Voyager 1 performed flawlessly, sending the results of the testfires back to NASA's globally-positioned terrestrial Deep Space Network.
The spacecraft had been relying on its primary thrusters to keep it oriented, but these have degraded over time. These thrusters fire in small pulses, lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet. These backup thrusters will give Voyager an extra year or two of life, before it loses connection with its home planet and disappears into the abyss of space.
Launched in 1977, the interstellar space probe Voyager 1 - a product of the US-funded NASA technology-incubation center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in California - has broken all records for spaceflight by travelling some 13 billion miles from the sun, farther than any man made device, while remaining a viable scientific platform.
Chris Jones, Robert Shotwell, Carl Guernsey and Todd Barber analysed options and predicted how the spacecraft would respond in different scenarios, NASA said. They agreed on an unusual solution: Try giving the job of orientation to a set of thrusters that had been asleep for 37 years. However, almost 20 hours after firing up the backup thrusters, engineers received a signal from the Voyager back on Earth, which meant their test was successful.
However, we can still communicate with Voyager across that distance. The four Aerojet Rocketdyne MR-103 trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) engines were last fired in 1980 when the spacecraft was passing Saturn.
According to NASA, the TCM thrusters were located on the back side of the aircraft and previously were used in a more continuous firing mode during planetary flybys (the last such being Saturn in 1980).
The test went so well that not only will Voyager 1 be switching over to the backup thrusters until there's no longer enough power to keep them warm, but they're looking into to doing the same thing for its twin, Voyager 2 - after proper testing, of course. The attitude control thrusters now used for Voyager 2 are not yet as degraded as Voyager 1's, however. The mission celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, but it's not just a lump of metal floating through interstellar space: that baby still runs.
The Voyager spacecraft were built by JPL, which continues to operate both.
But when Jokic picked up his dribble, he planted his left foot on Grant's right foot and twisted his ankle flat to the court. The Denver Nuggets were close to losing an inexcusable game against the struggling Chicago Bulls .
Ninepoint Partners LP bought a new position in shares of SL Green Realty during the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $514,000. The real estate investment trust reported $0.40 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.57 by ($1.17).
ISRO had already gave six offers, thereby taking the total tally to 99, according to a release from IIT-Madras. After the first round the placements will recommence in January and go on till May, 2018.
He joined Capgemini in 2000 as a result of the acquisition of the consulting division of Ernst and Young. Sahil Parekh was already a member of the Group Executive Board at French IT services company Capgemini.
It came after he furiously protested a Swans goal kick and accused Paul Clement's side of time wasting. It was not the first time. 'It is right to accept it and pay the fine, ' Conte said on Friday.
Barkley, the running back from Whitehall High, was named the Big Ten's top offensive player for the second consecutive year. Huff came to Penn State from Vanderbilt along with James Franklin and did strong work with the running backs.
And now we are sure that this one will too! He also spoke highly of director Ali Abbas Zafar , "He has done an incredible job". Well, if Bhai knows her for this long, we have to agree with him that Katrina is the ultimate dancing queen of Bollywood.
A Bill to this effect is likely to be tabled in the winter session of Parliament, highly placed government sources said yesterday. So far, in this calendar year the government had received 177 complaints from Muslim women victims of instant triple talaq .
The FBI says they have been sending "items of interest" to their lab in Quantico, Virginia, for priority testing in the case. The volunteers were separated into groups of 10 to search through rugged terrain filled with vines and thorns.


India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and is also moving up the ranks in terms of number of cars being sold every year as well as in new technologies being adopted. Almost every mainstream global manufacturer is eyeing a sweet spot in our domestic market and this year alone we will see Kia and MG debuting in India with PSA already laying their ground work for an entry in the next year or two.
Furthermore, the established brands have been setting up new strategies and investing big sum of money to endure a sustainable future. Courtesy of Innova Crysta and the trusted fanbase, India has been able to break into Toyota's top ten markets globally in terms of sales and the company's new Managing Director Masakazu Yoshimura thinks it is possible for the country to be among the top three in the future.
In a recent interview, he compared India to Europe as far as competitiveness is concerned and acknowledged the importance of investing in right technologies depending on the government regulations. While admitting that Toyota is not seeking volumes in India, his company is closely assessing the movement of its rivals.
Reiterating the need of Indian customers as the biggest priority, he has stated that Toyota will focus on covering the young band of buyers and having presence in 70 per cent of the market is essential. He also said that since the products are priced relatively higher than competitors, more resources have been put on reducing the costs involved.
When asked about Toyota-Suzuki partnership, Masakazu Yoshimura said that it has domestic as well as global significance and that the hybrid solutions and technologies of Toyota will be given access to Suzuki and they will translate it into "B-segment hybrids soon." Toyota is manufacturing pure electric vehicles in markets like China and when the infrastructure develops, the tech will be brought into India.
Under the agreement with Suzuki, a small Toyota EV will be launched in the future. The Japanese auto major has been selling the Etios hatchback in India since 2010 and it underwent updates over the years without complementing the growth in sales. The entry-level Etios and Liva have endured underwhelming sales and they are receiving upgrades confirmed Yoshimura.
Whether the updates are significant or not is waited to be seen. Just necessary engine changes to comply with BSVI compliance may not just be part of the plan as Toyota could go all in with the next generation versions of both the models.


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Portugal and Spain to battle for Supremacy – World Cup 2018
Jose Nunes
Cristiano Ronaldo: Real Madrid star is best player in history - Zinedine Zidane. Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest player of all time, according to his Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane.
Portugal vs Spain – Friday, June 15, 19:00BST/20:00CEST/21:00 MSK – Fisht Stadium, Sochi, Russia
The Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi will be the witness of a clash of giants between 2010 FIFA World Cup champion Spain and current European Champion Portugal. In many ways, the match on Friday between Portugal could set the tone in Group B.
Portugal, in many ways, will be reminded of their World Cup opener four years ago. Facing Germany, the Seleção das Quinas were trashed 4-0 and lost defender Pepe due to a red card. Portugal were later eliminated due to the worse goal difference to the United States, who finished second behind Germany.
Once again Portugal is understood to be one of the two big favourites in a group. This time, however, the start will have to be better as Morocco are perceived to challenge for one of the two top spots in Group B as well.
Spain, in the meantime, also have nightmares when it comes to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Drawn in a group with the Netherlands La Furia Roja experienced their very own World Cup Armageddon losing 1-5 to Oranje to open the tournament. Spain never recovered from the result and the holding world champion at the time were eliminated at the group stage.
Cristiano Ronaldo's latest statements have overshadowed Portugal's World Cup preparations (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
Hence, both sides will want to exorcise their demons when they kick off the tournament on Friday. Both sides will, furthermore, feel that there is a good chance to achieve exactly that.
Portugal, after all, won the 2016 European Championships two years ago – although at the same time they managed the feat without winning a single match in regulation time. Spain, in the meantime, have been in fantastic form under new head coach Julen Lopetegui and their 6-1 victory over Argentina in the spring have propelled them among the World Cup favourites once again.
Spain's form may, in fact, be more substantial than Portugal's fleeting success at the Euros two years ago. In fact, a World Cup favourite La Furia Roja will want to set an example right from the get-go and will be favourites to win their first match in this Group B.
Portugal vs Spain – Players to look out for:
Cristiano Ronaldo #7 – Portugal (Real Madrid)
Cristiano Ronaldo: Real Madrid star is best player in history – Zinedine Zidane. Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest player of all time, according to his Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane.
Once again, a tournament will be overshadowed by Cristiano Ronaldo's personal antics. One year ago, at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, Ronaldo was in the constant spotlight for his tax evasion case and his statements that he wanted to leave Real Madrid. In the end, Ronaldo would remain with Real but after winning the Champions League in May once again renewed his wish to leave Real Madrid. On the pitch, Ronaldo has been once again on fire for Real scoring 15 goals in 13 Champions League matches as well as 26 goals in 27 La Liga matches. But it will be interesting to see to what an extend Ronaldo's recent antics will overshadow Portugal's World Cup ambitions.
Sergio Ramos #15 – Spain (Real Madrid)
Sergio Ramos will be Spain's key man against Portugal. The Real Madrid centre-back was in the news following the Champions League final against Liverpool after taking out Mohamed Salah of the match and also elbowing goalkeeper Loris Karius in the face – the keeper was later diagnosed with a concussion. Following the Champions League final, Sergio Ramos faced hefty criticism by the media and Liverpool fans. The match, and the other Champions League finals before that, however, also showed that the 32-year-old is paramount to win key matches by taking out attacking threats but also scoring key goals when necessary. In Cristiano Ronaldo Ramos will now face his Real Madrid teammate but history suggests that the Spanish defender will take no prisoners when he faces Cristiano Ronaldo on Friday night in Sochi.
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As a universal device platform, the opTrilyzer can be adapted to all common LFA test formats based upon color change. Close cooperation with test manufacturers is desirable in order to allow for an optimal and individual configuration of the device for the corresponding test.
The core of the device is a high-resolution 2-dimensional CCD sensor in the camera, as well as an internal microcontroller for direct image analysis. The unique analysis software internal to the device calculates the exact value of the concentration on the basis of a 3-dimensional volume model of the recorded image. Inhomogeneities of the test strip are recognized and compensated for.
Algorithms specially integrated in the software prevent faulty measurements or the display of incorrect results. The measurement, which is completely independent of external calculation technology, can be conducted quickly by means of the intuitive, multi-lingual user interface. Results are clearly shown on a 4.3 inch color display.
The device itself can be used without a PC and unites all necessary functions for conducting the test. The entry and saving of patient data, test implementation, and the management of results is possible within the device, as is the transfer of this data by means of a USB connection to an external PC or printer. An internal power supply by means of a battery allows for the device to run up to 8 hours.
The opTrilyzer by the company opTricon is a universal mobile analysis device for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of lateral flow assays, immunological rapid tests for point-of-care diagnostics. The tests can originate in multiple fields of application, such as cancer and heart disease diagnostics or drug screening.
You have a test that contains multiple test strips?
The opTrilyzer®Med is also available as the opTrilyzer®Med Plus for multiple test cartridges with more than one test. With the help of a specially developed cartridge case, the multiple test cartridge is optically sampled, so that the individual strips can be analyzed and evaluated one by one.
Your test is based upon a special marking with fluorescent dyes, which requires specific optical conditions for the analysis?
With the opTrilyzer®Med Fluo fluorescence-based test strips can also be analyzed and quantitatively evaluated. Special camera components supply the necessary conditions for measurement. Close cooperation with the test manufacturer is important in order to allow for the individual adaptation of the device to the demands of the test.


