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Central California Information (Geography)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_California
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Place in California, United States
Central California is most commonly identified with 10 counties in the southeast part of Northern California
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Central California is a subregion of Northern California, generally thought of as the middle third of the state, north of Southern California. It includes the northern portion of the San Joaquin Valley (which itself is the southern portion of the Central Valley, beginning at the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta), the Central Coast, the central hills of the California Coast Ranges, and the foothills and mountain areas of the central Sierra Nevada.
Central California is considered to be west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada. (East of the Sierras is Eastern California.) The largest cities in the region (over 50,000 population), from most to least populous, are Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton, Modesto, Salinas, Visalia, Clovis, Santa Maria, Merced, Turlock, Madera, Lodi, Tulare, Porterville, and Hanford.
Merced River from Yosemite
1.1 Counties
1.2 Cities
1.3 Sub-regions
2.1 Major highways
2.2 Rail
2.3 Air
Central California can have widely varying definitions depending on the context. Some divide the state by lines of latitude making northern, central and southern sections. Others divide by county lines or watershed boundaries. Some definitions include more of the San Joaquin Valley and even larger portions of the Central Valley. Some have less or none of Central Coast.
Generally the widest definition of central California is the middle third of the state by latitude.[ citation needed] The southern boundary of that area would be 35° 41', which nearly coincides with the county lines already used for the southern boundary that cross the state west-to-east below Monterey, Kings and Tulare Counties. The northern boundary of that area at 38° 51' crosses just north of the Sacramento metro area. However, the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento metro areas are traditionally considered parts of Northern California, intuitively grouped together as the northern urban center within the state. That leaves the most accepted definitions of central California to the areas south of there.[ citation needed]
Big Sur Coast
Central California as defined above includes the following 16 counties:
Area cities and towns listed below are major regional centers or county seats.
Salinas Valley
The following regions are entirely contained within central California:
Metropolitan Fresno
The following regions are partly contained within central California:
California Coast Ranges
Diablo Range
Tehachapi Mountains
Central California has opened two new universities recently, one in each of the past two decades.
The University of California has one campus in the region. University of California, Merced opened on a newly constructed site on the east side of Merced in 2005.
The California State University system has four campuses in the region. California State University, Monterey Bay opened on the site of the former Fort Ord army base in 1994. California State University, Stanislaus in Turlock opened in 1957. California State University, Fresno opened in 1911.
The Monterey Institute of International Studies is a graduate school that offers eleven master's degree programs in international policy, international management, language teaching, and translation and interpretation. The Monterey Institute of International Studies is a graduate school of Middlebury College.
San Joaquin College of Law is a private, nonprofit law school located in Clovis.
Fresno Pacific University is a private university in Fresno.
The Naval Postgraduate School and Defense Language Institute are located in Monterey.
The following community college campus sites are in the region: [1]
Columbia College in Sonora, Tuolumne County
Clovis Community College in Clovis, Fresno County
Fresno City College in Fresno, Fresno County
Hartnell College in Salinas, Monterey County
Merced College in Merced, Merced County
Modesto Junior College in Modesto, Stanislaus County
Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, Monterey County
Porterville College in Porterville, Tulare County
Reedley College in Fresno, Fresno County
College of the Sequoias in Visalia, Tulare County
West Hills College Coalinga in Coalinga, Fresno County
West Hills College Lemoore in Lemoore, Kings County
There are no community colleges in Madera, Mariposa or San Benito Counties.
Major highways
Most of the major highways in the region run north-south around the mountains. Interstate 5 and State Route 99 are the primary highways in the San Joaquin Valley. US 101 and State Route 1 are the major coastal highways.
State Route 1: Central Coast, Monterey, Big Sur
Interstate 5: San Joaquin Valley
State Route 25: Hollister, Diablo Range, Pinnacles Nat'l Park
State Route 33: San Joaquin Valley
State Route 41: San Joaquin Valley, Fresno, Yosemite Nat'l Park
State Route 49: Gold Country
State Route 63: San Joaquin Valley, Visalia
State Route 68: Monterey, Salinas
State Route 99: San Joaquin Valley, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Bakersfield
U.S. Route 101: Salinas Valley, Salinas
State Route 108: San Joaquin Valley, Modesto, Gold Country, Sonora, Sierra Nevada
State Route 120: San Joaquin Valley, Modesto, Gold Country, Sierra Nevada, Yosemite Nat'l Park
State Route 132: San Joaquin Valley, Modesto, Gold Country
State Route 137: San Joaquin Valley
State Route 140: San Joaquin Valley, Merced, Yosemite Nat'l Park
State Route 145: San Joaquin Valley, Madera
State Route 146: Pinnacles Nat'l Park
State Route 156: Salinas Valley, Salinas, Hollister
State Route 168: Fresno, Sierra Nevada
State Route 180: San Joaquin Valley, Fresno, Kings Canyon Nat'l Park
State Route 190: San Joaquin Valley, Sierra Nevada
State Route 198: Diablo Range, San Joaquin Valley, Hanford, Visalia, Sequoia Nat'l Park
State Route 233: Chowchilla
State Route 245: San Joaquin Valley, Kings Canyon Nat'l Park
Passenger rail in the region consists of the Amtrak long-haul Coast Starlight and Amtrak California San Joaquin routes.
The California High-Speed Rail system is under planning. If built, it would have stations in Fresno and Merced on the initial line between San Francisco/San Jose and Los Angeles.
Freight rail is served by commercial railroads. Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway operate mainline freight through the region in the Central Valley.
Major and regional airline service are available at Fresno Yosemite International Airport and Monterey Regional Airport. Regional airline service is also available at Modesto City-County Airport, Merced Municipal Airport and Visalia Municipal Airport.
General Aviation airports exist in all 10 counties. The largest are former military bases converted to civilian airports
Castle Airport in Merced County
Marina Municipal Airport in Monterey County
Porterville Municipal Airport in Tulare County
Salinas Municipal Airport in Monterey County
An active military air base is at Naval Air Station Lemoore in Kings County.
Variations on significant/influential definitions of the term central California are collected in this section.
The following counties are self-described as being in central California or central within California:
Fresno County's intro paragraph on its web site says it is in central California. [2]
Madera County describes itself as located "in the exact center of California." [3]
Madera County Economic Development Commission describes the county as "located in the geographical center of California". [4]
Tulare County describes itself as "centrally located within the State of California". [5]
The following are definitions by influential organizations:
The National Register of Historic Places splits California three ways with lines across the map, with central California being approximately above Los Angeles County and below Santa Clara and Merced Counties. [6]
The California Department of Transportation, or CalTrans, has a wide definition of the central portion of the state with several multi-county districts which have "central" in the name, combining the Central Coast and Central Valley. The "North Central" district covers Sacramento to Chico. The "Central" district covers Stockton to Merced, and Yosemite. The "South Central" district covers Madera, Fresno, and Bakersfield. The "Central Coast" district covers Santa Cruz to Monterey. [7]
The Central California chapter of the Better Business Bureau defines their central California region to exclude the coastal counties and include Mono, Inyo and Kern Counties. Their definition is Fresno County, Inyo County, Kern County, Kings County, Madera County, Mariposa County, Merced County, Mono County, and Tulare County. [8]
^ "College Listings". California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. Archived from the original on January 21, 2010. Retrieved January 23, 2010.
^ "About the County". Fresno County, California. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
^ "Madera County Statistical Information". Madera County, California. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
^ "Madera County Economic Development Commission". Madera County Economic Development Commission. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
^ "About Tulare County". Tulare County, California. Archived from the original on January 10, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
^ "Map of California". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
^ "Highway Information Area Maps". California Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
^ "Contact Us". Central California Better Business Bureau. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
Metcalf, Gabriel; Terplan, Egon (November 12, 2007). "The Northern California Megaregion". Urbanist. San Francisco Planning & Urban Research (466). Retrieved January 13, 2010.
California portal
Central Valley Tourism Association
CA Central Valley & Foothills, project area of the American Land Conservancy
Central California Coast Guide
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA Latitude and Longitude:
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The process of filing nominations for the Lok Sabha elections began in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, where polling will be held on April 11, with the district administration issuing the notification on Monday.
Besides Muzaffarnagar, seven constituencies in Uttar Pradesh – Kairana, Bijnor, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Saharanpur, Meerut and Gautam Budh Nagar, will go to polls in the first phase.
The SP-BSP-RLD alliance will be fielding Ajit Singh from Muzaffarnagar seat. The other parties in the fray, including the ruling BJP and Congress, have not yet declared their candidates.


