Research led by the University of Southampton has shown increasing evidence that exposure to air pollution in early life has detrimental long-term health consequences.
The study, published in BMJ Open, found direct geographical correlations between coal consumption in the 1950s and deaths caused by respiratory and cardiovascular disease, as well as certain cancers, in England and Wales over the subsequent six decades.
Led by Professor David Phillips from the Medical Research Council's Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, the University of Southampton worked closely with the University of Portsmouth and the University of Oxford to carry out the research.
The data presented in this study also has implications for the long-term health of the populations of countries that still depend on large amounts of coal for their domestic markets.
This includes newly industrialised countries such as India or China, where coal is a major energy source, and resource-poor countries, where open fires and the consequent exposure of mothers and young children to pollutants is widespread.
Professor Stephen Holgate, Medical Research Council Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton, said: "We have long known that air pollution from the domestic burning of coal throughout the last 250 years has had devastating effects on human health. This is both during severe air pollution episodes during the famous smogs and fogs, but also over the long term with high background exposures, especially effecting the lungs and cardiovascular system.
"With the impending release of the Government's new Air Pollution Plan, these findings emphasise the importance of putting health above any other interests in protecting future generations from the toxic effects of current and unacceptable levels of air pollution in the UK."
The paper, titled 'Evaluating the long-term consequences of air pollution in early life: geographical correlations between coal consumption in 1951/1952 and current mortality in England and Wales', centres on data from the former Ministry of Fuel and Power that recorded the quantities of solid fuels burnt annually between May 1951 and May 1952 in 1,145 different locations.
Studies published in the 1950s and 1960s suggested that there were links between the amounts of coal used in domestic fires with both childhood respiratory disease and many major causes of adult deaths.
By the middle of the 20th century, more than 200 million tonnes of coal were being used per year in England and Wales. The Great Smog of London in 1952 killed an estimated 12 000 people and led to the first UK Clean Air Act being passed in 1956 to reduce coal consumption.
It is not known, however, whether these after effects have persisted. As such, this research is the first project to investigate the long term adverse health effects of early life exposure to air pollution across a period of more than 60 years.
"The Clean Air Act 1956 had a dramatic effect in reducing these avoidable causes of death and chronic illness. What we now have learnt from this study is that pollution exposure of infants and children from King Coal prior to the Clean Air Act is still shortening the lives of people today, more than 60 years later, even when current exposures to particulate pollution were taken into account.
"As well as acute effects, the study emphasises that exposure of pregnant mothers and our children to air pollutants has long term impacts across a person's lifetime."


Fiberglass Seating from my 1979 Californian trawler back to back seating from the flybridge with plenty of storage, includes the Cushions. The Seating is in good condition.
Located in Marina Del Rey.
This Items is heavy due to the Fiberglass, Pick up only, it will fit behing a small pick up. If you want it to be shipped I can assist if needed.
The sale is final and no refunds.
What did you retrofit your back to back seating with?
The seat came standard from factory. A frame with 2x2 was made with the inside dimensions of the frame of the console and then then console was dropped on top and then screwed were used where the teak trimming on the bottom to screw into the 2x2, you can see it in the first photo on the floor of the fly bridge. When I took it apart it was easy cause all the wood was practically rotted out.
Ah yes. I have the same boat and flybridge seating arrangement. I also am thinking of getting rid of back to back seating and changing flybridge to perhaps include captains chairs. What did you do with your flybridge once you took the back to back seating out?
I am also thinking of doing something similar. I want to ditch the back-to-back seating on both sides, put in a proper Captain's chair, and then install an L-shaped bench on the port side, maybe a storage locker on the stbd side.
Please post more details/photos of your project if possible!
This is a classified ad by the OP to sell the seats.
It would be better to discuss seating options and opinions in a separate thread. Thanks.
Good luck with your sale, usafoto.
Interesting.. our '81 34 LRC has two forward only benches which work well on the flybridge but front 'Captain's seat is short to where you want to put feet on the dash or stand up, vs sitting for any length of time.
Looks great, but not super comfy.
some of the pontoon boats seating options work well for flybridge seats. Lots of sizes and shapes available, no wood bases and weather proof. Bass Pro shops and others sell these.
Google "Pontoon boat furniture" .
But it looks so... "pontooney"
Based on previous experience it holds up to the weather like a pontoon does.. Not well.
I'm going to build an L shape bench out of wood, coat it with fiberglass, and attach it to the actual flybridge(fiberglass). Should be easy enough because I can measure and do the work at home.
Right now I use beanbags and folding chairs and if i'm being honest it works very well just doesnt look the part.


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Deakin H C. "Iona." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book for 1837. Ed. L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon). [n.p]: Fisher , Jackson, 1837. 56.
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Q: Async wait for event after sending argument I have the following code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    moHost = new Host(
        APIServerType.Simulator,
        "T4Example",
        "112A04B0-5AAF-42F4-994E-FA7CB959C60B",
        "CTS",
        "myUser",
        "myPass");  //automated login

    moHost = Host.Login(
        APIServerType.Simulator,
        "T4Example",
        "112A04B0-5AAF-42F4-994E-FA7CB959C60B"); //manual login window
    moAccounts = moHost.Accounts;

    System.Console.WriteLine(moAccounts.ToString());
}

Where I know that the first automated login is an asynchronous request sent that I need to "wait" for.
And the login success would trigger:
public event Host.LoginSuccessEventHandler LoginSuccess

While a login failure would trigger:
public event Host.LoginFailureEventHandler LoginFailure

And a generic notification would be triggered by:
public event Host.NotificationEventHandler Notification

How do I go about handling this and properly waiting for my login success or failure?
The first automated login attempt does not show me as connected while the second manual login window indeed succeeds (therefore I am okay to think my credentials are fine and now its just that the code didn't properly 'wait').

A: I would use a TaskCompletionSource<T> to wrap the events that can trigger from Host.Login, and use it as an Extension Method around the Host type:
public static class HostExtensions
{
    public static Task<bool> LoginAsync(this Host host, APIServerType serverType, string name, string id)
    {
        var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
        try
        {
            host.LoginSuccess += (object obj, LoginSuccessEventHandler e) =>
            {
                tcs.SetResult(true);
            }

            host.LoginFailure += (object obj, LoginFailureEventHandler e) =>
            {
                tcs.SetResult(false);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            tcs.SetException(e);
        }

        host.Login(serverType, name, id);
        return tcs.Task;
    }
}

If the notification message is important, you can create a LoginDetails sort of type an use it as the return type of the TaskCompletionSource:
public class LoginDetails
{
    public bool IsSuccess { get; set; }
    public string Notification { get; set; }
}

and use it like this:
public static Task<LoginDetails> LoginAsync(this Host host, APIServerType serverType, string name, string id)
{
    var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<LoginDetails>();
    var loginDetails = new LoginDetails();
    try
    {
        host.LoginSuccess += (object obj, LoginSuccessEventHandler e) =>
        {
            loginDetails.IsSuccess = true;
            tcs.SetResult(loginDetails);
        }

        host.LoginFailure += (object obj, LoginFailureEventHandler e) =>
        {
            loginDetails.IsSuccess = false;
            tcs.SetResult(loginDetails);
        }

        host.Notification += (object obj, NotificationEventHandler e) =>
        {
            loginDetails.Notificaiton = e.Notification // I assume it would look something like this
            tcs.SetResult(loginDetails);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        tcs.SetException(e);
    }

    host.Login(serverType, name, id);
    return tcs.Task;
}

And now you can use await on LoginAsync.
var login = await host.LoginAsync(APIServerType.Simulator, "T4Example", "112A04B0-5AAF-42F4-994E-FA7CB959C60B");

On a side note, if you use this inside a Console application you would have to use Result which will block rather than await (which yields control back to the caller) inside Main, which is a bit of a shame since it would be missing the whole point of asynchronous calls:
var login = host.LoginAsync(APIServerType.Simulator, "T4Example", "112A04B0-5AAF-42F4-994E-FA7CB959C60B").Result;

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Beginning with "The Explorers", who introduced the horse to the Dakota in 1541 to the Act of June 2, 1925 which granted the Dakota citizenship of the United States.
The author was a friend to many Native people and the person who inspired this writing, Mrs. Taylor Bald Eagle, gave him a folder filled with copies of treaties that were made with the Plains Indians. This book covers the stories behind each of those treaties and the thought process of both the Native Americans and the White settlers of this region.
Condition: This little book is in great condition. There is very little shelf wear at the edges and no yellowing of the pages.


