client. Cause No. 429-03946-2013; Collin County, Texas.
Juris Doctor, Texas Tech University School of Law, 2009
Bachelor of Arts., Marketing, Midwestern State University, 2005
Selected in "Best of Readers' Choice 2019" list, Living Magazine, Plano/Frisco Edition
Selected in "Best Lawyers Under 40" list, D Magazine, 2020
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International flights land at Sofia International Airport (10km east of Sofia).
Are there direct flights between London and Sofia?
There are frequent, cheap, direct flights between London and Sofia, and a number of indirect flights.
How long is the flight from London to Sofia?
The flight duration from London to Sofia is about three to four hours.
What is the time difference between London and Sofia?
Sofia is two hours ahead of London time.
Are there direct flights between the US and Sofia?
There are seldom direct flights between the US and Sofia, or any other destination in Bulgaria, but there are numerous indirect flights to Sofia available connecting through various other European cities, including London, Munich, Milan and Amsterdam.
How long is the flight from the US to Sofia?
An indirect flight from New York to Sofia takes about 15 to 20 hours if you have a reasonable stop-over time.
What is the time difference between the US and Sofia?
Sofia is seven hours ahead of New York, and 10 hours ahead of Los Angeles.


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Q: How to send data from external device to OS with rs232 and fake it as a mouse I have a project that i need to send some data with an RS232 to USB cable from external Msp430 launchpad to the computer and fake it as a mouse. Is this possible without learning USB protocols of the mouse?

A: You could pretend to be a Microsoft Serial Mouse:
http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/serialmouse/
Edit: if that doesn't work, and the computer has a PS/2 mouse port, you can use that: http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2protocol/
Otherwise you're going to have to get a microcontroller with USB support and learn that, which will be time-consuming.

A: Microchip has a PICDEM Full Speed USB Demo Board for this. This demo board comes with a program that emmulates a HID mouse using USB. You could adapt this program to create your fake mouse.

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HNLMS Van Galen () was a  of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after the 17th century Dutch Commodore Johan van Galen. She served during World War II. The opening chapter of E.H.Larive's autobiography 'The Man Who Came In From Colditz' (p. Hale, 1975) describes in detail the craft's demise.

Service history
The ship was laid down on 28 May 1927, at the shipyard Fijenoord, in Rotterdam, and launched on 28 June 1928. The ship was commissioned on 22 October 1929.

On 22 February 1932, Van Galen left Surabaya, for a trip to Shanghai, to look after Dutch interests in the region. She returned in April that year.

On 16 November 1935, Van Galen, her sister , and the cruiser , made a visit to Saigon.

On 23 August 1936, Sumatra, her sister , and the destroyers Van Galen, Witte de With and , were present at the fleet days held at Surabaya.

On 16 August 1937, the ship was again send to Shanghai, because of rising political tension in China. With the ship, 150 marines were sent to protect European citizens and interests.

On 8 May 1940, she returned to the Netherlands, on 10 May, war with Germany broke out. The Germans had captured the airfield Waalhaven, in Rotterdam, and Van Galen was ordered to bombard the airfield. A German aircraft attacked her while underway and she sank near Merwehaven. The Germans decided to raise the ship on 23 October 1941. The wreck was scrapped in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.

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Paik's possibly most famous video work was produced as a gap-filler for an empty wall in his fourth show in the Galeria Bonino, New York. Shortly before the opening, he hit upon the idea of making a TV viewer out of an antique Buddha statue once purchased as an investment. The subsequent addition of a video camera meant the Buddha now watched his videotaped image on the screen opposite – past and present gaze upon each other in an encounter between Oriental deity and Western media.
During the 'Projekt '74' exhibition in Cologne, Paik took the Buddha's place in his recent creation, suggesting the implicit antithesis between transcendentalism and technology was equally present in his own personality.


