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Rouda, a successful businessman who could likely self-fund part of his campaign, raised over $100,000 in independent donations in the 12 days he's been in the race, according to fundraising numbers obtained first by Roll Call. He's working with fundraising consultant Stephanie Daily Smith, a former fundraiser for Hillary for America.
Rohrabacher ended 2016 with $238,000. His campaign spent about $600,000 during the 2016 cycle, when he won re-election by 17 points.
The 15-term Republican is closely allied with President Donald Trump's administration, and Democrats hope the congressman's sympathies toward the Russian government will make him especially vulnerable in 2018. Hillary Clinton won Rohrabacher's 48th District by about 2 points last fall.
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The McClure-Hilton House is a historic house at 16 Tinker Road in Merrimack, New Hampshire.  The oldest portion of this -story Cape style house was built c. 1741, and is one of the oldest surviving houses in the area.  It was owned by the same family for over 200 years, and its interior includes stencilwork that may have been made by Moses Eaton Jr., an itinerant artist of the 19th century.  The property also includes a barn, located on the other side of Tinker Road, which is of great antiquity.  The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Description and history
The McClure-Hilton House is located in a rural-suburban setting in southern Merrimack, on  bisected by Tinker Road south of Camp Sargent Road.  The property includes the main house, located on the east side of the road, and a barn, set on the west side of the road.  The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior.  A gabled ell extends to the right.  The main facade is five bays wide, with slightly asymmetrical placement of paired sash windows on either side of a nearly-centered entrance.  The entrance is topped by a four-light transom window, and sheltered by a portico with a low-pitch gable roof.  The interior follows a central chimney plan,  with a narrow entrance vestibule, parlor and hall chambers on either side of the chimney, and a long kitchen in the back, with small chambers in the rear corners.  The front rooms have original plaster above broad horizontal wainscoting; the hall on the left is notable for the stencilwork applied to the plaster.  The parlor is plainer, but retains an original builtin cabinet.

The exact construction date of the house is unknown.  According to family lore, it was built in 1722, but this is at odds with town history, which places all settlement after the town's early proprietors made a land division in 1733, and William McClure's first land purchase in 1741. Stylistic evidence suggests the house was built about 1740.  The house remained in the hands of McClure's descendants until 1942.  The stencilwork in the hall is believed to have been executed by either Moses Eaton Sr. or Moses Eaton Jr., regionally prominent artists active from the late 18th to late 19th centuries.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Houses completed in 1741
Houses in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Merrimack, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

