We аll knоw hоw imроrtаnt thе 40 уаrd dash iѕ. Bеlоw are ѕоmе оf thе tiрѕ and tricks thаt can help you imрrоvе your 40 уаrd dаѕh time.
Before wе get ѕtаrtеd thоugh, I wanted tо mention thе importance оf wаrming uр рrореrlу. I'm nоt gоing tо gеt into thе ѕресifiсѕ оf еxасtlу how уоu wаrm uр, but уоu want tо mаkе ѕurе thаt you at lеаѕt hаvе a light ѕwеаt going bеfоrе уоu run your firѕt 40 at a testing еvеnt.
Yоu nееd to have your bоdу tеmреrаturе up tо run your fastest. Try to stay mоving and wаrming uр all the wау uр until thе mоmеnt right before you run.
You nееd tо gеt comfortable with уоur starting ѕtаnсе lоng bеfоrе you ѕhоw uр fоr tеѕting dау. Yоu should bе ѕо uѕеd to it, that it fееlѕ likе ѕесоnd nаturе.
Front hаnd positioning – Your frоnt hand, whiсh should bе your dоminаnt hand (in most cases), ѕhоuld be аlignеd раrаllеl to thе ѕtаrt line аnd ѕhоuld be рlасеd as close tо thе ѕtаrting linе аѕ possible.
Rеаr hаnd/аrm роѕitiоning – Coming uр, I wаѕ trained tо place my rеаr аrm straight up in the аir аbоvе my bасk bеfоrе I еxрlоdеd out оf thе blocks.
Weight diѕtributiоn – Whеn уоu linе uр, shift 90% оf уоur wеight tо your front hаnd аnd foot, аnd lean forward, ѕо уоur ѕhоuldеrѕ аrе as far оvеr the ѕtаrting linе аѕ уоu саn stand, bеfоrе уоu tоррlе-оvеr. Thiѕ makes the distance you have tо trаvеl tо the finiѕh linе ѕhоrtеr.
Front leg роѕitiоning – When уоu'rе in уоur ѕtаrting ѕtаnсе, make sure уоur front lеg iѕ your роwеr lеg.
Your роwеr leg ѕhоuld be аnуwhеrе frоm six tо ninе inches behind thе ѕtаrting line, аnd thе tоеѕ оf your rеаr foot should bе in-line with thе еnd оf the hееl оf your роwеr leg.
Shin роѕitiоning – Whilе уоu'rе in уоur ѕtаnсе, your ѕhinѕ should bе аѕ сlоѕе tо раrаllеl to the grоund аѕ роѕѕiblе. If уоur lеgѕ are vertical (i.e. perpendicular tо the ground), whеn уоu ѕtаrt, уоur first movement is gоing tо be tо crouch dоwn bеfоrе уоu explode out оf your ѕtаnсе. Thаt'ѕ nоt whаt you wаnt. Yоu wаnt to bе moving forward аѕ quiсklу аѕ роѕѕiblе.
Sinсе thе сlосk ѕtаrtѕ аt your first mоvеmеnt, уоu nееd tо bе сооrdinаtеd tо thе роint where уоu'rе moving forward аt thе ѕаmе timе that уоur hаnd iѕ lifting оff thе grоund.
Stау lоw out оf blосkѕ – Whеn уоu explode оut of your ѕtаnсе, stay lоw.
To givе уоu a gооd visual оf whаt I mеаn, when you're in your ѕtаnсе, imаginе thаt уоu'rе аbоut tо run intо a 100 mph wind. Whаt would hарреn if уоu rаn standing ѕtrаight up into a 100 mрh wind?
That's right, уоu'd gеt blоwn аwау. So stay lоw оut of thе blocks.
Bасk lеg/frее-hаnd mоtiоn – Work tо make ѕurе уоu'rе firing your back lеg аnd frее hаnd fоrwаrd аѕ уоur first mоvеmеnt when уоu'rе соming out оf thе blocks.
First step – Make sure your first ѕtер iѕ short and роwеrful. Too big of a firѕt ѕtер will get уоu off balance аnd оvеrеxtеndеd, whiсh mаkеѕ it hard to maintain all of уоur power.
If you find thаt tаking a big first ѕtер mаkеѕ you feel a little off bаlаnсе, switch to a ѕmаllеr firѕt ѕtер оut оf the blocks.
Hеаd positioning – Make ѕurе уоu kеер your head down аѕ уоu mаkе that firѕt ѕtер. Bу keeping уоur hеаd down as you firе уоur frее hаnd, уоu'rе staying in a solid lоаd-driving position, whiсh helps keep уоu frоm роррing up tо a роѕitiоn whеrе it's hаrd tо ассеlеrаtе.
Strаight line running – Thе shortest diѕtаnсе bеtwееn two роintѕ iѕ a ѕtrаight linе, so уоu nееd to make ѕurе уоu'rе running in a ѕtrаight linе. This iѕ оnе of thе most common miѕtаkеѕ рlауеrѕ make in the 40.
Finiѕh ѕtrоng – Mаkе ѕurе уоu run all thе way through thе finiѕh line. It'ѕ humаn nature tо lеt uр ѕlightlу аѕ уоu reach thе finiѕh linе.
Yоu can gеt аrоund this bу viѕuаlizing the finish linе bеing lосаtеd 5 уаrdѕ past the finish linе.
Triсking уоurѕеlf intо running a 45 yard dаѕh will help уоu kеер frоm lеtting up аѕ you pass bу thе timеrѕ.
Start training – Aѕ I ѕаid еаrliеr, уоur start is extremely imроrtаnt. A mаjоr fасtоr tо gеtting оff to a gооd start iѕ being соmfоrtаblе in your ѕtаrting position.
Thе оnlу wау tо knоw whаt'ѕ comfortable fоr уоu is by еxреrimеnting until уоu find what's соmfоrtаblе, аnd рrасtiсing your stance аnd ѕtаrtѕ оvеr аnd оvеr until it'ѕ likе ѕесоnd nаturе.
Prасtiсе аt least a dоzеn 10 уаrd ѕtаrtѕ еvеrу timе you go out tо trаin оn your 40.
Wеight diѕtributiоn – Aѕ I mеntiоnеd in thе ѕtаnсе ѕесtiоn аbоvе, whеn уоu linе uр, уоu wаnt 90% оf your bоdу weight lеаning оn уоur frоnt hand аnd foot, аnd lean fоrwаrd ѕо уоur ѕhоuldеrѕ are аѕ fаr оvеr thе ѕtаrting line as роѕѕiblе.
Aftеr fаlling оvеr a fеw times, take nоtiсе оf the роѕitiоn you're in right before уоu topple. Thiѕ is thе position уоu wаnt tо bе in in уоur ѕtаrting stance.
Thiѕ is the ѕроt whеrе mоѕt of your bоdу wеight is lеаning fоrwаrd, аnd this ensures thаt thе first mоvе you mаkе is towards thе finish linе, inѕtеаd of a wаѕtеd movement in another direction.
Arm/lеg frеquеnсу – Yоu wаnt tо inсrеаѕе thе frеquеnсу оf уоur аrm рumрing motion. Onе thing уоu can do, is try ѕtаnding ѕtill with your fееt раrаllеl tо оnе another in аn athletic stance, and grаb a light wеight in еасh hаnd, аѕ if you're sprinting in рlасе.
Thеn practice рumрing уоur arms аѕ fаѕt аѕ you can, fоr 10-20 ѕесоndѕ as if уоu wеrе rеаllу ѕрrinting.
Then try dоing it without the wеightѕ.
Fосuѕ оn driving your аrmѕ bасkwаrdѕ, and kеерing thе rеѕt of уоur bоdу undеr control and lеаning forward tоwаrdѕ the finish line.
Wеightеd 40 yard dаѕh ѕрrintѕ – Trу running the 40 with the light handweights, and drop them at thе hаlf way роint.
Exрlоѕiоn trаining – Trу training dоing "let-go's." Tо do this, уоu'll need a раrtnеr, and a раddеd waist bеlt оr a tоwеl thаt a partner can hold оntо from bеhind as уоu еxрlоdе оut оf уоur ѕtаrt.
Have thеm rеѕiѕt уоur mоvеmеnt thrоughоut the first 5 tо 10 yards, thеn rеlеаѕе you. Onсе thеу lеt уоu gо, explode fоr аnоthеr 10 tо 20 yards.
Ovеrѕрееd trаining – Tо dо thiѕ, you'll nееd tо a ѕlight dоwnhill dесlinе tо run оn, оr a раrtnеr behind you giving уоur rеѕiѕtаnсе with a flexicord dеviсе.
Ovеrѕрееd training tеасhеѕ your bоdу to mоvе аt speeds fаѕtеr thаn уоu'rе uѕеd tо. This tеасhеѕ your brаin and neuromuscular ѕуѕtеm to еxресt thеѕе high speeds.
Wаit until уоu оnlу hаvе a fеw wееkѕ left before уоur testing bеfоrе уоu do these.


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Polish–Romanian relations are foreign relations between Poland and Romania.

