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How Tai Chi helpful to minimize the obesity in adults?
written by Katya Dorokhina
Today, the obesity is a major concern of health condition in the middle aged and also older adults. The formation of fat around the stomach adversely influences to the severe level of affecting the bodies to specific obstacles that include heart and many diseases. According to the latest study, the tai chi style of exercise is as efficient as the traditional workouts in minimizing the waist perimeter of the adults. This tai chi is otherwise known as meditation in motion. It is basically a smoothing type of exercise, which assists to minimize the stress along with maintaining the physical fitness. It also has its roots in the Asian countries as an act of self-confidence, but because of its health benefits, it is gaining ultimate admiration among the western guys as well.
However, the discoveries of latest study issued in the Annals of Internal Medicine clarify the efficacy of tai chi in minimizing the abdominal fat in the adults and thus, encouraging their health too. The study included over 500 adults from more than age group of 50. Even all of them had central obesity at a beginning of this study. Even the contestants were categorized into three groups that include tai chi group, people who do not exercise more than three months and people doing traditional exercise. The group of tai chi also followed a Yang style of tai chi, whereas the people performing traditional exercise were assigned to perform the brisk walking as well as strength training activities for one hour at least three times per week for twelve weeks.
But, all of them were led by the trainers and carefully observed for the waist perimeter as well as other signs of metabolic health at the baseline, twelve weeks and thirty eight weeks. Actually, the tai chi provides numerous benefits. After the successful finishing of exercise regimens, the researchers discovered that both of groups followed an exercise routine that had a reduction in their waist perimeter. Also, there was a most positive influence on the HDL cholesterol range as well, but no noticeable variations in abstaining the blood pressure or glucose were realized. The study authors conclude that the discoveries from their research expose how efficient tai chi is managing the central obesity in adults. The aging with controlled movement can consider taking this meditation in motion as an option of maintaining their physical fitness too.
Therefore, the tai chi is a low influence as well as a calm activity in which many people can bear, if they cannot even bear other kinds of exercise. Actually, hitting a gym might not be an only way to attack the additional inches, which store around a waistline. Another study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine recommends that the tai chi might be simply as efficient for slimming down a midsection of people fifty and older as group workouts provided in several gyms. When compared to any other activity, people in tai chi can greatly support to drop the centimetres in their waists after three months of interference.
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Myanmar's ethnic insurgents raise pressure on military junta
CHIANG MAI, Thailand —
The day her 4-year-old grandson was killed, U San Yee had taken him to their local market in rural Myanmar for sticky rice and his favorite fried banana snacks before coming home to play with his toy cars.
"We didn't know that the Myanmar military would fire artillery shells," U San Yee said. "That's why we were just going about and living our normal lives."
When the first explosions struck Kin Seik, a farming village of about 3,000 people, the two were watching "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.
"We tried to run to another place, but on the way a shell fell on my grandson and his mother while they were holding hands," said U San Yee, who could only watch as the boy bled to death and his mother was wounded.
Three civilians were killed and eight others injured in the Aug. 28 attack on the community of bamboo houses on the fertile plains of the country's western Rakhine state. It was one of a series of deadly assaults that marked the collapse of an 18-month cease-fire between the military and the Arakan Army, one of the country's most powerful ethnic insurgent groups.
Nearly 22 months after the country's military overthrew a democratically elected civilian government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, it is now fighting a war on multiple fronts.
Protesters walk through a market with posters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in April 2021, weeks after her arrest by a military junta.
More than 7,000 civilians have been killed since the coup, according to the Institute for Strategy and Policy, a Yangon-based think tank. Victims include protesters shot in the head, dissidents killed in detention and villagers bound and burned alive.
But as the renewed fighting in Rakhine reflects, the military, which has ruled Myanmar with an iron grip for much of the last half century, remains unable to re-consolidate power.
In one of the latest examples of violence, military jets bombed a concert in northern Kachin state on Oct. 23, killing at least 80 people, including civilians and members of the ethnic Kachin Independence Army.
This aerial photo taken in October 2021 shows smokes and fires from Thantlang, in Chin state, where more than 160 buildings were destroyed by shelling from military troops.
(AFP/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, dozens of junta soldiers have reportedly been killed since late October in Rakhine, northwestern Karen state and the central city of Mandalay.
The junta has increasingly resorted to air power because of growing losses to infantry on the ground from ambushes and roadside bombs.
"The military is getting desperate," said Kyaw Zaw, a spokesman for the National Unity Government, a parallel government filled with deposed civilian lawmakers working to dislodge the junta. "Their only strategy is to terrorize the population by targeting defenseless civilians."
The junta is now confronting newly formed rebel groups such as the disparate People's Defense Force aligned with the parallel government, and an increasing number of ethnic armed groups based in the country's border regions.
Western sanctions and diplomatic pressure have done little to stanch the bloodshed — a civil war raging in the heart of Asia on the doorstep of two geopolitical giants, India and China.
Members of the People's Defense Force, an armed group allied with Myanmar's National Unity Government that is seeking to dislodge the ruling junta, train in Kayin state
(Kaung Zaw Hein / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Associated Press)
Immediately following the coup, the new junta was confronted by mass protests that were brutally quashed with a series of urban massacres, propelling many of Myanmar's youth to seek training and weapons from the country's myriad ethnic armed groups. In September 2021, the parallel government declared a "people's defensive war" to overthrow the military, forging formal alliances with some of the ethnic rebels.
Initially given little chance of resisting a military equipped with warplanes and heavy artillery, the insurgents have inflicted enough damage to keep the junta hopping. As a result, it is showing signs of stress. Casualties are rising and combat-ready replacements are scarce. Defections and poor pay are reportedly contributing to sinking morale.
If more ethnic armed groups like the Arakan Army join the fight against the military, known as the Tatmadaw, experts say it could eventually tip the scales in the civil war.
"The junta expected to readily subsume the country into its control with its brutal coercive power, but it has failed so far," said Ye Myo Hein, a political scientist at the Wilson Center. "It has lost its consolidated control over a vast swath of territory across the country."
"It's hard to predict what will happen next," he added, "but one thing is certain: the junta is losing ground."
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has long been fractured along ethnic lines and dominated by the majority Buddhist Bamars who reside in the largest cities. The Southeast Asian nation roughly the size of Texas is home to more than 100 different ethnic groups, some of whom were fighting for autonomy even before Myanmar won independence from Britain in 1948.
One of those groups is the Rakhine, also known as the Arakanese. Despite being overwhelmingly Buddhist and speaking a language closely related to the Burmese used by Bamars, the Rakhine have long maintained a fierce separatist streak. Rakhine existed as an independent kingdom until it was conquered by the Burmese in 1785 and is isolated from the rest of the country by a rugged mountain range.
