The inaugural Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF) National Dairy Farmers' Summit, held a year ago in Melbourne on 13 March 2014, was widely declared a positive step forward for the Australian dairy industry.
Insight provided by the 150 strong industry representatives – the overwhelming majority being dairy farmers from across Australia – continues to drive a whole-of-value-chain approach toward strategies for innovation, investment and growth.
Officially opened by Federal Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, the Summit identified 18 future-focussed priorities. The consistent message was that the industry's priorities and actions should focus on delivering long-term sustainable profitability.
The outcomes of the Summit formed the basis of a mid-year Australian Dairy Industry Council (ADIC) Strategic Forum, which saw the formulation of the first ever Australian Dairy Vision.
One year on from the Summit, Australian dairy has seen keen interest in investment from domestic and international parties, and an enthusiastic response from the dairying community who continue to get on board to help guide and pursue change.
At the March Summit, a push for developing stronger ties with Australian dairy's trading partners was also ranked high on the priority agenda. During 2014, the Federal Government successfully concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) with China and Korea. Those FTAs had been avidly sought by ADIC representatives who lobbied tirelessly over the terms of the deals with critical technical support from Dairy Australia. The industry will reap benefits for years to come.
Another direction from the Summit was to ensure immigration laws and the pastoral awards are better matched to industry needs. This supported the ADIC's submissions and advocacy to Federal Government, and the reviews of skilled migration and 457 visas.
Similarly, 2014 saw major submissions to the Federal Government's Competition Review – fighting to keep dairying's best interests on the agenda by improving competitiveness in the domestic market, as well as to the Government's Agricultural Competitiveness Green Paper – highlighting the priorities for Government in improving dairy's competitiveness. The considerable body of work squarely answered one of the Summit's recommendations, to "pressure Government to enable agricultural prosperity".
The Summit has driven industry focus over the last year and will continue to do so as we put the Summit priorities into action. Most importantly, it fostered a strong sense of unity and a shared vision for Australian dairy's future.


A University of Wyoming professor has engineered proteins that can be activated by near-infrared light as a way to control biological activities in deep tissues of small mammals.
Currently, such proteins will be used as research tools to better understand the biology of diseases and the biology of organismal development, says Mark Gomelsky, a professor in the UW Department of Molecular Biology. With advances in cell engineering, he expects these proteins to aid in fighting cancer, heart disease and other illnesses.
"Near-infrared light penetrates through the tissues of animals and humans to the depth of several centimeters. We're designing proteins whose activities will respond to such light," Gomelsky says. "Mammalian cells that are genetically engineered to make such proteins can be controlled by light even in deep animal tissues. We want to design a tool set of light-activated proteins with different capabilities to enable researchers to control diverse biological processes.
That is because light acts specifically and activates only its engineered target without interfering with mammalian physiology, making it nontoxic, Gomelsky says. Light also offers spatial and temporal precision that no chemical can achieve.
Gomelsky is a senior writer of a paper, titled "Engineering Adenylate Cyclases Regulated by Near-Infrared Window Light," that appeared in the June 30 Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The journal is one of the world's most prestigious multidisciplinary scientific serials, with coverage spanning the biological, physical and social sciences. This is the second time Gomelsky's research has been published in PNAS.
"This study is a proof of principle that we can engineer near-infrared, light-activated proteins," he says.
Gomelsky's research team constructed a near-infrared, light-activated adenylate cyclases, an enzyme that regulates various processes in mammals from sleep and memory to heart rhythms and tumor cell proliferation.
In previous research, Gomelsky characterized a blue-light activated adenylyl cyclase, which has since been used to study signaling processes in flies and roundworms. Because of the superior properties of the near-infrared light, the engineered near-infrared version can be used in mice and rats, animal models that are much more informative for human biology.
Blue light, like most other light in the visible spectrum, penetrates through mammalian tissue very poorly. This contrasts with red light and, especially, light at the border with near-infrared. To demonstrate the effectiveness of red light, Gomelsky pressed a laser pointer against his thumb. Red light made interior tissue easily visible. When he used a blue laser pointer, interior tissue was not visible.
To test how their engineered protein works in animals, Gomelsky collaborated with two University of Pennsylvania researchers who placed the proteins in the neurons that control body movements of roundworms. When researchers exposed the worms to red light, the animals increased their body-bending frequency, as was expected. When researchers turned the light off, the worms quickly returned to normal movements.
When invited to speculate about potential future applications of the near-infrared proteins, Gomelsky gets excited.
Currently, one of the big problems with engineered cells is that they cannot be controlled once they are deployed in a patient, Gomelsky says. So, if some engineered cells misbehave, there is no easy way to correct that.
Caspase is the name of one of the proteins that Gomelsky's laboratory students are trying to make light-responsive. This protein can induce death. A built-in, light-sensitive caspase could allow physicians to kill mischievous engineered cells in the body of a patient if these cells were to wander into wrong tissues. Such proteins also could be made into an anti-cancer weapon.
Most of the paper's other writers are from UW. These include the paper's lead writer, Min-Hyung Ryu, a recent UW doctoral student in molecular biology, who currently is a postdoctoral fellow in synthetic biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; In-Hye Kang, a former UW research assistant in molecular biology; Anna Lyuksyutova, a UW research professor in molecular biology; Jessica Siltberg-Liberies, a former UW bioinformatician who is now an assistant professor at Florida International University; and Tricia Jensen, a recent UW molecular biology graduate admitted to the WWAMI medical education program.
Other contributors include David Raizen, an assistant professor of neurology; and Matthew Nelson, a post-doctoral fellow, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
The research initially was funded by a pilot grant from the Wyoming IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), and subsequently supported by a grant from National Institutes of Health. Gomelsky credits Wyoming's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) from the National Science Foundation and the Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium scholarships for supporting Jensen and other undergraduate researchers, Ryan Griesbach and Steve Schoeber, whose contributions are acknowledged in the paper.
A patent for the method of engineering near-infrared protein was filed with UW's Office of Research and Product Development, Gomelsky says.
"At this point, our tool has mostly scientific value, but not yet a commercial value," he says.


