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Lumo Bodytech Raises $10 Million to Create a Platform for the Future of Wearable Technology
Today, we are excited to announce that the Lumo Bodytech team has raised $10 million in Series B funding to launch the first wearable technology platform measuring and analyzing human biomechanics. This means that the technology powering your favorite posture and running coach is now available to other companies.
Our latest round of funding was led by Wuxi Healthcare Ventures with previous investors Madrona Venture Group, Innovation Endeavors, AME Cloud Ventures, and Innovalue Capital Ltd. also participating. New investors MAS Holdings Ltd., and SanDisk founder Eli Harari also joined as strategic partners. Lumo has previously raised more than $6 million in equity financing and more than $2 million in crowdfunding.
From the very beginning, our passion as a company has been to give your body a voice by unlocking your full potential through the power of real-time motion tracking. This vision and the technology we've built has translated into our two successful posture devices, Lumo Back and Lumo Lift, and our latest running form product, Lumo Run.
Through the development of our biomechanics wearables, we've gained valuable insight into the best ways to seamlessly integrate technology into everyday situations: whether it's a small, magnetic sensor attached to your shirt like a lapel pin that tells you when you're slouching, or a tiny sensor embedded in the waistband of your running shorts to capture important running form data and provide you feedback in real time. Through this process, we have developed a unique technology stack — a robust wearables technology platform, that we are now opening up to partners and businesses, implementing our accurate measurement of biomechanics and real-time feedback into their smart garments and applications.
The Lumo Wearables Platform
Our wearables platform is a full technology stack that includes everything from hardware, software, and unique algorithms to cloud data and storage services. This means that any company, for example in the apparel or healthcare industries, can power their products with Lumo's technology capabilities and solutions.
The future of wearables is to be completely invisible, seamlessly connected, and capable of deploying unique data-rich models that work hard in the background to solve meaningful problems. — Andrew Chang, CTO
Our wearables platform offers access to unique algorithm models that can track multiple movements and has various applications. For example, the Lumo Back sensor and algorithms can be used for lifting compliance products to promote healthy lifting of heavy objects, or similarly, the Lumo Run sensor can be applied to other sports biomechanics like cycling or golf. Our platform offers access to multiple layers of data and flexible architecture of algorithms, cloud and data storage, and even hardware development to fit the specific needs and goals of our partners to make the integration of our technology as seamless as possible.
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One of the reasons why we are so excited to be announcing the launch of our platform is because this opens up a huge window of opportunity and possibility for both businesses and end users. Companies now have a way to integrate smart sensors and sophisticated, in-depth algorithms into their apparel, products, and businesses, while individual users benefit from the soon widespread availability of smart products from favorite brands and companies that can now power our everyday lives.
The goal has always been to help people reach their true potential by utilizing our technology to measure, inform and give feedback on human movement for a healthier, more meaningful life. The launch of our wearables platform will finally give us the tool to become the household solution that breathes technology and life into everyday products. — Monisha Perkash, CEO.
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SINGAPORE, 13 November 2013 - CommunicAsia2014 and EnterpriseIT2014 is back for another year on 17- 20 June 2014 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, with the spotlight cast on the latest innovative technologies through the entire communications ecosystem. As Asia's largest ICT industry event, CommunicAsia2014 and EnterpriseIT2014 together will feature new elements with three refreshed thematic clusters 'NXT': NXT Connected Services, NXT Cities and NXT Enterprises.
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One of the reasons I love working for Heifer International is the livestock. I think farm animals are the best. Of course, working in the office at our Headquarters building, it's pretty rare I actually get to interact with live farm animals (well, unless you count the three hens in my backyard).
I know we often keep things pretty serious around here, and for good reason; ending hunger and poverty is serious work. But the past couple of weeks have turned up some fantastic livestock content around the web, and I thought it might be fun to share it here, if you've not already come across these.
Goats Yelling Like Humans? Yes please!
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I recently came across the work of Sérgio Pimenta and thought "it has been a while since I had featured an artist". The color blocking of these pieces is what caught my attention. There is color blocking but at the same time there are organic qualities of the paint flowing towards gravity. I couldn't help but imagine swimming pools with the first few images. The geometric lines are given depth with gradients working to provide levels and dimension. Every time I feature art I always ask myself if I could see it in a mid century setting and these pieces certainly passed the test.
"Sérgio is a freelance visual artist specialising in painting and drawing. He was born in Trofa, a small town in the outskirts of Porto, Portugal where he had his first solo exhibition in 2012. In the past he worked as a painting (2013-15) and drawing (2014-15) teacher at the Portuguese Rotary Club Senior University, before relocating to Berlin where he now lives. Sérgio holds a B.A. in Painting and Fine Arts from the University of Porto."


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Impact is driven by continual close engagement with industry stakeholders in all RAU activities, from undergraduate and graduate programmes to our research and knowledge exchange programmes. Engagement with industry is a feature of all of our degree courses, with formal extended placements, regular visiting speakers, and farm and industry visits.
The translation of research is facilitated by the extensive alumni network within the industries we serve. Staff have been actively involved in policy discussions around translation and knowledge exchange (Prof Gaskell as Chair of Government Chief Scientific Advisor's Food Research Partnership Translation Sub Group). Innovation and entrepreneurship is important across the institution.
The work of the RAU focuses on applied, near-market or contract research in agriculture and land-based studies. The institution has been at the forefront of this specialist knowledge exchange since its inception. As a result key users, beneficiaries, or other audiences approach the RAU for information and advice on science or policy through consultancy or contract research proposals. Academic staff are involved in their specialist areas with such relationships which can readily be pursued to create impact for their work.
The RAU has various methods for engaging with people and organisations that can sponsor research, collaborate on projects, or be participants in knowledge exchange / translational research and assist in the dissemination of the results of its research.