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Q: How can I play a test voice guidance sentence with the same voice as NMANavigationManager (HERE SDK)? I'm developing an iOS project in Xcode using the Here SDK. I'm using the Premium Edition (v3.17).
In the 'Settings' screen of my app users can choose the 'voice' that's being used by the SDK (I get that list through NMAVoiceCatalog voicePackages property.)
I would like to play a small sentence when users select a voice (E.g. "Turn right now"), so that they get immediate feedback if they like that voice or not.
Now, I know that NMAAudioManager has a method playOutput which will play either a prerecorded sound file or a tts string. That's great, but now for my question:
How can I make sure the NMAAudioManager.sharedInstance().play( method, plays with the same voice as NMANavigationManager?
It's important to note the difference between tts voices and pre-recorded voices here.
Pre-recorded voices
I imagine this is a resource package of pre-recorded mp3 or wav files. I just need to know the url of a sound file or sound files that I could use. E.g. the sound file(s) for the sentence "turn right now". I imagine the filename is the same for all voices in all languages (Not sure though). Is there a list of available sound files and their names? Or could you give me a few sound file names (and URL's within the SDK) so I can play them as test sound through NMAAudioManager?
tts voices
For those voices I could create a sentence in each supported language and feed that to the NMAAudioManager.sharedInstance().play( method. I would create an 'NMATTSAudioOutput' for that sentence. However, I need to set the correct AVSpeechSynthesisVoice to the voice property of that 'NMATTSAudioOutput' instance. With correct I mean the same AVSpeechSynthesisVoice that the NMANavigationManager is using. I've tried using AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language: voicePackage.languageCode) but that doesn't give the same AVSpeechSynthesisVoice than the one that NMANavigationManager uses. E.g. English UK tts voicePackage plays with English US AVSpeechSynthesisVoice. Could you share with me how the NMANavigationManager chooses the AVSpeechSynthesisVoice from NMAVoicePackage properties?

A: Pre-recorded voices
The best way to get a sample is to use HERE SDK. As voice service URL can be changed in future. Install voice package (id:83101) from catalog and find wav files in your app directory:
/Documents/heremaps/diskcache/voices/es-MX_male/mexican_male/g5turns_left_002e

HERE SDK initialises AVAudioPlayer with wav file content and calls play() function.
TTS voices
NMANavigationManager uses something similar:
NMATTSAudioOutput *output = [NMATTSAudioOutput audioOutputWithText:text];
output.source = NMAAudioOutputSourceGuidance;
output.voice = [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice voiceWithLanguage:self.voicePackage.languageCode];
output.speechRate = AVSpeechUtteranceDefaultSpeechRate;
output.pitchMultiplier = 1.0;

[[NMAAudioManager sharedAudioManager] playOutput:output];

Note, there are many lua scripts and algorithms behind the scene which makes voice guidance smooth and advanced.

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Four divisions within the Department of Medicine will experience changes in their administrative staff with the addition of two new admins and transfer of a third, announced Irene Robles, admin support supervisor for the department with Banner – University Medical Group.
These updates affect Banner HEalth admins in the Divisions of Cardiology, Gastroenterology (GI), Hematology and Oncology (Hem/Onc), and Nephrology.
Danielle Trujillo joins Cardiology effective April 10. Danielle is moving here from Los Angeles and is excited to join the Cardiology team. At this time, she will be supporting Dr. Kapil Lotun and Dr. Rajinth Shetty.
Carmen Mendoza will be joining GI effective April 24. Carmen has worked for UMC/UAHN/Banner for over 10 years in the revenue cycle, authorizations and referrals team.
James Deljanovan will no longer be supporting Nephrology. Effective April 3, he is now in Hem/Onc, supporting Dr. Daniel Persky and additional faculty soon to join us.
Gina Favela will be the interim admin assistant in Nephrology. Gina has been with Medicine since October and has been helping in GI as well as managing payroll for the residents.
"We are very excited to have our new staff join the team," Robles said.
Mary Gosciminski, senior program coordinator, UA Internal Medicine Residency Program – South Campus, said Laynie Drenske started March 27 as an administrative assistant in her office. Laynie can be reached at laynie.drenske@bannerhealth.com or (520) 874-4502.


If you're getting a divorce, it pays to stay off social media—for many reasons. But oversharing isn't the only mistake people make when their marriages are tanking. Here are three more that can cost you money.
Not assembling all the paperwork. Important documents and information tend to disappear, or their access is blocked, as divorce proceedings drag on. While you can, gather paperwork showing: (1) account statements for all financial and retirement accounts for at least three years, (2) tax returns for at least three years, (3) Social Security statements showing your spouse's earnings record and expected future benefits, and (4) amounts paid for major assets, such as your house and any improvements. These documents are critical to negotiating a favorable divorce settlement and will also help you with future retirement and tax planning. For example, if you were married for at least ten years, you may be able to claim Social Security spousal or survivor benefits based on your ex-spouse's earnings record.
Ignoring tax issues. Investments, property, retirement accounts, and other assets worth a certain amount now may be subject to different tax treatments later that can significantly impact their long-term value. A Roth IRA, for example, is worth more than a traditional IRA with the same balance since Roth IRA withdrawals aren't taxed in retirement. A married couple can exclude up to $500,000 of home sale profit from their taxable income, but a single person can exclude only $250,000. Also known as alimony, spousal support used to be taxable to the person receiving it and tax-deductible for the person paying. That's no longer true for divorces finalized after 2018. The point here is that the future, after-tax value of assets should be considered during divorce settlement negotiations.
Leaving joint credit accounts open. Creditors aren't bound by divorce settlement agreements. Even if one spouse agrees to take responsibility for a joint debt, the other spouse can still be held liable for it if his or her name remains on the account. Divorcing couples should close joint accounts and transfer debts to new accounts or loans in the responsible spouse's name only.


How can we best recognize and promote the strengths immigrant students and their families bring to school communities?
What needs can community partners help address?
What are the school- and community-based resources that can support these strengths and needs?
As always, the event will provide an opportunity to hear updates from City Connects and to network and share resources with other organizations from across the city. Continental breakfast will be served. The event is free but space is limited. Register here.


