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Vamangamayami tada tvadiyam braviti kanya vachanam dvitiyam!! Iska ek karan shaadi ke saat vachan in hindi bhi hai ki bhagvaan ne indradhanush mai saat rang banaye hai, sangeet mai saat sur diye hai. May we be blessed with noble and obedient children. I vow to remain chaste.
Iss teesare vachan ke madhayam se kanya apne pati se vachan mangti hai aur kehti hai ki aap jeevan ki aane wali teeno avashthao mai jaise yuvavastha, praudhavastha, vrdhavastha mai mera aur kutumb ke sath ghar mai rehne wale pashuo ka bhi palan poshan karoge to mai aapki ardhangini banna swikaar karti hu. You have brought sacredness into my kke, and have completed me. Vivah har kisi ke jeevan ka ek mahatvpurn hissa hai. You are my best friend, and staunchest well-wisher. Ab jab hum vivah ke bandhan hindo bandhne ja rahe hai to bhavishya mai hone wali parivar ki sabhi jarurato ko puri karne ki jimmedari aapke kandhe par hogi.
Shaadi ke saat vachan in bad var bhi vadhu se apne vchan ek vachan mangta hai, ki tum meri salah lekar chalogi, mere vishvaas ko hamesha banaye rakhogi aur mujhse baat karte samay madhur vachano ka shaadi ke saat vachan in karogi, sath hi ghar parivaar se shaadi ke saat vachan in hindi saari vachn mai mera sath dogi, saas sasur shaadi ke saat vachan in hindi seva aur humesha patni-vrat ka palan karte huye ishavar bhakti mai leen rahogi to mai tumhe apne jeevan ka hissa banate huye apni ardhangini hone ka adhikar deta hu.
Aur shaadi ke saat vachan in dharm ka palan karte huye ishvar ki puja karenge.
Having understood the concept of Saat Pheras and the Saat Vachan, I realized that this ritual has far a deeper significance than just being a symbolic act. Agar pratyek joda inn vaxhan ka shaadi ke saat vachan in hindi tarah se palan kare to dahej jaisi kupratha ki nobat hi nahi shqadi.
Having recited the Seven Vows the couple is then asked to take a common shaadi ke saat vachan in after they have finished the Saat Pheras.
Isi vachan ke sath mai aapki ardhangini banna swikar karti hu. Iss vachan ko dhyaan rakhte huye var ko kanya ke parivaar ke sath sadvyvhaar karna chahiye. Saaf vachan se keval vartman hi nahi apitu bhavishya shaadi ke saat vachan in hindi sukhdpurn bitega. Parastriyan matrsamaan sameekshy sneh sada chinmayi kaatan kurya.
Uske bad kanya patni banker jeevan bhar sath dene sada ke liye pati ke ghar aa jati hai. I will love you solely for the rest of my life, as you are my husband. Unki Shaadi shuda jindgi shaadi ke saat vachan in kabhi koi pareshani nahi aati hai. Jiske karan vo shaadi ke sabhi shaadi ke saat vachan in hindi ko puri tarah se palan nahi kar pate hai. I am responsible for the home and all household responsibilities. Jaisa aapko bataya gaya hai hindu dharm ke anusaar saat ank bahut shubh mana gaye hai.
This custom is more kd less the same across all Hindu marriages across India. Iss dusre vachan ka artha hai ki; patni apne pati se vachan shaadi ke saat vachan in hai aur kehti hai jis tarah aap apne mata pita ka aadar aur samman karte hai.
The holy fire is the shzadi to the promises the bride and groom make to each other and these seven vows form crux of a good marriage. Home Remedies for Dry Socket: We will shaadii, honor and cherish each shaadi ke saat vachan in forever. Vivah mai yeh kanya dwara var se liya gaya pehla vachan hai. Shadai these seven circles are complete, the couple is officially declared husband and wife.
In nsaat vachno ki ek khas vachaan yeh bhi hai ki ye shaadi ke saat vachan in vachan kanya dwara liye jate hai. I will always be by your side. I promise to vaxhan and cherish you for as long as I live. You are shaadi ke saat vachan in and I am yours for eternity. I will shower you with joy, from head to toe. This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 22nd, at 2: When the couple takes seven steps around the fire, it suggests that married life should be pure, sacred and immortal like the fire.
You will offer me food and be helpful in every way. Isliye vivah mai bhi kanya apne var se saat vachan shaadj hai. I will cherish you and provide welfare and happiness for you and our children. Iss akhari vachan mai patni apne pati saqt kehti hai ki aap mere alawa har stri ko mata aur behan ke saman samjhoge. Yeh saat vachan jeevan ki har duvidha ko sammapt kar dete hai.
You have come into my life, enriching it. Both comments and pings are currently closed. We are now husband and wife, and are one. May you be filled kee joy and peace. May we grow wealthy and prosperous and strive for the education of our children.
Your happiness is my happiness, and your sorrow is my sorrow. Each and every vow has its own significance individually and mutually for the shaadi ke saat vachan in and shqadi is a specific order in which they are recited.
Feeling enlightened, I have now decided that the next time my husband picks up a fight with me, I am going to remind him shaasi Seven Vows! We shall share love, share the same food, share our strengths, share the same tastes.
Samasth pujan, saptvadi aadi ho jane par bhi jab tak kanya var ke bayi taraf nahi bethti tab tak kanya kunvari hi kehlati hai. Jeevanam avasthatray mam paalana kuryaah.
Aesi manyta hai ki saat suro ke milne se sangeet banta hai, jiski dhun se jivan sharas ho jata hai. We shall be of one mind; we shall observe the vows together. Then the couple circumambulates seven times around the sacred fire called Agnikund reciting the holy vows as directed by the Pandit.


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A Federal High Court, Lagos, Wednesday, granted former Ekiti State Governor,Ayo Fayose, bail.
The bail is coming nine days after he submitted himself to the Economic and financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He exited office as the Ekiti State Governor on October 16.
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun, granted bail to Fayose in the sum of N50m with two sureties who are to deposit N50m bond each in a reputable bank.
They were as well asked to provide three years tax clearance.
She also directed that the former Governor to deposit his international passport with the registrar of the court.
Earlier, Kanu Agabi, counsel to Fayose, urged the court to grant bail to his client based on self-recognition on grounds that he voluntarily submitted himself to the EFCC.
But the commission opposed the bail request, saying that on the day Fayose arrived at the EFCC headquarters, he was accompanied by hoodlums, who were willing to attack their officials.
The commission also argued that they are still tracing other properties acquired by the former Governor with the proceeds of the alleged laundered funds.
But in her ruling, she refused the objection of the EFCC and granted the defendant bail.
Fayose is facing an 11-count charge of conspiracy and money laundering amounting to N1.2bn.
The former Governor and his company, Spotless Limited, pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
According to the EFCC, Fayose received N1.2bn to fund his 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Ekiti State, money, the anti-graft commission said he ought to know formed part of proceeds of an unlawful act.
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Q: Implementing "select distinct ... from ..." over a list of Python dictionaries Here is my problem: I have a list of Python dictionaries of identical form, that are meant to represent the rows of a table in a database, something like this:
[ {'ID': 1,
   'NAME': 'Joe',
   'CLASS': '8th',
   ... },
  {'ID': 1,
   'NAME': 'Joe',
   'CLASS': '11th',
   ... },
  ...]