Both countries established diplomatic relations on 22 June 1919.
In recent years government representatives of Poland and Romania regularly exchange high-level visits, a reflection of the mutual interest in bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

Both are full members of NATO and of the European Union and are the two most populous nations to join either bloc since the end of the Cold War. Both are also members of the Bucharest Nine, the Three Seas Initiative, the OSCE and the Council of Europe.

Poland has given full support to Romania's membership in the European Union and NATO.

History

Beginnings
The beginnings of Polish influence in Romania can be traced back to the 14th century with the founding of the Principality of Moldavia. Trade between the Baltic and Black Seas between the two neighboring countries facilitated their growing bond. During this era Moldavia was a vassal state of first the Kingdom of Poland and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth several times.

Polish–Romanian alliance

Beginning in 1921, a series of treaties were signed in the interwar period by the Second Polish Republic and the Kingdom of Romania which created the Polish–Romanian alliance. The treaties formed a basis for good foreign relations between the two countries that lasted until World War II began in 1939. Both countries shared a common border in the interbellum, before the Soviet Union invaded and eventually annexed eastern Poland and northeastern Romania following the German-Soviet Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Romanian Bridgehead

After the invasion of Poland which started the Second World War, up to 120,000 Polish troops withdrew through the Romanian Bridgehead area to neutral Romania and Hungary. The majority of those troops joined the newly formed Polish Armed Forces in the West in France and the United Kingdom in 1939 and 1940. Because of their escape through Romania, the Polish army was one of the largest forces of the Allies prior to the United States entering the war and Germany's attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). Also 25,000 civilian refugees fled from Poland to Romania.

In mid-September 1939, despite German and Soviet pressure and Romania's declared neutrality, the Romanians agreed to transport evacuated Polish gold through Romanian territory to the port of Constanța, from where it was further evacuated via Turkey to Polish-allied France. When the German ambassador to Romania, Wilhelm Fabricius, protested Romania's violation of neutrality, Romanian Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu pretended to know nothing about the transport of Polish gold, only promising to "carry out a proper investigation." The evacuation was successful. Romania's stance infuriated the Germans, and Fabricius threatened Minister Gafencu that Romania had "committed a grave breach of neutrality, which should never happen again."

During the war, ten Polish elementary schools and seven high schools were established for Polish refugee children in Romania, including in Călimănești, Ploiești and Târgoviște. Some young Poles then left Romania for France in 1940 to join the Polish Army in France and continue the fight against Germany. In the second half of 1940, because of the German danger, some Polish refugees were evacuated from Romania to Cyprus.

Modern relations

Since 2017, a Polish military contingent has been stationed in Romania and a Romanian military contingent has been stationed in Poland as part of the NATO Tailored Forward Presence and Enhanced Forward Presence defense forces, respectively.

In October 2021, Poland sent medical equipment and medics to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania.

Commercial ties
Trade between Romania and Poland in 2016 reached a record value of €4.86 billion according to statistics issued by the Polish Ministry of Economic Development.

The 2020 Women Leadership Forum (WLF) was held in Warsaw on March 4–5 with the goal of strengthening bilateral cooperation between Poland and Romania, emphasizing the role of women in politics, economy, and education.  Organized by the Embassy of Romania in Poland, the Polish–Romanian Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Romanian Institute of Culture, the event was held under the honorary patronage of Her Royal Highness Margaret, the Guardian of the Crown of Romania, who at the invitation of the Romanian Embassy came to Warsaw for the event with her husband - His Royal Highness Radu, Prince of Romania.

Resident diplomatic missions
 Poland has an embassy in Bucharest.
 Romania has an embassy in Warsaw.

Polish diaspora in Romania

Poles in Romania form an officially recognised national minority, having one seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Romania, currently held by the Union of Poles of Romania (, ). Poles in Romania have access to Polish elementary schools and cultural centers which are referred to as "Polish Homes".

See also
 Foreign relations of Poland
 Foreign relations of Romania
 Bucharest Nine
 Polish–Romanian alliance
 Poles in Romania
 Romanians in Poland

References

External links
 Polish embassy in Bucharest
 Romanian embassy in Warsaw

Romania
Bilateral relations of Romania

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Biden Administration Totally Whiffs Deadline To Update Carbon Cost As Serious Fight Launches Over Its Calculation
Michael Cantrell February 25, 2021
The Biden administration has now missed its own self-imposed deadline to publish updated values that are used to assess the costs and the benefits of fighting climate change, data that is supposed to help them justify new, more strict greenhouse gas mandates.
According to the Washington Examiner, the missed deadline comes at a time when many prominent figures in the realm of economics have come forward and started to question the "social cost of carbon" metric, even going so far as to slam former President Barack Obama and his administration's value as far too low to justify the kind of policies that are allegedly needed to help prevent climate change that are in line with the Paris climate agreement.
"'The way the Obama administration did it was deeply flawed,' wrote Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate economist at Columbia University, and Nicholas Stern, an economist with the London School of Economics and Political Science, in a commentary Feb. 15," The Washington Examiner reported.
"Even before Donald Trump became president, therefore, the world — and the U.S. in particular — was on track to do little about climate change," the pair wrote in the piece. Stiglitz and Stern also said that they recommend a social cost of carbon of $100 per ton, minimum, in a recent working paper now being passed around by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
"President Biden, as part of a day-one climate executive order, directed federal agencies to review and update the social cost of carbon in an effort to reduce climate pollution. He set a 30-day deadline for an interagency working group to publish interim values for the social cost of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide. That deadline passed on Friday," The Washington Examiner report continued.
The press office at the White House has not, as of this writing, shared any details publicly about when an announcement is to be made.
The Biden administration is currently expected to at least go back to the social cost of carbon as it existed during Obama's time in the White House. The cost at that time was around $50 per ton. This could be the solution as it stands right now, though federal officials are looking to explore longer-term changes to how the metric is actually calculated.
Another Bloody Chicago Weekend Sees 30 People Shot, Four Fatally
Winter can't come soon enough for Chicagoans. Fewer people walking down the street means fewer people will be …
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Most violence in the American ghetto involves blacks killing other blacks. This is complicated for liberals and Democrats.
Former NY Rep. Pete King Says 9/11 Demonstrates 'Real Americans Love The Cops,' Our Country
Mourning the fact that in modern America were talking about defunding police departments, former New York Rep. Pete …

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China is the second largest producer as well as a consumer of electric power, after the US. The growing population is one of the main reasons for the demand for high electric power. This growing demand for electric power simultaneously leads to high adoption of stationary generators in the country, thus propelling market growth. The country display immense market potential for the adoption of stationary generators, hence vendors have started venturing into China, where the demand for these generators is growing remarkably.
Technavio's market research analysts estimate the stationary generator market in China to grow at a CAGR of close to 6% during the forecast period. Manufacturing industries are showing tremendous market potential in China as it is becoming the hub of manufacturing for major brands. All these caters to the demand for more electric power, thus driving the growth of the stationary generator market in China.
To overcome the power outage and power shortage issues, and cater to the rising demand for electrical energy among several industrial consumers, diesel generators are being significantly adopted these days to maintain uninterrupted power supply. Thus, stationary diesel generator market accounts for the maximum share of the overall market in China with over 81% as of 2014.
There is an increasing demand for stationary generators with output power capacity of less than 300 kW, due to the rising demand emerging from industrial, commercial, and residential sector. The key advantage of generators in this range is that they require lesser space as compared to the high power rating stationary generators, fulfilling most of the energy requirements of the end-users as mentioned above.
Large and international vendors dominate the stationary generator market in China. However, many national and regional vendors such as Foshan Oripo Power Engineering, Walt Global Power Equipment, Anhui EvoTec Power Generation, Shenzhen Genor Power Equipment are emerging in the Chinese stationary generator market with low-cost options.
Other prominent vendors include Bid-Winning (Fuzhou) Power Generator Equipment, Chongqing Zhiren Electric Equipment, Fuan Tianming Electric, Fujian Century Sea Power, Fujian Tang Power, Fujian Tide Power System, Fuzhou ETE Power Generating Equipment, Fuzhou Kapur Power Equipment, GE Energy, Guangdong Chin Power, Himoinsa, Kirloskar Oil Engines, Shaanxi Kadir Electrical And Mechanical Equipment, Shandong Shenghan Power, Shenzhen Genor Power Equipment, Taizhou Kaihua Diesel Generator Sets, Taizhou Nimbus Machinery, Wuxi Kipor Power, Wartsila, Xiamen AOSIF Engineering, YZY (Fuan) Power Equipment, and Zhangzhou Nanhe Industry&Trade.
What are the key factors driving the stationary generator market in China?
What are the key market trends impacting the growth of the stationary generator market in China?
Who are the key vendors in the stationary generator market in China?
What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the stationary generator market in China?
What are the key outcomes of the five forces analysis of the stationary generator market in China?
Other Prominent Vendors in the market are: Bid-Winning (Fuzhou) Power Generator Equipment, Chongqing Zhiren Electric Equipment, Fuan Tianming Electric, Fujian Century Sea Power, Fujian Tang Power, Fujian Tide Power System, Fuzhou ETE Power Generating Equipment, Fuzhou Kapur Power Equipment, GE Energy, Guangdong Chin Power, Himoinsa, Kirloskar Oil Engines, Shaanxi Kadir Electrical And Mechanical Equipment, Shandong Shenghan Power, Shenzhen Genor Power Equipment, Taizhou Kaihua Diesel Generator Sets, Taizhou Nimbus Machinery, Wuxi Kipor Power, Wartsila, Xiamen AOSIF Engineering, YZY (Fuan) Power Equipment, and Zhangzhou Nanhe Industry&Trade.
According to the report, this age is witnessing the rapid expansion of the virtual world, i.e., the Internet. The most significant feature of this world is that the exchange of useful information is just a click away. Data centers are therefore an integral part of the network, proving to be the backbone for all forms of network operations. Data centers maintain a centralized hub of information, which belongs to individual businesses and firms.
Further, the report states that many international vendors in the market are striving to compete with low-cost regional vendors in China. The vendors in the global stationary generator market are facing a price war, which is one of the major challenges.
Briggs & Stratton, Caterpillar, Cummins, Generac, Kohler, Bid-Winning (Fuzhou) Power Generator Equipment, Chongqing Zhiren Electric Equipment, Fuan Tianming Electric, Fujian Century Sea Power, Fujian Tang Power, Fujian Tide Power System, Fuzhou ETE Power Generating Equipment, Fuzhou Kapur Power Equipment, GE Energy, Guangdong Chin Power, Himoinsa, Kirloskar Oil Engines, Shaanxi Kadir Electrical And Mechanical Equipment, Shandong Shenghan Power, Shenzhen Genor Power Equipment, Taizhou Kaihua Diesel Generator Sets, Taizhou Nimbus Machinery, Wuxi Kipor Power, Wartsila, Xiamen AOSIF Engineering, YZY (Fuan) Power Equipment, Zhangzhou Nanhe Industry&Trade.


