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24 is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film written and directed by Vikram Kumar. Based on the concept of time travel, the film stars actor Suriya in a triple role alongside Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nithya Menen. In the film, Sethuraman a scientist invents a time traveler watch which leads to a bitter battle between his evil twin brother Athreya and his lookalike son Mani in the future.

The film's development dates back to 2009, at which time it was to star Vikram and Ileana D'Cruz. However, in February 2010, the project was dropped due to the difference in opinions between the director, producer, and actor, facing rejection of the refined script. In August 2014, Suriya agreed to produce and act in the film, with principal photography commencing in Mumbai in April 2015, continuing in Nasik, Goregaon and Pune. The second phase of filming was done in Poland by the end of September 2015. Filming was completed in Chennai by November 2015. Produced by 2D Entertainment, the film has cinematography by S. Tirru. The soundtrack and film score were composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics by Vairamuthu and Madhan Karky.

The film (along with a dubbed Telugu version with the same title) was released on 6 May 2016. The film was a critical and commercial success, and won two awards at the 64th National Film Awards  Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. Suriya won the Critics Best Actor Award at the 64th Filmfare Awards.

Plot
Sethuraman is a brilliant scientist and renowned watchmaker who lives with his wife Priya and newborn son Manikandan. He has devoted himself to inventing a time machine using a watch. In January 1990, Sethuraman manages to successfully complete his invention, although it was only capable of moving back and forth in time for 24 hours. His happiness is short-lived, however, as his evil twin brother Athreya attacks the family and kills Priya to get the watch. He manages to find the key to the box that the watch was hidden in, but not the box. Unable to use the watch and fearful for his son's life, an injured Sethuraman manages to escape with his son and gets on a train, with Athreya in close pursuit. Sethuraman pleads with a woman he met on the train named Sathyabhama to take care of his son and goes to face Athreya. He manages to trick Athreya into thinking he's carrying a bomb, prompting Athreya to quickly kill Sethuraman before jumping off the train to his apparent death.

26 years later, Manikandan (Mani) is now a talented watch mechanic who believes Sathyabhama to be his mother. It is revealed that Sethuraman placed the locked box containing his watch along with Mani, who grew up unaware of the contents of the box, as well as his true parents. Mani meets a girl Sathya and falls in love with her. Somewhere else, Athreya, who survived his fall and was in a coma, wakes up after 26 years and is shocked to find out that he is now paralysed from the waist down and significantly older. He is cared for by his trusted confidante, Mithran.

Through an incredible set of coincidences, the key to the box ends up in the hands of Mani, who unlocks the box and discovers the watch inside. He figures out its incredible capabilities including its ability to freeze time for 30 seconds, but questions the origin of the watch, and how it ended up in his possession.

Athreya, upset with the fact that he lost 26 years of his life and has become a paraplegic, obsesses over the watch and wishes to go back in time to relive his lost youth. Mithran issues an advertisement offering INR 5 crores (50 million) as a reward for the lost watch. Mani deduces that the creator of the advertisement is aware of the powers of the watch. In order to figure out the truth, Mani uses the original to make an identical copy and along with his friend, goes to the provided address.

At the office, Athreya spots Mani's copy among countless others and realises that Mani has the original watch. He summons both of them to the office and viciously attacks them, kills Mani, and gets hold of the watch. An ecstatic Athreya reverses time only to find out that the watch cannot transport its wearer beyond 24 hours, waking up at 12 am the night before. He now realises that Mani is the only one who can upgrade the watch. Since the day's events have reversed, Mani is still alive and their confrontation at the office is yet to occur. Athreya then decides to convince Mani that he is Sethuraman, and lie that he is dying from an incurable disease.

Now disguised as Sethuraman, Athreya finds Mani and tricks him to upgrade the watch to enable larger time jumps. Mani manages to successfully upgrade the watch but learns Athreya's true identity and the reason for his parent's death after finding an extra digit in his father's picture. Mani tricks Athreya into revealing the date of his parent's death and returns to 1990 to warn them. Sethuraman discovers the upgraded watch and realises that Mani has travelled back in time to warn them. Now prepared, Sethuraman manages to successfully use his watch to freeze time, kill Athreya and escape his henchmen. Priya asks Sethu to throw the watch away as she has had enough of the past to which he complies.

Sethu and Priya board the same train as Sathyabhama, and they start a conversation in which Sethu tells Sathyabama that he is a physics teacher to which she asked them to come and join her family's school as they want to hire a physics teacher. Sethu and Priya, for a fresh and happy start, agree to it. The film ends with a young Mani talking to a young Sathya.

Cast

 Suriya in a triple role as
Manikandan "Mani" aka Subramani, Sethuraman's son and Athreya's nephew, Sathya's love interest
Athreya, Sethuraman's older twin brother who wants to get hold of watch and Mani's biological paternal uncle
Sethuraman, Athreya's younger twin brother and a scientist who invented a time-travelling 24 watch and Mani's biological father
 Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Sathyabhama aka Sathya, Mani's love interest (voice dubbed by Chinmayi)
 Nithya Menen as Priya Sethuraman, Sethuraman's wife, and Mani's biological mother
 Saranya Ponvannan as Sathyabhama, Mani's adoptive mother
 Ajay as Mithran, Athreya's trusted sidekick
 Girish Karnad as Sathya's grandfather
 Mohan Raman as Sathya's father
 Sudha as Sathya's mother
 Sathyan as Saravanan, Mani's friend
 Charle as Reddiyar
 Appukutty as Reddiyar's staff
 Harsha Vardhan as Kalai, an electrician who works for Athreya
 Natarajan Balkrishna as Sathya's uncle
 T. S. Ranganathan as Sathya's uncle

Production

Pre-production
In August 2009, director Vikram Kumar announced that he was set to direct a film titled 24. The film was backed by producer Mohan Natarajan, which would feature actor Vikram in a lead role. Harris Jayaraj was confirmed to score the music and P. C. Sreeram to handle the film cinematography. By late 2009, the filming commenced at AVM Studios, Chennai. Sets that resembled dense forests and caves were replicated. In an interview with The Times of India in Chennai, director Vikram stated: "We have signed Ileana D'Cruz to do 24. It will be her re-launch in Tamil cinema. She has given us bulk dates from February 2010 for the second schedule of the film." In February 2010, Vikram Kumar officially announced that he had dropped the film. Vikram clarified that he fine-tuned the film script but it was rejected by actor Vikram and the film producer. Further, the other reason cited was that the director had failed to provide the complete script even while production expenses were increasing. Due to difference of opinions, the director voluntarily walked out and stated that he had been making changes in the script and would approach a leading actor in future.

Development

In August 2014, Suriya's production company 2D Entertainment announced the project through their official Twitter handle. In October 2014, A. R. Rahman was announced as the film soundtrack and score composer. Actor Suriya was confirmed as the male lead. The main plot of the revived project was the same as the one narrated to actor Vikram, but over the years, Vikram Kumar changed the screenplay with new dimensions in narration. In an interview Suriya pointed the core of the plot stating: "The one thing that humans cannot control is "time" but what if one has the power to do so. This is the core theme of the film 24."

Characters
Actor Suriya played triple roles in the film, with five appearances. One of the roles being that of an antagonist, five to six looks were designed for him. The antagonist character "Athreya" is a wicked, yet smart guy who goes to any extent to fulfill his desires. The producers had potential discussions with Catherine Tresa for the lead female role before Samantha Ruth Prabhu was finalised in February 2015. In July 2015, Nithya Menen was roped to play the other leading character. Characters played by Samantha and Nithya in the film are of contrasting nature though both play love interest opposite Suriya. Samantha plays the love interest opposite to the character "Mani" whereas Nithya Menen to the character "Sethuraman". Saranya Ponvannan plays the role of a mother of the character "Mani".

Filming
Principal photography commenced in Mumbai on 8 April 2015. A romantic song was filmed in Nashik by early June 2015. Certain scenes were filmed at Filmistaan studios in Goregaon. VFX works were also carried out in the same studio by September 2015. Nithya Menen began filming her portions in the city from 1 August 2015. The first schedule was completed by early September 2015. By mid of the same month, a twenty-day schedule began in Poland. The crew filmed action scenes and songs at Kraków, the Zborow Mountain, Zakopane, Leba, Lewin Klodzki, Jedlina Zdroj, Wałbrzych, Bulowice and Nowe Brzesko–all in Poland. The lights were provided by Kraków Company Cinelight. The Kraków Film Commission and Kraków Film Cluster supported the project in Poland. This second schedule of filming was wrapped up on 30 September 2015. On 26 October 2015, the team shot an important sequences in Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium in Pune. The shoot was completed in a single day. By the end of the same month, the last schedule of filming was done at Adithyaram Studios in Chennai. On 2 November 2015, the filming was completed.