I have already written a function to get the unique values for a particular field in this list of dictionaries, which was trivial. That function implements something like:
select distinct NAME from ...
However, I want to be able to get the list of multiple unique fields, similar to:
select distinct NAME, CLASS from ...
Which I am finding to be non-trivial. Is there an algorithm or Python included function to help me with this quandry?
Before you suggest loading the CSV files into a SQLite table or something similar, that is not an option for the environment I'm in, and trust me, that was my first thought.

A: If you want it as a generator:
def select_distinct(dictionaries, keys):
  seen = set()
  for d in dictionaries:
    v = tuple(d[k] for k in keys)
    if v in seen: continue
    yield v
    seen.add(v)

if you want the result in some other form (e.g., a list instead of a generator) it's not hard to alter this (e.g., .append to the initially-empty result list instead of yielding, and return the result list at the end).
To be called, of course, as
for values_tuple in select_distinct(thedicts, ('NAME', 'CLASS')):
    ...

or the like.

A: distinct_list =  list(set([(d['NAME'], d['CLASS']) for d in row_list]))
where row_list is the list of dicts you have

A: One can implement the task using hashing. Just hash the content of rows that appear in the distinct query and ignore the ones with same hash.

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ANDREA ARNOLD RETROSPECTIVE: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Previously tackled by filmmakers as diverse as Jacques Rivette and Luis Buñuel, Arnold's terse adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel emphasises its rougher edges, most notably in casting Heathcliff as Afro-Caribbean, adding extra layers to the hostility with which both the character and his relationship with Catherine is met. While less genteel than earlier versions, this film retains the passion of the source material.
Also screening will be the director's Oscar-winning short Wasp (26 mins, UK, 2003), where a single mother leaves her children to fend for themselves while she meets an old boyfriend.
Screening as part of the Andrea Arnold Retrospective (October 8th-16th 2016).
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Private investigators and private detectives can't only rely on their experience or training. This is on account of the fact that private investigators and private detectives could be investigating unscrupulous people who are well-aware of the different investigation techniques which enable them to detect and counter the investigation becoming conducted by a private investigator or private detective. If a private investigator or private detective's presence is identified this circumstance would prove to be really dangerous on the part of the private investigator or private detective. The risk however is necessary inside the job of a private investigator and private detective due to the fact he or she has to collect factual data from the individual topic of his or her investigation, this nonetheless does not mean that private investigators and private detectives should be exposing themselves to plenty of risks. Gathering information is equally important as that of protecting oneself from harm. This is the main reason why private investigators and private detectives arm themselves with all the diverse information gathering devices that could be effortlessly concealed from the sight of the person subject of the investigation.
1 such device will be the BIC style lighter which is really a disguised Camera and DVR. This camera and DVR style lighter was developed making use of the actual size of the original BIC lighter which thus would conceal the actual functionality of the device. It can deliver high resolution video and audio recordings and that it really is capable of automation when it detects a sound of 65 decibels exactly where the CCTV camera would start recording too as the audio or microphone. It truly is equipped with a rechargeable battery which could be charged using a PC or by means of its adaptor. Recording time is about two hours through its vast storage default of 2 GB SD Card which can be expanded to as much as 8GB. The Camera has a viewing angle of about sixty five degrees and it really is capable of operating even in low-light condition of as much as 1 lux. This device would definitely support private investigators and private detectives in their quest for gathering factual data from unscrupulous individuals or from the individual topic of their investigation.


v.to.points - Creates points along input lines in new vector map with 2 layers.
v.to.points creates points along input 2D or 3D lines, boundaries and faces. Point features including centroids and kernels are copied from input vector map to the output. For details see notes about type parameter.
The output is a vector map with 2 layers. Layer 1 holds the category of the input features; all points created along the same line have the same category, equal to the category of that line. In layer 2 each point has its unique category; other attributes stored in layer 2 are lcat - the category of the input line and along - the distance from line's start.
By default only features with category are processed, see layer parameter for details.
The dmax parameter is the maximum limit but not an exact distance. To place points with exact distance from the beginning of the vector line the user should use v.segment.
Set layer to -1 to process features from all layers including features without category. Features will be assigned new unique categories at layer 1. Option layer=-1 should be used to convert boundaries, as in most of cases boundaries lack category values.
Points and centroids can be considered as "lines" with only one node. Consequently, the result of selecting point or centroid as the type parameter is that all points/centroids get written into the output vector map. The original category numbers of the input points/centroids get written to the 'lcat' attribute in layer 2 of the output vector map. All values for along are zero in the output vector map, as only point geometry was used for input (there is no linear distance to calculate along, as each point/centroid is the start and end of its own "line").
Boundaries are treated as lines, with points getting interpolated along the boundary perimeter according to dmax. If two adjoining polygons share a topological boundary, the boundary only gets converted to points once.
If the type parameter is set to area, the boundary of each area is converted to points regardless of whether or not there is a topological boundary between adjacent areas. In other words, the common boundary of two adjoining areas, for example, gets converted to points twice. The centroid is not converted to a point in the output vector for type=area.
The use=vertex option is used to digitize points that fall on the line's vertices only. Parameter dmax is ignored in this case. Similarly to use=node when only line's node are used.
If the -i flag is used in conjunction with the use=vertex option, v.to.points will digitize points on the line vertices, as well as interpolate points between line vertices using dmax as the maximum allowable spacing.
Hence, if dmax is between 0.5x and 1.0x the line length, you will always get points created at exactly the beginning, middle and end of the input line.
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A competição de taekwondo até 57 kg feminino nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020, em Tóquio, ocorreu no dia 25 de Julho no Hall A do Makuhari Messe, Tóquio. No total, 17 atletas de 17 CONs participaram do evento.

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Q: Recommendation for screen video capture for demos I am just in the process of making some little demo tutorial videos for my app to help users get up to speed.  I have used Camtasia in the past but don't really like it.  Anyone have any recommendations.  Good is more important than free, but free certainly helps.
I can use Windows or Mac for this job.

