Biennials or perennials; (short-lived); caudex simple or branched; not scapose. Stems branched, (0.1-)1.5-4.3(-5.1) dm, hirsute throughout, trichomes simple, 0.4-1.3(-1.8) mm, with short-stalked to subsessile, 3-5-rayed ones, 0.2-0.4 mm, (some slightly coarser, 2-rayed). Basal leaves rosulate; petiolate; petiole base ciliate or not; blade oblanceolate to obovate, 0.9-4.1 (-5.2) cm × 2-7(-10) mm, margins entire or dentate, surfaces pubescent, abaxially with stalked, cruciform, and fewer 3-5-rayed trichomes, 0.1-0.6 mm, adaxially with cruciform and simple trichomes, 0.4-1.3 mm, and smaller 2-rayed ones. Cauline leaves (8-)12-31(-43); sessile; blade ovate to lanceolate or oblong, margins usually dentate, rarely subentire, surfaces pubescent as basal. Racemes 10-52(-83)-flowered, usually ebracteate, rarely proximalmost 1 or 2 flowers bracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, pubescent as stem. Fruiting pedicels horizontal to divaricate-ascending, straight or slightly curved upward, 4-10(-13) mm, pubescent as rachis abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Flowers: sepals oblong, 2.5-4 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple and stalked, 2-rayed); petals yellow, oblanceolate, 5-7 × 1.5-2.2 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5-0.8 mm. Fruits (not appressed to rachis), lanceolate to ovate or oblong-lanceolate, slightly to strongly twisted or plane, flattened, 5-15 × 2-3.5 mm; valves puberulent, trichomes simple and subsessile, 2(-4)-rayed, 0.03-0.25(-0.8) mm; ovules 14-28 per ovary; style (1-)1.5-3.5 mm. Seeds oblong, 1-1.3 × 0.6-0.8 mm. 2n = 18. Flowering Jun-Sep. Oak and pine-fir woodlands, aspen groves, rocky meadows; 2100-3600 m; Ariz., Colo., N.Mex.; Mexico (Nuevo León). Draba helleriana is highly variable and was divided by C. L. Hitchcock (1941) into four varieties. For a discussion of those and the circumscription of the species, see I. A. Al-Shehbaz and M. D. Windham (2007).
Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Forb/Herb General: Herbaceous biennials to perennials, to 40 cm tall, stems 1-several arising from a caudex, branching above, leafy to the inflorescence, herbage hirsute throughout, trichomes simple, cruciform or with with 3-5 rays. Leaves: Basal leaves few from a basal rosette, petiolate, oblanceolate to obovate, 1-4 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, margins entire to dentate, cauline leaves alternate, sessile, oval, lanceolate, or oblong, 1-6 cm long, margins entire or shallowly dentate, blade surfaces pubescent. Flowers: Yellow, petals oblanceolate, pubescent to glabrous, 5-7 mm long, and 1.5-2 mm wide, sepals oblong, 2.5-4 mm long, pubescent, styles 1-3.5 mm long, flowers borne in dense racemes of 10-52 or more, these without bracts, the racemes becoming elongate, 4-10 mm long, horizontal and divaricate-ascending in fruit. Fruits: Strongly compressed silicles, elliptic-lanceolate, 5-15 mm long and 2-3.5 mm wide, slightly to strongly twisted or plane, flattened, pubescent, the trichomes mostly 2-rayed, fruiting pedicels erect to ascending. Seeds oblong, roughly 1 mm long and wide, n Ecology: Found in oak and pine fir woodlands, aspen groves, rocky meadows, from 7,000-12,000 ft (2134-3658 m); flowering June-September. Distribution: Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona; Mexico. Ethnobotany: The plant was made into a drink and taken when not feeling well, a decoction of leaves was taken for bad cough, sore kidney or gonorrhea, and the whole plant was used as a ceremonial emetic. Synonyms: Numerous, see Tropicos Editor: LCrumbacher 2011 Etymology: Draba comes from the Greek drabe for "sharp" or "acrid" and referring to the burning taste of the leaves which supposedly had a medicinal value as a poultice, while the meaning of helleriana is unknown.


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Brexit Day 8: Gove now under pressure to withdraw from the leadership race
1 Jul 2016 • 1 min read
According to the BBC website Gove is now under pressure to withdraw from the Conservative Party Leadership race. This would allow the Conservatives to unite behind Theresa May and short-cut the leadership select process.
BBC: Tory leadership: Ministers urging Gove to pull out
This is after his sudden and dramatic announcement yesterday that he was withdrawing his support from Boris Johnson and standing for the leadership role himself.
There have been a lot of reports of conspiracies and back-stabbing, but that's normal for politics. There have even been suggestions of a deal between Boris Johnson & Theresa May such that Boris cleared the way for Theresa if she would stand aside for him in 2020. I kinda doubt that one myself.
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Brexit Day 8: Could it be unconstitutional to leave EU
A constitutional expert raised an interesting point. Leaving the EU could be unconstitutional. While the referendum asked if we wanted to leave, the method of leaving wasn't covered at all. Meaning there is no mandate on how we should leave. Literally Parliment have no
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As the US and eurozone central banks begin unwinding their unconventional monetary policies – involving purchasing unprecedented amounts of bonds to inject liquidity into financial markets – the risk of a policy error triggering a selloff grows.
To the uninitiated, the rising geopolitical tensions that have peppered the investment landscape of late should have resulted in a powerful upwards move in the gold price. But keen bullion watchers will have noted that while the oil price shot up, gold prices barely moved on President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Iranian nuclear deal. A major geopolitical event – and the precious metal did nothing. This prompted some investors to wonder if gold had lost its status as a safe-haven asset.
Before we start questioning the role of gold and how it should perform under various conditions, let's just remind ourselves about the real driver of the precious metal. Quite simply it is the movement in real interest rates. And by 'real' we, of course, mean the difference between nominal interest rates and the rate of inflation. While real interest rates are range bound, as they currently are, the gold price won't be going anywhere fast, in our view. Latest economic data in the US showed a slight loss of momentum, a reflection of global growth generally. The latest US inflation figure came in marginally below analysts' expectations, flying in the face of hopes from inflation bulls that US prices were on a rapidly rising trend. But while inflation may have come in lower than anticipated, so interest rate expectations of future rate rises (so-called 'forward guidance') have been dampened down too. Inflation expectations adjusted downwards. Interest rate expectations adjusted downwards. Stalemate… for now.
