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Here is where we are with clinical programs for paralysis reversal: https://vimeo.com/220787253
Its a bit technical, but some may find it useful
Dear Friends,
I cannot believe it has been over a year since I wrote last. I apologize for my absence. I honestly wasn't sure if others were reading my posts. (That's my old companion insecurity popping up over my shoulder. I'm sure many of you know him.) Then, life happened and I got caught up in it. Not to mention that I forgot my darn password AGAIN!😧 I was embarrassed asking for help changing it, AGAIN. Silly me. Then, at the beginning of the summer, I had a major medical
Seems like its been forever since i've been online and writing, but it feels good to say that i've finally found my way back after a long hiatus from the interwebs. For a while I let the chronic pains from my SCI get to me. Anyone that suffers from, or knows someone who suffers from these pains understands full well how exhausting and stressful it can be. However i'm happy (more like proud) to say that thanks to a few really big changes in my life, I am now no longer stressed, but more importantly
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The short wheelbase on your Kuschall will make it harder for the front wheels to bump up over obstacles. Center of gravity also plays a part. The clamping mechanism on the ZX1 is designed for a 1 1/4" camber tube. It should clamp firmly but still allow the camber tube to rotate inside the clamping. It's possible that your Kuschall has a smaller, possibly 1 1/8" cambertube causing it to shift laterally too easily. Spinergy may have a thicker carbon fiber bushing to help with that. I've
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I've done some adjustments on my ZX too,
- I've removed the anti-tips, it helps on small curbs, but you'll have to get used with the "dive" of the armrest. Especially with the joystick's side when you use the motor's brake, it can be surprising...
- I've removed the high adjustment nut stop of the clamshell, near the proximity sensor. Now I can raise my chair to the maximum without going in crawl mode,
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Hope College senior Chris Kunnen of DesMoines, Iowa has been named the Player of the Year by the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA).
He has also been named an ACHA All-American for a third year. Teammate Justin Glick, a junior from Fort Wayne, Ind., has also bee named an ACHA All-American. Kunnen is the second Hope player to receive the national Player of the Year honor joining Jeff Guy who was chosen in 2006-07.
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Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
NBER Computed Data By Adding Figures For The Respective Groups Of Employees In Road Freight Service, Division Vi-B: "Transportation, Train And Engine." Source: NBER Computed Data From Interstate Commerce Commission, Wage Statistics Of Class I Steam Railroads In The United States, Monthly.
This NBER data series m08160 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html.
NBER Indicator: m08160
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Iowa's Supreme Court ruled 7-0 that a male dentist was within his legal rights to fire an attractive female assistant because he and his wife "feared he would try to have an affair with her down the road." The court said the dentist, who consulted his pastor first, did not discriminate based on gender.
What experts said (starting with "yes" and moving to "no"):
"Owners should not have to choose between keeping their business or marriage, and laws should not make it difficult for men to remove temptations that threaten their marriage. Employees do have some discretion over whether they find themselves in this situation."
Brad Dacus, president, Pacific Justice Institute
"We have to walk away from temptation; we just cannot court it, which would be happening if she had remained. The best thing to do would be to show compassion and help the woman find another job so she's not hurt by the firing."
Michael McManus, president, Marriage Savers
"The dentist made the right choice in fighting to save his marriage. But we should take this as a cautionary tale. By establishing boundaries at work early on, the situation would not have gotten as far, and that assistant would not have lost her job."
Greg Smalley, executive director of marriage and family formation, Focus on the Family
"If someone has many risk factors, then it's important to adjust behavior to protect the marriage relationship. But the employer would have many other options if he feels that his self-control is going to be stretched beyond his ability to stop himself."
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The Super Bowl will be played on a Sunday.
Nice little read.
Nice little read from the Jets website. Sounds like Idzik will value all of his picks... a nice change from Trader Mike.
EA Q&A: Idzik Will Build Through the Draft
Eric Allen
Sr. Reporter/Director, Internet Programming
Email @nyjets #EA On the Inside
aaThe National Football Leagues 2012 season is officially over. While the Jets experienced some bright moments, there were too many power outages along the way. It is time to turn the page for good.
Tampa, FL
Q: It seemed to me Tannenbaum always kind of went for a big splash trading up in drafts, signing bigger names in free agency & trading picks away for players. But the Jets lacked in building depth & developing talent. With (John) Idzik, what are your early impressions of how he might operate things?
EA: Idzik has said the draft will be a lifeline for the Jets and the team will be judicious in free agency.
When I started in the NFL in 2000 as a Buccaneers PR staffer, Idzik was Tampa Bays Director of Football Administration. I spoke to a former colleague the other night who said, John is smart, grounded and will put a good plan in place. New York is a tough market. Fans will have to be patient He will build through the draft.
The Buccaneers gathered six first-round picks between 1995-97 and their defense was forever changed in April 95 with the landing of Hall of Fame DT Warren Sapp (D1, No. 12) and future Hall of Fame LB Derrick Brooks (D1, No. 28). Explosive RB Warrick Dunn (D1, No. 12) went early to the Bucs in 97, but they had a bunch of great mid-round finds as well. Probable future Hall of Fame CB Ronde Barber (D3, No. 66) came off the board in 1997 and Super Bowl XXXVII MVP Dexter Jackson (D4, No. 113) was a Bucs pick in 99. In 96, the Bucs got a backfield bruiser in RB Mike Alstott (D2, No. 35) and then an excellent Cover-2 corner in Donnie Abraham (D3, No. 71). The Bucs 41 Pro Bowl selections between 1997 through 2002 were the most in the NFL.
Most recently, Idzik was part of a Seahawks personnel department that hit more often than not on draft weekend. The Hawks 2012 Draft appears ridiculous right now when you consider DE Bruce Irvin (D1, No. 15), Bobby Wagner (D2, No. 47), Russell Wilson (D3, No. 75) and RB Robert Turbin (D4, No. 106). Wilson alone would be plenty, but Irvin racked up eight sacks and Wagner received strong consideration for Defensive Rookie of the Year honors.
In 2011, the Hawks got great value in the fourth and fifth rounds respectively with LB K.J. Wright and CB Richard Sherman. Back in 2010, the Seahawks had a pair of No. 1s and they came away with Pro Bowlers in LT Russell Okung (D1, No. 6) and FS Earl Thomas (D1, No. 14). Safety Kam Chancellor (D5, No. 133) was a find late while WR Golden Tate (D2, No. 60) scored 7 TDs last season. Defensive tackle Red Bryant (D4, No. 121) is one of the Hawks leaders and a force up front.
Exploring every avenue to improve, the Seahawks got a Pro Bowl RB in Marshawn Lynch from the Buffalo Bills for a fourth-round pick in 2011 and a fifth-round pick in 2012. Seattle pulled off a steal when the acquired DE Chris Clemons and a fourth-round pick from the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for Darryl Tapp. In three seasons up in the Pacific Northwest, Clemons has racked up 33.5 sacks. If Clemons didnt suffer a torn ACL and meniscus in his left knee in the wild card round, who knows how far the Seahawks could have advanced?
Idzik wont look for a quick fix. The Jets will value their draft picks and it would not surprise me to see them stockpile a few here in the future.
Brooklyn, NY
Q: I have seen Mark Sanchez regress the past 2 seasons. In 2013, I don't see any potential in Sanchez. Do you think the Jets will draft a quarterback in the first round or lean towards obtaining a veteran? We need a lot of help at the quarterback position. I have been a fan for over 30 years.
EA: If Sanchez is here, he will have to win the job. We will have Marty Mornhinweg on as a Jets Talk LIVE guest soon and I cant wait to hear the new OCs thoughts on Sanchez. If the Jets do indeed part ways with Tim Tebow (as almost all pundits anticipate), they will most likely add a veteran in free agency.
While I believe there is a strong chance the Jets will draft a quarterback, it would be presumptuous of me to pick a round. Both Geno Smith and Matt Barkley were not on hand in Mobile, AL, so lets see what happens with their stocks in the weeks ahead. Senior Personnel Executive Terry Bradway told me the Senior Bowl QB crop was good not great.
Robert J.
Hackettstown, NJ
Q: Shouldn't the Jets finally address their leaky offensive line? I hear all these other areas where the Jets are lacking, but I think not enough attention is given to our offensive line. You can't make plays on offense when you can't protect the QB effectively or open running lanes for our RBs.
EA: The Jets have to make some moves up front because both RG Brandon Moore and LG Matt Slauson are due to hit the market. I have been talking about the guard position since the season ended, but the team has bigger holes outside the offensive line. They are still solid at the two most important line positions with C Nick Mangold and LT DBrickashaw Ferguson, and the team liked the way Austin Howard developed at RT. After receiving valuable playing time in 2012, is Vladimir Ducasse ready to step up into a starting position?
John B.