Harpers Ferry, town, Jefferson county, in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland converge. When the town was part of Virginia, it was the site of the Harpers Ferry Raid, one of the major incidents precipitating the American Civil War, and of several battles of the war.
The town was settled in 1734 by Robert Harper, who established a ferry across the Potomac and a grist mill on the Shenandoah. The site was selected by President George Washington for a federal armoury because of its waterpower potential and was purchased from Harper's heirs in 1796. The town developed as an important U.S. arsenal and centre for the manufacture of rifles. In the 1830s the arrival of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal turned the town into a commercial hub for a time.
Once the war began Harpers Ferry served as an important link in the defense of Washington, D.C., and was repeatedly attacked by both Union and Confederate armies. The most notable battle occurred when Confederates under General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson captured the town (September 13–15, 1862) and took more than 12,500 prisoners, the largest Union surrender in the war.
In 1869 Storer College opened there as a coeducational, multiethnic institution. The college was chosen in 1906 by W.E.B. Du Bois as one of the sites for the annual meetings of the Niagara Movement, which was a precursor of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909). Storer College closed in 1955.
Harpers Ferry is now a quiet residential village and is the headquarters of a resort area that includes Harpers Ferry National Historic Park. The park, with an area of about 3.5 square miles (9 square km), is situated in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. It was authorized as a national monument in 1944 and redesignated as a national historic park in 1963. It contains museums, monuments, and historic buildings associated with the raid, the Civil War, and other aspects of the region's history. Inc. 1763. Pop. (2000) 307; (2010) 286.


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Champlain Sailing Club
Sailing at its best, on beautiful Lake Couchiching in Orillia, Ontario
Fees - 2020
Our club is open for the 2020 season, although we are working with some restrictions in place due to COVID-19.
We are definitely still sailing, and we are interested to hear from any potential new members for our 2021 season! The club has beach spaces & swing moorings available for next year.
If you're interested in membership, send us a note through the website, or leave a message at the club phone (705) 326-8445.
The Champlain Sailing Club is a low-key, volunteer run club of sailing enthusiasts, with about 50 member families who are interested in enjoying all that Lake Couchiching and the Orillia area has to offer. We have an active Social calendar, with events held at the club.
The club is nestled on the south shore of Lake Couchiching, off Cedar Island Road, a 15 minute walk from downtown Orillia. The clubhouse itself overlooks Pumpkin Bay and the beautiful clear waters of Lake Couchiching. Larger boats are moored at floating docks and swing moorings, while dinghies and catamarans are accommodated on the Club beach.
Wednesday night racing is coordinated through the sailing season, and several special race events are held on specific weekends during the summer. All racing is geared for fun & camaraderie, with a wide range of ages, abilities, and boats all participating together.
The history of the club stretches back to the early 1900's, catering to the sailing community in and around the Orillia area. Like the founders of the club, even Stephen Leacock was an enthusiastic sailor, and to celebrate his part in the region's history, the club hosts the annual Mariposa Belle race in mid-July.
This event can be considered a uniquely "Leacockian" race, open to any interested sailors, and was inspired by the Sunshine Sketches story, "The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias" . A complicated, but yet somewhat arbitrary scoring system ensures that everyone participating has a chance to take home the winner's trophy!
Link to Upcoming Events
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Orillia, Ontario
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Doncic's triple-double lifts Mavs past Pistons in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Luka Doncic scored 41 points and posted his eighth triple-double of the season, Seth Curry added a season-high 30 points off the bench and the Dallas Mavericks topped the Detroit Pistons 122-111 on Thursday night in the opener of this year's NBA Mexico Games.
Doncic finished with 12 rebounds and 11 assists for the Mavericks, who at 17-7 are off to their best 24-game start since posting the same mark at this point of the 2014-15 season.
Curry scored 18 points in the second quarter alone for Dallas. The Mavericks trailed by seven late in the first half, then went on a 14-0 run before intermission and eventually led by as many as 24.
Doncic's eight triple-doubles already match his total from last season. Kristaps Porzingis added 20 points for the Mavericks, who outrebounded Detroit 52-34.
Andre Drummond led the Pistons with 23 points and 15 rebounds. Derrick Rose scored 19 points and Markieff Morris added 16 for Detroit, which got 12 from Tony Snell and 10 apiece from Christian Wood and Blake Griffin.
It was the 29th game in Mexico since 1992, the most of any country other than the U.S. or Canada in that span and came on a night where the NBA announced that Capitanes — a Mexico City-based team in that country's top pro league — will be joining the G League starting next season.
Doncic addressed the crowd pregame in flawless Spanish, before turning the microphone over to Griffin. "Hola," was the extent of Griffin's Spanish offering, as a very amused Doncic looked on standing a few feet away.
Griffin shot just 3 for 16, and 1 for 10 from 3-point range.
Doncic, meanwhile, went on to post his second 40-point triple-double of the season. He's the first player in NBA history to have multiple 40-point triple-doubles before turning 21; he doesn't celebrate that birthday until Feb. 28.
Mavericks: It was the third time Dallas played a regular-season game outside of the U.S. or Canada — the Mavs played Houston in 1997-98 and Phoenix in 2016-17, both in Mexico City. … NBA Commissioner Adam Silver misspoke before the game at a news conference, introducing deputy commissioner Mark Tatum as "Mark Cuban" — the Mavs' owner.
Pistons: Before Thursday, Detroit's only other regular-season game outside of the U.S. or Canada was Jan. 17, 2013 — a loss to New York in London. … This was only Detroit's second chance at a three-game winning streak so far this season. The Pistons had won two straight before losing to Milwaukee on Dec. 4, and had won two straight again before Thursday.
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Drummond was a game-time decision because the Pistons said he had an allergic reaction to an avocado. He had swelling around his eyes Wednesday, but played as planned.
San Antonio plays Phoenix in Mexico City on Saturday. It'll count as a home game for the Suns. This is the first time that the NBA has brought four teams to the Mexico games.
Mavericks: Host Miami on Saturday.
Pistons: Visit Houston on Saturday.
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Solar panels under construction at a long-capped landfill in Howard County will soon be used to offset energy costs at a nearby elementary school.
The county began installation of the solar arrays this week at the former New Cut Landfill, an 83-acre tract in Ellicott City that shut down operations more than 30 years ago. Officials expect the $462,000 project will be completed in about eight weeks and the panels will begin drawing energy from the sun.
Once the panels are up and running, officials said they expect electrical energy costs at Worthington Elementary School, built in 1976 on Round Hill Road, to drop by as much as 90 percent.
Grant money for the work came from the Maryland Energy Administration's Project Sunburst, which has paid for the installation of renewable energy systems on more than 30 public buildings throughout Maryland.
Howard was one of 17 governments to receive funding last year under the program. The county already uses solar panels at the East Columbia Branch Library, the George Howard Building and the Robinson Nature Center, which opened earlier this month.
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Blithe Spirit "a sparkling supernatural comedy"
Skeptical novelist Charles Condomine invites self-proclaimed medium Madame Arcati to his home for a seance, hoping to gather material for a new book. When the hapless psychic accidentally summons the spirit of Condomine's late wife, Elvira, his home and life are quickly turned into a shambles as his wife's ghost torments both himself and his new bride, Ruth, turning everything into a ghostly romp!
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Ty, down on his luck, attempts a home invasion with the help of his ex-stripper girlfriend, Candy, in hopes of some quick cash. However, they may have picked the wrong home. The home owners, Hank and Nancy, seem to know more about guns and violence than they do. Who's really in control of this crazy evening? Are Ty and Candy really bad people? Only time will tell.
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Boko Haram death toll escalates
Thursday 1 October 2015 - 9:16am
Niger soldiers provide security for an anti-Boko Haram summit in Diffa city, Niger September 3, 2015. Picture taken September 3, 2015.
LAGOS - At least 1,600 people have been killed in the Boko Haram conflict since the start of June, taking the civilian death toll to some 3,500 this year, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
The deaths in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger come despite apparent military advances against the Islamist militants in recent weeks, the rights group said in a statement.
"The number of people killed so far this year is truly shocking with more than 3,500 civilian fatalities in less than 300 days," said Amnesty&39;s Africa director for research and advocacy, Netsanet Belay.
BokoHaram have killed over 3,500 civilians in less than 300 days despite military advances. http://t.co/HHGGTRz1gR pic.twitter.com/y85vrYmnQq
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) September 30, 2015
"Governments in affected countries must take all necessary legal measures to ensure the security of civilians in affected areas," he added.
Nigeria&39;s army in particular has claimed significant gains, destroying rebel camps in the northeast, arresting alleged commanders and freeing hundreds of women and children apparently held by the group.
On Wednesday, Abuja said it was currently holding "315 terrorist members" who had surrendered and was exploring the creation of a "safe passageway" to reintegrate those who had renounced the group&39;s extreme ideology.
How did BokoHaram infiltrate Cameroon? > http://t.co/DxdDW09k40 pic.twitter.com/X9o413vNhO
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Amnesty did not provide a breakdown of deaths per country but according to AFP reporting, at least 1,260 people have been killed in Nigeria alone since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power on May 29 with a vow to crush the Nigeria-based Islamists.
The majority of attacks have been in Borno state, with the insurgents increasingly using bomb and suicide attacks against "soft" civilian targets such as places of worship, markets and bus stations.
On September 20, nearly 140 people were killed in a series of bombings in the Borno state capital Maiduguri and the garrison town of Monguno, 140 kilometres away.
On Wednesday, army spokesman Colonel Tukur Gusau claimed Boko Haram fighters had poisoned water sources such as wells and streams in places they had once held.
A large number of cattle died after drinking contaminated water in one village in Borno, he said, urging locals to be on their guard.
London-based Amnesty has previously called for more to be done to protect civilians in the conflict, which since 2009 has killed at least 17,000 and left more than two million homeless, mainly in Nigeria.
It also renewed its appeal for Nigeria and Cameroon to investigate serious human rights abuses allegedly committed by both countries&39; militaries in the counter-insurgency.