- The Business Development Centre (BDC) employs research-capable staff with formal project management (PRINCE2) training and ISO 9001 certification, to scan for funding opportunities, to build relationships with potential clients and provide quality assurance in project management.
- The School of Agriculture and Food has an Advisory Board whose members are drawn from industry; each also retains various visiting professors and research associates to provide direct links to the agricultural and equine industries.
- RAU 100 Club: a nearly 20-year-old network of over a hundred national and international companies that meets annually with policy makers and diplomats to hear presentations and network together and with staff and students, and organises a fellowship programme in collaboration with industry partners.
- The RAU organises, hosts and delivers a number of prestigious one to three week courses for the industry with partners (eg. the Worshipful Company of Farmers Advanced Business Management Course; the John Edgar Trust Management Development Programme; the Institute of Agricultural Management Leadership and Management Programme. Other bespoke courses are provided for RICS, financial institutions and other industry groups on a regular basis.
- Natural England, Environment Agency and Defra are also a beneficiary of our research. A three day training course was delivered at the RAU in 2013 for Defra for 18 of their employees entitled 'Introduction into Agriculture'. Previously one day courses had been provided. The course included, for example, findings from Defra funded research [Dr Rhiannon Fisher on bovine tuberculosis and the social context of current policy]. Beneficiaries of other on-going research projects include the Food Standards Agency and Gloucestershire and Herefordshire County Councils.
- Bledisloe Annual Lecture; the opportunity for several hundred senior members of the agricultural community to attend the lecture (given in recent years by David Willetts MP, (Minister of State, DBIS); Professor Sir John Beddington FRS; Professor Sir John Sulston FRS; Professor Sir David King FRS; Professor Sir David Baulcombe) which provides an excellent networking event for staff and postgraduate students.
- One of the main audiences for the RAU's research are individual farmers and farmer groups who attended seminars (some funded as part of Rural Development Programme England SW knowledge transfer). The circulation RAU network includes 2,000 farmers throughout the SW. Academics from the RAU use these events to translate their research into relevant and practical advice for farmers [e.g. climate change, renewable energy, farm trees, CAP, crop and livestock management]. Research projects also have their own farmer groups or are linked with specific groups. An interactive web-based engagement system is being built at present.
- The Equine Research Group have organised three major conferences to promote their research, with keynotes from Hemmings and /or Moore-Colyer: 2010, European Workshop on Equine Nutrition, (200 delegates from over 10 countries) in conjunction with the European Association of Animal Production (EAAP) and the British Society for Animal Science (BSAS); 2012 and 2014 Horses Inside Out Annual Conferences (150 delegates from the UK and Ireland).


text: Campaign to stop the NHS sell-off gathers pace in North East 10 June 2014 Health activists, politicians and trade unionists will expose the extent of the sweeping cuts and privatisation hitting the NHS across the north east at a meeting in Newcastle this Wednesday (11 June). When: Wednesday 11 June, 6.30pm Where: St Johns Church Hall, Grainger Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 5JG Jointly organised by Keep our NHS Public, the Socialist Health Association, Red Labour, the People's Assembly north east, Unison and Unite the union, the event will build on the growing numbers of people from across the north east becoming increasingly angry over the Tory government's agenda to sell-off NHS services to private companies and cut crucial services. The event will highlight the: • GP practices run by private companies that are now threatened with closure • local mental health services being drastically cut with hospital and community services both being massively reduced • government plans to sell health information and the fears regarding confidentiality • government using powers to close hospitals without consultation (Clause 119). Unite regional officer, Martin Wright said: "The NHS in the north east is under attack by a Tory government that has brought in powers to sell-off our cherished NHS services to profiteers. Private companies like Care UK can take over a GP practice in the north east, then dump it when it realises it can't make enough profit and then leave the community with the broken pieces. "The cuts and sell-offs taking place now are just the tip of the iceberg, but there's a growing number of people from across the north east who are demanding an end to Tory plans to put a price tag and a bar code on our NHS services." Speakers include; (Chair) Jim Cousins (former MP Newcastle Central) David Taylor-Gooby (NE Socialist Health Association secretary) Dr Helen Groom (Gateshead GP, Keep Our NHS Public activist) Dr Michael Lloyd (political economist, Red Labour supporter) Martin Wright (regional officer Unite the union) Dr David Wrigley (GP, Writer 'NHS SOS', BMA UK Council) ENDS For further information please contact Ciaran Naidoo on 07768 931 315 Twitter: @unitetheunion Facebook: unitetheunion1 Notes to editors • Unite is Britain and Ireland's largest trade union with over 1.4 million members working across all sectors of the economy. The general secretary is Len McCluskey.


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PA judge blocks #VoterID law from taking effect in November.
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A state judge has blocked Pennsylvania's tough voter-identification law from taking effect during the November election.
In an 18-page ruling issued Tuesday, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert E. Simpson said he wasn't convinced that the measure requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls wouldn't keep some people from voting.
Two weeks ago, the state Surpeme Court ordered Simpson, a former Northampton County court judge, to block the law unless he determined that there would be no disenfranchisement and that new state-issued voter ID cards were easy to obtain.
Opponents of the law, considered one of the most restrictive in the nation, hailed Simpson's decision as a victory, even as the law's chief architect denounced it as "out of bounds with the rule of law."
On Tuesday, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who supports the law, said the state had not made up its mind on whether it would appeal Simpson's decision to the state Supreme Court.
Lawyers on both sides, meanwhile, agreed that Simpson's ruling effectively leaves in place the same ground rules used during the April 24 primary. There, voters were asked to produce photo identification and those without it were informed about the ID requirement. All voters were allowed to vote.
