Hermes Birkin Replica Novichok victim Charlie Rowley is fighting for his life AGAIN weeks after surviving nerve agent poisoningEXCLUSIVE: Charlie, 45, is back in the same hospital where he and girlfriend Dawn Sturgess were treated after being poisoned by the Russian nerve agentCharlie Rowley is back in hospital again (Image: ITV)Get daily news updates directly to your inboxSubscribeSee our privacy noticeMore newslettersThank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee our privacy noticeCould not subscribe, try again laterInvalid EmailNovichok victim Charlie Rowley was tonight feared to be fighting deadly meningitis.Charlie, 45, is back in the same where he and girlfriend Dawn Sturgess were treated after being by the Russian nerve agent.Dawn, 44, died from the same poison used in the attempted killing of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wilts.There are now fears that Charlie could face life changing injuries from the which it is feared came as a result of his body being run down by the attack.In an exclusive interview with the Sunday People his brother Matthew, 47, said today: "I spoke to the nurse in charge and she said they think it's meningitis.The Ballad of Novichok: Band releases song about Salisbury in the wake of poisonings"That's what he's being treated for at the moment, but they're still doing tests to find out more information."I don't think they know which type of meningitis it is yet."It looks like he got it from his body being run down by the novichok. I think he got released too early."Charlie is being monitored round the clock by a dedicated team of medics eight days after being readmitted to the intensive care unit at Salisbury District Hospital where he and Dawn were first treated for novichok poisoning.Novichok survivor Charlie Rowley 'rushed to intensive care after going BLIND'Paramedics rushed to Charlie's new home in Amesbury, Wilts, last Friday after he managed to dial 999 when he was going temporarily blind.Matthew said: "He was in a bad way and I wasn't sure he was going to make it. All of his best hermes birkin replica handbags systems seemed to be down."He can see again now but he's still got double vision."I don't know much about meningitis, but it shuts down the organs and you can lose limbs and different things."I don't know if that'll happen to Charles, I can't comment on that."Meningitis is life threatening and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year worldwide.It is caused by an infection with micro organisms and can lead to serious long term consequences including brain damage, deafness and epilepsy.An ambulance was first called to Charlie's home on June 30 after Dawn, a mum of three, collapsed Hermes Birkin Replica.
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- FEDERATION OF BUSHWALKING  CLUBS NSW - Report of May Meeting.
- A letter from Brian Harvey praising F8W for the fine effort in organising the Anzac Service at Splendour Rock. Also a letter to say that The Kameruka Club has ceased to exist. + Tim Moore is to meet with a small delegation from FBW. Roger Lembit will bring up the issue of tracks and access to National Parks and the intrusion of 4 WD and horse riders; Keith Maxwell - insurance; Herb Lippmann - education; Gordon Lee - logging, rainforests, national parks clean ups; Ian Wilson (or Tim Coffey) - Warragamba.
+ A letter from Brian Harvey praising FBW for the fine effort in organising the Anzac Service at Splendour Rock. Also a letter to say that The Kameruka Club has ceased to exist.
Gordon Lee requires articles for the Newsletter. Gordon's address: 2/22 Sunbeam Avenue, Enfield 2136. Gordon Lee requires articles for the Newsletter. Gordon's address: 2/22 Sunbeam Avenue, Enfield 2136.
- , Tracks & Access: The Government has established a National Parks Access Committee which Roger Lembit fears will bm favourable to 4 WD particularly in Wollemi and nue Mduntains N.P. Dave Noble urges all Clubs to write to Mr. Moore and protest strongly. Roger's new phone number is (049) 33 7961. + Kowmung Report: Any last minute suggestions to be included in Ian Wilson's submission to the Government please ring Ian 517 2962 (H) before 8 pm or work 27 7766.
- Gordon Lee is leading a SBW CLEAN UP of the DEX CREEK AREA on 6/7 August. All interested + Tracks & Access: The Government has established a National Parks Access Committee which Roger Lembit fears will be favourable to 4 WD particularly in Wollemi and Blue Mountains N.P. Dave Noble urges all Clubs to write to Mr. Moore and protest strongly. Roger's new phone number is (049) 33 7961.
- * * * * * * * * *-* + Search & Rescue: 1. Lost couple in Mt. Kuringai 13 May found (by accident) by a member of S & R out on a cycling trip. 2. Renewed search for crashed plane 7 years ago will take place in October. 3. S & R training weekend 23/24 July - a 24 hr rogaine in Northern Budawangs, map Endrick ref.gr. 377073.
- "The 1988 Bicentennial radio controlled Rogaine" + Gordon Lee is leading a __SBW Clean Up__ of the __Dex Creek area__ on 6/7 August. All interested helpers are welcome to attend.
Having been approached by our Walks Secretary to 'fill some gaps' on the walks program, I decided that I would offer some walks for the benefit of our walking club. Having been approached by our Walks Secretary to 'fill some gaps' on the walks program, I decided that I would offer some walks for the benefit of our walking club.
I suggested to our Walks Secretary that he might include, next to my home phone number, "call between 6 pm - 9 pm only", this having been included in all but one of my walks listings. I suggested to our Walks Secretary that he might include, next to my home phone number, "call between 6 pm - 9 pm only", this having been included in all but one of my walks listings.
+ During the two weeks prior to the walk where this information was __not__ included, I received several phone enquiries from members at various times of the day, including 6.10 am on a week day, and several after 10.00 pm.
Whilst I don't criticise our Walks Secretary for having inadvertently excluded the contact times from the program, I am rather critical and disappointed that intending walk participants do not use some commonsense and courtesy, when it comes to phoning walks leaders. Whilst I don't criticise our Walks Secretary for having inadvertently excluded the contact times from the program, I am rather critical and disappointed that intending walk participants do not use some commonsense and courtesy, when it comes to phoning walks leaders.
Some leaders, including myself, have young families and do not possess "night owl" traits, as obviously some of our other club members do. Some leaders, including myself, have young families and do not possess "night owl" traits, as obviously some of our other club members do.
I ask that intending walks participants show some courtesy to walks leaders and commonsense when it comes to contacting leaders prior to a programmed walk. I ask that intending walks participants show some courtesy to walks leaders and commonsense when it comes to contacting leaders prior to a programmed walk.
Perhaps some of our members would better appreciate the role of a leader if they would in turn become leaders themselves. Perhaps some of our members would better appreciate the role of a leader if they would in turn become leaders themselves.
- BELVEDERE TAXIS BLACKHEATH + Hans Stichter.
- PICK UP ANYWHERE FOR START OR FINISH OF YOUR WALK - BY PRIOR ARRANGEMENT + 10 seater mini bus taxi. 047-87 8366.
- June, 1988 The Sydney BUshwalker Page 13 + Kanangra Boyd. Upper Blue Mountains. Six Foot Track.
+ From John Porter, our Walks Secretary.
