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PREVIEW - League play continues while the National Cup Finals take centre stage!
National Cup Finals
The Men's & Women's National Cups come to their climax at the Essex Sport Arena on Sunday; the first opportunity for our NBL sides to pick up silverware this season!
Loughborough Riders will be hoping to do the double, as both their Men's and Women's take to the floor in Colchester. Facing off against the Riders in the Men's National Cup are NBL Division One league-leaders' Team Solent Kestrels, while in the Women's National Cup the East Midlands outfit will take on Reading Rockets.
For a detailed breakdown of all the Cup Finals match-ups, including the Jnr. NBL Cup Finals, check out our National Cup Finals Preview feature by clicking below!
National Cup Finals Preview
Read on for your usual roundup of the league match-ups taking place this weekend!
Leicester Warriors v Derby Trailblazers
Saturday 19 January 2019 - 3.00pm
Leicester Warriors were able to bounce back from a loss at the hands of Reading to pick up a crucial win over Manchester Magic on the road last weekend, improving to 5-9 on the season. The East Midlands squad have done a solid job lately picking up wins against the teams in-and-around them, as they slide up the table away from the danger of relegation to now sit one win back from the final playoff spot. The improved play of the Warriors has been highly influenced by the mid-season addition of Raphell Thomas-Edwards, who again impressed on the road in the North West with a 23 point, 15 rebound effort.
Meanwhile, making the short trip across the East Midlands are the Derby Trailblazers, who head to Braunstone Leisure Centre off the back of three back-to-back losses to start 2019. A difficult stretch since the turn of the year has seen Coach Matt Shaw's squad slide down the table to seventh place with a .500 record; their undefeated start to the season now only a distant memory. Malcolm Smith remains a solid contributor for the Blazers, as he led Derby with 22 points in their recent loss against Reading. Coach Shaw will be hoping his US import forward can get the best of the battle on the inside, with Thomas-Edwards likely to provide significant resistance in the paint.
Team Newcastle v Manchester Magic
Just one victory separates Team Newcastle from the dangers of the bottom two places in NBL Division One, as the North East side hold a 4-8 record heading into this one. Last time out Coach Ian Hewitt's side were unlucky to not pinch a win on the road at the high-flying Loughborough Riders, as a tight low-scoring affair went the way of the hosts. Nikola Urli led Newcastle with 12 points off the bench in that one, while Eric Stafford supported with 11. Hoping for a good result on their home floor in this one, Coach Hewitt's side have every chance of picking up a win that could be vital down the stretch in the race for survival in the top-flight.
Making the trip to the North East are a Manchester Magic side that are having somewhat of a season to forget. The perennial powerhouse from the North West sit bottom of the table with a 1-12 record, in significant danger of dropping out of the top flight for the first time since earning promotion in 2012/13. Last time out the Magic hosted fellow bottom four side Leicester Warriors in hope of victory, but took a painful single digit loss as their woes continued. Manchester's sole victory this season came on their home floor against their opposition in this one; a single point victory back in November. Coach Simon Fisher will be hoping his side can repeat this triumph; he will need the stellar play of Richard Bell to continue on the inside, while mid-season addition Ryan Lewis has added a much-needed scoring punch on the perimeter.
Nottingham McDonalds Hoods v Essex Leopards
Coming off back-to-back wins to start 2019, the Nottingham McDonalds Hoods have propelled themselves into sixth place with a 7-6 record, well in control of their fate as they chase a debut appearance in the NBL Division One playoffs. Last weekend's victory over Bradford was especially impressive, as Nottingham showed out on both ends of the floor with an explosive offensive effort matched only by their stifling defense. The danger men for the Leopards to slow are the inside-outside combination of Delaney Powell and Cole Welle, as Powell led from perimeter with 19 points and nine assists last week, while Welle did his work on the inside as he matched his teammate's scoring effort and added 10 rebounds.
Heading into their second back-to-back in a row, the Essex Leopards will be hoping to continue their good form, having bounced back from a loss against Team Solent to pick up two wins last weekend. Opening up their weekend with a narrow victory on the road at Barking, the Big Cats needed late-game heroics to down the Crusaders as Sam Newman hit the game-winning lay-up en route to a team-high 14 points. Returning home on Sunday, the Leopards had a much easier route to chalking up another win, as a commanding performance saw them pick up a routine win over the travelling Riders in a 32-point blowout. Luke Mascall-Wright had an eye-catching 42 point performance on the day to lead the Big Cats; Coach Thomas Baker will be hoping for more of the same from his explosive swingman against the Hoods.
Hemel Storm v Thames Valley Cavaliers
Having not been in action last weekend, Hemel will be hoping the week off can see them suitably rested and ready for this tough match-up as they host the in-form Thames Valley Cavaliers. A fortnight ago, Storm picked up just their third win of the season with a single-digit victory on the road at the Blazers, behind an explosive 35-point performance from Blayne Freckleton. Hoping to pick up their rhythm after a week off, Coach Robert Youngblood and his side still need to pick up a couple of results as they search for a route out of the bottom two, with tricky games to come.
Meanwhile, the visitors making the trip from West London up to Hertfordshire are the Thames Valley Cavaliers, with Coach Robert Banks' side coming off one of the biggest shock results of the season so far. A big performance on their home floor saw the Cavs deal the league-leading Team Solent Kestrels just their second loss of the league season, a triumph which vaulted the West London squad into fifth place in the league. Abdoulaye Sylla, a previous NBL Player of the Week recipient, was exceptional for Thames Valley as he paced his side with 24 points and 16 rebounds in the win. Coach Banks will be hoping for more of the same against a Hemel Storm desperate to not pick up their first loss of 2019.
Essex Leopards v Bradford Dragons
Sunday 20 January 2019 - 4.00pm
The final action in NBL Division One this weekend will see Essex Leopards play host to the Bradford Dragons at the Brentwood Centre, as the National Cup Finals take place at their usual home at the Essex Sport Arena. This match-up will see the Big Cats finish up the second of four straight back-to-backs, as a bruising schedule throughout January and February has the Leopards barely stopping to take a breath. Returning home after a Saturday road trip to the East Midlands, the Big Cats will be hoping for a repeat of their home performance last weekend against Loughborough as they dominated the match-up en route to a blowout win.
