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QE2 Has Failed. Time To Move On
June 06 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Was Friday's job's report the final nail in the coffin for QE2?
It should be. After all, how is Fed chairman Ben Bernanke going to convince people that his bond purchasing program is working when payrolls rose by a measly 54,000 and the unemployment rate climbed back to 9.1 percent? It'll take a lot more than fast-talk to sell that load of horse-manure. The truth is, QE2 has been a total bust and the BLS's report is just the icing on the cake. Just look at the data; it's as grim as anything we've seen in the last two years. Here's a clip from an article titled "Disastrous US jobs report points to deepening slump" that will give the reader some idea of how bad things really are:
"The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a liberal Washington think tank, explained Friday that the official unemployment figure masked an even grimmer reality. It pointed out that the labor force participation rate remained at its lowest point of the recession and that the labor force in May was smaller than it was a year ago, by about 500,000 workers, even though the working-age population grew by 1.9 million in that period.
"Consequently," it noted, "the proportion of the population that is in the labor force is now 0.7 percentage points below where it was a year ago. If the labor force participation rate had held steady over the last year, there would be roughly 1.8 million more workers in the labor force right now. Instead, they are on the sideline. If these workers were in the labor force and were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate would be 10.1 percent right now instead of 9.1 percent. In other words, the improvement in the unemployment rate over the last year (from 9.6 percent to 9.1 percent) is due to would-be workers deciding to sit out the economic storm". ("Disastrous US jobs report points to deepening slump", World Socialist Website)
So, the only reason the stats look as good as they do (which isn't very good at all) is because people are throwing in the towel and calling it "quits" altogether. So much for the American dream, eh?
And there's an interesting twist to the BLS report that readers may not have noticed. The reason the jobs picture is so bleak, is because the "austerity crazed" government has been laying people off while the economy is still struggling which is making things even worse. This is from the Streetlight blog:
"The government sector of the economy continued to make the jobs picture worse. May was the seventh month in a row during which government layoffs undid some of the work of the private sector in creating jobs. Since January 2009, government employment has shrunk in 21 of 29 months -- and without temporary hiring for the Census, it would probably have shrunk in 25 of the last 29 months.
This steady reduction in government employment is a form of contractionary fiscal policy.....If government employment were simply keeping up with population growth in the US, we would expect to see about 17 to 18 thousand more state and local government jobs each month. Instead employment has shrunk by an average of 15 thousand jobs per month since the start of 2009....
In other words, in the absence of the sharp cutbacks in government spending that have been prevalent in the US over the past year or two, about 1.3 million additional people would be working now compared to 8 months ago, rather than the actual job growth we've experienced over that time of about 1 million - a 30% difference. That's a pretty tough headwind to fight, especially for an economy that's already struggling." ("Contractionary Fiscal Policy and the US Job Market", The Streetlight blog)
So, if the government hadn't been foolishly slashing jobs in the middle of a Depression, 1.3 million more people would still be working today. How's that for shooting yourself in the foot? Remember, the easiest way to prime the pump is to make sure that people aren't fired during a slump. That's Rule #1. But, of course, the deficit hawks have already won that scrimmage, so it's probably pointless to even talk about it.
And this isn't just about employment either; it's about distribution, too. As economist David Rosenberg points out in a recent post at Zero Hedge "the labor share of national income has fallen to its lowest level in modern history - down to 57.5% in the first quarter from 57.6% in the fourth quarter of last year, 57.8% a year ago, and 59.8% when the recovery began."
What does that mean? It means all the gains in productivity are going to the fatcats in the front office while workers are scraping by on fewer and fewer crumbs. It means working people are getting reamed again bigtime.
But, then, Bernanke promises to level the playing field with QE2, right? Everyone who wants a job will be able to find one and it'll be Happytime in America again. At least, that's what he intimated in his op-ed in the Washington Post before the program kicked off in November. Here's an excerpt:
"The Federal Reserve's objectives ---- are to promote a high level of employment and low, stable inflation.....Low and falling inflation indicate that the economy has considerable spare capacity, implying that there is scope for monetary policy to support further gains in employment without risking economic overheating.....the Federal Reserve has a particular obligation to help promote increased employment..... Steps taken this week should help us fulfill that obligation." ("What the Fed did and why: supporting the recovery and sustaining price stability", Ben Bernanke, Washington Post)
So, has QE2 lowered unemployment?
Reduced spare capacity?
Not much.
Increased inflation?
Slightly.
So, it was all baloney; QE2 didn't really do anything except send gas and food prices skyrocketing. (which has further crimped consumption)
But that's not how Bernanke sees it. According to him the program has worked spectacularly. Here's the Fed chief crowing about the miraculous effects of QE2:
"Equity prices have risen significantly, volatility in the equity market has fallen, corporate bond spreads have narrowed, and inflation compensation ...has risen to historically more normal levels." (Bloomberg)
Yipee. Another freebie for the investor class! And we're supposed to be grateful for that? What about the jobs you promised? What about stimulating the economy and putting people back to work? Wasn't that how you sold QE2 to the American people in your op-ed, Mr. Bernanke?
It was all lies. Every word of it. Here's how Cullen Roche sums it up over at Pragmatic Capitalism:
"QE2 didn't monetize anything. It didn't cause the money supply to explode. It didn't really do anything except cause a great deal of confusion and generate an enormous amount of speculation in financial markets that now appears to be contributing to turmoil and strife around the globe......
Where we saw a real impact was in commodity prices, general price speculation and the financing pyramid.....Rates have meandered up and down and up and down without a care in the world for the Fed's $600B purchase program. In other words, the program had no impact on rates." ("The QE3 conundrum", Pragmatic Capitalism)
QE2 has been a total flop. The rise in stock prices was a reaction to the temporary increase in corporate earnings which fueled investor optimism. That was a one-time deal caused by trimming expenses and laying off workers. Now production costs are rising at the worst possible time, when all the other economic indicators are beginning to sag. Current data shows weakness throughout the economy, which is why stocks are falling. Expect the worst.
Bad ideas have a way of outlasting their shelf-life. (Especially when people in positions of power have ulterior motives.) Quantitative easing should be put to rest once and for all. It hasn't lowered interest rates, increased GDP, boosted employment, or sparked another credit expansion. The plan has failed. Time to move on.
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Concepts for brain aging: resistance, resilience, reserve, and compensation
Thomas J. Montine1,
Brenna A. Cholerton1,
Maria M. Corrada2,
Steven D. Edland ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1153-73353,7,
Margaret E. Flanagan4,
Laura S. Hemmy6,
Claudia H. Kawas2 &
Lon R. White5
A primary goal of research in cognitive impairment and dementia is to understand how some individuals retain sufficient cognitive function for a fulfilling life while many others are robbed of their independence, sometimes their essence, in the last years and decades of life. In this commentary, we propose operational definitions of the types of factors that may help individuals retain cognitive function with aging. We propose operational definitions of resistance, resilience, reserve, with an eye toward how these may be measured and interpreted, and how they may enable research aimed at prevention. With operational definitions and quantification of resistance, resilience, and reserve, a focused analytic search for their determinants and correlates can be undertaken. This approach, essentially a search to identify protective risk factors and their mechanisms, represents a relatively unexplored pathway toward the identification of candidate preventive interventions.
A primary goal of research in cognitive impairment and dementia is to understand how some individuals retain sufficient cognitive function for a fulfilling life while many others are robbed of their independence, sometimes their essence, in the last years and decades of life. Here, we propose to define key concepts for which there is not yet a consensus. At the outset, we recognize that our focus is biological (molecules, cells, systems, organism), appreciate the major impact of environmental and social determinants of health and admit our prejudice that environmental and social factors ultimately impact cognition through biological processes.
It seems likely that a host of diverse factors active during fetal development, childhood, and throughout adult life may initiate, aggravate, or protect against relevant pathophysiologic processes that underlie neurodegeneration and its clinical expression. These factors—some adverse and some protective—may operate independently, synergistically, antagonistically, sequentially, or even differentially (Fig. 1). While some may be examined individually and in exquisite molecular detail in animal or in vitro models, most will require careful, longitudinal validation in humans. From this perspective, it is not surprising that so far we have had only limited success in identifying risk factors and their underlying mechanisms to guide effective primary and secondary preventive interventions.
Relationships among adverse (red), protective (blue), and mixed (purple) processes that culminate in signs and symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases
Until quite recently, "late onset Alzheimer's disease" was widely viewed as a specific disease entity responsible for the vast majority of late-life dementia. However, longitudinal epidemiologic studies of brain aging and cognitive decline with brain autopsy have consistently demonstrated a central role for multiple co-morbidities as the dominant determinants of late-life dementia. It is important to recognize that current intra vitam measures of these several common diseases of the aging brain are limited, and consequently, despite limitations, brain histopathologic evaluation remains the only means to assess comprehensively the impact of co-morbid diseases on cognitive performance during life.