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package transform

import (
	"time"

	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/codes"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/instrumentation"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource"
	tracesdk "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace"
	v11 "go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp/common/v1"
	v1 "go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp/resource/v1"
	tracepb "go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp/trace/v1"
)

const (
	maxMessageEventsPerSpan = 128
)

// Spans transforms slice of OTLP ResourceSpan into a slice of SpanSnapshots.
func Spans(sdl []*tracepb.ResourceSpans) []tracesdk.ReadOnlySpan {
	if len(sdl) == 0 {
		return nil
	}

	var out []tracesdk.ReadOnlySpan

	for _, sd := range sdl {
		if sd == nil {
			continue
		}

		for _, sdi := range sd.InstrumentationLibrarySpans {
			sda := make([]tracesdk.ReadOnlySpan, len(sdi.Spans))
			for i, s := range sdi.Spans {
				sda[i] = &readOnlySpan{
					pb:        s,
					il:        sdi.InstrumentationLibrary,
					resource:  sd.Resource,
					schemaURL: sd.SchemaUrl,
				}
			}
			out = append(out, sda...)
		}
	}

	return out
}

type readOnlySpan struct {
	// Embed the interface to implement the private method.
	tracesdk.ReadOnlySpan

	pb        *tracepb.Span
	il        *v11.InstrumentationLibrary
	resource  *v1.Resource
	schemaURL string
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) Name() string {
	return s.pb.Name
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) SpanContext() trace.SpanContext {
	var tid trace.TraceID
	copy(tid[:], s.pb.TraceId)
	var sid trace.SpanID
	copy(sid[:], s.pb.SpanId)

	st, _ := trace.ParseTraceState(s.pb.TraceState)

	return trace.NewSpanContext(trace.SpanContextConfig{
		TraceID:    tid,
		SpanID:     sid,
		TraceState: st,
	})
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) Parent() trace.SpanContext {
	if len(s.pb.ParentSpanId) == 0 {
		return trace.SpanContext{}
	}
	var tid trace.TraceID
	copy(tid[:], s.pb.TraceId)
	var psid trace.SpanID
	copy(psid[:], s.pb.ParentSpanId)
	return trace.NewSpanContext(trace.SpanContextConfig{
		TraceID: tid,
		SpanID:  psid,
	})
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) SpanKind() trace.SpanKind {
	return spanKind(s.pb.Kind)
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) StartTime() time.Time {
	return time.Unix(0, int64(s.pb.StartTimeUnixNano))
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) EndTime() time.Time {
	return time.Unix(0, int64(s.pb.EndTimeUnixNano))
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) Attributes() []attribute.KeyValue {
	return Attributes(s.pb.Attributes)
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) Links() []tracesdk.Link {
	return links(s.pb.Links)
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) Events() []tracesdk.Event {
	return spanEvents(s.pb.Events)
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) Status() tracesdk.Status {
	return tracesdk.Status{
		Code:        statusCode(s.pb.Status),
		Description: s.pb.Status.GetMessage(),
	}
}

func (s *readOnlySpan) InstrumentationLibrary() instrumentation.Library {
	return instrumentationLibrary(s.il)
}

// Resource returns information about the entity that produced the span.
func (s *readOnlySpan) Resource() *resource.Resource {
	if s.resource == nil {
		return nil
	}
	if s.schemaURL != "" {
		return resource.NewWithAttributes(s.schemaURL, Attributes(s.resource.Attributes)...)
	}
	return resource.NewSchemaless(Attributes(s.resource.Attributes)...)
}

// DroppedAttributes returns the number of attributes dropped by the span
// due to limits being reached.
func (s *readOnlySpan) DroppedAttributes() int {
	return int(s.pb.DroppedAttributesCount)
}

// DroppedLinks returns the number of links dropped by the span due to
// limits being reached.
func (s *readOnlySpan) DroppedLinks() int {
	return int(s.pb.DroppedLinksCount)
}

// DroppedEvents returns the number of events dropped by the span due to
// limits being reached.
func (s *readOnlySpan) DroppedEvents() int {
	return int(s.pb.DroppedEventsCount)
}

// ChildSpanCount returns the count of spans that consider the span a
// direct parent.
func (s *readOnlySpan) ChildSpanCount() int {
	return 0
}

var _ tracesdk.ReadOnlySpan = &readOnlySpan{}

// status transform a OTLP span status into span code.
func statusCode(st *tracepb.Status) codes.Code {
	switch st.Code {
	case tracepb.Status_STATUS_CODE_ERROR:
		return codes.Error
	default:
		return codes.Ok
	}
}

// links transforms OTLP span links to span Links.
func links(links []*tracepb.Span_Link) []tracesdk.Link {
	if len(links) == 0 {
		return nil
	}

	sl := make([]tracesdk.Link, 0, len(links))
	for _, otLink := range links {
		// This redefinition is necessary to prevent otLink.*ID[:] copies
		// being reused -- in short we need a new otLink per iteration.
		otLink := otLink

		var tid trace.TraceID
		copy(tid[:], otLink.TraceId)
		var sid trace.SpanID
		copy(sid[:], otLink.SpanId)

		sctx := trace.NewSpanContext(trace.SpanContextConfig{
			TraceID: tid,
			SpanID:  sid,
		})

		sl = append(sl, tracesdk.Link{
			SpanContext: sctx,
			Attributes:  Attributes(otLink.Attributes),
		})
	}
	return sl
}

// spanEvents transforms OTLP span events to span Events.
func spanEvents(es []*tracepb.Span_Event) []tracesdk.Event {
	if len(es) == 0 {
		return nil
	}

	evCount := len(es)
	if evCount > maxMessageEventsPerSpan {
		evCount = maxMessageEventsPerSpan
	}
	events := make([]tracesdk.Event, 0, evCount)
	messageEvents := 0

	// Transform message events
	for _, e := range es {
		if messageEvents >= maxMessageEventsPerSpan {
			break
		}
		messageEvents++
		events = append(events,
			tracesdk.Event{
				Name:                  e.Name,
				Time:                  time.Unix(0, int64(e.TimeUnixNano)),
				Attributes:            Attributes(e.Attributes),
				DroppedAttributeCount: int(e.DroppedAttributesCount),
			},
		)
	}

	return events
}

// spanKind transforms a an OTLP span kind to SpanKind.
func spanKind(kind tracepb.Span_SpanKind) trace.SpanKind {
	switch kind {
	case tracepb.Span_SPAN_KIND_INTERNAL:
		return trace.SpanKindInternal
	case tracepb.Span_SPAN_KIND_CLIENT:
		return trace.SpanKindClient
	case tracepb.Span_SPAN_KIND_SERVER:
		return trace.SpanKindServer
	case tracepb.Span_SPAN_KIND_PRODUCER:
		return trace.SpanKindProducer
	case tracepb.Span_SPAN_KIND_CONSUMER:
		return trace.SpanKindConsumer
	default:
		return trace.SpanKindUnspecified
	}
}