Meanwhile, making the trip down to Brentwood are a Bradford side who have not enjoyed the best start to 2019. An exciting victory over Team Solent Kestrels to head into the festive break had the Dragons full of hope for the second half of the season, but back-to-back to losses against Barking and Nottingham has brought Coach Chris Mellor's side back down to Earth, now chasing results to stay in the playoff race. Despite the lop-sided loss at the hands of the Hoods last weekend, Rihards Sulcs did the best he could for his side, continuing his impressive season with a double-double of 21 points and 11 rebounds, while Ricky Fetske added a double-double of his own with 13 points and 12 rebounds.
London United v Greenwich Titans
Just two games in a quiet NBL Division Two weekend tips off with a cross-capital match-up as London United play host to Greenwich Titans. An up-and-down season thus far has the hosts sitting mid-table with a 4-4 record, as they prepare for their first action of 2019. Yet to play the Titans this season after the visitor's promotion into the second tier, United will hope for a better performance to start the New Year than the one that sent them into the festive break; a lop-sided loss at the hands of Westminster Warriors. Top scorer in the last two outings for the West London squad has been Tomas Butrimas, the danger man that Greenwich may need to key in on to slow down the hosts.
Making the journey across the capital to Alec Reed Academy are a Greenwich Titans that have not enjoyed life in the second tier thus far this season. Currently bottom of the league with a 1-7 record, the Titans' losing spell dates right back to the opening day of the season, when an upset victory over Westminster kick-started their campaign. Arturo Noha-Pascual and Ray Akpofure have both have solid seasons thus far as they shoulder the scoring load, but the Titans will need contributions across the board if their fortunes are going to change.
London Greenhouse Pioneers v Liverpool
After two losses to start the season, London Greenhouse Pioneers have turned their season around with an impressive run of victories that now sees them into third place with a 7-2 record. Holding a win-streak that dates back to November, the Pioneers tip off their 2019 by hosting the top dogs in NBL Division Two; the biggest challenge of their run thus far. Coach Predrag Krneta's side have been tough to stop this season with so many weapons that can step up, as Kyle Diaz, Max Hufschlag and Mariano Lussenhoff have all put in big performances of late to lead the Greenhouse squad.
The visitors to CitySport in this one are one of the only remaining undefeated teams left in the entire NBL, as the 9-0 league-leading Liverpool side makes the trip down to the capital. Another side tipping off their 2019 after two weeks off since the festive break, the Merseyside squad will be suitably rested following a very impressive first half of the season. Mid-season addition Kaphel Ulett-Waul returned to Liverpool following a spell with Manchester Magic in Division One, and the explosive guard found his form in the final game before the break with 32 points; only adding to the firepower at Coach Delme Herriman's disposal.
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No? Excuse me, but are you not dependent on the stuff?
This disdain for food journalism has several springs. One of them surely is sexism: at least in some quarters, food is traditionally women's work; therefore journalism about it is, too. In general, journalism that deals with everyday life close to home will never enjoy the prestige of the exotic dateline. Another source of this low esteem is the venue in which much food journalism is found: the Wednesday food supplements of daily newspapers, the historical purpose of which has been to keep full-page supermarket advertisements from bumping into one another. Tremendous quantities of fluff journalism have been committed in the name of covering food.
But this is changing: look again at your paper's Wednesday food section, and you'll find it brimming with issues of politics, economics and health, not to mention agriculture and cultural politics. Today, instead of "Great Dishes for Which We Have Campbell's Soup to Thank," you're much more likely to find tough pieces on school board battles to drive fast food from the cafeteria, the links between E.P.A. air pollution rules and methyl mercury levels in tuna, backdoor efforts to weaken federal standards for organic agriculture—or as in today's Times, profiles of muckraking journalists like Eric Schlosser. If you're interested in reading sharp coverage of political economy, Wednesday newspapers have become one of the best places to find it.
I teach a course at Berkeley's graduate journalism school called "Following the Food Chain," and what my students quickly discover as they go down that trail is that it takes them to a great many unexpected places. Food connects us to nature, first and foremost, but it also attaches us to all the other large systems that organize our lives — from energy and economics to politics, public health and cultural identity.
In recent years we've all come to appreciate the critical links between oil and things like the health of our economy and the conduct of our foreign policy. Crises have a way of laying bare such connections. I'll wager that food will soon take its place alongside energy as an issue of national security. This would be nothing new. Often in the past, when food has been in short supply or the desire for certain kinds of it (like spices) has been sufficiently powerful, food has shaped the destiny of nations. The fact that we don't think about food in these terms today is probably a testament to what a good job the food industry has done keeping us well (or at least abundantly) fed, our supermarkets fabulously stocked and our attention fixed on the glossy new products and "value meals," rather than on the way the food is produced or what it does to us when we eat it. During the last 50 years we've been living in a kind of fool's food paradise, marked by astounding bounty and apparent choice.
Sooner or later, the inexorable trend toward free world trade also will force the food security issue to the forefront of our attention. Economists will tell you that when we stop subsidizing American farmers (and the pressure to do so is mounting, from an unlikely alliance of the World Trade Organization, developing world countries and U.S. agribusiness companies) and protecting their market with tariffs, our food will come from wherever in the world it can be produced most cheaply. That means it will come from countries where land is cheapest and environmental laws most lax. This is precisely where the logic of free trade is taking us: the iron law of competitive advantage dictates that we should put our land to "higher uses" — like houses — rather than doing something as old-fashioned with it as growing food. And indeed I've heard projections from people working for the governor of California suggesting that by the end of this century, the Central Valley – where most of America's fresh produce is grown — will be wall-to-wall houses and highways: no more farming.
Where will our food come from then? From Mexico, South America and, increasingly, China. And how do you feel about that? I find that, whatever people may think about free trade in sneakers and electronics, they are distinctly uncomfortable about giving up our ability to feed ourselves. Food feels different from other commodities, which may explain why, worldwide, many of the most powerful protests against globalization have centered around food: the protests against genetically modified crops, the movement to defend local food against the global tide of homogenization. We see every day how our dependence on foreign energy has crippled our foreign policy. Imagine how much more debilitating a dependence on foreign food would be. Make no mistake, how we feed ourselves is about to become a national security issue.


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A Fan Proposed to His Girlfriend by Playing a Pandas & People Song
Lara Ruggles
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Lara Ruggles | January 12, 2017 | 5:00am
Pandas & People has a new lineup, with Adam Haag on drums, Dave Brown on mandolin and Tucker Ewing on guitar.
Marla Keown Photography
Pandas & People co-founding member Johnny Day always had a thing for country music. But he put his country ambitions aside to pursue the band's early success.
