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Sidney Crosby might not be thinking in terms of back-to-back trips to the Stanley Cup Final, but that's where the Pittsburgh Penguins find themselves at the start of this week's edition of Showtime Sports' "All Access: Quest for the Stanley Cup." The third episode is set to air on Friday (8 p.m. ET).
The Penguins have taken down the Ottawa Senators, and a return trip to the Final is ahead of them, another chance to be the best of the best. And while their path may have been a bit different than that of the Nashville Predators, who are making their first-ever trip to the Final, that hardly matters.
As narrator Bill Camp says, "What does matter is that you are here."
Because both teams have ended up in the same place: on hockey's biggest stage.
The show opens with Predators coach Peter Laviolette, who has already won the Stanley Cup, back in 2006 with the Carolina Hurricanes and has been to another Cup Final, in 2010 with the Philadelphia Flyers, and his dog, Stanley. Yes, Stanley. The family rescued the dog during the Cup run with Carolina, a tiny puppy who got to be a part of all the excitement and who, as Laviolette said, "is probably waiting for another one."
The dog and the city get their chance this year.
There is, clearly, a different feeling in Nashville, a bursting of pride and focus on the Predators, a groundswell of support for a team in one of the newer NHL markets.
"All year we've built this belief in each other that we could win any game, we could win any series, we could win ultimately the Stanley Cup," Predators forward James Neal says in an after-practice huddle before the Final begins. "It's been a lot of hard work, but it's all going to pay off and it's going to be an unbelievable journey for us in this last series. And no better team to beat than the Penguins."
But that is matched with the anticipation in Pittsburgh, with even Crosby himself reflecting on how quickly it has all gone, on how momentous the events of the past year have been.
There are more ahead, as the teams get through Stanley Cup Final Media Day, through Games 1 and Games 2, as they head back to Nashville for more hockey, into the biggest games of the year and, for some, of their careers. There is a long way to go before a team hoists the Cup this season, and a lot to learn before they all get there.


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How to select and use an SMS archiving solution
Email has been the default mode of business communication for decades, and it doesn't look like that will be changing anytime soon.
However, studies are showing that its effectiveness could be waning, and many companies have adopted text messaging as a more efficient channel for certain types of communication.
Despite the popularity of email, many do go unopened. A recent analysis by MailChimp found the average open rate for all industries is slightly greater than 21 percent. Due to numbers like this, and the popularity of text messaging, many companies are embracing the latter. And those that do are seeing success.
A study by the business communications provider Flowroute recently revealed that 82 percent of people open a business text message within five minutes. When you consider that most people always keep their phone within arm's reach, it's easy to see why text, or Short Message Service (SMS) messaging is slowly becoming a preferred channel of business communication.
The COVID-19 pandemic has likely accelerated the adoption of business text messaging. As a fast and agile mode of communication, text messaging helped people quickly navigate the unprecedented rate of change unleashed by COVID.
Companies Need an SMS Archiving Solution
With more business being done over text, more companies now need a system to archive these messages.
Text messages are particularly susceptible to being lost or deleted. While most email platforms have Trash and Search features that help to retain emails, text messaging systems are mostly built on the idea of messages being disposable. In a business context, the loss or deletion of a very important text message exchange could have devastating consequences; especially in the event of an audit or legal discovery situation.
Remaining Compliant
Regulations from the SEC, FINRA, and others demand that businesses keep all records of official communications. While most companies that fall under these regulations recognize the importance of keeping emails, some are unaware that these regulations apply to SMS messages as well. A quick text exchange with the client may not seem as official as sending an email, but both forms of communication are equally admissible in the eyes of regulators.
Research shows that many companies are struggling to keep up with these regulations. By some estimates, only about half of all business communications are archived. Countless text messages, social media posts, official web pages, and other pieces of business communication are lost each year by non-compliant companies.
Obviously, the biggest reason to adopt SMS archiving software is to remain compliant. While financial services companies may be focused on regulations from the SEC, government agencies should be focused on complying with the Freedom of Information Act and other regulations related to public sector transparency.
Minimizing Liability
Minimizing liability is probably the second biggest reason for companies to adopt an SMS archiving solution. When a crime is committed or an organization is the subject of legal action, the messages stored in a text archive can make all the difference in a legal outcome.
As with recorded phone calls and emails, text messages are commonly entered into evidence for criminal and civil court proceedings. Therefore, it's critical for companies to archive their text communications. While text communications could be evidence of guilt, an ethically run company should be worried about not having evidence to combat false claims.
A company looking to minimize liability with an SMS archiving solution should look at platforms that can guarantee authenticity, provide effective search capabilities, and offer a complete audit trail.
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Cognac Chollet under the Spotlight
And a 60 Years Old Cognac
In our quest to expose the hidden gems of rural Cognac, this time, we're shining some light on Chollet Cognac, a lesser-known brand in the Cognac-sphere. Delve into the world of the Chollet family, and their expertise alongside the maison's impressive collection of Cognacs with our deep dive below.
Today, Christophe runs the family Cognac House and is proud to present Chollet 3945, a Cognac that is over 60 years old. There are only a few bottles left, so don't miss the opportunity to taste history.
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The Story of Chollet Cognac: Companionship, hard work & perseverance
The Chollet story starts in 1952, when Jeannine and Jacques Chollet, who were recently married, set their sights on a small farm in the commune of Boutiers St-Trojan, not far from the heart of Cognac. The farm featured around 10 hectares of land, sufficient for 80 lots, but at the time, it had very few vines. At first, the pair struggled to make ends meet as despite their strong companionship and heady drive to pour all they could into their work, with only two workhorses (named Mirka and Baillard), it proved extremely difficult to earn a living solely from working on the land.
Never the quitter, Jacques, with a fighting spirit, shining optimism and fierce rugby player mentality, knew that he needed to take a few risks in order to invest in and develop the business. So he started by purchasing; a herd of cattle, some pigs and (of course!) planting some vines. Then, in 1960, the first-ever private telephone in the area was installed at the Chollet farm and home, as well as the first Renault D30 tractor. This provoked scepticism from other local villagers, who questioned the new technological advances supported by Chollet as they feared for their financial survival. Nevertheless, despite the initial controversy, these investments very quickly began to pay off.
With new land and vineyards becoming available that proved to be ideal for what Jacques needed, the manual and agricultural work was taken on by Jacques. At the same time, the business administration and household responsibilities were managed by Jeannine. In the meantime, the family was growing bigger and bigger, with eight children now under their wing.
By 1971, Jacques and Jeannine were ready for a new challenge, something bigger and better than ever. So, with tools in hand and with the help of their family and friends, they built their own distillery. This enabled them to distil for both wine growers and merchants.
Once the distillery was finished, the first Cognac was produced, and the du Planty Distillery was officially alive and roaring. With this new advancement on the farm, the pair could now turn to broaden their business through trade, and so they proceeded by launching the bottling business in 1977, which led to an expanded range of wines and Cognacs.
The rest is still unwritten…
Nearly twenty years later, in 1995, Jacques and Jeannine separated the wine and agricultural activity from that of the business and passed on the vineyard to sons Bertrand Chollet and Christophe Chollet to take over the management of Chollet Cognac.
Retiring in 2008, Jacques and Jeannine were proud to hand over the family business to its second generation, who is currently writing its next chapters. Having worked at their parents' business, Bertrand, Christophe and their other siblings congratulate their parents, the founders of the business, for the work they have accomplished and the values they passed on along the way.
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Chollet Vieux 3945 Cognac
This cognac, made from brandy from the Fins Bois region, was developed during the Second World War. It was distilled in a 300-liter copper still, heated with wood and aged in oak barrels until November 2009, more than 60 years.
This historic Cognac is only available in a limited edition, and each bottle is uniquely numbered for an extra special touch. The Cognac comes without a wooden box.
Cognac Age: 39-45, Hors d'Age Cognac and around 60 Years Old
Bottled in: November 2009
Distilled by: Henri Chaignaud (Plassac)
Growth Area: Blend
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The Chollet 3945 is gone.
Alternative - our Recommendation
Chollet Altesse XO Extra: a strictly limited XO Cognac. Christophe from Chollet has only 40 bottles left - when they're gone, they're gone.
This Cognac is a pure Grande Champagne delight, this fruity, round, elegant offering thrills in every aspect. A display of perfect harmony, it's an embodiment that is complex, yet balanced with a powerful essence you won't forget. It's the ultimate reminder of why the chalky soils of the Grande Champagne are referred to as the 'premier cru' of the region. A selection you certainly won't forget.
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Kai with a nice winter chinook caught on a very wintery trip this week!
I am happy to report that fishing has been good this past week. We have been out on a number of charters and have had some great success with lots of action from smaller fish to keep us on our toes and some nice keeper fish as well. Crabbing has also been good, so we have been dropping traps on most trips.
For the most part we have been fishing in Howe Sound but there has been some decent action in Vancouver Harbour too. As usual for December and January, the fish are all over the place, you just need to be in the right place at the right time.
It looks like the wind forecast is good for this weekend, at least for the Strait of Georgia South of Nanaimo, and this is a great opportunity to head across to the Gulf Islands, so we are going to check that out over the weekend. This time of year the fishing is usually pretty consistent on Gabriola and Galliano and its always fun to head over there when the winds allow.
Eddies guest with a nice fish from a trip on Wednesday.
Don't forget we have our Boxing Week Sale going on, so if you are looking to get some spoons and flashers, now is the time to do so and save some money. We have select spoons and hootchies at 30% OFF.
Have a great New Years weekend and see you on the water or in the shop.