So, what will provide us with the catalyst for a move in the precious metal? Well, the correlation between the oil price and inflation could be restored again, causing US inflation to grind higher. For those whose memories stretch back far enough, there used to be some causation between these two variables. Otherwise, as we have been saying for some time now, expectations that the US Federal Reserve is going to suddenly hike interest rates four times this year could be kicked into the long grass. In which case, real interest rates may actually fall from current levels. And if that is the case, we firmly believe, we will start to see some upward movement in the gold price.
Will the world move back to a gold-based monetary system?
Gold as the world's best apolitical form of money is well placed to benefit from any weakness in the petrodollar system.


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Opinion|Women on the Front Lines of Hunger
Opinion | Op-Ed Contributor
Women on the Front Lines of Hunger
By DENISE BROWN NOV. 24, 2011
The women usually stay on the fringes. Whether in Somalia or in Niger, they are hesitant, and blend into the background while the men talk. With their babies strapped to their backs and the elder children held by the hand, the women watch and listen, curious faces peering through the crowd. But more often than not, they don't contribute.
Public space is men's space, and I have learned that if I want to hear the full story about the challenges the women face in feeding their families, I need to ask for space to be made for them. As a woman working on the front lines of hunger, I have experienced this all across Africa.
Most recently, in the small commune of Hamdara in Myrriah, Niger, I met a group of men who had come out to talk about a project supported by the World Food Program. With an NGO partner, we are working with the community there to rehabilitate water sources so that crops can be irrigated and livestock watered — small steps intended to protect communities from the impact of drought and to build resilience and bolster food security.
"Something is missing," I said when I arrived in the village.
"No, we are all here," replied the men who had gathered around me.
"Ah, so you are the only village in Niger where there are only men?" I asked.
That prompted much laughter, and then slowly the women, who had been invisible until now, started to come forward, first one and then another until the men were hard to spot among all the mothers and children.
The discussion with the women almost always starts with laughter. A Western woman in their midst, asking lots of questions, makes for an interesting afternoon. And then there is the universal camaraderie among women. Somehow we find a way to understand one another through shared experiences: the emotional tug of a crying child; always having too much to do; the relentless demands of husbands. Whether one comes from Canada, Niger or Somalia, motherhood, at its core, is the same everywhere.
The women told me how they were going to make the most of the improvements to water sources — how they were planning to dig irrigation channels and then grow lettuce, tomatoes and carrots to add variety to their diet. We made a date in December for me to return and share a plate of their newly grown vegetables.
Before I left, the laughter was replaced by seriousness as the women explained the harshness of their lives in a country where the cycles of drought are accelerating. What more, they wanted to know, could I do to help them and give their children hope of a better future?
It's a simple question. And it is one that I have faced many times in other countries across Africa where mothers worry about feeding their children, and anxiety grows amid fluctuating weather patterns and erratic rainfall.
Then there is conflict. Three years ago when I was working in Somalia, I came face to face with a mother who had fled the fighting in Mogadishu with her seven children. The surge in conflict had almost emptied the capital, and she was among thousands who travelled overland for days, walking or climbing onto the backs of trucks when the opportunity arose.
For her and others who are compelled to flee conflict, the relief we provide is vital for survival and has to be immediate. In Somalia, drought and conflict are the bullies on the block, joining forces to cause loss of life.
Women and children in Somalia. Women and children in Niger. Year after year, conflict after conflict, drought after drought, one problem after another.
Credit Raquel Marín
Somehow I always feel ashamed. As an educated, Western woman, I often wonder if I could manage the way these women manage. I know the answer, as I don't have their strength or their resiliency. But what I do possess is the desire and drive to work with them to build the foundations of a better life for their children.
In the seemingly endless public debate about the effectiveness of humanitarian aid, people often ask why we bother. "It's too costly," they say. "The world's economy is not in great shape," or "Charity should begin at home."
Then there is the perennially alarming debate about whether we should just sit back and let nature take its course, a kind of inbuilt mechanism to manage population growth.
It is difficult working in an environment where you are trying to help, but where every action you take is questioned like this.
I am an aid worker. I don't have a crystal ball to predict the future of these countries and the fate of the people who live in them. What I do know is that the international community does care, can contribute and does make a difference. The child we save today has a future. The water pan fixed today can make life that little bit better by providing families with fresh vegetables to improve their diets tomorrow.
Droughts in Niger and Somalia used to be relatively rare. Crops withered, goats and cattle perished and families suffered, but there was time to recover before the next drought descended.
In the past decade the cycle has accelerated. The people of Niger are now facing the consequences of the third drought since 2005.
As the women in a small village in Niger called Louga Kalley in Tillaberi told me last month, life is tough, and it isn't getting any better.
The small ray of hope this time around is that the alarm has been rung early enough so that we can work together, with the government and the international community, to contain the threat to the nation's food security and take early measures to cushion the impact of the drought on vulnerable communities while actions designed to cope with chronic food insecurity are introduced.
This is a sign of hope for the women hovering on the fringes of those meetings I attend. These are people whose future still depends on the vagaries of the ever-changing patterns of rainfall.
Any one of those women could be me, or she could be you. The child strapped to the mother's back, with the hacking cough and the tired eyes, could be my child, or yours.
We all share the same hopes, but without our help, many of those women and their children face a different, darker, and all too harrowing destiny.
Denise Brown is the country director for the United Nations World Food Program in Niamey, Niger.
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Comic: 'The Razor'
William of Ockham was a theologian in the 14th century and most of you will likely be familiar with Occam's razor, but for those of you that are not, it can be summarised as follows: Given conflicting theories, the one with the fewest assumptions, is more likely to be correct. It's so named because it cuts away that which is unnecessary. 'The Razor' by Richard and Jordan tells Ockham's tale in the most stunningly beautiful way.
'The Razor' by Richard Worth and Jordan Collver –
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Mahatma Gandhi grandson to keynote Ramadan Unity Dinner
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LANSING — Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson and biographer of global civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi and a renowned advocate for social justice, is the keynote speaker for the Mayors' Ramadan Unity Dinner.
The ninth annual event, co-hosted by Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and East Lansing Mayor Nathan Triplett, will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the Lansing Center.
Gandhi is currently Visiting Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University.
He was most recently Research Professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Academic Director of the Global Crossroads Living and Learning Community at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Gandhi has been engaged for half a century in efforts toward trust-building, reconciliation and democracy and in battles against corruption and inequality.
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Anyone Who Is Saying We Need To Keep You Locked Down Until A Vaccine Is Ready, Is On Pharma's Payroll
Or an idiot.
