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Women Hold Just One in Five Hedge Fund Jobs
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To mark International Women's Day, Preqin analyzes female representation at hedge funds worldwide and what progress has been made since 2017.
Women account for 19.3% of hedge fund employees*, up slightly from 18.6% in 2017. Although an increase of less than one percentage point cannot be described as radical change, it does represent in improvement in the number of women being employed in the industry over the past 18 months.
At junior level, women account for 29% of employees at hedge funds, but this drops to 23% for mid-level positions and 11% for senior employees. COO and CFO are the most prevalent roles among senior female employees at hedge funds – with 18% of each of these positions held by women – whereas only 4% of manager partners, chairpersons and CIOs are women.
Women are far more likely to be employed in investor relations/marketing roles at hedge funds, accounting for 48% of employees in these roles, than roles within the investment team (13%) or within portfolio management (10%). Across all role functions, female representation decreases as roles grow more senior, but it is particularly poor in portfolio management positions, where just 4% of senior employees are women.
Hedge fund managers based in Asia have the best rate of female representation at 21%, while for North America-based firms it is 19%, followed by Europe- and Rest of World-based firms at 18% each. At junior level, almost a third (31%) of employees at Asia-based firms are women, although this drops to 14% of employees at senior level. Hong Kong-based firms have the greatest representation of women at senior level among major hubs at 18%, followed by the UK (12%) and the US and Australia (each 11%). At the other end of the scale, just 6.7% of senior roles at hedge funds in Sweden are held by women.
While there has been some progress made in female representation at hedge funds, women still only account for one in five employees. What is particularly noticeable is that in all role functions – even in roles where women are best represented – female representation decreases among senior roles compared to junior ones, suggesting that women are not progressing at the same rate as men. While it is encouraging to see some progress in recent months, there is still a long way to go for female representation in the industry.
*These figures are based on analysis of more than 280,000 industry professionals on Preqin's database, including 63,000 hedge fund professionals. For more detailed analysis of these figures by role, seniority and location, please take a look at our recently released factsheet.
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Alliance Releases The Silver Book®: Diabetes
Diabetes, Silver Book
New Resource Highlights the Growing Burden of Diabetes and Value of Medical Innovation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Alliance for Aging Research released a new volume of The Silver Book®: Chronic Disease and Medical Innovation in an Aging Nation. The latest addition to The Silver Book series focuses on diabetes. The volume was released at a Capitol Hill briefing which featured medical and economic experts and a patient advocate. The briefing was co-sponsored by the American Diabetes Association.
The Silver Book is published by the non-profit Alliance for Aging Research drawing upon over 400 independent studies and reports on chronic disease and prospects for medical innovations to mitigate the burden. The Silver Book currently catalogues over 1,500 statistics that outline a coming "Silver Tsunami" with the aging U.S. population.
Specific insights into diabetes in the latest volume include the following:
Approximately one-third of Americans who are first diagnosed with diabetes are diagnosed between ages 65-74.
Fifty-seven million adults had pre-diabetes in 2007.
Diabetes costs the U.S. over $200 billion a year.
Diabetes management programs increase patient compliance and satisfaction with their diabetes care.
Publication of The Silver Book: Diabetes is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Roche Diagnostics.
"Less than a year from now, the Baby Boom generation starts to become the largest Medicare generation in history," explained Daniel Perry, President & CEO of the Alliance. "Unless we can discover and bring into medical practice better ways to treat, postpone or prevent diabetes, all our efforts to preserve America's health care and financial security will mean little."
To encourage national policies to promote investments in innovation, the Alliance for Aging Research launched The Silver Book: Chronic Disease and Medical Innovation in an Aging Nation in 2006. The initial volume focused on cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and neurological diseases and has quickly become a trusted resource for health policy practitioners. Additional volumes have focused on vision loss, osteoporosis, and a more detailed look at neurological diseases.
All of the data are cited with original sources and available online. The online version is a searchable database that is continuously updated as new information is published and that allows users to submit data. Users can also subscribe to the RSS feed.
The new volume on diabetes and the other volumes may be accessed online at www.silverbook.org.
Founded in 1986, the Alliance for Aging Research is a nonprofit, independent organization dedicated to improving the health and independence of aging Americans through public and private funding of medical research and geriatric education. The Alliance combines the interest of top scientists, public officials, business executives, and foundation leaders to promote a greater national investment in research and new technologies that will prepare our nation for the coming senior boom, and improve the quality of life for today's older generation.
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Surprising Password Guidelines from NIST
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25 Health Breaches Added to Tally
489 Incidents Reported Since 2009 Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • August 23, 2012
Twenty-five incidents affecting 215,000 individuals were added over the past month to the federal tally of major healthcare information breaches. That bumps up the total to 489 breaches affecting 21 million individuals since September 2009.
See Also: How Tri-Counties Regional Center Secures Sensitive Files and Maintains HIPAA Compliance
The largest incident added since late July is a breach at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., involving improper access to 102,000 electronic health records.
The past month was the second in a row with a substantial number of breaches added to the federal tally after a lull during the late spring when no new breaches were added to the list for several weeks (see: Health Breaches: 20.8 Million Affected). A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, which compiles the breach list, said last month that department web specialists were catching up with breach postings after being delayed on other projects.
OCR began tracking breaches affecting 500 or more individuals in September 2009 when the HITECH Act-mandated HIPAA breach notification rule went into effect.
A final version of the breach notification rule, to replace the interim final version now in effect, is long overdue. Federal officials have said it will be issued later this summer as part of an omnibus package of regulations that also will include HIPAA modifications. But the package awaits final approval from the White House Office of Management and Budget, which announced in June it was extending its latest review. An OCR spokeswoman declined to comment on the status of the regulations.
Breach Details
So far, about 79 breaches that occurred in 2012, affecting nearly 1.9 million individuals, have been added to the federal tally.
The loss or theft of unencrypted computing devices or storage media remains the No. 1 cause of breaches - about 53 percent of all breaches reported since September 2009 stemmed from this cause. Eleven breaches of this nature were added to the tally in the past month.
Business associates have been involved in 21 percent of major breaches, including six cases added in recent weeks.
The largest of the breaches added to the OCR tally in the past month - the Memorial Healthcare System incident - involved unauthorized records access that occurred from Jan. 1, 2011, to July 5, 2012.
A statement posted July 11 on Memorial Healthcare site's website explains: "As part of an ongoing review of our patient information systems which commenced on April 27, 2012, we discovered that an employee of an affiliated physician's office may have improperly accessed patient information through a web portal used by physicians who provide care and treatment at MHS."
The notice says patients' names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers may have been accessed during 2011 and 2012. No medical records were changed or deleted.
"During our investigation, we immediately contacted law enforcement and began a comprehensive review of our patient information systems to determine if other similar incidents may have occurred," the statement says. "Law enforcement investigators asked that we withhold notification or public announcement of this incident until now. The law enforcement hold has been lifted, and we are notifying our patients as quickly as possible."
Letters to potentially affected patients were sent out starting July 11, although the statement does not indicate how many patients were affected. Officials with the organization did not offer further details.
In another recent incident involving unauthorized access to records, federal authorities this month arrested a former Florida Hospital Celebration emergency department staffer who was charged with HIPAA violations related to alleged unauthorized access to 760,000 patient records and the sale of protected health information about more than 12,000 accident victims.
Some healthcare providers are successfully clamping down on unauthorized access to records by using detailed records access audits.
For instance, since it implemented more rigorous audits, St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital in Mississippi has reduced incidents of inappropriate access from 50 a month to fewer than one or two incidents every couple of months, says Dena Boggan, HIPAA privacy/security officer. The hospital uses an access monitoring system from Fairwarning that provides alerts and daily reports on incidents of inappropriate access.
The application allows the hospital to audit user activity simultaneously across all audit sources, or systems containing electronic protected health information, Boggan says. "Automated reporting alerts you to potential inappropriate activity within hours of occurrence, versus days, weeks, or months after occurrence," she says. "This is vital for detecting possible breaches quickly, so subsequent investigations can be launched in a timelier manner."
The hospital provides training to those involved in the incidents or imposes sanctions, depending on the nature of the violations.
Other Major Breaches
Other large 2012 breaches that have been added to the federal tally so far include:
A February Emory Healthcare breach involving 10 missing computer disks, which affected 315,000.
An April South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services breach, affecting 228,000 Medicaid recipients. That case involved a now-fired employee who was arrested for allegedly transferring patient information to his personal e-mail account.
A March Utah Department of Health hacking incident that affected 780,000 individuals, including 280,000 who had their Social Security numbers exposed.
Feds Seize 3 Website Domains Tied to Android Apps
HITECH Stage 2 Rules Unveiled
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Rebecca is starting a project with Addie and strongly feels that Des Moines is the #1 best place for everything, especially in East Village.
Why do you call Des Moines home? Des Moines is definitely my home, it's my place of comfort, in a good way. For years I moved all over - east coast, west coast, mountains, overseas- but I always found my way back to Des Moines. You just can't quit this place.
"It's my place of comfort, in a good way."
If you could write the Des Moines area a mission statement, what would it be? Maybe more of a tagline than a mission statement, but I have to give Adam and Tammy from The Red Door Press credit for this one. Their calendar print says it all - Des Moines: The #1 Best Place for Everything. It's pretty true though, we're always on those #1 best lists, which in a way is comical because they seem never ending, though well deserved.
What's currently keeping you busy? Besides The Book of Dates? Haha, well as much as I'd love it to be, The Book of Dates is not my day job. So it's a balancing act of the two among all of everything else going on in life.
Why did you want to start The Book of Dates? Local art is really a thing in Des Moines, with all the art and craft fairs, the new murals going up everywhere, the interiors of many local downtown restaurants, free art Fridays, etc. It just seemed like a great opportunity to promote all of the extremely talented artists working on those projects, as well as emerging artists, all in one central place. We also wanted a go-to place where you could map out your weekend with some of Des Moines' best events. So, viola - The Book of Dates was born.
"If you really don't think you'll ever try your big idea on your own, or keep telling yourself the "someday" thing, maybe find a friend and you'll have the courage to do it together."
Walk us through your typical weekend? Obviously trying to catch a local Des Moines event if something is going on (Farmer's Market for sure) and shopping locally, especially in East Village, but my staples are sleeping in as late as possible and coffee in pajamas.
What's your biggest guilty pleasure? Black Cat Ice Cream! Go if you haven't! The pastry chef really goes the extra mile with every ingredient he puts in. For instance, he has one flavor with all the yummy childhood cereals, that he actually soaks in cream for a period of time before he folds it into the ice cream. So good!
Convince us to visit one of your favorite places in the Des Moines area? I have to say all the parks and woods in and around Des Moines. I love to go running and biking. I have some spots I go to regularly, even just to do some life reflection. In the spring, it's the prettiest because all the trees and flowers are blooming above and around you. I love to be out and just feel enveloped by nature and it's cool that you don't even have to leave the city limits in order to experience that.
For someone new to East Village, what shop would you want them to visit first and why? The first stop any East Village newbie should make is RAYGUN! A typical shopping trip would include browsing the eccentric knick-knacks, their Midwest-themed posters & mugs, postcards and stickers galore and their staple item: the quirky pun tees! It's a completely outta-the-box retailer, you gotta go! And you can swing into Mars & Thelma's for a coffee and cookie while you're at it!
If you could grant the Des Moines area one wish what would it be? My wish for Des Moines, really, just one? RDG Planning & Design does an annual Design Residency (of which I'm an alum) where graduate students with a variety of backgrounds come from all over and plan all these pie-in-the-sky projects for Des Moines. I can't pick just one idea, but I've seen everything from repurposed grain bins as a learning centers, to parking garages as micro-housing communities, a downtown street turned waterway for kayaking, community gardens on tops of sky scrapers and more. If any city would be up for implementing these ideas, it's got to be Des Moines!


