Childhood Obesity is not the only problem that parents and authorities have to grapple with. Obesity overall has largely grown to epidemic proportions across the globe. This is despite the fact that cases of obesity and being overweight used to be quite low in developing countries compared to other continents. The word epidemic is normally used for a disease that is contagious and fast spreading. However, the proportion of the population that is obese has more than tripled in the European and Western countries in the last 25 years, astonishingly.
Around two thirds of these populations are obese or overweight. At this rate, many of us will agree with studies that predict obesity to surpass smoking and become the number one cause of premature deaths. The rise in obesity has been so rapid to the extent that there may be a possibility of it being accepted as being 'normal'.
Information from the WHO (World Health Organization) that will make any parent loose sleep is that "the world will see a one-third increase in the loss of life as a result of overweight and obesity over the next 20 years, with the number of global deaths rising from three million to five million each year."
Childhood obesity is a condition where your child's weight gain has got to the point where it poses a serious threat to his/her health and or well-being. Determining obesity directly is difficult. Its diagnosis is based on Body Mass Index (BMI). This is acceptable for children who are two years and above. BMI definitions for children and adolescents are age and gender specific in order to accommodate growth patterns. In relation to children, the term 'overweight' is used more often as it is less stigmatizing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classify children as 'overweight' if they are above the 95th percentile for their age and gender and being "at risk of becoming overweight" if they are between the 85th and 95th percentile. Not only is obesity in childhood your problem as a parent it is also now considered a public health concern due to it's high prevalence and the many adverse health effects it brings along with it.
1) Dietary- The types of food and beverages that children consume have a great effect on their health. Fast food consumption, sugar-laden soft drinks, calorie-rich drinks and foods being readily available to children may also contribute to obese kids.
2) Sedentary- Today's generation of kids have become accustomed to sitting a great deal. They are either on computers on the internet or watching television programs or playing TV games or computer games or just sitting and eating. There is very little or no exercise going on.
3) Genetics- There are some people who are more susceptible to obesity than others and this is in their genes. So children born to families with this kind of genetic code may be prone to obesity.
4) Home environment- What happens in the home is critical for children as they grow up because this is where habits are created and picked up. So if there are poor eating habits and little or no exercise at all in the home, this has a negative impact on the child and may contribute to them being obese.
5) Information and choice- Information and education are clearly vital in making healthy choices about what and how much to eat. Although recommendations concerning eating healthy have been made in the past years, people are not adhering to them.
Childhood obesity facts have shown that obesity in children brings along with it several other problems. The first to occur in overweight kids are emotional, social and psychological challenges. These include stigmatization, discrimination, prejudice. Research links obesity with self-blame, social rejection by both peers and adults. Low self-esteem, low body image and depression are also dangers of obesity. The other serious problems which can be offset by obesity in children and are life-threatening include type 2 diabetes with adult onset, high blood-pressure, heart disease, sleep problems or sleep apnea, cancer of the colon, osteoarthritis and back pain. Some of the disorders caused by obesity in childhood include eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia. Learn more in detail about the possible obesity dangers in the article dangers of childhood obesity.
A 2008 study has shown that obese kids have carotid arteries which have prematurely aged by as much as 30 years, as well as abnormal levels of cholesterol. Carotid arteries are two large arteries, one on each side of the brain, that carry blood to the head then divide into an external branch, supplying the neck, face, and other external parts, and internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal organs.
This can be divided into two sub-headings, Nutritional solutions and Physical Inactivity solutions. In the first instance, the following may be implemented to assist parents and those who care for children in the prevention of childhood obesity. Food labeling, which will help people make the right choices, food advertising and promotion, food pricing, food composition and improving the food served in schools. In the latter sub-heading, organized and recreational activity, active family lifestyles and strategic direction in governments will also be ideal. The media can also play a good role by showing more interactive television programs which engage kids and cause them to be active. You may read in detail obesity prevention in kids including different strategies and what parents can do at home.
One of the most serious public health concerns in America today is childhood obesity. In the last 25 years, the prevalence of overweight children and adolescents has tripled, reaching 17.1 percent in 2003-2004. It is predicted that one in three American children will eventually become diabetic due to obesity in childhood.
It is occurring in both boys and girls, across all the states and socioeconomic lines, and among all racial and ethnic groups, though specific sub-groups including Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans are disproportionately affected. In just twenty years, the number of children and adolescents in America who are either overweight or obese has tripled. The recent rise in obese kids is due largely to complex changes occurring in the social and physical environments of children. Obese kids in America is a bigger problem than many households realize. Read more in the article childhood obesity in America.