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Fall 2008: Computing with a Porpoise
where: Davis 265
when: Monday, September 22nd
The theme for this year is set up with the intention of directing the group's collective attention to the current and future role of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) at USFSP, and to participate in a nascent but multidisciplinary turn towards sustainable educational computing on our campus. The group will submit recommendations to the University's Science & Technology and Sustainability committees, and interface actively with the student body at large to promote open source as a viable solution to many of the economic, technological, social, and even environmental challenges facing the University community today.
"Computing with a Porpoise" begins from this premise: if we can synergize our experiences with and knowledge of FOSS, we can make a real difference on our campus. We can contribute to the development of a sustainable computer policy, one unfettered by vendor-lock and site license restrictions. Our new Terminal Server Lab in Davis 280 allows us a venue to pilot open source software, an opportunity that will eventually lead to broader deployment of open source technology across campus. Students in Special Topics classes and First Year Composition classes will beta test applications for potential wider uses, and perform research that could take any number of directions.
This overall shift in structure is both a proposal and a request for help, and in this spirit, this will be an informative and participatory session for brainstorming recommendations regarding software suitable to educational computing at USFSP. Please email conner@stpt.usf.edu or dhavasi@mail.usf.edu--or a post to this wiki--for more information.
In his opening salvo, in which he provides a rationale for his licensing scheme (public domain), James gleefully spins the wheel of wyrd. "If others have read and appreciated my work to the degree that they wish to emulate, or even copy it, then the words I wrote have accomplished their goal," James explains, and perhaps it is this very detachment from the ideas he renders makes room for more ideas to flow--never mind where they come from or where they go. So it matters not except that "they've reached someone, and through what that person uses them to write, they will reach others" So when James references Disney's Lion King vis-a-vis Elton John's Wheel of Life, he acknowledges the importance of language but in a much much larger context, and I take his reference to be strategic—Disney and the RIAA business model that facilitated Sir Elton's enormous wealth are notorious for taking powerful ideas, archetypes, and stories from free culture and attempting to lock them down by means of archaic legal codes. If we take this idea about our role in the emergence of ideas seriously, an ecological approach to the philosophical idea of Becoming can be heard, an approach that would direct our attention to force and energy, rather than the structures and identities that becoming leaves in it's wake.
Yes, that's a "y" where an "o" would usually be, up there: wyrd. Arlea Æðelwyrd Hunt-Anschütz explains this in her article \"What is Wyrd?, "we can think of wyrd as a process that continually works the patterns of the past into the patterns of the present," or, as Lessig might put it, wyrd weaves "free culture." That "wyrd" might be the important concept in "heathenry" is no surprise, since it's one that seems to correlate with theories of karma (as a subtle yet vast or perhaps total law of cause and effect), and, what's more, Hunt-Anschütz's etymology of wyrd shows "the Anglo-Saxon noun wyrd is derived from a verb, weorþan, 'to become', which, in turn, is derived from an IndoEuropean root *uert- meaning 'to turn'" So, as James' says in his post, cue the wheel and give it a spin!
Where James identifies with an Eternal Self ("In the beginning, there was me"), Danny asks us to also consider non-Self. To my ears, Danny's Nothing resonates with traditions of "emptiness," or sunyata, as much as with astrophysics. This affirmation of nothing designates a creative Void, a nothing from which all things emerge. I choose to link these passages because of the way the seem to almost function as a single string on an instrument, which, when made to vibrate, oscillates on the most fundamental of tones. Danny goes on to celebrate the creative and dynamic forces that James also trusts--even chaos, which is often understood as entropy, as death, is affirmed as axiomatic, as a paradoxically creative destruction. Danny's diamond-cut rendering ("Chaos is the destabilizing force that disturbs a neutral idea in our minds from its equilibrium, giving it beauty and splendor") reads like a slogan for creative practice that Hakim Bey could get behind, for sure.
You just gotta love the running metaphor that Phil brings to the wiki. " The purpose of the race is not only the finish line, but in the race itself," Phil says, hitting the ground running, indeed, and here echoing Trungpa, who echoes the historical Gautama Buddha, who echoes countless buddhas who came before, and so forth ("the path is the goal!")
And the path is not always smooth. In the discourses of the life sciences, the one life that James beseeches us to affirm is generally accepted to be a far-from-equilibrium phenomenon. Jantsch's often-cited image person eternally stumbling forward to avoid falling posits life as a stuttering delay, an indefinite postponement of a return to thermodynamic equilibrium. Along the way...life. The trope "sustainable" + "identities," translated into the lidiom of astrophysics (invoked by Danny in his WeekOne writings), particularly as articulated by Austrian astrophysicist Erich Jantsch, the pioneer who helped develop theories and descriptions of far-from-equilibrium systems dynamics, means, simply, dissipative structures. In terms the third step of our self-enquiry blog aka our "Who are You Remix?" project, it's in the links between pages, in the "gutters" between panels in a comic (McCloud), the rests in the score, the lacuna in the manuscript, the no-longer extant text or lost book, between structure and function, where life finds it's rhythm. Lacuna, Matata! Here, wyrd weaves it's web; dissipative structures "form a bridge between structure and function" (Jantsch). In this vibrational ontology, all "complementary aspects in the self-organizing dyanamics of 'order through fluctuation' which may also be depicted as a...'stumbling forward' and crossing by its own force the ridges separating 'valleys' of 'global stability'" become patterns of alternation, intervals of unrestrained tone, with no essential content, punctuated and stacatto-ed with holes of silence, producing more patterns of compression/rarefaction. Why stop at stumbling forward? An ecstatic dance emerges amidst this stumbling and guttering!
From walking to stumbling to dancing to...swimming? Drew shows us how to inquire into sustainability--in his evolving "Taking the Plunge" piece connects Heideggar's observations about thinking to more fundamental concerns of the will, and by means of words and images, creates a certain resonance with all of us who tremble on the threshhold of wiki, and who celebrate after taking the plunge into the rippling surface of it's futurity. "Swimming," Avital Ronell (1989) tells us in the classified directory of her Telephone Book, "creates a sonic space" (p. 432). Martin Heidegger's "What is Called Thinking?" (as cited in Ronell 1989) offers swimming as the exemplar of activities that we can only learn about by full immersion. "We shall never learn what 'is called' swimming...or what it 'calls for,' by reading a treatise of swimming. Only the leap into the river tells us what is called swimming." Likewise for the immersive medium of sound. And likewise for wiki, too! As the anonymous 14th century mystic and anonymous author of the Book of Privy Counseling says, "whatever we may say of it, is not it, but only about it" (page 169 in the William Johnston edition).


Following on from their masterful Summer Exhibition, the RA in London continues the celebration of its 250th year with a packed autumn schedule, including a retrospective of the architect Renzo Piano and their thought-provoking Festival of Ideas; but we are most excited about Oceania, which brings together 200 works celebrating over 500 years of art and culture from the Pacific, incorporating sacred objects, navigational maps and contemporary artworks (New Zealand and Kingdom of Tongo passport holders go free).
Mixing craft demonstrations, explorations of the great outdoors and campfire cooking sessions alongside the usual music and talks programme, The Good Life Experience always offers that little bit more than your average festival. This year highlights include DJ sets from Norman Jay MBE and Trevor Nelson, and live music from H&C favourites Darren Hayman, Bill Ryder-Jones, Erland Cooper and Gwenno, plus a fascinating conversation between punk legend turned 'memoirist' Viv Albertine and our contributing editor Jude Rogers (all courtesy of our friends at Caught by the River, bringing their good vibes to Flintshire once more).
It's not all about London this month: China's biggest design even returns with a celebration of one of the world's most exciting emerging artist communities, with events and exhibitions spread across the city, from its famous hutongs to its growing number of industrial warehouses.
This autumn finally sees the opening of the newly renovated barns and galleries at Charleston. Once home to Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, the charming Sussex farmhouse has never had the space (or indeed the security) to host major exhibitions – despite its influence in introducing some of the major figures in modern art to the UK.
The inaugural exhibitions include Orlando at the Present Time (inspired by the novel Orlando by Bell's sister Virgina Woolf) and Bell and Grant's Famous Women Dinner Service – a set of 50 plates, each depicting the portrait of a famous or influential woman throughout history, commissioned by the art critic Kenneth Clark in 1932 – the first the set has returned to its spiritual home.
A last chance to see this fascinating celebration of automata and clockwork sculpture, covering five centuries-worth of ingenuity and frivolity including works by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, Jane Edden, Rowland Emett, Ron Fuller, Rebecca Horn and Paul Spooner.