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This article was originally written for Talk Nerdy With Us.
Fans might know Zach Callison as the voice of Steven Universe on the Cartoon Network show of the same name. Now Callison is branching out and releasing his own music. I got the chance to talk to him about knowing when he wanted to be a performer, the inspiration behind his single, "War!", what he nerds out about and much more. Keep reading to see what he had to say.
Let's just start at the beginning. How did you get into the world of performing and entertainment?
I really liked singing as a kid. My parents decided to put me in singing lessons at a local community college in St. Louis, where I'm from, when I was 7. That led me to musical theatre. I ended up auditioning for The Music Man, to play Winthrop. Did that with my dad. Then I spent a couple of years doing musical theatre and watching my dad perform in rock bands and such. Then I moved to LA to do the child actor thing, and that's what I've been doing for the past 10 years or so.
The inspiration for the music that is coming out now started about two years ago when I first got in the studio. I finally felt like I had something to write about, to use my piano and my singing for. That's sort of where that came from.
Was there any specific experience you would credit as the moment when you knew performing, both acting and music wise, was what you wanted to do for a profession?
Funny story. This was before I even did singing lessons. I was five years old, and we were on a company trip with my dad in Hilton Head, South Carolina. At the place we were staying, they had this children's entertainer, who was this guy who played acoustic guitar and sang little songs like "Billy the Kid" and "Giant Purple People Eater" and entertained all the kids who were staying there. I went there one day, and I was totally enchanted by it. He asked kids to volunteer to come on stage and sing a song. My hand shot up in the air, and I was jumping up and down screaming, "Pick me! Pick me!" I went up there, and I started singing the worm song, which is sort of a family tradition that was passed down from my grandfather…so I sang it. I got a bunch of applause and all the kids were laughing and enchanted. We were walking back to our room that night, and I told my mom I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. She asked me and I told her, "I want to be a star." It's super cliche and I have no memory of it, but I can point to that as the moment it all started.
I want to talk a bit about your music and especially your single, "War!", I have to be honest when I say I've had it on repeat pretty much since it got sent to me. I think it's so good.
Thank you, thank you.
I'm just curious, what was the inspiration behind it?
That moment I was talking about, when I felt like I finally had something to write about, it came from being broken up with [my] first love…high school sweetheart. Not really knowing any other normal way that I could deal with that, I turned to writing songs. That basically became the small part of the wider concept of my EP that's coming out ,and "War" is a big part of that. It was inspired because the person I had broken up with, she was also a singer, also had a bit of a public profile, and she was sub-tweeting me when I would call her. She would reject me, then tweet about it afterwards and get her friends to prank call me. Just all of this really childish stuff. I thought that the best way to respond was to get back up on my feet and write something calling her out for things. Particularly with "War!," the fact that she was a singer, had been working on the same record for many, many years and hadn't actually done the work to release it, it was sort of like a "Here is my music. Where is yours?" kind of thing.
I was also really inspired by the diss-track culture of hip-hop, people getting into battles, shooting tracks back and forth and seeing who could most eloquently get the upper-hand on someone. I wanted to release something that was so dominating, in that way, that it would be hard to top. As much as I would love to hear that, I don't know if that will happen. [laughs]
Going off of being influenced by hip-hop culture, there is a lot of rapping on this track and you're so good at it. Where did you learn to do that?
I'm most[ly] self-taught. The first song that I wrote for this project also has the first rap verse I ever wrote on it. I re-wrote it a bunch of times, so it is definitely not in its original form. When I first wrote it, it was not good. I ended up making tons and tons of song demos in my home studio and studying the greats from Kanye and Kendrick [Lamar] to old-school like 2pac and MF Doom, especially MF Doom. I love the way he does multi-syllabic rhymes and the advanced rhythm structure of his verses; it just blew my mind at what he could do and say in such a short period of time with his lyrics.
It was mostly study. I just had this fascination with the genre. I also had some friends around me that I discovered also had a love for hip-hop. My buddy, Noah Gary, who is an actor and makes a lot of hip-hop music as well, really got me into freestyle cypher culture and worked on that quite a bit, which helped. It was a combination of things, but really just the determination to not be bad at it and put in a record that I was comfortable with releasing.
As you mention studying different artists, this single features so many different styles of music. Beyond the hip-hop ones you just mentioned, who are some of your musical influences?
My favorite band of all time is Muse. Their older stuff for the darker, rock stuff and their newer stuff for the theatrical sound that they have. I really love the way that those two worlds meet. Twenty One Pilots is another big one. They were sort of my ambassadors to hip-hop. I didn't really like rap and hip-hop before I listened to them. It was in sort of a way that I had never heard before, and it let me see what could be done with it outside of the genre of hip-hop. Once I heard them, I dived into actual roots hip-hop, and I found a love for it. There is some Red Hot Chili Peppers in there, there is some Stevie Wonder in the song. I really just love being a student of music, all genres, and really try to meld all the sounds that influence me into one, without any one being particularly recognizable.
You briefly mentioned earlier that, soon I'd assume, you're going to put out an EP?
Is it finalized enough to where you know how many songs are going to be on it and what fans can expect from it when it comes out?
We're mixing now. We're pretty close to be[ing] done. It started out as a five track EP, and it still is, but it's really evolved into this concept record. It's less about a breakup and more about how someone deals with it in the scope of these two people have a public profile, people are watching this and how that changes things. I was really fascinated by the idea of a breakup being under that lens and also the responses to each others calls being in the public eye. Sort of like I mentioned with "War!", and sort of the transformation that I underwent during that part of my life. It's five full songs, but I'm also doing a lot of interlude tracks, so its coming out to be about 10 in the end, 30-90 second interludes that will help tell the story and flesh it out deeper.
It's funny that you talk about it being a concept album because I had written down in my interview notes that on my first listen "War!" sounded like it could be a bigger part of a concept album. I think that's cool that it's actually going to be part of a concept EP.
How does that affect your writing process? When you wrote "War!", was it first or did you write some of the other songs on the EP first?
"War!" came later, actually. To give the fans a hint as well, "War!" is actually the final chapter of this story. I wanted to release it first because "War!" is the version of me that I'm living in now. The rest of the record is showing everyone how I got there and telling that part of my past.
[In regards to] the writing process, I love the idea of doing a concept record. I was really inspired by Kendrick [Lamar]'s last three albums, specifically because they get so specific. They dive into one issue or one part of his life, then flesh it out. I think he's the greatest artist in the game right now and I wanted to do something like that. I just didn't really know where to start, because I was so new to song-writing when I began. Once the songs started coming, I strategically picked certain ideas to work on because I knew they would feed certain parts of the story. I was still really focused on writing about one particular thing at the time, because it was all that was on my mind. The pieces of the puzzle came together later on and the interludes are sort of the glue that helps tell the story. The name of the record is A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak. It is, in the beginning, about the heartbreak, but the more important part is about the transformation of a person from one version of themselves to another. That was the story I wanted to tell.
It sounds awesome, seriously. Is it going to be a spring release or something later in 2018?
We're thinking late spring. I just played my first show last night and got a really good response. We're going to do some more of those beforehand and do some cool other sneak peaks for fans on my social media to get people hyped.
Was last night your first show ever,?
I've played quite a few shows. My bassist and I, actually, used to play in cover bands when we were 12 and 13. I had the musical theatre background too, singing and performing on stage. This was my first show playing my music, and it was my first on-stage live band show in six or seven years. It was definitely a coming of age for me in a special way. Overall, it went really well. I was nervous for it, but now I'm jazzed to do more of them.
Going off of finally playing your own music at your show last night, previously you've been featured on a number of soundtracks [including the Emmy-winning Sofia the First and Steven Universe Soundtrack: Volume One]. How does that compare to putting out music that is all yours?
It's amazing. It's not just my first music, it's my first project that I've written, produced, brought to fruition and promoted myself. As an actor, coming from that background, you're always someone's hired gun, working as their tool to finish their vision. There's definitely room for personal expression , having fun, but ultimately it's a collaboration. With this, I was really in the driver's seat and able to rep my own vision. That's all I want to do now. I mean, of course, I still want to work on other people's projects, collaborate, be an artist in that way, but I really want to make more of my own content, whether it's music or television.
I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you some Steven Universe questions.
[laughs] Of course.
There are new episodes coming out in April, right?
The timing lined up, didn't it?
What can fans expect when the new episodes come out?
You know it's a strange time on Steven Universe right now, because of all this home world drama that just happened. Nobody really knows exactly where it's going and there are some strained relationships back on Earth. We did get to watch some of the final cuts recently with someone from Make-A-Wish and the Cartoon Network. That was cool. It's not often that we get to all get together and watch the show. The episodes really are awesome. There are some that are particularly heartfelt, that are focusing on the relationships between the characters. I'm really excited for people to dig into that.
One of the cool things about Steven Universe is how it uses music as a narrative device. As someone who is now pursuing music on his own, what have you learned from producing and singing on those tracks for the past couple of years?
It's been an incredible lesson. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Rebecca Sugar's influence on me as an artist. Mixing mediums so much, creating a cartoon musical like she has, it was really inspiring to see her breaking ground on something that, not only is breaking genre boundaries, but also social and cultural boundaries. I've always said being an actor and [essentially] a hired gun, sometimes you just walk into the studio and do your thing. With Steven, there's never been a more artistically fulfilling project to work on for me as an actor. Working with Rebecca and her team has been very important. Watching her hustle, working nights and weekends, making sure not just everything with the show is in line as it should be, but the video games, the comics, the universe around the show is cannon and all feeds into each other. That's been really inspiring to see as far as work ethic goes.
Have you gone to her for any advice about your music specifically?
Yeah, actually. The first song that I finished a demo for, about a year and a half, two years ago, I sent straight to her. She gave me a round of notes on it. She liked it, but she definitely had a lot of constructive criticism of it and it definitely needed it. I took a lot of that, changed up a lot of that song and now I have the version that's going to be on the album. She messaged me about "War!" and we talked about it because we saw each other in person a few days after the release.
Our website is called Talk Nerdy With Us so what is something you nerd out over?
Oh, man. A couple things. Within fandom culture and my connection to that with all these video games, I love Mass Effect. That's my video game that I dive into when I want to pull the blinds on the windows and disappear for a couple of days. That's my favorite science-fiction universe ever. Over Star Wars, over Star Trek. I just love how rich it is and the variety you get with a game like that from BioWare.
The other thing, that is not even, really, totally related, that I nerd out about is baseball. I'm of the opinion that its the nerdiest sport, because of the amount of math and statistics involved. That's my fascination with it, the amount of rabbit holes you go down with comparing statistics, finding oddities and historical firsts that happen almost every week, because of how much crazy stuff you can get into with the math and because of the way the game is structured. I'm a huge St. Louis Cardinals fan.
That was going to be my next question. Being from St. Louis, that makes sense.
More than any other city in America, I think, baseball is life to St. Louis citizens. Being a Cardinals fan is like religious doctrine there. It's super important.
Were you a math person growing up?
Funnily enough, no, not at all. I was good at math when I was in first grade, second grade. Then once multiplication got involved, something went haywire. [laughs] Even still, it's more about statistics for me. I leave the math to the really talented statisticians who follow the game. I like comparing stat lines, lining them up against each other and looking at different stats to evaluate a player, because no one stat tells the whole story. There's a whole new field of sabermetrics that are so advanced that you could just do it forever.
Sabermetrics blows my mind. I'm much more of an NBA fan, but I'm with you on liking stats and seeing trends. It's become one of my favorite parts of watching sports.
For sure. You can do it with games like basketball too. With like exit velocity on throws, and hits in baseball or route efficiency. They can track how guys move across the court or across the outfield, if their lagging behind and making poor split-second decisions. It's so bizarre how psychological these numbers can get.
"War!" is out now on iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music. You can follow Callison on Twitter and Instagram.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
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It has been known for years that dogs can detect disease, but a Welsh semiconductor company says that optical sensors in healthcare devices for the home could one dayprovide a similar early warning system.
IQE of St Mellons, Cardiff, makes compound semiconductors composed of two or more chemical elements. These work faster than conventional, single-element silicon semiconductors. The wafers that are the base for semiconductors can be found in mobile phone handsets and are also used in lasers. They were a key technology in DVD and Blu-ray players.
Three years ago, more than 80 per cent of IQE's production was to support wireless technology in mobile handsets. But Chris Meadows, IQE's head of marketing, says that has now dropped to around 70 per cent, because the fastest growing sector is photonics, the area of technology that is concerned with the properties and transmission of photons, such as fibre optics.
"Dogs can [detect] compounds down to parts per million, or parts per billion even," Mr Meadows says. "Until now, we have not been able to use technology to do that, but optical sensing is getting to the precision where that can happen using lasers and detectors."
He says the semiconductor industry is at an inflection point: "Mobiles have grown the industry, but compound semiconductors are key to driverless cars and sensors in healthcare technology. Healthcare will be dependent on compound semiconductors."
Mr Meadows says the cost of compound semiconductors account for $10 of the price of a mobile phone. The part played by IQE represents about 30 per cent of that.
Technician in a cleanroom at IQE, Cardiff © Patrick Olner
The bulk of these processors are still made by the big telecommunications companies such as Motorola and Samsung. Of the specialist, standalone companies whose only activity is making compound semiconductors, IQE accounts for half the global market.
IQE's products are found in the sensors in the speaker-receiver part of a mobile phone, which tells touchscreens to switch off when they are brought close to the ear. They are also used in driverless cars and, once infrared sensing is deployed, could allow such cars to "see" through stationary vehicles. "We think this will be a growing market for us," Mr Meadows says.
IQE employs 600 people worldwide, including 160 at two facilities in Cardiff. Forty per cent are graduates and half of those are PhDs.
The company was founded in 1988 by chief executive Drew Nelson, who had previously worked at BT's global research headquarters at Martlesham, near Ipswich. It has grown through acquisition and has 11 sites, housing factories, research and sales teams, including five in North America.
IQE floated on the Easdaq, the former Brussels-based market for fast-growth companies that is now part of Börse Berlin. It was briefly on the main UK market before switching to the Alternative Investment Market in London in 2003. The company had sales of £133m in 2016 and profit of £19.8m before tax.
The share price has more than tripled over the past year. One explanation for its strong performance is that when the British smartphone chip designer Arm Holdings was bought for £24bn in July by Japanese telecoms group SoftBank, many UK technology investors switched allegiance to IQE.
The company has become a driving force behind efforts by the Welsh government to create a cluster of specialist electronics companies in Cardiff and South Wales, dedicated to producing and selling compound semiconductors.
Healthcare will be totally dependent on these compound semiconductors
Chris Meadows
Mr Meadows says there are already several clusters of semiconductor manufacturing in Europe. One is Eindhoven in the Netherlands, which is the centre of research and was the original headquarters for electronics company Philips. They also exist in university towns such as Leuven, Belgium, "but these clusters are all concentrated on silicon [semiconductor manufacturing]," he says.
Cardiff already has some semiconductor research activity. Cardiff University tests radio frequency components for handset manufacturers — often these are companies supplied by IQE. Last month, Cardiff Capital Region announced it was allocating nearly £38m to fund a high-volume foundry specifically to make compound semiconductors. The facility will be owned by Cardiff and nine neighbouring councils. Equipment will be leased to manufacturers.
"We will build a pilot line production to give us the critical mass needed to be seen as a 'go to' place for compound semiconductors," says Mr Meadows, adding that there are already potential end users in Wales, such as Airbus, the aircraft manufacturer, and General Dynamics UK, the aerospace and defence company.
Separately, Cardiff has been selected to be the home of the UK's Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, a UK government-funded facility where technologies will be available to mid-tier and small companies to use for a fee. This is one of 10 hubs of high-performance manufacturing across the UK.
Both initiatives are designed to encourage more supply-chain activity in Wales. "We have come across UK companies that are developing new healthcare technologies and they are importing lasers from China," says Mr Meadows. "We probably supplied China with the materials to make those lasers."
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I've been beaming with pride ever since both boys made the main Sunday. For both of them to clear semis unscathed is nothing short of miraculous. William, after perfecting motos, took a spill in his main no more than 10 yards from the finish line. Nothing made me prouder than the way he quickly picked himself up and finished with dignity. He was disappointed, and we had to remind him that he had done what he wasn't supposed to or expected to do. Against doctor's orders, he had not only raced, but raced hard and made the main.
By the time Wyatt's 7 rookie main rolled around the dust was a heavy fog around the track, and I'm convinced I've contracted the black lung. Wyatt shot out like a cannon and took the lead. I used what remained of my dirt filled air supply to scream my head off. On the second straight, he slipped to second. He held onto second to the bitter end, where he was passed at the line. No matter. We were ecstatic with Wyatt's third place finish. I ran around to hug and congratulate him, and he was coughing dust and gasping for air. When he could finally speak, he asked, "Can I PLEASE go bungee jumping now?" He had waited all day.
Now it's time to air the dirty laundry, and I'm not referring to the dusty clothes in our suitcases. We heard many complaints from dedicated NBL families about how ill they were treated on Wednesday. I'd share our own personal experience, but I don't have time to attend anger management. Why, I ask, could we not set up canopies during Wednesday's clinic? Three hours of melting in the hot sun is no way to watch kids work their tails off. Open parking at noon Wednesday. Why the delay? We're all lined up anyway. Let us in! I have an idea-- How about we skip impromptu parking lot meetings concerning who goes in first. Come on, really? Lastly, if you have to repeatedly remind people that you are track president, you're probably not acting like one.
Fortunately, the good far outweighed the bad. The volunteers were A+. Not once did I wait in a long line. Everything appeared smooth and efficient. The new BMX Nation magazine was a big hit, and helped lend excitement to the NBL changes. The bright vertical sponsor banners were not only aesthetically pleasing, but safer than the former low banners. One big improvement was the new gate, which I heard no complaints about. Although long, the race was run at a timely pace despite the many accidents. Speaking of accidents, I'd like to give the most kudos to the EMTs who were responsive and thorough, making the event as safe as possible.
When we finally arrived at our hotel Sunday night, William plopped down on the couch. "I'm so glad that's over." "Why?" I asked. "The pressure. You just don't know, Mommy." I listened to my 9-year-old describe staging. How he tried to talk to his friend who was stoically holding back nervous tears, while the other 9 experts, jittery and agitated, chattered amongst themselves about nothing in particular. Some of them are pressured by their team-- We're counting on you! Many of them by parents-- If you would just guard your line! A few are grasping at something they can't bear to let go-- I can't lose this title! Most of all, they are pressured by each other. I watched William's 9x class closely. It's chock full of great kids and skilled riders, and I commend them. I commend all the riders. They showed that it takes not only strength and skill, but courage and character to race at the NBL Grand Nationals.
So fun to come across your blog! I can so relate! The racers are all very brave just to make it through staging! I just hope they all have enough fun throughout the year to make it worth it! Congrats to William and Wyatt from Joey Leto's (9X) mom! We hope to see you all (with William as good as new) at the next race!
Thank you both so much for your comments! Kristy- I am so surprised we have never met as many times as William and Joey have raced! I will make a point to find you at the next event. Many congrats to Joey as well on his awesome third place finish!! It was a great race.