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The 2021 F4 Spanish Championship was the sixth season of the Spanish F4 Championship. It was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations, based in Spain. The championship featured drivers competing in 1.4 litre Tatuus-Abarth single seat race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The series was organised by RFEDA.

This was the last season of using Tatuus F4-T014 car. Starting from the next season, the series will feature Tatuus F4 T-021.

Entry list

Race calendar and results
5 rounds organized by RFEDA were announced on 17 October 2020. Another 2 rounds set to take place abroad were revealed on 19 October with their places and dates to be confirmed. An updated version with the round at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and one in Portugal added was published on 17 December 2020. Moreover, there were some tweaks to the dates of the national rounds. Autódromo Internacional do Algarve as the host of the Portuguese round was confirmed on 28 January 2021. Due to more travel restrictions, the planned season opener at Circuito del Jarama in April was cancelled and replaced with a round at Circuito de Navarra in May. As the official pre-season test of FIA World Endurance Championship was scheduled to take place at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and 24H Series moved its round to Circuit Paul Ricard, the series season opener will be held one week later at the same location.

Results
Races denoted with a blue background were 18-minute races, which yield less points than 25-minute races.

Championship standings
Points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in 25-minute races and for the top eight classified finishers in 18-minute races.

Drivers' championship

Secondary Classes' standings

Teams' standings
Two best finishers scored points for their team. Bonus points were not counted.

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Congratulations! Your monthly benefits have been approved. But, what happens next? Your disability carrier will monitor your claim to make sure you still qualify for benefits.
The monitoring process can be incredibly stressful and you need an experienced disability attorney to take the burden off your shoulders so you can concentrate on your medical treatment.
Disability attorney Nancy Cavey has created a customized strategy for dealing with disability carrier's monitoring and requests for information.
As a general rule the strategy is designed to address certain do's and don'ts in dealing with carriers. While the carrier's request for more information sounds, on the face of it, fairly easy to deal with it, the reality is that it isn't.
Disability carriers typically monitor a newly approved claim monthly until it appears there is no potential for improvement. Your file is then transferred to a unit in the disability carrier office that deals with "stable claims." That doesn't mean the monitoring stops! There are certain milestones in a claim, like a change in the definition of disability or a benefit amount that triggers an automatic review.
The red flags come from a combination of the forms that you fill out and any interview you give and from your medical records, forms your physician completes and any conversations your physician has with the insurance company. These problems all come because of a lack of control of information! That is why you need disability attorney Nancy Cavey.
You can make many mistakes in answering questions about what you do around the house, in your yard or what you do with your children. Your descriptions of your activities can also be inconsistent with what is in your medical records. These mistakes are an opportunity for the carrier to deny your claim.
Your statement is not a social conversation but rather a calculated attempt by the carrier to catch you in a lie or an exaggeration about what you can and can't do. Unfortunately, unscrupulous investigators and misrepresent what they observed about your pain and misstate what you said. They often don't ask the right questions or give you an opportunity to explain yourself. Being unprepared for a statement is a recipe for disaster.
Any reported improvement by you or your physician is interpreted by the carrier as an ability to work. While you may have improved, it is crucial that you and your physician explain why you remain disabled. Learning how to tell your physician about your symptoms and functionality is key!
The way your physician completes questions about your restrictions and limitations can, and often do, destroy a disability claim. There is no doubt that the forms are designed to trick your physician into assigning restrictions and limitations that allow you to work.
Physicians didn't go to medical school to learn how to fill out forms and they often make mistakes.
We work with your physician to make sure they understand the definition of disability, the physical and cognitive requirements of your occupation and have accurately and correctly assigned the right restrictions and limitations. Attorney Cavey has even trained physicians how to properly fill out these forms.
The carrier will compare your statements, the medical records and the forms completed by your physician for "inconsistencies." This can result in a review of your medical by the disability Medical Director, a paper review by a peer review provider hired to cherry pick your records, or even an independent medical examination designed to give the carrier ammunition to deny your claim. Worse yet, it can trigger surveillance and the request for a statement.
Control of information means that you are prepared and protected during a statement, independent medical examination or functional capacity evaluation.
Control of information means that we fully cooperate with carriers in obtaining the information they have requested and do so in a professional manner.
Control of information means that we give the carrier what they asked for, and nothing more, even if it is favorable.
Disability carriers respect and even fear Attorney Cavey because they know that, while fully cooperating with them, she will aggressively protect her clients. She isn't about to given them any information that will give the carrier reason to question a claim, even if it is favorable.
They know that she will timely provide them with the information they requested and won't play games. Because of her philosophy, Ms. Cavey has an excellent working relationship with disability carriers and their defense attorneys.


