Match date: 24 Mar 2018 | Basketball - NCAAB | Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 20:09 GMT+3 | 544 views.
Kansas State against Loyola Chicago and the winner of this game will be the first team to secure Final 4 place.
By all expectations this could be one "ugly" game and by that I mean one very low score. Both play good defenses, both were not too great from the free throw line, so seems this should be another low scoring game. And that means more chance for one very tied contest, after all exactly like the bookmakers expect it (the odds are set pretty much as 50-50).
I really hope it will be very tied and IMO in such game Loyola Chicago hold the edge. Namely this No.11 ranked team on the path to this Elite Eight, in all three games has won very tied. Namely total pts difference in those three victories have been only 4. So, twice it was one point game and once two points win. You can't asked for more tied than that. Plus they were the ones who made late winning shoots, it wasn't the opponent who missed it.
So, after such last seconds victories, you can imagine how high confidence of this team is. And in this age, for me it's means big advantage. They already successfully dealt with big pressure in last seconds, so possible another thriller finish should give advantage to Loyola Chicago.
Also, important note should be the fact Loyola Chicago in all three mentioned games was underdog. As a matter fact, today's opponent is the lowest ranked side they will meet so far. So, at least on paper, this should be the easier opponent among all so far.
And that opponent is No.9 ranked Kansas State. This team was winning thanks to strong defense. They held each of the three previous opponents to no more than 60 pts. But Loyola Chicago is not bad defensive side either. That being said, also under seems like logical choice but the totals for this game are really low.
What could be the big problem for Kansas State is the fact their forward and probably best player, Dean Wade was injured for a while. Though, he showed up in Sweet 16 game against Kentucky, but it was with very limited playing time (8 minutes), so he clearly is not enough fit.
Kansas St. vs Loyola Chicago betting preview represents the personal opinion of the author (FairPlayBet).


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Q: Android Scheduled Notification not working I am building an android app to display recurring scheduled notification at a specified time of the day.
For this I have created broadcastReceiver using following code:
public class ScheduleNotification extends BroadcastReceiver {

    public static final int NOTIFICATION_ID = 1;

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

        long when = System.currentTimeMillis();

        MainActivity mainActivity = new MainActivity();
        String _pasuram_number = mainActivity.get_pasuram_number();
        String[] _pasuram_str = mainActivity.get_dd_text(_pasuram_number).split(",");

        Log.d("VC", "Notification intent paasuram " + _pasuram_number);
        intent.putExtra("pasuramnumber", _pasuram_number);
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        Intent snoozeIntent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
        PendingIntent piSnooze = PendingIntent.getService(context, 0, snoozeIntent, 0);

        NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context);

        builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_stat_name);
        builder.setContentIntent(pendingIntent);
        builder.setAutoCancel(true);
   builder.setLargeIcon(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.ic_stat_name));

        builder.setContentTitle("Title of the notification");
        builder.setContentText(_pasuram_str[9]+"-"+_pasuram_str[11]);

        builder.setStyle(new NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle().bigText(_pasuram_str[0] + "-" + _pasuram_str[8]));

        Uri alarmSound = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);

        NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.build());

    }
}

In the MainActivity added code to create alarm
private void createScheduledNotification(int days)
    {
        // Get new calendar object and set the date to now
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
        // Add defined amount of days to the date
        calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 6);
        calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        //calendar.add(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, days * 24);

        // Retrieve alarm manager from the system
        AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(getBaseContext().ALARM_SERVICE);
        // Every scheduled intent needs a different ID, else it is just executed once
        int id = (int) System.currentTimeMillis();

        // Prepare the intent which should be launched at the date
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, ScheduleNotification.class);

        // Prepare the pending intent
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), id, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        // Register the alert in the system. You have the option to define if the device has to wake up on the alert or not
        alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pendingIntent);

        //alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), pendingIntent);
    }

The code compiles fine and application runs, but scheduled notification does not appear as expected.
In the manifest file added receiver as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.vaishnavism.eclass.dinamorudivyaprabandam" >

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <!-- permission required to use Alarm Manager -->
        <uses-permission android:name="com.android.alarm.permission.SET_ALARM"/>

        <!-- Register the Alarm Receiver -->
        <receiver android:name="com.vaishnavism.eclass.dinamorudivyaprabandam.ScheduleNotification"/>
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:name=".SettingsActivity"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_settings"
            android:parentActivityName=".MainActivity" >
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
                android:value="com.vaishnavism.eclass.dinamorudivyaprabandam.MainActivity" />
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

Any help to resolve the issue is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

A: Try to use set your alarm like below :
 Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
                calendar.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
                calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 6);
                calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
                int interval = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;

              Intent myIntent = new Intent(yourActivity.this, ScheduleNotification .class);
              pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(UserDashBoardActivity.this, 0, myIntent,0);
              /* Repeating on every 24 hours interval */
              AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager)getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
              alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), interval, pendingIntent);

And you need to start an Alarm When the Device Boots.
For more info refere here.
Hope it will help you.

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Retrospective Criminal Laws
HomeThe Queensland Law HandbookYour Rights and ResponsibilitiesHuman Rights Law in QueenslandRetrospective Criminal Laws
Last updated 1 December 2020
Section 35 of the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) (Human Rights Act) protects people from being unfairly punished where there is a change in criminal law since the offence was committed.
Under subs 35(1), if certain conduct becomes illegal only after a person has committed it, they cannot be found guilty of that offence. Subsection 35(2) provides that a person must not be punished to an extent greater than the penalty that existed at the time of the offence. However, under subsection 35(3), if the penalty decreases after a person is found guilty, they may apply for a reduced sentence.
Section 35 only applies to changes in penalty or punishment, and does not impact procedural retrospective changes to the law.
Section 35 is limited where the relevant conduct constituted an offence in international law at the time of its commission and was later established as an offence in Queensland. This may include crimes against humanity or war crimes that were not crimes against Queensland law when they were committed to be later punished by retrospective laws in Queensland. This limitation is contained in subs 35(5).
The rights in relation to retrospective criminal laws will also be subject to the general limitation provision in s 13 of the Human Rights Act. This provides human rights may be subject under law to reasonable limits, which are justified in a free and democratic society. See 'Human Rights may be Limited' for further explanation.
The right to protection from retrospective criminal laws may be engaged where new criminal offences are created, or existing criminal offences are amended (e.g. where, during sentencing for a criminal offence, the maximum penalty for a criminal law has increased since the offence was committed).
This example has been adapted from an Australian case. It is provided by way of example only, and is not a substitute for legal advice.
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Are Twitter and Facebook questions making our debates any better?
This is fun for Bill and Susan, but is it good for the rest of us?
It depends. That is, of course, a well-rehearsed non-answer. But you should probably be used to that, given that's the kind of answer Bill from Reno and Susan from Carson City could very well elicit.
In four of the previous six primary debates, TV networks have used social media to generate questions, with decidedly mixed results.
CNN, which teamed with Facebook on the first Democratic debate — and will do so again for Tuesday's Republican affair — didn't seem that into it last time. The network used only one question from a Facebook user, who wondered how Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont would convince Republicans to compromise on issues where President Obama has failed. It was a fine question, but it was also theoretical rather than personal, and it didn't make the most of social media's potential to amplify the concerns of everyday voters.
And it amplified the reality of letting regular folks ask questions; they don't always know, as the media does, how to get a politician to shed his or her talking points and actually say something.
Another time, moderator Anderson Cooper stated that "over the last week, guns have been the most discussed political topic on Facebook by 2 to 1," then pivoted to a question of his own about whether gun manufacturers should be shielded from lawsuits. The only other time Facebook came up was when panelist Dana Bash said, rather vaguely, that "CNN visited college campuses, along with Facebook, and not surprisingly college affordability was among the most pressing issues." She didn't use any questions from real students but instead asked Sanders whether taxpayers should help pay for rich kids to go to college.
In other words, social media contributed basically nothing to the last CNN debate.
CBS, which carried the second Democratic debate, seemed similarly unsure how to make the most of its partnership with Twitter for most of the night. But CBS did provide one example of how to do it right when, after Hillary Clinton cited her role in the 9/11 recovery to defend campaign contributions from Wall Street bankers, the network used a viewer's real-time tweet to push back.
Perfect. A moderator certainly could have come up with the same question on his or her own, but it was more impactful coming from a voter who was shaking his or her head at home, in real-time.
Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network both made extensive use of Facebook during their Republican debates, mostly to great effect. They featured real people asking questions that affect their lives: How will you help small businesses? Will you protect Christians worried about facing prosecution for their religious beliefs?
Fox also used Facebook data to help set the agenda. In the first GOP debate, Fox News moderator Chris Wallace noted that about 1,400 of the 40,000 submitted questions dealt with illegal immigration, so he asked about illegal immigration. In the fourth, Fox Business moderator Maria Bartiromo referenced a "word cloud" graphic that showed homeland security had been the most discussed topic on Facebook during the previous month. So she asked about homeland security.
The moderators probably would have addressed these topics anyway, but Facebook helped drive home the idea that their questions reflected what is important to the public.
So yes, Bill and Susan could be valuable contributors to Tuesday's presidential debate. But CNN would do us all a favor by taking lessons from CBS and Fox.


