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A Ford challenges Prius
The 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid.
By Monterey Herald |
Ford"s newest gasoline-electric vehicle, the C-Max Hybrid, is so roomy, stylish and smart, it"s likely to attract buyers before they see the noteworthy 47 miles-per-gallon fuel rating on the window sticker.
New for 2013, the five-passenger, five-door C-Max Hybrid hatchback has a federal government fuel economy rating of 47/47 mpg city/highway that beats the 44/44-mpg rating of the 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid and the 44/40-mpg rating of the 2012 Toyota Prius v.
Only the long-running "regular" Toyota Prius, with a government rating of 51/48 mpg, is higher.
But where the Prius" round-nosed, plain styling has not changed appreciably in recent years, Ford"s C-Max Hybrid has fresh, modern looks.
The car features a comfortably raised driving position for good views out, optional high-grade amenities and smart tech displays and aids to help drivers get the most from every tank of gas.
As an example, the C-Max Hybrid"s Brake Coach monitors the amount of energy a driver recoups during stops.
Did the car gather 65 percent of the brake energy in that last stop, or did the driver apply the pedal just right so 95 percent of the brake energy could be saved and stored in the onboard battery? Brake Coach knows and tells via a dashboard display at each stop.
Best of all, the C-Max Hybrid comes to the United States with a starting retail price that"s just a bit above long-running and smaller hybrid cars such as the Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid. The C-Max Hybrid starts $1,350 below the Toyota Prius v, which, as a van-like vehicle, is the closest direct competitor to the flexible, people- and cargo-hauling C-Max hatchback.
Starting manufacturer"s suggested retail price, including destination charge, for a base 2013 C-Max Hybrid SE is $25,995.
Every model has a 2-liter, four-cylinder engine mated to an electric motor and lithium-ion battery for total power output of 188 horsepower.
A driver does not plug in the C-Max Hybrid, because electric power is generated onboard, stored and then routed out of the onboard battery pack.
But a plug-in version of the C-Max, called the C-Max Energi, is slated to debut later in the model year.
The 2012 Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrid non-plug-in model has a starting retail price of $24,795, while Toyota"s introduced-for-2012 Prius v five door carries a starting retail price of $27,345. The 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid sedan has a starting MSRP, including destination charge, of $24,990. Toyota and Honda have not announced 2013 pricing yet.
Ford Motor Co. was the first U.S.-based automaker to venture into mass-produced gas-electric hybrids years ago with its Escape Hybrid.
But while the Escape Hybrid was a version of the regular gasoline-powered Escape sport utility vehicle, the C-Max Hybrid is Ford"s first hybrid-only line of vehicles.
The C-Max Hybrid looks more compact than it is. At 14.5 feet long, it"s shorter, bumper to bumper, than a regular Prius and is about the same length as a Honda Civic Hybrid sedan.
But with total passenger volume of nearly 100 cubic feet and maximum cargo volume of 52.6 cubic feet with rear seats folded flat, the C-Max Hybrid easily bests the Prius and Civic sedan in interior and cargo volume.
For example, with tall-riding back seats that provide more rear-seat headroom and legroom than the Prius and Civic sedan, the C-Max Hybrid has pleasant passenger room, even for back-seat riders.
The tall ceiling keeps passengers from feeling confined and helps make entry and exit stress-free. Passengers in front and rear seats don"t drop down but merely turn and set upon the nicely positioned seat cushions.
The Prius v does offer more total cargo room — 67.3 cubic feet.
But the C-Max styling, inside and out, appears to have more attention to high-line details and doesn"t feel like a large, plastic-filled box.
Don"t expect a speedster, though. Like the Prius, the C-Max utilizes a four-cylinder engine with Atkinson cycle, so it"s tuned for fuel economy, not zippy performance.
The electric motor provides zip at startups and contributes along the way at other speeds, when needed.
What was most impressive is how seamlessly the gas engine and electric motor worked together, meshing power without a hiccup or hesitation, in the test C-Max.
Thanks to a larger engine displacement, the C-Max engine"s maximum horsepower is 141, which is considerably more than the 98 horses in the Prius and Prius v.
Torque from the gas engine in the C-Max peaks at 129 foot-pounds compared with 105 in the Prius vehicles.
The combined power, from C-Max engine and motor, totals 188 horses, and in a car that weighs some 3,600 pounds, this is adequate.
Ann M. Job writes for the Associated Press.
Monterey Herald


The Akafliegers were out in force today. After a long and relaxing Christmas break, the Cal Poly students returned to Avenal ready for a full year of flying. Jennifer Bauman, Troy Wollman, Neiman Walker, Luke Bughman, Griff Malloy, Jesse McClintock, Andrew Palmer, and Beth Hotchkiss came to the field despite the warnings of inclement weather. They used their time at Avenal to clear the launch end of the field of tumbleweeds and larger plants to allow more gliders to line up and thus hopefully decrease the time between launches. There were also plans to inspect the winch line more closely by running it out along the field and looking for surface tears or fuzzy sections of the spectra but due to the muddy field this was postponed for a later weekend.
The Cal Poly group decided to work around the field when the flying wasn't going to happen.
A selfie taken by Jennifer Bauman showing the group hard at work at the launch end of runway 31.
Not sure who won the contest but the weeds were gotten rid of nevertheless.
Mostly wrapping up the work at the end of the day.
The field was slimy on the surface with some definitive muddy spots in the morning. As the day warmed up, the field dried a little but it was still far too wet to even drive the golf cart on the main strip. Some of the Akafliegers worked to remove some of the ruts that had been created during ops the previous week and were fairly successful at smoothing them out before the ground became too dry to pack down later in the afternoon.
Jim, Martin, and Dan also came to Avenal to check on the performance of the towplane and to possibly give it a test flight. The towplane did start up and ran to their satisfaction. Martin and Jim checked the field all day to find a 600' stretch to use for a towplane test flight, but unfortunately it was determined that the field was still too wet even at the end of the day to risk getting ruts on the field.
A working day at Avenal! Even though there was no flying to be had, spirits were high and at the end of the day the field and the towplane were ready for another great year of soaring!