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Rule 57 Liability occurring during through transports
The Association shall not cover under a P&I entry:
a liabilities, losses, costs or expenses incurred by the Member in respect of death, personal injury, loss or damage to property, delay or other consequential loss sustained by any passenger by reason of carriage of that passenger by air or during any through carriage whilst the passenger is in the care of another carrier or during carriage to or from the Ship, except liability for illness, injury or death of, or loss of or damage to the effects of, passengers during:
i carriage to and from the Ship in its own boats, or in port by means of other boats, or
ii repatriation of injured or sick passengers or of passengers following a casualty to the Ship, or
iii shore excursions from the Ship (subject to the provisions of Rule 57.b below);
b liabilities, losses, costs or expenses incurred by the Member under a contract in respect of passengers whilst on an excursion from the Ship in circumstances where either:
i that contract has been separately entered into by the passenger for the excursion whether or not with the Member, or
ii the Member has waived any or all of his rights of recourse against any subcontractor or other third party in respect of the excursion;
c liabilities, costs and expenses in respect of the carriage of cargo arising out of contracts of carriage providing for carriage partly to be performed by the Ship and partly by means of transport other than the Ship, unless the transport is performed under a form of contract approved by the Association.
The nature of modern passenger and cargo carrying operations is such that passengers and cargo are not necessarily carried from the point at which they embark on the carriage to the point where the carriage terminates in the same carriage vehicle. For example, cruise passengers may travel to and from their home by airplane, coach, train and ship, whilst containerised cargo is carried by truck, railcar and ship, and sometimes also by airplane. However, such passengers or cargo may be carried under one contract of carriage which purports to regulate liability for the whole carriage regardless of the various modes of transport that have been used.
The risks that arise during the different stages of the transportation and as a result of the different methods of carriage pose difficulties for insurers, particularly for insurers such as the Association which provide cover on a mutual basis for marine risks that arise solely in connection with the operation of a Ship. Consequently, risks which arise in connection with the operation of other forms of transportation cannot be easily accommodated within the scope of such cover. However, in many instances, a non-marine mode of transport is an interlinked and necessary component of a carriage which may predominantly involve the operation of a Ship. Therefore, the Association and the other P&I clubs which are members of the International Group have endeavoured to assist Members who are engaged in transport operations of this nature, but this is done in a manner which seeks to balance the needs of such Members with the needs of Members whose Ships are engaged in purely marine transportation.
Rule 57 contains provisions that outline the scope of cover that is available for liabilities, losses, costs and expenses relating to the carriage of passengers and cargo in circumstances where such liabilities etc., do not arise in direct connection with the operation of the Ship, which is, in general, a pre-requisite for cover.1 Therefore, whilst Rule 57 contains exclusion provisions, the purpose and effect of the Rule is to give the Association the right to compensate the Member for certain liabilities etc., which arise in relation to passengers and cargo for which cover is, otherwise, not available under Rules 28 and 34. Consequently, Rules 28 and 34 should be read in the light of Rule 57 and vice-versa.
(A) The Association shall not cover under a P&I entry… (Rule 57)
In order to safeguard the basic tenets of Rule 2.4, Rule 57 excludes P&I cover for passengers and cargo whilst in the care of another carrier except in certain limited and specifically identified circumstances. Rule 57.a and b relate to passengers whist Rule 57.c relates to cargo.
(B) …liabilities, losses, costs or expenses incurred by the Member in respect of death, personal injury, loss or damage to property, delay or other consequential losses sustained by passengers2 (Rule 57.a)
Rule 57.a is drafted very broadly to exclude cover for liabilities etc., which may be incurred by the Member in respect of all types of claim that can be brought by passengers against the Member in the circumstances outlined in Rule 57 except for those liabilities etc that are incurred in the circumstances described in (D)-(F) below.
(C) …whilst the passenger is in the care of another carrier or during carriage to or from the Ship… (Rule 57.a)
Whilst cover is available for liability incurred by the Member in respect of passengers3 and other persons4 carried on board the Ship, Rule 57.a excludes cover for liabilities etc., incurred by the Member for death, personal injury, loss or damage to property, delay or other consequential loss sustained by a passenger whilst on board another ship, aircraft or other means of transport, subject to the exceptions referred to below in (D)–(F).
For example, if a passenger has bought a package tour from a Member which includes transportation from his home to the port where he will commence his cruise, and he is injured during the course of air or surface transportation to that port of embarkation, he may bring a claim against the Member as tour operator or organiser, but the Member is not entitled to claim reimbursement from the Association for such liability. However, if the passenger is injured on board the Ship after embarkation, cover is available for the Member's liability pursuant to Rule 28.
(D) …except liability for illness, injury or death of, or loss of or damage to the effects of, passengers during…carriage to and from the Ship in its own boats, or in port by means of other boats… (Rule 57.a.i)
The exclusion from cover discussed in (C) does not apply to any liability that is incurred by the Member for the injury, illness or death of passengers or for the loss of, or damage to their effects which occurs whilst the passengers are either: (i) being carried to or from the Ship, whether within the port or not, by the Ship's own boats; or (ii) being carried to or from the Ship by boats owned by other parties, provided in these circumstances, that the carriage is effected in the port in which the Ship is situated. For these purposes the term 'port' is not to be understood in its strict geographical, legal and fiscal sense but as a practical description of the most convenient area or zone for the ship to be situated in order to transfer the passengers safely ashore.
For example, cover is available under Rule 285 for the Member's liability if the passenger is injured or loses his or her effects whilst being carried to the Ship from outside the port area in the Ship's own boats, but cover is not available for the Member's liability if the passenger is injured whilst being carried to the Ship from outside the port area in boats owned by third parties. The word 'effects' includes not only luggage but also the other personal property of passengers.6
(E) …repatriation of injured or sick passengers or of passengers following a casualty to the Ship…(Rule 57.a.ii)
In the event that a Ship should suffer a casualty, or in the event that a passenger should suffer injury or illness during the course of the carriage, the Member may have a legal obligation to send the passenger home or to a shore facility where proper treatment can be provided.7 Such repatriation may be done by helicopter or airplane, or by another ship or boat, or by some other form of conveyance, in which case the passenger will be in the care of another carrier for the whole or a part of such transportation. Rule 57.a.ii confirms that cover is available for liability incurred by the Member for the illness, injury or death of passengers or for the loss of or damage to the effects of such passengers that may occur during such repatriation. Cover is available regardless of where or how the illness, injury or death or loss of or damage to the effects occurred so long as the Member is found to be legally liable to compensate the passenger or his dependents.
(F) …excursion(s) from the Ship… (Rule 57.a.iii and Rule 57.b)
Rule 28.a outlines the cover that is available for the liability of the Member for the illness, injury or death of passengers or for the loss of or damage to the effects of such passengers when the event giving rise to such liability occurs whilst the passenger is on board the Ship. Rule 57.a. iii and 57.b outline the extent to which cover is available for such liability when the event giving rise to it occurs whilst the passenger is on a shore excursion from the Ship. The phrase 'shore excursion from the Ship' is construed broadly to include not only trips from Ship to shore but also water borne excursions from the Ship, e.g. an excursion by boat to view a coral reef or water sport activities such as a guided jet ski tour.
Whilst Rule 57.a.iii provides that cover is available for liabilities, losses, costs or expenses incurred by the Member in respect of the illness, injury and death of passengers or for the loss of or damage to the effects of such passengers that occurs during shore excursions from the Ship, Rule 57.b excludes cover for such liabilities, losses etc in certain circumstances when such liability, losses etc have been incurred by the Member solely by virtue of a separate contract which has been concluded with the passenger for that excursion. Cover is excluded in two circumstances, and the combined effect of Rules 57.a.iii and 57.b is to distinguish the cover that is available to the Member in his capacity as a passenger ship operator from that which is not available to him in his capacity as a specialist shore excursion provider or tour operator:
Cover is excluded:
a Where the liabilities, losses etc have been incurred solely because of the terms of a separate contract that has been entered into by the passenger for the excursion whether or not that contract has been entered into with the Member.
If the Member permits passengers to enter into separate shore excursion contracts with him or with other parties, he is expected to ensure that they include terms which exonerate him from liability and/or to arrange other insurance cover for his potential liability to the passenger. Therefore, the Member should be aware that such a separate contract may not be considered to be a 'contract of carriage' which would entitle the Member to rely on the defences and limitation rights that would normally be available under the Athens Convention or which would entitle him to the defences and limitation rights which would otherwise be available to the Member under the relevant law. Therefore, cover is not available for any liability that arises solely as a result of the terms of such a separate excursion contract. However, cover is available for the liability that the Member may incur regardless of that separate contract, e.g. for liability in tort or for liability which arises under the passenger contract of carriage with the Ship provided that the terms of that contract purport to relieve the Member from liability to the maximum extent permitted by the applicable law.8
b Where the shore excursion has been effected by a sub-contractor of the Member or by any other third party, and the Member has waived any or all rights of recourse against such sub-contractor or third party.
Cover is not available if the Member has waived any rights of recourse which he may have against other parties in respect of his liability to the passenger for such excursion. The exclusion applies to any waiver of such rights by the Member. The Association is not obliged to prove that the Member would have been able to recover had he not waived his rights of recourse. The rationale for this provision is that it would be contrary to the interests of the membership to cover losses which result from the fact that a Member has voluntarily waived any rights of recourse that he may have against a third party.9 However, cover is available in circumstances where the Member has sought to preserve his rights of recourse, but the recourse claim does not succeed or cannot be enforced under the applicable law.
For example, if a passenger is injured whilst on a shore excursion from the Ship pursuant to a separate contract which he has concluded with the Member after the start of the cruise and for which he has paid a separate fee, cover is available for any liability that the Member would have incurred to the passenger in respect of the injury in any event even if he had not entered into the contract for the shore excursion, e.g. in tort. However, if the Member incurs the liability purely by virtue of the terms of the separate contract, then cover is not available for such liability.10
(G) …liabilities, costs and expenses in respect of the carriage of cargo arising out of contracts of carriage providing for carriage partly to be performed by the Ship and partly by means of transport other than the Ship… (Rule 57.c)
Rule 57.c is intended to protect the membership against risks that arise as a result of the carriage of cargo partly by a Ship and partly by modes of transport other than by a Ship, or by ships other than those controlled by the Member.11 In order to enable the Association to provide the balanced form of cover described above, Rule 57.c provides that cover is available in such circumstances only when the cargo is carried under contracts which are approved by the Association.
(H) …unless the transport is performed under a form of contract approved by the Association. (Rule 57.c)
The type of transportation to which reference is made in this Rule is usually performed under 'through' or 'combined transport' Bills of Lading the terms and legal effect of which may be substantially different. For example, under the laws of the United States, a carrier who issues such a Bill of Lading will be held responsible for the entire carriage unless the Bill of Lading clearly limits the carrier's period of responsibility to a particular part or stage of the carriage.
The Association has approved the forms of 'through' or 'combined transport' Bills of Lading which are considered to be standard in the industry, e.g. the COMBICONBILL. The Association will normally approve other forms of contract if they purport to exclude the Member's liability for cargo which is not in his care, custody or control, to the maximum extent permissible under the applicable law. The Association will also need to be satisfied that a contract of carriage which provides that the carriage is to be performed by modes of transport other than ships shall be subject to such rules of law that apply customarily to such modes of transport, and that the Member is liable for events which occur during cargo storage only to the extent that such storage is a reasonable and necessary part of the overall through transport.
Cover will be excluded if the cargo is not carried on terms which satisfy the provisions of Rule 34. Therefore the contract of carriage should give the carrier the right in relation to carriage by sea to rely on all rights and defences which are available to the carrier under the Hague or Hague-Visby Rules or the Hamburg Rules if compulsorily applicable.12 Similarly, the contract of carriage should give the carrier the right to rely on all rights and defences which are available to the carrier in relation to stages of the through transport other than sea stages. Liabilities arising at such stages may be subject to the provisions of national law or to conventions which regulate carriage by rail,13 road14 or air.15 The Member is obliged to take active steps to preserve all rights and defences which are available to him to the maximum extent permitted under the applicable law and to preserve all rights of recourse which he may have against any other carrier or other third party who may be involved in the transport operation.
In case of doubt, the Member is encouraged to consult the Association before agreeing to contracts of carriage which involve carriage with modes of transport other than his Ship.
1 See the Guidance to Rule 2.4.
2 See (A) of the Guidance to Rule 28 for a definition of 'passenger'.
3 See the Guidance to Rule 28.
5 See (A) of the Guidance to Rule 28.
6 The word 'effects' is construed similarly to the manner in which it is construed in Rule 28 (see (C) of the guidance to Rule 28).
8 See the Guidance to Rule 28.i.
9 See also the Guidance to Rule 82.1.b.
11 If cargo is carried on a ship other than a Ship pursuant to a Consortium Agreement other factors and restrictions may apply. See the Guidance to Rule 52 and to Appendix II.
12 See the Guidance to Rule 34.1.b.iii.
13 The Regles uniformes concernant le contrat de transport internationale ferroviale des voyageurs et des bagages (CIM).
14 The Convention pour Merchandise par Route (CMR).
15 The Convention for the Unification of certain Rules relating to International Carriage by Air signed at Warsaw on 12 October 1929 subsequently at the Hague 1955 and in Montreal in 1975 (the Warsaw Convention).