The Prime Minister Of Australia Warns That Life Will Not Return To "Normal" Until A Coronavirus Vaccine Arrives
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by Michael Snyder
It is starting to look like there will not be a return to normalcy for a very long time. Even though about half of the world is currently under some sort of a "shelter-in-place" order, COVID-19 continues to spread at an alarming rate. Of course the U.S. is seeing far more newly confirmed cases than anyone else at this point, and that is a huge concern. The United States now has more confirmed cases than Italy and China combined, and the daily death toll in our nation just hit another new high. Sadly, one of the big reasons why the U.S. is having such a problem is because a whole lot of people are completely disregarding the "shelter-in-place" orders. As a result, a lot of them are getting sick and spreading the virus.
But even if everyone all over the planet was strictly following the "shelter-in-place" orders, the virus would still continue to spread, it would just be at a slower pace.
Needless to say, many of those that have been confined to their homes are very much looking forward to resuming their normal lives, but that may not happen for quite a while.
This week, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned the people of his country that it will be "at least six months" before this pandemic is behind us…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has reiterated that life as we know it will not return for months as global leaders race to find a coronavirus vaccine.
He said he had been "very upfront" with all Australians "to say you're looking at least six months for this, and that's why we have to adapt".
Does that mean that the entire nation of Australia will continue to be locked down until then?
Morrison went on to say that once a coronavirus vaccine arrives it will finally allow "everybody to go back to life as it was"…
Morrison told The Latest that while many states have managed to "push the curve down", ultimately, "there needs to be a vaccine".
"And there are some promising signs in a number of these, and we'll continue to work with other countries along those lines."
"A vaccine ultimately enables everybody to go back to life as it was," he said.
As I read that, a couple of thoughts immediately came to mind.
First of all, U.S. officials are telling us that a vaccine will probably not be available for the general public until 2021.
Will all of our lives continue to be radically disrupted until we get to that point?
Secondly, a whole lot of us are not going to get that vaccine under any circumstances.
Will those of us who don't want the vaccine be allowed back to work, back to school and back into public gathering places?
If not, how will that be enforced?
Already, fear of the coronavirus is causing decision makers to institute restrictions that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago.
For example, check out what Wal-Mart just announced…
Starting Saturday, we will limit the number of customers who can be in a store at once. Stores will now allow no more than five customers for each 1,000 square feet at a given time, roughly 20 percent of a store's capacity.
To manage this restriction, the associates at a store will mark a queue at a single-entry door (in most cases the Grocery entrance) and direct arriving customers there, where they will be admitted one-by-one and counted. Associates and signage will remind customers of the importance of social distancing while they're waiting to enter a store – especially before it opens in the morning.
Once a store reaches its capacity, customers will be admitted inside on a "1-out-1-in" basis.
Can you believe that?
Of course most retailers across the nation have been completely shut down indefinitely, and many of them are boarding up their storefronts…
A growing scene for those who venture out into the streets of Manhattan these days is boarded up storefronts. From luxury retailers to small bars, establishments that have no idea when they are going to be allowed to reopen are putting up protection over their glass doors and windows.
The businesses have taken the unsightly measure in an effort to defend against the potential for civil unrest caused by the coronavirus and a lack of officers on the streets.
Sadly, many of those stores will never open up again.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of churches in America have been shut down as well. In fact, one new survey found that only 7 percent of America's churches are still gathering as usual…
The study by LifeWay research found that on March 1, some 99% of churches were still gathering as usual. The following weekend, roughly 95% held services. By March 15, the number had dropped down to 64%, and by March 22, 11% of pastors say their churches gathered in person.
By March 29, just 7% of church leaders report meeting with their congregations in a face-to-face setting.
Did you ever think that you would see the day when such a thing would happen?
The reason why such extreme measures are being taken is because this virus is exceedingly dangerous.
It spreads from person to person with exceptional ease, the death rate has been higher than anticipated, it can absolutely destroy your lungs if you catch it, and now scientists have discovered that it can even cause brain damage…
Coronavirus could cause brain damage in some patients by triggering inflammation that can lead to bleeds and the killing of cells, doctors have warned.
The virus appears to have resulted in neurological complications in some of those infected – including one Florida man in his 70s who temporarily lost the ability to speak.
In addition, a new study that was just conducted in China found that even cats can spread the virus…
The rapidly-spreading coronavirus can be transmitted between your feline pets, according to a new Chinese study.
Researchers at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute found that cats are not only susceptible to contracting COVID-19 but can pass it on to their furry friends as well.
If cats can spread COVID-19, it is possible that many other types of animals can spread it as well?
If that turns out to be true, it is going to be nearly impossible to ever completely defeat this virus.
Already, coronavirus has become the third leading cause of death in the United States on a daily basis, and Mike Adams of Natural News is reporting that COVID-19 now has a daily mortality rate that is "ten times higher than daily regular flu deaths"…
Remember just two weeks ago when a long list of conservative publishers (and even some doctors) rolled out "bad math" articles that claimed the seasonal flu had a ten times higher fatality rate than coronavirus? They all now look strangely disconnected from reality as the real coronavirus death numbers continue to climb, debunking their bizarre theories rooted in mathematical illiteracy.
With the coronavirus pandemic now killing over 1,000 Americans per day, it has achieved a daily mortality total that's ten times higher than daily regular flu deaths, on average.
Things are particularly bad in New York City.
According to the Daily Mail, an average of 23 people are dying from the coronavirus every single hour in NYC right now…
Overnight, the death toll rose from 2,373 to 2,935 – the single highest increase in a day yet and the equivalent of 23 people dying every hour. The number of cases went up by 10,482 to 102,863.
More people have now died across the state of New York as a result of the coronavirus than were killed in New York City in the Twin Towers attacks on 9/11. That day, 2,753 died in New York and an additional 224 died in the attacks on the Pentagon and on United Flight 93.
We have never seen anything like this before, and many believe that the numbers will soon get a lot worse.
For a long time I have been warning that a "perfect storm" is coming to America, and now that it is here a lot of people are getting mad at me. It is almost as if they think that I am helping to cause all of the bad stuff that is happening because I am reporting on it.
Of course the truth is that we were warned in advance about these things, watchmen such as myself have been strongly urging people to get prepared for a very long time, and now all of the things that we have been warning about are starting to unfold.
Now is not a time to wallow in denial. A deadly virus really is sweeping across the globe, and the dead bodies are really beginning to pile up.
We need to get our emotions under control and act wisely during this time, because the decisions that we are making now could literally be the difference between life and death for ourselves and our families.