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November 18, 2020 Andries van der WaltComments Off on Steven Odendaal Joins The BARDAHL Evan Bros World Supersport Team for Their 2021 Championship Campaign
By jackhammersley4658 South African WorldSSP rider Steven Odendaal will be riding the Yamaha YZF-R6 for the reigning Championship WorldSSP Team. The ex-Moto 2 rider had a favourable debut season in the WorldSSP paddock in 2020 finishing in fifth place in the championship. Odendaal is hopeful to continue the winning streak of the two-time champion Italian […]
Superbike star Matheus Barbosa, 23, killed in horror crash after colliding with metal barrier in Sao Paulo race
November 10, 2020 Andries van der WaltComments Off on Superbike star Matheus Barbosa, 23, killed in horror crash after colliding with metal barrier in Sao Paulo race
By:Gerard Couzens SUPERBIKE star Matheus Barbosa died after losing control of his bike during a race in Brazil. The 23-year-old was filmed having difficulties on a bend before careering off the track and smashing into a metal barrier. The tragedy happened on Sunday at the famous Interlagos circuit on the outskirts of Sao Paulo during […]
Morais to make Kawasaki WSBK return at Estoril
October 14, 2020 Andries van der WaltComments Off on Morais to make Kawasaki WSBK return at Estoril
South African rider Sheridan Morais will make his first World Superbike since 2016 when he takes part in this weekend's Estoril season finale. Morais, 35, will ride Orelac Racing's solo Kawasaki ZX-10RR at the Portuguese track as the team's regular rider Maximilian Scheib continues his recovery from injury. Schieb crashed heavily during last month's Barcelona […]
The history Rea could make at the French Round
October 1, 2020 Andries van der WaltComments Off on The history Rea could make at the French Round
Reigning Champion Jonathan Rea is on the verge of re-writing history once again as WorldSBK heads to Magny-Cours Writing history and breaking records is something Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) has been getting used to in recent year, having won five MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship titles from 2015 to 2019. As WorldSBK prepares […]
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August 31, 2020 Andries van der WaltComments Off on WSB: Jonathan Rea takes control after Aragon double
Jonathan Rea leads the 2020 World Superbike Championship once again after securing a dominating double at Aragon. Rea has a 10-point advantage over Scott Redding in the highly competitive title fight after winning both of Sunday's races. The Kawasaki rider continued his 100% 2020 record in the Superpole Race on Sunday morning, winning the 10-lap […]
Beaubier breaks lap record as MotoAmerica returns at Road America
June 1, 2020 Andries van der WaltComments Off on Beaubier breaks lap record as MotoAmerica returns at Road America
Monster Energy Attack Performance Yamaha's Cameron Beaubier started the 2020 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Series in the best possible way at Road America, the defending four-time MotoAmerica Superbike champion leading both sessions by a comfortable margin and smashing the outright lap record on Friday afternoon. Beaubier started strongly in the morning session with his 2:12.151 putting […]
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March 18, 2020 March 18, 2020 Andries van der WaltComments Off on SELLER BACK ON TRACK AT ZWARTKOPS
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WSBK: Three from Three at Phillip Island
March 3, 2020 Andries van der WaltComments Off on WSBK: Three from Three at Phillip Island
The 2020 World Superbikes season kicked off this weekend with a bang in Down Under. Three action-packed races at Phillip Island produced three different winners for the first time in World Superbikes history with the combined winning margins totalling just over a tenth of a second. Toprak Razgatlıoğlu took the first victory of the season […]
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October 31, 2019 October 31, 2019 Andries van der WaltComments Off on WORLD SUPERBIKE ROUNDUP: SERIES CHAMPION REA DOMINATES IN QATAR
Jonathan Rea was once again in top form as the five-time champion made it a clean sweep for the third time this season. Taking all three victories not only meant that he surpassed championship rival Alvaro Bautista for the most wins throughout the year, but also matched his previous best tally of seventeen in a season. Rea […]
REA HOLDS OFF LATE DAVIES CHARGE FOR RACE TWO VICTORY
October 14, 2019 Andries van der WaltComments Off on REA HOLDS OFF LATE DAVIES CHARGE FOR RACE TWO VICTORY
Jonathan Rea made it a perfect Sunday in Argentina with victory in race two ahead of Chaz Davies and Toprak Razgatlioglu. The five-time champion started the race from Pole after his earlier Superpole race success and made a great start to lead into turn one. Rea dominated the early stages and immediately set about creating a gap to his nearest challenger Alvaro […]
World Superbikes: Jonathan Rea earns fifth straight title after Magny-Cours win
September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019 Andries van der WaltComments Off on World Superbikes: Jonathan Rea earns fifth straight title after Magny-Cours win
Jonathan Rea secured a fifth straight World Superbike title with two rounds to spare after taking victory in Race Two at Magny-Cours. The Northern Irishman, 32, becomes the first rider to win five World Superbikes titles. His nearest rival Alvaro Bautista exited early in Race Two after being taken out by Toprak Razgatlioglu. Rea (right) trailed […]
Jonathan Rea extends Superbikes Championship lead with Laguna Seca win
July 15, 2019 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Jonathan Rea extends Superbikes Championship lead with Laguna Seca win
Ulsterman closing in on a record-breaking fifth title in a row Jonathan Rea took a massive step towards an unprecedented fifth World Superbike title in a row with victory in last night's dramatic opening race at Laguna Seca in California. The Kawasaki rider roared to his fifth career win at the legendary American circuit and […]
Takahashi scores Honda's first top eight of WorldSBK 2019
June 27, 2019 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Takahashi scores Honda's first top eight of WorldSBK 2019