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Please see below for item level images and donated collections containing photographs of USS Altair (AKS-32).
Aberdeen Victory was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull 110) on 20 April 1944, at Portland, Oreg., by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 30 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. A. L. M. Wiggins; completed on 22 June 1944; and entered merchant service under contract with the Waterman Steamship Co., under whose flag she supported operations against Japan and took part in the conquest of Okinawa during May 1945. Transferred to the Navy on 7 July 1951, a little over a year after communist forces invaded the Republic of Korea, the ship was renamed USS Altair on 26 July; classified as a cargo ship and classified AK-257; and commissioned at Baltimore, Md., on 31 January 1952. She was converted into a Antares-class general store issue ship (AKS-32) in 1953.
Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet Service Force, USS Altair (AKS-32) was initially based at Norfolk, Va., and visited Annapolis (29–31 March) and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (26 May–2 June), during the course of her shakedown. Recommissioned at Norfolk on 15 December 1953, the ship rejoined the Atlantic Fleet and, following her shakedown, reported for duty on 20 March 1954. A little over two months later, on 24 May, USS Altair (AKS-32) sailed for the Mediterranean, and reached the Hyeres Islands, off the southeast coast of France, on 10 June, for a week's stay.
In May 1955, her home port shifted to Barcelona, and she cleared Norfolk for her permanent station in the Mediterranean on 26 May 1955, bound for Gibraltar. In August 1962, her home port became Naples. USS Altair returned to the United States in October 1962, for overhaul but orders abruptly directed her to the Caribbean to replensih American warships enforcing the quarantine of Cuba. After the Cuban Missile Crisis subsided she proceeded to Boston, Mass., for an overhaul which lasted into the spring of 1963.
In June 1965, USS Altair's home port was changed to Norfolk; and she operated from that base until reporting to the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility to Portsmouth, Va., on 31 December 1968. She was decommissioned on 2 May 1969 and transferred to the Maritime Administration on 1 May 1973.
For a complete history of USS Altair (AKS-32) please see its DANFS page.


Patchogue, NY| In front of a packed Danzi Center gym the St. Joseph's College (L.I.) men's volleyball team stormed past Medgar Evers, 3-0, in the program's first-ever competitive match on Tuesday evening.
Leading the way for the Golden Eagles was the freshman attack contingent of Will Flohr (9 kills), Kyle Biggers (6 kills) and Paul Curaro (6 kills). Junior setter Tyler Jones collected a game-best 15 assists and fellow junior Michael Barfield led all participants with nine digs.
Biggers recorded the first-ever point and kill in program history to put the Golden Eagles ahead 1-0 and sparked a 10-0 run to open the first set. Later, up 22-7, a 3-0 run--capped off by a Matt Cole service ace--clinched a 25-7 set one victory.
Holding a 13-6 lead in the second, SJC went on to compile a 12-0 run en route to a 25-6 win. Medgar would go up 2-1 in the third set but their lead was short as St. Joseph's grabbed 24 of the next 29 points and earned the 25-7 set and 3-0 match victories after Michael Amberge served up consecutive game-clinching service aces.
SJC boasted a .469 attacking percentage and collected 31 kills in total while limiting the Cougars to just two kills. Additionally, the hosts held sizeable advantages in assists (29-2), digs (22-9) and aces (18-1).
The Golden Eagles return to action on Thursday, January 26 when they travel to Queens, NY to face York College in a non-conference tilt at 7:00 PM. Live stats for the match will be available here.


This quilt is for my granddaughter, Gracie and she can't wait to get it home! I have to choose borders and then quilt it...so she has a little while to wait! I used Bonnie & Camille's Happy-Go-Lucky fabric line and the pattern is by Camille Roskelley.


Only The Brave (out Nov 30) is based on actual events and pays tribute to a group of firefighters from Arizona. It looks at their work whilst also delving into the battles of their personal lives. A bit formulaic in places but the finale packs a strong punch. Grade: B.


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Callipero Bates, 1864 is the full name of the group-genus in the taxonomic classification system.
Callipero has 2 species. The genus is ranked in the Acanthocinini tribe of Lamiinae.


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Perizonius ist der Name von

 Antonius Perizonius (Anton Voorbroek; † 1672), niederländischer Theologe
 Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Perizonius (1802–1895), deutscher Theologe
 Jacobus Perizonius (Jakob Voorbroek;1651–1715), niederländischer Gelehrter

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Zbrodnia w Kundziwoli – zbrodnia dokonana przez oddział UPA na polskich mieszkańcach wsi Kundziwola.

Kundziwola (inny spotykany zapis: Kędziwola) była wsią zamieszkaną zarówno przez Polaków (ok. 50 gospodarstw), jak i Ukraińców. Część tych pierwszych opuściła swoje domy na początku 1943 roku, na wieść o pierwszych napadach oddziałów UPA na polskich mieszkańców Wołynia. Oddział UPA, wsparty przez niezrzeszonych Ukraińców z sąsiednich wsi, napadł na miejscowość w nocy z 14 na 15 maja. Według wspomnień zgromadzonych przez Władysława i Ewę Siemaszków jego ofiarą padło co najmniej 15 osób.

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Zbrodnie oddziałów UPA
Zbrodnie nacjonalistów ukraińskich w dawnym województwie wołyńskim


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Written and Directed by Johnny Ma of MAKTUB Films
Original Score by Rebecca Brandt
Min, a 12-year-old Chinese boy with a language problem, tries to make friends on his first day of school in Harlem, New York. After meeting an older Chinese-speaking boy who's the neighborhood bully, Min learns a tough lesson about how to survive in his new environment.
The film recently won the Jury Award for Best Asian American Student Film at the Directors Guild of America Awards.
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Лоуренс Картер (; , Августе — , там же) — американский боксёр-профессионал, выступавший в тяжёлой весовой категории. Чемпион мира по версии WBF (1993).

Профессиональная карьера

Дебютировал в марте 1984 года в бою с Милли Принцем, которого нокаутировал в 1 раунде. В апреле 1984 года победил нокаутом во 2 раунде Бобби Коллинза. Выиграл первые 15 боёв, 13 из них нокаутом. В мае в бою за вакантный титул WBC континентальной Америки в тяжелом весе проиграл нокаутом в 12 раунде  Марвину Марку.

В марте 1986 года встретился с Эвереттом Мартином. Мартин победил техническим нокаутом в 7 раунде.

В октябре 1990 года встретился с а Тони Таббсом. Таббс. После 6 раунда Картер отказался от продолжения боя.

В апреле 1991 года проиграл техническим нокаутом в первом раунде Джеймсу Смиту. В декабре того же года победил раздельным решением судей  Майка Диксона.

В октябре 1992 года победил единогласным решением судей Рокки Бентли. В декабре проиграл нокаутом в 3 раунде  Оливеру Макколу.

В январе 1993 года в бою за вакантный титул WBF встретился с Пинклоном Томасом. Картер победил техническим нокаутом в 7 раунде. Томас попал в больницу. У него было диагностировано кровоизлияние в мозг, которое скоро прекратилось. После всего этого Пинклон Томас ушел из бокса.

В июне того же года проиграл техническим нокаутом в 3 раунде Филу Джексону. В ноябре проиграл техническим нокаутом в 1 раунде Лайнелу Батлеру.

В июле 1996 года победил техническим нокаутом во 2 раунде Тима Сант Клейра. После этого боя Картер ушёл из бокса.

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Q: Detecting screen resize in mac os I've got an objective C sprite kit game that works fine in a standard window size, however when the game window is resized to full screen, the main character sprite needs to have its y axis changed. In order to implement this, I need to check if the window has been resized in the game loop. how do I go about doing this?

A: You can use NSWindowDelagate. The NSWindowDelegate protocol has windowWillResize:toSize: and windowWillMove: methods.