Abstrakt: This article analyses the issue of Czechoslovak tourists on the Adriatic coast during the Interwar period (1918–1939). Our paper will give a short overview of the beginnings of organized tourism from Czech and Slovak lands to the Eastern coast of Adriatic Sea. In the main part of the text, the article focuses on tourists from Czechoslovakia in the Kingdom of Serb, Croats and Slovenes (from 1929 Kingdom of Yugoslavia). They belonged to the most numerous group of tourists during the entire Interwar period, and their importance in developing tourism in that area was significant. In our text, we will analyse major tourist trends and which were the main obstacles for developing of tourism on Adriatic. The focus will be on the issue of Czechoslovak investments in the eastern Adriatic coast and the issue of tourist industry workers as well.
BALABAN, Milan. Czechoslovak tourists in the yugoslav adriatic in the interwar period (1918-1939). Acta Histriae [online]. 2017, vol. 25, iss. 3, s. 747-766. [cit. 2019-04-24]. ISSN 1318-0185. Dostupné z: http://zdjp.si/en/acta-histriae-25-2017-3/.


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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Monday 8/1/11
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For comprehensive coverage of the spectacular FringeNYC 2011 Festival, please click here.
Stand-ups Moshe Kasher and Ali Wong perform tonight at both "Hot Tub Variety" and "Whiplash"
Tonight's recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
[FREE] 6:00 pm: An open-mic stand-up show running about 90 minutes at The Creek in Queens' Long Island City with host Chris Gaynor: Open Mic Mondays
[FREE] 6:30 pm: Kevin Allison (legendary MTV sketch series The State, HBO, Comedy Central, VH1, host of award-winning storytelling show Risk!) hosts this free open-mic show for storytellers, in which you can put your name in a hat for the chance to tell a five-minute true story…and if it's a good one, possibly be included in Kevin's popular podcasts on the Web: Risk! Storyslam
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): The perfect show for short attention spans—open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours—with an early show hosted by Sean Donnelly & Blaine Perry at 7:00 pm, and an entirely different group of stand-ups hosted by Dan Cartwright & Dave Greek at 9:00 pm—at the Luca Lounge (222 Avenue B off 14th Street) for John Morrison's Motel Luca
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 7:30 pm: Jason Good (Comedy Central, Howard Stern), Michael Che, Chris Lamberth, and Jeff Wesselschmidt performing stand-up at a free weekly show in the Manchester Pub tonight hosted by Phoebe Robinson: Case of the Mondays Comedy
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Some of the finest improvisors in the country—Tara Copeland, Becky Drysdale, Jeff Hiller, Mike Still, and more—and tonight's guest improvisor Brian Faas (The Law Firm) making up a musical on the spot at Diamond Lion
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($6.50 online or $8 at the door): The hilarious Found Footage Festival (oddball videos not to be missed), Moshe Kasher (Comedy Central Presents, Chelsea Lately, IFC), Ali Wong (fearless, razor-sharp, hilarious comedy dynamo; MTV, Comedy Central), and Harry Terjanian celebrating this show's One-Year Anniversary at Brooklyn's Littlefield (622 Degraw Street) with sketches and more from a duo who between them won four 2011 ECNY Awards—including Best Variety Show and Best Hosts—Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler—partying it up for this final show of the summer: Hot Tub Variety
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($10): My #1 pick for the 2007 FringeNYC Festival, this wonderful group of actresses/improvisors portray characters as if they were in a play, but improvise everything they say and do. The luminous performers include Katharine Heller, Brenna Palughi, Lynne Rosenberg, Lauren Seikaly, and Molly Knefel, each of whom is immensely appealing and quick-witted. Further, they have an intimate, lovely chemistry with each other; and they've all committed to baring their personal lives, thinly disguised via their characters (hence the title's Naked). As a result, this is one of the most honest & nuanced improvised shows you'll ever see. This show was previously a wonderful theatrical event that cost $18 and up. Don't miss this five-week Monday evening run, concluding August 15th, at the elegant Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street, near the #1 subway's Christopher Street stop) that allows you to catch the gals for a mere $10: Naked in a Fishbowl
8:00 pm ($5): Stand-ups Morgan Venticinque (Jimmy Fallon), Dan Wilbur (College Humor), and Anthony Devito engage in "a battle that will test their speed, intelligence, and knowledge of pop culture, with the prize being to headline the show at the end of the game," hosted by Eitan Levine & Andrew Tavin: Brain Fart
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): One of UCBT's finest in-house sketch comedy troupes Fambly(spearheaded by rising star Mamrie Hart, who's snared over 125,000 visits to date with her latest YouTube viral video), plus in-house troupe Neighbor Boy (which isn't in the same league, but features such appealing performers as Kate Hess and Tim Dunn), trying out new bits at Maude Night
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 9:30 pm: Delightful stand-ups Arden Myrin, Brooke Van Poppelen, Seth Herzog, and Micah Sherman, improvisor Will Hines, and sketch troupe Murderfist in a show "where improv and stand-up bleeds in and out of each other. One comedian starts with stand-up. Soon he or she is joined by a second comedian—and the two improvise scenes inspired by the first comic's stand-up. Eventually the first comic leaves and the second comedian performs stand-up. When that set is over, her or she's joined by the first comedian and a third comedian. The three improvise scenes inspired by the second comedian's set. Then comedians one and two exit, and the third comedian performs his/her set until being joined by comedians one, two and a new fourth comedian…and so on. The process continues till we run out of comedians stashed backstage." It's all the brainchild of Nick Vatterott, who hosts this bold & messy new format at The Creek in Queens' Long Island City upstairs theatre: Klusterphuk
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): From the producers of The Scene, improvisors make up one-act plays on the spot at Act One
[FREE] 9:30 pm: NYC stand-ups Pat Dixon, Phoebe Robinson, Charlie Kasov, Nathan Rand, Paul Hooper, Laura Prangley, Josh Carter, and Zach McGovern performing at Pat O'Shea's free biweekly Brooklyn showcase at Freddy's Backroom (627 5th Avenue): Ed Sullivan on Acid
[TOP PICK] 10:00 pm ($5): World-class storyteller Adam Wade (two-time Moth GrandSlam Storytelling Champion (2006 & 2009) and record-breaking 17-time StorySlam Champion; The New York Times Magazine; host of The Adam Wade Show; for Adam's award-winning tale of being an NBC page onConan O'Brien, please click here) hosts a show that's "like watching the characters of The Wonder Years and Freaks & Geeks all grown up and telling coming-of-age tales of love, lost, regret, and redemption:" Adam Wade's Whatever Happened to the Nerds?
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 11:00 pm: Moshe Kasher (Comedy Central Presents, Chelsea Lately, IFC), Ali Wong (fearless, razor-sharp, hilarious comedy dynamo; MTV, Comedy Central), Brent Weinbach, and Sean O'Connor, hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (HBO, Saturday Night Live, Conan O'Brien,Comedy Central) at Whiplash
[FREE] 11:00 pm: If you're an audience member who loves stand-up, Monday at 11 should beWhiplash! night (see listing above). If you're a comic who couldn't get booked on UCBT's all-star show, though, you can opt to instead practice your skills at this stand-up open-mic hosted by Michelle Wolf and the hilarious Erin Lennox (for a sample of Erin's dynamite Seriously Sports show, please click here): Fresh
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In the 4th Race at Tampa Bay Downs I am playing the #1 Tap Speed – this horse ran a huge race just 18 days ago missing by 1 1/2 against the same company.
This horse takes his first try as a route, and Elliot Sullivan strikes 29% winners on first try at a route. This horse will love the extra distance today and should run them down in the stretch.


Mark O'Meara has announced his retirement from The Masters after missing the cut, 20 years after winnng his maiden major at Augusta National.
O'Meara, who said his farewell to The Open at Royal Birkdale in 2017, had hinted he would have something to say after Friday's round after admitting the course was now too long and he no longer felt he was able to contend.
Following a nine-over-par 81 in his 106th competitive round at Augusta National, the 61-year-old decided that having finished 10 shots outside of the cut mark, he is ready to call time on his Masters playing career.
"There comes a point in time when you say enough's enough," said O'Meara, who birdied his final two holes in 1998 to win the Green Jacket ahead of Fred Couples and David Duval. "I just don't want to go out and shoot 76s and 80s and 79s.
"Today I had no birdies and shot 81 - that's not exactly very sterling. Even though the course is very demanding and very tough, it's fair. The course has always been fair, but it's an extreme test of golf."
"That was it for me; I'm done. I love this championship. It's just a tough golf course when you're 61."