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Margaret Alison Cameron AM, FRAOU (born 1937) is a noted Australian librarian, administrator, and amateur ornithologist. She was the foundation librarian of Deakin University between 1977 and 1996, and pro vice-chancellor of the University from 1986 to 1990. She joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1969 which she served as President from 1986 to 1989.

Personal life
Cameron was born in Queensland Australia on 10 September 1937. As a child, her interest in birds was fostered by her father and life in the country. However, this initial interest remained dormant until opportunities through becoming a librarian for Flinders University arose for field trips and educational lectures that a deeper passion for birding and conservation was sparked. Following her stint at Flinders, Cameron moved on to  Macquarie University from 1969 to 1977. It was here that she honed her skills in field ornithology, and inspired other birders with her enthusiasm and enquiring mind.

Career
Cameron began her career as a librarian at the Public Library of Queensland from 1959-1962. She spent the following year in the United States of America at the Australian Reference Library in New York. She returned to Australia in 1964 to be Thatcher Librarian at the University of Queensland. From 1965-1969 she worked at Flinders University. Following this, she moved to New South Wales to be a Reader Services Librarian at Macquarie University where she stayed until 1977.

Awards and recognition
Cameron was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1990 for "service to library services, education and to ornithology". In 1993 she was elected a Fellow of the RAOU. In 1999 she received an honorary Doctor of the University from Deakin University. Margaret was the recipient of an Australian American Education Foundation (Fulbright) University Administrator Grant as well as a British Council Cultural Visitor.

References

Anon. (1993). RAOU Fellow: Citation. Margaret Alison Cameron. Emu 93: 299.
Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press.

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Everton manager Ronald Koeman is reportedly the man to replace Luis Enrique of Barcelona as the Catalan outfit seeks a replacement.
An agent of fellow Dutch coach Frank de Boer has revealed that the Spanish club want Koeman to help Barcelona return to old impressive form.
Koeman has helped Everton gain stability and dream of breaking into the top six in the Premier League – a club that struggled last year. The Toffees are also on a seven game unbeaten run.
De Boer's agent Guido Albers said that Koeman has been attracting attention of top clubs in Europe and that Barcelona is not excluded as they are seeking a change in management.
Koeman, who played for Barcelona between 1989 and 1995, was an assistant manager there as well from 1998 to 2000. He seems to have the prerequisite advantage over others, aside his brilliant run of recent for Southampton and Everton that might get him the job if the club advertises the role.
Koemn has hinted at the idea in the past and might be interested when done with the Everton project.
Albers was asked about the new move for De Boer after the coach was sacked by Inter Milan. The agent ruled out a move to Barcelona then gave a bonus that Koeman is the man that is trending in the Europe for his impressive work.
"No, I do not think," he said when asked if De Boer would return to Nou Camp.
"Frank is a piece of Barcelona history, but I think the club has in mind other technicians. Like Ronald Koeman, now at Everton," the agent added.
Enrique is yet to sign a new deal with Barcelona, with his current contract set to lapse at the end of this season. The 46-year old coach might decide to end his time at the club – and even hinted at the possibility last year – particularly if Barca end up without trophies.
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The concept of the Say Sukii brand evolved from the idea that positive affirmations really do assist in shaping the world around us for the better. We wanted the brand to serve as an actual affirmation, while spreading love and light through the sharing of flowers.
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Despite the foundations and long tradition of Christianity in Canada, any accommodation of it — even at Christmas time — is largely rejected in the public school system, which supposedly adheres to secularism. But there is a single exception to the rule, as one religion seems to stand supreme:
Muslim students in the province of Ontario are entitled to hold weekly prayer meetings, held on Friday. These "Jumm'ah" prayer and sermon sessions have been the focus of intense criticism as the provincial public school system is not supposed to be promoting any religion or hosting any religious instruction.
The Peel school board in Mississauga (near Toronto) is not only allowing Islamic sermons, but it is also refusing to monitor the contents of those sermons. This is despite the very real risk of the jihad doctrine being spread. The Toronto Star reported that "Islamic schools, mosques in Canada are filled with extremist literature, according to a study." More troubling was that "the authors of the study say what worried them was not the presence of extremist literature, but that they found nothing but such writings in several mosque libraries and Islamic schools."
Back in November, a large assembly of the Peel District School Board listened to the lamentations from the Muslim community "that Muslim students feel stigmatized and targeted" because their Friday prayers were restricted to pre-approved sermons, whereas previously, Muslim students were free to use any sermon they chose that was approved by an administrator. The identity of the administrator and his or her knowledge about Islamic sermons was not disclosed. The complaints from the Muslim community led to the reversal of the policy: the practice of allowing Muslim students to choose sermons was resumed.
The board also bent over backwards, working for over a year "with 10 local imams to develop the six sermons to be used during Friday prayers"; these were intended to be used "as a starting point," to be developed to "a collection of hundreds of sermons available to students."
Muslim Friday prayer is the only group-prayer activity that is allowed by the Peel District School Board.
Peel board members "justified the policy reversal" not to monitor the Islamic sermons "by insisting it represented a commitment to inclusiveness"; but its singling out of Muslims for preferred treatment above all other faiths was not an exercise in inclusivity, but rather a demonstration of the appalling exclusion of all other faiths. Even worse, when protests erupted, Peel police intervened as though they were Sharia police, and bullied a female protester outside:
Protesters were told to remove their signs because they were deemed anti-Muslim and one woman was taken outside by police after she interrupted the meeting with her objections.
It is also worthwhile to note that Omar Alghabra, who ascribes to Sharia, is the Member of Parliament for Mississauga; upon his election, someone on stage at his victory party exclaimed:
"This is a victory for Islam! Islam won! Islam won!… Islamic power is extending into Canadian politics."
The Peel District School Board's genuflection to one community is a slap in the face to all Canadians who aren't Muslim. It represents a new low in Canadian organizations' descent toward dhimmitude. It's alarming that such imprudent administrators are awarded with the trust to educate children and to serve as their role models.
Board To Allow Muslim Sermons In Schools, And Protesters Aren't Happy
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/11/board-to-allow-muslim-sermons-in-schools-and-protesters-arent-happy/#ixzz4cGmTIjce
Parents Push Back Against School Board (for not monitoring sermons to students.)
The Peel School Board approved Islamic sermons and prayers in schools, where students and preachers can pick whatever prayer they want in Arabic with no translations. Then they excluded a politician and media baron KEVIN JOHNSTON who opposed them, Then they refused to discuss the issue at their public board meeting. The parents went berserk. One man ripped a Koran and stomped on it, numerous people yelled about child rape and Muhammad, and the board ended up having to shut down the meeting. RiseCanada.com was there as observers and even we were surprised at the intensity
Read more at LiveLeak.com.