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Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge: Inspired by the true story of one of the first Black female doctors in America, Kaitlyn Greenidge's new novel tells the story of Libertie Sampson coming of age in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn. Libertie's mother, a physician, wants her daughter to attend medical school and practice alongside her but, unlike her mother who can pass, Libertie has skin that is too dark. After accepting an offer of marriage from a young Haitian man promising equality on the island, Libertie finds she is still considered inferior to her husband, and all men. In the words of Brandon Taylor, author of Booker short-listed Real Life, "In this singular novel, Kaitlyn Greenidge confronts the anonymizing forces of history with her formidable gifts. Libertie is a glorious, piercing song for the ages—fierce, brilliant, and utterly free." (Adam Price)
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi: Following 2019's "Hansel and Gretel"-inspired Gingerbread, Oyeyemi brings her readers on a surreal, inspired journey, beginning with hypnotist Otto Shin going off on a "non-honeymoon honeymoon" with his longtime boyfriend, Xavier. A train trip, their honeymoon takes an odd turn Ava Kapoor, the train's owner, reveals that she's set to receive a large inheritance. And when a mysterious passenger threatens that inheritance—and a young man named Yuri begins intervening in their lives—Otto and Xavier find their trip becoming more and more stressful. (Thom)
An Alternative History of Pittsburgh by Ed Simon: Pittsburgh native Ed Simon, erudite staff writer at The Millions, has written an idiosyncratic and predictably brainy book about his hometown, to be published by the inspiring independent house, Belt Publishing. Pennsylvania is Simon's clay, as witnessed by this passage from a post-election essay that appeared in Belt Magazine: "Far more capable tyrants than Trump have been felled by Pennsylvania. This vanquishing feels like George Meade turning back Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. It makes me want to ring the Liberty Bell until its crack breaks the whole thing apart and the light can get in." The light got in. This book will help you understand how and why. (Bill)
Subdivision by J Robert Lennon: J Robert Lennon, one of our most reliably interesting and adventurous novelists, returns in 2021 with Subdivision, an offering both darker and more whimsical than his critically lauded 2017 foray into crime fiction, Broken River. Subdivision continues Lennon's fascinating career-long exploration of perception and memory, as an unnamed narrator finds herself in, well, the Subdivision, a mysterious locale where the unsettling and inexplicable routinely occur. Accompanied by an Alexa-like digital assistant named Cylvia, the narrator explores the maze-like neighborhood, and as the jigsaw puzzle in the guest house where the narrator is staying nears completion, the Subdivision's true character begins to emerge. (Adam Price)
The Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector (translated by Stefan Tobler): It seems that New Directions releases a new translation of Lispector's work at least every few years, and thank goodness, I can never get enough of her writing. This latest volume is a translation of what has been called Lispector's "most accessible" book. A surprise when considering that this is the work that follows The Passion According to GH, and need I remind you, much of that wondrous novel consists of the narrator crossing a room to kill and consume a cockroach (and well, so much more). When Lispector was asked why she wrote something so straightforward, she replied, "I humanized myself." (Anne)
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade: "This year Amadeo Padilla is Jesus." Someone has been hearing my prayers: Quade has taken one of the finest short stories from her debut collection, Night at the Fiestas, and revisited the tale to create a masterful novel of family, faith, doubt. Quade's storytelling gift is her ability to capture the mysterious pulse of belief and ground them in visceral ritual on the page. She begins with Amadeo's dream role for Holy Week—no silky-haired, rosy-cheeked, honey-eyed Jesus. Amadeo pines for meaning his life: "His performance wasn't just a performance, but a true crucifixion. How many people can say they've done that for God?" Yet his plans are strained when his daughter reveals her secret. It turns out that the Lord and great storytellers work in mysterious ways. (Nick R.)
The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken: There's good reason a new Elizabeth McCracken book is cause for celebration: everything she writes—her short stories, her novels, and, hey, also a memoir—is consistently brilliant. Her work is the perfect amount of odd, witty, tender, and deceptively heart-splitting. This latest is a short story collection that Publishers Weekly, in its starred review, calls "sly" and "emotionally complex." There are twelve stories in all, including one about a mother who gorges on challah because she longs for her kids, and another about an actress who plays a villain on a children's show and her loser brother. I can't wait. (Edan)
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright: A Black man is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood and taken to the local precinct, where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers beneath the streets of the city. Sound familiar? No, this didn't happen last week. It's the premise of the previously unpublished novel from the 1940s, The Man Who Lived Underground, by the immortal Richard Wright, author of Native Son and Black Boy. This novel cut close to the author's heart. As he put it: "I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from pure inspiration." (Bill)
My Good Son by Yang Huang: The winner of the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize, My Good Son is about a tailor named Mr. Cai in post-Tiananmen China and the dreams he holds for his only son, Feng. Mr. Cai schemes with one of his clients, Jude, a gay American expat, to get his son to the States, and the novel, about parental expectations, social class, and sexuality, highlights both the similarities and differences between Chinese and American cultures. Huang, who has previously published a novel and a collection of linked stories, grew up in China and moved to the states to study computer science—only to also pursue writing. She says, "In writing I can let down my walls, suspend my moral judgment, and pour my deepest compassion into the written words." (Edan)
First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel): The eight stories in this new collection by Murakami are all told in the first person singular voice. This narrator shares a lot of passions with the author: nostalgia of young love and sex, ruminations on Jazz music, and the enthusiasm in baseball. Like Murakami's previous stories, the charm of magical realism is always sustained by a philosophical meditation on love, loneliness, and memory. (Jianan Qian)
Lightseekers by Femi Kayode: A Nigerian crime drama with wide-ranging sociological and political implications, Lightseekers introduces the unusual detective Philip Taiwo, an investigative psychologist more interested in why than how. After an angry mob beats and then burns three undergraduate students in a Nigerian border town and the killings are widely shared on social media, the powerful father of one victim hires Taiwo to figure out what really happened. The police can't find a motive for the murders, but Taiwo (with the help of his streetwise driver, Chika) faces a dangerous conspiracy to reveal the private violence behind the public attack. (Kaulie)
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian: A comic surreal novel about a young man growing up in the Atlanta burbs, a scheme of his neighbor's that goes awry, and his adulthood as a history grad student surrounded by the new gold rush of Silicon Valley. Celeste Ng says of the novel "In a perfect alchemical blend of familiar and un-, Gold Diggers takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire, and creates a world that's both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive. Written with such assurance it's hard to believe it's Sanjena Sathian's debut, this is a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers—and dangers—of borrowed ambition." (Lydia)
Southbound by Anjali Enjeti: For generations, portraits of race relations in the American South have been painted only in Black and white. But as more Asian and Latinx people settle south of the Mason-Dixon line, that picture has grown more complex – and more interesting. In her debut essay collection, Enjeti, an election activist and former attorney, tackles a wide range of topics spanning from voter suppression to the early years of the AIDS epidemic in the South and the whitewashing of Southern literature. (Michael)
Farthest South & Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford: Following his acclaimed debut collection, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, Rutherford's sophomore collection blurs the boundaries between dreams, fables, and the mystical to explore themes like family, grief, and illness. About the eight stories, Laura van den Berg writes: "Drawing on landscapes both mythic—the fairytale, the ghost story—and domestic, this collection illuminates terrors that feel at once prescient and eternal." (Carolyn)
Nancy by Bruno Lloret (translated by Ellen Jones): Lloret's English language debut follows a recently-widowed, cancer-striken woman on her deathbed as she looks back on her sad, lonely, and bleak life in Chile. Fernando A. Flores calls Nancy "a devastating, psychic exploration of our crumbling world, told in a visceral style that proves Bruno Lloret to be a force among the emerging Chilean writers of today." (Carolyn)