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Taishi Translations
Consulate General of Worlds Behind Pages
Home List Of Worlds About Me
There Was No Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF!
世界の闇と戦う秘密結社が無いから作った(半ギレ)
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Chapter 1: Hurried Construction of a Secret Area Not on Any Maps
Volume 4: The Newly-Built Ancient Ruins
The underground bar Ama-no-Iwato, located in an alleyway in the Kita-Senju district of Adachi City, had a secret underground room. When a specific wine bottle disguised as part of the interior decor was moved, a lock would disengage and a shelf would slide away. At the bottom of the spiral staircase that would be revealed was a solid steel door outfitted with a voice recognition lock. Only by chanting the correct password would access to the secret underground floor finally be granted.
In short, this was a so-called "secret base." This was the base of operations of the secret organization that fought against the World Shadows, Amaterasu.
The secret base had a monitor room, storage room, training room, enough supplies to sustain ten people for ten days at a moment's notice, and so much more. However, all of this had been done without going through the proper application processes with the ward office. As there was no connection to an aboveground window to supply lighting and ventilation, this place was in clear violation of the strict guidelines set out in the Building Standards Act. We did have ventilation ducts, but the bigger problem was that if we properly declared everything as we were supposed to, this secret base would no longer be a "secret" base. In addition, there were a ton of bladed weapons and guns in our storage room that we definitely did not have the license to possess. Although our connections with the police granted us a certain degree of protection, I still found myself worrying about it every once in a while. Even taking all of that into consideration, however, the concept of a secret base located underneath an underground bar was just so attractive to me that I absolutely just had to build it.
Takahashi Shouta-kun, a freshman in a certain private high school, was another person who fully understood the allure of the secret underground base. One might think of him as an ordinary male high schooler with an ordinary name and an ordinary personality, but then one would be wrong. Shouta-kun had his hair dyed bright red (in violation of school regulations), wore t-shirts with bright red patterns underneath his uniform (in violation of school regulations), always had lighters — both the usual kind and the grill kind1 — dangling from his belt (in violation of school regulations), was constantly puffing on lit chocolate cigarettes2 (in violation of school regulations), and believed in the Truth of Fire (not in violation of school regulations). In short, he looked and acted like either a shounen manga protagonist or a delinquent, depending on your point of view. It was almost unbelievable that he had been a run-of-the-mill student up till his second year in middle school. Although his appearance and mannerisms strongly hinted at him being a fire user, his superpower was actually cryokinesis, and he was really good at using it. Well, all humans have their histories.
Well then. It was now wintertime, the time of the year that saw the streets filled with the usual Christmas jingles. Shouta-kun was down in the training room of the secret base together with Ig, working hard on training his abilities. As of late, the focus of his efforts had been towards trying to emit his freezing beam without the support of a PSI drive.
The default range of his superpower was 5 m, but with the boost from a PSI drive, he was capable of compressing his power and shooting it out to a range of up to several hundreds of meters. Ever since the dawn of war, range has always been associated with superiority. Humans had hunted mammoths with throwing spears, and the bow had dominated battlefields over entire millenia. Being able to one-sidedly launch attacks from a safe distance has been, and always will be, the best tactic.
As Shouta-kun converted the training room into an icy hell of -200°C with a heart burning with passion, I kept an eye on him using telekinesis from the counter of Ama-no-Iwato, polishing a wine glass the whole time.
For the past half year, I had been gone from Amaterasu, pretending to have lost a large part of both my power and memories. The setting went that the World Shadows were linked up with me, and so when I was weakened, there were no World Shadows assaulting humans. Now that I was back, however, the World Shadows were also back. The world was once again back under threat.
During the time when the World Shadows were taking a break, the adolescent members of Amaterasu, Shouta-kun and Touka-chan, had been working hard on their studies. Fighting with the World Shadows was a pretty time-consuming affair, sometimes requiring late nights and early mornings. It would be putting the cart before the horse if they were to fail their entrance exams or fail to get recruited because of it. Now that I had returned to Amaterasu, exciting events were going to start up again. In expectation of this, Kaburagi-san had apparently looked after the two's studies to help them pull ahead so that they could afford the time for these events. When I heard this, I realized once again how I really was no match for her.
And as it turned out, the two students had been working not only on their academic studies, but had also started thinking about their future. Shouta-kun had attended a workplace tour of the thermal power station in Shinagawa3, whereas Touka-chan had gone on a volunteer trip building a large Buddha in Myanmar. Good on her for finding a way to earn merit and learn something at the same time. Back when I was in my first year of high school, I had been a devil-may-care without a single life goal in my mind.
Guess the world really does keep turning even in my absence, I thought with a pang of loneliness. But now that I was back, it was time to kick it back up to spinning speed!
And so!
First event, right on the heels of my reinstatement in Amaterasu!
We!
After finishing his training, Shouta-kun came out of the training room while opening and closing his hand, looking deep in thought. At that very moment, I released Ig from my telekinetic hold. The teenager watched as the little monkey scampered through the half-opened door of the storage room.
"Wait a — no, you can't — don't go in there!"
Shouta-kun quickly chased the monkey in a fluster. With all of the firearms and weapons and PSI drives stored within, the storage room's door was usually kept tightly closed. It was a complete mystery whose fault it was, but apparently somebody had forgotten to close up after themselves and Curious George Ig had gotten in. How troubling.
"Ig! Come on out! I'll give you a chocolate cigarette! Be a good girl!"
While peeking through the various shelves that lined the room, Shouta-kun continued calling out to the common marmoset. Eventually, he found her scrabbling at something underneath one of the corner shelves.
"What are you doing, sheesh. Let it go. Let~it~go!"
Shouta-kun tugged at Ig's small body, but the monkey was fiercely clinging to one of the legs of the shelf and obstinately refusing to let go. After all, there was a coat of sweet, sweet sap on the leg that had been specially blended to be odorless to humans. Whereas Ig was engrossed with licking the sap, from Shouta-kun's point of view, it only seemed like the little animal was resisting based on some whimsical fancy.
Right when Shouta-kun's elbow happened to bump into another shelf, a click rang out and the shelf moved away. Behind the shelf was — gasp — a dimly-lit secret room! This was a secret room inside the secret base underneath a bar, a secret area that wasn't anywhere on the blueprints! I had worked hard building it five days ago!
As Shouta-kun stared in astonishment, I used telekinesis to gently free Ig from his hands in a way that wouldn't feel unnatural, after which the little monkey darted inside the secret area in pursuit of an even thicker scent of sap.
"…………… Th-There's no helping it, right? Ig's gone inside, and I can't very well not retrieve her, right?"
While muttering excuses to himself under his breath, Shouta-kun gingerly stepped foot inside the secret area with his face a mixture of excitement and guilt. I mean, of course he would be curious about it. Of course he would go in. I get it, man. When faced with an "Authorized Personnel Only" sign, if the perfect excuse was presented to me, even I would slip inside in a heartbeat. If this was Touka-chan, she would have taken the "correct" approach of first reporting to Kaburagi-san and asking for instructions for whether or not to go in, so using Ig to fan Shouta-kun's curiosity really was the right call after all.
The dimly-lit room was eerily quiet due to having no air conditioning and being fully soundproofed. There were also shelves in here, just like in the storage room. The ones in here were only sparsely populated, but there was a certain air about everything on display. A rusty pocket watch whose hands were stopped. A large, beautiful plate the color of aquamarine. A chipped urn decorated with peculiar motifs. A big, black pearl resting on top of a crimson cloth. A golden necklace embedded with large jewels of a variety of colors. A rough-hewn wooden flute. A staff entwined with wilted vines. A cat statue made of marble. It was a collection of "things that looks like it has a story" purchased for a total of 700,000 yen.
Of course, there wasn't actually anything special about any of these items. The mystical aura that seemed to envelop them was merely an effect created by them being hidden away in a secret area and the unnatural quietness of the room.
It was about time, so I put down my wine glass, used telekinesis to wrap up a ball of oxygenated gasoline4, then headed down to the secret area while killing the sound of my footsteps.
By this time, Shouta-kun had completely forgotten about Ig, his eyes having been completely stolen by the fascinating items on display. There was a certain naked short sword decorated with tassels that he seemed particularly taken with. For several minutes, he extended and retrieved his hand, clearly conflicted about whether to pick it up or not.
……up……it up……pick it up……you want to touch it……you know you want to……
When I sent telepathic suggestions to the teenager from my position in the shadows of the doorway, he finally took the handle of the sword. That instant, I threw a protective barrier over every item and every living being inside the room, greatly compressed the oxygenated gasoline that I was holding onto, set it on fire, and released it. In short, I caused a huge explosion. From Shouta-kun's point of view, it must have looked like the sword had exploded.
A terrible roar went up and a violent gust of wind reduced the shelves in the room to deformed wrecks. Thick, black smoke billowed out the open doorway.
In spite of the suddenness of everything, Shouta-kun's reaction had been muy perfecto. The Eternal Guard Blizzard (Wall of Absolute Zero) that he had deployed instantaneously would have protected his body just fine even without my barrier. Clearly, he had been very hard at work training his instant cast.
When I thought about it again, I realized that it had already been two years and three months since Shouta-kun awakened to his superpower. Humans would grow automatically just by eating and sleeping, but this was the kind of thing that wouldn't grow without diligent effort. Seeing the proof of how hard Shouta-kun had been working towards being able to stand on his own made me very happy. To think that that common-looking teenager had now grown up into such a fine man.
Without waiting for the reverberation still ringing in the air to subside, I used telekinesis to clear away all the smoke and revealed myself in the doorway.
"Guess I should have stuck an 'Authorized Personnel Only' sign somewhere."
"Shit. Uh, Master…"
When I spoke up in a solemn voice, Shouta-kun dispelled his defenses and scratched his head awkwardly.
"S-Sorry, Master. I think I bro— I made something explode? I think it exploded. All I did was touch it, I swear. I didn't do anything else."
"I-I'll pay for the damages. Please forgive me."
"There's no need."
"What? ……Wait, what?"
I pointed to the completely unharmed artifacts scattered all over the ground. Shouta-kun's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. After all, it had seemed like an explosion that had utterly destroyed everything. Of course he would be freaked out. The pocket watch might have survived somehow, but the chipped urn looked like it would break just falling to the ground, much less withstand an explosion. In spite of all this, it looked none the worse for wear aside from the soot on its surface.
"Oh, you protected them with telekinesis."
"…That's not it. We'll explain. Come on up."
Shouta-kun guessing correctly made my heart skip a beat, but I curtly voiced my denial, then turned to head upwards. Of course, I did not forget to use telekinesis to retrieve Ig, who was entirely frozen with surprise. Using the trope of starting an arc with an explosion seemed to have gone well. Kaburagi-san would be back soon, with Touka-chan in tow, to take on the role of providing exposition. The setting was that I had grown a little less tight-lipped compared to the time before I left, but it would be weird for me to suddenly get all talkative. Maintaining character was important.
"Sago-san had been traveling around the world as part of his efforts at fighting the World Shadows."
Meekly sitting across the table from Kaburagi-san — who was wearing a juunihitoe5 today — was the high schooler pair of Touka-chan and Shouta-kun. Clearly not a fan of the slightly burnt smell coming off of Shouta-kun and me, Ig was up in her decorative plant in the corner, rustling about and doing her own thing.
"Part of that journey involved searching for and retrieving Artifacts. And that special area in the back of the storage room is where we are storing them."
"Artifacts?"
In response to Touka-chan's mystified look, Kaburagi-san nodded in confirmation.
"That's right. Baba-san had called Sago-san 'the world's oldest esper,' but that was not quite right. According to history records, espers have actually appeared several times in the past a long, long time ago. There were eras with espers and eras without espers, and nobody seems to know the reason why that is. One thing, however, is certain: everytime the espers show up again, the first one is always a telekinetic. In that meaning, I suppose Sago-san being the oldest isn't exactly wrong. And as for Artifacts, these are relics that espers from long ago have poured their powers into."
"Damn, I never knew."
Damn, I never knew… wait, no, Kaburagi-san just made that up, didn't she? It sounded so realistic that even I almost believed it. But the word "artifact" really does have a nice ring to it, doesn't it? If only these Artifacts actually existed. It's because they don't exist that I have to go to the trouble of forging them. Real life is just sad.
"So then, why did something like that explode? Did it contain a fragment of the Truth of Fire or something?"
"The unstable power inside had probably gone out of control. Artifacts are too dangerous to touch carelessly. That's why we had isolated them in their own room."
"Dangerous to touch carelessly?"
At the end of Shouta-kun's doubtful gaze was Ig, who was entertaining herself by furiously tugging at the chain of the rusty pocket watch. What she was doing was clearly way beyond the limits of "careless."
Monkey! Don't go overturning our setting right after it got explained!!!
"……Though there are Artifacts which aren't dangerous. Those whose powers are in a stable state are safe to touch."
Nice cover up!
"In other words, it's better to assume that they're all dangerous, right? Shouta, you never think things through before acting. The fact that the area was hidden means that there's a reason why it was hidden. Any normal person would know better than to go in. The right thing to do would be to first get proper permi—"
"Ah~ah~ah, I don't want to hear your lecturing."
"Alright, then. Avalokita Bodhisattva, who dee—"
"Neither do I want to hear your sutras either. Why do you look so disgruntled? Oh, right, changing the topic, well, maybe I'm not, but in any case, was Master in the middle of retrieving an Artifact from Shichijou-jima when it exploded and obliterated the island? That's insane. Yeah, I can see why you'd want to isolate something like that."
Shouta-kun crossed his arms and nodded in comprehension. That's… not it. But let's not confirm nor deny it. It'd probably sound even more "insane" if I explain that the explosion had just happened somehow when Oyabun and I punched out with our full strength.
While inwardly cracking a wry smile at the unexpected misunderstanding, Kaburagi-san went on to sum everything up.
"Each Artifact contains a different power, and I've been 'making' time to study them. Theoretically, there is very likely an Artifact out there that's capable of completely eliminating the World Shadows. We can't very well continue fighting against them forever and ever, right? We would eventually need to take some action against the very root of the problem. And Sago-san and I believe that the solution lies with the Artifacts. That's why he was going around searching for them."
"Are we too weak to be of help?"
"I know I did just mess up, but the both of us have definitely grown stronger. Sure, there might be danger involved, but this is basically just treasure hunting, right? Let us help out with something like that at least. We already possess enough strength to do that much."
Shouta-kun followed up Touka-chan's words with his own reassurance. Kaburagi-san and I exchanged glances and smiled. They sure catch on quick.
"In that case, would you two like to try your hand at the next Artifact retrieval mission?"
"Thank you for the opportunity."
"We got this."
Both high schoolers nodded resolutely.
Gotcha!
You guys asked for it yourselves!
We're taking it as your declaration of consent!
Brb while I go build the ancient ruins where the most powerful Artifact ever sleeps!
Hey there, thanks for reading!
If you're enjoying the series, please consider buying Volumes 1 and 2 in Japanese and English to support Kurodome-sensei and me!
All details in the Table of Contents page.
1 These. Apparently they're called "grill lighters," courtesy of Khuma. I honestly never knew. Even the Japanese don't really have a proper name for them, as they are referred to as chakkaman, which is a proprietary eponym like how "velcro" is just velcro and there's no other name for what it is.
2 Just want to put this here, but cigarettes are bad for your health! Don't smoke!
3 An actual real place. Kinda all the way on the other side of Tokyo from Adachi Ward, but what you gonna do, that's commuting for you, I guess.
4 Apparently mixing oxygen into gasoline to make it burn better is a thing. TIL.
5 The juunihitoe is a style of formal court dress first worn in the Heian period by noble women and ladies-in-waiting at the Japanese Imperial Court.
Ruuototsu	on October 10, 2020 at 8:38 am
I have been waiting for this! you made my day.
BofoiXBofoi	on October 10, 2020 at 11:07 am
Senhor Verdejante 🌱	on October 10, 2020 at 10:30 am
Thanks for the chapter! 💪('ω'💪)
Kiro	on October 10, 2020 at 12:21 pm
Watch the Artifacts be broken by someone while Sago is sleeping and not protecting them with his protective barriers. Like that fragile looking jar being knocked over.
AnyBody	on October 10, 2020 at 1:01 pm
I wonder why Sago doesn't Train His telekinetic again cause his power range still One planet
Carlos	on October 10, 2020 at 1:13 pm
Omg that was so awesome!!!
I love the setting Sago and Kaburagi are fabricating!
I'd totally watch it if it was an anime!
macks	on October 10, 2020 at 1:56 pm
I skipped arc 3
Hemu	on November 11, 2020 at 3:42 am
…..I'm late by how many days….dang it. Always a nice beginning to the volume! Thanks for the chapter!
Soviet elf	on October 11, 2020 at 3:10 am
T.Hanks
dee2	on October 11, 2020 at 5:45 am
I almost feel like this idea of espers coming and going is to be true…
DGR11897	on October 14, 2020 at 4:18 am
I was also thinking that. It would be kinda funny if Touka or Shouto discovered an actual artifact with ESPer powers in it. Or a Ruin with the same.
André	on October 11, 2020 at 6:34 am
Nice. Thank for the chapter
Archeisse	on October 12, 2020 at 12:38 am
Mixing oxygen with gasoline, or in that regards, mixing any oxidizer with any fuel, is pretty standard way to facilitate efficient burning. From there we get fun stuff like thermobaric weaponry (where fuel gets dispersed into the air first to blend with atmospheric oxygen, THEN you blow it up), or inversely rocket fuel (where proper ratio of fuel and oxidizer is pretty important seeing how there's not really any oxidizer in outer space for fuels to react with).
Sago is increasingly a capable puppeteer. It definitely helps that now he's not stuck to being completely silent. His time with Tsukuyomi probably helps with his acting too. This chapter is a nice opening. Also, Kaburagi wearing a juunihitoe? That sounds like a beautiful sight.
Will be patiently waiting for next month. Hope the translation go smooth!
Paul 0	on October 12, 2020 at 5:09 am
Paps	on October 12, 2020 at 6:43 am
Thanks for the chapter, I know Sago and 'The Duchess' are great at preparing scenarios and all, but really I am missing Baba and the sophistication of her plans, hope she reappears soon and the dark organization as well.
srishak	on November 8, 2020 at 2:15 am
you know… i just binge read vol 3 while screaming and fangirling all the time… truly i couldn't express my feelings clear enough to to tell you just how muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im grateful that this translation exist…. please… pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee keep up the good work i beg of you please. and lastly thanks for the translation!!! @.@