In all, the film was shot for over 100 days, out of which 30 days of work was done abroad. More than 60 percent of the film involves VFX.

Music

The film score and soundtrack album are composed by A. R. Rahman. The lyrics to the songs are written by Vairamuthu and Madhan Karky. The soundtrack album was released by Eros Music on 9 April 2016.

Release
The film was released on an estimated 1,950–2,000 screens worldwide. The screen count in United States was 267, with special premieres held on 5 May 2016. The states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana shared 425 plus screens between them.

Marketing
A game titled 24: Athreya Run which was created by Creative Monkey Games was released through application distribution platforms iOS App Store and Google Playstore on 1 May 2016.

Critical response

India
In his review for The Hindu, critic Baradwaj Rangan called 24 an "intelligent, joyous mix of sci-fi and masala-myth." Sreedhar Pillai in his review for Firstpost mentioned, "24 is a classy commercial entertainer, which has its moments." Malini Mannath of The New Indian Express wrote, "Attractively packaged, 24 is refreshing, novel and worth a watch." M. Suganth of The Times of India, assigned 4 out of 5 stars, stating: "It is not often that we see a big star choosing to take a risk with a script that is not simplistic or formulaic, especially when his last few films have underperformed at the box office, but here Suriya pulls it off admirably." IndiaGlitz.com rated the film 3.3 out of 5 and called it as "A beautiful and brilliant show of Time" For The Indian Express, Goutham VS wrote: "Suriya's 'Athreya' is a role to remember for years to come. Director Vikram Kumar needs to be applauded for handling such a complex multi-layered screenplay." He gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5. Critic based at India Today, Kirubhakar Purushothaman praised the director, calling him the hero of the film. He extended his review by assigning 3.5 stars (out of 5). In her review for Daily News and Analysis, Latha Srinivasan stated, "Actor Suriya gives a stellar performance in this tale of time travel! Vikram Kumar's '24' is a visually stunning film with a novel concept." She gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5. A 3.5 star (out of 5) generalized review by Indo-Asian News Service mentioned that the "Suriya starrer is truly ambitious". Critical review board based at Behindwoods said: "24 is all about Suriya. Every emotion is portrayed in his point of view; from love to comedy to pain to revenge, it all comes under his coverage as he plays three important roles in the film." They assigned the film 3.25 stars out of 5. In her review published by The Deccan Chronicle, Anupama Subramaniam called the film a "well executed and intelligently woven sci-fi thriller." She gave the film 3 stars out of 5. Subha Shetty Saha, in her review for Mid-Day stated, "24 is a fantastic attempt at sci-fi genre of filmmaking and also belies a lot of hard work and thought that have gone into this at the screenplay stage." She gave the film 3 stars out of 5. S Saraswathi of Rediff felt, "24 is a cleverly crafted entertainer that is worth your time and money." Gautaman Bhaskaran of the Hindustan Times gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5, claiming: "The Sathya-Mani romance is silly to the core, and drags the narrative down by several notches, though uniformly fine performances by Menen, Samantha and Suriya come as magic relief."Sify rated 3 out of 5 stars stating "Straight off the bat Vikram Kumar's Suriya sci-fi film 24 is a well executed thinking movie within the commercial format."

Overseas
J Hurtado of Twitch commented on the film, "24 is about as high concept as masala entertainers come, it never forgets its purpose is to thrill its audience and give them what they paid for. It is a breathless, inventive, romantic, action packed adventure that is packed to the gills with surprises and joy." Mythily Ramachandran, in her review for Gulf News concluded that the film was an entertaining ride and went on to say, "The time-travelling film wins with superb and often hilarious performances by its leading actors."

Box office

India
By the end of its first weekend, the film had earned around  in India, with a considerable part of the revenues coming from the Telugu version. At , the collections from Telangana and AP were equal to that from Tamil Nadu during the opening weekend. The film collected approximately  from Tamil Nadu in its entire run.

Overseas
The film grossed over $1 million in three days on 161 screens in the United States. In the U. A. E. and Australia, the film earned $200,000 and AUD187,000 respectively during the same period. The film grossed $1.6 million in the United States in its lifetime.

Possible sequel
The film's trailer, teaser and the first look posters featured Suriya as a paraglider. However, the paragliding sequences were removed by the film editor due to time constraints. In an interview, the editor stated that paragliding is Mani's (character played by Suriya) hobby and was supposed to be featured as an introductory scene for Mani. Later, he stated that the deleted scene would be featured in the sequel of the film; planned as 24 Decoded.
In a scene where Sethu throws the watch away on Priya's request, an Eagle which effected key events in both Mani and Sethu's timelines was seen flying over the watch implying a continuation of the Butterfly effect it caused previously thus forming the basis for a sequel.

Legal issues
The title 24 was in a legal tussle when actor Anil Kapoor planned an action against the production house 2D Entertainment as the official look and logo of the film title seemed similar to the American TV series 24, for which Kapoor had bought the remake rights from 20th Century Fox International TV. Kapoor held the rights of the 192 episodes for a period of four years extendable to another ten years. His lawyers defended the case, stating that Kapoor holds one of the highest licensee deals for a fiction format. A legal action was planned against Suriya and his production house 2D Entertainment but was settled in April 2015.

Accolades
The film received two Awards at the 2017 Vikatan Awards  Best Visual Effects for Julian Trousselliar and Best Art Direction for Amit and Subrata. It won two awards  Best Cinematography and Best Production Design   at the 64th National Film Awards.

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2010s Tamil-language films
2016 science fiction action films
Indian science fiction action films
Films scored by A. R. Rahman
Films directed by Vikram Kumar
Films about time travel
Films set in 1990
Films shot in Chennai
Films shot in Kazakhstan
Films set in Tamil Nadu
Films shot in Tamil Nadu
Films shot in Maharashtra
Films shot in Karnataka
Films shot in Kraków
Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography National Film Award
Films whose production designer won the Best Production Design National Film Award

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To prevent pandemics we must protect nature
A new report finds human exploitation of nature set the scene for the coronavirus pandemic which has claimed thousands of lives globally.
When the scientists who warned the world last year that 1 million species face extinction issue a new warning about the "pandemic era," we should probably listen.
On Thursday, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released a new report chronicling how human activities have created unprecedented risks for pandemics and other zoonotic diseases. It also lays out how we can stop them at a fraction of the cost of inaction.
The report is the result of a workshop of dozens of scientists and practitioners working on public health and conservation. While covid-19 was the impetus for the report, it's hardly the only reason we need to be thinking about how to save nature to save ourselves.
The novel coronavirus is one of a growing number of zoonotic diseases or those with animal origins that jumped to humans. The virus has killed nearly 1.2 million people worldwide, wrought economic havoc, and upended people's lives. But it's not alone. According to the new report, 70{85424e366b324f7465dc80d56c21055464082cc00b76c51558805a981c8fcd63} of emerging diseases are zoonotic in nature, and there are up to 580,000 undiscovered animal-carried viruses out there that could infect humans.
If the current pandemic, along with other recent examples of Ebola and Zika virus, are any indication, we don't want to tempt fate by making it easier for any of those viruses to find human hosts. Yet the path we're on right now is setting up our immune systems for a battle with more dangerous diseases.
While animals are carriers of diseases that affect humans, they're not the ones to blame for the transmissions. Instead, it's human activities. Deforestation, the wildlife trade, and climate change are among the biggest factors driving the increase in the threat of a new pandemic. Those factors are all driving humans and animals into closer proximity and competition for dwindling resources. In the case of climate change, rising temperatures are also allowing tropical animals and diseases such as malaria to spread toward the poles. As the report notes, increasingly inhospitable weather could also force people to migrate from places that become flooded, too hot to live, or too dry to farm, bringing novel diseases with them in the process.
Business as usual is clearly not working to stunt the spread of disease nor the societal damage that comes with it. The current coronavirus pandemic is expected to be a $16 trillion drag on the economy this year alone. Embedded within that big figure are countless stories of people losing their livelihoods, evictions and utility shutoffs, missed time with friends and learning, and millions who have lost loved ones. The burdens have also been borne disproportionately by poor, communities of colour, worsening inequality. The impacts of the virus are as unsustainable as the conditions that created the pandemic.
"It's not as simple as we need more money to work on vaccines," Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance and report author, said in a press call. "This is a fundamental, system problem because we have unsustainable economic growth around the world."
The findings in the report point to a need to increase global spending on surveilling new zoonotic diseases to $40 billion to $58 billion annually. It's a small price to pay compared to the damages of the coronavirus let alone the estimated $1 trillion in damage caused by other zoonotic diseases each year. "If you put $1 into prevention, you get $100 in return. Why aren't we doing this?" Daszak said.
In addition, it calls for policies to cut down and regulate the wildlife trade, which sends millions of animals streaming around the world every year (including 10 million to 20 million wild animals imported into the U.S. alone). But there are also bigger picture recommendations that get at how much needs to change in the coming decades when it comes to our relationship with nature. Widespread ecological restoration is needed so animals have habitat further from us, land use planning needs to take public health into account, and we need to repair our relationship with Indigenous communities to integrate traditional knowledge into the medical response to disease as well as protecting ecosystems to make sure diseases don't emerge in the first place.
Societally, there also needs to be a huge shift in consumption. Rainforest is being felled to plant oil palms or soybeans. Climate change is driven largely by wealthy overconsumption of everything from plane trips to new phones. The report calls for "transformative change," echoing the landmark report the group put out last year. Which if the choice is a new phone and the fate of 1 million species and human life as we know it, is a pretty clear one.
Original source: https://earther.gizmodo.com