Yuki Takahashi delivers Moriwaki Althea Honda's best WorldSBK finish of the year in Misano with a run to the eighth in the wet opening race Honda notched up its first top eight result of the 2019 World Superbike Championship season courtesy of a charging performance in wet conditions by its substitute rider Yuki Takahashi in […]
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June 26, 2019 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Supersport 300 World Championship: Ana Carrasco Wins At Misano
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World Superbikes: Rea wins in Italy to cut gap on Bautista
June 24, 2019 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on World Superbikes: Rea wins in Italy to cut gap on Bautista
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Isle of Man TT 2019 results: Peter Hickman takes fourth career win in second supersport race ahead of Dean Harrison
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May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on World Superbikes: Rea wins Superpole race to complete Imola double
Jonathan Rea took his second win of the weekend with victory in Sunday's Superpole sprint at Imola. The reigning champion from Northern Ireland took the chequered flag in the 10-lap race, 2.141 seconds clear of Welshman Chaz Davies. Rea has reduced the gap to championship leader Alvaro Bautista, who completed the podium, to 43 points. […]
World Superbikes 2019: Assen king Jonathan Rea hoping to enhance incredible Dutch TT record
April 10, 2019 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on World Superbikes 2019: Assen king Jonathan Rea hoping to enhance incredible Dutch TT record
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Isle of Man TT: Dean Harrison – "We're back to put the record straight."
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Superbikes news – Bautista triumphs in 2019 opener at Phillip Island
February 25, 2019 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Superbikes news – Bautista triumphs in 2019 opener at Phillip Island
The Spaniard claimed the win in his first World Superbikes race since making the switch from Moto GP, where he had been riding for the previous nine years. He took the lead on the first lap and finished well ahead with a final lead of 14.983 seconds. Things had not seemed so promising for Bautista […]
WSB: Laguna returns to calendar for 2019, no Kyalami
December 20, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on WSB: Laguna returns to calendar for 2019, no Kyalami
Laguna Seca has returned to the 2019 World Superbike calendar after initially being dropped for the upcoming season. Circuit bosses had been unable to agree a date with World Superbike rights' holders Dorna, who wanted to run the event in August on a weekend that clashed with a car event at the Californian circuit. A […]
Triple Treat of World Superbike to launch at Phillip Island
December 14, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Triple Treat of World Superbike to launch at Phillip Island
The Phillip Island round of the 2019 Motul FIM Superbike World Championship from February 22-24 will be the first to host three races for the famed production bike series. Schedule confirmation came in overnight from international organisers, Dorna and the FIM, with the expanded three-race formula (see below for full Phillip Island WSBK Schedule), for […]
'Hamilton crashes in Superbike test'
December 3, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on 'Hamilton crashes in Superbike test'
Lewis Hamilton took a tumble while testing World Superbike machinery in Jerez on Friday, according to a report in Gazzetta dello Sport. Hamilton was in Spain to test a Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike, but scraped the tarmac on one lap, escaping apparently unharmed. Hamilton is a known fan of action on two wheels and has previously teased […]
Champion Jonathan Rea embracing new race challenge as Argentina hosts maiden World Superbike round Read more at: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/motorcycling/champion-jonathan-rea-embracing-new-race-challenge-as-argentina-hosts-maiden-world-superbike-round
October 11, 2018 October 11, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Champion Jonathan Rea embracing new race challenge as Argentina hosts maiden World Superbike round Read more at: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/motorcycling/champion-jonathan-rea-embracing-new-race-challenge-as-argentina-hosts-maiden-world-superbike-round
Champion Jonathan Rea embracing new race challenge as Argentina hosts maiden World Superbike round Pause Unmute Loaded: 0%Progress: 0% Remaining Time -3:22 Fullscreen KYLE WHITE Email Published: 15:44 Updated: 16:01 Wednesday 10 October 2018 Share this article Sign Up To Our Daily Newsletter Sign up Newly-crowned World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea is braced for a new […]
World Superbikes: Title-chasing Jonathan Rea focusing on race wins
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Northern Ireland's Jonathan Rea says he is focusing on winning races as he chases an unprecedented fourth consecutive World Superbike title. The Kawasaki rider enjoys a 92-point lead with four rounds remaining as the championship resumes in Portugal after a break of more than two months. "I'm trying to focus on doing the best I can, […]
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Johan Kristoffersson claimed his sixth win of the 2018 World Rallycross Championship season with a fightback drive at Trois-Rivieres worthy of his world champion status. Johan Kristofferson Ninth on day one, points leader Kristoffersson entered day two with a damage limitation strategy, but fastest time in Q3 and Q4 elevated him to the top of […]
Lowes, van der Mark triumph for Yamaha at Suzuka 8 Hours
July 30, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Lowes, van der Mark triumph for Yamaha at Suzuka 8 Hours
The #21 Yamaha Factory Racing Team has survived a frantic Suzuka 8 Hours to defend its title with Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark sharing rider duties with the absence of injured team-mate Katsuyuki Nakasuga, creating history with a fourth consecutive victory for the team. In a race which started in the wet before […]