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As the vast majority of all sports and entertainment organizations closed their doors in response to the rapid spread of COVID-19 and waited for a window to reopen all over the world, only a few entities pushed forward under controlled environments.
While sports leagues were still in their planning stages for how a return would look and the work it would take to get there, WWE never disappeared from the airwaves. With its Performance Center facility just outside of Orlando, Florida, WWE had a facility to satisfy the needs and requirements of the situation. With the blessing of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who designated what WWE was attempting an essential service in the state, WWE produced all of its weekly cable programming and pay-per-views from the PC.
For months, temperature checks were the primary measure in place as WWE tried to keep its performers safe and their enclosed environment free of an outbreak. With the exception of a lone case acknowledged by WWE in late March -- a non-wrestler whose contact had been limited and happened outside a window in which shows had been taped -- WWE seemed to dodge major trouble.
Crowdless shows were the initial executions, plus an adaptation of the way they filmed and performed matches. WWE rolled through multiple pay-per-views -- WrestleMania, Money in the Bank and Backlash -- and kept pumping out Raw, SmackDown, NXT, 205 Live and Main Event shows every week. Eventually, NXT wrestlers and other Performance Center trainees were called into duty as surrogate fans behind plexiglass barriers. In recent weeks, according to WWE, limited "friends and family" were added to the mix as well, ostensibly distanced six feet apart from each other.
Then, on June 16, WWE was faced with a potentially dangerous issue when a developmental talent who was in the crowd on June 9 tested positive for COVID-19, which temporarily halted the production of shows. On June 24, on-air commentator and broadcaster Renee Young revealed that she had tested positive for COVID-19, followed in short order by similar social media posts by on-air personality Kayla Braxton and behind-the-scenes producer Adam Pearce.
While not officially commenting on positive tests, WWE has adopted larger-scale testing for COVID-19 before each of their event tapings in recent weeks. A statement from the company read, "WWE will continue COVID-19 testing of its talent, production crew and employees in advance of TV productions for the foreseeable future."
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Additionally, the audience for each show has gone from no masks to everyone wearing masks. There have been no further publicly acknowledged positive tests, and WWE has continued to film its weekly content without interruption. In the midst of these positive COVID-19 tests, WWE was also dealing with ongoing accusations against its talent as women in the wrestling industry spoke out about past abuses. To date, three wrestlers have been released by WWE: Jack Gallagher, Travis Banks and El Ligero.
A week and a half out from its next scheduled pay-per-view event, the Horror Show At Extreme Rules, WWE shows no sign of defying the drive of "The Show Must Go On." Mandatory masks and tougher testing are both great steps in the right direction, to be sure. But in the face of in-house positive tests, one would hope that WWE would stop utilizing the plexiglass partitions as a storytelling device and prop, as was utilized once again on Monday night when Nikki Cross returned to ringside during the main event, mingled with the crowd and pounded on the glass while not wearing a mask to simply provide a distraction for a match going on in the ring.
Wrestling fans around the world long for the days when there is a re-established sense of normality at shows with crowds. In the meantime, all we can do is hope that everyone stays as safe and as healthy as is possible.
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As Banks and Bayley have filled WWE airwaves two and three times a week since winning the women's tag-team titles, their chemistry is bursting at the seams. The occasional dusting of tension over an otherwise cohesive unit has informed the very worst (best) type of villainous performance -- wrestlers who are stars in the ring and could get it done the "right way," but choose to cheat simply because they can.
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Bayley and Banks have proved in each and every match they've had of late on Raw, SmackDown and NXT that they are locked in, and it's hard to argue against their pair of singles title matches at Extreme Rules being the centerpieces of the card.
Banks is in the midst of living out a dream sequence of opponents, rattling off matches with three Japanese veterans whose in-ring style puts Banks in position to have some of her best matches in recent memory. It started with her match against Io Shirai on NXT's Great American Bash, continued Monday against Kairi Sane and culminates with a Raw women's championship match at Extreme Rules. This time last year, Banks was embracing her love of Japanese wrestling with an excursion to a training dojos there. Now she's getting to show off what she learned.
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Let's ignore, for a moment, the questionable logic MVP used to try to call himself the uncrowned United States champion after a nontitle victory over Apollo Crews last week. It felt all too appropriate that MVP, one of the wrestlers most closely tied to the version of the title belt WWE has used since 2003 (with the exception of a John Cena spinner rebrand), was the one to reveal the new version of the United States championship.
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Only time will tell how fans will react, either embracing or despising the new design for the belt. The blowback the Universal championship received at its inception, for example, seems drastically overblown. Instant reaction is that this belt has potential.
But the real focus should be on the light that MVP has helped shine on currently and previously overlooked talent on the Raw roster. Bobby Lashley has seen his confidence grow considerably, and has looked as comfortable as he's been since his return to WWE in his rivalry with Drew McIntyre. Crews has the perfect foil to bounce his energy off of as he continues to come out of his own shell since winning the U.S. title. And the addition of Ricochet and Cedric Alexander to the mix helps take two guys who have no business simply being relegated to matches on a third-tier show like Main Event and gives them a chance to remind everyone what they can really do.
This chunk of gold from MVP, spoken to a beaten-down Alexander postmatch, says it all: "Me and Bobby Lashley, we're in the hurting business, man. You? You're in the catering business, because that's where you're going to sit for the rest of your career watching other people be successful."
Regardless of if MVP ends up managing zero, one or several of these guys in the long term, the title and everyone involved in this story have benefited from MVP's gravitas.
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I did not see a Heath Slater appearance on the horizon, but regardless of how you feel about the WWE trying to capitalize on its own pandemic-related releases yet again to generate sympathy for a wrestler, the brief appearance was a reminder that Slater has a lot to offer with charisma coming out of his pores. It's 3MB's destiny for everyone to have at least one singles title reign, and Slater's the only one missing. Just saying. ... It's sad to see Ruby Riott continue to get overlooked. After dropping her second straight loss to The IIconics, it appears Riott could be on the path to reuniting with Liv Morgan down the line. The Riott Squad never should've broken up in the first place, but with how much Morgan has shown of late herself inside the ring, anything is better than being the perennial punching bag. ... I'm not sure exactly sure how an eye-for-an-eye match is contested, before, during or after the fact, but I think I echo Kevin Owens' feelings on the matter. ... Is there anything that Randy Orton can't do right now? On top of everything else he's doing for himself, Orton's efforts may have single-handedly saved Andrade and Angel Garza as a team. Third-generation stars as a temporary alliance seems good by me, and it can only help Andrade and Garza moving forward. ... Bayley and Asuka got time to make the main event feel special, and it did. That's what a champion vs. champion showcase should look like. I'd be remiss in crediting Banks' work while ignoring Bayley's continued evolution as SmackDown women's champion. Starting to think a breakup with Banks before SummerSlam is a little less likely, but that match will be incredible again, whenever it does eventually happen.