Tired of the work and the constant deadlines? If you are, and you are living in Bangalore, you are in for a lucky break. There are places just hours away from the city of Bangalore which are ideal for day outings. In terms of experiences, you could use from the adventurous, the thrilling and the tranquil. And if you are looking for a nice blend of tranquility and adventure, Makalidurga is the place to be.
It is not so much a holiday resort than a barren land with greenery here and there, and granite rocks to climb. The stillness of the place is what makes Makalidurga exciting in the first place.
Makalidurga is located about 60 km from Bangalore, and takes just short of two hours to reach the place. The best way to reach Makalidurga from Bangalore is to take the train from Yesvantpur Junction, which leaves at 08:15 hours. Makalidurga has a very small station and the train passing through the hills is an enchanting sight indeed.
However, if you are not too comfortable taking the short train journey, you could always take a bus or drive to the destination yourself. You have to reach Doddaballapur from Bangalore, which is about 35 km away, and then ask directions to Makalidurga from the locals out there. Makalidurga is situated at about 15 km from Doddaballapur, and it should take about half an hour to reach the destination.
As you reach Makalidurga, you are stunned by the stillness of the place. There are hardly any people around, which is a partly eerie and a partly exciting experience. There are hardly any shops or hawkers around either. That's why, you are best advised to carry loads of food and water while coming for a day outing in Makalidurga.
It is a moderately difficult trek, and with some effort, you can easily climb the barren rocks and boulders. There are some directions written too on the boulders itself which you would do well to follow. The top of the hill gets you face to face with the ruins of a fort, which is spread across quite an area.
The view you get here of the lake which is located just a few km away from the destination is fascinating. And while at the top, don't miss out on catching a sight of the train meandering through the hills at the bottom of the hill. The sight is definitely worthy of being caught in your camera.
Other than the fascinating views and the trek to the top of the hillock, there is little else you can do here, other than a small temple located at the base of the hill.
If you are daring enough, night trekking in Makalidurga is an experience not to be missed. While the place is still during the day, it is more so during the night, which is sure to send a chill down your spine. The trek to the top of the hill takes about 2 hours, which means you could easily start at 10 at night, camp for a while at the top of the hill and then make your way down by 5 in the morning.
If you decide to take the night trek in Makalidurga, make sure you have a professional guide with you, a torch, as well as a mosquito repellant. And do carry sufficient food and water with you, as finding a shop here at night is the same as the sun rising from the West.
The cooler months of September to February are the best time to trek in Makalidurga. It can get very hot in summers, and should be avoided. The rainy months make the granite rocks very slippery and dangerous, and you do well to avoid them too.
All set to pack and go but concerned about a perfect itinerary? Thrillophilia has the perfect outings designed to suit your style and make trekking around Bangalore an experience of a lifetime.