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The Oct. 27 event marks the 25th anniversary of the first such gathering. As in 1986, it is expected to draw representatives from many Christian denominations and more than a dozen other faiths.
In convening the prayer summit, Pope Benedict XVI is clearly reaffirming the ecumenical and interreligious outreach of his predecessor, Blessed John Paul II. But the German pope has also marked out his own course, with modifications and additions that, in the Vatican's view, leave the event less open to misinterpretation.
For one thing, the participants will not pray together — at least, not in a formal fashion. They will gather at the end of the day for a moment of silence and testimonials to peace.
Although the border between prayer and reflection may be ambiguous in such encounters, it appears that Assisi 2011 will not repeat the formula of 1986, when representatives of each major religion offered a prayer at a final joint service.
Just as 25 years ago, participants will break off during the day for separate prayer services. But the difference is that this time around the prayers will be private moments in a cloistered monastery, not public performances throughout the town of Assisi.
In 1986, what generated the most interest among the media troops who went to Assisi were these very colorful and distinct forms of prayer, many of which took place inside Catholic places of worship.
Buddhist monks chanted to the sound of a bronze gong. An animist from Ghana started a fire in a cup. A tribal chief from Togo invited spirits to enter a bowl of water. A Native American "blessed" people on the head with eagle feathers.
For a few hours, Assisi seemed like a spiritual kaleidoscope, with clouds of smoke, sheep-hair amulets, tambourines and multi-colored robes. And it left some critics with the impression that Christian and non- Christian elements were being mixed together inappropriately.
The program for this year's encounter appears designed to ensure that the private prayers will not have a public audience.
The third and perhaps most striking element of Pope Benedict's Assisi gathering is that the Vatican has invited five prominent nonbelievers to participate. The group includes the well-known British philosopher A.C. Grayling, who has argued that religion has had a disproportionately large influence in society.
The Vatican made a point of inviting them because, although nonbelievers, they are seen as actively engaged in a debate over ethics, metaphysics and truth. That reflects the aim of the Vatican's new "Courtyard of the Gentiles" project, which seeks to promote discussions between Christians and nonbelievers around the world.


Well my phone is more than OK, it's great. If you were wondering how my iPhone did after the last update from apple, it's just fine. Apple did announce last week that this latest update might make an unlocked phone inoperable. My phone is not unlocked, but I did use installer.app to install and run third party applications. I also used iToner to install my own ring tones. Apple did hint that the week before last that 3rd party apps like installer.app would not be supported. So before I applied this latest update, I did a restore on my phone.
Wouldn't you know it? This latest update not only make unlocked phones inoperable, but also disabled installer.app and iToner. The authors of both products are working franticly to get them working again. As of this morning there is a hack to downgrade your phone to the previous version. I'm not going to go that route. I'll just wait until until they figure out how to get around the latest road blocks. I do not need to unlock my phone, I'm already switched to AT&T. Even though there were some cool apps showing up for the iPhone, there was nothing I could live without for now.


Over 760,000 Cotswolds had been recorded in the U.S. and Canada by 1914 through the American Cotswold Record Assn.
The breed was seen as a way of adding staple length to other breeds while not retreating from the size of the carcass or thickness of wool.
The main reason for its early popularity was because it did not require "high feeding," (in other words, large amounts of grain) in order to make good growth.
The Cotswold is today considered a fairly slow growing sheep. However, the Cotswold is quite unique in its ability to thrive where other luster longwool breeds might starve to death.
Cotswold sheep are usually calm and friendly. They mostly have white faces. Occasionally faces are mottled with some light gray or tan hairs. Small black spots are permissible on the "points" (non-wooly portions of legs, ears, and face), but the wool itself should be white. Hairs or "kemp" should be absent in the wool.
Cotswold hooves should be black, but are sometimes streaked with undesirable light or translucent color. Foot rot is very uncommon in this breed. Cotswold rams occasionally have small scurs (highly discouraged) but no Cotswold should ever have full horns.
Cotswold sheep do not have the tight-flocking instinct of western range sheep, preferring to spread out and graze enclosed pastures more uniformly. Some strains of the breed are not as prone to internal parasites as others, provided their grazing forages are not excessively short.
Noted for a very mild-flavoured meat. Even the Mutton of Cotswold sheep tends to be far less gamy-flavoured than even young lamb of many other breeds.
Lambs are very hardy once dried off after birth. They have small heads at birth, if the ewes are not overfed during gestation, and therefore are more easily born than some breeds. Cotswold ewes usually have a "narrow flank," once thought of as weakness, until it was observed that this characteristic assists in directing parturient lambs towards a "normal" birth presentation. Cotswold sheep live a respectably long time; it's not uncommon to see Cotswold ewes giving twins each year until well after 10 years old.
Cotswold wool is exceedingly strong, added by knitters to sock heels and toes to give extra strength to socks, and to elbows in hand-knitted sweaters. The wool attains 8 to 12 inches of growth in a year, and if not shorn promptly in early spring may become matted. It has a Bradford (spinning) count of 36s to 44s, most commonly around 40s. Generally, the tighter the curls of the fleece, the slenderer is the wool. Because the wool is so long it commonly parts on the sheep's spine.
Cotswold sheep have since the days of Drayton and Camden in England (circa late 16th century to early 17th century) been noted as commonly having a slightly golden colored wool, dark colors having been noted as exceedingly rare. This trait gave them the nickname of the "Golden Fleece Breed." The Cotswold is the only breed having been associated with the fabulous cloth of gold in antiquity. Florentine merchants traveled to England and bought large quantities of the shiny, linen-like wool for this purpose, at least as far back as the 13th Century. Cotswold wool was used as a substitute for linen, woven with exceedingly fine wires of real gold, to make special garments for ancient priests and kings.
Today, Cotswold wool is especially luxurious when hand-combed using wool combs to make a true worsted roving. In true worsted wool there is little or no "itch," because all the tips of the fibers (as they grew on the sheep) point in one direction and the end sheared from the sheep's skin points in the other direction. This produces a knit very like mohair. In fact Cotswold wool has often been called "poor man's mohair."
Some authorities claim (Elwes, 1893) the Cotswold breed was already in the Cotswold Hills when the Romans got there circa 54 B.C. Legend says there used to be sheepcotes or solidly built folds and that these cotes gave the name to the hills: "Cottes-wealds," in Anglo-Saxon, meaning exposed, windswept hills (wealds or wolds) dotted with Cotes. Thus it is said that the Cotswold Hills got their name from the flocks, which in turn got their name from the hills.


