Two very momentous things happened to me yesterday. I got the media coverage I really, really wanted for an event I put together. It was awesome. Fox 13, KSL, KCPW, the Salt Lake Tribune, all the major news outlets a pr gal could wish for..and right in the middle of that event, right when I HAD to be there and COULD NOT leave...I got my period. I knew it was coming. A girl can feel these things. But didn't know it would be right then and there. Oh, the joys of being a woman! It was all I could do to hope nothing bled through my favorite grey linen pants as I introduced our key speakers to the media.
Then, knowing I was all out of those special supplies that I knew I should have taken the time beforehand to get but kept forgetting to and that I would definetly need for the next four days or so, I went to my local grocery store and stocked up. This time making sure to get pleny of supplies, a whole years worth if I could; filled the whole basket. Now, if that's not embarrassing enough, I got in line with the basket full of feminine hygiene products, only to discover my ex-boyfriend's father right in front of me in line. "Oh, no," I panicked and quickly ducked out of line, raced around the store, feminine hygiene products in tow. I then came back around to where he was and ducked behind one of the aisles to wait for him to leave. I didn't care what other people in the store thought at this point...I didn't know THEM.
I don't think he saw me. He might have, but I didn't dare turn around to look back. Just then, as I was there, happy I'd escaped an embarrassing situation with a familial reminder of my ex-boyfriend, the song, "Lonely, I'm so lonely" came over the sound system. And there I was, all alone, first day of my period (which can be emotional enough) and a basket full of tampons, hiding from my ex-boyfriend's dad.
Ha, that is a hilarious story.
Although, I doubt the dad would have cared about your feminine needs. He is a father after all so he has seen much worse in his life! If any guy over the age of 30 can't talk about periods at least in the general sense like a girl talking about baseball, then he is very immature.
I realized I was a man when I went to the store by myself and bought tampons for K.
Oh, man ... it's funny cause it's true (if you're one of those truth tellers, that is). So awesome.


I mentioned at the end of my last post that the Gower coastal footpath is currently closed at Cwm Ivy Marsh with a lengthy diversion taking walkers further inland. This change in route has been made necessary as a result of recent high tides which have breached the medieval seawall leaving a large hole and unsupported footbridge.
Move inland though and it quickly becomes apparent that of far more immediate concern is the ingress of huge quantities of salt water into what had been an area of freshwater marsh and grazing pasture. Virtually everything that has been contaminated with salt now sits dead including numerous mature trees and extensive areas of low lying vegetation. Clearly those animals which relied on this habitat have had to move on and any potential restoration will likely take years to achieve with each successive high tide only making matters worse.
The subject of restoration is of course an interesting one given the nature of this location and the current state of sea defences around the country. It is now a widely regarded fact for instance that sea levels are on the rise and that it is simply uneconomical and in some cases impossible to hold back the water indefinitely. Instead a scheme of managed retreat has been adopted where areas of land are surrendered to the sea in an effort to form natural barriers to protect more valuable property and habitat beyond. A perfect example of this can be seen at the RSPB's Titchwell reserve in Norfolk where defences have been moved back and the old walls breached to allow new saltmarsh to develop. A similar approach has been proposed for Cwm Ivy though I think the nature of its commencement has been a little more abrupt than would have been preferred.
Certainly feelings seem to be running high in the local community judging from one lady I spoke to. Her views were very much that the numerous authorities involved here have led to delays, lost time during which the situation has only gotten worse. I'm tempted to agree with her there as surely a few large bags of sand could have at least formed a temporary barrier while discussions were allowed to continue. And that I fear is all that will happen now regarding Cwm Ivy Marsh with the Shoreline Management Plan for this part of the Gower coastline specifying a strategy of non-intervention. In many ways I completely agree that this is the only reasonable way forward but to lose such an historic structure and the freshwater marsh are very hard pills to swallow. On the other hand saltmarshes themselves are under pressure for many of the same reasons so the creation of a new stretch here is not without its benefits.
Whatever the immediate conclusion is to this recent breach I think it's fair to say that Cwm Ivy Marsh is unlikely to exist in its current guise for very much longer. The rationale simply doesn't exist for ploughing hundreds of thousand pounds into a scheme which is likely to last only another few years. Controversial I know but I expect we will see many more similar decisions being made in the not too distant future, often with far more at stake. Just ask the residents of Fairbourne whose whole village is likely to slip beneath the waves by 2055 (BBC News link).
Interesting. Came across this post while trying to find out more about the breach in the causeway at Cwm Ivy Marsh, which I came across in April while walking the Wales Coast Path. Now the gap is complete and the freshwater marsh looks to be irreparably damaged. Have mixed feelings about it. Don't think it would have cost much to repair the original hole. But it is too late now.