Scranton, PA
Q: Hey Eric, love your blog and thanks for the great work. With all the talk about bringing in veteran competition, what do you think about giving Vince Young a shot? I think we could get him on the cheap for low risk/high reward.
EA: Young is an interesting name because he worked under Mohrninweg in Philadelphia and he is familiar with the West Coast attack. But one wonders if VYs best days are behind him. He started three games for the Eagles in 2011, throwing for four TDs and eight INTs. The Bills had Young in camp last summer and then cut him loose after acquiring Tarvaris Jackson in a trade. And the Buffalo QB coach last season was the same David Lee who will mentor the Jets passers in 2013.
The Super Bowl will be played on a Sunday.
Nice little read.
That is the best strategy...as long as you manage to hit on most of your draft picks
Regarding being patient, fully ready to give Izdik time to rebuild the roster. But it's different with Rex, this year is it for him, his job should be on the line. Whatever he's given as far as personnel he needs to make the team competitive in 2013. He doesn't get the leeway the new GM gets.
In other news, the sun will be bright tomorrow.
The thing that gives me hope against the "cap guy" reputation is that both teams Idzik has been involved with at high levels have had tremendous drafts and trade success, especially in the mid-to-late rounds. One team, fine, you can ask how much of a hand he actually had, but as this points out, Tampa in the late 90s was arguably the best drafting team in the NFL, and Seattle might have that reputation over the last two years, on reflection.
Rex Ryan should improve the team. But if that improvement makes us 8-8, then I say he keeps his job. He improved the team and he's dealing with a new GM. Not saying Idzik is a bad guy or anything, it's just Tanny f*cked things up so bad, it's going to take time for Rex/Idzik to fix it.
Idzik's biggest problem will be ass't GM Terry Bradway. That's right the same Terry Bradway former Jets GM who instead of being fired when Tannenbaum was hired by Woody as the Jets GM was retained as Ass't GM in charge of college scouting. Bradway was GM between 2001 and 2006 was most notable for faling in love with looks like Tarzan plays like Jane workout warriors. Idzik will be reviewing the now completed Bradway draft recommendations. Let's hope he ignores Bradway and relies on the Seahawk's draft reprts that he was intimately involved in up until he was hired as Jets GM.
Given his background who will Itzak be looking closely at in the 2013 draft?
QB. 1st round pick. Itzak will be looking at two first round QB's both of whom are projected to be well equipped to flourish in a West Coast offense according to all the scouting reports. Geno Smith of West Virginia and Matt Barkley of USC. Geno Smith might not be there at #9 therefore Matt Barkley might be Itzak's preferred choice at QB.
OLB/DE. 2nd round pick is a big need in a Rex Ryan 3-4 defense. Dion Jordan of Oregon is the top rated OLB/DE in a 3-4 defense and should be there in the second round. Extensivley scouted by Itzak since Oregon is a Big-12 team.
Running Back. A huge need with the impending free agency of Shonne Green. A possible 3rd round pick is RB Joseph Randle of Oklahoma State as he fits well in a West Coast offense. A premier running back he is a good pass protector and is a good receiver out of the backfield.
These are not neccessarily my picks but a best guess of where Itzak will be looking given his backgound.
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We're going to need like 50 more draft picks.
Who's this guy Itzak??
Nice read it is called having a PLAN!!!!!!
We have to get faster and more violent at LB,
We have to get younger at safety.
We need some talent in between Brick and Mangold. We need a RT.
We need fresh legs in the backfield.
We need a TE, a blocking TE - which has been noticeably absent in the last couple of years.
I don't know how we address QB, and get a viable product. I'm not in for Tavaris Jackson, and have reservations about Flynn and Smith.
Basically we need a lot of stuff.
I'm ok with them passing on the QB's, and waiting until 2014 Draft to address it. I'd hate to see them draft one in the 2nd-3rd Round, just to see them pass on one in 2014 because they think they addressed it.
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Are you ready for Halloween? No, I'm not, but I did want to get started on my Halloween crafting so when it is time to decorate I'll be ready. I decided to start with crafting a fun Halloween Spook Banner.
It's made completely out of scrapbook paper which makes it easy and affordable. I started by cutting the paper in triangles measuring 5″x7″.
I free handed the faces then cut them out and used a glue stick to secure them to the triangles.
This is Frankenstein's hair.
The details on the owl were added using a marker.
The cat's whiskers and mouth were added using a pencil.
I pieced different colored paper together to make the candy corn.
And I tore off the top of the gray paper to make the ghost. I like his goofy face too.
I put the banner together using twine and clothespins. I really love working with paper. It's been a while.
So my Halloween Spook banner is ready. Now I'm putting it away until October (and finally painting the red wall).
Do you have any home decor and/or organizing projects to link to the Home Decor and Organizing Link Party? I'd love to see what you've been working on. You can link up your projects through Friday night. I'll be featuring some on facebook and here later this week.
I'm linking to these awesome blog parties:
Show and Share Day at Just a Girl
Friday Flair at Whipperberry
Friday Fun Finds at Kojo Designs
DIY Fall Festival at The DIY Showoff
Show and Tell Saturday at Be Different Act Normal
Sundae Scoop at I Heart Naptime
Sunday Showcase Party at Under the Table and Dreaming
DIY Project Parade at The DIY Showoff
Countdown to Autumn at Domestically Speaking
Fall Frenzy Link Party at Craftaholics Anonymous
Look What I Made at Creations By Kara
Craft Link Party at Centsational Girl
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RSP Evolve rear light is good at safe riding on roads & price of this light is less i.e. value for money. Well how much lumens it produce at night…?
Oh my, the RSP Evolve rear light and the Cateye TL LD600 look as if they were separated at birth. Same cigar-shaped profiles that's bang on for trailers, tag alongs, identical number of LEDs, fuel source - interchangeable mounting hardware to boot!
Ok, so we've established some uncanny similarities but before we get side tracked with the rights n' wrongs of badge engineering, let's get some facts straight. First and foremost, the internals are genuinely very different.
Two half watt LEDs are sandwiched between three tiddlers providing some helpful percussion and are conducted by an easy to spot, sensibly positive grey switch of the sort that doesn't feel vague or misbehave in panniers. High quality plastics inspire confidence and there's only access to the battery tray, which also explains why it's withstood full on saltwater submersion and similar cruelty without incident.
Smaller riders with compact geometry bikes will be pleased to note it also mounts vertically, offering a 180-degree arc without spoiling the aesthetics - ours occasionally caught my inner thigh when assuming the lowest possible horizontal position. While I think of it, the supple post clip is perfect for the contours of low-slung trailer tubing but has demanded some custom shimming on larger diameter posts. The clothing clip by contrast gets top marks, gripping most fabrics from heavy-duty cotton duck through to elasticated loops.
Overall performance has given much to smile about- we're talking visibility to 750 metres, 600 in constant on clear nights, dropping to 450 through suburbs and town. However, in a trailer context, it lacks knockout punch, and middle of the road pricing doesn't compensate for so-so economy.
On that note, we've returned a consistent thirteen and twenty three hours (constant/flashing) respectively from premium grade AAA cells, dropping to ten and eighteen using rechargeables.
Good light and well suited to trailers but loses out to longer lasting, more powerful models.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: RSP Evolve rear light
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"*2 Super bright 0.5 watt LEDs
*3 Angled LEDs
*Full beam 18 hours
*Wide arc of visibility
*Flashing & constant modes
*Water resistant
*Quick release bracket
*Belt clip mount for backpack or jacket fitment
*Horizontal or vertical mounting"
Generally agree, although run times less generous than quoted.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
2 Super bright 0.5 watt LEDs
*3 Angled LEDs
Collimator lens technology.
Well sealed using decent quality plastics.
Good output and solid build but there are many models offering better performance and/or economy for similar money.
Passed my torture tests with flying colours.
Pleasant to use-switch easily operated in winter weight training gloves.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Another powerful light, the evolve is particularly given to trailer/tagalong duties thanks to excellent weatherproofing, decent output and generous surface area. However, economy feels poor alongside similarly priced contemporaries.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Great presence, decent build quality.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Mediocre economy.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? On balance, no.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Quite possibly.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
A good light with great potential let down by so-so economy.
About the tester
Age: 38 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Tyshawn Taylor has signed a one-year deal with Israeli team Maccabi Kiryat Gat.
The 26-year-old guard will be playing overseas this year after running into legal issues last year. It is unlikely that he will be back in the NBA but this is a good stepping stone for him and his career. Of course, there is not fantasy value here.
Fantasy News
July 17, 2019, 11:51 amDragan BenderPF, Phoenix Suns
Nikos Varlas of Eurohoops is reporting that Dragan Bender has a verbal commitment to join EuroLeague champions CSKA Moscow on a multiyear deal.
