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So recently I've had a problem in vapeland. I had everything so I thought, four batteries, two chargers, a bunch of clearmoizers and plenty of liquid as well as the fixings to make more. I noticed something disturbing happening. My batteries were not lasting as long as they should. I'm not talking about thirty minutes or an hour less, I'm talking about 20% or less of their former capacity. Something was amiss. At first, I assumed it was the charger. Such things are made in China and made to be cheap so it's more or less expected they will fail at some point. A simple failure of it's voltage reference would cause it to say it's done charging when it isn't. Which was exactly what I thought was happening.
Not so in this case. The purchase of a new charger did nothing to revitalize these poor batteries which were in fact just dying as all LiON batteries with too many charging cycles wearing out the battery. So the damage is two of my batteries out of four with another one being about half working. This is kind of scary since I depend on these things.
Having to spend an entire day out of doors an away from my home made AC box mod was rather frightening, I didn't want to run out of juice. I knew of a brick and mortar on Yonge St. named 180° Smoke so I went there looking to replace with the same old de-branded 1300mAh spinner type battery that has served me so well.
Evaluating my options, it seemed to me that the usual spinner type batteries weren't so competitive and awesome any more. Sure they can be bought for cheap online, but they aren't great, and actually kind of a pain in the butt in many ways. They have no display or feedback for the charge state of the battery, they are variable voltage so need frequent tweaks to get a good vape with differing atomizer resistances and battery charge levels as well as the saturation of the clearo itself. Moreover, they have no readout at all aside from the flashy button LED which tells you very little if anything. So I saw the Kanger IPOW2 and thought "ooh that's shiny".
The IPOW2
For $30-40 here's what you get – a variable power (wattage) integrated battery with a nice display and smooth interface. What more could you ask for? The design is nice and sleek and all flush mount, the display is a nice bright (and informative!) OLED display which shows the battery charge, output power, and atomizer resistance all at once. It is a bit longer and thicker than the spinners which is no big deal really. It's not oversized. It comes in 1000mAh, 1300mAh and 1600mAh models to suit everyone's size vs. battery capacity taste. The thread at the top is 510 but helpfully comes with an eGo adaptor in the box. Here's one of my favourite things about it – it charges by a micro USB cable (also included). No more stupid screw in chargers!
Theory of Function
Before, variable power (as opposed to voltage) was only available to the owners of APVs (advanced personal vaporizing devices) for quite a bit more than your standard eGo twist clone. What this means in brief is that you get a consistent output from your device no matter what the atomizer resistance or battery charge level. From first vape to last it will be consistent. With the twist/spinners, one would have to keep adjusting the knob on the bottom to continually tweak to get the desired vape out of the thing which is fiddly and annoying honestly. With this, you can set it and forget it and just enjoy your vape.
The reason variable power (wattage) is so important and why it works is quite simple and just a bit of basic electronics. The atomizer coil is just a resistor by another name. Resistors are just heaters by another name :). If you apply a voltage across a resistor, it will pull current through it and dissipate heat according to it's resistance value. Basic Ohm's law: voltage = current x resistance. So if your coil is 2.2Ω and your battery is set to 3.7V it will draw 1.68A of current (re-arrange the formula: current = voltage/resistance, 3.7/2.2=1.68). Easy. So you'd think you just set it at 3.7 and always get 1.68A through your coil to get a consistent vape, no problem. Catch for young players: what if the voltage changes, or the resistance?
Fact is, the little knob on the bottom of your twist will say it's set to 3.7V, but remember it's not made to be a laboratory grade voltage regulator, so it could be off by who knows how much. Not only that, but it could drift off depending on the load you put on it or any number of other factors. It can also drift and even fall off as your battery drains. All voltage regulators have what's called a "dropout" voltage, meaning it needs a bit of overhead to regulate the voltage to the desired level consistently. If your battery voltage is lower than your dropout voltage plus your setting, you will not get your desired voltage. Likewise, over their lifespan, atomizer coils can increase their resistance causing the battery to work harder for the same output. This, I believe, is through heat expansion of the coil and it being gunked up with e-juice. Eventually, the coil just becomes unusable for a variety of reasons, but one thing variable voltage battery owners find is they have to increase the voltage to get the same vape as the atomizer ages. The point is, it's the power output that is important. Regulating that is key to a consistent vaping experience.
So what is the variable wattage about and how does it solve these issues? Well, let's look at what wattage actually is. A Watt is a derived unit of power. It could mean electrical energy, or thermal energy, but always 1W = 1 joule per second. It is a direct measurement of the amount of energy over time that something is outputting. This is why amplifiers, heaters, microwaves, everything uses it as their rating by which you buy them. According to the formulae, 1W = (current)^2 x Resistance, or it is current x voltage. By making power what we want to regulate, we let voltage fly free and allow it to be adjusted as need be to maintain a steady output.
This is essentially what I (and probably you) were doing by fiddling with that bottom knob on the spinners. We knew, by feeling, where our perfect vape was, and would adjust this knob up or down as needed. We were varying the voltage to match the changing resistance of our coil or the battery charge level to get the same power output. The variable wattage takes care of this for us. It's voltage regulator will sense changes in output resistance and compensate for the battery charge level and focus on keeping that steady power output regardless of these two factors. If the atomizer resistance increases, the device ups it's voltage to compensate.
The Review
Finally, after my tedious intro rand and technobabble, I'll finally talk about the device itself.
I've been using it about 30 hours and I have to say I'm suitably impressed. It is certainly more fun to use than the boring old spinners and yes I'm quite dazzled by all sorts of electronic technology so having this as my PV appeals to me. It's thickness is greater, as I mentioned, but I actually find this more comfortable to hold in my hand than the thinner spinners. The controls and display are all nicely flush mounted which to me not only looks good but is less to break when I drop it or knock it against something. Conversely, since the button is flush I have had occasional trouble finding it when not looking at the device which is slightly annoying. Nevertheless, the fire button has a nice tactile click and is not hard to actuate. I imagine it no more or less durable than the microswitches found in other batteries so I would still suggest against mashing it. Oddly, this button is in the shape of a shield, which brings to mind anti-virus software logos. I do not know why Kanger chose this but I don't mind it either. A clear plastic light pipe surrounds the button to indicate when it is being operated and flashes like you would expect it to when turning it on and off, when it reaches it's max firing time, and when the battery has run flat. I do note shadows in the oddly shaped lightpipe so it's not quite as attractive as it could be be being nice and bright and lit up. Unlike some batteries, the LED powers off instantly. Guess they didn't want to put a cap there to make it fade. Which is neither here nor there.
The OLED display is nice and bright and blue and perfectly flush mounted on the metal tube. One thing I absolutely love is that it shows you all information at once. In one glance you get your power setting, your atomizer resistance, and battery charge level. I've looked about and I cannot find a device for a comparable price that does that. Even some higher end APVs only show one of the three at a time and one has to hunt through menus in an awkward operating system to see everything one wants to know. Who wants that? It brings up another point – the user interface. It is dead simple.
All that is involved in using the thing is pressing a button. If one wants to adjust the power level, simply adjust the knob on the bottom. That's it. Usual 5 click on-off. That's it. No menus, no bullshit, just hassle free vaping.
The knob on the bottom is great too. On the twisters, I was pretty sure I was turning a linear potentiometer and could feel the wipers scraping inside. Those would definitely wear out or get gunky over time and I also had the feeling that really they needed a log instead of linear pot since the control didn't feel linear at all. The knob on the IPOW2 is great, it just turns endlessly in either direction while the display updates your settings in 0.5W increments. So it's an endless rotary encoder instead of a pot, grand.
This, the display and the fact it is variable wattage tells me clearly that somewhere in there is a little microcontroller. Your vaping kept consistent by digital micro processor control, what could be better?
Another big plus of this device is it's integrated charging circuit. I was already frustrated with failing eGo chargers and hated having to buy a specific charger with a specific thread only to have them die on me. The IPOW2 uses micro USB. Done. The little display even shows charging progress.
So here's the summary:
- Consistent power output
- Sleek design, comfortable to use in the hand, smooth flush mount controls and display
- Bright OLED display with all information at once
- Simple operation, button and encoder, no menus to fiddle with
- Integrated Micro-USB charger
- Temperature protected, double protected battery, multiple vent holes for heat and battery failure
- 3-15W regulated output
- Cheaper than APVs with the same feature set
- Flush button hard to find by touch
- Non-replacable integrated battery
- Display at bottom, counter-intuitive
- Battery display not proportional to how long it will last (they all are)
Overall, I'd declare it a winner. It's a lovely offering a step up from the basic eGo batteries and cheaper than the APVs. I was doing my research into an APV for myself since the batteries seem to die faster than anything else, and I thought it prudent to start using replaceable battery models. This, however, proved to be both a nice stop-gap and convenient solution. For the average vaper, it is a no fuss device that just works. I think I will buy one or two more to replace my spinners entirely.