"We want our Rakhine state to be independent — it is the dream of every Rakhine person," said a 32-year-old farmer in Maungdaw township, which has also seen heavy fighting in recent months, who asked to remain anonymous for safety reasons.
Thousands of refugees flee Myanmar along a muddy rice field in 2017, as the military forced more than 750,000 Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state to cross the border.
(Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)
That staunch Rakhine-Buddhist identity contributed to one of the worst chapters in modern Burmese history when many Rakhine supported the Tatmadaw's so-called "clearance operations" in 2017, forcing more than 750,000 Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine across the border into Bangladesh.
The United Nations said the crackdown was "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing." Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest by the military for 15 years before winning landslide election victories in 2015 and 2020, refused to condemn the attacks and defended the military at the International Court of Justice in 2019, leading to her disgrace as a human rights figure. Since the junta took back control in early 2021, she has been imprisoned in the nation's capital.
It was in the wake of the junta's campaign against the Rohingya that fighting between the Arakan Army and the military worsened. Formed in 2009, the self-proclaimed 30,000-member force seeks self-determination for the Arakanese people and is represented by its political wing, the United League of Arakan. The group's foot soldiers have fought a guerrilla war against government security forces, ambushing military outposts and police stations.
Weary of the attacks, the government agreed to a cease-fire in November 2020. Analysts speculate the agreement was struck so that the military could prepare for the coup. The Arakan Army used the lull in fighting to consolidate more territory.
The truce would prove fleeting. Heavy fighting returned to Rakhine in July of this year, when the Arakan Army ambushed a column of the paramilitary Border Guard Police. The strike was in response to the military's arrest of supporters and members of the Arakan Army's civilian administration. Clashes quickly spread across Rakhine, including in Maungdaw, near the Bangladesh border; Mrauk-U, the Arakan Kingdom's ancient capital; and Taungup, near a southern beach vacation destination. Paletwa, in neighboring Chin state, also saw fighting.
The Maungdaw farmer who spoke to The Times said there had been no fighting in his area for years. But since mid-August, he frequently goes to bed to the steady sound of shelling and fighter jets, wondering if his village will be bombed.
Kyaw Lynn, an ethnic Rakhine political analyst, said the fighting in Maungdaw underscores the Arakan Army's desire to seize control of the border with Bangladesh, which is important both for economic reasons and issues of sovereignty.
To burnish its legitimacy, the Arakan Army has tried to forge a better relationship with Bangladesh by presenting itself as a more reliable partner than the junta in handling the Rohingya refugee crisis. More than 900,000 Rohingya are living in squalid camps in Bangladesh, putting a massive strain on the impoverished country. An effort to repatriate many of the refugees has repeatedly faltered under the military.
"The international community, including the Bangladeshi government, has to recognize the United League of Arakan as a key stakeholder in trying to resolve this" crisis, Khaing Thu Kha, a spokesman for the Arakan Army, said at a news conference in September.
Whether the Arakan Army can achieve autonomy may hinge on its burgeoning relationship with the National Unity Government. Formed after the coup by a group of lawmakers elected in the 2020 polls, it includes many former National League for Democracy officials. While some of its officials are based abroad, other leaders remain in Myanmar where they've begun rolling out public services in anti-military strongholds. Schools, police forces and healthcare clinics are up and running, typically manned by civil servants who went on strike in protest of the coup.
Unlike other armed groups, the Arakan Army has refused to pledge loyalty to the opposition forces because of tensions in the past with Suu Kyi and her party. In 2019, a National League for Democracy official referred to the Rakhine insurgents as "terrorists." The following year, the Arakan Army justified abducting three National League for Democracy parliamentary candidates by accusing the party of cooperating with the Tatmadaw.
Now presented with a common enemy, the relationship has thawed. The Arakan Army met with the National Unity Government in May, while rejecting an invitation for peace talks from the junta. At the meeting, Khaing Thu Kha said the Arakan Army would "open the door" to cooperation, but reiterated the demands for autonomy — something the National Unity Government is reluctant to grant for fear that other ethnic armed groups will make similar demands.
As long as the junta remains in power, the people of Rakhine will likely struggle to reconcile their desire for self-determination with support for a shadow government stacked with Suu Kyi's acolytes.
"Yes, I want the NUG to overthrow the military. But personally, I want our people to control our state," the Maungdaw farmer said. "I want this to be the final war in Rakhine."
Special correspondents Kyaw Hsan Hlaing reported from Washington and Nachemson from Chiang Mai, Thailand. Times staff writer David Pierson in Singapore contributed to this report.


Here it is: a photograph of Bill Reilly's grip, described by Wisden in 1937 as 'the first two fingers round the ball and the others folded on to the palm of his hand'.
O'Reilly was already 23 when he played his first 'big cricket' match. He played in only 133 first-class matches, bowled 37,246 balls took 774 wickets at 16.6 runs each.
In his 27 Tests he took 144 wickets (102 of them in 19 appearances against England) for 22.59 runs.
When Bradman was changing the balance of power between the two countries with his bat, O'Reilly was doing the same with the ball.
Yet O'Reilly very nearly had one of the shortest first-class careers in the history of the game.
He was taught in a country school near Wingello in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Once, playing for Wingello at Bowral he came up against a seventeen year old called Bradman who proceeded to score 234, 48 of the last 50 with four 6s and six 4s. Continuing his innings the following Saturday at Wingello, Bradman was bowled first ball by O'Reilly.
Hammond in 'My Cricket World' describes how at the age of twenty and taking wickets in the 'Big City' of Sydney O'Reilly was invited to some trial nets under the supervision of Arthur Mailey.
After trying to hold the ball Mailey's way, O'Reilly went back to his original grip. Mailey described him as 'unteachable' and passed him over.
But all was not lost, O'Reilly had attracted the eye of Dr. Reg Bettington, then a power in NSW cricket. Two years later Bettington sent for him and gave him a trial in the State side. Over anxious and gripping the ball too tightly, O'Reilly bowled 12 weak and costly overs and again experienced failure and rejection.
Then, in 1931, when NSW was about to leave to play Victoria one of their bowlers had to pull out and Bettington sent for O'Reilly. But misfortune stalked him still. Early in the game O'Reilly tore a finger on the seam of a newish ball. So he failed again and Bettington would have heard the mutterings and 'I told you so's of the doubters.
O'Reilly prepared to go home, but Bettington said, 'Have another go.' And in the next game he took 5 for 22 in 73 balls including the scalps of Woodfull and Ponsford. – with his special grip!


Sci-Fi November is a month-long blog event hosted by Rinn Reads and Over The Effing Rainbow. It was created to celebrate everything amazing about science fiction. From TV shows to movies, books to comics, and everything else in between, it was intended to help us share our love and passion for this genre and its many, many fandoms.