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Q: SQLAlchemy "or" statement with multiple parameters I have a query that require to use the "or" | operator :
Mymodel.query.filter((Mymodel.a== 'b') | (Mymodel.b == 'c'))

That works fine. However, I want my conditions to be put in an array of unkown length :
conds = [ Mymodel.a== 'b', Mymodel.b == 'c', Mymodel.c == 'd']
Mymodel.query.filter(???(conds))

Thanks !

A: You are looking for or_
conds = [ Mymodel.a== 'b', Mymodel.b == 'c', Mymodel.c == 'd']

If you have the above list of conditions just pass them all to or_
from sqlalchemy import or_
Mymodel.query.filter(or_(*conds))

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The "Rise" singer and her beau, Orlando Bloom, sparked engagement rumors on Monday, when Perry was spotted sporting a massive sparkler on her left ring finger during a date night at The Polo Bar in New York City.
Watch: Orlando Bloom can't keep his hands off Katy Perry during vacation -- see the PDA-filled pics!
Dressed in a black-and-white patterned jumpsuit and tan pea coat with a bright pink pout and perfectly manicured nails, Perry seemed to be flaunting the jewelry as photographers snapped her and Bloom's pic.
"She walked with her left hand leading her, and bent her hand to show off the large sparkler to the cameras," an eyewitness told ET.
The ring, pictured on ET, is an oval cut yellow diamond surrounded by dainty baguettes.
Around 11:30 p.m., they headed to a friend's apartment on the Lower East Side, where it appears they were celebrating a pal's birthday.
Back in September, Perry and Bloom enjoyed an equally fun-filled day at Shanghai's Disneyland Park. The brunette beauty later took to Instagram to share a photo of the two wearing matching Mickey and Minnie socks.
"When you find your prince," she captioned the pic, with two heart emojis.
As we patiently wait to hear whether wedding bells are officially in their future, watch the video below to hear more on Perry and Bloom's love story.


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Australians are working longer...
It is official - Australians are working longer, according to a large scale survey about retirement conducted by the ABS.
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show. By business reporter Michael Janda
It is official – Australians are working longer, according to a large scale survey about retirement conducted by the ABS.
The Bureau of Statistics found that the average retirement age was just 53.8 years to 58.5 for men, and 50 for women.
However, the average retirement age for those who retired within the past five years was 61.5 to 63.3 for men and 59.6 for women.
The bureau warns that the figures for average retirement age are likely to be skewed lower by excluding those who retired but have since died, and were therefore not included in the survey.
"For example, based on Australian life expectancy, a person who retired aged 40 years in 1988 (who would be aged 65 years in 2013) would more likely be alive to participate in this survey than a person who retired aged 65 years in 1988 (aged 90 years in 2013)," the ABS noted in the report.
However, the upward trend in retirement ages is confirmed in the figures measuring the expectations of those aged 45 and older – around two-thirds intend to retire at or over 65 years of age, with 17 per cent expecting to work until they are 70 or older.
A quarter of workers expect to finish work between 60 and 64 years of age, while only 9 per cent expect to retire before they are 60.
If those intentions match reality, the average retirement age will creep up to 63.4 years, with the gender gap also narrowing (men expect to retire at 63.8 years and women at 63).
Pension less important
There is also a radical shift underway in how people expect to fund their retirement.
Currently, just over 50 per cent of men and 42 per cent of women list Government pensions as their main source of income at retirement, with 44 per cent of women listing partner's income as their main financial support.
Only a quarter of men and 10 per cent of women currently list superannuation as their primary source of retirement income.
In contrast, nearly half of people surveyed who were planning their retirement expected to rely on superannuation as their main source of income, with only 27 per cent expecting to rely primarily on the pension.
It is perhaps not surprising then that 39 per cent of men and 36 per cent of women listed financial security as the main factor influencing their decision about when to retire.
Personal health and physical abilities were the primary considerations for 23 per cent of both men and women, while reaching eligibility age for the pension was a factor for only 13 per cent of men and 11 per cent of women.


The firmware for the DataTracer reader can be updated as new versions are released. The version number is shown on the startup screen.
First install RumiSoft. Then download the ORFID image ZIP file but do not unzip it. Follow the instructions starting on page 18 of the manual.
How can I read the ORFIDB.BIN file on the SD memory card?
What is the epoch date error?


NSCF Instructor Nathan Goldberg loves teaching chess and children. He began teaching chess to children in 1999 for Chess-in-the-Schools. He became an elementary math and chess teacher for the NYC Department of Education in 2005. Nathan has taught chess in classrooms, afterschool programs, camps and as a private tutor. Nathan joined NSCF to focus on teaching his first love, chess.
Nathan has created a wide variety of chess worksheets, puzzles, activities and poetry to help him teach, always challenging his kids to think in new ways. He sees chess as the perfect metaphor for life, and engages his students with the wisdom and habits of chess playing along with the rules, tactics and strategies. Nathan shares his enthusiasm and passion for learning at every opportunity, and has the ability to motivate children to achieve great things.