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Who will cop the blame for Amazon's refusal to send to Australia?
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Australians spend around A$5 billion a year on overseas online retail purchases.
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If there is one thing that Australians love, it is a bit of online shopping.
Indeed we spend around A$25 billion a year on online retail, with offshore retailers accounting for about 20 per cent of that total.
So the news that Amazon will refuse to allow Australians to ship products from its US and UK online stores after July 1 has really got a lot of people fired up – particularly those accustomed to buying items that are either impossible or very expensive to source locally.
The question that hasn't been answered so far is who will cop the blame for this very annoying development – the Federal Government or Amazon?
While the decision to block Australians and refer them to Amazon's (so far) grossly inferior and more costly Australian online store was entirely made by Amazon, the genesis for that decision was the Federal Government's controversial decision to apply the GST to online purchases under A$1,000 after July 1.
Amazon – which campaigned very hard against that decision – has decided the administrative burden of collecting the GST from Australian customers and then paying it to the Australian tax office is too difficult.
Complicating the picture further, Australian retailers – most notably Gerry Harvey of Harvey Norman fame – campaigned strongly in favour of forcing the GST to apply to online retailers for small purchases to produce what he called a level playing field.
So those who feel that Australian retailers are too expensive and don't have a good enough range or online presence will want a scapegoat, which may well come in the form of Liberal and National Party candidates at the forthcoming five "super Saturday" by-elections to be held on July 28.
Which is why Treasurer Scott Morrison has been so upfront and vocal in trying to put all of the blame at the feet of Amazon, using the line that he wants companies to pay their tax.
"The second biggest company in the world, run by the richest man in the world (Jeff Bezos) shouldn't get a leave pass from paying tax in Australia," Mr Morrison said.
"If multinationals aren't forced to pay their fair share of tax, they will have a competitive advantage over retailers here in Australia," he said.
All of which is more than a bit misleading because with GST it is the customer who pays the tax – the business is merely stuck with the administrative job of collecting and remitting it.
The Amazon change is quite a big one too with Citi analysts estimating that Australians spend between $500 million and $700 million on Amazon annually.
While that is a drop in the international bucket for Amazon, it represents a significant number of potentially angry voters in the five electorates – not all of which have Liberal and National Party candidates – particularly as by-elections are often seen as a chance to lodge a protest vote.
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Horror Movie Roundup: It Follows
In which I share a positive opinion about something. This is part one of a series that could end up being very long and might as well warrant another blog entirely.
Dark Pit Follows
Around nine months ago I discovered that I'm a bit of horror movie junkie, not because I especially like being scared or watching other people get scared, though I have shared many a good laugh over a horror movie with my roommate, who typically reads the Wikipedia summary to assure himself that everyone who matters gets out OK at the end.* Horror movies can be a delight to watch with other people, but at their best they also tend to feature more impressive camerawork, production design, and sound than other genres. At their worst, they can be so formulaic and artless as to have no emotional effect on one versed in horror's tropes (mirrors and loud noises), but you could say the same of any genre.
Even being a doting scientist of horror movies and their often repetitive art, I can't say I was always clamoring to see David Robert Mitchell's independent horror film It Follows, nor can I say that the 95% approval rating it received from critics did much to sway me from my indifference. As the acceptable but abundantly predictable The Conjuring demonstrated not two years ago, there's such a surplus of terrible, made-for-streaming horror movies on the market that whenever something halfway frightening or visionary rears its head critics and fans will tend to freak out and embellish it with much higher praise than it truly deserves. It Follows is an altogether commendable horror film that's regrettably doomed to suffer from this same phenomenon when audiences find for one reason or another that it's not quite as terrifying as the hype would tell. Neither the obvious symbolism nor the message of the movie is very intricate, but Mitchell still manages to make viewers think and fret about the implications of sexuality while deftly avoiding the pitfalls of a moralizing talk on purity.
It Follows is a sweet indie coming-of-age film about a small-town girl in an ambiguous time period who has steamy car sex with a seemingly nice but mysterious guy and is subsequently haunted by a shapeshifting, sexually transmitted demon that endlessly stalks its victims until they let their guard slip and enable it to murder and (maybe) rape them. The only way to get rid of It is to pass It along to another person through intercourse, and even that is only a temporary solution, because if It does kill one of those cursed, It will continue to work backwards down the chain of one-time partners, leaving no one completely secure and perpetually fearful that the monster will return to punish them for their carnality. Those are the rules, and the movie manages to explain them much more coherently and quickly than any of the convoluted Insidious movies, Poltergeist, The Babadook, and so on.
The viral nature of the demon puts Its targets in a very tricky moral situation: do they try to pass It along to someone else, stretching the line and getting It as far away from them as possible, or do they resign themselves to outrunning the thing forever, putting themselves and everyone who preceded them at risk? Would you transfer It to a friend even if he fully knew and accepted the lifelong burden that would come as a consequence? As the plot progresses and It forces the teens to grow from carefree, blissfully irresponsible children into self-reliant survivalists, sex also evolves from a weightless bit of fun into a willful, desperate choice for self-preservation. Without totally spoiling everything, the final scene of lovemaking in It Follows is almost devoid of passion but nonetheless constitutes the most meaningful act of love the couple could share, for in so physically bonding they have symbolically bound themselves to protect and care for the other the rest of their lives.
The director deserves all the more credit for having the tact to show this development without directly telling us, "See this! This is significant for reasons X, Y, and Z. They started here, and look how far they've come! Ha ha ha. Far they've come. I am good." Judging from the IMDB message boards (which are good for judging nothing), a lot of people disdain Mitchell's decision not to explicitly spell out all the key events and backstory details, but it's the mark of a strong director that he knows when withholding or implying something can be just as impactful as showing it. One of the more emotionally potent scenes follows the heroine, Jay, driving home with wet hair and a distraught expression after we've seen her start wading out into a lake towards a group of men in a boat. The combination of Maika Monroe's forlorn performance and the bleak, disquieting cinematography is just as suggestive and affecting, if not more so than if the director had chosen to leave nothing in doubt over what transpired out on the water.