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This paper evaluates the impact of high commodity prices due to trade liberalisation for developing countries in Africa. Implications of high commodity prices (i.e. macroeconomic instability and loss of state power, unemployment, and poverty and food crisis) are explored focusing mostly on the agricultural sector. Recommendations on how governments may reduce impacts of trade liberalisation and contribute to national stability are provided.
Globalisation represents a geographical reformulation of the progressive universalization of capitalist commodification and accumulation. Commodification is the transformation of common goods and services (or things that may not normally be regarded as goods or services such as basic resources like water or products such as crude oil, coal, salt, sugar, coffee beans, soybeans and wheat, gold and silver) into a commodity. One of the characteristics of a commodity good is that its price is determined as a function of its market as a whole. The price of the commodity is subject to supply and demand. For example, a farmer risks the cost of producing a product ready for market at some time in the future as he doesn't know what the selling price will be. The commodified nature of life has meant that the relative positions of the wealthy and the impoverished have come more pronounced in terms of who has the means to purchase the services on offer. This has especially become problematic with the emergence of new security markets throughout the world, and the situation is exacerbated when these security markets begin to infiltrate weak, failing and transitional states.
Commodity price volatility problems are well documented. These include high revenues that tend to distort fiscal responsibility and monetary policy and encourage rampant corruption. A fall in prices can also lead to a reduction in government and producer revenues, including unemployment and a decline in government spending on education, health and other basic amenities. While developed country producers are supported by subsidies and social safety nets, developing countries and smallholder producers (like Uganda) feel the effects of commodity price volatility much more directly. In the early stages of a countries development, policymakers exploit agriculture through export taxes and overvalued exchange rates. In contrast, agricultural policy in advanced industrial countries has strongly protected domestic producers by means of trade restrictions, direct price or income supports, and public investment. A recently released joint Action Aid – South Centre report entitled "Commodity Dependence and Development: Suggestions to tackle the commodities problem" also explains how dependence on a few primary products seals and perpetuates poverty. It draws attention to three features of commodity markets that will keep those that are dependent on commodities poor forever. These include the unpredictability of international prices; the belief that over the long term, prices of primary commodities go down (in relation to prices of finished goods or goods to which value has been added); and there is a tendency towards concentration of production in just a few hands, internationally.
The price of commodities produced in Uganda, especially food crops, is also connected to increased fuel prices. With increased fuel prices, transportation costs for goods have gone up with urban dwellers feeling the effects of the increased prices more than rural people. For imported commodities, the increase affects everyone. Fuel prices have gone up, with a litre of petrol costing USh3,000 (US$1.50), up from Sh2,800 ($1.40) while a litre of diesel now goes for Sh2,800 from Sh2,600 ($1.30). With the fuel shortage beginning to take effect, commodity and transport charges have gone up across the region. The recent discovery of oil reserves in the country may not alleviate the situation since the Ugandan President announced progressive co-operation and granted explorative rights for many international countries and multinationals, which may not decrease local fuel costs and commodity prices.
Commodity price volatilities lead to macroeconomic instability, which is detrimental to economic development. There is now macroeconomic instability all over Africa. One of the biggest offences of the neo-liberal paradigm was to advise African countries to do away with their state marketing boards, with market power transferred to private hands of a few. This has resulted in market concentration. In countries where these marketing boards have now been abolished in the names of structural adjustment, liberalisation and fair trade, we are seeing a worrying picture. Producers are weak and have been left without state protection and are defenceless in international markets, which favour the strong. Countries like Senegal which liberalised their groundnuts sector are facing a crisis of overdependence on a narrow band of commodities. Many Asian countries managed to avoid the crisis currently facing African agriculturalists because they did not fall into the debt and structural adjustment trap, and because the state refused to withdraw from taking the lead in development. The situation is much different in West Africa where states have not taken the lead in development. West Africa accounts for two-thirds of the world's cocoa production. Until the 1980's the region's cocoa was produced and marketed under state control, but in the mid-1980's and 1990's several West African cocoa-producing countries (i.e. Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire) began reforming their cocoa marketing and pricing systems. The rapid reforms have weakened functions that were the responsibilities of the state.
In Africa, agriculture remains an important sector for unemployment. The commodification of the agricultural sector can impact negatively on a country's development and increase poverty. The latter has in fact been the result of the last twenty years of structural adjustment policies in many African countries. From being net food exporters in the 1970s, the liberalisation policies of the 1980s and 1990s led to only small increases in the growth of exports, but exponential growth in terms of Africa's imports of food products. Whilst 72 percent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa or 286 million were living under $2 a day in 1981, the figure is 72.2 percent in 2007, or 551 million. Lower tariffs essentially led to an overflow of food imports, with, for example, subsidised tomato paste from Italy destroying Ghana and Senegal tomato producers. Not only are the imports increasing unemployment, the poor developing countries' food import bills are also escalating. The deficit in 2001 of US$11 billion is predicted to rise to US$50 billion by 2030. If food prices remain high, this figure could easily be doubled. The key notable effect of liberalisation in Uganda since 1987 has been the collapse of the cooperative movement and system which has affected productivity and contributed to worsening rural poverty. Although gains have been achieved in the areas of economic growth and stability as well as government revenue, it is clear that liberalisation of the economy has achieved marginally in terms of the international competitiveness of domestic production especially in agriculture. The poor households have also not benefited in terms of income growth and better prices. Rapid liberalisation has greatly increased the overall exposure of the economy to global markets. Consequently, the vulnerability of the poor households, particularly farming households has greatly increased.
Policies promoted by the World Bank, IMF, and WTO systematically discouraged food self-sufficiency and encouraged food importation by destroying the local productive base of smallholder agriculture. Hunger and famine have become widespread with the last three years alone seeing food emergencies break out in Africa. Agriculture is in deep crisis with one of the major explanation being the phasing out of government controls and support mechanisms under the structural adjustment programmes to which most African countries were subjected as the price for getting IMF and World Bank assistance to service their external debt. Instead of triggering a virtuous spiral of growth and prosperity, structural adjustment saddled Africa with low investment, increased unemployment, reduced social spending, reduced consumption, and low output, all combining to create a vicious cycle of stagnation and decline. A disastrous free market neo-liberal restructuring of agricultural land promoted by supranational institutions has created a global crisis in food production through import liberalization, elimination of tariffs, a dependency on cash crops, GMO seeds and fertilizers, and all other measures that work in favour of agribusiness and against the millions of small-scale farmers struggling against poverty and hunger. World commodity prices have risen strongly in the last few years, driven primarily by the surge in oil prices to record highs. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation has recently warned that surging prices for basic food imports such as wheat, corn and milk had the "potential for social tension, leading to social reactions and eventually even political problems.
Currently, Ugandan urban citizens grapple with soaring commodity prices, with analysts predicting that the urban poor will be even under greater strain if regional markets remain competitive. The prices of most food items, including those locally produced, have more than doubled since the start of 2008, raising fears that the country could be headed for a food crisis. Bananas, potatoes, beans, beef and vegetables are exported to foreign markets in South Sudan, eastern DRC and Rwanda, where growing (and competitive) markets must be satisfied. About 15 per cent of Uganda's 30 million people lives in urban areas, where the soaring prices are most upsetting. The effect of world prices is the major cause of high commodity prices. A 2001 study by the Britain's University of Nottingham by the Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade showed that if the policy of trade liberalisation was carried out in developing countries like Uganda without adequate checks, international trade could affect prices of commodities in Uganda 10-fold. Food prices are likely to increase more than export crop prices Uganda's export earnings soared 40 percent last year on higher prices for most of the country's main commodities.
High commodity prices have also impacted on Uganda's coffee earnings. Uganda is a leading African and international coffee producer and exporter. It is Africa's second largest producer of coffee after Ethiopia and the 7th largest coffee producer in the world. The Ugandan coffee sector is renowned for the high quality of its Robusta. The sector has a large geographic and socio-economic footprint. In the 25 years to 2005 coffee contributed an average of US$ 245 million a year to Uganda's export earnings. Over the last 5 years, Coffee earnings have accounted for just less than 20% of export earnings. Unfortunately, a decline in world prices of most of Uganda's traditional exports (coffee, cotton, tea and tobacco) have contributed to a fall in export earnings despite an upward trend in the share of non-traditional exports resulting from diversification efforts. Overall, agriculture still accounts for the bulk of Uganda's exports contributing over 70% of the value of the total merchandise exports.
There must be an explicit recognition of the basic right to sustain food production and promote food sovereignty in developing countries. There is a need for re-nationalisation of agricultural produce and the end to trade-distorting subsidies in developed countries. For the poorest and for the commodity-dependent nations at the moment this will also entail national policies and international cooperation to foster agricultural production and productivity. Until the re-nationalisation of common goods, the alternative trade networks in organic and fair trade and the opportunities for strengthening the brand of Ugandan products can offer farmers an opportunity for price premiums. This will in turn help producer's withstand declines in international prices. Further efforts should also be put into both ensuring that the Ugandan Robusta coffee brand continues to lead in both quality and price and that the country increases its output of organic and fair trade products to match the global average. Uganda's Robusta coffee already enjoys a strong reputation built on higher quality beans, ensuring that it earns a premium price. There is a need for Uganda to implement agricultural policies that provide incentives to local farmers and facilitate increased production so that an increase in world prices need not disadvantage Uganda because the country has the potential to displace more expensive imports with increased domestic production.
Finally, to reduce the impact of high commodity prices due to an increase in fuel prices, the Ugandan government needs to ensure that benefits of its oil reserves are secured for citizens through nationalisation. For example, Venezuela is among a small but growing number of resource-rich countries to put the squeeze on international corporations from extracting resources from the country that do not benefit locals. To the resource-rich developing states involved in such moves, it is an important signal of sovereignty in an age of globalisation where the state is losing power. National interest must also direct popular governments to take shelter behind democratic pressure and act in a manner which sacrifices the WTO rules on globalisation (which disadvantages citizens with high commodity prices). History provides us ample examples when nations abandoned free trade and embraced protectionist policies to further their interests and stay in power.
Leonard, L. (2008) High commodity prices: Implications for developing countries like Uganda, Ugandan Parliamentary briefing, Royal African Society, United Kingdom, 3 December.


Ken Calvert » John Heffron is a Comedy Power Bar!
Think about it, Detroit has produced some pretty, pretty good talent. Mike Binder, Tim Allen, Dave Coulier, Thom Sharp and John Heffron. On this podcast, I just get out of the way and let John take the controls. Enjoy the ride!


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At least four children killed during escalation of conflict in Myanmar
At least four children have been killed and multiple others have been maimed during an escalation of conflict over the past week in Myanmar, said the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday.
Last Saturday, the body of a 13-year-old boy was discovered in Matupi, Chin State, while a 12-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy were injured by heavy weaponry in Loikaw, Kayah State, following intense airstrikes and mortar attacks.
On the same day, a 7-year-old girl was injured by heavy weapons fire in Hpa An, Kayin State.
UNICEF condemns the killing of at least four children, and the maiming of multiple others, during an escalation of conflict over the past week in Myanmar. Full statement: https://t.co/jdQ1C442VJ
— UNICEF Myanmar (@UNICEFMyanmar) January 11, 2022
On 7 January, one 14-year-old and two 17-year-old boys were fatally shot in Dawei Township, in the Tanintharyi Region. And on 5 January, two young girls, aged 1 and 4, were injured by artillery fire in Namkham, Shan State.
In a statement, UNICEF Regional Director, Debora Comini, said the agency was "gravely concerned" by the escalating conflict and condemns the reported use of airstrikes and heavy weaponry in civilian areas.
UNICEF is also particularly outraged over attacks on children that have occurred across the country.
"Parties to conflict must treat the protection of children as a foremost priority and must take all steps necessary to ensure that children are kept away from fighting and that communities are not targeted", Ms. Comini said.
According to her, this protection is required by international humanitarian law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Myanmar is a signatory.
Recalling other recent incidents, UNICEF called for urgent action to ensure independent investigations, so that those responsible can be held to account.
Unprecedented crisis
Overall, the people of Myanmar are facing an unprecedented political, socioeconomic, human rights and humanitarian crisis with needs escalating dramatically since the military takeover and a severe COVID-19 third wave.
According to a UN Humanitarian Needs Overview published in December by OCHA, the turmoil is projected to have driven almost half the population into poverty heading into 2022, wiping out the impressive gains made since 2005.
The situation has been worsening since the beginning of the year, when the military took over the country, ousting the democratically elected Government. It is now estimated that 14 out of 15 states and regions are within the critical threshold for acute malnutrition.
For the next year, the analysis projects that 14.4 million people will need aid in some form, approximately a quarter of the population. The number includes 6.9 million men, 7.5 million women, and five million children.
'Prompt, independent, impartial investigations' needed in Kazakhstan: UN rights office
COVID-19 variants, rising debt, threaten global economic growth: World Bank
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Q: Regarding System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers I am trying to resolve the issue since long when putting code

in web.config it is giving error as "Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level.  This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS."
When removing  , it is giving error " The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy.  To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file. "
Help me out!