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A common complaint from new clients is that their existing website is not providing the number of leads or sales they expect. Sometimes development of a new site is the best way to address this, but often optimising their existing site can be just as effective and costs a lot less.
Optimising your pages for conversion.
These three elements have a lot of overlap, so it's helpful to consider them as parts of a process rather than discrete tasks. Understanding the basics of each can help you to turn your struggling website into a conversion machine.
In the real world, a great way of increasing the number of sales or enquiries is to increase footfall. Getting more customers into a shop is likely to lead to more sales.
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Making your site pleasant to use will boost enquiries and sales by making it more likely that users will stay on your pages. Creating a positive user experience (UX) can give you a real competitive edge, but it's important that your efforts are focused on what really matters to your users. Effective user research can give you insights into how people are using your site and what they are looking for. User research can be time consuming and expensive, but if you're low on time and budget you can use some of our guerilla user research techniques to improve your site.
Addressing these issues will help to give your users a better experience, keeping people on your site. This improved engagement should encourage more enquiries or sales.
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There are a number of relatively easy ways to improve your page speed. Doing a quick audit using an online tool will point you in the right direction. The Google PageSpeed Insights tool is a good place to start.
On average, around 50% of traffic to a site comes from mobiles and tablets. This means it's essential that you make sure your website is responsive – that it works properly across all devices and screen sizes.
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Once you have your users' attention, it's important that you drive users to complete the appropriate tasks that deliver on your goals.
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Google Analytics and other analytics tools are a great way to get insight into the performance of your site. It's a good idea to benchmark your site before you make any changes – making note of the key metrics and identifying some target figures. You can then see how your performance varies over time once you have implemented the changes.
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The overall winner in Cork was Dalton Caren from 4th class. His winning poster will now be widely used by the Council. Dalton received a beautifully engraved plaque. St Anthony's also had 13 runners up, each receiving a €25 voucher. Our school was presented with a cheque for €500.
A big thanks you to Councillor Paudie Dineen, Michael Sheehan and Noel Long (Litter Warden Supervisor).


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Q: Microsoft Graph OAuth doesn't refresh page for outlook.com email when using loginHint I used the Android example from Microsoft Graph documentation.
When I manually enter a @outlook.com email address, it automatically redirects me to the login.live.com sign-in page.
When I pass a loginHint via the PublicClientApplication.acquireToken() method from MSAL however, it does not redirect to login.live.com. Instead it remains on login.microsoftonline.com and reports the email address is invalid.
Is is possible to pass a loginHint for personal accounts?

A: Are you sure that passing a loginHint to MSAL stays on login.microsoftonline.com? Try pasting the below request into a browser as a quick test:
https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=6731de76-14a6-49ae-97bc-6eba6914391e&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fmyapp%2F&response_mode=query&scope=openid%20offline_access%20https%3A%2F%2Fgraph.microsoft.com%2Fmail.read&state=12345&login_hint=mail@outlook.com

This request correctly redirects to login.live.com. But it shows you an error message because the account mail@outlook.com doesn't actually exist.

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The goal of radiofrequency lesion generation is to provide pain relief by applying a controlled amount of energy to a specific nerve that has been determined to be the cause of your pain. It is a low risk method of treating mechanical pain syndromes caused by degeneration of spinal facets in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.
Please do not eat or drink anything six hours before the procedure.
If you are on blood thinners please contact the office where your procedure is scheduled and notify them that you are taking anticoagulants. To have the injection you will need to check with your primary doctor for approval to be off your medication at least 3-7 days prior to the procedure. Patients on Coumadin require a protime/INR blood test the day before the procedure with an acceptable value of 1.5 or below. Bring these results with you to your appointment.
An IV line will be started, usually in your hand. The procedure will be done using fluoroscopy (a visual X-ray process) to accurately place a radiofrequency needle at a specific location to relieve your pain. Both local anesthesia and a mild sedative may be used to reduce any discomfort during the procedure.
After proper placement has been established, the probe is connected to a source of generated low voltage. This controlled, low frequency flow heats the tissue causing selective denervation. By selectively treating the nerves that send pain messages, you should experience pain relief. You should alert your doctor if at any time during the procedure you experience any discomfort.
Make arrangements to have a responsible adult accompany you to your appointment, drive you home, and remain with you for 24 hours. This is for your safety and the safety of others.
You may experience some local discomfort at the needle placement site(s) following the procedure. The discomfort will subside over the next several days. Food and liquid consumption can usually be resumed soon after the procedure. The procedure can usually be done on an outpatient basis.
Since you have had IV sedation during the exam, you are not allowed to drive and will need to have a ride home from the surgery center. It is likely that you will experience some back or neck pain or numbness as a result of the procedure. This may take a few days to clear. You may experience pain or sunburn like feeling while healing. Please understand that it may take 6 – 8 weeks before you feel any relief from this procedure.
Radiofrequency may provide pain relief for a prolonged period of time. However, the human body may regenerate pain pathways over time. It is not unusual for the procedure to need to be repeated.
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Well, that was interesting. The Senators were playing a desperate, chippy, hungry, whatever game. It looked pretty bleak there for a minute. The Senators winning in Boston would be huge for them. But look at their third jerseys. They reversed the "N" and "E."
Crappy SENS/SNES jokes aside, here's how it all went down.
Early on in the game, like in the first few minutes, Boston owned the puck. They moved it around a bunch, Sens would dump and change, and then boston would bring it in again. The Bruins weren't doing a whole lot of "skate in and shoot" so much as "skate in and set up an offense for 2 minutes." During one of those, they're moving it all over the place. Krejci makes a pretty outlet pass to Old Man Ward, who is all alone. The clock strikes noon. Ward draws before Gerber. Slapshot from the point, no deflection. GOAL.
1-0. Ward's first goal of the season, at least he scored in the first half. He was super-excited about it.
Then one of the Sens slips on the ice with no one around him (right in front of where Lucic broke the glass) and gives up the puck. Wideman, Kobasew, Kessel, and one more bruin I can't pick out move down the ice. Kessel-Wideman-Kobasew-Gerber-Post-GOAL.
2-0. It looks half-sketchy, but the puck was over the line before Kobasew fell on Gerber.
10 minutes later, there was some sort of issue 3 rows back, and when you turn around it looks like Manny got scored on.
2-1. Later the announcer tells you Chris Phillips scored it.
Wheeler gets it at the other blue line, but hits post. But he taps it behind gerber to Ryder who sweeps it in.
3-1. You're wondering if you're going to get to see Auld play in Boston again.
A Minute later, Manny stops a 2-on-0, but Chara decides to play Hog Pile on the Goalie and Kelly puts it on the top shelf.
3-2. You're arguing that garbage goals count just as much as pretty ones.
4 minutes later, something just terrible happens. The Senators tie it up.
3-3. You don't want to talk about it.
after the second, they're tied. Julien talks to his team.
The first ten minutes, everything's starting to look bad. But then the clouds roll away, and a gleaming beam of light descends onto the ice...Oh wait, that's just Krejci. He steals the puck off of Alfredsson's stick and has no one except Gerber to beat. Gerber lets it through, but it hits the post. "No matter," says Krejci, "I'll just hit it out of the air on the other side of the goalie." Yes, that's right. Krejci only had one person to beat, so he did it twice.
4-3. You're wondering if someone laced your drink, that was so beautiful.
About 4 minutes later, the bruins dump it in. The senators give it to Savard, who proves he can still score. Bonus: Kessel pushing a defenseman out of the way to give Savard the far side shot.
5-3. Ah yes, it's all coming back to me now.
Ottawa pulls the goalie on a faceoff in the offensive zone. Manny makes a save, Savard grabs it, get both d on him and makes the outlet pass to Axelsson. Axelsson puts it in.
With 20 seconds to go, Manny is caught a little out of position, lets in a 4th goal.
6-4. "Surprised" is one way of putting it.
Usually after a win, the Bs all come out to congratulate the goalie. This time he's getting to the locker room as soon as he can.
The last time the Bruins won 30 games this quick, it was 1930.