The report adds that the former No. 4 pick will take the offer unless there is an intriguing offer to him from an NBA team in the 11th hour. Bender was linked to the Cavs and the Raptors but he hasn't been able to generate much interest in the market and the move to Europe might be the optimal choice for him now.
Source: Eurohoops
July 17, 2019, 11:10 amChasson RandlePG, Washington Wizards
With two open roster spots plus a two-way contract available, the Hawks have a couple more moves to make and Chasson Randle could be an option for them.
Jaylen Adams was waived on Saturday before his contract became guaranteed, while GM Travis Schlenk said he wants to add a veteran to the roster and fill the two-way spot. The Hawks intend to keep one roster spot open for flexibility during the season, so we should expect two more moves before the offseason ends. Behind Trae Young, the Hawks have only Evan Turner who can play backup point guard so there is a need for the position. Randle played last season with the Wizards where he averaged 5.5 points, 2.0 assists and 1.5 rebounds in 15.2 minutes and 49 games. He saw increased time toward the end of the season but was not extended a qualifying offer and is an unrestricted free agent.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
July 17, 2019, 10:08 amJosh JacksonSF, Memphis Grizzlies
Josh Jackson appears to have dealt with his arrest at a Miami music festival this summer by reaching a plea deal that will keep him out of the courtroom.
The Miami State Attorney's Office confirmed that Jackson agreed to complete some kind of pre-trial diversion program in exchange for having the charges dropped. He was arrested at the Rolling Loud music festival in Miami this summer when he reportedly tried to enter the VIP area many times without a proper pass. Jackson gets a fresh start in Memphis this year and even though it's hard to predict whether he will be able to bounce back, he deserves consideration in the later rounds since the minutes will probably be there for him.
Source: NBC Sports
July 17, 2019, 9:23 amMarcos Louzada SilvaPG, New Orleans Pelicans
The Sydney Kings have inked sharp-shooting Brazilian NBA prospect Marcos Louzada Silva as part of the NBL's expanding Next Stars program.
Didi was selected by the Hawks as the No. 35 pick in this year's Draft, and traded to the Pelicans.
He is expected to develop in the Kings program in the NBL after playing in the recently-completed NBA Summer League.
Source: Sydney Kings on Twitter
July 17, 2019, 9:17 amDion WaitersSG, Miami Heat
Dion Waiters wrote on Instagram on Monday that he read all the jokes on social media about his conditioning last season, but rather than "joining the circus," he used it as motivation to improve his physique.
The Heat are known around the league for having one of the best conditioning programs, as guys who go there almost universally get in better shape. Waiters seemed to be the exception to the rule last year coming off an injury where he didn't get to train like he wanted. He has been hitting the gym though this summer as he is trying to get back to elite basketball shape area for the upcoming season. It's nice to see this development but Waiters' game is still very inefficient due to the bad percentages and turnovers that limit his fantasy value.
Source: NBC Sports
July 17, 2019, 9:05 amJames HardenPG, Houston Rockets
Mike D'Antoni believes that Russell Westbrook will succeed in Houston, not because of how different he is than Chris Paul, but because of what he and James Harden have in common.
"That's what great players do," D'Antoni said. "Great players figure it out. They make it work." Considering all the Rockets gave up in order to acquire the 2017 MVP, there seems to be some urgency in order to make this work, but MDA sounded optimistic about the duo's future in Houston. We'll have to wait and see how this translates on the court but the initial signs from all parties involved sound extremely positive.
Source: Houston Chronicle
July 17, 2019, 8:54 amBen SimmonsPG, Philadelphia Sixers
Ben Simmons officially announced on Tuesday that he will skip the upcoming FIBA World Cup in China.
Simmons just signed a five-year, $170 max contract extension with the Sixers so it makes sense for him to skip the World Tournament. He said that he intends to join the national team again for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo but Australia is going to have a hard time competing for a medal this summer without their young superstar.
Source: Ben Simmons on Twitter
July 17, 2019, 8:50 amAnthony DavisPF, Los Angeles Lakers
In an interview with ESPN's Rachel Nichols, Anthony Davis said that, even after his trade request was granted, that doesn't mean he'll commit to the Lakers for the long term.
"I'm just focused on this season," said AD. "I don't know what's going to happen, I have one year in LA so I'm going make the best out of it." Davis is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season and his agent Rich Paul insisted that his client is going to keep all options open in the summer of 2020. This is obviously a chapter taken out of the LeBron James playbook as AD is simply trying to put more pressure to the Lakers organization in order to surround the team with elite talent. He is poised for a monster fantasy year regardless.
Source: ESPN
July 16, 2019, 8:45 pmRussell WestbrookPG, Houston Rockets
The Rockets and Thunder officially completed their blockbuster trade of Chris Paul, first round picks in 2024 and 2026, and pick swaps in 2021 and 2025 for Russell Westbrook on Tuesday.
Westbrook and Harden and now officially reunited and will be performing massive pre-game routines at the Toyota Center. Meanwhile, the Thunder officially have Chris Paul on the roster and are free to move him if they choose. Watching how Sam Presti begins this rebuild process will be interesting, to say the least.
Source: Royce Young on Twitter
July 16, 2019, 7:25 pmJarrell BrantleyPF, Utah Jazz
The Jazz have signed rookies Jarrell Brantley and Justin Wright-Foreman to two-way contracts.
Brantley was selected 50th overall in this June's draft after putting up big numbers in four seasons at the College of Charleston. He averaged 4.0 points and 5.0 rebounds in two games at Summer League, though he also missed time with right hamstring soreness. Wright-Foreman, the 53rd pick out of Hofstra, fared a little better with 10.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.5 steals, though he also battled right knee/hamstring issues and left the team for personal reasons at the end of their Vegas run. There's not much fantasy impact here.
Source: Utah Jazz


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Magic Johnson and Friends Discuss Life and HIV
Basketball legend and entrepreneur Earvin "Magic" Johnson collaborated with OraSure Technologies and the Reed For Hope Foundation on Tuesday to present "life. as we know it," a forum about HIV and healthy relationships within the African-American community. The panelists included Magic Johnson, reality television star Lala Anthony, author Demetria Lucas, Reverend Touré Roberts from One Church in Los Angeles, and sexologist Rachael Ross, M.D.. The lively and colorful dialog took place at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York (yes I know this is a D.C. blog. Stay with me on this one). While discussions happen all the time and all over the place, there where four notable points that were brought to the forefront. I call these the takeaways.
Takeaway #1: When It Comes to HIV, Talk Is Not Necessarily Cheap
Talk, talk, talk. Several questions were raised about how to reduce stigma, raise awareness and create comfort when it comes to discussing sexual health. Where do you begin? Dr. Racheal Ross says start with sex. "This is a sex issue. In order for prevention to take place, we have to have an open dialogue about sex, relationships, partner sharing, homophobia, etc. so we can get to the root of the problem." If all parties involved have accurate information, conversations between parents and children, friends, within classrooms, and at church can all help to relax fear and bring acceptance. Dr. Ross adds, "Fear comes from lack of information and denial. Discussions help with that."
Takeaway #2: Black Men Need Room to Be Men
Let's start with some statistics. According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2010, black men accounted for 70% (14,700) of the estimated 20,900 new HIV infections among all adult and adolescent blacks. It is estimated that 2,700 heterosexual Black men were among the new infections. In the District, nearly 70 percent of the males living with HIV are African-American.
So how de we begin with this subgroup? Magic Johnson suggests that we let the men speak to and for themselves. "When I first announced 22 years ago that I was positive, guys got out there and got tested. The problem is it's been long forgotten. We need to dialogue with each other and sometimes it has to be all men in the room so we can talk man to man." Pastor Touré Roberts says that the discussions must target men and be a judgment free zone. "Guys need to be in an environment that is safe and where their manhood is encouraged. The dialog has to intentionally engage Black men."
Takeaway #3: Young People Are Watching Intently
In April 2012, we saw the very first National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day created. Whether it's through Hip-Hop and R&B music, mentoring, schools, sports or groups, empowering youth with accurate information will help them make healthy choices and get us all closer to zero new infections. Lala Anthony asserts that leaders in the Hip-Hop community have a responsibility to be positive role models to youth. "Leaders in the Hip-Hop community need to talk about it [HIV] more. There's so much misinformation out there. If young people hear it from people they like, the message might come across better. We have a responsibility to promote something good." Magic says that mentors make a difference as well. "What comes out of your mouth as a mentor is important. You can help shape their lives by giving the right information. Also you can help them by just being yourself. A real man or woman living your life and taking care of yourself."
Takeaway #4: LGBT Youth Cannot Be Ignored or Denied
While we're discussing young people, let's think about the LGBT youth. To be young and gay is quite a challenge in 2013. They are often ignored or labeled "confused" or brushed off as merely going through a phase. But it's real and for many of them it's a very lonely existence. How many churches fully embrace our LGBT youth and encourage them to be who they are? How do schools address the issue of bullying gay youth? What community leaders encourage parents to accept their gay children and support them as they grow into adulthood?