In former socialist East European countries (EEC), many forest regions experienced large-scale changes during the last 70 years. These changes included severe cuttings during or after the Second World War, the nationalization of forests, widespread planting of conifers, and re-privatization after the 1990s. This history strongly influences the current species composition and age structure of forests). A large amount of Eastern European forests will reach harvestable age in the next 50 years as a result of the post-war conifer plantations and the cessation of coppice management.
A study for the Eastern Carpathians of Romania showed that harvesting (shorter rotations and more intense thinnings) can be seen as a chance to undergo active adaptation with respect to species composition: the regeneration cut is a critical momentum of change. The occurrence of many mature stands in Romania is an opportunity to implement large-scale harvests to change species composition and possibly foster climate change adaptation. The study indicates that under moderate and intermediate climate change, species composition changes principally in harvested stands and not in stands not harvested. Under extreme climate change, however, the species change even before harvest.
Under severe climate change conditions, 100 years are not sufficient to completely adapt the species composition to climate change and to avoid important losses of biomass. The development of new stands with more drought-resistant species is slower than the projected climate shifts, and even proactive management cannot prevent a transition period with very low stocks due to either limited growth or young stands which typically display a lower biomass per hectare than mature stands. This does not exclude the possibility that large biomass stocks could build up in the longer term.
Source: Bouriaud et al., 2015. Regional Environmental Change 15: 1557–1568.


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"Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle" Coming to Universal Studios Orlando!
HARRY POTTER / MOVIES / THEME PARKS / UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD / UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ORLANDO
"Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle," a dynamic, all-new light projection experience, comes to "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort
Image courtesy of Universal Studios Orlando.
Universal Studios Orlando has announced that Hogwarts Castle will be transformed into a canvas for a magical projection-mapping show!
"Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle" will be the third in a series of projection-mapping shows at Universal Orlando, joining "The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle" and "The Magic of Christmas at Hogwarts Castle."
Watch the legendary Hogwarts building be swarmed by Lord Voldemort's legions of Death Eaters, Dementors, mountain trolls and more!
No schedule for the show has been released yet, but we will publish more information as it becomes available.
Are you excited about "Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle?" Let us know in the comments below!
Written by Margaret
Margaret works full-time as a web developer in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the Managing Editor for Nerds and Beyond, and she joined the staff in 2018. She enjoys creating recap/fan videos of her favorite Supernatural episodes and attending conventions to meet other fandom friends. Find her on Twitter at @MargNation.
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Hypolimnas bartelotti is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in western Uganda.

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Butterflies described in 1890
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La centrale nucléaire Edwin I. Hatch  est située près de Baxley en Géorgie aux États-Unis, sur un site de .

Description
La centrale est équipée de deux réacteurs à eau bouillante (REB) de conception General Electric :
 Unité n°1 : 856 MWe, mis en service en 1974 pour 40 ans, puis prolongée à 60 ans (2034).
 Unité n°2 : 870 MWe, mis en service en 1978 pour 40 ans, puis prolongée à 60 ans (2038).
NB : Les deux réacteurs étaient donnés à l'origine pour 924 MWe.

La centrale de Hatch est exploitée par la compagnie d'électricité Southern Nuclear, une filiale de la Southern Company.

Les propriétaires sont :
 Georgia Power (50,1 %)
 Oglethorpe Power Corporation (30 %)
 Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (17,7 %)
 Dalton Water & Light Sinking Fund Commission (2,2 %)

Liens externes
 Page DoE de l'Administration américaine sur Hatch

Hatch
Comté d'Appling
Environnement en Géorgie (États-Unis)


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El Campeonato colombiano 1974 fue el vigésimo séptimo (27°) torneo de la primera división del fútbol profesional colombiano en la historia.

El campeón de esta edición fue el Deportivo Cali y el subcampeón fue Atlético Nacional. El goleador fue Víctor Ephanor  del Junior con 33 goles.

Desarrollo
Se jugaron dos torneos:
 Apertura: Ida y vuelta, todos contra todos (26 fechas).

 Finalización: Dos grupos, donde los primeros siete del torneo Apertura conformaron el grupo A y los últimos 7 el grupo B, cada equipo jugaba ida y vuelta con los de su grupo (12 fechas), uno contra cada equipo del otro grupo de local o visitante (7 Fechas) y con una pareja del otro grupo de local y visitante (dos fechas), en total 21 Fechas en el finalización. Con la pareja del grupo contrario oficiaba de local dos veces el equipo del grupo B, y solo una el del grupo A.

 Parejas: Nacional-Tolima - Cali-Cúcuta - Millonarios-Once Caldas - Junior-U. Magdalena - Medellín-Quindío - Santa Fe-Pereira - América-Bucaramanga.

 Final: El primero de cada grupo, más los 4 mejores ubicados en la reclasificación, Apertura + Finalización, clasificaban a un hexagonal, donde jugaron todos contra todos (10 Fechas), el ganador quedó Campeón y el segundo obtuvo cupo a Copa.

Este campeonato fue el quinto que ganó el Deportivo Cali. Se jugaron 361 partidos entre los 14 clubes inscritos y se anotaron 835 goles siendo el Atlético Nacional el que más anotó con 88 conquistas y el que más recibió fue el Once Caldas con 77 goles en contra.

El hexagonal final fue jugado por Deportivo Cali, Atlético Nacional, Deportivo Pereira, Millonarios, Junior y América, donde el conjunto del Cali ganó al obtener 13 puntos, dos más que el Atlético Nacional.

Datos de los clubes

Torneo Apertura

Resultados

Desempate

Torneo Finalización

Grupo A

Grupo B

Resultados

Reclasificación
Los cuatro mejores equipos sin incluir a los líderes del Grupo A y B clasifican al hexagonal final.

Hexagonal final

Goleadores

Bibliografía

 Historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano, publicado por el semanario El Espectador, Bogotá, Colombia, impreso en noviembre de 1999.

Enlaces externos

 Colombia 1974 - Rsssf

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Fútbol en 1974
Deporte en Colombia en 1974


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When the legendary harness race track Maywood Park in Melrose Park, Illinois, closed in late 2015, two professors from the College of DuPage in Wheaton, Illinois, acquired the track's archives. Though only owning a small portion of the Maywood Park archives, Keith Yearman began digitizing and documenting the entire collection—and is curating a forthcoming exhibition.
Judy Bean is a retired educator and current community organizer and volunteer. She shares the work of collegue, Ed Broberg and the community event of hundreds of lighted pumpkins in Chewelah's city park.