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The first race of the Eliminator Round in the 2014 Chase for the Sprint Cup is the Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 at Virginia's Martinsville Speedway. The race goes green on Sunday, Oct. 26, while the Camping World Truck Series races in the Kroger 200 on Saturday, Oct. 25.
On Sunday before the race, fans can check out the Green Flag Experience, which includes pre-race admission to the frontstretch for driver introductions and driver question-and-answer sessions featuring Jamie McMurray, Kyle Larson, David Ragan, Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. The Green Flag Experience costs $30 per person, and also includes continental breakfast items, simulators and a photo opportunity at the flag stand – find out more here.
Key on-track times:
Friday, Oct. 24 –
Sprint Cup Series practice – noon ET
Camping World Truck Series practice – 1:40 and 3 p.m. ET
Sprint Cup Series qualifying – 4:40 p.m. ET
Saturday, Oct. 25 –
Sprint Cup Series practice – 9 a.m. and noon ET
Camping World Truck Series qualifying – 10:10 a.m. ET
Camping World Truck Series Kroger 200 – 1:30 p.m. ET
Sunday, Oct. 26 –
Sprint Cup Series Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 – 1:30 p.m. ET
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Knee High by the First of July: Celebrating the Legacy of Corn in the District of Kent, British Columbia Knee High by the First of July The Agassiz-Harrison Historical Society
Prospectors Turned Settlers
The Agassiz Family and Ferny Coombe
First Wave of Immigration: Early Farming in the Eastern Fraser Valley
The Duncan Family Farming Legacy in Harrison Mills
The Agassiz Dominion Experimental Farm
The Development of Agassiz's Dairy Industry
Technological Advancements and Agassiz's Prize-winning Herds
First Hops, Then Corn
Growing Fields of Gold
Agassiz Agri-business: Growing Cannery Corn
Agassiz During the 1948 Flood
Second Wave of Immigration: The Bodnar Family
Second Wave of Immigration: The Peterson Family
Agassiz's Corn Culture
Agassiz: The Corn Capital of British Columbia
District of Kent Centennial Cookbook Corn Recipes
Credits and Acknowledgements
Kids and teens dressed up in costume during the Agassiz Fall Fair parade, 1953.
The Agassiz Agricultural and Horticultural Association was originally founded as the Kent Agricultural and Horticultural Association on November 16, 1899. Since 1901, it has organized the annual Agassiz Fall Fair to showcase the best local agriculture, horticulture, orchard, and livestock efforts.
In 1949, the Agassiz Fall Fair expanded to include a Corn Festival; this tradition has continued every year since. The Agassiz Harrison Board of Trade developed the Corn Festival as a means of marketing the prime local industry. Initially, sweet corn was the focus, but it was soon replaced by field corn as the dairy industry expanded in the District of Kent. In 1952, the Agassiz Fall Fair and Corn Festival were combined into a single event.
Harold Hicks, 1964 Corn King Lloyd Tranmer, and 1963 Corn King Garet Whorley, 1964.
The Corn Festival crowns Corn Royalty each year. For 58 years a Corn King from the community was selected. The first Corn Queen, Michelle Stuyt, was crowned in 2007. The honour of the title of Corn King/Queen is awarded to a local farmer who produces the best quality and greatest quantity of corn per acre. The Corn King/Queen competition is open to anyone in the community who has a minimum of two acres of field corn. Judging is based on field cleanliness, corn uniformity, corn maturity and efficient nitrogen use.
Agassiz's first and only Corn Queen, Michelle Stuyt, on a horse drawn wagon with Victoria Brookes, Alex Charles and Rita Bruneski, 2007.
Each year, an average of 10,000 people attend the Agassiz Fall Fair and Corn Festival. Hundreds of local volunteers come out to support the event which includes:
a parade;
musicians and dancers;
a midway;
a corn husking competition;
a goat milking contest;
an antique tractor pull;
a Farmer's Market;
a chicken and corn barbeque; and
arts and crafts, painting, needlework, baking, canning, floral, fruit, vegetable, and photography entries in the Agricultural Hall.
The 2018 theme was the "Year of the Corn." For six years, the BC Association of Agricultural Fairs and Exhibitions has awarded Agassiz the coveted title of "Fair of the Year."
114th annual Agassiz Fall Fair and 70th annual Corn Festival Prize Book, 2018.
Corn culture is truly the heritage of Agassiz and the District of Kent. The consistent cooperation of community members has ensured the continued success of our corn crops and dairy herds over the past 130 years. Corn and cows are the lifeblood of our families and will hopefully continue to put food on our tables for centuries to come.
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SPJAT 2019 Admit Card- SPJAT is the aptitude test that is organized every year by S.P. Jain School of Global Management. It is the leading to manage everything related to SPJAT exam. The applicants who wish to prepare for SPJAT 2019 exam and qualify the same with flying colors need to first go through the eligibility criteria of SPJAT and then apply online. After qualifying SPJAT 2019 exam, the candidates will be able to get the golden chance of undergoing the programmes of management that are Master's Degree in Global Business or MGB and Global Master of Business Administration or GMBA. SPJAT or S P Jain School of Global Management has its campuses at various locations across the globe that includes Mumbai, Sydney, Dubai, and Singapore. With this exam of SPJAT 2019, the authority assesses a wide range of skills of the aspirants, right from the logical reasoning and English reading to the Mathematical skills and intelligence quotient. SPJAT exam 2019 will be conducted in the month of February 2019. All the applicants who have filled the form correctly and submitted it online along with the SPJAT fee amount will get the SPJAT 2019 Admit Card on their email addresses. The authority will send the link of the admit card or hall ticket in the month of January 2019 to the registered email of the candidates, a few days after the submission of online application.
Note that the applicants will have to download the SPJAT 2019 Admit Card from the link given by the authority. Do not expect to get the hard copy of the admit card to your communication address as there is no such clause. The candidate is advised to check the details given in the admit card carefully and report to the officials of SP Jain School in case of any error. Once the exam will be conducted and the result will be published, the selected candidates need to appear in the counseling process of SPJAT 2019 to get admission in GMBA and MGB courses.
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The applicants are not allowed to enter the details of the test center of their choice without having the admit card.
The applicants need to make note of the fact that admit card is mandatory to carry on the day of SPJAT exam 2019 along with one valid identity proof. If the candidates fail to show these documents in the examination hall, they will not be allowed to appear in SPJAT exam 2019.
The admit card will be received by the candidates on their email addresses before one week from the examination date.
In case the applicants have not completed the process of online registration and application form, the authority will not issue them the hall ticket.
As the authority will send the admit card to the registered email id of the candidates, it is necessary for them to mention the email id correctly in the application form.
The applicants can easily download the hall ticket from the given link and also take out the hard copies of it.
In case the candidates will find any mistake or inaccuracy in these details, they need to approach the authorities instantly and get it rectified.
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Coming down the homestretch. These edits need to be back to the publisher by mid-September.
Dr. James Holland, left, and Dr. Jerome Yates.
After much discussion, we've decided on a subtitle and a slight alternation to the main title. The entire package is now -- CANCER CROSSINGS: A Brother, His Doctors and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia.
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The 28-year-old played a key role in evaluating safety issues for today's scheduled launch.
By Tom BellStaff Writer
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This story was corrected to reflect the proper spelling of Mike Nicholas's name.
Mike Nichols, standing in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, oversaw Discovery's thermal protection, the tile skin that protects the shuttle when it descends into the atmosphere. Courtesy photo
"We are good to go for launch."
That was the message Westbrook High School graduate Mike Nicholas delivered to NASA officials a week ago, urging them to approve the launch of the space shuttle Discovery.
Officials agreed. Discovery lifted off early this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Nicholas, a 28-year-old who works for Boeing, is the lead engineer overseeing the thermal protection system for Discovery. That's the tile skin that covers the shuttle and protects it from burning up when it descends into the atmosphere on landing.
Nicholas' job is to make sure the shuttle is safe to fly and then monitor the tiles while the shuttle is in orbit.
After watching the shuttle take off this morning, he'll fly to Texas to observe the shuttle from NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston.
Nicholas said that being part of the space program is a life-long dream. He said he was 4 or 5 years old when he saw a space shuttle launch while on vacation in Florida with his parents.
"I was just hooked," he said. "That is what I wanted to do."
He still has the bright-silver astronaut outfit he wore that day. It's stored in a closet at his mother's home in Portland.
Nicholas excelled at chemistry at Westbrook High. Although he lived in Portland, he attended the high school because he played trombone and wanted to be in the school's outstanding jazz band and marching band.
After graduating, he studied ceramic engineering at Alfred University in New York state. Ceramics are nonmetallic, inorganic materials that are processed at high temperatures.
The tiles that cover the space shuttle are essentially strands of highly refined glass and a large amount of air, buffering the shuttle from the 1,800- to 2,200-degree temperatures that occur during re-entry, Nicholas said.
While the vast majority of the tiles are bonded onto the shuttle, some are attached using plugs and inserts so they can be removed.
An in-orbit inspection of the space shuttle Endeavour during its most recent flight showed a ceramic insert protruding about 0.4 inches from the tile surface between two space shuttle windows. Engineers inspected the rest of the Endeavour and found another protruding insert near another window.
Scientists worried at the time that an insert could break away and punch a hole through the shuttle's protective tiles, resulting in the kind of catastrophic overheating that destroyed the Columbia in 2003 when it disintegrated over Texas during re-entry.
While engineers inspected most of the Discovery inserts, concerns about the payload bay door surfaced too late for direct inspection because the shuttle was already on the launching pad.
Instead, an engineering team lead by Nicholas completed a stress analysis to assess damage potential. Members determined that the insert had sufficient energy to damage the shuttle, but they also concluded that the odds of one breaking free from the payload door was very remote.
NASA managers agreed, and approval for launch was granted without any dissenting opinions.
For Nicholas, it was a proud moment that his recommendation was accepted.
Since the disasters of the Challenger and Columbia, NASA has developed a decision-making process that brings forward dissenting opinions that are completed vetted, he said.
He said he has no worries for the mission scheduled to begin this morning.
"We are flying safer now than we have ever flown," he said.
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It looks like these so-called migrants are dressed for a community outing, masks and all, babies in strollers even, for a 1,125 mile trek to the Texas, USA border, demanding entry? Why not call before you leave to see if they'll let you in? They just assume they will? They think pity will open the door after they throw their hatred at anything and anyone American – been doing it for years. Would you open a door to a professed enemy of all America? Open your door or we'll huff and puff and blow your house down?
I wonder if Black Lives Terrorists and Antifa are planning on burning a few border towns on behalf of the migrants?
Why not go someplace closer? You know, where they speak their language at least. No money there. Where are the grandparents? They left them home alone to fend for themselves in the uninhabitable environment they're leaving, for a better life without them?
Was this photoshopped or is this what the new child endangerment looks like. I'll tell you right now, those stroller wheels won't hold up for 1,125 miles no matter how smooth the terrain. Hope they have a bunch of money with them for water and food. Better not close their eyes at night while they sleep, otherwise they'll wake up cashless.
The hurricanes are just another excuse. They've been doing this for years. Everybody sees the USA as one big ATM machine that's theirs for the taking. Why would they even consider it during a pandemic?
Why don't they work to rebuild what they claim they lost instead of packing up and abandoning their lives and their aged parents and grandparents. If they can stay and endure, better to have the entire family together to share the burdens.
Why do they always ask everybody else to solve their problems for them?
So this woman wants only milk for her boy. How does she suppose she's going to get milk by walking all the way to the USA border, 1,125 miles away? Do you think there's a better way to get milk than walking 1,125 miles for it? Child endangerment is what it is. They're exploiting their own children, hoping the USA will have pity on them, when their own country doesn't?
How about all the people suffering in America with lost jobs and inflated prices on everything that people need to survive? Many people are on lockdown and these Hondurans think they can just walk into this country unprotected and be welcomed with open arms? Where's their compassion for the suffering Americans?
These caravan organizers need to be held accountable and stop herding their own people to other countries they want to dominate. These Hondurans sacrificing their own children in strollers are being used as political pawns by the organizers. Where do you think they'll get jobs once over the border to support themselves?
Americans lost their jobs and now Hondurans have this brainy idea to flip the border in their favor by offering to work at slave wages? That's an insult to every American.
Stop selling yourselves. We don't want slaves in our country. Go elsewhere.
Stay home and take care of your grandparents and parents. Build your life where you are, not in somebody else's backyard.
Joe Biden isn't going to let them in and take jobs away from Americans, then flip them to lower wage jobs for Hondurans. Is he?
Americans are desperate. There are not enough jobs for Americans and now Biden wants to transplant Honduras into America so the American government can take care of the Honduran people?
Americans can't even get a stimulus check and now Biden is going to throw that money at Hondurans who exploit children for profit? If that's what they think, somebody put that into their heads.
Tell the cartels to take care of the people in the countries where they're allowed to operate. Start with the ones they displace from their homeland. Of course if truth be told, Honduras isn't a homeland any more than America is the homeland of Americans. The conquistadors were from Spain not America. So the Hondurans on their way to the USA border are not natives.
This isn't about a hurricane. That's what the Red Cross does. The Red Cross helps in disasters. The USA isn't the Red Cross. So you went to the wrong people. You knocked on the wrong door.
How much money have the cartels operating through the Americas donated to the Red Cross? Now is a good time.
Bring your people back, treat them with respect, raise them up so they can support their families. Make Honduras a place people want to visit. If you're part of the fabric, then make that fabric strong, resilient and trustworthy.
If you can't stop killing people and terrorizing them so they flee, somebody is going to drop a bomb on your operation and be done with it. It doesn't matter how many American politicians you pay off to look the other way. Somebody always knows who they are and where you live.
A trek, means using your legs and feet as a vehicle, a walk, a hike, a climb. Not a train, bus and ship ride. Hitching a ride isn't the same as walking 1,125 miles with little children in tow.
Given that tabloid news agencies want to portray a lie rather than the truth makes every other word or impressions they write suspect. That's how fake news originates. One false observation and it blows the rest of it away.
Anyone who has ever walked knows the blisters incurred after just 5 miles. But to claim these super human people are going to walk 1,125 miles with little kids, carrying all their baggage is laughable. How stupid do these writers think the readers are? It's not even close.
Last year they did the same thing, told everybody they were walking. Well it's not a total lie; they had to walk to the bus stop, or be picked up by a truck and taken to a train station. But is that what news outlets want to be known for? Stretching the truth till it breaks?
At the same time previous caravaners were making their trek from South America or somewhere very far away, south of the USA border, I was told that my senior transportation ride would not be able to pick me up outside the doctor's office. There were too many people wanting rides. I, of course, made my appointment in advance, so don't know why I would be pushed off the list to make room for someone who hadn't made an appointment, but it happened.
I had been in the hospital with what they said was sepsis and pneumonia, almost died, would have if I hadn't sought medical care when I did. Looking back I think it was coronavirus/covid-19, that supposedly hadn't hit the USA yet. Steve got it too, in fact everyone in our apartment building got it. I was tested for flu and it wasn't that.
Anyway here I am weaker than I thought I should have been, trying to figure out the buses from Fairview hospital and how to get home. I didn't have money for an Uber, but I had a bus pass. There was no one around that I could ask which way the buses ran. I was so weak I could hardly think straight. So I started walking and got down to a main street that looked familiar, then continued walking. All the way, pushing myself like I have never done. I can do this. But my feet. Oh my God the pain on my soles, stinging, blisters, like the skin was being ripped off, felt raw with every step.
I made it. Just barely. Steve was out front waiting for me at the corner. I could hardly speak, my body and feet sending me massive signals to stop walking. Seven miles I walked, stopping once for a sip of water at a local tavern and to pee.
A few days later the skin started peeling off the soles of my feet in sheets. So when I heard all those Spanish people walking over a thousand miles with no foot complaints, no blisters, I new somebody was lying. And I knew I couldn't trust anything that came out of any news outlet on the topic, since they all ran the same story about these immigrants walking all the way from Central America, South America, who knows what they called it. Honduras, yeah, like that's the only country all these immigrants/migrants were walking from.
Do you see how the fake news develops? They want the reader to trust what they say, but then they lie and fact-check everybody but themselves. This isn't an occasional occurrence; it's the way everybody in the media slants the news – by huge omissions, hyperbole, or downright judging the facts for us, which is always prejudicial in a negative sense.
Their titles often sound like little children tattle-taling, running to Mommy with what somebody did or said, exaggerating what really happened.
Are they really looking for jobs or did they hear about the stimulus checks being held up by congress, maybe for them? Guess they'll see what happens. Do they think the American people don't need those checks? Who gave them those signals about the stimulus checks?
What America doesn't need are more mouths to feed, thousands more mouths needing food, shelter, medical care and living expenses. Do they speak English? If not they'll need to work for Spanish speaking companies or be handled/owned by Spanish speaking bosses. Sounds Of Slavery. Will the Democrats support slavery now? How about the Republicans? Neither calls it that?
What don't they understand about the USA not wanting slaves?
Yeah, then the slaves grow up and form a terrorist organization to take over the country. The new and improved Antifa?
It's a hustle and these migrants who think they can pick fruit in the winter and work at the slaughter houses, that are going out of business soon, will be back on the road – all points south – unless Canada lets them in. Otherwise they'll be somebody's burden who doesn't want that burden on top of everything else people in a pandemic have to cope with. They're not thinking of anyone but themselves.
To leave the elders to fend for themselves in an uninhabitable environment (according to them) is elder endangerment. What kind of people do that?
I hope they didn't give away their life savings yet. It costs a lot of money per head to be escorted to the USA border. Somebody's making money.
Spain needs to stop colonizing like Britian did. Spain says they're not. I say, they're your people, your blood, they're colonizing just like you did, so that's on you. Tell them to stop. Isn't Spain their mother/father country? Isn't Mexico, Central/Latin America, South America enough for the Spaniards? They want the USA and Canada too? When they say they don't, their actions prove they do.
Hondurans forming migrant caravan for US stopped in homeland
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(AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
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Thu, December 10, 2020, 1:28 PM EST
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Hundreds of Hondurans trying to start a new caravan to reach the U.S. border were stopped by Honduran security personnel Thursday before they even reached the border with neighboring Guatemala.
The Honduran police and immigration agents asked their countrymen to show travel documents and proof of negative coronavirus tests, which none appeared to have.
Many of the migrants said that two recent hurricanes had devastated their homes or livelihoods, and they set out late Wednesday on a trek toward Guatemala, Mexico and the U.S. border. Last week, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández himself visited Washington and warned of possible food shortages as a result of the storms.
The roughly 600 men, women and children had gathered Wednesday night in the northern city of San Pedro Sula and began walking along a dark highway toward the border with Guatemala. But as they approached the border crossing at Agua Caliente, the Honduran agents said they couldn't continue without documents.
"What do we have to return to?" migrant Angela Castellano asked one of the Honduran agents. Castellano set out with her baby and her husband for the United States, after her husband lost his job at a banana plantation.
"I lost everything, my child's passport, his clothes, everything. It's not fair they're doing this to us," Castellano said as she wept. "I tell my boy, 'I have no home, I have no food to give you.' He just cries for milk."
About 150 migrants sat on the roadside leading to border crossing, wondering how they could continue their journey. Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit within weeks of each other, causing widespread flooding in Honduras.
"There is nothing, my brother, we lost everything," said José Samuel Reyes, a resident of San Pedro Sula, the country's industrial hub and the area hardest hit.
Hernández last week traveled to the U.S. to seek help from the Trump administration, warning that his country is on the brink of food shortages as a result of the back-to-back hurricanes that triggered massive crop loss and paralyzed the economy.
The faces of the would-be migrants reflected that despair.
"We are going here only with what the hurricane left us," said Edgardo Calderón, who said he was setting out with part of his family to the U.S. "to see what happens."
According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, more than 4.3 million Central Americans, including 3 million Hondurans, were affected by Hurricane Eta alone. Those numbers only rose when Iota, another Category 4 storm, hit the region.
While some caravans in 2018 and 2019 made it to the U.S. border, the most recent attempts have routinely been stopped. In October, security forces in neighboring Guatemala turned back another large group of Hondurans who tried to abandon their country.
In addition to the hurricanes, families from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are seeking to flee economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic as well as chronic problems of violence and poverty.
After slowing for the past year, apprehensions of migrants on the southwestern U.S. border began to rise in September and were up more than 50% in October from the previous year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
The victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the U.S. presidential election has raised expectations that he could soften immigration policy.
However, none of that means that the journey north is easier. The possibilities of reaching the United States or even Mexico are slim due to mobility restrictions imposed against the pandemic and the strengthening of immigration controls that were put in place since 2019 in both Mexico and Guatemala due to pressure from the Trump administration.
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In this post the chef and for stylist Karin Bohlin will show us how to food style chickpea fritters with roasted vegetables and a white sauce.
So, lets start with the roasted vegetables. Karin always cut the vegetables in different shapes because that makes the dish look more interesting.
To make the vegetables perfectly roasted, place them on a baking sheet and then roast them for photo – which means until they got that perfect crispy look. Not to natural and not to burned.
When they are ready, place them in the chosen prop.
The white yoghurt sauce could be quite tricky because in the photo it will just turn out as a white spot. Give it character and life with olive oil, herbs or like in this example mango chutney. Don't mx it to much, rather half mix and show some "taste" with a nice swirl.
The chick-pea fritters, first of all don't make them to big, everything tends to look bigger in the photo. Don't fry them to hard.
As with – for example pancakes – fritters are quite flat – therefore it is important to give them some hight and volume. Otherwise the photo can look really strange if the angle is from the side. So place them on top of each other. For example 3 is a harmonic number just as 1 or 5. That could be good to think of.
Keep all the food separate until it is time for photo, then place the whole dish, step by step – first the fritters and the veggies.
Flavour the photo by adding the mango chutney in the background, that also helps balancing the colours – as you can see we just created harmonic trinity in orange.
When you are satisfied with the composition create highlights with oil.
Finally add the sauce, herbs and salt when the camera is shooting.
– Start shooting when adding the sauce, herbs and salt!
I wish you the best of luck with your food styling!
Peal and boil the potatoes. Let cool. Rinse the chick peas and let drain. In a large bowl, combine potatoes and chickpeas with a balloon whisk, or use your hands. Add chopped onion and garlic, salt and pepper.
Shape flat fritters, Heat a frying pan with some oil, add butter and let melt. Fry the fritter 3 minutes per side.
Serve with a cold yoghurt sauce and roasted vegetables, for example potatoes, carrots and parsnips.