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Production of ultradispersed crystalline silicon carbide by plasmodynamic synthesis
A. A. Sivkov, Dmitry Sergeevich Nikitin, A. Ya Pak, I. A. Rakhmatullin
Division for Power and Electrical Engineering
Division for Automation and Robotics
The direct plasmodynamic synthesis of β-SiC ultradispersed cubic silicon carbide under the action of supersonic pulse flow of carbon-silicon electric-discharge plasma onto a copper barrier in the argon atmosphere has been realized. A powdered product with a high β-SiC content has been obtained, whose single crystals have a mean size of about 100 nm and natural crystallographic habit close to the ideal one.
Journal of Superhard Materials
Electric discharges
plasmodynamic synthesis
ultradispersed silicon carbide
X-ray diffractometry
Sivkov, A. A., Nikitin, D. S., Pak, A. Y., & Rakhmatullin, I. A. (2013). Production of ultradispersed crystalline silicon carbide by plasmodynamic synthesis. Journal of Superhard Materials, 35(3), 137-142. https://doi.org/10.3103/S1063457613030027
Production of ultradispersed crystalline silicon carbide by plasmodynamic synthesis. / Sivkov, A. A.; Nikitin, Dmitry Sergeevich; Pak, A. Ya; Rakhmatullin, I. A.
In: Journal of Superhard Materials, Vol. 35, No. 3, 05.2013, p. 137-142.
Sivkov, AA, Nikitin, DS, Pak, AY & Rakhmatullin, IA 2013, 'Production of ultradispersed crystalline silicon carbide by plasmodynamic synthesis', Journal of Superhard Materials, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 137-142. https://doi.org/10.3103/S1063457613030027
Sivkov AA, Nikitin DS, Pak AY, Rakhmatullin IA. Production of ultradispersed crystalline silicon carbide by plasmodynamic synthesis. Journal of Superhard Materials. 2013 May;35(3):137-142. https://doi.org/10.3103/S1063457613030027
Sivkov, A. A. ; Nikitin, Dmitry Sergeevich ; Pak, A. Ya ; Rakhmatullin, I. A. / Production of ultradispersed crystalline silicon carbide by plasmodynamic synthesis. In: Journal of Superhard Materials. 2013 ; Vol. 35, No. 3. pp. 137-142.
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Each Bliss cymbal is an individual work of art, painstakingly hand-forged, and hand-hammered. They have a warmth that seduces at low volume and thunders with a froth of dark undertones at more extreme volumes. These cymbals come alive, shimmering and wobbling as if the mere touch of human hands excites the cymbal and it can't wait to get its voice out there and sing. The undertones are warm, rich, dark with an edge of dragon's breath. Each one is a unique, complex voice that will excite your imagination.


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Oppo Find X2 Pro Dethrones Mi 10 Pro As the New King of DXOMark
By Anil Ganti
Mar 6, 2020 10:43 EST
Oppo heavily emphasized on the Find X2 Pro's camera prowess at its launch event today, and rightfully so, considering that the phone packs some impressive optics. For starters, you get Sony's new flagship IMX689 sensor, coupled with a slightly older IMX586 lens and a telephoto lens that employs the periscope camera principle. While it isn't the best camera hardware around, the Oppo Find X2 Pro has the potential to give industry bigwigs like Samsung a run for their money.
Currently, the Mi 10 Pro sits on top of DXOMark's best smartphone camera list, followed closely by the Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G. Now, the Oppo Find X2 is neck-and-neck with the Mi 10 Pro with its overall DXOMark score, but it falls flat in some regards. Let's take a look at DXOMark has to say about the Find X2 Pro.
OPPO Has a Unique Tri-Fold Smartphone Concept That Puts Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip to Shame
Oppo Find X2 Pro gets an overall score of 124 on DXOMark
DXOMark notes that the Mi 10 Pro is better at texture rendering and zoom performance. The Oppo Find X2 Pro, on the other, delivers more balanced performance. Oppo Find X2 Pro also has better color rendering, good saturation, and accurate white balance in bright outdoor conditions as well as in typical indoor shooting situations. Furthermore, there is a good balance between detail retention and noise management, as well. The test also commended the phone's camera for its autofocus prowess.
DXOMark says that the Oppo Find X2 Pro's low-light prowess was pretty impressive. There is a little loss of detail, but that is to be expected under such circumstances. Despite the phone shipping with a dedicated low-light photography mode, it doesn't offer any benefit compared to regular point-and-shoot images. It could be because the phone was on a pre-release firmware, so the camera's software may not be working optimally. Here's a quick summary of what DXOMark thinks of the device overall.
While one shouldn't take a DXOMark review at face value, the company does a fairly decent job with their reviews. As I mentioned earlier, this particular Find X2 Pro was running an early version of Color OS 7.0, so the software is possibly different from that found on a commercially available version of the phone. DXOMark says that it'll review the phone again with an over-the-counter unit, and it'll be interesting to see how it fares against its competitors then.
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Huawei P40 Pro Camera 'Blows the Competition Out of the Water' in DxOMark's Latest Review
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Matt Bud
Chairman, The FENG
Matt has been a Managing Partner of The Financial Executives Consulting Group (www.TheFECG.com) since its founding in 1999. The FECG places senior financial executives in interim and permanent assignments as Chief Financial Officers, Controllers and Treasurers. Matt is primarily responsible for business development and candidate screening.
Matt is also Chairman of The Financial Executives Networking Group (www.TheFENG.org), an international organization of senior financial executives that he has grown from only 64 members in December 1996 to over 54,000 today. The FENG provides senior level financial executives with a forum in which to share job opportunities and experiences.
Among the first to recognize the power of the Internet as a communication tool, Matt connects members of The FENG on a daily basis through outbound email. Over 1,500 pages of senior level job leads and career advice are published every month.
Featured in the January 21, 2003 edition of The Wall Street Journal, The FENG is a nationally recognized organization for senior financial professionals. It is also the largest organization of its type in the United States.
For 9 years Matt was Chief Financial Officer of Levine, Huntley, Schmidt & Beaver, at one time the 29th largest U.S. based Advertising Agency. Matt also has 15 years of experience in Publishing and Broadcasting, 6 years with The Thomson Corporation and 9 years with CBS, Inc. and 2 years of retailing experience with B. Altman & Company.
He has an MBA in Finance from New York University and a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University.
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Children will delight in this action maze adventure based on the English pangram, "The quick sly fox jumps over the lazy brown dog." This pangram is used as a basis for extrapolating the story plots in this book. Children can make choices on how they want the story to unfold. Emotional intelligence points are awarded based on their choices.


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UnEpic Lands On Nintendo Switch On December 15, 2017
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Francisco Tellez De Meneses has announced that the RPG platformer UnEpic is coming to Nintendo Switch on December 15, 2017. The game is available for pre-purchase on the Nintendo eShop with a 20% discount.
UnEpic is a combination of platforming and role-playing games where you take control of Daniel who finds himself teleported to a castle after he was playing an RPG. Inside the castle he gets inhabited by a mysterious shadow who has a simple goal: to escape from Daniel's body. But the spirit can only escape if Daniel dies.
In the castle, Daniel has to struggle against enemies while the dark spirit attemps to murder him at every turn. Daniel's final goal is to kill Harnakon, the master of the castle to free the Pure-Spirits who are trapped within.
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The Biosphere Reserve of La Rioja is a large area that occupies almost a quarter of the southeastern part of the region. It has a geographical, climatic and landscape homogeneity that gives it a very high environmental value. The Leza, Jubera, Cidacos and Alhama Valleys were listed as a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO on 9 July 2003.
In this area of La Rioja, with successive valleys and mountains, there is a great cultural, scenic, culinary and ethnographic appeal. Discover how the ancient Celts lived by visiting the ruins of Contrebia Leukade and its interpretation centre. In this area there existed even older inhabitants, the great dinosaurs, leaving their tracks everywhere which you can now visit. You will also learn a lot about these amazing animals in the Interpretation Centre in Igea and the Palaeoadventure Park of El Barranco Perdido.
The cultural tour can be completed with a multitude of activities. These include visits to mines, snow pits, interpretation centres, caves, churches and palaces which every small town hides to offer visitors a unique experience.
To regain your strength, the local produce provides excellent oils —you can visit the oil presses— and also the most precious mycological treasure, truffles and other species in high demand. The local cuisine, as befits La Rioja, is simple, tasty and plentiful.
Nature, of course, is the highlight of this area. That is why it has been declared a Biosphere Reserve. There is a complete network of trails where you can enjoy these landscapes, flora and fauna. On this page you can choose a path to your liking.
And after so much activity, what better way to relax than to go to any of the spas found in this area so rich in thermal waters, each is indicated to improve a different ailment but you can simply enjoy the high temperatures and stress reducing properties.
If dusk surprises you in the midst of all these activities, do not worry, on the contrary. This whole area of La Rioja is considered a Starlight Reserve for the quality of its starry skies. You can still enjoy the stars to start again the next day.