A: Try this:
<system.web>
   <trust level="Full"/>
</system.web>

I found this approach in this post.
Also I'd suggest you reading https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/320268
UPDATE 1:
As said in the FIX: How to resolve Security Exception (ASP.NET)?, Add the following lines of code to machine.config file. This file can be located under the folder - Root Drive Name:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\CONFIG
<location path="yourdomain.com" allowOverride="true">
 <system.web>
  <customErrors mode="Off"/> //Referred from https://www.codeproject.com/questions/586223/securityplusexceptionpluscomingplusinplusaplusrunn
  <trust level="Full" originUrl=""/>
 </system.web>
</location>

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Q: How to rotate an image properly in JPanel (Java) I'm working on rotating a loaded image. I set the graphics on a JPanel and then use standard AffineTransform in order to rotate it, say, 45 degrees.
Unfortunately, the image is being cut, if it exceeds the panel area.
How may I force JPanel to add scrolls to itself (while loading an image file, I would like to adjust the size of JPanel by adding the scrolls, without adjusting the size of JFrame).
Or, in other words, how to correctly rotate the whole image?
Thank you in advance for the reply!

A: Use a JScrollPane instead.

A: You need to put the panel in a jscrollPane and then make sure you have the preferredsize set correctly so that the scroll will be available.

A: Well, I would suggest that you should not be rotating the image in the paintComponent() method of your panel since this will result in the preferred size of the panel changing and you should not be setting the preferred size in the paintComponent() method.
Instead you should probably have a rotate(...) method. This method will create a BufferedImage of the desired rotation. Then your paintComponent() method simply paints the buffered image. Then you would set the preferred size based on the rotation.
Now regarding the preferred size of the rotated image check out this example.


Parents, staff, governors and friends prove that teamwork is the key to success.
Thank you so much to all the parents, staff, governors and friends who gave up their time on Saturday to help us brighten up our new garden area. The results are amazing - from dreary to stunning in one day.
Follow the link to see photos of the transformation.


NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ACE Overseas General announced today that it has formed a new international industry practice group to address the world's growing regional energy production and capital investment needs. ACE Energy and Technical Risks aligns new and existing ACE capabilities in energy and technical lines underwriting with the retail distribution platforms of regional and global broking operations.
The new international group draws on resources from the ACE Global Energy and ACE Technical Risks units, among other product areas, to offer upstream and downstream oil and gas, and power generation property insurance lines. Other product areas, including casualty and marine, will also provide expertise to this group, which will have on-the-ground regional operations in the U.K., Continental Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America.
ACE Energy and Technical Risks will be co-led by Roger Giddings, Executive Vice President and Head of ACE Global Energy, and Paul McNamee, Senior Vice President and Head of ACE International Property. Eric Boquist, Senior Vice President, Head of Underwriting Operations, ACE Global Energy, will serve as Chief Underwriting Officer of the new group.
ACE Overseas General is the international property and casualty insurance operations of the ACE Group of Companies. The ACE Group is a global leader in insurance and reinsurance, serving a diverse group of clients. Headed by ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE), a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, the ACE Group conducts its business on a worldwide basis with operating subsidiaries in more than 50 countries. Additional information can be found at: www.acelimited.com.


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Q: ¿Cómo puede ser este código java en php? Mi objetivo es obtener todo el código html de una página en un texto plano. Pues con el código Java que muestro si sale, pero quiero obtener el mismo resultado con php y no puedo. ¿Me podrían ayudar como hacer algo similar en php?
Éste es el código en Java:
StringBuilder contenido = new StringBuilder();

    //1. Definir la URL de conexion
    URL url=new URL("https://www.google.com");

    //2. Estableces una conexion HTTP simple
    HttpURLConnection conexion=(HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

    //3. Obtener un flujo de entrada de esa conexion
    try(InputStream flujoEntrada=conexion.getInputStream();
        //luego de tener en bytes InputStream, tener que leer con el BufferdReader
        BufferedReader lectorFlujo=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(flujoEntrada));){
        //4. Implementar el algoritmo de lectura lineal
        String linea= "";
        while((linea = lectorFlujo.readLine())!=null){
            contenido.append(linea).append(System.lineSeparator());
        }
    }

    System.out.println(contenido.toString());

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Intenté de esta forma en PHP, pero no me sale el mismo resultado que en java.
function callWebService(){
    return file_get_contents('https://www.google.com');
}
$result = callWebService();
echo htmlspecialchars($result);

También probé con este otro código, pero no sale el mismo resultado que en java.
$file = file('ww');
foreach ($file as $num => $line) {
    echo htmlspecialchars($line);
}

A: Si en tu código PHP pones antes de la salida de texto:
header("Content-Type: text/plain");

Entonces te sacará la salida en texto plano en lugar de en HTML. También puedes poner delante y detrás los tags pre de HTML:
echo "<pre>" . htmlspecialchars($result) . "</pre>";

De esta forma sigue siendo HTML pero ves el resultado.


From whispering sweet nothings to hoping for sweet dreams, sugariness and pleasure have long been bound together. Now scientists studying the brains of mice have revealed why, unpicking the pathways in the brain which result in sweet foods being perceived as nice and bitter foods as nasty.
What's more, they have managed to tinker with these routes so that mice get a kick out of a tasteless substance such as water, and have even managed to switch off such judgments completely. Researchers say the finding may help with the search for treatments for eating disorders.
"The very concept of sweet, the very word sweet, implies this goodness, this reward, this craving that we link to it, and similarly bitter on the other side has an immediate meaning to it. So we wanted to know, how does the brain encode meaning on sensory experience?" said Charles Zuker, lead author of the research from Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute.
While the work was carried out in mice, Zuker said there could be parallels for the human brain and that understanding the brain circuits involved in taste and our responses to it might eventually open up the possibility of tinkering with our own responses to certain foods – including sugar cravings.
The team has previously shown that chemicals behind sweet and bitter tastes are detected by different cells in the mouth and on the tongue of mice, and that the resulting signals then sent to different areas of a part of the brain known as the insular cortex, where the tastes are labelled as being sweet or bitter.
Now the team say they have discovered how the identity of a taste as sweet or bitter is linked to a mouse's perception of whether it is nasty or nice.
Writing in the journal Nature, the team reveal how they used brain imaging techniques to reveal that the neurons from the insular cortex are connected to a number of different areas of the brain, including a part that processes emotions – the amygdala. Crucially, they found that where in the amygdala the signals are sent is different depending on whether the substance the mice consumed was sweet or bitter.
The researchers then genetically modified mice so neurons in their amygdala responded to light. That allowed them to use light, via implanted optical fibres, to trigger the "sweet" or "bitter" regions of the amygdala when the mice entered different rooms of a test area, without the animals actually consuming anything.
The upshot was that the mice avoided rooms in which researchers triggered the bitter area of the amygdala, but hung around in the room in which they triggered the sweet area. That, the team says, showed the "sweet" areas of the amygdala generate a positive experience, and the "bitter" ones a negative experience.
The team also found that if the "sweet" area of the amygdala was triggered with light while the mice drank water – a neutral tasting substance – they guzzled the liquid, but turned their nose up at it if the "bitter" area of the amygdala was triggered.
What's more, the team found that mice which had been genetically modified so their amygdala could be turned off using a drug no longer lapped up sweet substances or shunned bitter ones when the drug was given. "Silencing the amygdala abolishes the emotive, hedonic component associated with what you and I would call sweet or bitter," said Zuker.
In addition, the team found that animals trained to go to a particular door in a test area depending on whether they were given a sweet or bitter substance were able to do so even when their amygdala was chemically turned off, meaning they could still tell the tastes apart.
While the tests were small, with as few as three mice used in some, the team say the fact the same results were found many times over indicate a strong finding.
Zuker said the results show the positive perception of sweetness is an innate association, probably down to an evolutionary drive for energy-rich foods, and that the identity of a taste and whether it is deemed nice or not involve two separate brain areas.