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What Escambia County homeless advocates want in five-year housing plan
Emma Kennedy
Solutions to help low-income and homeless people navigate the region's skyrocketing housing prices became the focus of an affordable housing meeting Tuesday, but officials say it's a complex issue that might need a "duct tape" solution.
The meeting, facilitated by Escambia County's and Pensacola's housing directors, began a public comment period on the area's five-year Housing and Urban Development fund projects. Historically, those types of projects have focused on capital improvements to benefit low- or middle-income residents, rehabilitate rundown homes or fix blight.
An example was the purchase and demolition of the dilapidated Blount School property between West Gregory and West Chase streets to turn it into housing lots.
Homeless solutions:Once homeless himself, this Pensacola man is now launching a 200-person homeless shelter
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However, Tuesday's crowd was made up largely of homeless advocates questioning options for how to help the homeless population access affordable housing that seemingly doesn't exist.
John Johnson, executive director of Opening Doors of Northwest Florida, suggested a gap program that could help supplement rental costs for the area's homeless population, an idea that garnered head nods in agreement.
"Can these dollars be used in a way to supplement so they can afford a place? We try to house them in pairs because two people can afford it on Social Security benefits, but the cost is still high," he said.
Others said they've seen low-income residents forced out of their homes as landlords raise rent to meet market demand, or not find rentals at all with an influx of new residents to the Panhandle during the pandemic.
A 'duct tape' solution
Meredith Reeves, the county's neighborhood enterprise manager, said that type of funding hasn't ever been used for a rental gap program but could be a possibility in combination with other future funding pools.
"The only way to do this is we're going to have to duct tape these things together. … We're not just super flush with funds, and there are a lot of needs out there," she said, adding that both the city and county expect coronavirus-related money to become available soon directly aimed at homeless populations.
Pensacola's Housing Director Marcie Whitaker also noted that even if that could be approved under the guidelines, residents using the program should be aware that it's not consistent funding but more year-to-year, so it would be a stopgap solution to get them back on their feet.
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Truth, Justice and the American Way are Incompatible in BRA: 700 Black people Demand News Editor Practice Censorship
Remember that incident in Buffalo, when the joyous wedding party was interrupted with a hail of gunshots? Largely unreported nationwide, the local news covered the story with a passion that once motivated all reporters who were tasked with garnering the truth and enlightening the citizenry.
The idea of truth, justice and the America way is no longer relevant in Black Run America (BRA), as the myth of the pioneering reporter searching for the truth amidst an endless sea of lies is actually the reverse description of journalists now - they swim in a sea of truth yet report only what their lying eyes tell them is good for career advancement.
The Buffalo News decided to investigate the lives and backgrounds of those who died in the horrific shooting, actually working to locate a motivation to the killings and reported this:
Eight young people who grew up on Buffalo's streets were gunned down in a hail of bullets last weekend outside City Grill downtown, four of them fatally.
They left grieving families. Mournful friends.
And arrest and conviction records.
Their records indicating past or present associations with crime begets a certain lifestyle risk, law enforcement and criminology experts say.
"A felony prosecution or conviction increases your statistical likelihood of becoming a victim of a crime, and it's particularly true for men and particularly true for African-Americans," said Yvonne Downes, a criminal justice professor at Hilbert College. "It doesn't mean that the people deserved it or in any way had it coming."
Added a local law enforcement official who asked not to be named: "There were some very dangerous people there. There were numerous gang bangers and other unscrupulous people. But there were a lot of good people."
Family members, friends and community leaders say the victims were working to be better people and certainly didn't deserve the fate that befell them Aug. 14.
For reporting the facts, the editor of the paper was forced to meet with 700 to 800 Black people that the story worked into a frenzy and inflamed with a righteous indignation that can only be satiated with a self-imposed censorship by the soon to be neutered press:
About 700 members of Buffalo's African-American community tonight shared their grievances with Buffalo News Editor Margaret Sullivan over an Aug. 22 article on the criminal backgrounds of victims of the shooting at the City Grill three weeks ago.
The forum, held in True Bethel Baptist Church, 907 E. Ferry St., was one that Sullivan had requested following negative reaction to the report.
Many in the crowd expressed outrage that the police records of the shooting victims were reported at all. They called the report a gross departure from how The News traditionally treats crime victims and that it was disrespectful to the victims, their families and the African-American community.
"I feel that we were victimized twice," said Cheryl Stevens, mother-in-law of Danyelle Mackin, one four victims who was killed in the shooting.
She was one of four family members of the victims invited to address Sullivan during the forum.
"What you did to us was you poured salt on the wounds that had not even healed. So, I'm asking -- and this is for all the families -- we want an apology," added Stevens.
Others who were specifically invited to speak included former Buffalo Common Council President George K. Arthur, who offered a historical perspective on the African-American community's grievances with The News' coverage of its community.
The Rev. Matthew Brown and Murray Holman of STOP the Violence Coalition also offered their perspectives, charging the newspaper did not often respect black people's feelings and that it showed a historic pattern of insensitivity in its coverage of the community.
Sullivan said she was pleased she was able able to listen to the views and explain the editorial decision behind the publication of the Aug. 22 story.
"I really am not here to try to do a point-counterpoint to everything that I've heard because I don't think that would be possible and my main purpose in being here is to listen," she said.
"I do want to say that the way The Buffalo News is being portrayed, at least, in terms of our intention and what we try to do every day is, essentially, unrecognizable to me. I know that the people I work with feel very deeply, that they care about this community. They care about you," Sullivan said.
Among the several-hundred people present at the forum, grumblings greeted Sullivan's opening remarks. And when members of the public got an opportunity to address her, they didn't mince words.
"It was an article concerning four victims that has brought us together," said the Rev. Darius G. Pridgen. "However, it is the decades-old perception of many in the community that must be addressed tonight.
It was only a few weeks that gang members in the war zone known as Chicago held a press conference to lambaste the police for, well, doing their job:
At a news conference organized by self-identified gang members Thursday morning, several speakers complained that police and city officials do not respect them, and that the only way to curb violence is to provide jobs and improve their community.
The men who spoke out Thursday morning blamed poverty, drugs and a lack of jobs for the problems in the streets. They also said that Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis' meeting with so-called gang leaders was a waste of time.
But when asked what could be done right now to stop the daily barrage of bullets on Chicago streets, they didn't have an answer.
Akeem Berry Sr., an admitted former gang member, said.
Reporting the race of the accused is a no-no in the current epoch we'll all endure together (Thugreport.com will one day be banned for being a modern-day Samizdat) and the editor from the Buffalo News dared flaunt this rule that governs journalism.
The Washington Post is afraid to talk about race when it might paint Black people in a negative light. The Los Angeles Times as well. Even police sketches are now reduced to a non-racial hue to comply with the rules that govern journalism and ensure that the Black community remains calm.
One book accurately nailed the rules that govern the world of modern journalism:
In his impressive new book, "Coloring the News," William McGowan has an unusual take on the continuing battle over bias in the news media: He think liberals are as damaged by it as everyone else. Bill Clinton, he thinks, was victimized in a sense by the early non-reporting of the gays-in-the-military issue. Because the newsroom strongly supports gay causes, journalists didn't bother to do much reporting on the depth of the opposition building against Clinton's pledge to allow openly gay members of the armed forces. The debate was skewed, and Clinton paid a high political price, because reporters thought the open inclusion of gays was too obvious a cause to cover in any detail.
The same yawn of obviousness surrounds newsroom treatment of affirmative action. One New York Times reporter told McGowan, "Nobody wants to do a story on affirmative action because they just don't see anything wrong with it." In the papers I read, coverage is slack, and articles favorable to race and gender preferences are much more common than not-so-favorable ones. The newsroom air is so thick with orthodoxy that it is very hard for readers and viewers to figure out what is really going on.
McGowan argues, in case-by-case detail, that diversity ideology has corrupted the newsroom. Hiring more women, gays and minorities was fair, but it pushed the newsroom further to the left, since those groups are more liberal than white males. These groups acquired the ability to monitor coverage of their own activities, often with the clear ability to airbrush out anything they considered negative or hurtful to the cause. Militant gays took over AIDS beats, often with little or no protest about a conflict of interest. Office commissars began to appear -- "senior vice president, diversity" or "diversity director" -- who sometimes sat in on daily news meetings and contributed to coverage decisions. (Just like a teacher or someone from the principal's office used to sit in and contribute to coverage of your high school paper.)
Those who dare point out the relationship of crime to Black people are denounced in the harshest of terms, branded below even the Untouchables in the Indian caste system. News editors that dare break the taboo of reporting race will be axed or worse, grilled by 700-800 Black people in the saintly confines of a Church.
Journalists should report that the one-armed man was behind the crime henceforth and let the police discover the truth while the general public frets about a handicapped miscreant on the loose.No race; no description; just report that the one-armed man did it.
Because "truth, justice and the American way" is but a misappropriation of words in BRA. The inverse is reality, because "truth" is incompatible with modern America; "justice" but a word for profiling and police racism.
Truth has been on vacation for far too long; we are past due for justice. After all, it once was the American way.
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Just when you think black people could not possibly be more pathetic...they find a way.
Gee, I wonder why blacks didn't threated to stop reading the paper?????????????????
Wow. Do not attempt any honest reporting on blacks. If there is a large black population in Buffalo there is probably a black newspaper to cater to them. In DC we have a black paper I think it is called the Daily Afro. The paper is devoid of facts and all problems stem from racism and white privilege. The problem is that the Washington Post has the same exact reporting culture and editorial board. Hate facts such as those reported in Buffalo are grounds for dismissal. Just ask Doug Mckelway.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/09/17/d-c-abc-reporter-doug-mckelway-fired-argument-over-anti-obama-anti-green
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Don't try to talk, debate, or discuss anything with blacks. They don't know how things work - politics, business, financial industry, politics. You will be out-shouted every time, they are not able to form an intelligent thought or argument, they go on emotional rants and don't listen to any other points, and they might become violent and riot. Blacks are taught from a very young age to be victicrats, always looking to hustle, place blame, sniff out racism, and get a payoff of some sort from whites, normally financial. Please educate yourself about blacks by reading "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America" by John McWhorter, a black man. It is a detailed description of the cultural education of blacks and the reason they choose race hustling as a lifestyle. McWhorter still likes to blame whites and coddle blacks, but the information in his book is a great snapshot of the black mentality. Blacks know they are a less-desirable race worldwide, and are afraid of losing their entitlements, equal outcome, and welfare programs in America, which is coming in the very near future. Very eye-opening read for whites. It is easy as a white person to completely remove blacks from your life, but this has been a mistake. We have to face this problem head-on if we are going to protect out way of life. Wake up and get out and vote this year.
I grew up in Buffalo NY and it is in a pretty sad state right now, This is typical of the very liberal area of western New York. The Buffalo news always stays away from reporting the truth. Buffalo is your typical example of how liberalism has failed in America. The city is the 2nd poorest in the nation behind Detroit and getting worse and worse by the day. The mayor Byron Brown ignores the problems that arise from the East Side community, but goes to every funeral they have. Blacks in Buffalo are ultra brainwashed they have believe that they suburbs are holding them back. Every once and a while you meet one that has got out of that mindset, but it is rare. The rest complain that the city does not take care of them and the police are out to get them. This city was once great, but just like Detroit Democrats have destroyed it with hand out and the I am owed something mentality that they promote
Percy Kittens said...
They are going to boycott a "newspaper" whose industry is going out of business already? Newspaper subscription rates continue to plummet across the world. More people than ever are now getting their news on the Internet, their blackberry or the I-pad or I-phone.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution gave me $10 dollars in Wal-Mart gift certificates and 2 months of the paper practically free and I still cancelled service after 3 weeks. I just can't use a standard newspaper anymore. And it's not just the format either. I don't trust most of the newspapers or television networks anymore because they are all DWLs. And what's so shocking, I guess, is that even in the face of alternative media, the same DWL television news networks continue to march on with their agenda as if it is 1970 and we only have the same limited sources of information.
For Aaron "My Mother was a community activist" Jackson to "boycott" reading a newspaper is sort of like Larry Flynt boycotting sex.
Douglas said...
That reminds me of a situation in Mobile Alabama. The paper was quoting black people verbatim. The black community got so mad eventually they threatened boycotts and violence. The paper capitulated.
I quit getting my local paper years ago. This area is 90% conservative. The associate newspaper editor is gay. The last straw was when he printed the names of all individuals who applied for a concealed weapons carry permit.
I didn't know most blacks read the newspaper.
Glen Beck said...
I don't get my news from the television. The television is a Zionist-controlled Jewish instrument of destruction, which uses deodorant commercials featuring mixed race couples to undermine the white nuclear family. If you want to make the world a better place, donate some money to SBPDL, remove all the metal fillings from your teeth with pliers (so the Jew-Black-Lesbian satellite cannot track your movements)and begin sending anonymous hostile letters to famous black athletes and movie stars.
No doubt we are in black run America. After having forty three white presidents, the emergence of one black man is a harbinger of our doom! There are even a few black senators. They live! We sleep!
My dear friends, in these uncertain times, as we find our nation foundering and I find my wife sleeping with a black man, there are basically two methods I have found for venting. Feel free to use them.
1) Go to majority black chat rooms on line, for singles and professionals, and begin to make simian grunts and squawks under an assumed typically black surname. For example (cut from my AOL Black Voices chat log):
TyroneMalik: Ook!! Eeek!! Squawk!!
2) Occasionally, after watching interracial pornography between a black man and white woman in order to stoke my rage, I will take a cab downtown and brutally murder a homeless black man with a claw-hammer.
Palin 2012.
Silent Running said...
"Dialogue" can be had with blacks at the point of a sword. Anything less and they will not respect you.
When dealing with blacks you must think like a Roman.
"After having forty three white presidents, the emergence of one black man is a harbinger of our doom!"- F**kface
"BRA" is just *one* of the nutty manifestations of Cultural Marxism -the latter became the hegemonic ideology of the American Empire well before Obongo took office.
"Occasionally, after watching interracial pornography between a black man and white woman in order to stoke my rage"
LOL! Sure you are stoking your 'rage'. Or do you mean 'stroking your'--
Nevermind. Maybe you are being sarcastic but I had to rip on that one...
There are NO black Senators, Mr. "Beck".
Thank God for small favors!
Real Glenn Beck said...
Glenn Beck,
That was pretty good. Can I use that at my next Black Panther meeting?
You forgot to mention the UFO conspiracy and faked moon mission.
"There are NO black Senators, Mr. "Beck"."
Good Lord...Have you ever heard of Roland Burris?
There are NO black Senators, Mr. "Beck"."
dat nigga ain't fo reel!!!
Who elected him? I SAY AGAIN, WHO ELECTED ROLAND???
He was appointed by an impeached governor who is now a convicted felon.
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Is it a Famiclone? Is it a peripheral? Well, it's actually both!
These days, it seems, at least a few times a year we read news of an upcoming video game console packing the necessary hardware, or software, to run multiple systems from a single unit. With the likes of the Retron5, among many others, gamers can now spend more time and money on video games themselves, rather than putting money into individual consoles. Though it may be a more current trend, this isn't the first time such an idea has been marketed. I introduce to you the Super 8 by Innovation.
Innovation is, perhaps, most well known for their third party video game accessories. With products such as controllers, AV cables and many others, Innovations broke into the video game market. Where does a video game accessory company go when they are tired of only making video game accessories? To the console market, of course! Not you Mad Catz. NO! Bad Mad Catz! Bad!
With the Super 8 peripheral you can run three different consoles from the safety of your Super Nintendo, or Super Famicom. (Yes this works on the SNES-101 as well!) The Super 8 allows you to play Famicom and NES games from your SNES, which is quite odd but works very well. The Famicom and NES portions are handled by a system on a chip, but I haven't found any incompatibility issued yet. Yes, it even plays Castlevania 3 without problems, and no I'm not kidding.
Are you someone who wants to play imported SNES/Super Famicom games without breaking the tabs in the cartridge slot? The Super 8 will facilitate that for you as well. I can't fully test whether or not it will play PAL games for the Super Nintendo or PAL NES games, but I do know it plays Japanese NTSC games without a problem, at least the ones I have tested. I'm not completely sure, but I run on the assumption that Super Nintendo/Super Famicom games are run as pass-thru and working on the actual SNES hardware. Bone stock Super 8 units will have a rectifiable compatibility issue that I will explain later.
Simply place the Super 8 into your Super Nintendo like any other video game. Then you take the video pigtail, which looks like the normal Nintendo AV cables, and plug that into the back of your Super Nintendo console, and plug the actual AV cables into the output of the Super 8 peripheral. Be careful as the output on the Super 8 won't fit perfectly snug, but as long as you make a good connection and don't jostle the console or the peripheral you should be fine.
Now it's up to you to decide which one of the systems you want to utilize. I would heavily advise against filling both the NES and Famicom slots at the same time, but putting a Super Nintendo cartridge in with either Famicom or NES catridges won't have any affect on the Super 8. Once you've booted up your Super Nintendo you should be greeted by a screen showing two controllers, a Famicom for 8-bit and a Super Famicom controller for 16-bit. The on-screen instructions will guide you through the process. That's pretty much it. Now you should be playing one of the three systems the Super 8 allows.
Now here are a few things you may need to know about the Super 8, whether you already own one or are thinking about purchasing one. The Super 8 was designed to sit atop the Super Famicom design, not the squared off Super Nintendo or even the redesigned Super Famicom/SNES-101. You may find yourself having to shim the Super 8 to keep it straight on the console.
If for any reason you are going to open your Super 8 it is highly advised not to do so in direct sunlight or under UV light as there is an exposed chip on top of the board. I carefully opened mine and covered that chip, so hopefully that's taken care of that. Which leads us to why you may need to open your Super 8.
One thing you may notice is just how temperamental your Super 8 is. Sometimes it may work, other times it may not work at all. Mine slowly degraded into not working at all. Being familiar with Famiclones I just assumed it was rendered nothing more than a unique conversation piece. After a year or so of it not working I opened the unit and noticed some of the chips are in sockets. Ever so carefully I pressed down on each chip to see if it was well seated, which all of them seemed as if they were. However, when I checked the unit after doing so it fired right up without any glitches.
Finally the compatibility issue I spoke about earlier. The Super 8 will not natively play the Super Gameboy, and as an extension I assume it won't play Super FX equipped games either. Someone at Innovation thought it would be a good idea to purposely cut one of the traces that is needed to play the Super Gameboy, but with a little soldering you can scrape yourself a few spots and bridge that gap. I've already done this on my Super 8 and can confirm it does restore the ability to use the Super Gameboy. I can not currently confirm whether it restores Super FX game compatibility though.
The Super 8 is a fun little piece to own that opens your video game library up to a few different consoles you may not have been able to play before, as well as consolidates power and AV cables. Playing Famicom and NES games with an SNES controller does feel a bit weird, but if you're familiar with Super Mario All-Stars you should be fine. If you're interested in owning a Super 8 they might be a bit hard to find, but if you find one in good working condition I believe it's well worth owning.