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Steven Gerrard employs authenticity and pragmatism to make dream start at Aston Villa
There was a clarity of thought to Gerrard's choices in steering Villa to victory over Brighton in his first game as manager in the Premier League
Richard Jolly
Monday 22 November 2021 08:10
Steven Gerrard celebrates on the touchline
Much like his major rival for the title of Liverpool's greatest ever player, Steven Gerrard's natural expression is not one of joy. Kenny Dalglish's beaming grin only tended to emerge with goals; so, too, the moments Gerrard traded the furrowed brow for the unconfined, air-punching delight. There was an instant when Ollie Watkins scored the first goal of his spell at Aston Villa when he started to set off along the touchline. It was faster than a toiling Danny Ings had moved all day. It was a reminder of the explosiveness that powered Gerrard to brilliance.
"I'm excited," he said. "I was authentic. It was not a show for anyone. I felt good and I will continue to be myself moving forward." Authenticity long formed part of Gerrard's appeal. By the time his playing career finished, the Premier League featured many an academy product, their rough edges smoothed off. Gerrard was one of the last great street footballers, bringing the urgency and turbulence of the estates to Anfield. He was the anachronism, the throwback to simpler times. He was the local lad who grew up to become the Champions League-winning captain, but he did it partly due to an ability to rouse people and change games with individual inspiration. He was part Phil Thompson, part Roy of the Rovers.
"You should see me in staff games, five v five, six v six," he said. "I hate losing, I am a competitor." Some of the finest players who go into management to do almost as attempts to extend their playing days. But the matches that matter most are not six-a-sides; Gerrard described the moments when the goals go in as his "buzz" and "medicine"; he wasn't talking about training-ground kickarounds.
"I want to coach from the side," he added. "I want to be visible and help them, guide them. Inside me is what was with me as a player, that will to win, that drive." He played on emotion, which was often a strength and occasionally his undoing. Jurgen Klopp, one of his mentors, harnesses emotion brilliantly. But as Gerrard began his time at Villa with a morale-boosting victory, it may have owed more to the cool-headed thinking of Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez.
Steven Gerrard embraces Tyrone Mings of Aston Villa
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They were twin counter-attackers, not slaves to possession. Brighton had 63 percent of the ball at Villa Park, but it was a sterile domination that only brought two shots on target. Gerrard's side had the thrust and penetration on the break. It was part of a gameplan. He talked of "allowing them to have the ball in certain areas of the pitch." Villa then pounced. Gerrard joked he would ask his skipper Tyrone Mings if his goal was a shot or a cross. "He needs to be a pillar in the dressing room for me and help us drive the standard up of this football club," said one of the most iconic captains of all. Meanwhile, there was just a hint of Gerrard himself in Watkins' opener: the dynamism, the momentum, the finish.
Before his celebrations, Gerrard managed to sideline emotion. There was a clarity of thought to his choices. Much of Ashley Young's football in the last five years has come as a full-back or wing-back but Gerrard brought him on in a more advanced role and he provided the pass to release Watkins. His changes may have been delayed, but they worked.
The task is to bring the same incision to his decision-making as he did with the ball at his feet. His next opponent, Patrick Vieira, has begun well at Palace but fewer of the charismatic captains become elite managers now. "I'm under no illusions about the level of coaches and standard of the teams and the players in this league," Gerrard said. Graham Potter, an undistinguished player turned career coach with a marked philosophy, seems his antithesis, but Gerrard got the better of him. He did it his way. "I will always be authentic," he said. Being the authentic Steven Gerrard has propelled him this far. Amid the inevitable talk of a return to Anfield, how much further can it take him?
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Making Internet a Public Good Again
Throughout all these years, tech giants have been selling the idea that users should be grateful when using their excellent service for free. Their outstanding marketing programs have worked so well that we, users, have come with a whole role-messed hierarchy whether products, service, profit and misinformation have been the prevailing trend in a now-uncovered obscure world. The time where these giants could do anything for their own benefit has come to an end: users now demand a new model business within the digital world.
And their power is such that they can impose their business model without questions about it. Any competition will end up being acquired (Instagram for Facebook) or bullied (Mozilla Firefox browser for Google) as they are now in control of the web. In fact, it is even more concerning that they have monetised the one thing that was given for all of us to enjoy, the Internet.
They have created monopolies for services provided within the web, like Google and its web browser or Facebook and their social media spectrum. However "let's not forget that a large part of the technology and necessary data was created by all of us, and should thus belong to all of us," said Mariana Mazzucato in an article published at MIT Technology Review magazine.
And she continued with "the underlying infrastructure that all these companies rely on was created collectively (via the tax dollars that built the internet), and it also feeds off network effects that are produced collectively. There is indeed no reason why the public's data should not be owned by a public repository that sells the data to the tech giants, rather than vice versa. But the key issue here is not just sending a portion of the profits from data back to citizens but also allowing them to shape the digital economy in a way that satisfies public needs."
She focuses on the idea that technology should be at the citizen's service, not the other way around, while these companies, profit seekers, have turned up the internet into their biggest business market. Internet was thought to be a place where people can connect to each other, as the next step in social communication. It is thus "collective creations that should offer something of real value, driven by public purpose. We're never far from a media story that stirs up a debate about the need to regulate tech companies, which creates a sense that there's a war between their interests and those of national governments," pointed out Mariana Mazzucato in pursuit for bringing back internet to their legit owners.
Companies such Google and Facebook have worked well all these years selling not only a search engine or a platform where to connect with friends, but a whole digital ecosystem in which almost all our social needs are sorted
The issue here lies inside an intricate business model whereas two main facts are keynotes: habit and a blurred revenue system. On one hand, companies such Google and Facebook have worked well all these years selling not only a search engine or a platform where to connect with friends, but a whole digital ecosystem in which almost all our social needs are sorted – even if we didn't have them in first place. Google allows you to search the web indeed, but now we do it in its web browser, with shortcuts to their video streaming service, e-mail app, document management, word processor, its social media and so forth in an endless service list. And as Microsoft did in the past with their Windows OS, Google is now the lord and master of the Internet.
Users don't even bother to ask, they keep using Google services once and again because they have been doing it for years. It has become a habit. A similar mental process can be found when analysing their business model and how has been so successful all these years. Nor Facebook or Google ask for our money to use their services but they are among the most profitable companies of the world. Again and drop-by-drop they have made us think that behind their company's mask, a good will leverage their services, however, reality has turned out being quite different.
In fact, "Google doesn't give us anything for free. It's really the other way around—we're handing over to Google exactly what it needs. When you use Google's services it might feel as if you're getting something for nothing, but you're not even the customer—you're the product. The bulk of Google's profits come from selling advertising space and users' data to firms. Facebook's and Google's business models are built on the commodification of personal data, transforming our friendships, interests, beliefs, and preferences into sellable propositions," Mariana said.
And she is right, at aiming at the core of the main issue here. These business were built out of a public and collective technology and while in the beginning could've been made following good will models, they have now turned into data predators, using users as channels where their profit is created. Mariana calls out loud for a new model, where both sides, companies and users, are all represented in the internet. "It's a partnership of equals where regulators should have the confidence to be market shapers and value creators," she ended up with.
Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.
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Pogo is a bit spec! Po came to SPR as a "duty of care" transfer from a Sydney pound. You see Po had a very damaged blind left eye which was causing her pain and discomfort as well as a flea infestation and manky stinky yeast infection. That was then and this is now. Po has had 2x rounds of entropion surgery on her healthy eye, and the eye ball removed, although she is so wrinkly, unless you knew she had only one eye, you'd never know!. She now has a beautiful thick healthy coat and no fleas and no yeast infection! And she has the name Pogo because she happily jumps around just like.....a Pogo stick.
Po is nothing but an absolute delight, but at about 14-15 mths of age, her true self is still developing and as such, we will be very careful where Po is placed! She is cute, cuddly and sweet, but she does need a home where people are experienced with dominant dog breeds to ensure she doesn't develop any sort or dominant habits.
Po NEEDS kids in her life!!! The younger the better as she just wants to love and be loved, and play ..... and sleep! A doggy boyfriend is also essential, Po needs canine interaction, a warm bed indoors and a family who consider her an important part of their family life.
Po suffers from shar pei fever, and as a result will take a Colgout tablet daily for life. This is a cost of less than $1 per day.
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Periodontal treatment methods depend upon the type and severity of the disease. Dr. Spring and Laura will evaluate for periodontal disease and recommend the appropriate treatment.
If the disease has progressed to more advanced stages, a special periodontal cleaning called scaling and root planing (deep cleaning) will be recommended. It is usually done in two quadrants of the mouth (one side) at a time while the area is numb. In this procedure, tartar, plaque, and toxins are removed from above and below the gum line (scaling) and rough spots on root surfaces are made smooth (planing). This procedure helps gum tissue to heal and pockets to shrink. Medications, special medicated mouth rinses, and an electric tooth brush may be recommended to help control infection and healing.


CHICAGO -- David Ross traded his catching gear for the broadcast booth, but he still found time to play catch.
In typical Grandpa fashion, David Ross brought his glove to the ballpark. Between the second and third innings Jason Heyward decided to warm up by tossing the ball around with his old teammate.
Ross joined ESPN in the broadcast booth as the Cubs completed the sweep on the Cardinals.


Sadly, I'll never have use for the John-Wayne pickup line. Also, I should note, the woman's black dress was full coverage - it went down to her ankles, and had full sleeves as well. Very little-house-on-the-prarie, but black. and spiderman was a bit pouty.