Would all walks leaders and intending walks leaders ensure that they give to me at their earliest convenience walks to go on the Spring Program so as there is ample time to collate, type and proof read the walks before they go to printing. Would all walks leaders and intending walks leaders ensure that they give to me at their earliest convenience walks to go on the Spring Program so as there is ample time to collate, type and proof read the walks before they go to printing.
- addressed to me via the club postal address GPO Box 4476 Sydney 2001. The number and types of walks depend on people willing to put walks onto the program. + I attend nearly every Wednesday night at the club rooms so as you may write your own walks details onto the program. I will accept walks addressed to me via the club postal address GPO Box 4476 Sydney 2001. The number and types of walks depend on people willing to put walks onto the program.
The closing date for the Spring Program is Friday, 29 July, 1988. The closing date for the Spring Program is Friday, 29 July, 1988.
With the colder weather now on us one of the more unpleasant maladies that afflicts bushwalkers becomes more prevalent. I refer to Volley Foot. This disease affects all forms of bush walking life, that is to say male, female, casual, tiger, day and weekend types of walkers. With the colder weather now on us one of the more unpleasant maladies that afflicts bushwalkers becomes more prevalent. I refer to Volley Foot. This disease affects all forms of bush walking life, that is to say male, female, casual, tiger, day and weekend types of walkers.
Symptoms: Unpleasant odour from the feet area, an increase in the diameter of the circle of confidence, a desire to increase the distance between the feet and the nose. Secondary signs are damp socks usually accompanied by damp volleys. Symptoms: Unpleasant odour from the feet area, an increase in the diameter of the circle of confidence, a desire to increase the distance between the feet and the nose. Secondary signs are damp socks usually accompanied by damp volleys.
Treatment: Treatment is simple and cure rate about 99%. Copious quantities of soap and water, the later preferably hot. In severe cases removal of the volleys and exchange with fresh dressing. The discarded volleys should he incinerated to prevent re-occurence of the malady. Treatment: Treatment is simple and cure rate about 99%. Copious quantities of soap and water, the later preferably hot. In severe cases removal of the volleys and exchange with fresh dressing. The discarded volleys should he incinerated to prevent re-occurence of the malady.
+ This is our annual Club Auction. Please bring along anything you may wish to dispose of - whether it be of a bushwalking nature or not. You may put a reserve on any article and if the reserve is reached this amount will go to you. Any amount beyond the reserve goes to the Club. Charlie Brown will be the auctioneer. Charlie's auctioneering style will be guaranteed to amuse you even if you buy or sell nothing. An evening of entertainment is assured and (hopefully) the Club will make a profit as well.
Don't forget to bring your MONEY! Don't forget to bring your MONEY!
- FO OTNOTES  + Spiro Hajinakitas - 34/1 Tewkesbury Avenue, Darlinghurst. 2010. Telephone 332 3452.
- o What you missed No.l. 32 happy people gathered at the Club Rooms to literally wrap-up the May edition of the Sydney Rushwalker, your magazine. It really is quite sociable to sit and chat as you collate, staple, wrap, gum and label each magazine. Next time why don't you come along. + Morag Ryder now has a home telephone number - 809 4241.
- o Barbara Bruce after intensive French lessons has gone off walking to the Marquesas Islands. Can we hope for an evenly tanned Barbara to give domonstration of tradional island dancing complete with grass skirt and smile at the Club Rooms on her return? + A Printing Instructional Day will be organised soon for all those aspiring inky devils - watch this space for further details.
- " Splendour Rock 2. The Blue Mountains RSL were impresed with the bushwalkers' Anzac Day activities. + What you missed No.l. 32 happy people gathered at the Club Rooms to literally wrap-up the May edition of the Sydney Bushwalker, your magazine. It really is quite sociable to sit and chat as you collate, staple, wrap, gum and label each magazine. Next time why don't you come along.
- o And talking of Victoria, in this issue we have a contribution from the Melbourne branch of the SBW. A report from the Canberra branch would be appreciated. + What you missed No.2. The bush dance organised by the FBW on 13 May attracted 140 devotees of this form of exercise: a mixture of bush walking, jogging, and tap dancing. The hall was filled with members from 13 walking clubs. The event returned a profit of $500. It is believed the band was "Cambage Spire". A good, hot, sweaty time was had by all.
- o A Custom Revived: Dinner before social meetings - third Wednesday each month. 15th June and 20th July we all gather at the MEKONG Restaurant, 64 Dalhousie Street, at 6.30 pm. Other venues to be announced. + Take note the Federation Ball will be held on 16th Sept. at the Lane Cove Town Hall. This really is a bush dance, dress is casual to very informal and is usually good fun. The various Clubs organise and decorate their tables. Watch this space for further details.
- o July 27th - Club Auction. + Fazeley Read is out of hospital and mending slowly and surely. To set the record straight Fazeley's accident happened when she was on foot and crossing a Pedestrian Crossing. Maybe a motor bike is safer after all!
- ************** + Sixty odd years ago when SBW was founded a young lad of 9 was living in Drummoyne. Now in 1988 the Club is reasonably well established and the young lad is a mature gentleman of 70. Happy birthday Jim Brown, congratulations on your three score and ten from all at The Sydney Bushwalker and from your many friends in SBW.
+ Congratulations to Sheila Binns our latest Honorary Member, see the report elsewhere in this issue.
+ Barbara Bruce after intensive French lessons has gone off walking to the Marquesas Islands. Can we hope for an evenly tanned Barbara to give demonstration of traditional island dancing complete with grass skirt and smile at the Club Rooms on her return?
+ Splendour Rock 1. A commercial pilot flying over Splendour Rock on Sunday 24th April reported a small bushfire. The Water Board Ranger when contacted by 2-way radio reported that it was just the campfires of the 70 or so bushwalkers camped overnight before the sunrise ceremony.
+ Splendour Rock 2. The Blue Mountains RSL were impressed with the bushwalkers' Anzac Day activities.
+ Joy Hynes and Ian Debert returned from holidays in beautiful Victoria with the news that their car had been broken into and their valuables stolen. What does one do with cars left unattended whilst enjoying the bush? Any comments?
+ And talking of Victoria, in this issue we have a contribution from the Melbourne branch of the SBW. A report from the Canberra branch would be appreciated.
+ On 24th September there will be a Coolana working bee plus bush dance at Woolaway.
+ A Custom Revived: Dinner before social meetings - third Wednesday each month. 15th June and 20th July we all gather at the Mekong Restaurant, 64 Dalhousie Street, at 6.30 pm. Other venues to be announced.
+ July 20th - A 15 minute Video featuring "Walk Softly" (lent by Tasmanian Wilderness Society) to be followed by Members Slides of their holiday trips, either in Australia or abroad.
+ July 27th - Club Auction.
+ Annual Subscriptions - see Page 7.