Today, on the 46th anniversary, The JCC Maccabi Games® honor and remember the Munich 11 athletes by memorializing their lives at every Opening Ceremonies. We will never forget the past, but continue looking into the future and encouraging Jewish teens to play sports and live a full and active Jewish life.
At 4:30 A.M. on September 5, 1972, five terrorists wearing sweat suits climbed a six-foot fence to enter the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. Although several people saw them, no one thought anything was suspicious because athletes routinely hopped the fence into the village, and the terrorists had thought to hide their weapons in athletic bags. Three more men who are presumed to have obtained Olympic credentials met the five terrorists inside the village.
Just before 5 A.M. on September 5, 1972, the terrorists knocked on the door of Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg. When Weinberg opened the door he immediately realized something was very wrong and shouted a warning to his comrades. He and weightlifter Joseph Romano attempted to block the door giving the other Israelis time to escape. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful. The terrorists killed Weinberg and Romano and then succeeded in rounding up nine other Israelis to hold hostage.
At 9:30 A.M. on September 5, 1972, the terrorists announced to the world that they were Palestinians. They demanded that Israel release 200 Arabs being held prisoner and that the terrorists themselves be given safe passage out of Germany.
After hours of tense negotiations, the Palestinians, who belonged to a PLO faction called Black September, agreed to a plan that would fly them and their hostages to Cairo. As the group began to board several helicopters, German sharpshooters attempted to kill the eight terrorists and a bloody firefight ensued.
At 11 P.M. on September 5, 1972, new fighting broke out in Munich and a terrorist grenade blew up one of the helicopters holding Israeli athletes. The remaining hostages in the second helicopter were shot to death by one of the surviving terrorists.
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Port Vale have announced that another Bruno Ribeiro signing, midfielder Paulo Tavares, has departed the club.
A club statement said:
We can confirm that midfielder Paulo Tavares had today left Port Vale Football Club by mutual consent.
Paulo had a year left to run on his current deal, but is has been agreed today by the player and the club that his contract was to be mutually terminated.
The 31 year-old joined the club in the summer of 2016 under Bruno Ribeiro, from Portuguese side Vitoria Setubal.
Tavares went on to make 25 appearances in total for the Valiants during the 2016/17 campaign.
Everyone here at Port Vale would like to thank Paulo for his time with the club and wish him all the best for the future.
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Home India Former TERI chief RK Pachauri dies, aged 79
Former TERI chief RK Pachauri dies, aged 79
Globally renowned environmentalist RK Pachauri died on Thursday after a prolonged cardiac ailment. He was 79. He was the founder of TERI and head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when it won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
According to his family, Pachauri had undergone a major heart surgery before succumbing to his deteriorating health on Thursday. He died at his residence with his wife, daughter and son on his side.
"His courageous leadership allowed climate change to be recognized world over as the most pressing issue confronting the world and launched a new era of international deliberations and actions," news agency PTI quoted a statement from his family.
TERI posted a series of tweets to express its condolence on Pachauri's death. It said, "It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing away of Dr RK Pachauri, the Founder Director of TERI. The entire TERI family stands with the family of Dr Pachauri in this hour of grief."
It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing away of Dr RK Pachauri, the Founder Director of TERI. The entire TERI family stands with the family of Dr Pachauri in this hour of grief.
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TERI chairman Nitin Desai said, "Dr Pachauri's contribution to global sustainable development is unparalleled. His leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid the ground for climate change conversations today."
In 2015, a woman had accused him of sexually assaulting her. The FIR in the case was registered on alleged charges of sexual harassment under the IPC sections 354, 354(a), 354(d) (molestation) and 506 (criminal intimidation). This had led to his removal as the TERI chief the same year. Police had also questioned Pachauri last month based on evidence provided by the woman, who had accused him of sending repeated inappropriate emails, WhatsApp and text messages. Pachauri, however, denied the allegations saying his emails and mobile phone were hacked.
Pachauri was born on 20 August, 1940 in Nainital, Uttarakhand, and studied at La Martiniere College in Lucknow and at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Jamalpur, Bihar.
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URI Named #3 Most Beautiful Coastal College Campus In U.S.
Best Value Schools just compiled a list of the 30 most beautiful coastal college campuses in the United States and the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI came in at #3.
The beach colleges were chosen and ranked based on the following criteria:
Location: Each campus on this list is located on the coast and within easy access to beaches.
Awards & Recognition: (2 points for an international accolade; 1 point for an American accolade; 1 point for appearing on the National Register of Historic Places): Whether a national award or an honor bestowed by a group or organization, any recognition a campus has received played a large part in its placement on this list. Generally speaking, the larger and more recent the honor, the higher the college was placed.
Student Enjoyment (1 point per notable feature): While most of the on-campus features described in this article can be appreciated visually by both students and visitors, those campuses with features that can be physically enjoyed by the school's student body (such as botanical gardens) were given higher priority.
Number of Notable Features (1 point per feature): Campuses with more than one significant or celebrated building or feature were ranked higher than those with a single notable feature. Local and privately owned beaches were included in this category.
Other (1 point each): Those campuses with other notable characteristics, such as historical significance or environmental friendliness, were also considered.
University of Rhode Island – #3 (25 points)
Located within easy reach of Providence, Newport, Boston, and New York City, University of Rhode Island combines the best of New England tradition and coastal charm. The 1,200-acre campus is dotted with both ivy-covered buildings and contemporary architecture. Best of all, the campus overlooks the West Passage of Narragansett Bay, offering students stellar natural views. Not surprisingly, the university is home to the highly respected Graduate School of Oceanography, which consistently ranks as one of the top five oceanographic institutions in the country. A 2,300-acre second campus is located 30 minutes from Providence, and boasts pristine forests, streams, ponds, and a 75-acre lake. Mostly used as the National Center for Environmental Education, it is also a popular locale for conferences, retreats, school field trips, and camps.
Salve Regina University ranked #7
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Кранк () — это одна из форм южного хип-хопа (southern hip-hop) или южного рэпа (southern rap). Музыка crunk является миксом из повторяющихся напевов и драм-машинных ритмов, обычно сгенерированных на самой популярной из драм-машин — Roland TR-808. Одними из самых известных исполнителей кранка являются Lil Jon, Chyna Whyte, Three 6 Mafia, Pastor Troy, Waka Flocka Flame, Soulja Boy, Lil Scrappy.

