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Day 353 Daily Bible Reading Micah 1-3 (Listen)1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The Coming Destruction
Hear, you
peoples, all of you; [1]
For this I
will lament and wail;
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in Gath; Woe to the Oppressors
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preach"—thus they preach— Rulers and Prophets Denounced
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Then they
will cry to the
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the Lord
concerning the prophets
Hear this,
you heads of the house of Jacob Revelation 10 (Listen)The Angel and the Little Scroll10:1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded. And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down." And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants [7] the prophets. Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey." And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings." Footnotes
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LiveSmart: Immunizations Critical for Individual, Public Health
[This piece was written by Diane Tenenbaum, MD, of St. Peter's Children's Health Center.]
A measles outbreak that emerged in late December on the West Coast continues to remain in the news. As of March, 17 states and the District of Columbia reported measles cases, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The United States experienced a record number of measles cases during 2014, with 644 cases from 27 states reported.
Not everyone recognizes measles as the serious disease it really is, perhaps because it used to be a routine part of everyone's childhood and also because it is not seen nearly as much as it once was. But measles can be deadly.
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that spreads easily through the air or on infected surfaces. It causes rash, high fever, cough, runny nose and red watery eyes; people who are infected with measles can spread the virus up to four days before they develop symptoms. Measles still kills about a million people a year around the world. Of every 1,000 people who get measles, 1 to 2 will die.
Vaccines are one of the most important ways parents can protect their children from very real diseases like measles. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) urges parents to have their children immunized against measles, as well as other infectious diseases.
The AAP, the CDC, and the American Academy of Family Physicians all recommend children receive the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine at age 12-15 months, and again at 4-6 years. High immunization rates in a community will protect those who cannot be vaccinated, including infants under 12 months of age.
When considering vaccination, it is important to remember:
- Vaccines are safer and more effective today than ever before. One reason is the naturally-occurring additives that help sterilize vaccine fluids;
- While children today are getting more vaccinations than in the past, the overall amount of immunologic agents in these vaccines is smaller. Thanks to improvements in vaccine formulas, just two shots given to children in 1980 had more immunologic agents than the antigens in the entire childhood vaccination series given today;
- Delaying vaccinations — or spreading them out over time — only increases the risk of exposing your child to a serious and possibly life-altering illness.
Parents are encouraged to follow the advice of their pediatricians and the AAP in regards to vaccinations. Additionally, facts about the need to keep infants on schedule for routine vaccinations can be found at www.aap.org/immunization.
St. Peter's Children's Health Center (1092 Madison Avenue, Albany – 518-525-2445) offers a complete range of services for children from newborns to age 18. Services include well-child routine care, sick child exams, school and camp physicals, sports physicals, immunizations, and access to other hospital services and referrals to specialists.

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AWARE for All: CISCRP's Clinical Research Education Event Returning to Houston this May
Houston, TX (PRWEB) April 24, 2017 -- On Friday, May 12 the Houston community is invited to attend AWARE for All to learn about the clinical research process and obtain educational material about the research activity in Houston. The AWARE for All program is a free educational event produced by the Boston-based non-profit Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP). The event serves as a forum for open dialogue between patients, members of the public, and health and research professionals. AWARE for All – Houston will provide valuable information and education about the clinical research process and clinical research participation, as well as food, prizes, and complimentary health screenings. There will be an overview discussion in Spanish about clinical research, as well as Spanish language materials and onsite translators for assistance. And as a bonus, The Greater Gift Initiative will be donating one vaccine to one child in need on behalf of every event attendee.
This is the second AWARE for All event held in the Houston area since 2014. The AWARE for All program focuses on educating and empowering the public to make informed decisions about all healthcare treatment options available, including clinical research participation. Funding for this event is provided by CISCRP's national AWARE for All sponsors EMD Serono, Inc., a subsidiary of Merck KGaA Darmstadt, Germany and the Lupus Research Alliance, host sponsors MD Anderson and the Windsor Village – Kingdom Builder's Center, as well as local sponsors Centex Studies, Inc., the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Global Outreach Agency Publicis Health Communications Group and Langland.
Lorna Haughton McNeill, Associate Professor, Department of Health Disparities Research and Chair of the Center for Community-Engaged Translational Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center comments, "We are pleased to co-host this exciting health and education fair for our community, patients, and their family members. Our goals are to share with you important information about clinical research and what it can mean for you and your family, as well as present some ongoing research projects that you might want to join!"
