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Why Do Pork Chops Turn White?
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Advertising touts pork as "the other white meat" because its color goes from pink to a light opaque color when cooked. But according to the USDA, pork is a red meat. Oxygen is delivered to muscle within swine by red blood cells, and this oxygen is held within the muscle by a protein called myoglobin. The amount of myoglobin present in an animal's muscle is what determines whether its meat is classified as red or white. Pork has more myglobin than poultry, but less than beef.
Myoglobin and Meat Color
A variety of factors affect to what degree meat changes color when cooked. Caramelization, or the browning of natural sugars present in the meat, impacts the surface color. When high heat denatures myoglobin during the cooking process, meat with little myoglobin, such as pork, changes from pink to tan or white.
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Born in New York City, Tremaine Jackson has been in theater, dance and music since age 12, when he appeared in Liz Swados' "Swing" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is also an award winning children's recording artist. He writes fiction and poetry in his spare time.
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After Comey: Will We Find out What Was on Anthony Weiner's Laptop?
Ralph Lopez
Former US Congressman Anthony Wiener
As the media hyperventilates over Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, it may bode well for US law enforcement moving forward on the matter which forced Comey to reopen the investigation of Hillary Clinton just before the election. The reopened investigation mysteriously came to nothing, except accusations by Hillary Democrats that Comey swung the election toward Trump.
Whether one is a fan of Trump or not, a president choosing his Executive Branch heads is well within his purview and authority. Bill Clinton fired the incumbent FBI Director William Sessions soon after coming into office, so all the hyperventilating is over nothing. Any investigations begun under Comey will continue under the Interim Director, until the new director steps in and makes a determination. The Executive Branch investigating itself has always been problematic, which is why Congress has the authority to appoint special prosecutors.
With a key Clinton ally in the Justice Department gone, it will be interesting to see what, if anything, becomes of previously stalled investigations.
What we know about Anthony Weiner's laptop is tantalizing, since it has placed Comey in the strange position of being both a Clinton-hater and a Clinton-lover. A Clinton-hater, because he announced a re-opened investigation of Hillary Clinton just days before the election, which is blamed by some, including Hillary, for losing her the election. A Hillary-lover, for refusing to indict Hillary over crimes for which ordinary soldiers have been prosecuted. Neither did these soldiers intend to do anything wrong, but it didn't matter.
Comey is in fact a Hillary-lover, but was placed in an unusual and ticklish position. For those not familiar, here is what happened.
On September 21, 2016, the UK Daily Mail reported that former US Congressman Anthony Wiener had been "sexting" to a 15-year-old girl. Federal prosecutors weighed bringing serious charges against Wiener, including child pornography, a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence, but Wiener's lawyers wriggled him out of that one. Wiener was married to Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's vice chair for her 2016 campaign for president, and deputy chief of staff to Clinton when she was Secretary of State.
As a resut of the Daily Mail investigation NYPD police seized Wiener's laptop and cellphone, then subsequently turned them over to the FBI.
We do not know what was on the devices, but we do know that it was extraordinary enough to force Comey to re-open an investigation he would rather not have reopened. The knowledge NYPD had of the contents was breathing down his neck. If it was bad, NYPD knew it. New York has its own prosecution authority, and if the FBI did not do something, New York might.
How extraordinary? At the very least extraordinary enough to make Comey do something he didn't really want to do, to protect himself from charges of covering up for Hillary if worse came to worse, and the evidence came to light.
A widely-read online news site, True Pundit, quoted "law enforcement sources" as saying that the evidence on the laptop linked Clinton herself and some associates to money laundering, child exploitation, and pay to play through Clinton Foundation, to name just a few.
In fact, in a now-famous tweet General Michael Flynn called attention to the True Pundit article and said:
U decide - NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc...MUST READ!
After the extraordinary announcement of the investigation, which would normally only occur when it was all but certain that indictments were coming, Comey suddenly announced there was nothing to see. Either Comey had a lack of prosecutorial judgment extraordinaire, or things were back in control, as mobsters say.
With congressional subpoenas announced for Flynn associates indicating Congress is going in for the kill, it will be interesting to see if the Justice Department pursues whatever was on Anthony Wiener's laptop.
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Free contraception to be rolled out for women aged 17-25
Brilliant news.
Today the government have agreed to move forward with a scheme that would see young women receive free contraception.
The first stage of the scheme will be for women aged 17 to 25, but it will be opened up to further age groups on a phased basis.
The government has decided to start with the 17 to 25 age group as they see them as the cohort facing the greatest barrier to accessing contraception.
The scheme will provide for the cost of prescriptions, injections, and the fitting and or removal of long-term reversible contraceptive methods.
The administration of these methods, along with the necessary checks by medical professionals, will also be covered in the plan.
In a statement Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said that the new scheme;
"particularly significant for those who are just above the means-tested limits for medical and GP visit cards, or who may still be in full-time education and financially dependent on parents and guardians."
The new free contraception scheme is planned to be rolled out this coming August for the 17 to 25 age group, but hopefully we will see that age bracket extended within the next year.
As well as access to free methods of birth control women will also be able to avail of two consultations per year with doctors regarding their chosen method of contraception.
The government also plans to invest more funds in training additional medical personnel to fit and remove the longer lasting types of contraception available within the new scheme.
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Q: How to create a rank command with discord.py? lately i have been trying to create a leveling bot with discord.py (without using Cog, with bot.command). The code actually works to update the level after each messages but the rank command doesn't work.
I have a message error like json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Anyone has an idea to fix it please ?
Here is my complete code (json and discord libraries are already imported) :
with open("users.json", "ab+") as ab:
    ab.close()
    f = open('users.json','r+')
    f.readline()
    if os.stat("users.json").st_size == 0:
      f.write("{}")
      f.close()
    else:
      pass

with open('users.json', 'r') as f:
  users = json.load(f)

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author.bot == False:
        with open('users.json', 'r') as f:
            users = json.load(f)
        await add_experience(users, message.author)
        await level_up(users, message.author, message)
        with open('users.json', 'w') as f:
            json.dump(users, f)
            await bot.process_commands(message)

async def add_experience(users, user):
  if not f'{user.id}' in users:
        users[f'{user.id}'] = {}
        users[f'{user.id}']['experience'] = 0
        users[f'{user.id}']['level'] = 0
  users[f'{user.id}']['experience'] += 6
  print(f"{users[f'{user.id}']['level']}")

async def level_up(users, user, message):
  experience = users[f'{user.id}']["experience"]
  lvl_start = users[f'{user.id}']["level"]
  lvl_end = int(experience ** (1 / 4))
  if lvl_start < lvl_end:
    await message.channel.send(f':tada: {user.mention} has reached level {lvl_end}. Congrats! :tada:')
    users[f'{user.id}']["level"] = lvl_end

@bot.command()
async def level(ctx, member: discord.Member = None):
    if not member:
        id = ctx.message.author.id
        with open('users.json', 'r') as f:
            users = json.load(f)
        lvl = users[str(id)]['level']
        await ctx.send(f'You are at level {lvl}!')
    else:
        id = member.id
        with open('users.json', 'r') as f:
            users = json.load(f)
        lvl = users[str(id)]['level']
        await ctx.send(f'{member} is at level {lvl}!')

A: The json error means that your json file is fully empty and you at least need {} in your json file.

A: in a file called users.json
it must look like this:
{

}

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Recent research has demonstrated the use of in-well heat tracer tests monitored by a fiber optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) system to characterize borehole flow conditions in open bedrock boreholes. However, the accuracy of borehole flow rates determined from in-well heat tracer tests has not been evaluated. The purpose of the research presented here is to determine whether borehole flow rates obtained using DTS-monitored in-well heat tracer tests are reasonable, and to evaluate the range of flow rates measureable with this method. To accomplish this, borehole flow rates measured using in-well heat tracer tests are compared to borehole flow rates measured in the same boreholes using an impeller or heat pulse flowmeter. A comparison of flow rates measured using in-well heat tracer tests to flow rates measured with an impeller flowmeter under the same conditions showed good agreement. A comparison of in-well heat tracer test flow rate measurements to previously-collected heat pulse flowmeter measurements indicates that the heat tracer test results produced borehole flow rates and flow profiles similar to those measured with the heat pulse flowmeter. The results of this study indicate that borehole flow rates determined from DTS-monitored in-well heat tracer tests are reasonable estimates of actual borehole flow rates. In addition, the range of borehole flow rates measurable by in-well heat tracer tests spans from less than 10−1 m/min to approximately 101 m/min, overlapping the ranges typically measurable with an impeller flowmeter or a heat pulse flowmeter, making in-well heat tracer testing a versatile boreholeflow logging tool.