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Apple Pay Usage Stays at 42% of iPhone 6 Owners
by Chuck Martin , Staff Writer, August 2, 2015
Paying with an iPhone is growing both by the number of people doing it and how often.
But the percentage of people using Apple Pay seems to have stabilized at fewer than half of those who own an iPhone 6, the only Apple phone with payment capabilities built in.
While the percentage of IPhone owners using Apple Pay has stayed the same, the overall number is larger because more of the phones have been sold.
More than one in four (42%) of iPhone owners have used Apple Pay in June, the same as in February and April, according to the latest tracking report.
The Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG) Apple Pay Tracker comprised interviews with 500 iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ owners.
On the plus side for Apple, the majority (84%) of Apple Pay users made more than three transactions in stores and 76% have used it more than three times in apps.
As in most mobile payment systems, the phone is only half of the equation, the other half being the technology necessary for a merchant to be able to accept any particular mobile payment.
In the case of Apple Pay users, only 13% had used it in more than six stores in April. Two months later, that number had grown to 24%.
Using Apple Pay for apps also increased during that time, from 1% of uses to 10%.
The killer stat for retailer deployment is that 70% of Apple Pay users say they are more likely to shop in a store that accepts Apple Pay.
The reality is that Apple Pay sales volume accounts for only a tiny share of overall credit and debit card sales, the report notes, and that is not likely to change soon.
Especially of the adoption rate stays at 42%.
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Chuck Martin is Editor of the AI & IoT Daily at MediaPost and writes the daily Connected Thinking column. He is a NY Times Business bestselling author and his latest book is "Digital Transformation 3.0" (The New Business-to-Consumer Connections of The Internet of Things.) He is CEO of Net Future Institute and a frequent keynote speaker internationally. Follow him on Twitter @chuckmartin and contact him at Chuck@MediaPost.com.
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The City of Newport Model Engineering Society is a not for profit registered Ltd Company. Details are available from Companies House.
The aim of the Society is to provide a focus for Model Engineering in the Newport area of South Wales. This includes supporting both established model engineers and new acolytes to the hobby in search of development.


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More severe damage – large broken branches, split crotches, removal of bark, and splitting or splintering of the trunk – can be caused by strong winds and heavy ice storms. When a tree is severely damaged, the first question that must be answered is: "Is the condition of the tree such that keeping it is worthwhile?" The tree care professionals at Candlelight Landscaping should be consulted to answer this question.
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Sarah is drawn to the now abandoned Ambergate. Whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase belonging to a female patient who entered Ambergate fifty years earlier. The shocking contents, untouched for half a century, will lead Sarah to unravel a forgotten story of tragedy and lost love, and the chance to make an old wrong right.


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Dendropsophus minusculus és una espècie de granota que viu a Colòmbia, Guaiana Francesa, Guyana, Surinam, Trinitat i Tobago i Veneçuela.

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 Acosta-Galvis, A., MacCulloch, R., Manzanilla, J. & Hardy, J. 2004. Dendropsophus minusculus. Llista Vermella d'Espècies Amenaçades de la UICN 2006. Consulta: 10 de gener de 2008.

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On Monday, Feb. 11, Los Alamos Public Schools will kick off their school bus safety campaign. This campaign will encourage drivers in Los Alamos to be extra vigilant and stop when the stop arm is extended.
Since the beginning of the school year, and even the start of the new semester, LAPS bus drivers have reported an increasing number of cars, throughout Los Alamos County, driving through the stop arm and flashing red lights of LAPS school buses. Last semester, 65+ cars ran a bus stop arm; in the past month alone, 20+ cars have driven through a bus stop arm.
In Los Alamos County, the penalty for running a school bus stop arm is, at minimum, a $265 fine and 6 points off your driver's license.
Each and every driver can do their part by remembering school bus safety rules and tips.
First, drive slowly and look for children waiting at the bus stop, walking or riding their bicycles to school.
Second, know what the flashing lights indicate. A red flashing light with the extended stop arm means traffic is required to stop, even in both directions of a two-lane road. Yellow flashing lights mean the bus is preparing to stop, so proceed with caution.
Finally, follow all school zone speed limits, look for students in crosswalks and never pass a bus on the outside of a turn.
If you have any questions about school bus stops or school bus safety, please contact the Transportation Department at 663-2255.


When it comes to summer wardrobe, for me, versatility and comfort are key.
I'm always looking for pieces I can wear on and off for a party or lunch! Something casual and comfortable I can easily throw over a bikini, yet pretty enough to wear to dinner later.
I came across the Isla Rey Dress I am wearing in today's post as I was doing some summer shopping since it's quite hot in Oslo right now. I knew right away I found exactly what I was looking for.
Easy, breezy, light-weight cotton fabric is perfect for a day at the beach, yet the fit, the pretty buttons, and belt make the dress special enough to wear off the sand as well!
My strategy for styling cover-ups for day vs night is rather simple: accessories set the tone of the outfit. For the day, I usually opt for a cute hat, roomy beach tote, and comfy slides. But at night, a pair of statement sandals, a pair of cute earrings and a cute clutch and bright lip color help to instantly dress up a casual piece like a beach cover-up and make it a bit more cocktail hour appropriate.
Who isn't in the mood for a fun hair color?
I cannot deny that for a couple of months I have been inspired to try out different vivid colors on my mane, but to be honest I was also scared if I couldn't pull it off.
Before doing a dramatic change I had to get the guidance of my talented hairdresser Kim at Tropicos since he knows the whole process he has done with my hair and how much work it would take to get the results I wanted without damaging my hair too much.
He checked out the quality of my hair and let me know the future changes in my hair if I decided to go blond again.
I decided to take the plunge and try a semi-permanent color using colorful hair from L'oreal Professionnel.
This one stays up to 15 washes before going back to your hairdresser for a fresh up.
I really didn't think that this magenta color was my color, but after seeing several others wear it recently, I decided to give it a try. I also tested out a temporary spray with this magenta color on a small section of hair to see how I would look like with this color, before coloring my whole mane—which I recommend.
You might wonder how I take of the color and the quality of my hair 😊 Don't worry!
I'll be writing a review on different products that can help you avoid the hair color from fading.
You probably know that I'm a big fan of dresses in different colors and shapes! And I couldn't stay away from this season's trendiest patterns and prints. Aside from the fact that there is a great variety to choose from, from dark florals and stripes to graphic prints and bold plaid, I think what I find most appealing this season is that there are quite a few prints that even a print-shy person like me can easily incorporate into their wardrobe.
Usually, I am not a huge fan of prints because they can come across as too pretty, but I feel that big prints add just a touch of femininity to the look without being overly bold or girly. Take the dress I am wearing in today's look for example, the subtle print adds a slight romantic feel to this outfit, yet because the print is so soft and delicate it doesn't come across as too vivid or too much.
What about you guys, what's your favorite patter or print this season?