We Are Bridges by Cassandra Lane: In her lyrical memoir, which won the 2020 Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, Cassandra Lane explores her ancestral history in order to give her future child a family history. Weaving the story of her great-grandparent's lives in the rural South (including her great-grandfather's tragic death) and her life in current-day Los Angeles, Lane explores the ways the past informs the present—and how to beautifully reclaim it. Previous Meriwether winner YZ Chin writes: "In We Are Bridges, Cassandra Lane boldly investigates the connections between transgenerational trauma, personal love, and the burden of memory." (Carolyn)
Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur: In Hur's newest novel, particle physicist Elsa Park is working at an observatory in the Antarctic—a place, she believes, is far enough away from her family, past, and the ghosts that inhabit both. When the imaginary friend from her youth returns—and her catatonic mother breaks her years-long silence—Elsa must return home to face what she has spent years running from. Celeste Ng calls the novel "spellbinding shape-shifter" that "tackles questions of race, culture, and history head-on, exploring the blurry boundaries between past and present, fact and fantasy, and personal and cultural—or cosmic." (Carolyn)
A Perfect Cemetery by Federico Falco (translated by Jennifer Croft): Falco's newest collection (and his English language debut) feaures five stories—one of which was a finalist for the García Márquez Short Story Prize. Set in Argentina's Córdoba mountains, these richly drawn stories explore faith, loss, and love, as well as the psychological and environmental. Kirkus' glowing starred review called it "expansive and ingeniously crafted—an unforgettable collection." (Carolyn)
The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin: From the author of Don't Skip Out on Me (a 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist), Vlautin's newest novel follows Lynette, a 30-year-old who is barely hanging on, as she tries to keep her family together by buying the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother. Set over the course of two increasingly stressful days and nights, a desperate Lynette is pushed to the brink in order to keep a roof over her family's head. Ivy Pochoda calls the novel a "masterclass of scope and scale" that bleeds real, cuts deep, and offers just the right dose of hope." (Carolyn)
Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick: The protagonist of Ozick's first book in over a decade is Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, a retired and isolated lawyer, who seems to be living in (and for) the past. When the boarding school he attended as a boy is turned into a pseduo retirement home for trustees, he tries to wrangle his memories into a memoir. About Ozick's writing, The New York Review of Books writes: "No matter what the topic, Ozick's prose urges the breathless reader along, her love of language rolling excitedly through her sentences like an ocean wave." (Carolyn)
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar: Told in first-person stream of consciousness, Catalan poet Baltasar's debut novel—which won the 2018 Catalan Booksellers Award—is about a forty-year-old lesbian who is turning over the memories of her life: wondering about former lovers; remembering places she lived; her thoughts of suicide. Amina Cain writes, "How can a novel that orbits suicide be so surprising, so intensely liberating and funny, and at the same time, so full of grief? That is its genius."
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner: The tender and moving debut memoir from Zauner—writer and musician of the indie solo act Japanese Breakfast—shares the name of her viral 2018 New Yorker article. In what Dani Shapiro calls "a gripping, sensuous portrait of an indelible mother-daughter bond," Zauner explores the visceral importance of food, memories of her late mother, and her identity as a Korean American. (Carolyn)
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Must-Read Poetry: July 2017
Nick Ripatrazone July 24, 2017 | 8 books mentioned 1 5 min read
Poetry forces us to slow down, sit, and pay attention. Poets make us work, and we should be thankful for that; language is resurrected when it's spun and stretched and smoothed.
2017 is a banner year for poetry: debuts, new takes by established authors, and collections that span careers. In this monthly column, I'll profile new titles that are worth your time.
Stories of transfigurations and conflagrations. Poets affirming their existence on the page. Poetry that cuts through the daily noise and does justice to words. Here are five notable books of poetry publishing in July.
Lessons on Expulsion by Erika L. Sánchez
Sánchez's debut collection begins with "Quinceañera," a poem about desire born when "Summer boredom flutters its / sticky wings." Cooking wine is guzzled. Old whiskey is downed. "In the warmth of your bedroom," the narrator pierces her navel with a safety pin, and tumbles backward in time as her skin remains pressed against the present. Out "in the murky dance clubs," music "vibrating / your face and skull," there is a pain that "suckles you," and "Everywhere, / you hold its lumpy head to your breast like a saint." I put a lot of worth on a poet's opening salvo, and Sánchez sets her heels into the dirt. Her lines pop and pivot, from sex to God (and divine absence), to immigration and identity. I keep going back to the elegiac "Amá" ("I know you think only white people leave / their families. / I undid my braids too early, I know.") and a searing thunder of a poem, "Baptism," whose final lines cut: "Watch me dance / on borders in this dirty dress, / until my wig catches fire." This is a collection that outlasts its final page, that feeds us endless questions to ponder, that makes us want more: "Amá, I leave because / I feel like an unfinished / poem, because I'm always trying / to bridge the difference."
Some Say by Maureen N. McLane
In McLane's poetic-memoir, My Poets, she's written about how listening to recordings of poets transforms their works: "recordings offer a great way to refocus one's attention on the poem." McLane's columnar, phrase-long lines in Some Say made me want to read them aloud. I find that white-paged poems, lines short and margins wide, really help coax the language alive because there's nowhere to hide (as in prose). "If I say abstract," she writes, "I don't mean ideal. / I mean real." Yes. McLane's poems often wander into nature, but they always turn back to language, our terribly insufficient but tonally beautiful attempts at naming, placing, cataloging, and feeling the world. She's also hilarious, as in "Tips for Survival," which include: "Don't date flyboys. / Carry blister tape" and "Accept no gift / unless you want that relationship." My favorite poem here is "Yo," which bends language without breaking it: "Talking to birches / I am an idiot // & I know you get it / reader—no idiolect // this dialect / riddled with defects // time will fix / or forget/ Whatevs."
All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned by Erica Wright
I loved the strangeness of Wright's debut, Instructions for Killing the Jackal, and she's back with her unique storytelling touch (Wright is also a crime novelist—The Granite Moth and The Red Chameleon—and burns a profluent path through her poems). There's humor in the face of apocalypse, too: "Quirks of survival leave us roaches / but not pterodactyls. So much for majesty." In "Spontaneous Human Combustion," there's a sense of unknowing: "Someone was here, and now he's not." Appropriate to the book's title, many of these narrators tell strange tales, shrug their shoulders, and move on—but the readers are left transfixed. Take the sublime "American Ghosts:" "These see-throughs want to shake your hand, / none of this calling out to mirrors, letting // daughters burn their locks with matches." Their translucent forms assemble, and once "outfitted with hymnals," they "push the light from their palms / until bells ring like rivers cracking in spring." Although the dead "remember the weight of boots" they "prefer the company of dust." There's a matter-of-factness to Wright's crisp lines, as if we are entering a weird but valid world between these covers. It is not the final poem in the collection, but I recommend doubling-back to the open atmosphere of "American Highways in Billboard Country," and one epitaph-worthy couplet in particular: "What if the exit we choose / isn't the one we wanted?"
Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
"Survive long enough / and eventually / everything becomes a revolution." "Being Asian in America," one of the shortest poems in Phi's collection, reverberates outward through the book. There's sparkling range within these poems, and the reach is fluid. In "Vocabulary," we begin with two minimum-wage workers pushing shopping carts along the parking lot asphalt to where they rest in the corral. One winter, two workers stand "near the weak warmth of the rattling heat vent." Like the narrator, the other man "was a nonwhite boy from a poor family." The man missed his girlfriend, but they'd spent the previous night together, and his joy was obvious: "He said it like their love / saturated every atom of his being, / and shook him, / as if all his veins were laid bare." The man soon became ashamed that he'd opened his heart to another, and never speaks of his emotions again. Phi might have ended the poem there, but as he does throughout Thousand Star Hotel, he takes disparate and precise moments of family, work, fatherhood, and shows their wider echo. Twenty years after that co-worker closed his heart to the narrator, he turns to the reader: "I make my living with words" but "I still can't reach out to my friends, / especially my fellow straight boys…I find myself wanting to tell my mother and father I love them and / I just / can't." Such piercing laments contained in these lines.
