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The topic for the day was America's obesity problem. Surprisingly, there was a fair amount of good news about weight loss generated by the recent obesity media briefing, held last month in New York City and sponsored by the American Medical Association. For example, simply increasing calcium intake (2,000 mg daily) will keep the pounds off some people. This was an accidental finding from a study designed for a purpose other than weight loss. It was confirmed by another study designed to see if this finding could be replicated.
Obesity researchers usually study treatment failures to determine what went wrong, but one doctor who spoke at the media briefing described a national registry of 3,000 people who successfully managed to not only lose weight but also keep it off. They are being studied to determine the secret to their success.
But first, the reporters had to hear the litany of bad news about obesity and its adverse consequences. Doctors who addressed the media briefing were especially worried about the large increase in the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes over the last decade. The rise parallels the increase in the number of Americans who are either overweight or obese. According to a recent study by the RAND Institute, being overweight, especially obese, has the most deleterious effect on health after smoking, drinking, or poverty. Other health complications associated with excess weight include gallbladder disease, cancer, pregnancy-related ailments, and joint problems.
The rise in childhood obesity has become an area of special concern. Non-insulin dependent (type 2) diabetes, which typically appears in middle age, was rare in children as recently as 20 years ago, said William H. Dietz, MD, director of the division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Now, type 2 diabetes is almost as frequent a diagnosis in children as type 1 diabetes, warned Dr. Dietz. He listed several reasons for the rise in childhood obesity, including massive changes in the food supply [more processed food, more junk food], the increased consumption of soda, increased reliance on cars (and lack of sidewalks in many areas), and changes in the amount of time children spend watching TV.
Breastfeeding, the longer the better, is a protection against childhood obesity, Dr. Dietz explained, as is reducing the amount of TV children watch. He described studies that have correlated the increase in weight gain with the quantity of TV watching. However, it is not known whether the weight gain is due to the time spent being sedentary or the type of foods advertised to children on TV. Significantly, about 75% of American children's food intake occurs while watching TV.
Attempts to lose weight often fail once the dieter gets to the weight maintenance phase, said James O. Hill, PhD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, who cited studies demonstrating that less than 5% are successful in keeping the weight off. But Dr. Hill has redefined success, which used to mean going down to and maintaining an ideal weight. Instead, he defined success as a 10% weight loss that is maintained for at least a year, which can provide significant health benefits. Dr. Hill has been studying people who are successful according to these criteria. Over 3,000 people volunteered to participate in the National Weight Control Registry. Having lost 66 pounds on average, these people are being studied to learn how they did it.
"Weight loss and weight maintenance are two different things," explained Dr. Hill, "There's too much focus on diet and not enough on physical activity." The weight loss method turned out to be unimportant to the success of the 3,000 people, who have been dubbed "successful losers" by the researchers. Half of them lost the weight on their own, and half chose a formal program like Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers.
While there were no similarities in how they lost weight, there were four characteristics common to successful weight maintenance: eating a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet; eating breakfast almost every day; self-monitoring (e.g., weighing themselves frequently, keeping a food journal --as long as 20 years after weight loss); and engaging in physical activity for an hour each day. The physical activity, Dr. Hill observed, is twice the usual recommended amount of time spent exercising. The majority chose walking and did not necessarily do it all at once. Often they exercised in increments--walking for a half hour, taking the stairs instead of an elevator, etc. The successful losers ate five times a day; they ate out periodically but avoided fast food restaurants. Dr. Hill said, "90% had failed at previous weight loss attempts and noted that paying attention to their weight was the key to maintaining weight loss." Drugs were not important to success, said Dr. Hill in answer to a reporter's question. He guessed that the reason for this was the fact that the Registry was established in 1994 when fewer people were taking drugs for this purpose.
If overweight people lose even a small amount of weight, they will cut their risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This was shown in a study of 522 middle-aged Finnish people who were at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes because of impaired glucose tolerance (New England Journal of Medicine, 5/3/01). Losing less than ten pounds cut the risk dramatically. Significantly, a reduced risk was also shown in people who added more than four hours of exercise to their weekly routine, but did not lose weight.
Surgery should play a much larger role in the treatment of obesity, according to George A. Bray, MD, professor at Louisiana State University. "Obesity is a time bomb to be defused," he said, acknowledging the complications of surgery but dismissing them as less problematic than the consequences of being seriously obese.
Dr. Bray described an ongoing clinical trial called the Swedish Obese Subjects Study, which compares the results of three forms of surgery: gastric bypass, gastric banding, and vertical banded gastroplasty. All are variations on dividing off a small section of the stomach. While answers from this trial will not be available for a long time (participants have been followed for only two years), Dr. Bray said that initial results favor gastric bypass surgery. He described the surgery, "The stomach is divided into a small (ten teaspoon size) pouch and the larger lower stomach. The food that enters the upper stomach passes into the small intestine that is attached to the pouch. Juices from the lower stomach and upper intestine join the stomach contents further down the intestine."
Use of the laparoscope in obesity surgery has greatly reduced the mortality of this treatment choice, said Dr. Bray. Instead, of cutting open the abdomen, the surgery is performed through a telescopelike instrument.
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The History of Pittsburgh
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The History of Pittsburgh – Sarah Hutchins Killikelly
Miss Killikelly's book is more than a history of Pittsburgh, and all but serves as a history of Allegheny County, of which Pittsburgh has long been the metropolis, and which since the creation of the Greater Pittsburgh — brought about since this book was published — stands more than ever as the expression of the civic activities of its adjacent territory. With the chief facts of the early history of Pittsburgh, especially with those that center around Fort Duquesne, most readers of Pennsylvania history are fairly familiar. The story of these early days lose nothing in Miss Killikelly's retelling. Very marvelous, indeed, has been the growth of this great Pennsylvania city. A record of its population in 1761 gives the number of men as 324, the women 92 and children 47, living outside the garrison; the number of houses with owners' names was 220. At this period the town was divided into a Lower and Upper Town; the "King's Gardens" stretching along the Allegheny, with a background of wheatfields. The residence of the commandant, a substantial brick building within the fort, was the most pretentious house. In 1815 the population had increased to nearly 10,000. The subsequent history of this city is too detailed to be summarized. Miss Killikelly tells the story in ample manner, yet without any overloading of unessential facts. Her pages throb with the active, busy life that has made Pittsburgh so pre-eminently a manufacturing center, and she tells the story of its commercial, industrial and cultural progress with the skill of a practiced writer. Pittsburgh is probably the most misunderstood city in the United States, and Miss Killikelly is entitled to cordial thanks for her entirely readable account. Read more/Mehr lesen...
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History of Pittsburgh Volume 2
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History of Pittsburgh Volume 2 – George Thornton Fleming
The selection of Mr. Fleming to prepare this history of Pittsburgh, and the region round about, was most fortunate for the city. He was not only a sturdy grubber after facts but had the ability to dress them up in pleasing style and set them in graceful order. This book is valuable not only as a narrative of historic events, but as a compendium of facts relating to men and matters, events and happenings pertaining to the triumphant growth of Pittsburgh, its institutions, and its fame. It is as encyclopedic as entertaining and facilitates the finding of whatsoever data that may be desired. It will be very hard to find another book on the history of Pittsburgh that is as detailed as Mr. Fleming's. This is volume two out of two.
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History of Pittsburgh Volume 2.
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Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. As of 2017, a total population of 305,704 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania (behind Philadelphia), and the 26th-largest in the U.S. Read more/Mehr lesen...
The selection of Mr. Fleming to prepare this history of Pittsburgh, and the region round about, was most fortunate for the city. He was not only a sturdy grubber after facts but had the ability to dress them up in pleasing style and set them in graceful order. This book is valuable not only as a narrative of historic events, but as a compendium of facts relating to men and matters, events and happenings pertaining to the triumphant growth of Pittsburgh, its institutions, and its fame. It is as encyclopedic as entertaining and facilitates the finding of whatsoever data that may be desired. It will be very hard to find another book on the history of Pittsburgh that is as detailed as Mr. Fleming's. This is volume one out of two.
Old Pittsburgh Days
Old Pittsburgh Days – Thomas Jefferson Chapman.
There is no foot of American soil richer in historical incident than the point of land at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. Here began that struggle between France and England which was destined to involve many nations in its course, to endure through two generations, and cover with its ravages the face of the civilized world. About the rude fortification at the head of the Ohio cluster a score of names illustrious on the page of history. The author has aimed to present a sketch of the origin and early development of the city that should be correct as to matters of fact and as attractive as possible.
Old Pittsburgh Days.
Allegheny County: Its Early History and Subsequent Development
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Allegheny County: Its Early History and Subsequent Development – Lambing/White.
A history of the early settlement of Allegheny County, of the midnight raids by the Indians, of the bloody battles, of the hardships and privations endured by the pioneers, and, later on, by the wonderful development and growth of the same during the past century cannot but be interesting to every citizen of the county.
Allegheny County: Its Early History and Subsequent Development.
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Allegheny County is a county in the southwest of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2016 the population was 1,225,365, making it the state's second-most populous county, following Philadelphia County. The county seat is Pittsburgh. Allegheny County is included in the Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and in the Pittsburgh Designated Market Area.