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Established in 2017, the Belmont Garden Club Scholarship is open to all students at Belmont High School who are intending to pursue studies in horticulture or environmental studies. The scholarship money comes from a variety of fund raising activities, such as the May Perennial Sale, that the Belmont Garden Club hosts throughout the year.
Their area of declared study must be in one of the following areas: Agriculture, Biology, Botany, Environmental Studies, Forestry, Horticulture, Landscape Design or a closely related field.
The scholarship amount is $600 and will be sent directly to the recipient's college or university before the start of the second semester of Freshman year. In addition, the Belmont Garden Club is providing a book stipend of $400 to defray the cost of books. This money will be sent directly to the student's home address at the same time.
Along with a completed application, two character recommendations are required. Prior scholarship winners may reapply for this scholarship award in subsequent years. Their academic performance will be reviewed by the Scholarship Committee of the Belmont Garden Club, and continued scholarship for the next year of study may be approved.
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Please refer to the MCQ Questions for Class 12 Geography Chapter 6 Water Resources with Answers. The following Water Resources Class 12 Geography MCQ Questions has been designed based on the latest syllabus and examination pattern for Class 12. Our experts have designed MCQ Questions for Class 12 Geography with Answers for all chapters in your NCERT Class 12 Geography book.
Water Resources Class 12 MCQ Questions with Answers
See below Water Resources Class 12 Geography MCQ Questions, solve the questions and compare your answers with the solutions provided below.
Question. Bhakra- Nangal, Hirakud, Damodar Valley,Nagarjuna Sagar, Indira Gandhi Canal Project, etc,are:
(A) Picnic spots
(B) Tourist areas
(C) Multipurpose river valley projects
(D) Irrigation points
Question. Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh more than 85 per cent of their net sown area is under :
(A) irrigation
(B) agriculture
(C) pesticides
(D) wasteland
Question. The North-western India and Deccan Plateau are deficient in :
(A) population
(B) rainfall
(C) moist air
(D) sunlight
Question. The per capita availability of water is dwindling dayby day due to the :
(A) decrease in population
(B) increase in population
(C) stagnation in population
(D) no change in population
Question. Name the board that monitors the water quality of national aquatic resources.
(A) The Central Pollution Centre Board
(B) The Central Pollution Control Board
(C) The Central Pollution Communication Board
(D) The Central Pollution Common Board
Question. ___________ involves prevention of runoff and storage and recharge of groundwater through various methods like percolation tanks, recharge wells, etc.
(A) Watershed management
(B) Rainwater harvesting
(C) Underground preservation
Question. Traditional ________ in rural areas is done by using surface storage bodies like lakes, ponds, irrigation tanks.
(A) rain water harvesting
(B) ground water preservation
(C) watershed management
(D) storage management
Question. The area from which rainfall flows into a river, lake or reservoir is called a__________ area.
(A) connecting
(B) catchment
(C) flooding
Question. An area of shallow body of water separated from the sea by barrier islands or reefs is known as : U
(A) Backwaters
(B) Catchment area
(C) Lagoon
(D) Lake
Question. Rivers can be important remedies for solving_________problem in India.
(A) Rain
(B) Water
(C) Land
(D) Flow
Question. Which sector grounds for most of the surface and groundwater utilisation?
(A) Agriculture
(B) Industrial
(C) Household
(D) Medical
Question. The river basin which makes the maximum utilisation of groundwater is :
(A) Ganga
(B) Brahmaputra
(C) Satluj
(D) Indus
Question. _________ means using treated waste water for other purposes.
(A) Reclaimed waste water
(B) Relieved waste water
(C) Reclaimed waste water
(D) Reclaimed waste water
Question. Name the rivers which have huge catchment areas.
(C) Krishna
Question. Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rocks is called as :
(A) Groundwater
(B) Underground water
(C) Inaccessible water
(D) Clear water
Question. Water is a recyclable resource but its availability is:
(A) Limited
(B) Abundant
(C) Unlimited
(D) Endless
Q. 15. Why is irrigation required?
(A) For progress
(B) Due to uneven rain distribution
(C) To aid agriculture
(D) Both (B) and (C)
Question. Recycled Water generally refers to treated ______________wastewater.
(A) Domestic
(C) Social
Question. What is the local name of rainwater harvesting structure in Rajasthan?
(A) Kund
(B) Tanka
(C) Nalka
(D) Both (A) and (B)
Question. About two-thirds of its population have been dependent on :
(B) Industrialisation
(C) Monsoons
(D) Trade
Question. The supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels is known as:
(B) Irrigation
(C) Horticulture
(D) Vericulture
Question. Provision of irrigation makes___________ cropping possible.
(A) Single
(B) Multiple
(C) Foreign
(D) New
Question. The river basin which makes the minimum utilisation of groundwater :
(B) Luni
(C) Subarnrekha
(D) Brahmaputra
Question. An ________economy is a type of economy that relies primarily on agricultural industry including livestock farming or crop production.
(A) Traditional
(B) Agrarian
(C) Old
(D) Under developed
Question. The purity of water or water without unwanted foreign substances is known as :
(A) water quality
(B) water quantity
(C) water availability
(D) water scarcity
Question. __________ can be defined as a process that extracts minerals from saline water.
(A) Salination
(B) Desalination
(C) Detoxication
(D) Saturation
Question. Which state utilises very small proportion of their groundwater potentials.
(A) Chhattisgarh
(B) Odisha
(C) Kerala
Question.River water is used for:
(B) Drinking
(C) domestic and industrial purposes
Question. Neeru- Meeru programme belongs to which state?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Karnataka
(D) Kerala
Question. What determines the success of watershed development?
(A) Government policies
(B) MNCs help
(C) Community participation
(D) Individual effort
Question. ___________is a watershed development project sponsored by the Central Government.
(A) Haryali
(B) Hawarahili
(C) Harwara
Question. Sewage disposal, urban run-off, toxic effluents from industries,run-off over cultivated lands and nuclear power plants are examples of :
(A) Water source
(B) Water pollutants
(C) Water residue
(D) Water storage
Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as:
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false and R is true.
Question. Assertion (A): Water gets polluted by foreign matters, such as micro-organisms, chemicals, industrial and other wastes.
Reason (R): The Ganga and the Yamuna are the two highly clean rivers in the country.
Question. Assertion (A): The states of Punjab, Haryana and Tamil Nadu were regions for green revolution.
Reason (R): The states of Punjab, Haryana and Tamil Nadu have agriculture supported mainly by irrigated water and the main source for it is the underground water.
Question. Assertion (A): Water is not the most essential component of life and is vital for sustenance.
Reason (R): Level of groundwater is decreasing day by day. It leads to the scarcity of potable drinking water.
Question. Assertion (A): At present the agriculture use accounts for the lowest share of utilization for both ground and surface water resources.
Reason (R): This in turn will reduce the share of the agriculture and increase the share of industrial and domestic sector in the consumption of all resources including the water resources of the country.
Question. Assertion (A): Development of irrigation to increase agricultural production has been assigned a very high priority in the Five Year Plans.
Reason (R): India's water demand at present is dominated by irrigational needs.
Question. Assertion (A): Water is a cyclic resource with abundant supplies on the globe.
Reason (R): The availability of fresh water varies over space and time.
Question. Assertion (A): The share of agricultural sector in total water utilisation is much higher than other sectors.
Reason (R): Agriculture accounts for most of the surface and groundwater utilisation.
Question. Assertion (A): Watershed management involves prevention of runoff and storage and recharge of groundwater .
Reason (R): The success of watershed development largely depends upon community participation.
Question. Assertion (A): The large tracts of the country are deficient in rainfall and are drought prone.
Reason (R): North-western India and Deccan plateau constitute such areas.
Question. Assertion (A): Provision of irrigation makes single cropping possible.
Reason (R): It has also been found that irrigated lands have higher agricultural productivity than inaugurated land.
Question. Assertion (A): Another way through which we can improve fresh water availability is by recycle and reduce.
Reason (R): This would conserve better quality of water for drinking purposes.
Question. Assertion (A): Water scarcity is possibly to pose the greatest challenge on account of its increased demand coupled with shrinking supplies due to over utilization and pollution.
Reason (R): The per capita availability of water is dwindling day by day due to increase in population.
Ans. Option (A) is correct.
Question. Assertion (A): Rainwater harvesting is a method to capture and store rainwater for various uses.
Reason (R): Rainwater harvesting increases water availability, checks the declining groundwater table, improves the quality of groundwater.
Question. Assertion (A): Although, water is generally brackish in these water bodies, it is used for fishing and irrigating certain varieties of paddy crops,coconut, etc.
Reason (R): The States like Kerala, Odisha and West Bengal have vast surface water resources in the lagoons and lakes.
Question. Assertion (A): The dumping of industrial waste into rivers leads to water pollution.
Reason (R): The Yamuna river is the most polluted river in the country .
Question. Assertion (A): In Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh more than 85 per cent of their net sown area is under irrigation.
Reason (R): Of the total net irrigated area 76.1 per cent in Punjab and 51.3 per cent in Haryana are irrigated through wells and tube wells.
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UCL: Time for a fourth Nigerian to rise?
The UEFA Champions League is taking shape, in an extraordinary season, that will see the World Cup staged towards the end of the year unlike in mid – year like in the previous editions. In essence, the change of World Cup calendar means things are a bit rushed and the Champions League hasn't been spared.
Just like in most of the previous seasons, a number of Nigerian players are among the players taking part in this season's UEFA Champions League competition from the Group stages. As they get down to business with their teams, the big question remains; will we have a new Nigerian winner of the prestigious title?
So far, only three Nigerian players have won the Champions League title. Finidi George and Nwankwo Kanu were the first Nigerians to win the coveted title back in 1995 when plying their trade with Dutch giants Ajax of Amsterdam. The feat was much later repeated by John Obi Mikel, during his time at Chelsea. It is now over a decade since a Nigerian player won the European title.
Here we profile five players with a chance at joining the elite list, and the first one will obviously be Napoli's Victor Osimhen, the easily recognisable best Nigerian player doing his business out there. Osimhen did miss a chance to score in the Champions League on Match Day 1 as Napoli thrashed Liverpool, but he isn't one to completely rule out.
Now with his already noted prowess, a bet on Osimhen scoring in the group stages is really likely to win, and in line with this a number of the best betting sites in Nigeria can be great to stake on, as they come with bonuses from 5BTC up to N100000, and are all profiled in detail on SportyTrader.
Zaidu Sanusi of FC Porto is another Nigerian player likely to join the elite list. He is a reliable defender at the Portuguese giants and one of the key targets he will have is to help his team past the group stages, which was their last stop last season. Should Sanusi go all the way to win this, he will be the first defender from Nigeria to win the title.
Calvin Bassey is another Nigerian who plays in defence that will want to win this title. Bassey just joined Ajax from Scottish giants, Rangers, who went all the way to the Europa League final last season. Bassey will want to tap on Finidi George and Nwankwo Kanu's charm to win the title with Ajax. He didn't have the greatest of starts to his time at Ajax but that can always be forgotten if he were to settle in well and give his best.
Akinkunmi Amoo of FC Copenhagen is another Nigerian playing in the Champions League this season and though for him it remains an outside chance that he can win the title, these things can never be completely ruled out. Copenhagen came through after beating Turkish champions Trabzonspor in the qualifiers and Amoo will be brushing shoulders with the bigwigs of Europe.In a group that has Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund and Sevilla, Amoo's side can only hope to give their best.
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John Dilliard was interviewed recently by the principal of Patriot Valley Elementary School to fill a vacancy for a social studies teacher. Though fresh out of college and wet behind the ears, he stood above the other candidates. (The fact that his uncle was mayor of Patriot Valley was, of course, entirely coincidental.) Here's the abridged interview.
Examiner: Why are you interested in becoming a teacher, John?
Examiner: God bless you. Any other reasons?
Applicant: I also love my country and want our next generation to be proud of their roots.
Examiner: Good. And how would you handle kids who don't feel that way?
Applicant: Well, we have to respect people even if they disagree with our beliefs. Also, we need to inform others of conditions elsewhere around the world. Once students understand what's happening elsewhere, they might appreciate how precious their freedoms are. Of course, a few will be cynically unpatriotic no matter what we do.
Examiner: And how do you recommend dealing with such students?
Applicant: With tolerance and periodic challenges. I don't mind a bit of feisty rebellion. In many ways it's good for young folks, but they also need to learn to focus.
Examiner: As a social studies teacher, what do you see as the main social issues our society is facing?
Applicant: Well, basically all societies face the same issues – how to allocate limited resources for a growing population. More and more people want a slice of the pie, but unfortunately the pie itself isn't expanding as fast as our population. As George Bush wisely said, that means making tough choices. And to make good choices, proper moral values are needed.
Examiner: Are you willing to coach football?
Applicant: Of course. Nothing could be more important. Football is a great way to let off steam. It also teaches kids about discipline and teamwork. After all, life is one big football game. We need to raise more energetic, loyal, and resourceful team players. Too many kids I see lack team spirit and are unwilling to tackle tough challenges.


Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was a famous American journalist, essayist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. An expert in so many fields, he was called "the Baltimore Sage." At the age of 22, Mencken became managing editor of the Morning Herald in his hometown of Baltimore. But it was not only through his work as a journalist that he was "as famous in America as George Bernard Shaw was in England." The influential literary critic helped launch the Southern and Harlem literary renaissances. With his literary journal The Smart Set, Mencken paved the way for writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and James Joyce. He also wrote several books, most notably his monumental study The American Language.
"The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud." (source) His spirited defense of the freedom of speech and of the press almost landed him in jail when he fought against the banning of his second literary journal, The American Mercury.
This interview above was conducted by Mencken's colleague Donald Howe Kirkley of The Baltimore Sun in a small recording room at the Library of Congress in Washington on June 30, 1948. It gives you a rare chance to hear his voice.


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Is it permissible to raise funds from Zakah in favor of Bader Gateway {Gateway of Islamic Relief, Dawah and Journey}, which is a project that provides relief to Muslims in all Islamic countries?
Subject : Is it Permissible to Raise Funds from Zakah to Relieve Muslims?
Classified : Zakat Distribution Channels
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.
In the Glorious Quran, Allah, the Almighty, has specified eight categories of people eligible to receive Zakah. He said {what means}: "Alms are for the poor and the needy, and those employed to administer the (funds); for those whose hearts have been (recently) reconciled (to Truth); for those in bondage and in debt; in the cause of God; and for the wayfarer: (thus is it) ordained by God, and God is full of knowledge and wisdom."{At-Tawbah, 60}. However, the above project (Bader Gateway} isn`t among these eight categories since the Zakah money, here, isn`t received by the poor and need. In addition, "in the cause of God" refers to Jihad or those who do it.
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Carib Brewery employees pack boxes of hand sanitisers to distribute to members of the essential services at the brewery in Champ Fleurs yesterday.
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The ANSA McAL Group of Companies has begun producing complimentary hand sanitisers for distribution members of the essential services who are on the frontline during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In a brief presentation yesterday, as he took a break from assisting employees of its subsidiary Carib Brewery in filling thousands of branded 500 ml bottles, the conglomerate's Beverage Sector Head Peter Hall explained that the move was part of the group's "From Our Family to Yours" initiative in response to the pandemic.
The distribution of the hand sanitisers is expected to begin tomorrow with the launch of the National Applause Initiative, a joint project of ANSA McAL, I Support Our Service (ISOS) and ReThink Consultancy.
Hall explained that it was implemented to help supply essential employees in particular, noting they may have been affected by panic buying and price gouging of such products because they have not been able to make the time to acquire such supplies due to their duties.
"A lot of the people we are thanking and recognising through our National Applause initiative are having great difficulty in accessing and securing hand sanitiser that they need to do their jobs," Hall said
Hall said the company was seeking to produce 40,000 bottles for distribution tomorrow and approximately 100,000 in total.
"At Carib Brewery, we feel that this is a very small but important contribution we can make both to the National Applause initiative and in the fight against the coronavirus," he said.
Hall explained that it took about a week for the company's technical staff to figure out how to produce the high percentage alcohol required for the production of hand sanitiser, noting they normally produce alcoholic beverages with a maximum content of seven to eight per cent. He said the company's sanitiser contains 70 per cent alcohol, lemongrass essential oil, tea tree essential oil and a gelling agent.
"We have taken care to create what we believe is a really great product," Hall said.
The products are expected to be distributed to police, fire and prison officers, members of the Regiment, private security guards and others deemed essential during the Government's ongoing Stay-at-Home measure.
Hall noted that staff from all the brewery's departments, including executives and managers, volunteered to work in the outdoor production line for bottling, labelling and boxing the sanitisers.
During Guardian Media's tour of the operation, participating employees were all seen wearing recommended personal protective equipment (PPE) and attempting to practice social distancing as they completed their tasks. Asked whether the temporary shift in production and issues associated with the pandemic would affect supply of the company's popular alcoholic products, Hall said no.
"Production is running well. We have inventory of all our brands at the moment. There will be no problem with the supply of beers, ciders and malts from the brewery," he said.
Through the National Applause initiative, citizens are being asked to go outside their home or pause whatever they are doing to loudly applaud those on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic at 10 am tomorrow.
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ADAM COLE - PANAMA'S FINEST DVD REVIEW: COLE DISCUSSES HIS CAREER THUS FAR IN A 75 MINUTE SHOOT INTERVIEW, PLUS AN ASSORTMENT OF FUTURE SHOCK MATCHES, THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY MAIN EVENT, HYBRID RULES, AND MORE
By Stuart Carapola on 2013-05-20 09:03:20
Now let's move on to the matches, and the rest of Disc 1 focuses on Cole's time in Future Shock with Kyle O'Reilly as they face (and are defeated by) just about every top team to come through ROH in the last three years. Cole and O'Reilly were still getting their legs under them at this point and it shouldn't come as any great surprise that they lost a lot of matches, but you could see the talent there and it was never a question of which one was going to become a star when they eventually split up, it was of how far they would each go once the split happened.
Disc 1 sees Future Shock face the All Night Express in the opener of Final Battle 2010, which I remember being the match where I thought they first really broke out and showed what they brought to the table as a team, then we're on to the Honor Takes Center Stage weekend during Wrestlemania week in Atlanta. They faced the Briscoes on the first night and the Kings of Wrestling on the second, obviously they lost both those matches but looked competitive agains tvery strong opponents. Next is the match with the Young Bucks from Best In The World 2011, and this is the only match on the set they didn't lose, but that was only because the Bravado Brothers ran in to cause a DQ. That incident set up a three way match later in the set that the Bucks won by pinning...you guessed it, Future Shock. Also included are the infamous match where Eddie Edwards wouldn't let go of the Achilles Lock on O'Reilly because he didn't realize the ref stopped the match, leading to friction between Eddie and Davey Richards, and what I believe was Future Shock's first title shot when they challenged Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team.
Disc 2 moves on to the singles portion of Cole's career, starting with him getting mauled by Roderick Strong in a No Holds Barred Match he wasn't even supposed to be in. Eddie Edwards was supposed to wrestle Strong, but had to pull out due to getting a staph infection and Cole took his place. A bond was formed between Cole and Edwards that night that followed Cole through most of the rest of 2012, but really reached its apex when they teamed to face their former partners Davey Richards and Kyle O'Reilly in the main event of the 10th Anniversary Show. Cole scored his breakthrough win here by pinning Davey Richards, Davey's first pinfall loss in over a year, to win the match and earn a title shot against Davey about two months later at Rising Above 2012. Like Cole said in the shoot interview, Davey worked hard to make Cole look good and gave him enough that it looked conceivable that Cole could have pulled off another upset. He didn't, but this was another match where you saw that Cole wasn't quite there yet, but was getting closer each time out and it wouldn't be long before he started winning the big matches.
Cole's first big win singles came in what has to be considered his career match to this point, when he faced Kyle O'Reilly in the Hybrid Rules match at Best In The World 2012. After two years of basically being joined at the hip in ROH, this was the match where O'Reilly and Cole pulled the trigger and left it all in the ring to show what they could do as singles competitors. They beat each other mercilessly, hammering each other so hard that O'Reilly accidentally knocked out one of Cole's teeth and split his lip, an injury that turned Cole's face into a bloody mess and later required stitches and some plastic surgery to fix. Everything was perfect in this match, from the actual wrestling to the selling, and even the accidental damage to Cole's face added an element to the match. Cole looked like he was going through a war, and the spot where the guy from the NY State Athletic Commission came out to check on him couldn't have come off better even though he really was out there checking on Cole's condition. The stuff that was and was not planned all came together and built to a perfect finish where they had worn each other out so badly that Cole caught O'Reilly in a figure four and O'Reilly just didn't have it in him to continue and tapped out.
Now Cole was really cooking, and he followed up the win over O'Reilly with his first title win when he defeated Roderick Strong for the TV Title on the July 28, 2012 edition of ROH TV. Strong and Cole had actually wrestled a couple of other times since their match at the Homecoming and Strong had destroyed him each time, but Cole got closer and closer before finally pinning him clean in the middle of the ring with the Florida Key to start what would become a seven month reign as the ROH TV Champion. You could definitely see the progression Cole had made by this point, and the win over Strong solidified that he had arrived and was a force to be reckoned with, and was no longer the fourth wheel in a feud about three other guys like he had been six months earlier.