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Condors Report: Updates on Bear, Ellis, Puljujarvi & More
November 1, 2017 by Shane Sander
The Bakersfield Condors might have wished for a better start to their current five-game homestand. The Edmonton Oilers farm team dropped back-to-back games against the Stockton Heat. In their last game, the Condors fell behind 4-0 in the first period which led to Nick Ellis getting pulled after allowing four goals on nine shots. Ed Pasquale took over the rest of the way and made 12 saves over the final two frames.
Bakersfield came out strong in the second period scoring three goals. Joey LaLeggia, Patrick Russell, and Ty Rattie all scored but the Condors ultimately fell 5-3. Jesse Puljujarvi had an astounding nine shots on net in the loss. Bakersfield is now seventh in the Pacific Division with a 3-4-0 record. The good news is that the Condors still have three games left on their homestand.
Joey LaLeggia (Photo Courtesy of Bakersfield Condors)
The team plays all three games this week against the Texas Stars and Manitoba Moose (twice). There's a possibility of moving into fourth place in the division if the team can win all three games. That said, here are this week's headlines in the Condors Report.
Ethan Bear Tied for Team Scoring Lead
Ethan Bear's been an intriguing prospect for the Oilers and is already turning heads in the AHL. The first year pro is currently tied for the team lead in scoring with two goals and five points. He's shown some great vision with the puck and has been a reliable distributor for the Condors. Adding to that his booming shot makes him dangerous from the blueline in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4XXBvE4i6E
He scored a wicked goal on an odd-man rush against the Ontario Reign the other week and absolutely blasted the puck. Bear, 20, is currently playing on Bakersfield's top defensive pairing along with Dillon Simpson. He's also getting plenty of ice-time on the Condors power play. Luckily for the Oilers, they haven't endured any injuries to their backend.
If they did you'd have to think that Bear would possibly be one of Edmonton's first recalls from the minors. Bear scored 28 goals and 70 points in 67 games for the WHL's Seattle Thunderbirds last season.
Nick Ellis Player of the Week (Oct 16-22)
After a mediocre opening week to the season, Nick Ellis was named the AHL Player of the Week from October 16-22. Part of the reason was him stopping 67 of 68 shots against during a two-game stint against the Ontario Reign that week. Ellis, 23, recorded his second career shutout during this stretch and held a 125:51 shutout streak.
He's just the third player in Condors history to be named AHL Player of the Week. The two previous players were Taylor Beck and Anton Lander.
Nick Ellis (courtesy of Bakersfield Condors)
Even Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli came down to help celebrate the minor achievement for Ellis. As mentioned above, he struggled in his lone appearance last week allowing four goals on nine shots in a loss against Stockton.
Ellis currently holds a 2.43 goals-against average (GAA) and a .919 save percentage (SV%) through four games. Those numbers are good enough for 12th amongst AHL goaltenders that played a minimum of three games.
34 Nick Ellis 4 197:40 2 2 0 1 8 2.43 91 0.919
40 Eddie Pasquale 4 217:34 1 2 0 0 12 3.31 84 0.875
Totals 7 420:00 3 4 0 1 21 3.00 175 0.893
*statistics courtesy of Bakersfield Condors website
This is on par with Ellis' rookie numbers from the 2016-17 season that saw him go 16-12-2 with a 2.69 GAA and a .918 SV%. He's done a decent job with the starting duties since taking over from Laurent Brossoit last year.
As Pasquale continues to struggle, head coach Gerry Fleming might end up giving Ellis the ball to run with the crease in the coming weeks.
Jesse Puljujarvi Still Searching for First Goal
Jesse Puljujarvi continues to shoot the puck for the Condors. The second-year forward currently has 22 shots through seven games and averaging 3.1 shots per game. He's had some golden opportunities but is still searching for his first goal of the season. He had five shots in his last game.
He's got just three assists to his name so far but just hasn't found the back of the net. The stat line might be disappointing to Oiler fans, but Puljujarvi's been sacrificing his offensive numbers to play a more complete game.
Jesse Puljujarvi (Bruce Fedyck-USA TODAY Sports)
The most prominent criticism of Edmonton's 2016 fourth overall pick is his play away from the puck. While in Edmonton, Puljujarvi was asked to play better away from the puck by Chiarelli and the coaching staff. Under Fleming his games got better, but it's still a work in progress.
Puljujarvi's got to watch the turnovers, especially the neutral zone ones he's been prone to. For Oiler fans wondering if Puljujarvi is ready to come up and help boost the anemic offense, don't count on him being the answer just yet.
Patrick Russell More Comfortable in Year 2
Patrick Russell has taken another step this season. He's playing on the Condors fourth-line with Braden Christoffer and a rotating center (last game with Josh Currie). In his limited ice-time, Russell has been willing the puck on net and had 18 shots this season. He's scored twice, both of them being short-handed goals. He's stepped up on the penalty kill and is looking much more comfortable as a pro in his second year.
The 24-year-old from Denmark had just eight goals last year but is well on his way to surpassing that total in 2017-18. He's got a nose for the net, gets a combination of ugly and skill goals, and is better than where his position in the lineup might indicate. It's only a matter of time before he moves into the top-nine permanently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJJW3AozNvk
Laleggia & Rattie Are Providing Offense
Joey LaLeggia continues to grow as a prospect since making a move from defense to left wing. He's been Bakersfield's most consistent forward and is tied with Bear for the team lead in points with five.
He's an undersized player at 5'10 and 185 pounds, but he's got quick feet and has a high hockey IQ. Don't be surprised if LaLeggia makes his NHL debut at some point this season. The 25-year-old had 20 goals and 38 points in 67 games last season.
Ty Rattie's also picked up some steam recently after a slow start to the season. He's now got two goals and three points including a power play goal the other night. He's playing on the Condors second-line, but recently got promoted to the top-line with Puljujarvi and Grayson Downing.
Rattie, 24, was a prolific scorer in junior but hasn't been able to find success as a pro. He needs to show some consistency if he's hoping for a call-up to Edmonton.
Condors Sign Doornbosch to PTO
Bakersfield also signed ECHL defenseman Jamie Doornbosch to a professional tryout (PTO). The 27-year-old was a late bloomer in junior who ended up disappearing into the Canadian College hockey circuit. He popped back up in the ECHL last year scoring 30 points in 40 games, which are naturally decent numbers for a blueliner.
He got into the Condors last game and played third-pairing minutes. Doornbosch was unsuccessful in converting previous year's PTO with the Binghamton Senators into an AHL deal. He's hoping for a better showing with Bakersfield this year.
Shane Sander
Edmonton Oilers regular contributor providing insight on all things Oilers including club history, prospect profiles, trade breakdowns, and everything else in between. Check back regularly for new and exciting content. Follow on Twitter @SanderTHW.
Categories Bakersfield Condors, Edmonton Oilers Tags Ethan Bear, Jesse Puljujarvi, Joey Laleggia, Nick Ellis


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Go Green Awards: rewarding sustainability efforts in the workplace
Kulsoom Middleton
As Bristol's year as European Green Capital comes to a close, businesses and organisations in the West of England will be rewarded for their efforts in driving environmental sustainability in the work place at the Go Green Awards this Thursday.
Go Green was launched last February and is a collaboration between business leadership organisations Business West and Low Carbon South West.
The initiative was put in place to help organisations to find resources that can help them be greener and recognise the efforts made to create a greener environment at work.
"Go Green is a fantastic resource to meet, network and share ideas, and since its inception we've had has a phenomenal response with over 1,200 organisations signing up"
The ceremony will be held at The Bristol hotel and will feature 13 awards across the five themes of Go Green which include Energy & Efficiency; Travel & Transport; Planning & Resilience, to prepare for future changes; Sustainable Sourcing; and Happy & Healthy to encourage community spirit.
The awards will also feature The Driving Force Award to acknowledge a team or individual who has made the biggest impact and Bristol's Best Green Small Business Award to recognise the SME who has most improved its green credentials across the five themes. Some awards will also include cash prizes provided by the FSB to help with the cost of implementing future green initiatives.
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Amy Nicholas, Go Green manager, says: "We launched Go Green because we realised we needed an engaging programme for businesses to improve their sustainable credentials. Becoming European Green Capital 2015 was a great achievement for Bristol and we really wanted to involve everyone in order to promote the city's values and efforts in the work place.
"Go Green is a fantastic resource to meet, network and share ideas, and since its inception we've had has a phenomenal response with over 1,200 organisations signing up."
The event is being sponsored by local businesses who support the growing green business agenda, such as University of the West of England, Brunel Professional Risks, Royal Bank of Scotland, Global Design Solutions, and Bristol Airport, to mention a few.
"Go Green has been a tremendous success and everyone's efforts will make a difference – whether you've been cycling to work or introduced more recycling in the office"
Alan Bailey, chair of Low Carbon South West adds: "Go Green has been a tremendous success and everyone's efforts will make a difference – whether you've been cycling to work or introduced more recycling in the office."
"We want these initiatives to continue and we'll be working hard in 2016 and the years to come to drive a lasting legacy of sustainable action following Bristol's year as European Green Capital – it doesn't stop here!"
Go Green is a tool open to every business, charity and public sector organisation who want to make a difference to their local environment. For more information or to sign up to the scheme check out the website at gogreenbusiness.co.uk.
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"Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit. In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly like an eagle" (Proverbs 23:4-5).
I admit I'm a sucker for a good boutique. Especially ones with home décor and furniture since I love to decorate. There's a certain excitement about coming home with a few new pieces and rearranging everything in the house to find the perfect spot. We often return from road trips with wears I've purchased from various small-town boutiques. My husband gets irritated as I rush into the house and start moving my knick-knack's around before we've even unloaded our luggage from the car.
However, all to soon the euphoria of my latest find fades, not to return until the next knick-knack trip. The excitement of a purchase fills a certain emotional void for a time while creating a superficial sense of short lived happiness.
While it's nice to enjoy possessions, if they start to equal contentment it's a losing endeavor because when we worship material things our hearts will be corrupted trying to get more; or shattered when they're lost or ruined.
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will also be" (Matthew 6:19-21).
"Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you" (Matthew 6:33).
I don't know about you, but my heart is easily broken. When my treasure strays from God, inevitably, my heart goes with it.
Well said sister! Very easy to get caught up in material things!