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Mayor: Trenton Surpasses Record for Homicides Set in 2013
Published November 30, 2020 • Updated on November 30, 2020 at 4:12 pm
New Jersey's capital surpassed its record for homicides set in 2013 with the 38th and 39th slayings over the weekend, Mayor Reed Gusciora said in a statement.
COVID-19 set the year apart, with high economic uncertainty, closed schools and police officers facing quarantines, Gusciora said Sunday.
Gusciora singled out the supply of weapons used in crimes, particularly those from out of state.
"Youth engagement and recreational activities have grinded to a halt," he said. "Every police officer who has to quarantine for 14 days is one less guardian on the street, a heavy blow for a police department that is already much smaller than it was just a few years ago."
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Gusciora singled out the supply of weapons used in crimes, particularly those from out of state. He pointed to the arrest weeks ago by state police and Trenton officers of two alleged gun traffickers pushing weapons from South Carolina.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a fellow Democrat, has been vocal about trying to stop the so-called iron pipeline of firearms that flows into New Jersey from states with laxer gun laws along the Interstate-95 corridor. On Monday, he called the record homicide figure "tragic" during an unrelated news conference.
"It's not a milestone that anybody looks at with anything other than a heavy heart," Murphy said.
State Police Superintendent Col. Pat Callahan, speaking at the same event, said a law enforcement task force helped carry out the arrest that Gusciora cited in his statement.
"(That's) eight brand new handguns that would have been on the streets of Trenton had that task force not been there as part of that violent-crime reduction initiative," Callahan said. "It is a daily mission for us to make sure that we protect the citizens of Trenton."
By the end of 2013, Trenton recorded 37 homicides, though the previous record was tied in August that year at 31. The prior record was from 2005.
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National Jr Honor Society thrives at AMS
(Clockwise from bottom left) Caleb Herrera, Anna Meyer, Andrea Lopez, Evelyn Mota, Michael Van and Melanie Castillo prepare for a group presentation at a leadership camp held during a recent Saturday for members of the Athens Middle School National Junior Honor Society. "These are kids trying to come together and impact the culture of their school in a positive way," said Maureen Bogowitz, NJHS sponsor. (Courtesy photo)
By Toni Garrard Clay/AISD Communications Coordinator
Let's be honest. It's not easy to get middle school kids to voluntarily spend half a Saturday in a team-building exercise on campus. But that's exactly what 55 Athens Middle School students did at the end of August. Such is the strength of the National Junior Honor Society in its second year at AMS.
"These are kids trying to come together and impact the culture of their school in a positive way," said Maureen Bogowitz, NJHS sponsor and academic dean at AMS.
The premise of the half-day camp was to focus on what Bogowitz calls "lollipop moments" — a term from a story by author Drew Dudley, in which he describes giving a stranger a lollipop in a humorous exchange that, he learned years later, ended up fundamentally making that person's life better.
"We think leadership has to be about changing the world. So we don't take ownership of it," said Bogowitz. "Anybody can be a leader. We need to tell people who have impacted our lives thank you, and also look for ways to intentionally create those moments for others."
There are 84 members of the AMS National Junior Honor Society, and according to 8th-grader Cage Hill, the driving force behind the organization is being a positive influence on others.
"I like all the different things we get to do for the community," he said. "Last year we went to a nursing home during Valentine's Day and Christmas and gave out bags of candy. I liked that we got to make people happy."
Becoming a member of NJHS is not just about having good grades. In addition to academic achievement, all prospective members are rated by staff members in the areas of leadership, service, character and citizenship. If a student has excellent grades but is not well represented in the other areas, that person would not be accepted.
"You have to be a true leader at heart and want to do good for people around you," said Megan Ford, another 8th-grader returning for her second year in the honor society. "This gives us so many opportunities to learn."
Bogowitz said they will be repeating some of their favorite service projects from last school year, such as reading to students at the elementary schools at Christmas time and visiting residents of a senior living facility. But they are also brainstorming ways to impact their own student body more.
"I want them to understand how powerful they are," said Bogowitz. "There are more of them than there are faculty. They can make a positive difference."
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Exactly one year ago, fueled by coffee and angst, I tagged my first telemetry brook trout and started what would be an 11-month study on movement and gene expression of four brook trout populations. I had no idea what I was getting myself into (for starters, it was supposed to only last six months). And, as I continue to analyze the data, I'm not entirely sure what I got myself into. But, what I do know is that one year later, a combination of good fortune and effort led to some pretty cool data.
So, what did I learn in the last year?
Collecting telemetry data isn't THAT hard. When I started my Ph.D., I never imagined I'd do a telemetry study. And, honestly, I had no desire. The combination of electronics, lingo, and uncertainty really dissuaded me from wanting to purse this costly endeavor. But, I knew it was a great skill set, and I was assured by many colleagues that I'd catch on fast. I was reluctant to believe them (I think I even called many of them liars to their face), but they were right. The first few days were exhausting and confusing, but I caught on. In the end, everything I was worried about didn't really matter. What mattered was knowing which rocks absorb tag signals and needed to be tracked carefully, developing expert skills in "I Spy the Antenna" when trying to confirm dropped tags, knowing the appropriate defrost settings to use in the truck when drying out a receiver that took a belly flop into the stream, and finding a way to silence the phantom chirping noises from the receiver that you hear in your sleep (that thing really haunts you at night).
In case you're wondering, 30 minutes on medium heat can dry out the inside of a receiver box, but I would not recommend.
Analyzing telemetry data is THAT hard. It seems easy. There are points on a graph, and you just need to measure the distance between the points to see how far a fish has moved. But, I have nearly 3,000 points, and the distance between points needs to be measured with as little error as possible. That's tough because GPS points collected in remote locations (like Loyalsock State Forest) are inherently inaccurate because satellite reception is limited. So, there's a lot of work done back in the office to get the points as close to the right location as possible. Then, I have to make judgement calls about whether the movement data truly represent a fish, or whether I think it's actually a dropped tag. Tags that never move can't always be trusted, but neither can tags that only move downstream. So, I look at the GPS points and all the notes and make a decision for every individual tag, 180 in total. Only then can I start measuring movement distances. Thankfully there are software programs that can automate this process so I don't have to individually measure the distances by hand. But, it requires coding data into the computer and double checking that it's working correctly. I still haven't finished all of this, but I'm close. Then I can finally start actual data analysis. I know many of you are interested in hearing about fish movement and our results, but the road to the information is not as smooth as it may seem.
A little snapshot of what it looks like to measure fish movement distances.
But, it's all worth it because the telemetry data are really interesting. Without it, we wouldn't have figured out that brook trout move into Loyalsock Creek after spawning, and that these movements are the basis for a metapopulation (metapopulation is just a fancy word for several smaller populations that are separated, but sometimes share individuals among them). It's a fairly rare discovery. While a lot of anglers and biologists assume that this type of movement pattern exists in brook trout, it doesn't happen everywhere and its hard to document. But, it's extremely important to find these metapopulations so we know how to properly conserve brook trout. Now we know without doubt that Loyalsock Creek is important brook trout habitat, and that we need to preserve connectivity between tributaries and the mainstem in order to conserve brook trout in that region. Or, more simply, brook trout conservation- which includes anything from habitat restoration to considerations about fish stocking- can't ignore mid-reach waterways if we want to preserve the genetic integrity and health of native populations.
The little fished that proved metapopulation dynamics in Loyalsock Creek.
Speaking of genetics, somewhere along the way I picked up several projects that focus on genetic and molecular ecology. My hatred for these topics wanes a little with each day, but I never envisioned I would be where I am today. It started innocently with population genetics. Though this level of genetic study was (and still is, actually) far beyond my level of understanding, I knew the tools needed to complete it were readily obtained from textbooks and conversations with friends working in that field. Now that the data are largely in hand and results are rolling in, I can't believe I tried to get out of studying genetics. Without the genetic data, we wouldn't be able to tell that movement into Loyalsock Creek is effective- meaning fish that move into Loyalsock Creek go on in future years to spawn outside of their home tributaries. This just proves to us that the movement we saw with the telemetry data isn't random or unintentional. There are fish out there are that 'hardwired' to move back and forth between tributaries and larger mainstems, and they are the ones keeping the metapopulation connected.
With a simple clip of the fin, we can get a whole lot of data on genetic diversity and population connectivity.
To monitor gene expression, we not only have to sample fish in hot temperatures, but also cold. That's okay..eventually you don't feel your fingers, anyway!
And then, to this day, I don't know how this happened. Maybe it was one of those "no means yes" deals, or just a reckless decision made before the coffee kicked in, but I found myself leading a study of gene expression and microRNA. Unlike population genetics, those aren't terms you can readily Google. And, I don't really know anyone that studies gene expression that I can run to with insanely stupid questions (so, sorry to Luke, our collaborator on this project). But, I'm learning as I go. I'm learning that brook trout can survive just fine without a few gill filaments, that drawing fish blood isn't all that hard, and that you will get awkward stares when you set up a mobile centrifuging station in the parking lot of a gas station. I'm also learning gene expression data can be really interesting. It turns out, brook trout turn on the machinery (i.e., genes) to express heat shock proteins very early in the year, around mid-April. These proteins help keep cells alive when it's hot, but "hot" to a trout appears to start around 50°F. It's important to know when fish start expressing these proteins because, as we're learning, there is a limit to how long the genes can stay on and how much heat shock protein can be produced. By the time it's actually hot in July, the genes are no long actively cranking out heat shock proteins and fish have to use whatever is left to protect their cells. If the genes turn off too soon, then fish could be left without heat shock proteins to keep their cells alive. This result has implications for future climate change, as we're projecting stream temperatures to warm earlier in the year and reach higher maximum temperatures. So, the question is, will fish have the molecular capacity to keep up with these temperature rises?
Having spent much of the last year working outside, I have to admit that it feels a little weird to not be frantically packing and preparing for field work right now. But, as much as I would rather be out in the streams, it's time to hang up my waders and get to analysis. After all, I need to graduate eventually!
Just discovered this blog, and want to say thanks!!! You're doing great work not just on the research end, but in public outreach. You do a great job of writing for the layman/woman (such as myself). Hope you keep this blog up as long as you can.