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Pat Anderson, 80, of Dawsonville passed away Sunday February 24, 2019 at her residence following a period of declining health.
Born September 20, 1938 to the late Ralph and Dorothy Voigt, Pat was raised in Merrill, Wisconsin. She had been a resident of Dawsonville for over ten years coming from Forsyth County. Pat's philosophy in life was always to give back to the community. She accomplished many things throughout her life including being part of a group that started a Montessori school in Berea, Ohio and serving as a teacher and director of Eastminster Presbyterian Preschool in Stone Mountain for 25 years. Alongside her husband she helped grow the US Freestyle Wrestling Federation from 300 kids to over 4,000 and also helped establish and operate the Dawson County Humane Society where she spent every Saturday for ten years doing off-site adoptions. A loving wife, mother and grandmother, she enjoyed quilting and had donated over 100 quilts to Eagle Ranch.
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Suspending ops during Ramadhan a positive initiative: Mehbooba
🕒 12 months ago
July 27, 2018 IST
Press Trust of India |2 Mins Read
Srinagar, July 26: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said today that the decline in stone-pelting incidents in the Valley when the anti-militancy operations were suspended for Ramadhan vindicated her stand that it was a positive initiative which needed to be continued to improve the situation.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, Union minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said stone-pelting incidents in Jammu and Kashmir had come down during the suspension of operations in the month of Ramadhan.
"During the period from May 17 to June 17, 2018, as many as 117 incidents of stone pelting were reported in Jammu and Kashmir as against 219 during the period of April 15 to May 16, 2018," Ahir said.
"Decline in stone pelting incidents during ceasefire vindicates our stand that it was a positive initiative that brought a sense of relief amongst the masses. Its continuation would have further improved the situation," Mehbooba wrote on Twitter.
The Centre on May 16 had issued instructions to the forces and the Army not to undertake offensive operations during the period of Ramadhan in Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah said the major cause of the stone-pelting in the Valley is the crack-downs or the cordon and search operations which did not take place in the month.
"But they forgot to add the context – crack downs or cordon/search ops (operations) stopped during that period so a major cause of the stone pelting disappeared for the month of Ramzan (Ramadhan)," he said on Twitter
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New Delhi, Jul 16: Pakistan opened its airspace for all civilian traffic on Tuesday morning, sources said, effectively removing the ban on Indian flights that were not allowed to use majority of its airspace since the Balakot air strikes in February.
The move is expected to give a major relief to Air India, which suffered a huge financial loss of around Rs 491 crore as it had to re-route its various international flights due to the closure of the Pakistan airspace.
"Pakistan has permitted all airlines to fly through its airspace from around 12.41 am today. Indian airline operators will start using normal routes through Pakistan airspace soon," the sources told PTI.
Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) at around 12.41 am Indian Standard Time, stating that "with immediate effect Pakistan airspace is open for all type of civil traffic on published ATS (air traffic service) routes".
Pakistan had fully closed its airspace on February 26 after the Indian Air Force (IAF) struck a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) training camp in Balakot in retaliation to the Pulwama attack on February 14. Since then, the neighbouring country had only opened two routes, both of them passing through the southern region, of the total 11.
On its part, the IAF had announced on May 31 that all temporary restrictions imposed on the Indian airspace post the Balakot strike had been removed. However, it did not benefit most of the commercial airliners and they were waiting for Pakistan to fully open its airspace.
In India, the biggest pain was suffered by Air India that conducts various international flights from Delhi to Europe and the US.
The national carrier had lost Rs 491 crore till July 2 due to the closure of the Pakistan airspace. Private airlines SpiceJet, IndiGo and GoAir lost Rs 30.73 crore, Rs 25.1 crore and Rs 2.1 crore, respectively, according to the data presented by Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri in the Rajya Sabha on July 3.
Post the air strike, Air India had to re-route, merge or suspend many of its international flights that connect India with European and US cities.
IndiGo, India's largest airline by domestic market share, was unable to start direct flights from Delhi to Istanbul due to the closure of the Pakistan airspace.
The low-cost carrier started the Delhi-Istanbul flight in March. Till date, this IndiGo flight had to take the longer route over the Arabian Sea and make a stop at Doha in Qatar for refueling.
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Srinagar, Jul 16: Uncertainty looms large over the implementation of 10 per cent quota for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in NEET for J&K students.
On June 20, Jammu and Kashmir government approved the reservation (second amendment) bill incorporating 103rd Amendment of the Indian constitution to provide 10 percent reservation to economically weaker sections in jobs and educational institutions.
The amendment will provide for 10 percent reservation to Economically Weaker Sections in educational institutions and direct recruitment in civil posts and services not covered under the scheme of the reservation for SCs, STs, and OBCs.
However the authorities are yet to issue a notification for its implementation in NEET. The reservation was not considered in the first round of counseling. Clouds of uncertainty looms large over the second round of counseling as well.
"Medical Council of India and Dental Council of India also granted approval for additional 85 MBBS and 26 BDS seats. However the state government is not issuing notification regarding its implementation which has put the career of students at stake," said Malik Sujad, a NEET candidate.
Principal Secretary Health and Medical Education, Atal Dullo told The Kashmir Monitor that they have succeeded in getting additional seats allotted from the Medical Council of India.
"Amending rules for EWS has to be done by the social welfare department. After the social welfare department notifies the rules, Board of Professional Entrance Examination will consider those for counseling," said Dullo.
"It will take time. We will consider EWS in counseling, once we get a nod from Social welfare and parliament," he added.
Centre proposes to scrap NEET-PG
New Delhi, Jul 16: In a relief to medical students wanting to pursue post-graduate courses, the Union Health Ministry has proposed to do away with NEET-PG and instead the final MBBS examination results would be prerequisite for admission to MD and MS programmes.
The amendment has been incorporated in the revised draft National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill which would be sent to the Cabinet soon, official sources told PTI.
According to them, the changes have been incorporated in the bill on the directions of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
"According to the amendments made in the fresh NMC Bill, entry into the PG programmes will be on the basis of the results of the National Exit Test (NEXT), which would be held as a common exam across the country. So the candidates would not have to appear in a separate exam after clearing the MBBS final exam for admission to PG courses," the source explained.
The students would also not be required to appear in a separate exam after MBBS to obtain a license to practice.
However, for admission to PG programmes at AIIMS, clearing a separate exam will remain mandatory. Also, the NEET Super Speciality, which is a national-level entrance exam for admission in DM/MCh courses, will continue, sources said.
Every year 80,000 students take admission into MBBS courses in about 480 medical colleges in the country, while 1.5 lakh students appear for entrance exams for admission to around 50,000 PG seats.
The NMC Bill was introduced in Parliament in December 2017, but it lapsed with the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha.
After its introduction in the lower house in 2017, the Bill, which aims to replace the Medical Council of India Act, 1956 and included the contentious provision of a "bridge course" to allow practitioners of alternative medicines to pursue allopathy, was referred to a Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee following massive protests from the medical fraternity.
The first version of the Bill also proposed a national-level licentiate exam for all MBBS graduates for getting licence to practice in India.
But it was removed following strong protests by several doctor bodies.
The provision of the 'bridge course' was also strongly opposed by health bodies, including the Indian Medical Association, which claimed that allowing AYUSH doctors to practice modern medicine would promote "quackery", although the ministry had argued that the provision seeks to address the "acute shortage" of doctors in the country.
The parliamentary panel gave its recommendations in March 2018, following which the Health Ministry scrapped the provision of 'bridge course and also made some other changes as suggested by the committee before moving the official amendments in the Lok Sabha.
"It has been left to state governments to take necessary measures for addressing and promoting primary healthcare in rural areas," the amendment stated and also made the punishment for unauthorised practice of medicine more severe with imprisonment of up to one year along with a fine of up to Rs 5 lakh. (PTI)
Srinagar, Jul 16: In an astonishing development, doctors Tuesday managed to successfully remove a 25 kg cyst from the ovary of an elderly woman in south Kashmir's Anantnag district.
The remarkable surgery was accomplished by Dr Azad Malik and his team at Al Hayat, a private nursing home in the district.
The patient, a 72-year-old woman who hails from Kulgam's Kund area, had visited the doctor for consultation at Dr Malik's clinic last week.
"She was complaining of abdomen pain, breathlessness and difficulty in walking. Ultra-sonography conducted on the patient revealed a huge mass in her ovary," news portal The Kashmir Press quoted the doctor saying.
"The patient was operated on Monday and a giant cyst was removed from her ovary. The cyst weighted about 25 kg," Dr Malik told The Kashmir Press.
He, as per the report, said the cyst weighed more than the weight of a five year old child.
"The cyst was spread from lower abdomen to lungs and patient was living with it for the last two years," Dr Malik said.
"It was a tough procedure. Patient during the surgery had suffered some cardiac issues but we handled it with all the care. The patient is recovering normally," he said.
Earlier in 2016, Dr Malik, who is considered as one of the best laparoscopic surgeon in Kashmir, had removed 22 kg ovarian cyst from 16 year girl at district hospital Anantnag.
In 2015, he had performed Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP), a rare surgery, on a male patient at district hospital Anantnag.