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Little Paint Branch Trail now connects to Beltsville & beyond
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There's still some finishing work to do, but the Little Paint Branch Trail extension connecting College Park to Beltsville is passable.
You can now bike from downtown Washington, D.C., to Beltsville, Maryland, almost entirely on paved trails, courtesy of an effectively-complete, not officially-opened, extension of the Little Paint Branch Trail along Cherry Hill Road.
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Irish election imminent: When will Ireland go to the polls? When is Irish election date?
01/14/2020 World News
Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he has decided on a date already but wanted to deal with "unfinished" business before revealing the exact details. But he is expected to ask President Michael D Higgins to dissolve the Irish parliament later today and fire the starting gun of the election race.
When is Irish election date?
Mr Varadkar refused to reveal the election date last weekend.
But today, broadcaster RTÉ reported the general election will be held on Saturday, February 8.
Mr Varadkar briefed cabinet members at a meeting this morning.
He will meet other party leaders then ask President Higgins to dissolve the Dáil, which will mark the beginning of the general election campaign.
Varadkar crisis: Desperate PM is 'trying to buy off opposition'
The Taoiseach had been unwilling to reveal the date because of protocol issue and "unfinished" business with regards to European and Anglo-Irish affairs.
He promised to "end any uncertainty as soon as I can".
Mr Varadkarhad previously stated his desire for a May election but said "circumstances have changed".
His Fine Gael party is in a minority government with a parliamentary voting pact with Fianna Fáil.
That agreement was extended in 2018 as a result of Brexit risks to Ireland.
But with Boris Johnson winning December's general election and agreeing a Brexit deal, the Irish PM has had to consider a public vote of his own.
Mr Varadkar told national radio on Sunday: "It has been my view for a long time now that the right time [for an election] would be the summer of 2020.
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Europe Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market By Formulation (Conventional Drug Delivery, Novel Drug Delivery), By Route of Administration (Oral, Injectable, Topical, Ocular, Pulmonary, Nasal, Transmucosal, Implantable), By Application (Infectious Diseases, Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes, Respiratory Diseases, Central Nervous System Disorders, Autoimmune Diseases, Others), By End User (Hospitals, Home Care Settings, ASC/Clinics, Others), By Country, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025
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Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market is expected to witness rapid growth during the forecast period. Key factors propelling the growth of this market include technological advancements in drug delivery systems and improving patient compliance. Furthermore, the rise in cases of COVID-19 has led to an increased adoption of drugs including multivitamin, antiviral, vitamin C, etc., which in turn is anticipated to support the growth of pharmaceutical drug delivery market. With increasing cases of coronavirus, there is a high demand for essential life-saving devices and other essential medical supplies in order to prevent the spread of this global pandemic. This is expected to foster the growth of Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market through 2025.
Additionally, prevalence of other infectious and contagious diseases such as Ebola, chikungunya, SARS, MERS, avian flu and swine flu are creating high demand for pharmaceutical drug delivery systems. Also, increasing healthcare expenditure and favorable reimbursement policies are expected to augment the market growth in coming years. Apart from this, entry of new market players and extensive R&D activities are fueling the growth of pharmaceutical drug delivery market in Europe.
Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market can be categorized based on formulation, route of administration, application, end user and country. Based on application, the market can be segmented into infectious diseases, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory. diseases, central nervous system disorders, autoimmune diseases and others. Among these, cancer held largest market share in 2019. However, the infectious diseases segment is anticipated to register fastest CAGR in Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market during the forecast period on account of increasing cases of contagious diseases such as coronavirus and extensive vaccine development activities being carried out to find its cure.
Major players operating in the Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market include Novartis AG, F. Hoffman-La Roche AG, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Bayer AG, Sanofi S.A. , MERCK KGaA, Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson, 3M United Kingdom PLC and Becton, Dickinson and Company, among others. The companies are investing on product innovation and are also undergoing mergers & acquisitions and partnerships as their key growth strategies.
Historical Years: 2015-2018
Forecast Period: 2021–2025
To analyze and estimate the market size of Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market from 2015 to 2018.
To estimate and forecast the market size of Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market from 2019 to 2025 and growth rate until 2025.
to classify and forecast Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market based on formulation, route of administration, application, end user, company and country distribution.
To identify dominant country or segment in the Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market.
To identify drivers and challenges for Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market.
To examine competitive developments such as expansions, mergers & acquisitions, etc., in Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market.
To conduct pricing analysis for Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market.
To identify and analyze the profile of leading players operating in Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market.
To identify key sustainable strategies adopted by market players in Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market.
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TechSci Research performed both primary as well as exhaustive secondary research for this study. Initially, TechSci Research sourced a list of pharmaceutical drug delivery system manufacturers across Europe. Subsequently, TechSci Research conducted primary research surveys with the identified companies. While interviewing, the respondents were also enquired about their competitors. Through this technique, TechSci Research could include the manufacturers who could not be identified due to the limitations of secondary research. TechSci Research analyzed the presence of all major players across Europe.
TechSci Research calculated the market size of Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market using a bottom-up approach, wherein data for various end-user segments was recorded and forecast for the future years. TechSci Research sourced these values from the industry experts and company representatives and externally validated through analyzing historical data of these services and end users for getting an appropriate, overall market size. Various secondary sources such as company websites, news articles, press releases, company annual reports, investor presentations and financial reports were also studied by TechSci Research.
Pharmaceutical drug delivery system manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and other stakeholders
Government bodies such as regulating authorities and policy makers
Organizations, forums and alliances related to pharmaceutical drug delivery
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The study is useful in providing answers to several critical questions that are important for the industry stakeholders such as pharmaceutical drug delivery system manufacturers, suppliers, partners, end users, etc., besides allowing them in strategizing investments and capitalizing on market opportunities.
In this report, Europe pharmaceutical drug delivery market has been segmented into following categories, in addition to the industry trends which have also been detailed below:
Europe Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market, By Formulation:
Conventional Drug Delivery
Novel Drug Delivery
Europe Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market, By Route of Administration:
Transmucosal
Europe Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market, By Application:
Central Nervous System Disorders
Europe Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market, By End User:
ASC/Clinics
Europe Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market, By Country:
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1. Product Overview
3. Impact of COVID-19 on Europe Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market
5. Voice of Customer
6. Europe Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market Outlook
6.1. Market Size & Forecast
6.1.1. By Value
6.2. Market Share & Forecast
6.2.1. By Formulation (Conventional Drug Delivery, Novel Drug Delivery)
6.2.2. By Route of Administration (Oral, Injectable, Topical, Ocular, Pulmonary, Nasal, Transmucosal, Implantable)
6.2.3. By Application (Infectious Diseases, Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes, Respiratory Diseases, Central Nervous System Disorders, Autoimmune Diseases, Others)
6.2.4. By End User (Hospitals, Home Care Settings, ASC/Clinics, Others)
6.2.5. By Company (2019)
6.2.6. By Country
6.3. Product Market Map
7. Italy Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market Outlook
7.2.1. By Formulation
7.2.2. By Route of Administration
7.2.3. By Application
7.2.4. By End User
8. United Kingdom Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market Outlook
9. France Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market Outlook
10. Spain Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market Outlook
10.1. Market Size & Forecast
10.1.1. By Value
10.2. Market Share & Forecast
10.2.1. By Formulation
10.2.2. By Route of Administration
10.2.3. By Application
10.2.4. By End User
11. Germany Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market Outlook
12. Belgium Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market Outlook
13. Netherlands Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Market Outlook
15. Pricing Analysis
17.1. Competition Outlook
17.2. Regional Players Profiled (Leading Companies)
17.2.1. Novartis AG
17.2.2. F. Hoffman-La Roche AG
17.2.3. GlaxoSmithKline plc
17.2.4. Bayer AG
17.2.5. Sanofi S.A.
17.2.6. MERCK KGaA
17.2.7. Pfizer Inc.
17.2.8. Johnson & Johnson
17.2.9. 3M United Kingdom PLC
17.2.10. Becton, Dickinson and Company
(Note: The companies list can be customized based on the client requirements.)
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COVID-19 puts a huge strain on meat production, but it's also an opportunity to reform the system
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My mom tells me that it's hard to find meat these days.
Going to Costco amid maskless crowds is frightening enough, she says, without having to also fight other shoppers for the last set of chicken breasts.
I don't have any advice for her except "try going meatless?" She thinks I'm trying to be funny and is not amused — in her Korean mind, that's a non-option. Soon, though, she may not have a choice. Grocery stores are facing meat shortages, and some are now imposing purchase limits on certain meat products. My local grocery store in Brooklyn is limiting steak purchases to two per household — even questioning shoppers they suspect of trying to cheat the rationing.
While there is a self-fulfilling element to the shortages — fear of scarcity leads some shoppers to buy up everything they can, leaving the rest of us to face empty shelves — the meat deficit is a real and looming phenomenon.
Almost 24,000 low-wage workers in the meatpacking industry have tested positive for COVID-19, and at least 85 have died, according to The Food & Environment Reporting Network. Fear of contagion has rightfully shuttered some of America's largest meatpacking plants and forced others to operate with skeleton staff. But with so many high-volume plants closed, beef and cattle slaughter is down about 14% from last year, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report.
Meat production is an enormous machine that relies on inertia. Livestock farmers consistently raise huge populations of animals, trusting that demand will follow established trends. But with much of the industry closing shop and the food supply chain faltering, many farmers have backlogs of thousands of animals ready for slaughter. To ease the overcrowding, some have begun culling, or euthanizing, their pigs and chickens. The Minnesota Pork Producers Association has even started employing wood chippers to help slaughterhouses expedite the breakdown of euthanized hogs.
But maybe the news is not entirely bad. The sudden, severe curtailment of meat production gives us a rare opportunity to reconsider our meat-centric diets and the too-often-abused workers who make it possible.
Industrial agriculture workers are notoriously poorly protected. Human Rights Watch has frequently flagged the American meat industry for workers' rights violations. The pandemic has only exacerbated the problems that arise when hundreds of humans and thousands of carcasses are jammed into close quarters.
Worried about supply shortages, the Trump administration recently declared meat-processing plants "critical infrastructure" and urged them to keep producing. The White House also announced a $19 billion relief fund for the industry. Meanwhile, workers are feeling exploited, having worked in unsafe conditions without necessary protective gear in the crucial early weeks of the outbreak.
The wasteful slaughter of hundreds of thousands of uneaten animals is a national scandal, as are the COVID-19 outbreaks among slaughterhouse workers. Both demonstrate how out of control factory farming really is. Our current grim reality is the right time to start reforming the way we farm and the way we eat.
Even before COVID-19 struck factory farming's massive burden on our planet was obvious. It takes 92 times more land to produce 1000 kilocalories of beef than the equivalent of tofu. Producing 100 grams of beef, meanwhile, generates 90 times more carbon dioxide than producing the same amount of protein from peas.
There is no doubt that eating less meat — and preferably none — is good for our health and Earth's. Industrialized animal farming is a sure way to enable the emergence of additional infectious diseases, both new and old, according to Michael Greger, the author of "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching." "If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms," Greger said in a recent interview with Vox.
Because of the pandemic, "we've got the eyes of the nation on the slaughterhouses," says Leah Garcés, a supply-chain expert and president of Mercy for Animals, an international non-profit animal protection organization.
Garcés believes that now is a unique and pivotal time for action, especially with the government handing out relief funds to so many companies and industries. "There are trillions of dollars that are being handed out," she says, "and if we could get a fraction of that going to transitioning and rebuilding [the meat industry] instead of continuing to prop up a bad system, that's an opportunity we're not going to get again."
Today, we have an opportunity to transform the industry, says Garcés, which means transitioning current infrastructure to meat alternatives. "I am 100% behind getting big meat to transition to plant-based," she says, "because it would be the fastest way to transition our protein economy. For me, the objective is not to beat down the enemy, but to get them on the path with us." If "Big Meat" sees there is a demand for meat alternatives, and profit to be made in those areas, then they are the ones who can most drastically instigate a shift, she says. "They have the machinery, they own the distribution channels."
Overhauling animal factory farming will require huge systemic changes, but it's not impossible. Back in December, when he was still in the presidential race, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker unveiled bills that would phase out large factory farms by 2040. The New Jersey Democrat's legislation, the Farm System Reform Act of 2019, is now being co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and would also hold meat producers responsible for their pollution while protecting smaller livestock and poultry farmers.
Mercy for Animals is part of a coalition that is urging Sen. Booker to include a halt on high-speed animal slaughter as part of the HEROES Act, which is currently being negotiated. Garcés feels strongly that individual action should extend to politics. "Call your senators and tell them 'don't prop up Big Meat,'" says Garcés. "You can vote with your dollar and you can vote with your vote."
Personally, I've been vegan for more than four years now, a "lifestyle" that is popularly mocked in every medium and platform. "A vegan is a person who won't eat anything made by or with flavor," the comedian Louis Katz has said. "A good vegan meal is like a good Christian rock band: Even when it's kind of good, it still really sucks." Veganism is comedy fodder. Still, I maintain the diet, because current animal farming procedures are unsafe and unsustainable. Not everyone has to be so absolute in their diets — even just swapping all beef with chicken for one year can reduce your annual carbon footprint by 882 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents.
I tell my mother that sparsely stocked meat aisles at the store should spur her to get more creative with her meal plans. Who knows? She may find that meat isn't as crucial a part of our family's diet as she thought. Plus, she'll be healthier. After all, no novel human-infecting virus has ever been known to come out of a vegetable.
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Hannah Seo is a science journalist based in New York City and the editor-in-chief of Scienceline. She loves writing about the intersections of science, tech and culture. As an ethnically Korean Canadian raised in Qatar, she also considers herself an international nomad.
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Susheel Daswani says:
Excellent thoughts, thanks for sharing. We need to continue the drumbeat that animal agriculture has severe negative consequences to the climate, our health (causing / amplifying pandemics), and to societal justice.