Professor Bernice O. Adegbehingbe is the current Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. She is the immediate Head, Department of Ophthalmology at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife.
is the current Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. She is the immediate Head, Department of Ophthalmology at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife.
She is an alumnus and a university Scholar of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where she graduated with B.Sc. (Hons) in Health Sciences in 1985 and MBChB in 1988. She had her post graduate training in Ophthalmology within and outside Nigeria. She obtained a Diploma in Ophthalmology from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland and a Masters' in Advanced Ophthalmology from the University of Bristol, England. She is a fellow of both the West African College of Surgeons and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. She is currently an examiner with these postgraduate colleges. She is a fellow of the International Council of Ophthalmology and the International College of Surgeons. She is Member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Oxford Ophthalmologic Congress, Oxford, UK and Middle-East African Congress of Ophthalmology. She has won many research grants and fellowships both national and international. She reviews many international peer-reviewed-journals of repute.
Professor Bernice Adegbehingbe is an erudite scholar and astute clinician who, as an Ophthalmologist, has mentored and trained over twenty world class Consultant Ophthalmologists. Some of whom are professors in universities across the country, Chief Medical Directors, and Head of Departments in their various academic and health institutions.
She has also supervised and assessed over twenty research projects in Ophthalmology and related disciplines. She has presented several articles in many international conferences across the globe including the World Ophthalmologic Conference. She has published over 60 original articles in many international journals of repute. She gave her professorial inaugural lecture, titled 'That I may see' on the 30th of August 2016.
She is passionate about impacting on her community especially on improving the health status of the less privileged through community outreach health programmes which she has championed in sixteen years with the support of all other members of the Eye care team in Ile-Ife and other cities in Nigeria. This, she has achieved through numerous care-targeted-eye-screening programmes conducted in churches, mosques and market places coupled with eye health talks in various gatherings even, on the mass media (Unique FM, Gold FM, Orisun Radio and Osun State Broadcasting Corporation).
She is a dedicated and devout Christian. She is hard working and highly focused. These virtues are responsible for her ability to multitask excel in her numerous administrative, academic, spiritual and clinical activities including managing a very successful private hospital. Professor Adegbehingbe was the guest facilitator at the BMAN conference held in Lagos Nigeria on Friday the 23rd, February 2018.
These were her thoughts and advice as she shared her experiences with the boys while responding to the BMAN mentor me session.
When I was in primary three (3), at a very tender age of about eight years; it marked a turning point in my life. I had been doing pretty well academically before then but that term, my mother who was the Head teacher in my school spared time to prepare me for my second term examination. This made me came overall first in the terminal examination which made me extremely happy and greatly motivated. Since that day, I never liked to miss the first position in my academics and then, I developed a positive spirit for success and, that was it! Till I left the elementary school, I took the first position all through.
When I got to secondary school, I discovered I had to work extra hard because I was coming from a rural background. Having to compete with brilliant students from the cities, even, older classmates who had graduated from Teachers' College or "Modern School" Education as it was called then. I struggled between the third and sixth position until the second term of my year two (five years secondary education then) when I came first again and, that was it! No one took the first position from me until I graduated from secondary School.
The rest is history, as the fear of God, hard work and focus has been the foundation of my success in life till date.
My biggest failure was recorded on my first attempt at the Diploma Exams of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Ireland in 1992. I never imagined I could fail any examination in life because I always give my best to preparing for them; as a result, I am always sure of success. However, when I realized that I eventually failed the exam which I had prepared so adequately for and was so confident of passing, I was devastated and dejected. I cried for a-few-days but the Lord told me, I allowed you fail this examination so as to know how it feels when people fail an examination.
Lesson: Even the best and brightest face challenges. My biggest learned lesson is that it is God that gives Success. Don't think too much of yourself. After I have put in my best, I should still depend on God to bless my effort and grant me good success.
The Almighty God has used a lot of people to direct my destiny and He has given me the grace to accept the guidance I received from those people. I have received help right from the time I graduated as a medical doctor on continuous basis. The greatest of them all is the advice I got to apply for a Diploma in Ophthalmology and the guidance received from mentors. This made me apply for a scholarship, which was granted to me to pursue a Masters' programme. The Scholarship was also granted for a second year of Clinic practice. God used people I never knew to help me in getting through, to fulfill my destiny.
Lesson: It is good to trust God for everything because He can use any person or circumstances to bring His will to pass in our lives. Learn to look up to God for all things.
This, I got from the word of God, in the book of Proverbs. It says, have you seen a man who is diligent in his work, he will sit with kings and not with mere men. This I held close to my heart and eventually got my self sitting with real Kings in the Palace of Late Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II and mama HID Awolowo serving as their highly esteemed personal Ophthalmologist during their life time.
This sounds more like an occasion for regret, but I give glory to God who has been the guide from my youth. God has not allowed me to have any occasion for regrets. He has sent a lot of positive influences into my life and I never miss any opportunity He threw at me.
Lesson: Learn to listen to people of positive influence and shun all forms of negative influence, however strong they could be and from whomsoever it could be from. Be positive minded and focused.
You need to be courageous to shun and stand against evil and pursue good. This is a period when it is fashionable to do evil, while good acts are perceived as abnormal and uncivilized. I always look for opportunities to defend the rights of the vulnerable, pursue justice and fairness. This takes courage.
I am afraid of any situation that may make me to fail or disappoint my Lord and Saviour. I know God's grace is sufficient for me, He will carry me through. So, I am not afraid. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
I really want to learn how to be of more positive impact on my immediate and remote sphere of influence.
Is it worth all the stress? The stress one goes through in this world, especially when some people get along financially with little or no stress. But my greatest consolation is that I enjoy what I am doing. The joy of being a blessing to my generation keeps me going and pressing forward daily.
Anyway, our Lord has commanded that we should be occupied till He comes, doing good works.
Success is good, but it just doesn't jump on people. It takes personal discipline, hard work and focus.
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Two histories stress the enduring obstacles to liberal reform
Michael Kazin
The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) BY Jefferson Cowie. Princeton University Press. Hardcover, 288 pages. $27.
Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism BY Randall B. Woods. Basic Books. Hardcover, 480 pages. $32.
A warning to American leftists: These two fine works of history will probably depress you. They may also nudge you to think hard about what your forerunners did to change the country and why they failed to accomplish more.
Both books mention "limits" in their subtitles, and the authors define the term essentially the same way: Individualist values and the fear of a leviathan welfare state conspired to produce a polity in which conservatism is the default ideology and victories for bottom-up reform are the exception. Each book represents a distinct approach to this subject and to the writing of political history: Jefferson Cowie offers a grand interpretation of the roadblocks to change, while Randall B. Woods delivers a thickly detailed narrative about a presidential administration that struggled, with some success, to push them aside.
Cowie, a historian at Vanderbilt University, thinks big and long. In The Great Exception, he presents a rich survey, studded with insights culled from a generation of scholarship by fellow left-wing academics, that traces the knotty challenges of Left reform going back to the Gilded Age. Millions of wage earners and small farmers railed against the power and wealth of industrialists like Leland Stanford and Andrew Carnegie—and condemned the help such men got from regulation-hating judges and union-busting politicians. However, the antimonopolists shared little beyond sharp critique, often sweetened with nostalgia for a bygone age of social harmony; ethnic and religious animosities kept them huddled in separate camps. As Cowie observes, "When Robber Baron Jay Gould boasted that he could 'Pay one half the working class to kill the other,' he might have added that he didn't really have to do so." Disunity among the common folk endured through the early decades of the twentieth century.
Middle-class white Progressives like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson did manage to regulate some of the greediest and most dangerous aspects of the political economy. They instituted the income tax (which, at first, only the very rich had to pay) and established the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Reserve. Women finally won the constitutional right to vote. But in enacting Prohibition and acquiescing to Jim Crow laws, Progressives also made it clear that white Protestants like themselves would define the meaning of "progress"—and it did not include support for working-class insurgencies.
Then came FDR. Cowie heralds Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition for beginning to push the United States along the path to what Europeans call "social democracy." During a single congressional term in the mid-1930s, the federal government broke with antistatist tradition by creating jobs for some of the unemployed and guaranteeing a pension, via Social Security, to most elderly Americans. After waging mass strikes, organized labor gained clout in the private sector and in politics far beyond anything it had known before. Unsurprisingly, FDR remains Bernie Sanders's favorite president.
But this "great exception," Cowie stresses, was also "a devil's pact." In Congress, Democrats from the Solid South voted to create jobs and bring electric power to the agrarian hinterland, where most of their white constituents lived, but stood firmly arrayed against any law that might have given black people the same rights and opportunities. Sadly, few northern Democrats dared challenge the Dixiecrats, who chaired many of the committees in the House and Senate. "So entrenched was Jim Crow politics," writes Cowie, "that had the New Deal . . . actually made any efforts to shatter the white consensus on black racial inferiority, it is most likely that the New Deal would not have happened."
The black-freedom movement of the '60s tore a huge hole in that egregious accord. But it also played an unwitting part in ending organized labor's brief rise to influence. First in the South and then nearly everywhere, white working people began to resent what they viewed as an alliance between angry black protesters and the liberal politicians who sought to placate them. A rising conservative movement, fueled by corporate largesse, stoked the discontents of the "silent majority." Then an expanding population of dark-skinned newcomers, aided by the 1965 immigration-reform law, divided working people and weakened unions even further. Ronald Reagan's election in 1980 only accelerated the retreat from an egalitarian era that had always been more fragile than most of its champions realized. The "Reagan revolution," Cowie notes, was more like a "restoration" of individualist norms of law and governance that were the rule before FDR swept to power.
Cowie's arguments are unfailingly intelligent, and his wry prose makes the book as pleasurable to read as its conclusions are sobering to contemplate. Still, he is a labor historian, and his focus on matters of class and economics leads him to underrate the significance of the changes liberals, goaded by radicals, made in the '60s. He devotes just four pages to LBJ's Great Society and mostly confines himself to pointing out the failures of the oversold and underfinanced War on Poverty.
Randall Woods's vividly detailed narrative makes up for that neglect. The author of a massive biography of Lyndon Johnson, Woods, a history professor at the University of Arkansas, threads juicy quotations from the tirelessly wheedling Texan into his accounts of bill after liberal bill—from civil rights to Medicare to federal aid to education to the National Endowments for the Humanities and for the Arts—that made the Great Society seem pretty unstoppable at the time. Most of that legislation flew through Congress from mid-1964, when LBJ began to exert the powers of his office after John Kennedy's assassination, until the midterm elections of 1966, when big gains by Republicans essentially ended Johnson's hope of creating a welfare state larger than what FDR had built—and one that would no longer be dependent on racist politicians.
Yet as he pursued this ambitious agenda, LBJ was seldom a happy man. He knew that the fires of state-directed change would not burn for long, and he despised the op-ed mandarins of the Washington press who still mourned JFK. "No man knew less about Congress than John Kennedy," he complained to an interviewer in 1965. "We treat those columnists as whores. Anytime an editor wants to screw 'em, they'll get down on the floor and do it for three dollars."
To explain why Johnson failed to stave off his conservative opposition, Woods focuses on the usual suspects: the racial crisis and the war in Vietnam. Besides Medicare, the Great Society programs that garnered the most media attention and touched off the most furious debates were ones designed to help "disadvantaged" minorities: black people and poor people—groups that many, incorrectly, equated with one another. Middle-class whites were willing to see some portion of their taxes go to help those who could not help themselves. But most still drew a traditional line between the so-called moral and immoral poor and thought black people crossed it when some took their anger to the streets in cities from Los Angeles to Washington, DC. And Johnson's decision to escalate the war in Indochina alienated his liberal supporters even before it drove his popularity ratings down so low that, in the spring of 1968, he announced he would not run for a second term.
Woods concludes with a mixed verdict. "The reforms of the 1960s," he writes, "unquestionably advanced the cause of social and economic justice in America, but many achievements were limited and ambiguous." Part of the problem, he notes, was that, except in the case of civil rights, there was no mass movement clamoring to pass the landmark bills of the Great Society. In coming years, the lack of any concerted grassroots pressure to move the Great Society forward made it easier for the Right to chip away at the legitimacy and the funding of the '60s liberal consensus.
For all their virtues, both Cowie and Woods are gloomier in their estimations of the American Left's legacy than what the fuller history of the Left merits. The heyday of the New Deal and Great Society was, indeed, ephemeral, and the partisans of each do remind one of Sisyphus, straining to push the boulder of reform to an apex where it will remain for only a brief, thrilling moment. But LBJ, in the mid-'60s, could still count on the coalition FDR had assembled. And many of his achievements—Medicare, cultural subsidies, Head Start, civil rights, the Clean Air Act—are intact, if occasionally under siege.
Of course, individualism remains central to the ideology of American politics. But the classic paradox highlighted by the political scientists Lloyd Free and Hadley Cantril back in 1967 remains as true now as it was in their day: Most Americans are "ideological conservatives" but "operational liberals." Americans hate big government but they love federal spending—as long as it benefits them and anyone else they regard as deserving, particularly the elderly, children, and veterans.
Despite their rhetoric, the three conservative Republicans elected president since 1980 understood these political realities. Reagan and both Bushes bore in mind what Dwight Eisenhower wrote to his brother Edgar in 1954: "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history." Just after winning reelection in 2004, George W. Bush announced a plan to privatize Social Security, promising that no one's existing benefits would be reduced. But leaders of both parties quickly deflated that trial balloon.
Neither should one underestimate the positive impact the cultural rebellion that began in the '60s has had on American society. Most ordinary Americans today enjoy a degree of personal freedom that was considered ultraradical when LBJ was president. Women can pursue a variety of occupations, gays and lesbians can get married, racial identity poses no legal barrier to full participation in civil society, and we largely take the urgency of protecting the environment for granted.
Right-wing control of the entire federal government might endanger some of these gains, although even most conservatives now condemn racism and have given up fighting same-sex marriage in fact, if not in rhetoric. But these victories of humane, left-wing ideals affect the lives of all Americans—even if the United States will not become a decent society as long as the rich still wield so much power over our economy and our politics. Perhaps Sisyphus should take a break and enjoy the view, before he has to get back to work.
Michael Kazin teaches history at Georgetown University and is coeditor of Dissent. His next book, War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January.