Last week I bought some parsnips with the hope of making some fries with them a la Caitlin or Tina, or another blogging genious 😉 In my attempts at googling what a parsnip actually looked like (don't judge) I came across a recipe for parsnip fries that would "change your life," courtesy of another blogger I am familiar with, Angela of Oh She Glows. The exact recipe can be found here.
Directions: Preheat oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper for easy clean-up. Peel and cut parsnips into fry-like strips. In a medium size bowl, mix together the nut butters, olive oil, and salt. Take parsnips and toss in bowl with your hands until fully coated. Line up on baking pan and cook at 400F for 30-50 minutes until crisp.
UH YEA…HOLY YUM! Here are pictures of my first attempt at these "life changing" fries. And yes, THAT they were!
Right out of the oven- they looked SOOOOO good that I HAD to have one and of COURSE subsequently burned my mouth!
On my plate- yes, these were life changers!
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Last time I made parsnips they came out horrible. I'm afraid to try again. Oy!
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Kara Reber has been at the helm of Florida Southern women's lacrosse since its inception in 2012. In just seven years as the head coach of the Moccasins, Reber has won an NCAA Division II national title (2016), twice finished as the national runner-up (2017 & 2018), and compiled an overall record of 119-22.
In 2017, the Mocs won 18-straight games en route to the national title game. Florida Southern's path to the 2016 national championship concluded with a stunning come-from-behind win over No. 1 Adelphi in the title game. Reber's squad held the seven-time national champion Panthers without a goal in the first 17 minutes of the second half to rally back from a 6-3 halftime deficit.
In the process, the Mocs became the first team from outside the states of Massachusetts, New York or Pennsylvania to win an NCAA Division II women's lacrosse championship. Florida Southern finished the season on a 14-game winning streak, and Reber was tabbed as the NCAA Division II Coach of the Year by Inside Lacrosse and the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA)
In her seven seasons at Florida Southern, Reber has led the Moccasins to a record of 77-11 at home and a 32-7 mark on the road. The Mocs are 17-1 in Sunshine State Conference play since the conference began sponsoring women's lacrosse in 2015.
During her time as the head coach of the Moccasins, Reber has coached 19 IWLCA all-Americans, including 11 first-team all-Americans. In addition to first-team all-America honors in 2013, former FSC goalie Katie Hammerer was also named the IWLCA Division II Goalie of the Year in 2013 and 2014. Current Florida Southern senior Emily Santoli was named the IWLCA Co-Midfielder of the Year in 2016, and the IWLCA Midfielder of the Year in 2017. She was also the 2017 Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year.
Reber has also coached 26 all-SSC honorees, including the Co-Freshman of the Year (Ashley Seborowski - 2015). In the past three years, the Moccasins have won 32 SSC Player of the Week awards, and have swept the weekly awards 10 times.
Her teams have also been highly successful off the field, as the Moccasins have been named as an IWLCA Team-All Academic Squad for six-straight years. The Moccasins have been awarded the IWLCA Community Awareness Award twice (2012, 2015) and have had at least 15 players earn a spot on the SSC Commissioner's Honor Roll each year since 2012.
Prior to being named the head coach at Florida Southern, Reber spent two seasons at St. Mary's College in Maryland, where she compiled a record of 21-14 and led the Seahawks to the Capital Athletic Conference semifinals in both seasons. At St. Mary's, Reber coached one all-American, seven all-region, and 11 all-conference players, including the CAC Player of the Year (2009) and Rookie of the Year (2010).
Reber's 2010 team at St. Mary's earned the NCAA Division III Community Service Award for their various community service projects.
Before her stint at St. Mary's, Reber spent five seasons as the head coach at Lycoming College in Pennsyvlania, where she led the Warriors to an overall record of 47-34, including a pair of 14 win seasons in 2006 and 2007. She was named Middle Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year in 2006 after leading her team to a 14-4 record - nine more wins than the previous season. At Lycoming, Reber coached two all-America selections, 10 all-region, and 12 all-conference honorees.
She also saw her 2008 squad earn the NCAA Division III Community Service Award for raising more than 6,000 to benefit breast cancer research.
A 1999 graduate of Bowling Green State University, Reber was a two-sport athlete for the Falcons, playing both soccer and ice hockey. She holds a degree in sports management from BGSU, and a second bachelor's degree in physical education from SUNY Brockport. A native of Pittsford, NY, Reber began her coaching career at the high school ranks at Newark High School in Newark, NY.
Reber and her husband, Matthew, reside in Lakeland with their four daughters: Eve, Kylie, Kendall and Kenzie.
Shannon McHale
Shannon McHale joined the Florida Southern College women's lacrosse program as an assistant coach prior to the 2017 season. In her first season with the Mocs, McHale helped coach a squad that finished as the national runner-up, had six players selected as IWLCA all-Americans, and won 18-straight games en route to the national title game.
In 2017, Florida Southern ranked in the top five nationally in four different statistical categories, led the Sunshine State Conference in five statistical categories, and had multiple players rank among the top 50 in the nation in 12 different categories.
Prior to joining the Moccasins, McHale served as the head coach at Ithaca College in New York, where she compiled an overall record of 48-24 in four seasons with the Bombers.
During her tenure at Ithaca, McHale led her squad to four-straight Empire 8 Conference tournament title matches. She was the Empire 8 Coach of the Year in 2012, and her staff was named Coaching Staff of the Year in 2013 and 2014 (the award was changed prior to the 2013 season).
In addition, McHale coached the league's Goalkeeper of the Year (Jess Wortham - 2012) and Player of the Year (Allison Runyon - 2013). Runyon also earned third-team IWLCA all-America honors in 2015. During her time at Ithaca, McHale coached 31 all-conference selections.
Prior to her time at Ithaca, McHale was the head coach at St. John Fisher College, where she led the Cardinals to two NCAA tournaments. She finished 98-70 in 10 seasons at St. John Fisher, earning Empire 8 Coach of the Year honors in 2007 after leading her team to a school-record 14 wins.
McHale also spent seven years as the head coach of the women's lacrosse and women's soccer teams at SUNY Postdam (1994-2001).
A 1992 graduate of SUNY Brockport, McHale was a three-year lettewinner in soccer, earning first-team all-state honors in 1990. She was also the SUNYAC West Division Player of the Year in 1990, and was a first-team all- SUNYAC performer in 1989. McHale was inducted into the SUNY Brockport Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997.
She earned a master's degree in exercise and sports sciences and sports psychology from Ithaca in 2005.
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We prepare for special visitors in special ways. We desire to delight them, help them to feel comfortable. We ask ourselves and perhaps others about what foods they like, what activities would please them. These are visible signs of affection and intimacy.
In preparing for the liturgy we might be tempted to get our personal house in order so the Special Guest will be pleased, delighted, and feel welcomed. What is special about the Eucharistic Presence, the Visitor Who never goes away, Who has made His home in us, is that His delight is in us always. We prepare for the liturgy by being more attentive to welcoming Him into those places in our personal lives where we would rather not have any visitors. We can pray with the dark corners, our hiding places and messiness, where God is waiting to welcome us.
In our First Reading from the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses is completing his presenting of all the laws, customs and ordinances which the people of Israel are bound, covenanted, to observe. When they fulfill these, then the Lord will delight in the resulting prosperity of their fields, their cattle, and their fruitful bodies.
What we hear in today's First Reading are verses of comfort. Though the laws are many and detailed, they are not strange or disorienting to their minds and hearts. Moses has said that the Lord will continue to circumcise their hearts so that they all will know to whom they belong. These words of the Law are in a head-language and a heart vernacular so that there is no need for certain wise persons to interpret them. They are clear when thought about and comforting when experienced as a way of God's loving them and their responding lovingly to God.
Many Jews have the Word of God affixed to doorposts in a little box called a mezuzah, and can wear the Word of God in little cloth or leather pouches over their hearts and foreheads. These are called "Tefilin" (emphasis on the second syllable). Moses declaims that these Laws will keep them close to God as God is close to them. They are not unreasonable, or violent to the human spirit.
The Gospel contains a beautiful and equally threatening parable. A scholar of the law asks Jesus a question, meant more as a beginning of a discussion than a simple request for information. Jesus, in His usual manner, answers a question with a question. The man knows well the dictates of the Law and responds correctly. According to the Book of Leviticus, 19, 18, loving neighbor is a sacred responsibility of the faithful Jewish person. So to extend the discussion and perhaps get the upper hand, the scholar asks the obvious question and Jesus takes it out of the scholar's hand and lays it on his heart.
A foreigner becomes the hero by placing himself in the vulnerable position of not being anybody's neighbor. The beaten man sets up the tension. The two religious figures, who do not tend to the man, heighten the heroism of the despised Samaritan. Jesus is telling this story to move from the Law to the Good News. The good news of the parable has several aspects.
Perhaps the two who pass by on the "opposite side" have their religious reasons. Their being faithful to their understanding of the laws of physical purity are righteous in their eyes. The good news of Jesus expressed in the parable is that "unlawful" love of the injured is the new and complete righteousness. Keeping our eyes and hearts open to the robbed is more blessed than keeping our eyes on keeping legal strictures.
A foreigner is moved with compassion flowing from his head and heart. Jesus is the compassionate stranger to our fallen, robbed-of-innocence humanity. Jesus is on "our side" and takes us in to the "inn" of His embrace after tending to our wounds through the Sacraments. "Oil" and "wine" are the healing "bandages" of His touch.
The good news is that we are relieved from our wondering what exactly are we to do when healed and sent back on our journeys. We are to "Go and do likewise." Selfishness in its various forms of protection, personal image, and indulgence, are very close to our minds and hearts. This interior law is not so far away or high above us. We do not need anybody to teach us how to be greedy, egocentric, or lazy. Nobody had to teach me on the day my mother put the frosting bowl between my sister and me, that if I smacked her with my spoon she would run crying to my mother and I could quickly scoop up all my unjust, but delightful desserts.
There are two forms of "good news". One is the selfishly good news that each of us can walk on the "opposite" side of the other "good news" which we keep hearing and making the center of our lives. The selfless law of Jesus is warming to the heart when we hear it, but the other "good news" of our ignoring selves, still remains in effect. So again, the Gospel of Jesus puts us in tension. We ask also about just who is our neighbor whom we should care for and whom can we pass by and with whom not have to share our frosting. We would say that our neighbor is the one who will appreciate our gestures of generosity. Our neighbors are those whom we know. Our neighbors are those who are similar to us; think the way we do, act in accordance with our values. This is natural and warming to the heart and mind.
Jesus' teaching is His whole life of including, embracing, and saving us in our being stripped, beaten by the ways of the world within and around us. He has brought us from our own being half-dead back to full life. As my mother had to do, Jesus keeps teaching us to share, to extend His compassion, and work to heal.
In doing this, He lives through our stoppings and we really do put ourselves in positions to our receiving truly our just desserts.