What is a computer tower stand and why do you need it?
A computer tower stand is a stand for the main part of computer, computer tower. It's a part that has a motherboard, power supply, CD/DVD ports and other devices and parts. Some computer tower stands are horizontally placed but most stand vertically. Computer tower cabinet when you don't have much space on your table but want to keep a computer stand in a secure and easy to access position. For example, it could be a computer tower wall mount. In this way you will clear a lot of space from your desk.
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Die Präsidentschaftswahlen in Kap Verde 2001 fanden am 11. Februar und 25. Februar 2001 statt. Es waren die dritten Wahlen seit der Einführung des Mehrparteiensystems in Kap Verde im Jahre 1990.

Kandidaten

Als Vertreter der zwei größten Parteien Kap Verdes, der Afrikanischen Partei für die Unabhängigkeit Kap Verdes (PAICV) und der Bewegung für die Demokratie (MpD), stellten sich die ehemaligen Premierminister Pedro Pires (PAICV) und  Carlos Veiga (MpD) zur Wahl.

Zuvor hatte bei den Parlamentswahlen im Januar 2001 die PAICV mit einer relativen Stimmenmehrheit eine absolute Mehrheit an Mandaten erreicht.

Ergebnis

Erster Wahlgang am 11. Februar 2001

Die Stimmbeteiligung lag bei 51,7 %.

Zweiter Wahlgang am 25. Februar 2001

Die Stimmbeteiligung lag bei 59,0 %.

Nach dieser mit einem sehr knappen Vorsprung gewonnenen Wahl folgte Pedro Pires dem Präsidenten von 1991 bis 2001 António Mascarenhas Monteiro (MpD) im Amt.

Pedro Pires und Carlos Veiga waren auch bei den folgenden Präsidentschaftswahlen im Februar 2006 die einzigen Kandidaten. Auch diese Wahl konnte Pires mit einem Stimmenanteil von 50,98 % für sich entscheiden.

Weblinks
 African Elections Database
 kapverdische Wahlkommission

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Kap Verde

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What does it say about the LA Galaxy that they simply aren't satisified with a shutout win over the Philadelphi Union? That they're searching for something more.
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Q: Wave Labs Heroku App Issue After Summer 16 release last week i am facing this issue.
It looks like, the version of existing wave dashboards is automatically increased to 37, Whereas the wavelabs heroku app works on 36.0 only.
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Is there any other way to do this?