Luis Arriaga S.J. gave a presentation at Stanford University on "The contributions of the Jesuits to the Human Rights Movement in Latin America: the case of Mexico". His talk analyzed the successes and challenges of the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Center (Center Prodh), an NGO founded by the Jesuits in 1988 and inspired by the liberation theology movement in Latin America. From 2006 to 2011 Arriaga served as Director of Center Prodh. During his tenure, he litigated landmark cases before the Interamerican Human Rights Court and the Supreme Court of Mexico. Read more about Luis Arriaga S.J.


Priceless! How many parents have ever wanted to say to their kids, "All right. You just go out to the county jail for 60 days and think it over." You have to wonder about the day the Trib photographer arrived on Blue Isle to take a photo of sweet smiling Mary.
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Summit Entertainment has released a new Robin Hood trailer for the upcoming retelling of the classic story. Directed by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders), the film stars Taron Egerton as the titular thief and tells an origin story of sorts as the war-hardened Crusader mounts an ambitious revolt against the corrupt English crown. This project was originally teased as a "gritty, grounded" version of the Robin Hood story, with some even referring to it as Robin Hood Begins in a nod to Christopher Nolan's gritty Batman origin story. But this trailer has none of that. Instead, it's teasing a joyous, fun romp that doesn't take itself too seriously.
It remains to be seen if that's the actual tone of the film or if Summit is testing out a new marketing strategy, but Guy Ritchie's underrated King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was sold as a self-serious epic when in reality it was a delightful, knowingly over-the-top fantasy film so who knows. I'm still incredibly perplexed as to the setting of this film—Robin Hood still shoots bows and arrows, but it looks like there are actual guns involved and Ben Mendelsohn's outfit is more Divergent than Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. This movie is an enigma, but I'm genuinely curious to find out what in the world it really is. Plus, Egerton is a terrifically talented and charming young actor, so surely he brings at least some modicum of joy to the proceedings.
Check out the new Robin Hood trailer below. The film also stars Eve Hewson, Jamie Foxx, Tim Minchin, and Jamie Dornan. Robin Hood opens in theaters on November 21st.


Hey you all! I hope you're having a great end to spring! Planting the garden, going to the pool, participating in the library reading club with the kids, decorating and painting. . . that is what I have been doing lately. It's been busy!
Thinking of shopping and budget tips, I have to tell you about this great new experience I had today. With the large amount of shopping we SCDers do, this could be really helpful for you too, and could potentially cut down on impulse buying. Today I tried out a new service Walmart offers. . . grocery pick-up. What you do is go online, make an account, check to see if your local Walmart offers the service, choose grocery items you want to buy, and pay online. Then you choose a time slot when you can pick it up. Walmart employs personal shoppers who get all the items for you, bag them up, and bring them to your car. There are special parking places on the side of the store for this and they were out in a minute or two to deliver the groceries and load them for me. It was amazing! With three active boys as my shopping buddies, things can get hectic, so this was a huge help. No extra cost - just easier shopping!
Here is an article that we wrote for our January/February edition of our e-magazine I want to Thrive. Budget Tips. We all need them, and especially on a special diet it's important to know some tricks for staying on-budget. Enjoy!
Many people think that buying the fresh food required on the SCD means they will have a higher grocery bill each month. However, with a little planning ahead and shopping for bargains, you can keep you grocery bill to just about the same as it would be on a "normal" diet. And think of all the money you'll be saving by not going out to eat so much and not eating all that junk food!
Honey, unsalted nuts (can be frozen), milk for making SCD yogurt, eggs, cheddar and jack cheese, pre-cooked frozen bacon (okay if eaten once a week, crisply fried), Tropicana original orange juice (make sure it has no calcium or vitamin D added), real butter, and SCD-legal meat (with no broth or natural flavors added).
-When cooking, make several batches at once and freeze the extra food in Zip-lock containers for future meals. That way none gets wasted - and you have the extra benefit of not cooking when you don't feel like it sometime!
-Make weekly menus and a corresponding shopping list. This ensures that you use everything you buy and cuts down on impulse buying.
-Shop for produce at a discount store that sells Grade B produce - such as Sprout's Farmers Market or a neighborhood produce store. Since Grade B produce has a shorter shelf life, have menus planned for each item you buy because you'll need to use it quickly in order for it to pay off.
-Start your own vegetable garden. You won't believe the high quality, delicious produce you'll harvest for almost free!
-Freeze or can your excess produce for use throughout the year.
-Buy meat when it is on a truly good sale and freeze for future use. Include this meat in upcoming menus.
-Plan one vegetarian meal per week using eggs or beans for the protein. Split pea soup is delicious and costs pennies.