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Lou Reed passed away this past weekend due to a liver-related illness. He was generally identified by his taciturn expression, deadpan vocals, and a reputation for maintaining his strict artistic integrity. A true rock visionary, he helmed one of the most influential bands of all time, the Velvet Underground, and in the process laid the foundation for every band you've enjoyed since. David Bowie was an early admirer, and he made no secret of the impression Reed made on his own sound.
It would be nearly impossible to accurately sum up all the great musical moments that are essential to Reed's legacy, but here are a few of the most memorable highlights from Reed's 45-year career.
10. The Velvet Underground & Nico
Known for the peelable banana sticker that graced its front cover -- courtesy of the band's mentor and part-time manager, Andy Warhol -- this self-titled debut created the template for the sparse, foreboding sound that the Velvets would purvey throughout their existence. It's an ominous intro, but in the prepunk world of the late '60s, it established a style that was neither attractive nor accessible but, instead, a reflection of life's ugly realities cast in musical mayhem.
9. "Heroin"
The most controversial track off that much-admired first album, "Heroin" captured in graphic detail the rush and wreckage that comes with a junkie's ultimate indulgence. A real-life tale of excess and agony, it's both revolting and intriguing, as shocking now as it was when first released. Clearly, one of rock's most transcendental offerings.
8. Metal Machine Music
Perhaps the most hated album in history, this double disc of noise and clatter was Reed's way of revolting against record company restrictions. Although it's almost entirely unlistenable, it represents a new freedom of expression that innumerable artists took as both a call to arms and an invitation to improvise and indulge their most brazen and bizarre inclinations. It also further affirmed Reed's reputation for refusing to compromise or to adjust his intents for the sake of easy accessibility.

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Toy race car details give conflicting clues
Q I bought this toy race car at an estate sale and was wondering if you had ANY information. Any help would be much appreciated.
— D.R., via email
A D.R. asked about a red toy race car he purchased at an estate sale. Unfortunately, he sent only one photo of the car sitting in front of a steam radiator. It appears to be quite large based on the photo and originated in the UK.
It is of the type of toy race car seen from the WWI era until the 1930s. The driver has the typical driving cap, goggles and duster but the age of the item cannot be determined from the single photo sent. Close inspection would be necessary to determine construction methods used throughout, condition of moving parts, make and model, etc. The tires (tyres in the UK) appear to be solid rubber, which would indicate manufacturing from the period; and, the steering may work. As shown this gives some hope of a true antique but the painted finish is dubious. Having seen only the singlephoto, a value cannot be given.
Vintage Vase Is Common Contemporary
Q I purchased this vase for $20 at a garage sale early in the summer. I know nothing about Chinese porcelain or the hallmarks. The vase is very light and the bottom is very thin. If anyone knows anything about this particular vase, please let me know.
— J.M., Jacksonville, Fla.
A J.M. paid $20 for this vase at a garagesale. It is a generic vase widely made and sold by many
companies in China over the past 50 years or more. The floral design is mechanically applied and consists primarily of prunus blossoms, which are popular in Asia. From the photo there is either damage in the manufacturing, revealed by uneven color, or fading from light. The box is well worn and the fabric closures are missing. The box itself has issues as shown. The mark on the bottom is partially missing but would only reveal a company mass producing the item.
Most of these are found in shops in tourist areas and sold primarily to tourists, who take them home. I am sure this is the story here. It appears to be from the 1980s or 1990s. The label basically tells the reader that inside is a Chinese vase. We do not know the measurements and the photo gives us no clues. The new owner probably came out even in the purchase although most buyers would have shied away after seeing the fading. China has produced porcelain for centuries, and until 1706 had a monopoly. That is when an alchemist in Dresden, Saxony, developed Bottchner's steinzeug, the first porcelain known that was not Chinese made.


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'And the Wind Falls's is a short film by He Shuming that was nominated for Best Cinematography in the recent Singapore Short Film Awards. But really, this film deserved awards in other categories as well, including script and performance. We catch up with He Shuming on the making of this short film.
Millie, a housekeeper in a small-town motel, spends thankless days cleaning up after others as she dreams of overcoming her past and regaining custody of her estranged daughter. When Millie discovers a large sum of money in one of the motel rooms, her apparent good fortune forces her to question the true meaning of redemption.
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Your film presented a very interesting study of social demographics in the US. What inspired the story?
I had a conversation with a friend about finding yourself in a situation where you're caught in a victimless crime and trying to get around it. What are the moral implications, what would one do, etc. Also, I had to start writing a script for my thesis but I was going nowhere. All I knew was I wanted to make a film fronted by a female protagonist.
One weekend, I drove to Joshua Tree, trying to write and had some time to myself. The housekeeper at the motel was the only person I chatted with, and we talked briefly about our lives, about what we do for a living and about our families. She's around my age, a first generation Mexican-American who grew up in in Los Angeles. I would say all these little details formed a basis in my head to make this film, and it sort of evolved from there.
There's a lot of talk of late, about having more diversity in film and television. Being a non-white filmmaker residing in the States, I tend to lean towards creating lead characters that present a more normal representation of who we see on screen.
Are housekeepers are a treasure trove of stories? How close to reality is your story in the film?
Oh yes, they certainly are. There're all sorts of people going in and out of motels, and housekeepers clean up after them. Housekeepers always seem invisible but they have such interesting observations. I find that the one person that no one really thinks about is often the center of the universe.
The story in the film is completely fictional, and developed over the course of a year before we started pre-production.
What was the casting process like? How did you find your actors?
We worked with our casting director, Jennifer Ricchiazzi for this film. When we met for the first time before hiring her, we talked about the script and the actors we were looking at; we had a dream list of actors that we think are suited for the roles, basically actors I imagined to be the characters when I wrote the script and Jennifer went out and short list actors for the auditions.
The casting process took about over slightly a month. We had callbacks for actors we liked and they did scenes together. Actors who came to read for the lead role of the housekeeper had to do chemistry reads with actors who were called back to play her daughter and mother-in-law. We went straight into rehearsal about 2 weeks before shooting. It was the shortest amount of time I had working with actors before shooting.
How did you work with your actors? Especially in your position as a foreigner directing a film rooted in localised issues.
Because of the short amount of time we had before the final cast were attached to the film, I workshopped in class with actors I had worked previously. I've learned so much from these actors, who were so giving and intelligent. The sessions were intense, but it helped with rewrites and allowed me to think of what I needed to talk about during actual rehearsals, which we didn't have a lot of.
We had our first table read after our main cast were locked and had a discussion about the story and the characters. Leana Chavez, who played Millie, was such a giving and dedicated actor. We spent plenty of time talking during our rehearsal sessions, sharing experiences that they've heard, what would you do if you were the character, etc. I've learned so much from all my actors on this film and I think it's important to look at the roots of what these characters are going through as human beings and realizing how universal the experiences can be.
Is this your first short film made in the US? How different is it making a film in the US as compared to Singapore?
This is my fourth short film made here. With And The Wind Falls, I felt like we had an army of people working together, like a well-oiled machine. There are definitely more rules designed to protect everyone working on a production. It's just the way the industry is set up over decades of filmmaking, especially in Los Angeles. The permits, union rules, labour laws, etc. It's very admirable, to be honest.
Also, this is the first time I budgeted reshoots for a film! We did pick up shots, added scenes and reshot an entire scene over the course of 2 days. It was such a luxury.
But other than that, I think the fascinating thing about filmmaking is wherever you shoot, cinema is our common language.
What were the greatest challenges you faced in making this film?
Before coming here, I was used to a certain kind of storytelling. Maybe it's the sensibilities in cinema that I was accustomed to. I was used to taking my time with a scene, not wanting to rush anything and being a little too passive with my characters. I think with this film I wanted to be less passive, and I don't know if I've succeeded completely.
Writing the script was a challenge, too. From the very first drafts, we had to decide if she was going to return the money or keep it for herself. Whatever she chose to do in the end poses all sorts of questions about why she did it in the first place, so it was really digging deep into the truth about her motivation and realizing there really isn't a right or wrong answer, but I still need to decide her course of action and justify it.
We had a test audience when we had our first director's cut, which helped us decide what made sense and what didn't. It helped because we were so involved through the course of development and production that sometimes we lose track of whether the film told the story we really wanted to tell. And sitting through the honest critiques from a theatre of test audience can be one of the most gut-wrenching experiences a filmmaker can have. But it helped because their notes confirmed what we needed to work on for the reshoot and in our edit.
All the hell we go through as filmmakers only helped to serve the film.