Ted Cruz expressed no fear in taking on Marco Rubio in the Republican primary in a recent interview published Monday, taking several shots at his Senate colleague as a "moderate" facing greater competition in his own lane for the nomination.
"I believe I will be that conservative candidate," Cruz told National Review in an interview conducted last Thursday, adding, "I don't know who the moderate candidate will be."
Cruz pointed to his status as the party's conservative choice as an advantage, remarking that "conservatives outnumber moderates 3 to 1" in the GOP.
"Marco is perceived by many to be the most formidable candidate in the moderate lane. But he has serious competition in the moderate lane," he said. "Look, the winner of the moderate lane has to win New Hampshire. And right now there are a number of moderates who are competing vigorously for New Hampshire, and at this point it is not clear to me who will win."
The Cruz and Rubio campaigns have traded shots over the course of the last week after both candidates raised the issue of past legislative actions and tactics on immigration reform. Cruz dinged Rubio's participation in the 2013 Gang of Eight talks that ultimately failed, while Rubio noted that Cruz proposed amendment to the same bill that would appear to indicate his support for legalization.
Nope, said Cruz, who maintained throughout the course of the last week that his addition was meant to show "the hypocrisy" of the legislation.
"What my amendment did is take citizenship off the table, but it doesn't mean, what it doesn't mean I supported the other aspects of the bill, which is a terrible bill," Cruz told Fox News last Wednesday.


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Govt to re-examine benefits of BRT
New Delhi: Months after the Delhi government announced the construction of 14 new BRT (bus rapid transit) corridors across the city, its ambitious project seemstobe miredin doubt.
Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)
High Capacity Bus, Urban Transport, Urban Roads
MMRDA allots 1,000 cr for road-widening, flyovers
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will allot Rs 1,113 crore for road-widening and flyovers.
Source: Times Of India (Mumbai)
Urban Roads, Mumbai, Noise Pollution, Noise Pollution Control, Habitat And Urbanisation
Sound barriers for new flyovers in Mumbai
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to construct noise barriers on all new flyovers throughout the city.
Source: Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Mumbai, Noise Pollution, Urban Roads, Noise Pollution Control
Road less travelled
Being stuck in traffic is one of those unavoidable frustrations of urban living.
Hyderabad (D), Amritsar (D), Urban Roads, Congestion, Bhopal (D), Pune (D), Habitat And Urbanisation, Cycles, Cars
Experts study parking policy, say 1,200 vehicles added to city roads daily
Delhi has witnessed an annual vehicular growth of 10 per cent and nearly 1,200 vehicles are registered daily, experts analysing the parking policy of the Capital said on Wednesday.
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Government seeks foreign solution to desi road mess
Chalking out a long-term strategy to curb the menace of potholes, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday announced that the government was contemplating engaging foreign technology and roping
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Comparative evaluation of land acquisition and compensation processes across the world
One of the key challenges in the development of infrastructure in India is the acquisition of land necessary for the projects. Land acquisition techniques adopted across a variety of other countries are reviewed in this paper. Although no single "best practice" exists, viewing land acquisition practices through a framework of principles, processes, and compensation mechanisms allows us to position the Indian experience within the international context.
Author(s): Ashwin Mahalingam, Aditi Vyas
Land Acquisition, India, Infrastructure Development, Compensation, Land Resources, Global, Land Act 1894, Legislation, World Bank, Tamil Nadu, Urban Roads, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Indore (D), Chennai (D), Public Transport
City beautification drive drained coffers
New Delhi: TOI had on August 4, 2011, reported extensively on how CAG had pointed out irregularities in projects related to streetscaping, signage, streetlights, construction of roads and flyovers,
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Audit report on XIXth Commonwealth Games 2010
CAG report on Commonwealth Games 2010.
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NGO wants foreign firms to maintain city roads
Mumbai Fed up with the recent spate of potholes throughout the city a citizens group has written to the BMC commissioner to allow only foreign firms to maintain the roads for the next three years s
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I will never go travelling and not take my Nikon D7100. It is priority and unquestionable whether to take it or not. It is my pride and joy and will normally be glued to me on my travels. Sometimes I will opt for the average iPhone photographs but it just doesn't compare to my camera quality.
When travelling I tend not to wear make up as it can feel uncomfortable and make me look so bad when I start to sweat (in hot countries obviously), sweat and makeup don't work together at all. I usually just take the basics; foundation, mascara, eyebrow kit and occasionally an eye shadow palette.
Last essential is my sunglasses. I don't know how many times I have lost a pair of sunglasses but I always seem to end up buying a new pair before holidays or travelling. I only buy cheap ones as I do not trust myself with expensive ones, I am bound to break them the day I buy them. I did have a pair of Raybans which lasted quite a while and I always had them on me but sadly that day had to come when I accidentally crushed them in my bag.


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Utility Says its Equipment May Have Sparked California Blaze
Two firefighters were critically injured while battling the fire.
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A man leaves his home during a mandatory fire evacuate as smoke from the Silverado Fire fills the air, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Irvine, Calif.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison said its equipment may have sparked a fast-moving wildfire that forced evacuation orders for some 100,000 people and seriously injured two firefighters on Monday as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent just such a possibility.
A smoky fire exploded in size to over 11 square miles (29 square kilometers) after breaking out around dawn in Orange County, south of Los Angeles. Gusts pushed flames along brushy ridges in Silverado Canyon and near houses in the sprawling city of Irvine, home to about 280,000 residents. There was no containment.
Two firefighters, one 26 and the other 31 years old, were critically injured while battling the blaze, according to the county's Fire Authority, which didn't provide details on how the injuries occurred. They each suffered second- and third-degree burns over large portions of their bodies and were intubated at a hospital, officials said.
In a report to the state Public Utilities Commission, Southern California Edison said it was investigating whether its electrical equipment caused the blaze. The brief report said it appeared that a "lashing wire" that tied a telecommunications line to a support cable may have struck a 12,000-volt conducting line above it, and an investigation was under way.
The report came as SCE shut off power to some 38,000 homes and businesses in five counties — including the fire areas — as a safety precuation against gusts knocking down equipment or hurling tree branches or other vegetation into power lines. However, the utility had reduced that to under 16,500 as winds eased temporarily Monday night.
More than 90,000 people in the fire area were under evacuation orders. Nearby, a fire in the Yorba Linda area had grown to nearly 4.7 square miles (12.2 square kilometers) and prompted the evacuation of at least 10,000 people, officials said.
At the Irvine-area fire, Kelsey Brewer and her three roommates decided to leave their townhouse before the evacuation order came in. The question was where to go in the pandemic. They decided on the home of her girlfriend's mother, who has ample space and lives alone.
"We literally talked about it this morning," Brewer said, adding that she feels lucky to have a safe place to go. "We can only imagine how screwed everyone else feels. There's nowhere you can go to feel safe."
Helicopters dropping water and fire retardant were grounded for much of the afternoon because strong winds made it unsafe to fly. However, a large air tanker and other aircraft began making drops again several hours before sunset.
In the northern part of the state, Pacific Gas & Electric began restoring power to some of the 350,000 customers — an estimated 1 million people — in 34 counties that were left in the dark Sunday because of some of the fiercest winds of the fire season.
PG&E said it had restored power to nearly 100,000 customers as winds eased in some areas, with electricity to be back on at the other homes and buildings by Tuesday night after crews make air and ground inspections to make repairs and ensure it's safe.
A dozen reports of damage had been received, PG&E said.
However, the fire threat was far from over in many parts of PG&E's vast service area.
"We're already starting to see winds pick back up," hitting 50 mph (80.4 kph) in some regions with bone-dry humidity leading to extreme fire danger Monday evening, said Scott Strenfel, PG&E's head of meteorology.
The winds were expected to calm Monday night before renewing again Tuesday, the National Weather Service warned. Officials extended a red flag extreme fire danger warning through 5 p.m. Tuesday for the region's eastern and northern mountainous areas.
The safety shut-offs "probably did prevent dangerous fires last night. It's almost impossible to imagine that winds of this magnitude would not have sparked major conflagrations in years past," Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said on Twitter.
A second round of gusts is predicted to sweep through the same areas Monday night,
Scientists have said climate change has made California much drier, meaning trees and other plants are more flammable. October and November are traditionally the worst months for fires, but already this year 8,600 wildfires in the state have scorched a record 6,400 square miles (16,600 square kilometers) and destroyed about 9,200 homes, businesses and other buildings. There have been 31 deaths.
The electricity shutdowns marked the fifth time this year that Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation's largest utility, has cut power to customers to reduce the risk of downed or fouled power lines or other equipment that could ignite blazes amid bone-dry weather conditions and gusty winds.
The conditions could equal those during devastating fires in California's wine country in 2017 and last year's Kincade Fire that devastated Sonoma County north of San Francisco last October, the National Weather Service said. Fire officials said PG&E transmission lines sparked that fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes and caused nearly 100,000 people to flee.
Many of this year's devastating fires were started by thousands of dry lightning strikes, but some remain under investigation for potential electrical causes. While the biggest fires in California have been fully or significantly contained, more than 5,000 firefighters remain committed to 20 blazes, state fire officials said.
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Physics. (in relativity) the apparent loss of time of a moving clock as observed by a stationary observer.
The relativistic effect of the slowing of a clock with respect to an observer. In Special Relativity, a clock moving with respect to an observer appears to run more slowly than to an observer moving with the clock. In General Relativity, time dilation is also caused by gravity; clocks on the earth's surface, for example, run more slowly than clocks at high altitudes, where gravitational forces are weaker.
In physics, the apparent slowing down of moving clocks that is predicted by the special theory of relativity. Time dilation is well verified experimentally.