I've created this small study of sunlight, from my current series, for the 2012 Twitter Art Exhibit organized by David Sandum. It will raise funds for a women's refuge center, and will be held at the Moss Public library. Last year, I also participated in this exhibit, which raised funds for the library.
This is called "Sunlight" and is watercolor, inks, graphite and pastel on watercolor paper.
I like " Sunlight "! Well done, where will the exhibition take place in Moss?
Hi Elisabeth – thanks for the kind words.
It will be at the Moss public library (assuming there is only one because no address is specified).
The opening reception is Friday April 13, 2012 at 19:00. The Mayor of Moss will open with a speech.
If you would like to buy it, or any of the other works but can't get there in person, please send a tweet to @davidsandumart or email at d_sandum@hotmail.com and I am sure he'll make arrangements.
I like this one, great job. I sent my mini painting off on Monday, hoping it gets there in time!


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by Lukas Barfield
After the Pro Golf Association's recent suspension of two-time tour winner Matt Every for cannabis use, the disparity between pro sports' cannabis policies and public sentiment has grown even more apparent.
Full story after the jump.
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The Pro Golf Association (PGA) recently suspended Matt Every, a two-time tour winner, for 12 weeks for violating their conduct policy after failing a drug test. Although the tour would not say which drug he tested positive for, Every said in a statement that he tested positive for cannabis.
The PGA does not test for cannabis often but does have strict penalties for failing their random drug tests, ranging from shorter suspensions like Every's to lifelong Tour bans for continued violations.
"I tested positive for cannabis, a drug I do not abuse and a drug I have a legal prescription for in the state of Florida. I have been prescribed cannabis for a mental health condition by my physician whom has managed my medical care for 30 years. It has been determined that I am neither an acceptable candidate to use prescription "Z" class drugs nor benzodiazepines. Additionally, these classes of drugs can be highly addictive and harmful to the human body. For me, cannabis has proven to be, by far, the safest and most effective treatment." — Matt Every, in a statement
This is the second time this year that the PGA has suspended a player for cannabis use — in March, Robert Garrigus was suspended for 12 weeks after failing a drug test.
The PGA is not an exception. Unfortunately, most professional sports leagues today have cannabis policies rooted in the last century.
Where the other leagues stand
Despite cannabis legalization polling at an all-time high, most professional sports leagues have strict anti-cannabis policies. The NFL has announced an effort to study the potential of cannabis for pain treatment, but current players are subjected to at least one random drug test in the offseason and ten players per team are selected for random drug tests each week. Penalties range from drug treatment to a year's suspension.
The NBA did not test players for cannabis until 2000 and players can expect up to four random drug tests each season. Failing a drug test can get players suspended — suspensions start at one game and go up from there — and fined up to $35,000. Unlike the NFL, the NBA does not test in its offseason.
Major League Baseball's drug policies, meanwhile, were sadly brought into the spotlight following the recent death of Angels pitcher Tyler Scaggs, who reportedly had Fentanyl, Oxycodone, and alcohol in his blood at the time of his death. In response, the league is apparently in discussion with the players Union about testing for opiates and loosening its cannabis policies, according to the LA Times. Although the MLB does not test for cannabis often, it does have some of the strictest penalties for a positive drug test, ranging from drug rehab to a complete ban from the league after the fourth positive test.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship, meanwhile, maintains a ban on THC-rich cannabis products, but several high-profile fighters have embraced and even endorsed CBD as part of their recovery process. The league has also partnered with Canada's Aurora Cannabis to conduct clinical trials studying the efficacy of CBD on wound care, recovery, injury, pain, and inflammation.
The World Anti-Doping Agency removed CBD from its list of prohibited substances in 2017.
A runner participates in the 420 Games, a cannabis-friendly marathon event, in 2015. Photo credit: Richard Haick
Is there a place for cannabis in sports?
Not all sports leagues treat cannabis like it's 1937 in the height of "Reefer Madness." The National Hockey League (NHL) is a model for cannabis testing reform, according to Jim McAlpine, a California cannabis entrepreneur who founded the 420 Games.
McAlpine took the time recently to speak with Ganjapreneur despite dealing with California wildfires. "The NHL is doing it right," he said. "They test for cannabis, but don't penalize the players. It's more to keep their finger on the pulse of what's happening in the league. The other leagues are caught up in the negative stigma attached to cannabis and still base their policies on out of date information. And, we can't forget many of the leagues have sponsorships with large pharmaceutical companies and big alcohol."
McAlpine, who has been working with NFL star Ricky Williams to launch a cannabis-focused gym and speaks around the country about cannabis and sports, believes cannabis helps athletes to recover and focus.
"I find a lot of people get how cannabis can help with sports recovery, but many athletes use it to focus. Many people find it helps with concentration and the mind-body connection. Instead of focusing on the negative stigma of the plant, I started the 420 Games to show how cannabis can help athletes up their game," he said.
Now known as the "Civilized Games" after being acquired in March by Canadian cannabis media company Civilized, the games continue to bring together canna athletes and sports enthusiasts from across North America. The events are designed to highlight the unique role cannabis can play in a healthy athletic lifestyle.
Lukas Barfield
Lukas is a freelance writer and medical cannabis activist who lives in Tacoma. When he's not writing about cannabis or working to bring a better medical cannabis system to Washington, he likes to DJ, play adaptive sports and volunteer in his Tacoma community. He supports national legalization and the opening up of the medical cannabis market in all 50 states.
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Carter showed promise as the seventh-overall pick last summer, but did anyone expect him to provide big fantasy value this early?
Welcome back to another edition of the Market Share Report. If you happened to miss last week's installment, be sure to go back and check out the valuable versatility of Pascal Siakam, the hot shooting of Nemanja Bjelica -- which may or may not be cooling down -- and Noah Vonleh, who continues to put up decent outings, albeit inconsistently.
This week we'll check in on the other frontcourt player in New Orleans, a rising rookie in Chicago, and the disappointing start of a certain big man in Minnesota.
Without further ado, let's run!


"very nice pleasant to wear jacket for cooler days"
I'm very excited about this coat. The material is soft cousin. And finally a coat, under which you can even pull a thick winter sweater.
Their quality is very good, very sheltered, but does not favor me nothing. It's very big.
Excellent quality, very nice product and pleases. Very good advice during our telephone conversation with a very professional, I recommend it to my friends.
Size really large and wide, the pockets are not too high. Original shape for a fleece.
A great coat. Unfortunately, the bags are much too high sewn on. Because the proportions are wrong.
Coat great for women with bellies, type p figure unfortunately back not my cut.
Great falls out - it will order me less.
The coat had a high-quality, was unfortunately far too large, which is why he went also return.
Actually, a beautiful coat, but this giant hood is awkward to handle. So looks the coat when worn properly, you will need a second person to arrange this hood. The bags were also somewhat too high up. That's why the coat went back. Otherwise, I love Fleecemäntel, because they are easy to care for. but it would be nice if a lining in it. The fit is perfect.
For me the coat was not ideal (Gr. 50). I was in it too thick and the collar too voluminous.