Ellyn Getz, Senior Manager of Development and Community Engagement at CISCRP remarks, "We are excited to return to Houston for the upcoming AWARE for All event and are grateful for the support that we have received from all of our community and research sponsors. The goal of our flagship, internationally recognized AWARE for All program is to empower the public with education about clinical trials so that they can make informed decisions when it comes to their own health care options. We're looking forward to bringing health care providers, clinical research professionals, members of the public, care partners, and patients together once again."
The event will be held on May 12 from 11 am-2 pm at the Windsor Village Kingdom Builder's Center and is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is strongly encouraged and available at https://aware-houston17.eventbrite.com or by calling 1-877-MED-HERO (1-877-633-4376). Sponsorship and exhibit opportunities are still available; email ellyngetz(at)ciscrp(dot)org to learn more.
About CISCRP:
The Center for Information and Study (CISCRP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to engaging the public and patients as partners in the clinical research process. CISCRP provides free education and outreach to the general public and patient communities. Visit http://www.CISCRP.org for more information or to support CISCRP's educational initiatives.
Editor's Note:
Community and research partners include: Baylor College of Medicine, Centex Studies, Inc., EMD Serono, Inc., a subsidiary of Merck KGaA Darmstadt, Germany, Harris Health System, Houston Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Houston Area Urban League, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Lupus Research Alliance, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Sisters Network, Inc., Texas Southern University, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and the Windsor Village – Kingdom Builder's Center
Rachel Minnick, CISCRP, +1 (617) 725-2750 Ext: 330, [email protected]


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the best of the best: pizza guru
9March 6th, 2011more restaurants (not LA), santa barbarawe are self-proclaimed vegan pizza addicts, and our favorite place to get it at the moment is pizza guru in santa barbara. we love pizza guru so much, in fact, that in january we made the 90 mile drive up the coast just to eat dinner there and celebrate vegan pizza day. thankfully, we found a great table in the corner, made ourselves comfy, and spent a few hours leisurely dining.
considering it was a holiday and all, we decided to go all out. garlic bread, pizza, calzones, and of course, lots of alcohol. we stared with a huge plate of daiya covered bread (pictured above) and a pitcher of firestone union jack (pictured below). the bread was nothing short of phenomenal—moist, spongy, and packed with garlic flavor. just be sure to specify that you want it made vegan, because by default it comes with dairy cheese.
firestone walker on draught never disappoints, and it was perfect for soaking up all the greasy bread. i love that this place does beer by the pitcher…it's not something i get to enjoy with vegan pizza very often.
next up, THE PIZZA:
good god, this was the most fantastic pizza i've ever tasted.
we built our own with vegan garlic cream sauce, vegan cheese, basil, roasted red potatoes, and the mushroom blend. lemme just say that potatoes on pizza is a brilliant concept. carbs covered in grease, then stacked with more carbs, and smothered in daiya cheese. such a guilty pleasure.
we enjoyed a lovely bottle of summerland merlot with it, as well as a vegan calzone:
the calzones at pizza guru are so insanely delicious. we got this one stuffed with meaty soy pepperoni, garlic, and plenty of daiya. perfection!
i am head over heels for pizza guru—there's just nowhere in los angeles like it. if you haven't been, trust me, the vegan garlic cream sauce alone is worth the two hour drive to santa barbara. if i leave now, i can make it there by lunch time. hmm…
pizza guru
Tags: beer, calzone, pizza, santa barbara
3534 State St
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(805) 563-3250
9 responses to "the best of the best: pizza guru"
Armando March 6th, 2011 at 10:23
Hmm. I may have to check this place out. I've hit up a lot of vegan pizza places in Southern California and to this day I still feel that cheezy pizza out in Colton has the best vegan pizza in all of So Cal. Though it will be awhile before I trek out to Santa Barbara, I'm not a fan of 3 hour drives but sometimes you gotta bite the bullet for good pizza!
melissa March 6th, 2011 at 10:41
pizza guru is good if you can get past the awful awful restaurant vibe and terrible customer service. the last time we were there, every table was dirty and our table (the only empty table that wasn't covered in filth) had some weird fly infestation going on. it pains me to say that because the food is excellent, and we love their support of local farmers. and there's not a ton a vegan food in SB, so we want to support this place…but so many of us locals want to like PG, but have had terrible experiences. including a friend who ordered a vegan pizza that came with cheese… the girl behind the counter said "sorry" and told him he could buy another pizza if he wanted to. yeah. maybe QG's picture is hung up somewhere behind the counter? because your experiences seem to be better than most. i even wrote an email to the owner to let her know of our experience, and never got a response. thumbs down to pizza guru. sorry. maybe a good option for delivery instead of a restaurant destination?