Close to The Beasts tonight and raising a glass to those that perished and those that lived through the torment of those utterly tragic events 96 years ago today.
Amen to that. As with the Natal, that was another totally unexpected, and equally poignant Scottish tragedy.
Sùil às ùr air dè dh'adhbhraich call na h-Iolaire, far an do chaillear còrr is 200 òganach air oidhche na Bliadhn' Ùr 1919 's iad a' tilleadh dhachaigh bho'n Chogadh Mhòr. The moving story of one of Britain's worst maritime disasters, the loss of more than 200 sailors just yards from shore, as they returned home to Lewis and Harris on New Year's Day 1919 having survived the Great War.
Pity a power station has built behind the Iolaire Memorial.
Thanks for the program heads-up mbrisco. Also I wasn't aware of plans to build a power station near the memorial, are there any further details?
There are plans for a visitor centre in Stornoway commemorating the loss of the Iolaire as the centenary approaches at the end of the year.
Stones are being collected from the home villages of all those lost on the IOLAIRE for a memorial cairn.
Isles MP Angus MacNeil was pleased to be able to assist the Stornoway Amenity Trust and The Nicolson Institute by collecting stones to represent the three young London men lost in the Iolaire tragedy.
The memorial will be unveiled by Nicolson Institute pupils in Stornoway this Friday, March 23rd.
Trimmer/Cook Ernest Ainsworth BROWN aged 22. I selected the stone from the South Bank of the Humber, close to the Grimsby dock entrance.
It was posted early last week at 15:40 hrs and arrived 13:20 the next day which I thought was excellent given the weather at the time and the distance.
Have they got a complete set of stones?
Must be plenty of places they could ask for any missing ones.
Don't know the answer to that, all but 20 of the casualties were local.
A booklet has been produced on the memorial project and can be downloaded.
The Oban Times today has an article on the commemorations.
There will be a torchlight procession from Stornoway starting at 2030h with one torch for each person lost on the Iolaire.
"A Community Remembers" in Stornoway at 2130h which will be broadcast on Radio nan Gaidheal and streamed live.
There will be a memorial service the following day at the memorial and another service onboard the MV SEAFORTH with children from across the island will throw flowers into the sea.
This is the site where the live stream of the Iolaire events of 14th and 31st December 2018 will be shown.
Yesterday I got a copy of The Darkest Dawn - The Story of the Iolaire Tragedy by Malcolm MacDonald and Donald John MacLeod, published by Acair.
It is a really high quality production, 486 pages - 1¼" thick. Details and photographs of all those lost on the vessel as well the survivors.
Does the book cover the crew of the Iolaire as well as the men from the island who were killed? I would love a photo of Steward Frank Humphry to illustrate a biography of him on my website.
They don't have a photograph of him, just a short biography.
OK - thanks for looking.
I suppose it was easier for them to research local people and get photographs from relatives.
I was just having a quick look to see what there is on TV.
BBC Alba have four short Gaelic programmes during the evening of the 31st and BBC2 Scotland has a programme on the evening of the 1st January.
Documentary providing a moving account of the HMY Iolaire, which tragically sank on New Year's Day 1919. Arguably the greatest tragedy to befall the west coast of Scotland remains, to this day, largely unknown. On 1 January 1919, having survived the First World War, in excess of 250 naval men were returning home to celebrate a peaceful New Year. But in the blackest of nights, in a rising gale, HMY Iolaire sank within yards of the Lewis coast. The programme features testimonies of the islanders and documents all aspects of the story, which includes tales of extraordinary bravery and foresight.
An item in today's Oban Times mentions a URL for an App about the Iolaire.
BBC Alba have a full page advertisement in today's Oban Times (and presumably other newspapers) giving details of their programmes for the centenary.


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Sitka National Historical Park, AK
Yaadaas Crest Corner Pole
This is one of two poles with the same name located at Sitka National Historical Park. They are similar but both portray the heraldic emblems of the Yaadaas clan from Old Kasaan on Prince of Wales Island. According to the 1980 guidebook of the Sitka National Historical Park these "twin" poles illustrate that "The carver as an artist had little if any personal liberty in his work, his contribution being skill and dexterity and a knowledge of the traditional style. He was told exactly what was to be carved on the monument, and traditional style...dictated the style and manner in which the conventionalized figures would appear in the sculpture. Therefore. it is possible that different artists could have carved the two poles, producing pieces almost identical in appearance.
Imported 120415Sitka Totems