Simpson's narrowly tailored ruling blocked language in the law requiring people without proper identification to cast what's known as a "provisional ballot" and then return to county election offices within six days to provide proof of their identity.
Duquesne University law professor Bruce Ledewitz said he believes Simpson reached the correct decsion given the narrow instructions the state Supreme Court delivered in its Sept. 18 decision.
Ledewitz said Simpson's decision to allow voters to cast ballots in the normal way, regardless of whether they have ID avoids further confusion and controversy.
"I think he was very keen not to treat the people without voter IDs differenntly from everone else for fear that might discourage them from voting," Ledewitz said.
In his ruling, Simpson said he was sympathetic to state officials' claims that they were doing everything they could to fix glitches in the law as they appeared.
But with just five weeks to go before Election Day, Simpson said he "question[ed] whether sufficient time now remains to" get state-issued ID to every voter before the polls open.
In his ruling, Simpson noted that 9,300 to 9,500 non-drivers photo identification cards had been issued by the state Department of Transportation and that just 1,300 to 1,350 voting-only ID cards had been issued through the Department of State.
Simpson said he "expected more photo IDs to have been issued by this time," and that he accepted the challengers' claims that, between now and Election Day, "the gap between the photo IDs issued and the estimated need will not be closed."
Critics of the law were predicting chaos at the polls as election workers tried to enforce a Republican-authored statute that they claim was intended to keep traditionally Democratic voters at home.
Backers said the law was intended to ensure the integrity of elections and the principle of "one-man, one vote." But the law sparked a bitterly partisan battle.
In a statement, Pennsylvania Democratic Chairman Jim Burn said Simpson's decision was a "significant victory in the fight to make sure everyone has the right to vote in November."
Still, party officials will remain "vigilant to ensure that voters are educated about the voting process and they are protected when they cast their vote," Burn said.
With public polls showing support for the law, state Republican Chairman Robert Gleason said he was disappointed by Simpson's ruling.
"We shouldn't have to wait for this commonsense reform to be enacted," he said. "Despite the empty rhetoric to the contrary, this legislation is still about ensuring one person, one vote. Our party remains committed to the citizens of the Commonwealth and we will do all that we can to ensure free and fair elections."
Simpson's ruling allows the law to stand and "that is good," Pennsyvlania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, one of the law's most vocal supporters, said in a statement.
"When votes are diluted through fraud, the system starts to break down. Voter identification has always been about creating a level playing field where every Pennsylvanian's vote represents an equal opportunity to have a voice in government," Turzai said.
Local voter registration officials breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the spring primary truly was a dry run for November. Poll workers can be told to stick with the same procedures they used in April, said Dee Rumsey, Northampton County's director of voter registration and elections.
"We did not begin training yet, so we are good," Rumsey said. "I think it will actually be better for lines, it won't hold up the voting process. It will be a little smoother."
Lehigh County will have some retraining to do, pending some formal instruction from the Department of State. Some poll workers were trained Monday in the Voter ID procedures Simpson put on hold. Others are scheduled for classes this week.
"We still have time to contact them," Elections Director Tim Benyo said. "I'd like to see what the state says so I only have to bother them once."
Both said they were relieved that they will not have to deal with a flood of provisional ballots that would have been filed by voters who arrived at the polls without ID under the old rules.
While Tuesday's decision preserves the current legal status quo, an underlying constitutional challenge to the law remains unresolved. In a conference call with reporters, one of the lawyers involved, David Gersch, said it's too soon to tell how that challenge might unfold.
The state Supreme Court is set to meet in Pittsburgh during the week of Oct. 15 and could hold a hearing on any potential appeal then. It's possible that court could hand down a ruling on the same day it holds oral arguments, said Vic Walczak, the legal director for the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, and one of the lead attorneys who challenged the law.
At a two-day hearing before Simpson last week, challengers to the law put on a string of witnesses who testified that they'd made repeated trips to driver licensing centers, only to face state employees flummoxed by complex eligibility requirements and paperwork.
Lawyers for the state stressed the multimillion-dollar public relations blitz intended to educate voters about the law, which would have required people to show photo identification every time they voted.
Right now, the biggest challenge facing the state is making sure that voters are informed that they will not, at least for this election, need photo identification to vote, Walczak said.
"We have seen the commonwealth's advertising – most of the ads say you need ID on Election Day," he said. "That would be false at this time. Hopefully, they would pull those ads or make it clear that you don't need ID. Otherwise, there's the possibility for confusion … and any time you have confusion on Election Day, it's not a good time for demoracy."
In an interview with WHYY-FM in Philadelphia on Tuesday morning, Secretary of State Carol Aichele said the agency, which oversees elections in the state, intended to carry on with its public education efforts and would "await further direction from the courts sometime in the future."
Simpson's decision to allow state officials to continue an advertising campaign instructing voters to show their ID at the polls even after the requirement is suspended has the potential to confuse people, said Keesha Gaskins of the Brennan Center for Justice.
"It's my hope that the public response in terms of voter education will be clear that what it takes to have your ballot counted in 2012 is to just go and vote," Gaskins said. On Tuesday, Corbett said those concerns will be addressed.
And even though the state has the right to take the case again to the state Supreme Court, another appeal is unlikely because Simpson closely followed the high court's direction, Ledewitz said.
"If they appeal, it's only going through the motions," he said.(With reporting from Morning Call staff writers Peter Hall and Scott Kraus)
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SEVEN SPRINGS -- Angie Johnson was surprised when she found out the Seven Springs library branch her family has been coming to for years will close at the end of this month.
"I've always been coming in here," she said Friday, after dropping by with son, Alan, and daughter, Abigail, for a visit. "We come to read, they come to the summer reading program."
The Seven Springs branch of the Wayne County Library has served the southern Wayne community for 40 years, but will cease operations July 1.