Distant Mandate by Ange Mlinko
Mlinko's notes for the collection read like a dense prose-poem of poetic ancestry and influences. She writes that her title is taken from László Krasznahorkai's novel Seiobo There Below: "everything is forcing him to take part in a dream that he himself is not dreaming, and to be awake in another's dream is the most horrifying burden—but at the same time he is a favored being, as he can see something, for the sight of which there is only a distant mandate, or there isn't one at all, this cannot be known, he can see, in any event, the moment of creation of the world, of course all the while understanding nothing of it." A recursive and accurate definition of poetry. Mlinko's verse calls to mind W.B. Yeats's concept of "Spiritus Mundi," a depository of souls and spirits, a place where poets' minds drift in that space between sleeping and waking moments. Distant Mandate feels like it exists in that purgatorial setting, starting with "Cottonmouth:" "A levitating anvil. Omen of seagull / Blown inland. Ranch gate said RIVERSTYX, / but it was the woodland that looked lethal: // no place to put down your foot." Mlinko's poems tend to burrow into the dirt and dust while their words lift the prosaic world into abstraction. It's a collection that demands attention and patience, but there are so many rewards, as in "The Fort:" "From the weathered boards knots pop / like the eyes of potatoes. From brick / salient not a clink of a pupil in a loop-/ hole." Read those lines aloud, feel your tongue go. Close your eyes, and there you are in the scorched Texan land, with a poet whose ear is tuned to myth.
Nick Ripatrazone | 8 books mentioned 1 5 min read
Must-Read Poetry: January 2019
Nick Ripatrazone January 8, 2019 | 8 books mentioned 5 min read
Online we are dead, alive, temporary, and permanent. Mao's serene descriptions are masterfully unsettling. Each poem bears careful reading.
Nick Ripatrazone | 8 books mentioned 5 min read
February Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)
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December Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)
Editor December 2, 2020 | 8 books mentioned 2 min read
The year may be ending but there's still more books releases—from Emma Glass, Saul Friedländer, and others—to come.
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September brings new books from Yaa Gyasi, Daisy Johnson, Emma Cline, Marilynne Robinson, Laila Lalami, Daniel Mendelsohn, and more.
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Editor November 2, 2020 | 8 books mentioned 2 7 min read
November brings us the presidential election (finally!)—also new books from Jonathan Lethem, Nicole Krauss, Kiese Laymon, and Charles Baxter.
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Zara & Mike Tindall live on 700-acre estate – see couple's £750k home
Zara Tindall clenches jaw as she stands by Queen's coffin
Zara, 41, and Mike Tindall, 43, live at Gatcombe Park with their children, Mia, Lena and Lucas. Mia, eight, attended Queen Elizabeth's funeral on Monday alongside her parents. Princess Anne, 72, also lives on the Gatcombe Park estate with her husband Timothy Laurence, 67.
Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire is one of the lesser-known royal residences.
It is a 700-acre estate, and a private, royal country home.
Its main building is an impressive, Grade II listed home, which is where Princess Anne lives.
The home sits within 700 acres of land on the estate, where the Princess also holds annual equestrian events.
Dotted around the large estate are other royal homes, including Mike and Zara's.
What is it like inside?
Mike and Zara have their very own home gym, as revealed by Mike when he participated in the 2.6 Challenge in April last year.
It has exposed brick walls with a Union Jack flag on display, as well as an exercise bike where Mike took part in the charity bike ride.
While Princess Anne, Mike, and Zara's home was bought privately by the late Queen over 50 years ago, it was extensively refurbished and renovated prior to the family moving in back in the late 1970s, funded by the Crown purse.
According to reports, the main manor house of Gatcombe has five main bedrooms, four secondary bedrooms, four reception rooms, a library, a billiard room, and a conservatory.
Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips, 44, also lives within the grounds of the 700-acre estate, along with his daughters Isla, 10, and Savannah, 11, who were both in attendance at Queen Elizabeth's funeral on Monday.
Gatcombe has been the home of the Princess Royal since 1976, when it was bought privately by the late Queen for Anne and her then-husband, Captain Mark Phillips.
In 2013, Anne and Timothy were joined by Mike and Zara when the Tindall couple sold their Cheltenham home and moved to the Gatcombe estate.
The Tindalls moved to Gatcombe just before welcoming their first child, Mia, in 2014.
Gatcombe is a convenient place for the Tindall family to be, with equestrian Zara having many of her horses stabled on the estate.
The estate is the former home of the Festival of British Eventing, and Zara herself has often competed there.
Princess Anne spoke to Countryfile about her love for Gatcombe, explaining: "It's really nice to come back and just be yourself in an area like this.
"Being able to take on a place like this – for me, I've got to make it work.
"This is not something that comes free, this has got to pay its way, otherwise I can't stay here."
The estate is reported to have been bought for around £750,000.
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How our gardens grow!
By Caleb Nelson, Reporter Correspondent
Caleb Nelson, Reporter Correspondent
Dorchester and Mattapan: Garden and Farm Map: Click top open as PDF. Image by Caleb NelsonEven as the snow keeps falling, farmers are tending to crops growing all around Boston, toiling behind hedges and white picket fences, on rooftops, and in abandoned fields. There are roughly 175 community gardens and farms in the city of Boston, and with decades of local experience to learn from, farmers and planters are finding ways to make urban farms profitable.
Urban farming efforts in Boston have been multiplying rapidly since the 2013 Urban Agriculture Rezoning Initiative established guidelines for urban agriculturalists. But, a Reporter survey shows, community gardens and urban agriculture projects have been sprouting in Dorchester and across Boston for decades.
An eight-week course run by the Urban Farming Institute (UFI) attracts a group of 30 students every Thursday evening at the ABCD Center on River Street in Mattapan. Bobby Walker, who has five years of farming experience, and his partner, Nataka Crayton, spent the first few months of this year recruiting residents in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan to attend their class, which offers a primer on the food industry to inspire new urban farming projects in Boston.
"Farming is a very big industry," says Walker. "So we try to visit many places, see aquaponics, and rooftop farms, just so people are generating ideas and not stuck in the same place."
The goal, he says, is to encourage an entrepreneurial spirit, and to demonstrate how the economy works through farming, from the soil to the farm stand to the restaurant or kitchen. Farming students who stick with the class develop business plans to create their own urban farms. There are many different ways to make money as a farmer, but it is hard work.
"We're farming as a business," Crayton says. "While we don't believe we're going to solve the job crisis, it definitely is one additional opportunity for people to build an enterprise and not just simply have to work for people, but to work for one's self."
There are many ways of building a farming business, from cultivating an abandoned lot, building beds on rooftops, creating a greenhouse or transforming a warehouse or a freight container into a hydroponics system. The initial investment can be daunting. According to Walker, it costs around $75,000 to start up a small farm in the city, and the return on investment is slow. But the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers partial loans and grants to people who show commitment, and when a community works together to grow out of city-owned plots, creating a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, some of that initial cost can be mitigated.
Excitement among Walker's and Crayton's students is palpable. For the ambitious few that stick around, there's a 20-week course over the summer. During this course, students volunteer on farms for four hours a day, five days a week, earning a stipend and getting a feel for the soil. Having a business idea and having set foot on the land, they meet with counselors who have expertise in different areas to further develop their business plans. At the end of the year the class takes a field trip to an out-of-state farming conference.
The Urban Farming Institute started in 2012 by cultivating land secured by City Growers. Walker volunteered to help in the field during the first year of the program. The following year he took the class, and then became a farm manager. Students from the Institute today manage three farms in Dorchester and Roxbury: One sits at the corner of Glenway and Bradshaw streets, another is located on Harold Street in Roxbury, and the third is next to the Sportsmen's Tennis Club on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester where Walker started farming with City Growers on the plot behind the club.
About an acre of fenced-in land, it's already teaming with green rows of lima beans, garlic, and Swiss chard, peeking up between snow patches. He estimates that this one plot can bring in around $10,000 a year, conservatively. Aquaponics systems can increase the yield significantly, he says. "We encourage people to come out and step on the land. You don't know what you're getting into until you really get out there. Even though it's only four hours a day, it's four hours of hard work."