Magic Johnson's son EJ came out this year as a gay man. Although many people speculated about what Magic and his wife did or did not do to "make him this way," Magic says he never worried about what people thought. "When my son came out and said that he was gay, Cookie and I said 'Ok. We love and support you no matter what. Nothing's changed.' People talk a lot until something happens in their family. So I don't care about what other people think. I support my son 150 percent." Dr. Rachael Ross also stressed the importance of parental support. "We have so many gay, Black, youth committing suicide and suffering from depression in our community. Parents aren't supporting their gay children. That's gotta change."
And One to Grow On
There was a lot of discussion about the importance of HIV testing and that is great. Hopefully more people will get tested (you can even do it in your own home). But what happens after diagnosis. Dr. Rachael Ross discussed the medical steps that a patient takes after they have been confirmed positive. But an HIV diagnosis is big news. How does a person go about making room in their life for HIV?
We're all inundated with responsibilities that require our attention daily. Take the single mother who has just received a positive result. As shocking and depressing as it might be to hear that news, life does indeed go on. She still has to maintain gainful employment, pay her mortgage or rent, purchase food, keep up with her children, and other responsibilities. While we discuss how imperative it is to know your status, we sometimes neglect to talk about what will happen to your life if you are positive. HIV will take up some space in a person's life. Are they ready for that?
Community support means more than just saying I'm ok with HIV. It also means fighting for quality social services. Getting assistance with employment and housing, escaping domestic violence situations, ending a substance abuse addiction, gaining access to health care and mental health services, reentering the community after incarceration are critical factors that can be overlooked because they are not the medical issue at hand. If you want to help someone with HIV, don't pass those points by.
As World AIDS Day approaches, discussions such as this one at the Apollo need to continue. You don't need celebrities or media coverage to make it happen. All you need is the will to live a healthy life and a love for your community. Get together with leaders right outside your window and push for action. And include as many stakeholders as you can because clearly no one is immune to this disease. It can and should be done. Because life as YOU know it doesn't have to include HIV.
Check out "life. as we know it" online.
Read Candace's blog, D.C. HIV/AIDS Examiner.


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AMES, Iowa – In brutally cold conditions, the UMKC men's and women's cross country teams continued to fight through adversity this season, turning in solid performances at the NCAA Midwest regional meet on Friday morning in Ames, Iowa. The men's squad grabbed a top-10 finish, while the women's team finished in the top-20.
"As a group, we turned in great performances today with a PR from almost everyone," head coach Shameika McField commented. "Both teams finished the highest we ever have in the region. Chandler and Sarah both had stellar races on the women's side. The men finishing in seventh featured student-athletes that all had personal best performances."
"Today was a big step in a good direction," assistant coach Brett Guemmer shared. "Bryce obviously rank a great race, but so did the rest of our team. Jason ran 80% of the race with one shoe and that's a gutsy performance that kept us up there in the team scores. On the women's side, Sarah and Chandler had good days. They did a great job of just moving forward and picking people off. Overall, I am extremely happy and proud of how all these student-athletes competed this year."
Senior Bryce Miller (Ashland, Wis.) paced the men's squad, punching his ticket to the NCAA Division I Championships in Louisville, Ky., next weekend with a fifth-place finish overall in a field of 194 student-athletes in a personal best time of 29:15.0.
"First off, I am very happy with our team's performance today," Miller said. "I couldn't be more proud of my boys and their ability to grit through the 10K race to make UMKC history. We want to set the standard for the future of our team and create a lasting tradition of success at the conference and regional level.
"As for my individual performance, I am feeling a lot of relief after this race. I have been frustrated with my cross country performances throughout my collegiate career, so being able to punch my ticket to Nationals allows me to take a deep breath. The work isn't done yet, as the national meet is in a week. I cannot wait to run tough and duke it out with the rest of the country while representing Kansas City and the Roos!"
"Bryce finished his last cross country season with us by qualifying for nationals and that is impressive," McField continued. "He is a tough kid – he is tenacious, dedicated and made for this sport. We are proud of the entire team and the work they have put in as well as the performances they put up this entire fall. Ending the season with a conference championship and then an NCAA qualifier – third student-athlete all-time and second male every to qualify – is exciting."
Additionally, Miller's six teammates that joined him on the course – Jason Fambrough (Raymore, Mo.), Quinlan Moll (Springfield, Mo.), Darrien Case (Parkville, Mo.), Marcus Johnson (Nixa, Mo.), Daylan Quinn (Mountain View, Mo.) and Nathan Keown (Columbia, Mo.) – each turned in a personal-best performance to help UMKC finish six spots higher than last season at the regional meet.
"Coming out and finishing seventh was a good way to cap off what's been a historic season for us," shared Moll. "We knew we had a good chance to finish higher than we ever had before and everyone gave their all to make that happen. I am proud of how we ran."
"It was a cold but eventful day for the men's team," said Johnson. "We had the best finish in school history and had an individual national qualifier. Now for most of us, the next thing to do is look forward to indoor and outdoor track season."
On the women's side, senior Chandler Carreon (Lake St. Louis, Mo.) finished first for UMKC in a field of 225 student-athletes with a personal best time of 20:57.4 to set the tone for the Roos. Teammate Sarah Fogarty (O'Fallon, Mo.) joined Carreon in the top-40 with a personal best of her own. Mia Jerman (Ste. Genevieve, Mo.), Elizabeth Nolke (Lee's Summit, Mo.), Megan Mills (Nixa, Mo.) and Katherine Hanners (Jackson, Mo.) also battled for the Roos.
"Today we had the mentality of giving it all we had," Carreon said. "At the regional meet, we have nothing to lose, so it's fun to challenge ourselves and see how hard we can race. Today for the seniors, other than Bryce, it was our very last cross country meet. Everyone ran their hearts out today and I am proud to have been able to compete with this team, under the direction of our amazing coaches."
Miller will have a week to prepare for the NCAA Division I Championships that will be hosted by the University of Louisville on Nov. 18.
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I want to wish everyone a safe Halloween tonight.
I want to wish everyone a safe Halloween tonight.
Halloween has become a special time for my family, but this week is also a special time for area high school football teams.
This week is when high school football coaches dig out calculators to figure out if their team will make the state playoffs or not.
It never fails, but the high school football season flies by. With playoffs set to begin next week, Friday's games are do-or-die for some playoff hopefuls.
The clear-cut surprise team this season is the South Lafourche Tarpons.
Before the season started I figured the Tarpons were going to be good, but South Lafourche is on the cusp of an undefeated regular season.
With all the tradition surrounding the program, this would be only the second undefeated regular season for South Lafourche since 1966.
Due to their success, the Tarpons are looking to secure a high seeded in the playoffs.
Right now, the Tarpons are the ninth seed in the Class 5A power ratings on www.kenramsey.com.
If the playoffs started this week the Tarpons would host No. 24 Denham Springs.
Terrebonne is the other area Class 5A team with a chance at the playoffs.
Terrebonne is No. 33 in the power ratings, so the Tigers have to beat Istrouma on Friday and hope the number crunching goes their way.
In Class 4A, Vandebilt Catholic and Assumption are in with South Terrebonne in need of a win to possibly get in.
Vandebilt is the ninth seed and would host No. 24 DeRidder if the playoffs were starting this week.
Assumption is No. 23 and will have to start its postseason on the road. The Mustangs would play No. 10 St. Thomas More if the playoffs were beginning this week.
After a win over Ellender, South Terrebonne is in contention for the playoffs. The Gators are No. 34 and have to beat Abbeville on Thursday, then hope that win propels them into the Top 32.
In Class 3A, E.D. White Catholic is the ninth seed, and win or lose on Friday, the Cardinals should host a bi-district playoff game. That is the good news. The bad news is that if the playoffs started this week E.D. White would play No. 24 Brusly. Earlier this season, Brusly beat E.D. White handily in a District 7-3A game.
The last area team with a chance at the playoffs is Houma Christian.
The Warriors are No. 33 in the Class 1A power ratings and have to beat Ridgewood Prep on Friday to have a chance of getting in.
There is the playoff picture in a nutshell.
It's been an interesting season, and next week I will hand out my awards for the players and teams that have excelled.
Hope you all had a great season of "Friday Night Football," and good luck to the teams that have at least one more game to play.
Staff Writer Teddy Renois can be reached at 448-7618 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Support My Class is an online community dedicated to helping Hawaii's public school teachers fund creative classroom needs. On this site, a teacher can post a wishlist of items needed in their classroom. Anyone can then go to supportmyclass.org and donate to any wishlist. When the goal for the classroom is met, the requested items are purchased and sent directly to the school.