It Follows is beautifully filmed overall, using natural lighting and long, smooth camera rotations to great, unnerving effect. I have no reservations calling it one of the most gorgeous-looking movies of the last decade, and many of the scenes will still hold up as thrilling many years in the future: the opening spinning shot, the car crash in the wheat field, the climactic standoff at the pool, culminating in a murky, ominous cloud of blood billowing to the surface. The throbbing, synth-heavy music is also incredible, epitomizing everything that an intense and memorable horror score should be. Between It Follows, Ex Machina, Mad Max, and Interstellar, this last year has been one of the most rewarding for film scores since I don't when.
If I had to nag about anything, it would be some occasionally awkward dialogue/acting and a handful of cheap jump scares that don't reflect well the building hopelessness that characterizes the horror of the film. There are at least three occasions in the movie where something unexpected and startling happens that poses no threat to the characters. One of these is a self-aware fakeout involving some random person walking towards the group who isn't really It, but the other two (ball hitting the window and old wall caving in) aren't as excusable. Still, the haunter of It Follows differs from a lot of paranormal movie monsters in that It represents a real, mortal danger to the haunted. Whereas the ghosts in James Wan and James Wan-ripoff ghosting movies are too often satisfied just with orchestrating spooky, ghosty, totally harmless mischief (stupid stuff like clapping in the basement, knocking down the picture frames, taking the baby out of the crib, possessing a noisy toy and making it rattle around the house), It has only one objective, and that is killing everybody who's contracted It. Hence, whenever It appears on screen, you're not just looking forward to It doing something spooky, you're fearing for the heroes' very lives.
The overall lack of adult characters as anything other than ghouls is also curious; is the director intentionally projecting the teens' anxieties about intimacy and adulthood onto It? Is the absence of parental figures a veiled critique of a society that's surrendering more and more of the responsibility for its children's upbringing to the schooling system, thus spurring kids to treat their sexuality more lightly and make more mistakes in the name of Experimentation? I can't give a definite answer either way, but the cool thing about It Follows is that it's ambiguous enough to let you think about these – ahem – 'problematic' questions for yourself.
The same critics who extolled Mad Max: Fury Road for being a feminist parable have complimented It Follows for taking down slut shaming, rape culture and, like, whatever, but I think the movie at its core is more of a statement on the illusiveness of simple choices: things we tell ourselves are trivial and harmless usually have enduring consequences we fail to anticipate or just deny, and this is especially true of the friends we keep (or join with in "casual" coitus). For a movie that's all about a sexually transmitted demon, It Follows is probably the most refined and beautiful and somber movie one could make about a sexually transmitted demon. If you can tolerate the premise and don't know how to raise a child without the assistance of visual media, it's an excellent film to show your teens to scare them out of having sex. It Follows is rated R for scattered bloody images, a couple F-bombs, and boobs, though nudity in the movie is only ever used to horrify. Given its subject matter, Mitchell's film is surprisingly restrained compared to other horror pics, and the protagonist is oddly much less sexualized than, say, Jonas' girlfriend in The Giver movie, though I'll get to that catastrophe in due course. Suffice it to say that It Follows is a visually mesmerizing and imaginative work of modern American mythmaking, personifying our most primal fears about the natural world just as the Norse and Greeks of old.
The movie concludes on an uneasy note, leaving open the possibility that It's still out there hunting the beleaguered kids. While the custom of ending without an ending is a regrettable and lazy trend in horror, I'll be first in line to watch It's Getting Closer and It Got Me. After all, It Follows is truly a remarkable film, and you owe it to yourself to pass It on.
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* The Descent in particular was a riot to watch together. Too bad the DVD broke right after this scene.
Bonus Commie Con Trailer Reviews
Batman vs. Superman colon generic subtitle – Let's forget Ben Affleck is Bruce Wayne for a second. Is Superman now a metaphorical stand-in for every discriminated-against and hated-upon minority in America? How did an emblem for truth, justice, and the American way get perverted into a role model for illegal immigrants and homosexuals? Would the Westboro Baptist Church really picket the Capitol over a flying guy in a red suit? There are what, 50 of their members tops? Why does the Social Network guy say, "The red capes are coming"? Is that some kind of joke? It's kind of hard to tell in these lifeless Man of Steel movies. Why does Wonder Woman look so weird, and why is she in this movie? Why are they still decimating skyscrapers after so many people complained about the headache-inducing 9/11 imagery of the first film? Why'd they even choose to adapt Dark Knight Returns in the first place?
Suicide Squad – Wow. Harley Quinn. Just wow. Like, I can't even. Sold. Screw Jared Leto as the Joker. He's just another freaking Joker. But Harley Quinn raised every fanboy's interest in this movie to a whole nutha level. Hee hee hee. You're so dirty, Mr. J.
On a (more) serious note, the movie looks pretty dang good too. I'll probably be waiting on more story details, but for now it seems to be going a darker route than most superhero features, which is exactly what I'd want to see from a deranged DC villain teamup movie. They actually got a competent director/writer, and the film appears to have a distinctive visual look to it between the costume design and cinematography. It kind of reminds me of Watchmen at the moment, which was nothing if not a pretty-looking movie. Consider me hopefully intrigued.
Deadpool – "I'm touching myself tonight." As are many others, I'm sure. Say what you want about the money-grubbing business model of Marvel's Cinematic Universe, but at least they care about their fans and give them exactly the junk they want to see. Not one of my Marvel devotee friends wanted to watch a PG-13 Deadpool movie, and the studio deserves a hearty pat on the back for taking a chance on financing a movie that's more true to Deadpool's character – an accurate but apparently very stupid movie. I don't think profanity for profanity's sake is inherently funny, and what little action I saw in the leaked video was too small and blurry for me to form a conclusion about it. The only halfway decent thing I've seen Ryan Reynolds in was Ted, and he didn't even talk in that.
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Bonds could be volatile in the week ahead. If yields go higher, that could make it difficult for big tech and other growth stocks to gain traction. Rising bond yields have been challenging growth stocks. Names like Apple, Tesla, and Amazon have been lagging as investors move to cyclical groups that do well in an economic recovery. Even so, the S&P 500 and the Dow both closed at record highs Friday, while the Nasdaq Composite was lower. The Nasdaq, home to big tech, did gain 3% in the past week, but it is down 5.5% over the last month. The bond market in the coming week will likely take its cues from the Federal Reserve, which meets Tuesday and Wednesday. The central bank is expected to give a nod to much better growth. Bond pros are also watching to see whether Fed officials will tweak their interest rate outlook, which now does not include any rate hikes through 2023.