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The first ever international table tennis event to integrate able-bodied and para table tennis, the K-Sports 2015 ITTF-Oceania Cup & Para Table Tennis Championships concluded on Sunday, 12 April 2015, with Australia stamping its authority to achieve a clean sweep of titles on home soil.
The K-Sports 2015 ITTF-Oceania Cup is the continental qualifications for the prestigious 2015 ITTF Men's & Women's World Cups that will be held later this year, with the winners of the men's & women's singles title holder qualifying directly to the respective world cups.
Whereas the ITTF-Oceania Para Table Tennis Championships serves as the qualification event for the region to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, with the winners gaining direct entry to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Top seeds for the ITTF-Oceania Cup titles, William HENZELL (AUS) and LAY Jian Fang (AUS) were both able to retain their titles with an impressive 4-0 win over their opponents in the final hurdle to seal their victories.
HENZELL overcame compatriot David POWELL 11-5, 12-10, 11-7, 12-10 to score his 5th consecutive win at the ITTF-Oceania Cup, making him the sole men's singles title holder ever since the event inaugurated in Adelaide in 2011.
In the Women's gold medal match, LAY repeated her success a year ago at the very same venue, to defeat New Zealand's LI Chunli 11-5, 12-10, 11-6, 12-10 to defend her title and secure her second ITTF-Oceania Cup title.
Success in the ITTF-Oceania Cup, Australia also swept all 4 titles on offer at the ITTF-Oceania Para Table Tennis Championships: Women's Singles Class 3-5, Women's Singles Class 6-10, Men's Singles Class 3-5, and Men's Singles Class 6-10.
While in the case of Pacific Cup, New Caledonia's Laurent SENS and Ornella BOUTEILLE are the newly crowned champions after defeating Vanuatu's Yoshua SHING and Melveen RICHMOND in the Men's & Women's Single respectively.