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HomeThe Big Stories'Poverty, racism and war' drove Marshall to make a difference
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Hugh Marshall Senior (front left) with Governor General Sir Rodney Williams and Lady Williams, and members of the Marshall family, during Friday's ceremony (Photo by Gemma Handy)
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A childhood surrounded by poverty – followed by experiencing racism as a young man in England – galvanised Hugh Marshall Senior to strive to make a better life for his compatriots.
The 84-year-old former government minister was yesterday presented with an insignia by the Governor General as a symbol of the award he was given by the Queen in January in recognition of his services to Antigua and Barbuda.
The investiture ceremony took place at Government House, attended by Marshall's friends, family and dignitaries who heard how Marshall had "made it his business to make a difference".
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), upon the recommendation of the Governor General and advice of Prime Minister Gaston Browne, in the Queen's New Year Honours List 2021. The CBE is the highest ranking Order of the British Empire Award.
His Excellency Sir Rodney Williams said it was "fitting" that Marshall should receive the award "in his homeland where the people who chose him as their parliamentary representative" resided, rather than travelling to the UK for the ceremony.
Sir Rodney spoke of Marshall's "exemplary service", describing him as a "commanding presence" who "always thought outside the box".
Born in Jennings in May 1937, Marshall came from modest beginnings, his first job as an agriculture ranger with the Peasant Development Office (PDO).
He moved to London in 1960 where he married, before returning home in 1971. There, he joined the Antigua Labour Party, campaigning for the abolition of income tax and the creation of the State Insurance Corporation which still thrives today.
He was made a senator in the late 1970s and was the driving force behind the Coolidge Industrial Park, bringing in investors and ultimately creating more than 3,000 jobs.
From 1980 to 1994, Marshall served as MP for St Mary's South – the same seat his daughter Samantha Marshall now holds – and was given the ministerial portfolio for trade and economic development.
He was the vision and influence behind the OECS Stock Market, the Jolly Beach Resort and the Jolly Harbour Marina, the largest of its kind in the region.
Marshall's contributions also include the introduction of a clause in the Constitution which enables the transfer of citizenship to grandchildren.
The father-of-seven biological children, two adopted children and 13 grandchildren told attendees yesterday, "this award is your award".
In a heartfelt speech, he spoke of his humble past.
"Growing up in Jennings as a young boy, I saw poverty around us. I remember going to school without shoes," he recalled. "My life changed when I went to England and came face to face with the reality of life – racism.
"That was a triggering moment for me."
He added, "The other moment was during the Vietnam War, seeing people fighting for what they believed were the rights of their country. I said to myself – I don't have to fight; I only have to go home."
Marshall was also chairman of the now defunct Lee Wind Paints, a position he held until 2017.
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In the market for a new knee? Welcome to the crowd. From 2005 through 2030, the demand for new knees will skyrocket an estimated 673 percent—adding up to some 3.48 million knee replacement surgeries per year. Revision surgeries—to fix or replace a previous knee replacement—are expected to soar 601 percent.
If you're hobbled by knee osteoarthritis, knee replacement surgery—officially known as knee arthroplasty—can transform your life. Make no mistake about it: Knee surgery is tough. But the actions you take and the decisions you make before and after the procedure will influence how quickly you can be out and about. Here an owner's guide to successful knee replacement surgery.
Watch the pre-op pain meds. Relying on prescription opioids to control pre-op knee pain may mean more trouble recovering from surgery. According to a study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, people who used opioids for six weeks or longer before being operated on were more likely to need additional surgical procedures for persistent stiffness and/or pain. They also spent more time in the hospital; on average they were discharged 4.3 days after surgery compared with 3.4 days for people who didn't use painkillers. A possible reason: Opioids may increase sensitivity to pain so it's harder to control post-op discomfort.
Stop smoking. Not only is it bad for your lungs, but also it slows tissue healing and lowers bone density. Oxygen helps to heal soft tissue and smoking reduces the amount that reaches tissue, reports an article in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. The carbon monoxide in tobacco decreases blood flow to tissues, also slowing healing. One analysis reported that smokers are six times more likely than nonsmokers to develop post-surgical infections. Finally, because of its effects on tissue and bone, smoking may increase the chances of a knee implant loosening.
Ask about the implant. Getting the latest high-tech knee implant isn't necessarily a good idea, especially if you're among the first to receive it. Finnish researchers found that a hospital's first 15 recipients of a new knee prosthesis are 48 percent more likely to need surgery within two years to repair or replace it. "There is always a learning curve with any new prosthesis or procedure," says Cooper, founder of The Knee Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. "You would never want to be among the first to try something new." If your surgeon recommends a brand-new model, ask him how many he has implanted. "Make sure you're not being experimented on," advises Cooper. Another issue to consider: The typical artificial knee lasts 15 to 20 years. So the older you are when you receive the implant, the less likely you are to benefit from any tweaks in durability.
Get thee to a dentist. When your knee hurts, your teeth are probably the last things on your mind. But they could affect your recovery. Have your teeth cleaned and any cavities—which are caused by bacteria—filled before surgery. "Transient bacteria on the teeth can travel through the bloodstream to the knee," explains Cooper. That can up your odds of developing a post-op infection.Wash down your legs. Cooper has patients scrub their legs with an antibacterial cleanser for a week prior to surgery. "It reduces the amount of bacteria on skin, which is where most infections start," he explains. Ask your surgeon to recommend a soap.Stop the aspirin. To minimize blood loss post-surgery, stop using aspirin, which keeps blood from clotting, at least a week before. (Your surgeon will give you specific guidelines.) If you take prescription medication to thin your blood, tell your surgeon and ask your prescribing physician if and when you can safely stop the medication.
Get in shape. University of Kentucky researchers had one group of knee replacement candidates stretch, strengthen leg muscles using light resistance bands, and do step exercises and easy walking three times per week for four to eight weeks before surgery. A "usual care" group continued with normal activities. By the end of the study, the exercisers had increased the strength of the leg to be operated on by 10 percent. The non-exercisers had a 10 percent decrease in strength. Since the ability to walk, climb stairs and do other activities may predict how you fare after surgery, improving leg strength before going under the knife may speed your recovery, say the researchers.
Be pro-active about clots. Because you're not as active after a knee replacement, your blood flow slows down, increasing clot risk. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recommends that patients take an anticoagulant and/or use calf compression stockings for up to a month after surgery to prevent clots.
Move ASAP. The sooner you start using that new knee, the better. Spanish researchers found that gentle rehabilitation started within 24 hours post-surgery reduced the number of days a patient spent in the hospital and the number of physical therapy sessions needed to walk and be independent. What's more, people who started rehab early had less post-op pain, better range of motion and more strength in the thigh muscles than people who started rehab 48 to 72 hours after the new knee was implanted. Therapy consisted of easy moves such as contracting and flexing the ankle, tightening the muscles around the knee, gently bending the knee, standing and walking a short distance.
Rehab your quads. Weak quadriceps muscles are common after knee replacement, explains Dr. Lynn Snyder-Mackler, a professor in the department of physical therapy at the University of Delaware in Newark. And that can affect your ability to resume normal activities. In a recent study published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism, she and her colleagues found that people who strengthened their quads—the ones in front of the thighs that stabilize and move the knee—after knee surgery ended up functioning about as well as healthy people of the same age. What it takes: Starting four weeks after surgery, people did six weeks of progressive strength-training two to three times per week, for a minimum of 12 physical therapy sessions. In addition to strengthening the quads, patients worked on their hamstrings (the muscles in the back of the thighs), their calf muscles, and their hip abductors and flexors, which help you rise from a chair and walk, One group of exercisers also received neuromuscular electric stimulation. At both the three and 12 month follow-ups, people who did the strength-training—with or without the stimulation—out-performed those who received usual care on measures of function such as getting out of a chair, walking for six minutes and going down six steps.
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Published: November 9, 2022, 6:19 PM
Updated: November 9, 2022, 11:14 PM
Tags: Chuck Gray, Mehmet Oz, Government, Election, Doug Mastriano, Joe Biden, Tim Michels, Kris Kobach, Josh Shapiro, Donald Trump, politics, Kari Lake, Katie Hobbs
Candidates who backed overturning Trump loss are rebuffed
Published: November 9, 2022, 6:19 PM Updated: November 9, 2022, 11:14 PM
FILE - Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano speaks to supporters during an election night campaign event at the Penn Harris Hotel in Camp Hill, Pa., Nov. 8, 2022. Election deniers who backed Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election failed in some of their highest-profile races. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Republicans made a striking decision earlier this year to nominate candidates for top statewide posts in swing states who backed overturning President Donald Trump's loss in 2020. Most of those candidates lost in the midterm election.
Doug Mastriano, who commissioned buses to take Pennsylvanians to the Jan. 6, 2021, protests in Washington failed in his bid to become that state's governor. Kristina Karamo, a community college instructor who spread misinformation about voting on Twitter even on Election Day, was crushed by Michigan's Democratic secretary of state.
Mathew DePerno, an attorney who filed a lawsuit spreading Trump's election lies in Michigan in 2020, lost his bid to be that state's attorney general. Audrey Trujillo, a political novice who cheered Trump's defiance of the vote in 2020, was defeated for New Mexico secretary of state.
Two such races remained too close to call on Wednesday — Arizona and Nevada. And in more conservative states, from Indiana to Kansas, election conspiracy theorists still won key positions.
Many observers argued that the 2022 midterm election has shown that imperiling democracy is not politically successful.
"It turns out that trying to overturn an election is not wildly popular with the American people," said Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster.
That even extends to Arizona, Ayres added, where a prominent former television newscaster-turned-election-conspiracy-theorist, Kari Lake, remains in a right race for governor against Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, whose campaign has been widely panned.
"The fact that it is close with a very polished, very good Republican candidate and a very weak, very unpolished Democratic candidate tells you how much of a weight election denial is on a Republican candidate," Ayres said.
Lies and conspiracy theories about elections burrowed deeply into the 2022 Republican field, with nearly one-third of the party's 85 candidates for governor, secretary of state and attorney general embracing Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 loss.
About half of those won — almost all of them incumbents, except for candidates such as Kris Kobach, a member of Trump's 2016 voter fraud commission who won the race for attorney general in Kansas, and Chuck Gray, a Wyoming state representative who ran unopposed for secretary of state in that heavily Republican state.
More significant are the outcomes in the six states that clinched Joe Biden's win in 2020 and where Trump and his allies disputed his loss.
In most of those states, as in most of the country, the secretary of state is the top election official while the governor and attorney general often play key roles in voting rules and certifying election results.
In Georgia, Trump unsuccessfully backed a slate of election conspiracy theorists in the GOP primary in May, seeking revenge against incumbent Republicans who rebuffed his requests to overturn his loss.
On Tuesday, Trump lost bids to install supporters in three more of those pivotal states. In Pennsylvania, Mastriano would have had the power to appoint a secretary of state to oversee voting, but he was routed in the governors race by Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro. In Wisconsin, Trump's pick for governor, Tim Michels, lost to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, dooming Republican dreams of disbanding or significantly overhauling the state's bipartisan election commission.
In Michigan, Karamo and DePerno had been key players in spreading misinformation about Trump's loss in 2020. Along with Tudor Dixon, the party's nominee for governor who repeated Trump's election lies, they provided a drag on the GOP ticket that contributed to Democrats capturing full control of the statehouse for the first time in decades.
In two other competitive states — Minnesota and New Mexico — GOP candidates for secretary of state who echoed Trump's election lies lost badly, performing worse than the top of their respective tickets.
"There are more of us pro-democracy Americans who are not Democrats — who look at the Republican Party and say 'That is not for me' — and that was borne out last night," said Jeff Timmers, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.
Nevada and Arizona will continue to test that idea as ballots are tallied in their close races for top statewide posts.
Nevada is where former state lawmaker Jim Marchant organized a coalition of election conspiracy theorists to run for voting posts nationwide as he himself ran for his state's secretary of state position.
Democracy advocates were optimistic on Wednesday, especially as some Republicans conceded their losses without alleging mass fraud.
"We're seeing a bit of a scramble for the right message" among election deniers online, said Emma Steiner, who monitors disinformation for Common Cause.
She said concessions from candidates including Dixon in Michigan and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania make "it a little more difficult for election deniers to continue."
But even as advocates celebrated, they kept a wary eye on Arizona and Nevada and acknowledged that Trump has inflicted grave damage on the trust in democracy that helps bind the country together.
"Without a doubt, election denial is alive and well, and this is a continuing threat," said Joanna Lydgate of States United, which has sought to publicize the danger of election conspiracy theorists. But she took solace in Tuesday's results.
"It was a really good night for democracy," Lydgate said.
Associated Press writer Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, contributed to this report.
Follow the AP's coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. And check out https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms.