We strongly believe in this cause and pledged to donate $100 to the Hawaii Arts Alliance's Performing Arts Learning Center for every car loan approved and funded by November 12th, up to $10,000.
This past Saturday, we attended the Perry & Price Morning Show at Jade Dynasty Restaurant to present the money we raised to Kevin Takamori, the Director of Development at Hawaii Arts Alliance.
It's always great fun to go to the Perry & Price Morning Show. On this particular weekend, the Perry and Price Show held a special menu, the Taste of China, instead of its usual buffet. The menu featured nine courses, all of which tasted great! Here are some of our favorites of the meal:
As the Perry & Price show continued, they had all types of speakers such as representatives of NOH Foods and the Ronald McDonald House. The show had surprise performances from Jordan Segundo and Frank De Lima!
Jordan Segundo Sings "Moves Like Jagger"
Frank De Lima acts as "Foo Ling Yoo" and plays a game with a member of the audience
Finally, it was time to present the check to Support My Class and to The Performance Arts Learning Center!
Paulette Ito, our VP of Marketing/I.T. signed the giant $10,000 check
Perry & Price On Air with Paulette, Kevin Takamori (Director of Development, Hawaii Arts Alliance) and Chuck Cotton (President, Hawaii Children's Foundation)
We are proud to be supporting such a great cause!
Watch the entire interview below:
Visit supportmyclass.org to donate!


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July 13th 2011 | Jens C Brynildsen
Adobe just gave us a summer present to play with - new runtimes! The Flash Player 11 beta is fully featured, containing all you need to get started. The AIR beta is limited to just the runtime (no SDK) and is provided only to test existing content.
You can grab Flash Player 11 from this page and there you'll also find the playerglobal.swc file that you'll need to make it work with Flash Builder. Among the features you'll find in the beta are several things from the Incubator release that has been on Labs for quite some time, as well as several new features as well.
Simple but solid stuff like DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren and MovieClip.isPlaying will be great for the novice coder. For the more advanced, there are things like Cubic Bezier curves, software encoding of H.264 for camera video, a new audio codec for telephony services in your apps, asynchronous bitmap decoding that does not lock up the UI, better JPG support, improved swf compression and a bunch of other features. Check out the full list of new features here or read Thibault Imberts extensive summary.
The fragmentation on Linux (lack of standardized libraries) often makes it hard for Adobe to deliver the Flash-premise of author once, play everywhere. Linux users will be happy to see that Flash Player 11 is full 64 bit and they also finally get Vector Printing something that has been available on other platforms "for ages". Adobe recently got quite a bit of negative comments for discontinuing the development of AIR for Linux desktops, so it's good to see that at least the browser plugin is still a first class citizen.
As mentioned initially, the AIR 3 beta is initially delivered only as a runtime (no SDK) so you can't author content for it. This will be provided at a later time, but if you have a good AIR project going, you'll probably be allowed into the private AIR beta as good beta testers with solid projects are (from what we hear) always welcome.
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In what way is a Flash v11 player with no 3D support (the biggest thing to happen to Flash in years) a 'first class citizen' ? See: http://sebleedelisle.com/2011/07/no-molehill-on-linux/
@falken you are very right. I should have worded that better.
However, you did see the comment that Seb added to that post? I always feel that Linux users approach the "Flash Player" problem as seen from THEIR selected distro. Supporting Linux isn't the same as supporting Windows or iOS. Every distro comes with it's own quirks, so "supporting Linux" is exponentially more difficult. Sites like http://distrowatch.com lists more then 600 distros and more than 300 of these seem active to some degree. How many distros do they have to make work before they can claim "Linux support"?
Posts like the ones Mike Melanson write in his blog (like this one http://blogs.adobe.com/penguinswf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_jungle.html) really spells this out. I am sure Adobe would love to have Molehill work on every single distro, but they have to rely on some common API that is solid. They just can't build this from scratch for such a fragmented platform?
It's not so much company X wont support their product on a particular platform.
It's that they used to (AIR) but dropped it with 0 days notice. This could happen to your platform tomorrow too. It could happen to Flash on Linux entirely next week.
I used the new flash player with Fatpaint ( http://www.fatpaint.com ), an online graphic design application and image editor, and it runs so much more smoother. Great work Adobe!
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Adeline Warfield was born in 1833 in Massachusetts. At the age of 25 she married Simon A. Harker, her brother's well-to-do business partner. Harker worked as an Indian trader and merchant in the Creek Territory in what is now part of the state of Oklahoma. In 1860 he developed a lingering illness. In the summer of 1861, the couple left the Creek Agency with their two young children and traveled by wagon to the Colorado Territory, an area known for its healthful climate.
The Harkers settled along the South Platte River, just northeast of the new mining supply town of Denver, where they farmed and raised cattle. In 1863, the year their third child was born, Simon Harker filed a claim under the Homestead Act on 160 acres of land on which the family was living. When Harker died in 1864, Adeline faced life as a widow with three young children. Despite her difficult circumstances, it appears that she managed well by earning money from her crops and livestock. Foodstuffs sold for high prices in Denver because most of the supplies needed by gold miners in the area had to be brought to the territory by wagon train. Nearby farmers could sell their produce for lower prices than the wagon train traders and still make a sizeable profit.
By July 1866, Adeline Hornbek was able to exercise the clause in the Homestead Act that allowed early purchase of a homestead. She bought 80 of those acres for $100 in cash. Two months after she acquired ownership of the property, she married Elliott Hornbek, and in 1870, the couple had a son. Then, in 1875, Elliott Hornbek disappeared. There is an air of mystery surrounding him: his occupation, his reasons for leaving his family, and his ultimate fate are unknown. Once again Adeline Hornbek became the sole support for her family.
Hornbek left her Denver homestead after her husband's disappearance, but there is no record of why and no certain knowledge of where she spent the next three years. By early spring of 1878, she had accumulated enough money to build a ranch for her family in Colorado's Florissant Valley, a region that was becoming important as a supply center for gold and silver miners in the nearby mountains. Proximity to good transportation may have been an important factor in Hornbek's choice of this land because she knew it would be helpful for shipping out her agricultural products and bringing in goods she could not get locally.
The area Hornbek chose to settle lies along a tributary of the South Platte River. The immediate area offered an abundant water supply, fertile soil, large meadows for grazing cattle, and forests of Ponderosa pine. Dozens of these pines were cut and seasoned, and then built into a fine home by the master craftsman Hornbek hired. Aside from the main house, Hornbek's homestead consisted of several outbuildings including a milk house, chicken house, and stables. Her improvements created an impressive house and ranch. Her teenage children undoubtedly helped with the hard work the homestead required.
Adeline Hornbek's homestead house is not the typical one-room cabin that most of us envision when conjuring up a picture of homestead life. Instead, it is a two-story, four-bedroom log house boasting nearly a dozen glass-paned windows. When completed in 1878, the house was the first in the valley to have more than one story. The interior was decorated with ornate Victorian style furnishings. Furnishing a homestead house in a fancy style was typical. Many settlers brought small organs, rugs, pictures, and perhaps a few pieces of good furniture to their frontier homes even when their "house" might have been nothing more than a small sod shanty.
Like many homesteaders, Hornbek needed a cash income. She found work in town at the Florissant Mercantile (the general store). It was one of the few jobs, other than teaching, where women could work outside the home. She became a prominent member of the growing community of Florissant, serving on the school board and hosting social gatherings in her home. As further evidence of her ambition and energy, it can be noted that by the time she filed the final homestead papers in 1885, she had increased the value of her property nearly five times.
At the age of 66, Hornbek married Frederick Sticksel, a German immigrant who is thought to have worked for her. They spent nearly five years together before Adeline Warfield Harker Hornbek Sticksel died of "paralysis" (probably a stroke) on June 27, 1905. She had demonstrated how a successful living could be earned through wise choices in selecting land and in improving that land with energy and hard work. It is an interesting testimony to Hornbek's independent spirit that her last two husbands moved into her already-established homes. She had enjoyed 27 busy years on her mountain valley ranch.
Although the Homestead Act was not originally intended to help women become a stronger economic force in this country, it did provide some women with land and farms of their own. There were a number of flaws in the Act and it never accomplished all that Congress intended. The Act did not ease overcrowding in the East. In fact, eastern population increased 400 percent between 1870 and 1910. Of homestead lands, only one out of nine acres ended up in the hands of those it was intended to help. The specification of granting land in 160 acre plots was not really useful in the West. Unlike the Midwest where there was sufficient rain and good soil, the West had a dry climate and less abundant and less fertile topsoil. Eking out an existence on 160 acres was very difficult. Many homesteaders failed. Nevertheless, the Homestead Act did act as a powerful force in populating the West, changing the shape and attitudes of our nation, and in some cases empowering women.