Allegheny was Pennsylvania's first to bear a Native American name, being named after the Allegheny River. The word "Allegheny" is of Lenape origin, with uncertain meaning. It is usually said to mean "fine river", but sometimes said to refer to an ancient mythical tribe called "Allegewi" that lived along the river before being destroyed by the Lenape. Read more/Mehr lesen...
Philadelphia – A History of the City and its People
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Philadelphia – A History of the City and its People – Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
Dr. Oberholtzer was engaged upon this book for many months. He has aimed to present the people of Philadelphia, as well as the details of their government, and he has opened new sources of information and presents new aspects in the life of the city. His detailed and thoroughly investigated narrative covers a time of 225 years and gives in-depth insights on the foundation of the town, the Civil War years, the Declaration of Independence and many events more.
Philadelphia – A History of the City and its People.
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Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,872 and more than 6 million in the seventh-largest metropolitan statistical area, as of 2016. Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valley—a region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers with 7.2 million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States. Read more/Mehr lesen...
The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia
The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia – Thompson Westcott
Mr. Thompson Westcott, the author, is perfectly at home on this subject, having written "The Guide Book to Philadelphia," and a history of the city. In the present volume, he has given a description of all the interesting historic buildings of the city, e.g. Penn's Cottage, Swedes' Church, Bartram's House, Christ Church, Independence Hall, the Slate Roof House or Mount Pleasant, together with a notice of their owners and occupants.
The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia.
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The Story of Philadelphia
The Story of Philadelphia – Lilian Ione Rhoades
Philadelphia is especially rich in historic associations. In its halls were enunciated those principles of human rights that gave birth to free institutions. Here were assembled those patriotic men whose wise words and brave deeds laid the foundations and gave shape to the temple of American liberty. Here was written the Declaration of Independence, the most -distinguished state paper ever drafted by human pen. Here stands Independence Hall, in which that Declaration was debated, adopted, and signed. Here, in a little house, still standing, was designed the American flag, that now floats over the grandest nation of all time. Here, in one of our streets, was sent up the silken kite that proved the identity of the electric spark and the lightning's flash. Here are buildings hallowed by the presence of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin.The object of " The Story of Philadelphia" is to present, in condensed form, some of the most interesting events in the history of the city. The story is one of patriotic interest, and no one can follow it without feeling a deeper pride in the city and its institutions. Read more/Mehr lesen...
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[G.R. No. 143687. July 31, 2001]
SPOUSES RAMON ESTANISLAO, JR. and DINA TEOTICO ESTANISLAO, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, HI-YIELD REALTY, INC., HUMBERTO BASCO, and NORBERTO VASQUEZ, respondents. DECISION
MENDOZA, J.:
This is a petition for review of the decision,[1] dated March 20, 2000, of the Court of Appeals, affirming the decision of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 128, Caloocan City, which dismissed petitioners complaint for annulment of private respondent Hi-Yield Realty, Inc.s title and instead ordered petitioners to pay damages and attorneys fees to private respondents, and the appeals courts resolution,[2] dated June 20, 2000, denying petitioners motion for reconsideration. The antecedent facts are as follows: In 1985, spouses Ramon Estanislao, Jr. and Dina Teotico Estanislao, petitioners herein, mortgaged to respondent Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. a parcel of land, registered in their name under TCT No. 120717, together with the buildings and improvements thereon. The mortgage was constituted to secure a loan of P200,000.00. For petitioners failure to comply with some of its conditions, the mortgage was extra-judicially foreclosed and the property was sold on December 9, 1988 for P445,000.00 to Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. as the highest bidder. The Certificate of Sale issued to the highest bidder was registered with the Registry of Deeds of Caloocan City on June 9, 1992. On June 4, 1993, petitioner Ramon Estanislao, Jr. offered to redeem the property by tendering to Atty. Humberto Basco, the notary public who conducted the sale, a PCIB managers check in the amount ofP445,000.00 (Exh. E). The amount covered the auction price alone as petitioner Estanislao allegedly did not know the amount of interest and other charges/assessments. In his letter of June 4, 1993 enclosing the managers check, petitioner Estanislao requested that a purchasers statement of interest and other charges be furnished to him. However, on June 15, 1993, Atty. Basco returned the PCIB check to petitioner Estanislao on the ground that its amount did not include the interests, charges, and penalties. In his letter (Exh. G; Exh. 24), Atty. Basco stated that no certificate of redemption could be issued unless the amount was fully paid and settled.
Without waiting for purchasers statement of interest and other charges which he had requested, petitioner Estanislao again tendered to private respondents on June 21, 1993 the PCIB check for P445,000.00 and another PCIB managers check (Exh. H) for P81,521.27 to cover the interest. The checks were, however, rejected by private respondents for being inadequate. On July 14, 1993, petitioner Estanislao found from the records of the Registry of Deeds of Caloocan City that their property had been transferred in the name of private respondent HiYield Realty, Inc. The Affidavit of Consolidation of Ownership, dated June 10, 1993 (Exh. I), was notarized by Atty. Basco and filed with the Registry of Deeds on June 14, 1993. On June 15, 1993, private respondent Norberto Vasquez, Acting Registrar of Deeds, ordered the annotation of the Affidavit of Consolidation of Ownership, the cancellation of TCT No. 120717 (Exh. A), and the issuance of TCT No. 265782 (Exh. J) in the name of Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. On August 13, 1993, petitioner spouses brought suit against private respondents in the Regional Trial Court of Caloocan City, seeking the annulment of the Affidavit of Consolidation of Ownership, the cancellation of TCT No. 265782, and the payment of damages and attorneys fees. On December 7, 1995, the Regional Trial Court, Branch 128, Caloocan City, dismissed petitioners suit and ordered them to pay damages to private respondents. The dispositive portion of its decision reads:
WHEREFORE, in view of the foregoing premises, this Court decides in favor of defendants and ordering plaintiff-spouses Ramon Estanislao, Jr. and Dina Teotico Estanislao the following: 1. To pay defendant Norberto Vasquez P50,000.00 as moral damages and P20,000.00 as attorneys fees; 2. To pay defendant Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. P20,000.00 as attorneys fees; and 3. To pay defendant Humberto B. Basco P20,000.00 as attorneys fees. Cost against the plaintiff. SO ORDERED.[3]
Petitioners appealed to the Court of Appeals which rendered a decision on March 20, 2000 affirming in toto the decision of the trial court. On June 20, 2000, it denied petitioners motion for reconsideration. Hence, this petition for review on certiorari. Petitioners contend that the respondent Court of Appeals erred:
41.1. when it made findings and conclusions in its Decision not within the issues raised before the trial court, and not supported by the evidence on record;
41.2. when it erroneously included as part of the redemption price the other charges (taxes and assessments) although the petitioner was not aware thereof, and no notice of taxes and assessment was filed with the Registry of Deeds; 41.3. when it had evidently and utterly disregarded the doctrines laid down by this Honorable Court in the cases of Rosario vs. Tayug Rural Bank, Inc., 22 SCRA 1220, and Castillo vs. Nagtalon, 4 SCRA 48, as regards liberal interpretation of redemption rules, without even discussing, even in passing, why those cases decided by this Honorable court are not applicable in the case at bar; 41.4. when it also absolutely disregarded the doctrine laid down by this Honorable Court in the case of Rosales vs. Yboa, 120 SCRA 869, that interests of 1% monthly on the redemption price shall commence to run only from the date of registration of the certificate of sale, also without discussing, even in passing, why the said case is not applicable in the case at bar; 41.5. when it misapplied the case of Conejero, et al. vs. Court of Appeals, et al., 16 SCRA 775, apropos the necessity of consigning the redemption price, in the case at bar; 41.6. when it ruled that the appellants failed to present any evidence whatsoever in support of the allegation of fraudulent collusion and unholy alliance among the defendants-appellees with respect to the registration of the Affidavit of Consolidation of Ownership and the issuance of the new TCT in favor of Hi-Yield Realty; 41.7. when it awarded moral damages and attorneys fees in favor of the respondents contrary to the prevailing jurisprudence; and 41.8. when it failed to grant the relief prayed for by the petitioners including damages and attorneys fees.[4]
We find the petition to be without merit. First. Section 6 of Act No. 3135 provides:
In all cases in which an extrajudicial sale is made under the special power hereinbefore referred to, the debtor, his successors in interest or any judicial creditor or judgment creditor of said debtor, or any person having a lien on the property subsequent to the mortgage or deed of trust under which the property is sold, may redeem the same at any time within the term of one year from and after the date of the sale; and such redemption shall be governed by the provisions of sections four hundred and sixty-four to four hundred and sixty-six, inclusive, of the Code of Civil Procedure, in so far as these are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.[5]
The references to 464-466 of the Code of Civil Procedure must be understood to be to 29-31 of Rule 39 of the 1964 Rules of Court, which was the applicable law at the time material to this case. It will be noted that while Act No. 3135, 6 speaks of the right of a debtor to redeem property sold at auction sale in extrajudicial foreclosure of mortgage within the term of one year from and after the date of the sale, which means within a period of 365 days, Rule 39, 30 of the 1964 Rules of Court spoke of the right of a judgment debtor to redeem property sold at auction within twelve (12) months after the sale, which means within 360 days on the basis of 30 days in a month. This is because Art. 13 of the Civil Code provides that When the laws speak of years, months, days or nights, it shall be understood that years are of three hundred sixty-five days each; months, of thirty days; days, of twenty-four hours; and nights, from sunset to sunrise. The discrepancy was corrected in Rule 39, 28 of the 1997 Rules of Court, effective July 1, 1997, which changed the period from twelve (12) months to one (1) year. Although the prevailing law at the time of the auction sale in this case was the 1964 Rules of Court, the question is actually merely of academic interest in this case, because even if the period of redemption is 365 days, the tender of the full redemption price made by petitioners on June 21, 1993 was 12 days late counted from the expiration of the redemption period on June 9, 1993. The right of redemption should be exercised within the period prescribed by law. As explained by this Court in Basbas v. Entena:[6]