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Abolition of feudalism to the Civil Constitution
About France Category: History
The French Revolution was a period in the history of France covering the years 1789 to 1799, in which republicans overthrew the monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church perforce underwent radical restructuring. This article covers the year following the fall of the Bastille, roughly from the abolition of feudalism (August 4, 1789) to the adoption (by the National Constituent Assembly) of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July 12, 1790).
August 4, 1789: Feudalism Abolished
After the events surrounding the storming of the Bastille, the next major event of the revolution occurred on August 4, 1789, when the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate (the nobility) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate (the Roman Catholic clergy).While one can question motivations (and while many later expressed regrets and attempted retreat), historians agree that the Viscount de Noailles and the Duke d'Aiguillon proposed the redemption and consequent abolition of feudal rights and the suppression of personal servitude, as well as of the various privileges of the nobility.
Not to be outdone, the bishops of Nancy and of Chartres proposed, even demanded, the abolition of tithes. In the course of a few hours, France abolished game-laws, seigneurial courts, the purchase and sale of posts in the magistracy, of pecuniary immunities, favoritism in taxation, of surplice money, first-fruits, pluralities, and unmerited pensions.
Towns, provinces, companies, and cities also sacrificed their special privileges. A medal was struck to commemorate the day, and the Assembly declared Louis XVI the "Restorer of French Liberty."
Of course, this "Saint Bartholomew of abuses," as François Mignet calls it, was a bit too good to be true. As the Russian anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin would write, "The Assembly was carried away by its enthusiasm, and in this enthusiasm nobody remarked the clause for redeeming the feudal rights and tithes, which the two nobles and the two bishops had introduced into their speeches — a clause terrible even in its vagueness, since it might mean all or nothing, and did, in fact, postpone […] the abolition of feudal rights for four years – until August 1793.
But which of us in reading the beautiful story of that night, written by its contemporaries, has not been carried away by enthusiasm in his turn? And who has not passed over those traitorous words, 'racbat au denier 30′ (redemption at a thirty-years' purchase), without understanding their terrible import? This is also what happened in France in 1789."
The structures of government in summer 1789
Following the fall of the Bastille, the National Constituent Assembly became the effective government of France. In Mignet's words, "The assembly had acquired the entire power; the corporations depended on it; the national guards obeyed it. […] The royal power, though existing of right, was in a measure suspended, since it was not obeyed, and the assembly had to supply its action by its own."
Some of the leading figures of the Assembly at this time included:
Among the foes of the revolution, later known as the "Right":
Jacques Antoine Marie Cazalès — a forthright spokesman for aristocracy
the abbé Jean-Sifrein Maury — a somewhat inflexible representative of the Church
The "Royalist democrats" (later known as "Constitutionals" or "Monarchicals") allied with Necker, inclined toward arranging France along lines similar to the British constitutional model with a House of Lords and a House of Commons:
Jean Joseph Mounier
the Comte de Lally-Tollendal
the Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre
Pierre Victor Malouet, Comte de Virieu
The "National Party," at this time still relatively united in support of revolution and democratization, representing mainly the interests of the middle classes, but strongly sympathetic to the broader range of the common people. In this early period, its most notable leaders included Mirabeau, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Jean-Sylvain Bailly (the first two coming from aristocratic backgrounds).
Mignet also points to Adrien Duport, Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave, and Alexander Lameth as leaders among the "most extreme of this party" in this period, leaders in taking "a more advanced position than that which the revolution had [at this time] attained." Lameth's brother Charles also belonged to this group.
To this list one must add the abbé Sieyès, foremost in proposing legislation in this period, and the man who, for a time, managed to bridge the differences between those who wanted a constitutional monarchy and those who wished to move in more democratic (or even republican) directions.
Meanwhile, turmoil continued in Paris. Amidst occasional rioting over food shortages, a hundred and eighty members, nominated by the city districts, constituted themselves as legislators and representatives of the city, but with no clear structure.
The committees, the mayor, the assembly of representatives, and the individual districts each claimed authority independent of the others. The increasingly middle-class National Guard under Lafayette also slowly emerged as a power in its own right. Other self-generated assemblies arose, soldiers debated at the Oratoire, journeymen tailors at the Colonnade, hairdressers in the Champs-Élysées, servants at the Louvre, and a particularly radical ad hoc assembly seated itself at the Palais-Royal.
None of these limited their competence to local issues: they felt free to debate the same issues as the National Assembly, to take positions more radically revolutionary than that Assembly, and to try (individually and sometimes jointly) to influence its decisions.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
Looking to the United States Declaration of Independence for a model, on August 26, 1789 the Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Like the U.S. Declaration, it comprised a statement of principles rather than a constitution with legal effect. This statement of principles contained the kernel of a much more radical re-ordering of society than had yet taken place. The Declaration put forward a doctrine of popular sovereignty and equal opportunity:
"Article III – The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No body, no individual can exert authority which does not emanate expressly from it."
(From Article VI) – "All the citizens, being equal in [the eyes of the law], are equally admissible to all public dignities, places, and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents."
Where the U.S. Declaration had singled out "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as inalienable rights, the French document opted for "liberty, property, safety, and resistance against oppression." It argued that the need for law derives from the fact that "… the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights".
Thus, the declaration saw law as an "expression of the general will", intended to promote this equality of rights and to forbid "only actions harmful to the society."
The Declaration also put forward several provisions similar to the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. Like the U.S. Constitution, it discusses the need to provide for the common defense and states some broad principles about taxation. It also specifies a public right to an accounting from public agents as to how they have discharged the public trust.
Like the U.S. Bill of Rights, it provides against ex post facto application of criminal law and puts forward such principles as presumption of innocence, freedom of speech and of the press, and a slightly weaker guarantee of freedom of religion — "provided that [… the] manifestation [… of their religious opinions] does not trouble the public order established by the law". It asserts the rights of property, while reserving a public right of eminent domain:
"Article XVII – Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of private usage, if it is not when the public necessity, legally noted, evidently requires it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity [i.e., compensation]."
Towards a constitution
The Declaration stated broad principles, but did little or nothing to establish a form of government. For the time, the National Constituent Assembly, its membership drawn from the States General, functioned as a legislature, but that provided no model as to how to select a future government. Would it have a unicameral or a bicameral legislature? What powers should remain to the king? How often should elections take place (and precisely which offices should be elective)?
In the event, the Assembly invested all significant powers in itself, with only a "suspensive veto" left to the king (able to delay the implementation of a law, but not to block it absolutely).
The assembly would sit continuously, so as not to give a king or other ambitious individual the opportunity (in Mignet's words) "to profit by the intervals in which he would be left alone." Necker, Mounier, Lally-Tollendal, and others argued unsuccessfully for a senate, with members to be appointed by the king on the nomination of the people. The bulk of the nobles argued for an aristocratic upper house, elected by the nobles.
The popular party opposed any upper house and, given the division between the other two groups, carried the day: France would have a single, unicameral assembly.
The stalwarts of the ancien régime, of course, regarded all this as anathema. While the Assembly moved in the direction of a constitution, the King continued to attempt to resist the Declaration. On the pretext of protecting itself against the Parisian mob, the Court summoned troops to Versailles, doubled the household guards, and sent for the dragoons and the Flanders regiment.
Word of this spread to Paris, along with rumors that the king stood ready dissolve the assembly, or to flee to an area where his troops held control. The behaviour of the court confirmed these suspicions. At a banquet on October 1, 1789, guests drank the health of the royal family with swords drawn, while omitting or rejecting the health of the nation.
Royalist black cockades were distributed; some present also allegedly trampled on the tricolore cockade. Similar events took place two nights later.
Mignet writes that, "This assembling of the troops, so far from preventing aggression in Paris, provoked it… To protect itself there was no necessity for so much ardour, nor for flight was there needful so much preparation." By October 5, the people of Paris were once again in full insurrection and stood ready to march on Versailles.
Even Lafayette could not ultimately prevent his National Guards from joining them. The Parisians, with the women in front, arrived in Versailles ahead of any warning of their approach.
Over the next two days various scuffles and incidents occurred, but eventually the king and the Royal Family kept the peace by allowing themselves to be brought back from Versailles to Paris. This reduced room for royal maneuver, placing the king amid the tumultuous populace and in a position where he had less scope to rally loyal troops around him.
In the wake of these events a new round of émigrés departed, including key royalist democrats from within the Assembly. Lally-Tollendal renounced his French citizenship and returned to England, the land of his ancestors. Mounier returned to his native Dauphiné, where he soon became the leader of an internal revolt.
Work on a constitution resumed. The Assembly divided France into eighty-three départements, uniformly administered and nearly equal to one another in extent and population, replacing the historic provinces. Similar arrangements were made down to the canton level, with multi-round elections providing a broad electoral franchise in the first round, but a franchise limited by property requirements in the subsequent round or rounds.
This effectively abolished the local parlaments, and angered many of the nobility and the bishops.
The royal government had originally summoned the Estates-General in order to deal with a financial crisis, but to date the Assembly had focused on other matters. In fact, they had reduced taxes, had incurred financial obligations in the proposed redemption of feudal privileges, and had continued to borrow money. Mirabeau now led the move to address this matter, with the Assembly giving Necker complete financial dictatorship.
Toward the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The revolution assailed not only the power of the nobility but, equally, the power of the Church.
On August 4, 1789 the tithes were declared "redeemable." One week later (August 11), tithes were suppressed without providing any equivalent. The clergy were generally not pleased, but were in no position to resist.
Further, if feudalism was to be abolished, the enormous land holdings of the Gallican Church (the Roman Catholic Church in France) could not remain.
Given the financial needs of the State, it was perhaps inevitable that these lands, worth several thousand millions of francs, would be confiscated by the State and (to some degree) monetized. Talleyrand, bishop of Autun, proposed the clergy renounce their land holdings: the nation would take over the resources of the Church and, in return, take on its expenses.