In combination with functional assessments obtained during life, histopathologic features (lesions) determined with brain autopsy define the presence of specific clinico-pathologic entities, which may or may not reliably correspond to specific mechanism(s) of disease. As a result of the highly consistent findings from longitudinal epidemiologic studies with brain autopsy from across the globe, the view of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults is shifting from being the result of a single disease to a conspiracy of multiple, common age-related disease processes that combine idiosyncratically in each individual. The most common is Alzheimer's disease, defined by amyloid beta accumulation and neurofibrillary degeneration in certain regions of the brain. Four other commonly recognized pathophysiologic processes that can contribute to cognitive decline and dementia in late life include Lewy body disease, vascular brain injury (especially from small vessel disease), hippocampal sclerosis, and generalized atrophy beyond what can be explained by these other diseases. While the brain lesions of AD are more prevalent at autopsy than any of the other lesions, the combined frequencies of the non-AD abnormalities are usually greater. Indeed, in both the Nun Study and the Honolulu Asia Aging Study, > 90% of participants with severe cognitive impairment can be fully attributed to the collective or individual influences of these five abnormalities [1]. It is critically important, but infrequently appreciated, that the exponential influence of co-morbid disease is reflected in the multiplication of individual relative risks (or odds ratios) for each disease related to cognitive impairment or dementia (Table 1).
Table 1 Point estimates of odds ratios (OR) from ordinal logistic regression of the impact of the coprevalence of five brain lesions on cognitive performance within 2 years of death
To frame a discussion of resistance, resilience, reserve, and compensation, we conventionally consider the diseases that cause late-life cognitive impairment and dementia to derive from injury and response to injury that begin before there are signs or symptoms, but that the resulting damage, distortion, disruption, and/or degeneration ultimately becomes overwhelmingly evident as impairments of cognitive and behavioral function.
The recognition of risk factors linked to measures of different types and amount of brain lesions may illuminate fundamental mechanisms and primary instigating exposures. A systematic search to identify specific protective factors and the mechanisms that underlie them has been conducted relatively infrequently. We propose the following operational definitions as a step toward systematically investigating each of these processes in individuals:
Resistance is inferred from an observed absence or lower level of dementia-associated brain injury, relative to an expected greater frequency or severity based on age, genetic factors, or other characteristics of the individual. This state of unexpectedly low or absent brain injury theoretically may be intrinsic, meaning in someone with greater defenses to forces that usually lead to brain lesions, or environmental, meaning in someone with usual defenses but who avoided exposure to these forces. While resistance now can be assessed comprehensively only with neuropathologic evaluation, specific facets (e.g., beta amyloid, pathologic tau burden, neuron damage) can be estimated during life with biomarkers and imaging.
Resilience is inferred from an observed level of cognitive functioning higher than expected in the face of demonstrated brain injury. Resilience only can be recognized or measured when injury exists and can be related to (near) coincident assessment of function. We prefer to consider two forms of resilience: apparent and essential. Apparent resilience refers to a specific lesion type without consideration of common co-morbidities. Consider two individuals who both are positive by PET imaging for fibrillar amyloid and pathologic tau; one is cognitively normal and the other has dementia. The first person has apparent resilience to AD neuropathologic change. Imagine further a future state when there also is a PET ligand for pathologic alpha-synuclein. Now, we learn that the first person lacks Lewy body disease and the second has co-morbid neocortical Lewy body disease. Is the difference between these two individuals explained by resilience to AD neuropathologic change or by resistance to Lewy body in the first person? Once comprehensive assessment of brain lesions associated with dementia is achieved, then essential resilience can be evaluated. Currently, this is accomplished best with neuropathologic assessment, but even this approach is limited. Our brain autopsy data suggest that much, and perhaps most, of what is referred to currently as (apparent) resilience actually is resistance to co-morbid disease.
Consumption or retention of reserve can be measured or inferred either as brain structural and/or physiological pre-morbid capacity. Examples might be greater than usual synaptic density (analogous to computational "hardware") or enhanced cognitive effectiveness or redundancy because of learned language, educational richness, or occupational complexity (analogous to computational "software") prior to the onset of disease. The salutary influence of such resources may be apparent in cognitive test performance well before the onset of cognitive decline. This definition requires that measures of reserve capacity must have been estimated or inferred prior to the development of brain injury. Mechanisms underlying physiologic compensation also may be changes in "hardware" or "software," but in distinction to pre-existing reserve capacity, physiologic compensation occurs following injury rather than developing prior to injury/response to injury. An example of physiologic compensation might be recruitment of additional regions of the brain to subserve memory function following damage to the hippocampus or in recovery of language functioning after an infarction or brain injury.
With operational definitions of resistance, resilience, and reserve, a focused analytic search for their predictors and correlates can be undertaken. This will require distinguishing and measuring each independently, and then employing those measures as distinct endpoints to identify their individual determinants. This approach, essentially a search to identify protective risk factors and their mechanisms, represents a relatively unexplored pathway toward the identification of candidate preventive interventions.
White LR, Edland SD, Hemmy LS, Montine KS, Zarow C, Sonnen JA, et al. Neuropathologic comorbidity and cognitive impairment in the Nun and Honolulu-Asia Aging Studies. Neurol. 2016;86(11):1000–8.
We would like to acknowledge the following foundation and grants:
The Chia-Ling Chang Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation.
NIA grant UF1AG053983, Cognitive Resilience to Alzheimer Neuropathologic Changes in the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study and the Nun Study.
NIA grant UF1AG057707, Neuropathologic Substrates for Motor and Cognitive Impairment in Three Existing Cohort Studies of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.
Data are not available.
Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Thomas J. Montine & Brenna A. Cholerton
Department of Neurology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
Maria M. Corrada & Claudia H. Kawas
Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Steven D. Edland
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Margaret E. Flanagan
Pacific Health Research and Education Institute, Honolulu, HI, USA
Lon R. White
GRECC, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Laura S. Hemmy
Department of Neurosciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Thomas J. Montine
Brenna A. Cholerton
Maria M. Corrada
Claudia H. Kawas
TM, BC, MC, SE, MF, LH, CK, and LW are responsible for the study concept and design, interpretation, and critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Steven D. Edland.
Table 1 data are from a previous publication in Neurology [1]. The Nun Study (NS) was reviewed and approved by Universities of Kentucky and Minnesota institutional review boards (IRBs). Participating School Sisters of Notre Dame had agreed to autopsy prior to death, with final authorizations provided by the Provincial Leader. The Honolulu Asia Aging Study (HAAS) was reviewed and approved by the Kuakini Hospital IRB. A consent form was signed by participants at every cycle (12 from 1965 to 2012), including consent for use of information and materials for research purposes by researchers and their colleagues, including NIH- associated, with no ending of this permission. HAAS autopsy acquisition procedure required notification of a participant's death by family member, hospital, medical examiner's office, or other source, with permission for autopsy and research use of information provided by next of kin.
SE serves on clinical trial Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for Eli Lilly and Suven Life Sciences. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Montine, T.J., Cholerton, B.A., Corrada, M.M. et al. Concepts for brain aging: resistance, resilience, reserve, and compensation. Alz Res Therapy 11, 22 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-019-0479-y
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-019-0479-y
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Camera IconIranian President Hassan Rouhani says he is ready to cooperate with US president-elect Joe Biden.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says he is ready to cooperate with US president-elect Joe Biden.
"It is our goal to remove the burden of US sanctions from the shoulders of the Iranian population ... this goal conforms with national interests," Rouhani said in a speech carried on state television on Wednesday.
He said that Iran was ready for negotiations with the United States, under the condition that Biden return to the 2015 nuclear deal and lifted sanctions imposed by his incumbent President Donald Trump.
"We should do everything to return our country and peoples to a time between 2016 and 2017, after the nuclear deal and the lifting of sanctions when Iran was experiencing economic growth," Rowhani said.
He also urged his opponents not to obstruct these goals. Iranian hardliners oppose Rouhani's pro-Western policies and the nuclear deal, and are said to have rooted for a Trump victory.
Rouhani's counsellor, Diako Hosseini, expected Trump to complicate Biden's return to the nuclear deal through "sabotage" before leaving office, he told news agency ISNA.
"To neutralise these plans, we should be reserved until the new US government takes office in January and not let ourselves be provoked," Hosseini said.
Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018, which was supposed to curb the Iranian nuclear program and prevent it from building an atomic bomb, in exchange for lifting international sanctions.
He also imposed new sanctions on Iran, plunging the country into the worst economic crisis in its history, which was exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.