Today I am interviewing Jean Johnson, author of the new science-fiction novel The Blockade, third book in the First Salik War series.
DJ: Hey Jean! Thanks for stopping by to do this interview!
Let's start with you; for readers who aren't familiar with you, could you tell us a little about yourself?
Jean Johnson: I'm an author of genre fiction, writing primarily in the science fiction, fantasy, and romance categories, because those are my favorite types of books to read. I also enjoy superhero stories, occasional steampunk fantasies, and so forth, but I'm not a big fan of horror. Growing up in a little patch of rurality surrounded by suburbia, I didn't have a lot of friends living close enough for me to walk over to their house and visit, so I spend a lot of my childhood reading. My parents encouraged it, taking me frequently to the local libraries and so forth, but after a while, I realized there were stories I wanted to read that no one was writing, and it finally dawned on me that if I wanted to read them, I would have to write them myself. So here I am, twenty-plus books later, with many more still to go.
DJ: What is The Blockade and also the First Salik War series about?
Jean: The First Salik War series is about, well, the first Salik War, which takes place in the late 2280s, according to our calendar. It's about humans from Earth reaching out into interstellar space for the very first time, exploring multiple star systems beyond our own, only to encounter aliens that are not only hostile, but whom have already managed to encounter humans who are not from Earth.
In THE TERRANS, the first book, we see things from the Terran perspective, and most of the action takes place either in space we're become familiar with, or on Earth itself. The first book covers a lot of first contact and political doubts on what humanity—Earth humanity—should do about what they're discovering. We do get to meet the Salik at the start, but the war effort ends up taking a back seat to the conflicts of trying to figure out how two very different cultures can peacefully interact even when it's technically the same species.
In the second book, THE V'DAN, we learn a lot more about this other race of humans that has been living for thousands of years on this other world hundreds of lightyears from Earth. The protagonists do that by going to that world to figure out who they are, what they're like, and how to interact with them. Once the Terrans know how to do that, they hope they can make the transition to interacting with the truly alien, non-human races out there in easier ways…but they still run into trouble because the V'Dan are very different from the Terrans, despite being completely biologically human.
It's very much a book on cultural clashes, another aspect of both first contact and political troubles. These tensions are worsened by the fact the V'Dan and the other Alliance races are losing their war against the Salik, because the technological playing field favors the aggressor being able to lay plans and carry them out without the defenders being able to adequately prepare against their attacks in time. The Terrans have some seriously good technology that could completely overturn their losing war into a victory…but the cultural clashes are making it difficult to want to volunteer anything for that task.
THE BLOCKADE, final book of the trilogy, works hard to resolve a lot of the problems from the previous two books, while exposing the main characters to the actual war. They can no longer stay in the halls of political power, but must instead go to the various warfronts to make sure that the Terrans are integrating without too many troubles into the Alliance's efforts to stop the Salik invasions. At this point in the overall timeline of this universe, nobody wants to wipe out the Salik as a race, because xenocide—genocide by any other name—is an horrific thing. But these people are running out of options because the enemy is psychologically committed to hunting and battling everyone they deem inferior. Saving the day will require a lot of hard bluffing and a serious bit of cleverness—based on some actual science, yay!—to save the day.
Today I am interviewing Aaron Hodges, author of the new fantasy novel, Soul Blade, final book in The Sword of Light trilogy.
DJ: Hey Aaron! Thanks for agreeing to do this interview!
Aaron Hodges: Sure thing D.J. I'm a fantasy writer from the country of New Zealand, although right now I'm living in Argentina. I'm an Environmental Scientist by profession, but a few years ago I got tired of the office and quit to see the world (my Overseas Experience or 'OE' as we call it in New Zealand). During my travels I picked up an old novel I'd written when I was younger and began to rewrite it. I finally published that first book, Stormwielder, back in December 2015 and to my surprise it kind of took off. Since then I've been desperately trying to keep up with the demands of my fans for books 2 and 3!
DJ: What is Book 1: Stormwielder about?
Aaron: Stormwielder is the first book in my trilogy, so it involves a lot of world building. At its heart though, it's a tale of redemption. It starts with the introduction of a young man named Eric, who has the power to manipulate the weather. Unfortunately for him and everyone else, Eric cannot control his magic, and inadvertently destroys the unsuspecting town of Oaksville. That act quickly becomes the motivating force behind Eric's character, as he struggles to find a way to redeem himself. Amidst that struggle, Eric finds himself drawn into an ancient conflict between the Gods and the dark Magicker known as Archon. And it's all downhill from there!
DJ: What were some of your influences for Soul Blade and The Sword of Light trilogy?
Today I am interviewing Will Panzo, debut author of the new grimdark, fantasy novel, The Burning Isle.
DJ: Hey Will! Thanks for agreeing to do this interview!
Will Panzo: Thanks for having me! I'm a physician assistant by trade, working in a busy emergency room, but writing is my passion. The Burning Isle is my debut novel. I live in New York City with my fiancé.
DJ: What is The Burning Isle about?
Will: I describe it as a dark and violent revenge tale, set in a fantasy ancient Rome with lots of intrigue and lots of magic.
DJ: What were some of your influences for The Burning Isle?
Will: The story is, on one level, about a mysterious stranger who arrives in a lawless island run by two gangs, and his attempts to play both sides against each other. In this way, the story has obvious ties to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Dashiel Hammet's Red Harvest. On another level, the story is a dark revenge story with a central mystery that acts as the primary driver of the action. I love revenge stories but my favorite is probably The Count of Monte Cristo.
Today I am interviewing Nik Abnett, author of the new science-fiction novel, Savant.
DJ: Hey Nik! Thanks for stopping by to do this interview!
Nik Abnett: Hi, and thank you for having me.
Some readers will know my work for the Black Library on Warhammer and Warhammer 40K. I've also collaborated with my husband, the writer Dan Abnett, on a couple of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider novels and on Fiefdom for Rebellion, which was a tie-in novel to the Kingdom comic strip in 2000AD. I also write short stories for anyone who asks, and I contributed the backmatter for the acclaimed comic book Wild's End by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard. I've been writing, editing and proof-reading tie-in fiction for almost twenty years, so, with Savant I wanted to branch out and do something very different, and more personal.
DJ: What is Savant about?
Nik: This really ought to be the simplest question in the World, but it's the one I always struggle with most. Here goes: Savant is about a symbiotic relationship between two people, against the backdrop of a controlling state in the middle of a global crisis.
DJ: What were some of your influences for Savant?