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The 21-year-old Canadian singer just released a new single called "Growing Pains," the first off of her upcoming sophomore album.
Know It All, Cara's debut album featuring her breakout hit "Here," was released in 2015. Since then, she's had hit collabs, like "Stay" with Zedd and "1-800-273-8255" with Logic and Khalid. Earlier this year, she also won Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards.


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NAESP Statement in Response to Release of 2017 NAEP Scores
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Read NAESP's response to the release of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
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Alexandria, Va.—April 11, 2018—The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) responds to the release of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
"The 2017 NAEP reading and math scores, while showing some gains for certain groups, indicate additional work is needed to ensure all children are proficient in mathematics and reading. This year's NAEP results reveal that the lowest-performing students are falling behind, which should raise concerns for all in the education community," said NAESP's executive director, Dr. L. Earl Franks, CAE. "NAESP will continue to focus efforts on elevating elementary and middle-level principals as catalysts who can bolster student performance and shape school improvement efforts."
About NAESP
Principals are the primary catalysts for creating lasting foundations for learning. Since 1921, the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) has been the leading advocate for elementary and middle-level principals in the United States and worldwide. NAESP advances the profession by developing policy, advancing advocacy, and providing professional development and resources for instructional leadership, including specialized support and mentoring for early career principals. Key focus areas include pre-K-3 education, school safety, technology and digital learning, and effective educator evaluation. For more information about NAESP, please visit www.naesp.org. NAESP administers the National Principals Resource Center, the American Student Council Association, and the President's Education Awards & American Citizenship Awards Programs.
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We simulate the acoustically driven growth and collapse of a cavitation bubble in a fluid medium exposed to an ultrasound field. The bubble dynamics are modelled using a compressible, inviscid, multiphase model. The numerical scheme consists of a conservative interface capturing scheme which uses the fifth-order WENO reconstruction with a maximum-principle-satisfying and positivity-preserving limiter, and the HLLC approximate Riemann flux. To model the ultrasound input, a moving boundary oscillates through a fixed grid of finite-volume cells. The growth phase of the simulation shows the rapid non-spherical growth of the near-wall bubble. After the bubble reaches its maximum size and the collapse phase begins, the simulation shows the formation of a jet which penetrates the bubble towards the wall at the later stages of the collapse. For a bubble with an initial radius of 50 μm and an ultrasound pressure amplitude of 200 kPa, the pressure experienced by the wall increased rapidly nearing the end of the collapse, reaching a peak pressure of 13 MPa. This model is an important development in the field as it represents the physics of acoustic cavitation in more detail than before.


According to ITV's political correspondent Paul Brand, British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to hold the third meaningful vote on her deal on Tuesday.
"Understand PM going for Meaningful Vote 3 tomorrow. Only after that will she will consider indicative votes," Brand said via Twitter.
With the initial market reaction, the GBP/USD pair advanced to a fresh session high of 1.3225 and was last seen trading at 1.3217, adding 0.06% on the day.


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Why an MLS Cup title for Columbus Crew SC would mean so much in 2020 | Andrew Wiebe
December 12, 202012:31PM EST
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There are gut punches, and then there's losing Darlington Nagbe and Pedro Santos two days before MLS Cup. Next man up and all that, but those are blows that leave you gasping. They're holes the Crew can't fill completely.
Both players announced on Friday via Twitter that they'd tested positive for COVID-19. I wish it wasn't so, for the players, the Columbus Crew and, frankly, our society, but these are the unprecedented times we're living through. You can do everything right and still be swept up by this pandemic. None of us have been able to avoid loss completely this year. The only positive is that neither players' family is affected and they're recovering. Life is bigger than the game.
Still, the game matters. Let's not pretend it doesn't. This championship will come in difficult times, and it'll be cherished in a different way by both fanbases. Don't take this the wrong way, Seattle Sounders supporters, but my heart is with the Crew in this historic 25th MLS Cup.
Those supporters saved their club through sheer stubbornness and determination. Those supporters watched their team battle their way to the brink of historic redemption only for two of their best players to be denied a career-defining moment. Those supporters deserved an occasion like this, a playoff goodbye to an all-time soccer venue, without ifs, ands or buts.
Those supporters deserve a championship. Should Columbus win, Nagbe and Santos won't be there to celebrate with the teammates they endured all this hardship with, either. This year, godforsaken 2020, is cruel like that.
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— Pedro miguel santos (@Pedro32santos) December 11, 2020
Now, that's not to say the Sounders haven't sacrificed. That's not to say they haven't faced unprecedented hardship. That's not to say they haven't experienced the anxiety that seems to define our day-to-day lives during this pandemic. Seattle have, and they found a way to do what they were expected to do. They're playing a fourth MLS Cup final in five seasons. They deserve an exclamation point and a championship, too.
The Sounders might just be a dynasty, but should they win tonight, unlike their opponents, they'll do it with a full complement of players. They won't have any hands tied behind their back. If they weren't already, they'll be heavy favorites, expected to get the job done without the threat of the top possession player this league has ever seen and a Designated Player attacker that's already scored two goals in three games during these playoffs and started all but one game this season for Caleb Porter.
The Crew are not helpless, of course. Porter has options. They got past Nashville and the Revs without starters who were not medically cleared to play. Younes Mokhtar can come inside and combine, create and be a goal threat on that left flank. Fatai Alashe has been a starter in this league, and while Sebastian Berhalter and Aiden Morris are unseasoned, they've shown flashes of quality this season.
It goes without saying, however, that they're not Nagbe and Mokhtar is not Santos. The Crew may have a system and a style of play that extends up and down the roster, but it won't be the same. They'll have to adapt. They'll have to fill shoes bigger than their own. We saw what happened in the early fall when Porter didn't have his full cadre of stars. They fell off.
That may not happen this time, with the adrenaline of a final to rachet everyone up a notch, but odds will be against the Crew.
Of course, that's nothing new for Columbus, and that's why my heart is with them. They've faced adversity that would have sunk other clubs. They've seen the very existence of their team flash before their eyes. They've been down, with little hope of victory. They found a way to survive, to win.
And should they win tonight, it'll be soccer poetry: an MLS original club saved by their own supporters, overcoming a year of overwhelming adversity only to take a body blow at the last second, counted out yet again.
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As the current government shutdown now holds the undesirable distinction as the longest in U.S. history, there is growing concern in the market that further prolonging the shutdown will have a negative impact on the economy. On his regular Tuesday spot on Varney & Co., D.R. joined a discussion regarding the CEO of JPMorgan's warning to Washington about the harmful effects extending the shutdown any longer could have, and the need to come together to make a deal.
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Accidents involving damage to a vehicle.
There is a statutory duty that prescribes the driver of any vehicle involved in an accident causing injury, death, or damage shall furnish all his or her correct information to the other driver. There is also a duty to render reasonable assistance to any person injured in the accident.
Under each of the three circumstances listed above, a person should immediately stop the vehicle at the scene or as close as possible to exchange information with the other driver. Every stop should be made without obstructing traffic more than is necessary. Failure to do so will result in violation of the statute and will carry penalties, as referenced below.
Any person willfully, maliciously, or feloniously failing to stop to avoid detection or prosecution or to comply with said requirements under such circumstances, shall upon conviction be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than ten (10) days nor more than two (2) years, or by a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Any person willfully, maliciously, or feloniously failing to stop to avoid detection or prosecution, or to comply with said requirements under such circumstances, shall upon conviction be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years, or by a fine of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Any person failing to stop or comply with said requirements under such circumstances shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to the criminal penalties imposed by this section, any person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to liability for damages in an amount equal to three times the value of the damage caused by the accident. Said damages shall be recoverable in a civil action. Nothing in this section shall prevent a judge from ordering restitution for any damage caused by a driver involved in an accident provided for in this section.
There have been creative challenges to the statues above. In the case of Lamb v. State, John William Lamb left the scene of an accident and was later convicted by a jury. In his appeal, among other issues raised, the defendant claimed the statutory requirement to exchange information with the other driver violated his constitutional privilege against self-incrimination. In finding against the defendant, the Court cited a then recent Supreme Court case that heard a similar challenge to a California statute. In that case, the Supreme Court held "the statute is essentially regulatory, not criminal…[the statute]was not intended to facilitate criminal convictions, but to promote the satisfaction of civil liabilities arising from automobile accidents".The Court held the statute requiring the exchange of correct information did not violate defendant's privilege against self-incrimination under either the United states Constitution, or Article II, Sections 7 and 21, of the Oklahoma State Constitution.
If you have a question regarding Oklahoma traffic laws: CDL violations , Speeding Tickets, How Points are Assessed, Texting While Driving, and other Traffic Tickets, call our office for a consultation.
 Lamb v. State, 1971 OK CR 342.
 Id. citing California v. Byers, 402 U.S. 424 (1971).


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Smith One Shot Off Lead After Shooting 5-Under in First Round at Pullman Regional
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PULLMAN Wash. - UC Santa Barbara senior Zach Smith shot a 5-under par 65 in Tuesday's first round at the NCAA Pullman Regional at the Palouse Ridge Golf Club and he is one of a trio of players tied for fourth, one shot out of the lead.
After shooting a 2-under 33 through the first nine holes, Smith posted three birdies over the first six holes of the back nine to drop his score to 5-under.
The Pleasanton, Calif., native, along with Timmy Hildebrand of Purdue and Donnie Trosper of Michigan State, trail the leaders by one. Chandler Phillips of Texas A&M, Garett Reband of Oklahoma and Carson Lundell of BYU, each shot a 6-under par 64 to tie for the lead.
"Zach played one of the most stress-free rounds I've ever watched," said UCSB head coach Steve Lass. "He hit 17 greens in regulation and never came close to making a bogey. While his putting certainly could have been better, his ball striking was flawless."
Smith had the best score of players competing as an individual, two shots better than San Francisco's Tim Widing and three better than Daniel O'Loughlin of Colorado.
Texas A&M paces the team standings at 11-under par, one shot ahead of Oklahoma, two up on Georgia Tech and three ahead of BYU.