In approving this solution, the Assembly was no doubt also motivated by the opportunity to turn the Church into a dependent entity.
Talleyrand and other supporters of this measure argued that the church lands were of sufficient value to pay off the national debt, providing for the expenses of the church (including hospitals), and to reimburse the money paid for judicial offices. The clergy, it was said, were not proprietors, but simple depositaries of the wealth that the piety of kings and of the faithful had devoted to religion. If the expenses of the Church were to met by the State, the pious intent would still be fulfilled.
The confiscation of Church lands occurred through the law of December 2, 1789. In order to rapidly monetize such an enormous amount of property, a new paper currency was introduced, assignats backed by the confiscated church lands.
This provided an adequate (if inflationary) currency, but made it clear that the church lands were not merely to be mortgaged, but ultimately to be sold, and turned much of the clergy against the revolution. The sales were deemed sacrilegious; Catholics were discouraged from accepting assignats or otherwise purchasing former church lands.
Further legislation on February 13, 1790 abolished monastic vows.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy, passed on July 12, 1790 (although not signed by the king until December 26, 1790), turned the remaining clergy into employees of the State and required that they take an oath of loyalty to the constitution.
In another atmosphere, it might have been a plausible arrangement — in Mignet's words, "it was not the work of philosophers, but of austere Christians, who wished to support religion by the state, and to make them concur mutually in promoting its happiness" — but with much of the clergy already opposed to the revolution it became a trigger for schism.
Among the provisions of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, bishoprics were to correspond to départements and bishops were to be elected, vicars would replace canons, and all of the orders of monks and nuns that did not directly support such public functions as teaching or running hospitals were to be abolished; in theory, though, dogma and worship were not to be affected.
In response to this legislation, the archbishop of Aix and the bishop of Clermont led a walkout of clergy from the National Constituent Assembly. The pope never accepted the new arrangement, and it led to a schism in the Church, between those clergy who swore the required oath and accepted the new arrangement ("jurors" or "constitutional clergy") and the "non-jurors" or "refractory priests" who refused to do so.
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Ohsweken Speedway Eager To Host 15th annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals September 12-14
By officialrelease01 on September 13, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Parker Price-Miller (No.67x) outran Chuck Hebing (No.45) and a tough cast of competitors to score his second career Canadian Sprint Car Nationals win in 2018. (Photo by Dale Calnan/Image Factor Media
Arrow Express, Burger Barn, Nitro 54 Variety and Bradshaw Brothers present Canada's Biggest Sprint Car Weekend
By Clayton Johns
OHSWEKEN, Ont. (September 12, 2019) – Ohsweken Speedway is set to host its biggest weekend of the season with the 15th Annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals presented by Arrow Express, Burger Barn, Nitro 54 Variety and Bradshaw Brothers on September 13-14. The two-day event will see 70 of the top 360 Sprint Car drivers in the Northeast battle on back-to-back nights, with the Night Before the Nationals presented by Burger Barn and Bradshaw Brothers featuring triple 15-lap features on September 13 before the $10,000 USD-to-win and $1,000 USD-to-start 15th Annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals presented by Arrow Express, Nitro 54 Variety on Saturday, September 14.
Six different sanctioning bodies are represented by the more than 65 drivers pre-entered into the event, including Ohsweken's Kool Kidz-Corr/Pak 360 Sprint Cars, the Southern Ontario Sprints, Empire Super Sprints, Patriot Sprint Tour, Great Lakes Sprint Series and National Racing Alliance Sprint Invaders. The point leaders from all six sanctioning bodies are pre-entered in the event as well as the current ASCS National points leader. Great seats and camp sites are still available for the whole weekend of action and can be purchased by phone 519-717-0023 or online at https://ohswekenspeedway.ticketforce.com. Race time each night is 7:30pm.
Burger Barn Night Before the Nationals
The Burger Barn Night Before the Nationals will feature a full night of action, headlined by the 360 Sprint Cars along with the Middleport Mechanical Thunder Stocks and HRW Automotive Mini Stocks also in action for a jam-packed Friday night. For the first time, the Night Before the Nationals has expanded to include triple 15-lap features with the winner of each race guaranteed to start 11th or better for Saturday's A-Feature. The Middleport Mechanical Thunder Stocks and HRW Automotive Mini Stocks will battle in their final Features of the season. With the points chases already wrapped up in both stock car divisions, it's a race for bragging rights.
15th Annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals
Its Ohsweken's biggest and most exciting event of the year and in 2019 the Canadian Sprint Car Nationals are shaping up to be one of its most entertaining. In addition to the Kool Kidz-Corr/Pak 360 Sprint Cars racing for the $10,000 USD winner's prize, the Action Sprint Tour powered by RaceRivalz.com will crown its 2019 champion with its final race of the season to round out an entirely Winged Sprint Car racing program that should see over 100 Sprint Cars in attendance.
Among those drivers pre-entered in the event is American Sprint Car Series National Tour point leader Sam Hafertepe Jr. The Rockwall, TX driver picked up the win last week at Ohsweken in a tune-up as he tries to earn his second career Nationals win after winning in 2011. Hafertepe's Hill's Racing teammate, Dylan Westbrook, scored his third-straight Ohsweken championship and now will look for his first Nationals win. Ryan Turner, an Ohsweken regular and the 2019 Southern Ontario Sprints champion, is also coming into the night in search of his first Nationals triumph in his second year racing for the Burger Barn Racing team.
The current Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprints point leader, Paulie Colagiovanni, comes into the weekend looking to become a new CSCN winner after scoring seven wins on the ESS tour so far this year. The top three in Patriot Sprint Tour points are all entered as well, including New Jersey's Davie Franek, New York's Joe Trenca, and Pennsylvania's Jordan Thomas. Add to the list the NRA Sprint Invaders' champion 'the Hurricane' Randy Hannagan and it's a formidable list of challengers, before even mentioning Great Lakes Super Sprints champion Phil Gressman of Helena, OH and GLSS runner-up Dustin Daggett, the only driver to qualify for every previous edition of the Canadian Sprint Car Nationals.
Also pre-entered is two-time and defending CSCN champion Parker Price-Miller, who returns to race with the Hill's Racing team for the 2019 edition of the event. Steve Poirier, one of two drivers to win the Nationals three times, is also set to return to battle for his first title since 2012. For the full list of drivers pre-entered, visit http://ohswekenspeedway.ca/8691-2/.
For the Action Sprint Tour powered by RaceRivalz.com, Saturday's race will likely result in Beamsville, Ont. native Josh Hansen winning his first career Sprint Car championship. Hansen simply has to start his heat race to be crowned champion. The teenage pilot of the No.88h will compete in both classes, running his Crate car while also making his first Nationals appearance in his 360 car. Liam Martin enters the night second in AST points with a 12-point advantage over Paul Klager. Jacob Dykstra is 12 points back of Klager in fourth and has a 15-point lead over fifth-place Steven Beckett.
The most important weekend information, including gate times, ticket prices, pit pass upgrades, and camping information, visithttp://ohswekenspeedway.ca/2019-canadian-sprint-car-nationals-weekend-information/.
For all news releases about the 2019 Canadian Sprint Car Nationals, visit http://ohswekenspeedway.ca/category/cscn/.
For all competitors information, visit http://ohswekenspeedway.ca/cscn-competitors-info/.
Canadian Sprint Car Nationals Tickets and Camping Available Now!
The best 360 Sprint Car racers from the Northeast region and beyond will converge on Ohsweken Speedway on Friday, September 13, and Saturday, September 14 for the 15th Annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals weekend. Tickets and reserved campsites for the Canadian Sprint Car Nationals are on sale online at https://ohswekenspeedway.ticketforce.com/ or can be purchased by phone at 519-717-0023.
Canadian Sprint Car Nationals – Official Entries
Entries continue to be accepted for the 2019 Canadian Sprint Car Nationals. Teams are encouraged to save time by submitting entry information online at the following link: : http://ohswekenspeedway.ca/cscn-competitors-info/canadian-sprint-car-nationals-entry-form/
Canadian Sprint Car Nationals History
The Canadian Sprint Car Nationals has been the annual season-closing event at Ohsweken Speedway since 2005, and brings together drivers and teams from the Empire Super Sprints, Great Lakes Super Sprints, National Racing Alliance Sprint Invaders, Patriot Sprint Tour, Southern Ontario Sprints, and Ohsweken Speedway's Kool Kidz-Corr/Pak 360 Sprint Car division, plus more teams and drivers from Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Canadian Sprint Car Nationals – Winners List
2005 Kenny Jacobs – Holmesville, Ohio, USA
2006 Steve Poirier – Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Quebec, Canada
2008 Wayne Johnson – Mustang, Oklahoma, USA
2009 Shane Stewart – Bixby, Oklahoma, USA
2011 Sam Hafertepe Jr. – Sunnyvale, Texas, USA
2014 Jessica Zemken – Sprakers, New York, USA
2015 Bryan Howland – Auburn, New York, USA
2016 Parker Price-Miller – Kokomo, Indiana, USA
2017 Carson Macedo – Lemoore, California, USA
2019 ???
About MavTV Canada's All North Racing Powered by Pinty's
Ohsweken Speedway's Friday Night Excitement racing program is the centerpiece of a new international television broadcast on MavTV Canada called All North Racing powered by Pinty's. All North Racing visits Ohsweken for six live broadcasts that will be re-aired multiple times in Canada and the United States. The MavTV broadcasts are scheduled for May 31, June 21, July 22, July 23, August 30 and September 14. These broadcasts include both nights of the Northern Summer Nationals featuring Tony Stewart, Christopher Bell and Rico Abreu, as well as the 15th Annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals. For more information on MavTV Canada, visit www.facebook.com/MAVTVCanada.
Ohsweken Speedway Live Stream
Can't make it to the track or don't live within driving distance? No problem! Check out all of Ohsweken's weekly Friday Night Excitement action live online for free via the Ohsweken Speedway Live Stream. The stream goes live at 7:30pm EST each race night at www.OhswekenSpeedway.caand on our official Facebook page.
Ohsweken Speedway's 24th season of weekly Friday Night Excitement features four divisions of racing, including the Kool Kidz-Corr/Pak 360 Sprint Cars, Strickland's Brantford Chevrolet Sprint Cars, Middleport Mechanical Thunder Stocks, and HRW Automotive Mini Stocks. Visitwww.OhswekenSpeedway.com or call 519-717-0023 for more information.
About Ohsweken Speedway: Founded in 1996, Ohsweken Speedway is a motorsports complex which includes a 3/8 (0.375) mile clay oval track. The facility is owned by the Styres family, and located in the village of Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada. Ohsweken's weekly Friday night racing program runs from May to September each year, featuring 360 Sprint Cars, Crate Sprint Cars, Thunder Stocks, and Mini Stocks. The season finishes each year with the annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals. Ohsweken Speedway also hosts weekly Micro Sprint racing on Thursday nights.
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Ohsweken Speedway thanks the following partners for their support: Ackland Insurance, Arrow Express, Auto Parts Centres, Bradshaw Brothers Fuels, Burger Barn, Case IH O'Neil's Farm Equipment, Core-Mark International, Corr/Pak Merchandising Inc., Creative Edge Signs & Graphics, EPIC Racewear, Gale's Auto Aftermarket, Grisdale Racing Products, Hoosier Tire Canada, HRW Automotive, Insta-Insulation/Insta-Panels, Jibs Action Sports, Kool Kidz Ice & Water, McDonald's Restaurants of Paris & Brantford, Middleport Mechanical, Miska Trailer Factory, Nitro 54 Variety/Club 54 Racing, Pinty's Delicious Foods, Renway Energy, Rochester Knighthawks, Strickland's GMC and Victory Gamez.
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Cory Turner Gearing Up For Canadian Sprint Car Nationals After Pair of Podium Finishes
Spira Racing – Post Race Update No. 19