"He was along for the ride," says lead vocalist and bassist Joshua Scheer. "It's hard to let something go when you've had the success we've had locally. We're getting constant gigs, and people are reacting to the music."
Last year, Day left the Fort Collins band to focus on his country music project full-time, "and he's doing really well at it," says Scheer.
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After Day left, the musicians had to decide: Should they replace him and continue making four-on-the-floor, foot-stomping folk rock or use their own technical skill and influences to rework the group's sound?
"We decided to try something new," says Scheer.
When producing its current single, "Find You," Pandas & People looked to bands like Imagine Dragons and X Ambassadors for inspiration, incorporating more of "the big percussive stuff, kind of that gritty tone they get out of their percussion," says Scheer.
Pandas & People
Drummer Adam Haag pulls from his experience using synthesizers and running sound for other bands to shape Pandas & People's new percussive element: "A lot of that comes from Adam and a lot of his influences," says Scheer.
The group's current lineup also includes Conrad Marshall on guitar, Dave Brown on mandolin and Tucker Ewing on acoustic guitar and backup vocals.
Pandas & People has already been busy building momentum with its new members. Last summer, the band took a trip to Nashville and co-wrote five new songs with Warner Chappell producer Zac Malloy. The group plans to return to pen a few more, and to release a full-length album.
Ending 2016 by releasing the song "Find You" in time for 93.3's Hometown for the Holidays contest, the group returned to its roots.
Pandas & People first played as a finalist in Hometown for the Holidays 2013, throwing together a last-minute lineup for the showcase.
"That was technically our first show," Scheer says. The musicians were finalists again in 2016, but this time around, "We've been playing together for three years. We feel tight."
Despite the band's recent evolution, its connection with the audience is its guidepost.
"Our number-one priority is the listener and making sure people can connect with our music," says Scheer. "We could go out there and be super-technical and blow people's minds, but I think, to us, the more important thing is really making a connection with the audience on an uplifting level."
He remembers a fan who claimed to have proposed to his girlfriend using a Pandas & People song.
"Getting feedback like that — 'Your song makes my day' — it definitely keeps us going."
Pandas & People will play at 8 p.m. on Saturday, January 14, at the Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Avenue, with Modern Suspects, Pop Filter and Redlands.

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Undoubtedly the best thing that always made the Pro Evolution Soccer has been its gameplay, and this version does not lag behind. The game responds well to commands that you give, be smooth, comfortable and easy to develop the ideas that we have to face the rival. The controls are simple to use but has changed some dribbling incorporating them into the arrow keys (or left stick), which is a positive side because they are more accessible, but also has a negative aspect that often is present when we try to make a sudden change of direction and is interpreted as the command unplanned dribble that can make us lose the ball. While the controls are fluid and respond well, it is complicated when defending, as marking, shrink space and correctly position the defender to stop the advance rival is complicated, but with patience and practice can be achieved. Another defect that presents the defense are the outputs of the archer, as this does not exactly come off of the three clubs to pick a school (unless the ball goes to your location), which can be seen when in a corner the attackers are at the edge or in the goal box and run the draw, the only ones able to clear the area are the defenders because the goalkeeper does not leave his position, so they become easily have been goals that avoided. A negative feature that one can not overlook is the great lack of licenses, many teams do not have their original names nor their shirts, as is the case with the glasses, hopefully someday we can enjoy a fully licensed PES.
Power metal (power-metal) – a type of metal that appeared in the second half of the 80 (the term is a portmanteau. Power chord – 'fifth') At one time the term existed in relation to American teams such as MANOWAR, early METALLICA, TESTAMENT , PANTERA. This trend however, has not been extensive development and eventually died out, but nowadays the term 'power metal' usually refers created HELLOWEEN direction. Power's considered the ancestor of the above HELLOWEEN (Germany), who published in 1987-1988. double album 'Keeper of the Seven Keys', without a doubt become the cornerstone in the development of the genre. Among the veterans should be called as RUNNING WILD, RAGE, GAMMA RAY, SCANNER, CHROMING ROSE, BLIND GUARDIAN, etc. And since the European Power has spread widely and became popular throughout the continent as well as he was unpopular in the United States. Power metal in the form in which it was designed Helloween, can be called a fairly upbeat and life-affirming music (sometimes called this trend 'happy metal' – 'happy metal'), but many teams had more somber, epic sound (BLIND GUARDIAN,). Power metal has become a logical continuation of ideas, classic hard rock (DEEP PURPLE, URIAH HEEP, RAINBOW), glam and hard-n-art (SLADE, SWEET, QUEEN, RUSH) and, of course, the British heavy metal (JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, etc.). Direct precursor of the style in the mid-'80s became speed metal, which at the beginning of his career, experimented Power's founders – the German HELLOWEEN, RAGE, and later their followers BLIND GUARDIAN.


You can drive a Forest Service road from US 101 to the top of Mt Walker (~2730′) which is on the northeast corner of the Olympics, just south of Quilcene. There are two viewpoints … one on the north and one on the south. This is the view from the north viewpoint looking across Puget Sound to Mt Baker.


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Decisions, Decisions: Understanding Option Probabilities
Learn how option delta calculations and the Probability ITM (in the money) feature can help gauge the risk in an option position. Let TD Ameritrade guide you through the math to aid your decision making.
By Kevin Hincks March 28, 2018 5 min read
Options trading, like all investing really, is about decision making: weighing the potential reward against the potential risk, and the probabilities thereof.
But isn't that life in general? By some estimates, the average human makes 35,000 decisions in a typical day. Whether you believe that statistic or not, let's just agree that we make a lot of decisions every day. In general, these decisions are about risk and reward or, in other words, weighing the probabilities:
Should you cross the street now, or wait for that approaching car to pass?
Going with the salad for lunch today, or is that slice of pizza calling your name?
Should you sell a call option against a stock in your portfolio, and if so, which one(s) should you consider?
Probability and Option Delta Definition
Probability is generally defined as the likelihood of an event happening, within a certain time frame, expressed as a percentage. With option trades, the event may be the likelihood of an option being in the money (ITM) or out of the money (OTM), and the time frame might be the option's expiration.
Turns out, with the right tools, it's not that hard to calculate. One way is by simply looking at the option's delta. That's right! Among the many pieces of information offered by an option's delta, many traders look at delta as an approximate percentage chance that an option will be ITM at expiration. Although it's not a perfect science, an option delta calculation can provide a pretty close estimate.