Ives embodied a new musical vision, drawing on American realities rather than European tradition. Even in his teens, he wrote startlingly experimental choral pieces. He entered the insurance business, carving out a prosperous career, and pursued his own inclinations in music. Though he could only compose at weekends and evenings, he was extremely prolific, writing in almost every genre.
A democratic idealist, he drew on the vast reservoir of American vernacular music, producing a collective memory of his nation. Debilitating illness forced him to abandon both business and composition. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, being one of the first American composers of international renown. Previously, his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years, but later the quality of his music was recognized and he came to be regarded as an "American original". He was also among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elements, and quarter tones. His experimentation foreshadowed many musical innovations that were later more widely adopted during the 20th century. Hence, he is often regarded as the leading American composer of art music of the 20th century.
As noted, sources of Ives' tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs; he also incorporated melodies of the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.
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Psycho III: Norman, Still Crazy After All These Years
Psycho III. 1986. Dir. Anthony Perkins. Screenplay by Charles Edward Pogue; based on characters by Robert Bloch.
Starring Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell, Hugh Gillin, and Lee Garlington. Universal Pictures.
Rated 18+. 93 minutes.
If you haven't yet – read my Blu ray review for Alfred Hitchcock's original 1960 classic Psycho.
With Anthony Perkins directing a Psycho sequel and also serving as Norman Bates, I can't imagine anything better. A highly underrated entry into this franchise. This absolutely does not get enough credit. To no surprise from me – I loved the first sequel to the original, and a lot of people despise it, so I guess Norman just isn't appreciated anymore.
How sad…
When Norman inevitably kills his new motel clerk Duane (a young Jeff Fahey), we finally see truly for the first time how Norma's scarred son has been compelled to kill by his dominant mother. He yells at her that he has the same terrible blood in his veins, and it makes him do what he does. Perkins uses Woody Woodpecker on the television interestingly, as Norman cries to his mother to stop laughing at him (which of course is Woody's iconic laugh), and it's so very evident more than ever before how his world is a mixture of reality with a heavy dose of surreal experiences; we've already known this, but for the first time it's almost spelled out in front of us, as he can't even tell the difference between his mother's laugh (one he no doubt knows all too well), and a cartoon bird on the television.
There are so many little pieces like that which make Psycho III better than its low ratings and generally negative reviews lead on.
Norman finally meets someone to love in a disheartened girl who has left her convent where she was poised to become a nun by the name of Maureen; unfortunately for Norma at first, she reminds him of Marion Crane.
There are two really interesting bits Perkins throws in involving Maureen. The first is when Norman sees her in the diner, and she leans down towards the floor behind the stool she sits on, but he can only picture Marion laying dead in the shower after he and mother killed her. Soon he snaps back to reality, and leaves the diner quickly. Maureen later ends up at the motel, and tries to kill herself by slitting her wrists in the bathtub. Norman is poised to kill her, all dressed up like mother again, but he finds her with her wrists open in the water, and Maureen does not see Mrs. Bates: she sees the Virgin Mary holding a silver crucifix where the knife should be.
One of the best moments come when Norman accidentally nudges Maureen over the stairs in his house, and she slips down over them only to fall against a statue with a sharp object protruding out of it. The statue is of Cupid, and Perkins zooms in on the arrow after it has killed Maureen, which drips blood; Cupid has literally shot her, and in a way it has also pierced Norman by taking away the only woman he ever loved. Here, Cupid shows us how everything in Norman's world is backwards; especially love.
My only complaint about the film is at the very end when Norman sits in a police car being taken away, and he hauls out a little treat he was hiding to caress, as he gives a look very reminiscent to his final scene in the original Psycho. I find it a little hard to believe the police wouldn't have found this on him (I won't tell you what it is), but then again, it's a horror movie, and a certain amount of belief has to be suspended at times to properly enjoy one. Overall, it didn't ruin anything for me.
4 out of 5 stars for a great entry into the Psycho franchise. People say that Anthony Perkins tried to imitate Hitchcock in this film, but I frankly cannot see it. There's a huge difference in visual style, and a very glaring difference in storytelling.
Norman is a little more slasher in this film, but why shouldn't he be? At the end of Psycho II, we are introduced to someone who could be Norman's real mother right before he kills her, so naturally the man is going to be even worse off than ever before with shocking information like that. Of course, the story is a long, winding road, and that isn't every side, but isn't a family history like Norman's bound to drive ANYONE a little mad?
After all, we all go a little mad sometimes…
Jeff Fahey


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ChoiceTrade is uniquely positioned to capitalize from cryptocurrencies. ChoiceTrade, a SEC regulated online broker, has been operating since 2000. Since ChoiceTrade has the first mover advantage in providing the essential infrastructure supporting the global cryptocurrencies community, it has the potential to become the "Ameritrade" of crypto.
Nine years after Bitcoin was launched in 2009, cryptocurrencies went viral in 2017. The aggregate market capitalizations of all cryptocurrencies increased exponentially from $18 billion to $600 billion.
As of the end of 2017, the cryptocurrency community had grown to 193 cryptocurrency exchanges and 1,325 crypto currencies. Coinbase, the US' largest crypto exchange had more clients than Charles Schwab and predicted that based on its user growth rate of 2.38% per day that it would have 187 million clients by 2020.
Unfortunately for the crypto user community; along with the sensational growth in cryptocurrencies, came fraud. In early 2018, Vietnam banned cryptocurrencies after its citizens were scammed for $660 million. See "Unpacking the 5 Biggest Cryptocurrency Scams", CoinTelegraph.com, April 18, 2018. The US recently began an investigation into the illegal price manipulation of cryptocurrencies. See "US Justice Department reportedly opens criminal investigation into bitcoin price manipulation", CNBC, May 24, 2018.
The world's governments and the US' Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) have become increasingly concerned about cryptocurrencies. The world's economic leaders who attended a G-20 Summit in April 2018, concluded that the regulating of cryptocurrencies by governments was long overdue. See "World Governments Target Summer 2018 To Regulate Cryptocurrencies", TheMerkle.com May 9, 2018. See also, "Cryptocurrency Regulation: New Laws, Big Changes Coming", LiveTradingNews.com, May 12, 2018.
The shuttering of exchanges has had and continues to have a lasting negative impact on cryptocurrencies' liquidity and prices. See Ethereum and bitcoin plummet as South Korea decides on shutdown, Express January 16, 2018. See also "Bitcoin falls by 10 percent after regulators signal crackdown on exchanges", Arstechnica.com, March 7, 2018.
While many in the cryptocurrency community are reluctant to admit it, cryptocurrencies and their holders are in desperate need of regulated infrastructure. The cryptocurrency movement is at a crossroads. Cryptocurrencies gained acceptance with innovators and then gained a foothold with the early adopters in 2017. According to the new technologies and products acceptance chart below, cryptocurrencies must gain additional traction with the early adopters before they can cross the chasm to gain mass market acceptance. To cross the chasm, this will require that regulated crypto infrastructure providers emerge to provide the liquidity for cryptocurrencies as well as the safety for buyers and sellers to enter into transactions.
In the United States, there are two regulatory bodies which regulate currencies and securities. Currencies are regulated by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Securities are regulated by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). Based on my preliminary analysis, my rough guess is that 90% of the existing cryptocurrencies are securities and 10% are currencies.
Many have been anxiously awaiting the SEC's establishment of a specific set of new rules and regulations for the issuance and trading of cryptocurrencies. Based on an interview the Chairman of the SEC gave to Bloomberg, there will be no new rules for crypto. Instead, the SEC is relying on the rules and regulations of Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934 to regulate crypto. The press release issued by the SEC on June 4, 2018, further confirmed this.
Exchanges which are in compliance with US' Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are needed to list and make markets in all of the crypto currencies. There is presently not one crypto exchange that lists all of the 1,325 cryptocurrencies. The "NYSE" of crypto must emerge. The term "crypto exchange" is a misnomer. The more than 200 existing crypto exchanges operate similarly to an unlicensed broker dealer.
The table below depicts the valuations for the existing global ecosystem for the public markets consisting of exchanges, investment banks and online brokers.
The system for the issuing, tracking and transferring paper securities which has been in place from the very beginning is archaic, costly and more susceptible to fraud.
Due to Dodd Frank the risk for the trading of speculative securities has increased exponentially. See my article "Dodd Frank: Boon for Large Caps, Bust for Micro-caps" Equities.com, December 12, 2017. Cryptocurrencies will eventually replace shares for all speculative investment opportunities since they will eliminate naked shorting, etc.
This has resulted in institutions being able to invest, in turn legitimizing cryptocurrencies as an asset class.
As soon as the regulated infrastructure emerges to support the ecosystem for the crypto community, the adoption of cryptocurrencies by the masses will resume its growth. The chart below illustrates that, for its first five years, the growth of crypto's users has been comparable to the web's user growth for the similar period of its evolution.
This chart below which depicts the web's growth from 1990 through 2017 illustrates just how big the potential for the cryptocurrency user base could be.
The table below includes the performance of the IPOs for some of the web's key infrastructure providers from their IPO prices to their 1999 highs.
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b.) Over the years, ChoiceTrade has developed the technology and systems to keep its costs below or in line with its much larger competitors, including Ameritrade and E*Trade, etc.
c.) ChoiceTrade has developed proprietary technologies including a robo trader. It is now developing a micro investing app that will enable ChoiceTrade clients to invest as little as $10.00. This will put ChoiceTrade in position to have a billion clients.
d.) ChoiceTrade's larger online broker competitors will avoid the cryptocurrency space since cryptocurrencies are still very controversial and risky. The probability is high that one of ChoiceTrade's larger competitors would make an attempt to acquire it as soon as ChoiceTrade is seen as gaining significant traction.
Choice Trade's post financing valuation, assuming that it raises $1,070,000 at a share price of $1.50, will be $28.2 million. The table below depicts the most recent market caps for the US' three publicly traded online brokerage firms.
The 3 minute, 16 second Trophy Investing video below which is entitled "ChoiceTrade: Cryptocurrency infrastructure provider with 1,000X Upside Potential" is a must view. It includes future share price projections and provides details about ChoiceTrade's incorporating the cryptocurrency and startup investing categories into the products that it will offer to is clients.
Since ChoiceTrade qualifies as a first mover, the 3 minute, 52 second video below entitled "Why companies qualifying as a 'First Mover' have the potential to get to $1 billion valuations almost instantly" is also highly recommended.