NASAA is a collective task force made up of representatives from the US, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Its aim is to uncover illegitimate cryptocurrency scams, and protect potential unwitting investors. "State and provincial securities regulators are committing significant regulatory resources to protect investors from financial harm involving fraudulent ICOs and cryptocurrency-related investment products and also are raising awareness among industry participants of their regulatory responsibilities," said NASAA President and Alabama Securities Commission Director Joseph P. Borg, in the announcement.
The point NASAA makes is that, if cryptocurrencies qualify as securities then they must be subject to, and apply for specific regulatory certification, or they must apply for exemption. Either way they must acknowledge this regulatory process in some way, the reality is, many do not. A full list of all those being investigated as part of "Operation Cryptosweep" can be seen here. It seems the primary reason for investigation is due to selling "unregistered securities." The rise of the ICO presents a challenging future for cryptocurrency investors, and the general public alike. With a widely unregulated field, there are few safeguards to protect investors from dodgy scams.
At Hard Fork we recently reported how most of the top 100 cryptocurrencies don't actually have a working product, giving investors no return for their money. What's more, cryptocurrency exit scams exist, which specifically aim to raise money and run. They've illegitimately taken over $100 million from investors. Supposed regulation is one of blockchain and cryptocurrency's most challenging issues right now. Whether for or against great control of our digital assets, hopefully "Operation Cryptosweep" will help to legitimize the field, and weed out the crooks.
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Юрий Николаевич Вернидуб (; ) — советский и украинский футболист, защитник и полузащитник; тренер.

Биография
Футболом начал заниматься в родном Житомире, в командах мастеров дебютировал в 1983 году в местном «Спартаке» во второй союзной лиге. В 1985 году призван в армию, во время службы выступал за команду Львовского военно-политического училища в соревнованиях коллективов физкультуры. В 1987 году защищал цвета никопольского «Колоса», а в 1988 году был приглашен в «Днепр», но, так и не проведя ни одной игры ни за основу, ни за дубль, покинул команду. Игрока взял клуб второй лиги «Прикарпатье», где он и провёл остаток 1988 года.

В 1989 году перешёл в клуб первой лиги «Металлург» Запорожье, с которым смог подняться в высшую лигу, где дебютировал 11 марта 1991 года в матче против московского «Спартака» (2:1). После распада Союза продолжил выступления в «Металлурге» в высшей лиге чемпионата Украины, где провёл ещё два сезона.

В 1994—1996 годах играл за другой запорожский клуб высшей лиги «Торпедо» Запорожье, хотя перед этим летом 1993 года уехал за границу, подписав контракт с немецким клубом «Кемницер», выступавшим во второй Бундеслиге. С 1997 играл за «Зенит» Санкт-Петербург, где был капитаном команды. Стал обладателем Кубка России 1998/99, в 1999 году дебютировал в еврокубках.

Окончил Академию имени Лесгафта (Санкт-Петербург). Работал тренером в запорожском «Металлурге». С 23 августа по 29 сентября 2007 года был исполняющим обязанности главного тренера.

С ноября 2011 года исполняющий обязанности главного тренера луганской «Зари». Со 2 мая 2012 года назначен главным тренером клуба, который возглавлял до 31 мая 2019 года. За это время смог впервые в истории вывести луганский клуб в финал национального кубка страны и добыть бронзовые награды чемпионата Украины. Также команда под его руководством 5 сезонов подряд выступала в еврокубках, из них дважды была участником группового этапа Лиги Европы УЕФА. В личном плане — дважды признавался тренером года.

В ноябре 2019 возглавил белорусский клуб «Шахтёр» из Солигорска.