We move on to Cole and Edwards teaming to face the Briscoes in October of 2012 at Killer Instinct, then facing each other for the TV Title only a week later at Glory By Honor XI. There were a few interesting things about this match, as not only was Cole now put into the position of having to defend the only ROH title he's ever held against his mentor, but also the fact that Eddie was the first ROH TV Champion, something that's kind of gotten lost to time after he won the ROH World Title and did the feud with Davey. They took a bad spill off the top rope to the floor that really seemed to knock Eddie for a loop, and Cole hit a series of superkicks and the Florida Key to pick up another big win. This match was good, but I felt like it was just kind of thrown out there like any old match and that there was a lot more that they could have gotten out of it from a storyline standpoint.
The set closes with the final encounter between Cole and O'Reilly, as they battled for the ROH TV Title on the November 17, 2012 episode of ROH TV. O'Reilly had scored a non-title win using a rollup with a handful of tights some time after their Best In The World match, so now he gets his last chance to prove once and for all that he was the better half of Future Shock by taking Cole's title. They only got about ten minutes this time around and didn't get as physical as they did at Hybrid Rules, but I liked other things they did here like O'Reilly being prepared to counter the figure four Cole beat him with last time, and Cole having O'Reilly's submission moves scouted as well. Cole hits the Florida Key to win the match and close out this DVD set.
I enjoyed this set overall, but there were a couple of issues with it. The first is that Cole's body of work isn't large enough to match the standard we see with most other ROH compilations. That's not a knock on him or the quality of his work by any means, but if they didn't have the shoot interview on here, they would have had a tough time finding stuff to fill out the first disc with. The other thing is that almost everything on this set has happened fairly recently, so I don't know how much nostalgia is going to sell this like it would for a Samoa Joe or Nigel McGuinness set where a lot of the shows their matches were originally on are out of print.
I came away from the set feeling like ROH has someone on their hands they really want to get behind, so they release a DVD to drive his importance to the audience instead of the other way around where his work is selling the DVD. I get the mindset and I'm not saying that his matches that weren't on this set sucked. I've never seen a bad Adam Cole match, it's just that most of them didn't mean much in the big scheme of things like the 10th Anniversary Show, Hybrid Rules, and the TV Title win did. I think that for the three or four matches on here that really mattered, you'd do better to get the DVD of the original shows than to pick this up.
I can't give this one a good recommendation, but if the issues I brought up aren't really a big deal to you, then the set is available at www.rohwrestling.com.
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The American Medical Association's Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database, or FREIDA is a free online resource containing information on more than 8,000 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and more than 200 combined specialty programs. By defining various selection criteria, you can select a range of programs, or find specific program information.
Individual Residency Program Web sites: The majority of program Web sites list work and call schedules, an overview of residency training, and additional educational environment information. You will also likely find application requirements and deadlines specific to that program.
1. ERAS Applicants:Registrar, Ms. Marta Bergez, coordinates the entire ERAS application procedure. Information about accessing ERAS tokens and application will be sent via e-mail to the class at the appropriate time.
2. SF Match applications through Central Application Service (CAS)/ for Ophthalmology: Students applying in ophthalmology will apply to programs and match through SF Match. Most SF Match users will use ERAS and the NRMP to apply for and match into their internship year programs. SF Match uses the Central Application Service (CAS) to distribute applications to residency training programs. Applicants will complete this application process online.
See information below about non-ERAS letters of recommendation.
The Office of Student Affairs will upload your MSPE, and transcript to SF Match on October 1, for distribution to your programs.
4. Programs not participating in ERAS or SF Match: Although a specialty may participate in ERAS, some programs within that specialty may not participate (this is RARE). To check if a program is participating in ERAS, view the list of participating programs at http://www.aamc.org/eras.
You should also visit the program's Web site to verify its application procedure and requirements. For programs not participating in ERAS or SF Match, you will need to provide the Office of Student Affairs with a LIST of any programs you may be applying to that are not participating in ERAS or SF Match. The Office of Student Affairs will mail your application out for you, once you have provided all the documents. The MSPE and transcript will be sent directly to these programs on October 1.
Your UMMSM transcript will be transmitted by the Office of Student Affairs to all of your programs through ERAS, or uploaded to other application services for programs not using ERAS.
It is extremely important that you review your transcript and your clerkship evaluations. Summaries of your performance on your evaluations will be included in the MSPE, and you need to be aware of everything that has been written about you in your evaluations.
Writing a personal statement can pose a challenge to many medical students. Those who feel they "don't like to write" often find themselves frustrated. BUT, this statement is a useful tool in your application for residency, because it can tell selection committee members about your background, your goals and your character.
A good personal statement can certainly set you up for a great interview, and may help ensure that you match into a program that values the type of person that you are.
While a good statement may not get you in, a bad one can certainly lead to your demise as a candidate. Your statement should NOT simply reiterate why you came to medical school, or restate everything on your CV.
WHY you want to go into your chosen SPECIALTY (NOT the practice of medicine).
Explanation of your commitment to that specialty and the profession (eg., clinical activities, research or special projects that solidified your interest in the field).
WHAT are YOUR personal characteristics that make YOU well suited for that specialty (include your strengths that you can offer a program and the specialty).
WHAT you are looking for in a program, clinically and academically.
Your future goals and plans within that specialty.
· ·Directly state something if you really want to emphasize your point.
· ·Indirectly state it if the direct account sounds too pompous.
Determine which skills/traits you possess that selection committees are seeking.
Identify attributes to emphasize in your personal statement.
Outline your statement paragraph by paragraph (5 or 6), one page.
Write a topic sentence for each paragraph.
· ·Use forceful, active, varied, and understandable sentences.
Attempt to keep this to ONE page, proper grammar.
ERROR-FREE: Proof and proof again for grammar, spelling, and typos.
Stand out from the crowd!!.
Include information not found anywhere else on your application.
Elaborate on personal issues: life-changing experiences, goals, expectations.
Communicate your uniqueness to the reader.
Don't write about why you want to be a DOCTOR.
Don't tell the specialist why s/he should become that type of doctor – remember this is about YOU, not the SPECIALTY.
Don't describe why you did NOT choose OTHER professions.
Avoid exaggerated words and phrases (always, for as long as I can remember).
Don't make your statement a prose version of your CV.
Be wary of sounding too idealistic, lest it be mistaken for you seeming too naive.
Don't sound too rigid in listing extremely specific career plans.
Do not criticize other professions or physicians.
Most programs ask for three or four letters of recommendation (LORs).
ERAS can transmit a maximum of four letters. As a rule of thumb, LORs should be written by faculty members with whom you have worked in clinical or research settings. The most important factor in obtaining great letters is in the way you ask faculty to write them.
Consider asking whether the faculty member knows you well enough to write you a STRONG letter of recommendation for a residency position in your field. If they do not, you have given them the option to decline.
Many programs require an LOR from the department chair of the specialty to which you are applying. Realistically, not many chairs know all students; however, they expect to write such letters. They may also have a departmental "designee" write this letter.
In some departments, the chair signs all of the letters, while others have your core clerkship site director write and sign the letter on behalf of the chair.
If you are planning to request that a faculty member write a letter of recommendation on your behalf PRIOR to the start of your senior year (i.e. during your junior year clerkships, or while you are on a leave of absence), please read this carefully. ERAS now allows you to utilize their system to request and store LORs through limited access. Tokens to access the limited LOR portal are issued by the Registrar, Marta Bergez.
These letters cannot be uploaded directly to the LoRP until you are actively registered with ERAS. You can certainly discuss your request for a letter of recommendation with faculty you may have recently completed a rotation with.
Use your ERAS token as a Junior, register with ERAS, and review the Letter of Recommendation Portal online. You can use this system to have faculty upload your letters during the junior year.
Your letter writers need advance notice!
Must be addressed to "Dear Program Director." (not to anyone in Student Affairs).
Include that the student has waived his/her right to see the letter.
The AAMC number needs to be in the subject line or body of the letter. You can find your AAMC number here if you forgot it.
Has to be on the writer's letterhead and signed .
The Office of Student Affairs cannot review letters and pick the best ones for you to send. The letters cannot be released to you at any time in any format. They are the property of the letter writer and not our office.
Waive your right: You should waive your right to see a letter of recommendation. The ERAS Cover Letter includes a waiver and instructs the writer to include a sentence in their letter regarding your decision.
Many program directors see a student's decision not to waive their right to see a letter as a red flag.