. . . . [T]he right of legal redemption must be exercised within specified time limits; and the statutory periods would be rendered meaningless and of easy evasion unless the redemptioner is required to make an actual tender in good faith of what he believed to be the reasonable price of the land sought to be redeemed. The existence of the right of redemption operates to depress the market value of the land until the period expires, and to render that period indefinite by permitting the tenant to file a suit for redemption, with either party unable to foresee when final judgment will terminate the action, would render nugatory the period of two years fixed by the statute for making the redemption and virtually paralyze any efforts of the landowner to realize the value of his land. No buyer can be expected to acquire it without any certainty as to the amount for which it may be redeemed, so that he can recover at least his investment in case of redemption. In the meantime, the landowners needs and obligations cannot be met. It is doubtful if any such result was intended by the statute, absent clear wording to that effect.
Moreover, the tender of payment must be for the full amount of the purchase price. Otherwise, to allow payment by installments would be to allow the indefinite extension of the redemption period.[7] Consequently, the payment tendered by petitioners on June 4, 1993, while made within the period of redemption (365 days), was ineffective since the amount offered did not include the interest but was limited to the purchase price. Indeed, Rule 39, 30 of the 1964 Rules of Court (now Rule 39, 28 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure) provided:
The judgment debtor, or redemptioner, may redeem the property from the purchaser, at any time within twelve (12) months after the sale, on paying the purchaser the amount of his purchase, with one per centum per month interest thereon in addition, up to the time of redemption, together with the amount of any assessment or taxes which the purchaser may have paid thereon after purchase, and interest on such lastnamed amount at the same rate . . . . Written notice of any redemption must be given to the officer who made the sale and a duplicate filed with the registrar of deeds of the province, and if any assessments or taxes are paid by the redemptioner or if he has or acquires any lien other than that upon which the redemption was made, notice thereof must in like manner be given to the officer and filed with the registrar of deeds; if such notice be not filed, the property may be redeemed without paying such assessments, taxes, or liens.
In Bodiongan v. Court of Appeals,[8] it was held:
In order to effect a redemption, the judgment debtor must pay the purchaser the redemption price composed of the following: (1) the price which the purchaser paid for the property; (2) interest of 1% per month on the purchase price; (3) the amount of any assessments or taxes which the purchaser may have paid on the property after the purchase; and (4) interest of 1% per month on such assessments and taxes. . . .
The appellate court erred in ruling that the interest due from the mortgage was P240,300.00, at one percent monthly interest of the auction price of P445,000.00, computed from the date of sale on June 9, 1988 [December 9, 1988]. The interest on the auction price should be computed not from the date of the sale, as the appeals court appears to have done, but from the registration thereof. Since the period of redemption begins only from the date of the registration of the certificate of sale in the Registry of Deeds, the computation of the interest on the purchase price should also be made to commence from that date.[9] Hence, the interest due on the auction price for 12 months, i.e., from June 9, 1992 to June 9, 1993, is only P53,400.00 (P445,000.00 x 1% x 12 months) and the amount of P81,521.27, which petitioners tendered on June 21, 1993, was in excess of the accrued interest due. Nevertheless, as the tender of payment of the interest and the purchase price of P445,000.00 was late, such tender did not effect a valid redemption. There are additional amounts to be made in order to effect a valid redemption required by law, but, as respondent Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. failed to comply with certain requirements, petitioners failure to pay these additional amounts may be considered excused. As provided in Rule 39, 30 of the 1964 Rules of Court, the redemptioner must also pay the assessment or taxes paid by the purchaser. However, the latter must give notice to the officer who conducted the sale of the assessments or taxes paid by him and file the same with the Registry of Deeds. In fact, the Certificate of Sale, (Exh. C; Exh. 3) issued to Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. in this case clearly stated:
It is hereby required of said highest bidder that a statement of any amount of assessment or taxes, which may have been paid on account of this purchase, and such
other liens chargeable to a redemptioner, WITH PROOFS THEREOF, all in accordance with Sec. 30, Rule 39 of the New Rules of Court [now 28 of Rule 39 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure], should be submitted to this Office, for purposes of computing the actual amount payable by MORTGAGORS/REDEMPTIONERS, in case of redemption.[10]
If no such notice is given, the property may be redeemed without paying such assessments or taxes. Petitioners were not furnished by respondent Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. such statement of account.[11] Neither was such statement filed with the Registry of Deeds. Respondent Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. claimed that a statement of account (Exh. 8-C and Exh. 8-D) was furnished the office of Atty. Basco, the notary public who had conducted the sale, as received by Elizabeth Roque, an employee therein.[12] However, Atty. Basco denied having received the statement.[13] Petitioners were therefore justified in not paying any assessments or taxes which respondent Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. may have paid. Second. Petitioners accuse private respondents of fraudulent collusion and unholy alliance in the registration of the Affidavit of Consolidation of Ownership and the issuance of the new TCT to Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. We find this allegation to be without basis. As already stated, the period of redemption expired on June 9, 1993 without petitioners being able to pay the purchase price plus the interest required by Rule 39, 30 of the 1964 Rules of Court. Hence, the consolidation of ownership in the purchaser was justified. Moreover, the records show that Atty. Vasquez, who was at the time Acting Registrar of Deeds of Caloocan City, approved the registration of the Affidavit of Consolidation of Ownership filed by the purchaser Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. on June 14, 1993 upon payment by the latter of the registration fee.[14] This was five days after the expiration of redemption period on June 9, 1993.[15] Atty. Vasquez denied knowing any of the persons connected with Hi-Yield Realty, Inc. or Atty. Basco and that he only met them for the first time during the pre-trial.[16] For his part, Atty. Manuel Soriano, Jr., who is the president and chairman of the board of Hi-Yield Realty, Inc., testified that he does not personally know Atty. Vasquez, and that he never went to the Registry of Deeds since a company employee usually took care of the registration process.[17] On the other hand, we find no basis for the award of moral damages to private respondents. The law presumes good faith, and any person who seeks an award of damages due to acts of another has the burden of proving that the latter acted in bad faith or with ill motive.[18] It is not enough that one says he suffered mental anguish, serious anxiety, social humiliation, wounded feelings, and the like as a result of the actuations of the other party.[19] Proof of moral suffering must be introduced, otherwise the award for moral damages is not proper.[20] In this case, the evidence presented by private respondents is insufficient to overcome the presumption of good faith. Nor can the award of attorneys fees be sustained in the light of the policy that no premium should be placed on the right to litigate.[21] No penalty should be imposed on those who exercise such right in good faith, even though erroneously.[22] The fact that private respondents incurred expenses to protect their rights does not necessarily imply that the action which they were
opposing was instituted in bad faith. The award of attorneys fees must be deleted where the award of moral and exemplary damages are eliminated.[23] WHEREFORE, the decision of the Court of Appeals is AFFIRMED with the MODIFICATION that the award of moral damages and attorneys fees to private respondents is deleted. SO ORDERED. Bellosillo, (Chairman), Quisumbing, and De Leon, Jr., JJ., concur. Buena, J., abroad on official business.
Per Justice Elvi John S. Asuncion and concurred in by Justices Corona Ibay-Somera and Portia AlioHormachuelos.
Per Justice Elvi John S. Asuncion and concurred in by Justices Portia Alio-Hormachuelos and Teodoro P. Regino. Justice Corona Ibay-Somera, who concurred in the original decision, in the meantime retired.
RTC Decision, pp. 8-9; Rollo, pp. 64-65. Petition, pp. 10-11; id., pp. 11-12. Emphasis added. 28 SCRA 665, 671 (1969).
Bodiongan v. Court of Appeals, 248 SCRA 496 (1995); Belisario v. Intermediate Appellate Court, 165 SCRA 101 (1988); Conejero v. Court of Appeals, 16 SCRA 775 (1966).
Supra at 500-501. Rosales v. Yboa, 120 SCRA 869 (1983). Records, p. 109. TSN, pp. 36-37, April 8, 1994. TSN, p. 39, June 16, 1994. TSN, p. 29, June 2, 1994. TSN, pp. 4-9, Sept. 12, 1994. Id., pp. 13-14. Id., pp. 15-16. TSN, pp. 24-25, Aug. 18, 1994. Ford Philippines, Inc. v. Court of Appeals, 267 SCRA 320 (1997). People v. Teodoro, 280 SCRA 384 (1997); Bernardo v. Court of Appeals, 275 SCRA 413 (1997).
People v. De la Cruz, 277 SCRA 173 (1997).
Ibaan Rural Bank, Inc. v. Court of Appeals, 321 SCRA 88 (1999); American Home Assurance Company v. Chua, 309 SCRA 250 (1999); Morales v. Court of Appeals, 274 SCRA 282 (1997); Philtranco Service Enterprises, Inc. v. Court of Appeals, 273 SCRA 562 (1997).
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Graham Hartmann Published: August 20, 2021
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The family and loved ones of late Power Trip vocalist Riley Gale have launched the Riley Gale Foundation, which will support Dallas Hope Charities, animal rescue organizations and other groups.
Gale passed away on Aug. 25, leaving the metal world in mourning for one of the most talented and energetic young performers of the 2010s. Along with metal, Gale was extremely passionate about social issues and animal rights. These causes will continue to benefit for many years thanks to his name and legacy.
"When Riley passed, the family asked for donations to be sent to Dallas Hope Charities, his favorite charitable organization," a statement from the Riley Gale Foundation reads. "Contributions came from around the globe and enabled Dallas Hope Charities to purchase a home for people who are going through a difficult transitional period. Riley also loved animals. If he could have, Riley would have rescued every stray, abandoned, or mistreated dog he saw. Tommy, his beloved, funny-looking mutt was always at his side."
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The ruling Zanu PF party is basking in the comfort of the infighting in the opposition MDC as the country is moving towards elections in 2023. While the two MDC factions are fighting, the ruling party is busy organizing and strengthening its structures ahead of the elections. It is widely believed that the ruling party is sponsoring the bloodletting in the opposition through paying Thokozani Khupe and her allies to destroy the opposition party before the elections.
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CGI Doomsday Festivals
Posted: August 24, 2010 in Cinema, Culture, Idle Nonsense, Tacky