Nik: Influences come from all over the place. I like twentieth century SF, including 80s movies, but I think the inspiration for Savant came from other things, too. I was influenced by ideas around Autism and parenting. And, to some degree, this is also a political novel; thematically, I thought a lot about the rights of the individual and how much the state can, and does, interfere in peoples' lives.
Today I am interviewing Benedict Patrick, contestant in the 2016 SPFBO and author of the new fantasy novel, Where the Water Turns Black.
DJ: Hey Benedict! Thanks for stopping by to do this interview!
Benedict Patrick: Hi DJ, thanks for taking the time to chat again. I'm an Irishman, now happily living in Scotland with my wife and kids. A pen has never been far from my hands, but a few years ago I ditched computer games to throw myself into storytelling. I published my first novel, They Mostly Come Out At Night, earlier this year. Some people liked it, mostly because of the cover. Mostly.
DJ: What is Where the Water Turns Black about?
Benedict Patrick: The book is the tale of a young woman called Kaimana, an ocarina player who travels with her performing troupe by canoe between the many islands that make up the Crescent Atoll. Kaimana begins the story in frustration, wanting to find inspiration so she can compose a song that will make her known across the entire Atoll. Her wish comes true in the form of a giant, mythical monster living in a cave. Hijinks ensue.
DJ: What were some of your influences for Where the Water Turns Black?
Today I am interviewing J. Patrick Black, debut author of the new post-apocalyptic, science-fiction novel, Ninth City Burning.
DJ: Hey Patrick! Thanks for stopping by to do this interview!
Patrick J. Black: Well, I'm new to the literary world, so I'd be a little surprised if your readers knew all that much about me (most of them, anyway–Hi mom!). Ninth City Burning is my debut novel, but I've been writing for years. Pursuit of that all-important day job has taken me all over the place professionally–I've tended bar, designed video games, somehow ended up with a law degree–though geographically I'm a New England guy. I still work as a homebuilder in the town where I grew up (a suburb of Boston). It's a total thrill to finally see something I've written on the shelves, and even better to meet people who've actually read it (even enjoyed it every now and then).
DJ: What is Ninth City Burning about?
Today I am interviewing Peter Fugazzotto, author of the new science-fiction novel, Into Darkness.
Peter Fugazzotto: I'm one of those authors exploring the brave new world of indie publishing. While I've had short stories published in more traditional magazines like Heroic Fantasy Quarterly and Grim Dark Magazine, my longer works have all been indie published. I'm focused on dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
Part of the courage to blaze the writer's path comes from my background in martial arts. I train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a form of submission grappling (think chokes and armbars), and stick fighting. I am a brown belt in BJJ and won a World Championship as a purple belt (old man division). So I have learned to accept obstacles as the path which prepares me for the writing life.
My main goal as an author is to write good stories that entertain readers and make them want to come back for more.
DJ: What is Into Darkness about?
Peter: Into Darkness is an action-packed science fiction thriller set on a deep space mining colony gone dark.
In a future world of warring AIs, company agent Marley – half-human, half-machine – agrees to a mission to bring a deep space mining colony back online.
But when Marley and her mercenary crew crash land on the colony, she soon realizes that the colony holds dark secrets. Horrors that threaten her life and the future of humanity.
And she will have to decide who lives and who dies.
DJ: What were some of your influences for Into Darkness?
Peter: The initial seed for Into Darkness was Joseph Conrad's incredible novella Heart of Darkness. But I wanted to push this through a lens of science fiction with a touch of horror.
Today I am interviewing Jonathan Strahan, the multiple award winning editor, and editor of the new science-fiction anthology, Bridging Infinity, fifth book in the Infinity Project series.
DJ: Hey Jonathan! Thanks for stopping by to do this interview!
Jonathan Strahan: Hey! Thanks for talking to me! I'm an editor, critic, and podcaster who lives in Australia. I've been editing books since 1996 and podcasting since 2010. I'm also the reviews editor for Locus (www.locusmag.com), and edit the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year anthology series each year.
DJ: What is Bridging Infinity about?
Jonathan: It's about enormous engineering projects and the problems they're intended to solve. Science fiction loves enormous, crazy engineering projects and it loves to solve problems. So Bridging Infinity brings together a bunch of new, specially written stories that feature giant machines like Dyson spheres and man-made worlds that wrap stars.
DJ: What were some of the inspirations behind Bridging Infinity?
Jonathan: All of the great science fiction I read while I was growing up. Stuff like Larry Niven's Ringworld and Isaac Asimov's Foundation and a whole bunch of classic SF. Also, to be honest, the opening of Star Wars, with that incredible Imperial Star Destroyer.
Today I am interviewing Neal Chase, author of the new middle-grade fantasy novel, Worthy of Song and Story, first book in the Stain the Viking series.
DJ: Hey Neal! Thanks for stopping by to do this interview!
Neal Chase: The easiest way to sum me up is that I'm an author, lawyer, basketball coach, and PS4 player extraordinaire. I'm married to my wife Karen and have two sons, who really inspired me to write Worthy of Song and Story.
DJ: What is Worthy of Song and Story about?
Neal: It is about a twelve year old boy named Stian who wants to be the greatest Viking ever. Unfortunately, a couple things stand in his way: he is too young to go on Viking raids and he may be the son of Loki, the same Loki who is foretold to bring about the end of the world. Stian sets off to find out the truth, the only way he knows how, by freeing Loki from the gods' prison. If he succeeds, he'll become the world's greatest Viking, but if he fails, he'll fall victim to the gods' merciless justice.
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Spotify - music streaming for Android and iOS now free
With competition heating up in the streaming music space, your choices have never been better. With a recent update, Spotify for Android and iOS now comes with free streaming, supported by ads, on mobile devices.
Desktop users of the Spotify application have had this feature for a while. Now, it's available on mobiles and Tablets with various limitations compared to the premium service.
As soon as I heard of the new free options for mobiles, I installed the app on my Android Tablet. A few days later, I installed it on my mobile phone and another Tablet, I got something different from what I'd seen earlier. There was a dialog box about a 48 hour free trial. My research found that you're registered for Spotify premium for 48 hours. After this period your account becomes a free account. I won't be covering any premium features in this review.
When launching the app on Android , you're asked to sign in or sign-up for a Spotify account. You can enter an email address or sign up using your Facebook account. I found this process quite tedious and gave up. I went to the Spotify website on my desktop PC and created an account there. On a Tablet, It's annoying as it forces portrait mode for the login procedure.
On their website they make this statement. 'This app may post (on Facebook) on your behalf, including songs you listened to, radio stations you listened to and more.' Going back to the app, I was able to login via Facebook. You get a screen with 'Downloaded Playlists' and 'Starred' content. These are empty when you begin with a new account. A tap of the familiar setting icon gives you a choice of what to do next. Browse, Discover, Radio, Playlists, Inbox, Friends and Settings.