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The USB-C to Apple Pencil dongle represents everything wrong with Apple
Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column, which includes all of the Apple news you missed this week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a morning cup of coffee or tea, but it's cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too.
Blame it on the dongle
Macworld's review of the 10th-gen iPad went live this week (and is linked below). It's a strange review: In many ways, it's a positive write-up, with the attractive design, excellent cameras, and Magic Keyboard Folio support all earning sincere praise. But there were enough quibbles to knock it down to 3 stars–not least the frankly ridiculous dongle required to pair the iPad with the only version of the Apple Pencil it supports.
Dongles, which cost extra and get lost, and make everything less convenient, are understandably a sore point for Apple users, and they seem to be proliferating. Using a dongle always reminds me of what Steve Jobs said about (appropriately enough) styluses: if you see a dongle, they blew it. A dongle is a tacit acknowledgment that something has gone wrong. Either the wrong product has been bought for the job, or it was designed wrong in the first place. Apple has had plenty of dongles over the years, but the Apple Pencil adapter is particularly irritating.
1. It doesn't even work as a Lightning to USB-C adapter
A general-use Lightning/USB-C adapter would have some utility, but as a Redditor discovered through extensive testing, the dongle appears to be a single-use product. So, if you were hoping to use the dongle to repurpose your old Lightning cables, you're out of luck.
2. You'll lose it
Of course, you will. It's tiny and it doesn't attach to anything when not in use. And then your Apple Pencil will be useless until you pay another $9.
3. It doesn't 'just work'
The writer of this column considers himself at least moderately tech-savvy but was baffled for roughly half an hour while trying to charge an old Apple Pencil using the adapter. I assumed you'd be able to go Apple Pencil > adapter > USB-C-to-USB-C cable > USB-C power adapter > outlet, but that got me nowhere fast. You have to use a cable and connect to the iPad to charge. (The fact that Apple Pencils have no means of indicating when they're charging is another pain point.) As indicated in the first point, the dongle is good for only one specific use case, but to most users that won't be obvious at first.
4. It's there to upsell you to a better model
The dongle is very much of a piece with Apple's general approach this year, which we've also seen with the weirdly cautious iPhone 14 upgrade: Buy the better model. Apple is a company that is enormously detail-oriented, and at a certain point you have to assume that the flaws in its entry-level products are not there because of managerial missteps or lack of resources, but because they want to prod you into buying something more expensive.
5. It creates more e-waste
As mentioned above, the dongle is now bundled with the 1st-gen Apple Pencil, but we have to assume that at least some of those won't be needed (when the Pencil is bought by a 9th-gen iPad owner, for example) and will end up in a landfill. Others will be lost (see point 2) and end up in a landfill. And the fact that it doesn't work as a general-use adapter (see point 1) will contribute to the number of Lightning cables ending up in a landfill.
Inefficient design isn't just bad for the user—it's bad for the environment. And if Apple cared about the environment as much as it claims, it would have found a better solution.
6. Apple's had years to sort this out
Apple still sells the 1st-generation Apple Pencil because it still sells a Lightning iPad. The 9th-gen model is the last iPad to have a Lightning port, so as long as it's still sold, the original Apple Pencil needs to exist. Fair enough. But the USB-C switch didn't happen yesterday. The first USB-C iPad Pro and the 2nd-gen Pencil came out in 2018.
Given four years to plan for the change-over on the standard iPad, it's absurd that Apple hasn't come up with a more elegant solution than this. The most obvious would be support for the 2nd-gen Pencil, so whether it's an engineering issue, cost issue, or upgrade issue (see point 4), the whole Lightning thing seems to have taken Apple by surprise.
Apple, we keep hearing, is the most valuable company in the world, with a valuation well in excess of $2 trillion. Over the most recent quarter, Apple made the comically unimaginable sum of $90 billion, so it could probably afford to miss out on a few dollars here and there in favor of user goodwill and an improved user experience. But no: Apple loves hoovering up the nickels and dimes. It's shoving extra ads onto the App Store, pushing up the prices of its subscription services, and now charging $9 for an adapter. (Granted, the adapter does now come free with the 1st-gen Apple Pencil, but if you bought one years ago, you'll need to pay up.)
The USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter is Apple's design at its worst: We only need to use it because Apple was lazy, stubborn, and a little greedy.
Trending: Top stories of the week
Apple can be great or it can be Google–but it can't be both, says Jason Snell.
The iPhone's most promising feature is being wasted. MagSafe could have offered unique experiences, but all we got were magnets.
The Macalope is concerned about Apple's attitude. It seems money can make anyone a jerk.
This epic M1 Mac mini-Nintendo Wii mashup is the mod of our dreams.
Even with record profits, Apple can't buy our trust.
This Chrome feature is so good it might make us switch from Safari for good.
As Apple's prices keep going up, where will the value come from?
There's doom on the horizon for Apple–and ads are the only answer.
Reviews corner
In our Apple Watch Ultra review, we look at a convincing Garmin killer–but one with downsides to consider.
Our iPad (2022) review, meanwhile, finds a beautiful disappointment.
(We've also compared the 2022 and 2021 iPad models, to see which standard iPad is right for you.)
Finally, our 3rd-gen Apple TV 4K review concludes that the best new feature is the price.
(On a related note, Michael Simon explains why he bought a 2021 Apple TV 4K instead of a new one.)
The rumor mill
Apple is reportedly working on a big Siri change that nobody asked for.
The next round of M2 Macs may have been pushed back to 2023.
The iPhone 15 Pro might not have any actual buttons.
The glowing Apple logo could be the next MacBook feature to make a comeback.
Podcast of the week
Apple's iPad lineup is set for the 2022 holiday shopping season, and one thing is certain: There are a lot of models to choose from. We're talking about the state of the iPad in this episode of the Macworld Podcast.
You can catch every episode of the Macworld Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, the Podcasts app, or our own site.
Software updates, bugs & problems
Apple is planning a major home screen layout change in iOS 16.2.
Apple has patched a pair of security flaws with the macOS Ventura 13.0.1 update.
Google warns all Mac users to patch a 'high risk' Chrome security flaw.
"Privacy concerns" have been raised over usage data collection on the App Store.
The 2nd-gen AirPods Pro just got a mysterious firmware update.
And with that, we're done for this week. If you'd like to get regular roundups, sign up for our newsletters. You can also follow us on Twitter for breaking news stories. See you next Saturday, enjoy the rest of your weekend, and stay Appley.
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AfDB seeks more Chinese agric investments in Africa
August 9, 2019 Finance
The African Development Bank has met a private sector consortium from China in a bid to attract investment through partnerships in the development of Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones across Africa.
A statement from the ADB on Thursday further disclosed that officials of the bank, led by Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, the Senior Special Adviser on Industrialisation to the ADB's President, paid a courtesy visit to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, who assured the consortium of 'tremendous investment opportunities' available in Nigeria.
According to the statement, discussions held during the visit centred on Chinese direct investments and partnerships with Nigerian agribusiness as well as ventures with Nigerian state governments and agribusiness in the development of agro-industrial parks.
Osinbajo said, "Nigeria has the potential to become the food basket of the world but this depends on our ability to deploy the right technology.
"Our partnership with you allows us to harness the knowledge and skills to realise this potential. We work with the African Development Bank at the highest levels to ensure that investors face no constraints in doing business,"
The ADB explained that it was committed to developing SAPZs quickly in line with its Feed Africa Strategy, "which aims to turn the massive natural endowment of the agricultural sector into competitive advantages that create wealth and sustainable agribusiness jobs for African youths."
The strategy, it said, would also guarantee food security and inclusive growth by involving more women and youth as well as promote improved resilience to climate variability and shocks.
"The SAPZ is a model that requires the full commitment of all levels of government and for this reason, the federal and state governments are actively involved in the planning and implementation of the programme," the statement said.
The statement further quoted Oyelaran-Oyeyinka as saying that "due to the significant financial requirements, private resources will be critical" in the implementation of the SAPZs.
"SAPZs will radically transform Africa's agriculture into a business-oriented and commercially viable sector that guarantees food self-sufficiency and puts an end to food insecurity, malnutrition and other related challenges," the ADB statement added.
The statement further disclosed that members of the consortium had meetings on August 7, 2019, with state governors at a meeting of the Nigeria Governors' Forum.
African Development Bank Nigeria Country Director, Ebrima Faal, extolled China's commitment to the development of the African continent since joining the bank group in 1985.
Faal said, "China has supported the concessional funding base of this institution over many years and is a major contributor to ADF-14.
"During the China Africa Cooperation summit in 2015, it pledged a $60bn package to implement a 10-point cooperation plan with Africa."
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Family Reach loves finding ways to bring our community together. Through genuine connections and conversations, we are able to spread our mission and make a tangible difference in the lives of families fighting cancer.
We are excited to support a new group of Reach Athletes as they prepare for the Napa-to-Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon this summer! We have members from all corners of our community coming together – staff, families we've assisted, board members, friends and supporters – for this race and our hearts are filled with gratitude to see our mission come to life in such a unique and powerful way.
Over the next few months, several participants will share what inspires and motivates them as they take on this journey! We are proud to showcase our staff members in today's blog.
Amanda is the Community Engagement Manager at Family Reach and has poured her time and energy into expanding our Reach Athlete program. Despite the fact that her last long-distance race was nearly 10 years ago, she jumped at the opportunity to join our Napa team.
Amanda has immersed herself in the modern running world, finding new apps and engaging with supporters through social media. She is embracing the mindset of a Reach Athlete and helping others do the same.
Rosie is the Director of Partnerships and Marketing at Family Reach. She has seen many of our Reach Athletes take on challenging, endurance-based events. This sparked something inside of her and she is now training to run her first long-distance race in Napa!
Rosie has realized a big part of athletic success is more mental than physical. Your internal narrative can make all the difference in overcoming obstacles.
Carla Tardif is the CEO of Family Reach and believes there is no better purpose in life than to help others. After running the Boston Marathon in 2012, Carla was satisfied at having hit her goal and hung up her running shoes. That all changed when she saw the excitement surrounding this race and decided to once again hit the pavement.
This race embodies everything Carla loves deeply – her family, Family Reach and running.
Susan with one of our cancer heroes!
Susan is the Senior Development Manager at Family Reach. Throughout her three years here, Susan has admired our Reach Athletes and how they push themselves in honor of our cancer patients and their families. She describes herself as the "ultimate cheerleader," never thinking she'd be the one racing to the finish line.
Within a week, Susan proudly announced to the team that she was indeed going to run.
"If only I had a camera to record the shocked and surprised expressions on everyone's faces!" says Susan.
Her excitement has continued to grow as her training advances and she has found running to be a great stress reliever.
Do you want to join us for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Contact Amanda at abruneau@familyreach.org today!