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The Volunteer Army
That's what Ed Reinhardt's folks recruited to fight his devastating injury
Pat Reinhardt wrote her son's epitaph: "Farewell, Gallant Warrior."
But he didn't die.
By all measures Ed Reinhardt, a football-star-in-the-making at the University of Colorado, shouldn't have lived. After all, said the neurosurgeon who operated on him in Eugene, Ore., the kind of damage Reinhardt suffered in a game against the University of Oregon results in "a 90 percent mortality rate, and his damage was about as severe as you can get."
Even in the unlikely event that Reinhardt lived, said a neurosurgery professor at the University of Colorado Medical School, he would "most likely be in a vegetative state, tube-fed, not communicative." He was destined, according to an expert in brain injuries at the University of Miami's Biofeedback Laboratory, to be "nothing but a stare."
Ten years later Reinhardt is playing basketball in the driveway in front of his home in Littleton, Colo., a Denver suburb. His opponent misses a shot badly, and Reinhardt sneers. "Great shot," he says. Then he shoots. Nothing but net.
What happened in Eugene on the afternoon of Sept. 15, 1984, at first seemed ordinary. With 1:57 left in the football game between Colorado and Oregon, the Buffaloes trailed 27-20, and they had the ball on their own 25-yard line. Reinhardt, a 6'5", 235-pound tight end, lined up on the right side of the Colorado line. The previous week, in the first game of the season, the 19-year-old sophomore caught a school-record 10 passes against Michigan State and became the nation's second-leading receiver.
Reinhardt ran a six-yard route and turned inside as Buff quarterback Steve Vogel threw him the ball. Reinhardt caught it, ran another 13 yards and was hit by Oregon safeties Dan Wilken and Jeff Williams. Reinhardt's head was knocked around, at one point colliding with Wilken's thigh pad, before it hit the turf sharply but not ominously.
After lying on the field briefly, Reinhardt was able to walk unsteadily to the Colorado bench. Moments later, however, his pupils dilated, his jaw locked and he passed out. Watching the scene unfold from his seat in the stands, Dr. Arthur Hockey of Eugene, a neurosurgeon and Oregon season-ticket holder, instantly sensed a brain injury. He ran to the fallen player. Hockey recalls saying aloud that he wished the Colorado team doctor had Mannitol, a drug that reduces brain swelling. "Unbelievably," Hockey says now, "he had it." Reinhardt was rushed to nearby Sacred Heart General Hospital, and within a half hour Hockey was operating on the left side of the player's brain. During the tackle a blood vessel in Reinhardt's brain had burst when the brain crashed into the inside of his skull—the equivalent of a rear-end auto accident at high speed. The prognosis was dire.
When Pat Reinhardt heard of her son's injury, she was in Lincoln, Neb. She had gone there for a football game between the University of Minnesota and the University of Nebraska, for which another of her sons, John, was a walk-on defensive lineman. As Pat flew to Ed's bedside in Oregon, a calmness came over her, and she spoke to God. "I know one thing," she said. "If he dies tonight, he'll be in heaven. If he dies, I will accept that. And in order to prove that to you, God, I'm going to write his epitaph."
That tended to, she threw her entire being into trying to save her son. At his side she whispered repeatedly, "Eddie, you can't leave us. You're too important to our family."
Though still in a coma, after several more operations Reinhardt had improved enough by Oct. 16 to be flown to Colorado in a medical emergency transport plane. He was treated in two Denver hospitals, first at University Hospital and then at Craig Hospital. While still unconscious he was named to the Big Eight All-Academic team, based on his freshman GPA of 3.24.
Finally, on Nov. 16—62 days after his injury—he came out of his coma.
Discharged from Craig Hospital on Feb. 15, 1985, he returned daily as a full-time outpatient for two months. Afterward doctors prescribed three hours of speech therapy and three of physical therapy per week to be done at home. Pat Reinhardt and her husband, Ed Sr., felt instantly that this would not be nearly enough. Eddie could do almost nothing. The injury had left him barely able to speak; his right side was mostly paralyzed. Whether he would ever get any better, the Reinhardts had been told, was in doubt.
Shortly thereafter Ed Sr., who owns a small business-forms company in Littleton, went to Arlington, Texas, to visit a couple who were giving intensive therapy to their son, who had been shot in the head by a crazed neighbor. The couple and a host of volunteers worked on the boy day and night. Ed Sr. returned to Colorado and told his wife, "I don't think we have any choice." The battle was joined.
Eddie's parents and, when they weren't in school, his five siblings—John, Rose, Tom, Paul and Matt—plunged in and did everything they could think of to make him whole again. They worked with him day and night, often as many as 16 hours a day. But even that, they felt, was not enough, so Pat began lining up volunteers. They came to the Reinhardt house seven days a week, including Christmas, and eventually the total number of volunteers reached 140.
Each crew had five people: one on each of Ed's limbs, one to move his head. The volunteers came at 6:30 a.m., 9:30, 3:30 p.m., 7:00 and 8:00. What they did is called patterning. Brain cells that Ed had not previously used—and humans use only about 10% of their brain cells—had to be taught to take on new functions.
"We had to go back to the basics," says Ed Sr. His son had to relearn everything he had mastered since infancy: creeping, crawling, walking, running, talking, reading, writing. Conventional wisdom is that the brain-injured can improve only for six months to two years after the injury; then they plateau. But even when Eddie's progress seemed glacial, he kept improving.
"It was always 'Faster, faster,' " says Pat. "We had every stupid reward we could think of, from kisses from pretty girls to videotapes. We always had a clipboard and stopwatch to record his progress. All this fit right in with his athletic mode."
From the couple in Arlington, the Reinhardts had learned of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia, a facility that helps people with brain injuries. Glenn Doman, the institutes' founder, says that when Eddie first visited in October 1985, "he was very, very bad off. He had been reduced to a level below a child. He couldn't do things a seven-month-old can do." In the ensuing nine years Ed and various family members have gone to Philadelphia two times a year for weeklong sessions during which Ed's treatment is evaluated and new therapies are discussed. "The institutes told us when to jump and how high," says Pat, "and we did it."
For the first six months after they returned to Colorado, Ed Sr. shaved two faces every day, brushed two sets of teeth and took two baths. Pat fashioned large-print readers out of college textbooks to help teach Eddie how to read again. She assembled material on hummingbirds, Desmond Tutu, Robert Frost, Winston Churchill—and John Elway.
With the help of the volunteers, the seven-day workweeks went on for four years. Then they were cut down—to 6½ days. Two years after that, it was only six days a week. Today, it is five.
In the first six years after the injury the University of Colorado paid the family's medical and rehabilitation costs. Private contributions made soon after the accident, mainly by Colorado residents, totaled more than $75,000. Pat felt most of that money should be used to build a therapy room onto the house, but Ed Sr. resisted. "I didn't want to use somebody else's money to build on my house," he says. Pat prevailed, and the room was constructed in May 1985 for $65,000.
Ed Reinhardt is still not fully recovered. He has learned to talk again, albeit often in one-word bursts, because he still has difficulty forming sentences. He understands most of what he hears. He uses the telephone. He dresses himself, feeds himself, makes his bed. He gets in and out of the car without help—and doesn't want any. He fastens his seat belt. He goes to restaurants and movies.
His long-term memory is good, but he has problems with his short-term memory. He walks with a pronounced limp and frequently gets tremors in his right leg. ("Shake and bake," he grouses.) At times his right hand is frozen tightly closed. When he shoots a basketball, he does so with his left hand. Double vision makes it hard for him to read, and he has limited peripheral vision on his right side.
Eddie tried acupuncture in hopes of correcting his double vision. It didn't alleviate that problem, but it did help loosen his right hand. In 1990 he and several family members made a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, where some Catholics believe the Virgin Mary has appeared. Ed Sr. says that while "we didn't see any miracles, there was a strengthening of faith."
When something doesn't work, Pat says, "we just shrug it off and go on. We won't try just anything, but we listen to everything." In 1993 the Reinhardts heard about the Biofeedback Lab in Miami, a unit of the University of Miami's Jackson Medical Center, and last April they tried it. The lab's director, Dr. Bernard Brucker, says that a person who was in a coma for 62 days has few prospects of functioning fully again, "but Ed is not the average person." The lab greatly improved Ed's walk, helping him to stop hyperextending his knee and to begin flexing it properly.
"Pat and Ed Reinhardt restore your belief in human beings and human nature," says Colorado athletic director Bill Marolt. "I'm dazzled by these people. Every day, they put literally everything they have into rehabbing this young man."