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Dennis Sy: "Can She Stay" – a powerful and poignant ode
Jeena Johnson August 11, 2017
Dennis Sy is no newcomer on the block. In his over 20 year career he has seen the inside of Carnegie Hall and also played stages in Atlantic City, Las Vegas and the Mohegan Sun Casino. Moreover Dennis Sy is an award-winning singer, BMI songwriter, and GRAMMY-winning producer. Hence when he rolls out a song like his latest release, "Can She Stay", I am not surprised at all. It's what you would expect from an artist of his caliber. On the track, Dennis shared lyric writing duties with Michael Peloso and producing chores with Lorrie Ilustre, while he himself took care of the music.
Dennis Sy
"Can She Stay" is a powerful and poignant ode to daughters getting ready to start a new journey with the people they are about to pledge their love and lives to, but at the same time provides an affected look at the bittersweet emotions of a father in the contrasting throes of wanting to hang on and having to let go. Peloso and Sy do a magnificent job of bringing the melodrama of the moment to the fore without leaning on too many clichés.
It's tough to find that perfect song to dance with Dad on your wedding day – you want something special, touching, meaningful…but not romantic. Often, there's a song that's almost perfect — then there's that one verse that makes it borderline creepy.
Well Peloso and Sy have created the perfect Dad and daughter song…no editing needed. The closest anyone else has come, is Heartland, with "I Loved Her First", another great song about 'losing' a daughter to someone else.
Michael Peloso
Though totally different in style and theme, "Can She Stay" ranks up there with many other strikingly intelligent and emotional songs about daughters, like "Father and Daughter" by Paul Simon, "Gracie" by Ben Folds, or "Daughter" by Loudon Wainwright.
And there clearly won't be a dry eye in the house after this song has played through, I can assure you. Dennis Sy's vocal delivery is powerful, yet never over the top, and emotionally engaging.
The back to the basics approach brought to the track is evident, with its dangling, broken piano chords and angelic melody, it is apparent that Dennis Sy and Michael Peloso came into this track with a fully realized vision that they intended to stick to.
The entire song adheres to this concept, relying on sparse instrumentation (piano, strings and saxophone), dominating vocals, and heartfelt lyrics, to give the track an earthy, organic feel as opposed to the rigid studio trickery present on most modern recordings. The result is a rich character study and evocative imagery that usually defines the best musical compositions. As I said right in the beginning, Dennis Sy is no newcomer on the block!
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Dave Aichinger is my guest today. Dave is the Senior Manager of Team Services for the New Era Cap Company. A unique job because Dave is the guy whose job it is to outfit the winning teams their ballcaps at the World Series and Super Bowls. An envious job for any sports fan, Dave talks about some of the realities of having to travel so much. He also share some of the differences he has seen over the past 29 years of business travel.
Like many of my guests, Dave's reality of business travel is different to the everyone's perception. We talk about missing family and friends events and having to make up for lost time with our families. Another common business traveler ailment is having a hard time with hobbies and being consistent with them.
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In 1920, Ehrhardt Koch borrowed $1,000 from his sister, Rose and $1,000 from his co-worker Joe and started his own cap company, the "E. Hoch Cap Company." Production started on the third floor of 1830 Genesee Street in Buffalo, New York. The company started with 14 employees, including Ehrhardt's sister Rose, Ehrhardt's son, Harold, and Rose's son Wally Domas. In 1920, the company produced 60,000 caps.
1934, New Era began producing caps for the Cleveland Indians. This would be their first Major League Baseball (MLB) contract. In 1954, the company's fitted pro cap was modernized, redesigned and named the 59Fifty, aka the "Brooklyn Style" cap, by Harold Koch. He introduced many design improvements and innovations while head of New Era. By 1965, New Era was supplying caps to about 10 of the 20 MLB teams. In 1993, New Era was granted the first exclusive license with MLB to produce the on-field baseball caps for all teams.
In 2001, Chris Koch was named CEO. In the 2010s, while New Era had long been associated with baseball, the company focused on delving into football and other sports leagues.
2012, it acquired full exclusive sideline rights for the National Football League (NFL). I
2013, New Era signed with Australian cricket's Big Bash League as their official cap provider. New Era signed an additional deal in 2015 with Manchester United.
2017, New Era signed exclusive rights for NBA on-court product. This made New Era the first headwear company to have exclusive rights for MLB, the NFL, and the NBA simultaneously.
It was announced on August 13, 2016, that New Era and the Buffalo Bills reached an agreement for naming rights for Ralph Wilson Stadium. The Bills and New Era officially announced the stadium's new name of New Era Field five days later, on August 18, 2016.
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Q: Delegate method not being called? I have a view controller with a delegate method that should be called, but it doesn't?
NotifyingViewController.h
@protocol NotifyingViewControllerDelegate <NSObject>
@required
- (void)iWasAccepted;
@end