Today marks 10 years since Jimmy left for the great gig in the sky.
We'd like to honour this day with an unreleased recording of Jimmy's song You and Me. Enjoy.
I remember the first time I met Jimmy; it was in the Coach and Horses pub on the Arundel Road just outside Worthing. We used to have a Friday night sing-along in there and anyone who came along with a guitar or whatever instrument simply sat in and jammed away. It would be, I guess, in the middle to late seventies. Jimmy came in one Friday evening and asked us if he could sit in with us. It didn't take long before Jimmy and I were talking about what you do and who do you do, with regard to what kind of music we played. I suppose you could say the evening had a folksy, middle-of-the-road sort of feeling and at that time we were covering – or torturing – songs by Dylan; Peter, Paul and Mary; Kris Kristoferson; a few Beatles and Beach Boys songs etc. And so, when Jimmy said he actually wrote and sang his own songs, I thought he was pulling my leg until, of course, when he struck up, I knew then instantly that this bloke had something special, something that can't be taught. I didn't know what it actually was then and didn't know how to describe it. I now know it is the gift of rhythm and rhyme and Jimmy had it in spadeful. The following week Jimmy didn't show up and I remember people asking me all about him like: Who is he? What's his name? Where is he from? He simply blew us all away on the first night I met him.
The Fork Divino: We were singing in a pub one evening and in the company was a landlord from another pub who seemed to be impressed by our performance (a bit of 'jamming'). He asked us if we would like a booking at his pub and we started negotiating. He suggested advertising us as "The Singing Bricklayers" whereby Jimmy looked at me unbeknown to the said landlord and gave me a sly little wink and replied, "O no, no, that doesn't sound right", or words to that effect. So the landlord said, "Well, what are you called?" To which Jimmy replied, "We're the Fork Divino." So he said "What a strange name" and proposed that he should have some posters printed off to that effect and then he left. After he'd gone, I looked at Jimmy in slight bewilderment, saying to him, "Who the hell is the Fork Divino?" Jimmy smiled as he looked at me and said, "I'm-forked-if-I-know!" Whereby we both dissolved into unrestrained laughter.
The Polystyrene Nose: One day, being bricklayers on site, we were shown a new invention which was the expanding polystyrene filler. It was a real eye-opener at that time whereby a little dollop of this material, when it meets the air and 'cures', expands to five or six times its original size. We were both fascinated by this but Jimmy, with another twinkle in his eye after the demonstration piece, quickly put it in his pocket and then disappeared. He came back five minutes later, the usual big grin on his face and what he had actually done was fashion this brutal false nose out of the polystyrene, with big nostrils and warts and all and the fun we had with that vile instrument lasted all day. Going home on the bus that day, we were sitting at the back and the only other people on the bus were a young woman with a little boy, who was sat at the front. The little boy stood up facing us, looking at me and Jimmy whilst his mum remained facing the front. Jimmy gave me a nudge and said, "Watch this!" He then ducked down behind the seat and firmly planted the said vile nose on his face and reappeared, facing the little boy. The little boy's face on seeing this stared in absolute disbelief and gave his mum a quick nudge. We heard him say, "Mum, Mum, look at that man's big nose!" His mum was mortified, trying to shush him, emphasising, "Stop staring, stop staring!" to which the little boy was transfixed by the size of Jimmy's nose and couldn't stop staring and blurted out, "Mum, look at it, look at it!" We could see the young lady's ears were bright scarlet and we had no sympathy for her excruciating embarrassment! Relief came for her at the next stop when she quickly alighted with her son, leaving me and Jimmy convulsed as usual as a result of his crazy, Scouse humour!


Meru Cabs has filed four new complaints with the country's antitrust watchdog (CCI), claiming that Uber and Ola are abusing their dominance in four different cities by burning vast sums of investor funds to distort the market.
Earlier, CCI ruled against Meru on its allegations that Ola and Uber were abusing its dominance (source).
Meru leadership team has gone public with these allegations earlier too; but with very little success. With Ola's new billion dollar funding and new discounts, Meru which was the first organized player in this space is definitely up for bumpy ride.
For a company which hasn't drank the funding cool aid (of same magnitude as competition), how can you survive against well-funded gorillas? What'd you do as an entrepreneur?


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DNA test reunites siblings abandoned separately in South Korea in 1984
The brother and sister learned of each other after taking DNA tests.
Enjoli Francis
Eric Noll
Long-lost siblings find each other through DNA testJustin Kragt and Renee Alanko were both born in South Korea but adopted by separate families in the United States.Courtesy Alanko Family
Justin Kragt was just 2 years old when he was found alone, crying outside a theater in Seoul, South Korea.
A mile away in Seoul and some time later, a 4-year-old girl was found alone at a market.
Inside her pocket, police found a note saying that she had no parents and to take her to the nearest police station.
It was 1984.
Justin Kragt and his sister Renee Alanko are pictured together after they were reunited in Oregon in September 2018.
Justin Kragt and his sister Renee Alanko are pictured together after they were reunited in Oregon in September 2018.Courtesy Alanko Family
Both children were eventually adopted separately — and unknowingly — by families in the U.S.
"We actually found Justin in a magazine with this cute, little cherub of a face," his adopted mother, Sue Maguire, told The Oregonian.
Kragt grew up mostly in Salem, Oregon, with four siblings.
(MORE: This girl's reaction to finding out she's going to be adopted is the most beautiful thing on the internet today)
But little did he know that the little girl abandoned near him — his older sister Renee Alanko — was being raised in Northern California, in Pleasanton, with her family, attending pool parties and becoming a cheerleader.
The two siblings, now in their 30s, recently reunited, after learning of each other's existence, thanks to DNA tests with 23andMe.
Kragt had done a DNA test in 2014 to find some distant relatives and was successful. Alanko took the test this summer. The news of a match — a sibling match — was a huge surprise to them both.
Justin Kragt was just 2.5 years old when he was found alone, crying outside a theater in Seoul, South Korea in 1984.
Justin Kragt was just 2.5 years old when he was found alone, crying outside a theater in Seoul, South Korea in 1984.Obtained by ABC News
Alanko said she thought she had a brother but was too young to really remember. Kragt said he never knew he had a sibling at all.
(MORE: Boy reveals he's going to be a big brother on the same day he's adopted)
Last week, Kragt and his Maguire family were present when Alanko stepped off the plane in Oregon. The two had spoken to each other but it was the first time they were meeting face-to-face.
The moment was full of hugs and happy tears.
"I knew about him all this time," Alanko told The Oregonian. "I just never thought I'd ever meet him. ... This is really amazing."
She told ABC News Thursday that her life had been forever changed.
His older sister Renee Alanko was found alone at a market a mile away in Seoul that same year. She and Kragt were adopted separately by different families in the U.S.
His older sister Renee Alanko was found alone at a market a mile away in Seoul that same year. She and Kragt were adopted separately by different families in the U.S.Obtained by ABC News
(MORE: Mother shares her story of adopted 3 siblings: 'They were meant to be my kids')
"I had gone my entire life thinking that I did not or would not know anybody biologically related to me and now that I do. ... Knowing that Justin is just a phone call or a text or an email away or short flight away, it has really changed the way that I see myself in the world," she said.
"My heart absolutely melted," Kragt told ABC News Thursday about seeing his sister for the first time. "I'm so happy. It's something that I'm going to treasure the rest of my life."
"I always thought I was alone in the world and I was content with that," he said at the time of their reunion.
"Now you're stuck with me!" she said.
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The NSA is the Inmate Running the Asylum
Eugene Robinson says that the, "NSA, in its quest for omniscience beyond anything Orwell could have imagined, is simply out of control."
He's right, and he is right when he says that their, "This is not just a massive invasion of privacy that the people of France, Spain and other countries understandably resent. It's also a mistake."
The problem here is that the NSA, By Design wants it all. It is their organizational imperative.
This is why Obama's fondness for "bringing in stakeholders" has failed.
They are not a reasonable stakeholder whose needs to be heard, they are akin to the barbarian warriors hired by the Romans toward the end of their empire.
They are a tool that must be kept on a tight leash.
It is also clear that the NSA is pushing back aqainst Obama, because even as they officially deny that Obama was notified, anonymous sources are saying that their wiretapping were authorized:
The White House and State Department signed off on surveillance targeting phone conversations of friendly foreign leaders, current and former U.S. intelligence officials said Monday, pushing back against assertions that President Obama and his aides were unaware of the high-level eavesdropping.
Professional staff members at the National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies are angry, these officials say, believing the president has cast them adrift as he tries to distance himself from the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that have strained ties with close allies.
Think about this: Is there anyone in the NSA who would even talk to a reporter without assuming that the NSA was listening?
This is the NSA sending a not so subtle message, "Don't f%$# with us," and if be it's not NSA director General Keith Alexander, he gave tacit approval to the leak.
Labels: Bureaucracy , Corruption , Foreign Relations , Intelligence , Privacy