The county's long-range plan is to close the branch in favor of developing the Steele Memorial Library in Mount Olive into a regional library, so the news of the impending closure was not a surprise to Seven Springs Mayor Stephen Potter.
Potter said he is grateful for the many years the county has funded the library, and understands the financial necessity behind the closing.
"We're very fortunate that the county manager and commissioners have been as fiscally responsible as they can be," Potter said.
Closing the branch might help the town's budget, too. The burden of keeping up the facility and paying the utilities was a significant cost for the small village, the mayor said.
The branch never held a large collection of books or other educational resources, but its staff and frequent patrons said they will miss having the closeness of a community-based library.
"We have mixed feelings," said Donna Phillips, assistant director of the county library, acknowledging the financial reasons for the move. " It's always sad when a library closes, but then we look forward to delivering services in just another location."
Use of the library has dwindled over the years, and for the last three years the branch has operated partially on grant money to serve a traditionally under-served Latino population. Of every 10 patrons visiting the library, about eight are studying English as a second language and the others are typically older residents and families with children who live outside of the Seven Springs town limits, the library staff said. Students from Spring Creek High School have also used the library.
Even though the move has been planned for some time, as someone who used to work at the library many years ago, and who watched as the branch came back into use even after Hurricane Floyd flooded the town in 1999, Potter does not like to see it go.
"It's a sad day to see it close. It's certainly been a benefit to the community, having it close by for elderly residents," he said.
The town board is taking steps to continue providing some outreach programs that were housed at the library. The summer reading program will continue as planned at the town hall, and town officials have also discussed with Wayne Community College the possibility of moving the GED and English-language classes to the town hall.
The county's "Book Buddies" program will also continue to serve Seven Springs residents. The volunteer program delivers books to elderly residents or others who cannot easily get to a library on their own, and is looking for additional volunteers in the Seven Springs area.
Librarians Lisa Dixon and Deifilia Velasquez said they will miss the closeness of working with their local patrons, many of whom they know on a first-name basis, but hope that they will get to continue seeing the people they have grown to know well after they move to another branch.
The Seven Springs location has special meaning for Ms. Dixon, because it was the first place she worked as a librarian.
"I've learned everything here. It is sad to see it closing, but I'm glad I'll be able to use my skills and hopefully the patrons will follow," she said.
Ms. Velasquez said she is looking forward to continuing to work with the children she frequently sees in Seven Springs, only at other branches.
"It's so important to read when they're so young," she said.
The Seven Springs Library has bilingual employees to help Latino patrons, and Mrs. Philips said the library system hopes to shift those employees to another branch.
"We're waiting to hear on the (county) budget," she said.
The Steele Memorial Library in Mount Olive is still about two years away from moving into the former Belk building, but fundraising for the project by the Friends of the Library is going very well, Ms. Phillips said.
"They've made a terrific effort," she said.
In the meantime, the Steele Memorial Library will take on some of the books from the Seven Springs branch. The collection and the computer equipment and software will be shared among the county libraries. The Spanish language materials will be divided between Mount Olive and Pikeville.
Ms. Phillips said the county library system will take away lessons learned from 40 years of operating the Seven Springs branch, including community-centric initiatives that may be put into use at other locations.
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Today is August 31st. On August 31st, baseball's rosters lock for the post-season, which means that only players on the active roster or the disabled list on August 31st can be used in the playoffs (with an exception for the 60-day disabled list, which we can talk more about in a minute). The Pittsburgh Pirates are only 1/2 game out of a playoff spot right now, which means that this is actually something the Pittsburgh Pirates have to actively worry about today. This is weird and wonderful.
We don't know anything official yet, but KDKA's Mike Vukovcan reported yesterday that Alex Presley and Kyle McPherson are both on their way to Milwaukee to meet the club. It's easy to guess what McPherson might be doing there, since the Pirates only have four starting pitchers right now, but we have to do some extrapolation for Presley. Let's start with McPherson, move to Presley, and talk about roster implications from there.
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McPherson was a pretty interesting, non-traditional prospect entering the 2012 season. His career got off to a sloooow start; he was drafted in 2007 but he still started 2009 in short-season State College. He had a decent 2010 season with 124 strikeouts in 117 2/3 innings, but he did it as a 22-year old in Single-A. Still, the Pirates chose to protect him in that December's Rule 5 draft, which you may remember caused a bit of a stir when the Bucs lost Nathan Adcock (a more advanced prospect, but with less of a ceiling) to the Royals. McPherson pretty immediately justified that decision in 2011, though; he buzzed through 12 starts in Bradenton with a 10.00 K/BB ratio and a 2.89 ERA and barely missed a beat when he was promoted to Altoona to make 16 starts for the Curve (3.02 ERA, 8.3 K/9, 2.1 BB/9, 0.8 HR/9). When 2012 started, I figured he had a good chance to be the first pitcher from Indianapolis promoted to Pittsburgh this year (I had him ahead of Owens, Locke, and Wilson on my last prospect list) if he started the year strong with Indy. If you remember the Rumbunter Podcast I did back in April, I said that I was hoping that he'd shake his early-season shoulder problems off so that I could see him pitch in Durham. Instead, those problems kept him shelved for quite a while and he started 2012 off with Altoona to ease back into things.