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Wiz Khalifa "Remember You" (ft. the Weeknd) (video)
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While Wiz Khalifa and the Weeknd's "Remember You" team-up dropped several weeks ago, we're finally getting some ultra-slick visuals.
Courtesy of director Ryan Hope, the clip is packed to the brim with beautiful women, all whom are leading some less than happy lives. The Weeknd himself isn't in the video, but his presence is felt all over this track.
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City and Industrial Development Corporation allowed applications from candidates into vacancies available into the posts of CIDCO Clerk Typist Accounts. A striking number of contenders applied for the job and gave the exams that were carried out. All the competitors who gave the exams are waiting for the merit list. The board has asked the candidates to be patient as the CIDCO Clerk Typist Accounts Mark List 2018 will soon be open on the webpage of CIDCO that is www.cidco.maharashtra.gov.in. Competitors can get the merit list by logging into the official webpage and giving significant details such as name register number and date of birth.
The City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra is an Indian city planning agency and richest government authority in India which is formed and controlled by the Government of Maharashtra. A striking number of contenders applied for the vacancies published in the post of Clerk Typist, Accounts Clerk, Programmer, Field Officer (General), Field Officer (Social Service), Computer OperatorA great number of aspirants had applied for the post and are now waiting for the results. The board has finally informed that they will soon be announcing the results on the official web page of IB.
The list of candidates selected through the SVC Bank Clerk/CSR exams is to be published. The board is preparing to declare the results. Candidates will be selected for the job based on how they performed in the competitive exams. Only the candidates who score at least the smallest cut off marks will be considered suitable for the position. Those candidates who score higher scores will have prominent over other candidates.