One of the older farm sites grew out of the ReVision House, a family shelter for women and children that started in 1989 off Blue Hill Avenue on Fabyan street. The next year, women from the shelter started a garden on city lots next to their building and across the street. The project grew to include two greenhouses – one built over the back porches on one of their buildings, and a traditional one in the middle of their larger plot. They also maintain a farm stand at 1062 Blue Hill Ave.
The manager of the farm, Shani Fletcher, started with the ReVision House's CSA program five years ago. She keeps the mission tacked to her wall: "To provide access to locally affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for shelter residents and our extended community."
"We give people here access to fresh healthy food," she says. "We grow a wide range of vegetables: peppers, tomatoes, eggplants. We have a market at Dorchester House, which is in a Vietnamese neighborhood, and so we grow different crops that are desirable for Vietnamese cooking, and there's a lot of Haitian/West Indian customers, so we also provide kale and okra."
Inside the greenhouse across the street, Joy Gary coordinates work with several volunteer groups each week. Students from MIT were busy planting seedlings for sale to local gardeners as Gary explained: "They help with the process of either potting up things and doing things in the greenhouse, or helping us prepare the fields, or with planting or harvesting."
Gary's mom grew up on a farm, and her dad was a farmer in Curacao, an island in the West Indies. Their stories about living off the land, raising chickens, and eating fresh produce out of the earth inspired her to join a community garden as she was growing up in Roxbury and Dorchester.
"I went to culinary school, and so that was the tipping point for me; I realized that the food system was really messed up," she says. "Then I found that there were a number of urban farms around the area, so I decided to just insert myself into that community, and I worked at the Food Project for a little bit and then I went to Michigan to get more in depth on farming."
Community gardening really took off in Boston in the 1970s, with Mayor Kevin H. White's Revival Garden Program. One of the oldest community gardens in Boston, the Nightingale Community Garden on Park Street in Dorchester, was started up during that boom in community gardening efforts. It has only grown since. It is owned by the Boston Natural Areas Network, and affiliated with the Trustees of Reservations, the largest proprietors of gardens in Boston. The property includes 132 plots where Dorchester residents are already beginning to till the soil.
One of the gardeners at Nightingale, Sharon Higgins, demonstrated her worm bin at the Trustees of Reservations 41st annual Gardener's Gathering at Northeastern University in March where hundreds of gardeners from Boston gathered in anticipation of the growing season.
She points to a patch of worms. "These are Red Wigglers," she says. "We're growing dirt using newspaper and composted food. Just don't put any oil in it. In the winter time you can keep it under your bed, or someplace in the house, under your kitchen sink. It has to be in a cool place."
For the past six years she has been using the rich dirt that the worms produce to kick start her garden in the spring. "A lot of the trash that we put out, we could recycle," she says, lifting out a handful of moist brown mixture that smelled nutty and tart, like fresh earth. "This is poop. So this is all compost."
Higgins's booth stood next to City Soil, which is a dirt farm at Audubon's Boston Nature Center in Mattapan. "We have a contract to bring in yard waste from the city," Chesapeake First, the site's manager, says. "We'll turn that into as clean a product as we can for use in urban agriculture and urban gardens and farms."
In a compost-heated greenhouse near a brook on land owned by the Nature Center, City Soil gathers bags of leaves, branches (and Christmas trees), which they turn into wood chips and compost, creating a good healthy base for community gardeners. Founded in 2012, City Soil shares its greenhouse with gardeners and organizations like the Boston Food Forest Coalition, also based at the Nature Center, who start their seedlings early in the year.
Launched in 2014, The Food Forest Coalition has created perennial gardens in East Boston, Jamaica Plain, downtown Boston, and is looking at two potential sites in Dorchester. There's a gorilla garden on Ellington Street, where neighbors started growing on a vacant lot several years ago. They want help putting in perennial fruit trees. Another garden that has been in the works for the past two years on Jones Hill is facing a bureaucratic delay.
"The city wants a budget of tens of thousands of dollars, which the neighborhood association doesn't have, and so we've been working with them," says the coalition's executive director, Orion Kriegman. "It's a straightforward design of a perennial garden that could fit in that space. Our focus is on edible public parks, and the value of bringing community together."
A large number of farming and gardening organizations are setting up shop these days. Many of them, like City Sprouts and the Trustees of Reservations SLUG programs, which build garden beds at Boston public schools, focus on education, providing awareness and access to fresh produce in the city's so-called "food deserts." Another group, The New Garden Society, offers training programs to inmates, creating prison gardens by using horticulture as a transformative tool.
Kicking off the Gardener's Gathering last month, Mayor Marty Walsh spoke about his own connection to the land, recalling the farm in the back of his grandparents' home in Ireland, and remembering being sent out to get carrots, onions, or potatoes.
"You make our city beautiful," Walsh said to the gathering in the university ballroom. "City government is a lot like gardening. You plant seeds, and you hope that those seeds take. As they grow you hope that the initiatives that we put out there bare fruit."
The Trustees of Reservations agency is celebrating 125 years of land management in Massachusetts. Its holdings comprise 60 community garden plots in Boston on 16 acres of land. By managing community gardens, handling logistics, providing water and landscaping, it offers residents space to grow their own initiatives.
Organizations like Sayed Mohamed-Nour's non-profit NUBIA grow out of gardens owned by The Trustees. He started growing at a garden in Charlestown, and now he manages a combination of plots within seven community gardens, and two small farms in Roxbury and Dorchester over 1.8 acres in total. He donates most of the food he grows to food pantries and individuals, and last year he started selling his extra produce at farmer's markets.
Residents like Leonide Lacet, who started gardening at at a plot in Shangri-La garden in Mattapan three years ago, share their years of horticulture experience with fellow gardeners in community gardens. Lacet, who kept chickens back home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, also has five beds of beans, and vegetables, and Swiss chard in her back yard.
"Last year I grew just beans, all kinds of beans. I let them grow, and I still have some in my freezer. Cook them with rice, and they taste very good," she says. Now she also helps educate and spread her knowledge as a Healthy Community Champion with the Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Vivian Ortiz, a project coordinator with the Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition, has a vision: "With the Neponset River Greenway coming in Mattapan, we're working to get that neighborhood that's near River Street excited when it opens in the fall." She is making connections all over the neighborhood with the Trustees and City Natives, a garden on Edgewater Drive that keeps beehives. All of the various gardening and farming efforts in Dorchester work in tandem to educate the community, and to find ways of growing gardens into small businesses.
Most of the gardening efforts in Dorchester rely on grants and organizations like the Trustees for support, but the future looks bright for entrepreneurs. The Urban Farming Institute is committed to converting subsidized successes into profitable commercial enterprises by fostering a new generation of farmers in the city. UFI began with Glynn Lloyd, owner of City Fresh Foods, who wanted to figure out a way of buying lettuce locally. He started City Growers farms on vacant lots, and that enterprise grew into a non-profit focused on training new farmers on city lots. The program lasts through the summer, a whittling exercise in which 30 participants are honed to a committed team of 10 toilers of the land.
UFI's director, Patricia Spence said the goal is to build a healthier, more stable food system in Boston. The process is underway, but it will take awhile. "You can't do it all in that 20 weeks," Spence says. "Because we've got a big network, people will be able to work for different people in farming until they are ready to do their own thing. Eighty percent of the people who graduate stay in food, and as we amass more land, UFI will be able to actually lease them land."
A new headquarters for UFI is in the design stage, a $3 million renovation project of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm, Mattapan's oldest building. It will be the headquarters for classes, a small urban campus with a field out front and maybe a greenhouse out back. Bobby Walker and Nataka Crayton will be the caretakers of the property.
For now, though, it's back to the ABCD Center where anxious students await their turns to tend the toil.