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Chattisgarh 10th Result – CGBSE is the Chattisgarh Board of the Secondary education responsible for conducting the examinations of secondary as well as at the senior secondary level. The board has come into existence in the year 2002. Every year many students apply under this board.
Chattisgarh Board conducts the class 10th examination in the month of March every year. After the completion of the examinations, candidate waits for their result. Last year CGBSE declared the class 10th exam in the month of May, so this year also we are all expecting the same. CGBSE the Chattisgarh Board Result can be checked from the official website also through the direct link available on this link. To check the result candidates need to get ready with their roll number same as it is provided on the admit card of each candidate.
Firstly candidates need visit to the official website or click directly to the link which will be available on this page in order to check the result.
After clicking on the link, a new page will appear on the screen.
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«Yo no puedo callar» es el título de una canción del prolífico compositor nicaragüense Carlos Mejía Godoy compuesta en 1970, y que fue dada a conocer a nivel centroamericano por la intérprete nicaragüense Consuelo Espinoza con arreglo de Allen Torres para el Primer Festival de la Canción organizado en San José, Costa Rica.

"Yo no puedo callar" es una canción protesta de amplia difusión a nivel iberoamericano; aunque para su autor es música testimonal.

Interpretaciones
 Grupo Comanche de Guatemala.
 Cecilia Mitchel de Costa Rica.
 Flora Balarezo, hermana Trinitaria de Perú (1993). Grabó una versión adaptando la letra.
 Coro de Acteal de México. Grabó una versión adaptando la letra en honor a los mártires de Acteal.

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Enlaces externos
 Y el Verbo se hizo canto: Yo no puedo callar
 Así se compuso la banda sonora

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'The Onion' Has Accidentally Locked Ourselves Out Of Our Office In Solidarity With Striking 'New York Times' Workers
Today, reporters and editors of The New York Times began a one-day strike, as negotiations between their union and management failed to reach an agreement. Here at America's Finest News Source, we are committed to supporting our fellow journalists, and so The Onion has boldly and inadvertently locked ourselves out of our offices in solidarity with New York Times newsroom employees.
Education Report Finds American Children Severely Behind In Age
Americans Explain Why They Oppose Abolishing The Police
The Onion Reviews 'Good Will Hunting'
As denizens of the Fourth Estate, we understand the grueling and brave work involved in ensuring ethical reportage, and for this reason, we at The Onion have come together, unintentionally leaving our keys in the office last night and frustratedly calling our building manager, who does not seem to be answering at this time. We understand it is our duty to refuse to cross the picket line as we order Starbucks and use their free Wi-Fi to google locksmiths in the area.
Employees of The New York Times deserve the fair wages, health benefits, and retirement plans that their union is bargaining for, and amidst this deadlock, we have elected to discuss weekend plans and resist doing today's Wordle for as long as possible before giving in because we get too bored waiting for someone to let us into the building.
Since their contract with then union expired in 2021, the New York Times' management has bargained in bad faith, a disgusting display of greed and disrespect for the noble journalists who work themselves to the bone to provide the lifeblood of the illustrious publication. Now more than ever, we must support these journalists by wondering if the back door of our office may be unlocked, but being too lazy to check because it would involve going all the way upstairs when we're already waiting down here. We call upon fellow publications and our readership to follow our bold example by joining us in being temporarily locked out of our office, and display unanimity as we have by giving up on being let into the building and deciding to work from home for the rest of the day.
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When you call a Vinings septic tank company, they will inspect for leaks and examine the scum and sludge layers in your septic tank.
The licensed plumbing company should note repairs completed and the septic tank condition in your system's service report. If other repairs are recommended, hire a Vinings professional septic tank company soon.
What Are Septic Tanks and How Do They Work?
What is a Sewage Pump?
A sewage pump is used to transfer sewage liquids and solids from one place to another. Usually, in residential applications, sewage includes soft solids up to 2" in diameter is pumped from a sewage basin to a sewer system or a septic tank. A sewage pump is installed at the lowest point of the sewage basin.
Since the pump is submerged most of the time, it is also referred to as a submersible sewage pump. Sewage pump can be automatic, manual or dual mode. A dual mode pump contains a piggyback plug, which allows the pump to be used as either manual, wherein the pump bypasses the switch and is plugged in directly into the socket or as automatic, wherein the pump is plugged in through the floating switch and works only when the switch is activated.
Due to a possibility of sewage overflow, it is generally not advised to use a manual sewage pump inside of a sewage basin.
Sewage pumps are centrifugal pumps, with special design enabling solids to pass without clogging the pump. When the pump is turned on, the motor starts to rotate the impeller, creating the pressure that pushes water into the impeller and goes into the discharge pipe.
The sewage pump is powered through a 10-25 ft. electric cord. Depending on the model, the voltage can be 115, 230, 460, or 575 volts. The pump housing, which contains a motor and an impeller, is made with cast iron and is built for long term use.
Types of Sewage Pumps
• Check for a small 3/16 to 3/8 inch weep hole in the discharge pipe directly above it.
• Visually inspect all alarm mechanisms (if applicable), exposed metal parts and connections for corrosion. You may apply a silicone water repellant spray to deter corrosion. Refer to manufacturer usage instructions to apply silicone spray.
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• Check to make sure the air gap in between the interior and exterior discharge pipes should be open and clear of debris.
There are many pumping station facilities, including pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are used for a variety of infrastructure systems, such as supplying water to canals, and the removal of sewage to the processing site. This station in sewage collection system also called lift station, are designed to handle raw sewage that is fed from underground pipelines.
Businesses in [post_name] can benefit from using sewage pumps as it can handle loads of water in a small amount of time. It is cost efficient if you have a sewage pump to handle those unwanted water and wet waste.
Learn more about how sewage pumps work and how they can help your business.
An anaerobic septic system is generally what most people who have septic system already have installed. It's been the most popular type partly because there has been so little to compete with it. They don't cost that much to install, they are relatively simple to maintain, and it's been accepted that this is the standard for residential systems. While the private sector has certainly embraced the anaerobic system, municipalities do not use these at all.
An anaerobic septic system breaks down waste product at a rather slow and inefficient rate. When considering the residential use of a septic system this could be found to be acceptable. By the consistent standard use and the fact that one household would have to work pretty hard to fill up the system there has been little question as to the efficiency of the system. Municipal use of such systems simply doesn't exist. These systems can not handle the large volumes of waste that they encounter on a daily basis. Thus, industrial systems are aerobic.
Anaerobic systems also tend to discharge a foul, repugnant sludge that is thick and slimy. It turns into what is known as a bio-mat. Aside from being a hazard to the environment this is also what eventually backs up the system and requires costly repairs. It may only happen once every 20 years, but the system will eventually stop working properly because of the bio-mat. The waste product that these septic system leave behind is considered to be an environmental hazard and is generally unhealthy to live around. The aerobic systems are starting to win favor among residential units because they tend to counteract all of the general negatives that the anaerobic systems offer.
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İstanbul mayor to seek funding overseas after domestic lenders stop extending routine loans
İstanbul's new mayor has said Turkey's state banks stopped making routine loans to the city after a June election in which he pulled off a shock victory over President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling party, forcing it to borrow from abroad, Reuters reported.
Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) told reporters on Sunday that Turkey's largest city needs more than 20 billion lira ($3.5 billion) in financing, more than half of it for stalled metro projects.
İmamoğlu, back in İstanbul after a fundraising tour of European capitals, said all municipal transactions and salary payments were made through state banks.
The city would increasingly lean on foreign lenders and private Turkish banks, he said.
"State banks are not even extending routine loans after the elections to the Istanbul Municipality. The doors of state banks are closed to us," İmamoğlu said of the city of around 16 million.
"I condemn the managers of these banks who show this kind of attitude towards the municipality. I have been patient for the past five months," he added.
The Treasury did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the lending by state banks, which account for about 40 percent of overall Turkish loans and deposits.
In a June re-run poll, İmamoğlu's decisive victory ended 25 years of rule in İstanbul by the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its predecessors, handing Erdoğan one of the most painful setbacks of his political career that began as mayor of the city.
İmamoğlu, seen by some as an eventual presidential contender for the secularist CHP, has visited Paris, Berlin and London this month in part to seek financing for underground rail projects stalled for two years.
He secured an 86-million-euro loan deal from the French Development Agency, and a 110-million-euro loan from Deutsche Bank that he announced on Sunday.
According to research published in January, the banks have "systematically" adjusted lending patterns around elections in the last 15 years to boost provinces where incumbent mayors from the ruling party faced tough challenges.
State banks also cut lending in provinces where opposition mayors faced tight elections, said the paper, published by researchers at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the London School of Economics.
İmamoğlu said İstanbul had 28 billion lira in debt and needed permits from Turkey's Treasury to issue municipal bonds.
"It would not be right for them not to give permissions," he said.
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Summary: Daughter of German immigrants whose scrapbook documents her life in the early 20th century.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 1199) were donated by Dene Clark in 2010.
Preferred Citation: Esther Treptow Clark papers, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
Esther Treptow Clark, the youngest child of German immigrants, was born in 1905. She graduated from Pierson high school in Pierson, Iowa in 1922 and was the only Treptow child to pursue a higher education. During the 1920s, she attended Coe College, a secretarial school, and Iowa State University, from which she received a Bachelor's degree in Home Economics. Esther Treptow married Theron Clark in 1930, and they had four children before Theron divorced Esther in 1945. She then moved with her children to Iowa City, where she began work for the University food service in approximately 1956. She retired as a supervisor in 1970 and moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she volunteered at the Memorial Hospital. Esther Treptow Clark died in 2004.
Begin text here:The Esther Treptow papers date from 1921 to 2010 and measure 2 linear inches.
The collection contains brief correspondence with her son Dene Clark, a memorial service tribute, and her obituary. The collection contains a memory book entitled ''The Girl Graduate'', which includes information about Treptow's time at Pierson High School, such as descriptions of her dresses, gifts received for graduation, and photos of her classmates and teachers. The collection also contains 15 loose photos of classmates, friends and family, which span the years 1921 to1963.