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Badgers have a flattened, oval-shaped body with brown fur and a white stripe on their forehead that occasionally continues down their back. They have a pale colored stomach and black feet. They have a very powerful build. They are the "bulldozer" of the weasel family.
They have large front claws that make them a very capable burrower. They are 71 to 76 centimeters (28 to 32 inches) long with a short tail. They weigh 10 to 20 kilograms (11 to 22 pounds).
Badgers are well protected from most predators due to their thick hide and generally unpleasant disposition. Some people kill them for fur, but habitat loss and vehicular accidents are greater causes of mortality.
Badgers are animals of the prairie. Their oval burrows are familiar features of prairies, mountain parks or western valleys.
They eat mostly other burrowing rodents such as ground squirrels and pocket gophers. They dig them up during the evening or early morning. They also eat nestling birds and rabbits as well as insects. When the ground is frozen and they cannot get to other burrowing rodents they turn to mice for food. They sleep a lot in their burrows during exceptionally cold times in the winter.


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While Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to see economic growth of 5 percent in 2013, and 6 percent in 2014, South Africa's growth expectations are far less robust at 2 percent and 2.95 percent respectively. Why is the continent's largest economy lagging behind its neighbours?
Given the fact that emerging markets have been whacking advanced markets out the park as far as growth is concerned, it should not be that perplexing that South Africa, the most developed market in Africa, finds itself lagging behind the continent's emerging market out-performers. As deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank François Groepe noted in a recent speech, while Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow at 5 percent in 2013, rising to 6 percent in 2014, South Africa's growth expectations are far less robust with the IMF predicting growth of 2 percent and 2.95 percent respectively.
He notes: "... The less robust growth in South Africa is partly a function of it being much more integrated into the world economy, through trade and financial linkages, thereby making it more vulnerable to developments abroad, both in advanced economies and emerging markets."
However, Groepe points out that South Africa also faces some serious domestic challenges that are constraining growth, such as: "[...] rigidities in product and labor markets, high real wage growth, infrastructure bottlenecks particularly [in] power and transportation and high levels of unemployment".
One may call this the legacy of Apartheid, or put it down to the African National Congress (ANC), which has held office since it came to power in 1994, being unable, unwilling or unfit to effect the requisite changes. But this is beside the point; as Groepe says, these are "very crucial issues which need to be addressed," and they have needed to be addressed for the whole two decades that the ANC has held an overwhelming majority in the country.
Part of the problem is that South Africa's domestic market is too small to support anything like a 6 percent rate of growth, so it needs to have a robust export capability to get anywhere near that sort of level. But its productivity is weak and non-competitive by German or U.S. standards, and the power of its unions shackles its industrial base through a combination of repetitive strikes and demands for higher wages, which pushes the country back into being a commodity driven economy.
Interestingly, a recent paper by Lawrence Edwards, a Research Associate at the School of Economics at Cape Town University, South Africa, finds that South Africa's lower value and mid value exports to Sub-Saharan Africa are being crushed by China's new found exporting muscle to the region. So, exporting to Africa is not getting any easier despite the high growth rates and associated higher demand coming from a number of countries in the region.
Related: South Africa Unemployment Rate Climbs To 25.2 Percent
Related: Fiscal Governance: Can Africa Avoid The Mistakes Of The West?
Related: Is Africa Sowing Seeds Of Its Own Subprime Crisis?: Joseph Stiglitz & Hamid Rashid
Groepe remains worried that, when the US does finally start to taper quantitative easing (QE), the impact on South Africa's economy (along with a number of other emerging market economies) is likely to be severe:
Thus far in the crisis, South Africa has been able to maintain its flexible exchange rate regime without imposing any capital flow measures or needing to intervene to prop up the rand. Groepe added that, if South Africa has to introduce more robust measures, it will – but always with an eye to the potential consequences.
Ideally Groepe wants the US Federal Reserve to take emerging market problems into account when it does taper. However, this runs up against the fact that the Fed has no mandate to look after emerging markets and is in the habit of referring anxious emerging market central bankers to the IMF if they have issues. The Fed looks after the US, period. It may implement swap lines to help stabilize things, as it did in the last crisis, but it wants emerging market governments to act prudently and to reduce their exposure to headwinds by reducing their fiscal deficits and the degree of debt held by their sector corporations.
This is where South Africa runs into trouble. It has so many large scale social and infrastructure programs that it needs to fund, that it consistently runs a fiscal deficit worth double what the EU regards as prudent for its member states. Groepe argues that, as the persistent deficit is funding infrastructure programs, this means that it will ultimately be growth positive. Even if he is right, to get to that point, South Africa has to be able to withstand the coming shocks associated with the twin whammies of tapering (when it comes), and a very real loss of competitiveness in its labor market.
The future is looking troubling for Africa's most developed economy.
By Anthony Harrington
Anthony Harrington is an award-winning business and energy journalist, writing regularly for the Scotsman newspaper, the Glasgow Herald newspaper, Financial Director magazine, Pensions Insight magazine, CA Magazine, and a number of other publications. He won Business Finance Journalist of the Year 2006, Institute of Financial Accountants, and Journalist of the Year, State Street 2006 Institutional Press Awards, and was runner up in 2007 and 2008.
Why South Africa is struggling to match Sub-Saharan Africa's growth is republished with permission from the QFinance Blog.
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TUSCALOOSA | A 32-year-old man faces murder and assault charges in connection with a Friday night car accident that left one man dead and five injured on Jack Warner Parkway.
TUSCALOOSA | A 32-year-old man faces murder and assault charges in connection with a Friday night car accident that left one man dead and five injured on Jack Warner Parkway.
Stephen "Rusty" Allen was charged with murder, first-degree assault and four counts of third-degree assault. Allen's bond was set at $110,000, according to a news release from the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office.
Witnesses told investigators that they saw Allen's vehicle, described as a Ford F-350 truck, being driven erratically, in the wrong lane and going exceptionally fast.
Allen's vehicle struck a Dodge Ram truck, traveling eastbound on Jack Warner Parkway near Helen Keller Boulevard, from behind, according to the witnesses.
A passenger in the Dodge Ram, 48-year-old Anthony Naylor, was ejected from the truck and later died at DCH Regional Medical Center.
The Dodge Ram's driver, a 48-year-old man, suffered spinal injuries.
A 46-year-old woman was later airlifted to UAB Hospital with a possible broken pelvis. A 16-year-old girl had minor injuries and a 37-year-old woman had a minor head injury. A 16-month-old boy with minor injuries was later airlifted to Children's Hospital in Birmingham. All were occupants in the Dodge Ram.
According to the Sheriff's Office, the Dodge Ram driver and his family are from Jonesboro, Ark., and were visiting Naylor for the University of Alabama-Western Carolina football game on Saturday.
Allen was taken to DCH, where he was treated and released. A search warrant was obtained for a blood sample from Allen to determine if he was under the influence of any substances.


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Santa Ana council seats new members
Claudia Alvarez, who had served for 12 years, and Carlos Bustamante, who had served eight, say farewell.
By RON GONZALES / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
SANTA ANA – Two new members joined the Santa Ana City Council on Tuesday, and by acclamation the body named Sal Tinajero mayor pro tem.
Taking the oath of office as newcomers were Angelica Amezcua, representing Ward 3, and Roman A. Reyna, representing Ward 5.
Sworn in for new terms were Vincent F. Sarmiento, beginning his second full term representing Ward 1, and Mayor Miguel Pulido, beginning his 10th term in that position.
Saying farewell to City Hall were Claudia Alvarez, who had served 12 years on the City Council, and Carlos Bustamante, who had served eight. Both received commemorative tiles from the mayor.
The ceremony was a celebration for family and friends.
The mayor's daughter, Isabel, held the Bible as he was sworn in.
Sarmiento was surrounded by family, as his sister Vicki administered the oath.
Amezcua was sworn in by her husband, Robert Oliver, as her two sons held a Bible.
Reyna's sister, Denise Reyna Garcia, administered the oath to him, while niece Brittany Fraser, 13, held the Bible.
Alvarez noted her immigrant roots, and spoke with pride about being the first Latina on the City Council and the first Latina mayor pro tem, and pointed to accomplishments that included support for a planned 37-story office tower in Santa Ana and her work against a controversial downtown property improvement district.
Bustamante thanked constituents, staff and his council colleagues.
"I knew a lot of things when I was elected, but I know a lot more now," he said. Bustamante, accused of a series of sex-related crimes, didn't seek re-election.
In thanking the council for its support, Tinajero said he intended to nominate one of his colleagues for mayor pro tem after two years. Alvarez had held the position since 2007.
The evening had its moments of laughter, as well as emotion. Reyna and Amezcua stumbled slightly as they repeated their oaths. Amezcua took the wrong seat when she first sat at the dais, while Reyna teared up while taking the oath and as he addressed the audience.