Curious as always, I went to settings. The interesting ones are 'Device Broadcast Status', 'Private Session' and 'Share on Facebook'. These default to On and set whether you want to share what you're listening to. There are plenty of opportunities within the app to share what you're playing on social media. You can 'scrobble' to Last.FM as well.
There's a push notifications settings screen for various things such as new album releases and friends activity. All these default to on. Be sure to have a look at that screen if you aren't a fan of frequent app notifications.
Once you get past all that, a browse shows a screen full of playlist categories. If you're using Spotify on a Tablet, you can create your own playlists in much the same way you can on the Spotify desktop application. The streaming isn't on demand, but playlists are shuffled. You can't reorder the list, but you get six skips (skip a song) per hour.
I tried searching for one of my favorite artists and got a list of albums and a good number of user created playlists. Impressive. Tapping on the playlist started the streaming after a short delay. The number of pre-built playlists is extensive. Some examples are a classical music playlist designed for studying and a runners playlist crafted with the optimum beats per minute for motivation and pacing.
The in-app ads come in the form of a short audio ad about Spotify between songs. This only happens every five or six tracks which is better than most conventional radio stations. I think this infrequent ad insertion is a small price to pay for what you're getting for free. You'll see occasional 'Go Premium' messages in the app but these aren't distracting. You can't download songs for offline playback as you can on the pay by the month subscription.
There's a Spotify entry in the notification area with a pause button. If you tap the notification, you'll see a nice screen with the now playing artwork. A tap of the settings button there will display a play queue to show upcoming songs on your selected shuffled playlist.
On a Tablet, the app can play specific songs or entire albums and not select similar ones 'you might like'. I'm happy with that. Sometimes you just aren't in the mood for some algorithm that tries to guess what you may like. Most of those predictions get it wrong and you end up skipping them.
You can get shuffle play through an artists entire back catalog, not just one of their songs every so often. This is a great feature. When I checked the streaming data use, it was around 35 Mb per hour of play. This is worth keeping in mind if you use Spotify to stream music over your mobile data network for long periods.
The developers need to work on their sign-up process on mobiles. Once it's set up, it's certainly worth a try to see if it suits your needs compared to the competition. You can get more details at this web page Spotify Frequently asked Questions. This page seems to vary depending on your country of origin, so there may be some differences in content.
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Renato D'Agostin was born in Venice, Italy, in 1983. He began his career in photography in 2001 by exploring his daily world with his father's camera, and thereby discovered new ways of transcending the beauty of the Most Serene Republic of Venice. Finding his inspiration in urban life, he traveled through the capitals of Western Europe, and after a period in Milan where he worked with the production studio Maison Sabbatini, he moved to New York. In 2005, he attended Fine Print courses at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and soon after became assistant to Ralph Gibson.
Dislocating subjects from their realities, Renato D'Agostin opens new portals in the viewer's imagination by reinterpreting the relationship between space, architecture and people. Thierry Bigaignon comments: « Renato D'Agostin is an explorer-born photographer. He captures visual elements that most of us won't even notice, and leaves his singular mark on every picture he takes and makes. Mastering every aspect of his silver gelatin photography, Renato D'Agostin knows better than anyone how to imbue a classical black and white picture with a contemporary cut". He adds: "Renato's photographs, laden with abstraction and surrealism, are strong and powerful yet delicate".
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On the trail and in interviews, Ivanka has tried to make a quasi-feminist case for her father, touting his paid leave plan and the role that she's played in his company. But his recent comments—which are only his latest public offenses—have made it that much harder for her to stake such claims.
"My father's comments were clearly inappropriate and offensive, and I'm glad that he acknowledged this fact with an immediate apology to my family and the American people."


What does it take to be a 'biblical husband'? Sure, many books on the market seem to speak to this issue. However, none of them has ever 'put it all together' in one volume in an easy to understand and scripturally sound way - until now. The Complete Husband by Lou Priolo is the ground-breaking book that Christian men have been waiting for. In it, the author turns his years of biblical counseling wisdom to the subject of being a husband. But not just any husband. Rather, the husband that the Lord Jesus Christ wants all Christian men to be. The author reminds men that if they wished their wives came with an owner's manual, they did, it's called the Bible! Far from giving men carte blanche to order their wives around, Priolo shows men how the bible instructs them to 'know their wives.' After all, wives have dreams, goals, desires - and sorrows, just like men. It is the husband's job to find out what they are and 'cultivate' his wife so that she becomes spiritually fertile. The author reminds his readers that pleasing their wives does not automatically equate to the sexual arena. Men must think in terms of the whole relationship, and the whole person. However, since he is aware that sexual relations is part of the blueprint God created for marriage, he devotes and entire chapter to the subject. Above all, Priolo stresses that it is correct biblical thinking that leads to tender actions, that in turn leads to complete fulfillment in the marriage bond.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Charles M. Vest, the 15th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has shaped his 13-year presidency into a campaign of determined advocacy for research, science, and diversity and openness in education and research, announced today at the quarterly meeting of MIT's board of trustees his intention to step down from that post.
Vest, 62, who has led one of the most intense periods of change at MIT since the post-World War II years, said he was stepping down because "the time is fast approaching when MIT should benefit from the renewal that comes with selecting a new president and developing the next stage of its vision and programs."
His resignation as president of one of the nation's premier research universities becomes effective next fall or as soon as a successor is appointed to head the 142-year old Cambridge institution.
Dana Mead, chairman of the MIT Corporation (MIT's board of trustees), praised Vest for a distinguished presidency marked by "vision, courage, integrity and an extraordinary sense of service to MIT and to the nation. He has had a transforming influence on the Institute and is a powerful champion of the importance to our country and the world of science, technology and research."
An engineer and former university provost, Vest was appointed MIT president in 1990. In the past 100 years, only Karl Taylor Compton (1930-1948) has served longer as president of MIT, which was founded in the mid-19th century by William Barton Rogers.
Vest's tenure ranks him sixth in seniority among the 62 presidents in the Association of American Universities, only one of whom has served his current institution longer than Vest.
In a letter announcing his decision to faculty and staff, Vest wrote: "Becky and I are privileged beyond measure to live and work at MIT--an extraordinary community comprising distinguished faculty who blaze new trails of knowledge, Nobel laureates, dedicated teachers, the people who create and maintain our facilities, those who do the administrative work that makes it possible for our faculty and students to realize their dreams, those who look after our safety and health, and above all, the wonderful young men and women who study here."