@interface NotifyingViewController : UIViewController

@property (nonatomic, weak) id<NotifyingViewControllerDelegate> delegate;

NotifyingViewController.m
-(void)someMethod{
        [self.delegate iWasAccepted];
        [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

NotifiedViewController.h
#import "NotifyingViewController.h"
@interface NotifiedViewController : UIViewController <NotifyingViewControllerDelegate>

NotifiedViewController.m
-(void)iWasAccepted{
    [self saveIntoDB];
    NSLog(@"DELEGATE RAN");
}

For some reason, the controller that should be notified isn't. The Notifying controller does dismiss meaning the method that alerts the delegate IS run, but the delegate doesn't run the function because it doesn't NSLog. Any ideas why?

A: You can't just specify that an object conforms to a protocol. You must also assign that object as the delegate. When you alloc/init the instance of NotifyingViewController, set its delegate to self and you should be fine.
NotifyingViewController *notifyingInstance = [[NotifyingViewController alloc] init];
[notifyingInstance setDelegate:self];

It is important to both do this, and specify that the class conforms to the protocol, which you're already doing with this line.
@interface NotifiedViewController : UIViewController <NotifyingViewControllerDelegate>

Additionally, when calling delegate methods, it's good practice to wrap the function calls in respondsToSelector: checks.
if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(iWasAccepted)]) {
    [self.delegate iWasAccepted];
}


Besides adding static graphic images, you can also add movies to a PowerPoint slide so that they play as part of your presentation. To get a video to use in PowerPoint, you can either search for one over the Internet or look for one stored on your computer.
Click the slide (in either Normal or Outline view) to which you want to add a video.
In the Media group, click the Video icon.
The Video menu lets you choose a video on your hard drive or on the Internet.
Choose Online Videos. An Insert Video window appears.
The Insert Video window lets you search for video files over the Internet.
Click in the Search YouTube text box and type a description of the video you want, such as dogs, and then press Enter.
If you have copied a video embed code from an online video, you can paste it in the Paste Embed Code Here text box.
A list of videos appears.
Click the video you want to place on your slide and then click the Insert button.
PowerPoint displays the video on your slide. You may need to move or resize it.
You won't see the video in action until you view your presentation by pressing F5 or (if you click the video) you click the Playback tab and then click the Play icon.
If you've captured video through your computer's web cam or through a mobile phone that you've stored on your computer, you may want to search for that video instead of searching for one over the Internet.
PowerPoint can use movies stored in common video formats such as AVI, MPEG, ASF (streaming video), QuickTime, Flash, and WMV files. If your movie is stored in a different file format, such as Real Video, you must convert the file before you add it to a PowerPoint presentation.
Click the slide (in either Normal or Outline view) to which you want to add a movie.
Choose Videos on My PC.
An Insert Video dialog box appears.
Click the movie file you want to add and then click the Insert button.
PowerPoint displays your video on the slide.
If you click the Play button on the Format or Playback tab, you can view your video.
If you add a video to your presentation, you may realize that the video is too long. To fix this problem, PowerPoint lets you trim a video from the beginning or the end.
You can trim only those videos retrieved from your computer, not videos retrieved from the Internet.
Two low-cost video-editing programs are Adobe Premiere Elements and Corel VideoStudio Ultimate.
Click the slide (in either Normal or Outline view) that contains the video you want to trim.
The Video Tools Format and Playback tabs appear.
In the Editing group, click the Trim Video icon.
The Trim Video dialog box appears.
The Trim Video dialog box.
To trim the beginning of the video, drag the beginning (green) marker to the right or click the up or down arrow in the Start Time box.
To trim the end of the video, drag the ending (red) marker to the right or click the up or down arrow in the End Time box.
PowerPoint displays your trimmed video on the slide.
To enhance the appearance of a video, you can modify its brightness, contrast, and color. Modifying one or more of these options can correct flaws in a video or just create unique visual effects that may make your video more memorable.
Click the video that you want to format.
Click the Video Tools Format tab.
In the Adjust group, click the Corrections icon.
A menu appears, letting you choose different brightness and contrast settings, as shown in Figure 12-11.
You can adjust the brightness and contrast of a video.
In the Adjust group, click the Color icon.
A menu appears, letting you choose different color settings.
To make your video appear even more visually interesting, PowerPoint lets you modify the shape of the video. Instead of appearing as a boring rectangle, your video can appear with shadows, in shapes such as a triangle or an arrow, or surrounded by a frame.
Click the slide (in either Slide or Outline view) that contains the video you want to trim.
In the Video Styles group, click the Video Shape icon.
A menu appears, letting you choose a shape to format your video.
The Video Shape icon menu lets you choose unusual shapes.
In the Video Styles group, click the Video Border icon.
A color palette appears, letting you choose a color for your border.
To change the border thickness and style, such as a dotted line, click the Weight or Dashes option and make a selection.
In the Video Styles group, click the Video Effects icon.
A menu appears, letting you choose from different effects such as Shadow or Rotation.
If you click a style in the Video Styles group, you can choose a predefined appearance for your video.


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Die Wiederkehrenden Schauplätze in Police Academy sind die Orte, die in der Filmserie Police Academy eine zentrale Rolle spielen.
Alle Filme und Serien von Police Academy spielen in einer fiktiven US-amerikanischen Großstadt und deren Polizeiakademie. In letzterer gibt es einige markante Orte, die wiederholt in den Filmen auftauchen. Weiterhin gibt es die Bar The Blue Oyster, die in den ersten 4 Filmen als Running Gag eingesetzt wurde.

Die Stadt

Die Filme und Serien spielen in einer fiktiven US-amerikanischen Großstadt. In der deutschen Version des ersten Films wird konkret die New Yorker Polizei Akademie genannt, um die es in dem Film gehen soll. Allerdings handelt es sich dabei um eine Erfindung der Übersetzer, da dies im amerikanischen Original fehlt. Zudem fehlen entsprechende Erkennungsmerkmale wie z. B. bekannte Gebäude der Stadt, Uniformen des NYPD oder entsprechende Autokennzeichen.

In keinem der Filme wird der Name der Stadt genannt, in der die Polizisten ihren Dienst tun. Die Darstellung der Stadt, insbesondere die Allgegenwärtigkeit von Verbrechen, ist allerdings eine deutliche Anspielung auf die Zustände in Detroit und New York City in den 1980er Jahren. Im Vorspann aller Filme (mit Ausnahme des siebten) sieht man auch die Skyline einer Großstadt, der jedoch markante Gebäude fehlen. In den Dialogen werden auch nie Hinweise gegeben. Klar ist lediglich, dass die Filme in den USA spielen, da die amerikanische Flagge sowie die Farben rot-weiß-blau oft vorkommen.

Die Gebäude der Akademie

Die Gebäude, zu sehen in den Filmen 1, 3 und 4, stehen in Toronto. Es handelt sich um eine Anlage, die in den 1880er Jahren gebaut wurde und ursprünglich das Mimico Lunatic Asylum (später Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital), eine psychiatrische Klinik, beherbergte (Position des Gebäudes ). Sie wurde von Trevor Williams aus dem Produktionsteam des ersten Films entdeckt. Police Academy war der erste Film, der dort gedreht wurde. In der Folge diente es als Drehort verschiedener weiterer Produktionen. Das Gebäude wurde mittlerweile vom Humber College, einer technischen Universität, aufgekauft. Im Jahr 2011 stand das Hauptgebäude noch leer, aber mittlerweile (Stand: Ende 2022) hat die Hochschule dort ihren Lakeshore Campus. Das Hauptgebäude ist als G-Building bezeichnet und beherbergt das Centre for Entrepreneurship, die übrigen Gebäude verschiedene andere Einrichtungen.

Im siebten Film gibt es wieder eine Außenaufnahme der Akademie, aber es wird ein anderes Gebäude gezeigt, dessen Standort nicht bekannt ist.

Lassards Büro
Ein wiederkehrender Ort in allen Filmen mit Ausnahme des sechsten ist das Büro von Commander Lassard, in dem vor allem Besprechungen stattfinden.

Es hat eine Aussicht auf den Vorplatz der Akademie. Lassard sitzt dabei mit dem Rücken zum Fenster und hat einen großen Schreibtisch vor sich. Da sich der Drehort der Filme mehrfach änderte, sieht man deutliche Unterschiede im Aussehen des Büros. Während das Büro in den Filmen 1, 3, 4 und 7 sehr ähnlich aufgebaut ist, hat es im 2. Film eine gänzlich andere Aussicht ohne den Vorplatz. Das Büro im 5. Film ist sogar von der Raumgestaltung vollkommen verschieden.