"Even though my name is on the title," said Reyna, who spoke of the immigrant experience of his family, "it's not my city. It took a community to raise me. … This is the time when we need to continue to grow together and raise the rest of our family."
Amezcua thanked her family and co-workers for their support, and also council members for offering their help.
"I know we'll make a great team, and I look forward to working with all of you," she said.
Pulido thanked his family, and also Councilman David Benavides, who offered his congratulations to the mayor on his re-election. Benavides had also nominated Tinajero for the pro tem slot.
"I'm very much wanting to put the election behind us," said Pulido, who had faced a challenge in the November election from Benavides. Now the mayor will be working with a team of rivals that includes not just Benavides, but Michele Martinez, who challenged him in 2008, and Tinajero, who considered a run for the mayor's seat this year.
"I want us to work as a team," Pulido said. "I want us to be one city, one downtown and move forward."
At the suggestion of Martinez, Pulido adjourned the meeting in memory of Mexican American singing star Jenni Rivera, who was killed in a Mexico plane crash Sunday.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. -- The Conference Carolinas All-Conference Teams were determined by vote from each Head Coach of participating league institutions. Nominations were collected and then voted upon by ballot and tallied to determine Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, Coach of the Year, All-Conference First Team, All-Conference Second Team and All-Conference Third Team.
Awards were presented at the league tennis team banquet at the Conference Tournament Championships co-hosted by Erskine College and the Palmetto Park Tennis Complex in Sumter, SC. This year's award winners are as follows:
Player of the Year:
Cesar Grobel, Barton
Freshman of the Year:
Joshua Bloch, Queens
Coach of the Year:
Keith Turner, Limestone
Regular Season Champions:
Lees-McRae College
All-Conference First Team:
Cesar Grobel, Barton
Nandor Solymosi, Lees-McRae
Stephane Murray, Anderson
Miguel Lopez Zuniga, Limestone
Christiaan Lee-Daigle, Queens
Philip Lawson, Pfeiffer
All-Conference Second Team:
Renato Assuncao, Anderson
Nemanja Brcan, Erskine
Shaun Sumner, Lees-McRae
Johan de Wit, Pfeiffer
Roman Mendoza, Barton
Joshua Bloch, Queens
All-Conference Third Team:
Paulo Avila, Limestone
Caleb Barnes, Erskine
Jaua Vallejo-Gonzalez, Coker
Travis Vanhoy, Lees-McRae
Angelo Ciarrocchi, Erskine


text: This biography presents Otto Hahn, the German chemist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. It begins with his early life, including his work during World War I on chemical warfare. His work with Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann that led to the discovery of fission is presented in some detail. The author indicates that Hahn contributed little to the German scientific efforts during World War II that would have been useful in constructing an atomic bomb. However, the author feels that at one time Hahn felt partly responsible for the detonation of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki because he had discovered fission. Hahn soon came to the conclusion that he had done the right thing and that it was the politicians who had made the mistake of using the weapon. After World War II Hahn spent his life speaking out against nuclear weapons. The book was originally written in German; the translator, J. Michael Cole, provides notes about discrepancies between the text and information that became available after the book was first published.


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It is a shame stupidity isn't painful.
Totally true. Historians believe that most past civilizations would have endured for centuries longer if they had successfully determined Batman's alignment.
Why are so many posts on the board the equivalent of " Dear Dr. Crotch, I keep punching myself in the crotch, and my groin hurts... what should I do? How can I make my groin stop hurting?"
I suggest carving "Don't be a dick" into him with a knife. A dull, rusty knife. A dull, rusty, bent, flaming knife.
Fluffy: It's over Steve! I've got the high ground!Steve: You underestimate my power! Fluffy: Don't try it, Steve!Steve: *charges*Fluffy: *three critical strikes* Steve: ****
I don't even stat out commoners. Commoner = corpse that just isn't a zombie. Yet.
When I think "Old Testament Boots of Peace" I think of a paladin curb-stomping an orc and screaming "Your death brings peace to this land!"
Buy a small country. Or Pelor. Both are good investments.
The list got weird there, guys. Robby and I both saved Suel.
Quote from: InnaBinder on December 23, 2010, 02:47:08 PMThe list got weird there, guys. Robby and I both saved Suel.For some reason it likes to take me to the last page I posted on and not the newest page. ><Robby, save something else. Your choices are guys that make magic gear, an arcane caster that can freely wear heavy magic gear, a guy who is overly possessive of a single piece of magic gear and a guy who breaks magic gear.
Who cares for realism when you can be awesome?
the most effective optimization is the one you can actually get away with.
(A group of nerds are called a murder because like crows we are anti-social, like shiny things, and often squack at each other over nothing for hours)
I often have to remind people not to underrate divination. The ability to effectively metagame without actually metagaming beats the ability to set things on fire more times than not.


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Portia G, Ohio
- 10/1/2011
About Me
In 2007, we celebrated the bittersweet milestone of sending my daughter to college. Walt Disney World was the ideal destination, because the resort and parks are a perfect mixture of being a child and becoming a grown up all at once. The vacation was magical! I will never forget the tears rolling down my 18 year old daughter's face as we watched the fireworks light up the sky at The Magic Kingdom. She admitted that she was crying because the trip had accelerated her transition to adulthood, but she would always remember to keep the child inside her heart alive.
About My Family
This past July, I helped my sister-in-law plan her short Walt Disney World vacation. Her trip was a little impromptu because she was there for a basketball tournament and ended up with extra time at WDW. With such short notice, I suggested she make dining reservations quickly and I was able to give her the phone number right out of my cell phone. I discussed with her the advantages of the "Park Hopper" package rather than separate tickets, knowing that she didn't have very much time. Finally, I told her to enjoy herself, relax and let Mickey do the rest!
About My Disney Experience
For most of my life, I thought that Walt Disney World was where other people went to for vacation. Making magical memories was for the rich and famous, not for the middle class and average. A Disney World Vacation was the impossible dream. I didn't have any family or friends who vacationed at Disney World for the exactly same reasons. Then I began to research, and found that the Magic of Disney was attainable for my family. Once my very large family got their first dose of Disney there was no turning back. The obsession has been present with us every since! My Disney experience from that point on has been a whirlwind! Among my family and friends I have become the Disney expert. As the guru for the"House of Mouse", I am constantly answering questions about resorts, park tickets,transportation etc. and giving out the Disney phone numbers by memory,of course. My life is now rich with all things Disney-and I even made it to the Moms Panel!


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1998 – Sega releases their next generation console – the Dreamcast – in Japan. It didn't get released in the US until Sept 9 1999, but it was one of the more successful console launches of it's time.The Dreamcast had a 200 MHz processor with on-die 128-bit vector graphics engine. The graphics hardware is a PowerVR2 CLX2 chipset, sound was a Yamaha AICA Sound Processor and 16 MB 100 MHz RAM. The Dreamcast was discontinued on Jan 31, 2001 as Sega announced they were getting out of the console market. This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for November 27 Google Maps Terrain View E-Stamp stops...
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Sports highlights
MLA loses to Becker-Big Lake
The Moose Lake Area (MLA) Rebels boys hockey team lost by a score of 9-1 on Saturday, Decembe 15 to Becker Big-Lake. The Rebels were outshot 68-8 in the loss.
On a high-note, Gage Mohelsky made 76 stops on 88 shots for a possible Minnesota State High School League record.
MLA loses 6-1 to
Legacy Christian Academy
The MLA boys scored one goal in a 6-1 loss to Legacy Christian Academy on Thursday, December 27. Gage Mohelsky took the loss in goal as he stopped 70 of 76 shots for the winless Rebels.
The Rebels were outshout 77-70 in the game. Jesse Granfors' unassisted goal that came at 15:00 of the second period was the lone MLA goal for the game.
Rebels tame Tigers
The Moose Lake-Willow River girls basketball team tamed the Rush City Tigers with a big 47-29 win on Thursday, December 20. The Rebels led 24-11 at break and put three girls in double digits. Shaelyn Halverson, with three three-pointers, led all scorers with 15 points. Taylor Miller and Hayley Johnson each scored 10 points.
Adri Jusczak scored seven points. Tayler Dixon and Kayla Radel each scored two points and Dana Olson added a free throw.
Rebels win semi-final
game at tourney
The Moose-Lake-Willow River Rebels won their semi-final round game at a hoilday tournament by a score of 47-43 over the Chisholm Bluejackets December 28.
No details of the scoring was presented.
Moose-Willow River takes home runner-up honors
The Moose Lake-Willow River girls basketball team took home the second-place honors from the Hibbing Holiday Tournament on Saturday, December 29.
The Rebels ran up against a very tough Hibbing squad and lost 75-33 as Hibbing shot to a 48-33 first-half lead.