Delta and the Probability ITM Feature
Take a look at the option chain in figure 1 below. The underlying stock is trading around $175.50, so the 182.5 strike call is out of the money, and its 0.20 delta implies it has only about a 20% chance of finishing ITM at expiration. Another way of expressing this is to say this option has about an 80% chance of expiring worthless.
But there's another way TD Ameritrade clients can estimate an option's chance of being ITM at expiration: the "Probability ITM" feature in the thinkorswim® platform from TD Ameritrade. You can add this to the option chain by clicking on a column header, then choosing Option Theoreticals and Greeks and selecting Probability ITM. The calculations may be slightly different from the option's delta, but the two readings are generally within a couple percentage points of each other. Either reading can be used to help define the trade's risk.
FIGURE 1: OPTION CHAIN WITH DELTA AND PROBABILITY ITM.
TD Ameritrade clients can estimate an option's probability of being in the money at expiration by using option delta or the Probability ITM feature. Source: the thinkorswim® platform from TD Ameritrade. For illustrative purposes only. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
A quick side note: even if an option's delta or Probability ITM says 100, there's no guarantee that the option will actually finish in the money at expiration. There's always a chance, even if it's a small one, that the underlying could have a big enough move to knock something that's deep ITM to a position where it's OTM.
Spread Probabilities
Returning to the example above, suppose that instead of just selling the 182.5-strike call outright, you decide to sell it and also buy the 187.5-strike call (in trader parlance, this would be "selling the 182.5-187.5 call vertical spread"). Remember, selling a single option can expose you to significant risk, but selling a vertical spread limits your potential loss to the difference between your strikes, less the premium you collected, plus transaction costs.
According to the option chain in figure 1, the 182.5-strike call has a delta of 0.20 and the 187.5-strike call has a delta of about 0.07. So using the deltas as probabilities, we can say there's about an 80% chance you'll keep the entire credit, less transaction costs, and about a 7% chance you'll lose the maximum amount.
So you'd rather use the Probability ITM numbers? They're about the same, but perhaps slightly more optimistic. The 182.5 call shows an 18.37% chance of being ITM, which means it has about an 81.63% probability of being OTM. And there's about a 6.25% chance of the underlying rising above $187.50 before expiration, which again would result in a maximum loss.
Applying the Math to Decision Making
These numbers assume that the position is held until expiration. Depending on your objectives, you could try to close or adjust this trade prior to expiration. But when structuring your trade, and considering adjustments prior to expiration, understanding these probability calculations can help you more objectively manage your risk.
Comparing an option's delta (or other probability calculation) against the price at which you could buy or sell an option can help you determine your strategy for entering and exiting option trades. And with that decision out of the way, you can move on to other important matters, such as whether to have the salad or the pizza for lunch. For that decision, though, you're on your own.
Let's look at some basics. First, if an option is currently trading at a price that's ITM, meaning it currently has a delta greater than 0.50, it's more likely to still be in the money at expiration. That's basic options probability theory—the price of the underlying stock fluctuates, but those fluctuations tend to be distributed in a way that's bunched around the current price. Picture a typical bell curve.
Similarly, an option that's currently out of the money is less likely to be ITM at expiration. And an option that's right at the money? It's a coin toss as to whether it'll be ITM at expiration, and a delta of around 0.50 confirms that.
By Kevin Hincks @KevinHincks_TDA
Manager,&nbspTrader&nbspContributor, TD Ameritrade
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Call Options call-vertical Delta In the Money Option Probabilities Out of the Money
Please note that the examples above do not account for transaction costs or dividends. Options orders placed online at TD Ameritrade carry a $0.65 fee per contract. Orders placed by other means will have additional transaction costs.
Probability analysis results are theoretical in nature, not guaranteed, and do not reflect any degree of certainty of an event occurring.


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Gators Notebook: RB Mack Brown makes chance count
Garry Smits
Senior Mack Brown may never carry the ball 25 times in one game for the Florida Gators again, especially after projected runnng back starter Matt Jones returns next week against Miami.
But for one game, the junior from Lithonia, Ga., was the workhorse for UF, gaining 112 yards in a 24-6 victory over Toledo at The Swamp.
Brown scored UF's first touchdown of the game on a 1-yard plunge and added another on a 14-yard gain in the second quarter. He had nine of his carries in the first quarter, six on the opening drive, in which he gained 39 yards.
None of it took anyone aback.
"We were not surprised how well Mack played," said Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel. "He's going to have to play well for us."
Brown matched his 2012 total of 25 carries, and had 10 more yards. In three years, he had gained 167 yards on 40 carries.
He admitted to getting emotional just before the first start of his college career.
"I had tears in my eyes," he said. "I felt like I was useless the last couple of years. Just being on the field with the first team is a blessing."
"Mack earned it," Florida coach Will Muschamp said. "He's getting an opportunity to play. He's played behind some good players here. Nothing shocked me. We expected him to run hard and run well."
The Gator coaching staff almost played safety Valdez Showers at running back two years ago against Auburn, but it didn't get beyond the practice field.
Showers, a redshirt sophomore from Detroit, finally got his chance on Saturday and made the most of it. He carried twice for 31 yards (including a 29-yard gain) and caught four passes for 23 yards.
One of Showers' receptions picked up a first down two plays before Brown opened the scoring in the first quarter. His long gain was the key play in a drive in the second quarter that led to Austin Hardin's first field goal.
"He a top-end speed guy," Muschamp said. "We felt like he's a guy who's really special with the ball in his hands and felt like it was a good move for our football team to put him on offense."
Showers, a running back in high school who gained 2,024 yards and scored 29 TDs as a senior, is looking forward to his new role.
"I felt like I was back in high school a little bit," he said. "I felt comfortable out there. I like to show my versatility and I like the way they used me."
Fulwood in action
Bishop Kenny graduate Ahmad Fulwood made his college debut with a 5-yard reception in the second quarter, converting a third-down.
Another freshman of note was Kelvin Taylor, the son of former Gators and Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. He gained 43 yards on the last five carries of the game.
When Brown scored on Florida's opening drive, it was the first time UF had scored on its first possession of its opening game under Muschamp. The last time it happened was in 2009 when Jeff Demps scored to open the game against Charleston Southern. ... Muschamp is now 13-3 in games in which the Gators score first.