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The Origin of Contagions lies in the Common Reserve Currency
The question of money supply and inflation has been erroneously been set in stone predominantly by the debasement of Spain and Britain during the period of Henry VIII. This was really a period where there were various countries and their currency completely relied on the exchange market in Amsterdam, which was based entirely upon their metal content. This period was far less judgmental insofar as we have today where currencies rise and fall purely on anticipation of political events. During the middle ages, this influence of anticipating future value based upon possible political decisions was not readily dominant and the coins of one nation were compared entirely on their metal content.
For example, because of the French at war with Britain, they created a wave of inflation that spread like a contagion to other nations, namely Spain and Italy, because money was commodity based using gold and silver. In this way, there was really a single currency base among nations and the problems of one would be exported to all others by their debasement.
We can see that wages more than doubled even in Spain as inflation became a contagion. To cover the cost of war, France began debasing their gold and silver coinage. There was clearly economic pressure for in 1305, the French Crown issued a restored monetary system. The gros now appears at 12d fine and the denier are also returned to a sound MONEY standard. These were now worth 300% greater than the debased coinage in circulation. The gros was now worth 10.5 deniers for with the end of the war, precious metals fell in value for a marc of silver collapsed back to 56s 8dt. Despite the end of the war, gold demand remained strong in all countries. By 1311, the coinage once again was debased as precious metals rose in value. A new gold coin was issued known as the angel d'or that was valued at 20 st. The silver to gold ration now jumped to 15:1. Silver begins to disappear being hoarded and gold becomes more commonly struck in France and England. Yet the volatility seems to have been incredible for the times. Gold prices crashed in value and the agnel d'or dropped from 20st to 15st. Silver collapsed falling 25% in value at this time, yet the silver to gold ratio remained at 15:1.
Their accounting books of Peruzzi Company, one the main Florence bankers, covering the period of 1335 to 1343 have survived to provide us with the detailed footnotes to the history of this period. For by 1330, the Peruzzi Company was the second largest banking house in Europe, just behind the Bardi, with 15 branches covering the Middle East all the way up to London. They were not just a super-rich merchant-banking firm they were one of the earliest truly international companies to emerge. Their capitalization stood at 100,000 gold florin in 1330 and they had a staff of about 100 people. The Peruzzi had made a fortune on taking English wool and turning it into fine cloth in Bruges, and selling luxury products to Avignon, London, Paris, and Naples to mention a few. They also dealt in spices, silk, drugs, and other luxury items from the East. They emerged as a great wholesaler supplying credit to the lesser merchants and creating a vast sales network. They became dealers in large quantities of commodities that even included grain from Italy. Yet with the defaults of Edward III, the Peruzzi collapsed in 1343 and were driven into bankruptcy by 1345.
Because of the French/English war, the French drove the price of silver up dramatically. In Florence, they utilized a two-tier monetary system with silver used as the domestic coinage for wages and gold for international transaction much as Bretton Woods after Roosevelt's confiscation of gold in 1934 domestically. Because of the French debasement, the price of silver rose and this disrupted the economy in Florence. Companies could no longer pay wages in silver and businesses failed. As unemployment rose, the people, not understanding the real cause, stormed the palaces of the banks and burned them to the ground. The bankers were blamed for the action of kings.
Therefore, the precious metal monetary system was by NO MEANS a good stable system where money was tangible. It also allowed for contagions that people did not understand. If we are going to create a new monetary system, the "reserve" currency cannot be one of any single nation. It must be a basket at best for this is the ONLY way to prevent contagions. Currently, with the dollar as the reserve currency, because we still use Demand Economics, then the raising or lowering of interest rates sets in motions contagions that will either export inflation or deflation to other countries. We need to understand how contagions take place and their origin.
Full article: The Origin of Contagions lies in the Common Reserve Currency (Armstrong Economics)
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First published on Insight@theBFD 9/10/2020
No one could argue with any semblance of honesty that Stalin was not a brutal dictator who considered murder, famine and torture good statecraft. His communist regime was responsible for more civilian deaths during peacetime, than Hitler's Nazis were during a time of war.
Stalin managed to cover up the Holodomor genocide-famine from the world, but only with the help of Western journalists, most notably Walter Duranty, who wrote for the New York Times while installed in a luxurious apartment in Moscow. Duranty won a Pulitzer prize in 1932 for his interviews with Stalin, and his regular dispatches to the NYT set the narrative for a long cover-up of the horrific famine in the Western media.
The famine took the lives of between 6-10 million Ukrainians who were starved by design through the collectivised farming model which heavily punished farmers for missing impossibly high grain quotas. Every edible item in the possession of peasant farmers was confiscated by Soviet troops, as the peasants slowly starved to death. Peasants were murdered or sent to prison for eating the very crops they had grown, it was deemed to be state property. Stalin particularly had it in for the kulaks, the well-to-do Ukrainian farmers who had previously cultivated the bread-basket of Europe, but were opposed to Stalin's collectivised farming model. Stalin wiped them out, and with them, the rest of ordinary Ukrainian peasantry.
Duranty sent back reports to the Times denying the famine by resorting to euphemisms such as "food shortages" instead of the word famine, and "widespread mortality due to diseases from malnutrition" instead of the phrase people starving to death. The headline of one of Duranty's dispatches read: "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving."
As depicted in the recent film Mr. Jones, Welsh freelance journalist, Gareth Jones, traveled to Russia after working as a clerk for British Prime Minister, Lloyd George. Jones came face-to-face with victims of the famine when he alighted from his train 40 miles out from his destination in Ukraine. Jones walked from village to village only to find the people starving in harsh winter conditions, along with what was left of their farm animals.
Jones and Duranty knew each other. In fact, Jones was "handled" by Duranty during his time in Moscow. Those who knew Duranty personally also knew about his penchant for opium-fuelled, full-nude, pederasty parties of Romanesque proportions, and this may well have been what the NKVD (KGB precursor) had over him in the form of blackmail. Duranty, the only Western journalist allowed to interview Stalin twice, wrote interviews that were favourable to the regime and the dictator himself.
After Jones wrote about what he saw in the Ukraine, Duranty smeared him in a printed rebuttal as a liar. Jones replied in a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times to answer Duranty's rebuttal, writing amongst other things that "the peasants said emphatically that the famine was worse than 1921 and that fellow-villagers had died, or were dying."
Here, Jones makes reference to the hellish Russian famine of 1921, the Povolzhye famine. After WWI, U.S. President Herbert Hoover offered Lenin aid to assist victims of starvation in 1919 in exchange for allowing Americans control over the railroad system in Russia to impartially deliver food to the masses. Lenin declined. The famine hit its peak between 1921-1922 killing an estimated 5 million throughout the Volga and Ural river regions, with the peasants resorting to cannibalism.
Another well-known British journalist of the time moved to Russia in 1932 to see for himself how Stalin's fabled Utopia was faring: Malcolm Muggeridge.
Very much a man of the Left, Muggeridge too wrote favourable articles about the regime as a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian. But unlike Duranty, upon hearing the rumours of people starving to death in a mass genocide, he bucked-off his handlers and travelled to Ukraine. He was repulsed by what he found: mass executions; whole villages starving; all grain and crops confiscated; peasants resorting to cannibalism.
Muggeridge smuggled out his exposé of the famine to be published in Britain. Both Muggeridge's and Jones' reporting corroborated each others' versions, which caused a contentious international debate about the Soviet experiment. Soviet officials continued to deny the famine while journalists, including Duranty, denounced Muggeridge and Jones to be libellous, sensationalist liars.
Muggeridge wrote that Duranty was "the greatest liar of any journalist I have met in fifty years of journalism."
Duranty continued to enjoy the fame and honours that his status as an award-winning foreign correspondent brought him. Jones was kidnapped and murdered in Mongolia by the Japanese in 1935 (his death occurred in shady circumstances that many believe had everything to do with the NKVD) and Muggeridge was widely discredited as a journalistic crank who couldn't find work for many years after.
Multiple times Ukrainian-American organisations have petitioned the Pulitzer Board to revoke Duranty's prize and have the NYT return the award. These requests have been officially denied and in a 2003 statement, the Pulitzer board declared that they have found "no clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception" on Duranty's part.
In her 1990 book about Duranty, titled Stalin's Apologist, author S.J Taylor wrote that Duranty visited Ukraine himself in the autumn of 1933, then gave a confidential spoken report to the British Embassy where he admitted that, "The Ukraine had been bled white and that as many as 10 million may have died of starvation."
So he knew, but continued to act as a shill journalist covering-up for Stalin's evil.
In 2017 the New York Times published an article (one of many) alleging that Russian intelligence had ties to the Trump campaign during the 2016 election and transition. The Washington Post also published daily stories without let-up, during the aggressive Mueller special counsel investigation which lasted for two-and-a-half years and turned up "no evidence."
Now-shamed FBI officials regularly leaked false information to friendly news outlets which turned the false narrative into a witch-hunt of epic proportions. It was all fake – and some of the very same people who helped to concoct the conspiracy have admitted just how fake it all was, such as counterespionage FBI official, Peter Strzok, whose type-written notes were declassified by the FBI in July 2020.
Strzok wrote of the said NYT's article, which asserted that, "phone records and intercepted calls" showed Trump campaign officials had contact with members of the Russian intelligence services:
"This statement is misleading and inaccurate as written… We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump team in contact with [Russian Intelligence Officials]. . . We are unaware of any Trump advisors engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials."
The basis for the entire Russia investigation was completely bogus – and the NYT took a special interest in keeping it highly ginned-up. But instead of their editorial board now having the integrity to publish a retraction of false facts, this year they gleefully accepted three Pulitzer prizes for journalism and the Washington Post took away one. Their partisan and biased reporting of a now-debunked conspiracy theory devoid of any facts will disappear down the giant memory hole.
The writers of that NYT's article: Michael S. Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo are all Pulitzer awardees, Schmidt and Mazzetti both winning theirs in 2018 for their "coverage" of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
When shabby little liars posing as elite journalists win prestigious awards for their scurrilous writings, as the Times now exhibits quite a pattern of enabling, from Duranty to Schmidt and Mazzetti, then one has to ask the world what exactly a Pulitzer prize is worth, if anything?
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Trump argued vigorously in the first debate between himself and presidential hopeful Joe Biden, in fact, it was clear that the president was the only person who showed up for an actual debate.
Chris Wallace was meant to be there to moderate the debate but spent most of his time trying to moderate the president. Wallace deemed Trump's interruptions to be far more egregious than Biden's.
The world media has written the debate off as a "total disaster" and a "national embarrassment." What they expected to witness in the current, divisive cultural climate is anybody's guess, but when one candidate exhibits the enfeebling symptoms of dementia and the other is known for his aggressive, combative style, it was always going to be a rough night for Joe.
As a moderator, Wallace failed spectacularly. He played nurse-maiden to Biden's obvious fragility while simultaneously trying to keep Trump's gladiatorial style in check, which didn't work. This came off as heavily biased in Biden's favour and totally skewed the debate. In essence, it forced Trump to have to debate two people, instead of just one – and no self-respecting alpha male is going to take that partisan carry-on from a beta male referee. Instead, Trump dominated both men to re-balance the show toward some semblance of equity.
A debate is meant to be a battle of ideas. Witty interjections, verbal slams and wordy jousts are properly part of that picture. Telling your opponent to "Shut-up man," as Biden did, is not.
But the bar had been set so low for Biden in deference to his frail condition that Oscar the Grouch would've made a more worthy opponent if allowed out of his trash-can. Wallace kept rescuing him – and that was unconscionable. Biden is competing to become nothing less than the leader of the Free World – if he's not up to it, and he clearly isn't, then Wallace owes the viewers the chance to let that be made obvious in debate, not handle Biden with kid-gloves and openly compete with the president on the Democrats' behalf.
A classic case in point was Wallace's very loaded question to Trump about his administration directing federal agencies to end "racial sensitivity training."
The actual directive is to end the pernicious curriculums in government institutions which teach Critical Race Theory – and those who don't agree with the theory are always slammed as blatant "racists" for the crime of their dissent.
Trump embarked on his answer to Wallace's question and declared that Critical Race Theory is a "radical revolution taking place in our military, in our schools and all over the place." Wallace then interrupted Trump in the middle of his answer, demanding to know "What is radical about racial sensitivity training, sir?" (As if he doesn't know.) Trump continued with his answer and included this point, "We have to go back to our core values. They were teaching people that our country is a horrible place, a racist place and they were teaching people to hate our country."
Biden made a noise indicating that he was about to interrupt, so Wallace gave him the floor. Biden said, "Nobody's doing that – he's the racist!" Smouldering, Trump muttered, "You don't know…" and Wallace then barked at Trump, "Let him finish."
Unbelievable. Wallace should've pulled Biden up on the fact that his comment was a cheap, disgusting, racial slur against the president – exactly the sort of filthy smear that has come to typify Critical Race Theory.
In that one segment of questioning alone, Trump had to give an answer to a dishonestly framed question, then be interrupted by Wallace who starts to debate him, before being smeared as a racist by Biden – and to top it off, the president had to tolerate Wallace demanding that he remain quiet so his opponent could keep smearing him as a racist. Somehow in Wallace's mind, this all passed as good moderation. It wasn't. It was heavily biased nonsense which happened throughout the entire evening.
Early in the debate, not able to cope with Trump's interruptions over the question of would Democrats pack the court (which Biden refused to answer and Wallace didn't press him on), Biden blurted out "Will you shut-up man," then whined that "this was so unpresidential."
Biden went on to call Trump "a clown", "a racist", "the worst president in the history of the country," etc… and at no point did Wallace even attempt to chide Biden for this appalling conduct, yet he constantly rebuked the president for interrupting the Fragile One.
Since May of this year, the terrorist group ANTIFA, along with Black Lives Matter, have burned buildings, police precincts, churches, cars and businesses while physically beating and even killing not only Trump supporters, but also cops and anyone else who happens to get in their way.
Democrat leadership has failed to be vocal in condemning this violence, insisting on their support of "peaceful protests" which they know full well were anything but peaceful.
Understanding all this, Wallace pointed out to the president that he was critical of Biden for not condemning ANTIFA and other left-wing extremist groups, then asked him, "Are you willing to condemn white supremacist and militia groups and say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in these cities as we saw in Kenosha and Portland?"
Trump answered, "Sure I'm willing to do that, but almost everything I see is from the left-wing, not the right-wing…" Wallace interrupted him mid-sentence and began to debate him, again, saying "If you're willing to do it, then do it sir." Trump paused, asking for a specific group's name, so Proud Boys was mentioned. Trump then said, "Sure, Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I tell you what, someone has to do something about the Left because this is not a right-wing problem."
Biden interrupted, with Wallace's sanction, and said, "ANTIFA is an idea not an organisation." Trump mocked, "You gotta be kidding! When you're hit in the head with a bat that is not an idea!" Biden continued bleating about what the FBI Director called ANTIFA before Wallace interrupted them both saying, "Gentlemen, we're done sirs, moving on to the next topic."
That was all the time that Wallace allowed for a problem as monumental as the shocking, current mob-violence rampaging through American cities where thousands of people have had their businesses smashed to pieces after barely surviving Covid lockdowns. It is a problem that is going to get much worse after the November election, no matter who wins.
Frankly, if the police can't do their job for fear of retributions in this cop-hating climate, if the National Guard is not called in by Democrat governors, if the military refuses to participate in putting down mob-violence on the left, then armed citizens and groups like Proud Boys may be the only way that innocent citizens can actually be protected. The second amendment still holds. These violent left-wing groups have been wheeling out guillotines at their "peaceful" protests. That should make everybody shudder.
Much more needed to be robustly debated on this topic, but neither Biden, nor Wallace, were up for it.
Trump won that debate, no contest. It was a debate between three men: a passionate and verbally combative president, Oscar the Grouch with dementia and a moderator who was far too biased and out of his depth to moderate a boisterous debate during a time when the most powerful country on Earth is threatening to unravel.