Buffalo football coach Bill McCartney shakes his head in wonder. "The real story is this family unit," he says. "This is all about faith, and their faith never wavers. There is no limit to what they will do. They don't look around and say, 'Where is the help coming from?' They don't expect a miracle. They just press on. Such love. When this accident happened, they didn't even break stride. There is just something inside the Reinhardt family. They have this drive and intensity. And that woman. She is blue twisted steel."
Pat Reinhardt says she is uncomfortable with praise for her family and especially for herself. "If anything, I have been given the strength for ordinary things," she says. "I'm motivated by fear, love, anxiety. The good part is that I have been tested, and I have learned that I can survive and cope."
The rehabilitation work is exhausting, but Pat is undaunted. "We're in this for as long as it takes," she says. After 10 years the volunteers keep coming, and Pat keeps them busy, especially in the physical-therapy room. Eddie's workouts last an hour at a time and entail, among other things, five sets of 20 push-ups. Special push-ups. He does them with his feet elevated behind him, punishing his damaged right side. Helpers pry open his clenched right hand so it can be flat on the floor for the exercise.
"Straighten your elbow," exhorts Pat. "Get that right shoulder down all the way. That's good. O.K., better."
Ed eyes her and says, "Lighten up." She ignores him and offers him a granola bar. "Low class," he says. But he cats it.
"Elbow straight, Ed," she continues.
"Calm yourself," he says.
"Stand up straight," says Pat. Ed immediately breaks out into his Heritage High School fight song: "Stand up, be proud...." He works. He pauses and looks at his constant companion, Bridget, a nine-year-old golden retriever. Bridget is lying on the floor, which is what she does best. "You're lazy, Bridget," Ed says. Then he looks at a poster of a swimsuit model on the wall and sighs. He returns to sweating.
Progress is at times snail-paced, incremental. "People tell me how great he's doing," says Pat, "but then I see him put his shirt on backward." She laughs, but she is near tears.
The other day Pat took Ed to a nearby recreation center for a workout. Before going she put money in his gym bag to pay for the visit. Usually he cannot remember that he has the money when he is asked for it. This time he remembered. Pat's eyes welled up. Ed rowed 4,200 meters and rode a stationary bike for 20 minutes (six miles). He moved through the various machines—the pullover, leg extension, chest press. Pat is her son's personal trainer, cheerleader and guru. She urged more when Ed was exhausted, and he said to an onlooker, "Women. Can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts."
Pat ignored that. "You," she said, "are going to do this because you can do this." And he did. With vigor.
Ed is now in his second year as an assistant coach of the women's basketball team at Metro State College in Denver. He is there every day during the season. For the past three years he has also been volunteering twice a week at an elementary school, working with the physed teacher and the students. One day a few weeks ago, Ed wanted to go to a softball batting cage. He had never been to one. A longtime volunteer, Phil Smith, worked to get Ed's right hand around the bat. Confronted by a task he had never performed, and fighting double vision, a right arm that works improperly, a shaking right leg and the glare of the sun directly in his eyes, Ed took a swing at each of the 16 balls pitched to him by the machine. He missed them all. "Pretty good," he said. He sat down, rested and watched the other batters. Then he went back to the batting cage—and connected with 11 of 16 pitches. It was a perfect example of an athlete at work. "Pretty good," he said.
Ed and his mother are at the Easter Seals building in Lakewood for speech and computer training with a teacher named Maureen Melonis. Ed's task is to write a thank-you note on the computer to a woman who sent him $10.
"How do you start the letter?" asks Melonis.
"Dear Friends" says Ed. They discuss the salutation and agree on Dear Eleanor.
"What next?" asks Melonis.
"That's enough. Love, Ed."
Melonis suggests a slightly longer note. She asks him what he will spend the money on. "I have no idea," he says.
An onlooker suggests this sentence: "I plan to spend every cent of it on beer."
Ed thinks that is wonderful—"Yes, yes," he chortles—but Melonis has reservations. "How about magazines?" she says.
"Well, O.K.," says Ed, not thrilled with the alternative.
"Which ones?"
He labors. He fails. He succeeds. Working on his speech and memory, Ed tries to identify a flashlight, a watch, scissors, toothpaste, pencils. He hits and misses.
Another day, Ed is at a Chinese restaurant. A teapot is brought to the table. He carefully picks it up and pours the tea into his cup. Except that it doesn't go into the cup; it goes directly beside it, onto the table. Double vision snares him again. "Nine years," he mutters. "Nine years."
So how does the Reinhardt family feel about the game of football?
"I don't care much for it." Pat concedes, "but then, I never did. But you can't protect your children from everything, and they don't welcome that protection." When Ed was a senior in high school, she suggested that he take one of several basketball scholarships he had been offered instead of football. "No, Mom," he said. "I love football. It's my favorite sport."
Ed Sr. says, "Ever since the boys began playing football, I've supported and encouraged them. After Ed got hurt, I thought it would be a little hypocritical of me to tell them to quit." His only admonition: "Play hard."
Tom Reinhardt, heavily recruited, chose to go to Colorado the year after his older brother was hurl. Years later, Tom recalls, he went into McCartney's office and saw a picture of Ed on the coach's desk. Tom liked that a lot. And these days, the youngest of the Reinhardt children. Matt, is a sophomore light end at—incredibly—Oregon.
"The blessing of athletics," says Ed Sr., "is that they taught Ed the discipline to do his rehabilitation. I have no regrets. Something else could have happened. This is what happened."
And Eddie himself still loves football. "Great opportunity, preparation for life," he says. "Coach Mac, great man."
The other day Eddie was in Boulder to have his picture taken in Folsom Field. He walked from the Colorado locker room toward the field, past a sign that reads THROUGH THESE DOORS PASS THE NATION'S TOUGHEST COMPETITORS, SHOW IT TODAY. He looked at the sign. "Read that," he asked a companion. When he heard the words, he gave the thumbs-up sign.
Later, looking out over the stadium, Ed's mood turned dark. He said, "Ten catches, two touchdowns, then bong"—he hit himself on the head with his hand—"next game. Doggone it."
It helps that the Reinhardts had often talked of the perils of the game, and Ed liked to remind his parents, "Risking is the essence of becoming." So when the two Oregon players who made the fateful tackle, Wilkens and Williams, came to visit Ed, Pat comforted them, saying, "You just happened to be present when a risk-taker had an accident."
Typically in a case like Ed's, there are lawsuits against those suspected of being responsible for the injury: the helmet manufacturer, the universities, the artificial-turf manufacturer, the coaches, the doctors, the hospital and so on. But in this case, no lawsuit was filed. Nor was one even contemplated.
"There's no blame," says Ed Sr., "so we don't blame. That was out of the question. We are not suing people. I suppose a smart lawyer could have done something, but what does that prove? Angry people sue people. We're not angry. What happened is, a blood vessel in his brain broke. So the doctors removed the blood clot and stopped the bleeding. If we had won a suit, it would have been dirty money to me. I'd have had a hard time spending it."
Today Eddie and his father are up in the mountain community of Conifer, an hour west of Denver, at the local church. Ed Sr. has spoken to a men's group. Now his son will sing.
It is another of the oddities of brain injury: While Eddie might not be able to recall where his money is, he can learn the words to songs—and remember them. His dad starts a tape of backup music, and Eddie comes alive, performing the song Lean on Me. A few months ago he sang the national anthem at the first game of the season in Folsom Field.
Later, when asked how much he owes his family, he says, "All, all, all." He's reminded that he himself has had a lot to do with his recovery. "Well, them 80 percent, me 20 percent," he says.
"If we hadn't done this, he'd be in a wheelchair, sliding out of it, drooling, unable to walk or talk," Pat says. "He wouldn't get better just sitting there. So it's not hard to keep doing this. There is no answer to the question, Why? The appropriate questions are When? and How? because they may have answers."
"At age 19, Ed was more complete as an individual than most people ever become," says his college roommate John Martin. "He was an excellent student and athlete, he had an incredible work ethic, he was spiritual. He had his life extremely well defined."
Ed's sister, Rose, wondered after the accident, "Who's going to teach him to smile again?" Today Ed smiles a lot. Is he happy?
"Yes," he replies. "You?"
Talk turns to things he enjoys, and the list is long: "Reading, writing, arithmetic, studying, classes, volunteers, coaching, walking, Softball, singing, dog, movies."
There's a temptation to say that Ed's condition may now be about as good as it's going to get. But his brother Tom says, "My mom won't stop until he's 100 percent recovered."
Blue twisted steel.
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Pat pushes Ed relentlessly along his hard road to recovery.
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Reinhardt was briefly among the nation's top receivers.
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Now Reinhardt himself volunteers as a part-time coach.
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Pat and Ed Sr. are the biggest reasons Eddie is back on his feet.