Our Saviour Subject to His Parents at Nazareth by John Rogers Herbert. 1847. Oil on Canvas, 32 51 inches. Collection: Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Photograph by George P. Landow reprodiced courtesy of the Guildhall Art Gallery, which retains copyright.
A passing cloud of Golgotha would spread."
This picture presents three figures --Joseph, the Virgin, and our Saviour in his youth. The immediate scene is before the door of Joseph's house, looking out upon a region of arid and sterile aspect, which the catalgue informs us is "painted from a very careful drawing made at Nazareth" — a matter of little consequence, and of no value. Joseph is in the act of making a plough, while Jesus is coming with a basket to pick up some chips which have been swept together on the ground. The Virgin is seated at her wheel; she ia not actually spinning, but regards Jesus with an extraordinary intensity of expression. The style of the work is a deduction from early Italian Art modified by more advanced experiences. It is a work of much merit; but most defective where we should most look for excellence; the character of the Saviour — in youth — has been utterly mistaken; there is in it nothing of that high feeling and perfect grace — grace of heart as well as mind — inseparable from our ideas of the character: the expression is, indeed, rather repulsive than inviting ; it gives us no glimpse of the mighty hereafter of the Divinity who had taken our nature upon him.
Both the painting itself and the reviewer's statements about it prompt several remarks: first, Herbert's canvas clearly anticipates both Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents and Hunt's The Shadow of Death: it has the child trying to help Joseph, the carpenter, of Millais's painting and the mother's intense gaze of Hunt's. Second, the accompanying text make the painting a prophetic image. Third, he comment also reveals how little concerned with authentic settings was this important review and how much it assumed that depictions of Christ had to present an idealized Christ rather than one engaged in daily activities [GPL].
"The Royal Academy." Art-Journal 9 (1847): 189.


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Chávez Appointed Vice President of Membership for NHCSL
PHOENIX, State Capitol – Rep. César Chávez was appointed on Wednesday as Vice President of Membership for the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators. NHCSL includes Hispanic state legislators from both parties who communicate and advocate for Hispanic communities in the United States and territories. Chávez was appointed by Senator Carmelo Rios, the Puerto Rico Senate Majority Leader and President of NHCSL. Chávez's position will deal with recruitment for NHCSL.
"NHCSL has always been a voice for Latinos on numerous controversial issues that have surfaced in the United States. They have always taken the bold position of doing what is right for our communities," said Chavez, D-Phoenix. "It is an honor that I will be serving in the capacity of Vice President for Membership. Thank you, President Carmelo Rios, for your trust. I will serve our organization with the utmost respect and dignity."
Chávez also the Co-Chair of the Arizona Latino Legislative Caucus and the first formerly undocumented member of the Arizona Legislature.
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COVID Hospitalizations Drop Again in LA County
by SFVS Staff September 8, 2021 September 8, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Southland hospitals continued seeing drops in the number of COVID-positive patients on Tuesday, Sept. 7, while infections among health care workers in Los Angeles County have also been trending downward after two months of increases over the summer.
According to state figures, there were 1,433 patients in COVID-19 in county hospitals as of Tuesday, a drop of 30 from a day earlier. There were 415 people being treated in intensive care, up slightly from 412 on Monday.
The county Department of Public Health reported another nine fatalities due to COVID on Tuesday, raising the cumulative death toll from throughout the pandemic to 25,465.
Another 1,060 cases were confirmed, for a pandemic total of 1,421,616.
The numbers of new deaths and infections are likely low due typical reporting delays from the weekend and Labor Day.
County health officials also reported that infections among health care workers — which rose in June and July — have been on the decline over the past few weeks. According to the county, there were 534 new COVID cases among health care workers during the week that ended Aug. 7. But during the week that ended Thursday, Sept, 2, just 291 health care worker cases were reported — 178 of them among fully vaccinated workers.
All health-care workers in the state must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30.
According to the county, 44,441 health care workers and first responders have tested positive for COVID during the pandemic, and 284 have died. Most of those deaths occurred between July 2020 and February 2021, according to the Department of Public Health.
"Reflecting the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines, deaths among healthcare workers are low," county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement. "As we have implemented layers of protection, including universal masking indoors, and continue to increase overall vaccination coverage, we are seeing declines in LA County metrics.
"Of the nearly 10.3 million LA County residents, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine, 56% are fully vaccinated. When we keep increasing vaccination coverage, while masking up and applying other layers of protection, we break the chain of transmission and protect the most vulnerable and the 1.3 million children not yet eligible for vaccine."
Last week, health officials confirmed the presence of what's known as the Mu variant of the virus, which is described as highly contagious and potentially able to evade vaccines. According to the health department, 167 instances of the Mu variant have been detected in the county, all between June 19 and Aug. 21, with most of them found in July.
The Mu variant — officially labeled a "variant of interest" by the
World Health Organization — was first discovered in Colombia in January, and has since been detected in 39 countries.
Some initial reviews of the variant have indicated it has the potential to evade currently available vaccines. But in a statement on Sept. 3, county health officials said, "more studies are needed to determine whether Mu variant is more contagious, more deadly or more resistant to vaccine and treatments than other COVID-19 strains."
The Delta variant remains the dominant COVID-19 strain circulating in the county, with Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer saying on Sept. 2 it represents nearly all of the cases that undergo the sequencing needed to identify specific viral mutations. Delta is labeled a "variant of concern" by the WHO.
Ferrer noted that the county has begun to see decreases in the rate of new infections. According to Ferrer, the county's cumulative seven-day rate of new cases was 159 per 100,000 residents last week, a 16% drop from the previous week and down 22% from the peak of 204 per 100,000 residents in mid-August.
The county's rolling seven-day average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus fell Tuesday to 2.7%, down from 3.3% on Sept. 3.
Los Angeles County Reports Another 58 COVID Deaths
LA County COVID Hospital Cases Jump Back Over 400
COVID-Positive Patients Surge Past 2,000 Mark in LA County Hospitals
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What happens when you cross queso dip and classic mac & cheese (with a little kielbasa for good measure)? You get queso mac and cheese!
Back in December while we were having dinner one night, I asked Josh and the kids what they wanted to eat more of. Josh said seafood and Christian and Eden said macaroni and cheese, while Grace said cheesecake.
All very different opinions, haha! That's what you get when you have six people in your family. I, of course am happy to try all of these things, and then I got an idea. What if I made one new macaroni and cheese recipe a month…?! That would make 12 different Mac and Cheeses for a whole year. The kids of course, loved that idea and even Josh was on board.
For January, we made this ques0 mac and cheese and it is so simple! I'm going to warn you though, this recipe uses processed cheese, known by the name of Velveeta. I don't know a whole lot about queso, but I do know that it almost always has Velveeta cheese in it, so if that is a problem for you, you may not want to read or make this recipe. But if you can get over that (and you probably should), it's amazing.
This week, I was thinking this would make a great side or meal to serve at a Super Bowl Party. I don't watch the Super Bowl, so I honestly have no idea what people actually eat during the game, but I imagine it's crazy good food that isn't all too concerned with being healthy. That's okay – everything in moderation right? And, frankly, the only reason I've ever been tempted to start watching the big game is for the food! But that's okay – I'll save my game day treats for the World Series.
I was a bit unsure how the kids would like this recipe. I mean, I didn't exactly ask them about it. All they hear is mac and cheese and forget the rest of the details. But this pasta does have a bit of a bite to it due to the Rotel (another queso ingredient), and if you don't know what Rotel is, it's basically a can of diced tomatoes with chiles in it, so it does pack a little heat. But the cheese does temper the heat a bit.
However, the kids LOVED it! They definitely felt the mild heat, but they said it wasn't so hot or spicy that they couldn't eat it – which I guess means it's kid-approved! I did keep a pitcher of water on the table, though, just in case – which, now that I think about it, serving something a little more medium in heat than they're used to is a great way to get them to drink more water! How's that for a mom trick/tip?!
If your kids are big fans of Mac and cheese or maybe you guys love a good queso dip – give this recipe a try one night. It's a pretty speedy dinner to make and tastes so creamy and zesty!
Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Add the pasta and cook according to the box's directions. Drain, then transfer to a 9x13 baking dish.
In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, cook the sausage until browned, about 5 minutes. Add the flour, chili powder, cumin, and salt stirring until combined, about 1-2 minutes. Slowly whisk in the milk, scraping up any bits. Add the processed cheese and whisk until smooth, 3-5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and carefully stream in the eggs while whisking. Return the pan to the burner over medium-low heat and whisk until thickened, 2-4 minutes. Whisk in the sour cream, tomatoes, and bell pepper.
Turn the broiler on. Pour the cheese sauce over the pasta and stir to combine. Sprinkle with shredded cheese and broil until melted and bubbling, 2-3 minutes. Serve with a salad.
If you want more heat, feel free to add tabasco sauce or even switch out the cheese to a pepper jack cheese. Still want more heat, use hot turkey sausage links instead of the kielbasa.