Der Vorplatz der Akademie
Der Vorplatz der Akademie wird auch oft gezeigt. Ihn ziert in der Mitte ein großes Blumenbeet, das das Emblem der Akademie darstellt. Der Vorplatz ist in den Filmen 1, 3, 4, 5 und 7 zu sehen, im 5. und im 7. Teil allerdings etwas verschieden im Erscheinungsbild. Im 3. Film stürzt Zed mit dem Motorrad in die Blumen, im 4. Film sind es Carey Mahoney und Larvell Jones, die mit dem Auto dort landen.

The Blue Oyster
Ein Running Gag der ersten vier Filme ist der Schwulenclub The Blue Oyster. Er zeichnet sich vor allem dadurch aus, dass die dort üblicherweise Anwesenden Lederkleidung bzw. Polizistenverkleidungen tragen, die an die Village People erinnern. In der Bar wird Tango getanzt. Die Musik ist ein Stück mit dem Namen "El Bimbo". Die unbeabsichtigt dort landenden Akteure werden zum Mittanzen gezwungen.

Die "Besucher" sind im Einzelnen:

 Copeland und Blankes landen im ersten Film gleich zweimal dort. Beim ersten Mal fallen sie auf eine Täuschung Mahoneys herein, der ihnen hat mitteilen lassen, dass die Party der Kadetten dort sei. Am Ende des Films landen sie nochmals dort, als sie vor einem wütenden Mob flüchten. Die Adresse gibt Mahoney als Howl Street an.
 Sweetchuck flieht im zweiten Fall vor Zeds Bande und landet versehentlich dort. Er muss mittanzen, aber kurz darauf bricht eine Schlägerei aus, weil seine Verfolger auch hereinkommen. Mahoney, Vinnie Schtulman und vor allem Hightower lösen die Situation und verhaften alle, die an der Schlägerei beteiligt sind.
 Proctor scheint ein Kenner der Bar zu sein. So weiß er im zweiten Film deren Adresse auswendig: 629 Cowan Avenue. Allerdings sieht man später die Hausnummer 655, als die anderen Polizisten dort ankommen.
 Proctor landet im dritten Film splitternackt in dem Club, nachdem er von der Prostituierten hereingelegt worden ist. Das weitere Geschehen bleibt allerdings offen.
 Im darauffolgenden Film gehen Harris und Proctor auf einen Tipp Mahoneys dorthin – dieser hat ihnen erzählt, dort gebe es ein Restaurant mit der besten Salatbar der Stadt.

Der "reale" Blue Oyster Club des ersten Films befand sich in einem Blues-Club namens Silver Dollar Room in Toronto (Position ).

Orte außerhalb der Stadt

Im Gegensatz zur Stadt werden Orte außerhalb der Stadt klar benannt. In drei Filmen spielen Teile der Handlung außerhalb der Stadt:
 Im vierten Film wird Lassard zu einem Seminar nach England geschickt, wodurch erstmals ein Teil der Handlung außerhalb der Stadt stattfindet. Die einzige in London spielende Szene umfasst jedoch weniger als 2 Minuten.
 Im fünften Film fährt Lassard mit seinen Leuten zu einer Ehrung nach Miami. Hierdurch wird erstmal die gesamte Handlung zu weiten Teilen aus der Stadt verlegt. Insgesamt spielt der Film zu rund zwei Dritteln in Miami und Umgebung.
 Ähnlich ist es im siebten Film, wo Lassard mit seinen Leuten nach Moskau gerufen wird, um einen Gangsterboss zu stoppen. Hier spielen nur die ersten 10 Minuten in Amerika.

Drehorte

Obwohl die Farben der US-Flagge und andere USA-typische Elemente zahlreich in den Filmen zu finden sind, wurden sie zu großen Teilen nicht in den USA, sondern in Kanada, genauer Toronto in der Provinz Ontario, gedreht. Die Drehorte sind im Einzelnen:

 Die im Vorspann verwendete Skyline gehört meist zu Toronto.
 Der erste Film entstand in Toronto. Der kanadische Drehort wird in einigen Details verraten. So haben die Autos Nummernschilder von Ontario (blau auf weißem Grund). Auch gibt es eine Szene, in der ein Schild die Aufschrift "centre" (kanadisch/britische Schreibweise) anstatt "center" (US-Schreibweise) trägt. Neben Toronto wurde auch in Brampton in der Region Toronto gefilmt.
 Der zweite Film wurde zu großen Teilen in Los Angeles gedreht. So sieht man die damals üblichen kalifornischen Nummernschilder (gelb auf blauem Grund). Der erwähnte Strand ist ebenso dort. Beschriftungen sind teilweise auf Spanisch, was in Kalifornien wegen der großen Anzahl spanischsprachiger Einwanderer nicht unüblich ist. In diesem Film ist das Gebäude der Academy von außen nicht zu sehen. Auch die Aussicht aus Lassards Büro unterscheidet sich deutlich.
 Der dritte Film wiederum entstand fast vollständig in Toronto. So ist bei den Wasserszenen gegen Ende klar die Skyline zu erkennen, teilweise sogar mit dem markanten CN Tower. Einige Szenen wurden aber im Long-Island-Sund bei New York gedreht.
 Der vierte Film spielt fast vollständig in Ontario. Lediglich für die Außenaufnahme des Gerichts wurde das Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts verwendet. Die in London spielende Szene wurde daher höchstwahrscheinlich auch in Ontario gedreht.
 Der fünfte Film entstand fast vollständig in Miami und West Palm Beach in Florida. Es finden sich auch keine Außenaufnahmen der Academy und Lassards Büro sieht deutlich anders aus als in den Vorgängerfilmen. Allerdings wurden die Verfolgungsszenen auf dem Wasser am Schluss des Films auf dem Ontariosee bei Toronto gedreht.
 Der sechste Film wurde wie der zweite Film in verschiedenen Teilen von Los Angeles gedreht. Es gibt jedoch einige Details, die auf vorige Filme Bezug zu nehmen scheinen. So sind die Nummernschilder wie im ersten Film wieder blau auf weißem Grund. Sie tragen allerdings den Schriftzug "Drive Safely". Zudem finden sich die Ortsbezeichnungen "Oakdale" und "Wilson Heights" - Toronto, das in den vorigen Filmen oft als Drehort verwendet wurde, hat Stadtteile mit diesen Namen.
 Der siebte Film entstand zu großen Teilen in Moskau, aber auch einige wenige Szenen spielen in der Academy. Das gezeigte Gebäude ist aber nicht das aus den ersten Filmen.

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I love Christmas and the food is one of the highlights for me. But I know this is not true of a lot of children who struggle to eat.
- And suddenly Christmas Day doesn't seem so much fun.
1. Make sure our child knows what to expect. It's often easier to cope if we've been pre-warned.
2. Can we talk to relatives in advance and explain that Christmas Day is never the right time to be teaching lessons about eating food so please not to comment/ intervene.
3. Setting sensible time limits on how long our child needs to be at the table (or giving them the ability to get down - within reason).
4. Relax. The way we feel affects the way our child feels. If we're happy and smiling it enables them to do the same.
6. Give our child some autonomy. What would they like to put on their plate. Gifting them some control helps.
7. Having some familiar items can be comforting. Is it a favourite plate or cutlery or is it having rabbit sitting next to them.
8. And the MOST IMPORTANT :) Christmas Day is for everyone to enjoy. It's about family and fun and loving celebrating. No one does this if they are not able to eat things they enjoy. So, my advice is to have one of our children's favourites at the table. Hopefully there is something that blends in like some potatoes or carrot sticks but if it's peanut butter on crackers then it is.
Biting, chewing and swallowing. AKA - EATING!!
When our child gets more confidence around a food they are gradually able to get it into the mouth and actually chew and swallow it.
Often this step is days, weeks, months or even years after we introduce Step 1 so don't be discouraged if it doesn't happen overnight. Eating can be very challenging and it takes time for our child to work through the steps at their own pace.
I hope this week has helped you a little. Let me know what you think and what could be useful to know.
Now we're actually getting the food into the mouth, but being able to take it out (preferably politely) if we don't like it.
Having the ability to try a food but still remove it from the mouth if a picky eater is a bit overwhelmed by the taste or the texture enables the to take an easier step forward.
If we have to chew and swallow anything that goes into our mouth, that's a lot more challenging.
Ah, we're getting to the pointy end now!
Getting a food up to the mouth and touching the tongue to it.
Not that I advise parents to ask their picky eaters to lick foods. It's just part of the natural progression we follow when learning to like a new food.
Just touching it with the tongue is a precursor to being able to put it into the mouth. For many children with food anxiety or fears this is a big step.
If your child is able to touch a food with their tongue it's a positive so feel good (rather than disappointed that they're not eating it). If they are able to do this repeatedly they are building up to the next step which may be more challenging for them.
Not that I'm advocating sticking our nose into food!
However, being comfortable about how a food smells is going to make it far more likely we are happy to put it near our mouth.
Gradually becoming more comfortable about the smell of new foods supports steps forward.
If the smell of new foods is overwhelming then it's not likely that a child is going to be comfortable putting a food in the mouth.
Part of establishing this comfort level is having those foods and therefore the smells regularly appearing. The more we are around the smell the more likely we are to become comfortable with them.
We can support this by having our picky eater around foods not just at the table but as part of everyday life. Oranges in a fruit bowl for example.
Often this is a really easy step for picky eaters but not always. For some children touching certain foods can be really challenging.
Being confident around a food and being able to touch it and handle it is important. If we don't even have that level of comfort there is little chance of it making it into our mouth!
Shopping, growing, cooking and serving foods are all great ways to give our children the opportunity to touch new foods away from the table.
If our child is happy to handle foods at the table then that's great and the more we do it the more comfortable we become with that food.
Yesterday we talked about having the new foods we want our child to eat on the table.
The next logical step is of course on the plate.
Our child has to become as familiar as possible with a new food to maximise the chances that they will learn to eat it.
One of my favourite phrases is "if it's not on the plate it can't get eaten". Again I know this is obvious but it's something we often give up on far too soon. If we're not seeing immediate results it seems like a waste of time.
If having new foods on the plate is distressing then we need to spend time with our child building that comfort level. It's also often supportive to have them put foods on the plate themselves - rather than us plonking them down! This is something I spend a lot of time working on during a workshop with parents.
Tomorrow let's look at the Third Step to eating. Now what could that be?
Having a logical plan to follow is a large part of success when it comes to supporting our children to eat widely and well.
This week we'll look at 7 steps to eating.
The first is that the food is put on the table. I know, I know it seems ridiculously obvious. And it is. But a lot of eating well is logical and simple. It's a question of rinsing and repeating and doing it calmly month in, month out.
The first step to wanting to eat something is developing a basic comfort level with its look and its smell. This means that foods have to be in plain sight repeatedly.
Start with just having the foods we want our children to eat on the table.
If our child is really sensitive to smells or phobic about the look of certain foods then we may have to do some work on that first. However, for the majority of picky eaters this is a really easy step and therefore there is nothing stopping us doing this all the time.
Tomorrow we'll look at the Second Step to eating.