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I, Deathtoll32, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, hereby appoint Tim09, Member of the Order of the British eRepublik Empire, as conferred by the United Kingdom Honours Committee.
Nationality Australian
Date of birth 22 May 2008 - Day 184 of the New World
Date of death Unknown
Residence Northern Ireland, UK
Mayor of Oxford
21 June 2008 – 20 August
Preceded by Lourinho
Succeeded by Bibliphocles
Minister of Foreign Affairs of United Kingdom
2 August 2008 – October
Preceded by Skinny Bones Jones
Succeeded by Squiddy
Minister of Trade of Australia
December 08 – December 08
Prime Minister of Australia
6 June 2009 – 5 July 2009
Preceded by patti11
Succeeded by Aussie Vegeta
Military rank General
Aircraft rank Airman
Tim09 is an Australian living in the United Kingdom. He was the commander of DropBears Alpha Squad from December 2008 til January 2009. His death was at an unknown date
2 Early Days
6 Mentors
When asked what they would put on Tim09's wiki one word was consistent: Awesome! This are the quotes about Tim09:
" Really awesome dude "
(Justinious Mcwalburgson III)
" An all-round awesome Aussie "
(Emerick)
" Groovy dude "
(JTree)
" Tim is a consummate professional with a great gift for diplomacy; he is a superb Minister of Foreign Relations. "
(Rayf Drayson (President of the UK October 08))
" Helpful to new players, making eRep accessible to everyone "
(taytaz)
" Great diplomat, great minister, great guy! "
(Deilos)
" He must have been really drunk when he chose party "
(Shadowukcs (UK's resident anti commie))
Tim09 has become addicted to eRepublik and spends way too much time on this game. I am sure many of you reading this can understand.
Tim09 started off in London due to Sydney apparently being Indonesian and a desire to speak English. After a few days of reading media and working out what to actually do in this game Tim09 received a message from the current mayor of London, Piperbunny. She introduced Tim09 to the UK forums and from there Tim09 learned about the different parties, different jobs (and pay) and the military. He joined the People's Communist Party in the times of Ip Lockard and began to make a name for himself by posting regularly on the forums and contributing to the Party. Tim09 also took on the role of London councilor and was taught the role of mayor along with Stan Wephen.
Tim09 received a British Academy Awards for politics in 2008. For more details see this article. Tim09 ran for mayor of Oxford against the current mayor Lourinho and the mayor of Nottingham, Relic in June. He used an effective PM campaign and was convincingly elected. While mayor Tim09 ran a gift trading scheme, gifted citizens regularly and welcomed many new players such as Squiddy and Hassan Pesaran during his time as mayor. He also ran a logo competition. Tim09 stood down in August to focus on his ministerial role.
In July Tim09 took advantage of a new scheme introduced by the PCP. The apprenticeship scheme allowed ministers to train up to two congressmen. Tim09 became the apprentice MoFA in June and was promoted to underMinister of Foreign Affairs in July. During this time he was active in helping work out the ATLANTIS alliance. In August Skinny Bones Jones retired from politics in the United Kingdom and moved to Canada. Tim09 took on the role of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Since then he has held that role and often acted as an adviser to the president particularly through the political takeover of Ireland and the Romania/Hungary war.
Tim09 is a senior member of the PCP but has been declining the Party Presidency due to real life and more qualified candidates. He was one of the two founding members of the Trade Unions and has consistently represented the people in Congress.
Tim09 is now the PCP Presidential Candidate for the November elections since the previous candidate has stepped down. Tim09 ran a tight race with a great campaign but unfortunately he came out in second place.
After this race Tim09 retired from politics in the UK for the time being. Squiddy replaced him as MoFA and Tim09 turned to focus on the freedom of Australia.
Tim09 returned to Australia, not joining a party in Australia but was Minister of Trade until the end of January. Tim09 moved houses irl in January and lost internet connection for a few months.
Upon returning, in May 2009, Tim09 became the Treasurer of Australia and succeeded Cottus Arci on this position. In the same month he joined the Australian Democratic Socialist Party (ADSP).
In June 2009, Tim09 became Prime Minister of Australia.
Tim09 has worked in the food industry for 3 days, 2 of which he was paid shocking wages by Peter Green. However after contacting Kaleb he was pleased to receive a job in the housing industry. Since then he has worked for Bargain Basement Housing and Q4 housing at a near perfect attendance record.
Tim09 has also been a General manager for the People's Initiative, Investors ltd and True Blue Holdings.
Tim09 has also been a successful currency trader and a founding member of True Blue Holdings, an organisation ran by corny-ratbag, CheeseBall and Siobhan Griffin. This organisation spans Australia, Indonesia, The UK, USA and Croatia. True Blue specialises in high Quality food in the UK, Croatia and Australia.
Tim09 was also part of merchant traders until he was bought out after a 2 week holiday.
Tim09 created Tim's Times and has published many articles in the paper including an interview with Dinho_Eledair that won the e-Pulitzer prize. This honour is shared with two other UK residents. Frufru and Ip Lockard. Tim09 ran the UK branch of Inter-pol as well as his own paper. He is a respected interviewer and has run debates for party elections as well.
Tim09 was competing in the Word Crafter Arena and was one of the final 5 authors. He has reached 100 subscribers again.
Skinny Bones Jones has been a great influence in the life of Tim09. He trained him in foreign affairs and helped him to make connections.
Piperbunny was the mayor of London when Tim09 was born. She was the first person to send him a PM, led him to the forums, trained him as a mayor and invited him to the PCP.
Stan Wephen was pretty cool as well. He did loads for Tim09 - without Stan, Tim wouldn't be where he is today. However considering that Tim09 and Stan moved up together he is more a friend than a mentor :P
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Claremont's financial year wrapped-up in April, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to stop, and look back at the past year for our Managed Services practice.
Our continued growth has seen us supporting an interesting and varied range of customers. This has included: a local authority with almost 20 production Oracle databases, mostly using 2 or 3 node RAC; new hosting customers bringing bespoke systems, data warehouses and Oracle E-Business Suite to our Cloud platform; and a multi-national telco where we provide functional as well as DBA support for their Oracle E-Business Suite instances.
That growth is clear from our statistics in the infographic, but what matters to me is that our SLA adherance and customer satisfaction have never suffered as a result of our growth. In fact, last year we closed more tickets than were opened and achieved high levels of SLA adherence, even though we provide SLAs for resolving incidents (which most Oracle managed service providers won't offer). But I've met customers who tell me they weren't happy with previous providers despite them not breaching SLAs so it's the customer satisfaction score that really matters to me and that hit record levels.
There's growing awareness in the marketplace about the challenges of licensing and supporting Oracle software (regardless of whether it's database, middleware or E-Business Suite) on Cloud platforms. The fact that 3 years ago we implemented our private Cloud on Oracle VM and ensure it is hard partitioned has always been important to us, but we now find many customers ask about license compliance and efficiency. Unlike the likes of Amazon and Azure, Claremont's Cloud does not require customers to purchase additional licenses (or use fewer hosting resources) than when hosting in-house. This is one of the drivers behind the continued growth and investment in our Cloud, and it now has over 2,000 vCPUs available to our customers. Tiny compared to the global Clouds, but our customers consistently report we deliver higher levels of service and lower costs than previous suppliers; combined with certainty around Oracle license compliance that has proved a powerful combination and customers have moved to us from in-house hosting as well as other 3rd party hosting such as Oracle Managed Cloud Services (OMCS).
We are really proud of the results we have achieved and I would like to thank my talented team for their hard work (after all, in a services business it is all about the people) and our customers for their continued support. It's exciting to work with such successful and varied, industry-leading organisations.
We are dedicated and passionate about providing continued service excellence to all of our customers, year-on-year and look forward to working with new customers this year. Please contact me if you would like to discuss how our approach to Oracle hosting and managed services is different.