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The Russian defense company Admiralty Shipyards launched its second diesel-electric Varshavyanka-class submarine this week.
Called Krasnodar, the company claims that the vessel will be "the quietest submarine in the world," Zachary Keck reports for The National Interest.
Krasnodar is part of a plan to update Russia's submarine fleet. According to Russia Today, the submarine is the "second Varshavyanka submarine out of six planned for the Black Sea Fleet by the end of 2016."
The Varshavyanka-class is an update to Russia's current Kilo-class submarine. Although Varshavyanka-class submarines can not dive as deep or stay submerged underwater as long as nuclear submarines, they are nearly impossible to detect acoustically.
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Primarily, the Varshavyanka-class submarines will be used for anti-shipping and anti-submarine warfare in shallower water. According to Naval Technology, the submarines can cruise for a range of 400 miles, can patrol for 45 days, and carry surface-to-air missiles and torpedoes.
The mixture of weaponry onboard the submarines allow the vessels to hypothetically strike both a mixture of land, sea, and underwater targets.
The first Varshavyanka-class submarine was launched in November 2013. Dubbed the Novorossiysk, the submarine is also based in the Black Sea.
(OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images) The Russian Novorossiysk submarine, which is the first Varshavyanka-class submarine.
In addition to the Varshavyanka-class, Russia plans on adding an additional 14 to 18 diesel-electric submarines similar to Lada-class subs over the next 15 years.
Russia also plans to replace its Delta III and Delta IV-class subs with Borei II submarines in the coming years. The Oscar II-class sub will be replaced with the entirely new Yasen submarine class after 2020.
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The Promise: "As president, Obama will take immediate steps to end the genocide in Darfur..."
When/Where: Obama-Biden Plan: "To Secure America and Restore Our Standing," undated.
Source: http://www.acronym.org.uk/old/proliferation-challenges/regional-challenges/iran/barack-obama-and-joe-biden-us-foreign-policy-issues-october-2008?page=show
Status:Early in his presidency, President Obama named Major General (Ret.) J. Scott Gration as his special envoy to Sudan on 03/18/09. On 06/17/09 Gration told reporters in Washington that the Government of Sudan was no longer engaged in a campaign of mass murder in Darfur. The Obama Administration's Special Envoy therefore appeared to be in denial on the realities of the ongoing Darfur genocide.
Months later on 10/19/09, President Obama referred to the situation in Darfur as "genocide," acknowledging that "hundreds of thousands of people" had been killed in Darfur and "millions more displaced."
As the South completed its 01/11 referendum on self-determination and independence from the North/Khartoum government and moved ahead to become the world's newest country (South Sudan) on 07/09/11, the Obama Administration appeared to focus only on the North-South secession challenge over the continuing lack of a meaningful cease fire in the Western Sudanese region of Darfur.
President Obama appointed Princeton Lyman as Special Envoy to South Sudan and Sudan on 03/31/11 to replace Gration. Under Lyman's watch, the "Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD)," was signed in 07/11 between the Government of Sudan and the Darfuri rebel groups to end their conflict that was the root cause of the genocide. Insignificant progress was made after the document was signed to resolve the Darfur situation because of lack of implementation and enforcement.
In fact, mass murders in Darfur are known to have continued through the end of President Obama's two terms in office, although on a lesser scale than in previous years. For example, In 09/16, the Sudanese government reportedly launched chemical weapon attacks on civilian populations in Darfur, killing at least 250 people, mostly children. By end-CY2016, about 600K people were known to have been killed in Darfur and nearly 3M displaced.
The Promise: "...will hold the government in Khartoum accountable for abiding by its commitments under the Comprehensive Peace Accord that ended the 30 year conflict between the north and south."
When/Where: Obama-Biden Plan "To Secure America and Restore our Standing," undated.
Status:The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed on 01/09/05 by the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), based in Juba (south), and the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum (north). Among its provisions: withdrawal of northern troops from the south, national elections, a census, the sharing of southern oil revenues with the north, power-sharing, and it set a timetable for a referendum on independence for southern Sudan. The CPA expired on 07/07/11, the date South Sudan became an independent nation.
Through the years, U.S.-Sudan relations have been strained. After a six-year closure, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum reopened in CY2002 with a Charge d'Affaires as the senior U.S. diplomat, not an Ambassador, a situation that exists to the present day. Compounding this situation, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued two warrants for the arrest of the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as for being a criminally responsible suspect and an indirect co-perpetrator. As of end-CY2016, President Bashir remained at large, traveling with impunity to countries that do not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC with regard to its warrants against Bashir.
Despite the best efforts of Special Envoy Jonathan S. Gration and others, the CPA is believed to have failed in its over-arching goals of reconciliation between the north and south and national unity. The following CPA objectives also failed by the time it expired in 07/11:
- Setting aside 30% of the Sudanese civil service for southerners;
- Introduction legislation to reform land ownership;
- Settlement of boundary disputes along the oil-rich Abyei region;
- Demobilization of soldiers and termination of support for proxy militias;
- Investment in chronically impoverished rural areas for roads, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure;
- Involvement of international community with regard to CPA implementation.
Faced with the above failures, there was no accountability by the Khartoum Government led by fugitive President Bashir who, it seems, simply disregarded President Obama's overtures as well as the terms of the CPA.
The Promise: "...In order to increase the incomes of subsistence producers, decrease the pressure on shrinking arable lands, and minimize the vulnerability of commodity exports to global price shocks, an Obama administration will launch the AVTA Initiative..."
When/Where: Obama-Biden Plan: "Strengthening Our Common Security by Investing in Our Common Humanity," dated 09/11/08.
Source: http://www.training-vanzari.ro/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/plandeafaceripoliticobama.pdf
Status:See related Promise ST-2.
The intent of this Add Value to Agriculture (AVTA) Initiative promise was to spur research and innovation aimed at bringing about a Green Revolution in Africa by partnering with land grant institutions, private philanthropies and business to support agricultural processing through increased investment in research and development for improved seeds, irrigation methods, and affordable and safe fertilizers. The initiative would also address food security issues in order to alleviate high food costs.
Under President Obama, according to public domain Congressional Research Service Report R41072, appropriations for all international food aid programs was as follow:
FY2009....$2.642B
FY2014....$440M (requested)
The trend is self-explanatory. Although President Obama continued previous Administration programs to alleviate global hunger, programs that have existed since the Eisenhower Administration (1954), he very specifically promised to establish AVTA. As of the end of his second term in office, he had not established a specific AVTA Initiative.
The Promise: "...will launch the Global Energy and Environment Initiative to ensure African countries have access to low carbon energy technology and can profitably participate in the new global carbon market so as to ensure solid economic development even while the world dramatically reduces its greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: http://www.acronym.org.uk/old/proliferation-challenges/regional-challenges/iran/barack-obama-and-joe-biden-us-foreign-policy-issues-october-2008?page=show/
Status:As of end-CY2016 the Obama Administration had not launched an Africa-focused Global Energy and Environment Initiative (GEEI).
Educational institutions such as Johns Hopkins University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have their own energy and environment programs that could have served as launching pads for the promised program. However, President Obama promised that his Administration would launch a GEEI specifically focused on the sharing of energy technology in support of economic development with certain African countries. This did not happen.
Also problematic in this promise is Obama's statement that the world is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. While this is true for many countries, more than half of the estimated 7B tons of coal burned annually is burned in China alone. To meet its increasing demands during the Obama Administration, China stepped up its annual importation of more than 150M tons of coal from the USA (mainly from Wyoming and Montana) and Australia. This renders questionable the concept that the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is an effective global priority.
This promise with regard to the establishment of an Africa-specific GEEI was not fulfilled. 0.00
The Promise: "...will also strengthen the African Growth and Opportunity Act to ensure that African producers can access the U.S. market and will encourage more American companies to invest on the continent."
Status:The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was signed into law (P.L. 106-200) by President Clinton on 05/18/00.
To strengthen this Act, "AGOA II" and "AGOA III" were signed by President Bush in CY2002 and CY2004 respectively. On 12/20/06, President Bush also signed the Africa Investment Incentive Act further amending portions of the AGOA and is known as "AGOA IV."
President Obama signed into law an amendment to the AGOA on 08/10/12 (H.R. 5986). This amendment extended the Third-Country Fabric Program to CY2015 to allow eligible African countries to import fabrics, to transform those fabrics into purchasable items, and export those items to the United States. This amendment did not "strengthen" the AGOA, but would have severely weakened it had President Obama not signed H.R. 5986 into law.
With its original 15-year period of validity expiring in CY2015, the AGOA was extended by President Obama on 06/29/15 for an additional 10 years through CY2025 under the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (S. 1267). Amendments and additional clauses pertinent to the AGOA and included in this law served to strengthen it.