2016 brought the demise of Bowie, the rise of the alt-right and the surprise election of a Cheeto as President of the United States.
The 420 front was one of few sectors growing by leaps and bounds. Last year may have been the biggest ever for marijuana reform, with three additional states giving the nod to medical pot and four to recreational use.
Cannabis research firm The ArcView Group predicts a staggering $22 billion in legal marijuana sales by 2020. Unwilling to let grass grow under their feet, tech giants are prepared to spend big for a place in the race to become the Google of cannabis.
Marijuana and tech conspired in a big way in 2016. Microsoft and Oracle Corporation backed seed-to-sale software helping medical cannabis companies transact in compliance with regulations.
However, the year's fresh crop of cannabis hardware is the real talking point; 2016 introduced marijuana tech products of a novel strain. These innovations expertly blur boundaries between medical technology and consumer goods. One such gadget is LEAF, an automated home growing system managed via smartphone app.
"I've been using [medical cannabis] since I got out of the [Israeli] military in 2010," says LEAF CEO Yoni Ofir. His Colorado-based company offers plug 'n plant technology that automates every conceivable factor in the growing process, such as nutrition, temperature and humidity regulation. "You can use data and sensors to make everything accurate and increase the chance of a great crop," says Ofir.
With LEAF on their side, medical marijuana patients and recreational users alike can grow their own cannabis with minimal physical input. "It's basically a medical-grade lab," says Ofir. Besides helping stoners get the best from their bud, LEAF could be a lifeline for patients with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Conserving time, money and effort makes it much simpler to maintain treatment plans.
The past year's other marijuana tech innovations mirror LEAF's preoccupation with both automation and aesthetics. Tel Aviv-based Syqe (pronounced 'Psyche') Medical's pocket-sized cannabis inhaler delivers precision dosing through preloaded cartridges. The device's current incarnation features chic white casing reminiscent of a Fujifilm Instax camera.
LEAF's hefty price tag makes it near inaccessible to those who could benefit most from automated growing. The LEAF system itself will set consumers back a cool $2,990. Filters and nutrient packs required for a single grow cost $39 a pop. Once launched in the U.S., Syqe's inhaler could also come at a similarly high buying cost with comparable long-term maintenance expenses.
Even though it's usually cheaper than recreational pot, medical marijuana still isn't cheap, and can cost around $40 for an eighth of an ounce, according to a user generated data bank called PriceOfWeed.com that's on the low end of the spectrum. Investing in LEAF would certainly cut costs in the long run, it's simply a case of spending money now to save money in the future. Investment buys are out of reach for many patients prescribed medicinal Mary Jane, whether we're talking about a medical device or a Rolex.
If cannabis tech becomes user experience-focused at the expense of accessibility, essential innovations could be limited to the recreational market. Marijuana tech companies are ultimately profit-driven businesses, but there's plenty that can be done on both company practice and federal policy levels.
"With technology, the more units being sold, the cheaper the price," says Ofir. "Medical users have a lot to gain, because it just happens to be the same plant that the recreational users want." However, companies have more socially responsible options available than developing a device and letting the free market decide its accessibility.
Price breaks from marijuana tech companies could offer a practical solution to increased accessibility. Several New Jersey dispensaries offer discounts to low-income patients, military veterans, senior citizens and minors. If cannabis companies applied this approach to their retail policy, medical users could have increased access to vital treatment tools without compromising on profitability.
In contrast with the inaccessibility of some medical marijuana hardware, accessible advances can and do exist in the realm of software. Releaf, a free app for Android and iOS helps patients manage cannabis dosing and gather treatment data for doctors. This sleek, intuitive app holds a five-star average rating across platforms.
Although currently unmonetized, Releaf offers ample opportunity for future monetization models such as in-app purchases and sponsorships. The only limit is developer Automata Studios' creativity.
A major shift in federal policy is also key to ensure widespread marijuana tech accessibility for medical users. The Controlled Substances Act classifies cannabis as a Schedule I drug without medicinal value, although policy at state levels often differs. Health insurance companies, whether funded privately or via social welfare programs, steer clear of this murky territory to the detriment of patients.
Without policy reform to facilitate coverage, technological bells and whistles like LEAF will remain inaccessible to those who could benefit from them most. "The passage of the CARERS Act, which would change federal law to formally recognize state medical marijuana programs, or the outright de-scheduling of marijuana are the most important," says O'Keefe.
It's too soon to tell what the incoming Trump administration could mean for medical marijuana policy. However, cannabis tech companies certainly hold sway in ensuring more immediate access to innovations for medical users. Rather than relying on trickle-down of treatment tools via recreational consumers, targeted price breaks and placing pressure on insurance providers could make the world of difference for patients without tarnishing turnover.
Shannon is a freelance health writer despite consuming near-toxic quantities of caffeine on a daily basis. Her special interests include tech and innovation in healthcare. She has a soft spot for carnivorous plants.