Nouveau is a take-away cake kiosk located at Hillion Mall.
I was pretty excited when I saw the selection of Instagram-worthy and pretty items such as Marble Pattern Cake ($14.80), Cotton Candy Matcha Red Bean Waffle ($14.80), Cloudy Alaska ($19.80) and Candy Rain Coffee ($7.80).
OLs and office workers in their business attire, drinking a cup of coffee with a huge hanging cotton candy during office hours?
For a more filling option, savoury items include Pizza ($13.80) and Sandwiches ($4.80 – $5.80).
Using cotton candy in most of their desserts, the Cloudy Alaska ($19.80) was a visually pleasing with flaming alcohol poured over the cotton candy, revealing a combination of meringue, sponge cake, lime and strawberry sorbet.
The combination was quite refreshing especially when the sponge cake was soaked entirely in the pool of alcohol.
The Marble Pattern Cake ($14.80) is another signature item, which comes in 3 different flavours: Strawberry, Green Tea, Nutella.
First impression: This looks too similar to Sugar Miss's version in Taipei.
Second Impression: The Marble Cube in Taipei looks more aesthetically pleasing with dripping molten layer on the outside, served on a marble plate.
While the price point may be on the higher side, the portion is good for sharing between 2 people.
I had the Nutella Marble Pattern Cake ($14.80) made up of chocolate sponge with Nutella mousse within it.
At that price point, I was expecting more, probably molten lava oozing out of it.
Coffee is reasonably priced at $5 for Latte, Flat White, Cappuccino and Mocha.
For a more fanciful Candy Rain Cloud ($7.80), a cotton candy is placed above a cup of hot coffee with hot steam causing the cotton candy to melt and drip into the cup.
Words of caution: It can be really messy and sticky with the melted cotton candy.
The offerings at Nouveau Cafe are interesting but I wonder if the crowd will appreciate these kind of desserts.
Take for example the Nouveau Old Fashioned Cake, coming in exciting flavours such as Passion Fruit Mango, Green Tea Red Bean, and Cotton Candy.
There were many curious onlookers who came back to take photos, and not buying any back.
I think the main reason is they were only sold in blocks and not slices, and may deter calorie-watching customers to think twice.
* Written by Nicholas Tan @stormscape who loves all things [NEW]. Additional photos from Daniel Ang @DanielFoodDiary. Daniel's Food Diary pays for food reviewed unless otherwise stated.


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In carriera ha militato per tredici stagioni nel Celtic; con la maglia dei Bhoys ha vinto sei titoli nazionali, quattro coppe di Scozia, cinque Coppe di Lega ed una Coppa dei Campioni.

È ricordato per aver segnato il gol vincente nella finale di Coppa dei Campioni 1966-1967 vinta contro l', partita per la quale la squadra del Celtic fu soprannominata Lisbon Lions.

Chalmers è altresì il quarto cannoniere di sempre nella storia dei biancoverdi con 231 reti realizzate, dietro a McGrory, Lennox e Larsson.

Nazionale
Ha debuttato in nazionale scozzese il 3 ottobre 1964, in una partita del Torneo Interbritannico persa 3-2 in casa del . In questa occasione ha anche segnato il suo primo gol internazionale. L'ultima partita da lui giocata è datata 16 novembre 1966, vittoria per 2-1 ai danni dell', partita valida per la qualificazione al .

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Celtic: 1965-1966, 1966-1967, 1967-1968, 1968-1969, 1969-1970, 1970-1971
Coppe di Scozia: 4
Celtic: 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971
Coppe di Lega scozzesi: 5
Celtic: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
Coppa dei Campioni: 1
Celtic: 1966-1967