After incurring the wrath of its driver community, Lyft has changed how it's handling the promised $1,000 bonuses to new drivers. Since the company failed to process some applications in time, it's extending the paperwork processing deadline until March 13th so people aren't shut out from their reward.
In case you missed the controversy, here's what happened. In Lyft's ongoing war with Uber over driver supply, it offered people a big check if they signed up to drive and did one ride by March 5th. As you'd expect, the company was overwhelmed with applicants. It told drivers that even if they had applied by the deadline, they wouldn't receive their bonuses if their background checks weren't processed in time to give a ride.
That wasn't in drivers' control, and people rose up in anger. They felt swindled by Lyft, as though the company had hoodwinked them into applying without ever intending to grant all the bonuses. 376 drivers signed a Change.org petition asking Lyft to reverse the decision. A reddit thread claims that a law firm is considering representing a class action suit against Lyft regarding the matter. I've reached out to the firm to fact check and will update this if I hear back.
Frankly, I was surprised when Lyft drivers told me about the promo bait-and-switch. Lyft has always been the driver-friendly entity of the two ridesharing behemoths, and people who choose Lyft over Uber say it's because they've had better interactions with the company. This conflict threatened to hurt that brand.
Yep I also was scamed by lyft. I'm only driving for Sidecar, it's the best I can adjust my prices and no BS. Sidecar promo code enter DAVID3998 for new drivers and recive $100.00 bonus after giving first 10 rides, No BS, no time limit.
Please update everyone on the class action… I had all the requirements done including my mentor ride by 9am Saturday 2/28. The last section of my background check shows that it was complete on 3/4, and I still somehow don't qualify for the promotion? Let's take these a-holes down for blatant lies!
The fact that Lyft has scammed us is bad enough. The fact that they are publicly claiming to be "extending the promotion deadline" while privately emailing applicants who did everything they were supposed, saying "You don't qualify for the extension" is plain disgusting. I really hope there's a lawsuit.
We are 18 drivers ready to class action suit it's not a surprise they are big time lairs and for shur after March 13 they gonna denied the application. After this all better whit UBER.
Lyft did not extend the promotion. The problem with the promotion is that people's background checks were being held up.
I finished my welcome ride on 2/27, a few hours after I signed up for the promo and Lyft did not even send my background check to Sterling (background check company) until 3/4, a five day delay. Sterling told me they take a minimum of 48 hours to run the check so how would mine be done before the 3/5 deadline?!? How would mine be done before the 3/5 extension?!? Guess what, my background check was completed on 3/6 (big shock) and I received an email from Lyft indicating I did not qualify for the promotion.
Lyft scammed me, stole my information on an unachievable promotion, and blamed it on ignorance. Uber just got a new driver and Lyft lost all their business from me.
The Lyft bait and switch is true still, I just got an email saying I did qualify for the extension dispite having met all Lyft's requirement. I want in on the law suit they lied and I wasted hours hustling to get quilfied to drive. Washing my car inside and out meeting with the Lyft's mentor, filling out online forms prompted by Lyft's lie.
This article is inaccurate/incomplete. Lyft extended the window for *approved* drivers by 1 week. Every applicant Lyft didn't approve to drive by Thursday at midnight did not have their window extended. I fall in to this group.
For example, I signed-up Thursday the 26th, and completed my welcome ride on Sat the 28th. I theoretically had until Thursday the 5th to complete my first ride as a driver. But since Lyft didn't approve me by Thursday night, I'm S.O.L. They did not extend my window by one week.
I completed everything timely. Had they approved me Thursday night I could have done a welcome ride by midnight, no problem. Extended the time to complete your first ride is not "extending the promo". It solves nothing. This was a completely dishonest move by Lyft, and I hope the Class-Action moves forward and they have to pay-out.
It would be unfortunate for LYFT, if we have to pursue a law suit. I hope they do the right thing and pay up. Happy drivers, happy riders and safer community. Rideshare is a win/ win for all involved. Come on ….. LYFY do the right thing and we can all move on …….
The Lyft CEO's apology was more an attempt to change the conversation and avoid a PR disaster than to actually help drivers. Extending the deadline to take the first ride doesn't help anyone out because the issue is that they didn't leave enough time between the start of the promo and the DMV/background check approval deadline since the approval process takes several days. Pinning the delivery of the bonus on an external deadline is what's egregious and it's tempting to think also a mighty convenient excuse not to pay out. As a driver, all you could do was fill out your application and take your welcome ride. If you did that all that, the approval process still took so many days and some large majority of us never even got a chance to take our first ride in time. So yeah, I feel pretty cheated.
Please update about class action- A couple of friends of mine may miss the bonus that they were promised.