But first, let's take a quick look at the overall economy and key industrial locations.
In 2016, Iowa Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ranked 30th with over $67 billion and ranked 22nd with a per capita GDP of over $50,000. For June 2017, Iowa had an employed workforce of over 1.6 million and an unemployment rate of 3.2%. For 2016, Iowa ranked 12th on the cost of living.
The following shows per capita gross state product for the last 20 years, relative to America at large; Iowa's rank on this measure has risen from 31st to 18th.
OJT.com connects you with training providers that support all the major Iowa industries. The chart below shows the percentage of the economy, in terms of jobs, that various industry supersectors contribute to the Iowa economy, relative to the percentage that those sectors contribute to the overall U.S. economy.
The Iowa OJT supersector with a proportionate part of their workforce that is 2% or more than the country at large is Manufacturing.
The manufacturing subsector includes 21 specific manufacturing sectors, which include product manufacturing related to food, beverage, tobacco, textiles, apparel, leather, wood, paper, printing, petroleum and coal, chemicals, plastics and rubber, nonmetallic minerals, primary metals, fabricated metal, machinery, computers and electronics, electrical equipment, appliances, components, transportation equipment, furniture and miscellaneous.
The following chart shows the growth of the major supersectors over the last year, from June 2016 thru June 2017, relative to the growth of those sectors for the country at large.
Iowa OJT industries that grew their workforce 2% or more than the country at large are the Mining and Logging supersector and the Financial Activities supersector.
Mining and Logging is the top growth industry in Iowa, relative to the rest of America, with about 2,500 employed (0.2% of the employed workforce) in this supersector (June 2017). Mining and Logging employment growth between June 1016 and June 2017 grew 13.6% while the national average grew 4.8%.
The following shows Iowa occupations with the largest proportion of employees, relative to the rest of the nation. For example, a location quotient of "5" indicates that the percentage of employees in the occupation is five times greater than for the entire nation.
Iowa has a variety of different training opportunities that you can access on the state government website, see Iowa Training. See OJT trainers in Iowa for additional training providers.
At OJT.com, we connect you with the best on-the-job training programs and on-the-job training providers in Iowa. Whether you are looking for job training manuals, job training videos, on the job training programs, or any other sort of job training programs in Iowa, OJT.com can help you.