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Mercedes of Orléans
|Mercedes of Orléans
|Queen consort of Spain
|23 January 1878 – 26 June 1878
24 June 1860
Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
26 June 1878 18) (aged
Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
|Cathedral of la Almudena
|Alfonso XII of Spain
|House of Orléans
|Antoine d'Orléans, Duke of Montpensier
|Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain
|Roman Catholicism
Maria de las Mercedes of Orléans (24 June 1860 – 26 June 1878) was Queen of Spain as the first wife of King Alfonso XII. She was born in Madrid, the daughter of Antoine of Orléans, Duke of Montpensier and of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain.
Family and upbringing
She was born at the Palacio Real in Madrid, the sixth of her parents' nine children, none of whom died in infancy but only four of whom would live to the age of 20.[1] Her mother's elder sister, Queen Isabella II, and brother-in-law, King Francis, served as Mercedes' godparents at her christening, when she was given the names: María de las Mercedes Isabel Francisca de Asís Antonia Luisa Fernanda Felipa Amalia Cristina Francisca de Paula Ramona Rita Cayetana Manuela Juana Josefa Joaquina Ana Rafaela Filomena Teresa Santísima Trinidad Gaspara Melchora Baltasara et omni sancti.
Although Mercedes was patrilineally a French princess, she was also a Spanish infanta and spent the first eight years of her life in Spain. Her childhood was spent at the palace of San Telmo in Andalusia, her father's rumoured aspirations to obtain his sister-in-law's crown periodically rendering him unwelcome at the royal court in Madrid.
When Queen Isabella II was deposed in 1868, Mercedes' family left Spain for exile. It was reportedly during that banishment, in 1872, that she met her first cousin, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, also living in exile.
Upon restoration, King Alphonso married Maria de la Mercedes at the church of Atocha, in Madrid on 23 January 1878, following a huge ball in December 1877. Allegedly the king's choice dashed the hopes of his still-exiled mother, Queen Isabella, for Alfonso's marriage to the Blanca de Borbón, daughter of his Carlist rival, Carlos, Duke of Madrid.
However, shortly after their honeymoon, it became evident that the bride suffered from typhoid fever.[2][3][4][5][6] The marriage would last only six months, during which she had a miscarriage.[7] Queen Mercedes succumbed to the illness in Madrid two days after her 18th birthday, on 26 June 1878, having been unconscious for several days.
Queen Mercedes co-initiated the building of the Cathedral of la Almudena in Madrid, opposite the royal palace, construction beginning in 1883. In May 2004 Felipe, Prince of Asturias was wed there to Letizia Ortiz. Queen Mercedes' remains were re-interred there on 8 November 2000, in accordance with the wishes of her widower.
A town in the province of Isabela, located in the Philippines, was named Reina Mercedes in her honor during the Spanish colonial period.
When the king's minister Cánovas del Castillo suggested that he take a new wife, Alfonso acquiesced, choosing his Mercedes' sister, Maria Cristina. But she, too, contracted tuberculosis, and died during the engagement period. In late 1879 he married Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria-Teschen; the eldest of their children, the Princess of Asturias, was named in honour of Queen Mercedes.
Titles and styles
- 24 June 1860 - 23 January 1878 Her Royal Highness Infanta Doña Mercedes of Spain, Princess of Orléans
- 23 January 1878 - 26 June 1878 Her Majesty The Queen
- ↑ Willis, Daniel, The Descendants of Louis XIII, Clearfield Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1999, p. 194; ISBN 0-8063-4942-5.
- ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25962066
- ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3147553
- ↑ http://www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=maria-de-las-mercedes-reina-de-espanna
- ↑ http://elpais.com/diario/2000/11/09/madrid/973772672_850215.html
- ↑ http://arquehistoria.com/alfonso-xii-y-maria-de-las-mercedes-real-historia-de-amor-14263
- ↑ http://elpais.com/diario/2000/11/09/madrid/973772672_850215.html
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to María de las Mercedes de Orleans.
Mercedes of OrléansBorn: 24 June 1860 Died: 26 June 1878
|Spanish royalty
|Preceded by
Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna
|Queen consort of Spain
| Succeeded by
Maria Christina of Austria


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The push by a number of prominent Democrats to completely politicize the impeachment process could backfire for them in the midterms, David Axelrod, the political adviser who helped elect Barack Obama to the Presidency in 2008, said on Sunday.
His comments came in a tweet one day before the FBI raided the offices of President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen:
Dems should NOT commit to impeachment unless & until there's a demonstrable case for one.
It is not just a matter of politics. It's a matter of principle.
If we "normaiize" impeachment as a political tool, it will be another hammer blow to our democracy.https://t.co/vTcaDfknlC
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 8, 2018
On Tuesday, the day after that raid, Axelrod sent out a tweet with a more nuanced view of the "rush to impeachment."
I've spent the past 24 hours beating back the rush to impeachment. If @POTUS were to fire Mueller or Rosenstein, my view and the view of many others would change. https://t.co/vP43lVQEBX
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 10, 2018
Far left billionaire Tom Steyer, who has dedicated $30 million to electing a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives for the express purpose of impeaching President Trump, thinks virtually any action taken by the President is an impeachable offense:
Let's be clear: Trump has already committed 8 impeachable offenses. What are we waiting for? If you haven't signed on yet, now is the time. https://t.co/xLZe31ulzC https://t.co/KeNgoh4kWB
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) April 8, 2018
Renowned Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, however, told The Daily Mail on Tuesday that the FBI's raid on Cohen's office is unconstitutional:
A famed Harvard legal scholar is raising concerns about the Justice Department's ability to responsibly handle some documents seized Monday from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's offices.
Among the scooped-up papers, and lurking on phones and hard drives, is likely to be a cache of material that's covered by attorney-client privilege.
Prosecutors are not permitted access to those files, and the DOJ's standard practice is to set up a 'taint team' – a group of agents and lawyers not connected to the Cohen case or the special counsel probe into all things Russia – to decide what they can see.
But 'taint teams don't work,' Alan Dershowitz told DailyMail.com on Tuesday, because seizing the material in the first place was a violation of Cohen's constitutional rights – even if it's never used in court.
The politicized impeachment frenzy, which strays far from the legal standards for impeachment found in the Constitution, may also have a potentially negative impact on voter preferences, who are increasingly viewing the far left impeachment advocates with skepticism.
A number of far left Democrats are attempting to make the 2018 Congressional midterm elections into a "do-over" for the failed 2016 presidential campaign of their nominee, Hillary Clinton.
While that "win at all costs" approach plays well with the far left base, voters who have a greater sense of civic duty–liberals, moderates, conservatives, and independents–have a more measured view.
A number of Democrats have been pushing for President Trump's impeachment since the day he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017.
In October, the Democratic polling firm PPP reported their "newest national poll finds a record level of support for impeaching Donald Trump. 49% of voters support impeaching him, to 41% who are opposed to doing so. This marks the 6th month in a row we've found a plurality of voters in favor of impeaching Trump, and it's the closest we've found to a majority."
By February, PPP's most recent poll showed that impeachment fever had lessened somewhat, with only 45 percent of voters supporting it and 44 percent of voters opposing it.
"The rising suspicion that special counsel Robert Mueller may not be able to build enough of a Russia collusion and/or corruption case to bring down the president himself, only some of his associates, has Democrats terrified and appalled," Ted Rall wrote in a commentary at Rasmussen Reports last month, three weeks before the FBI raid of Cohen's offices.
"Seventy percent of Democrats say they want the House of Representatives to hold impeachment hearings," he noted.
"Everybody already knows that November is all about impeaching Trump. If the Democrats really want to win, the first promise in their national platform for the 2018 midterms ought to be a clear, unequivocal pledge to get rid of the president," Rall concluded.
Over the past several weeks, the Democrats Generic Congressional Ballot advantage has fallen slightly to 7.5 percent, according to the Real Clear Politics Average of Polls.
The controversial FBI raid of the offices of President Trump's personal attorney on Monday may fan the flames of the far left, but if voters agree with Professor Dershowitz that the action violated his constitutional rights, the Democrats Generic Congressional Ballot advantage may see a further dip, no matter how much far left Democrats cheer it on.