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Buddy Guy: The Last Old School Bluesman, And The First New Bluesman
Read An Excerpt From The Listening Notes For Our Reissue Of 'Left My Blues In San Francisco'
By Andrew Winistorfer
"But now I'm seeing these records coming over from England, Buddy, with these groups that are selling millions. And their guitars are even louder and wilder than yours. American groups are starting to copy the English, who are really just copying you," Leonard Chess said.
"I'm not the only one they copying," I said.
"Doesn't matter," said Leonard. "Here's what I want you to do."
He got up and came 'round his desk, looked me in the eye, and said, "I'm gonna bend over so you can kick my ass."
— Buddy Guy, as told to David Ritz in When I Left Home: My Story
Buddy Guy, the last living legend, arguably the best blues guitarist to ever live, has always been a man out of time. Born in 1936, he was a generation younger than the men with iconic names who blazed the blues trail before him, the Wolfs, the Muddys, the Johnsons, the Son Houses and all the Sonny Boys Williamson. But Buddy was also just slightly older than the white men — often British — who took the blues of those very trailblazers and made songs about satisfaction and the inability to get such. Guy recorded his first session at the legendary Chicago blues label Chess Records before the Beatles got their 10,000 hours in at that German club, but his style was too electric, too eclectic and too wild to be properly captured on wax, or to capitalize on the interest in blues acts that propelled second, well-paying careers for the first generation of Chess greats (though he is a second guitarist on Muddy's seminal Folk Singer comeback album). Guy didn't even make enough money as a solo artist and session guitarist in the blues boom of the '60s to quit his day job: He drove a delivery truck around Chicago at the same time he was laying down cuts in Chess Studios.
Which brings us back to that room, specific date in 1967 indeterminate, when Guy was called into Chess studios for a meeting with the mastermind of the Chess juggernaut, Leonard Chess. For years, Leonard's son, Marshall Chess, had been telling him that Buddy was the best guitarist out, that his shows in the South Side Chicago clubs were can't-miss every night. Leonard had responded by trying many different looks for a Buddy Guy solo career, having him cut R&B covers, blues rippers, and attempting to temper Guy's wildest impulses. The refrain was the same every time Guy rolled through Michigan Avenue: "Turn that shit down, and you might have something." But after Cream made landfall in the U.S., Leonard had seen the light: It was time to let Buddy Guy record his own debut LP, and make the album he wanted to make, as he saw fit.
Guy would make that album. Just not for Chess. That one came out on Vanguard, and is called A Man And The Blues (it was reissued in 2018 on vinyl; you should buy it). Guy had decided he was sick of riding the pine, and when Vanguard came through with a check that cleared, he jumped. Chess responded by doing what they should have done all along: The label collected the best of Guy's Chess single releases — most of the sessions he recorded for the label were never put out at all — and released Left My Blues In San Francisco, so named so it could capitalize on all the Flower Power, "If you're going to San Francisco" hype at the time. While the album is not considered Guy's proper studio debut, and is hardly acknowledged in his multiple autobiographies or in histories of his work, Left My Blues In San Francisco is an important document of late-'60s blues, an alternate history to the narrative arc that has Eric Clapton and Keith Richards synthesizing delta blues for a new generation. The blues didn't need white Monarchists to keep its traditions alive for a generation raised on Elvis and ready for guitar pyrotechnics. The blues had Buddy Guy.
Raised the son of sharecroppers in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy was made aware of the injustices of life for black citizens of the south from a very early age. "Farming was like throwing dice on the table at Vegas. You know you're not going to beat 'em," Guy told Donald E. Wilcock in Damn Right I've Got the Blues. As a child, he taught himself to play guitar using any strings he could get his hands on, including the ones in his window screens. As a teenager, Guy moved to Baton Rouge to attend high school and live with an older sister, but when times got tough, he started work as a janitor at Louisiana State University. The bigger city provided the aspiring musician a different kind of schooling: A key stop on the Chitlin Circuit — a route of black clubs and performance venues that booked blues and R&B heroes — Guy was able to see all the blues greats as they played Baton Rouge, from Little Walter and Luther Allison to B.B. King and Guitar Slim.
Guy told Wilcock that his goal, then, from the early-'50s, was to "play like B.B. but act like Guitar Slim," the latter known for his raucous and out of control live shows, and the former for how well he could make his guitar — which he called "Lucille" — sing. Guy settled on a performance style that would be mimicked, in ways large and small, by virtually every blues-based guitarist who came after him. He was known to play, via a long cord, on top of the bars he was playing in, tomahawking his guitar strokes, strutting around the stage, playing wildly behind his back and with his teeth, and hitting his knees and conjuring feedback out of his guitar well before Jimi Hendrix did the same.
In 1957, at a little older than 21, Guy packed his belongings and his guitar and moved to Chicago, since, as he realized when reading about blues greats like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, that's where all the best blues acts lived. It didn't take long for Guy to strike up a reputation playing in nightclubs, and since Waters had himself gained a similar reputation a generation earlier, it didn't take long for Muddy to give Buddy a call. From the time he started playing in Chicago until he left Chess Records 10 years later, Guy was in Waters' inner circle, playing live gigs, recording on sessions, and bolstering his reputation via his own spot shows.
Buddy ran into philosophical and sonic issues with Chess more or less immediately; he arrived on the label in 1959, right as the folk-blues revival — the period in the early-'60s when acoustic blues became the favorite music of discerning college kids across America — blew up, which meant that Chess mostly wanted Buddy to record things like Muddy Waters' Folk Singer, which he was not much interested in. "[Buddy Guy] could seemingly play anything. But Chess was known as a blues label, Guy was a blues singer from the Louisiana swamps, and the Chess brothers weren't interested in the sharp-suited city stuff he played every night in the clubs," Alan Harper wrote in Waiting For Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues At The Crossroads. Chess would release 11 singles, and one EP, in the next seven years, and have Buddy record many more. These ranged from slower R&B ballads to blues rave-ups, to basically every point of '60s black music in between. Chess had the future of the blues on their roster, but they couldn't hear it yet: The oldest single on Left My Blues In San Francisco ("When My Left Eye Jumps") was recorded in 1962, and it sounds like Memphis soul crossed with Delta Blues, crossed with a stately Motown ballad in its verses. It made virtually no impact on the charts.
Guy spent most of the '60s as the ace hand session guitarist at Chess, appearing on a bevy of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Koko Taylor (that's his guitar on her "Wang Dang Doodle"), Junior Wells (who he recorded Hoodoo Man Blues With as "The Friendly Chap" because he couldn't use his name on non-Chess albums) and Little Walter records. He was allowed to record as long as he didn't bring his club act into the session, which for his part, was no great disappointment.
"Every time I got a break in the studio or a chance to play with somebody, I was playing almost like an acoustic guitar, because that's how loud they'd let you go," he says in Damn Right I Got The Blues. "But then, just [playing] behind the people I admired the most was such a thrill, just to be a part of what they were doing."
By the mid- to late-'60s, an electrified version of the blues had taken over the rock — and pop — airwaves, when bands like Cream, the Rolling Stones, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band were having hits with a sound that could have come from Buddy, vamping on top of a bar on Chicago's southside.
"Around 1967, I found out that there were these white musicians who said they'd learned a lot from me," Guy wrote in the postscript of John Collis' The Story of Chess Records. "And they'd start coming in the clubs. Now, I'd assumed they were cops, because you wouldn't see a white face in those clubs unless they were a cop. So I'd look around and think, 'I'm old enough to be in here. Who are they trying to catch,' you know? Paul Butterfield, Steve Miller, all these guys were coming in. I didn't know what was going on out there because I was still working days."
Which brings us back, again, to that room where Leonard Chess is begging Buddy to kick him where the good lord split him. Chess finally saw the light, albeit too late, and when listening to Left My Blues In San Francisco, it's hard to separate what you know retrospectively — that Guy was making music that was ahead of its time, and wasn't given the push and encouragement he deserved — with what you know about blues at the time, which is that people mostly wanted to hear the acoustic stuff from black performers, and the electric stuff from the white ones, since they decided the former was "more authentic." Chess' reluctance to let Buddy loose made sense at the time, but then you drop the needle on this, and the opening shuffle of "Keep It To Myself" hits, and you hear snippets of Guy's style reflected back to you by Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant's shriek owes at least some hat-tip to Guy's own), and any number of late-'60s rock bands, and it's hard to have any sympathy for shelving Guy, even with 20/20 hindsight.
With the exception of "Goin' Home," the 11 songs on Left My Blues In San Francisco were recorded in 1967 or earlier (and some, including "Buddy's Groove" and "She Suits Me To A T" were released by Chess in 1969, after Buddy had gotten more recognition via his Vanguard LPs). The earliest is "When My Left Eye Jumps" (1962), and four of them come from his 1965 EP Crazy Music ("Crazy Love," "Leave My Girl Alone," "Too Many Ways," and "Every Girl I See"). There are absurdly funny blues songs ("Mother-In-Law Blues," which recounts the varied ways that Guy's lover's mom is grinding his gears), and songs that feel like they predict mid-'70s funk-disco in its earliest form ("Buddy's Groove"). There are horn workouts, and crunchy guitar solos, and songs that sound like a 1950s sock hop ("Too Many Ways"). Taken as a whole, Left My Blues In San Francisco is like a missing link, providing the crouching caveman in the spot on the evolutionary chain that's needed filling between electric Chicago blues and the blues-based rock 'n' roll that dominated popular music in the late-'60s and early-'70s.
For his part, Guy didn't end up much caring for his Vanguard debut, either. He talks in Going Home, his 2012 memoir with David Ritz, of feeling like that record didn't capture what he was like live, either. It's arguable that maybe no record — from Chess, or any other label — ever got close to capturing Guy at his apex, those years in the '60s when he strutted across bars and stages, flailing and willing his guitar to do things people hadn't seen before. If you doubt that distinction, virtually every blues guitarist now pays him his proper fealty; Clapton himself is convinced Guy is the best to ever do it.
Time eventually catches up to you, and you go from being underappreciated and unacknowledged to a "legend" eventually; like the Stones said, "time is on my side." But for Guy, that arc started with the songs featured on Left My Blues In San Francisco, songs that crackle with life and sound like the future of the blues. Songs that can maybe be properly appreciated now.
Andrew Winistorfer
Andrew Winistorfer is Vinyl Me, Please's Classics and Country Director, and an editor of their books, 100 Albums You Need In Your Collection and The Best Record Stores In The United States. He's written Listening Notes for more than 20 VMP releases, and co-produced Nat Turner Rebellion's Laugh to Keep From Crying. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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How can landlords avoid paying capital gains tax?
Is there no way to escape the Capital Gains Tax burden as a successful property investor? Well, actually there is and let me tell you how.
Young Britons are boosting the ranks of the seriously wealthy. More than 136,000 people between the ages of 18 and 45 can lay their hands on £200,000 cash and other liquid assets. Altogether there are now almost one million of us that are classed as these 'high net worth' individuals. Many of these have derived all or part of their wealth from property. I know from personal experience that having made some money, the next challenge is holding on to it. The taxman is all too keen on gaining his share.
Capital Gains Tax is calculated by working out your capital gain after allowances and taper relief following the sale of your investment. The rate of taxation will depend on your taxable income in the year of disposable. This is because any gain is treated as additional income in terms of calculating the chargeable rate. Therefore, any gain could be subject to a maximum 40% tax charge; in other words a lot.
There is a way for landlords to pay no tax at all and get a great suntan into the bargain. This involves becoming non resident . This tax term means effectively that you have to emigrate. You are however allowed to return to the UK for a period of less than 90 days per year. Unfortunately, you can't just go on an extended holiday for a year and come back to the UK to live.
This strategy will only work if you sell your property whilst non-resident and are prepared to remain abroad for 5 years or more. If you are prepared to do this then those landlords that are looking to sell up could save literally hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax – enough to keep them in comfort during their extended world tour.
Accountant Hassan Rashid of Barker Maule has been researching possible destinations for his clients. There are a number of tax havens that might be suitable.
The Caribbean has always been a popular destination, particularly with Americans. The Bahamas is one such tax haven, with no income, inheritance, corporation or Capital Gains tax. It's also only 45 minutes flying time from Florida. In order to get a residence permit you must buy a property for at least $500,000.
Other potential destinations in the Caribbean are: The British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Belize. If you don't fancy beaches and palm trees an alternative is the shopper's paradise of Dubai. This tiny Gulf State is literally rising from the desert in the form of the most incredible chrome and glass buildings. Property is cheap to buy and again personal tax is non existent.
However, my accountant believes that the best of them all maybe the tiny South American country of Panama. Panama offers a range of options to attract overseas investors. For example, if you deposit a sum with the National Bank of Panama in a timed deposit of no less than 5 years that pays not less than $750 per month to be granted non – immigrant residence status. This means that you will not be taxed for any income earned out side Panama as only local sourced income is taxed. You don't even need to live there permanently to receive the residence status.
Whilst not all landlords are in the tax exile bracket yet, it is something that all aspiring property investors can focus on achieving during these dark winter months. A little bit of careful portfolio selection and another couple of years of steady growth could mean that you too are faced with the very pleasant dilemma of which tax haven to choose.


Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Social and Family Development, Sam Tan, visited Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 20 to 22 March 2019 to attend the Second High-Level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40).
MOS Tan delivered Singapore's national statement, which elaborated on Singapore's perspective on South-South Cooperation and its potential for the future, on 20 March 2019. The full text of MOS Tan's remarks is appended.
While at BAPA+40, MOS Tan met with (i) Bahamas Minister of Financial Services, Trade and Industry and Immigration Theodore Brent Symonette, (ii) Angola Minister of State for Economic and Social Development Manuel Jose NunesJA�nior, (iii) Equatorial Guinea Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and Missions BonifacioMitogoEdjang, and (iv) Norway State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jens FrA�lichHolte, on the sidelines of the conference. He also visited the Singapore Cooperation Programme booth at the BAPA+40 Exhibition.
MOS Tan further called on Argentine Economy Minister NicolasDujovne on 20 March. Both sides reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening economic ties between Singapore and Argentina. They discussed the potential for greater bilateral cooperation through the MERCOSUR-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (MSFTA) which will meet for the first round of negotiations in April 2019. They noted the progress in ongoing negotiations on a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and looked forward to concluding negotiations by the first half of 2019. MOS Tan also expressed Singapore's interest to start negotiations on an Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement (DTA). In his meeting with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Gustavo Zlauvinen on 21 March, MOS Tan noted the positive momentum in bilateral relations following Prime Minister Lee HsienLoong's visit to Argentina in November 2018 to attend the G20 Leaders' Summit. MOS Tan also reiterated Singapore's invitation for President Mauricio Macri to visit Singapore in 2019.


The Hancock County Historical Society (HCHS) welcomes you to take a visit through the history of Hancock County, Indiana. We are a local, mostly volunteer group that is a not-for-profit 501©3 organization. The HCHS is located in the Chapel in the Park Museum and the Old Log Jail Museum at 26 and 28 North Apple Street in Greenfield, Indiana. The historical society has a large collection of items in both the Old Log Jail Museum and in the Chapel in the Park Museum – with most of the displays located in the Chapel's basement. There are several thousand items in the collection ranging from ice age animal fossils, Native American projectile points, pioneer artifacts, Civil war memorabilia, Victorian era clothing and accessories to World War I and II items. We even have some more modern day pieces.
In addition to collecting artifacts, the organization helps to educate the public on the history of Hancock County through programs, education outreach, books, lectures, and information services. We host several events throughout the year including entertainment activities, workshops and historical lectures. There are also special interest committees that meet periodically. Check out the web site for more information on our upcoming events.


Back in the South again, the Raiders began to prepare for Sunday's game in the hot, humid weather of central Texas. Staying at a hotel chosen by most visiting AFL teams because the facilities were integrated, the team was struggling to stay upbeat after the demoralizing loss to the Broncos. To make matters worse, more key players were sustaining hurts. Team trainer George Anderson said center Jim Otto was having trouble breathing after a chest injury in Denver and had also "popped a knee" in the game. Otto said he'd be in the game on Sunday no matter what. And to top things off, halfback Tony Teresa hurt himself today in practice. Running a pass route, he twisted his back and his status for the game was currently uncertain.
It's a truism and probably a truth that we can't tell much about football teams from their preseason performances, but it might have been a little less true for the AFL in 1960. With every team consisting of players who, in almost all cases, had never played together before, for coaches they'd never played for, there was plenty of uncertainty, and lots of incentive to find out just what they had before competing for keeps. Eddie Erdelatz, just as an example, said explicitly that he was playing to win and there's no reason not to think that at least some of the other coaches felt the same way. It sure looked like Hank Stram and Sid Gillman felt that way. The Texans and the Chargers had gone undefeated in the preseason, affirming a sense among league observers, developed before the exhibition schedule began, that they, along with the Oilers were the class of the league. The jury was still out on Houston, though. At 2-3, they were no better than the Raiders at this point. The surprise was Boston at 4-1. No one expected much from them going in, so it would be interesting to see if they could translate their success into the regular season. Also-rans were the Bills and Titans at 1-4 and the Broncos at 0-5.
As the roster deadline approached the Raiders continued to move pieces, dropping four and adding one. The four players let go were end Dan Edgington, halfbacks John Harris and Brad Myers, and center Mac Starnes. Edgington was perhaps a bit of a surprise as he had been penciled in as a starter opposite Charlie Hardy as recently as the last week of August, but he hadn't caught a pass in the preseason and with Alan Goldstein and Tony Teresa being considered for the spot, Edgington was apparently expendable. Harris was another who seemed to have a spot on the team, but he had been battling knee problems and the Raiders were comparatively deep in the defensive backfield. Myers was still another who held promise, but he couldn't get past Teresa, Billy Lott, and Jack Larscheid. Starnes' release was simple: Jim Otto was already on the roster.
The new player was 6'1″, 220-pound fullback JD "Jetstream" Smith1, out of Compton Junior College. Smith, claimed off waivers from the Chargers, had played against the Raiders on August 19, but hadn't made the stat sheet. With his combination of speed and power, he could be expected to challenge Lott for the starting fullback spot.
These moves left the Raiders with the mandated 33 players in time for the September 6 deadline.
1Smith has been identified in several different ways by the press and other sources. Most of the papers at the time referred to him at Jetstream or Jet. Others used the name Jim, while still others called him JD. To confuse matters further, Pro Football Reference lists a total of three JD Smith's playing in the pros at this time. In addition to Jetstream, there was a HB-FB JD Smith who played in the NFL from 1956-66, mostly with the 49ers, but also with the Bears and Cowboys, and an offensive tackle JD Smith who played with the Eagles and Lions from 1959-66. With no definitive answer and no idea which name Smith himself prefers, the Logbook will refer to him as JD to maintain consistency with Pro Football Reference. If anyone knows different, please let me know.
Despite the changes, the Raider coach had nothing but good things to say about his team's performance, praising the interior of the offensive line — Jim Otto, Wayne Hawkins, and Ron Sabal — in particular.
Getting back to work after a day off, the Raider coaches made some changes on the offensive line. Chris Plain, who had been at left tackle was now on the right side, replaced by Ron Sabal, who had been playing left guard. Taking Sabal's place was Don Manoukian, who was returning from an injury. Wayne Hawkins was now on the right side with Joe Barbee, a defensive lineman moving to the other side of the ball, backing up. Jim Otto was still at center.
After a day's rest, the squad returned to practice to find a newcomer in their ranks. Tom Louderback, a 6'2″, 230-pound guard/linebacker out of San Jose State. A two-year starter for the Spartans, Louderback made second-team UPI All-Coast in 1954. He was picked in the tenth round by the Redskins in 1955, but didn't make it out of training camp and spent the rest of the year with Hamilton in the Canadian leagues. He signed with the Browns a year later, but joined the US Navy before the season. Mustering out in 1958, Cleveland cut him in September, after which he earned a starting linebacker spot with the Eagles, where he spent the next two seasons. He was now in Oakland to try his hand with the new league.
Meanwhile, two more players left camp. Citing personal reasons, backs Marv Lasater and George Blanch packed their bags and departed. The Raiders had had high hopes for Lasater, offering him a nice bonus to sign, but once in camp his lack of speed seemed to doom his chances to stick. Blanch had been installed on the third team and probably got out the door just before the headsman arrived.
On the field, head coach Eddie Erdelatz continued to push his charges hard and was very pleased with what he saw. "If they keep coming at this rate," he said, "we're going to fool a few teams." Erdelatz was generous in his praise for members of the offensive line including tackle Chris Plain, guards Don Manoukian and Ron Sabal, and center Jim Otto. Defensive secondary members Alex Bravo, John Brown, LC Joyner, Eddie Macon, and Tony Teresa, were also mentioned by name as were receiver Charlie Hardy and defensive end Carmen Cavalli.
Over in sick bay, Charley Powell's strained Achilles tendon had healed enough to allow him to practice, but linebacker Buddy Alliston had pulled a groin muscle and took Powell's place on the bench to recuperate.