Grace and peace to you, and welcome to the Center for Chaplaincy at Hood Theological Seminary!
Our Center was created to share and to disseminate information and resources regarding chaplaincy, which is a ministry beyond the traditional parish setting. Following the example of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), and the first African American chaplain to serve in the United States Colored Troops in 1863, chaplaincy is a vibrant opportunity to actualize one's call and desire to serve God's Kingdom in a plethora of settings: military, hospitals, correctional institutions, law enforcement agencies, academic institutions, and corporations.
During your visits to Hood, we encourage you to come by the Center for Chaplaincy, located in the NeighborHOOD Student Center, to receive further information, which will also provide an opportunity for in-depth dialogue. Though visitors have access to the Center during operating hours of the seminary, my office hours are: Wednesday, 1:00 pm-4:00 pm, Thursday, 11:00 am-4:00 pm, and Saturday hours are by appointment.


MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Stephen M. Ross swears he is not embroiled in a third-set tiebreaker with Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of Oracle who bought the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., a decade ago and transformed it into a tony desert party for tennis players and fans.
Still, when the moved and improved Miami Open begins this week at Hard Rock Stadium, home of Ross's Miami Dolphins, it will not be hard to imagine Ross, a billionaire real estate developer, keeping a tiny scorecard in his back pocket.
Ross, who bought the Dolphins in 2008 and spent $550 million renovating the stadium, stepped in when IMG, which owns the Miami Open, found itself at an impasse with a Key Biscayne resident who controlled the land where the tournament had been played since 1987.
That man, Bruce Matheson, refused to allow $50 million worth of renovations to the Crandon Park site, and his prolonged lawsuits convinced the tournament that it was time to go.
Rather than see the tournament — and its hundreds of millions in local revenue — uprooted from South Florida to Orlando or China, Ross decided to partner with IMG and move the tournament about 20 miles northwest to his football stadium. He spent an additional $72 million to transform it into a state-of-the-art tennis venue.
The move wasn't well received by everyone.
At the new site, a temporary main court was erected on the football field, with half of the seats were blocked off by screens. A 5,191-seat grandstand court, two other show courts and eight additional match courts — all permanent — were built on top of parking lots.
On a recent tour, those lots were indiscernible behind purple flowers, artificial grass, 35-foot mature palm trees costing $35,000 a pop, and a giant fountain that guards one of the many entrances to the stadium. There is also a 40-by-90-foot video screen, the largest in tennis, just outside the stadium in a spot modeled after Wimbledon's Henman Hill, minus the grass.
The change recalls the United States Open's move from the charming but outgrown West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills in 1978 to the more functional, if less romantic, U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in nearby Flushing Meadows. It took a while to get used to the new digs, but no one would ever want to go back to the old ones.
Tournament organizers did not take the word "luxury" lightly. The stadium court — painted in colors called Oasis Blue and Biscayne Blue — seats 13,800, the same as the main court in Key Biscayne. But this court features 4,738 premium seats, many that resemble Barcaloungers, with individual television screens. These seats range in price from $50,000 to $70,000 for the two-week tournament. Some are right on the court.
Premium-seat packages, most of which were sold out two months before the start of the tournament, include private dining rooms. Some suites have seats made out of Ferrari leather. For a privileged 1,000 visitors, there is a dedicated entrance from a private parking lot, in which spectators pass through a tent lined with art, including works by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol that can be purchased for upward of $1 million.
Ticket prices at every level have increased by up to 40 percent over last year, though several thousand grounds passes are available for as little as $15 each day. Sales by the end of last month were up 25 percent, thanks, in part, to Dolphins season-ticket holders who have been cajoled into watching tennis.
"There's a bit of a challenge in giving people the confidence that this really is for the best," said James Blake, the tournament director.
Ross helped choose everything on the site: the flowers, the gigantic paintings that line the stadium corridors, the tiles on the bathroom walls.
The number of practice courts, many with spectator seating, have doubled from those at Key Biscayne, to 18. But unlike in Key Biscayne, those courts will not be turned over for the public to play on after the tournament ends.
The players, at least, should be happy. Their amenities have been enhanced, with dining areas and gym spaces tripling in size. The top eight seeds in the men's and women's singles draws, as well as all former champions, will be given private suites to be used by their entourages.
But organizers see the event as more than a tennis tournament. The grounds will open at least two hours before play begins each day to encourage people to come early to eat, shop and listen to concerts by local musicians.


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Gareth Southgate keen to ensure Phil Foden does not become victim of own success
Mark Mann-Bryans, PA, Al Wakrah
November 29, 2022, 3:07 a.m. ·2 min read
England manager Gareth Southgate wants to ensure Phil Foden does not become a victim of his own success.
The Manchester City midfielder has played just 19 minutes of football in Qatar across England's opening two games.
He came off the bench in the opening 6-2 thrashing of Iran but was an unused substitute in Friday's goalless draw with the USA.
There was widespread clamour for Foden to be introduced and Southgate was criticised for not utilising the 22-year-old as his side struggled to create chances at the Al Bayt Stadium.
He could come into the side that faces Wales on Tuesday, with Southgate tipped to make changes – but the England boss has warned against expecting too much from Foden at this stage of his career.
"We have to be careful because we are putting a lot of pressure on him now," he said.
"We're a team and we need all of the players and they can all play a part but not any one of them is the reason we will win or lose.
"We need to make sure we are not building Phil into as situation where actually if he steps on the pitch this is becoming really difficult for him because the level of expectation is beyond a young guy who is still establishing himself internationally, in a different environment from his club where you're comfortable with all the players you play with, it's really distinctive, you're going home every night, you're calm with everything else.
"This is still a unique environment. He is still a really young player and he's doing brilliantly well and we love him to bits. We also have got to look after him a bit as well."
World Cup 2022 England v Wales.
Southgate also refuted suggestions Foden had not been in contention due to his club form heading into the finals.
"We have just got really good players," he added.
"Bukayo Saka has been an outstanding player in the league this year. Raheem (Sterling) has scored 20 goals in 80 caps for England.
Jack (Grealish) and Marcus (Rashford) are also in good form. We are really happy with Phil, we are really happy to have Phil.
"He is going to play a big part in this tournament, there is no doubt in my mind about that."
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Gaudreau secures shootout win as Wild beat Buffalo 3-2
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Flames rebound with impressive 5-2 win over Kraken
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Matthew Manuel wins Nova Scotia men's curling final to advance to Brier
Matthew Manuel's team booked a ticket to the Tim Hortons Brier with a 5-4 win over Owen Purcell in the Nova Scotia men's final Monday morning. With the scored tied 4-4 coming home, Manuel stole a point in the 10th end for the victory at the Bluenose Curling Club. Manuel prevailed with a three-man team in the final because second Jeffrey Meagher was ill. Manuel's third Luke Saunders is the son of six-time Canadian and two-time world champion Colleen Jones. Purcell's 8-7 win in an extra end over M
Zegras scores in OT, Ducks top Coyotes for 3rd straight win
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Trevor Zegras scored at 3:34 of overtime and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Arizona Coyotes 2-1 on Saturday night for their first three-game winning streak of the season. John Klingberg stole the puck from Matias Maccelli in the offensive zone and found Zegras in the slot for a wrist shot for his 18th goal. "That was all Mr. Klingberg," Zegras said. "I was actually pretty shocked that he dropped it to me, and I had the whole net to shoot at, so cheers to him." It concluded a p
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WINNIPEG — Josh Morrissey and Mark Scheifele made sure the Winnipeg Jets were going into the NHL all-star and player break on a high. The Jets' stars each scored two third-period goals as Winnipeg erased a 2-0 deficit and defeated the St. Louis Blues 4-2 on Monday night. The victory snapped a three-game losing skid and extended the Blues' losing streak to five games. "Josh played frickin' fantastic tonight," Scheifele said. "He always does, and he got rewarded. A few big goals by him, and he led
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Hughes scores winner in OT to lead Devils past Stars 3-2
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 50 points and 13 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks trounced New Orleans 135-110 on Sunday, handing the Pelicans their eighth straight loss. Anteotkounmpo's 50 points were five off the career high he set Jan. 4 in a 123-113 victory over the Washington Wizards. He shot 20 of 26 from the floor, including 3 of 4 from 3-point range, and went 7 of 12 on free-throw attempts. Antetokounmpo collected 29 points and 10 rebounds in the first half alone. Jrue Holiday
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Seoul: South Korean tech giant Samsung is likely to launch 2021 flagship Galaxy S21 series with S-Pen support.
According to a report from The Elec Korea, the Galaxy S20's successor, referred to as the Galaxy S21, will come with an S Pen but only on the Ultra variant.
Samsung will reportedly launch three devices under the Galaxy S21 line, namely the S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra. The S21 lineup is set to be launched in the first half next year.
The Galaxy S21 is reportedly codenamed "Unbound" with variants: M1, N2, and O3. The S Pen will apparently arrive with the O3 model.
According to the report, Samsung may discontinue the Galaxy Note and instead launch an S-Pen enabled Galaxy Z Fold 3 too next year.
"If Samsung decides to end the Note series, the only flagship that will be launched instead, every year, is the Fold series of Smartphones".
Currently, Samsung is capable of producing roughly 600,000 foldable panels every month and plans an end goal of 1 million folding displays per month by the end of the year.
The company also ships about 10 million Galaxy Note devices every year. Samsung retained the top spot in the global smartphone market with selling nearly 55 million units in Q2, according to Gartner.
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SINGAPORE-BASED vacation rental start-up travelmob has agreed to an acquisition by Nasdaq-listed HomeAway, a leading online marketplace for vacation rentals.
The price and terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the all-cash transaction is expected to close in a few weeks. Following that, the travelmob management team will retain a 37 per cent share of the business and continue to operate as an independent brand from its Singapore headquarters.
Co-founded and launched in July last year by chief executive officer Turochas Fuad and chief technology officer Prashant Kirtane, the site with its 16-person team operates in eight languages and supports 13 currencies. It provides a secure platform for property owners and managers in Asia-Pacific to list alternative accommodations and hosts global travellers who seek to experience local hospitality and culture. Built on a transaction-based model, travelmob features more than 14,000 short-term rental listings in the region today.
yesterday the costs will go towards building the travelmob team and raising greater awareness of the site among travellers. Beyond FY2013, HomeAway is planning to invest much more than US$2 million.
HomeAway chief executive officer Brian Sharples said: "We're excited to work with the experienced travelmob team to address today's market needs in Asia - where vacation rentals are mostly new, but alternative accommodations are not - to build scale and accelerate the development of the vacation rental industry."
HomeAway has steadily invested in Asia-Pacific since April 2011. Besides the purchase of REA Group Limited's holiday rental business and the launch of HomeAway.com.au, the Texas-based company also made a minority investment in China-based vacation rental company Tujia.com last year.
Mr Weiner said Asia-Pacific is the fastest-growing leisure travel market in the world, so organising the region's emerging category of alternative accommodations into the largest online marketplace available to global travellers is a very attractive business to HomeAway. "We see the potential as being enormous."