If Nick Watney wins The Barclays today at Bethpage Black, he might consider splitting his winner's check with Darrell Kestner.
Watney, who at 8-under stands two shots out of the lead held by Sergio Garcia at 10-under, yesterday credited Kestner with turning his troubled putting around.
Garcia and Watney are followed by Kevin Stadler at 7-under, Brandt Snedeker and Bob Estes at 6-under, four players at 5-under and eight players at 4-under, including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
Quietly and with little fanfare this week, Watney has made a couple of visits to Deepdale to work on his putting with Kestner, the accomplished and decorated director of golf at Deepdale Golf Club in Mahasset — about a 20-minute drive from Bethpage Black.
Watney, on the recommendation of a friend from California who also knows Kestner, first visited Deepdale on Monday and was there again for a refresher session yesterday morning, hours before his third-round tee time.
Watney stayed in contention yesterday by making five putts of 12 feet or more — two for birdies and three for par saves.
Watney said Kestner, who's in his 23rd year at Deepdale, which happens to have some of the most wicked greens in the metropolitan area, and has played in 18 major championships, helped mostly with his setup.
Kestner is not playing in The Barclays, but he might as well be.
Six years ago, before the 2006 PGA Championship, Mickelson enlisted the help of Baltusrol director of golf Doug Steffan, who helped him understand the nuances of the course. Mickelson, who credited Steffan for his help, remains close friends with him to this day.
Kestner first met Watney on the Kiawah Island range at the PGA Championship two weeks ago, when he stopped over to say hello to Butch Harmon, Watney's instructor and a friend of his.
Kestner called it "coincidence'' that two weeks later he was helping Watney try to capture perhaps the biggest win of his career.
"It's extremely cool to work with Nick and for him to have the trust in me,'' Kestner told The Post last night. "It's always cool when you're teaching your club champion and he goes on to win the club championship or a member you teach wins a met amateur event.
Kestner said he filmed Watney's stroke on Monday and they worked together for about two hours.
Watney, who said he was "pleased'' overall with his position, survived a rough stretch in the middle of the round when he watched a three-shot lead at 11-under entering the 11th hole turn into a one-shot after the 13th hole.
As of last night, Kestner said he was not sure if Watney planned to make a repeat visit this morning before his final round, but he was keeping a slot open for him.