He pitched pretty well in Altoona, though, and he pitched really well in his three starts with Indy (0.98 ERA, 8.3 K/9, 2.0 BB/9, 0.82 WHIP, so obviously he had a ridiculously low BABIP, but still) and we saw him in long relief 10 days ago after the 19-inning game. From what I can tell of his stuff, he's kind of like a right-handed Rudy Owens. His fastball sits in the low 90s and he can occasionally ramp it up a bit (he hit 93 in his relief stint, but I'm not sure if that's what it's normally like when he starts) and he locates it very well. He's got a curve and a change that are decent, but he's a flyball guy that's occasionally prone to homers (you can read the WTM profile at Pirates Prospects for a full picture). Three pitches, decent velocity, and good location means he could be a solid mid-to-back-end starter as a big leaguer, depending on how well his secondary stuff develops. I still say he could have some success right now because he's only made four Triple-A starts and there's a good chance he's going to catch people off-guard, especially if the Pirates continue to use their off-days to ensure he faces teams like the Astros instead of teams like the Brewers. If he can find even a little more velocity out of the bullpen, he could also be a pretty effective reliever, though he's never really pitched in that capacity, though I think Chris Leroux would make more sense in this kind of role.
The obvious move to put McPherson on the team would seem to be to demote Chase d'Arnaud back to Indy or DFA Jeff Clement, except that a lot of teams choose to go with a 14/11 position player/pitcher split because the playoffs are full of off days and more pitchers are usuallly unnecessary. The Pirates have a bit of leeway here, too; Charlie Morton is on the 60-day disabled list and won't be back for the playoffs, so the Pirates can replace him with literally anyone on the 40-man roster for the playoffs, whether they're on the roster today or not (there is some confusion if this is limited to a pitcher or not; it definitely used to be the case but it may not be anymore). That means that if the Pirates don't call McPherson up until Monday and leave the roster as is, then call Justin Wilson up as a September call-up and he dominates, the Pirates can put Wilson on the playoff roster as a "replacement" for Morton even though he'd really be in Kevin Correia or Hisanori Takahashi's roster spot. It also means the Pirates could put McPherson on the roster today and demote Jared Hughes today and send him to West Virginia or Altoona (their seasons both end on Monday, so Hughes could be back with the Pirates on Tuesday) to make room for McPherson without disrespecting Kevin Correia (this is a dumb reason to do something but also something the Pirates are probably considering). This line of thinking isn't limited to McPherson, of course; the Pirates could make this kind swing with Chris Leroux or Bryan Morris or Justin Wilson or Jeff Locke today, too. McPherson's just the guy we know is in Milwaukee.
Let's summarize and clean things up here: we'll assume that for the purposes of the playoffs, the Pirates will go with 14 position players and 11 pitchers. Charlie Morton gives them the ability to add one player (maybe limited to a pitcher, maybe not) to their playoff roster that doesn't have to be on the roster today. The Pirates don't really need a starter until Monday, so that means any pitcher put on the roster today will be put there for the expressed purpose of playoff eligibility. That means that to add a pitcher today, they'll either get rid of Correia or they'll demote Hughes to the low minors to speed his return back to Pittsburgh, with the intention of putting him on the playoff roster in Morton's spot.
So what about Presley? The Pirates have four outfielders on their roster right now (McCutchen, Snider, Tabata, and Jones), plus Starling Marte will be eligible for the playoffs since he's on the disabled list at the moment. I'm guessing the Pirates want the ability to choose between Tabata and Presley and Marte for a playoff spot or two, so I don't think an outfielder will go down. Sending a middle infielder down would make sense since Barmes, Mercer, Harrison, and d'Arnaud are all still on the team, but as was just pointed out to me, d'Arnaud's speed makes him an interesting playoff option. I'd think the club would want Mercer and Harrison both as options, too, and so since Presley more or less duplicates Jeff Clement's skill set (lefty, some pop) but with the ability to play outfield, it seems most likely that Presley replaces Clement on the roster.
There are some other unknowns here, of course; Chad Qualls could go to the 60-day disabled list with an infection in that stubbed toe or something, which would mean that the Pirates would get a free roster replacement for him, too (I have no idea how blatantly this can be exploited, but if Chad Qualls goes on the 60-day DL with an injury that started a stubbed toe, we'll probably have an idea). Players can also get hurt or "get hurt" in September. Where we stand today, though, is that I think we'll see Presley up for Clement and quite possibly McPherson up for either Correia or a short Hughes demotion to the low minors to hasten his return. There's still some flexibility with Marte on the DL and due back before the season ends and with Charlie Morton on the 60-day DL, but we should have a pretty good idea of what the front office thinks is its best playoff roster before the day ends.


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MILWAUKEE – President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation's dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of women to his side…In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points.
The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.
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Here's Josh Barro writing for Forbes with details of some Santorum plans for wasteful and intrusive government:
The Daily Caller flags a little-discussed position paper on Rick Santorum's campaign website—his pledge to aggressively prosecute those who produce and distribute pornography. Santorum avers that "America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography." He pledges to use the resources of the Department of Justice to fight that "pandemic," by bringing obscenity prosecutions against pornographers.
I would note that this is very different from what the Bush Administration did. The Bush DOJ did establish an Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in 2005, but this body focused on bringing prosecutions against small-time producers who made porn with extreme content. (Even so, it faced significant pushback from U.S. Attorneys, some of whom viewed such prosecutions as a distraction and a misuse of resources.) Many social conservative groups were disappointed with the task force, contending that more mainstream hardcore porn violates obscenity laws, and they urged the Bush Administration to bring obscenity cases against major producers.
Santorum promises that he would do exactly this. His statement references going after pornography that is distributed not just on the Internet, but also "on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV." Perhaps I am not staying in the most interesting hotels, but my impression is that porn distributed through such channels is almost definitionally not extreme. Santorum's statement also touts his work on this issue with "groups including Morality in Media, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, American Family Association"—many of which were among the groups calling on the Bush Administration to prosecute mainstream porn producers in 2007. And he says he "proudly support[s] the efforts of the War on Illegal Pornography Coalition," which advocates the use of obscenity laws against mainstream porn.