I saw the movie 2012 recently, the one where the Earth's crust comes loose and practically everyone and everything perishes (mostly from a suitably polite camera distance) in nonstop earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. I'm not sure what's so entertaining about movies that are so clearly excuses for CGI effects rather than where the effects serve the story. Fine, blow shit up, but at least tell a good story! The presence of myriad plot devices and character gimmicks, which audiences see right through anyway, does not make a story any more than all the CGI.
The public seems to have an insatiable appetite for cinematic disaster porn, where one iconic building or geographical feature after another is digitally wrecked. There is a definite gawk factor, but I tire of this dreck pretty quickly. Besides, false, manufactured drama hasn't worked on me since all those disaster films of the 70s (dating myself here), such as the Airport franchise, The Towering Inferno and its knock-offs, and The Poseidon Adventure. (It's no accident that the Airport movies spawned the Airplane! spoofs, which have since become a cottage industry spoofing one self-serious movie genre after an another.) Raising the stakes with world-destroying movies like Deep Impact, Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Day the Earth Stood Still has an oddly depersonalizing effect. Cinematic doomsday porn is not an improvement over cinematic disaster porn.
For my taste, the franchise that probably got it right — at least the first two of the four — is The Terminator and its sequels. The first Terminator established a dark future without showing much of it at all and the second developed that not really very possible future very effectively. However, the effects were not the story. Also, the drama was human-scale, not planet-scale. Although like other doomsday movies the Terminator flicks generally devolve into mere chase movies (or races against time), the characters remained the center of the story. The title character is also arguably Schwarzenegger's best role, considering the minimal dialogue and physicality fit him so well despite his woodenness.
It was curious that in 2012, Danny Glover played the President of the United States. It wasn't a good role for him, as every line was delivered with maudlin seriousness. In this era, however, the role is apparently open to African-American actors without a second thought. The only other such casting (of which I'm aware) was Morgan Freeman, strangely enough, in Deep Impact. (There's an obvious joke in there somewhere about black presidents being in office just as cataclysm strikes.)
This month, film crews have been on the streets of Chicago filming the third installment of the Transformers franchise, another heedless CGI festival. The second film was so badly reviewed one wonders why a third outing got the green light. Must have made money. The funny thing to me is that announcements of street closures were circulated to a lot of downtown office workers, which included the warning that no actual Transformers were being filmed. Those characters are added later using CGI, don'cha know. I can't help but snigger that some foolish fudgies were trudging around downtown Chicago film sets, pestering productions assistants, and disheartened to learn that their Saturday morning childhood buddies — five-story fully articulating robots mind you — weren't actually visible amongst the burnt-out cars and crumbled concrete (styrofoam) scattered around the sets.
Low Points in Education
Posted: August 19, 2010 in Culture, Debate, Education, Religion, Tacky
Tags: Education, Epistemology
Truth Abdicated
Harriett Baber has a rather surprising opinion column at The Guardian in response to the question "can we choose what we believe?" I don't normally care about professions of faith because they can't be held to a shared standard of logic, evidence, or reason. But when an academic — a professor of philosophy in this case — says that truth doesn't matter, I take notice:
Truth is overrated. And it's remarkable that the very individuals who are most vocal in their opposition to religiously motivated puritanism are the most fiercely puritanical when it comes to truth. They condemn Christians for imposing constraints on sensual pleasure but are outraged that we should take pleasure in the consolations of religion instead of squarely facing what they believe to be the hard truths about the human condition.
People in any case overestimate the value of truth and underestimate the difficulty of arriving at it. There are a great many truths in which I have absolutely no interest — truths about the lifecycle of Ctenocephalides felis, (the common cat flea) or the extensive body of truths about the condition of my teeth that my dentist imposes on me. I see no reason why I should bother with these truths or make a point of believing them.
She uses the form "I see no reason why …" repeatedly and goes on to say that truth should be no impediment to believing whatever a person wants, especially if believing gives comfort. The idea of customizable belief reminded me of Sheilaism as described by Dick Meyer in his book Why We Hate Us. (The idea of Sheilaism may originate in Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart.) Sheilaism is a sort of raw individualism that rejects authority (and truth) and creates a hodgepodge belief system not unlike assembling a meal haphazardly from a buffet. Sheilaism also demonstrates how ideas are fragmented, torn from their contexts, converted into free-floating consumables, and reconstituted as expressions of one's personal tastes and predilections. While I have considerable patience for regular folks in this regard, an academic who exhibits such muddy, relativist thinking is a serious abdication of academic integrity. One can only wonder what goes on in Prof. Baber's classroom.
Plagiarism Denied
The New York Times has an article discussing plagiarism among students in the digital age. According to the article,
Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy, of course. But that is the least of it. The Internet may also be redefining how students — who came of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking — understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image.
What this means is that students increasingly don't even get that using sources without attribution is wrong; plagiarism doesn't even register as academic misconduct. Who teaches students academic values and upholds their worth? Teachers and professors, who are apparently failing miserably under the pressure of the copy/paste functions of word processors. The article also provides numerous examples of brazen plagiarism committed by students (and parents!) who do in fact know better but do it anyway. Similarly, outside of academe, books, news articles, blog posts, etc. use and recycle large tracts of text without proper attribution and without being called to task. Some are even award winners.
Aside: the notion that creative works embodied in a digital format suitable for easy reproduction are available for use and reuse has swept away the entire concept of copyright. File sharing via Napster or YouTube raised the legal issues, but for all intents and purposes, the horse has already left the barn since so few respect copyright anymore. Although not true in the legal sense, in practice, the public sphere has become the public domain.
Evidence Irrelevant
Finally, one academic blogger expands the NYT article linked above to the principled use of evidence in academic work and beyond:
… I'm enough of a devotee of our recent view of authorship and creativity (and property) to think that the norms established around plagiarism during the 20th Century need some kind of continuing defense, just with sufficient awareness of the changes in textual production and circulation.
What really worries me is what's happening to the larger purpose of the analytical writing which tempts some to plagiarism. The thing I'm honestly afraid of is that we've come to a point where the professional value of learning to build strong arguments based on and determined by a command over solid evidence is in rapid decline.
These are good statements, but the blogger goes on to ask whether teaching sound academic standards is now a disservice to students in the professional world beyond academe where misshaped evidence, outright errors, omissions, and lies go unchecked and unpunished.
So maybe that's the kind of writing and speaking we need to train our students to do: rhetorically effective and infinitely mutable on substance, entirely about rather than just sensibly attentive to affect and audience. At what point is it perverse to continue making buggy whips while the Ford plant churns away right next door?
As I said in my comment at the blog, if find it astonishing that an academic could even voice the question. Although I'm certain to be in the minority on this point, the answer is to me as duh! obvious as the answer to the question "should we torture?" All sorts of justifications and rationalizations exist for wriggling out from under the obvious answers, but no person of integrity entertains such a debate for longer than it takes to dismiss the question.
Huxley vs. Orwell
Posted: August 12, 2010 in Consciousness, Consumerism, Corporatism, Culture
I've known for some time about Neil Postman's analysis in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death contrasting the dystopian views of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Here it is presented graphically, which is to say, as a comic strip. (I would embed it but it's pretty long.) If you are a typical reader nowadays, you accept a graphical presentation — even with captions and text — much more readily than a purely textual one. Either way, the reality we currently have emerges pretty quickly from the comparison as that of Huxley, though trends point toward an eventual shift to a harsher, Orwellian reality as resource scarcity (especially energy) grows.
Posted: August 6, 2010 in Consumerism, Corporatism, Idle Nonsense, Manners, Tacky
Against the tiny voice of conscience telling me not to, I started to use the self-checkout lanes at the grocery store. These cost-saving and efficiency services join an already well-established and growing trend toward self-service that probably began when gas stations (used to be called service stations) stopped employing anyone to pump gas and banks replaced tellers with ATMs. The number of machine interfaces used every day in the service industry continues to grow, as do disincentives fees to talk to an actual person. Some self-service options appear to be neutral or even beneficial, such as the automated check-in lanes at the airport that enable low-maintenance travelers to avoid unnecessary lines. But that tiny voice keeps buzzing in the back of my brain.
A cost-benefit analysis ought to accompany consideration of every new technology and workflow that appears in the marketplace. However, in a culture easily duped led by the latest gee-whiz gadgetry, what actually exists is more like an if-you-build-it-they-will-come assurance that subscribers will be lined up outside the door, around the block, and halfway to the next state line for days on end in anticipation of the release of each new version of the Apple iPhone or some similar device.
The automatic embrace of technology is a deep question, as it turns out. Techno-Utopians seem to fall in love with every new offering while more sober questioning by cultural conservatives goes mostly unheeded. That questioning typically involves a sense of creeping loss of humanity as we orient more of our daily lives to interactions not with each other but with machines, essentially bypassing the social realm, failing to adopt everyday manners or patience, and worst of all, settling for a stunted sense of empathy, which drives (or fails to drive) compassion and forgiveness.
Machines never require forgiveness; they merely execute our commands. So if the grocery store self-service lane fails to recognize our inputs (or is engineered to be difficult to trick, leading to situations where it locks up to prevent fraudulent transactions), there is no reason for restraint on the part of the user, whose self-service checkout lane rage rises quickly. Such fast-trigger anger is commonplace among self-service devices, as with social media, perhaps because without another human directly involved in the transaction (or the other human so thoroughly mediated by technology as to be a mere avatar), users lose their normal social inhibitions and vent too easily.