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This has got to be one of my favorite creations ever. Tuna salad has always been a fav of mine but most recipes always calls for mayo. For those of us who eat tuna because it's healthy and packed with protein knows that the mayo automatically makes tuna salad not so healthy anymore. It defeats the purpose. Back in college there use to be this amazing tuna salad that Gelson's Supermarket use to make. It was loaded with chopped green onions, dill, red onions, lemon juice, salt and pepper and olive oil. It didn't have any mayo and I was addicted to this salad. I also came across this great mayo-less tuna salad stuffed in a baguette in Paris. The tuna had herbs mixed into it along with some spice. It was fabulous! I decided to pull these two amazing tuna salads and combine them into one. I loved the spice factor in the tuna salad I had in Paris and I loved the dill and green onions in the one at Gelson's.
This inspired my own Green Tuna Salad! It's healthy, low in fat, high in protein and packed with such a fresh pop of flavor, you'll find yourself snacking on this all day long.
1. Blend all your ingredients except the tuna and the salt and pepper in a blender.
2. Once the dressing becomes nice and smooth like a thick soup you can season it with salt and pepper. It should be a beautiful bright green.
4. Now toss the tuna in a bowl and drizzle your dressing over it. Toss and incorporate.
5. Place the now green tuna salad into the bottom of the mason jar. Fill until half way.
6. Stick the celery sticks in the salad. Garnish with some dried cranberries and top with a sprig of dill.
Not only is this salad/dip extremely delicious, it's also extremely beautiful. It's like a little edible garden.