Some of Santorum's defenders have taken the tack of separating his personal views from his policy views. Santorum thinks contraception is "not OK" and he has announced his intention to use the bully pulpit to discuss "the dangers of contraception." But he doesn't think contraception should be illegal, and he voted for Title X contraception subsidies (though he said in a recent debate that he opposes Title X, despite voting for it.) On pornography, though, Santorum's views can't be written off as purely personal—he has stated a clear intent to use the levers of government to stop adults from making and watching porn.
And, of course to fritter away taxpayer money (and prosecutorial resources) while doing so.
Now that's obscene.
2012 Elections · big government · Censorship · Porn · Rick Santorum
Shocking News
Via the Washington Post, but even so this is not, perhaps, the most surprising news:
The fragile gains Republicans had been making among female voters have been erased, a shift that has coincided with what has become a national shouting match over reproductive issues, potentially handing President Obama and the Democrats an enormous advantage this fall.
In the 2010 congressional midterm elections, Republican candidates ran evenly with Democrats among women, a break with long-established trends. That was a major reason the GOP regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Now, female voters appear to be swinging back to Democrats.
A number of polls show that Obama's approval among women has risen significantly since December, even as it has remained flat among men. The same trend, which began before the controversy in recent weeks, is also showing up further down the ballot.
When a Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey asked in the summer which party should control Congress, 46 percent of women favored Democrats and 42 percent preferred Republican control.
But in a survey released Monday, compiling data since the beginning of the year, that figure had widened considerably to a 15-point advantage for the Democrats, according to polling by the team of Democratic pollster Peter Hart and Republican Bill McInturff. Fifty-one percent favored Democratic control; only 36 percent wanted to see the Republicans in charge…
Both sides have tried to shape the narrative in this battle for and about women. But many Republicans are beginning to wish they had never waded into what has become a heated conversation over contraception, who should have it and what it says about people who use it.
GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's campaign, said Republicans need to return to pocketbook and fiscal issues. "We know what works," she said, "and we need to get back to it."
And even those who saw the "contraception" controversy as being over religious freedom rather than contraception should have realized the political dangers of the territory into which they were sailing, and navigated it with distinctly more skill than they have shown.
Terri Schiavo, part deux? We'll have to see, but there can be no doubt that, under these circumstances, choosing Santorum, a character with strongly-held views on the , uh, perversity of contraception ("a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be"), as the GOP's nominee would both drown out any argument over religious freedom and be an extraordinary act of electoral self-destruction.
2012 Elections · contraception · gender gap · Republican Party · Rick Santorum · Terri Schiavo
10 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
[Santorum] lambasted the president's health care law requiring insurance policies to include free prenatal testing, "because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society."
On the other hand Santorum probably does approve of the prenatal testing discussed by David Frum here:
…It is the Obama administration that is winning the communications war. Republicans blame the media. OK, maybe. But then Republicans do things like this in the state of Virginia:
HB 462 Abortion; informed consent, shall undergo ultrasound imaging.
"Abortion; informed consent. Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion, to determine gestation age, every pregnant female shall undergo ultrasound imaging and be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound image of her fetus prior to the abortion. The medical professional performing the ultrasound must obtain written certification from the woman that the opportunity was offered and whether the woman availed herself of the opportunity to see the ultrasound image or hear the fetal heartbeat. A copy of the ultrasound and the written certification shall be maintained in the woman's medical records at the facility where the abortion is to be performed. This bill incorporates HB 261."
The ABC news report on the Virginia bill explains:
"The ultrasound legislation would constitute an unprecedented government mandate to insert vaginal ultrasonic probes into women as part of a state-ordered effort to dissuade them from terminating pregnancies, legislative opponents noted."
"Gone from the world of Christianity as I see it…"
4 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics, Religion
Say what you will about Santorum, it's difficult to argue that he is a man who succumbs to the vapid ecumenicism that dominates so much of the discourse we hear these days from the, uh, "faith community".
Here he is speaking to Ave Maria University in 2008:
We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it. […]
Helping Obama
10 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
The polling data relied upon for this Washington Post article is from a Democratic polling firm, but the results should come as no great surprise:
The firm's poll finds that one of the most important factors powering Obama's gains against likely GOP nominee Mitt Romney has been the President's improving numbers among unmarried women, a key pillar of the present and future Democratic coalition.
Among this group, Obama now leads Romney by 65-30 — and there's been a net 18-point swing towards the President among them:…After unmarried women dropped off for Dems in 2010 and were slow to return to the Dem fold in 2011, Obama is now approaching the 70 percent he won among them in 2008.
Unmarried women will be important to Obama's success at rebuilding his 2008 coalition in time for reelection, something that already seems to be underway, as Ronald Brownstein has demonstrated. The crack Post polling team tells me that the key to understanding this constituency is that it's complex and diverse; it includes young women who have never married, divorced women, and widows, and it cuts across class, racial, income, and geographic lines.
Various factors — the improving economy; the drawn-out Republican nomination process; the GOP's sinking approval ratings — already seem to be driving unmarried women back towards Obama. And the pitched battle over birth control could continue to galvanize and unite this group behind him, particularly if Romney is forced to embrace the conservative position. The Greenberg poll also tested the two sides' position on this issue, and found that 61 percent of unmarried women side with the Democratic one.
Concludes the memo: "We may yet look back on this debate and wonder whether this was a Terri Schiavo moment."
The chances that this will indeed be the case will increase substantially if Santorum is the nominee. To use a hackneyed term, elections are all about the "narrative" and the narrative says that Santorum wants to ban contraception. He can deny that all he wants (and that's just what he's doing), but he's said enough in the past to ensure that there are a lot of people who will never believe him. That will tell at the polls should Santorum become the nominee.
And not in a good way.
2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in science
How to lose a presidential election 101…
Via The Hill
The top donor behind a pro-Rick Santorum super-PAC said Thursday that contraception doesn't have to be costly because women used to use aspirin for birth control.