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Amateur rapper arrested in attack on reporter
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - A man who attacked a television reporter on air has reportedly turned himself into police.
Keyjonta Foster, 23, surrendered at a Lower East Side precinct around 9 p.m. Monday, reports the NY Daily News.
ABC 7 News reporter CeFaan Kim was doing a broadcast Friday evening on Manhattan's Lower East Side for the 11 p.m. news when a man wearing a black leather jacket and mask came up behind him and wrapped his arm around the reporter's neck. The camera catches them scuffle and the man is seen hitting Kim. The man takes off his mask to reveal a bushy black beard. His friend, also in a red mask, tries to separate the two.
They continue to argue before the segment cuts off. Kim shared a link to the broadcast on his Twitter page Saturday and asked viewers to be on the lookout.
The NYPD 7th Precinct also tweeted out a Wanted Poster for the man in connection to the assault.


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NRI: Kirpan not allowed in Canadian court
Posted on January 18, 2008 by Colrama
Kirpan not allowed in Canadian court
Toronto: The kirpan issue is back in the news in Canada. In a country where courts have allowed Sikhs to wear kirpan in schools, police forces and public offices, and where an MP carries it inside Parliament, a Sikh man was not allowed to appear in court because of his kirpan.
Tejinder Sidhu, 25, who Monday went to a Calgary court to testify in a car accident case, was turned back by security guards because he was wearing a kirpan, a small dagger that Sikhs are mandated to carry by their religion.
Sidhu said: "I was asked by the court to testify in a fatal car accident case which I had witnessed. I had helped the victims out and called the police. So I was summoned by the court by subpoena to testify."
He said before he entered the courthouse through a metal detector, he informed the security guard that he was wearing a kirpan. "He said I cannot enter the court with the kirpan. Either I have to remove it or go back. I was taken aback. I told him that Sikhs in Canada can carry the kirpan anywhere. But he didn't budge," he said. Sidhu said he tried to convince him that the Canadian Supreme Court had cleared all legal hurdles for Sikhs to carry the kirpan. "But it was all wasted on him. It was the most humiliating experience of my life," he said.
After failing to convince the security guard, Sidhu wanted to have a word with his seniors. "But he didn't listen. Finally, I decided not to appear in the court. I told the guard to inform the judge that I was here, but you (guard) turned me back because of my kirpan," Sidhu said.
Before leaving, Sidhu also warned him that there could be legal consequences for him for violating the court subpoena.
Sidhu said: "Why do Sikhs have to go through it again and again?
The Supreme Court ruled in our favour in 2006. An MP wears a kirpan inside the House of Commons. The nation's Parliament has recognized five Sikh symbols. So where is the problem?" Sidhu said he was determined to take the issue to the highest levels.
The opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), which moved a motion in the Canadian Parliament seven years ago for recognition of five Sikh symbols, criticised the security guard for not allowing Sidhu in the courthouse.
"Sikhs have been in Canada for over 100 years. Their kirpan is recognized and allowed inside the Supreme Court of Canada and even in the House of Commons. I don't see why a public courthouse cannot be as understanding," said Wayne Marston, an NDP MP and human rights critic.
He said the kirpan is one of five religious symbols, mandated to be worn at all times for baptized orthodox Sikh men and women. "If kirpans are not allowed in a courtroom, are we indirectly limiting practising Sikhs from being lawyers or judges?
This type of discrimination must be stopped immediately," the NDP leader said.
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10 NRIs among 12 killed in Goa road crash
NRI and wife die on honeymoon with family
Mumbai: It was a short holiday to one of the most beautiful holiday destinations – Goa. But it ended in tragedy for a newly wed couple. Nikunj Patel, a non-resident Indian (NRI) IT professional from Australia, had married Jeevangna Patel on January 10.
The Patel clan from the US, Paris and Australia had arrived for Nikunj-Jeevangna's marriage at Mota Vaghchipa, a prosperous village in Pardi taluka, 25 km from Valsad. Thereafter, the family and the newly married couple had chartered a luxury bus for a brief holiday to Goa before returning to their respective adopted countries Jan 24, a weeping Pradeep Patel, one of the bereaved relatives, told IANS over phone from Mota Vaghchipa Thursday.
The couple, who planned to settle in the US after marriage, was among the total of 13 victims, including nine expatriate Indians, two Gujaratis and two drivers in the Goa bus-tanker-truck collision, Wednesday.
The other deceased are: Neelam Patel, Anand Patel, Dhruv Patel (minor, US citizen), Nidhi Patel (minor, US citizen), Falguni Patel, Mamta Patel (all from Florida, US), Nilesh Patel (Paris) and Nikunj Patel (Australia). Mamta Patel and Shivam Patel were from Mota Vaghchippa village accompanying their visiting relatives.
"Neelam and Anand Patel were engaged in running a franchise of the well-known Subway fast food eatery in Florida. Nilesh Patel was engaged in running a family business in Paris," Pradeep Patel said. He added that the relatives of the victims are expected to reach with the bodies late Thursday and the last rites shall be conducted in the village itself.
Eleven other members of the Patel clan sustained injuries, mainly burn injuries and fractures. They are recuperating in the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) at Bambolim, 15 kms away from the Maharashtra-Goa border.
GMCH dean Dr. V. N. Jindal said that the autopsy was conducted on 11 victims' bodies. Incidentally, the 1200-bed GMCH is the only major one on the 1000 km National Highway-17 between Mumbai-Manipal (Karnataka) equipped to handle big tragedies.
Jindal asserted that all the injured are now out of danger but since they have suffered fractures, may require varying period of hospitalization. The Goa police Thursday registered a case against the driver of the tanker carrying acid that was involved in the gruesome accident.
The tanker bears Maharashtra registration No. MH-04 CA-1907. Deputy Superintendent of Police (Traffic), Goa, G. P. Mhapne said that efforts are on to contact the tanker owners in Mumbai for further investigations.
The tragic accident, involving three large, fast-moving vehicles, occurred in the Western Ghats.
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Andher Nagari: Women Unsafe in India
Women Unsafe in India Crime, especially against women, is getting worse
Over 32,000 murders, 19,000 rapes, 7,500 dowry deaths and 36,500 molestation cases.
These are the number of violent crimes reported in the country in 2006. Reported is the operative word here as it is very likely that many instances of crime — especially against women — go unreported in India. These are figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) recently. While Madhya Pradesh is worst off among the states, the national capital continues to hold on to its reputation of being the most unsafe city in India. Delhi takes the top slot for crimes ranging from murders and rapes to dowry deaths and abductions.
It is a telling comment on a country's law and order situation when its capital is a cauldron of crime. Instead of leading the way in tackling crime, Delhi only seems to do worse year after year. For instance, while the national crime rate (number of crimes per one lakh population) declined negligibly by .02 per cent in 2006, Delhi's rate grew to 357.2, more than double the national average of 167.7.
The most worrisome fact the report reflects is that rape is the fastest growing crime in the country today and as many as 18 women are assaulted in some form or the other every hour across India. Over the last few days, cases of rape and assault have made it to the headlines with alarming frequency. Mumbai watched as an ugly mob attacked women on new year's eve. In Latur, a 14-year-old was raped and killed by four young men. In Konark, four men were charged with dragging a woman out of a bus and gangraping her.