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Hall of Fame coach Marv Harshman dead at 95
By Eric AngevineApr 13, 2013, 6:11 PM EDT
As career highlights go, "last man to defeat John Wooden" is about as impressive as they come.
Marv Harshman, former head coach at Washington, Washington State and Pacific Lutheran, had that honor, just one of many moments to cherish from his 40 year career as a head coach. According to the Seattle Times, the 95-year-old basketball Hall of Famer died of natural causes at age 95 on Friday morning. He had one last evening with his son, who read to him from the bible, and then fell asleep, never to wake again.
Coach Harshman led his alma mater, Pacific Lutheran, to four NAIA District I titles before moving up to Washington State, where he came in second in the Pac 8 to John Wooden on two occasions. He continued to be overshadowed by the Wizard of Westwood as head coach of the Huskies, but earned his landmark victory – at last:
Coach Harshman was the last coach to beat Wooden — a 103-81 Huskies victory over UCLA on Feb. 22, 1975.
Coach Harshman's most accomplished players included Steve Hawes, Louie Nelson, James Edwards, Detlef Schrempf, Chris Welp and current UW coach Lorenzo Romar and assistant Paul Fortier.
It was former NBA star Schrempf who summed up Harshman's sometimes overlooked impact on the game best, when interviewed by the Times this weekend.
"All the players took the same steps. It was based on team basketball. He didn't care about showing other people up. Or how many times you can dribble between your legs. He taught me how to play basketball the right way, and that had a lasting impact on me and many people," Schrempf said.
Eric Angevine is the editor of Storming the Floor. He tweets @stfhoops.