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Exceptional victory for Audi RS 3 LMS in Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge
July 24, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Exceptional victory for Audi RS 3 LMS in Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge
Michael Johnson wins with Stephen Simpson in an Audi RS 3 LMS in the U.S. Third victory this season for Audi R8 LMS GT4 in GT4 European Series.Podium success for Audi R8 LMS in North America In the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, a wheelchair-bound Audi privateer driver achieved his first victory in automobile racing. […]
Rea: WSBK needs MotoGP star to boost popularity
July 10, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Rea: WSBK needs MotoGP star to boost popularity
The World Superbike championship needs a "star" from MotoGP to step over to boost its fading popularity, believes Jonathan Rea. WSBK has struggled in recent years to attract large crowds to events, despite changes to race formats and the technical regulations being made in a bid to make the series more exciting. Meanwhile, sister series […]
William Dunlop dead: Family in 'state of disbelief' after fatal crash as Ballymoney rider was 'considering retirement'
July 9, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on William Dunlop dead: Family in 'state of disbelief' after fatal crash as Ballymoney rider was 'considering retirement'
The Dunlop family are in a "state of disbelief" after the death of much-loved road racer William on Saturday, with his accident at an Irish event in Dublin coming as he pondered retirement from the sport.William, the eldest son of the late Robert Dunlop and nephew of record Isle of Man TT winner Joey Dunlop, suffered fatal injuries in a […]
Jonathan Rea signs new deal with Kawasaki to stay in World Superbikes
June 12, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Jonathan Rea signs new deal with Kawasaki to stay in World Superbikes
Three-time world champion Jonathan Rea has signed a new two-year deal with the Kawasaki Racing Team to stay in the World Superbikes for the 2019 and 2020 campaigns. Rea, 31, has long been linked with a step up to MotoGP – where he would have plenty of suitors following his dominance in the WSB – […]
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Electric rally car entered into Finke
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Electric rally car entered into Finke
An all-electric rally car will compete in next month's Tatts Finke Desert Race.Known as the 'Acciona 100% EcoPowered', the car was built in Barcelona by Spanish civil works and renewable energy firm Acciona. It was the first all-electric vehicle to complete the Dakar Rally, in 2017 at its third attempt, and has also gone on […]
Records tumble at East London SuperGP
April 30, 2018 April 30, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Records tumble at East London SuperGP
Heavy wind, close racing and new lap records were the highlights at the third round of the 2018 SuperGP Champions Trophy which took place at the East London Grand Prix Circuit in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, 28 April 2018. Clint Seller (King Price Extreme/Bikefin Yamaha R1) won both of the SuperGP heats while his […]
Speed Queen Van Aswegen superb during Bulawayo debut
April 18, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Speed Queen Van Aswegen superb during Bulawayo debut
It has certainly been a long break away from competitive main circuit racing for the fastest lady rider in South Africa, but Nicole van Aswegen certainly showed the Bulawayo crowd that she didn't lose her touch on Saturday, April 14, 2018. Hard work paid off with her celebrating a host of strong results against a […]
DUCATI TEAM READY FOR THE ACTION AT ASSEN, HOME OF THE FOURTH ROUND OF THE WORLDSBK CHAMPIONSHIP
April 18, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on DUCATI TEAM READY FOR THE ACTION AT ASSEN, HOME OF THE FOURTH ROUND OF THE WORLDSBK CHAMPIONSHIP
After taking a brilliant win and two more podiums at Aragon (Spain) last weekend, the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team is ready to take it back to the track at Assen (Netherlands) for the fourth round of the 2018 WorldSBK Championship. Both Chaz Davies and Marco Melandri are keen to take home their first win […]
Bike racers were never choirboys
April 17, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Bike racers were never choirboys
This is bike racing, not classical music," opined former 250cc world champion Max Biaggi after Doriano Romboni accused him of dirty tricks on the last lap of the 1994 250cc German Grand Prix.Pretty obvious, really, because there's not a half-successful racer in the world who doesn't get up to some kind of mischief in his […]
#AragonWorldSBK Day 3 – Davies dazzles field with seventh Aragon win
April 17, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on #AragonWorldSBK Day 3 – Davies dazzles field with seventh Aragon win
Tere are very few certainties in the WorldSBK calendar – but a Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) and Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) battle at MotorLand Aragon seems as close as you can get. In a repeat of last year's Aragon Round, the two leading riders of the championship clashed sensationally in the […]
Buriram WorldSBK: First win of 2018 for Davies
March 26, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Buriram WorldSBK: First win of 2018 for Davies
Aruba Ducati's Chaz Davies scored his first 2018 WorldSBK race win after picking off riders and taking the lead that he stretched out to an eventual 2.1 seconds over second placed Michael van der Mark (Pata Yamaha) for Ducati's first win at the Buriram circuit, and the first non-Kawasaki race victory in Thailand. On a […]
Melandri does the WorldSBK double at Phillip Island
February 26, 2018 Andries Van der WaltComments Off on Melandri does the WorldSBK double at Phillip Island
Marco Melandri took his second win of the weekend at Phillip Island by just 21 thousandths from reigning champion Jonathan Rea, drafting past the Kawasaki just before the line. Each rider had to make a pit-stop between laps 10-12 as a safety measure because of the issues that plagued the Pirelli tires in the first […]