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'A holiday unlike any other': Thanksgiving travel drop-off expected in CT
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Paul Schott Nov. 20, 2020 Updated: Nov. 20, 2020 8:12 p.m.
Passenger traffic during the 2020 holiday season dropped more than 60 percent at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., according to TSA data.
Photo: File / Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
WINDSOR LOCKS — Public officials across the country are discouraging unnecessary travel during Thanksgiving week, but officials at Connecticut's largest airport say the upstate hub will be ready for those who will still fly.
At Bradley International Airport, officials have accepted that the precipitous decline in air travel during the coronavirus crisis will not be reversed in the final weeks of 2020. But they and other aviation-industry leaders still expect significant traffic between Thanksgiving week and the new year, and believe an array of health and safety measures can help protect passengers during the second wave of the pandemic.
'A holiday unlike any other': Thanksgiving travel...
1of5A Connecticut Department of Public Health sign greets travellers outside the baggage claim areaat Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. on Tuesday, October 6, 2020.Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
2of5Passenger traffic during the 2020 holiday season dropped more than 60 percent at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., according to TSA data.Photo: File / Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
4of5Arrivals from a Florida flight wait in line for COVID-19 testing at Bradley InternationalAirport in Windsor Locks last month.Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
5of5Arrivals from a Florida flight wait in line for Covid-19 testing at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. on Tuesday, October 6, 2020.Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
"It's going to be a holiday unlike any other we've experienced," Ryan Tenny, chief information officer for the Connecticut Airport Authority, which owns and operates Bradley, said in an interview. "All of our measures are about creating a safe travel experience. We certainly realize there are different levels of comfort for everyone when it comes to travel."
Far fewer travelers
A number of travel groups are anticipating a major decrease in Thanksgiving week travel.
AAA is predicting the largest one-year decline since the Great Recession more than a decade ago. Based on mid-October forecast models, the organization would have expected up to 50 million Americans to travel for Thanksgiving, down from 55 million in 2019. But AAA officials now expect the actual number to be even lower.
Thanksgiving air travel volume will plummet 48 percent from last year — to 2.4 million travelers, AAA predicted. This would mark the largest one-year decrease on record for the category.
At Bradley, CAA officials are projecting a 38 percent jump in passenger traffic in Thanksgiving week compared with the past few weeks.
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"When you talk about a 38 percent increase, I think when people hear that, it sounds like a lot, but it still represents a 65 percent decline year over year," Tenny said. "They're very humbling numbers for the times that we're in."
The drop-off correlates with public officials' warnings to avoid unnecessary travel during the holiday season.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its website advises potential travelers that "postponing travel and staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others this year."
Gov. Ned Lamont and other elected officials have amplified that message.
Connecticut's infection rate ran at nearly 6 percent in the past week, compared with about 1 percent in the first week of October. Approximately 850 are hospitalized across the state with coronavirus-related illnesses, compared with about 40 such hospitalizations at one point in August.
"If people proceed with celebrations in small gatherings outside of their immediate families, they risk generating a dramatic spike in cases after Thanksgiving," read a statement issued this week by Lamont and the governors of Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. "All governors are urging their residents to stay home and celebrate small this year in an effort to help eliminate the risk of unchecked COVID-19 spread in the coming weeks."
For more than eight months, airports and airlines have been grappling with steep decreases in demand. A total of about 1.9 million travelers passed through Bradley in the first nine months of 2020, down 62 percent from the same period in 2019.
At Tweed-New Haven Airport, Connecticut's only other airport offering commercial service and a regional hub for American Airlines, American's service has been suspended until further notice.
U.S. airlines carried about 25 million domestic and international passengers in September, down 65 percent from the same period last year — but better than a record low of 3 million in April, according to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
"The situation remains dire for U.S. airlines," Nicholas Calio, president and CEO of Airlines for America, the trade association for the country's major passenger and cargo airlines, said Thursday during a virtual roundtable discussion of industry leaders. "We are in the midst of what we hope is a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, and it has hit very, very hard."
Flying during a pandemic
During the past few months, a number of airports have launched coronavirus testing to help travelers comply with new regulations during the pandemic.
Anyone coming to Connecticut from a state on Connecticut's travel advisory list can shorten a mandatory 14-day quarantine if they can show written proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken in the 72 hours before their trip or anytime after arriving.
With the exception of New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Hawaii, every state is on Connecticut's latest list, which is updated every Tuesday.
At the end of September, Bradley opened a testing center in its baggage-claim area. A daily average of about 300 passengers are getting tested, according to airport officials.
In addition, the CAA and Hartford HealthCare have announced a drive-through COVID-19 testing site on Bradley property that is set to open Monday. It will be available to the general public without appointments, and it will provide another option for passengers.
Aviation officials also cite the importance of physical distancing when possible, heightened hygiene and cleaning standards and mandates for passengers to wear masks while in terminals and on planes.
"If we have a passenger that goes through our screening process without wearing a mask, we ask that passenger to put one on if they have it," David Pekoske, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's administrator, said during the Thursday roundtable. "If they don't have it, we provide the passenger a mask. Our experience has been the vast majority, the overwhelming majority of passengers do comply with the request to wear a mask if they're not (already)."
The CAA's Tenny advised passengers to visit the Bradley website to learn more about the airport's health and safety measures.
While airlines are implementing significant measures to reduce the potential for COVID-19 transmission during flights, those actions do not eliminate the risks, according to David Banach, an infectious-disease physician and hospital epidemiologist in the UConn Health system.
"At this point, with increasing widespread transmission of (COVID-19) in Connecticut and nationally, coupled with the increased numbers of individuals traveling around the holiday season, the likelihood of close proximity with an individual with COVID-19 associated with air travel increases as well," Banach said.
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Paul Schott is a business reporter at Hearst Connecticut Media, writing about the issues affecting small- and medium-sized businesses and large corporations based in southwestern Connecticut, with a focus on Stamford and Greenwich. He previously covered education for Greenwich Time and general assignments for the Westport News. Paul welcomes readers' ideas and suggestions and strives to cultivate a robust dialogue with Hearst Connecticut Media's audience.
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Wow, time has gotten away from me once again. It has been a busy spring with lots of great clients and some great fishing. In early April we finally got a great rain in our watershed that brought Lake Fork up three foot in about 24 hours and is now less than two foot low. Have had some weather interruptions but overall temperatures have been wonderful, even summer like until a few days ago! Brrr, the last few mornings have been really cool.
There are so many ways to catch bass right now that is is hard to begin. I am trying to get out right at daylight and get on the Topwater bite in the shallows. We have some great flooded weeds, aquatic grass, and beany bushes now that all hold fish. The cover is holding lots of spawning bass and you can cast back behind the weeds like the Pond weed and get a bite before it gets hung in the weeds. If you don't get a bite, just hop it over and possibly get a bite on the outside edge of the weeds. Just don't be afraid of casting behind the great cover or you will be losing out. Other baits that are productive are the Buzzbaits, Frogs, and weightless Flukes. If there is cloud cover the topwater bite can be awesome, but it is not necessary. With having new beds being made, bass dropping eggs, and wads of fry all in the same area, there are days when you can catch bass on the Topwater all day long. It can be slow, but it can pay off really well.
Some days, by mid morning or so, I will go to a shallow diving crankbait in a shad color and focus on secondary points. A weightless fluke or one with a small split shot a few inches from the fluke in the White Ice or a Shad color is working well also. I am fishing the Flukes fairly fast on the points. A lot of people are also using Drop Shots and Jigging Spoons in the deeper water to catch large amounts of small bass. Some of the bigger bass are being caught on DD-22's or Carolina rigs in about 15 ft. of water. Plastics like lizards and creature baits rigged Texas style are working well in the heavy timber along with a Shaky head with a Zoom trick worm in Spicy Craw. One of our favorite baits right now if we don't have a lot of wind is the Wacky Rig with a straight worm in Watermelon/Red, Watermelon/Candy, Green Pumpkin/Green flake, and Spicy Craw. It looks like we will have a spawn for a few more weeks although a lot of them will be caught in about 5 – 10 ft. of water.
May and June can be some really fun fishing on Lake Fork, I just love this time of the year. We will continue to use the Topwater Baits and Buzzbaits on a daily basis as there will lots of bass guarding the fry. We will also start using a lot more of the White or Shad colored Flukes or Magic Shads, sometimes fished on a double rig. Nothing like getting two bass on at the same time! This is the time of the year when we will also start moving out more towards the points and some of the creek channels using Texas Rigs, Jigs, and Carolina Rigs. The Crankbait bite will just keep getting better also.
Around the first full moon in June, I will start my night fishing on Lake Fork. Day fishing will be good also, but I love night fishing around the full moon when the bass will move up in the shallows to feed at night. We prefer to fish areas of the lake that are shallow water with deep water access. For the night fishing, Spinnerbaits and Buzzbaits can be really good, but my overall favorite is Jigs and big Worms in Blue Fleck, Black/Blue, and Black/Neon.
We hope that you will be able to use some of the information that we have provided for you and have a great fishing trip or trips. If you would like to learn more about the techniques that we use, or more about Lake Fork and the patterns of the bass, we hope that you will give us a call or email us and book your trip. Our goal is to help you catch more bass or bigger bass, but we also book Crappie and Sandbass trips upon request. Come June, we will be booking 1/2 night trips for Crappie fishing from 7:00 p.m. – 12:00 and we will fillet and bag your catch. We will book for Sandbass anytime and we fillet and bag those for you also. If you are wanting to have a fish fry, give us a call and we will do our best to help you get enough Sandbass or Crappie to fill your limit. Individuals or group trips welcome at all times.
Please don't forget about water safety! Also, use your sunscreen, drink lots of water and wear a cap or hat and sunglasses!