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The NYRA franchise? Graded Stakes? The price of online pp's? Morning lines? Your comments have been unusually inquisitive this week, so let the supersized inquisition begin:
dale_tillotson says: I guess the question of the day is: Are you dabbling in California because of a possible shutdown at the Big A?
Maybe I'm in denial, but I'm not taking the prospect of a Jan. 1 shutdown of NY racing too seriously. The entire process is being held up by Joe Bruno, the state senate majority leader whose district includes Saratoga, and he does not want his legacy to be The Man Who Shut Down Racing. My best guess is that if he can't secure whatever it is he wants in the next two weeks, he will agree to a temporary extension of the status quo while the wrangling continues.
jrzingg says: Read your column on the Arkansas Derby, I agree with you. But why is there a graded stakes system anyway? Anyone that knows horse racing knows which races are good and which are so-so. Breeders know which races are important, so why do we need Grades on them?
Matt Hegarty neatly summarized the origin and purposes of the grading system in a recent DRF news story: "The grading system was devised as a way to help buyers at auctions determine the class of races listed on catalog pages, but it has since evolved into a marketing tool for racetracks and an incentive for trainers and owners of horses destined for the breeding shed."
Another function it serves, which is particularly useful to handicappers, is to provide a frame of reference for comparing the quality of various international races. Without grades, how many handicappers would know the difference between a St. James and a St. Olaf Stakes? Most of the major racing nations attempt to impose similar qualifications for graded and G1 races. In 2006, for example, there were 438 internationally-recognized G1 races, including 109 in North America, 91 in Australasia and 84 in Europe. Some countries take the system very seriously, such as Canada, which classifies only three of its races as G1's. Other jurisdictions don't, and their so-called G1's are not globally recognized, such as India's 25 G1's or Puerto Rico's 38 G1's.
I have always thought that American racing should do more rather than less with the grading system. The concept of 100 races a year being the most important ones is a pretty easy concept for the public to grasp, and lends itself to standings if the Grade 1 circuit were promoted as a tour or cup series.
steve_cedroni says: Steve, any explanation as to why the pick 6 in New York paid $396.00 [on Sunday 12/2] when the win parlay was $2105.00?
A few reasons: 1)Five of the six winners were first or second choices; 2)Every conceivable potential single for a small bankroll won; 3)There was some weird betting in individual win pools that created some distorted win mutuels. For example, I thought that Dani Tom Boy and Light Tactic would both be 3-5, but they paid $5.90 and $5.70 respectively after some inexplicable action on losers. It was a day where people who play for $16 might well have singled four winners and caught the other two on a 2x4.
jim_in_texas says: What's your take on the Delta Jackpot race this Friday? I think it does nothing but promote racing at Delta Downs, and also helps some owners that have 2yr olds that are ready now, to earn some decent cash..
My only problem with this G3 $1 million race is that it will go farther in qualifying horses for the Kentucky Derby than the G1 Champagne, Breeders' Futurity, Norfolk, Hollywood Futurity, Wood Memorial, Blue Grass or Santa Anita Derby simply because of its inflated purse. Churchill Downs stubbornly refuses to revise its graded-stakes-earnings system, which gives more credit to a slots-fueled G3 for 2-year-olds that does not attract the very top horses than to G1's with better fields.
bearcatbob says: What advantages and disadvantages do you feel there are to actaully being at the track rather than playing from home or a simulcast site? Is there anything you look for when at the track that you can't while not there that can be advantageous? Do you think one is better than the other and how much so?
Assuming that you're talk about handicapping advantages rather than social and aesthetic advantages (fresh air, flora and fauna, the company of the world's finest humans), I really can't think of any. Warmups and post parades are not elements of my handicapping; I can access Formulator and tote data more readily at my desk than in a seat at the track; and I prefer the dress code, smoking policy and shorter betting lines available at home.
aparagon4u says: Why are online PP's so expensive? I can buy a print copy of the Form, get anywhere from 5-10 tracks depending on the day and have access to all the articles for $5.50. Individual PP's online are $2.50, monthly plans reduce the cost per track a little better but not even close to the cost per track of the print copy. Online distribution should be much cheaper then print copies because there are no shipping or printing costs.
I asked DRF Vice President/Internet Marc Attenberg (who will owe me $1 if I can go another 25 days without using the word a-b-s-u-r-d in this blog), for his take on online pricing. His response:
"You're making an apples to oranges comparison. First, online longterm subscriptions come with all of the content of the print editions plus all sorts of additional content, as part of our "DRF Plus" offering. Second, it's rare to find a print edition with 10 tracks in it. It's more typical to find a $5 print edition with something like 6 tracks in it. Those six tracks, for many customers, include circuits they perhaps don't want, because of personal preference. It's far more common to find customers who wish they could just find a 2-3 track edition, and in this way print editions have their own type of idiosyncrasies. But let's go ahead and look at a $5 print edition that carries 6 tracks. That's $0.83 per racecard. And you may or may not be interested in some of those tracks. Meanwhile, DRF.com's annual 720 card plan costs $550. That's 76 cents a racecard. If you want to look at two tracks one day, and 17 tracks the next day, you've got that flexibility. You get the races 2 and even 3 nights in advance so you can 'cap in advance. You get all the print editorial and then some. Yes, some of our smaller increment plans aren't any cheaper than print editions-- but the key is that those print editions are static documents and online we offer the flexibility that makes the difference. Believe it or not, as we continue to invest in growing the online products (check out the amazing interactivity of our Formulator PPs), we're actually no more profitable online than we are in print. So the pricing is what it is."
justin_z says: Hey anybody knows where I can safely bet horses online? So far the online decent site I have found is [redacted].com, so far they have paid off well. Any other suggestions?
I don't know anything about the offshore website you're using, but some of these unregulated operations do not merge wagers into the parimutuel pools, place a cap on payoffs, and are playing fast and loose with the (albeit idiotic and unfair) Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 2006. While some offshores offer attractive rebates and incentives to high-end players, if you are just starting out and wagering modestly, you might want to explore one of the many legitimate alternatives based in the United States, operated either by racetracks or licensed and regulated third parties which pay negotiated fees to the racing industry.
rfb0318 says: What does everyone think of the "Cinco-fecta" wager that has been approved at Santa Anita for the Winter meet? The bet requires you to pick the first FIVE finishers in a race and has a carry-over provision to it.
I'm all for trying new wagers, but this one sounds like something dreamt up by a marketing department in an attempt to create carryovers it thinks it can promote. To me it feels like turning back the clock on the progress made by instituting dime superfectas. Dime "pentafectas" simply erase the new affordability provided by the lower minimum, effectively raising the base price back up to a dollar by adding an additional slot and again providing a huge advantage to better-bankrolled players. Maybe even superfectas are a slot too far, but the idea that handicappers can make rational decisions about who can or can't finish fifth in a race seems like a stretch.
andyscoggin says: Nice photo, that is an Alexander Calder sculpture of the horse??
Yes. A tip o'the hat to you and hammer for getting my lame Calder/Calder visual pun.
alan says: [I] often wish to see what a horse's morning line was, especially in maiden races. If a first-timer was, say, 6-1 in its debut, it's a huge difference knowing if that horse was 2-1 or 12-1 in the morning line that day. The 6-1 price by itself can be almost meaningless without knowing if he was live, or completely dead on the board on that day. Is that something that has ever been considered for the Form?
In my personal opinion, the morning line is among the most overrated and misunderstood factors in handicapping, and including it in a horse's running line could be extremely misleading. People think it is a set of opening prices from which deviations are significant, or selections by the track operator or some highly-skilled panel of handicappers. It is none of those things.
The morning line is nothing more than one overworked track employee's guess at how the public will bet a race. Why does it matter if Fred the mutuel clerk or Sally in the publicity department thought a day or two before the race that a certain first-timer would be 12-1 or 6-1? In the course of making 100 guesses a day on prices, that employee will invariably make some mistakes. The best linemakers make fewer, but the lines at some tracks are just plain incompetent. I recently visited a major-market track where despite my unfamiliarity with the subtleties of the local racing, I could see that horses listed at 8-1 were going to be more like 20-1 and vice versa. Why simply reprint bad predictions? Additionally, morning lines quickly become irrelevant after late scratches and changes in track conditions.
When a horse listed at 12-1 on the morning line goes off at 6-1, I think it is far more likely to be a function of a bad guess, a reduced field or a change of conditions than a meaningful market move by some cartel of all-knowing sharpies.