Fritz March 6th, 2011 at 10:50
Poor ol' Santa Barbara! Just looked it up on Happy Cow and found a total of ONE vegetarian restaurant listed! ONE!!!!!!! Maybe I should just start calling it 'Santa Barbry'! Hahahahaha!
Erica March 6th, 2011 at 14:02
Yep, considering how organic this city can be, we have shitty veg*n options. BUT… there is a new restaurant opening up that is 100% vegan! It'll be a few months, but I'm just happy that eventually I'll be able to eat food from a restaurant that doesn't also serve meat/cheese.
I agree with Melissa! I live in SB, and last time I went there they gave us a soy cheese pizza, that looked oddly melted. We asked the girl working what cheese they use, and she said she "didn't know" but would show us the packaging. We asked why they weren't using Follow Your Heart (which is what they used before they finally got Daiya) and she said they never used Follow Your Heart which was a complete lie. Not only that, but the cheese they were using had casein in it! The girl was incredibly rude, and unapologetic when confronted. This was last year, and I haven't gone since. I MIGHT give them another try, but for now, I'll stick to homemade 🙂
VeganInLA March 7th, 2011 at 13:29
I've only been once and it was last year. Planning on going again in the next few months. Our experience was great. The place was clean, the woman who took our order was really, really nice and was very supportive of us being vegan and gave us several suggestions. It was also the best damn pizza I've ever had. The vegan garlic cream sauce is worth the 2 hour drive alone.
I wish they delivered to LA!!
melissa March 7th, 2011 at 22:34
can't wait for a vegan restaurant in this town. if i didn't already have my hands full at co-op i would have taken the plunge years ago. how we have the most beautiful organic produce almost in the whole country and no raw or vegan restaurant here is a sin. good news, that is, about a restaurant. hopefully local farmers are supported abundantly! luckily our lack of vegan restaurants has allowed for excellent forays into home cooking 🙂
any QG readers want to take it up a notch, how about we start throwing epic vegan potlucks for ourselves? we don't need a freaking restaurant to know how good we have it up here ingredients-wise… let's take it to our own tables. find me at the isla vista food co-op.


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Conversations in Conflict Studies- A New Model of Collaborative Governance: Deliberative Policy Analysis and Deliberative Think Tanks
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Guest Speaker: Ya Li, Visiting Research Professor and Fulbright Scholar, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Deliberative policy analysis (DPA) is a specific kind of policy inquiry based on a public deliberation and dispute resolution process involving relevant parties and citizens, aiming to provide insights for policy makers or collaborative partners. Compared with mainstream policy analysis, DPA can better adapt to the requirement of collaborative governance or the demand of policy analysis in a networked society. A major research problem in this field is how to render DPA more operable. Deliberative think tanks (DTT), or deliberative consulting institutes, might work as an effective organizational solution for DPA practice. The speaker will present a brief introduction to DPA, including its principles and promises, and discuss the ideas and conceptual models of the DTT. A recent case of DPA practice in a collaborative governance context will be introduced. Some future research issues regarding DTT will also be discussed.
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Adrion Roberson is on the core teaching team of the Kansas Leadership Center also serving as program chair for Your Leadership Edge. He serves as co-pastor of the Berean Fellowship Church in Kansas City. He also is the founder of KC United! Youth Sports & Education Initiative, which serves more than 850 youth and teens in the urban metro KC area. He also serves with the CHC (Community Health Coalition CAB group) Community Action Board and with the local Alive & Thrive group of KCK. In 2017 he completed The Art and Practice of Leadership Development at Harvard's Kennedy School.
In 2020 Adrion served on the Governor's counsel for criminal justice reform and in 2019 he received the Governor's award as the Kansas Health Champion.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Flower Folds Treat Container Tutorial
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- ...Tara... said...
Thanks so much for this tutorial!!! I LOVE it :)
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- Lorrinda said...