Apple has officially launched its latest iPad (one that Tim Cook chose to call "the new iPad", rather than the iPad 2S or iPad 3), at a special event on 7 March, in San Francisco.
The new iPad features a number of very interesting software and hardware upgrades, including a new Retina Display, the A5X chip and a 5 megapixel iSight camera.
"The new iPad redefines the category Apple created less than two years ago, delivering the most amazing experience people have ever had with technology. The new iPad now has the highest resolution display ever seen on a mobile device with 3.1 million pixels, delivering razor sharp text and unbelievable detail in photos and videos," said Philip Schiller, Apple's Senior Vice President of worldwide marketing, in a statement issued by the company.


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When University Scientists Found Underwater Oil Plumes, the Government Said Shut Up, Don't Tell Anyone ... and Then Tried to Discredit Them - Washingtons Blog
When University Scientists Found Underwater Oil Plumes, the Government Said Shut Up, Don't Tell Anyone ... and Then Tried to Discredit Them
As I've previously reported, a senior EPA policy analyst says that NOAA and the EPA have been "sock puppets" for BP.
NOAA has repeatedly denied the existence of underwater oil plumes (see this and this), calculated the spill to be only 5,000 barrels a day, and buried core data on the oil spill.
Now, university scientists have revealed the NOAA used strong-arm tactics to try to silence any information on underwater plumes. As the St. Petersburg Times reports:
The reaction that [the University of South Florida] announcement [of the discovery of huge underwater plumes] received from the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agencies that sponsored their research:
"I got lambasted by the Coast Guard and NOAA when we said there was undersea oil," USF marine sciences dean William Hogarth said. Some officials even told him to retract USF's public announcement, he said, comparing it to being "beat up" by federal officials.
The USF scientists weren't alone. Vernon Asper, an oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi, was part of a similar effort that met with a similar reaction. "We expected that NOAA would be pleased because we found something very, very interesting," Asper said. "NOAA instead responded by trying to discredit us. It was just a shock to us."
NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, in comments she made to reporters in May, expressed strong skepticism about the existence of undersea oil plumes — as did BP's then-CEO, Tony Hayward.
"She basically called us inept idiots," Asper said. "We took that very personally."
Lubchenco confirmed Monday that her agency told USF and other academic institutions involved in the study of undersea plumes that they should hold off talking so openly about it. "What we asked for, was for people to stop speculating before they had a chance to analyze what they were finding," Lubchenco said. "We think that's in everybody's interest. … We just wanted to try to make sure that we knew something before we speculated about it."
"We had solid evidence, rock solid," Asper said. "We weren't speculating." If he had to do it over again, he said, he'd do it all exactly the same way, despite Lubchenco's ire.
USF's first NOAA-sponsored voyage to take samples after Deepwater Horizon, the one that turned up evidence of the undersea plumes, was designed to gather evidence for use in an eventual court case against BP and other oil companies involved in the disaster. At the end of the voyage, USF turned its samples over to NOAA, expecting to get either a shared analysis or the samples themselves back. So far, Hogarth said, they've received neither.
NOAA's top oil spill scientist, Steve Murawski, said Monday that he was "sure we will release the data" at some point. However, he said, because NOAA has collected so many samples over the past three months, when it comes to the samples from USF's trip in May, "I'm not sure where they are."
A government official named "Lubchenco" strong-arming scientists to toe the party line, and a government agency "losing" samples instead of sharing results with the scientists who had taken them.
Sounds like the Soviet Union, doesn't it?
Too bad it's America.
When Government Agencies turn on their own brethren. Is that cannibalism? Or just capitalism?
Hmmm, methinks neither. Moreso the methodology of an insane aristocracy and its minions.
Looks like the parasite just lost another tick...
Voices Bahamian August 11, 2010 at 7:36 AM
A great post....
http://dailyhurricane.com/2010/08/questions-bp-needs-to-answer.html
Very interesting. But come on, the expression is 'toe the line' not tow. Where were you planning to tow it to?
TARA August 12, 2010 at 2:06 PM
Matt Simmons, a vetern oil man, haD been a wonderful whistleblower throughout this oil saga and haD offerred great information thru his website and you tube. He DIED SUDDENLY A FEW DAYS AGO WITHOUT BEING ILL.
, HE WAS THE ONLY OIL INSIDER WHO DARED TO SPEAK UP. GOD BLESS HIM AND GOLD BLESS US
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This brilliantly sparkling crystal owl figurine is so adorable and is featured on the lid of our Owl Charm Manicure Kit wallet, by Spring Street Design. The nail manicure kit is small enough and light enough to conveniently carry in your handbag so you can fix a nail on the go.
The Owl Charm Manicure Kit unzips, with a crystal studded zipper, measures 4.5 inches long and includes a nail file, nail clippers, metal cuticle stick, small scissors and toenail clippers.
Picture shows the inside and edges of the manicure kit in pink, but they are actually silver to match the metallic black exterior.
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On day one, my friend Kate Warnock – Social Media Manager at GuideWell Health - was at the summit interviewing key individuals at the GuideWell Insights Lounge. This is the 2nd year that the GuideWell Insights Lounge has stationed itself at the OW Summit; the GW Insights Lounge is apparently a new fixture at major healthcare conferences. I gotta say I like how Kate and GuideWell capture, curate and share valuable information about healthcare innovation, thought leadership and trends.
One of Kate's first interviews of the event was with Terry Stone - Global Managing Partner for the Health and Life Sciences Practice - at Oliver Wyman. Terry shared with Kate some insight into the difficulty healthcare payers are having with their transition from a business-to-business (B2B) to a business-to-consumer (B2C) business model. Terry also shared how innovators must understand the entire healthcare ecosystem and outlined the 'category' of those who might be in the best position to really disrupt the health market.
The following is a transcription I pulled off of the YouTube recording created by the GuideWell Insights Lounge. You can see the entire interview here. You may also want to check out tweets from the summit tagged with #OWHIC.
We've been talking about the consumer in the health industry for a long time yet we still seem to lag behind behind other industries. Why is that and what can we do to fix it now?
"That's a great question. I think in the last three years, in some way shape or form, we've touched on this each year: about where are we and why are we kind of stuck? That actually is a key part of why we focused the conference on what we have this year. Because healthcare does seem to be a little bit stuck.
And I think it's a great question. We've given a lot of thought to it. I'll start by the first, most basic premise being: healthcare has always been a B2B industry versus a real business-to-consumer industry. So in B2B businesses, health plans were selling to large employers. Right? Quite frankly, provider systems were negotiating with health plans and quite frankly the consumer, in some ways, was an afterthought. Okay. But that sounds a little overly simplistic. Like okay. So it's B2B now we have to be B2C. But I think it's really important that people understand what happens when you're in B2B market versus B2C and why does that make it so difficult to change?
"So first of all, in a business-to-business market, your buyers are often buying for a lot more like rational logical reasons. You also have very sophisticated buyers buying a complicated service and, in some ways unintentionally I would argue, the product gets more complicated as each side tries to prove to one another that they're adding more value. Right? It's almost the antithesis of what you need for the consumer and that's a really hard paradigm to break and that actually is most pervasive through most of healthcare.
How important is it for organizations to really understand the full ecosystem and to be able to connect the dots - another theme here at the summit?
"Sure I'm we talked a lot about the ecosystem and healthcare and it's funny we talk about the healthcare system in the US and I think what someone said it great ones where they commented that we don't have a system what we have is a bunch of parts and pieces that are all stuck together and you get this sort of random ecosystem, if you will."
Who do you think is in the best position to really disrupt the health market?
"It's sort of the 10 million dollar question. I think if I knew specifically I probably wouldn't be sitting here and I'd be betting my money on someone else. But I will speak kind of categorically that, in my role, I see lots of players in healthcare. I cut across payers, providers, life science companies, health services and tech innovators. And what I have kind of strongly come to believe is that most likely the disruption that really changes things going to come from the outside."
"So that healthcare is in some capacity going to be airBNB'd or uber-ized. And by that I don't mean 'Uber for Health,' I mean somebody out of left field takes an industry that's kind of not delighting the stakeholders and has excess waste and it's going to kind of disrupt it and shake it out. And that could be in the form of the Apple's or the Google's of the world. Right? It could be the Walmart's of the world. You know that the average Walmart consumer, I believe, goes in more than twice a week, over a hundred times a year.
What do you hope is achieved at this year's summit?
"So what we're hoping to achieve this year is going beyond the basic part of innovation; which is 'Oh, what's that company do? Or what's that technology? Or that seems really neat. And actually what we've been striving to do for the last couple years is get underneath "what's the magic in what makes that company special? What is it that makes it stick? Why are consumers delighted? And how did we get beyond the basics of the functions and the features and figure out what it is that really makes it sing and what really makes it kind of win. And I think that's a lot of what will be sharing."
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The 2017–18 AWIHL season is the 11th season of the Australian Women's Ice Hockey League (AWIHL). It ran from 28 October 2017 until 18 March 2018. Four teams competed in 24 regular season games followed by 4 playoff games, making up the AWIHL Finals weekend. The Sydney Sirens claimed the premiership title for finishing top of the regular season standings, while the Melbourne Ice claimed the Joan McKowen Memorial Trophy championship title by winning the grand final. Melbourne finished runner-up in the season standings while Sydney lost the grand final. Adelaide Rush came last in the regular season and claimed the wooden spoon.