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Courteney Cox caught up with an old friend over the weekend.
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Cox, who starred as Monica on Friends, and Kudrow, who played Phoebe, have remained close in the 15 years since the series ended.
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Still, fans hoping for a reunion or reboot series needn't hold their breaths.
"People ask us all the time, 'Will we ever do a remake?' That was a story about these group of people that are friends in their 30s who are finding themselves. I don't know if there's a way to redo it," Cox told PEOPLE in October.
"I just don't see it happening. Even though I would do anything to be in a room with all of those people acting and having a great time. But I don't see it happening," she added.
Late night host Seth Meyers and comedian Leslie Jones watch "Game of Thrones" together in a hilarious skit.


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Hannie Schaft ou Jannetje Johanna Schaft (Haarlem, 16 de setembro de 1920  Holanda do Norte, 17 de abril de 1945) foi uma combatente da resistência holandesa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ficou conhecida como a garota de cabelos ruivos. Seu nome secreto no movimento de resistência era Hannie.

Filha de menonitas, foi uma combatente da resistência holandesa contra os nazistas. O trabalho resistente de Schaft começou com pequenos atos. Primeiro, ela rouba carteira de identidade para residentes judeus, incluindo seus amigos.

Em abril de 1945, foi assassinada em Bloemendaal, na Holanda do Norte, por nazistas.