Before 2009 the Spinner Awards were given annually to the male and female SBC members who rode and reported the most miles in each age group. Age groups, determined by age at the end of the year, weree: 0-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65+. There were also two "wild card" Spinner Awards, given to the highest mileage man and woman who did not place first in their age groups. A minimum of 500 miles was required to be eligible for a Spinner Award.


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Carroll County Takes Back Prescription Meds
By Erin / November 4, 2013
Carroll County Public Safety Officials gathered Oct. 26 throughout Carrollton to participate in the National Drug Take-Back Day. Created to put an end to improper usage and abuse of prescription medications, law enforcement officials said this day is dedicated to providing local area residents a responsible method of disposing of prescription drugs. This is the fifth initiative for the state.
Approximately 6.1 million Americans abuse prescription medications in the nation according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. These medications sit in cabinets sometimes for years and people do not realize the harm that can come from outdated medications. According to the foundation, these forgotten drugs often lead to side effects, addiction as well as overdose in some cases.
"Many people assume that since these drugs were retrieved legally that these medications are safe to take," said Officer Ford of the Atlanta Police Department. "The truth is that when these medications are misused, they can be as equally deadly as illegal drugs."
One by one, cars began stopping by the fire station with grocery bags and boxes filled with unused and out of date prescription medications. One participant had medication from as far back as 2010. A similar event was held in April where local Atlanta police collected more than 370 tons of prescription drugs from their 570 sites. On Oct. 26, there were over 90 drop-off points in Georgia with workers who were dedicated to getting these drugs out of cabinets and the community.
"Prescription drug abuse has made its way to children of ages as young as 11 years old in some areas of the state," says Ford.
The rate of teenagers abusing prescription medications is up 33 percent over the last five years, creating higher abuse rates than cocaine, according to Drugfree.org. Prescription drug abuse is the second highest drug abuse for teens in the country after marijuana use. Children get their hands on frequently prescribed medications such as Codeine, Adderall and Xanax.
These drugs have been made popular through the news media as well as entertainment for years. Hip Hop artists, Lil Wayne and Rick Ross create lyrics acknowledging and generalizing the abuse of these drugs.
According to Drugfree.org, the media is not solely to blame for the epidemic within our nation. It is up to members of the community to be responsible with their prescription medications.
"I've worked in the school system for eight years now and kids are smarter and have easier access," said Anita Dale, metro school secretary. They are becoming cleverer at finding new and inventive ways to get high. If we all make the effort then we are one step closer to the goal."
Authorities believe that this day will help eliminate the availability to children and teens within the community.
"Prescription drug abuse is a problem in many households, schools and the communities in Carroll County and across the nation," said Ford. "By making this nationwide issue a statewide event we are lessening the numbers of statistics from within our community."
Georgia Counties Prepare for Hand Tally of Presidential Race
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Earth's resources consumed in ever greater destructive volumes
July 24, 2018 Re:thinkcarbon, circular economy, circulareconomy, earth, environment, environmental, footprint, green growth, greengrowth, planet, resources
Humanity is devouring our planet's resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year's worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in a record 212 days. As a result, the Earth Overshoot Day – which marks the point at [...]
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What if Canada had spent $200bn on wind energy instead of oil?
June 19, 2018 Re:think
In fact, since 1999, more than $200bn has been invested into the Alberta oil sands for that future. But what if that cash had gone into wind energy instead? [...]
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions
July 18, 2017 Re:think
A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change.
ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron are identified as among the highest emitting investor-owned companies since 1988.
G20 public finance for fossil fuels 'is four times more than renewables'
July 5, 2017 Re:thinkearth
The G20 countries provided $71.8bn of public finance for fossil-fuel projects between 2013-2015, compared with just $18.7bn for renewable energy. Japan provided the most at $16.5bn, which was six times more than it allotted for renewables. [...]
Three French Initiatives To Produce More Than 2600 Megawatts In Renewable Energy
February 16, 2017 Re:thinkenvironment, environmental
The European Commission recently endorsed three French schemes to support solar and hydropower energy generators in France under EU state aid rules. The schemes will allow France to develop around 2600 megawatts of additional solar capacity and 60 megawatts of additional hydropower capacity. The two solar schemes together have [...]
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Time to RE:think the economy!
August 19, 2016 Re:think
"The root problem is the fact that our economic system demands ever-increasing levels of extraction, production and consumption. Our politicians tell us that we need to keep the global economy growing at more than 3% each year – the minimum necessary for large firms to make aggregate profits. That means every 20 years we need to double the size of the global economy – double the cars, double the fishing, double the mining, double the McFlurries and double the iPads. And then double them again over the next 20 years from their already doubled state??"
These 21 countries are cutting carbon while growing GDP
April 6, 2016 Re:thinkenvironment, environmental
Several large, developed countries are breaking the mold of one-to-one economic growth and environmental impacts. As countries embark on the transition to a new climate economy , there's a debate about whether growth can drive, or even coexist with, climate stabilization. This emerging trend is supported by 21 countries that have managed to reduce GHG emissions while growing GDP [...]
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Global wind power capacity tops nuclear energy for first time
March 2, 2016 Re:think
The capacity of wind power generation worldwide reached 432.42 gigawatts (GW) at the end of 2015, up 17 percent from a year earlier and surpassing nuclear energy for the first time, according to data released by global industry bodies.
The generation capacity of wind farms newly built in 2015 was a record 63.01 GW, corresponding to about 60 nuclear reactors, according to the Global Wind Energy Council based in Brussels. The global nuclear power generation capacity was 382.55 GW as of Jan. 1, 2016, the London-based World Nuclear Association said.
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US Solar Market Sets New Record, Installing 7.3GW of Solar PV in 2015 – beating out natural-gas capacity additions
February 23, 2016 Re:think
For the first time ever, solar beat out natural-gas capacity additions, with solar supplying 29.5 percent of all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. in 2015.
Original story at www.greentechmedia.com
China overtakes EU to become global wind power leader
Booming market grew 27% in 2015 edging past European Union for first time. China installed half of all new wind capacity worldwide last year, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). The country added an "astonishing" 30.5 gigawatts to boost installations to 145.1GW. Total global capacity reached 432.4 GW, a 17% increase on the previous year.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and GraniteOne Health to Combine
Published Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH) in Lebanon and GraniteOne Health (GOH) in Manchester have signed a letter of intent (LOI) to combine their two organizations. According to a joint statement, the combined non-profit health care system, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health GraniteOne, will build on years of successful community engagement and clinical collaboration in order to meet the growing demand for seamlessly integrated primary, specialty, ambulatory and inpatient care, offering patients a high-quality, lower-cost, NH-based alternative choice to out-of-state providers.
The non-binding LOI is the first step in a well-defined and lengthy process that involves further due diligence, opportunities for public input, negotiation of final terms, approval by each organization's board of trustees and the Bishop of Manchester, and review by federal and state regulators.
According to the statement, as a combined system, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health GraniteOne will seek to:
Expand access to high-quality care for individuals and families throughout NH
Respond to growing demand for inpatient, specialty and sub-specialty services, particularly in Southern NH
Extend and reinforce health care services in rural communities
Coordinate and strengthen efforts to address behavioral health and substance use disorder
Improve the health of populations suffering from chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, and obesity, leading to better long-term health and lowering long term healthcare costs
Address social determinants of health such as nutrition and food security, access to preventative care, and educational opportunity
"As the health care landscape continues to evolve, it is important for health care systems to evaluate how we can best serve our patients and communities, and prepare for the future so we can continue to provide the high level of care that people expect," says Joanne M. Conroy, MD, CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. "By combining these two top health care organizations, we would create a patient-focused, unique and unparalleled option for New Hampshire that is responsive to community needs and patients' desire for cost-effective, high-quality care."
"For 15 years, our two organizations have worked closely together to improve the lives and health of our patients and their families," says Joseph Pepe, MD, CEO of GraniteOne Health. "We have complementary visions for what health care in New Hampshire could be. Combining systems would allow us to advance that vision, expanding access to primary and specialty care for all NH residents, including vulnerable patients and communities."