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Protesters leave mark around White House as Trump hunkers down
'PUT MLK HERE,' protesters wrote in a spray-painted message on a statue of US Navy's first admiral, a white man
John T. Bennett
Washington Bureau Chief
Monday 01 June 2020 22:38
National Guard called in as White House protest turns violent
"The police are getting more active. Watch your back."
That was the advice one black man gave near the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and I Street NW, just a few blocks from the White House.
He was wearing blue slacks and a blue windbreaker jacket with casual loafers, hardly the same attire being worn by many of the protesters – face masks or bandanas, tank tops, some carrying bags with unknown contents – who were gathered near by on the edge of Lafayette Park near the executive mansion.
"The crowd is gathering around the corner, near the park," he said, raising his voice over the screams of handsaws being used to cut plywood to board up office building lobbies, where windows had been busted during three nights of violent protests over the death of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis, while he was in police custody last Monday.
"They're pretty fired up. Getting there, at least," said the man, who appeared to be around 50 with slightly thinning salt-and-pepper hair. "And the police are getting squirrely."
Minutes before, on a walk from 18th Street NW down I Street then to Lafayette Park, some office building lobby windows remained busted, round holes still visible in shattered glass.
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Most of the windows on the ground-floor level of the building at 1722 I Street NW were busted. An empty cash register till laid on the sidewalk out front. "GEORGE FLOYD" was spray painted in orange on the windows that made it through Sunday night's looting and protesting.
'F*** 12'
All the windows at a Bank of America had been busted out as workers cleared the shards of glass and readied plywood to fill the broken windows. "F*** 12" had been spray-painted on the screens of the ATMs inside. The number 12 has become a phrase intended to express frustration with police officers and a perception of abuse of their power.
That slogan, and a few others, are all over the nation's capital.
The themes of the political graffiti are the same. So are the colours: Always orange or black.
The statue of David Farragut, the US Navy's first admiral, in a square downtown that features his name, was tagged with orange paint.
The person who applied the bright paint wants the admiral's likeness to come down. "PUT MLK HERE," the message reads, a reference to civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
A few hundred feet away, one pane of a revolving door of a restaurant and bar was tagged with this also in orange paint: "Racists eat here." That watering hole, Blackfinn, is a popular lunch and happy hour spot for the wonky Washington policy and business types who work in the many office buildings that line Connecticut Avenue NW and other streets.
White and black Washington Metropolitan Police Department officers chatted in their vehicles and under trees on a warm day in DC, just one block separating them from the protesters who had gathered at the park.
Outside the posh St. Regis Hotel, where White House officials sometimes chat with reporters in ornate ballrooms over gourmet breakfasts, a line of MPD police motorcycles gleamed in the late-spring sunshine. They were parked where taxi cabs typically line up to take hotel patrons to Capitol Hill, federal agencies or other places where Washington's work typically is conducted.
Only the luxury hotel is closed due to the coronavirus, as has been much of downtown DC for months. But the city has come to life for three consecutive nights to protest the latest death of a black person at the hands of white police officers.
"Things have been popping out here. People want this s*** to change, man," said a man who identified himself as Malcolm but declined to give his last name or say where he lives. Asked if he expects more of the same on Monday night, the man, who appeared to be in his late 20s or early 30s, Malcolm replied as he rejoined the chanting crowd: "Most definitely."
As the crowd yelled at a line of uniformed US Secret Service and Park Police officers inside the park, all wearing riot gear, a black woman escorted a white man out of the crowd. He explained his view that they were making all police officers "look bad." She pleaded that he leave and "let them have their say." They reached an accord and parted with a coronavirus-era elbow bump and told each other to "stay safe."
'Let's take to the streets!'
The crowd that had gathered by mid-afternoon had doubled in size by 3.30pm.
"Let's take to the streets," a young black woman yelled during a break in the chanting. The crowd roared its approval as she led them eastbound down H Street NW. Their destination seemed undecided until a young white man pulled a blue bandana over his face to cover everything below the bridge of his son-reddened nose and yelled: "The Capitol."
Before that scene, the crowd – composed of black, white, Asian and Latino faces – chanted "George Floyd!" and "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe" before they departed for the home of Congress. At one point, they had a message for Donald Trump, who reportedly has spent some time during the protests in a secure bunker under the White House, as they yelled in unison, "Quit your job!"
As the crowd filed down H Street, moving in pockets of two or four or five people, some wearing medical masks amid the ongoing pandemic, they repeated the chants.
The throng was organised, angry and seemed to have clear leadership directing their chants and march. But on some downtown buildings, were messages that were not so clear. For instance, a block from the White House was this, in black paint: "Free us from mind control."
Such messages are giving fuel to Mr Trump and others that "anarchists" are mixing with those protesting police killings of black people -- seeking to take down the government and a perceived wealthy establishment. To that end, companies like CVS, Bank of America, the US Chamber of Commerce, and other large corporations had taken a lot of vandalism downtown.
But other messages were more clear. As the protesters walked down I Street around 4pm., a young black man wrapped grey duct tape around an aluminium baseball bat.
As he and others chanted "Black lives matter," he thrust the potential weapon into the air. The younger man walking with him pointed at the bat. They both let out a scream as the man carrying the bat pounded it on the pavement.
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El Iàkovlev Iak-1 (en rus: Як-1), conegut inicialment com a I-26, fou un caça monomotor d'ala baixa fabricat per l'oficina de disseny soviètica Iàkovlev durant els anys 40, el disseny dels quals va començar al novembre de 1938. A partir d'aquest model es van desenvolupar altres models que es van fabricar en grans quantitats, participant tots ells en la Segona Guerra Mundial amb la Força Aèria Soviètica.