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Two specialists working on major NYC museum projects discuss the thrills and challenges of creating spaces for art
Kulapat Yantrasast sees himself as a matchmaker between art and people. "I look at buildings as characters," he says. "If that building is a person: Do I like that person? Is it too egoistic? Is it too much facade with no real soul?"
As an architect and creative director at wHY in Los Angeles, Yantrasast lets this philosophy guide his projects: it may be why so many galleries and museums have chosen to work with him. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that Yantrasast will design a major renovation of its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, dedicated to Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, beginning in late 2020.
On the occasion of a recent visit to New York, Yantrasast met with Lana Hum, MoMA's director of Exhibition Design and Production, who is deeply immersed in the installation of new gallery spaces and the integration of existing spaces for an expanded MoMA opening this October. Like Yantrasast, she wants to see "the soul of the building come through each and every time you transform the space." In the conversation below, the two shared the particular thrills and challenges of creating spaces for art and profound experiences for visitors.
LH: I know you've made beautiful spaces for art. And I'm interested in talking to someone who makes permanent spaces, such as museum environments, because when my team is designing exhibition spaces, we're always considering the envelope—the building itself. You want the soul of the building to come through each and every time you transform the space. So, as someone who creates the initial space as an invitation for all these other things to happen in it, how do you think about that?
KY: I think a lot about this. And I always see myself almost like a matchmaker between art and people.
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We advise you to start early – unfortunately, packing always takes longer than anticipated.
Always make a list of the items you need in each room – this is where you should go through your belongings and get rid of any rubbish/unwanted items/items you don't want to take with you.
Pack an essentials bag including things like a first aid kit, a torch, painkillers etc and keep it separate from the packing in case of small emergencies.
Make sure all clothes that are going are dry so they don't weigh a tonne – think of our movers' backs! – You can keep the clothes in the drawers coming with you but be sure that they don't weigh too much to lift.
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Some of our packing guys like to start from the top of the house and work their way down to the bottom – starting with the attic. But as long as boxes are labelled correctly detailing what the contents of the boxes are and which room they belong to, it's really down to personal preference where to start.
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Q: Google App Engine instances have big spike despite normal traffic For the past few months my app engine app has run with 2 instances no problem. Occasionally I have upped this to 4 or 5 to account for heavy usage.
Then all of a sudden the number of instances shot up yesterday, reaching 250 before I maxed out my $25/day maximum budget and for the next 6 hours seved 503. Then it magically started serving again.
It is now running fine again with 2 instances.
Unfortunately the outage came while I was fast asleep in NZ and I only noticed the unusual behavior on the instance chart this morning.

There have been NO traffic spikes in the last 24 hours. And there did not appear to be anything unusual in the logs that would have caused a spike to 250 instances.
At the time the instances started rising (-20hr on the chart) I did deploy an "alpha" version of my app, which FAILED to complete. I rolled it back, then redeployed and it worked fine the 2nd time. Could something to do with the failed deployment have caused this massive spike?
Any other ideas as to what I can do to work out what went wrong?
I have been using GAE for over 2 years and never had anything like this occur. It is quite worrying!