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Will This Price Target Increase Help Kellogg (K) Stock Today?
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Kellogg (K) - Get Free Report has had its price target increased to $64 from $63, Deutsche Bank said Monday. The firm reiterated a "buy" rating.
In the research note, Deutsche said the company continues to face "top-line growth challenges, which leaves the midterm outlook murky."
"Though LT growth in global cereal and snacks and 3% dividend yield are compelling, investments and 4-yr restructuring suggest a turnaround will take time," analysts wrote.
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"We rate KELLOGG CO (K) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Food Products industry. The net income increased by 2656.3% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from -$32.00 million to $818.00 million.
- The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Food Products industry and the overall market, KELLOGG CO's return on equity significantly exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- The gross profit margin for KELLOGG CO is rather high; currently it is at 61.53%. It has increased significantly from the same period last year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 23.36% significantly outperformed against the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to $418.00 million or 9.13% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, KELLOGG CO's cash flow growth rate is still lower than the industry average growth rate of 47.64%.
- KELLOGG CO reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. However, we anticipate underperformance relative to this pattern in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, KELLOGG CO increased its bottom line by earning $4.95 versus $2.68 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 19.6% in earnings ($3.98 versus $4.95).
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: K Ratings Report
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WhatsApp status feature made official, allows photos, videos and GIFsTuesday, February 28, 2017
New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- WhatsApp has revamped its status feature. Just like Snapchat, statuses will be active for only 24 hours. Your status will be visible only to those in your contact list. Users can update their status using photos, videos and GIFs. A statement released by WhatsApp says, "We are excited to announce that, coinciding with WhatsApp's 8th birthday on February 24, we are reinventing the status feature. Starting today, we are rolling out an update to status, which allows you to share images and videos with your friends and contacts on WhatsApp in an easy and secure way. Yes, even your status updates are end-to-end encrypted". Users will be able to add a personal touch to their status without worrying that others, who aren't in their contacts will be able to see it. The WhatsApp status will be split into three groups - My Status, Recent Updated and Viewed Updated. My status, as the name suggests, will show users their own status, the most recent one. Recent Updates will show the new Status that your friends have created. This will of course be limited to the past 24 hours. Viewed Updates will show the Status messages that you have viewed. In case you are not happy with a status update and decide to delete it before the 24 hour period, it will be deleted from the phones for all your contacts. Facebook owned WhatsApp has 1.2 billion monthly active users, posting over 50 billion messages a day. It's needless to say that the highlight of the app was chatting and sharing videos and pictures. But with apps like Instagram and Snapchat hogging the "status" sharing sphere, it looks like WhatsApp didn't want to be left out. Till now WhatsApp status were boring text-based messages like, "Available", "Busy", or "Hey there, I'm using WhatsApp". The creative few would put up their favourite quotes or something else that's limited to 139 characters. The WhatsApp blog post goes on to say, "Just like eight years ago when we first started WhatsApp, this new and improved status feature will let you keep your friends who use WhatsApp easily updated in a fun and simple way". The new Status feature will not be hidden like it currently is. The feature will find place between Chats and Calls. The status feature will be rolled out initially in Europe. It will release in the rest of the world soon after, including India. It will be available on Android, iOS and Windows Phone.


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2-minute drill - College football previews
When: 12:30 p.m.
Where: Kenan Stadium (63,000), Chapel Hill
Records: UNC 6-3, 3-2 ACC, Georgia Tech 4-5, 3-3 ACC
TV/Radio: WSFX, Channel 26; WMFD (630 AM), WTXY (1540 AM), XM 190, Sirius 123.
The Blitz: The Tar Heels look to break a three-game losing streak to the Yellow Jackets while maintaining a share of the Coastal Division lead. RB Giovani Bernard tops the ACC in both rushing yardage and punt return yardage. Teammate Eric Ebron has already set a school record for receiving yards by a TE to key a UNC offense that ranks third in the league at 39.4 ppg. Defensively, LB Kevin Reddick and a unit that allows only 111 yards per game will have its hands full against the triple-option offense. The Yellow Jackets rank fourth nationally in rushing at 318.2 yards per game. Defensively, however, Tech has allowed 41 or more points in four of its last six games, but Jeremiah Attaochu earned ACC LB of the Week honors with three sacks last week against Maryland.
Forecast: UNC 48, Georgia Tech 34
When: 3 p.m.
Where: Carter-Finley Stadium (57,583), Raleigh
Records: N.C. State 5-4, 2-3 ACC, Wake Forest 5-4, 3-4 ACC
TV/Radio: Fox Sports Net South; WSFM (98.3 FM), WTAB (1370 AM), WLNC (1300 AM), XM 191, Sirius 132.
The Blitz: The Wolfpack and Deacons meet for the 103rd time in the longest continuous series in the ACC. Wake has won five of the last seven, including a 34-27 victory in Winston-Salem last year. Today's winner will be bowl eligible. Despite being held to a season-low six points last week against Virginia, State QB Mike Glennon ranks second in the ACC in passing at 294.7 yards per game. WR Quintin Payton ranks eighth in the league at 72.4 yards per game. Wake QB Tanner Price is coming off a career-high 39-for-57 passing performance against Boston College. Sixteen of those completions, including three TDs, went to WR Michael Campanaro, tying an ACC record. Defensively, State is led by S Earl Wolff, who had 15 tackles against UVa. Wake CB Kevin Johnson was the league's DB of the Week with seven tackles and an interception.
Forecast: N.C. State 27, Wake Forest 20
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Directed by Scott Charles Stewart, PRIEST stars Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet and Maggie Q. PRIEST will be slaying vampires in US theaters on May 13th 2011. You can learn more about this movie at the official website: priest-movie.net/
"PRIEST, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, is set in an alternate world — one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on a quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece's boyfriend, a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess who possesses otherworldly fighting skills."
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With help of Dexter Dub from Nippes Home Recording, we finished our records Donald Dub and Cold Steam and they sound great!
Both reggae tracks are now ready to go out to you. We decided to prefer the digital, online release instead of first creating a touchable media. Perhaps we're going to release them in the future on cd/lp, but nothing clear so far.
We're also proud to announce that there will be some Dub remixes and drum and Bass versions from previously mentioned Dexter Dub, who also helped us to go out on all the usual platforms like Apple Music, Amazon Music, google music, Deezer and who knows what else. If everything goes right, we could expect the release at 1st march of 2017. But we'll deeper inform you exactly at this place.
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Douglas Goold is the director, National Conversation on Asia and senior editor at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Amitendu Palit is senior research fellow, Institute of Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
India's new business-friendly Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to impart new dynamism to his country's continuing trade negotiations. The focus will be on trade agreements with Southeast Asia, Europe and Canada. The previous government left office with India tantalizingly close to the finishing line. Now, the deal with Canada should be the easiest to conclude since it has been the least frictional and contentious. Canada's Trade Minister Ed Fast recently made it clear he would like to see an agreement soon.
India and Canada have been negotiating a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) since December, 2011. The negotiations were to end by 2013, and now the political imperative is to have it completed well before the next federal election scheduled for October 2015.
Bilateral trade is a meager $5.8-billion (Canadian), about a third of trade between India and Australia. According to a 2010 joint Canada-India joint study, an agreement could increase Canada's output by at least $6-billion (U.S.), and boost its exports to India by 50 per cent.
Securing the CEPA would be a historic achievement for both countries.
For Canada, after years of trying, it would be only the second agreement (after South Korea) with an Asian country and the first with a BRIC emerging economy. It would offer Canadian trade and investment preferential access in the vast South Asian region, where Canada's business presence is growing but still limited.
Alongside NAFTA, it would complete an arc of major world markets having trade agreements with Canada, with the 2013 deal with the European Union connecting Canadian businesses across the Atlantic and the Trans-Pacific Partnership potentially doing the same across the Pacific.
Canada has what India wants in helping it solve its food and energy security – and related technologies – needs; its infrastructure and educational needs (though public education is not part of the negotiations); and tourism. Moreover, India is particularly important to the Harper government. It is one of Canada's 13 priority markets and its million-plus diaspora helped the Conservatives achieve their first majority government in 2011.
A CEPA would not only stimulate trade and investment between the two countries but also improve the relationship, which has been vibrant since the signing of a Nuclear Co-operation Agreement in 2010, in the wake of decades of tension over the nuclear issue.
For India, the CEPA would be its first opportunity to obtain preferential access to a part of the North American market. As with Canada, the CEPA would join the dots on a neat arch connecting India to major world markets given its hoped-for free-trade agreement with Europe, and existing ones with Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea.
While Canada wanted an ambitious deal, which would include areas such as intellectual property and government procurement, India prefers something more restricted. That caution is understandable in key areas like agriculture, since more than 50 per cent of Indians still live off the land (compared to 2 per cent of Canadians), often at a subsistence level.
The final agreement will likely be close to a traditional goods and services agreement, and include clauses on areas such as rules of origins. Canada is looking for "dramatically lower" tariffs on goods and better access on services, in the face of restrictive Indian policies on foreign equity participation in areas such as financial services.
Both countries are keen to come to an agreement on the sensitive issue of visas for the temporary entry of professionals, whether it's Canadian architects and bankers going to India or Indian IT professionals coming to Canada. Some observers say the issue is so important to both sides it is a potential deal-breaker.
Separately, negotiations for an investment protection agreement or FIPA were concluded years ago but the deal was never ratified. India put a moratorium on signing these agreements after being taken to arbitration by the Dutch telecom concern Vodafone, and the Australian mining firm White Industries, under two of its existing investment treaties. Lifting the moratorium is unlikely until the Indian authorities are able to minimize arbitration possibilities through investor-state dispute clauses in its free-trade agreements.
Canada's hopes of getting India to sign a more potent CEPA at an early date depend on its priority for Mr. Modi. Trade is one of the five 'T's (alongside talent, tradition, tourism and technology) he plans to employ for rejuvenating 'Brand India'.
That, coupled with Canada's sustained engagement with him during the years when the U.S. and Britain kept him at a distance because of his perceived involvement in anti-Muslim riots in 2002 in his home province of Gujarat, might well inspire Mr. Modi to deliver a quick and effective agreement.