Disseny
Encara que abans de la Segona Guerra Mundial, Iàkovlev era més conegut per dissenyar avions esportius lleugers, el bombarder lleuger Iàkovlev Iak-4 va impressionar al govern soviètic, per la qual cosa va ordenar al OKB el disseny d'un nou caça que comptés amb un motor Klimov VK-106 V-12 refrigerat per líquid.

Les especificacions formals van ser publicades el 29 de juliol de 1939, demanant dos prototips: un I-26-1 que tingués una velocitat màxima de 620 km/h a 6.000 metres d'altitud, un radi d'acció de combat de 600 km, pujar a un sostre de vol de 10.000 m en menys d'11 minuts, un armament de 2 metralladores ShKAS de 7,62 mm i 1 metralladora pesant Berezin BS de 12,7 mm; i un I-26-2 amb un motor M-106 turboalimentat amb una velocitat de 650 km/h a 10.000 m d'altura, i armat amb 2 metralladores ShKAS de 7,62 mm. El disseny es va veure beneficiat per l'àmplia experiència que tenia l'equip Iàkovlev en el desenvolupament d'avions esportius. A causa del retard del motor M-106, el disseny va ser canviat per incorporar el motor Klimov M-105 V-12, amb un canó ShVAK de 20 mm en la "V" del bloc del motor.

L'I-26-1 va realitzar el seu primer vol el 13 de gener de 1940. El prototip va sofrir freqüents sobrecalentamientos que mai van ser resolts, la qual cosa va derivar en 15 aterratges d'emergència durant les primeres proves. El 27 d'abril de 1940, l'I-26-1 s'estavella, resultant mort el pilot Yu.I.Piontkovskiy. La recerca de l'accident va trobar que el pilot havia realitzat algunes acrobàcies que se sortien del pla de prova, es té la hipòtesi que indica que la desviació del pla de vol de Piontkovskiy radicava en la frustració que sentia en veure que l'I-26-1 s'estava empleando per a proves de motor, mentre que l'I-26-2 ja es trobava fent acrobàcies.

La mala qualitat dels subensamblajes proporcionat pels diferents proveïdors va ocasionar que l'I-26-2 pesés 400 kg més del projectat, provocant que l'estructura només suportés un màxim de 4,4 G, a més de que es mantenia el problema de sobrecalentamiento del motor. Els diversos defectes que tenia l'I-26-2 van fer que fallés la prova oficial del model. Afortunadament per a Iàkovlev, els seus competidors, l'I-200 (posteriorment designat Mikoian-Gurévitx MiG-3) i l'I-301 (posteriorment Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Goudkov LaGG-3) també van fallar en les proves.

Les millores requerides van ser incorporades en l'I-26-3, sent lliurat per a proves el 13 d'octubre de 1940, encara estant arracades diverses millores i el problema de sobreescalfament del motor.

Variants
 I-26
 Dos prototips.

 Iak-1
 Primera versió de producció a partir d'octubre de 1940, amb motor M-105P.

 Iak-1b
 Versió que comptava amb una nova cabina de bombolla, blindatge reforçat, les metralladores ShKAS van ser reemplaçades per una Berezin UBS, control elèctric i pneumàtic del control de tir en comptes del control mecànic, nova palanca de control basada en l'alemany Messerschmitt Bf 109, millora del sistema de refrigeració, motor Klimov M-105PF amb un millor rendiment en baixes altituds. El primer vol (avió Nº 3560) va alçar el vol al juny de 1942, entrant en producció a l'agost d'aquest mateix any. Van ser construïts un total de 4.188 aparells.

 Iak-1M
 Prototip del Iàkovlev Iak-3, amb un ala més petita, sistema de refrigeració revisat, pes reduït i motor millorat. Es van construir 2 unitats.

 I-28 (Iak-5)
 Prototip de interceptor de gran altura amb un motor Klimov M-105D desenvolupat a partir de l'I-26-2. Es diferenciava de l'I-26 principalment pel seu fuselatge i cua construïts totalment de metall. Un avió va ser construït, va tenir el seu primer vol l'1 de desembre de 1940. No va entrar en servei a causa d'una sèrie de deficiències en el motor, però va servir de base per al desenvolupament de les versions de gran altura, conegudes com Iàkovlev Iak-7 i Iàkovlev Iak-9.

 I-30 (Iak-3)
 Desenvolupat a partir de l'I-26 amb ales redissenyades de metall, el pes i espai guanyats van ser utilitzats per agregar armament i augmentar la capacitat del dipòsit de combustible. Dos prototips van ser construïts, I-30-1 armat amb tres canons de 20 mm ShKAS i dues metralladores ShKAS de 7,62 mm. i un I-30-2 amb dos ShKAS addicionals. No va entrar en producció. Finalment la designació Iak-3 va ser reutilitzada per a un caça diferent (Veure Iàkovlev Iak-3).
Diverses versions del Iak-1 no van rebre designació especial. Aquests inclouen prototips amb motors Klimov VK-106 i Klimov VK-107.

Operadors

 Força Aèria de la França Lliure Esquadró de caça Normandie-Niemen

 Força Aèria de l'Exèrcit Polonès

 Força Aèria Soviètica

 Força Aèria Iugoslava

Història operacional
En l'inici de la Gran Guerra Patriòtica el 22 de juny de 1941, 425 Iak-1 havien estat construïts, encara que alguns es trobaven en ruta o es trobaven desmuntats. Aviat es va descobrir que la majoria dels combats aeris es realitzaven a altituds inferiors a 4.000 m, per la qual cosa el Iak-1, que havia estat dissenyat com a escorta d'avions d'atac a terra (Il-2) aviat va provar tenir un significatiu avantatge sobre els seus competidors soviètics. Per realitzar un cercle complet el Iak-1 trigava només 17 segons. El MiG-3, que tenia el millor acompliment a gran altura, tenia un mal acompliment a baixes i mitjanes altures, a més el seu pobre armament ho feia inadequat fins i tot per a atac a terra. El LaGG-3 va experimentar una significativa degradació en el seu acompliment (al voltant de 100 km/h en alguns avions) pel que fa als prototips, això va ser a causa de la inexperiència del fabricant amb la construcció en contraplacat, que sofria deformacions en estar exposat a la intempèrie. El contraxapat que cobria al Iak-1 també sofria de les inclemències del temps, però el marc d'acer mantenia a l'aeronau en gran part intacta.

Malgrat els seus defectes, el Iak-1 va ser ben rebut pels pilots. Vint-i-quatre d'aquests avions van ser enviats a l'esquadró d'elit femení 586 IAP, els pilots de la qual incloïen a les dues úniques asos femenines: Kàtia Budànova (11 victòries) i Lídia Lítviak (12 victòries). El Iak-1 va ser també el primer avió que va equipar a l'1.er. Regiment Polonès de Caça "Warsaw" (en polonès 1 Pułk Lotnictwa Myśliwskiego "Warszawa") i a l'Esquadró de Caça Normandie-Niemen francès.