A: Im adding this as an answer as many people don't read the comments on the question.
The same thing happened to our app, it was an issue on App Engine's side apparently:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine-downtime-notify/VmH7s-Eeyso/mgoxt1dMdFg


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PIRAEUS, GREECE - January 26, 2009 - Navios Maritime Partners L.P. ("Navios Partners") (NYSE: NMM), an owner and operator of Capesize and Panamax vessels, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash distribution of $0.40 per unit for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. This represents a 4% increase from the distribution paid in the third quarter of 2008 and $1.60 per unit on an annualized basis.
The cash distribution will be payable on February 12, 2009 to unit holders of record as of February 9, 2009.
Navios Partners will announce earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008 after 4.00 pm EST, on Wednesday, January 28, 2009.
Navios Partners will also host a conference call on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 8:30 am EST, during which Navios Partners' senior management will discuss the results of the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008.
There will also be a live webcast of the conference call, through the Navios Partners' website (www.navios-mlp.com) under "Investors". Participants to the live webcast should register on the website approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the webcast.
A supplemental slide presentation will be available on the Navios Partners' website at www.navios-mlp.com under the "Investors" section at 7:45 A.M. EST on the day of the call.


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Addendum: National Review adds luster to Trump's candidacy
I believe this is the first time I have added an addendum to an already-published article. But the National Review's decision to devote an entire issue to attacking Mr. Trump underscores the point I was striving to make in my original article. That point was that the Republican establishment has nothing whatsoever to do with conservatism and is fully owned and operated by three groups of people: Interventionists, Neoconservatives, and Israel-Firsters. (NB: These three terms may well be synonyms.)
These three groups are all terrified that, if elected, Trump:
Will root out the graft, corruption, and waste that they — with the Democratic establishment — have made an acceptable lifestyle for anyone who is in any way involved with the national government. Both establishments are terrified that if Trump is elected they will no longer be "above the law" and will be investigated for their financial dealings, as well as for their criminal negligence in failing to protect and defend the republic.
Will be a non-interventionist and so will refuse to ask for a declaration of war unless the United States is attacked, or America's genuine, life-or-death national interests are indisputably at immediate risk. If Trump is elected, they fear, there will be no more foreign-policy goals that are airy and always fatal abstractions; that is, there will be no more dead and maimed Marines and soldiers in foreign wars fought — and always lost — for freedom, democracy, human rights, women's rights, gay rights, or any other abstract idea that should never have any place in the republic's foreign policy.
Will not tolerate the insane bromide that all nations have a "right to exist" as the basis for U.S. foreign policy. Trump, based on what he has said, knows that this idea is a nonsense. Indeed, Trump seems to be running for president because he recognizes the fact that no nation — including the United States — has a right to exist, and that the Republican and Democratic establishments have driven America to the verge of economic collapse, military exhaustion, the tyranny of one-man rule, demographic suicide, bloody civil unrest, and disunion. The National Review and the Republican and Democratic establishments seem not to care about these things, but they are ready to kill the United States so long as they can maintain the mad and ahistorical fiction that all nations have a "right to exist," a lie which they really apply to only one nation, and then only so they can keep raking in massive financial and media contributions from disloyal U.S.-citizens and their organizations.
Will begin to give working, blue-collar, law abiding, and tax-paying Americans and their families — those of all races, creeds, educational achievements, and political views — renewed confidence that their opinions, material ambitions, and religious liberty matter most in governing the republic and providing for its survival, and that the age of government by elitist, Ivy League-educated, pro-authoritarian, always wrong "experts" is going to be ended. They also fear that Trump will start to re-teach the citizenry the Founders' key bequest to Americans, which is that ensuring the survival of so fragile a commodity as liberty at home is unending and full-time work for all Americans, and that unnecessary interventions and wars abroad in the name of that commodity will only yield lost wars, no new republics, U.S. bankruptcy, and less liberty in the United States.
Mr. Trump hopefully is correct that the National Review is a "dying" magazine, but, before it succumbs, he ought to send its editors a thank-you note for publishing their anti-Trump issue, which can do him nothing but good with the mass of Americans who are working — or want to work — and who passionately care about the future well-being of their families, country, and liberty. Trump might also say a prayer that more agents of foreign powers — like the National Review — get off the dime and publish anti-Trump issues. What are you waiting for Commentary, Weekly Standard, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, etc., etc., etc.?
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TV ReviewsOrange Is The New BlackSeason 1
Orange Is The New Black: "Can't Fix Crazy"
Myles McNutt
Orange Is The New BlackSeason 1
"Can't Fix Crazy"
"It's not like she's going anywhere."
In trying to convince Larry not to marry Piper, his parents take a pragmatic approach. While they plant the seeds that Larry is in love with the idea of Piper, and hasn't thought through what values she holds, they ultimately rest on the above argument: Why rush something when you can just wait and see what happens?
What Larry's parents don't understand, and which Larry himself has only recently started to grasp, is that prison is somewhere. It's easy to think about prison as a space where you are isolated from everything, and thus a place where your life simply stops until you re-emerge sometime later. Larry's parents warn about the possibility of someone murdering Piper for looking at them the wrong way, but they don't understand that the most transformative changes in prison aren't the result of dropping the soap. Those changes are the result of people living in a space where their understanding of their own selves is consistently being judged, tested, and broken down.
Orange Is The New Black is always better when it's focused inside Litchfield, but in "Can't Fix Crazy" it's important to get the perspective of someone who has no idea what goes on inside those walls. It emphasizes the degree to which thirteen episodes have conditioned us to see prison in terms different than those who haven't been following the evolution from "Crazy Eyes" to Suzanne, while simultaneously reminding us that not everyone has that same perspective on the prison system. A number of recent articles criticizing the series for its engagement with stereotypes tied to the prison system do the show a disservice not because they are false—the show actively engages in stereotypes of race, sexuality, and gender—but rather because they stopped watching the show before it could transform itself into a show about people instead of a show about prison (even if I would argue they achieved this in earlier episodes that were watched by at least one of those authors).