Fed ahead
"The markets have way too high expectations around what the Fed is going to do or say," said Gregory Peters, head of multi-sector and strategy at PGIM Fixed Income. "I think the message is going to be consistent." He said Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is likely to sound dovish and is unlikely to give any time frames on when the central bank will change its bond-buying program or other policy. Bond yields, which move opposite price, have been rising on an improving outlook for the economy. That trade also showed up in the stock market, with the Dow up 4% for the week to end Friday at a record 32,778. Consumer discretionary stocks, which include retail, were among the best performers, up 5.7%, boosted by optimism that individuals will spend their $1,400 stimulus checks. Yields were higher Friday after President Joe Biden said all adults would be eligible for a vaccine by May 1. The 10-year Treasury yield touched a high of 1.642% — its highest level in more than a year. It is the key rate to watch since it affects mortgages and other consumer and business loans. "The economy is going to be unbelievably strong this year — deficit spending, reopening, vaccines," said Peters of PGIM. "It looks like for next year, all the numbers are being revised higher," he said. "So this thing could have some sustainable growth, so I think there's going to be pressure on rates moving higher." Bond yields rose sharply over the past month. The rapid pace of the move has made stocks jittery as investors adjust to higher rates. The 10-year Treasury yield was at 1.16% on Feb. 12.
Growth vs. cyclicals
Over the last month, energy stocks have risen nearly 20%, financial stocks are up 10.2%, and industrials are up 7%. The S&P technology sector is down 5.4% over the last month, and communications services, which includes internet names was up 0.8%. Higher rates are a challenge for tech and other growth stocks because those shares are expensive and have high price-earnings ratios. "When rates are very low, valuations don't matter to people," said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Global Advisors. "If rates are low, there's no penalty," he said. "If rates start to go up, people become much more sensitive to valuations, and that's what we've seen here." Scott Redler, partner with T3live.com, follows short-term stock market technicals and trades many of the growth stocks. Lately, however, he's found himself sitting in many value names and cyclicals. "The names that I'm in — Visa, GM, Ford, Macy's, 3M. Those have been my biggest winners this week," he said. "It's been really hard to make money in Apple, Facebook and Tesla." The Nasdaq has been hardest hit by the rise in interest rates. Apple was down 0.3% in the past week but down 10.6% in the past month. The S&P 500 finished at a record 3,943 and was up 2.6% in the past week, but is flattish over the last month, up just 0.2%. "Rate volatility could cause another inflection point in tech," Redler said. "Last week, tech hit its reactionary low, and this [past] week it had an oversold bounce. The question is, 'Was that it?'"
"Next Wednesday, Powell could be the determining factor," he said. "Rates made higher highs and tech is way off last Friday's lows so maybe the market is getting more comfortable." Apple's stall out is unusual for the tech bellwether. It helped power the market's gains last year. "Watch Apple because it's a little bit of everything. Apple is growth, tech, retail. If anything is doing well, it should be Apple," Redler said.
Bond volatility
There is some important data in the coming week, including February's retail sales and industrial production, both on Tuesday. There is also a $24 billion 20-year Treasury note auction on Tuesday. The biggest catalyst for the bond market remains the Fed. The bond market has been speculating about something the Fed may not discuss after its meeting Wednesday afternoon. In one of its moves to shore up the economy during the pandemic, the Fed allowed banks to hold Treasury bonds without counting them against the bank's leverage ratio. This strategy allowed institutions to have more flexibility to use their balance sheet for activities like lending. The program expires March 31. "This is a huge issue basically because you have so much Treasury supply coming and reinstating [the rule] basically makes it highly punitive for banks to own Treasurys," Peters of PGIM said. "The markets are kind of divided on what's going to happen," he said. "I think most experts believe an extension is the appropriate path. You have not heard anything from the Fed on the matter." Peters expects the Treasury market to remain volatile. "I think you're going to see more volatility in a high pressure growth economy with extremely large deficits and an accommodative Fed," he said. "I think you're going to see these whippy moves."


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HOUSTON and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 3, 2019) – AiLife Diagnostics Inc, a clinical molecular diagnostic and bioinformatics company, and BGI Americas, a leading global genomic services company, announced today that they have entered into an agreement to jointly develop and market a clinical whole genome sequencing (WGS) solution for diagnosis of genetic disorders. This test leverages BGI's DNBseq™ next generation sequencing (NGS) technology and AiLife's established A-GPSTM, I-GPSTM and D-GPSTM pipelines for clinical NGS data analysis, interpretation and reporting.
Genetic disorders are leading causes of childhood mortality. Current genetic diagnostic tests typically include gene panels, whole exome sequencing and chromosomal microarray analysis, each only interrogating part of the genome. By investigating the full genome in a single test, WGS can detect known and potential disease-causing single nucleotide variants (SNVs), insertions or deletions (indels), as well as copy number variants (CNVs) and structural variations (SVs) in both coding and noncoding regions. WGS-based clinical diagnostic testing has been demonstrated to harness the potential to permit comprehensive and timely ascertainment of genetic diseases, eliminating iterative inquiry of differential diagnoses.
The joint WGS testing solution will feature BGI's proprietary DNBseqTM technology, which has already been widely- and well-recognized by the research community. BGI started offering the $600 research-grade WGS service in 2018, enabling holistic assessment of genetic profiles at a cost level similar to whole exome sequencing (WES) and targeted sequencing. So far, over 100,000 WGS samples have been sequenced globally using DNBseqTM technology. Compared to conventional sequencing technology, BGI delivers better Indel calling accuracy, better GC coverage, a higher mapping rate and lower duplication rate. More importantly, the cost advantage of DNBseqTM technology will undoubtedly enable future adoption of clinical WGS testing, which historically has not been widely accessible to patients and clinical providers due to the cost hurdle.
High-quality data analysis, interpretation and clinical reporting will be provided by AiLife. The bioinformatics pipeline at AiLife enables the detection of SNVs, Indels, CNVs and SVs as well as uniparental disomy (UPD) and absence of heterozygosity (AOH) detections. The clinical report will be generated and signed by AiLife's highly qualified genomic scientists and board-certified clinical geneticists.
Currently, AiLife and BGI are conducting a validation study at their respective CAP-accredited CLIA-certified laboratories, which are well-established for clinical grade sequencing and interpretation. The parties expect to finish the validation by June and officially launch the test in October at this year's ASHG conference in Houston. The new service will be available in the Americas as a turn-key solution from both companies. By providing early diagnosis and higher detection rates, this powerful test will benefit not only patients with genetic diseases and hereditary cancers, but also clinicians seeking to improve outcomes of rare or undiagnosed diseases through implementation of precision medicine. In addition, the privacy and security of patient health information is a top priority along with timely and high-quality results delivery.