"This contraceptive thing, my gosh it's so inexpensive. You know back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception," Foster Friess, the major donor behind the pro-Santorum Red White and Blue Fund super-PAC said on MSNBC. "The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly."
Friess was referencing an old saying that women who held their knees closely together would have to remain abstinent.
Helping Obama to Victory
4 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in culture, politics
If ever the GOP were to score points in the contraception wars it ought to have been at the beginning of the controversy, when it was easiest to frame the discussion in terms of religious freedom.
Well, it hasn't been happening.
PRINCETON, NJ — Catholics' views of President Obama were little changed during a week in which the administration battled publicly with Catholic leaders over whether church-affiliated employers should have to pay for contraception as part of their employees' health plans. An average of 46% of Catholics approved of the job Obama was doing as president last week, compared with 49% the prior week, a change within the margin of sampling error.
Although Catholic Church leaders' opposition to the requirement dates back to last fall, when the policy was being laid out, the controversy erupted and made headlines in the last 10 days, after the Obama administration announced that religious-based employers would ultimately have to comply. The Obama administration's rules would have forced organizations affiliated with the church — such as Catholic hospitals, service organizations, and universities — to pay for employee healthcare services that go against their belief that Catholics should not use contraception.
It is possible that practicing Catholics are more likely than nonpracticing Catholics to hew to the church's teachings on birth control. But both groups — those who attend church every week or nearly every week and those who attend less often — had identical 46% approval ratings of Obama last week. Though both more frequent and less frequent churchgoing Catholics' approval ratings of Obama were down from the prior week, neither change was statistically meaningful.
Amid continued controversy surrounding an Obama administration policy mandating that women working at religiously-affiliated institutions be provided with free access to contraceptive health care, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that most Americans – including Catholics – appear to support the rule.
According to a survey, conducted between Feb. 8-13, 61 percent of Americans support federally-mandated contraception coverage for religiously-affiliated employers; 31 percent oppose such coverage.
The number is similar among self-professed Catholics surveyed: 61 percent said they support the requirement, while 32 percent oppose it.
Majorities of both men and women said they are in favor of the mandate, though support among women is especially pronounced, with 66 percent supporting and 26 percent opposing it. Among men, 55 percent of men are in favor; 38 percent object.
The survey's margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.
And it's only going to get worse, as the perception that the GOP is somehow anti-contraception sinks ever deeper in public consciousness (helped along , of course, by the pronouncements of Santorum on this topic), and the argument over the First Amendment gets lost in the noise. And that, have no doubt about it, is going to cost the GOP a lot of votes.
This whole thing is looking more and more like a Terri Schiavo moment.
And here's a reminder from ABC (Mar 21 2005) of how that played out with the public:
Americans broadly and strongly disapprove of federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, with sizable majorities saying Congress is overstepping its bounds for political gain.
Sampling, data collection and tabulation for this poll were done by TNS.
The public, by 63 percent-28 percent, supports the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, and by a 25-point margin opposes a law mandating federal review of her case. Congress passed such legislation and President Bush signed it early today.
That legislative action is distinctly unpopular: Not only do 60 percent oppose it, more — 70 percent — call it inappropriate for Congress to get involved in this way. And by a lopsided 67 percent-19 percent, most think the elected officials trying to keep Schiavo alive are doing so more for political advantage than out of concern for her or for the principles involved.
This ABC News poll also finds that the Schiavo case has prompted an enormous level of personal discussion: Half of Americans say that as a direct result of hearing about this case, they've spoken with friends or family members about what they'd want done if they were in a similar condition. Nearly eight in 10 would not want to be kept alive.
In addition to the majority, the intensity of public sentiment is also on the side of Schiavo's husband, who has fought successfully in the Florida courts to remove her feeding tube. And intensity runs especially strongly against congressional involvement.
Included among the 63 percent who support removing the feeding tube are 42 percent who "strongly" support it — twice as many as strongly oppose it. And among the 70 percent who call congressional intervention inappropriate are 58 percent who hold that view strongly — an especially high level of strong opinion.
And who was one of the politicians most involved with the attempt to 'federalize' the Schiavo tragedy?
Why, none other than Santorum, crushed a year later in a senatorial contest in which his role in the Schiavo case is thought to have played no small part in his humiliating defeat. The idea that this rigidly dogmatic ideologue is in any way electable is ludicrous. There is also every danger for the Republicans that his candidacy would be so polarizing that it would trigger a surge in voters interested only in voting against Santorum, and while they were at it, his parties' candidates for the Senate and House, something that would present additional dangers for the GOP.
Obama must be laughing.
2012 Elections · contraception · Rick Santorum · Terri Schiavo
Adding to the Merriment of the Nation
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in culture, politics
Gingrich never fails to deliver…
Via Yahoo:
From Newt Gingrich's latest campaign release:
"Speaker Newt Gingrich has unveiled his Faith Leaders Dream Team — rallying several fearless Christians including Don Wildmon, Tim and Beverly LaHaye, George Barna, JC Watts, Chuck Norris, Mat Staver and others as he takes on the the radical secularism of the Obama Administration.
The Gingrich Faith Leaders Coalition is Newt Gingrich's official advisory coalition on issues pertaining to life, marriage, and religious liberty.
Okey Dokey
Own Goal
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State, culture
So how will the politics of the great contraception wars pan out for the right? Badly, if I had to guess. Given time, the notion (true or false) that this is an argument about religious freedom will fade from the public mind and what will be left, reinforced by the depressing persistence of Santorum in the Republican race, is a vague sense that the GOP is opposed to contraception, and that will not play well, not at all.