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Rock out for charity at the 2011 Christchurch Quake Relief Concert
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OUR Kiwi neighbours need all the help they can get to rebuild their homes, schools and lives. So get your friends together and grab tickets to see a fantastic line-up of Aussie and NZ artists jamming together in support of the 2011 Red Cross New Zealand Earthquake Appeal this Easter Sunday April 24. Stephanie Chng has the story.
Rock out for charity. Local bands like Cherrywood (pictured) would be playing at the relief concert this Easter Sunday.
THE 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South island at 12.51pm on February 22, 2011.
As of April 8, 172 people have been confirmed dead, with the final death toll expected to be 182, making this earthquake the second deadliest natural disaster recorded in New Zealand. Some bodies have been so badly disfigured that identification is impossible, and some bodies may never be recovered.
Our Kiwi neighbours need all the help they can get to rebuild their homes, schools, and lives. So get your friends together and grab tickets to see a fantastic line-up of Aussie and NZ artists jamming together in support of the 2011 Red Cross New Zealand Earthquake Appeal this Easter Sunday April 24 at the Birrarung Marr Park on the banks of the Yarra next to Federation Square.
One to watch. Combining electrifying progressive and alternative rock with more acoustic-driven rootsy elements, Engine Three Seven fits perfectly into Australia's compellingly vibrant alternative-rock scene.
Who will be playing?
The full line up has been announced and it's pretty sweet:
Mi-Sex (NZ), Mike Rudd (ex Spectrum), Angie Hart & Blood Red Bird, Julia Deans (ex Fur Patrol) (NZ), Lotek, Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes, Vince Peach, Dave Larkin Band, Spencer P Jones (NZ), The Council (NZ), Side Show Brides, Radio Star, The Wellingtons, Cash Savage, Pets with Pets (NZ), Polar Disco, Engine Three Seven, Vaudeville Smash, Massive Hip Hop Choir, Cherrywood and MC Jon Von Goes (Triple R).
If you've never heard of these famous local musicians before – then now is a great chance.
Mi-Sex – Computer Games
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Angie Hart – Blue
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Vaudeville Smash – Hey
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How do I get tickets?
Tickets are $30 each plus booking fees. All money from ticket sales go to the appeal, including half of the ticket booking fees and proceeds from all the food and beverages sold.
Ticket-holders will also be in the running to win an exclusive meet-and-greet with your favourite band. You'll get to watch the band play from the side of the stage and meet the members backstage afterwards. All you have to do is register your ticket number to win a VIP ticket.
The Christchurch Quake Relief Concert will be held Easter Sunday April 24 and run from 2pm to 10pm at Birrarung Marr Park, on the banks of the Yarra, next to Federation Square in Melbourne.
For more information or to book your tickets, visit www.quakerelief.com.au. You can also follow quakerelief.com.au on Twitter (@quake_appeal) and on Facebook for updates, videos, interviews and more.
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Special Service and Features
03-April-2017 14:57 IST
NSS: An Opportunity for Youth to Contribute in Nation Building
Alok Deshwal*
National Service Scheme (NSS) was introduced in 1969 with the primary objective of developing the personality and character of the student youth through voluntary community service. Initially it was launched in 37 Universities involving about 40,000 volunteers. However, with the passage of time and as a Pan Indian programme, the number of educational institutions covered under NSS has been increasing year after year. Currently more than 36.5 lakh volunteers are enrolled in 39,695 NSS units spread over 391 Universities/ +2 Councils, 16,278 Colleges and Technical Institutions and 12,483 Senior Secondary Schools. Since its inception, over 4.78 crore students have benefited from NSS.
Each NSS volunteer is required to put in minimum 120 hours of service per year for two years, i.e., total 240 hours. This work is undertaken in villages/ slums adopted by NSS unit or in school/ college campuses. usually after study hours or during weekends/ vacations. Besides, Each NSS unit organises a Special Camp of 7 days' duration in adopted villages or urban slums during vacations, with some specific projects, by involving the local communities. Each volunteer is required to participate in the Special Camp once during the 2-year period. Thus, about 50 percent of the NSS volunteers in a Unit participate in a particular Special Camp.
NSS units can take up any activity that has relevant to the community. The activities continue to evolve in response to the needs of the community. The core activities could be in the field of education and literacy, health, family welfare and nutrition, sanitation and cleanliness, environment conservation, social service programmes, programmes for improving status of women, production-oriented programmes, disaster relief and rehabilitation, campaigning against social evils, creating awareness about Flagship Programmes of the Government like Digital India, Skill India, Promotion of Yoga etc.
NSS is a Central government programme. yet the Central government, the States/UTs and the Educational Institutions are the 3 pillars of this Programme. It would have been impossible to effectively run a programme directly from the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, dealing with over 29,000 educational institutions across the country. The implementation of the programme has been possible due to effective collaboration/ partnership between the Centre and the States on the one hand and the States and Educational Institutions on the other.
As mentioned earlier, NSS was introduced with the primary objective of developing the personality and character of the student youth through voluntary community service. 'Education through Service' is the purpose of the NSS. The ideological orientation of the NSS is inspired by the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. Very appropriately, the motto of NSS is "NOT ME, BUT YOU". An NSS volunteer places the 'community' before 'self'. This is part of the third dimension of education, namely, value education, which is becoming increasingly important.
NSS volunteers have been making very valuable contribution to the Society, besides developing their own personality. During the previous year, NSS units organised 12,628 special camps in adopted villages/ slums across the country. NSS volunteers undertook 91 lakh volunteer-hours of Shramadaan, donated 1.98 lakh units of blood and planted over 13.27 lakh saplings. The volunteers were instrumental in organising about 7,051 Health, Eye and Immunization camps and also 30,011 awareness programmes through rallies and campaigns on various important government programmes and social issues. NSS volunteers facilitated pulse polio immunization of about 6 lakh children. The volunteers have been playing key role in Swachh Bharat Mission, spreading digital literacy and in popularization of Yoga. On the occasion of International Day of Yoga last year, about 11.19 lakh NSS volunteers participated in yoga programmes across the country.
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is committed to expand NSS in a big way. So far, the NSS covers less than 10% of the students eligible to join it. Efforts are being made to increase funding support for NSS and meanwhile, setting up of Self-Financing Units of NSS has also been permitted. To encourage students to take up NSS, UGC has issued an Advisory to all Universities to introduce NSS as an Elective subject with credits. The Ministry has been rewarding good work done by NSS volunteers by conferring Annual NSS Awards at national level, by providing opportunities to NSS volunteers to participate in Republic Day Parade, International Youth Delegations, Adventure Camps, etc.