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USA Is Pushing Israel Into The Valley of Death!
The Devil Like A Roaring Lion Walks About, Seeking Whom He May Devour,
Ahmadinejad, the adversary of the United States and Israel, does the Same,
So Why do We unite with the UN, EU, Russia, and China to Accommodate Him
Why does America tell Israel she must sit down to negotiate with terror Groups?
US is leading Israel into a Valley of Death that Will Produce Zechariah's Holocaust!
1 Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
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to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Zechariah 14:1,2 –Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
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Editor's Notes: Accommodating Ahmadinejad
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Iran wants to see Israel destroyed, but it also wants to take the free world back to the dark ages. So even if they don't care about Israel, why do the world's democracies continually furnish Ahmadinejad with the platform to undermine them?
Poor old Ban Ki-moon.I mean, it's not as though he hadn't told that dreadful Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to steer clear of the provocative anti-Israel material.
At their tete-a-tete earlier in the day, wailed the valiant secretary-general when it was all over, "I stressed the importance of the conference to galvanize the will of the international community toward the common cause of the fight against racism" and "reminded the president that the UN General Assembly had adopted the resolutions to revoke the equation of Zionism with racism and to reaffirm the historical facts of the Holocaust."
But, goodness gracious, shock, horror, would you believe it? The Iranian president simply ignored Ban's stresses and reminders, and launched another of his insidious assaults on the despicable post-WWII world order in general, and the racist, genocidal Zionist regime in particular.
So clearly flummoxed was Ban by this astounding betrayal of his earnest advice, this misuse of his UN platform, indeed, that he had been rooted to his seat, evidently horrified into paralysis, as Ahmadinejad's interminable toxic peroration continued – a scheduled seven-minute conference opener extending into an hourlong horror show.
"I deplore the use of this platform by the Iranian president to accuse, divide and even incite," the appalled secretary-general now solemnly declared.
"We must all turn away from such a message in both form and substance."
What Ban didn't say, though, was: I won't allow my organization to be a party to this any longer. What he didn't say, though, was that so long as he had blood in his veins and air in his lungs, he would do everything in his power to prevent repeat performances of the grimly familiar Ahmadinejad-abuses-the-UN's-global-platform show. What he didn't say was that he was launching the procedures, as mandated by the United Nations' own 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to prosecute the Iranian president for inciting and conspiring to commit genocide against the Jewish state.
What the head of the body that is designed to safeguard the international community didn't say in the aftermath of his guest's crystal-clear exhortation to bring down Israel – an assault which had occurred, with such bitter, un-ignorable coincidence, just as we prepared to begin our annual day of Holocaust commemoration – was: Never again.
THIS LATE into Ahmadinejad's ignominious career, the faux naivety of the UN secretary-general and his oh-so deplorably misused platform simply doesn't wash.
The Iranian president's Geneva assault on Israel, on ostensible Zionist manipulation of international affairs and on the wider illegitimacy of the post-War World II order, was a patent inevitability from the moment he announced his intention to appear and his hosts chose not to prevent him from doing so.
It represented the completely predictable maintenance of a strategy he has pursued at his appearances before the supine UN General Assembly in past years in New York.
In 2007, at the GA, he castigated the selfish, domineering "big powers" as the cause of global injustice and inequality, denounced an alleged over-ready resort to violence, critiqued promiscuous Western society, sketched a vision of a world without democracy in the image of his Iran, and warned the international leadership to end its "obedience to Satan" or face calamity.
Last September, at the same forum, he gloated at the ostensible imminent demises of the Zionist regime ("on a definite slope to collapse") and the American empire ("reaching the end of its road"), and blamed the former for the latter: "The dignity, integrity and rights of the American and European people are being played with by a small but deceitful number of people called Zionists."
On Monday, he merely made the assault more brazen, condemning the "totally racist government in the occupied Palestine," branding Israel a "perpetrator of genocide," blaming Zionists and their allies for all manner of world ills, and demanding the remaking of the world order to eliminate the Zionists' purported control of its affairs.
Of course Ahmadinejad trampled all over Ban's pleas. Of course the leader of a brutal regime, which perverts Islam, kills its opponents and encourages the indiscriminate murder of those who don't subscribe to its benighted religious outlook, abused the forum to mislead and manipulate a global audience about the virtues of his ideology and the ostensible ills of democracy and its freedoms.
The question is why the international community persists in letting him do so.
THIS COLUMN has repeatedly highlighted the skilled employment by Iran of the tools to seek Israel's delegitimization and ultimate destruction. There is the relentless progress toward a nuclear capability.
There is the arming, funding and inspiring of Hamas and Hizbullah at either end of our territorial sliver. And there is the drip-drip indoctrination about Israel's perceived fundamental illegitimacy – the potent false depiction, repeated in Geneva on Monday, of modern Israel as a rootless European colonial implant, imposed upon
the blameless Palestinians, rather than the tragically belated revival of historic Jewish sovereignty in the only place on earth where the Jews have ever sought to determine their collective national fate.
Year by year, this combined practical and rhetorical assault on Israel takes a greater toll, posing more acute security challenges (with which Israel strategically seeks to grapple) and more acute intellectual challenges (where Israel continually fails to adequately explain and advocate).
But the Iranian regime's ambitions, as emblemized by the range of its missiles, manifestly extend far beyond Israel. So even as one acknowledges the dismal minority of steadfast international defenders of Israel, it is bizarrely self-defeating for the other nations whose freedoms the mullahs are bent on reversing to continually provide Iran with the military and propaganda means to pursue its mission.
Call him every name under the sun, but don't accuse Ahmadinejad of concealing his goals.
At every opportunity, he makes plain his regime's intent to remake the world order in its image – to reform "the inequitable and unjust management of the world," as he put it on Monday.
A handful of nations did the right thing, or at least some of it, in staying away from Geneva. More walked out of his speech.
But neither the boycotts nor the walkouts will have troubled Ahmadinejad in the slightest.
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Indeed, they only reinforce his case, bolstering the argument he makes over the diplomats' heads that the traditional centers of global influence don't care about the underprivileged, that they don't want to hear his "truth."
His victory, yet again, was in the very fact of getting to speak – to speak to a global audience, his words carried live on network after network worldwide, his calculated oratory preying on profound, widespread, genuine grievances in less-developed countries. He was reaching out, again, to the poor and the ill-educated and the repressed, and offering his Islamist worldview as a panacea.
That it was Ahmadinejad calling attention to international injustice does not make such injustice any less acute.
That it was Ahmadinejad, the public face of a repressive, misogynistic, homophobic regime, whose "solution" would lead the world back into the dark ages, is a continuing case of canny manipulation by him, and shameful, appallingly counterproductive indulgence by his hosts.
Iran's principal targets are a "great Satan" that strives to protect and encourage freedoms and democracy, and a 'little Satan" that struggles to preserve the enlightened values its faith brought to the world. Again, in Geneva on Monday, the United Nations gave him the platform to pursue an expansionist agenda that places a brutal, narrow-minded and intolerant interpretation of religion above free world values, and applauded as he won over further converts toward achieving it.
US: Syria and Israel Must Talk; Syrian FM Praises Ahmadinejad
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Israel must sit down and talk with Syria to resolves differences and works for peace, the U.S. State Department said in response to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's recent statements that the Israeli government cannot sit down with a government that backs Iran, Hizbullah and Hamas.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood, in response to a reporter's question, declared, "Obviously, at some point, the two parties need to sit down and resolve their differences. There needs to be peace between Israel and Syria. The question on when talks go forward, that's going to really be up to the parties. We want to see that happen. In terms of when they sit down actually, that's something that's going to have to be worked out."
Two days earlier, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem praised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the Durban II conference on racism. "A large proportion of public opinion in the Arab world supports the words of the Iranian president," Muallem stated in a press conference.
He added that Arabs "should not be turned into victims of a Holocaust which they did not commit. It should not serve as a pretext for the Israelis to commit a Holocaust in Palestine, Gaza, the West Bank or Lebanon."
In his speech last week at the opening of the partially-boycotted Durban II conference in Geneva, Ahmadinejad labeled the Israeli government "the most cruel and repressive racist regime." He criticized the creation of a "totally racist government" and accused the Western world of "sending migrants from Europe and the United States in order to establish a racist government in the occupied Palestine."
The United States, Canada, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand and Italy were among the countries who boycotted the entire Durban II conference.
Twenty-three European Union delegations walked out in protest the speech, but all other delegates, including U.N. secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, remained in their seats.
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Paulene S. McLeroy, 84, of Bolivar departed this life Monday morning, March 7, 2016 at Bolivar General Hospital.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 9 at Shackelford Funeral Directors of Bolivar with Milton Tucker officiating. Interment followed in Bolivar Memorial Cemetery.
The widow of George William McLeroy, who died in 2009 after 59 years of marriage, she was a homemaker and had worked over 15 years at Harman Automotive.
She was born June 10, 1931, in Hardeman County, daughter of the late Arthur Dewey Scott and Bessie Priscilla Ervin Scott and lived most of her life in Hardeman County except for a year in Missouri. After her retirement from Harman, she worked as a sitter for the public and housecleaner.
She enjoyed being outside and working word find puzzles.