The late poet Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais established an independent permanent award bearing his name on December 17, 1987. The purpose of the award is to honor, encourage and support outstanding Arab authors, thinkers and scientists, and to recognize their pivotal role in the cultural development of the Arab nation.
The UAE Writers Association recognized the newly established award and supervised the appointment of its first General Secretariat. However, in 1992 the Award developed into an independent cultural foundation with the same name, officially becoming the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation by virtue of Emiri Decree No. 4 dated March 21, 1994 issued by the late H. H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the then Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai.
Dar Sultan Building, the premises of the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, is located on Rigga Street, Dubai. The building is divided into two parts; the first of which is a 9-storey residential/commercial section, and the second of which is a 4-storey cultural section which includes the premises of the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, its offices and various halls dedicated to the activities and events hosted by the Foundation.
The cultural section of the building includes a large theatre that accommodates a total of 400 seats, halls for various activities, a public library, as well as an exhibition hall and a number of meeting rooms.
The exhibition hall situated on the ground floor features a permanent exhibition of the belongings of the late poet Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais in addition to brief bios and portraits of all the winners of Al Owais Cultural Awards, painted by renowned artists.
The mezzanine floor houses a large meeting room, a spacious reception hall, a library of modern Arabic literature with 40,000 titles, a theatre, and a multipurpose hall.
The first floor accommodates offices of the administration as well as a meeting room and a press conference room.


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Valve replacement and a brain injury
Kate was visiting her newborn daughter in hospital when she felt pain in her chest and collapsed. Fortunately, she had a medical team around her, as what followed left her in a coma for two weeks.
In early May 2018, Kate's baby, Ruby, was born premature and severely underweight at 26 weeks and was kept in hospital.
During the next couple weeks, as she visited Ruby daily in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) Kate felt unwell. She had pain in her chest, back and shoulder, as well as blood in her urine, but initially put her symptoms down to a flare up of a condition she has (lupus).
One day, on the way to hospital, the chest pain got worse.
"I was on the way to see Ruby," remembers Kate. "I had significant pain in my chest that lasted 20 seconds, but it passed and I kept walking. About half an hour later I was struck with even more chest pain and collapsed in the NICU."
One of the nurses put her in a wheelchair and took her to the women's assessment unit.
"By then I was screaming. I was really in pain, it was uncontrollable. I was attacking everybody and going pretty crazy. My oxygen was extremely low, and the nurses were trying to put the mask on me to give me the oxygen, but I wouldn't let them."
Once Kate was calm she was taken to the cardiothoracic and vascular intensive care unit (CVICU). She can't remember much of what happened next, but emergency surgery and a cardiac arrest were to follow.
Kate was given a general anesthetic while the doctors carried out an investigation, which confirmed a rupture of a heart valve. This required her to have emergency surgery where her mitral valve was replaced with a metal one.
After surgery, Kate remained extremely unwell. To allow her heart and brain to rest, she was put onto a life support machine, which provided support to her lungs and oxygen to her body.
"I was on the life support machine for five days and then they kept me in a coma for another two weeks. It wasn't until 16 June that I had my first movement, where I blinked my eyes and wiggled my tongue. It was very blurry from there. I had a tracky as well and that wasn't taken out until 25 June."
Concern for Kate's recovery
As a result of a cardiac arrest during surgery, Kate had a hypoxic brain injury (damage caused by a lack of oxygen). The initial prognosis was that Kate would likely be blind and wouldn't talk or walk again. However, Kate had other ideas.
"My sight was very, very bad and I couldn't speak but I could see way more than anybody was giving me credit for. I tried to give them clues but I couldn't move my body or tell anyone. I used to bite people! I wanted them to know that I understand. I would be like "hello". I was very frustrated. Being trapped in a body when your brain is functioning how it should, but your body won't do what your brain is telling it to do is very hard."
Kate slowly improved and once she was able to swallow food she was taken to the neurology ward.
"Being inactive for so long you get a lot of muscle wastage, so I still couldn't get up and walk, but I could talk. I was in neurology for three weeks and then on 9 July I went to the rehab ward and I stayed there until the start of August. That is where I learnt to walk and dress myself again."
Caring for baby Ruby
During the time Kate was unwell, Ruby stayed in NICU. The team in the NICU knew of Kate's situation, so kept her baby safe while she got better, even though after a while Ruby didn't need the extra care.
"I like to think that Ruby came early because she sensed that something was going to happen. Because if she had stayed in my tummy for another two weeks she wouldn't be here. It was a blessing that she came early."
While Ruby stayed in NICU, the team looking after Kate organised for visits every couple of days, so they could see each other.
"It took like an army of people. They had to take me in my bed because I couldn't walk. While I was still in CVICU I had to have two nurses with me and the NICU nurses were with Ruby, so it was huge and exhausting. Once I was in neurology I was able to go in a wheel chair every day, either by my partner or a nurse, to see Ruby."
When Kate left hospital in August, she was still using a walker and unwell, but her main priority was making sure Ruby was well-cared for and healthy. Unfortunately, Ruby is going through her own set of heart troubles now. She has been diagnosed with a heart murmur, a leaky valve and a hole in her heart, which she recently had surgery for.
Once Kate was out of hospital, Ruby was moved to a unit closer to home so it was easier to visit. Before Ruby was discharged, Kate stayed with her for a couple of nights, so she could get used to looking after her full-time and through the night. The new parents then took Ruby home on 11 September, four months after she was born.
"When she came home it was very scary, but it felt amazing and I couldn't believe that we finally got there and that the both of us were alive. I was still very tired all the time, but I just can't even describe how great it was, it was just awesome."
Kate has come so far in her journey and can now do things the doctors didn't think she would ever manage.
"I honestly feel like nothing ever happened, apart from a giant scar on my chest! I think it will take me a little bit of time to realise that that was really me and that it happened to me. I think that once I get to that point, I will be on my road to recovering my mind. I have recovered my body, I think I have done a pretty good job at that. The mind is just as important if not more important. I am on the buzz about getting my healthy mind back."
"You don't want to act too brave and not ask for help because people are willing to help if you just ask. I never want to feel sorry for myself. I know that I have been through a lot and it is a huge amount, but there are always people who are worse as well and that is what I try to tell myself."
"I appreciate everything so much more, especially Ruby and my partner Joe. I always knew he was a good guy. We have been together 14 years and he stuck by me this entire time, it really shows how much he cares."
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Tinyiko 31 July 2020
Sure really was puzzeled i had cardiac arrest cbr its Amazing i made it sure im blessed too be alive
Kate 12 September 2019
Yes it sure was a tough journey, all journeys are difficult and different. As you said having a great guy stick through it all was a blessing :)
Merys 11 September 2019
Wow ! My journey was bad enough, but as you said, there is always someone worse off, though they don't get much worse than that. Blessings to you and Ruby, and hang on to your man. A partner who can handle all that is a gem.
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What good would be done for God if he tortured someone in Hell for all time to come?
What good would be done for God if he tortured someone in Hell for all time to come? What benefit would he derive?
Would he get pleasure out of hearing them shriek in agony for all time to come? Could God shut them out of his knowledge?
Could he really block out their sounds and separate them away from his presence?
What lesson would be learned by the one in Hell?
Imagine he is there not for one lifetime or a hundred lifetimes but for ALL time to come. Do you think by then he would have gotten the message?
Is God really that cruel and vindictive? What kind of a God do we serve? Is he hell-bent on torturing us forever with no real gain to anyone?
What's the point in doing that?
Hell, as a place of eternal conscious torment, serves NO PURPOSE! He has NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked.
As it is written in Ezekiel 33:11-12 'Say unto them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
God wants all men everywhere to repent and turn to him so they can be reconciled together again. No good would come of God, to God or for God by torturing someone for all time to come.
He doesn't even want their deaths, let alone their eternal conscious torment. Let us not read into scripture the notions of prejudiced and jaundiced humans which God never authorized nor ordained to say such things that he never said.