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|Event Date/Time: May 02, 2013
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Now in its 10th year, the Patient Summit USA will explore the most significant and challenging issues affecting the patient sphere today. From adherence and communication to engagement and education, we are going to hear from your peers in pharma - as well as other key stakeholders and payers - to find out how best to put the focus on your patients. Understand how the patient journey will increase the value of your products and brands.


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Universal PIctures Original One-Sheet (27x41) for the Jerry Hopper directed romantic comedy THE TOY TIGER (1956) starring Jeff Chanler, Laraine Day, Cecil Kellaway, David Janssen and Richard Haydn. The film also starred child actor Tim Hovey, who had a relative brief film career in the 1950s. Hovey plays the son of advertising executive Day. Jeff Chandler is day's assistant. Hovey has no father and he sees Chandler as a candidate. The matchmaking begins. The film is representative of Hollywood's family sitcoms of the period. Hovey often played kids younger than his actual age. He grew up to become the road manager of the Grateful Dead in the 1970s and 1980s. He died in 1989 of a drug overdoes. The poster has vivid color, but was used in a theater and should be regarded in fine condition. MovieArt Austin guarantees that this poster is an authentic U.S. one-sheet for this film. MovieArt Austin will sell no reproductions.
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NASA MESSENGER Status Report January 31, 2005
MESSENGER is in good health and its systems are operating normally. Last week, with no significant spacecraft operations on the schedule, the Mission Operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) continued working on software upgrades for MESSENGER's flight and ground systems and planning for upcoming flight activities.
This week the MESSENGER science team is meeting at APL to review plans for the Earth flyby on August 2.
Stat Corner: MESSENGER is about 92.7 million miles (149.3 million kilometers) from the Sun and 30.7 million miles (49.4 million kilometers) from Earth. At that distance, a signal from Earth reaches the spacecraft in 2 minutes, 44 seconds. The spacecraft is moving around the Sun at 66,740 miles (107, 407 kilometers) per hour. MESSENGER's onboard computers have executed 26,570 commands from mission operators since launch.