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Wed, 13 Jun 2012 | Feeding Ecology
According to the IUCN, several lark species are in need of special protection. Ash's lark (Mirafra ashi) is known only from six specimens collected in 1981 in a very small range in Somalia. Because its minute population seems to decline, this species is classified as Endangered. Botha's lark (Spizocorys fringittaris) is also Endangered. It is patchily distributed within South Africa, and its population is declining due to habitat destruction by agriculture.
The situation is critical for the Raso lark (Alauda razae) and Rudd's lark. The former species is endemic to the uninhabited Islet of Raso (Cape Verde Islands), and its population is very small (92 birds counted in 1998). Accidentally introduced predators are therefore a serious threat to eggs and nestlings. A rapid population decline of Rudd's lark could be prevented by protecting its breeding range in South Africa.
Four species are classified as Vulnerable because of their restricted and unprotected ranges and small populations. The ferruginous or red lark (Certhilauda burra) breeds in the Cape Province only, where habitat fragmentation continues. Archer's lark (Heteromirafra archeri) is known only from two small areas in Somalia, where it was recorded last in 1955. Only a few specimens and observations of Degodi lark (Mirafra degodiensis) and Sidamo bushlark (Heteromirafra sidamoen-sis) are known from different localities in Ethiopia. Information about breeding range and population size is even more scanty for Friedmann's lark (Mirafra pulpa) from northeastern Africa, Obbia lark (Spizocorys obbiensis) from Somalia, and Williams's lark (Mirafra williamsi) from Kenya, making it almost impossible to assess the extent of the threat to their extinction.
The population of the Agulhas long-billed lark (Certhilauda brevirostris) is estimated to be around 1,000 mature individuals. Estimates for Sclater's lark (Spizocorys sclateri) are much higher, but the population is severely fragmented throughout Namibia and South Africa. Finally, the population of the Latakoo lark in southeastern Africa could decline drastically during the following decades due to habitat loss. As a result, these three species are considered to be Near Threatened.
In the countries of the European Union (EU), the calandra lark, Dupont's lark, short-toed lark (Calandrella brachy-dactyla), Thekla lark (Galerida theklae), and wood lark are listed in Annex I of the EU Birds Directive as species which require special conservation efforts. All these species suffer habitat destruction related to agricultural intensification and afforestation, as well as illegal hunting and predation. The European populations of crested larks and skylarks declined during the last years, probably due to climatic change, the loss of suitable habitats, and the increasing use of pesticides. The crested lark became extinct in northern Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland in the 1990s; declined in Denmark, the Netherlands (3,000-4,000 breeding pairs in 1979 vs. 400 in 1991), France, Germany, and Poland. Skylark numbers in Great Britain declined by 51% between 1968 and 1995, a loss of approximately three million breeding birds. In 1997, only about one million pairs were breeding in Great Britain.
Pitta Moluccensis