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A prolonged severe intoxication after ingestion of phenytoin and phenobarbital
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Albertson, T. E., Fisher, C. J., Shragg, T. A., & Baselt, R. C. (1981). A prolonged severe intoxication after ingestion of phenytoin and phenobarbital. Western Journal of Medicine, 135(5), 418-422.
A prolonged severe intoxication after ingestion of phenytoin and phenobarbital. / Albertson, Timothy E; Fisher, C. J.; Shragg, T. A.; Baselt, R. C.
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Dear NFL: Time to ditch the tie
Photo Courtesy: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
"I don't have a sister, but I'm going to say it's like going to prom with your sister."
Forgive Jared Allen for bringing back repressed memories of forced games of dress up and tea party with big sis, or maybe, just maybe, of the worst prom EVER. It's just that, how do you react when you're playing a sport at its top level and you go home without winning or losing?
Save me the conversation about the world's game, soccer, having ties. Playing to a draw is an inherent part of that game. The teams get a point for a tie that goes toward playoffs and advancement. The NFL doesn't do that. Their stalemates are a nuisance and aggravation, and it's time for the league to say goodbye to the dreaded tie.
Sunday the Packers and Vikings became the 37th and 38th teams since 1974 (when the league adopted Sudden Death Overtime) to go home with this uneasy feeling, finishing without a winner in a sport where most of them have never experienced anything but winning or losing. And it wasn't just the guys on the field who didn't know how to feel about it.
"I've never seen a stadium just quiet after a game. I'm pretty sure the general feeling was … what … happened?" Packers Defensive End Mike Daniels said.
Fans pay good money for tickets, particularly in Green Bay, where many of them are sold on the secondary market. They don't go to football games to see a tie, and they aren't forced to at the high school or college level, at least in most places. That's why it's baffling to me why the NFL still allows for games to end this way.
It's not like the league is unwilling to toy with its bonus time policies. They already changed the format, not rewarding a team who gets the ball first by allowing them to win with just a field goal. Now, it's time to take it a step further and play until a winner is found.
It's a simple change. Either keep the clock running and start a new quarter or play with only a play clock and don't worry about game time. The league already has it right from a purists standpoint. They don't resort to the gimmick of penalty kicks, shoot out or even college football's method of giving teams the ball already in scoring position. Teams have to grind to put points on the board, same as during regulation, and they shouldn't feel like the clock is playing against them when they aren't even losing the game.
The NFL has plenty of issues to deal with, but is there a change to be made that would be easier than this one? The fans, the players, and especially Donovan McNabb aren't interested in a tie, and the NFL shouldn't be either.
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Peter Johnson
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An Augusta-area man fell as many as 30 yards in a Saturday climbing accident but landed on his feet and survived with extensive injuries, officials said Wednesday.
Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Crum said he was called to the scene before 3 p.m. Saturday on Devil's Glen, a Dearborn Canyon trail about a mile-and-a-half past the Montana Wilderness School of the Bible.
Crum said he learned that a 20-year-old August area man was climbing with friends on a Steamboat Mountain cliff when he adjusted a piece of climbing equipment that wasn't secure and fell straight down, as far as 90 to 100 feet.
The man reportedly landed on his feet and broke several bones, Crum said. Friends from the Bible college carried him down the trail on a backboard, where they met members of the Augusta ambulance crew who transported the man to a clear spot where a helicopter could land.
Crum said he could see from a distance that the man was conscious and telling emergency medical technicians where he hurt.
An ALERT air ambulance crew from Kalispell Regional Medical Center transported the man to Benefis Health System hospital in Great Falls.
Lowell Engle, a program director at Montana Wilderness School of the Bible, said Wednesday that the man is a former student of the Bible school and still lives in the Augusta area.
He declined to give the man's name, but said he is still hospitalized with a broken femur, shattered elbow, broken foot and eight fractured ribs.
"He fell at least 60 feet and probably should have died, but he's alive," Engle said.


James recognizes the importance of the Word of God in our spiritual growth. The problem is that, too often, we fail to respond properly to it. James challenges us to examine our response to the Word to make sure we are accepting it.


Basic cover: What can you expect from the base tier of hospital insurance?
Basic hospital insurance is the lowest of four tiers of hospital insurance: Gold, Silver, Bronze and Basic. These tiers come into effect on 1 April 2019 as part of a range of health insurance reforms aimed at making health insurance easier to understand and more affordable.
What is Basic private hospital insurance?
Basic tier hospital insurance is the lowest private level of hospital insurance available to Australians. Basic hospital cover provides members with restricted access to a limited amount of services.
Here you can find four of the cheapest Basic hospital options from Finder partners. All prices are based on a single person living in NSW, with a $500 excess. They cover emergency ambulance and would make you exempt from the Medicare levy surcharge (MLS) come tax time.
What does the Basic hospital tier cover?
Who needs Basic hospital insurance?
However, these benefits may be offered on a restricted basis, meaning you may face out-of-pocket costs for treatment.
What is basic plus (+)?
As part of the health insurance reforms, policies outside of the gold tier offer "Plus [+]" options, in this case a Basic Plus [+] policy. All this means is a policy with Plus [+] is a policy that provides cover above the minimum requirements of the Basic tier. For example, HIF offer a Basic Plus policy that in addition to the minimum benefits required for a basic policy, HIF Basic Plus offers benefits for tonsils, adenoids and grommets, joint reconstructions and hernia and appendix.
Because of the limited nature of cover available under a Basic tier policy, this low-cost option is best suited to people in two specific situations.
A Basic policy is more akin to your "junk" policies and is only really beneficial to those trying to avoid being pinged for not having health insurance. In particular, if you're earning over $90,000 and want to avoid the MLS, and that is your only need from your hospital insurance policy, then a Bronze or Basic policy would fit the bill. The same goes for those trying to avoid the lifetime health cover (LHC) loading or those wanting a deduction for their tax return.
Medicare levy surcharge (MLS). High-income earners (more than $90,000 for singles and $180,000 for families) must pay an extra 1–1.5% in tax unless they have adequate private hospital cover with an excess of no more than $500 for singles and $1,000 for families.
Lifetime health cover (LHC) loading. A 2% loading on your private health cover for every year after you turn 31 that you don't have adequate private hospital cover.
This logic carries through for those who don't live near a private hospital. If you're never going to use your benefits in a private hospital you may want to opt for the Basic option if you're earning over $90,000.
The new Basic tier for hospital insurance comes into effort on 1 April 2019 but health funds have until 1 April 2020 to make all of their products compliant.
What is covered by the third-highest tier of hospital insurance policies?
Your guide to gold health insurance coming in April 2019.
Read our guide to the new health insurance tiers that come into effect in 2019.


Digitalis is a young DJ/Producer and label owner. He is the man behind Tranceflo Records which he is managing along with Björn Hodel. I personally remember this guy from a single a few years ago called "Sea Of Dreams" which wasn't too bad at all.
Here is a man who is pretty much all over the place with his productions at the moment. He's injected a not too over the top electro tinged bassline which gives the track some groove and edge. In the break Suncatcher goes all Daniel Kandi with a few piano notes. In addition to that some soft pads and a melody that rises and blows all up when the bass pops back in. The track has a nice flow and a gorgeous melody. Lovely stuff here!
The Original version of the track feels more energetic than the remix. The bassline has got a very nice Mike Shiver feel to it which certainly is a plus. Digitalis takes his time to build up the energy and the break seems like a succes but the pay-off isn't as satisfying as I had hoped for. It's like you're waiting for a bomb to be dropped but it just never happens.
Not my favourite single on Monster Tunes this year but the Suncatcher Rmx sure is solid. This guy is one to watch out for!