Making a Will is a great opportunity to think about what is important to you and to ensure your wishes are carried out. It's essential, whatever your age, to ensure your family and friends are provided for and to ensure your money and possessions are distributed according to your wishes.
We are incredibly grateful for each and every gift kindly left to Rock UK. If you would like to leave a gift to Rock UK in your Will there are three main ways to do this. Here we explain the three ways, as well as the information you need to include in your Will to make sure we receive your kind gift.
As this gift is a proportion of your estate it keeps pace with inflation.
I give to Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd of Frontier Centre, Addington Road, Irthlingborough, Northants, NN9 5UH Charity Registration Number: 1107724 (ENGLAND & WALES) SC040118 (SCOTLAND) __% [proportion of residue in words] for its general purposes and I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer or other duly authorised officer shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors.
You can choose any amount you like but it is worth remembering that if you do decide to leave this type of gift, it is important to review it from time to time as inflation can reduce its value.
I give to Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd of Frontier Centre, Addington Road, Irthlingborough, Northants, NN9 5UH Charity Registration Number: 1107724 (ENGLAND & WALES) SC040118 (SCOTLAND) the sum of £___ [amount in words] for its general purposes and I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer or other duly authorised officer shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors.
You can also choose to leave a particular item to Rock UK, such as a piece of jewellery, an antique or even a property. A gift like this should be named in your Will.
I give to Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd of Frontier Centre, Addington Road, Irthlingborough, Northants, NN9 5UH Charity Registration Number: 1107724 (ENGLAND & WALES) SC040118 (SCOTLAND) [description of item(s)] absolutely for its general purposes and I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer or other duly authorised officer shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors.


"I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades" (Revelation 1:18 NIV).
"…grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18 NIV).
Spiritual growth entails knowing the Lord Jesus Christ progressively better. This process starts after accepting Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord. Spiritual growth is therefore expected from every believer because no believer reaches a point of no growth while living in this world.
Traditions, The Christ verses the new world order.
Tradition; The delivery of opinions,doctrines, practices, rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
GOD loved you and gave His Son to die for you so that on the ground of the shed blood at Calvary you have been accepted as an heir of God and a joint-heir with Jesus Christ in God's Kingdom!