В декабре 2020 года был приглашён в молдавский «Шериф», с которым в сезоне 2020/21 стал чемпионом страны и вышел в финал Кубка Молдавии (проигрыш в серии послематчевых пенальти). В последующем сезоне, пройдя все четыре раунда квалификации и не проиграв в них ни одного матча (в активе команды шесть побед и две ничьи), «Шериф» стал первым футбольным клубом в истории Молдавии, отобравшимся в групповой этап Лиги чемпионов УЕФА, а Юрий Вернидуб — вторым украинским тренером после Сергея Реброва, сумевшим вывести иностранный клуб в данную стадию турнира.

В 2022 году после вторжения России на Украину вступил в ряды Вооружённых сил Украины.

В июне 2022 года стал главным тренером клуба «Кривбасс».

Достижения

В качестве игрока
«Зенит»
 Обладатель Кубка России: 1998/99
«Металлург» (З)
 Бронзовый призёр Первой лиги СССР: 1990

В качестве тренера
«Заря»
 Финалист Кубка Украины: 2015/16
 Бронзовый призёр чемпионата Украины: 2016/17

«Шахтёр» (Солигорск)
 Финалист Суперкубка Белоруссии: 2020

«Шериф»
 Чемпион Молдавии (2): 2020/21, 2021/22
 Финалист Кубка Молдавии: 2020/21
 Финалист Суперкубка Молдавии: 2021

Личные
  (2): 2016, 2018
 Тренер года в Молдавии: 2021

Государственные награды
 Орден Дружбы (ПМР)

Личная жизнь
Женат. Сын Виталий (род. 1987), футболист.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Статистика на сайте zenit-history.ru
 Заря (Луганск). История и статистика: Вернидуб Юрий Николаевич
Интервью
 Юрій Вернидуб: «Были звонки из России. Я сказал, что не поеду. Моя родина — Украина»
 Юрій Вернидуб: «Після матчу в Роттердамі вистачало сліз і навіть істерик»
 Юрій Вернидуб: «Я не та людина, котра може взяти і змінити країну»

Выпускники Университета имени Лесгафта
Футболисты СССР
Футболисты Украины
Игроки ФК «Полесье» Житомир
Игроки ФК «Электрометаллург-НЗФ»
Игроки ФК «Спартак» Ивано-Франковск
Игроки ФК «Металлург» Запорожье
Игроки ФК «Кемницер»
Игроки ФК «Торпедо» Запорожье
Игроки ФК «Зенит» Санкт-Петербург
Игроки ФК «Зенит-2»
Футбольные тренеры Украины
Тренеры ФК «Металлург» Запорожье
Тренеры ФК «Заря» Луганск
Тренеры ФК «Шахтёр» Солигорск
Тренеры ФК «Шериф»
Тренеры ФК «Кривбасс»
Участники обороны Украины от вторжения России (2022)
Статьи с эдитнотисом об осторожности при редактировании


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Basidio es un esporangio microscópico (una estructura productora de esporas) que se encuentra en el himenio de los cuerpos fructíferos de los hongos basidiomicetos (Basidiomycota), que también se denominan micelio terciario, desarrollado a partir de micelio secundario. El micelio terciario es un micelio secundario muy enrollado: un dicarión. La presencia de basidios es uno de los principales rasgos característicos de los basidiomicetos. Un basidio generalmente tiene cuatro esporas sexuales llamadas basidiosporas; en ocasiones, el número puede ser dos o incluso ocho. En un basidio típico, cada basidiospora nace en la punta de una punta estrecha o cuerno llamado esterigma, y se descarga a la fuerza al madurar.

Estructura

La mayoría de los basidiomicetos tienen basidios unicelulares (holobasidios), pero en algunos grupos los basidios pueden ser multicelulares (fragmobasidios). Por ejemplo, los hongos de la roya de la clase Pucciniomycetes tienen fragmobasidios de cuatro células que están transversalmente septados; algunos hongos gelatinosos del orden Tremellales tienen fragmobasidios de cuatro celdas que están cruzadamente septados. A veces, el basidio (metabasidio) se desarrolla a partir de un probasidio, que es una célula especializada que no es alargada como una hifa típica. El basidio puede ser pedunculado o sésil.

El basidio tiene típicamente la forma de un mazo: estrecho en el tallo y ancho cerca de su extremo exterior. Es más ancho en la cintura de la cúpula hemisférica en su vértice, y su base es aproximadamente la mitad del tamaño del diámetro apical más ancho. Las versiones en las que el basidio es más corto y estrecho en la base se denominan "obovoides" y se dan en géneros como Paullicorticium, Oliveonia y Tulasnella. Los basidios con una base ancha a menudo se describen como "en forma de barril".

Mecanismo de descarga de basidiosporas

En la mayoría de los basidiomicetos, las basidiosporas son balistosporas: se descargan a la fuerza. La fuerza propulsora se deriva de un cambio repentino en el centro de gravedad de la espora descargada. Los factores importantes en la descarga forzada incluyen la gota de Buller, una gotita de líquido que se puede observar que se acumula en la punta proximal (apéndice hiliar) de cada basidiospora; la unión desplazada de la espora al esterigma subyacente y la presencia de regiones higroscópicas en la superficie de la basidiospora. La descarga de basidiosporas solo puede tener éxito después de que se haya condensado suficiente vapor de agua en la espora.

Al madurar una basidiospora, los azúcares presentes en la pared celular comienzan a servir como lugares de condensación para el vapor de agua en el aire. Dos regiones separadas de condensación son críticas. En la punta puntiaguda de la espora (el hilio) más cercana al basidio de soporte, la gota de Buller se acumula como una gota de agua grande, casi esférica.

Al mismo tiempo, se produce condensación en una película delgada sobre la cara adaxial de la espora. Cuando estos dos cuerpos de agua se unen, la liberación de la tensión superficial y el cambio repentino en el centro de masa conduce a la descarga repentina de la basidiospora. Sorprendentemente, la aceleración inicial de la espora se estima en unos 10.000  g.

Pérdida evolutiva de descarga forzada

Algunos basidiomicetos no tienen un medio para expulsar por la fuerza sus basidiosporas, aunque todavía las forman. En cada uno de estos grupos, la dispersión de esporas ocurre a través de otros mecanismos de descarga.

Por ejemplo:

 Los miembros del orden Phallales (hongos cuernos apestosos) dependen de los insectos para su dispersión.
 Las esporas secas de los hongos polvera y Sclerodermataceae (bolas de tierra y parientes) se dispersan cuando se alteran los basidiocarpos.
 Las especies de Nidulariaceae (hongos de nido de pájaro) utilizan un mecanismo de copa de salpicadura. En estos casos, la basidiospora normalmente carece de un apéndice hiliar y no se produce una descarga forzada. Se cree que cada ejemplo representa una pérdida evolutiva independiente del mecanismo de descarga forzada ancestral de todos los basidiomicetos.

Referencias
 Ingold, C.T. 1998. Ballistosporic basidia. The Mycologist 12:50-52.
 Ingold, C.T. 1991. A view of the active basidium in heterobasidiomycetes. Mycological Research 95:618-621.
 Money, N.P. 1998. More g's than the Space Shuttle: ballistospore discharge. Mycologia 90:547-558.
 Pringle, A., S.N. Patek, M. Fischer, J. Stolze, and N.P. Money. 2005. The captured launch of a ballistospore. Mycologia 97:866-871.