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Using the refresh button keeps the cookie value. My main issue is the following:
Why does the value get removed with a hard refresh?
I just noticed that the live example has two search options, which I'm not understanding why is happening. The local environment shows only one search. Removing data-search="true" removes both searches.
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Update:
I'm noticed that removing the jquery script only shows one search box instead of two, but the issue still persists with regards to caching. When there are two search boxes, the second box retains the cache. Again the two searches never occur in my local environment.
Update: Removing data filter control options fixes the cookie search issue. Seems like data-filter-control="true" might be the cause.
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To avoid future brand-safety embarrassments, agencies are increasingly looking to buy directly from premium-quality content owners on YouTube.
"We are seeing a huge increase in demand from agencies in our own YouTube inventory bought directly at meaningful CPMs," said a publishing executive at a major media owner.
Although YouTube takes a sizeable 45 percent revenue share from a publisher's rate card, there is some flexibility for publishers to still make a good margin should they manage to sell above their rate card. For instance, if a publisher's YouTube inventory rate card is £20 CPM ($26 CPM ) and they sell it for £30 CPM ($39 CPM), the publisher gives YouTube 45 percent of the former.
Media agencies have long favored buying audiences at scale and for cheap rates on platforms like YouTube, but that mentality is shifting with some agencies claiming they prefer to pay more for a risk-free buy.
The pressure should only grow. Last week, Disney, Nestle, McDonald's and AT&T pulled their ads from the platform after revelations that their ads had appeared next to videos of young girls that were marred by inappropriate user comments. To avoid the issue entirely but still benefit from YouTube's audiences and scale, agencies are buying premium publisher audiences directly.
Media owners have trumpeted their brand-safety credentials to advertisers ever since the YouTube brand-safety scandal in 2017 in order to win a greater chunk of the ad revenue pie from the major platforms.
"When the brand-safety issues experienced by digital platforms are highlighted, Channel 4 and All 4 provide a natural destination for brands who place brand safety high on their agenda," said David Amodio, Channel 4 digital and creative leader.
But evidence to show that advertiser budgets had shifted away from the platforms and back to publishers for the long term has been scant. Budgets are often paused, and after a few weeks, returned to the platforms they were pulled from. A Digiday survey of 100 media buyers the same day revealed there was no major inclination to pull spend from a platform that delivers such good results.
In this instance, however, agencies aren't looking to pull spend from YouTube but instead to redirect it into channels with content created by premium media owners.
Agencies that have bought on media owner YouTube channels directly have bought non-skippable ads, rather than YouTube's skippable ad format TrueView, because they believe people are more likely to wait for the premium content.
"Deals also take longer to negotiate and set up but very high completion rate as people really want to see the content," said a media agency executive.
Some agency groups have created their own lists of premium content providers with massive YouTube audiences that they have pre-approved that they want to buy on YouTube on behalf of clients, on a programmatic-guaranteed basis. Disney, Vevo and Little Dot Studios, which runs the YouTube channels for show brands such as Gordon Ramsey's "Kitchen Nightmares," according to agency sources.


Blackjacks, rejoice. After 10 months of strange collaborations and false starts, it looks like 2013 will be 2NE1's year after all.
First up, leader CL is set drop her solo debut on May 28th. Word is that she's already completed MV filming, and that both Producer Teddy and Yang Hyun-suk himself are heading the project, so absolutely no delay excuses come CL-Day. The MV was also directed by Seo Hyun-seung of "I Am the Best" and "I Love You" fame, so we're guaranteed an intense visual experience. Not much word on the song's style other than it will show off CL's various "charms," which probably means superb rapping and lots of sassy winking.
Also according to YG, CL will have real, honest-to-goodness promotional activities that will lead into — wait for it — 2NE1's group comeback!
On May 17th, 2NE1's 4th anniversary, YG posted a celebratory pic with the notice of their official comeback. No release date as of yet, though Star News is reporting June. Which most likely means August. Or September. The important point is there's a poster now, so that means it's happening.
The idea of releasing CL's single followed by 2NE1's comeback is great from a promotional standpoint. Not only will it give CL the solo spotlight she's craved, but also it will give the entire group attention for a sustained period of time. Any disappointment in CL getting a solo over a group comeback is no longer relevant, and her promotions will stir up anticipation for all of 2NE1. Think of it like a fire that just keeps burning. However, this masterful plan all hinges on YG's ability to effectively time the group's promotional activities, of which there is unfortunately not much trust.
In any event, since it's been so long that we've had a substantial song from these girls, it's sure CL will attack her solo debut with much enthusiasm, and almost certain our YG ladies will have an epic comeback. And with Will and Jaden Smith recently visiting YG for no apparent reason other than to hang out, it seems the company's stirring up interesting things all over the place. Possible CL and Will Smith collab, anyone?
Readers, what kind of sound would you like to hear from CL? Who's starting the pool on 2NE1's comeback date? And most importantly — ARE YOU READY?


Location. Harbour Plaza Hong Kong rises above Victoria Harbor and boasts spectacular views of Hong Kong Island and the South China Sea. Located on the Kowloon waterfront, this property stands in the breezy Whampoa Garden district. Public ferries provide easy access to Hong Kong Convention Center and the city's financial, government, entertainment and commercial sectors.
Hotel Features. Guests are treated to hotel amenities such as a rooftop pool and bar, children's pool and spa tub. The complimentary fitness center provides fitness assessments, and guests may relax in the sauna or request therapeutic massage treatments. Surrounded by tropical gardens, the pool area offers romantic views of Hong Kong Island's skyline. A lower pool deck is ideal for parties and barbecues. Guests can dine at the Waterfront Bar & Terrace, where they can enjoy live music while they eat. Other property highlights include high speed Internet access, conference facilities, a business center, and computer and cell phone rentals. The hotel offers babysitting services.
Guestrooms. The 20 story Harbour Plaza Hong Kong features 468 contemporary guestrooms and 30 suites decorated in sunny hues. Many accommodations provide views of the busy harbor. Rooms include both dial up and high speed Internet access. Additional guestroom amenities include satellite television, desks, coffeemakers, safes, minibars and bathrobes.
Expert Tip. Hong Kong Coliseum, located five kilometers from the hotel, is a 12,500 seat stadium that hosts everything from headline music entertainment to cultural venues and international sporting events. The hotel's concierge can provide information about coming attractions and obtain tickets to desired events.


The game starts in the guest bedroom of a house. You have no idea what you're supposed to do so you have no choice but to wander around exploring things. In the process, you discover that this is Tufty's house and he's a bit of a slob. You will also encounter weird things like a goat and a humunculus, but it's the title that leads you to the ultimate solution.
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Pair of black varnished wooden Rennie chairs designed by Kazuhide Takahama (Japanese architect) for Simon Gavina International Italy, 1972. Constructivist designed chairs with high backrest and recovered in black leather.
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Q: proving or disproving that two tangent lines are parallel to a curve Im trying to prove or disprove that given the function, $f(x)=0.5\sqrt{1-x^{2}}$,
There are two different tangent lines to $f(x)$ so they are parallel.
I tried to derivative but with no success.

A: $y=f(x)=0.5\sqrt{1-x^2}\implies 4y^2=1-x^2$ with $y\ge0$
Let us find the condition of $y=mx+c$ being a tangent to the curve
So, $4y^2=1-\left(\frac{y-c}m\right)^2\implies y^2(1-4m^2)+2cy+(m^2-c^2)=0$
This is a Quadratic Equation in $y$
For tangency, both the root must be same  i..e, the discriminant must be $0$
So, $$(2c)^2=4(1-4m^2)(m^2-c^2)$$
$$\implies c^2=m^2-4m^4+4m^2c^2+c^2\implies 4c^2=1-4m^2\text{ if } m \text{ is finite and non-zero}$$
$c=\pm\sqrt{1-4m^2}$
So, $y=\frac{2c}{1-4m^2}=\frac1{2c}>0\implies c\ge 0$ so $c\not<0$
We won't get parallel tangents for finite and non-zero $m$
If $m=0, y=c \implies c\ge 0$
We won't get parallel tangents here.
If $\frac1m=0, y=0\implies 1-x^2=0\implies x=\pm1$
Evidently, the tangents passing through $(\pm1,0)$  are the only parallel tangents

A: I am not sure about the answer! Let's go through the details.
The derivative is $-\frac{0.5x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}$. This is defined only when $|x|\lt 1$.
We we try to find $s$ and $t$ such that $-\frac{0.5s}{\sqrt{1-s^2}}=-\frac{0.5t}{\sqrt{1-t^2}}$, we quickly find that if $|s|\lt 1$ and $|t|\lt 1$, we must have $s=t$. So there cannot be parallel tangent lines for distinct $x$ in the interval $(-1,1)$.
By manipulation of $y=0.5\sqrt{1-x^2}$ (square both sides), we find that our curve is the top half of a standard ellipse. At the points $x=1$ and $x=-1$, the full ellipse has parallel vertical tangent lines. Whether these are tangent lines to the half ellipse depends on what definition we use for tangent line.


Vientiane (VNA) – Lao senior officials and diplomats from ASEAN nations took part in a mini-marathon at Patuxay Park in Vientiane, Laos on August 12 as part of a series of local events to mark the 50th ASEAN anniversary and the 20th year since Laos became a member of the bloc.
The annual mini-marathon was chaired by Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith with Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith in attendance.
In his remarks opening the event, Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith lauded the significance of ASEAN and its achievements over the last 50 years.
"ASEAN looks forward with excitement to the next 50 years and beyond of working hand in hand among Member States and with all external partners for peace, stability and prosperity of the ASEAN Community and the world at large", he said.
For Laos, throughout the past two decades of being part of the ASEAN, it has made important contributions to the grouping and has benefited from the ASEAN Community building process and partnership with all ASEAN external partners, the minister noted.


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