Teams

In 2017–18 the AWIHL had four teams from four Australian state capital cities competing, stretching across the east coast and southern Australian mainland. Perth Inferno was added as an exhibition team only for the 2017–18 season, as they looked to meet criteria set down by the AWIHL Commission to be granted a full licence for 2018–19.

League Business

The official AWIHL gameday schedule was released at the start of September 2017. The season structure remained unchanged from 2016-17, each team competing in a four game series against each other team, playing two games at home and two games away. Looking to become the first AWIHL expansion team, Perth Inferno, was admitted to the league on a provisional licence to play two exhibition games against the Sydney Sirens. The first of these two exhibition games, at Canterbury Olympic Ice Rink, was to be live streamed by Thought Fox Media Group with commentary by Eric Brookes. Ahead of the season, the AWIHL announced the continuation of their sponsorship agreement with Skaters Network in November 2017. The agreement would continue the company's status as preferred equipment supplier to the AWIHL and the naming rights holder for the player of the month award. Ice Hockey Australia also announced the establishment and go-live of the league's new website, hosted on the Ice Hockey Australia's website, it contains separate pages for each team, news, history and is linked to the eSportsdesk website that contains all information on games, players, scores and stats. Every AWIHL game of the 2017-18 season would be live streamed on the new website. In December 2017, AWIHL commissioner, Melissa Rulli, announced the league had secured a event assistance grant under the Victorian Government's Significant Sporting Events Program, to host the AWIHL Finals weekend in Melbourne at O'Brien Group Arena.

Regular season

Fixtures and results
Running between 28 October 2017 and 4 March 2018, the AWIHL regular season consisted of 24 games in total, with teams playing 12 games each, 4 games (2 home and 2 away) against each opponent. There additionally was two exhibition games scheduled for Sydney in February 2018 between the Sydney Sirens and prospective expansion side Perth Inferno. The Sirens won both games comfortably against the exhibition Perth team, scoring sixteen goals and conceding five.

October

November

December

January

February

March

Key:

Standings

Player stats
The season's league leader statistics for skaters and goaltenders.

Season awards

Below lists the 2017–18 AWIHL regular season award winners.

Joan McKowen playoffs
The top four teams in the AWIHL regular season qualify for the Joan McKowen Memorial Trophy playoffs. The playoffs is held on a single weekend and uses Australian conventions of being called Finals. The playoff system used by the AWIHL is a four team single game semi-finals and grand final system where the semi-final winners progress to the grand final and the losers playoff for third place. Semi-finals are played on the Saturday and the third place playoff and grand final is played on the Sunday. The prize for being crowned AWIHL Champions for winning the grand final is the Joan McKowen Memorial Trophy.

In 2017–18, the Adelaide Rush, Sydney Sirens, Brisbane Goannas and Melbourne Ice qualified for the finals weekend. The event was held on 17 and 18 March 2018 in host city Melbourne at O'Brien Group Arena. On Saturday, Sydney won the first semi final in a high scoring affair against Adelaide. In the second semi-final, the Melbourne Ice made light work of Brisbane to advance to the grand final. On Sunday, first up, the Goannas won a close contest against the Rush to secure bronze medals for the Queenslanders. In the grand final, Melbourne Ice secured their record equaling sixth championship title and lifted the Joan McKowen Memorial Trophy, after defeating the Sydney Sirens 4–2, with Jessica Pinkerton scoring all four goals for the winners.

Semi-finals

Third place playoff

Final

References

External links
Australian Women's Hockey League
Ice Hockey Australia

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The CSR Report for Magic Bus India Foundation.
The Dixon funded Magic Bus activities aimed to empower 270 beneficiaries belonging to various communities of North West Delhi – by augmenting their holistic development using a community based Sports for Development (S4D) approach. The approach focussed upon key domains, namely, gender, education, health and nutrition and socio-emotional learning–was aimed at facilitating behaviour change among children. The program implemented through a strategically designed activity based curriculum was intended to engage with underprivileged children in the age group of 8 to 14 years, to equip them with knowledge, skills and development opportunities. By doing so Magic Bus intends to support children evolve into confident and competent members of the society, and thus empower them to choose a livelihood option of their choice, thereby giving them a fair chance of moving out of the poverty trap.
Project Location:Bawana JJ camp, Bakkarwala and Haiderpur.
A total of 270 children were identified as beneficiaries for Magic Bus sessions.
11 CYLs were identified from target locations. Subsequently, Community Youth Leaders (CYL) basic training followed by monthly refresher trainings were conducted as per the Magic Bus curriculum to ensure effective program delivery.
In order to conduct community sessions with children, safe playgrounds were identified with the help of local community members.
For smooth implementation of the program, CYLs were equipped with one sports kit and Magic Bus uniform each.
37 children participated in a football tournament organised in Khajoori on 27th July, 2016.
CYL refresher training was conducted in the month of July and September 2016 in Bakkarwala, North Delhi.
2 stakeholder meetings were conducted with youth and other community members to seek community acceptance for implementing the program.
Priya a student of class student 12th has big plans and dreams to fulfill. She is happy that she is able to continue her studies now, which she could not do so earlier, because of financial crunch. The financial constraint should not come between priya and her dreams. So DIXON has taken up the responsibility to turn her dreams into reality in collaboration with Magic bus. Just like Priya Dixon is also helping other kids to achieve their dreams.