La importància d'aquest avió en la Segona Guerra Mundial sempre va ser subestimada; els successors del Iak-1, els Iak-7, Iak-9 i Iak-3 tenien essencialment el mateix disseny amb només algunes modificacions, però a causa de les convencions de noms de la Unió Soviètica aquests avions van rebre diferents designacions; si prenem en compte l'anterior, el caça Iak amb motor a pistó és el caça del que es va fabricar major quantitat d'aparells en la història, amb prop de 36.000 unitats, excedint en uns quants centenars a l'avió soviètic d'atac a terra més conegut, el Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik.

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Imatges color del Iàkovlev Iak-1 / Yak-1B
 Informació del Yákovlev Yak-1  (en anglès)
 Informació i imatges del Yákovlev Yak-1 (en rus)
 Avions de caça amb motor de pistó de Yákovlev (en anglès)
 Llista d'avions de caça amb motor de pistó de Yákovlev (en anglès)

Avions de la Segona Guerra Mundial
Iak-1
Avions de la dècada del 1940
Avions de Iàkovlev


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Ken Mosakowski Papers
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As a student at the University of Massachusetts in the late 1960s, Ken Mosakowski first became a political activist when he protested the Vietnam War. Seeking an outlet to spread his message of peace and justice, he reached out to the student radio station WMUA, and started a weekly talk show Focus. For 38 years Mosakowski hosted the radio program every Sunday afternoon discussing topics of both local and national significance. Deeply involved in Amherst politics, he ran for the Amherst Select Board and lost; the loss, however, did not diminish his passion for serving the town and community he loved. Vocal on many issues, Mosakowski was known for being an activist in electoral politics and more recently an advocate for the homeless in Amherst, urging the creation of the Emergency Homelessness Task Force created in April 2006.
The Ken Mosakowski Papers document more than thirty years of his political activism. Saving everything from flyers and newspaper clippings to campaign buttons and posters, the collection documents a wide array of local and national issues. More importanly, it sheds light on issues of personal importance to Mosakowski, and as such chronicles his contributions as a lifelong activist.
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I'll admit that I somewhat backed myself into a corner with my last big speaker review. In it, I rather tersely summed up my criteria for a good speaker as tonal neutrality, low distortion, and excellent time alignment between the disparate drivers, and I confidently proclaimed the speaker in question an unmitigated success on all fronts. So how, now, do I square that with the fact that I'm thoroughly and utterly in love with another pair of speakers that checks off all of the same tick marks in terms of what a good speaker should sound like to me, yet somehow manages to sound utterly different in so many other ways?
To be frank, I stopped trying to square that circle somewhere around the third draft of this review. Because, despite the well-researched science behind speaker design, there's still room for variation. There's room for different approaches to high fidelity. And there's certainly room in the audio market for yet another $2,500, high-performance loudspeaker--especially one as beautifully crafted and meticulously engineered as Paradigm's Prestige 95F floorstanding speaker.
If you're hip to Paradigm's existing speaker lineup, you can in many ways think of the Prestige Series, atop which the 95F sits, as the successor to the company's über-popular Studio Series (a quintet of which serves as the reference speaker system in my main home theater, in the interest of full disclosure). That fact isn't immediately obvious at full glance, since Paradigm has done away with the Studio Series' teardrop contours in favor of a more minimalist monolithic shape. Driver configurations are also radically different, and the Perforated Phase-Aligning Tweeter Lens, in particular--which protects the tweeter from prodding fingers and acts as a phase plug--makes for a speaker that looks quite unlike anything Paradigm has ever crafted.
Along that same line, the visible fasteners that adorn the front of my Studio 100s have been nixed in favor of a completely screw-free façade. Plastic accoutrements have been given the boot to make way for gorgeous polished stainless steel and aluminum tootsies. And yet, it takes no more than a casual listen to realize that, for all its design and manufacturing mutations, the Prestige 95F is absolutely the product of its heritage. It is undeniably a Paradigm speaker...but we'll get to all of that in short order.
Before we dig too deeply into the setup of the Prestige 95Fs, I should probably admit to something. My name is Dennis, and I have a serious binding-post fetish that is matched only by my borderline obsessive fascination with the tactile response of volume knobs. If you don't share that particular predilection, what I'm about to say probably won't resonate with you in the slightest. As I was connecting my pair of Kimber Kable 12TC speaker wires to the Paradigms (with Peachtree Audio's nova220SE integrated amplifier at the other end of the chain), the experience was akin to an autonomous sensory meridian response. Silly? Perhaps. But even if the silky smooth feel of the binding posts and the fingertip-tickling satin finish don't make you feel tingly, I still think you'd appreciate the fact that Paradigm poured just as much love and attention into these rarely seen connectors as they did the rest of the speakers' industrial design.
Setting aside such (arguably trivial) aesthetic observations, the most substantial thing I have to say about setting up the Prestige 95Fs is that placement required a little more thought and attention than was the case with my Studio 100s. The former, after all, features a front-firing tuned port, whereas the Prestige 95F sports two rear-firing ports: one behind the tweeter, and the other behind and betwixt the pair of eight-inch brushed pure-aluminum woofers (the third eight-inch driver, although identical looking from the front, is actually a midrange driver). As such, the Prestige 95F interacts with the space behind it a little more and performs its best at certain distances from the back wall. In contrast, I've found that I can plop my Studio 100s pretty much any-old-where without too much deleterious effect. In my room, I found that the pair of 95Fs sounded its best anywhere between 10 inches and a couple of feet from the back wall (which gave me more than enough wiggle room) and slightly toed-in. Truth be told, though, I couldn't really find any placement options that resulted in unsatisfactory performance. In other words, the Prestige speakers reward a little extra effort in terms of positioning but don't punish you if placement is dictated a bit by room décor.
The one other thing worth noting about the setup of the Paradigm Prestige 95Fs is that they do require the weensiest bit of breaking in. Generally speaking, I tend to be skeptical about speaker break-in. More often than not, I find myself adapting to the unique voicing of a new speaker after a few hours of listening, as evidenced by the fact that I can swap an older, well-used speaker in for whatever I'm currently listening to, and it still takes me a few hours to adjust to its sound. With the Prestige 95F, by contrast, there's simply no denying that the first few hours of use result in some substantial objective changes: the slightest amount of harshness in the treble (really only noticeable in very open and airy recordings) fades away, and a minuscule dividing line between the eight-inch midrange driver and the tweeter is slowly erased. Paradigm recommends "several" hours of playback before critical listening commences. I found that roughly three hours of continuous use did the trick.


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Who Are T.J. Holmes' Children?
T.J. divorced his first wife in 2007. He became a dad of two during their union, something he often shared insight on during his broadcasts. The former CNN correspondent found love again with Marilee, his second wife, whom he wed in 2010. Their daughter, Sabine, was born in January 2013.
A few months after the birth of his youngest child, T.J. told Essence that "fatherhood is glorious." He also shared how his daily routine was a bit different with a newborn in the house.
"I probably change more diapers than her because she breastfeeds and she has to do that," the newscaster explained. "So, I do the thing that I can do and change the diapers."
T.J. went on to say that his youngest daughter kept him "grounded" and helped him make sure to understand "what's important." In June 2020, he posted a video on his since-deleted Instagram account doing Sabine's hair, one of the rare family moments he shared on social media over the years.
"As she has gotten older, I am, I'm pretty much 100% responsible for the hair and if you see all this stuff, and it's thick and it's curly and it's all this, you need to know what you're doing," he said in the clip.
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The Arkansas native explained that he would ask celebrities on the red carpet about their hairstyles and try to recreate the styles on his daughter at home.
"It's one thing to see a daddy-daughter relationship but it's also to tear down really what's in a lot of people's minds of what's the role in the house of a dad is supposed to be, a mom is supposed to be," he continued.
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In November 2022, T.J. was photographed hanging out with his GMA costar Amy on multiple occasions. In the pictures obtained by the Daily Mail, the duo traveled together to the Shawangunk Mountains outside of NYC. While neither party has confirmed if they are dating or just close friends, Amy has since been photographed without her wedding ring.
Reps for both parties did not immediately respond to Closer's request for comment.
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Jabbawockeez Dance Crew Gets Down in Vegas
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From their trademark masks to their animated synchronization performances, the Jabbawockeez are an ideal fit for live entertainment in Las Vegas. Fresh off of their own Philippines tour, the winners of MTV's "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew" will perform at MGM Grand in May. The show, titled "MUS.I.C." (muse-i-see), will be an audio-visual story of inspiration brought to life through the harmonization of sound and movement. They will appear in the Hollywood Theatre at MGM Grand May 7 - 26 at 9:30 p.m. every night.
Tickets priced at $59 and $49, not including applicable service charges and taxes, are on sale today at any MGM Grand box office outlet. Call 800-929-1111 or visit www.mgmgrand.com.
Established in 2003, the professional dance crew has campaigned for Gatorade with their "G" campaign spawning TV ad's with Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan since winning the contest on MTV. The group opened for the NBA All-Star Game and performed with Shaquille O'Neal. After garnering millions of fans, the crew has been featured on numerous television shows including "Dancing With The Stars," "So You Think You Can Dance," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Regis & Kelly," and "The TODAY Show 2009 Summer Concert Series."
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