Enlaces externos
 IMA Mycological Glossary: Basidum
 APSnet Illustrated Glossary of Plant Pathology: Basidum
 "Using a Microscope: Basidia and Cystidia" by Michael Kuo, MushroomExpert.com
 "Basidiomycota" by Koenraad Muylaert, in Dutch
 Demonstrating basidiospore discharge by John Webster. Mycological Society of America Lab Manual
 Spore discharge and dispersal in mushrooms by Heino Lepp, Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Anatomía de los hongos
Términos botánicos
Términos de micología


The photo of Dean standing in front of the sign at Batman Park was taken in Melbourne, Victoria. Although I have just discovered there is more than one Batman Park in Melbourne, the park we drove past was in Northcote, a suburb only seven kilometres (4.3 miles) north-east of Melbourne's CBD.
It's on the corner of St Georges Road and Arthurton Road and not to be confused with the other Batman Park that backs onto the Yarra River, however, surprise surprise, both parks are named after John Batman, (21 January 1801 – 6 May 1839), an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer best known for his role in the establishment of a settlement on the Yarra River which eventually became the city of Melbourne.
Batman Park is the name of a 1.6 hectares (4.0 acres) metropolitan park.
many established trees for shade and is close to buses, trains and trams.
I think 'My' Batman Rocks.


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#UK Officer says he told boy to show hands before fatal shots
A white Cleveland patrolman who shot a 12-year-old black boy carrying a pellet gun told investigators that he and his partner continuously yelled « show me your hands » before he fired the fatal shots, according to the officer's statement released by prosecutors Tuesday.
The rookie officer said of the estimated two-second encounter that Tamir Rice didn't obey his commands and that he saw the boy pulling a weapon out of his waist band.
« I knew it was a gun and I knew it was coming out, » officer Timothy Loehmann said in the statement given to investigators.
It turned out Tamir was carrying a nonlethal, Airsoft-type gun that shoots plastic pellets when Loehmann shot him twice outside a recreation center on Nov. 22, 2014. He died a day later.
A grand jury will decide if Loehmann or his field training officer should be charged criminally for Tamir's death.
Prosecutors in recent weeks released a frame-by-frame analysis of the surveillance camera footage from the shooting, along with expert reports that called the shooting justified.
Attorneys for the Rice family have asked Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to step aside and allow a special prosecutor to take over the case. They called the prosecutor's presentation to the grand jury « biased » and « improper » after releasing the reports that found no fault with the officers' actions.
They said Tuesday that allowing both officers to make unsworn statements that won't be subject to cross examination « further taints these proceedings. »
The statements from Loehmann and patrolman Frank Garmback describe in detail action that the surveillance video shows took about two seconds.
They were responding after a 911 caller reported that a man was waving a gun and pointing it at people. The caller told the dispatcher that the gun might not be real. The call also said the man might be a juvenile, but that information wasn't passed on to the officers.
Loehmann said he and his partner thought Tamir was going to run as they drove up to him, but Tamir turned toward the cruiser.
« The suspect lifted his shirt, reached down into his waistband. We continued to yell 'show me your hands,' » Loehmann said in the statement. « I was focused on the suspect. Even when he was reaching into his waistband, I didn't fire. I still was yelling the command 'show me your hands.' »
The rookie officer said he was getting out of the cruiser when he saw a weapon in the boy's hand coming out his waistband. « The threat to my partner and myself was real and active, » Loehmann said.
He said he fired two shots and heard his partner still yelling « show me your hands » after Tamir fell to the ground.
Garmback, who was driving the cruiser, said in his statement that he wanted to keep the boy away from the recreation center and that the patrol car slid when he hit the brakes. The car didn't stop where he intended, Garmback said.
He said he saw the gun Tamir was carrying when Loehmann opened his door. « I thought the gun was real, » Garmback said.
Subodh Chandra, an attorney for Tamir's family, said Tuesday that the officers' statements were contradictory and did not make sense.
« Loehmann, for example, insists that he observed things and took action that would have been physically impossible for any human being to do in the under two seconds it took him to shoot a 12-year-old child, » he said in a statement.
Chandra also noted that Loehmann said he issued at least three commands to « show me your hands, » but that Garmback said he thought the cruiser's windows were rolled up as they drove toward Tamir.
Associated Press writer Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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BOOKS… Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life by Ray Richmond
Celebrating nearly a century for a Hollywood Golden Girl…
Betty White's biography tells how this sassy lady has always entertained us in a career from her 20s to her 90s (so far).
Betty White with her third husband, Alan Ludden
Betty White Tribute – Happy 94th Birthday!, Natalie Schmidt
In the days before the internet told us everything and anything, one thing I couldn't get my head around as a kid was that actors and actresses get older like we mere mortals do. So it may sound silly, but it was kind of a shock when I researched for one of my first blog articles to discover that some of those much-loved entertainers were now aged in their 80s. These included those I loved as a kid including Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson, Gene Hackman and Jack Nicholson. I had always imagined them as young as the last time I saw them in film or on telly.
My biggest surprise was learning that another actress was then in her 90s and that she is approaching the big 100 early next year. This was an actress that I remember watching on telly as a wee girl in the golden days of the 1980s.
Every Friday at 10pm my family regularly tuned in to watch four old ladies – as I thought back then – who shared a house in an American comedy series. Back then, I little realised that in the first episode that the three younger ladies were supposed to be between 47 and 55 and the oldest, a character's mother was 79 as revealed HERE.
This series was The Golden Girls (1985-1992), and the "old" ladies were Dorothy, the practical and divorced one, her wee sarcastic widowed mother Sophia, the man-eater widowed one, Blanche and the dippy widowed one, Rose. It told of their lives and loves and clashes as housemates.
And it's Betty White who played Rose who is celebrating 100 years, early next year. Or until the day of publishing this article, 7th December 2021… Betty has been on this Earth for 36,485 days and 99 years, 10 months, 21 days exactly.
I signed up to review her biography, Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life by Ray Richmond after reading Extraordinary Life. As to be honest I'd only seen her in The Golden Girls and a feature film Lake Placid (1999). I then knew nothing about her hugely impressive career.
Lake Placid was a killer crocodile comedy with a fantastic cast and where Betty played a wee old lady who may or may not have fed her husband to the crocodiles. Roger Ebert added about her role in this creature feature film HERE;
"Betty White uses language that would turn the Golden Girls green"
But that post for another day, now onto the book review.
This thorough and well-researched biography gives a snapshot of a "representative selection" of Betty White's life and career. Richmond says her full story would easily fill enough for twelve encyclopedias. It begins with a foreword from the late actor, Gavin McLeod. Richmond then gallantly takes over with his always affectionate answer on where to start and elaborate on when writing about an actress who is in her 99th year – telling a bit about her life in every decade since her birth – and what to include from her over 70 years in show business.
Gavin McLeod wrote a sterling and touching foreword on his two-time co-star, as a person, an actress and an animal lover in his words and anecdotes. He tells how she;
"blends great talent and great humanity in so perfect a fashion"