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Who runs Zambia?
This exchange in Parliament between two former occupants of the Finance Ministry and the Vice President on the windfall tax is quite revealing. I am particularly worried that rather than putting forward a reasonable defence for removing the windfall tax (if one exists), the Vice President appears to suggest that the dispute with the mining companies is at the heart of the decision, making the Executive Branch appear to be a puppet of foreign companies.
MPs engage in heated debate over windfall tax, The Post, News Report :
Member of parliament last Friday engaged in a heated debate as they considered the Income Tax (Ammendment) Bill which seeks to suspend the windfall tax on the mines among other things. Several parliamentarians from the opposition and a few from the government argued that the tax should be maintained.
Chilanga MMD member of parliament Ng'andu Magande advised the government not to abandon the windfall tax that was introduced last year on the mining sector. Magande, who is also immediate former finance minister, said removing the windfall tax would put the government at a loss in the event that the price of copper went up on the international market.
"I remember that some time last week, His Honour the Vice-President advised former and serving government officials to maintain their oath of secrecy which they swore when they assumed office. Indeed I do agree with the learned Vice-President who is also the Minister of Justice that there are critical issues which should be granted such secrecy," Magande said.
"Right now I am in a difficult situation wondering that with all the knowledge I have acquired in my service for the Zambian public can I keep quiet because of the oath of secrecy as emphasised by the Vice-President? I want to assure the learned counsel and Minister of Justice that we will keep secrets valuable, but let us also remember that we have to give value to our people.
"On windfall tax I will keep no secrets. May I urge my colleagues in government to consult the team of experts we had assembled to look into the affairs of the mines. We constituted a team of 15 experts including Mr [Evans] Chibiliti, and they are all still in government. You can consult them, they will show you how we came up with the windfall tax."
Magande advised the government to maintain the windfall tax in the law, saying it could easily be adjusted. "We don't need to remove this windfall tax from our statute books, it's self adjusting. We have a law in our statute books, which says that anyone who commits suicide commits a crime. But my question has always been that if I commit suicide that means I am already dead, so how does a dead person commit a crime? You see, this is the law we have maintained. So what nuisance is there in us keeping the windfall tax in our statute books?" Magande asked.
"Yes, I'm aware that sometimes we ignore advice even when it's good. And sometimes those of us who advise are being told that we are wrong by those we advise. This makes one wonder who is really wrong. But since the Vice-President has promised this House that they will consult, I urge them to seriously consider keeping the windfall tax."
And Katuba MMD member of parliament Jonas Shakafuswa accused the current administration of abandoning the Levy Mwanawasa legacy. "This government is discontinuing with the legacy of Mwanawasa. When we campaigned we campaigned on the basis of continuity. But what we are seeing now is a shift from what our late president had believed in. I know that [the] Vice-President is nodding his head. Yes, winning you might win, but it doesn't mean that you have it all," Shakafuswa said.
"Even if we are coerced into voting I don't want to go against my conscience, I would rather side with the people on this issue. We should remember that the windfall tax was meant to give relief to people who service government through Pay As You Earn. Maybe people who were new didn't understand it.
"We have to be careful with our kindness to these foreign investors. Let's remember that we sold the mines for almost nothing and within a year the people who bought the mines got back their money and made huge profits. Those investors should not take government for granted.
They should know that in business there are ups and downs. When the price of copper was good, they made a lot of profits and they stashed this money in their banks outside the country. These people can go ahead and develop India, China, UK and we remain begging. Our children won't see the benefits of these minerals, they will only see holes from where the minerals were dug. Maybe somebody was bought, maybe somebody was given something."
But Vice-President George Kunda vowed that the Bill would not be withdrawn from Parliament.
"We are not saying that mining companies will not pay tax. But we have considered certain circumstances. Mining companies declared a dispute with us over the windfall tax. Some of them have paid this tax, others have not. So we have decided to go for arbitration with regard to tax. We must make investment attractive to investors, especially those who are keeping jobs," Vice-President Kunda said.
"This Bill if withdrawn will throw the budget off balance. If the issue of windfall tax is something, which is of concern it would require ourselves to go back and consult. We are determined at this stage to proceed with this Bill. It has several meaningful provisions. For example, the CDF [Constituency Development Fund] is coming from the tax measures instituted. I know you are determined to fight but there is a lot we can benefit from this Bill. There is CDF where a lot of us MPs can benefit by building clinics, hospitals and schools."
The debate later led into a division where members of parliament voted on whether to pass the Bill to committee stage or not. The Executive won by 63 votes to 54, and the Bill was passed into committee stage where it would be considered on Wednesday next week.
THEMES : mining
MrK 22 March 2009 at 19:22
Accoring to VP George Kunda, giving up on hundreds of millions (remember the projected $413 million) is ok, because...:
For example, the CDF [Constituency Development Fund] is coming from the tax measures instituted. I know you are determined to fight but there is a lot we can benefit from this Bill. There is CDF where a lot of us MPs can benefit by building clinics, hospitals and schools."
I'm sorry, but is that a bribe to MPs, that if they vote for an end to the windfall tax, they may get CDF funds?
George Kunda, who never goes out in publica without wearing sunglasses, oozes corruption. His very mentality is one of handing out bribes - and I'm sure taking them.
In the words of MP Jonas Shakafuswa:
Maybe somebody was bought, maybe somebody was given something."
I suggest The Post and anyone in government should pore over the financial affairs of VP Kunda. I am very sure they will come up with something. The same for the Mines Minister and the present Finance Minister.
These people are supposed to watch out for the interests of the Zambian people, not foreign corporations. They have done nothing except bend over backwards to ensure the exploitation of Zambia's resources by foreigners.
I remember last month, Kunda saying that liberation era heroes (as few of them as there still are left) will not receive one cent. What kind of inverse morality is that, except a corruption that goes to the very core.
Yakima 23 March 2009 at 19:58
VP George Kunda's attempt to intimidate his opposition may backfire. By claiming that, according to the Times, "the Government was aware that there were some prominent people in society who were practising homosexuality but further urged the public with information of some actors of the vice to report them to the relevant wings. . . 'There are people in society who are involved in these acts and some could be lawyers, engineers, journalists and if you have information of others please let us know,'" he may be inadvertently turning away many of the very same socially conscious investors that the Government claims to be courting. Does the honorable Vice President have any idea how much disposable income homosexuals in developed economies possess? Is he aware of how much they spend on travel and tourism every year? Does it occur to him that such individuals may be in powerful decision-making positions throughout the international market system (and not just in stereotypical segments like fresh flowers, furniture or cosmetics, though that in and of itself ought to be enough to give a rational politician pause), not to mention media? California is the world's 5th largest economy, ever heard of Harvey Milk?
Since he offered no actual proof, nor made any specific allegations, yet felt it relevant to mention his desire to investigate and prosecute in Parliament, with 15 year prison sentences a minimum for those found guilty, I can only conclude that this was a blatant attempt to bully and intimidate his political opponents with the threat of false allegations. The call for informants only confirms that he has no real charges to proffer, but rather is motivated solely by personal malice and revenge. This dictatorial attempt to stifle the voices of experienced professionals in society with insinuations that arbitrary prosecution and imprisonment might be the price for attracting the ire of the Vice President's office is outrageous, and will do nothing to inspire international confidence in the sincerity of decentralization or anti-corruption efforts.
Linking Zambia (ZAMACE)
The business of human trafficking...
Press Notice : Zambia Diaspora Connect
A real agenda for the indaba?
A greater GRZ mining stake? 2nd Edition
Exporting and firm performance...
WSJ : Zambia's Copper Meltdown
Open economies and government size...
To whom will the windfall now?
Linking Zambia (UNZA Computing Society)
Ha-Joon Chang on Bad Samaritans
The Floods
A wake up call (Guest Blog - KBM)
Linking Zambia (Zambia Development Agency)
ZDA Spotlight
Linking Zambia (Zambia National Farmers Union)
Bad Samaritans, By Ha - Joon Chang (A Review)
Sharing the proceeds of mining, 2nd Edition
2008 Zambia Economic Report
The battle for Jatropha..
Mine Watch (Luanshya)
Funding local education..
Return of the diaspora?
Linking Zambia (Ministry of Finance)
Promoting the blog (and "Dead Aid")
Wanted: mining industry experts?
Zambia's rising external debt, 2nd Edition.
Control MMD Youths, Please! (Guest Blog - HK)
A greater GRZ mining stake?
Blog Talk Radio (Dr Katele Kalumba)
Angola's rising Chinese loans...
From grants to loans?
Chiengi's "malthusian trap"?
Growth, poverty in Zambia...
Moza to the rescue?
Financial Crisis and Low-Income Countries
Mine Watch (Mufulira)
New land demarcation?
Zambia Economic Outlook (Standard Bank)
Fighting against Kwacha speculation?
Zambia and the Global Slowdown, 3rd Edition
Zambia and the Global Slowdown, 2nd Edition
Zambia and the Global Slowdown...
Governing in difficult times..
Linking Zambia (Zambia Engineers)
Government policy on MFEZs, 2nd Edition
Video of the week (President Banda)
On Twitter!!
Dead Aid, By Dambisa Moyo ( A Review)
UNIDO's Industrial Development Report
IMF on Zambia's Economic Outlook
Linking Zambia (Mukuyu Outreach)
ACF / FSRP Information
Why Zambia's Economic Development Pace is Too Slow...