"Can't Fix Crazy" offers one of the sweeter stories yet, as the series' supporting cast bands together for a nativity pageant in time for the Christmas holidays, and a group of inmates organize a Secret Santa gift exchange. These are the kind of stories you would tell in any television drama, and reflect the fact that for some women, prison is their home. There's a great conversation where the idea of adding Piper and Alex to the Secret Santa list is met with resistance not because of any deep dislike for the two women, but rather out of the feeling that Secret Santa is something reserved for those who have truly become part of the "family." And while that family is organized around racial lines (consisting as it does with Red's group of white women), the Christmas pageant brings together the whole prison for a combination of hilarious auditions and a final uplifting song where always-silent Norma Romano—played by Annie Golden, formerly of The Shirts—suddenly breaks out into song to save Suzanne from an embarrassing moment and bring everyone together. It's spiritual, it's powerful, and for all of the people in the audience—including many prison employees—it's a glimpse of the community that can subsist within the chaos of the prison system.
It's also all a lie. This is not to say that the tidings of comfort and joy the inmates bring through song are disingenuous, but rather to suggest that they cannot be sustained. Orange Is The New Black has sought out moments like this one, or comic moments like the Scared Straight sequence, as a way to show a different side to inmates as their time in prison becomes less about why they're there or when they're getting out, and more about how they live day-to-day. It wants to normalize the prisoners, and creates narrative spaces in which they can act like human beings. However, what Orange Is The New Black hasn't done is attempt to normalize prison. At the same time as the inmates are joining voices to celebrate the season, Piper and Pennsatucky are outside in the snow with a cross and a screwdriver dueling to the death.
That final scene is the part of "Can't Fix Crazy" that bothered me. Pennsatucky's quest for revenge felt like plot for plot's sake, the character going full nutso for the sake of building to a thrilling climax that places Piper's future in jeopardy. It reframes the character of Pennsatucky as she was before we learned more about her, treating her like a cartoon villain instead of a real character (which has always been a danger with Taryn Manning's performance, which I loved up until it was deployed in this fashion). The scene offers itself as evidence of Piper's (d)evolution: Whereas Larry's parents believed she could become the victim of a prison-related crime simply by looking at someone the wrong way, the Piper Pennsatucky confronts at episode's end has lost her fiancé and her lover in the span of just a few days. She has been stripped of everything that once defined her, which makes it easier for her to throw caution to the wind and beat the living shit out of Pennsatucky once she gains the upper hand (and after Healy chooses to walk away to leave Piper to her fate). This scene makes a lot of sense as a pivot point in Piper's journey, in other words, but it doesn't feel in service of the rest of the show—instead, it feels in service to the "plot" necessary to make the show function, but also a space where the nuance of character development got lost beneath the bloodshed.
By comparison, an incident like Tricia's death—despite being similarly plot-heavy—didn't feel like it was flattening any characters involved. The same goes for Red's storyline in the finale, which is similar in its motivations. Like Pennsatucky, Red believes that she has been wronged, and is going to do what she can to ensure that she gets put back in her rightful place and gains restitution. Red's actions also result in bodily harm, as her attempts to sabotage Gloria and the Latina inmates' new kitchen rotation results in a grease fire that injures Gina. But whereas Pennsatucky takes a left turn into her homicidal tendencies, Red represents a different kind of danger. It reminds me of when Claudette caught Tricia trying to frame Mercy with Pornstache's drugs in order to force her to stay; in an effort to survive herself, Tricia was willing to destroy the woman she loved and force her to remain at Litchfield. As much as I may judge the characters for their actions—or attempted actions—in those instances, part of the show's purpose is getting us to explore why those kinds of things happen in prison. And by the time the season came to its conclusion, I could see how Red would take extreme action when everything that defines and sustains her is ripped away from her, and thought there was something writerly but poetic about Red—like Piper back in "I Wasn't Ready"—being refused service at the cafeteria for her actions.
If the season was building to a showdown between Piper and Pennsatucky, I wanted both sides of the conflict to have a story behind them, and I wanted to have a reason to believe that Pennsatucky wasn't a complete loose cannon. It's frustrating particularly because I hated to see Piper as a victim—which I did when she's being threatened with death—given how much I hated her actions throughout "Can't Fix Crazy." When she fits in Fig's office, she is in an immense position of power. Larry's public radio interview has revealed Fig's corruption, and forced her into taking measures to repair the prison's reputation and reinstate the GED program. She is finally in the position she imagined the WAC would provide, and which she envisioned when she first got into prison. And so it is an incredible indictment of Piper that she so quickly chooses to use her leverage in order to get a marriage certificate; I understand the decision given how she has panicked while her relationships fall apart, and I know it's an argument for why it's so difficult for anyone in prison to change the system, but it made me want to root against her in that final battle, but rooting for Pennsatucky when she's on a poorly justified murderous rampage never felt like a realistic proposition.
"Realistic" is an interesting word for Orange Is The New Black. Although based on a true story, much of the actual "plot" of the series is entirely fabricated, and "Can't Fix Crazy" is one of the points in the season where it felt fabricated. This is not to say that this is inherently a bad thing, but whereas the Christmas pageant took something arbitrary and turned it into something emotional and transcendent, the plot-heavier side of things never resonated with me the same way. I don't care about Larry enough for his confrontation with Alex or his breakup with Piper to register on any deep level, even if I agree with Alex's conclusion that Piper is a problem herself. While none of these scenes were actively bad, they reinforced that my real appreciation for Orange Is The New Black comes not through its overarching narrative but through its small moments, like Sophia's Christmas card from her son or Suzanne ice skating for her audition.
It is good for Orange Is The New Black that I was unsatisfied with "Can't Fix Crazy" in the way that I was. This may seem counterintuitive, but the "reality" of the show is that nothing can just stay in that comfortable space of day-to-day observation. My attachment to Bennett and Daya's relationship came from when it was a series of small moments, brief glimpses of humanity in an environment that actively seeks to strip inmates of their humanity. And yet over time their relationship became more complicated, and the larger picture revealed itself to be one involving an elaborate scheme in which Daya gives up her body, which has the effect of retroactively reframing all of those small moments as steps toward an ugly and messy situation that will end well for no one. No matter what romance they felt, the system—perhaps rightfully so, in this case—is designed to work against those small moments, and it is in the series' best interest to condition us for that reality. While more nuance in Pennsatucky's actions could have given the storyline greater substance from a character perspective, her fight with Piper nonetheless acknowledges that this show is not free from the dangers of prison that truly can sneak up on you at any moment.