Jodi Michalski and Taylor Miller each scored seven points for ML-WR. Shaelyn Halverson, with one three-pointer, scored five points. Holly Mattison had four points as did Hayley Johnson. Dana Olson, Adri Jusczak, Morgan Proctor and Ava Szczyrbak each added two points.
Moose Lake-Willow River loses first of season
The Moose Lake-Willow River boys basketball team lost its first game of the season as they fell 67-58 to Warroad on Thursday, December 27. The game played as part of the Crosby-Ironton Ranger Invitation had no scoring posted.
Rebels on Princeton skate to tie
The MLA Rebels and Princeton skated to a 1-1 tie on Thursday, Dec. 20. Kaitlyn Greene stopped 33 of 34 shots as the Rebels were outshot 34-25.
There was no scoring in the first period.
Princeton scored an assisted goal on the power play at 3:55 of the first period. Andrea Youngberg, assisted by Karina Cisar, scored at 1:01 to deadlock the game.
With the win, the Rebels moved to 7-4-1.
Moose Lake Area girls
topple Superior
The Moose Lake Area girls toppled the Superior girls by a score of 4-1 on Saturday, Dec. 22. The shots on goal were nearly dead on, but Greene stepped up with 30 saves and just missed a shutout.
Greene was among the area's goaltending leaders, sporting a .929 saves percent and a 2.09 goals against average. Jessica Bird is also among the area leaders with 14 points.
Superior got on the board first with an assisted goal at 12:03. The Rebels roared back with a goal by Andrea Youngberg, assisted by Hayley Radel and Karina Cisar for a 1-1 tie at 13:50.
There was no scoring in the second stanza.
Cisar, assisted by Radel, made it 2-1 on the power play at 7:39. Cheyanne Wilson, assisted by Youngberg, made it 3-1 at 8:13. Erin Mollberg, who has 12 points on the season, capped it off on the power play with assists by Sage Gerard and Jessica Paul at 4-1.
Rebels blank Brooking, S.D.,
in White Division
of Schwann's Cup
The MLA girls blanked a team from South Dakota to win the first round of the Schwann's Cup at Blaine on Saturday, Dec. 29. The Rebels outshot Brookings 45-15 as Greene pitched a shutout a goal.
Andrea Youngberg scored first, assisted by Karina Cisar. Jessica Bird's unassisted came at 12:57 and made it 2-0.
There was no scoring in the second period.
Hailee Opdahl broke the ice in the third frame, assisted by Cisar and Youngberg for 3-0 at 4:09. Hannah Dougherty, assisted by Jessica Bird and Georgia Ryan, made it 4-0 on the power play at 5:22. The Rebels scored another power play to cap it off. That effort was by Mollberg assisted by Ryan for the final 5-0.
Rebels win semifinal in White Division second shut out
Greene rested after her shutout and the Rebels started Cassie White. White had a great game coming out as the back-up goalie. White had a shutout as the Rebels won the semifinal of White Division by blanking Long Prairie Area 6-0. Jessica Bird had a three-point night with two goals and an assist.
Georgia Ryan and Mollberg clicked at 8:47. It was Cheyanne Wilson, unassisted, at 9:44. It was Sage Gerard and Opdahl and MacKenzie Louzek at 14:51 for 3-0.
Jessica Bird, Ryan and Mollberg scored for 4-0 at 7:03. Mollberg, Jamie Bird and Jessica Bird made it 5-0 at 15:00.
Jessica Bird got her second goal, assisted by Mollbeg and Dougherty, for 6-0 at 10-38.
The raging Rebels are way ahead of last's season total wins and seem to be on the roll.
In the championship game, the Rebels fell to the North Metro Novas in a shootout. The Rebels held a 3-2 lead into the third but the Novas scored with just 10 seconds on the click. After an eight-minute overtime period, a shootout was held which the Novas won 2-1. The game was held at Ridder Arena, home of the University of Minnesota women's hockey team.
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Faster than you can say, Jen, Becky, Nikki and Tricia Dumoulin, Grayslake North sophomore Emily Dugan was jacking up 3-pointers during a frenzied fourth quarter in a Fox Valley Fox Division basketball game.
Hampshire coach Ed Haugens didnt have a problem with it.
A loss is a loss, Haugens said with a shrug after Dugan came off the bench to score a career-high 21 points on seven 3s in Grayslake Norths 68-52 win over the visiting Whip-Purs on Wednesday night.
Dugan hit her fourth 3-pointer of the fourth quarter in the final half-minute, with the Knights up 13 points.
Give them credit, Haugens said. Its not only her, but a whole bunch of them can hit 3s. They did a nice job. I thought we played great in spurts. I thought we did some good things.
Grayslake North (23-2, 10-0) did a lot of good things to help offset the 18 points Hampshire (9-14, 4-6) received from Jen Dumoulin and the 15 provided by Emma Benoit. Cousin Becky Dumoulin along with Jens sisters Nikki and Tricia combined for 9 points. Sara Finn added 8 points coming off the bench.
Specially, Grayslake North shot the 3-ball well, going 12 of 20 from beyond the arc.
Knights coach Nate Flannery didnt mind seeing Dugan shoot and score and score and score and score in the fourth.
After all, Flannerys other Emily Stinner also hit a pair of 3s in the final quarter. She and Dugan helped the Knights blow open a game that saw them up only 43-36 in the closing seconds of the third. Thats when usual-bomber Kendall Detweiler (9 points) sank a 16-footer and then swiped the inbounds pass and scooped in a layup to beat the buzzer.
On the night, Grayslake North also got 3-pointers from Detweiler, Brittney Thibeaux and Jordyn Bowen.
I loved it, Flannery said. Weve been so much of an inside team, and shooting from the perimeter has kind of been an issue. With (Dugan) and Kendall (hitting shots from the perimeter), it prevents people from packing it in inside against Brittney and Jo (Guhl) down low.
Thibeaux finished with 17 points, 12 rebounds, 3 blocked shots and 2 steals. She was the main reason why the Knights played from in front essentially the whole night. Fellow 6-footer Guhl tallied 10 points.
The thing thats good about their team is theyve got a perfect mixture, Haugens said. If you want to take away their inside game, they got the outside game. Its like, pick your poison.
We had our transition offense going a little bit, Flannery said. (Hampshire) plays well defensively. We had to make a lot of perimeter shots to put up points.
On Tuesday night, Grayslake North had broken the school record it set last season for wins in a season. The Knights next goal is to wrap up the FVC Fox title. They host Crystal Lake Central on Saturday afternoon, before visiting Grayslake Central on Tuesday night.
The girls deserve all the credit in the world, Flannery said of the school-record win total. Im happy for them, but at the same time, we have more goals. It was a nice moment (Tuesday night), but weve moved on, and now were trying to finish out the conference season well.


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I have decided to try to participate in Shauna Hicks's 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2014, although I do lack a little confidence in my ability to do full justice to each topic, as I seem to be rather time-poor lately. I have a bit of catching up to do also, as I am coming in at Week 10. Better late than never.Shauna launched this blog challenge to "stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 by focussing on a different kind of genealogical record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival background as well as my own genealogy interests and there are probably lots of other records that I could have included. The challenge has an Australian focus but most of these records will be found just about anywhere in the genealogy world." What a great idea!
Week 10 focuses on Occupation Records. Within my own famiy history many ancestors were tied to the land (Ag Labs abound), although some professions do seem to appear quite regularly in some lines. 6 generations of Millers appear in my father's mother's family, 4 generations of plasterers run in my mother's paternal line. Census records give me the professions of a few generations, with Ancestry (I use the Library Edition) as my main source of records. Several old directories have been very handy too, including the Historical Directories of England and Wales. Sometimes marriage or death certificates have given me information, and Trove has been another useful source.
Once you find the occupation it can be another challenge to work out exactly what the occupation involved. Sites such as Old Occupation Names or Old Occupations in Scotland can be a great source of information (and amusement), especially for my favourite example, the ancestor who listed Hooker as her occupation on her marriage certificate in 1874. For those who think this may be just too much information at such a time - here is the listing from Old Occupation Names :
1) 16c. Reaper 2) 19c. Textile mill worker operating machinery which laid out fabric in uniform folds to required length. Yes, she worked in a textile mill.


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I'm not say a majority, but I'm aware of the stresses of dealing with debt that can mount under minimum means when I lost my job in engineering in the mid-90s. One thing I did was just throw the regular letters into a drawer and ignored them. It is a mental fear of a situation that is not really the consumer's fault; in such a circumstance. It's great to take a loan when things are going well, but when they are not, there doesn't seem to be a way out when the finances are not there; and the lender is pretty much unsympathetic under such circumstances.
I agree the free market is pretty much a misnomer, but how much regulation do we want? Besides which, these companies and institutions will always find a way to circumnavigate the regulation, or find new ways to exploit the market; hence the reason why we have these pay-day lenders.