Equally horrific are news reports of foreign tourists being sexually assaulted. Recently, an American was molested in Pushkar, a British journalist raped in Goa, Canadian girls attacked in Kumarakom to list a few instances. Cut it whichever way you will, the fact is we in India simply do not know how to treat our women as human beings who have a right to dignity and safety. We love mouthing 'atithi devo bhava' but the many cases of crimes against foreign nationals hardly inspire the tourist. This could eventually hurt the prospects of foreign business in India. It is all very well for us to gloat over our economy's growth rate and dream of achieving superpower status. But economic progress minus a secure law and order environment is not going to take us very far. An unsafe India will hurt us deeply in both the social and economic spheres.
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TOI: Editorials and Articles.
It was interesting to read the TOI justifying its publication of certain articles. You may call it the 'editorial policy'
This newspaper champions liberalism in thought and practice Gautam Adhikari There's a power point presentation circulating on the web. It expresses the fury of some readers at the Times of India for publishing in these columns an article by Ashis Nandy (January 8) that is severely critical of Narendra Modi and Gujaratis. It lampoons the Times, ridicules our journalists and ends by calling us a "banana newspaper". I thought this might be a good opportunity to clarify to readers what this newspaper stands for and believes in, so that you know where we come from.
But, first, some confusion needs to be cleared. One angry e-mailer calls Nandy's article an "editorial". It's not. The slot you are now reading is reserved for those writing under their names, mostly outside contributors and occasionally members of our staff. Our "leader articles" or "editorials" are written for the double column to the left, and they are always unsigned. They represent the views of this newspaper and are written by a team of editorial writers who deliberate daily in an editorial conference to determine the paper's position on a variety of issues and events that might be worth the paper's comment. In other words, what people write under their names is their business; as long as a particular piece is worth offering to you, in our considered judgment, as a viewpoint, we publish it. That viewpoint may not coincide with our position on a subject but we print it regardless.
We take this stance because we are a 'liberal' newspaper in the classical sense of the term. Our job is to offer you a wide variety of opinions to help you reflect and form your own views. When we want to express opinions as a newspaper, we do so in our editorials. Thus, we chose to publish Nandy's and Praful Bidwai's (January 2) critical views of Modi for much the same reason we carried columns favourable to Modi written by Swapan Dasgupta (December 30) and Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar (January 6). Our own take on the Gujarat elections we elaborated in a long editorial published on December 24.
Modi is an important politician. That importance has if anything increased after the recent state elections in which he scored a resounding victory. Therefore, his style of politics deserves comment from persons who we think are important commentators or public intellectuals. Each one of the writers mentioned above is a renowned public intellectual; that's why their views ought to be shared with you in all their variety. The trouble is that extremists, of the right and the left, prefer to zero in on only those views that go against their own to tar an
entire newspaper as biased or, worse, motivated.
Yes, we have a motive. It's to stick openly and steadfastly to liberalism. Unfortunately, the political landscape in India leaves little room these days for the play of liberalism as we understand it. Our liberalism compels us to be socially tolerant and economically as well as politically 'free to choose'. That's why we are neither socialists nor extreme nationalists. And that's why we support market forces, which are all about choice, while continuing to believe in an effective role for the state as regulator, facilitator and provider of security for life and property so that, with good governance, we can lead peaceful and prosperous lives in an interconnected world.
Strangely, in an age when you might presume it's improbable in a modern democracy, it's actually difficult to belong to our bandwidth in the Indian political spectrum. It isn't only because the extremes of a fiercely Hindu nationalist right and an obtusely Neanderthal left, with the Congress party being a muddle in the middle, leave little space for reasoned debate along classically liberal lines. In fact, a party professing market-oriented liberalism can even be termed unconstitutional. As we have argued in an editorial next to this article, you cannot under the Constitution register a party that debunks socialism or, for that matter, secularism.
A typical example of our kind of liberalism happened in 1977 in Skokie, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A neo-Nazi group wanted to parade through the town centre arousing the wrath of others, especially members of the Jewish community, many of whom were Holocaust survivors. The Nazis claimed the right of free speech guaranteed by the US Constitution. And in their defence sprang the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the initiative being taken by David Goldberger, an ACLU attorney who happened to be a Jew. The ACLU won the case on behalf of the Nazis.
All that Goldberger wanted to emphasise was that freedom of speech must be defended, even when the beneficiaries of such defence were not the kind of individuals we would associate with out of choice. And that's the kind of liberalism we in the Times subscribe to. So, we defend the right of Taslima Nasreen to write what she likes, perhaps angering Muslim fundamentalists, as well as M F Husain to depict Saraswati as he wants, infuriating Hindu bigots, while impressing upon the state not to interfere by banning expressions of art, which are viewpoints. If people don't like what they hear or read or see, they have the option not to. Simply don't buy the book or visit the exhibition where any expression offensive to your taste is being depicted.
Similarly, angry e-mailer sir, you don't have to buy the Times of India if you find it a repulsive banana newspaper, whatever that means. Just don't try to intimidate us by ridicule or threats, though we shall defend your right to do so till we cease publishing."
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Tribune Chronicle / Marc Weems Jackson-Milton's Emily Williams, left, drives as McDonald's Molly Howard, center, and Jackson-Milton's Ashley Cameron trail the play during Monday's game at McDonald High School. The Blue Devils won, 37-32.
McDONALD — In a low-scoring affair in Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference play, McDonald upset Jackson-Milton, 37-32.
Early in the game, Jackson-Milton (15-1, 11-1) got out to a 5-0 lead and seemed in control, but McDonald (12-4, 9-3) settled down defensively. The Blue Jays seemed a little off on offense.
Jackson-Milton led 10-5 after one quarter, but the Blue Jays were struggling to pull away.
The second quarter went just about the same for both sides as the Blue Devils couldn't get it going but continued to play good defense. JM's Abby Spalding scored six of her eight points in the second quarter.
Tribune Chronicle / Marc Weems McDonald's Molly Howard guards Jackson-Milton's Grace McDevitt during Monday's game at McDonald. The Blue Devils won, 37-32.
Jackson-Milton led 18-11 at halftime.
McDonald flipped a switch out of the locker room as the Blue Devils started the second half on a 6-0 run as Britney Smith hit two 3-pointers to get within a point.
The newfound energy caused Jackson-Milton to take a timeout with 4:26 in third as it was up, 20-19.
The Blue Jays took a one-point lead into the fourth quarter, 26-25.
McDonald continued to bring that energy in the fourth quarter. Molly Howard put up all nine of her points in the quarter to push the Blue Devils to victory.
McDonald grabbed one more rebound and had two more assist than Jackson-Milton, which did not clinch the MVAC title Monday due to the loss, in the win.
Matig finished with five points including a huge free throw that put McDonald up five with about 30 seconds to go. She finished with seven rebounds and two assists to go with those five points.
Thursday, McDonald hosts Lowellville, while Jackson-Milton travels to rival Western Reserve.