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Love Letter To A Record: Harrison Storm On Lady of the Sunshine's 'Smoking Gun'
Harrison Storm Nov. 11, 2021
Many of us can link a certain album to pivotal moments in our lives. Whether it's the first record you bought with your own money, the chord you first learnt to play on guitar, the song that soundtracked your first kiss, the album that got you those awkward and painful pubescent years or the one that set off light bulbs in your brain and inspired you to take a big leap of faith into the unknown – music is often the catalyst for change in our lives and can even help shape who we become.
In this Love Letter To A Record series, Music Feeds asks artists to reflect on their relationship with music and share with us stories about the effect music has had on their lives.
Harrison Storm – Lady of the Sunshine, Smoking Gun, (2009)
Dear Lady of the Sunshine – Smoking Gun
You are one of those records to me, that feels like I am peering into the soul of another artist. Experiencing what they experienced, dreaming what they dreamt and yearning for what they yearned. Something I find so incredible with your art is its ability to help to create a part of someone's identity and the way we view the world. Even if it's small.
At the time you were released I was 17 years old but I didn't discover you for myself until I was 18-19. This time in particular, which is the same for so many others, felt so turbulent and uncertain. You came along with me for what felt like a few years of my life and I'd return to you again and again to experience something new. That's the magic of a good record. You can always discover something new if you're open to it. The diversity of your songs stood out to me, from the growling rock and blues licks in 'White Rose Parade' to the delicate and sincere folk melodies in 'Lady of the Sunshine', there was always a flavour and energy for whatever mood I was in. I felt like I had access to a secret world in my headphones that I could adventure to whenever I wanted. It felt safe.
The way you unveiled a whole new universe of emotion and music to me felt quite significant and paved the way for me to make music of my own, and to take it seriously. There was something so innocently powerful about sharing part of yourself in the form of music that captivated every inch of me. I had all of these things I was learning and experiencing in my early 20s that were so foreign to me but equally as exciting and intoxicating. The more I connected with your songs, the more I wanted to express what I was going through in my own art.
I still connect with your songs every now and then and when I do, I'm immediately thrown back to the inspiring space I was in when I first heard it.
Love you 4eva.
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