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Chiawana, ML girls set for showdown | Tri-City Herald
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Chiawana, ML girls set for showdown
By Craig Craker, Herald staff writer
PASCO -- Steve Davis and Matt Strophy have coached against each other a number of times over the years, and one thing has been a constant: well-played, tight contests.
That was never more evident than the meeting between Chiawana and Moses Lake on Dec. 17.
The Chiefs rallied from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to send the Riverhawks to a 61-60 loss -- one of only two losses so far this season for Chiawana.
The two teams meet at 7:30 p.m. today at Chiawana. Both teams are tied with Richland for first place in CBBN 4A at 5-1.
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Since the loss to Moses Lake and a Dec. 29 loss to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the Riverhawks have been firing on all cylinders, including winning by 17 at Richland on Jan. 7.
"The biggest thing is we have stepped up our defensive pressure in the half court," Davis said, "and that is carrying over into our offense for us."
Moses Lake (11-3, 5-1) has been struggling a bit of late. The Chiefs only won by four, 42-38, at Wenatchee on Jan. 14 and then struggled in a 52-42 loss at Richland last Saturday.
"I don't look at how they play anyone else," Davis said. "Anytime they are matched up against me, they have played really well."
Pasco: At the start of the season, if you would've told Bulldogs coach Aaron Barcot his team would be in a three-way tie for fifth place with seven league games to play, he might have called you crazy.
Pasco (2-11, 2-5) lost post player Claudia Olguin and point guard Makayla Guice to knee injuries before the season was even underway.
The Bulldogs, featuring a very young squad, then went out and got hammered in their first few games against Class 4A schools Walla Walla, Moses Lake and Chiawana.
"We are feeling confident," Barcot said. "We are by no means a contending team, but we have started to jell and started to compete."
While Pasco won't be winning a league title this season, making the playoffs would be a step in the right direction, and the Bulldogs will have a chance to move toward that goal at 5:45 p.m. today at Kennewick.
Pasco, Kennewick and Southridge are tied for fifth place, and the top six teams advance to the playoffs.
Senior Yessica Diaz has been a driving force behind the play of the Bulldogs, as the senior is averaging 14.2 points per game this season.
"That is something brand new. It came out of nowhere," Barcot said of Diaz's scoring. "She just got tired of us getting beat up all the time, and she understood she had to somehow step up and be a leader."
Diaz has scored 20 or more points in each of the last four CBBN 3A games for Pasco.
"We always knew she could shoot," Barcot said, "but this came as a surprise."
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Roundup: Richland's Pettit named to all-state softball team. Dust Devils keep winning
By Jeff Morrow Special to the Herald
The Washington State Softball Coaches Association named its all-state softball teams. There's representation from the Mid-Columbia region. Also, Tri-City Dust Devils keep winning and stay in title contention.
Mid-Columbia golfers qualify for U.S. Women's Amateur. Other area athletes also shine
Quest for a state title: Mid-Columbia Conference football schedule begins Sept. 5
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Joe Toussaint scores 22 as West Virginia beats Texas Tech 76-61
Texas Tech is 1-9 this season against Power-5 teams.
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LUBBOCK — Joe Toussaint scored 14 of his 22 points in the second half, Seth Wilson hit a career-high five 3-pointers and finished with 15 points and West Virginia beat Texas Tech 76-61 Wednesday night, the Red Raiders' eighth consecutive loss.
Erik Stevenson scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds — the fifth-year senior guard's first career double-double — for West Virginia (12-8, 2-6 Big 12).
West Virginia missed its first six shots and had four turnovers in the first four minutes of the game, when Texas Tech jumped ahead 8-0. Kevin Obanor scored the first six and then was fouled as he threw down a two-hand dunk and hit the and-1 free throw before Jaylon Tyson made a layup to give the Red Raiders a 15-5 lead with 13 minutes left in the first half.
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Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins replaced his entire starting five, and West Virginia's play improved. Stevenson made four straight free throws, including two on a technical foul, for a 22-21 lead and Tre Mitchell's 3-pointer made it 33-28 at halftime.
Obanor led Texas Tech (10-10, 0-8) with 20 points and eight rebounds. De'Vion Harmon added 14. Pop Isaacs — who went into the game averaging 12.1 points this season and a team-high 15.8 in conference play — left the game early in the second half with an apparent ankle injury. The 6-foot-2 freshman elevated for a 3-point shot (which missed) and appeared to suffer a right ankle injury when he came down on the defenders foot. He remained down on the court for a couple minutes before being helped off the floor without putting any weight on it. He returned to the bench later in the game with a walking boot on his right foot.
Texas Tech is 1-9 this season against Power-5 teams. The Red Raiders beat Louisville 70-38 at the Maui Invitational in November.
West Virginia's Kedrian Johnson, who reached 20 points in each of his two previous games, also was in street clothes for the latter part of the second half after a fall on the court. He was limited to four points in 15 minutes.
Wilson banked in a 3-pointer and then, after he missed a 3 from the right wing, chased down a loose-ball rebound on the other side of the floor and saved it from going out of bounds as he crashed into the bench, feeding it to Stevenson for a triple. Toussaint stole the ball from Texas Tech's Elijah Fisher about 20 seconds later and then missed from behind the arc but Wilson again grabbed an offensive rebound and this time found James Okonkwo in the paint, who finished through contact and converted the three-point play to West Virginia a 55-47 lead with nearly-nine minutes to play.
Tyson answered with a 3-pointer 15 seconds later but Stevenson hit a jumper and Toussaint made two pairs of free throws in a 6-0 spurt that stretched the advantage to 61-50 with six minutes remaining and the Red Raiders never again threatened.
West Virginia shot just 37% (19 of 51) from the field and committed 19 turnovers — one shy of its season high — but hit 10 3-pointersand made a season-best 28 free throws on 35 attempts.
The teams were called for a combined 48 fouls and attempted 58 total free throws.
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Delovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Novlyanskoye Rural Settlement, Selivanovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 86 as of 2010. There are 3 streets.