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Vacation like Beyoncé: 4 hot spots visited on her luxury yacht charter
hot spots visited on her luxury yacht charter
Being a global pop star, fashion icon and mother keeps Beyoncé pretty busy but she makes sure she takes some time out every September to celebrate her birthday and explore the Mediterranean on a luxury yacht.
Beyoncé started this summer's vacation in Naples where she met Galactica Star. The 65 metre motor yacht is clearly one of her favourite yachts to charter as she also vacationed on her in 2013.
With a large international airport, Naples is a popular starting point for luxury yacht charters in Italy. It also has private jet facilities, although it is not clear whether Beyoncé opted to charter her own flight.
All pictures courtesy of Instagram/@Beyoncé
Beyoncé's husband Jay-Z, daughter Blue Ivy and former band mate Kelly Rowland joined the singer on this summer's luxury yacht charter and the group were next seen spending some time relaxing in picturesque Capri.
Beyoncé seemed to make the most of chartering a luxury yacht on the Amalfi Coast and was spotted wandering around the streets of Capri — slightly bizarrely with bare feet — tucking into some Gelato. The group also enjoyed an al fresco meal in one of the town's restaurants. Beyoncé is clearly a fan of Capri's combination of natural beauty and luxury lifestyle as she also visited the island in 2013.
Beyoncé proved that Jay-Z and her were still "crazy in love" while they enjoyed some time aboard Galactica Star in Sardinia. The couple were snapped sharing a romantic kiss in front of the sea.
Even though Galactica Star has a stunning aft-deck pool, Beyoncé spent some time on land relaxing in a pool at an undisclosed location, and helped Blue Ivy learn how to swim.
Making the most of the flexibility that a luxury yacht charter can offer Beyoncé was next spotted at various locations in the Côte d'Azur including Antibes, Cannes, Nice and Cap Ferrat.
They visited the Michelangelo restaurant in Antibes. A popular celebrity hang out, Magic Johnson also visited the restaurant during his Med luxury yacht charter.
Like all vacations at some point they have to come to an end and Beyoncé left Galactica Star at Beaulieu sur Mer. The pop star and family are then thought to have flown back from Nice airport, which has one of the world's most scenic runways.
The end of Beyonce's vacation has coincided with the launch of a new song, Runnin' (Lose it All), which has been produced by Naughty Boy and features her vocals. The video for the song is all underwater and it could be a track to add to your ultimate yachting playlist.
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The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) state that:
The WSAVA advises that core vaccines should be administered no more frequently than three-yearly, but add that protection from puppy and kitten shots is likely to be lifelong.
And to vaccinate each individual less frequently by only giving non-core vaccines that are necessary for that animal.
Click here to view the WSAVA Guidelines
Current science also tells us that:
Additional vaccination does not increase immunity but does increase the risk of adverse reaction.
Adverse reactions to vaccines are vastly under-reported. Adverse reactions can be mild (fever/lethargy etc) to severe (cancer/death).
The (bacterial) Leptospirosis vaccine is a non-core vaccine, is considered largely ineffectual, and associated with severe adverse reactions.
Other short-lived immunity viral vaccines (kennel cough) are not particularly effective and carry risk of adverse reaction.
Inexpensive in-house titer (blood) testing is now available to vets, so they can safely avoid giving unnecessary boosters.
See also: An Update on Canine and Feline Vaccination
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BOSTON — Amherst Rep. Solomon Goldstein-Rose has filed a bill that would grant voting rights to noncitizens in town elections, a move he says would make the town more inclusive for the many international professors and graduate students living permanently in the college town.
The bill, filed by the freshman rep last week, would allow legal permanent Amherst residents who are not citizens to register to vote in local elections when they turn 18 years old. The bill would not grant noncitizens the right to vote in state or federal elections.
"In Amherst this is a real issue because we have a bunch of professors and graduate students and people who are very much a part of our community who may be living here indefinitely or permanently but are from all over the world," Goldstein-Rose said.
The bill arrives amid debate over voting rights and immigration policies, the focus of well-attended legislative committee hearings on Thursday and Friday.
Amherst Town Meeting approved a warrant article earlier this year to grant such voting rights to legal permanent residents. The next step, Goldstein-Rose said, is for the Legislature to approve it. Similar warrants have been approved by Town Meeting in past years, but bills filed by Senate President Stanley Rosenberg and former Amherst Rep. Ellen Story were not approved on Beacon Hill.
Amherst has 37,819 residents, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. That number includes students who attend the town's two colleges and university: Hampshire College, Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
According to a town employee, some 15 percent of the town's approximately 19,000 registered voters cast ballots in local elections, depending on whether there is a contested race.
Diana Sierra, an organizer with the Pioneer Valley Workers Center in Northampton, said the bill could make permanent residents in town feel more respected.
The town has passed other measures in response recent political events.
Taking aim at President Donald Trump's administration, Amherst Town Meeting approved a Sanctuary Community bylaw in May to protect undocumented residents and bar town employees and town tax dollars from participating in the establishment of a Muslim registry.


The Bold and the Beautiful (B&B) spoilers for Thursday, November 9, tease that Wyatt (Darin Brooks) will offer Bill (Don Diamont) his support. Bill will be busy beating himself up over what happened with Liam (Scott Clifton). He'll tell Wyatt that he destroyed all the progress he made.
Bill will fret over breaking Liam's trust and obliterating any chance of reuniting with Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang). Wyatt will admit that the Spectra incident was unfortunate, but he won't think Bill should feel guilty about it. He'll argue that Sally (Courtney Hope) and Liam's ordeal wasn't Bill's fault.
Bill had no idea they went back in the building. It was a pretty idiotic move on Liam and Sally's part. However, they wouldn't have been in that situation if Bill hadn't been so stubborn. Wyatt won't see why Bill should have to change for Liam. He'll praise Bill's great business sense and promise to be behind him no matter what.
Wyatt definitely has Bill's back, so that could lead to more conflict with Liam. For now, Liam will have to deal with Steffy's (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) drama. She'll once again try to get through to her husband. Steffy will push Liam to cut ties with Sally and let her figure out her own future. She won't think Liam needs to keep derailing his own life just so Sally can be happy.
Liam will likely refuse to turn his back on Sally, especially after enduring those scary moments together. Their bond should be tough to break. Meanwhile, Sally will have a chat with Coco (Courtney Grosbeck). The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers say Coco will rant about Bill's actions and insist she'll never forgive him for tearing down Sally's dreams.
Coco will also pick up on her sister's growing feelings. She'll call Sally out on her love for Liam in Thursday's B&B episode. Sally will likely confess that she cares about Liam more than she should. She'll even come clean about that kiss at some point.
The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers say Coco will wonder if Sally might have a shot with Liam. They'll debate the issue and try to determine where Spectra goes from here. We'll give you updates as other B&B news comes in. Stick with the CBS soap and don't forget to check CDL often for the latest Bold and the Beautiful spoilers, updates and news.


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"Grand Canyon National Park invites the public to celebrate the 49th Anniversary of Earth Day during National Park Week on Saturday, April 20, 2019. All Earth Day activities are open and free of charge to the public," according to a press release from the National Park Service.
Normally, the entry fee at Grand Canyon National Park is $35 per vehicle and $30 per motorcycle for a week pass, but on April 20, 2019, you can enter the park for free - and take part in the annual Earth Day festivities.
How to Celebrate Earth Day at the Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon Visitor Center Plaza at the South Rim, hosts the Grand Canyon's Earth Day Festival every year. From 10 A.M. to 2 P.M., you'll find a free, open-house style festival with special exhibitions and interactive activities for all ages. The festival hosts a number of local retailers and organizations who are focused on preserving the environment. They will be offering many earth-related activities, ranging from educational opportunities to arts and crafts and much more.
In addition to Earth Day, this year marks Grand Canyon National Park's 100th anniversary! Celebrate 100 years of stewardship at the canyon by the National Park Service, and sign the Grand Canyon's 100th anniversary birthday card!
This Year's Theme: Sustainability: Then and Now
The Earth Day Festival event at the Grand Canyon raises awareness of some of the toughest issues facing our environment. This year's theme, Sustainability: Then and Now, features exhibits showcasing a rich history of sustainable action within the park.
Check out this year's special Subaru exhibit and other vehicles on display.
Catch a live leatherwork demonstration and play Muleshoe Pitch to win a cool prize!
Don't forget to pick up some carrots and apples to share with the famous mule team at the Mule Barn in the historic village.
Be sure to see the interpretive demonstration of the Grand Canyon Railway Steam Engine at the Train Depot between 11:30 am to 2 pm.
"Sustainability means preserving this incredible place for future generations, just as it was preserved for us by generations past. Pink Jeep Tours helps preserve the canyon by volunteering for litter pick-ups, and by using the Leave No Trace philosophy," says Romy Murphy, Operations Manager for Pink Jeep Tours at the Grand Canyon.
What Else to do at the Grand Canyon on April 20th
Again from the Park Service, "In addition to photo booth opportunities, the Grand Canyon Green Team invites you to participate in Ribbons of Stewardship for a Healthy and Sustainable Park.Here you can write personal sentiments about what you treasure most about Grand Canyon National Park and place your ribbons on the branches of our 'tree'. Participate in Grand Canyon Conservancy's scavenger hunt and learn about water conservation, recycling, zero-waste, composting, dark sky protection, and eco-transportation.
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Many people take advantage of the free entry to Grand Canyon National Park for Earth Day, so you will want to plan to arrive early. The gates open at 7 A.M., and the parking lots at Mather Point and the Grand Canyon Village will fill up quickly after that. To get the most out of your day, try to arrive as close to 7 A.M. as possible, and plan for an early guided tour before spending time at the Earth Day Festival starting at 10 A.M.
If you're looking to stay overnight near the Grand Canyon in anticipation of Earth Day, neighboring cities include Tusayan, Williams, Flagstaff, and Sedona. These cities are roughly 30 minutes to two hours away from Mather Point by car. From Williams, you can take Highway 64 north. From Flagstaff, take Highway 180 north to join Highway 64. From Sedona, take Highway 89A through scenic Oak Creek Canyon to join Interstate 40 west until heading north to the Grand Canyon on Highway 64.
While entry to the Grand Canyon will be free on April 20th, all fees that are associated with camping, tours, reservations, or use of concessions will not be waived on the fee-free day. Park entrance stations will have Interagency Senior and Annual Passes available for purchase.
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Q: Unable to call method from extended class I have a Parent class that I extended into a child class, and the goal is to reuse an already created working functionality, but it seems an error occurred when using the parent class method
from sr import BaseClient
class Client(BaseClient):
    def __init__(self, credentials=None):
        ....
    def _request(self,path: str, params):
         pass