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Happy Tuesday everyone I hope you have had a wonderful day, I have been keeping myself busy maybe a little too busy considering this post is late.
If you have been following me for a while you know that I was supposed to upload yesterday but instead I spent the afternoon at the beach just kind of letting go of everything and a finding a real calm space. So I am bringing you this post today although it is later than I said it would be because I decided to go home for dinner and I just chilled there for a bit catching up with the rest of the family.
Today I wanted to share a 5 things that I have learnt this year I know that this would normally be a post that goes up in December to reflect the past year and so on but after December 25th I won't be uploading again until January so I thought it would be a fitting time to do it now rather than wait until January or to never get this post up.
This year has definitely been the most hard-hitting and emotional year, I have lost someone very close to me, I moved out of my family home, I had a relapse with my self harm and I had other family issues go on. In the space of 11 months I really have had to sort of create a new life for myself which has been difficult but in some aspects it has been so rewarding. I won't get too far into the details of all that just because I know that half of you are not interested and that is completely fine, so instead I am just going to share with you five lessons that I have learnt within those 11 months.
1. Forgive yourself and others, not for their sake,but for yours – I have made many mistakes some of which could have easily been avoided if I had just listened to the right person like I just listened to myself but because I decided to ignore that I then made the wrong decisions which lead to the wrong outcomes which is actually all parts of life and that's not the part I am mad about. I learnt to forgive myself because no one is perfect everyone is going to make a mistake or two throughout their life and yes sometimes you make the same mistake twice or three or 4 times it's just how you then learn from the mistakes and move forward and that is why I have learnt how to forgive myself because each time I have learnt something new in order to better myself and help myself grow.
Forgiving other people has definitely been a lot harder for me because my walls are already so high and for me to essentially knock them down and just let someone in is such a huge risk for me because where I've been through such awful things in my mind I always see the negative things that come with new people, this year unfortunately a lot of people backstabbed lied and did everything they could to drag me down and make me feel at my lowest point. I won't lie at that time I absolutely hated them but now that I have come the other side of that and I am doing so much better and I am growing and doing so many amazing things with my life I have learnt to forgive them and thank them for the lessons that they have taught me.
2. Don't worry about what other people think – I spent a lot of my time saying no to things through fear of what others would think or say about it. I almost lived in the shadows of the life that I dreamed of having, through the fear that I'd be laughed at, or judged and trust me, living the life like that is not living at all. I began to come out my shell, and started a grasping things with two hands without caring what people thought and it honestly feels like a weight has been lifted I felt a sense of freedom I suppose. I am no longer hiding in the Shadows of something that I wanted I am now living in the sunlight of the life that I have and I can promise you that it is not perfect not by any means but one day it will be because I am able to do everything that I've always wanted to do without feeling that fear.
3. It's okay to let go of friends – sometimes you get to a point in life where you and your best friend aren't on the same page and I wouldn't say that as a sad thing because when you look at the bigger picture it's not. They are off achieving everything that they have ever dreamed of. And you are off achieving everything you have ever dreamed of, it just so happens now that you don't have the same dream.
I honestly thought I was the worst person in the world because I wasn't putting 100% of my time in with this person anymore and I started to drift away and become more secluded and I just wanted to be within a group of people that had similar mind sets as me and had similar goals as me, but while I was feeling awful about the situation I also noticed that they wasn't putting in 100% with me. They are spending their time investing in people who were more like that and that's all part of growing up.
We still message each other every now and then just a check in and see how things are going but we're not there for eachother 24/7 anymore which is a bit scary, but it's also such a great thing because we are able to do so much more for ourselves without having to rely on each other.
4. Have fun – this seems like such an obvious thing to do in life but when you are so focused on being perfect, on achieving every single one of your goals, going beyond and beyond for ridiculous reasons, you actually forget that you only live once and you can't spend the whole of your life working on something that may never happen. Everyone needs time to have a break let their hair down and just do things that they enjoy or things that bring them joy because they are the things that you that you are gonna remember the most and they are the stories that you are going to share when you are old and grey.
5. It's okay to express your emotions – This is a huge struggle for me and pretty much the whole of my family's struggle with expressing their emotions and that really is our downfall. this year I had a relapse with my self-harm which I haven't actually spoken about I am ashamed of it.
I know the reason that I relapsed is because I bottled all of my emotions up, I was too ashamed to share them or I was afraid to share them because I was too worried about what people would say.
I spent a lot of my time crying to myself because I had no one else to cry to and it's a real lonely place doing that. I've started to do it more, but I learnt to just say what's on my mind and say why I'm feeling the way I do. I don't always have an answer as to how to overcome the obstacles, but I definitely do feel better once I've said the words out loud.
I know it seems that I have had a hard it over these past eleven months and I really have, I've had to reshape and realign everything in order to get into a calmer, happier space. I am doing a lot better now, which is why I decided to share this with you.
So I want to say a huge thank you to all of you who have read tonight post I really appreciated, I hope you enjoyed reading about the lessons I learnt and that you either recognise some that you have achieved or I have given you a nudge into a part of your life that you wanted to inspect and readjust.
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Streaming is a way of delivering sound – including music – without requiring you to download files from the internet.
New technology changes such as the emergence of music streaming and internet radio drive a new age of the music industry. The resulting accessibility, convenience, and personalisation have brought more consumption of legal music and people's willingness to pay for it. This "second" digital revolution creates more value for rights holders shifting revenue streams from structurally declining markets to a larger new revenue pool.
The overall music industry, including recording, publishing and live will double and exceed $100 billion (bn) by 2030.
free streaming with an ad addressed to the buyers, who don't want to spend money on music.
Streaming also enhances the value of music catalogues.
Experts believe industry responses will be critical in shaping the future growth of the music industry which has only started to recover. Some level of coordination among labels and platforms would maximise growth potential. As a result, the split of revenue pools will remain unchanged in the medium term. Experts forecasted the overall music industry (music publishing, live music, and recorded music) revenue to almost increase over the next 15 years to $104 bn from $54 bn in 2015.
Scientists predict that paid streaming services will reach 9% of the global smartphone population in 2030.
The ad-funded, streaming market (including payments from YouTube, Pandora, Spotify, etc.) expects to grow to $7.1bn by 2030. Also, the online innovators (interactive streaming platforms and ad-funded services) will rise to $14bn of net revenue in 2030. Experts say that pure streaming players (Spotify, Deezer, Pandora, etc.) will account for 37% share of net subscriber additions over 2020-30E, Apple Music 26% and other large tech players (Google, Amazon, etc.) 37%.
For the incumbent labels, which receive around 55%-60% of the platform's revenue as royalties, scientists believe their revenue pool to grow to $35.5bn in 2030 from $15bn today mainly through streaming. Economists also foresee a publisher's earnings pool to grow to $7bn in 2030 from $4bn in 2015, with streaming alone adding $3bn of revenue.
For the live music segment, streaming could bring a significant opportunity to earn by usage listening data for the marketing and promotion of live events and the possibility to connect directly with fans, therefore increasing artist profit and improving relationships with artists.
Artists and songwriters should benefit from the recovery of the industry through the contract royalties that labels/publishers pay and growth in live music. Recorded music has become a much less essential source of revenue at 16% for the top 40 earning artists compared to touring at 80% (this is not applicable to songwriters). Artists are also reported to make 12% of gross contract royalties compared to 40% of the entire touring revenue. Music creators will gain a stronger bargaining position vs. the labels/publishers, and the platforms as technology and new alternative label/publishers will allow greater transparency and easier access to users. That manifests higher royalty payments from labels/publishers. Labels currently invest around 30%-35% of their revenue in artists & repertoire, and this may grow to 40% or more over time. Experts also forecast publisher's pay away to songwriters to rise to c.55%-60% over time from 50% today.
Royalty payments are the method through which all the participants involved in the production of a song make money, and are incredibly convoluted. The music industry has different copyrights, and so the right to royalties, owned by different players. Songwriters own the rights to the lyrics and melody of a piece of music, and music publishers usually manage these song copyrights. Artists own the rights on a particular song, known as the master recording. These rights are usually assigned to record labels for management.
There are diverse types of royalties paid to rights owners. Royalty payments and the way royalty rates vary significantly depending on the form of the song access.
Mechanical royalties are owed whenever a song is downloading on a digital music site, or streaming through a service such as Spotify. The record label pays the royalties to the publisher (either directly or through a third party organisation). Then the publisher shares 50% of its royalty with the songwriter. In the US, the government sets royalty rates through a compulsory license and calculates it on a penny basis per song for physical/download or based on a formula for interactive streaming services. Online radio and satellite such as Pandora or Sirius do not pay mechanical royalties to publishers. In most countries outside of the US, fees are based on wholesale percentages/consumer prices for physical/digital products respectively and negotiated on an industry-wide basis.
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Performance royalties for publishing/neighboring royalties for recording are owed whenever a singer perform a song (radio/TV/online streaming live venues/ services).
The recording artists and labels (either directly or through SoundExchange "SX" in the US) pay royalties to the recording neighboring. In the US, however, artists/labels only get paid for digital performances and not by terrestrial radio as the antiquated US the legislation exempts terrestrial broadcasters from paying royalties for the use of the master recording.
Songwriters/publishers pay royalties for synchronisation and record labels/artists for a song used as the background music for a movie, TV program or commercial, video game. There is no visible rate defining the compulsory percentage of royalty to spend. It can turn on the commercial value of the work to those who want it, and the media to use. Sync royalties are usually equally split between labels, artists, publishers, and songwriters.
Contrary to the US, in Europe, it is more of a free market, but it does vary from country to country. In some countries, there are tribunals, arbitration bodies, not as powerful, that set the rates. The UK is probably the closest structure to the US. In most of continental Europe, the collecting societies often have some degree of royalty rates review by some form of a government agency with various degrees of severity and independence.
Economically, streaming pays a percentage of revenues versus a per unit royalty as is the case with physical and digital sales. It needs to look at the overall business model to understand the influence of streaming on royalty rates. For example, Spotify keeps 30% and pays 70% to rights owners, of the 100% revenue. These 70%, publishers and labels have to split among them. Labels generally take a higher percentage of that pie than publishers, as is the case with physical and digital sales. Regarding impact, there is a constant fight for publishers to receive more money and the labels want to maintain their larger share. One should take a step back and think about the right split and value proposition of each party.
Growing penetration of paid subscription services. There are different ways to improve the penetration rate (currently at 3% on average) and catch up with the most advanced markets which are already over 20%. Paid streaming penetration growth has been accelerating.
The market influence on streaming. The emerging economies represent one of the most significant opportunities for the streaming industry. New business models (ad-funded, telecom bundles, prepaid, etc.) and payment capabilities have been appearing. Market's under-representation is the result of widespread counterfeiting and piracy and under-developed physical retail infrastructure. Alliance estimates music piracy rates are more than 90% in China, Mexico, Brazil, and India.
Gen Z and Millennials are the ideal audiences for streaming. The changing media consumption habits of Generation Z and Millennials are particularly beneficial to the music industry as a greater share of their spare time is being spent on music than on reading and TV. Millennials already spend a higher absolute amount of money on music which is mainly attributable to live music and paid streaming.
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Telecom and tech companies use music content. Mobile carriers are now increasingly seeking out streaming music and video services as a means of driving upgrading and upselling opportunities as well as differentiation. Telecom operators' large marketing budgets and sizeable existing billing relationships make them ideal partners to enter a new market at little cost, and reach younger demographics. Along large tech companies have also made a significant invasion into music streaming over the last three years as a way to better lock users into their ecosystem and sell more advertising (Google), products (Amazon) and devices (Apple).
As we see from the article, the impact of streaming on the music industry is very high. Streaming has created a more democratic music industry. Artists can make money with or without a label, and the spending power of a genre's audience doesn't affect how much money they can earn. Thanks to streaming platforms –people were taken out of the dark times.
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