If like me, you are a newbie to Ms White's career and a kid of the 1970s, on reading this actor's name, you will possibly remember his Aaron Spelling series where he played Captain Stubing in The Love Boat (1977-86). Then you may believe this was foreword was written as she appeared as one of his all-star list of passengers (and yes she did appear in this show with her husband, Alan Ludden).
But it also seems McLeod and Betty starred together in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77) just before this series. McLeod recalled Ms White's role was initially as a guest role after Valerie Harper – who played Rhoda – left the show. Betty was then made a permanent fixture to fill that void. He says she filled this "vacancy" perfectly as Sue Ann Nivens, where Betty White was "the antithesis of Rhoda". Richmond when he discusses this show adds for this role "Betty satirised her own image".
Now, this show is the tip of the iceberg of many of her films and TV that I discovered as I read this book and then mentally added to my to-watch list. He also describes her as a "natural performer" and "TV Royalty" and writes of her long term love for both animals and hotdogs.
In his short introduction, Richmond tells that Betty White was born on 17th January 1922 in Oak Park Illinois and is the only child of Tess and Horace White. Betty's parents shared a love for animals, and they passed this trait on to their daughter. After moving to Los Angeles as a toddler, Betty at first was keen to be a forest ranger but she was thwarted in this career as then it was only a job for a man. Since then she has been given the role of a forest ranger in an honorary status.
After she had stage fright reading a poem in third grade, she then directed, produced and wrote a school play and then took a lead role in a school production of Pride and Prejudice. She took part in one of the first successful live television transmissions as she sang and danced with a classmate. After World War II – where she was part of the American Women's Voluntary Services she worked on the radio and in the theatre.
Then after joining an acting union, she got her first television break. This career is then outlined from her early pioneering days in colour, throughout her appearances in over 80 different games shows and her prolific performances in film and TV. In her career, for my generation, she is primarily known as a comedy actress but her first successful role was on the live show, Hollywood on Television (1949-50) where she impressed with a
"blend of interviews, entertainers, sketches, viewer mail, general repartee and commercials".
She has also starred in drama productions – to much acclaim and worked as a long term television presenter for the Rose Parade and Macy's Thanksgiving Parade celebrations. Her early on-screen roles included the movie The Daring Miss Jones (1951). In her early career, she was one of the first Emmy winners, and she has won and been nominated for many awards since. She has always been liberal about race and gender, and in the 1950s controversially included a black performer in The Betty White Show, despite then protests from Southern station managers.
Betty married twice which she delightfully sees as "rehearsals", then she met the love of her life Alan Ludden. He was a games show host who she met as she guested on his Password games show. Ludden although a new widower – with three kids – fell immediately for her, wooed her, but she rebuffed his proposals. Then she accepted after he sent her a stuffed bunny adorned with diamonds. She states;
"It was the goddamned bunny. I still have it."
They married in Vegas in 1963 and remained married until her husband passed away in 1981. She hasn't married since saying;
"if you've had the best, who needs the rest?".
Her only regret in her 99 years is she didn't marry him sooner.
After Richmond's short introduction about this actress, Richmond divides Ms White's life and career into chapters for each decade and these form the chapter title along with a natty subtitle description informing the chapter's content. Richmond then discusses briefly a number of Betty White-themed events during this time period. He then looks at these events in much greater detail, in a separate subchapter and these are added in linear order.
The content in these chapters includes the then pertinent Hollywood history and more about Betty's life. Richmond also examines and vividly analyses a great number of her television and film appearances and roles in these subchapters such as individual episodes of The Odd Couple (1972), Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973-77), The Golden Girls and as a regular panellist in the games show Password (1961-2008). These chapters and subchapters are backed up with quotes and anecdotes from Betty's biographies and other valid sources.
Richmond completes this book as he lists her extensive filmography with both films and TV and her extensive appearances in game shows. Richmond outlines the written resources used in writing this book including magazine articles, Ms White's biographies and many relevant web pages. Then he credits the photographs included.
A large selection of black and white and colour photographs adorn this life story. These photographs are often in full pages and represent both her personal life and on-screen appearances. There are stills from her career including a short-lived comedy series with Marie Osmond, Maybe This Time (1995-96) where Betty reportedly "stole the show". Her on-screen photographs show her extensive show business career and her many co-stars in captivating shots with enticing captions.
This book includes a photograph of Betty with her parents and a series of pictures that chronicle her relationship with the love of her life, her third husband Allen Ludden. Her love for her husband radiates from each photograph and in every written description of her on-screen appearances with her husband. These photos are from their first meeting, and this is a lovely heartwarming touch to their love story.
The book also includes exclusive interviews from those who have worked with her including actress Carol Burnett and the director of The Golden Girls, Lex Passaris. The book is embellished and the writing is supported with past to present loving quotes, critics thoughts and affectionate anecdotes from Betty White's biographies and past interviews and other entertainment professionals she's known throughout her career.
Richmond writes of her love of animals as an "Auntie Dolittle" and illustrates this love seen as this actress has always owned a dog. Betty has had a strong role as a fundraiser and support at the Los Angeles Zoo for much of her life. She made good friends with Gita, an elephant, after reading that these animals like their tongue being slapped and doing that. After she communicated with a gorilla, Koko who used and understood sign language Betty gained a strong rapport with this animal.
This talented lady also performed for the late Queen Mother in The Royal Variety Performance in the 1980s and since then her career has gone from strength to strength. Betty calls her career before this moment a "warm-up act". And finally, let's go back to this biography's foreword, where Gavin McLeod warmly adds then advocates for many of us saying that;
"As far as I'm concerned, she belongs on Mount Rushmore right next to the Presidents".
This sentiment is echoed throughout the world by every one of us, who may have listened or watched Betty White's career, from her pioneering days to the present day. She has carved a name for herself as a "multigenerational" talent and as Richmond succinctly puts it Betty has been and is…
"the nation's mother, then grandmother, then great grandmother, then naughty senior pal".
A disclaimer and personal thank you to NetGalley and for Quarto Publishing Group – Becker & Mayer! for inviting me to write this post and review this book. Financial compensation was not received for this post. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed here are my own. If you are involved in the entertainment industry and would like to be featured or promoted here, please drop a line to me via my Contact Me Page.
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Every year, workers die while on the job. Workers' Memorial Day, first established in 1971, is a way to honor those workers and remember the horrific grief of their families and friends. It's also a good time to re-dedicate ourselves to fighting for safe workplaces and to put steps in place to prevent additional deaths. No profit margin is worth a human life.
Worker's Memorial Day is observed every year on April 28. Each year, events are held across the country to remember workers who have died on the job and honor them by continuing to fight for improved worker safety.
On OSHA's website, you'll find a map where you can click on your location to find events near you.