Obras
Harry Mulisch, L'Attentat [« De aanslag »], Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1984 (ISBN 2-7021-1298-6)
Theun de Vries, Het meisje met het rode haar, Querido, 2015

Filmologia
 Fons Rademakers, 1986

Mulheres do século XX
Mulheres na guerra
Naturais de Haarlem
Pessoas mortas pela Alemanha Nazista
Mulheres durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial

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Q: PCB Trace Differential Pair Impedance I'm designing a MIPI D-PHY interface, and the required nominel trace impedance for the differential signal lines (pcb traces) are 100 ohm.
Can I create 100ohm differential impedance, by using two 50ohm impedance traces, with a large spacing between the traces ?

A: In this case, yes.
In the very general case, there would be a difference that the twin 50 ohm line is ground referenced in the middle, whereas a true '100 ohm differential line' need not be. In some exotic RF components, the difference would be important.
For the case of differential data transmission, whether MIDI, SATA, LVDS, HDMI etc etc, the system will always be using twin anti-phase ground referenced transmitters, and twin 50 ohm line will work just fine.
Beware that a true 100 ohm diff line does not have any skew by definition. A pair of 50 ohm lines can easily have different physical lengths. They must be time matched to within a small period of the data being transmitted, easier with MIDI than 6GHz SATA.
Time matching is easiest to accomplish if the traces actually run parallel and close to each other. You do not have to use either extreme of 'true 100 diff' or 'true widely-spaced twin 50 ohm' line. You can start with 50 ohm traces. When you bring them closely together, their impedance will drop slightly, which can be offset by narrowing the traces. Any PCB layout package worth its salt will have calculators to assist in the design of such a line for any specific substrate.
The system you are using should have a spec for the permissible skew. If it doesn't, then skew less than the risetime will probably be adequate.

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Cops in Italy arrested a homeless man suspected of slaying an American college student found dead in Rome while studying abroad.
Cops in Italy arrested a homeless man suspected of slaying an American college student found dead in Rome while studying abroad, according to Italian reports.
University of Wisconsin student Beau Solomon, 19, vanished hours after arriving for his study abroad trip in Italy and on Monday, firefighters found his body in the Tiber River which flows through the city's capital.
A 40-year-old homeless man identified as Massimo Galioto faces an aggravated murder charge in Solomon's death and is in police custody, according to the Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper.
The motive behind Solomon's death is unclear at this time. One of Galioto's friends, identified only asAlessia, told Italy's RAI station that Solomon ran into their homeless settlement after being robbed and got into a scuffle with Galioto. She said Galioto did not flee the scene, but offered no explanation for the student's fate.
His wallet was stolen and 1,500 euros worth of purchases were made on his credit cards, his family said.
Solomon, a financing student who survived a brush with cancer, disappeared while his friends drank at a pub. He was reported missing after he didn't show up to his orientation class at John Cabot University.


So, it's awards season. Apparently, Hollywood has this thing called The Oscars, or some such.
I, however, was in attendance at the Greater Anna Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet held at Collin County Adventure Camp on Saturday night. And I wouldn't change a thing.
Hats off to Chamber Director Sara Cox and her board of directors as it was a well-run evening with good food, a few laughs and some very well-deserved honors. And for those who haven't been to the Adventure Camp — a number which would have included me prior to Saturday night — you have to go see this place. I plan to do a full-on story about this great YMCA destination in the future (shame on me for not getting out there earlier than this) as it's an incredible nature facility that lies just east of Anna.
I've always appreciated awards season. I was part of a sports-site start-up in McKinney several years ago and as part of my beat I attended every awards banquet held by McKinney North high school in a calendar year. And let me tell you — it was a large number. While the pace got tiring the awards themselves were worth the effort and the effect it had on those in attendance was remarkable.
The GACC Awards Banquet was no different. Some familiar, and well-deserving, faces were part of the awards ceremony. As a matter of fact, I felt a certain point-of-pride with several of the winners. Duane Hayes, the Texas Star banker who has also earned some notoriety in the Cowboy Action Shooting world, was named Business Person of the Year. He was also the subject of a feature story by yours truly in The Anna-Melissa Tribune. The Tribune's' own sports editor, Marcus Elliott, was honored for his work in the community along with Phil Morgan as Pin Oaks Christian Church was named the Community Partner of the Year. And Jim Rountree, whom we've had occasion to work with as part of Coyote Call, the Anna ISD mentoring program, was named Citizen of the Year.
I would be lying if I said I didn't feel a certain special elation in hearing those names called out.
Then there were the seating arrangements. The Lovely Mrs. W and I had the pleasure to be seated at the Anna ISD table. As it turns out, the three women also seated at the table — Jayme Hawthorne, Penny Barnes and Amy Pratt — were the three nominees for Educator of the Year. Pratt took home the award but all three were deserving.
We were in good company for dinner that night, and I'm not just talking about our table.


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Fans Green Bay Press-Gazette Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gutekunst says he doesn't want other teams to gain advantage by reading Packers' media reports
Jim Owczarski
Packers News
GREEN BAY – A day after the publicly owned Green Bay Packers suddenly changed their long-standing policies on the coverage of training camp practices, third-year general manager Brian Gutekunst explained Thursday why he insisted there be no reporting on starters, position battles or lineup rotations.
"I think, you know, the changing landscape right now of preseason with no preseason games, no fans at practices, as we got into it, it just changed things and, you know, obviously, there's certain restrictions that are always placed on you guys as far as what you can and can't report; and I just thought from a competitive advantage viewpoint this was the right thing to do for, you know, for the short term," Gutekunst said.
The National Football League closed training camps to fans due to the coronavirus pandemic and left each team to determine its policies regarding coverage, either from in-house media or from independent outlets.
The Packers started practices a little later than some teams, and after three days, Gutekunst decided a change was needed.
"I think there's multiple reasons," he said. "Again, as we kind of got into the first three days and kind of seeing the landscape of what other teams are doing and kind of the information we were gathering, again, without 8,000 people at practice and four preseason games, I just thought we were at a little bit of a disadvantage. We wanted to kind of equal the playing field."
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Gutekunst then said reading and viewing media clips is part of the Packers' scouting process.
"Well certainly our pro scouts have always followed the local beat reporters in all the teams that they cover," he said. "Certainly this year it is more prominent just because there no preseason games and you have less to go. Again, are we going to make decisions off that information? Maybe, maybe not. But it's all helpful to us as we go through and we attack the job that we have to do. Again, it's a very temporary thing. It's nothing permanent, I think it's 10 days we have left before this changes (to regular-season reporting rules). We always try to make the best decisions we can for our football team, and that's the reason this decision was made."
MORE: How do you feel about the new media restrictions?
The general manager added, however, what will go into claiming a player following the Sept. 5 final cutdown without a preseason.
"Well, with most of these guys, it's one of two things really: It's either the pro tape that they already have, whether it be the preseason tape from last year or years past or regular-season tape and then obviously our college reports," he said. "Our college scouting staff does an excellent job. And all that carries over into our pro system. That's always been important when we're looking at guys we might want to claim or sign and it will be even more valuable this year. Those are the things we rely on most. It's always about the tape and the work that we've done on those players leading up to those decisions."
Gutekunst said the policy will return to pre-pandemic norms in 2021.
"That's been the intent all along," he said. "So, again, this rule we kind of implemented (Wednesday) was strictly because of the environment we're in right now."