Geography
Delovo is located 11 km south of Krasnaya Gorbatka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Parshovo is the nearest rural locality.

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Rural localities in Selivanovsky District
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Ask PFW: Reason Four Celebration
Paul Perillo
When Jermaine Kearse was making his circus catch, I noticed that No. 30 (Duron Harmon) seemed to leap over him to avoid contact. Did Harmon do so in the belief that the pass was incomplete and he wanted to avoid a penalty for a late hit?**
I didn't get a chance to ask him about it after the game but my guess is you would be correct. Harmon likely saw the ball get deflected by Malcolm Butler and saw Kearse falling to the ground. Rather than risk a penalty by hitting the receiver when he was on the ground, Harmon may have decided to jump over the pile believing the pass would be incomplete. Obviously with 20-20 hindsight he could have easily prevented Kearse from making the catch had he realized the ball was still in play. But based on his reaction I'm guessing he thought the play was over.
Most of us ragged on Danny Amendola throughout his time here as a Patriot. He started this year as the $6 million return man and ended up making some key plays as the season went on. Still, he is not worth his cap number next year. Do you think he would redo his contract to stay or do you think he will end up being cut?
Jesse M.
Nordstrom's Best: Super Bowl XLIX
Team photographer, Keith Nordstrom, offers his best photos from the Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl at the University of Phoenix Stadium on Sunday, February 1, 2015.
New England Patriots vs Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl 49 at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Keith Nordstrom
This will be one of the more interesting developments of the offseason. Amendola had a solid postseason and made some big plays for the Patriots, but he did not accomplish much during the regular season and provided very little as a return man as well. He and Julian Edelman have very similar skill sets and it doesn't always appear to be a need for both in the lineup at the same time. However, Amendola has shown he has the talent to make some plays and could be a valuable piece at the right price. I wouldn't be surprised to see the sides try to rework the deal and keep him around, but that may not be easy. We shall see.
Can you pass this suggestion on to Tom Brady ... That he personally and publicly announce his selection of Malcolm Butler as his co-MVP in the Super Bowl victory over the Seahawks, and then he turns over the keys to Malcolm for the truck he was also presented by the NFL. Would be a good teammate & good sport gesture! It would mean a lot more to Malcolm, I'm sure.
Steve Linchey
You're not the first to make that suggestion, and Brady and the rest of his teammates have been quite complimentary of Butler. In fact, various reports indicate Brady may have already given the truck to Butler. What a terrific play by the rookie, who has been doing that kind of stuff all season in practice according to his teammates. Whether Brady actually makes a public declaration for Butler is irrelevant; the Patriots understand how important the rookie was to victory.
I have two questions. First, do you expect Danny Amendola will come back? He did have some moments and made some first downs in that biggest game of the season. Second, is it legal to have a QB kneel in a shotgun formation? I understand it may cause fumble but I think it would be better if Tom Brady took the ball a few yards back in that second to last play to avoid those rushes. Thank you! Can't wait for the next season to begin!
I already talked about Amendola earlier and I don't believe he will be back, at least not on his current deal. If he accepts less money, then perhaps there's a chance he could return. As for the kneel downs, it is legal to take a knee out of the shotgun but you probably answered your own question about why team's don't do it that way. The risk of a fumble out of the shotgun is greater than with a traditional snap, plus the ball would be further away from the pile and offer an opportunity for the opponent to pick it up. Obviously fumbles are extremely rare in those late-game situations regardless, but having Brady take the snap and kneel down is about as a safe a way for the Patriots to seal a victory as there could be.
Every Super Bowl, someone makes some incredible play that always will be remembered and named too, like the Immaculate Reception, so, I figured if we can name the play of Malcolm Butler the Divine Interception, just because it would be very fitting!**
Ricardo Machado
Words can't describe how incredible Butler's play was. It was a great combination of preparation leading to a physically impressive play. Butler said he knew the play Seattle was running based on the formation and he jumped the route with decisiveness and saved the game. Anything you want to call it is fine with me.
With everyone thinking that Marshawn Lynch was going to run the ball in from the 1-yard line, and time ticking down with less than a minute, why didn't Bill Belichick call a timeout? It ended up being the right call but if Seattle scores, a timeout would have given Brady more time for one last drive.
Wano Yee
I think if Pete Carroll handed the ball off and Seattle scored we'd all be talking about that very fact today. I can't understand why Belichick chose not to call timeout with a minute left to preserve some time, but it worked out thanks to some curious play-calling by the Seahawks and Butler's great play. Still, I'd rather have Belichick call a timeout just in case the defense failed to make the stop.
This team seemed so stacked with talent this year, and it was so amazing to get that championship back. They'll still be a good team next year, but how many good players are we about to lose? Who do you see staying with guys like Akeem Ayers, Alan Branch, Stevan Ridley, Shane Vereen and Devin McCourty at the end of their contracts? Is Stephen Gostkowski re-signed? And do you think any of these guys like Ridley might do a hometown discount with other offers? I have a hard time seeing them having the money to keep Darrelle Revis AND McCourty, and I am hoping they'll retain the former.**
Kyle Jeffreys
First things first, the Patriots have plenty of money to re-signed any and all of these players. I would put Revis, McCourty and Gostkowski at the top of the list in terms of priorities. Revis will cost the most by McCourty won't be cheap either. These guys have talked all year long about how much the Patriots organization means to them and how much they enjoy being part of it. Based on that I have a good feeling about the possibility of both re-signed with the team. Ridley could be had for short money coming off a torn ACL. Vereen likely will get some decent money on the open market and I'm less optimistic about his return. Overall a lot of things can change once the offseason kicks into gear but I'd say Revis and McCourty will be back.
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Grantor: Charles E. Tinker AKA Charles Tinker and Belle Tinker his wife
Grantee: Earl T. Colbert & Marie Colbert husband & wife of Manton, Wexford, MI
Witnesses: Jno A. Muche, Harriet Muche
Rec'd and recording: 29 June 1947
Clerk/registrar: Brown
Consideration: $800.00
Notes: Belle signed with an X, although she has signed her name on previous deeds.
Description: NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 and the N 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 all in Section 16, T23N R10W
Under this deed, Belle and Charlie disposed of their remaining land in Section 16. I am not clear on where Belle and Charlie lived after they sold this land. Charlie died on 5 January 1946, and Belle on 27 Aug 1948. Unlike the deed I described yesterday, this one was filed in a more timely fashion. Here is the location of the land in Section 16 of Colfax township, using a page the old 1914 atlas 1 to illustrate.
Series Navigation Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 139 page 507Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 139 page 479
Belle's Box – 2-16
Colbert, Fellows, Land Records, Tinker, Wexford Co MI