While a lot of good work is being done under NSS, there is potential to do much more. The students and NSS volunteers are young Indians and they represent the most dynamic and vibrant section of the Society. These are exciting times in India. The Government of India, under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has embarked on the mission of building a united, strong and modern India – "Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat", following the principle of "Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas". A number of path-breaking initiatives have been taken. 'Make in India' campaign has been launched to develop India as a global manufacturing hub. 'Digital India' initiative seeks to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. A nation-wide campaign to promote Digital Payments is underway. 'Skill India' has being launched to impart necessary skills to prepare Indians for the opportunities in Indian economy as also the opportunities abroad.
A number of initiatives, including Smart Cities Project, have been launched for developing infrastructure. 'Swachh Bharat Mission' and 'Clean Ganga' Mission have been launched for building a clean and green India. A sustained and determined campaign is underway to eliminate the black money and to clean up our Society. NSS volunteers can be contributors as well as beneficiaries of these initiatives. The programme design of NSS needs to constantly evolve to reflect the priorities of the Government and the nation.
The importance of NSS was underlined in an Evaluation Study conducted through Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). In their Study Report, TISS concluded that NSS has been a well-intentioned and an ideologically motivated scheme of the Government of India and that NSS is one of the greatest experiments in the field of youth work in the world. In fact, TISS recommended that NSS should be made mandatory for all public and private funded universities, colleges and institutions and should be integrated as part of the curriculum.
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Q: The infimum and supremum of a set containing rational numbers whose squares satisfies a certain property. Find the infimum,supremum,maximum and minimum of the following set or prove non existence:
$$E = \{\frac{p}{q} \in \mathbb{Q}: p^{2} < 2q^{2}, p,q >0 \}.$$
This question is solved in the following:

But I did not understand why he said that $\omega$ (as he defined in the second picture) is a rational number, Could anyone explain this for me?

A: I think that $[{}\cdot {}]$, as it appears in the first numerator in the definition of $w$, is the floor function (also called the greatest integer function). That makes $[(n+1)s]$ an integer (the greatest integer $m$ such that $m \leq [(n+1)s]$, by definition), so all numerators and denominators in the definition of $w$ are integers, which makes $w$ rational.

A: Another way to approach, e.g., the question of what the maximum is in this set: You are searching for rational numbers $p/q$ with both $p, q > 0$ for which $p^2 < 2q^2$. The last inequality is equivalent to $(p/q)^2 < 2$, which, in turn, is equivalent to $p/q < \sqrt{2}$.
So, you are trying to find the maximum rational $p/q$ that is less than $\sqrt{2}$; but clearly this does not exist, for you can take a rational sequence that is monotonically increasing and converges to $\sqrt{2} \not\in \mathbb{Q}$, which means that for any rational less than $\sqrt{2}$ you can go far out enough in this sequence to find an even greater rational that is still less than $\sqrt{2}$.
A concrete example of such a sequence can be found by looking at the decimal expansion of $\sqrt{2}$:
$$\sqrt{2} = 1.414213\ldots$$
Next, use rationals of the form "natural number" over "power of ten" corresponding to the above:
$$1/1, 14/10, 141/100, 1414/1000, 14142/10000, 141421/100000, 1414213/1000000, \ldots$$
Using this monotonically increasing sequence that converges to $\sqrt{2}$, we find that the maximum of the given set does not exist.

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A free and interactive Canadian gathering of church and denomination leaders across Christian traditions, to learn and dialogue about the Canadian Church.
Preliminary findings from a recent national survey of Canadian congregations
Panel conversations with leaders from flourishing churches, across denominations
Bishop Don Bolen (Regina) on "Vital and Viable Congregations: Reaching Out – Together"
April Yamasaki on "Congregations and Change: Inward, Outward, Godward"
Opportunities to learn from and engage with other attendees
National Congregations Survey Presentati
Download the slides from Joel Thiessen's presentation on National Congregations Survey Data.
Bishop Don Bolen
Donald Bolen is the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina. Prior to that, he served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Saskatoon (2010-2016). He studied at the University of Regina, at Saint Paul in Ottawa, and at Oxford University in England. He was ordained a priest on October 12, 1991 for the Archdiocese of Regina. He is a Member of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, and continues to serve as Co-Chair of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission.
Bishop Don will lead us on the topic: Vital and Viable Congregations: Reaching Out - Together. The address will propose some guidelines by which Christian communities can get to know each other better, and discern whether and to what extent it is appropriate and responsible for them to work together at the service of those in need. It will point to the great blessing and value to the churches themselves, and to the communities in which they live, when they are able to join together in outreach, actively looking for ways to jointly assist and accompany those on the peripheries of our society. It will then present as something of a case study, an initiative of a number of Christian churches in Saskatoon in 2015, as they experienced civic pressure about increased taxation of church property and the societal marginalization of religious communities.
Rev. April Yamasaki
Rev. April Yamasaki is an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church with over 20 years' experience as the Lead Pastor at Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, British Columbia. She is the author of Four Gifts: Seeking Self-Care for Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength; Christ Is for Us: A Lenten Study Based on the Revised Common Lectionary; Sacred Pauses: Spiritual Practices for Personal Renewal; and other books on Christian living.
April will lead us on the topic: Congregations and Change: Inward, Outward, Godward. How do you introduce change and bring people along with you, especially when moving from a more inward looking church to an outward looking one? This is the story of one congregation told by one pastor – what's worked, what hasn't, and why we're all still very much in process. With reflection on Scripture and practical ideas to share.
Fr. Jerome Lavigne
Fr. Jerome Lavigne is Vicar for Catholic Education and Pastor of St. Patrick's in Calgary, Alberta. Fr. Jerome was born in Hull, Quebec and raised in Calgary and Canmore. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Calgary on June 19, 2009. As written in his biography, "when you listen to him speak, you always come away feeling challenged and inspired. Fr. Jerome has a way of unpacking the mysteries of the spiritual life in a way that is as down to earth as it is unmistakably orthodox."
Fr. Jerome will participate in a "stories of flourishing" conversation with Jeremy Duncan and John Pentland.
Fr. Adrian Martens
Fr. Adrian Martens, E.V., is Coordinator of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Catholic Diocese of Calgary. He also serves as Episcopal Vicar for Lay Associations and Associate Priest of Ascension Catholic Parish.
Fr. Adrian will participate in a panel conversation with fellow Catholics in response to Bishop Don's talk, "Vital and Viable Congregations: Reaching Out – Together."