10. To answer these questions for you, let me describe where Creature rests in my body—deep within my thoracic spine, in the middle of my vertebrae alongside photo booth-sized images of unrequited knives. I am conscious of it as I watch my body read. Its language moves and settles. This process of watching—as opposed to thinking—may seem enigmatic. It is.
11. The morning I begin reciting my Creature, I have a conversation with my friend Michael. Most people do not listen to the body's unrequited knives, he says but does not say. We are drinking lukewarm lemon water. We are practicing long pauses between words.
12. I have to write about Michael's calves. When I show him Creature, I ask where the book rests in his body. I feel it in my calves, he says. Jeff says he feels it in his lumbar section.
13. The thoracic spine's vertebrae possess several general characteristics. For example, the vertebrae's largest parts—its bodies—are heart-shaped. Pain in the leg may be linked to pain in the spine. Something has brought me to this numbered list.
14. Creature's language whinnies in the body's deep embankments. There is no other way to describe this than to call to mind the image of an unrequited knife that is withheld.
16. Now it is three o'clock in the morning, and I am awakened by the sound of a creature's rolling cry. It cannot be my creature, I think. She is with me.
17. My creature always has a double. This one is literal. My creature dervishes and screams and claws. Draws blood.
18. The second creature was loved.
19. List of abrasions: his right calf, his left calf; his right shin, his hand.
20. "Something inside me is doubling over." My creature, it is summer, as reflected by the skin's outer layer, and the beach is evolving. We are sitting on an airplane in the company of ghosts. My eyes are shedding text, and our creature is at home alone in the apartment in the company of friends. You are on your knees; the bag of purple-spotted flowers is torn open; our creature emits a low growl, begs, and eviscerates your hand. I am locked in the bathroom, naked underneath a stolen towel. I am writing this. Creature speaks: "I want someone to love me." My creature waits in my room. Please, someone.
21. My creature waits in my room, calling me.
22. I cannot write anything else.
* Note: Several sentences have been gleaned from Amina Cain's Creature.
Claire Donato lives in Brooklyn, NY and is the author of Burial (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013). Her recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Aufgabe, Encyclopedia L-Z, Octopus, Boston Review, LIT, and 1913: A Journal of Forms. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts (Poetry) from Brown University, where she won the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, and has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series.


Sardinia Italy kickboxing - Belfast's Gary Hamilton faced Alessandro Alias in Sardinia Italy. The event was an open air kickboxing event in Martiada Iglesias. There was two ProKick gym members from Belfast that competed on the WKN international fight card. Karl McBlain and team mate Gary Hamilton.


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If you asked 13-year-old me why I picked Saint Monica to be my Confirmation saint, I would've said it was because her name is similar to mine.
For having attended a Franciscan high school and college, I knew relatively little about Saint Clare.
"It is true. I stand at the door of your heart, day and night.


Holy Name Plaques are now available to commemorate the 1914 initiative. The traditional design of St. Bernardine and the more modern 2014 design have been skillfully executed by the Boccali ceramic art workshop in Vecchia, Italy. These beautiful ceramics are hand-painted and individually fired.
The Holy Name Plaques are produced by a family-run ceramic art studio in Deruta, Italy .
€60 for the 2014 design.


Here is the complete Private/Government Medical Colleges in Lahore Pakistan List. Lahore is the educational city due to the many medical colleges in lahore at that point. Countries develop when they approach towards the medical institutions. Each country termed as successful when peoples are live and physically fit in every aspect. If one's country health administ. All these private and government Medical Colleges are affiliated from the ration is strong then it is known as country based association in medical field. University of Health Sciences UHS as well as approved from the Pakistan Medical and Dental Association PMDC. It is compulsory for each students to verify before taking admission to any of the Medical Colleges of Lahore that either this college is approved from PMDC or not.
That is all about the Private/Government Medical Colleges in Lahore Pakistan List as this will help you a lot in knowing the top medical colleges in your city if you are a student of medical and for further studies want to join a well known institute than this list will help you in choosing your institute. Good institute is a guarantee of well and proper education and medical field is most noble profession in Pakistan so choose it wisely.