Barco Silex has added support for Apple HomeKit, including Curve 25519 and EdDSA in its Public Key IP core targeting growing IOT market. Barco Silex says it is the first IP provider that offers an IP supporting Curve25519 and Ed25519 on silicon supporting hardware acceleration in secure IoT applications.
The BA414E block for asymmetric cryptography is part of Barco Silex' library of cryptography IP cores, offering a complete security solution. To this, the company has added a software framework that allows SoC application developers to offload the hardware cryptography transparently. "Adding the power of hardware cryptography has now become as easy as adding and recompiling a few software libraries. As a result the intensive crypto processing is completely offloaded from the processor to the hardware," concludes Sébastien Rabou.


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Kylie Jenner was born on August 10, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
She is currently 21 years old.
Kylie has mostly English ancestry, but partly Dutch, Irish, German, Welsh and Scottish ancestry.
She went to Sierra Canyon School (SCS) in Chatsworth, California. Later, she opted to have homeschooling. In July 2015, she finished her high school diploma from Laurel Springs School.
Father – Bruce Jenner (now known as Caitlyn Jenner) (1976 Summer Olympics Decathlon Winner)
Mother – Kris Jenner (TV Personality)
Siblings – Kendall Jenner (Sister), Brody Jenner (Half Brother), Kourtney Kardashian (Older Half Sister), Kim Kardashian (Older Half Sister), Khloé Kardashian (Older Half Sister), Rob Kardashian (Older Half Brother), Burt Jenner (Older Half Brother), Brandon Jenner (Older Half Brother), Casey Jenner (Older Half Sister)
Kylie Jenner dated –
Cody Simpson (2011-2012) – Australian pop singer Cody Simpson (who is 7 months elder to her) since October 2011. usmagazine.com confirmed their relationship status. They separated in 2012.
Jaden Smith (2013) – From March 2013 to October 2013, Jenner was RUMORed to be dating American actor, Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith). They are still good friends.
Lil Twist (2013-2014) – In 2013, Kylie was linked with rapper Lil Twist. She was seen with him in Calabasas on several occasions including a movie date. In January 2014, she was also seen getting cozy with him on his birthday. They separated in 2014. After Kylie split from Tyga, Lil Twist again tried to win her back and also went on some dates with her.
Justin Bieber (2014) – She was RUMORed to be dating Canadian singer, Justin Bieber in April 2014. The two met each other at Coachella.
Tyga (2014-2015; 2015-2017) – In September 2014, Kylie started dating rapper Tyga. They were first seen in a restaurant together. On her 18th birthday, she was gifted worth $260,000 white Ferrari 458 convertible by Tyga. The duo briefly split in November 2015, but they got back together soon after that. They split in March 2017.
InkMonstarr (2015) – She was RUMORed to have had a fling with rapper InkMonstarr in 2015.
Stitches (2015) – In August 2015, she was RUMORed to have had a fling with rapper Stitches when they had s*x in an LA hotel. The two of these took drugs and then used protection to have s*x. He told all the stuff in an interview given to In Touch magazine.
Asap Rocky (2015) – Kylie was RUMORed to be dating rapper Asap Rocky in November 2015.
PartyNextDoor (2016) – In 2016, rapper PartyNextDoor and Kylie dated each other briefly after she appeared in a music video of the song by PartyNextDoor.
Ty Dolla Sign (2016) – In May 2016, rapper Ty Dolla Sign and Kylie were believed to be an item when they were seen kissing at Nylon & BCBGeneration Young Hollywood Party.
Travis Scott (2017-Present) – In April 2017, she started dating rapper Travis Scott. On February 1, 2018, she welcomed her first child, daughter Stormi Webster.
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Appearing in the reality series that she shares with her family Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
In 2008, she flashed on the screens through American documentary series titled E! True Hollywood Story that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and well-known public figures.
Her debut television appearance was on the reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians for which she is also best known. She appears as "herself" since 2007.
She has appeared in several commercials (many of them are with Kendall Jenner) such as Madden Girl, retail company PacSun, Sears' Crush Your Style, etc. In December 2016, she advertised for Fashion Nova Jeans on her Instagram.
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Favorite Actor – Matthew McConaughey
Favorite Actress – Charlize Theron
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Kylie Jenner has a estimated net worth of $930 million dollars as of 2019.
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She has done photo shoots with OK! magazine and Teen Vogue.
Her modeling career started with Sears line "Crush Your Style".
She has also modeled for one of her cousins' Natasha's clothing line.
In 2011, she along with her older sister Kendall were chosen by Seventeen magazine as Style Stars of 2011.
Kylie is the goddaughter of TV host, singer and actress, Kathie Lee Gifford.
PacSun has also partnered with Kendall and Kylie to launch their clothing line called "Kendall & Kylie". This was announced on November 15, 2012.
She has shown her interest in acting as well. But, college is on first priority.
Kylie has also hosted Glee 3D Concert Movie red carpet and the Breaking Dawn Part 1red carpet event in Los Angeles.
Just before turning 18 in August 2015, she bought a $2.7 million five-bedroom mansion in Calabasas, California, and started living there after her 18th birthday.
In 2013, she (along with other Jenner and Kardashian sisters) raised $27,682.96 for charities from eBay auctions, where she sold her old clothes, shoes and other belongings.
In February 2014, she and Kendall launched a shoe and handbag line for Steve Madden's Madden Girl line.
Kylie once was so nervous during a school presentation that she unknowingly said, "My favorite food is soccer and basketball."
At 16, she first dyed her hair, which was a blue color. Since then, she got a habit of dying her hair with a different color because it makes her feel like a new person.
She takes around 2 and a half hours to do full makeup for a good night out. For a normal day, she takes around 20-25 minutes.
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Jenner became skincare brand Nip + Fab's second-ever ambassador in March 2015.
For her 19th birthday (in 2016), she got a puppy as a present from her friends.
Rapper Tyga gifted her then-girlfriend Kylie on her 19th birthday a Mercedes-Benz Maybach. She received a Ferrari 458 convertible from Tyga on her 18th birthday.
She is good friends with Bella Hadid and best friends with Jordyn Woods.
Kylie changed her daughter Stormi's name's spelling at the very last minute. She was on a call with the birth certificate office and changed the name from 'Stormie' to 'Stormi' in 2018.
Kylie Jenner was included at the 5th position in the Forbes list of 'America's Wealthiest Celebrities 2018' with $900 million net worth. #1 was filmmaker George Lucas with $5.4 billion net worth.
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Why Victorian Bluestone?
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VBQ – Your Ideal Project Partner
Over its 50 years in operation, Victorian Bluestone Quarries (VBQ) has perfected the craft of stonemasonry. Founded in 1970 by stonemason Anthony Skliros, VBQ is a well-established family business with specialist knowledge in the local sourcing and production of premium bluestone solutions. We have developed extensive expertise and ability to efficiently deliver high quality bespoke products working across many sectors and diverse project types. We recognise that every project is unique – our bluestone is made to order with minimal lead times to suit all design aesthetics. This makes us an ideal project partner. VBQ takes a conscious mindset to supply chain, processing and operations.
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The VBQ family, a Passionate and Experienced Team
A second-generation family business, VBQ is managed by the four Skliros siblings. Our aim is to empower design, engineering and construction professionals to make informed decisions. We are focused on ensuring the benefits of using local bluestone are understood and celebrated. With more than 50 years in business, we have come a long way and marked many business milestones!
1964 Anthony migrates to Melbourne from a Greek Island called Lefkada. He worked numerous jobs to support himself and his family back in Greece. One of these is at Standard Quarries in Footscray, where they processed Australian granites and bluestone which supplied landmarks such as the NGV and Shrine of Remembrance. 1970 Anthony and his wife, Voula, established Melbourne's first Greek speaking Stonemasonry, to cater to the migrant community. Anthony & Preston Memorials focused on monumental and building masonry using only natural Australian stone. By 1972, manufacturing had moved from the garage workshop to a new factory and office in Coburg. 1978 Anthony took on Work Authorities for other local granite and bluestone quarries. The family established Kessel Hill Pty Ltd to manage quarry holdings in Victoria and Australia's north, allowing stone processing for other stonemasons. The core business remained monumental stonemasonry but expanded to residential / commercial under the name A.P.V.S. Marble & Granite. 1999 This year marked the "official" birth of VBQ with the building of a new stone processing facility in Lara, southwest of Melbourne, on one of our Work Authority sites. The facility focused on processing locally sourced Victorian Bluestone and cemented our experience in the Australian stone industry. 2000 This year saw VBQ appointed as official suppliers to the City of Melbourne which significantly increased our standing in the civil market. We also supplied our first export project – the first of many. 2013 Steady business growth over the intervening years led to the relocation of VBQ to a 25,000m2 site in Brooklyn, which enabled us to unite our processing and warehousing. These operations had previously been divided between Lara and Coburg.
2021 VBQ refreshes its position in the market with a new website and logo. Peter, Sophie, Tina and Harri are focused on developing the business into the future and creating new opportunities.
Peter Skliros
Peter's childhood was spent shadowing his father in the original factory. After completing a stonemasonry apprenticeship in 1986, he gained invaluable quarrying and processing expertise. Peter manages business operations and is passionate about innovative processing techniques in the Australian natural stone industry. Peter leads by example and maintains strong industry connections. He's also a keen fisherman and casts in a line whenever time permits!
Peter's childhood was spent shadowing his father in the original factory. After completing a stonemasonry apprenticeship, he gained invaluable quarrying and processing expertise. Peter manages business operations and is passionate about innovative processing techniques in the Australian natural stone industry. Peter leads by example and maintains strong industry connections. He's also a keen fisherman and casts in a line whenever time permits!
Sophie Skliros
Leader, Finance & Accounts
Sophie oversees VBQ's accounts and finance, and property management. She balances strong ambition with conservatism and is VBQ's voice of reason. Sophie officially joined the business after completing a Bachelor of Economics in 1996. It was a natural progression after being her father's bookkeeper from the age of 15.
Tina Skliros
Leader, Major Contracts & Client Relations
Tina develops strong client relationships and upholds VBQ's high quality of service. She ensures customised products meet unique project needs. After completing a Bachelor of Business Marketing, Tina worked in various marketing roles until completing her Master of Marketing. In 2006, she joined the family business in a customer service and estimating role.
Harri Skliros
Leader, Business Development
Harri has played a key strategic role developing the business over the past decade. She is resourceful and pursues opportunities. After completing a Bachelor of Health Information Management, Harri pursued positions in pharmaceutical sales before joining VBQ in 2011 as Architectural Sales Representative. Her role has grown from there.
Gaofeng Zhang
Gaofeng skillfully manages production, scheduling and maintenance resolving issues that arise and ensuring quality and lead times are met. He has been with the business since 1999 and has vast experience in the mechanics of stone processing machinery. Always under pressure but unflappable, he is an integral part of the business.
"As a sculptor and artist, I have worked with Victorian Bluestone Quarries as a reliable supplier of one-off bluestone blocks and specialised cut to order slabs for over twenty years. The quality of the product and having access to this unique supply of stone has been essential for my creative business to thrive."
– Anthony Russo, Orchard Design
We are Victorian bluestone specialists renowned for our friendly and reliable premium stonemasonry service. Contact us now for an obligation-free chat about your project needs.
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Victorian Bluestone Quarries acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the Australian land on which we work and recognise their continued connection to the land. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging and extend respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
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