Nicholas Jesson
Nicholas Jesson is a Roman Catholic lay theologian, the ecumenical officer for the Archdiocese of Regina, and the editor of the Margaret O'Gara Ecumenical Dialogue Collection. For over two decades in Saskatoon and Regina, Nick has worked to promote local ecumenical learning, common witness and service, and interfaith relations. Together with his Presbyterian wife, the Rev. Amanda Currie, he is involved in the Interchurch Families International Network.
Nicholas will participate in a panel conversation with fellow Catholics in response to Bishop Don's talk, "Vital and Viable Congregations: Reaching Out – Together.
Fr. Tim Hingston
Fr. Tim Hingston is the Pastor of Saint Matthew Parish in the Glen Abbey area of Oakville and serves as the Ecumenical and Interfaith Officer for the Diocese. In addition to being the Spiritual Leader of an active and vibrant community, much time is spent in teaching and leading ecumenical endeavours.
Fr. Tim will participate in a panel conversation with fellow Catholics in response to Bishop Don's talk, "Vital and Viable Congregations: Reaching Out – Together."
Pastor Jeremy Duncan
Pastor Jeremy Duncan is Lead Pastor at Commons Church in Calgary, Alberta. Jeremy was a pastor for a while. Then he wasn't. Then he was again. Then in 2014 he started Commons Church in Calgary. Four years later Commons is deeply invested in the Kensington neighbourhood where Jeremy lives with his family, and Commons has just launched a new parish in Inglewood. Commons is committed to continue the revitalization of the neighbourhood church for urban Calgary.
Jeremy will participate in a "stories of flourishing" conversation with John Pentland and Fr. Jerome Lavigne.
Rev. John Pentland
Rev. John Pentland is a spiritual teacher, public speaker, theologian and lead minister at Hillhurst United Church in Calgary, Alberta. For the past 30 years John has lived in Alberta, where he served in rural churches, and then worked for
the United Way of Calgary before joining Hillhurst United Church as lead minister in 2004. He is author of the Canadian bestseller: Fishing Tips: How Curiosity Transformed a Community of Faith.
John will participate in a "stories of flourishing" conversation with Jeremy Duncan and Fr. Jerome Lavigne
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Costa Rica Apertura Live Scores & Results, Live Stream, Live Table & Video Highlights
HomeHomeStandingsTableFixturesFixtures
Live Table
CS Cartagines
Jicaral
Santos Dg
CS CartaginesSantos Dg19:00
CS Cartagines - Santos Dg
CS Cartagines are playing Santos Dg at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 21. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
GreciaJicaral19:00
Grecia - Jicaral
Grecia are playing Jicaral at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 21. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
GuadalupeLD Alajuelense19:00
Guadalupe - LD Alajuelense
Guadalupe are playing LD Alajuelense at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 21. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
Perez ZeledonLimon19:00
Perez Zeledon - Limon
Perez Zeledon are playing Limon at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 21. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
San CarlosDeportivo Saprissa19:00
San Carlos - Deportivo Saprissa
San Carlos are playing Deportivo Saprissa at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 21. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
Universidad de Costa RicaCS Herediano19:00
Universidad de Costa Rica - CS Herediano
Universidad de Costa Rica are playing CS Herediano at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 21. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
JicaralCS Cartagines19:00
Jicaral - CS Cartagines
Jicaral are playing CS Cartagines at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 24. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
CS HeredianoGrecia19:00
CS Herediano - Grecia
CS Herediano are playing Grecia at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 24. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
LimonLD Alajuelense19:00
Limon - LD Alajuelense
Limon are playing LD Alajuelense at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 24. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
Santos DgGuadalupe19:00
Santos Dg - Guadalupe
Santos Dg are playing Guadalupe at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 24. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
Deportivo SaprissaPerez Zeledon19:00
Deportivo Saprissa - Perez Zeledon
Deportivo Saprissa are playing Perez Zeledon at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 24. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
Universidad de Costa RicaSan Carlos19:00
Universidad de Costa Rica - San Carlos
Universidad de Costa Rica are playing San Carlos at the Apertura of Costa Rica on July 24. The match will kick off 19:00 UTC.
Ever wondered how you can stream the matches of the Apertura of Costa Rica for free? Well, you've come to the right place as ScoreBat covers all matches of Costa Rica's Apertura in real time providing free live streaming alongside the live scores, match stats, head-to-head results and team lineups. Costa Rica Apertura's live scores are updated in real time so any time a team scores a goal the result is immediately updated and our users can follow the livescore without refreshing the page. It only takes a couple of seconds for the Apertura's livescore to be updated so we can proudly say we are the fastest to deliver the livescore of Costa Rica's Apertura matches. But it's not just the livescore: you can also check who scored the goal, received a yellow card or got substituted alongside the starting lineups and team formations for each match. You can watch the live video of Costa Rica Apertura's matches for free on ScoreBat. Live streaming usually starts a couple of minutes before the kick-off as our sophisticated search crawler finds the best stream for each match of the Apertura of Costa Rica. Please note that we are only providing live-streaming when we can find a publicly available stream so be aware that the live streaming might be unavailable in your region. We are not hosting or broadcasting any video content as all the content is hosted on third party websites like youtube or streamable, so if you think that the video infriges your copyright please contact the website that hosts it.
Apart from the live stream we also have Costa Rica Apertura's goal videos and match highlights updated in real time. The video of each goal is being added usually a minute after the event so you can watch it in case you missed it. We are also adding full match highlights after every match of the Apertura of Costa Rica.
You can check Costa Rica Apertura's live table to see the positions of the teams in real time as the standings are updated instantly. Apart from the total points earned by each team of the Apertura you can also check how many wins, losses and draws each team has, how many goals they have scored or conceded. Costa Rica Apertura's league table is recalculated and resorted the second any of the teams score a goal so you don't need to refresh the page to see the up-to-date standings. So CS Cartagines is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. CS Herediano is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. Deportivo Saprissa is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. Grecia is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. Guadalupe is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. Jicaral is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. LD Alajuelense is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. Limon is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. Perez Zeledon is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. San Carlos is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. Santos Dg is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match. Universidad de Costa Rica is yet to play a match in [object Object] this season.: they have won 0 of their 0 matches in Apertura, drawing 0 and having 0 defeats this season scoring 0 goals - NaN per match, conceding 0 - NaN per match.