BGI Americas is a subsidiary of BGI Genomics, which is a publicly traded entity listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China and provides comprehensive sequencing and bioinformatics services for basic and translational research as well as pharmaceutical drug development in North, Central and South America. The company helps customers achieve their research goals by delivering rapid, high-quality results using a broad array of cost-effective, cutting-edge technologies, including BGI's innovative DNBseq™ sequencing technology.


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Today in the Senate, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson called upon the Federal Government to temporarily redirect the funding allocated to extend the Hobart runway to ensure that the new CSIRO marine vessel the RV Investigator can function for closer to the 300 days research it was purchased for.
Senator Whish-Wilson said, "The Hobart Antarctic economy, worth more than $600 million per annum to Tasmania, is under attack due to budget and research cuts.
"The new RV Investigator only has funding for 180 days per year, instead of the 300 days it was commissioned for. Research schedules have been thrown asunder. Critical science programs are being put in jeopardy.
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"We need to look at both ends of the air chain: Hobart runway and Wilkins runway. Recently, the $46 million Wilkins Runway at Casey Station has just managed to cope with only four flights in a season because of seasonal melting.
"The funding for Hobart Airport extension should be deferred until all of this planning work has been undertaken. A business plan for the Hobart Airport alone is insufficient justification at present for $38 million in spending.
"At the end of a full transport review, which may take several years, a new budget allocation could be made for the Hobart runway extension if it is still deemed necessary," he concluded.


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Astros finally snap their losing streak
Once again the Astros would take the field with hopes of ending their current losing streak by finding a way to break out of their recent slump and run of bad luck. A victory would not only get them back in the win column; it would secure the season-series win against the Yankees with the first six games being split 3-3 between the two teams. Here's how the series finale wound up:
Final Score: Astros 9, Yankees 4.
Winning pitcher: Justin Verlander (10-3, 2.67 ERA).
Losing pitcher: J.A. Happ (7-4, 5.23 ERA).
1) Bats finally connect
In his interim role as the leadoff hitter, Jose Altuve set the tone of the game in the very first at-bat by launching a solo home run to put Houston ahead 1-0. Altuve would score again in the third inning, this time on an RBI-single by Michael Brantley to extend the lead to 2-0.
Then, in the top of the fourth, the Astros finally looked like the daunting lineup they are supposed to be. They started the inning on three consecutive singles by Yuli Gurriel, Robinson Chirinos, and Josh Reddick to load the bases for Tyler White. White would deliver his third home run of the season, a grand slam to extend Houston's lead to 6-0.
Short porch, counts.
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They would continue to score in the next inning, getting a leadoff single from Michael Brantley to set up a two-run home run from Yordan Alvarez, his third in this four-game series and his seventh in his first twelve games. Yuli Gurriel made it back-to-back home runs in the next at-bat, hitting a solo shot to make it a 9-0 Houston lead.
2) Verlander gets win number 10
Justin Verlander provided another great start for his team, working well with and maintaining the lead he was given throughout the afternoon. Verlander allowed just one hit and two walks over the first four innings before allowing a couple of two-out singles then a three-run home run in the fifth.
That made it a 9-3 game, and Verlander would lock right back in and retire the next seven batters in order to complete seven innings during which he'd notch nine more strikeouts. The win put him at ten on the season, moving him back into the tie on top of the AL for wins. Verlander's final line: 7 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 9 K, 1 HR.
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— Houston Astros (@astros) June 23, 2019
3) Devenski and Osuna finish off the win
With Verlander's day done after seven innings of three-run baseball, Chris Devenski took over in the eighth and would allow a run before sending things on to the ninth. Roberto Osuna, who hadn't pitched since Wednesday, was given some work despite the non-save situation and was able to close things out to provide Houston with their first victory since beating the Blue Jays last Saturday.
Up Next: Houston will travel back to Houston tomorrow and enjoy a much-needed day off on Monday to refresh and reset for a six-game homestand starting on Tuesday. They'll pick up a three-game series with the Pirates on Tuesday at 7:10 PM with game one featuring Gerrit Cole (6-5, 3.54 ERA) on the mound for the Astros facing his former team. The Pirates are expected to counter with Trevor Williams (2-1, 4.12 ERA).


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Building houses from rubble
Kwinten Wouters
Article Updated: January 19, 2018
Saying that Peru is a country highly vulnerable to natural disasters is an understatement. Just this Sunday, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 hit the Arequipa region, leaving 2 dead, many injured and devastating damage to houses unable to cope with tremors of this magnitude. We followed a remarkable project run by Swisscontact that wants to improve the skills of informal construction workers in poor neighbourhoods.
Around 16 million Peruvians live under conditions that are unsafe and hazardous to their health. Last year, El Niño Costero caused enormous floods on its coasts.
In addition, Peru is one of the most earthquake-prone countries on the planet. According to Lloyd's, world's leading insurance market, Lima is the city that would economically be hit the hardest among 301 other cities.
The number of homes that would collapse in an earthquake of a magnitude 8.5 has been estimated at over half a million.
Over the past decades, many Peruvians have moved from rural areas to coastal cities in search of prosperity. A lack of urban planning has caused many to land in informal urban settlements in unstable areas at the city's outskirts, originally intended for single houses.
Urged by Peru's vulnerability to natural disasters and its shaky grounds, Swisscontact began a Skills Development Project in 2015 in Peru's informal construction sector.
Swisscontact is a Swiss NGO that wants to reduce poverty by private sector development in developing countries. Currently, they have 108 projects worldwide, among which 2 are in Peru.
In 1959, Swisscontact was founded by leading figures of the Swiss business-scene. They were convinced that because of its wealth and as a country without a colonial past, Switzerland should play an important role in international development aid.
The "Safe, healthy, and sustainable construction- project" aims to develop better and safer housing by providing 5,000 informal-sector construction workers high-quality training. They will receive an attractive module that includes technical content, adapted to the local context.
Also, it wants to raise awareness by way of campaigns about the risk of poor construction for roughly 15,000 home owners and advise them to demand higher quality for their homes.
Increasing technical skills of construction workers will lead to safer housing. Furthermore, it will give at least 2,500 construction workers an annual increase in income by 15 to 30%. The quality of life for the 18,500 residents of local residential neighbourhoods in informal settlements will improve.
To do so, Swisscontact will collaborate with the SENCICO training institute and numerous other private companies. Main partner is Lichtenstein's Hilti Foundation.
The program builds further on experiences from a similar project in Colombia. In a later phase, local partners will implement the project 4 different regional centres beyond Lima.
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