class Address(Client):
   def get_address(self, **kwargs):
       return self._request('path', kwargs)

Running test
import pytest
from .... import Addresses

def test_get_address():
    res = Addresses.get_address({'query': 'some',.....other here})

The error is pointing to the parent method called from the child class(Addresses)

FAILED tests/test_api.py::test_get_addresses - AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute '_request'

A: This is because you're trying to call get_address as a static method, and the dict you're giving to the function ({'query': 'some',.....other here}) is passed as the self argument. This is why you get an error that a dict has no attribute _request, because it doesn't.
Perhaps you meant to instantiate the class first, like Address().get_address()?

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National Consultation
National Consultation surveys are key to government policy
Cabinet Chief Antal Rogán said the government's policies are informed by the National Consultation public surveys and "points of agreement" found with the public.
Exclusive interview with Viktor Orbán on the "This Evening" programme on Hungarian public service television channel M1
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on the Kossuth Radio programme "Good Morning Hungary"
1,793,000 people return government's National Consultation questionnaire on coronavirus measures
Csaba Dömötör, State Secretary for the Prime Minister's Office, said the survey is the second most successful the Hungarian government has conducted to tap public opinion.
1.6 million have so far completed government's coronavirus survey
Hungarian residents have until August 31 to submit the survey questionnaires.
Hungary's opposition are trying to stop people from having their say in National Consultation survey
Lőrinc Nacsa accused opposition parties of stealing questionnaires from mailboxes and ripping them up, while at the same time mounting a campaign to discredit the National Consultation.
National Consultation survey will show which COVID-19 measures are supported by Hungarians
Alexandra Szentkirályi, the government's spokeswoman, said that the results would provide an important indicator when it comes to handling a second wave.
This is why the ongoing national consultation's questions on migration will make a difference
In question number 12 and 13, we are asking citizens whether the government should continue to stand up against immigration, even at the price of an open conflict with Brussels.
National consultation: Seven questions about the epidemic
Out of the 13 questions in the national consultation questionnaire sent to Hungarian households, seven concern the coronavirus epidemic, possible measures to tackle a potential second wave of the virus, and new steps to help maintain epidemiological preparedness should a next crisis occur.
Hungary's latest national consultation launched on Monday. Here's a look back at earlier consultations
Beginning on Monday, questionnaires for Hungary's national consultation are going out to every household in the country, some 7.8 million. This is the eighth national consultation since the first one nearly ten years ago, in September 2010. What began as a letter to pensioners asking for their opinions has become one of the Hungarian government's effective methods for consulting the public before making important policy decisions.
Here's the latest national consultation questionnaire in English
The following questionnaire is being sent to Hungarians to ask their opinion on the coronavirus and the restarting of the economy.
Government publishes 13 questions to be put to the Hungarian people in new national consultation survey
The questionnaire will now be posted to households and can be returned by August 15.
More questions added to national consultation survey
Questions on internet usage among families with children, promoting domestic tourism and epidemic monitoring will be included on a survey to be sent to all Hungarian households as part of the next national consultation.
August 15 deadline for latest "national consultation" survey
Residents have until August 15 to submit their feedback to the government's latest "national consultation" survey.
National consultation covers issues that weaken Hungary's security and go against justice
Issues to be addressed by the survey include the payment of compensation to prisoners complaining about poor prison conditions and probation rules pertaining to violent criminals.
Government seeks public support for upcoming national consultation survey
A total of nine questions are planned for the national consultation survey and the letters are expected to be delivered to Hungarian households in mid-March.
Government to launch new national consultation on prisons and schools
The new national consultation will focus on "prison deals", the Roma segregation case in Gyöngyöspata and judge's corruption.
PM Orbán to make annual state of the nation address on February 10th
The prime minister will talk about the government measures decided on the basis of a national consultation on family policy conducted in November and December
Here's why family policy is important and how this national consultation seeks to make a difference
Nov 23, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács
Europe's demographic decline comes as no surprise to anyone even superficially acquainted with current birthrates around the continent. Although some in western Europe have already decided that immigration offers the only way to make up for the loss, the Orbán Government pursues another solution -- make it easier for the nation's own citizens to have bigger families – and in this national consultation, we're asking citizens for their input on how to do that.
Here's the English version of Hungary's national consultation on the protection of the family
Since its inauguration, Hungary's government has always paid special attention to the protection and support of families raising children. This is why we have introduced family tax benefits and doubled the overall family support compared to its level in 2010. Now we have the opportunity through further provisions to support Hungarian families.
Government to send out national consultation on the protection of families this week
The postal service will start delivering the questionnaires to members of the public in the next few days, Katalin Novák, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities said
National consultation on family policy to kick off soon
Oct 31, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács
National consultation has become a powerful tool in recent years to invite citizen participation in major decision-making processes between election cycles. Since 2010, the government has solicited citizen input on a number of high-profile policy choices including the new Fundamental Law, economic issues, social security, conditions affecting pensioners, and immigration. This time it's about family protection and it gets underway in just a few days.
Hungarian government to launch national consultation on the protection of families "within days"
Csaba Dömötör highlighted that with this consultation the government will be able to designate the foundations for future family support measures
Hungarian government to release National Consultation Survey in October to gain insight into demography issue
State Secretary Csaba Dömötör said the government will survey citizens on family policy in a national consultation that will launch in just a couple of weeks
Government to initiate national consultation survey over demographic problem in Hungary
Minister says survey will likely go ahead in October
Hungarians "unanimously reject the Soros Plan" following return of 2,356,811 national consultation surveys
According to Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács, 2,356,811 national consultation questionnaires were returned, 2,178,320 by post and 178,491 online. The number of responses rejecting the "Soros Plan" was above 2.3 million with regard to all seven questions included in the consultation, he added
PM Orbán thanks Hungarians for giving him the strength to protect Hungary's sovereignty at EU summit
In a Facebook video message, the prime minister wished "every citizen of Hungary a beautiful Advent season, and a blessed, peaceful and merry Christmas"
PM Orbán speaks on behalf of 2.3 million Hungarians who rejected the "Soros Plan" when he heads to Brussels today [VIDEO]
PM Orbán stressed that Hungary is the only country in Europe in which the government has dared to ask the people their opinions on migration and immigration in the successful survey
Notarized response totals for national consultation survey exceed 2.1 million
The notarized totals were only in relation to responses returned by post and do not include online participation
Hungarians have unanimously rejected the "Soros plan" in national consultation survey
Bence Tuzson, state secretary for Government Communication, said that "the government will fight the mandatory quota scheme and advocate the position of the Hungarian people both in Hungary and Europe"
Record numbers take part in Hungary's national consultation
Dec 06, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács
More than two million Hungarians have taken part in Hungary's latest national consultation, making their voice heard on controversial plans to resettle migrants. The participation rate marks a new record.
National consultation survey on the "Soros plan" attracted a record 2.3 million responses
Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács expressed his thanks on behalf of the government to all who sent in their answers and said the high participation reflected that this was a national issue that would determine the future of Hungary and the European Union in the long-term
Speeches and Remarks Prime Minister
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Kossuth Radio's "180 Minutes" programme, December 1
Hungary's National Consultation survey receives a record 2.2 million responses
Last chance for public to send in National Consultation responses before the December 1st deadline
Government announces that it will extend National Consultation deadline until December 1st
The government decided to extend the deadline because the public were still sending in their responses, but most importantly to allow for last week's vote by the European Parliament to launch the EU's migrant relocation scheme
Latest National Consultation survey receives a record 1.7 million responses
Csaba Dömötör said "the real political struggle is just starting" because the plan to relocate migrants on a mandatory basis without an upper limit "is now being implemented"
The Soros media blitz to convince the world there is no such thing as a Soros plan
As I wrote last week, the European Parliament approved a regulation that would introduce a permanent and mandatory migrant quota system without an upper limit on the number of migrants to be admitted. What's more, it says that the evaluation of asylum claims will no longer be carried out by the country of first entry, and all member states will have to accommodate migrants on an involuntary basis. Countries that don't cooperate would be politically and financially penalized.
Brussels criticizes 'Soros' national consultation questionnaire as government receives strong response from public
János Lázár, the minister heading the Prime Minister's Office revealed that 1,295,000 Hungarians had sent back the consultation questionnaires which is a remarkably high number, and clearly demonstrates that the people want to state their views on the matter
Cabinet office state secretary responds to Guy Verhofstadt's criticism of the Hungarian government's "national consultation" survey
All Hungarians have a right to express their thoughts on "the completely irrational and risky relocation plans," said Cabinet office state secretary Csaba Dömötör
Here's the questionnare that allows the people to have their say on the Soros Plan
On Wednesday, the government published the national consultation on the Soros plan, one of a series of national consultations in which the government turns to the people in the form of public surveys to ask their opinion on subjects important to their daily lives. This seventh national consultation addresses the Soros Plan to resettle one million migrants in Europe per year. The following is an English-language translation of the questionnaire.
Letting the people have their say on the Soros Plan
Sep 28, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács
On Wednesday, the government published the national consultation on the Soros plan, one of a series of national consultations in which the government turns to the people in the form of public surveys to ask their opinion on subjects important to their daily lives. This seventh national consultation addresses the Soros Plan to resettle one million migrants in Europe per year. The consultation's fundamental question is: should Hungary become an immigrant country or not?
Hungary's new national consultation survey will contain 7 questions on immigration
The survey will be distributed in October and will touch on the relocation of a million migrants as well as proposals on border closures. The survey can be filled out online or on paper and returned by post
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's speech at the closing event for the National Consultation
27 June 2017, Budapest
PM Orbán: We want Hungarians to come first and prosper from economic success
PM Orbán said that in this democracy he can see no one asking the people for guidance except his own party
National Consultation proves Hungarian government is going in the right direction
State Secretary Csaba Dömötör said that the survey clearly shows that Hungarians do not want Brussels to take away Hungary's right to make strategically important decisions
Hungarians have decided that they do not want illegal immigrants in their country
PM Orbán insisted that "record high" participation in the government's latest nationwide public survey means that "a whole nation is looking for ways to support its position of denying entry to people of a different culture or civilization"
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reply to opposition comments on his address in Parliament before the start of daily business
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's address in Parliament before the start of daily business
PM Orbán tells Parliament that Hungary has never been anti-European
PM Orbán criticized the Socialist opposition party for wanting to dismantle the fence on Hungary's southern border, adding that they would likely never have built it in the first place
Here's what's really behind the debate with Brussels over Hungary's national consultation
As the government announced last week, preliminary results of Hungary's national consultation are in, and the number of responses received sets a new record.
PM Orbán: The only network which "operates like a mafia" in Hungary is run by George Soros
Soros's network and its "agencies" were "a significant and non-transparent component of Hungary's public life". Soros and "his supporters in Hungary" were seeking to implement "a program to allow migrants into the country," the prime minister said
Hungarian government receives a record 1.68 million responses to "national consultation" questionnaire
The government intends to continue tackling illegal migration and to maintain the right to regulate taxes, wages and utility prices as national competencies
Deadline for Hungarian government's 'national consultation' questionnaire tomorrow
The Hungarian government will be able to act successfully against "the pressure imposed by Brussels and the organizations of George Soros" if as many people return their questionnaires as possible by Wednesday, Fidesz party's communications director said
National consultation is to help government understand the people and the direction in which Hungary and the EU should head
The politics of a nation or country can only be successful if it is founded on the opinion of the country's citizens
More than one million Hungarians have so far returned their national consultation questionnaires
The government launched its survey dubbed "Let's Stop Brussels" on April 1, sending questionnaires to the whole voter base of about 8 million people and providing a website to answer the questions
Hungary will respond to Brussels' unjustified attack on National Consultation
"The goal of the Brussels attacks is for fewer people to sign the National Consultation," Bence Tuzson said, adding that despite this interest is high, the people of Hungary realize that these are important issues and around 900,000 people have already returned their filled out National Consultation questionnaires
Government spokesperson says so-called NGOs are the problem, not charities or volunteer organizations
"The problem isn't with the some 60 thousand civic organizations operating in Hungary, but with so-called NGOs, which are trying to prove that they are true civic organizations," Zoltán Kovács said
Hungarian government send out next round of national consultation surveys to solicit citizen input
The Hungarian government will send questionnaires to households next week in the latest round of national consultations
The national consultation and why we listen to the people
Mar 23, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács
The national consultation has become an especially useful method in recent years to invite citizen participation in the decision-making process between election cycles
Hungarian government proposing change to transport regulations in wake of bus crash tragedy
During Wednesday's Cabinet meeting it was decided that before finalizing changes to regulations, the government would consult as many people on the subject as possible by using an 'online consultation'
How does the government support families?