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December 23, 2022 Robert Paulson
Crypto Market May See Renewed Volatility as Whales Begin to Accumulate Bitcoin
"The crypto market has recently held steady, with bitcoin locked in the narrow range of $16,000 to $18,000 amid lingering macroeconomic uncertainty and FTX contagion fears. The perplexing tranquility may soon fade as bitcoin's historical volatility hits levels last seen before the late 2020 bull run and investors with ample capital supply begin to accumulate coins.
Not counting the moment leading up to the FTX fallout, which had slightly higher volatility than what we have now, this is the lowest level for realized volatility since the third quarter of 2020, just before the last bull run. Prior to that instance, volatility was this low at the bottom of the 2018 bear market.
The renewed accumulation of BTC by whales, or investors with ample capital supply and the ability to move markets, is another reason to expect some action in the market. Large wallets have accumulated over 400,000 BTC ($6.73 billion) since the cryptocurrency fell below the June low of $18,000 on Nov. 9.
Over the past week, large or 'whale-styled' wallets have experienced an inflow of over 70,000 BTC. Around 120K BTC was accumulated at the $16,100 level, which offers potential support given the scale of buying."
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FTX Case May Bring SEC One Step Closer To Banning Crypto Exchanges
"It's no surprise that the SEC charged Ellison and Wang with securities fraud for manipulating the price of FTT, and for offering FTT as an unregistered security. That action follows a plethora of past moves taken by the securities regulator. But the complaint's language regarding FTT went notably further.
Wednesday's complaint labeled FTT "an illiquid crypto asset security," making the subtle—but crucial—point that the SEC views FTT as a security in itself, regardless of the manner in which it was offered or sold.
If the SEC can get courts to agree that crypto tokens like FTT are securities regardless of how they are offered, the agency would be able to go after more than just the projects that create those tokens. The SEC could target any intermediary that sells those tokens in any context. In such a scenario, major crypto exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance would be exposed to immense legal liability, and either permitted to participate in crypto-wary registered exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange, or shut down.
The SEC has changed gears. Instead of going after projects, they want to go after the marketplaces and intermediaries."
See Also: SEC Calls FTT Exchange Token a Security
Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang Plead Guilty, Cooperating in FTX Investigation
"Two of Sam Bankman-Fried's closest former allies have flipped on him. Attorneys with the Southern District of New York announced Wednesday night that it had filed charges against FTX co-founder Gary Wang and the ex-CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, securing their cooperation in their investigation into the spectacular collapse of FTX.
Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission separately announced that it was also charging the pair "for their roles in a multiyear scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX," and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (FTC) announced that it had amended its fraud complaint, noting that Ellison and Wang "do not contest their liability" for engaging in fraud.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said both Ellison and Wang have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with the Southern District of New York. Wang, the commission said, created features in the code underlying the FTX trading platform that allowed Alameda to maintain an "essentially unlimited line of credit on FTX."
Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried schemed to manipulate the price of FTT, an exchange crypto security token that was integral to FTX, to prop up the value of their house of cards.
Williams did not mention former FTX Digital Chairman Ryan Salame. Days before FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Salame alerted authorities in the Bahamas about FTX using customer funds to cover losses at Alameda Research."
See Also: Caroline Ellison Plea Agreement: $250,000 Bail, Surrender of Travel Documents, Forfeiture of Assets
Sam Bankman-Fried Released on $250M Bail Secured by Parents
"In his first court appearance since being extradited from the Bahamas, the former CEO was told he can live with his parents on $250 million bail secured by their Palo Alto house.
Bankman-Fried, who was brought to the U.S. overnight by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after his extradition from the Bahamas cleared on Wednesday, arrived at the courthouse in New York to face the U.S. felony charges for the first time. The case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York centers on accusations of fraud, money laundering and campaign-finance violations.
Bankman-Fried's release was secured by equity in his parents' Palo Alto, California, home, and a long list of requirements was included for him to remain free while he faces charges. He's not allowed to make financial transactions for more than $1,000, can't open new lines of credit, can't leave the house except to exercise and must go through substance-abuse and mental-health treatment, according to the agreement. Bankman-Fried has already given up his passport, and he'll be fitted with a tracking device.
Judge Gabriel Gorenstein argued that the monitoring device "would go very far to provide assurance" that he would stay put and that Bankman-Fried's fame would make it difficult for him to flee into hiding.
The cooperation of Ellison and Wang – who admitted playing active roles in the company's fraud – is likely to be key in the case against Bankman-Fried. They've admitted that the senior management was aware of lawbreaking in the movement of customer funds between the two firms."
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Ripple CEO Compares Wells Fargo Billions Mismanagement with FTX Collapse
"The world is (appropriately) outraged by SBF and FTX's fraud, but when Wells Fargo mismanages billions in customer funds as well, it's barely a blip on the radar.
On Dec. 20, the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered Wells Fargo to pay more than $2 billion in redress to consumers, as well as a $1.7 billion civil penalty. According to the CFPB, the bank's conduct led to billions of dollars in financial harm to its customers and cost thousands of customers their vehicles and homes.
Over several years, Wells Fargo systematically charged its customers with ill-assessed fees and interest charges on auto and mortgage loans, unlawful surprise overdraft fees and incorrect charges to checking and savings account. There are 16 million affected customers in the case."
Marshall Islands Legally Recognizes DAOs as Domestic Limited Liability Companies
"The law recognizes decentralized autonomous organizations and enables legal entities registered in the country to formally adopt DAO structures and governance tools. The government hopes this latest move will encourage the growth of decentralized entities and their accompanying elements within the state.
The DAO Act of 2022 will allow DAOs to incorporate under Limited Liability Companies (LLCs), enabling them to identify as DAO LLCs. Additionally, the novel act allows for the creation of an investment fund for the government of the Marshall Islands to continue education and training around DAOs and their integration into the economy.
With this adoption of the DAO Act of 2022, The Marshall Islands commits its courts and its resources to the burgeoning world of decentralization, and recognizes the unique place that decentralized autonomous organizations can hold not just in the blockchain space, but in the broader economy as well."
See Also: Brazil's President Signs Crypto Regulations Into Law
Aave DAO Votes to Integrate Chainlink Proof of Reserves to Tighten Network Security
"Although the decentralized lending protocol's data is inherently on-chain, introducing Chainlink's PoR would help mitigate the risk of attacks on the Aave protocol.
Decentralized lending protocol Aave will implement a "proof of reserve" system to protect bridged assets on Avalanche. PoR smart contracts will give an extra layer of security to Aave's Avalanche implementation, but can also help mitigate attacks on bridged assets on the network.
Leveraging Chainlink Proof of Reserve, Aave can verify that bridged assets accepted on the platform are fully collateralized before allowing users to borrow against them."
Tron's Justin Sun Was Secret Top Client of Crypto Asset Manager Valkyrie
"Tron founder Justin Sun is one of the richest figures in crypto, and a good chunk of his bitcoin (BTC) is stored in one place: U.S.-based Valkyrie Investments. The altcoin kingpin had more than $580 million of BTC stashed with the crypto asset manager at one point in August, according to a private financial document that CoinDesk reviewed. That amounted to over 90% of money at Valkyrie's largest division, Valkyrie Digital Assets LLC, the document shows.
In other words, Valkyrie Investments, a money manager that pitches crypto products to Wall Street investors, mostly relied on Justin Sun, a controversial Chinese crypto billionaire. (The current state of Valkyrie's assets is unknown.) Sun has also said he's one of Valkyrie's biggest shareholders.
The financial lives of individuals are almost always nobody's business. Sun's previously undisclosed, outsized percentage of Valkyrie's assets under management (AUM) is an exception. The depth of the relationship is a matter of public interest because it raises questions about Valkyrie's reliance on a single client for growth.
Having one whale in an SMA doesn't necessarily pose a threat to clients with money in other products. But it could become problematic for the asset manager's fee revenue – and its ability to pay staff – if that client ever decided to leave.
Sun viewed Valkyrie as the Tron ecosystem's access route to U.S. investors, according to his public statements. In September 2021 he said Tron would work with Valkyrie to list its Tron trust on over-the-counter markets and ultimately help it create a Tron ETF. Both steps would mainstream the cryptocurrency in the U.S. Neither event has come to pass."
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