During the Vest presidency, MIT has undertaken major innovations in education and research, developed strong ties with other academic, governmental and industrial organizations both in the United States and overseas, strengthened the diversity of its people and programs, and transformed its campus. During this time, MIT's endowment has grown from $1.4 billion to $5.1 billion, and $1.72 billion has been raised towards MIT's $2 billion capital campaign. Eighteen of the 25 largest gifts from individuals in MIT's history have been received during the Vest presidency.
More than half of the current MIT faculty has been hired since 1990 and since then has developed many new or expanded fields of research and scholarship, such as brain and cognitive sciences (including the establishment of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Picower Center for Learning and Memory); nanotechnology (including the creation of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies); biological engineering; genomic medicine (the Broad Institute); engineering systems; and new media.
Vest also spurred a major examination of student life and learning and pursued what he termed "an enhanced learning community." Among the resulting programs were:
*	introduction of modern cell and molecular biology as a core requirement for all undergraduates;
*	establishment of the prestigious MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program to recognize and reward great MIT teachers;
*	development of new pedagogies for teaching everything from first-year physics to communications and design;
*	major changes in engineering education, including a five-year combined Bachelor/Master of Engineering program;
*	a restructured housing policy that creates a stronger student community and includes a common first-year campus experience; and
*	creation of three new student residences and a major sports and fitness center, all designed to enhance interaction among students and faculty.
Vest also fostered MIT's engagement on the world stage through a variety of large-scale, innovative ventures, often with other institutions. Among them were:
*	MIT OpenCourseWare--the publication of the teaching materials for up to 2,000 MIT courses on the Internet, free and available to teachers and learners anywhere in the world;
*	the Cambridge-MIT Institute--an alliance of MIT and Cambridge University to foster innovation and entrepreneurship through collaborative educational and research programs and student exchanges;
*	the Singapore-MIT Alliance--an innovative collaboration to promote global engineering education and research using state-of-the-art synchronous distance teaching technologies; and
*	the Alliance for Global Sustainability with the University of Tokyo, the Swiss Institutes of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden--to develop new technologies and identify policy directions that encourage global economic development while preserving and enhancing the environment.
Vest's belief that MIT could best address certain important educational and research challenges by working with others also took form in the innovative collaborations with industry that he helped foster. Among these have been partnerships with Amgen (biology, brain and cognitive sciences); Ford (engineering design, environmental studies); Merrill Lynch (financial technology); Microsoft (educational technology); Merck (biology, bioengineering); Hewlett-Packard (digital information); Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (telecommunications); and DuPont (biotech materials, management).
ON THE NATIONAL STAGE
Vest's broad but measured interpretation of the role of president of the Institute made its mark on national policy as well. On assuming the presidency, he went about rebuilding public understanding and support of higher education and research. He continues to be a regular presence in the halls of Congress and the executive offices where he champions the cause of research, science, higher education and innovative partnerships among universities, government and industry.
In the post-9/11 era, Vest has been a national spokesperson for the centrality of higher education and research to the nation's well-being at a time when some national security policies appeared to conflict with the concept of open research and education. "Knowledge creation thrives in openness and suffers in isolation," he wrote in his annual report for 2001-02, which concluded with a set of recommendations designed to provide both national security and the openness necessary for research and education. He has carried a similar message to the national arena through meetings with high-ranking federal officials, publications, and speeches, including an address last month to the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
Vest has logged more than 100 visits to Washington, D.C., to confer with as many as 250 different government officials in more than 450 individual conversations. This is in addition to more than 80 trips to Washington for service on various national councils, task forces and advisory boards.
He serves as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and chaired the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board's Task Force on the Future of Science Programs at the Department of Energy, which recently completed its work. In 1993, at the request of President Clinton, he chaired the Committee on the Redesign of the International Space Station, which revitalized the space station at a time when its future was in question.
He is vice chair of the Council on Competitiveness and former chair of the Association of American Universities.
CAMPUS REVITALIZATION
Vest has perhaps made an even larger stamp on MIT's Cambridge campus itself. For example, square footage through new construction during his term is greater than the size of the entire MIT campus when the university moved from Boston to Cambridge in 1916. Moreover, significantly updated landscaping and renovation of academic and residential facilities has brought new vitality to the appearance and functionality of the campus.
With the completion of the building projects currently under construction, approximately 25 percent of the MIT campus will have been constructed since 1990, when Vest became president. In this building program he championed the use of world-class architects to design major facilities such as:
*	the Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences (Frank Gehry);
*	Simmons Hall, an undergraduate residence (Stephen Holl);
*	the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center (Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates);
*	the brain and cognitive sciences project (Charles Correa, and Goody Clancy Associates); and
*	the Media Arts and Sciences building (Fumihiko Maki).
Commenting on the quality of the architecture, Vest said, "I believe that the buildings at this extraordinary university should be as diverse, forward-thinking and audacious as the community they serve. They should stand as a metaphor for the ingenuity at work inside them."
FAIRNESS AND DIVERSITY
Throughout his presidency, Vest has made many efforts to increase the diversity of both the MIT student body and its faculty. Underrepresented minority undergraduates have increased from 14 percent to 20 percent of undergraduates, and underrepresented minority graduate students from 3 percent to 5 percent. Over the past decade, the number of women undergraduates increased from 34 percent to 42 percent. Women now outnumber men in 10 undergraduate majors at MIT. The proportion of women graduate students has increased from 20 percent to 29 percent.
In 1998, Vest forthrightly acknowledged problems cited by senior women faculty in the School of Science and supported efforts toward corrective measures. The published report on the study--and his leadership with other university presidents on this issue--received national and international recognition, stimulating reexamination of these equity issues at other universities across the country. More than two-thirds of MIT's women faculty have been hired since 1990.
During Vest's presidency, MIT appointed its first woman department head in the School of Science, its first two minority department heads in the School of Engineering, and its first five women vice presidents. MIT's current chancellor is African-American.
Vest has also been a staunch supporter of the principle of financial aid based solely on need. In 1992, MIT went to trial to fight the U.S. Justice Department's contention that antitrust statutes were violated when Ivy League schools, MIT and others shared information about the financial need of students who had been admitted to more than one school. A lengthy court battle ensued, which ultimately resulted in the establishment of the "MIT Standards of Conduct" that enable many colleges committed to need-based financial aid to exchange certain post-award data, and also led to legislation that permits colleges to adopt a common methodology for measuring need.
Prior to assuming the MIT presidency in 1990, Vest was provost and vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan, where he previously served as dean of engineering.
Charles Marstiller Vest was born on Sept. 9, 1941 in Morgantown, W.Va. He earned his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Optical Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the recipient of five honorary degrees and serves as a member of the board of directors of IBM and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. He and his wife, Rebecca, have two children.