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Search engines are not devoid of societal norms, values and ideologies. What visions and values influence the shaping and governing of search engines in the particular European context? The new research project "Algorithmic Imaginaries" funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) tries to find an answer to this question.
Bing, Google & Yahoo are run by US-American technology companies. Big, universal search engines use personalized advertising to make profit. In Europe, Google holds a market share of more than 90% and hence dominates the search engine market. One reason is its innovative PageRank algorithm, but also its profitable business model based on "trade in data". Google's algorithm was known for innovation and objectivity at first. This positive image is increasingly overshadowed by discussions on user surveillance, commercialization of web information, and filter bubbles. Particularly since the NSA affair profit-oriented search engine operators have come under critique. These developments show that search engines are not devoid of societal values, political visions and ideologies. And exactly these ideologies and values are at the core of the research project.
Focusing on three European search engines the goal is to investigate how search engines are developed in the European context and what role common values and collective visions play in this. The choice of case studies tries to do justice to the diversity of the European search engine landscape: The first search project, Open-Web-Index, aims at providing an alternative to US-based search engines by developing a publicly funded, independent web index. The second search engine, YaCy, has the goal to build a decentral, non-commercial search engine that is owned by the public. The third case study, StartPage, is a privacy-friendly search engine that uses the Google index, but provides users with anonymity. The following questions will guide the analysis:
These questions will be answered using a case-study approach, which includes qualitative interviews, workshops with developers and on-site observations. The results from this analysis will be compared to results from two other research projects. The first project dealt with capitalist ideologies shaping the development of universal search engines. The second project investigated socio-political visions in the governing of search engines on the European level. The comparative analysis will use the concept "socio-technical imaginaries" by Sheila Jasanoff, which will be further developed into a typology of "algorithmic imaginaries". These will show how search technology and society are co-produced in particular economic, political and cultural settings. The primary focus on the European context is a particular strength of the project since tensions between globally operating search engines like Google and European visions and values seem to grow.
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Title: Silent Creed
Author: Alex Kava
Series: Ryder Creed series #2
Synopsis (from bn.com): Ryder Creed and his K9 search-and-rescue dogs return in the second installment of an exciting new series, teaming up once more with FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell in their riskiest case yet.
When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows that the difference between finding survivors and the dead is time. He and his sturdiest search-and-rescue dog, Bolo, get to work immediately, but the scene is rife with danger: continued rainfall prevents the rescue teams from stabilizing the land; toxic household substances spread by the crushing slide fill the area with hazardous waste; and the detritus and debris are treacherous for both man and dog to navigate. But most perilous are the secrets hidden under the mud and sludge—secrets someone would kill to protect. For this is no ordinary rescue mission. Among the buildings consumed by the landslide was a top-secret government research facility, and Creed has been hired to find what's left of it.
Then rescuers recover the body of a scientist from the facility who was obviously dead before the landslide—killed by a gunshot to the head. The FBI sends Agent Maggie O'Dell to investigate, and she and Creed are soon caught in a web of lies, secrets, and murder that may involve not only the government facility, but decades-old medical experiments that are the subject of current congressional hearings. As more bodies are found under even more unusual circumstances, they come ever closer to exposing the truth—but with unknown forces working against them, Maggie, Creed, and the dogs are running out of time.
My thoughts: For a series that I was quite leery about given the overall dog trainer theme, I am loving this series. This second book in the series allows the reader a deeper dive into the life of somewhat mysterious dog trainer, Ryder Creed, and his background.
I am also enjoying getting to know the characters a bit better and seeing the relationship between Ryder and my old favorite character from Alex Kava's first series, Maggie O'Dell, continue to develop.
I liked the overall storyline and plot of this story, but I wish the author would have spent a bit more time discussing and delving into the story of the lab/the experiments and the secrets behind that. It was a good part of the story and felt a bit rushed for me. A better balance between the story of the actual dog searches and this would have added some intrigue and excitement to the read.
Overall, another great series from a favorite author. I will no doubt be getting book #3 in this series as soon as I get my lazy butt to the library.
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The booming seriousness of social media profiles has become one of the signs that technology has poured into every fiber of our society, including football. Players, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Leo Messi, and Zlatan Ibrahimović have already been supplying daily content for millions of followers through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media channels.
The newer generation of professional footballers is all about trends. WC 2018 was broadcast on live streams and posts created not only by the spectators but also by the official pages of national teams. Speaking of teams, the football industry has converted the measure of popularity into likes, shares, and other signs of support on the web. Their public profiles allow us to gain insight into their audiences, and how active they have been demonstrating online support to their favourite teams.
Therefore, we decided to take a peek into some of the statistics and learn something useful from the social media profiles of the football clubs presented below.
Real Madrid
Real Madrid had been struggling behind Barca for a long time but filled their shoes once they won the Champions League of 2016/2017. They managed to win several back-to-back titles, including topping the La Liga several times in a row. The club currently has 189.1 million followers on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
The runner-up in the social media race is "just" five million followers behind. Some elements that have degraded their successful online marketing campaign include the departure of Neymar and Messi's unpaid taxes.
Manchester United
The Red Devils have a long tradition of producing legendary players, such as Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Eric Cantona, and others. It's no secret that they are the second most popular club in their hometown, but the number of their fans on a global scale is much higher compared to Manchester City. The number of their followers on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter is 110.3 million at the moment.
The Blues have come a long way after Abramovich had them under his wing. The Russian billionaire made it into what it is today – a legendary club with millions of fans around the world. After winning a couple of Premier League titles and triumphing in the Champions League, they kicked it off to create a generation of players that fans will remember for years to come. Chelsea currently has a total of 96.2 million followers on social media.
Unlike Chelsea, Arsenal had to build its career with a slow and steady pace. Their secret weapon was not a millionaire, but a competent manager that goes by the name Arsene Wenger. During his reign, the club flourished and became the fifth most popular football club on the Internet with 60.4 million followers all around the world.