The company with the best data feeds wins. That's maybe not the kind of comment you hear too often and it's not going to be the headline for any motivational posters. But, there is some truth to it. On this episode my guest is Brian Roizen, Co-Founder and Chief Architect for Feedonomics, a full-service product feed platform. While it's not always true that the company with the best data feed wins, I do believe that your marketing efforts can only be as good as the data that feeds them. In this episode we get slightly nerdy, but also really practical. Here's a look at what we cover. - Why it's worth the time to build a good feed. In a saturated environment you have to differentiate. A good data feed is one way to help your products stand out. - How the perfect feed + perfect campaign structure is where you can really gain a competitive edge in Google Shopping and other channels. - Top feed mistakes to avoid - Amazon feed tips for world-class Amazon product listings - How to automate Amazon repricing for competitive niches - Benefits of Amazon Brand Registry - Facebook feed tips - How Walmart is growing ecommerce through acquisition and how to profit from their marketplace. - Google Manufacturer Center why and when you should take control of it - Plus more!


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Exhibits highlight video art history
"Viewer" (1996) by Gary Hill on display at "Momentombs" at the Suwon Museum of Art, Gyeonggi, reverses the role of the audience and the subject at an art museum through the idea of a human gaze. [SUWON MUSEUM OF ART]
To provide a look at the history of video art in Korea, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Seoul is presenting an exhibition at its Gwacheon branch in Gyeonggi, showcasing video art from the 1970s to 1990s. Meanwhile, at the Suwon Museum of Art (SUMA) in Gyeonggi, Gary Hill presents his works through "Momentombs," showing a new way of experimenting with the medium.
"Korean Video Art From 1970s to 1990s: Time Image Apparatus" began on Nov. 28 at the MMCA's Gyeonggi branch, "surveying the 30-year history of Korean video art from 1970s to 1990s" according to the museum. It features over 130 works by 60 of Korea's top video artists who experimented with the then-novel medium in a variety of ways. The exhibition follows a chronological order that's also divided into subsections according to different themes that the artists pursued.
Kicking off the show is Kim Kulim's "Civilization, Money, Woman" (1969) and "Light Bulb" (1975), examples of some of the earliest works before famed video artist Nam June Paik entered the scene, when artists focused on the physical presence of TVs in their works. For instance, Park Hyunki juxtaposed TV sets with stone, wood or metal to show video not as a vessel or digital contents, but a material for physical installations.
Other representative video works from the late 20th century are also on display, such as "Sea of Time" (1999) by Moon Joo, "Untitled-Clou" (1998) by Chang Giehee, "N.E.O.S." (1997) by Kim Hyung Gi and "Inbetween Buddha and Jesus Christ (Abnormal)" (1994/2002) by Lee Yongbaek.
Be sure to take as much time as you can to understand the works in full, as video art demands viewers take in the entire piece.
"Video art started in Korea around the late 1960s to early 1970s, which is considered quite early in the timeline of video art in Asia. In that context, there is both great national and international interest in the history of Korean video art, which is why we believe that this exhibition is a timely one to come from the MMCA," said Bae Myung-ji, who curated the exhibition along with Kim Hyun-mi.
If the MMCA's exhibition is a comprehensive look into Korean video art, the exhibition at the Suwon Museum of Art is a look into the history of a single video artist: Gary Hill. Through "Momentombs," the exhibition takes a look at Hill's works from the 1980s to his most recent works, which helped to define him as one of the leading video artists of our time.
Hill's works are very complicated - but also very intuitive at the same time. Many of his works use English narrations recorded by the artist himself, but there are still elements that enable the audience to understand what is going on by following along with the visuals. For instance, "Viewer" (1996) has visitors to a museum think about themselves as the subject of observation, reversing the role of the gaze.
"I Believe It Is an Image in Light of the Other" (1991-1992) also reverses the role of a book as the vessel of contents to a screen of light, which is enough to grasp without actually understanding the English text inside the books.
The MMCA exhibition is open until May 31, while the SUMA exhibit will run until March 8.
BY YOON SO-YEON [yoon.soyeon@joongang.co.kr]


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Troy gets 5 star DE!!!!!
See this quote from Dion Gales????
One week until Signing Day!
Good lineman and 5-star RB still available in Fla.
Will the GA game bring them out?
Why aren't we on this kid?
When will the JUCOs announce their selections?
Hearing Good Things - No Exciting Things!!!
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Question about Signing Mr. Football?
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Selita Ebanks Makes Calls For TMTDM?


A stick, a string, and a paper clip are three unrelated things. However, when a kid who was determined to catch a fish put them together, they became a crude fishing pole. He tried and tried, but didn't catch a fish. I told him that at the next break, I would meet him at the pond because I had some special bait. When I got there, I made a few adjustments to his paperclip, and then put some left-over communion bread on the paperclip. On his first cast, he got a bite. One his second cast, he landed a fish. Oh the joy on his face and the joy the other kids experienced when the fish flopped on the bank before flopping back into the pond. After that they all wanted some on my special bait.
Several months after camp, I was reflecting on that experience and was reminded of the difference Jesus makes. Three unrelated things became a crude fishing pole, but when Jesus is added- a life was changed.
Paul began his letter to the Corinthians by saying "In Christ we have been enriched in every way." Jesus makes the difference.
Sacramento Camp and Conference Center brings many unrelated things together- staff, campers, volunteers, activities, worship, and when Jesus is added, lived are enriched in ways beyond what we can imagine. Preparing meals, cleaning, filing, answering the phones, scheduling activities, shoveling horse manure, working on a sewer line all may seem like routine activities. In some ways they are. However when Jesus is added, those routine things have the potential to change lives. We will never know the full impact of our ministry. We will never know how many lives we've touched in a year, but when we keep our focus on Jesus, lives will be enriched. Your labor is not in vain.
Thank you to our guest blogger Rev. Monty Leavell, Pastor of Artesia FUMC and Sacramento's Board Chaplain.
This is an amazing story. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for being God's blessing to this young man.


After 18-year-old Brittany Phillips was raped and strangled to death in her Tulsa, Oklahoma, apartment in 2004, her mother waited for answers. But Dr. Maggie Zingman is no longer waiting. The mom is driving around the United States in a hard-to-miss vehicle wrapped with her daughter's photo and details about her murder, raising awareness to the case in the hope someone who knows something will come forward.
Zingman caught Nancy Grace's attention as she traveled through Atlanta and was invited to the Crime Stories studio to discuss the search for her daughter's killer. They are joined by Cold Case Research Institute director Sheryl McCollum.
"Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" is also a national radio show heard on SiriusXM channel 111 airing for two hours daily starting at 12 p.m. ET and around the country on local radio stations. You can also subscribe and download the daily podcasts at iTunes and Google Play.