The United States men's national team picked up a feel-good win over Mexico on Tuesday in Nashville, and there's no reason to feel bad about enjoying the win.
Yet as general manager Earnie Stewart sorts through his options regarding the next full-time coach of the USMNT, where do the Yanks sit in the race to qualify for Qatar 2022?
Yes, the World Cup is still going to Qatar. Yes, the games will be played in December in the middle of the night local time. Had to be said, again.
First and foremost, assuming the World Cup stays at 32 teams in the 3+1 CONCACAF qualifying format, who are the front-runners to make the Hex?
Let's say the chalk plays out through qualifying and these 12 teams make the fourth round of qualifying. Since the Hex began for the 1998 cycle, the following nations have participated: USMNT (all), Mexico (all), Costa Rica (all), Honduras (4), Trinidad and Tobago (4), Panama (3), Jamaica (3), El Salvador (2), Guatemala (2006), Canada (1998).
We still don't know which U-20 sides will qualify for next summer's U-20 World Cup — qualifying is in November — but the U.S. won the CONCACAF U-20 title in 2017, with Mexico winning the previous three, and Costa Rica before that. Panama were runners-up in 2015, so it's a pretty good predictor of the pipeline.
For now, we will only rank the sides who have qualified to a prior Hex, though Haiti has a chance to impress us and join in the next power rankings some time in the future.
Yes, Panama qualified for the World Cup, but it happened via a goal that never crossed the line and the poor performances of an American team that rarely showed up to work and a Honduran team which just couldn't pull it together. Still, it's best player at the World Cup were young: Ricardo Avila (21), Yoel Barcenas (24), and Jose Luis Rodriquez (20). Need to figure out life post-Felipe Baloy, Blas Perez, and (probably) Jaime Penedo.
Honduras is going to be in the discussion due to home field advantage alone. Even when Los Catrachos aren't shining at San Pedro Sula, they are a handful. A bit longer in the tooth than you'd like for a tournament run, young forward Alberth Elis has to join Romell Quioto, Bryan Acosta, and Anthony Lozano in taking the next step.
The wild card here is Canada, which remains a green project and has new leadership in former WNT coach John Herdman. He will have a trio of teens at significant clubs when Alphonso Davies leaves Vancouver for Bayern Munich, joining Jonathan David at Gent and Liam Millar at Liverpool (Alessandro Busti is with Juventus B and Zahcary Brault-Guilard, Lyon). TFC's Jonathan Osorio is in his prime, Cyle Larin isn't there yet, and goalkeeper Milan Borjan starts on Red Star Belgrade.
Let's start with the one of the bunch which played in the World Cup; Costa Rica is a difficult team to read. It will qualify for the Hex because it's never failed to and it won't be too old… yet. Of the 13 players to play more than 100 minutes for Los Ticos at the World Cup, only Joel Campbell and Francisco Calvo (both 26) were under the age of 28. All five players who manned all 270 minutes of the World Cup were 30 or older.
Sure the U.S. was missing big names Pulisic, Brooks, Cameron, Bradley, and Altidore in the 1-0 win over Mexico, but El Tri was without a whole lot more. Andres Guardado, Hector Herrera, Diego Reyes, Miguel Layun, Hector Moreno, Raul Jimenez, Carls Vela, Hirving Lozano, Chicharito (I'm just gonna stop now).
Mexico's very best players are playing for some of the best clubs in the world, and Liga MX is still plenty ahead of MLS in depth and churning out youngsters.
ZURICH (AP) FIFA has banned a former El Salvador coach for two years for his role in offering players money to perform well in a World Cup qualifying game, and thereby help his native Honduras.
FIFA ethics committee judges found Ramon Maradiaga guilty of "bribery and corruption" and failing to report the plot, soccer's world governing body said Wednesday.
El Salvador's players were offered cash by a third party if they managed to win – or at least avoid losing by two goals or more – in a qualifier against Canada in September 2016. A big defeat risked helping Canada progress ahead of Honduras. It's against FIFA rules for third parties to offer cash incentives to teams.
However, El Salvador players revealed the cash offer at a news conference before the game in Vancouver.
Maradiaga captained Honduras at the 1982 World Cup, the first time the Central American qualified for the tournament.
He was also fined 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,000), FIFA said.
Honduras progressed from the regional qualifying group by drawing 0-0 with Mexico in its final game, meaning Canada could not advance despite a 3-1 win over El Salvador.
Honduras ultimately did not qualify for the World Cup in Russia, losing an intercontinental playoff against Australia last November.
A previous match-fixing scandal forced El Salvador to rebuild its national team for the 2018 qualifying program.
FIFA imposed a range of lifetime bans and other suspensions on players who were involved in fixing games, including a 5-0 loss to Mexico at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
SYDNEY (AP) Jorge Luis Pinto has accused Australia of a clumsy espionage attempt after a drone hovered over his Honduras squad's practice session ahead of the return leg of their World Cup playoff.
The first leg last Friday ended in a 0-0 draw, leaving a spot at next year's World Cup at stake Wednesday at Sydney's Olympic stadium.
The Australian squad flew directly home from Honduras on a charter flight brimming with rehabilitation equipment for the players and landed on Sunday, a day ahead of Pinto's squad.
Pinto didn't back away from the claims at his match-eve news conference, saying he didn't accept the explanation from stadium staff that it was an accidental case of a father and his child playing with the drone in a nearby park.
"Let's not be innocent. It's espionage in football," Pinto said. "Just like VAR (Video Assistant Referee) has made it into football, drones have made their way into espionage.
Pinto said it was "embarrassing for such an advanced country" and added that the Socceroos had checked "every bathroom, every box at the stadiums where they trained" in San Pedro Sula to ensure there was no spying on their own sessions.
Football Federation Australia said it had nothing to do with the drone.
Australia coach Ange Postecoglou said he wasn't getting distracted by the claims, and was focused only on getting the Socceroos to a fourth consecutive World Cup.
It has been a long campaign for both squads. Australia went through the last round of Asian qualifying with just one loss from 10 games, yet still missed out on one of the four direct entries to Russia on goals difference.
A lack of finish in front of the goals was evident again in the Asian playoff against Syria, which the Australians won courtesy of Tim Cahill's two goals in Sydney to reach the intercontinental playoff.
Honduras finished fourth in qualifying in North and Central America and the Caribbean, securing a spot in the playoff at the expense of the U.S.
Australia failed to convert two clear chances to score in San Pedro Sula last Friday, but Postecoglou said he was content to come back to Australia on level terms. Cahill, who didn't play in the first game because of an ankle injury, is fit and ready for selection, and Mark Milligan and Matt Leckie are available again after being suspended for the series opener.
Postecoglou has foreshadowed changes for the return match and so has Pinto, saying there could be up to three changes for Honduras with veteran skipper Maynor Figueroa and pacy winger Alberth Elis coming back.
Pinto said Figueroa would add some field presence and composure to his team, and Elis could create space out wide.
The Honduras coach didn't elaborate too much further on what tactics he'd use, but had a tongue-in-cheek poke at Postecoglou on the theme of surveillance.
The Sydney news conference was broadcast on TV in Honduras, and Pinto was asked if he had a message for the team's fans.
The Socceroos will surely be frustrated to not have come away with a goal (or several) on Friday, and now 90 more minutes will determine which nation goes to the World Cup.
Honduras and Australia settled for a 0-0 draw at the Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano, despite the latter dominating the game's chances.
Tomi Juric was a threat throughout the match, and had his header in the 54th minute gone anywhere other than straight at goalkeeper Donis Escober the AFC side would've gone ahead.
The Socceroos had several big opportunities to break the deadlock in the first stanza, but none better than when Tomi Juric found himself in on goal in the 34th minute.
Unfortunately for the striker, Juric scuffed his left-footed attempt wide of goal, keeping the match scoreless as the teams moved towards halftime.
Both sides came out a bit nervy in the opening minutes, and Australia nearly used that to its advantage in the 12th minute when Massimo Luongo forced an important save out of Escober.
The hosts were held to just one shot on target in the match, as Australia held strong defensively through 45 minutes.
The draw keeps Honduras' unbeaten run in San Pedro Sula alive though, with Los Catrachos not having suffered defeat at home in their last six matches (since losing to Panama on Nov. 11, 2016).
Honduras and Australia will meet again on Nov. 15 in Sydney to decide which nation advances to Russia.
Despite Honduras' lack of chances, a win or scoring draw (1-1, 2-2, etc.) will put Los Catrachos through to the World Cup on Wednesday.
Only one country will advance, and Friday's matchup in San Pedro Sula will likely dictate a large say in which team that is.
Honduras will host Australia from the Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano on Friday at 5 p.m. ET, as the CONCACAF and AFC nations vie for a spot in Russia next summer.
The Aussies reach this stage of qualifying after narrowly knocking out Syria, 3-2 on aggregate, in an AFC playoff last month, while Honduras finished fourth-place in CONCACAF to guarantee themselves this opportunity at qualification.
Previously, Australia has qualified for four World Cups, including the past three editions of the tournament.
Meanwhile, Honduras is seeking its fourth trip to FIFA's greatest competition. Los Catrachos have never won a match at the World Cup, though, and scored just three goals in their previous three appearances.