LOL!!! CNN Prime Time Ratings Drop DRAMATICALLY After Their HOAX Was Concluded!
CNN dropped from a mere a little over 900K to a measly a little over 500K! This means Fox prime time shows have nearly TEN (10) TIMES the viewership!
Too bad the Mueller Report didn't come out WAY sooner. GOP likely would have KEPT the House.
so much good news recently.


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Los Angeles Notes: Hamilton, Managers, Niese
By Mark Polishuk | December 13, 2012 at 11:32pm CDT
The Dodgers have dominated the headlines in Hollywood for most of the winter but the Angels stole the spotlight today by reaching agreement with Josh Hamilton on a five-year, $125MM contract. Here are a few items about both Los Angeles franchises…
Hamilton's agents approached the Dodgers and the team did background work on the outfielder, but the Dodgers never seriously considered signing him, reports FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal. The Dodgers simply didn't have room in the outfield with Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier and Carl Crawford all locked up to major long-term contracts.
Don Mattingly and Mike Scioscia will both be under tremendous pressure to manage their respective teams to postseason success in 2013, writes Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times. Scioscia is under contract through 2018 but the Angels haven't made the postseason in three years and the skipper seemed to be on the hot seat last year during the team's slow start. As for Mattingly, he is entering the final year of his three-year contract. Hernandez also addresses a number of other questions about both teams as part of his Q&A piece, including if the Angels signed Hamilton as a response to the Dodgers' high-profile moves.
The Angels are interested in Jonathon Niese and share an interest in R.A. Dickey with the Rangers, reports Matthew Cerrone of Metsblog.com. Cerrone believes the Blue Jays also have their eye on both Mets pitchers, with Niese as their first choice.
There are still some outstanding questions about the Dodgers' financial situation and the status of their rumored multi-billion dollar TV deal with FOX, writes ESPN's Darren Rovell.
Earlier today we explored the reaction to the Hamilton signing and its impact around the league.
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Rockies Links: Correia, Karstens, Cuddyer
Central Notes: Soriano, Pierzynski, Adams, Royals


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RG Herald: Diaz Sworn in to RGCCISD Police Dept.
Diaz Sworn in to RGCCISD Police Dept.
Officer Jesus Diaz was sworn in as an RGCCISD Police Officer on September 8, 2010 by School Police Chief Hernan Garza. Diaz attended the Police Academy and graduated as one of the top students in his class on March 2009. Officer Diaz worked as a Peace Officer in Sullivan City briefly before joining the district's Police Department. He had previously been employed as a bus driver for Rio Grande City CISD for the past 13 years. His experience with school policy and demographics will undoubtedly aid him in his new career. Officer Diaz is married to Anna Lee and they are the parents of four (4) children; Emily Ann (20 yrs.), Jesus Diaz, Jr (18yrs.), Jessica Lean (10 yrs.), Jackie Diaz (7yrs.) and the proud grandparents of an 11 month old Dilan Rodriguez. Pictured are Diaz and Chief Garza. (RGCCISD Photo).


Award-winning, bestselling author Edward Kelsey Moore will speak at the Bremen Public Library in Bremen, Indiana (located south of South Bend) on Wednesday, April 12th, 2017 at 2pm. Mr. Moore will read from his work and discuss his debut novel, The Supremes At Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, and its sequel, which will be published this June -- The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues.
The Bremen Library has three book discussion groups which each meet once a month -- to share and enjoy other readers' opinions and ideas about books. In the past few weeks all three of Bremen Library's book groups have been reading The Supremes at Earl's in anticipation of the author's visit to the library.
This event is made possible in part by Indiana Humanities and the Indiana Authors Award.
Indiana Humanities annually awards funds to local nonprofit organizations to bring an award-winning Indiana author to their community to speak to a public audience as part of the Novel Conversations Speakers Program. This year seven Indiana authors will speak in more than 20 Indiana cities and towns.
The program is funded by a grant from The Glick Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation. The visiting authors are current and past finalists and recipients of the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award.
The Novel Conversations Speakers Program takes its name from Indiana Humanities' Novel Conversations Program, a free statewide lending library offering sets of books, primarily fiction and biographies, to reading and discussion groups at libraries, community centers, schools and other locations throughout the state. The Novel Conversations library includes 600 titles by more than 500 authors. All of the Indiana authors taking part in this year's speakers program are represented in the Novel Conversations library.
Any Indiana resident with a book club can participate in Novel Conversations for free. Books are shipped via the Indiana State Library's INfo Express service to libraries around the state, or picked up and returned at Indiana Humanities' headquarters in Indianapolis. Residents of areas outside library districts may be eligible for free direct shipping. All books must be reserved in advance online by visiting www.indianahumanities.org/novelconversations.
If you live outside Indiana and are interested in a book club lending program in your area, search online at your state's humanities website. Or search at the public library foundation in your state, or visit the largest public library in your library district and ask about a similar book club borrowing program.


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MONDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Inducing or helping along labor in pregnant women may raise the risk for having a child with autism, particularly if that child is a boy, a new study suggests.
About one in 88 children born in the United States has autism, a spectrum disorder that affects behavior and the ability to communicate, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is no consensus on what causes autism, but several factors are thought to increase risk, including advanced maternal age and/or pregnancy complications.
In the new study, researchers looked at the birth records of more than 625,000 babies born in North Carolina between 1990 and 1998, and compared those with public school records to see who was later diagnosed with autism.
According to the researchers, 1.3 percent of boys and 0.4 percent of girls were diagnosed with autism. Specifically, boys born to moms whose labor was induced or helped along were 35 percent more likely to develop autism, compared with their counterparts. Among girls, only augmented labor was associated with an increased risk for autism. The increased risk of autism held even after researchers controlled for other factors such as the mother's age.
"The risk is significant, but it is not grossly significant," said study author Simon Gregory, an associate professor of medicine and medical genetics at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He said the autism risk posed by labor induction or augmentation is similar to the risk seen with advanced maternal age.
"Autism risk is likely a cumulative effect of many genes and many environmental effects," he noted.
The new results should not be interpreted to mean that helping labor along is a dangerous medical practice, Gregory stressed.
"In the vast majority of cases, pregnancy should be induced or augmented for cogent medical reasons, and if it isn't, the risk to mother and child is significantly worse than risk for developing autism," he said. "Women should understand the medical reason for induction or augmentation. This is a discussion that they need to have with their health care provider."
Calling the new findings "hard to ignore," Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York, said induction or augmentation of labor appears to be associated with a modest increase in the risk of autism. "The increased risk, even if real, is relatively small and must be weighed against the proven benefits of induction or augmentation of labor in cases where there are real concerns about the acute health of the mother and unborn infant in the hours prior to delivery."
Michael Rosanoff, associate director of public health research and scientific review at the advocacy group Autism Speaks, said much research on risk of autism focuses on the time around birth.
The new findings "warrant further research into the specific mechanism that may cause the relationship. We don't know if it's the drugs that bring on or speed up labor or the condition that causes labor to need help in the first place," he said. "Autism is a puzzle, and this is another piece that we have discovered."


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How Christian was Iberia in the Middle Ages?
Christian cultural practice in the Iberian Peninsula belies a lingering paganism in the Peninsula well after we assume the total defeat of organized pagan religion: you just have to know where to look.
Ziyad ibn 'Amir al-Kinani and El Libro del Caballero Zifar
Did the 'lady in the lake' motif of Arthurian legends make it to Castilian via an Arabic chivalric tradition?
Popular Andalusi literature and the Arthurian tradition in the Iberian Peninsula
The first example of chivalric romance in the Iberian Peninsula was written in Arabic.
David Wacks
Professor of Spanish, University of Oregon
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I received my PhD from Berkeley in Hispanic Languages and Literatures in 2003 and in the same year joined the faculty of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. My research focuses on the literary footprint of the confluence of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in medieval Iberia.
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492
Indiana University Press | 2015
Framing Iberia: Maqamat and Frametales in Medieval Spanish Literature
Brill | 2007
Wine, Women, and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature in Medieval Iberia
Juan de la Cuesta | 2004


Bhubaneshwar, Feb 8 : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday stated that the state budget is pro-farmer, pro-poor, pro-women, pro-SC/ST, pro-youth and is development oriented budget.
In a statement, he said, I am happy that adequate provisions have been made for KALIA, Kalia Scholarships, Our universal health scheme - Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, scholarships for SC-ST students, our popular Rural Development programme AMA GAON AMA BIKAS, social security programmes - Madhubabu Pension Yojana, housing, drinking water, electricity for all.
Patnaik also expressed his happiness about the special focus on grounding the 'Make in Odisha' commitments, employment generation and revenue generation.
He added, This budget will help us to continue with our good work. We believe in actual work, not just promises and our work does the talking.
Odisha Finance Minister Shashi Bhusan Behera on Thursday presented Rs 1.326 lakh crore state Budget.


We are looking forward to a Senior RD Engineer in Eaton's electrical business, based in Taipei, Taiwan.
This exciting role is to Lead NPD HW development for IU product line, lead customer requirement analyze and convert to design spec and implement, analyze customer application issue and provide strong technical solution to customer.
Living with lesson learn culture, set up reused database for specify area. Leading DFSS plan in HW area, cover Phase 0 to Phase 5. Have clear view of whole HW quality and cost on concept design.
Champion the changes on hardware design guideline, quality assurance process.
Can prepare company level standard and align with national/international standard.
Very good and reliable window for customers in terms of business and technology, provide consensus and professional feedback.