Already there's this:
A Fox News poll released Friday showed a large majority, 61 percent, of Americans approve of requiring employer health plans to cover birth control for women. Thirty-four percent disapproved. The nationwide survey was conducted by telephone among 1,110 registered voters Feb. 6-9 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points, the network said.
And that poll is not alone. Obama must be laughing.


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I haven't abandoned blogging, I've just moved to Farm Life at its Best. I hope you'll come visit there!
Saturday, March 23, 2013
I've Moved!
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Two Against One
Do you think this looks fair?
Penny and Willow were ganging up on Gold.
I think she'll be OK.
She seems to be holding her own.
Peny is losing her confidence! It's to much for her to take!
And she's off! Scaredy-goat.
Now it's just Willow and Gold... who's gonna win?
The winner is.... CORN??
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Goldilocks and the Three Chickens
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Lovely Willow
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
My Boyfriend...
Is still super cute!
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I am a Famous Goat!
petoftheday.com. You can be featured too! All you have to do is go HERE and email a very nice lady. Make sure you go look at my page! It is pretty cool.
Thank you to my Human, who surprised me today with this great surprise.
Thank you to my Human, who surprised me today with this great surprise.
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Eyes on the Farm
There are lots of different kind of animals on the farm, goats, ducks, chickens and cats.
My Human was trying to get pictures of my eyes, but she says I'm a spaz and I can't stop moving for more then two seconds. So she thought that she would take pictures of other animals eyes.
She thinks Lobaca has very pretty orange eyes. I think mine are much cuter.
If you want to take a picture of a goats eye, Uhura is your go-to-goat. Just give her scritches and she won't move for about four years.
My Human and her sister each caught a duck at the fair, so now Tommi isn't lonely.
Linking up to Observing Beauty with Bethany.
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Baaad Human and Updates
My Human is very naughty. She hasn't posted on her blog for a long time, and she hasn't let me on for a long time! I will update you on new happenings around the farm.
Willow is huge. She is almost as big as our Maamaa and she's only 5 months old! Whenever the Human is leading her somewhere, she asks Willow "What are you eating when I'm not looking? Huge tablets, that make you huge?" Silly Human.
I'm trying to catch up with Willow by eating everything I can get my mouth on. I haven't eaten the Human though.... YET.
Cassie still excels in making funny faces. I told her to look like a sleepy llama, and it worked!
My boyfriend, Terence, is letting the Human pet him now. She said us goats can't go by him cause he has icky bugs crawling around in his fur. She put something called dia-ta-mae-shus earth on him. She said it's made out of ground up shells. I'm sure glad I don't icky buggies on me!
That's all for now, but I'll make sure my Human lets me on really soon to post again!
Ta ta for now,
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
He's a STUD!
Isn't my boyfriend so cute?
Linking to SOOC Sunday and Crazy Daze of Summer.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Penny the Goat Yoga Instructor
My Girl brought home a new boyfriend for me. Well, my sister too, but mostly for me of course!
|Isn't he cute?
He is very loud. My girl said she wants to name him Scooter or Terence.
I volunteered to show him how to do Goat Yoga. I am, of course, an expert.
Go to the right...
Now the left...
And that's how to do Goat Yoga!
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Los Angeles: Zsa Zsa Gabor smiled and ate ice cream on Saturday, a day after doctors amputated much of the actress` leg to fight a gangrene infection that could have killed her, her husband said.
"She talks to me and she smiles a little bit," Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, told Reuters.
Von Anhalt and John Blanchette, a spokesman for the 93 year-old Gabor, said the star of 1950s movies "Moulin Rouge" and "Lili" still does not know her leg was amputated.
"I told them (doctors) not to talk to her, because I didn`t want her to get hysterical and the blood pressure goes up," he said.
He said Gabor is on morphine to take away the pain, and that in the coming days he will tell her about the surgery that removed most of her right leg.
Gabor ate ice cream and some sausage on Saturday, her husband said.
Blanchette said doctors are "guardedly optimistic" about the actress` recovery. "She was chatty and feisty this morning," he said.
Gabor is currently hospitalized at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles. She fell at home and broke her hip in July last year and since that time has been in and out of the hospital.
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These 14 Dogs Prove That Nothing's Better Than Being Greeted By A Happy Pup
It's Monday morning, and you're in denial that your alarm is going off and it's time to begin yet another work week. "Where did the weekend go?" you ask yourself as you inch your way out from under the covers. After a hearty breakfast and your third cup of coffee, it's time to make the agonizing commute to work.
But don't fret, because in just eight hours, you'll be greeted at the door by your favorite fur babies who are ready to show you a little love. And for those of us without pets at home, here are 14 dogs that would be more than happy to see you walk through the door!
1. "You came to get us! Thank goodness!"
2. I wonder if they do that every day. Seems exhausting!
3. "Good, you're home. Now let's go for a swim!"
5. "Don't ever leave me alone again!"
6. Just wait…that tail wag, though!
7. This golden retriever will even hang up your coat for you.
8. "I wasn't expecting you to be home for another hour."
9. "Hooman! You are home!"
10. This pup can't contain all that joy!
11. "I haven't left this spot since you left."
12. Dance it out, friend.
13. She was probably doing that for the entire day.
14. Now THESE are the ultimate homecomings.
Well, I don't have a dog, and I now realize that I've been screwing up. I need to see one of these faces after work every day!
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Franchesca Ramsey jumps on the Sh*t Girls Say meme, turning out the best one yet.
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Or Shalom Synagogue (Vancouver): http://www.orshalom.ca
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- Rabbi Jeremy Parnes: https://www.bethjacobsynagogue.com/our-rabbi
Congregation Shaarey Zedek (Winnipeg): http://www.shaareyzedek.mb.ca/index.html
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- Jewish Renewal in Hamilton, Ontario; spiritual direction; workshops on Aging and Sageing,
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