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Suited connectors don't have any sort of showdown value unless you have A-K and you are quite certain that your opponent is bluffing. The very idea of reaching the showdown with ace high is demoralizing, but on some rare occasions it is possible to win even with such cards. Suited connectors are not supposed to be played for their intrinsic value, but for their potential of evolving into something unbeatable.
There is no point in hoping to make a straight flush because the odds of something like that to happen are remote. The good news is that all you need is a straight or flush to prevail on most occasions and suited connectors keep you entitled to hope for such an outcome. These starting hands can be played from all positions but it is always preferable to be dealt suited connectors from the cutoff or button.
From these two positions, you can play them aggressively pre-flop which has a two-pronged effect. On one hand you might steal the blinds right there or at least eliminate some of the limpers who chose to call just to see the board. On the other, by disguising your suited connectors with a pre-flop raise, you make it much more difficult for opponents to put you on a straight or flush draw on the flop.
Flopping the flush or straight is the best case scenario and the right thing to do is to act in the same manner you did pre-flop. You don't want to scare other players away, but at the same time you need to make it hard for them to put you on this monster hand. A continuation bet will have a good chance of receiving a call and not even a raise should be ruled out, as players will try to test the strength of your hand. With a smartly sized the value bet on the turn you can get the opponent pot committed on the river.
As stated above, this is the best case scenario and it is called so for a reason, as most suited connectors completely miss the flop. If this happens, you should back off and hope for the next opportunity instead of investing more in a pot that is obviously going nowhere. Another situation worth analyzing is that when these speculative hands have the potential of improving to a flush or straight, on a favorable board.
Drawing for gutshot straights is not profitable on the long run but if you have an open ended one it is worth firing another bullet. Assuming you raised pre-flop, a bet or a raise are in order, but if you chose to simply call the blinds, you could stick to this passive approach. A block bet is also a good idea if you fear your opponent might raise and if you're confident in your ability to bluff, don't hesitate to throw a float bet. The bottom line is that suited connectors don't reach their full potential often and when they do you need to extract maximum value, which is done through value bets.
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BODY… The Raw Truth About Body Image. A provocative live performance. December 2, 2017 at 6:30pm – 9:30 pm. GET TICKETS NOW
A Pilgrimage of EmBODYment
Gripping, heart-wrenching, hilarious and inspiring, BODY is a provocative live performance about the insanity of eating, starving, binging, and body image. . . and the loud voice of shame that screams from the shadows in a naming and claiming of the madness that is branded on our skin and etched deep in our cells. BODY turns up the volume on the extremes we go to to be thin and fit in. Even empowered women who are advocates for radical self love and who stand for the eradication of shame in the world. No woman left behind. And that is just the beginning. . .
BODY is a visceral experience of the hunger pains of the feminine.
It gives powerful voice to the pervasive wounds that fuel our compulsions and drive our obsessions. It is a song of starvation that explodes into a chorus calling out the collective destruction of the feminine and its global impact.
From midnight attacks on a jar of peanut butter to the brutal attack of a woman in India, BODY weaves together the micro and the macro – fighting off the inner demons while defending from external ones – and how they feed each other.
Ultimately, BODY is a Rally Call to ReAwaken. It is a call to REmember, to RE-incarnate. . . and to REturn. It is about women and it is for men. It is a call to us all.
BODY is deeply personal. It is undoubtedly political. It is profoundly spiritual.
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Late bloomer King to be featured at weekend art show
Drew C. Wilson, Havelock News
When it came to becoming an artist, James King was a late bloomer.
"I�m 73 and I�ve been painting for the last three years," the New Bern man said.
King is the featured artist in this year�s Touch of Class Art Show scheduled for Friday through Sunday at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center.
Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, King had a 24-year career in the Navy followed by a 21-year second career training space shuttle astronauts for Lockheed Martin and TRW Space and Electronics.
He traveled around the world in his first two careers and always found time to visit some of the most prestigious art galleries, but he could never make the time to actually become an artist himself until retirement.
"I started after I retired and moved out here," King said. "My employees knew I liked art and knew that I used to go to a lot of museums, so they gave me coupons for art materials."
King met and took lessons from local renowned artist Ed Macomber.
His subjects are wide ranging from sailboats, regattas, and fishing boats to portraits of children and military personnel.
"Different people have different appreciations for art. I like more realistic art and compositions whereas a lot of people like abstract because of the color," King said. "Watercolor is the most difficult. Acrylics and oils are kind of fun. They are not as dangerous as watercolor. Watercolor has so much beauty with transparency."
King said one of his weaknesses is landscapes.
"Portraits to me are the fun things, catching a person with a certain type of expression," he said.
King didn�t have time to train in art early in his life so his advice to young artists is to "start early and don�t stop."
Artists should work on their technique and skills every day, he said.
"The whole thing about art is that between your hand and your eyes making that connection so that what you see is what you put on the paper," King said. "You have to have patience with it."
Ironically, and despite his late start, King says he�ll soon be putting his paint brushes aside for other interests like sculpture and gardening.
"I�m going to be completing the art this year and go onto other things," he said. "When you�re 73 there�s not a lot of time left to do other things so I�m going to dabble into sculpture and a couple of other things that I�d like to do. When you stop and think about when you give yourself three years, you�ve only got about a thousand days.
"I�ve enjoyed it. When I�m doing it, it�s really fun to do."
Much of King�s work can be seen in the Baker�s Kitchen restaurant on Middle Street in New Bern.
While King is the featured artist, the weekend show will include a variety of artists, including student artwork, that will be available for purchase.
This weekend�s art show, sponsored by the Havelock Cultural Arts Committee of the Havelock Parks and Recreation Department, begins with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday. Times are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free.
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No many areas are not the responsibility of Falkirk Council and are maintained by others on private land.
Because different types of machinery are used to cut grass, the teams sometimes don't get the whole area complete on the same day.
Each steep slope has as a site specific risk assessment undertaken and if it cannot be cut using normal range of machinery the site will then be cut at a reduced frequency using specialised machinery which can be safely operated on steep slopes.
Rural verges are cut 3 times per year between June and October.
Hedges which are the responsibility of Falkirk Council are cut twice per year between June and October.
Any issues relating to the high hedges should be addressed through the planning department (01324 504950).
Yes in some private developments but to very specific tasks such as grass cutting and weed control as Falkirk Council is not the land owner in these developments. Falkirk Council is not responsible for other features such as fences, walls and mature trees.
Shrub beds are pruned once per year during November and March. Only in exceptional circumstances, when they obstruct footways or traffic visibility, will pruning be undertaken during growing season.
We will not give permission to anyone to come onto council ground to cut or collect firewood.
The council will not remove a healthy tree purely for this reason. Council street cleansing arrangements include provisions for removing leaf litter.
We will not remove healthy trees purely for this reason. The trees can be inspected and a decision made on whether any remedial works are required.
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Weed killer is applied footways and roads twice per year between June and September.
Weed killer is applied to shrub beds twice per year between May and October.
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Miami, Florida – April 26, 2017 – After over ten years of offering the Anti-Money Laundering Certified Associate (AMLCA) certification, FIBA – The Florida International Bankers Association, is providing professionals in the casino services sector a tailored program that identifies important requirements to lawfully operate within the gaming industry.
Each participant will be presented with the latest criteria in prevention and controls to successfully audit and supervise a team of individuals working in this sector. The certification will be offered from FIBA, for the first time, on June 6 & 7, 2017 at the LAFT America Risk Management Conference taking place in Bogotá, Colombia.
FIBA's CEO, David Schwartz, J.D., had received many requests from Latin American businesses outside of banking to develop programs in other industries. "As laws have changed in Latin America, FIBA is responding to several private and non-financial sectors that require employees to be certified in compliance – such as the gaming industry," he said.
The two-day program will be taught in Spanish by the course developer, Julio Aguirre, AMLCA, CPAML. Mr. Aguirre has over 27 years of banking experience in Latin America's private and public sectors. He has specialized in dealing with risk management and banking matters, and his knowledge in AML allows him to manage the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, worldwide.
The course was created with the highest standards to cover general anti-money laundering protocols but also includes a wealth of information on associated risks, preventative internal systems, industry alerts, evaluations, and real case studies that directly impact the way casinos are to be managed. Upon completion, each learner will be able to detect risks and build their own evaluation and control systems to prevent money laundering activity.
FIBA offers high-quality and up-to-date compliance programs in many areas. By working closely with diverse sectors, FIBA evaluates and detects the training needs for specific industries. The field experts respond by creating current course developments to provide compliance solutions. Please stay connected to find out more about continuing education programs that are currently being developed.
For more information about FIBA's certifications and other professional development programs, please visit http://www.fiba.net or contact Sofia Villalobos, FIBA's Institute Director via email at svillalobos@fiba.net or by phone at (305) 539-3746.