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Cotham's main boundaries are the Whiteladies Rd, Redland Road and Cotham Rd and, at its narrowest point, Zetland Rd and Cheltenham Rd. It has a population of around 12,000. It's one of the most beautiful wards in Bristol – leafy, with some open space and pleasing architecture. It has a residential feel, but it's close to the shopping and restaurant life of both Whiteladies Road and the Gloucester Road and, via Redland Station, the Severn Beach line offers links within and beyond the city.
Cotham's schools (two primary, one secondary) are flourishing. There was massive, Labour government investment in the Cotham (secondary) School and the North Bristol Sixth Form Centre. The school, which specialises in the performing arts, with fantastic facilities for drama and music, has a great record of academic achievement.
Of course, no area is without its problems. There is a lot of privately rented accommodation (well above the average for the city), including houses in multiple cccupation (HMOs). This makes for high density and some of this accommodation is poor. A small part of the ward (the Cotham Hill 'super output area') is in the worst 10% in the country on one measure – living environment deprivation – which includes the poor indoor conditions in the private rented accommodation prevalent there*. Traffic, pollution, parking, litter and noise nuisance, can all make some parts of the area less than agreeable to live in at times. There is pressure on places for those good schools. Nor are local residents immune from national concerns – like the impact of the continuing recession or student fees.
With many students living in the area, Cotham has a younger population than the city average – about half its population is aged 16 – 29*. Although many of its residents are passing through (for a short, but very important part of their lives), Cotham has a neighbourly, community feel, as well as the youthful air and vibrancy that comes from the connection with the universities. Many people find Cotham a fine place to live – and help make it that way, through their involvement in the local organisations that contribute to that sense of community.


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Beri Named Scherrer Designer
PARIS -- Ritu Beri, the Delhi fashion star backed by Mounir Moufarrige for the past two years, has been named the new ready-to-wear designer at Scherrer. Her runway debut is scheduled for March 13 during Fashion Week here.
PARIS — Ritu Beri, the Delhi fashion star backed by Mounir Moufarrige for the past two years, has been named the new ready-to-wear designer at Scherrer. Her runway debut is scheduled for March 13 during Fashion Week here.
This confirms a report in WWD on Jan. 28. Moufarrige, the former Chloe and Richemont executive, recently took control of Scherrer, along with Jacques Fath, Emmanuelle Khanh and the shoe firm Harel, in forming France Luxury Group with French entrepreneur Francois Barthes. As reported, the upstart fashion conglomerate has access to about $200 million in funds for brand building and acquisitions.
Moufarrige told WWD Friday that Beri would continue designing her namesake collection, which generates about $4.5 million at wholesale, but would concentrate her efforts on creating a new image for Scherrer.
Stephane Rolland, with the house since 1998, will continue to design Scherrer couture, which Moufarrige said has annual sales of $3.5 million and is profitable.
Moufarrige, who famously recruited Stella McCartney at Chloe, is proving to be a strong advocate for female designers, having recently recruited Lizzy Disney to head Jacques Fath. Disney's runway debut for that house also is slated for March 13. The British-born designer made a name for herself in New York in recent years for her offbeat yet sophisticated designs.
Beri, a protegee of well-known French embroider Francois Lesage, is practically a household name in her home country. Under Moufarrige, she began showing her sexy, intricate collections in Paris and reined in a broad celebrity clientele, ranging from Nicole Kidman and Geri Halliwell to Bill Clinton, who ordered a custom-made Nehru-collared tuxedo.
At Scherrer, Beri is faced with rejuvenating a brand with an undeveloped rtw business and limited global resonance. But Moufarrige said the company is profitable, with retail sales of about $75 million worldwide stemming from licensed products such as fragrance, men's wear and bridge sportswear.
Founded in 1971 by Jean-Louis Scherrer, the designer was ousted in 1992.


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Liquid funds have beaten savings accounts. Of course, the risk is marginally higher
If you need to invest your excess cash so that it earns more than your savings account, liquid funds that have delivered 7 to 8 per cent annually over the last five years are ideal avenues.
Returns from these funds clearly trump your savings accounts that offer 4-6 per cent. Of course, the risk profile is marginally higher compared with savings accounts.
Portfolio mix
In the last one year, while the 'underperformers' delivered 7 to 8 per cent, there are many funds that clocked returns in the 8.5 to 9 per cent range. Returns have differed owing to the different portfolios of these funds.
Liquid funds are primarily invested in money market instruments such as certificate of deposits (CD), treasury bills, commercial papers (CP) and term deposits, with maturity up to 91 days.
Given the short tenure of these securities, they are not traded in the market and instead held-to-maturity by the funds, thereby reducing the risk.
However, within the portfolio, higher allocations to CPs issued by companies carry higher risk and offer higher yields than CDs.
Currently, a three-month CP offers 9 per cent yield while CD offers 8.7 per cent. By taking exposure to slightly more risky securities, the fund has been able to generate higher returns. Similarly, Principal Retail Money Manager Fund has, on an average, invested 60 per cent of its assets in CDs.
Balanced portfolio
But there are others that have a more balanced portfolio. For instance, HDFC Liquid, on an average, invested about a third each in CDs and CPs, and about a fifth in fixed deposits of banks over the last one year.
Similarly, SBI Magnum Insta Cash has invested nearly a third in CDs while investing about half in CPs. At the other end of the spectrum, funds that have underperformed have not invested aggressively in securities. For instance, Franklin India Cash Management, for most of last year, kept a fourth of its assets in cash, thus earning lower returns.
Given that liquid fund returns are usually in single digits, the expense ratio makes a notable difference to a fund's performance. The expense ratio on liquid funds varies from as low as 0.08 per cent to as high as 2.6 per cent.
On an average, funds have an expense ratio of about 0.4 per cent. Top performing funds such as HDFC Liquid Fund, (0.15 per cent), JM High Liquidity Fund (0.24 per cent) and Sundaram Money Fund (0.16 per cent) have lower expense ratios.
This is also because these funds have a large corpus. For instance, HDFC Liquid Fund has a corpus of about ₹16,645 crore as of August 2014.
SBI Premier Liquid has an asset base of ₹27,000 crore.
It delivered 9.4 per cent in the last one year with an expense ratio of 0.17 per cent.
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In this shaky economic climate, many families have tightened their belts and shelved their annual spring break holidays. However, the travel industry has counteracted by offering deals, discounts, promotions and packages galore that are tempting many of us to be less fiscally prudent and to splurge on some memory-making, battery-recharging, winter-escapist fun with the kids after all. Some even let the children tag along for free – can't beat that.
Get a load of some of the amazing specials out there for families looking for last-minute getaways this March/April.
Warning – stop reading if you really can't afford to be wooed away!
Over at CheapCaribbean.com, they're promoting 9 all-inclusive resorts for under $99. For instance, a stay at the three-star Holiday Inn Cancun Arenas starts at $85 per night and kids can stay/eat free.
Kids aged 15 or younger stay free per paying adult at several all-inclusive Club Med resorts in Florida, Dominican Republic and Mexico (also in Guadeloupe, but strikes are making this island a little unstable at the moment). They also have 3-night last-minute deals starting at $249 per adult.
Cruise Critic has the lowdown on some great family cruise deals, including Kids Sail Free promotions from Disney, Costa, MSC Cruises and Regent Seven Seas. Norwegian's rates for kids sharing your stateroom is just $99. For those reluctant to book because a better deal might be out there, Carnival has a Best Price Guarantee where if you find a cheaper deal within 48 hours, they will give you a 110% of the difference in shipboard credits. To really dig for a discount, try your luck with Cruise Compete where travel agents bid for your business through competitive quotes. To give you a guideline, there's a 4 night Royal Caribbean cruise for $367.
Check out the homepage of MouseSavers.com for an updated list of promotions at Disneyland, Disney World and Disney Cruises, including kids' priced Disneyland park tickets for everyone until April 30, 2009 and an extension of the 7 nights for the price of 4 package at Disney World through August 2009.
Reward your young scholar with a trip to the Grand Canyon and receive a $10 discount per A on their report card (up to $30 off). This Stay 4 A's package is valid through March 26 at the Maswik and Yavapai Lodges.


A Step in Time Dance Studio is pleased to have a special group of dancers that form their competitive dance companies. These companies attend conventions, perform at competitions and public events.
Company dancers put in a lot of extra time and effort, but the end result is well worth the sacrifice. The Studio feels these companies provide greater opportunity for the more serious dancer; along with increased performance opportunities and the invaluable lessons to be learned by working as part of a group/team.
It is our policy that you must have been a registered student the previous season, or summer in order to audition for company. And you must take at least 6 weeks of classes of an appropriate level over the summer. There are additional requirements for some groups.
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