Curator and art world influencer Beckie Warren of Girl Sees Art has been making waves as a trendsetter in recognizing and promoting diversity in contemporary art. From her various art world endeavors, she frequently presents her unique point of view on art panels and lectures and through exhibitions she has curated in New York City. We met with Warren to learn more about her vision in promoting a wide range of contemporary artists both in the NYC art world and beyond.
AL: What was your focus in terms of content and strategy when you first started Girl Sees Art? How has this focus changed/evolved for you over time?
Beckie Warren: The Girl Sees Art blog started as purely a passion project born out of my desire to share all the great art I was seeing at Art Basel 2016. I was in my first year of graduate school at the Fashion Institute of Technology and my professor (and concurrent Director of PULSE Art Fair), Helen Toomer, invited me to Miami to help out with the fair. My mom and I made the trip together and experienced Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time. We saw every fair we could fit into the trip and even bought a few pieces for our personal collection.
I was already very active on social media (Facebook and Instagram mostly) since I am originally from Kansas, and it's always been a great way for my family and friends back home to stay connected to my adventures in NYC. At Art Basel, I was posting a ton of pictures of all the art I was seeing and at some point my best friend messaged me that all she was seeing on my social media account was art! For me the solution was not to stop posting photos of the art, it was to create an anonymous Instagram account for the sole purpose of doing just that. To my great surprise, people started following this anonymous account, encouraging others to follow me, commenting regularly on my posts, and inviting me to art openings, private previews, and studio visits with artists.
I have also spoken to MFA graduate students at the Fashion Institute of Technology, The Sotheby's Institute, and the National Academy of the Arts on social media in the art world. Things really came full circle for me this past December when I was asked to speak on a panel at Art Basel discussing art in the Instagram age. I love exposing unknown, young artists to my numerous followers.
Girl Sees Art has over 16,500 followers on Instagram and has been named an art world influencer.
AL: How do you want Girl Sees Art to influence the art market moving forward? What results do you hope to see from the Girl Sees Art platform in terms of advocating for contemporary art and artists?
Beckie Warren: Thank you for asking this question! I'd love for people to know that you don't need to go to The Met or MOMA to experience great art. The Lower East Side has literally hundreds of galleries that put on wonderful shows, the Bushwick art scene in Brooklyn is booming with young fresh talent, and if you don't happen to live in NYC: great! Simply scroll through the #contemporaryart hashtag on Instagram to see what's being created around the world every minute. Instagram is the best thing to happen to artists since the "invention" of the gallery. Literally anyone who has a creative practice can share their best work with the click of a button – for free. I plan to continue to feature young emerging artists whose work speaks to me on a personal level.
AL: Tell us about your Fall 2017 exhibit, Uncommon Beauty, on the Lower East Side of New York. How did you choose the artists involved and can you explain why its important to you that female artists be included in the show?
Beckie Warren: Uncommon Beauty was a dream come true for me, and it was my curatorial debut. I wanted to get into the curating ever since I graduated from FIT. My father is an artist, my mother is a lawyer. I believe I have been blessed with the unique ability to 'translate' between the business side of the art world and the artists with whom I choose to work. .
I wanted to showcase beauty in a way that hadn't been done before, and I did this by selecting one artist in every category of art that I could imagine. The show included street art, collage, abstract painting, figurative painting, conceptual art, makeup art, video art, performance art, sculpture, and photography.
I felt I owed so much of my art world success to Instagram, I wanted to include an artist I had never met in person: someone I knew only through Instagram in the group show. This person ended up being Philadelphia-based photographer Jess Gamble. It was a big risk, but it was important for me stress that people realize I don't just look to NYC to find my artists. I find lots of people I'd love to show through Instagram itself!
Last year, Beckie Warren co-curated the show "Uncommon Beauty" which featured artists like Lara Minerva, Joy Kim, and Erica Prince.
AL: What have you learned from the artists you've worked with and can you name a few artists who have allowed you new insights into the art world as you've engaged with their practice?
Beckie Warren: I have met so many artists through the blog! It's reached the point where people are beginning to recognize me at openings and art fairs, and everyone wants me to critique their work (which I do, often, for free).
One artist in particular that changed my perspective on life in a significant way was Erica Prince. Erica participated in Uncommon Beauty by performing her "Transformational Makeovers" to the public. These makeovers aren't about beauty, but discovering an alternate identity that maybe even the subject themselves didn't know existed inside of them. The 'client' would come into the gallery, Erica would sit them in her salon chair, and give them a personality assessment of sorts to fill out. Using that information, she "transformed" her subjects without letting them watch the changes.
The reactions at "the reveal" were amazing: she transformed [an 11-year-old girl] into a Unicorn Princess by giving her a pink wig, adorning her face with glitter and jewels. I have never seen that kind of joy on a child's face. Then she made a gender transformation for a male friend of mine and when he saw himself as a woman for the first time, tears filled his eyes. He confessed that, for the first time in his life, he felt permission to feel beautiful. I had expected her makeovers to be fun and playful, but so much depth and emotion came out in those "grand reveal" moments when the curtain was dropped and the clients saw themselves in the mirror. It was amazing how quickly their language, mannerisms, and behavior changed when their exterior image was altered.
AL: What content does Girl Sees Art see a great response from on social media channels such as Instagram?
Beckie Warren: Photos with people in them do much "better" (more likes, more comments) than pictures of just the art. It isn't that the art is bad or uninteresting on its own, but so often when I'm in the photo I provide scale to large works, and I think that people can imagine themselves standing in my shoes when I'm in the photo. I purposely don't show my face in the photos, so really, it could be anyone standing in front of the work! It's not about me, it's never been about me. It's about the art, and I think people can sense that authenticity in my words and my photos.
AL: What would you suggest to artists looking to increase their audiences across social media platforms? What should they do to create wider awareness around their work?
Beckie Warren: The most common advice I offer to my artist friends looking to create an audience for their work on Instagram is to separate their personal life from their professional life. If you want to post a painting you just completed one day and photo of your cat the next day and a photo of the burger you ate for lunch the day after that, great, but your work is not going to get the respect or attention it deserves with all the other "fluff" mixed in. I often recommend that artists have two Instagram accounts: one for photos of their cats and that awesome sushi they ate last week, and one strictly for their art.
For the first time in history, artists have a free visual platform to showcase the best of their best work to the entire world. For them not to use it as a tool to build awareness for their craft is a huge missed opportunity in my opinion.
AL: What types of projects are you looking forward to pursuing next and what holds the greatest promise for you as a curator/ influencer?
Beckie Warren: I am happy to announce I will be curating a solo show of fashion-inspired collage work by artist Karen Fisher, another artist I met through Instagram, during Fashion Week 2018 in SoHo. The show is called Paper Dolls and will run September 6 through September 16 at 208 Bowery. The show will feature 365 runway-inspired collage pieces, and we plan to host a live fashion show in the space.
You are the first to know this, but my financial partner and I have officially established a business for the purpose of selling art online and at art fairs around the globe. The online gallery is called Uncommon Beauty Partners and will be selling works from artists from all disciplines from around the world!
To learn more about Beckie Warren, check out Girl Sees Art.


The need to convince the general public that health information will be exchanged privately.
In the same speech, Dr. Blumenthal stated that many of these challenges will be full or partially addressed by the various initiatives driven by HITECH Act funding.
Does Canada face similar challenges to the US regarding adoption of health IT? Are our various funding programs (provincial EMR programs, Infoway programs, etc) addressing the Canadian challenges or are additional initiatives required?
At the itHealthcare Canada conference and exhibition organized by HIMSS Ontario earlier this month, one of the keynote speakers, Dr. Kevin Leonard, questioned whether we have the appropriate leadership in Canada to aggressively drive deployment and effective use of eHealth applications. While munching on some leftover turkey this weekend, I was catching up on various blogs that I read and came across a post on the eHealthCentral blog on that caused me to think about Kevin's comments regarding eHealth leadership in Canada.
Given the many criticisms leveled at Canada Health Infoway, I do wonder if perhaps are expecting too much from one organization, particularly given its governance structure. As Trisha Greenlagh notes, there are substantial benefits to having a recognized spokesperson, like Dr. Blumenthal in the US, who can tell the eHealth story in a compelling manner that catalyzes action and rallies support across disparate stakeholder communities.