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Where was Dr. Joyce Brothers in MLB Network's Costas-Michaels pairing?
Brothers, Enberg and Allen.
Mets fans used to hearing their games called by Gary, Keith and Ron were thrown for a loop mid-game Friday night when longtime broadcasters Al Michales and Bob Costas jumped over to SNY from the MLB Network for a while.
The MLB Network broadcast was a reunion of sorts, as Costas and Michaels hadn't called a baseball together since the 1995 World Series.
But did the pairing of the two mark the most star-studded broadcast booth of all time?
No. Far from it.
That honor was achieved during a 1988 fictional match-up between the California Angels and the Seattle Mariners during the Leslie Nielsen police comedy, "The Naked Gun."
Calling that game at Dodger Stadium were Curt Gowdy, Jim Palmer, Tim McCarver, Dick Vitale, Mel Allen, Dick Enberg and … of course … Dr. Joyce Brothers.


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Honduran Crisis Talks End For the Day With No Resolution
Talks aimed at resolving the political crisis in Honduras ended for the day Sunday without reaching a solution.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias says he aims to continue the talks in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose in the coming days. He has proposed a seven-point plan that includes the reinstatement of deposed President Manuel Zelaya. It also calls for new presidential elections in October and a unity government.
Mr. Zelaya has been in exile since he was ousted June 28 by members of the military. He insists he has a right to return to Honduras.
But the interim government of Honduras says his return would be "unacceptable."
Honduran military leaders and Mr. Zelaya's opponents say he was ousted because he was trying to illegally change the constitution to extend his time in office.
The interim government has threatened to arrest Mr. Zelaya if he returns.
Neither Mr. Zelaya nor Mr. Micheletti was present at Saturday's talks.
Earlier this month Mr. Zelaya did attempt to return to Honduras, but his flight was blocked by the military. At least one person died in subsequent clashes.
Mr. Zelaya has told his supporters they have the right to begin an "insurrection" to force the caretaker government to return him to power.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
Honduras Talks to Resume, Zelaya Gives Ultimatum
Representatives of the ousted and interim governments of Honduras are scheduled to hold talks Saturday in an attempt to resolve their political crisis peacefully.But both sides have shown little willingness to compromise. Toppled President Manuel Zelaya said Friday he plans to return to his country and his post with or without an agreement from the U.S.-backed talks being held in Costa Rica.Mr. Zelaya set midnight Saturday as the deadline for negotiators to…
Honduras Crisis Talks Postponed
The interim government of Honduras said mediation talks set for Wednesday have been postponed to await a new proposal for resolving the three-week-old political crisis.The foreign minister of the caretaker government, Carlos Lopez, said the proposal was being prepared by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. President Arias is leading the U.S.-backed…


Scouring yard sales and antique barns has always been a family ritual during trips to Vermont, the Cape and where ever else the road has taken us. I have inherited my Mother's thriftiness for making someone else's junk my treasure, all while bargaining for the best rate. So when Daily Candy informed me today of Le Grenier in Greenpoint, I nearly died and went to heaven. Owned by Maya Marzolf, a former fashion photography producer, this boutique has the perfect mix of eclectic vintage finds, as well as, modern contemporary wares. The best green shopping all in one place; find rustic furniture, aged glass bar sets and vanity pieces, porcelain pitchers and delightful candlesticks. This shop will even do rentals for set design. And because heaven must have a garden, enter Le Jardin du Grenier, an outside space used for hosting poetry readings and wine tastings.


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Scale of temperature is a methodology of calibrating the physical quantity temperature in metrology. Empirical scales measure temperature in relation to convenient and stable parameters, such as the freezing and boiling point of water.  Absolute temperature is based on thermodynamic principles: using the lowest possible temperature as the zero point, and selecting a convenient incremental unit.

Celsius, Kelvin, and Fahrenheit are common temperature scales. Other scales used throughout history include Rankine, Rømer, Newton, Delisle, Réaumur, Gas mark, Leiden and Wedgwood.

Definition

The zeroth law of thermodynamics describes thermal equilibrium between thermodynamic systems in form of an equivalence relation. Accordingly, all thermal systems may be divided into a quotient set, denoted as M. If the set M has the cardinality of c, then one can construct an injective function , by which every thermal system has a parameter associated with it such that when two thermal systems have the same value of that parameter, they are in thermal equilibrium. This parameter is the property of temperature. The specific way of assigning numerical values for temperature is establishing a scale of temperature. In practical terms, a temperature scale is always based on usually a single physical property of a simple thermodynamic system, called a thermometer, that defines a scaling function for mapping the temperature to the measurable thermometric parameter. Such temperature scales that are purely based on measurement are called empirical temperature scales.

The second law of thermodynamics provides a fundamental, natural definition of thermodynamic temperature starting with a null point of absolute zero. A scale for thermodynamic temperature is established similarly to the empirical temperature scales, however, needing only one additional fixing point.

Empirical scales
Empirical scales are based on the measurement of physical parameters that express the property of interest to be measured through some formal, most commonly a simple linear, functional relationship. For the measurement of temperature, the formal definition of thermal equilibrium in terms of the thermodynamic coordinate spaces of thermodynamic systems, expressed in the zeroth law of thermodynamics, provides the framework to measure temperature.

All temperature scales, including the modern thermodynamic temperature scale used in the International System of Units, are calibrated according to thermal properties of a particular substance or device. Typically, this is established by fixing two well-defined temperature points and defining temperature increments via a linear function of the response of the thermometric device. For example, both the old Celsius scale and Fahrenheit scale were originally based on the linear expansion of a narrow mercury column within a limited range of temperature, each using different reference points and scale increments.

Different empirical scales may not be compatible with each other, except for small regions of temperature overlap. If an alcohol thermometer and a mercury thermometer have the same two fixed points, namely the freezing and boiling point of water, their readings will not agree with each other except at the fixed points, as the linear 1:1 relationship of expansion between any two thermometric substances may not be guaranteed.

Empirical temperature scales are not reflective of the fundamental, microscopic laws of matter. Temperature is a universal attribute of matter, yet empirical scales map a narrow range onto a scale that is known to have a useful functional form for a particular application. Thus, their range is limited. The working material only exists in a form under certain circumstances, beyond which it no longer can serve as a scale. For example, mercury freezes below 234.32 K, so temperatures lower than that cannot be measured in a scale based on mercury. Even ITS-90, which interpolates among different ranges of temperature, has a range of only 0.65 K to approximately 1358 K (−272.5 °C to 1085 °C).

Ideal gas scale
When pressure approaches zero, all real gas will behave like ideal gas, that is,  of a mole of gas relying only on temperature. Therefore, we can design a scale with  as its argument. Of course any bijective function will do, but for convenience's sake a linear function is the best. Therefore, we define it as

The ideal gas scale is in some sense a "mixed" scale. It relies on the universal properties of gas, a big advance from just a particular substance. But still it is empirical since it puts gas at a special position and thus has limited applicability—at some point no gas can exist. One distinguishing characteristic of ideal gas scale, however, is that it precisely equals thermodynamical scale when it is well defined (see ).

International temperature scale of 1990

ITS-90 is designed to represent the thermodynamic temperature scale (referencing absolute zero) as closely as possible throughout its range.  Many different thermometer designs are required to cover the entire range. These include helium vapor pressure thermometers, helium gas thermometers, standard platinum resistance thermometers (known as SPRTs, PRTs or Platinum RTDs) and monochromatic radiation thermometers.