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Family enters 'Trigger' in car show
By RICHARD LUKEN
Trevor Gray is the first to admit there will be other, more polished pieces of vehicular art at the upcoming Smokin' Hot Car Show and BBQ Cookoff.
He rattles off his issues with Trigger, the name he's affectionately given his 1989 Toyota pickup.
"There are a few dings and scratches," he said, "and some of the original pinstriping has started to peel slightly. But the interior is still good."
For a vehicle that has been used regularly first by his grandfather, then his father and now Trevor, Trigger has become a cherished family heirloom.
Saturday's event highlights the opening weekend of the 121st Allen County Fair. Both the car show and cookoff begin at 8 a.m. at Iola's Riverside Park. They're sponsored by the Iola Rotary Club.
THE MAROON pickup was fresh off the assembly line when Yates Center's Virgil Gray — Trevor's grandfather — bought the vehicle from a Texas auto dealer.
"It was pretty much an everyday vehicle," Trevor said. "He pulled it behind his motor home to Texas each summer."
Virgil kept the truck for more than 15 years before handing it off to his son, Travis — Trevor's father.
"Dad had it for three or four years, again for everyday use," Trevor recalled. "That's when he handed it down to me in 2010."
TREVOR has enjoyed keeping the truck in tip-top shape.
"It's still almost completely original, with a few things I've added to change it up a little bit," he said.
He recently replaced the entire exhaust system, while adding some cosmetic changes.
Perhaps most notable is the vinyl lettering on the windshield and back window noting the name Trigger.
"The name was just something I came up with," he said. "Some people think I'm crazy."
Trevor handles most of the repairs himself.
"My fiancee tries to help when she can," he added with a laugh. "She hasn't worked with cars too much before."
So far, so good. Trigger still purrs like a kitten. Its 4-cylinder engine gets about 29 miles to the gallon.
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HomeTravelTwo girls aged eight and 15 win easyJet's 'Aircraft of the Future'...
Two girls aged eight and 15 win easyJet's 'Aircraft of the Future' competition
Easyjet challenged the UK's next generations of engineers to design their vision for future flying – planes for travelling across Europe powered by a sustainable energy source. And the ideas that flew in were eye-opening.
They included unconventional power sources such as hamster wheels and worms, and seats made from coconuts, one of the thickest and most resistant natural fibres available.
But it was Cerys, aged eight, from Norfolk, and Lara, aged 15, from Surrey, who were crowned the winners of easyJet's Aircraft of the Future competition – thanks to 'inspirational' designs.
Cerys Armstrong (left), aged eight, from Norfolk, and Lara Wong (right), aged 15, from Epsom, unveil their zero-emission passenger plane designs as they are named as the winners of the easyJet Aircraft of the Future competition at Luton Airport
Cerys' winning design centred on battery power, with solar-powered wings and reusable cups for passengers made of processed banana leaves.
Lara's design, meanwhile, looked at using pressurised hydrogen and fuel-cell stacks to generate electricity to power her passenger aircraft of the future.
Lara's aeroplane also took inspiration from the animal kingdom, with material replicating fish scales for the plane's fuselage, intended to decrease drag for the plane to improve fuel efficiency.
Cerys' winning design centred on battery power, with solar-powered wings and reusable cups for passengers made of processed banana leaves
The panel judged all the entries on 'the quality of the design, interpretation of the theme, creativity, innovation, practicality, and most of all, how the design has considered sustainability and the environment'
All design entries were judged by 'an esteemed panel of world-class experts in flying, sustainability, design and zero-emission technology'.
EasyJet pilot and zero-emission aircraft modeller Debbie Thomas was joined on the panel by easyJet's Director of Sustainability, Jane Ashton; zero-emission aircraft expert Glenn Llewellyn from Airbus; Jeff Engler, CEO of Wright Electric, which is developing a zero-emission short-haul plane; and automotive transportation designer Frank Stephenson, best known for his iconic car designs for Mini and Fiat 500, as well as recent innovative work designing electric flying vehicles.
The panel judged all the entries on 'the quality of the design, interpretation of the theme, creativity, innovation, practicality, and most of all, how the design has considered sustainability and the environment'.
EasyJet first officer and judge Debbie Thomas, who is an engineer and zero-emission aircraft modeller, said: 'We had some amazing entries and were stunned and incredibly encouraged by the innovation we saw. Cerys and Lara have inspired us all with their winning designs – we'd love to see them join easyJet as engineers one day, working on zero-emission aircraft of the future.'
Lara's design looked at using pressurised hydrogen and fuel-cell stacks to generate electricity to power her passenger aircraft of the future
Lara's aeroplane also took inspiration from the animal kingdom, with material replicating fish scales for the plane's fuselage, intended to decrease drag for the plane to improve fuel efficiency
Frank Stephenson, designer and judge, said: 'We have been blown away by the designs we have seen. Children's imaginations are so powerful in fuelling ideas and creativity. Huge congratulations to Cerys and Lara!'
Glenn Llewellyn, Airbus Vice President Zero Emission Aircraft and judge, said: 'There's nothing more inspiring than seeing the next generation's enthusiasm for more sustainable flight! I'm thoroughly impressed by the innovative ideas – from fish scales to increase laminar flow to "bow" wings powered by hydrogen fuel cells – put forth by these future aeronautical engineers. It demonstrates curiosity, creativity and a maturity in aeronautical knowledge that is wise beyond their years.'
Jeff Engler, CEO of Wright Electric and judge, said: 'It was incredibly inspiring to see how creative children were when it came to designing their sustainable aircraft of the future. We were delighted to see the inventiveness and level of detail some of the designs had.'
Cerys and Lara have received a host of money-can't-buy-prizes in the form of a 3D model and rendering of their design, produced and signed by Frank Stephenson, as well as an experience in an easyJet full-flight simulator and return flights to anywhere on the airline's network for the winner's immediate family.
Cerys is pictured here showing her design to Frank Stephenson, designer and competition judge. Cerys and Lara have received a host of money-can't-buy-prizes in the form of a 3D model and rendering of their design, produced and signed by Frank, as well as an experience in an easyJet full-flight simulator
Cerys and Lara alongside Martyna Snopek, Design Engineer at easyJet and Frank Stephenson
Additionally, Lara, the winner of the secondary-school-age category, has won a behind-the-scenes trip to Airbus and a chance to feature on Frank Stephenson's YouTube podcast channel to discuss their design. The runners-up will also be receiving a signed render of their design.
Research by the airline of 2,000 British children and adults revealed that well over four in five (83 per cent) British children would like to take up a career that worked in finding solutions to combat climate change through science or technology, with 85 per cent of parents supporting their children in this.
A whopping 95 per cent of children believe that learning about subjects such as science and technology for combatting climate change is important and a further 90 per cent of children think that having the chance to be an inventor or designer who invented things to combat climate change would be one of the most amazing jobs in the world.
Easyjet said: 'Championing the development of a zero-emission aircraft to de-carbonise aviation has long been a focus for easyJet and the airline is working with its partners Airbus and Wright Electric to accelerate the development of zero-emission technologies. The airline is optimistic that it could begin flying customers on planes powered by hydrogen-combustion, hydrogen-electric or a hybrid of both by the mid to late-2030s.'
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