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For many hospitals and facilities with large amounts of uninsured and Medicaid patient volume, Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments have long been a vital and irreplaceable component of their overall reimbursement equation. While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been discussing potential changes to the Medicare DSH calculation methodology for several years, the agency has tossed its fiscal year 2017 inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) proposed rule. This rule indicates that changes to Medicare DSH are in play for the 2018 fiscal year.
The 2017 proposed rule suggests that the worksheet S-10 of Medicare cost reports is now reliable enough to be used in the calculation of the Medicare DSH uncompensated care payment. Specifically, beginning in the fiscal year 2018, an individual hospital's Medicare DSH will be based partially on its uncompensated care cost reported on worksheet S-10 in proportion to totals of uncompensated care costs from all hospitals nationwide.
As is often the case with CMS changes, there will be a multi-year transition to the new rule. The proposed fiscal year 2018 calculation will rely on one-third of this new methodology (and two-thirds of the previous methodology). Fiscal year 2019 will use two-thirds of the new methodology, and the calculation will be fully implemented by 2020. The proposal states that a hospital's worksheet S-10 from fiscal year 2014 will be used in the 2018 calculation, meaning that fiscal year 2016 will be the first year in which worksheet S-10 is fully utilized for future Medicare DSH uncompensated care payments.
As with any CMS payment change, there will be winners and losers (in terms of funding distribution). Early data appears to indicate that Medicare DSH uncompensated care dollars will be redistributed away from larger hospitals and toward smaller and mid-size facilities. For-profits and some stand-alone, not-for-profit facilities will lose Medicare DSH dollars to governmental, safety net, and religious hospitals, as well as providers who typically have larger amounts of uncompensated care costs.
What is Your Hospital's Plan?
Whether they expect to win or lose money with this new methodology, facilities would benefit from understanding how their reimbursements will change and how they compare to their peer groups. The proposed rule makes it possible for hospitals to calculate the impact of the new methodology under a "hypothetical" scenario in which the upcoming Medicare 2017 DSH uncompensated care payment was calculated using only fiscal year 2014 worksheet S-10 data.
Hospitals with an unexpected decrease in Medicare DSH – for example, a mid-size charity, governmental, or religious hospital whose Medicare DSH uncompensated care payment is expected to decrease – should analyze their fiscal year 2014 and 2015 worksheets S-10 to ensure that they are complete, accurate, and in accordance with CMS data. If a hospital makes any data errors or omissions, then it can bounce back by amending and refiling the cost reports to correct the errors.
Hospitals with an unexpectedly large increase in Medicare DSH, especially in comparison to their peer group, should celebrate their victory – and take steps to prepare and defend data against future audits conducted by Medicare administrative contractors (MACs).
A MAC is a private entity with geographic jurisdiction to process Medicare claims for Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) beneficiaries.
One such step is to commission a "mock audit." A mock audit of a worksheet S-10 involves an advisor using procedures similar to those of a MAC. These "mock audits" are very cost-effective and useful for discovering potential data errors or weaknesses and allowing facilities to correct such items before the actual MAC audits begin.
CRI's healthcare team understands that hospital executives have been hit with reimbursement changes over the past few years and that it is difficult, if not impossible, to stay completely up-to-date. Our healthcare team can help you devise your Medicare DSH transition plan by quantifying the new rule's impact on your facility, maximizing your future reimbursement, and reducing your exposure to future MAC audits. We can even provide you with your facility's worksheet S-10 results for fiscal year 2014. Contact us to help begin developing your plan today!
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