Although the Kelvin and Celsius scales are defined using absolute zero (0 K) and the triple point of water (273.16 K and 0.01 °C), it is impractical to use this definition at temperatures that are very different from the triple point of water. Accordingly, ITS–90 uses numerous defined points, all of which are based on various thermodynamic equilibrium states of fourteen pure chemical elements and one compound (water).  Most of the defined points are based on a phase transition; specifically the melting/freezing point of a pure chemical element.  However, the deepest cryogenic points are based exclusively on the vapor pressure/temperature relationship of helium and its isotopes whereas the remainder of its cold points (those less than room temperature) are based on triple points.  Examples of other defining points are the triple point of hydrogen (−259.3467 °C) and the freezing point of aluminum (660.323 °C).

Thermometers calibrated per ITS–90 use complex mathematical formulas to interpolate between its defined points.  ITS–90 specifies rigorous control over variables to ensure reproducibility from lab to lab.  For instance, the small effect that atmospheric pressure has upon the various melting points is compensated for (an effect that typically amounts to no more than half a millikelvin across the different altitudes and barometric pressures likely to be encountered). The standard even compensates for the pressure effect due to how deeply the temperature probe is immersed into the sample.  ITS–90 also draws a distinction between "freezing" and "melting" points.  The distinction depends on whether heat is going into (melting) or out of (freezing) the sample when the measurement is made.  Only gallium is measured while melting, all the other metals are measured while the samples are freezing.

There are often small differences between measurements calibrated per ITS–90 and thermodynamic temperature.  For instance, precise measurements show that the boiling point of VSMOW water under one standard atmosphere of pressure is actually 373.1339 K (99.9839 °C) when adhering strictly to the two-point definition of thermodynamic temperature.  When calibrated to ITS–90, where one must interpolate between the defining points of gallium and indium, the boiling point of VSMOW water is about 10 mK less, about 99.974 °C.  The virtue of ITS–90 is that another lab in another part of the world will measure the very same temperature with ease due to the advantages of a comprehensive international calibration standard featuring many conveniently spaced, reproducible, defining points spanning a wide range of temperatures.

Celsius scale

Celsius (known until 1948 as centigrade) is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death. The degree Celsius (°C) can refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius scale as well as a unit to indicate a temperature interval (a difference between two temperatures).

From 1744 until 1954, 0 °C was defined as the freezing point of water and 100 °C was defined as the boiling point of water, both at a pressure of one standard atmosphere.

Although these defining correlations are commonly taught in schools today, by international agreement, between 1954 and 2019 the unit degree Celsius and the Celsius scale were defined by absolute zero and the triple point of VSMOW (specially prepared water). This definition also precisely related the Celsius scale to the Kelvin scale, which defines the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature with symbol K. Absolute zero, the lowest temperature possible, is defined as being exactly 0 K and −273.15 °C. Until 19 May 2019, the temperature of the triple point of water was defined as exactly 273.16 K (0.01 °C). This means that a temperature difference of one degree Celsius and that of one kelvin are exactly the same.

On 20 May 2019, the kelvin was redefined so that its value is now determined by the definition of the Boltzmann constant rather than being defined by the triple point of VSMOW. This means that the triple point is now a measured value, not a defined value. The newly-defined exact value of the Boltzmann constant was selected so that the measured value of the VSMOW triple point is exactly the same as the older defined value to within the limits of accuracy of contemporary metrology. The degree Celsius remains exactly equal to the kelvin, and 0 K remains exactly −273.15 °C.

Thermodynamic scale

Thermodynamic scale differs from empirical scales in that it is absolute. It is based on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics or statistical mechanics instead of some arbitrary chosen working material. Besides it covers full range of temperature and has simple relation with microscopic quantities like the average kinetic energy of particles (see equipartition theorem). In experiments ITS-90 is used to approximate thermodynamic scale due to simpler realization.

Definition

Lord Kelvin devised the thermodynamic scale based on the efficiency of heat engines as shown below:

The efficiency of an engine is the work divided by the heat introduced to the system or

where wcy is the work done per cycle. Thus, the efficiency depends only on qC/qH.

Because of Carnot theorem, any reversible heat engine operating between temperatures T1 and T2 must have the same efficiency, meaning, the efficiency is the function of the temperatures only:

In addition, a reversible heat engine operating between temperatures T1 and T3 must have the same efficiency as one consisting of two cycles, one between T1 and another (intermediate) temperature T2, and the second between T2 and T3. This can only be the case if

Specializing to the case that  is a fixed reference temperature: the temperature of the triple point of water. Then for any T2 and T3,

Therefore, if thermodynamic temperature is defined by

then the function f, viewed as a function of thermodynamic temperature, is

and the reference temperature T1 has the value 273.16. (Of course any reference temperature and any positive numerical value could be used—the choice here corresponds to the Kelvin scale.)

Equality to ideal gas scale

It follows immediately that

Substituting Equation 3 back into Equation 1 gives a relationship for the efficiency in terms of temperature:

This is identical to the efficiency formula for Carnot cycle, which effectively employs the ideal gas scale. This means that the two scales equal numerically at every point.

Conversion table between different temperature scales

See also
 Conversion of scales of temperature

Notes and references

Temperature
Metrology
Thermodynamics


Ochronosis is a bluish-black discoloration of the skin and cartilage. It is generally caused by a rare genetic disease called alkaptonuria. People with this disease have a deficiency in an enzyme called homogentisic acid oxidase which allows the build-up of certain substances that eventually deposit in connective tissue found throughout the body. Several medications have also been reported to cause ochronosis.
This disease entity may be first noticed in newborns as their urine may be darker than normal. People are often without symptoms until later in life when the skin, sclera (white part of the eye), ears, and nose may develop pigmentary changes. Ear wax of a person with ochronosis will also be dark in color. A build-up of certain substances in the joints may cause degenerative changes and arthritis in these patients. There also seems to be an increased risk of cardiac disease because of deposits within the blood vessel walls.
A localized type of ochronosis can occur in the skin over areas where topical hydroquinone cream is applied. This is mainly seen when high concentration, 6 to 8%, of hydroquinone is used over a long period of time.
Your doctor can perform blood and urine tests to check for this condition. At the present time, there are no treatments for ochronosis. Certain elimination diets may be beneficial. A referral to a specialist may be needed to discuss potential complications such as joint and heart disease.


(CNN) — All 157 people aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed soon after taking off Sunday morning from Addis Ababa have been killed, the airline said Sunday.
The plane, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, lost contact at 8:44 a.m. local time, six minutes after taking off from Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital.
Flight ET302 went down near Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa. The victims were of 35 different nationalities, an airline spokesman told CNN.
Thirty-two Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians, eight Americans, eight Italians and eight Chinese nationals were among the passengers. Seven French and seven UK nationals were also on board, the spokesman said.
Nineteen United Nations staff members were among those killed, according to a UN statement. The victims worked for the World Food Programme, the Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees, the International Telecommunications Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Organization for Migration in South Sudan, World Bank and UN Assistance Mission in Somalia, and the UN Office in Nairobi.
Though it's unclear why UN employees were on the plane, the UN Environment Assembly is scheduled to begin Monday in Nairobi.
"My heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims — including our own UN staff — who perished in this tragedy," Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
The US National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to support the Ethiopian Accident Investigations Bureau's investigation, with assistance from technical advisers from the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and General Electric.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam told reporters the pilot reported technical difficulties after takeoff and asked for clearance to return to Addis Ababa.
He was given clearance to turn back, GebreMariam said, citing the air traffic controllers' record.
The pilot was a senior Ethiopian Airlines pilot who had flown more than 8,000 hours. He had an "excellent flying record," GebreMariam said.
The CEO visited the crash site Sunday. He said the plane "is now right inside the ground" and it was not possible to identify whether it was an emergency landing or a crash. He said there was still smoke at the site when he visited.
"The routine maintenance check didn't reveal any problems," GebreMariam added.
The Ethiopian government expressed its "deepest condolences to the families," the office of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted.
Ethiopian Airlines has a reputation of being one of the best airlines in Africa. It has a good safety record and the newest fleet of planes on the continent, according to its website.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is the same type of plane as the Indonesian Lion Air jet that crashed soon after takeoff from Jakarta in 2018 — killing 189 people, GebreMariam said, adding that only an investigation would yield conclusions.
The last major accident involving an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane was in January 2010, when a flight from Beirut went down, killing 83 passengers and seven crew.