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The name may not ring a bell among many basketball followers in India, but Raja Bell is no run of the mill NBA player. Through a solid 12 year pro career, he has established himself as a premier perimeter defensive stopper and reliable 3 point shooter. Raja was in India from July 12th to 17th as one of the latest in the bandwagon of NBA stars to visit the country. He ran clinics in New Delhi at the Montfort School, Ashok Vihar, and later at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium for the India junior and senior teams. I caught up with him after he completed an engaging 1 hour session with the kids from Montfort School, where he taught them the basics of a good defensive stance and took them through some shooting drills. Here's the video of the interview followed by the Q& A transcript.
G: You've just interacted with these kids. Do you think they are on par with equivalent 10-12 year olds back in the US?
Raja: I think they are right in the same ball park. They seem to pick up skills and stuff very quickly. There was a whole lot of demonstration today and they were picking it up very quickly. That is impressive. Kids in the states get the benefit of watching 10-20 games a week. So you can tell that they have seen more basketball probably…but as far as skill level goes and being able to pick things up, they are right on par.
G: These days, a lot of kids in India follow the NBA. And with the Internet boom they get to see so much and sort of know in real time what's happening (in the NBA). So do you think that shows in terms of their knowledge of the game? Do you think they have picked up their skills from the internet?
Raja: Yeah…I think the Internet today for any kid in any country is a great tool. Even for me you know, I can pick out breakdown videos of Kobe shooting a jumpshot. I think they (these kids) have been taught skills from their coaches at various levels and from these junior WNBA/ junior NBA programs. You can see that they understand the fundamentals and that they have been taught the fundamentals which is important.
G: Ok… I hate to bring this up, but all NBA fans in India, including me, sort of remember you for that one incident with…
Raja (smiles): Kobe? Yeah…
G: Yeah…the clothesline (In a tense 2006 playoff game between the Suns and the Lakers, Raja Bell who was playing for the Suns, clotheslined Kobe and was subsequently ejected from the game). But in the context of that game, what I actually wanted to ask you about was defense. Because a lot of what happened in that game was, in a sense, an extension of defense, about being aggressive. So how do you know when to draw the line between being aggressive…and getting a technical?
His Early Years
G: From what I've read about you, it has never been easy for you, even when you were in College. I think you were in Boston (University) for a year and then there were some problems and you had to switch colleges and you went undrafted. So how did you deal with that? Especially as you performed pretty well in the NCAA, even winning a Conference Title…
Raja: I just roll with the punches man…you can't get too down…you try not to. You always realize that if you continue to play and continue to make use of opportunities, so the next one might work out for you. So you just keep on going.
G: Was it tough for your family as well? That you were not picked?
Raja: No, I don't think any of us really thought that I might play in the NBA, so I don't know if anybody was super disappointed. We were just happy that I got to play with the Atlanta Hanks in training camp, and I was happy I got a tryout with the Spurs. So every step along the way was good for me.
Playing with Iverson and Nash
G: …And the first team you joined…I think it was the (Philadelphia) 76ers…and then you also played with the(Phoenix) Suns. Both these teams had these two great point guards…very different but in their own right they were great: Allen Iverson and Steve Nash. How were they in the locker room? How did they approach a pre-game?
Raja: I mean they were both kinda quiet man…in the locker room at least. Neither one was in your face or telling you that you had to do it one way. But you knew when you got onto the court with both of them that they were going to be there to fight all the way. Whether you were up 20 or down 20 or winning or losing…that's how they led by example and not necessarily by speech.
On Defense
G: Were you always so keen on defense? Because the highlight reel is always going to be the dunk, the clutch play or maybe a block. So why defense? Is there something about your mindset that you know you want to play defense, or is it that you see Kobe Bryant and there is something about you that wants to shut him down?
Raja: I saw a job (a long pause). There are a lot of people that score in the NBA…but when I got there, it wasn't my job to score, so I had to be smart enough to figure out what role would let me keep the job. With defense, when I realized that that was a job that everybody needed to do, it became kind of my calling card.
G: Did you have a role model when it came to defense? Maybe Bill Russell or…
Raja: No. I didn't pattern it after anybody. You know what? I always thought of myself as an underdog…as somebody who had to work hard at it.
G: You are also a solid 3 point shooter. You even led the league once in 3s in the 06-07 season. That's an interesting combination don't you think: Defense and 3 pointers? Because fundamentally these 2 disciplines require completely different mindsets: For defense you need to be aggressive and in your face; for shooting you need to be relaxed and loose to get a nice follow through. How do you manage that mental switch from defense to offense and vice versa?
Raja: That's an interesting question….but you know, sometimes when my defense is good, it rubs off on my offense. I get into the zone you know. Initially when I came in, I was more athletic, but then I realized that to score in the league I had to shoot.
G: Who is the toughest guy you have had to guard?
Raja: Kobe is the toughest because he can score in so many ways. Manu Ginobili as well because he is left-handed and a very unorthodox player. Ray Allen when he used to play for Seattle…because he used to run around all those screens to get free for his shot. Also Wade and Lebron. LeBron is like a bull …. His sheer physicality makes it a tough match up.
G: What's your take on trash talking? Do you think it a valid part of playing defense? Because I don't know who it was, maybe Bill Russell, who said that there are three ways you can play defense: 1) Physically; 2) Skillfully; 3) Psychologically—getting under the skin of the opponents. So do you subscribe to the third method? Of playing defense psychologically—by talking trash?
Raja: You need to back it up (if you are going to talk trash). Personally, I'm not into trash talking. I'm more physical….I can't talk trash and still perform.
Predictions for the Olympics (At the time of this interview, the '12 Olympics hadn't begun. USA went on to win their 2nd straight gold, beating Spain 107-100)
G: This is the Olympic year. Who's going to win this time? The international game has gotten so much better over the years. You think Spain can pull an upset?
Raja: I doubt that…there will always be match-up problems against the US. I mean they have Kobe, Lebron, Durant, Paul, Anthony…and the athleticism of Iguodala!
G: What is your take about the direction in which the NBA is headed? Earlier there was a sense of loyalty among players, where they stuck it out with a single franchise. Jordan was with the Bulls for 6 years before he led them to their first ring. Reggie Miller spent his entire career with the Pacers and never won a ring. Today, it seems this sense of loyalty has been replaced with simply a desire to collect as many rings as possible, with players willing to change teams at the drop of a hat. Is this harming the league: the change in focus from the "team" to an "individual"?
Raja: I'm a realist. I think it's fine. It is not necessarily a question of loyalty. I would flip the script: if you are not performing, you would rather leave than stick around (and wait to be dropped from the team). So it is understandable if the player wants to use the system (to his advantage).
On His Free Agency
G: You yourself are known as a "journeyman" player, having played for multiple franchises in your career. You are a free agent now. Have you worked out which team you are going to play for next year?
Raja: I haven't decided yet. My agent is working on it. Kobe and I had a chat about playing with the (Los Angeles) Lakers. OKC (Oklahoma City Thunder), (Chicago) Bulls and New York (Knicks) are all likely destinations.
G: Finally, do you think it is realistically possible to see an Indian in the NBA in the future? Because from your training camp a short while back, it seems that we are still trying to learn the fundamentals, and we have not really moved on to advanced drills…
Raja: There is no reason why one of these kids can't make it to the NBA someday. It's just about doing the work. That's why the NBA has come to India. We wouldn't be here if we didn't think basketball had the potential to become the number 2 sport in this country.
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BEIJING — The Chinese word for "crisis" actually means "dangerous opportunity." As the Chinese economy starts to show signs of weakness, some people are beginning to see a dangerous opportunity for their growth, including Chinese designers.
First, China's best manufacturing facilities will have excess capacity due to reduced export orders. Chinese designers might finally have a chance to use some of the country's best manufacturing facilities. One government official in the textile industry, however, is not that opportunistic. "The better facility might take the small orders from designers," he said, "but the problem is their best workers probably already went home. They are too expensive to keep on the payroll."
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Second, advertisers are cutting their budgets for China as statistics indicate less-than-optimistic figures for the near future. "The outlook is very bleak for the latter half of the year," an executive for an international public relations agency told me. The executive did not want to be named. She said there were across-the-board budget cuts for major advertising clients, some of them the biggest players in the Chinese market. Another advertising executive predicted that a lot of Chinese newspapers will die before the end of the year as ad revenues will decrease substantially.
This seems to be good news for young Chinese filmmakers, many of them fresh out of school and still with no work under their own names. Many of them have established their own studios to work with clients who want to invest in low-budget Internet films, hoping one might go viral in China. Gong Zheng, a college graduate who has worked on two film projects, claims that freelance filmmakers and studios are getting a lot of jobs these days. "Advertisers, Western brands like big shampoo brands who wouldn't even give us a meeting before, are now coming to us for proposals." Gong is very happy that the economy is tanking a bit, because "it gives the little guy like us a chance to surface." Why? "Because we are cheap," he said, but hastened to add, "cheap does not necessarily mean bad quality."
I am not sure whether the economic downturn will really turn out to be such a great thing for the little guy. After all, when general consumer spending drops, local designers will be hit, too. Most likely harder, since their manufacturing costs are higher. Still, the low tide in media investment by foreign brands might give local designers a break to become better known in the market.
As for marketing tools, I do believe new media will see another major hike in investment, while traditional media forms such as newspapers and television will feel the brunt of the budget cuts in advertising. The government is not helping either. If anything, the authorities have tightened their control and censorship on traditional media such as newspapers. The Southern Media Group, a liberal and reform-minded media organization based in Guangdong Province, has just seen dramatic personnel turnover due to government interference. On the other hand, the Economic Observer, another nationwide newspaper, was temporarily shut down by the Beijing government for unauthorized reports about the flood that killed 77 people in the city. All this seem to push advertisers to use new media, where the government has less control.
Whether this crisis turns out to be a "dangerous opportunity" for some is still too early to tell. But the fact that China is slowing down seems to be the writing on the wall.


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How Citi Founded Engagement on LinkedIn
When Citi got serious about LinkedIn with its first group there in April 2012, it was pleasantly surprised by how well it did.
The Connect Professional Women's Network features customized content around networking skills and tips on career advancement as well as access to the LinkedIn Today experience sponsored by Citi. LinkedIn curates the content for the group. Some content will also be integrated from Citi's personal finance website for women, which is dedicated to helping women strengthen their financial futures.
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The group has grown to 70,000 members and LinkedIn reports that it has twice the engagement of any other LinkedIn group. Additionally, 50 percent of the members visit the group at least once a week.
"Women are making so many choices in their lives today," said Vanessa Colella, head of North America marketing at Citi. "If you go back 30 years, women weren't making the same choices back then that they are making now. With these choices come a lot of questions on careers, work-life balance and what's appropriate in the work environment. The LinkedIn community was meant to be a forum where people can voice their questions. These are the conversations women are already having. We are just giving them a place to have them."
The types of conversations happening deal a lot with women grappling with finances. They're trying to save for day care, or start a college fund. There's no entertainment aspect here. That isn't the purpose. The group's conversations are about real life and real issues that women are having. Like one woman, for example, posts about being a mom who has been out of the work force for a few years to raise her kids. She now wants to get back into the groove and is asking advice on how to do so. Another woman talks about a situation at work where she was promoted and so was a male colleague. The male colleague got a raise, while she did not and so she's asking for advice on what to do. It's almost like a mentoring platform.
Citi has done next to no advertising of the group, so the growth has been organic. It ran a few ads on LinkedIn to let people know the group exists, but Colella admits this did not do much in terms of growing members. The majority of the growth came from referrals. Actual members invited their friends and peers to join.
"Our job as bankers is to be there when and where people are raising questions having to do with finances, whether or not it's happening in a Citi branch," Colella said. "With Connect with can serve this community, at scale."
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Diabetes Mellitus is characterized by increased frequency of urination (polyuria) and increased appetite (polyphagia) due to loss of glucose. As a result of a parallel exponential increase in the incidence of diabetes and fatality due to diabetes vis-à-vis the disappearance of the pumpkin-eating culture of the native Igbo populations of Eastern Nigeria since the late 1960s, this study investigated the effect of admixed ground pumpkin flesh on the texture, particle size and carbohydrate content of a protein food, Voandzeia subterranean seed flour paste meal, as a possible adjunt diet in diabetes management; The paste formed from a mixture of Voandzeia subterranean seed flour; palm oil; cold, warm or hot water and sodium chloride were deep-fried in scoops, alone or were mixed with cooked or ground raw pumpkin and deep-fried to produce a composite meal. Blended-in sliced onions or sliced leafy vegetables of Ocimum gratissimum, Ocimum basilicum, lufa cylindrica or ground Zingiber officinale were included as additional enrichments of the meal but were not essential factors in the study. A comparism of the fried cakes of the Voandzeia subterranean seed flour paste alone with the fried cakes of the Voandzeia subterranean seed flour mixed with ground flesh of pumpkin showed that the flesh of cooked or ground raw pumpkin softened the texture of the Voandzeia subterranean seed flour cake; eliminated particulation of the fried Voandzeia subterranean seed flour paste cake; made the consistency of the cake homogenous; reduced the carbohydrate nature of the cake; increased the protein content of the cake and reduced its shelf life. The efficacy of pumpkin (Cucurbitaceae) species in the remission of diabetes is exemplified by Momordica charantia (which is itself a Cucurbita specie),fruit, juice or powder which several studies reported that they produced decreases in blood glucose levels and/or improvements in the glucose-tolerance tests of diabetic patients who received various doses of them. And, since the flesh of Cucurbita spicies have been found to contain 0.5-1.5% protein; calcium, phosphorus; Iron; traces of vitamin B and C and vitamin A in yellow-fleshed forms, the results of this study enable us to conclude that the flesh (and leaves) of pumpkin species should be incorporated with or eaten alongside largely protein meals for the efficacious remission of diabetes.