If prison is indeed somewhere, it's somewhere that's fucked up, and no amount of charming auditions or "Shakespeared Straight" or renditions of "O Come All Ye Faithful" can change that. Instead, they must co-exist, as they have productively throughout the series' first season. Todd VanDerWerff has already offered his thoughts on the entire season last month, and so I don't want to dwell too heavily on the season as a whole. However, what I will say is that Orange Is The New Black's first season contained an incredibly high volume of characters whose stories I feel I need to hear. Throughout its first season, the writers struck that all-important balance of making the argument for why its stories were important while simultaneously making those stories compelling. It also went out on a limb not only in primarily telling stories about women of color and queer women, but also in developing incredibly minor subplots for minor characters. For all of the concerns that this would simply be Piper's story, concerns that even popped up for me at points during "Can't Fix Crazy," the sheer breadth of stories told makes Orange Is The New Black far more than one woman's story, and a tremendous start to a series that has the potential to grow even richer in future seasons.
Now that we've reached the end of this expedited but nonetheless not "binge-friendly" way of covering the show, were there moments in earlier reviews where you were desperate to talk about something in the finale but you resisted because you are nice and respected the spoiler-free policy? Let's talk about those moments now.
In terms of next season: Are we expecting a time jump to when Piper is released from solitary? Will that help the show deal with Laura Prepon stepping away from the show for much of the season? How do we interpret the various deals for actresses to become series regulars in regards to their placement in the story? Lots of room for speculation, much of which has probably already happened with Todd's review but feel free to further elaborate below.
"You just get used to having cold feet that ain't magenta"—Morello, winning at Secret Santa.
"This place fucking stinks"—Bennett has determined that his situation (stuck between Caputo and Fig, dealing with the Daya's pregnancy) is endemic of Litchfield, but he's too personally involved to see that it's a more widespread problem with the system.
"I can sing too, in addition to the ice skating"—never change, Suzanne.
"Don't be talking about tampons when I'm plotting my revenge"—In context of earlier Pennsatucky scenes, this worked; here, I thought it too broad. Such is the dangerous dance of the dramedic.
I enjoyed this quick audio response to the finale from my colleague Ryan McGee.
Thanks to everyone who has patiently but passionately been discussing the show over the course of the past six weeks—I know the Netflix model sort of throws a wrench into how we normally cover television, but I really appreciate many of you embracing our experiment and diving in on a weekly basis. See you for season two sometime in the spring.
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Founded in 2017 by the rapper Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, the BIG 3 League is a 3-on-3 basketball league with unique rules and plenty of former NBA superstars who offer great fun to the audience playing in eight different teams. The inaugural 2017 season was a big success watched by thousands of people across the United States, as each of the ten rounds were held in a different city with the Championship Game played in Las Vegas on August 26th, 2017.
Contested by eight teams that play against each other one time per season, the BIG 3 League has two additional weeks after which the top four teams enter the playoffs starting from the semifinals games. The Trilogy won the very first BIG 3 Championship completing the perfect season led by the former one-time All-Star Kenyon Martin, while the one-time NBA champions Rashard Lewis won the MVP Award.
The rules in the BIG 3 League are pretty similar to those from the FIBA-sanctioned 3-on-3 basketball games, but there are still some significant differences. The games are traditionally played on a half-court with two and three-point shots, while the unique thing about the BIG 3 League are the four-point zones, stationed 30 feet away from the basket.
The shot clock runs 14 seconds and the team must score 50 points or more and has to lead by at least two points to win the game, so there is no time limit that ends the game. Traditionally, when one team scores, the other one takes the possession of the ball, while defensive rebounds must be cleared behind the three-point line if the ball touched the rim.
Wagering on the BIG 3 games is so easy, as the bettors can pick up the odds on the money line, spread, and total of points in a single game. The odds are available on 5Dimes Sportsbook, so let's take a closer look at the 2018 BIG 3 Championship Game between the Power and the 3's Company and see what can the bettors expect here. Also, we'll do some betting analysis for the 2018 BIG 3 Consolation Game where the 3 Headed Monster meets the Tri-State.
The No. 1 seed Power lost just one game throughout the regular season, and it was in the third week against the Tri-State 50-46, although Corey Maggette scored 32 points. Maggette is a true leader of this Power team, averaging 16.9 points and 3.1 assists per game, but he also gets the support from some excellent players such as Cuttino Mobley, Quentin Richardson, Glen "Big Baby" Davis, and Chris Andersen. The Power won six consecutive games including the Semi-Finals victory over the Tri-State 51-49 for a sweet revenge, and they are -180 favorites to win the championship game for a reason, having a quite balanced team.
On the other side, the 3's Company finished third in the regular season with a 5-3 record, but they were impressive in the Semi-Finals, beating the No. 2 seed the 3 Headed Monsters 50-28 on the back of Andre Emmet's terrific performance. Emmet nailed 25 points including one four-point shot, while he averaged 16.1 points during the season. Dahntay Jones could be the X-factor for the 3's Company after nailing 11 points in the previous game, whilst Drew Gooden and Jason Maxiell will need to cope with Glen Davis and Chris Andersen in the paint.
If they find the range, the 3's Company will have a chance to upset the odds and beat the Power, but it will be a mountain to climb, for sure. Corey Maggette is playing in a tremendous form, and Glen Davis is a great weapon around the rim. In the second week of the regular season, the Power outplayed the 3's Company 50-44, and I think they will win again in the final game.
Led by Reggie Evans who averaged 15.5 points and 10.3 rebounds per game, the 3 Headed Monsters earned the No. 2 seed with a 7-1 record, but they couldn't past the 3's company in the Semi-Finals, losing heavily 50-28. They will need to recover from this debacle and face-off the No. 4 seed Tri-State that mostly rely on a six-time NBA All-Star Jermaine O'Neal and a former dunk contest winner Nate Robinson. In their regular-season meeting, the 3 Headed Monsters won the tight game 50-48, although the Tri-State had a 25-17 lead at the halftime. The bettors can expect another thrilling game, as no one would like to finish fourth in this competition.


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