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was the south capital of the Napata/Meroitic Kingdom, that spanned the period c. 800 BCE – c. 350 CE. According to partially deciphered Meroitic texts, the name of the city was Medewi or Bedewi. Excavations revealed evidence of important, high ranking Kushite burials, from the Napatan Period (c. 800 – c. 280 BCE) in the vicinity of the settlement called the Western cemetery. The culture of Meroe developed from the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, which originated in Kush. The importance of the town gradually increased from the beginning of the Meroitic Period, especially from the reign of Arakamani (c. 280 BCE) when the royal burial ground was transferred to Meroe from Napata (Gebel Barkal). In the fifth century BCE, Greek historian Herodotus described it as "a great city…said to be the mother city of the other Ethiopians." The city of Meroe was located along the middle Nile which is of much importance due to the annual flooding of the Nile river valley and the connection to many major river systems such as the Niger which aided with the production of pottery and iron characteristic to the Meroitic kingdom that allowed for the rise in power of its people.


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KABUL – The Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany committed to invest about AFN 5.1 billion (EUR 59 million), focusing on good governance, sustainable economic development as well as urban development and municipal infrastructure.
An additional AFN 8.7 billion (EUR 100 million) shall be allocated to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF).
Since 2001, the German government has invested about AFN 345 billion (EUR 4.06 billion) in Afghanistan, Germany's assistance mission in Afghanistan said in a statement.
In return for investments, Germany expects the Afghan government to meet its commitments to carry out reforms when it comes to fighting corruption, preventing violence against women, promoting women's rights and equal opportunities, as well as transparency in the mining and extractives sector.
Therefore, AFN 5.2 billion (EUR 60 million) of the envisaged total commitment of AFN 8.7 billion (EUR 100 million) allocated to ARTF will be subject to the implementation of jointly agreed reforms. Furthermore, AFN 3.5 billion (EUR 40 million) of bilateral cooperation to be invested in the energy sector are conditional on concluding operation and maintenance guidelines for existing and planned infrastructure projects – to ensure their sustainability, the statement said.
The statement said that Germany remains committed to contribute to sustainable development, peace, and stability in Afghanistan.
The Afghan-German cooperation aims at improving living conditions and future prospects of Afghan citizens – so they may enjoy lives not overshadowed by poverty, displacement, violence or extremism. Today, Germany committed to continue its support in fighting corruption, promoting girls and women, strengthening Afghan civil society, reforming public administration and fostering the enabling environment for private sector engagement.
"The Afghan Government aims to achieve higher economic growth, develop friendly relations with neighbouring countries, increase our revenues, create employment, reduce poverty, and end violent conflict, as outlined in the Growth Strategy and Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework (ANPDF). Reaching these goals will enable us to achieve self-reliance as a nation. To get there, we are planning and investing in priority projects and programmes as defined in the National Priority Programmes (NPPs) that are long term, sustainable and that connect Afghanistan to the region and beyond. I also would like to express my gratitude on behalf of Afghanistan to your government and your people for the continuous support that development orientation we have received since the beginning of our partnership. Germany has played a key role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan and our cooperation has contributed to substantial achievements in the implementation of our joint development agenda," Naheed Sarabi, the Afghan Ministry of Finance's Deputy Minister for Policy, Naheed Sarabi, said.
Further, the Afghan-German Cooperation will expand cooperation with reform partners on the Afghan side and increasingly make use of incentives to promote transparency, Afghan ownership and development orientation.


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The First World War was characterized by mass mobilization of people and resources on a scale like none before. Millions of soldiers took to the battlefield, and the industrial output and civilian involvement in support of the war was unprecedented. The event not only remade the world geopolitically, but transformed how societies engage and relate to military conflict.
Artistic expression during the war contributed to this transformation. Before World War I, war art largely depicted heroic military leaders and romanticized battles, done long after the fact, far from the battlefield. The First World War marked a turning point with the appearance of artwork intended to capture the moment in a realistic way, by first-hand participants.
The AEF WWI war art collection currently is held by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Division of Armed Forces History, from which the artworks in this exhibition are on loan.
The World Goes to War: 1914–1918
World War I, also known as the Great War, engaged all the great powers of Europe, and their worldwide colonial empires, including South Africa, German East Africa, French West Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, India, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Canada. The United States, Japan, and China also entered the conflict. More than 70 million military personnel were mobilized by all nations. The modern industrial capacity of the principal combatant countries fueled one of history's most destructive wars.
The AEF Art Program and Collection
Mobilization of the American war effort was an immense undertaking. Decisions about everything from how to form fighting units, to manufacturing the needed equipment, to the logistics of transport and supply had to be addressed. Part of this planning was the decision to send artists to cover the war in Europe. Eight professional illustrators, commissioned as U.S. Army officers, were embedded with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France in early 1918. Their mission was to capture the wide-ranging activities of American soldiers, including combat, with the intent of shaping popular understanding at home of the war experiences of the AEF.
Meet the AEF Artists
The eight artists selected for the AEF art program were all established illustrators and painters before their military assignment, and had accomplished art careers after the war. They were selected by a committee chaired by Charles Dana Gibson, an illustrator who had gained fame as the creator of the popular "Gibson Girl" idealized image of feminine beauty. Gibson's Pictorial Publicity Committee was under the broader wartime Committee on Public Information, established to coordinate propaganda for the war effort.
Engineers Go to War
Although the assignment of the eight AEF artists to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was purely a formality, they found the many and varied activities of this branch of the AEF interesting subject matter. The industrial scale of the military effort demanded an enormous technical and logistical presence. Tens of thousands of men served loading, unloading, stockpiling, moving, and maintaining the tons of war materiel sent to France in support of the combat troops.


Seeking your input on Grants for Renewable Energy on Agriculture Operations. The California Energy Commission plans to offer grants later this year that will fund the installation of renewable energy projects on agricultural operations. This new program is called the Renewable Energy for Agriculture Program (REAP) and we anticipate the grants will fund projects such as the installation of solar and wind systems and certain equipment served by these systems.
Your comments on the Draft Guidelines for the REAP will help shape the structure of the program and other eligibility criteria prior to the adoption of final guidelines. The Final REAP Program Guidelines will be the basis for the program solicitation which we plan to release before the end of the year, and will guide the development of the application for funding, invoicing procedures, and other program requirements.
and provide comments via the Commission's electronic commenting system at https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Ecomment/Ecomment.aspx?docketnumber=18-MISC-03.
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In the Major League Baseball system, the players are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the Department of Investigations, who investigate crime; and the Players' Association, who don't let any action be taken against their members. These are their stories.
MLB Commissioner Bud Selig announced today that he has created a Department of Investigations to pacify George Mitch—err, to weed out cheaters and scandal-makers in professional baseball. He's also starting a hotline (1-800-WE-GOT-YOU?) so people who work for various teams can call and alert the mighty Department of any malfeasance within the League.