These release notes describe new features, enhancements, and bug fixes introduced by THRUnet® V2.4, the Network Backup and Restore System from Software Partners, Inc.
THRUnet users upgrading from THRUnet V2.x to Version 2.4 should follow the upgrade procedure covered in these release notes.
This section describes the server systems, client systems, and TCP/IP packages currently supported by THRUnet V2.4.
- DEC TCP/IP Services for VMS V4.0 and 4.1.
- NEW! DEC TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS AXP V4.0 and V4.1.
Software Partners has written a booklet providing a brief introduction to TCP/IP and internetworking. This booklet, "TCP/IP and Internetworking: a Primer," provides a basic overview of TCP/IP protocols and internetworking. It is available upon request from Software Partners/32.
When using cpio on an ULTRIX client, the cpio -c option must be used. The headers created by the ULTRIX cpio utility are non-standard and not recognized by THRUnet unless the -c option is used.
Note: See the cpio man page for more information about the cpio utility.
This section details the procedure followed by those THRUnet users upgrading from THRUnet V2.x to THRUnet V2.4.
To perform an upgrade from THRUnet V2.x to THRUnet V2.4, follow the steps detailed in the table below.
Make sure existing THRUnet server is running.
Load the THRUnet V2.4 distribution media.
Follow the installation and configuration procedures as detailed in the THRUnet V2.4 documentation, Chapter 2. THRUnet V2.4 has a new database format that is not compatible with previous versions of THRUnet. During the installation, you will be prompted to convert and save your previous database. To save this data, respond "YES".
This section details new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for THRUnet V2.3-02.
THRUnet now supports the BRU™ archive utility. BRU is a robust backup and restore utility developed and marketed by Enhanced Software Technology, Inc.
History files are supported for BRU.
THRUnet history files no longer require VMS format file specification. History files are now stored in native UNIX file specification format. This eliminates the need for conversion routines and enhances backup performance when history processing is enabled.
Note: When a user is defined with an owner field, the history is stored in a file based upon the machine name and user name rather than the owner name.
The THRUnet database format now allows longer media type string lengths.
A history processing utility is now included with THRUnet. This program, known as TNTHIST is available for both VAX (HISTUTIL_VAX.EXE) and Alpha AXP (HISTUTIL_AXP.EXE) platforms.
• clean or list the contents of a history file.
Note: You can still view history files with the TNT QUERY FILES command. However, TAPESYS history query commands will no longer work.
A bug was reported in previous versions of THRUnet that prevented media compaction from working in some instances.
If TAPESYS is running and you specify a volume (with the TNT ALLOCATE command), THRUnet uses the mediatype and location found in the TAPESYS database to allocate a device. If, when specifying a volume, you also specify a mediatype and location and it differs from those returned by TAPESYS, THRUnet displays an error message.
Previously, THRUnet allocated a device if it exactly matched the mediatype and location specified. It now will allocate for locations that exactly match the specified "location" and any appended characters formatted as "location...". For example, if the location name equals "Boston", then THRUnet will attempt devices at "Boston1" or "Boston2".
The Allocate command now allows you to specify a Notes field and a Scratch Date. THRUnet passes this information to TAPESYS and updates the media database.
If a backup and/or restore completes successfully with zero bytes transferred, a status of "no data transferred" is returned.
The machine name width has been increased from 31 to 128 characters.
THRUnet is now built with the DEC C RUN TIME LIBRARY.
The UNIX command 'EU' no longer requires options 'x' or 'y'. This allows autoconfigure mode to work for UNIX client machines.
The UNIX client now displays help information relating to command syntax. For example: 'tnt Q?' will display syntax of all Query commands and 'tnt ?' will display syntax of all commands.
The embedded portmapper has been removed since UCX now supports a reasonably functional portmapper.
The server now has improved diagnostic routines.
The server would sometimes free volumes which could not be mounted because the user had no access to them.
The nounload option has been fixed.
The server has been modified to recognize additional variations in the tar header for correct check sum generation.
The server has been modified to accurately report bytes transfered to 15 digits within server log files. The server has also been modified to return Kbytes (1024 bytes) transfered when queried using the TNT QUERY JOB command.
Some failed jobs incorrectly reported a successful completion. The server has been modified to correctly report job completion status.


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Section 1683. Auditing of transactions of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
48 U.S. Code § 1683. Auditing of transactions of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
All financial transactions of the Trust Territory, including such transactions of all agencies or instrumentalities established or utilized by such Trust Territory, may be audited by the Government Accountability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31.
(Pub. L. 103–332, title I, Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 2516; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814.)
Section is from the appropriation act cited as the credit to this section.
Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:
Pub. L. 103–138, title I, Nov. 11, 1993, 107 Stat. 1395.
Pub. L. 102–381, title I, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1393.
Pub. L. 101–512, title I, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1933.
Pub. L. 101–121, title I, Oct. 23, 1989, 103 Stat. 717.
Pub. L. 100–446, title I, Sept. 27, 1988, 102 Stat. 1797.
Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(g) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–213, 1329–232.
Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(h) [title I], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–242, 1783–258, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(h) [title I], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–242, 3341–259.
Pub. L. 99–190, § 101(d) [title I], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1224, 1239.
Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 101(c) [title I], Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1837, 1851.
Pub. L. 98–146, title I, Nov. 4, 1983, 97 Stat. 932.
Pub. L. 97–394, title I, Dec. 30, 1982, 96 Stat. 1979.
Pub. L. 96–126, title I, Nov. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 966.
Pub. L. 95–465, title I, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1289.
Pub. L. 95–74, title I, July 26, 1977, 91 Stat. 295.
Pub. L. 94–373, title I, July 31, 1976, 90 Stat. 1053.
Pub. L. 94–165, title I, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 988.
Pub. L. 93–404, title I, Aug. 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 813.
Pub. L. 93–120, title I, Oct. 4, 1973, 87 Stat. 434.
Pub. L. 92–76, title I, Aug. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 233.
Pub. L. 91–361, title I, July 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 673.
Pub. L. 91–98, title I, Oct. 29, 1969, 83 Stat. 151.
Pub. L. 90–28, title I, June 24, 1967, 81 Stat. 63.
Pub. L. 89–435, title I, May 31, 1966, 80 Stat. 174.
Pub. L. 89–52, title I, June 28, 1965, 79 Stat. 179.
Pub. L. 88–356, title I, July 7, 1964, 78 Stat. 278.
Pub. L. 87–578, title I, Aug. 9, 1962, 76 Stat. 340.
Pub. L. 85–439, title I, June 4, 1958, 72 Stat. 164.
Pub. L. 85–77, title I, July 1, 1957, 71 Stat. 266.
June 13, 1956, ch. 380, title I, 70 Stat. 265.
July 1, 1954, ch. 446, title I, 68 Stat. 372.
July 31, 1953, ch. 298, title I, 67 Stat. 273.
2004—Pub. L. 108–271 substituted "Government Accountability Office" for "General Accounting Office".


The hunt for a CEO to head the spun-off business is under way.
Smiths Group has revealed it will float its medical business on the stock market as part of plans to split the division off from the rest of the company.
The move follows an announcement in November in which the FTSE 100 firm said it would spin off its medical arm to allow the remaining business to grow as an industrial technology group.
According to further details released on Friday, the whole process is expected to complete in the first half of 2020, with work currently under way to recruit a Smiths Medical chief executive.
At the same time, the group announced results for its first half which showed rising revenue but lower profits.
Sales were up 2% to £1.57 billion, with better than expected organic growth.
Pre-tax profits fell 13% to £174 million.
Chief executive Andy Reynolds Smith said: "Smiths delivered another good performance in the first half with sustainable growth driven by John Crane, Flex-Tek and Smiths Interconnect. The strong results from these divisions were partly offset by the anticipated decline in Smiths Medical and the timing of deliveries in Smiths Detection, with both on track to deliver growth in the second half.
The company had previously tried to sell its medical unit, having recently ended talks with US-based ICU Medical. It also attempted to sell the unit in 2013 to CareFusion.
Analysts at Liberum said the continuing under-performance of the unit could hamper its valuation.
Analysts at Jefferies said the medical division was more likely to succeed alone.


BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine the size of personal space among war veterans with PTSD, compared to healthy individuals, and to examine its associations with some sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Participants were 83 male war veterans with chronic PTSD and 85 healthy male employees of the medical institutions. Preferred interpersonal distances were assessed by using a stop-distance technique, where male and female research assistants approached the participants from four directions (front, behind, left, right). The patients filled out The Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (M-PTSD). RESULTS: War veterans with PTSD preferred significantly larger interpersonal distances compared to healthy participants. Larger personal space size was preferred by those who had children, and the largest preferred distances were observed for the approaches from behind. Both samples preferred larger distances when approached by a male person. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study contribute to increased understanding of the personal space in patients with PTSD, and may be implemented into prevention of aggressive behavior during psychiatric treatment, and into development of more effective therapeutic strategies.