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Create Cost-effective Smart Lighting Systems with Eight-port Switch that Supports New IEEE 802.3bt Power over Ethernet (PoE) Standard | Microchip Technology
Create Cost-effective Smart Lighting Systems with Eight-port Switch that Supports New IEEE 802.3bt Power over Ethernet (PoE) Standard
480-watt fanless switch is compatible with all PoE lighting, providing maximum power for enterprise connected lighting applications
CHANDLER, Ariz., May 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The adoption of commercial smart lighting systems has grown significantly as organizations strive to improve energy efficiency and operational costs in buildings. Power over Ethernet (PoE) is rising in popularity for these systems, providing a reliable and easy-to-install solution that manages power and data over a single Ethernet cable. To support larger and more efficient lighting systems, Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), via its Microsemi subsidiary, today announced a cost-effective eight-port PoE switch that provides guaranteed power of 60 watts (W) per port for all eight ports simultaneously. Ideal for digital ceiling installations, the IEEE 802.3bt-compliant PDS-408G PoE switch runs noise-free with a fanless design.
Designed for enterprise connected lighting applications, the PDS-408G connects separate systems such as lighting, sensors, HVAC and Wi-Fi® access points over a single switch. The switch has eight PoE ports – the optimal amount for connected lighting – and offers end applications additional cost-savings from energy savings and lower operating expenses. In compliance with IEEE 802.3bt, the PDS-408G provides a total of 480 W, including up to 90 W for any individual port or 60 W for eight ports simultaneously.
The PDS-408G is plenum rated and can be installed in any air handling space, making it ideal for digital ceiling installations. Its fanless design provides the features needed for buildings that require noise-free and reliable operation, such as offices, hospitals and hotels. The PDS-408G also provides other proven advantages of PoE, including safe power, simple installation, flexible deployment and remote power management.
"Demand for Power over Ethernet in connected lighting systems has accelerated, and our new PoE switch is designed specifically for the needs of these applications," said Rich Simoncic, senior vice president of Microchip's Analog, Discrete and Power business unit. "The PDS-408G continues Microchip's leadership in PoE technology, providing an IEEE 802.3bt-compliant solution that provides almost six times the amount of power than the original PoE standard."
The PDS-408G joins Microchip's portfolio of end-to-end PoE solutions. Developers can use the PDS-408G switch alongside the company's extensive portfolio of 8- and 32-bit PIC® and AVR® microcontrollers (MCUs) at the end node. Microchip offers an array of easy-to-use hardware and software tools to accelerate PoE designs, including the PIC18 PoE Main Board, which features a PIC18 MCU, ATECC608A secure element and MIC28512 buck regulator. Additional information on Microchip's Ethernet solutions is available here.
The PDS-408G PoE switch is available now for $980 each. For additional information and to purchase products mentioned here, contact a Microchip sales representative or authorized worldwide distributor.
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Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading semiconductor supplier of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time to market. The company's solutions serve more than 125,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality. For more information, visit the Microchip website at www.microchip.com.
Note: The Microchip name and logo, the Microchip logo, PIC and AVR are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies.
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