Catholic Medical Center, one of the members of GraniteOne Health, will continue to adhere to its Catholic model of care while D-HH will continue to serve its patients as it does today in all its existing health care facilities. All organizations within the combined system would also keep their current names, identities, and local leadership.
"I am impressed with the deliberate discussions that have taken place thus far and I believe that this combined system would strengthen Catholic Medical Center's ability to care for the suffering and sick in our community, while at the same time maintaining the integrity of its Catholic identity," says the Most Reverend Peter Libasci, Bishop of Manchester. Bishop Libasci and the National Catholic Bioethics Center are actively engaged in this process. According to Dr. Pepe, their participation ensures that "CMC's Catholic identity will be preserved and our mission will be as strong as ever under the proposed combination."
"We respect and admire CMC's historical and unique role in the Greater Manchester community and its Catholic health care mission," says. Conroy. "Health care is a deeply personal experience and it is important to assure all our patients that they will continue to receive the health care services they want and need, at the place and time they want them. We look forward to a thorough and thoughtful process informed by public input so we can create the kind of health care system that the people of NH deserve."
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Resurrection Power: Rapper Appropriation of the Crucified Jesus By: Ebony A. Utley
Resurrection Power: Rapper Appropriation of the Crucified Jesus
By Ebony A. Utley[1]
Hip hop heads are drawn to the crucified Jesus not because they want to die, but because staring down death makes them feel most alive. According to cultural critic and theologian, Michael Eric Dyson, crucified Jesus is "the God who literally got beat down and hung up, the God who died a painful, shameful death, subject to capital punishment under political authority and attack, but who came back, and keeps coming back, in the form and flesh we least expect" (286). Crucified Jesus is the prototype for rappers' visual depictions of resisting death via resurrection.
Remy Ma is the first female rapper to position herself on a cross on the mixtape Shesus Khryst (2007). The cover depicts a topless Remy on a cross. Long hair conveniently covers her nipples. She wears cloth panties, but the contours of her breasts, stomach, and hips reveal a curvaceous body. Her arms are bound with ropes and blood streams from the nails in each hand. There is graffiti on the cross; a skull is etched above her head. To her right is a cemetery, to her left a cityscape. Bright sunlight streams from the heavens giving the dark cover a sepia-toned glow. Remy further emphasizes her femininity in the "Shesus Khryst" video. It opens with Remy on her back. The camera pans her body; her arms are raised above her head and bound to a horizontal cross resting on the ground. Occasionally, there are shots of Remy standing without the cross. She wears a crown of thorns, a white cloth covers her breasts like a halter top and a similar cloth is wound around her waist as a skirt.
Remy extends the traditional spectacle of crucifixion to include sexualizing death. She encourages audiences to enjoy looking at an attractive, partially clothed, bound, and vulnerable woman. However, Remy also resists these patriarchal expectations for femininity by refusing to remain on the cross. The crucifixion is merely a temporary setback that inspires her determination and increases her resurrection potential. Audiences are encouraged to read her crucifixion on the cover art as a transition from the death in the cemetery to life in the cityscape. The video appropriately concludes with a shot of an empty cross visually to imply that Remy has been resurrected. Remy may have been the first female rapper to self-crucify, but she was not the first rapper depicted on a cross. Her representation's significance lies in the affirmation that a woman can feminize and sexualize Jesus' death and resurrection in order to draw attention to the power of a living woman savior. The male rappers who paved the way for Shesus Khryst, however, are Nas and Tupac Shakur.
Queensbridge rapper Nas draws controversy when he portrays himself crucified on a cross in "Hate Me Now" (1999). Nas elicits strength from the resurrection of Jesus. He and featured artist Sean "Diddy" Combs' recurrent adlibs of "I won't stop, I can't stop, It ain't never gonna stop" suggest that acquiescing to death is merely the first step to overcoming death and living in perpetuity. Nas becomes more alive with every attempt to eliminate him.
Nas is certainly inspired by Jesus, but his appropriation of resurrection power emboldens "Hate Me Now" to diverge from the biblical narrative. "Hate Me Now" impugns the haters. Diddy declares that he wants the "weak, jealous motherfuckers" to die. Nas draws hatred for his material possessions—money, clothes, cars, jewelry, and women. The platinum cross that he wears around his neck is a constant reminder of how Nas differs from Jesus. Nas' encouragement of hatred, displays of crass materialism, hedonism, and arrogance directly contrast Jesus' life on earth. At the exact moment that we first see Nas hanging from a cross, we hear Diddy say, "I like this… I like the way this feels." Whereas Jesus prayed in Matthew 27:46 "My God why have you forsaken me," Nas says, "Do it now! Get this shit over with." There seems to be little biblical similarity here, and yet Nas is eager to be crucified because being persecuted is a badge of honor. It means God has shown the person under attack so much favor that his detractors want to kill him. Nas is grateful that God has given him enough material possessions to incite envy. Now that he knows how Jesus' story ends, Nas anticipates an attack as much as he anticipates being resurrected by the same power that brought Jesus, the ultimate conqueror, back to life.
Before there was Remy or Nas, Tupac Shakur aka Makaveli crucified himself on a cross on the 1996 cover art for The Don Killuminati: The Seven Day Theory. The cover depicts a black man who resembles Tupac, including a head wrap and a THUG LIFE tattoo across his abdomen, which is an acronym for The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone. The cross is imposed over a worn Bible. Blood streams down his body past the THUG LIFE. There are nails in his hands and feet, barbed wire around his wrists and ankles. A larger crown of thorns is weaved into his head wrap. The cross is an urban map including: Hollywood, South Central, Los Angeles, Watts, Compton, Long Beach, Detroit, Chicago, Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, East Orange, Brooklyn, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Houston. The cities are labeled in their approximate geographical regions. A compass rests on top of the cross and West, which represents Makeveli's home in California, is visibly marked with a W. The caption reads, "In no way is this portrait an expression of disrespect for Jesus Christ.—Makaveli."
Many fans interpreted this cover as evidence that Tupac faked his own death. The album was released two months after the 1996 Las Vegas drive by shooting which ultimately led to Tupac's untimely murder. Two years earlier, Tupac survived a near-death experience after someone shot him five times, in what appeared to be a robbery in New York. Fans believed that if Tupac could cheat death once, he certainly could do it again. Besides, Tupac lived death. His artistic corpus is filled with narratives about his experiences with death from the murder of comrades to descriptions of prison as a confinement like death to visions of death and the afterlife in his videos. Alive theories highlight the facts that Tupac was shot on September 7th at 4:03am (4+0+3=7) at the age of 25 (2+5=7) and died seven days later on the 13th and are further fueled by Tupac's Makaveli moniker. Tupac was an avid reader of Italian political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli who was infamous for his work, The Prince, which advises political leaders to undertake innovative and unscrupulous actions to usurp and sustain power. Machiavelli is said to have faked his own death to fool his enemies. Tupac adopted Makaveli as his alias just before he died. In this context ardent fans sometimes read Makaveli as mak-alive, make alive, mock-a-veli, which suggests he is mocking those who believe him to be dead, or mack-a-veli because he pimped not only death but also the music industry into succumbing to the belief that he is dead while maintaining multi-platinum album sales.
The "alive" theories combined with the Makaveli moniker communicate an important message to urban America (especially for the thugs living in those cities noted on the cross) about the necessity of resisting death. Dyson explains that if facing death is normal for "the nobodies of American life—poor, black, desperate, hopeless, urban citizens," then resurrection is the ultimate act of resistance and the ultimate manifestation of power (263). Although Tupac may be physically dead, the resurrection of his life through his art is psychologically empowering because it conveys invincibility.
Other rappers have appropriated resurrection themes. The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut
was titled Ready to Die in 1994. Life After Death was released only sixteen days after his untimely murder in March 1997. The posthumous album Born Again (1999) perpetuates the theme in its title. 50 Cent resurrected Tupac and B.I.G.'s gangsta ethos in 2003 not with his album title Get Rich or Die Tryin,' but with a promotional campaign about surviving multiple gunshot wounds. Resurrection is a theme that can mark the end, the beginning, or the middle of one's career. Album titles with key words like return and rebirth as well as music videos with death and resurrection scenarios are a staple for rappers reinventing themselves mid-career.
Tupac was the first to take the place of the crucified Jesus in mainstream hip hop, not to celebrate death but to encourage resurrection as a form of resistance. Although it may appear blasphemous, Remy Ma, Nas, and Tupac push the boundaries of religion until they arrive at Jesus—an accessible model—for surviving patriarchal expectations for women, jealousy, and death. Jesus is a cultural icon for resisting the rules especially those for life and death. By imitating a Jesus who suffered unjustly and yet emerged victorious over death, rappers boldly appropriate Jesus' resurrection as their own.
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Shakur, Tupac. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. Death Row Records, 1996. CD.
[1] Ebony A. Utley is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's God (Praeger, 2012) and can be contacted via her website at theutleyexperince.com.
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