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Colombia's Stance On The Venezuela Political Crisis
Colombia and Venezuela share more than a thousand miles of border, and more than a million Venezuelans have recently poured across that border. So Venezuela's economic and political chaos are sending shockwaves across Colombia. Francisco Santos is Colombia's ambassador to the United States, and he joins us now in the studio to discuss the next steps in Venezuela. Welcome.
FRANCISCO SANTOS: Ari, it's a pleasure being here.
SHAPIRO: Just to remind listeners, two men claim to lead Venezuela. Nicolas Maduro is holding onto power. He has the support of Russia and China, among other countries. And many Western countries, including the U.S. and Colombia, support opposition leader Juan Guaido. They've been calling for Maduro to step down, and he refuses.
So how do you see the stalemate ending?
SANTOS: Let me add something. It's not only Colombia. You have 600,000 Venezuelans in Peru. You have 250,000 Venezuelans in Ecuador. You had 180,000 in Chile, and you have around 100,000 in Argentina.
SHAPIRO: And so the population is pouring out of the country.
SANTOS: It's a continental crisis. It's something that the Western Hemisphere has not had in its history. So it's a very, very big challenge that can destabilize the whole continent.
SHAPIRO: And how do you reverse this?
SANTOS: I think, obviously, Maduro must step down. Obviously, what we need is free and fair democratic votes in Venezuela, which is something that was taken away from the Venezuelans many, many years ago. So we're working, all of the countries, to get important members of the military to back Guaido, and I think that's the tipping point.
SHAPIRO: The U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was in your country, Colombia, this week, where he insisted that all options remain on the table. That includes military options. As ambassador, what have you told the U.S. about that possibility?
SANTOS: We have never discussed anything related to military action.
SHAPIRO: At all? You haven't even warned them against it?
SANTOS: No, no. We haven't discussed that. We've worked very clearly in terms of diplomatic pressure, economic pressure. The economic sanctions are only starting to hurt. Probably, there's two or three more weeks of cash that they have, and then they're literally going to run out of cash. So that's another step.
SHAPIRO: Are you saying you expect this to end in two or three weeks?
SANTOS: No, no, no - that the crisis will deepen and that even the most staunch supporters of Maduro will start looking the other way. And we hope that this will end well, but it can go bad very quickly. For the first time, I heard in the border people saying, we want weapons. And they can get weapons.
SHAPIRO: Who at the border is asking for weapons? What do you mean there?
SANTOS: The young kids who are throwing rocks at the other side, trying to get the...
SHAPIRO: Do you mean kids on the Colombia side throwing rocks at the Venezuelan military?
SANTOS: Yeah. The Venezuelan kids.
SHAPIRO: Venezuelan...
SANTOS: And saying, listen, we're not going to let them kill us without being able to protect ourselves. That's the first time I've heard that. And I was worried sick because it's very easy to get weapons. We don't want to follow that path. That path is a civil war. And a civil war would be a disaster for the U.S., for Canada, for all the country.
SHAPIRO: Maduro claims that this is a U.S.-backed coup effort, that Juan Guaido is a puppet of the Americans. Does the Trump administration risk playing into that narrative with its actions?
SANTOS: Well, I think he, Maduro, wants that to be the discourse. But if you look, almost all of the countries in Latin America are for a Maduro exit. This, the Grupo de Lima, did not have the U.S.
SHAPIRO: The Grupo de Lima is an association of Latin American countries that came out with a statement saying it's time for Maduro to leave.
SANTOS: Exactly. And the U.S. wasn't there. It's not present. This is something that Colombia has led. You have Argentina. You have Brazil. You have Chile. You have Panama, Costa Rica. So this is something that the continent has led and has led diplomatically. And, look, for the first time in Latin American history, Latin American countries are sanctioning another country from Latin America without the U.S. being involved. That shows a maturity from the Latin American diplomacy that we didn't have five, 10, 15, 20 years ago.
SHAPIRO: The humanitarian crisis is one of the worst in Latin American history, and more Venezuelans have gone to Colombia than any other country. Does Colombia have what it needs to deal with the need there?
SANTOS: No. We are doing our best effort. But I'll give you - more than 180,000 attendances in ICU are Venezuelans in the last year. Hundred and eighty-thousand.
SHAPIRO: People, Venezuelans in the ICU in Colombia, in Colombia...
SANTOS: Because of malnutrition. Kids come. Women, pregnant, ready to lose the baby because of malnourishment. We have seen chicken pox, we have seen polio - sicknesses that, in Colombia, were eradicated decades ago are back. So our health system is very stressed. Our classrooms are up to the limit. If we get one more million - that can happen very quickly - they will start affecting employment in Colombia for Colombians. And then you can have xenophobia, and you have something like that. And that's a flame that, you light it, and you don't know how to put it down.
So, yes, we're worried. The U.S. is helping, definitely. Very much so. We need more help to treat this huge migration crisis.
SHAPIRO: Ambassador Santos, thank you so much.
SANTOS: Thank you.
SHAPIRO: Francisco Santos is Colombia's ambassador to the United States. And elsewhere on the show, we hear from Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special envoy for Venezuela. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Mets Player Gets Traded, Cries in the Field, and Then Gets Untraded in One Game
Every Mets fan should love Wilmer Flores right about now.
By Jack Moore
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During last night's Mets-Padres game in Queens, news broke that the Mets had traded short stop Wilmer Flores along with Zach Wheeler to the Milwaukee Brewers for Carlos Gomez. This happens sometimes. News of completed trades will leak out during a game. But what typically happens at that point, is the players who are involved in the trade are taken out of the game. Typically we think this happens mostly to prevent an injury that could screw up the trade. But after the Gomez deal leaked, Flores was not taken out of the game. And this wasn't a case of just the announcers knowing and the player not. Flores found out about the deal and as he was continuously sent out to play short stop for a team that just got rid of him, he began to cry.
It's important to note that Flores should feel no shame about this. Imagine hearing that everything you have gotten used to about your life is changing over night (and not necessarily for the better) and you have no say in the matter. Plus, you're on television in front of a few million people. That's enough to make anyone emotional. It was impossible not to feel bad for Flores. And if you're a Mets fan, it's hard not to love a guy who so clearly and desperately didn't want to leave.
Well, it turns out that Flores and his tears got a second chance in New York, because shortly after the game, the deal fell apart. Which means that nice ovation that Flores got from the Queens crowd wasn't goodbye after all. It ended up being more of a "Hey, we really like you too."
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