I hope this works well, but part of me thinks it will be as widely ignored by players and clubhouse attendants as the Mitchell investigation was. Maybe one or two people will use it, but won't a great majority be afraid of what happens when they tattle? I'm anxious to see how the Players Union responds; not what press release they offer, but what they actually do about this new venue for narks.
If a player is busted by the Dept. of Investigations, where does he end up? Will any real punishments be laid down, now that baseball can't get away with turning a blind eye as much anymore? Will Jack McCoy be there? Because if it's not like Law & Order, I don't want it.


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Torrington Raiders thank Derby Raiders for their act of sportsmanship.
BY Timothy W. Gaffney
Twitter: @TimothyGaffney
TORRINGTON: Sportsmanship is something we should never take for granted and always recognize when we see it occur, especially at the high school level.
On Wednesday night on the Robert H Frost Complex, they played a soccer game that was won by the home team but in reality, both teams came away winners for something each did off the field.
A year ago, the Derby boys' soccer team paid tribute to a Torrington athlete and family who were going through a tough time.
Our friend, Joe Friscia was battling Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer and his son, sophomore Jimmy Friscia was a member of the Torrington team.
Derby head coach Chris Kalesavich told his team what was happening to another member of the Naugatuck Valley League family and his team responded by surprising Jimmy and his family with a signed ball and card, letting the family know that the rest of the NVL was thinking of them.
For this outstanding effort, Derby was awarded the Sportsmanship Award by the CIAC and on Wednesday night, it was the other Raiders turn to thank them for their kindness and generosity.
Led by Jimmy Friscia, the team presented Derby with a signed football from the entire Torrington team and also gave them a card after the game.
"We wanted to congratulate them for winning the Sportsmanship Award,â€Â head coach Mike Fritch said. "I left it up to the kids to come up with something and they did a great job putting it together."
We lost our friend Joe in August, although if you look closely, you can picture him in the home stands, wildly cheering on his son and the Raiders from Torrington.
On the field, the northern Raiders beat the Valley Raiders by an 8-0 final to improve to 2-0 on the season with tough games against Oxford (Friday on the road) and Watertown (next Wednesday at home) on deck.
In their home opener against Holy Cross last Friday, Torrington won 3-1 but held a 2-1 lead until a last second goal by Friscia made it look slightly easier than it was.
There are a lot of new pieces to the Raiders this year and on Wednesday, Fritch wanted his team to work on some of the things they needed to before heading into the next two games which will be challenging.
"Tonight, we kind of played the ball over the top because we could," Fritch said. "We"re going to need to keep the ball down and find feet better over our next couple of games."
In a final bit of fitting sportsmanship, Friscia was awarded a penalty kick after a foul by Derby inside the circle.
Up 8-0, Friscia was certainly not going to rub it in by trying to score against a team that had thought of him during his time of need so he sent his shot sailing off to the right and off the cross bar.
Keeping an eye on what is truly important is much more important than another ball in the net.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release a book on 3rd February for students "Exam Warrior" whose cover is out now.
The book will cover several aspects that students can relate to, especially with regards to the crucial class X and XII examinations.
The book has been launched as the compilation of discussions from "Mann ki Baat" with some anecdotes in the form of book.
The book covers chapters on 25 mantras or different challenges and planning of the exam.
Actor Mukesh Khanna has resigned as chairperson of the Children's Film Society of India (CFSI) when it was only two months left from his three-year term period.
The reason has been citied the merger of CFSI under the film division.
CFSI acts as the autonomous body under the ministry of information and broadcasting.
The Shesh Anand Madhukar, a Maghai writer has been honored with this year's Sahitya Akademi Bhasha Samman.
He has been honored by the Sahitya Akademi President Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari for extensive developmental work of Maghai language.
Sahitya Akademi honors 24 regional languages whereas the Bhasha Samman is given to equally spoken language in different parts of the country.
Two scientists of Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai has found that the Indus scripts flows from right to left.
The identification and calculation has been done by Mohammed Ashraf.
The identification of the written text is taken from the word start and end of a word.
The US National Book Awards are among the prestigious literary prizes.
The National Book Awards will now also recognize works in translation, opening up a distinctly American literary award to writers working in other languages.
National Book Awards begun in the year 1950 to celebrate the best literature.


Losing excess weight after you turn 40 can be difficult due to a slowed metabolism and loss of muscle — meaning you may have to work harder at losing weight than those who are younger. But a series of simple hacks can boost your weight-loss efforts and help you slim down without your having to modify your fitness routine.
Are you over the age of 40 and working toward losing weight? Follow these six weight-loss tips for people over 40 that will help you achieve your goal weight more quickly.
Cravings for sweets and junk foods are a common symptom of dehydration due to the way this condition makes it difficult for the body to break down glycogen and produce energy. If you're feeling hungry for junk foods, it's highly possible you're suffering from dehydration and need water. Make a conscious effort to drink more water throughout the day, and lower your intake of caffeinated beverages like coffees, teas, and sodas to reduce the risk of dehydration.
Set aside photos of yourself that were taken before you began your weight-loss journey, and use them for motivation or as visual aides that can help you track your results. You can even take before-and-after photos of yourself wearing the same clothing to view just how far you've come. Stick to using photos that were taken by someone else and that show off your full body, versus selfies taken at various angles that may be less accurate at portraying your true size.
Announcing your desire to lose weight can help you stay accountable, since friends and family may hold you to your goals. These individuals may even end up becoming the best support team you've ever had. Limit sharing your goals with those you trust, and who you know will be supportive and encouraging of your weight-loss journey.
Get into the habit of cooking from scratch using whole foods like fruits, vegetables, lean meats, whole grains, and a combination of herbs and spices — all of which are loaded with nutrients that promote weight loss. For instance, cook up stir-fry meals using ingredients like rice, peppers, chicken, ginger, and garlic, or throw a combination of vegetables and spices into the slow cooker for a healthy stew. Cooking from scratch keeps you away from processed foods high in fat, sodium, and artificial ingredients.
If your favorite treats and goodies are lying around, chances are you'll eventually eat them at times of stress or boredom. Keep all food temptations out of the house, and consider treating yourself to your favorite goodies once a week outside of the home. If you live with other people who enjoy sweets, encourage them to buy other favorites that you dislike, or to keep their food somewhere you won't see it.
At some point, everyone has said yes to one too many work projects or taken on more responsibility they can handle. Stress is a common contributor to weight gain, which is why eliminating stressors from your life can help with weight loss. Evaluate your lifestyle and work habits to identify which commitments and activities are draining your energy and creating undue stress, then work on eliminating those particular stressors from your life.
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