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President Hu Jintao Hands Over the 'Reigns' to Successor
What a contrast between the world's two largest economies.
One has just completed the most public, drawn out, some would say bitter election campaign in the full glare of the media and the world. The other has quietly fixed the new autocratic regime for the next decade behind closed doors.
This week, Xi Jinping, a member of the party's politburo since 2007 and currently vice president, succeeds Hu Jintao as president, potentially ushering in a new period of enlightened leadership (or so some had hoped) but President Hu's outgoing address to the party's 18th National Congress suggests in many crucial areas that little is going to change.
There is a huge amount of debate about the merits of political change for China. Traditionalists will point to the past decade during which China has gone from the sixth largest economy to the second largest in the world, more than quadrupled it gross domestic product, and drastically raised living standards.
Reformers will point to cases like that of Bo Xilai, former Chongqing party boss, now mired in corruption and, with his wife, convicted of murder as examples of a deeply corrupt political system.
With the state not just involved, but driving the economy, such corruption taints nearly every aspect of business activity. As worrisome to the political elite is the growing sense of frustration among a population that sees a growing gap between the general population and the ruling elite and business community, and sees rampant corruption among state officials.
One FT article quotes a professor of politics at a Chinese university who said within three years, the Chinese people would take to the streets to demand the government loosen its grip on power.
In the article, President Hu Jintao acknowledged, "social problems have increased markedly" under his decade of rule. He also warned that if the party failed to curb corruption, "it could prove fatal to the party and even cause the collapse of the party and the fall of the state."
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Norman Surplus, a pilot from Northern Ireland, took off from Thailand on August 1, restarting his attempt to become the first person to fly a gyrocopter around the world. Through early August, he had flown more than 8,000 miles through Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Surplus is raising funds and awareness for cancer research through the effort. The phase starting August 1 is scheduled to last 50 days, including trips through Southeast Asia, Japan, eastern Russia and North America, covering a total of 19,000 miles before returning to northern Ireland. (From September 2010 Rotorcraft Report)


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In April of 2008, I moved to the small town of South Lima, NY. To call it small is actually quite an overstatement because the entire "town" is really just 50 houses on a single country road. I moved there after an almost ten-year relationship had ended and while I was only moving 20 minutes away from my old apartment, I might as well have crossed the Atlantic. At first, my ex-girlfriend stayed at the old apartment we had shared and kept our dog and cat. While I knew that I had made the right decision by moving out, I was devastated by the sudden change to say the least. I can remember thinking that all I needed was my dog, and then everything would be "back to normal". 2 months later, I had my dog. Then I decided that if I just could get my cat back, everything would be all right. 2 months later, I had my cat back. As happy as I was to be reunited with my pets, it was clear to me that going "back to normal" not only wasn't in the cards, but that "normal" wasn't so normal after all.
Moving out on my own had certainly put a damper on my finances and I briefly (out of desperation) considered putting music aside and getting a "real job". I had been working part-time for years in anticipation of touring that had never really happened and I thought that perhaps my ship had sailed. Then one day, I got an email from a producer in Nashville who was eager to work with me. Was a nice little ego boost but like most every musician, I had grown weary of the "big break" dreams we all are ashamed to admit we have. Throwing caution to the wind, I went for it and decided to travel to Nashville to make my first solo album "Truth Is". It was a great experience all around and I got to play with some of my musical heroes but most importantly, after the release of the album, I finally went on tour. A REAL tour. While "Truth Is" certainly didn't make me rich, the album, the experience making it and the subsequent touring (all 50,000 miles) gave my career the kind of legitimacy I never even knew was possible. Not the legitimacy bestowed by critics, your family, your peers or friends, something even more difficult to attain, especially for a self-loathing "artist" like myself (yes, I put the word artist in quotes for a reason). I finally realized that music wasn't something I WANTED to do, it was something I HAD to do. There have been plenty of stumbles in the last three years musically, but I kept getting up, something I had always feared I wouldn't be able to do when the going got tough.
As it turns out, the songs on "Truth Is" were mostly written while I was in the last throes of the aforementioned doomed relationship. Admittedly, that record was pretty dark and depressing (basically a "breakup" record....woe is me) but within months of moving to South Lima, I started dating the girl who is now my wife. Looking back, my 5 years living in that impossibly small town were the happiest of my entire life thus far. Sure, there was still heartache, there was still death and there was still doubt. But with the experience gained in the previous chapters of my life, I had learned (and am still learning, of course) to "stop and smell the roses", even in the darkest hours. When I was feeling stuck in my part-time job, scared that music would never pan out for me; I was still able to remember how lucky I was to have what I had. I had a cozy little apartment with my future wife, my beloved dog and cat AND I got to travel all over the country to play my songs for people. Not bad. Those five years helped shape me into the man I am today more than any other time in my life. And while I was there, I wrote a bunch of songs. Eleven of those songs appear on my new album, affectionately titled "South Lima". The songs are about living, love, doubt, fear and moving on. Mostly though, they are about what it's like to be a human being; flawed as all get out, but learning to be ok with that. I've never been prouder of anything I've ever released and I hope you like it.


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I am going to ask that you do not confuse this series to be political. Even as I like to discuss politics, and do so at times on this blog, this is not a political article; this is a word from the Lord.
I am currently a Martial Arts Instructor and a Schoolteacher in a private Christian school where I teach Spanish, Bible and Physical Education. I used to be a Social Worker who retired from that field because of the frustration I felt of not being able to effectively help people due to their constant worship and adoration of the welfare system in America. Many times I would tell my clients: "The system is limited, but you are not!" However, the great majority would rather go after the government's checks than to go after the dignity of working and making a living. The Bible gives us a clear message in 2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 concerning the Biblical mandate that we all have to make our own living:
"11 For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies. 12 Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread." NASB
Not having a job when we are able to have one is a sign of an undisciplined life; it is also considered a terrible testimony. The word "busybody" in the Greek means: "Everywhere doing everything but doing nothing." Also, this word is associated with the word "gossip". This whole week I have being meditating on the reality of laziness in our country. I see it firsthand through many of the children I teach.
These days I have had a few parents approach me, concerned about their children's laziness. One particular mom came to me in tears for her son. It hit me very hard because, as a father, I deal with some of that laziness at home with my own children.


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We introduced the Workspace Activity feature to give you a centralized place to collaborate with your team for each specific workspace.
To access your Workspace Activity, click on Activity at the top right corner of a workspace view to expand the side panel. Expand the panel to a width of your preference by dragging the left border to the left. You can easily close the panel by clicking the [x] in the upper right, dragging the left border all the way right, or by double clicking anywhere in the left border.
Workspace activity is dedicated to tracking actions made inside the workspace. Think of it as a feed with the workspace's history. The following actions are added to your Workspace Activity:
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Additionally, you and your teammates can chat inside Workspace Activity to stay in sync on the projects tracked in the workspace. Mentioning
@username will send a notification to that user. Use this when you want to notify the user about an action or message in the feed.
Workspace Activity also provides you the ability to upload files to the workspace. Click the paperclip icon on the bottom right of Workspace Activity to open the file upload modal. Select the file you wish to add, and this file will be added to the workspace files (accessible by navigating to the files section of the workspace).