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As the meteoric growth of cryptocurrency continues to garner widespread attention, Wyoming is rapidly emerging as a hub for digital asset innovation. Over recent years it has enacted a series of laws paving the way for the nation's first digital asset banks.
In mid-September 2020, the Wyoming banking board granted San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken a Special Purpose Depository Institution (SPDI) charter, permitting it to function as a digital asset custodian. Known as one of the most secure digital asset exchanges in the world, Kraken's expansion into this space will now allow individual consumers to use many features common among traditional banks.
On the heels of this development, a second charter was granted to Avanti Bank, the brainchild of Laramie, Wyoming native Caitlin Long, a 20-year veteran of Wall Street and former head of Morgan Stanley's pension advisory group. With a focus on institutional clients, Avanti will launch a new class of investment options solutions for university endowments and pensions.
The banking board also approved Avanti's widely anticipated issuance of Avit, a programmable digital currency redeemable at par with the U.S. dollar. Because it's not a security token, it falls outside of an investment that is expected to generate returns. It will be initially issued on the Bitcoin sidechain Liquid before being migrated over to Ethereum.
Long moved from New York back to her birthplace of Wyoming to help guide efforts to build Wyoming into a epicenter of digital asset innovation. After working with state legislators for years to craft the Special Purpose Depository Institution guidelines, she is now turning her efforts toward building Avanti into a brand name.
All of this is welcome news for the nascent digital asset space as SPDI allows for broader support around digital custody transactions. Cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin, are currently purchased on exchanges run by third-parties, in a manner similar to the New York Stock Exchange. But in order to build mainstream use of cryptocurrency for day-to-day spending in the U.S., it needs to be converted back to U.S. fiat currency through a crypto exchange.
Ultimately , SPDI's will foster more traditional banking services for the frictionless direct use of cryptocurrencies via debit cards and checking accounts. And while these institutions will not be permitted to issue loans like traditional banks, their assets still must be backed by reserves to ensure liquidity.
Wyoming's Emergence as a Asset Protection Haven
According to asset protection attorney and Rich Dad Advisor Garrett Sutton, author of the newly released book "Scam-Proof Your Assets: Guarding Against Widespread Deception." (October 27, 2020, RDA Press), Wyoming is arguably the top state in the nation for protecting one's assets.
Says Sutton:
"Wyoming is far ahead of any other state in terms of these digital assets being protected. They have authorized banks to be the qualified custodians for digital assets allowing investors direct ownership of digital assets through a bank account."
Sutton notes that in terms of Wyoming asset protections, be it a regular brokerage account with stocks and bonds or a bitcoin account, it all now really works the same way. Key here is the use of a Wyoming LLC or corporate entity to house these assets under. He offers this example:
"If you have a brokerage account under a Wyoming LLC, and you get into a car wreck and someone wants to get at those assets, Wyoming provides the best asset protection law in the country against a charging order which is a lean on distributions."
"In some states like California, the LLC laws are very weak. The courts there would say "alright Mr. car wreck victim, with your claim against X, you can force a sale of his brokerage account. Have at it…. you can go into his account and sell everything he has."
Sutton says that through the use of a Wyoming business entity, a third-party can't barge in and force a sale of a digital asset. Rather they would have to wait until distributions are made out of the Wyoming LLC to reach the assets.
There are a number of other advantages to setting up a Wyoming business entity according to Sutton:
"Wyoming offers privacy unlike any other state as it doesn't collect the names of the owners or managers. You register with the state and get a charter . Then you have what is called an operating agreement which is a roadmap for how the LLC is going to operate which is kept confidential and not filed with anyone."
With all of this, Sutton does offer a concluding cautionary tale:
"You will often hear people say that LLCs don't require minutes of meetings which is generally true. But if you ever end up in court you'd better have minutes with you done an annual basis which is not hard to do. Because if you don't have them, and someone sues you and tries to "Pierce the Veil", meaning they are going to go through the LLC to try to reach your personal assets, not having minutes is a big error. So you have to follow these formalities. It's not hard to do so but if you don't do so you can lose your asset protection."
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It's officially fall, it's officially October and that means we can officially start thinking about the holidays! For me, that means crisp, pine-scented mornings, cozy knits, hot toddies, and eggnog. I love the creamy, nutmeg-laced beverage that only gets better with age, but making a fresh batch is admittedly a process. I wanted a way to keep the delicious scent of the holiday drink filling my living room all season without having to make batch after batch of eggnog (but don't get me wrong, I'll definitely be whipping some up in the near future!). So I decided to share a soy wax candle DIY with an eggnog-scented mixture essential oil that do the trick quite nicely.
To begin my soy wax candle DIY project, I started by rounding up a bunch of vintage glassware in different shapes, sizes and height. A good thrift store is my go-to for treasure hunts like this. I gathered a bunch of glass, crystal, and gold-trimmed glasses to use as my candle vessels and to go along with the cocktail theme of the candles. Then, I infused soy wax (I prefer soy because it has a cleaner burn and lasts longer) with nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla essential oils to create a subtle but delicious scent that smells just like eggnog!
Start by setting up a double boiler by adding an inch or two of water to the bottom of a pan and bringing it to a simmer. Place a smaller pan inside the other one and add your soy wax flakes. The flakes will reduce by about a half when they melt, so simply fill your glass twice with wax flakes to measure about how much you'll need to melt.
Use a wooden chopstick or skewer to stir the wax as it melts. Once it's fully melted, remove it from the heat and let cool for about two minutes. We want the wax to cool just a bit before we add the essential oils so as not to dilute the scents with too much heat. Allowing the wax to cool a little bit will also help it settle nicely in your glass without cracking or pulling away from the edges.
Add your essential oils. You'll need to use what seems like a lot in order to get a scent you can actually smell when you burn your candle. You'll want to use about 50 drops per cup of wax, which I broke down into 15 drops cinnamon, 20 drops vanilla and 15 drops nutmeg essential oil. Stir gently to combine, being careful not to create too many air bubbles in the wax.
Place the wood wick on the stand it came with and set it carefully in the center of your glass. It should stay upright pretty easily as long as it's on a level surface.
Carefully pour the wax into the glass, leaving 1/2″ to 1″ of space at the top of the glass. Let cool in a temperate environment. Don't be tempted to put the candles in the fridge to cool them faster as this will result in cracked candles.
You'll be able to see as the candles cool from bottom to top, since the wax will slowly change from a clear, pale yellow color to an opaque white. When the top 1″ of wax in the glass is just starting to turn opaque, top with cinnamon stick, pieces of star anise, a sprinkle of peppercorns and a pinch of nutmeg.
Once the wax is dry, it's time to trim the wick. We want the finished wick to stick out of the wax about 1/4″ to 1/2″ so trim what you can with a pair of scissors, then go back in with some nail clippers (I've found the toenail kind work the best) and keep trimming. This allows you to easily trim below the lip of the glass if you need to.
And that's all there is to our soy wax candle DIY! I found this process to be super simple and totally addictive. I'm already planning on making another batch because these will make beautiful holiday table decor as well as super cute gifts, so I want to have a nice, big stockpile on hand. Plus, I anticipate burning quite a few of these beauties myself in the next couple of months. You can also try using different essential oil mixes! I want to experiment with lavender, eucalyptus, and lemongrass essential oils next.
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Hours after the 55-year-old Amazon CEO announced his split from wife MacKenzie, with whom he shares four kids, on January 9, the National Enquirer revealed that Bezos has been having an affair with Sánchez, 49. The former Extra host, who married to the businessman's friend Patrick Whitesell, has also officially called it quits with her spouse.
"Lauren and Jeff are so committed to each other; nobody would be surprised if they're engaged by the end of the year," the source says.


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For the record: I am a 37 year old mother of two and I have no idea how birds and bees procreate. There I said it. No shame in that. Knowing (or not knowing?) is half the battle. Thanks GI Joe.
Anyway, I have yet to be asked how babies are made by my two lovely children.
Andreas: "Oh." Rinsed, and left the bathroom.
He never asked me again. I guess that was good enough for him at the time? I am all for open discussions and honest answers about our bodies and how they work, but I don't really want to give more than they are asking for at this point in time. Have your kids asked you yet?