Ratna Omidvar is the executive director of the Global Diversity Exchange at Ryerson University and chair of Lifeline Syria.
It was recently said of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her open border policy that she is not making history, but acknowledging it. The Trudeau government has likewise chosen to acknowledge history with the promise of bringing 25,000 Syrians to Canada as government-assisted refugees, over and above planned levels. Backed by political will, imagination and a newly empowered civil service, this goal could be within our grasp.
It is not just government that is taking the lead. In response to the Syrian crisis, Canadians from all walks of life have stepped forward to put themselves, their time and their money to sponsor Syrian refugees and their families. There are now hundreds of new private sponsors-in-waiting in the Greater Toronto Area alone, groups in resident associations, school communities, in the corporate sector and universities. Across Canada, there may be hundreds more than government resources are able or willing to process.
These private sponsors are an important ally for government, complementing and supplementing the commitments of government with the commitment of private citizens. And many of them are waiting for approval of cases, files and arrivals. In addition, there are many Syrian-Canadians who know of families, friends, neighbours who are refugees and are anxious to link these cases with potential sponsors in Canada. It seems that all the magical ingredients are present to complement the arrival of many more than the 25,000 government-assisted refugees.
However, just as the arrival of 25,000 government-sponsored refugees will require political leadership, so, too, will the expediting of systems and processes that unite refugee families with their sponsors. As one promise is kept, let's keep in mind the promises by Canadians to refugee families overseas and pay just as much attention to them. Whatever solutions the government is able to imagine for government-assisted refugees would likely apply to those with private sponsors as well.
Critics of the private sponsorship program worry that private engagement and private money allows the government to take a back seat. However, if the new government abides by the principle of additionality, which means that privately sponsored refugees enhance and are in addition to the numbers tabled for government-assisted refugees, then we have the making of a perfect private/public partnership.
And we know it works. During the Indochinese refugee crisis, the government resettled one refugee for every one who was privately sponsored, which is why the numbers rose from the initial goal of 8,000 to over 60,000 in fewer than two years. For this marvelous achievement, Canada received the Nansen medal from the UNHCR.
How can Canada regain its leadership as a country of compassion again?
Consider annual targets for refugee intake as floors and not as ceilings. Given the volatility in the world today, in Syria and in many other places, it seems that we must be flexible and nimble.
Make family reunification a cornerstone of refugee policy by working with the Canadian Syrian community and by expanding the notion of families as more than the nuclear unit. Recognize that displacement makes for chaos with families scattered across Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey and others left behind in Syria.
Match the public enthusiasm for private sponsors. As private sponsorships rise, so should government-assisted refugees.
Enhance participation of private sponsors by considering a tax credit or clarifying eligibility for charitable receipts.
Expedite the arrival of refugees who are privately sponsored. The long wait periods of four to five years has been absurd and damaging. Once refugees are selected, there is a strong case to bring them to Canada immediately. A delay in resettlement is not good for sponsors, who plan for a year-long sponsorship based on current schedules, jobs, residences and family situations. Delays can unravel plans and sap goodwill. But most importantly, waiting works against the security and well-being of these future Canadians who are in limbo in fragile, sometimes hostile conditions.
All nations have their moments of regret and shame, but we never regret moments of compassion. One such moment was Canada's response to the Indochinese refugee crisis.
Another moment is on us today. Canada has a unique opportunity to show ourselves and the world what we are made of.


The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to.
Everything should be made as simple as possible,but not simpler.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age.
If you can't explain it simply,you don't understand it well enough.
Once we accept our limits,we go beyond them.
Everyone should be respected as an individual,but no one idolized.
If the facts don't fit the theory,change the facts.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics.I can assure you mine are still greater.
There are two ways to live:you can live as it nothing is a miracle; you can live as it everything is a miracle.
When the solution is simple,God is answering.
put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute.
Pure mathematics is,in its way,the poetry of logical ideas.


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'Arrow' Star Emily Bett Rickards Teases Trouble For Felicity, Scenes With Black Siren
By Nicole Massabrook @NKMass
With Oliver behind bars, "Arrow" can't just give Felicity scenes with her husband. In the first Season 7 episodes, Emily Bett Rickards revealed that her computer genius character will get a little girl time — but not with who fans might expect.
"You get some Black Siren-Felicity scenes right off that bat. I was pretty excited about that," Bett Rickards told International Business Times.
She couldn't say much about her dynamic with Katie Cassidy's villain, but it sounds like it'll be entertaining. "Oh you will see, it is quite something," she hinted.
Emily Bett Rickards says fans can expect Felicity to interact with Black Siren in "Arrow" Season 7. Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW
A lot has changed for Felicity in "Arrow" Season 7, which premieres Monday. She and William (Jack Moore) have gone into protective custody and assumed new identities. That's why Felicity will be rocking some bright pink hair in the premiere. Bett Rickards, who had pink hair during one of the CW drama's summer hiatuses, said she laughed when she saw that she'd be getting the crazy color again. Felicity, however, doesn't have much reason to smile.
"It's super fun and Felicity looks really rad. Unfortunately, the reason she had to do it wasn't fun, so it doesn't really express in her persona that she liked it per se," the 27-year-old noted.
Instead, Felicity will be parenting Oliver's (Stephen Amell) son, and they'll both be adjusting to their new life. It doesn't sound like it'll go very well, though.
"They try to make the best of a bad situation, but the bad situation gets even worse and too much to handle," she teased.
Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) is angry that Oliver (Stephen Amell) made a deal that landed him in prison on "Arrow" Season 7. Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW
The situation was already pretty rough. Last season, Oliver made a deal with the authorities that if he didn't catch Diaz (Kirk Acevedo), he'd go to prison. In the season finale, Diaz got away, and the Green Arrow had to go to Slabside Maximum Security Prison — the same place all his enemies are residing.
Oliver chose not to tell Felicity about this plan. She was shocked to learn that he made a massive, life-altering decision without his wife.
"Felicity is not only hurt, she's pissed," the actress told IBT. "Her life has gone up in flames and everything she's worked for — everything she had chosen for herself six years ago and then again a couple years ago and then a year ago marrying Oliver — everything that she's chosen and worked for was destroyed, was taken away from her. So yeah, she's angry and very sad."
See what's in store for Felicity when "Arrow" Season 7 premieres Monday at 8 p.m. EDT on The CW.
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Q: Cmake : on the findALSA.cmake example In order to understand how to link libraries, someone advises me to look at the findALSA example which is :
find_path(ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR NAMES asoundlib.h
          PATH_SUFFIXES alsa
          DOC "The ALSA (asound) include directory"
)

find_library(ALSA_LIBRARY NAMES asound
          DOC "The ALSA (asound) library"
)

# handle the QUIETLY and REQUIRED arguments and set ALSA_FOUND to TRUE if
# all listed variables are TRUE
include("${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake")
FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS(ALSA DEFAULT_MSG ALSA_LIBRARY ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR)

if(ALSA_FOUND)
  set( ALSA_LIBRARIES ${ALSA_LIBRARY} )
  set( ALSA_INCLUDE_DIRS ${ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR} )
endif()

mark_as_advanced(ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR ALSA_LIBRARY)

What I don't understand is :
if(ALSA_FOUND)
  set( ALSA_LIBRARIES ${ALSA_LIBRARY} )
  set( ALSA_INCLUDE_DIRS ${ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR} )
endif()

Question 1 : Is that because ${ALSA_LIBRARY} and ${ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR} can only point to a single file / single directory ?
Question 2 : Can someone show me how to rewrite the example if I want to link 2 include directories and 2 library files ?
Let's say that we have the following example :
/alsa/dir1/asound1.h
/alsa/dir2/asound2.h
/alsa/lib/libasound1.a
/alsa/lib/libasound2.a

Question 3 : in particular, what becomes the FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS command ?
Thank you very much

A: *

*Yes, ASLI_LIBRARIES will combine these.

2 & 3: Define in find_package_handle_standard_args only the things that are required for the package to work correctly. The code below is for when everything is required.
find_path(ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR1 NAMES asound1.h
          PATH_SUFFIXES alsa
          DOC "The ALSA (asound) include directory 1"
)

find_path(ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR2 NAMES asound2.h
          PATH_SUFFIXES alsa
          DOC "The ALSA (asound) include directory 2"
)

find_library(ALSA_LIBRARY2 NAMES asound1
          DOC "The ALSA (asound) library 1"
)

find_library(ALSA_LIBRARY2 NAMES asound2
          DOC "The ALSA (asound) library 2"
)

# handle the QUIETLY and REQUIRED arguments and set ALSA_FOUND to TRUE if
# all listed variables are TRUE
include("${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake")
FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS(ALSA DEFAULT_MSG ALSA_LIBRARY1 ALSA_LIBRARY2 ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR1 ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR2)

if(ALSA_FOUND)
  set( ALSA_LIBRARIES ${ALSA_LIBRARY1} ${ALSA_LIBRARY2} )
  set( ALSA_INCLUDE_DIRS ${ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR1} ${ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR2} )
endif()

mark_as_advanced(ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR ALSA_LIBRARY)