Thank you for the tutorial! The pics really help! I'm going to try one of these today!
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- Creations by Patti said...
Wow - this is awesome! I had admored it and now find it so cool - a tutorial. Thank you so much. I hesitated to get this die and glad to see other uses of it to encourgae me to get it! Great job on this tutorial....this project has so many possibilities! my best, Patti
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Wow! I LOVE this!! Very cute... thanks for sharing.
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This is absolutely adorable! I am so amazed!
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That is really cute! But now i need to get the flower folds die... ahh, such is my addiction!
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This is beautiful, and I never would have guessed how it was made. Thank you so much for the tutorial!
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Wow this is so cute. I love the idea of the flower for the top and the bottom. Thanks for the tutorial.
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great project & tut! I love the idea of using the flower die to create the bases. TFS!
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What a wonderful job. How the heck did you figure all the measurements! I think I need a treat now.
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These are just incredibly beautiful.
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Great tutorial Tammy. Love this box!
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Wow I love your blog~ so many cute ideas and such creativity. Thanks especially for sharing your tutorials. As someone that is new to stamping this is fantastic!!!
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It's long been the practice of this blog to make note of the famous (and infamous) when they die. But this post has sparked a discussion of CHATTER's Great Game of Mortality. Offensive, some say. Offensive and in poor taste. We don't disagree. The same holds true for some parts of life.
Mick Denniston, the former leader of Springfield Little Theatre, died during our blackout. A Denniston friend said we "failed to pounce" on Denniston's passing and posted this comment:
It just doesn't seem so much like a game when the dearly departed just happen to be near and dear to you, now does it?


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They can devour — and learn — the same materials as their friends, which helps put together them for the same assessments. Every student can profit from a personalized approach to their education however that is especially true for college kids who require special education services. Technology is making it simpler for academics to ship an education that works with every scholar's distinctive needs, whether or not those are because of studying variations, neurodivergence or lapses in education. Remedial education in early childhood addresses children with disabilities or developmental delays, limitations or dangers and might present support from birth to as much as two years after beginning faculty through disabilities evaluation, preventive and academic assist, and acceptable help in a household context. Becoming licensed to teach students with delicate to average disabilities prepares you to assist youngsters whose special needs hinder their academic achievement, often in areas of math, … Read more


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Federal Court Holds TVA Liable for Kingston Coal Ash Spill
A federal district court on Thursday ruled in favor of more than 800 plaintiffs when it held the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) liable for the December 2008 failure of coal ash containment dikes at its Kingston Fossil plant in Roane County, Tenn., that resulted in the spill of more than a billion gallons of coal ash sludge.
The August 23 ruling finds that TVA did not build the holding ponds according to plan, did not train its inspectors how to inspect the stability of the dikes, and did not properly maintain the facility to prevent failure of the dikes. It allows litigation stemming from the Dec. 22, 2008, spill—involving more than 60 cases mostly from residents or business owners near the plant—to proceed to a second round to determine damages.
In the decision handed down by Judge Thomas Varlan, the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee concluded that the nation's largest public utility failed to inform and train personnel in TVA's mandatory policies, procedures, and practices for coal ash management. "TVA personnel's negligent performance of the same—specifically, TVA's policy, procedure, and practice of conducting annual dike stability inspections and TVA's undertaking of ongoing maintenance of North Dike—were also substantial contributing causes of the failure of North Dike," it says.
Plaintiffs proved, by a "preponderance of the evidence," that TVA's conduct in regard to its mandatory policies, procedures, and practices for coal ash management "compounded the location, design, and operation causes" of the failure. Had TVA followed its own mandatory policies, procedures, and practices, "the subsurface issues underlying the failure of North Dike would have been investigated, addressed, and potentially remedied before the catastrophic failure of December 22, 2008," the court ruled.
The court held TVA liable for damages to the individual plaintiffs under negligence, trespass, and private nuisance claims, but it dismissed plaintiff claims regarding negligence per se for violation of federal laws, including Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Clean Water Act, and several state environmental statutes. It also dismissed allegations of recklessness, strict liability, and public nuisance.
The federal court had in 2010 limited certain claims by plaintiffs, dismissed punitive damage claims, and rejected requests for a jury trial. But in August last year, it granted summary judgment in favor of TVA on plaintiffs' personal injury, emotional distress, and inverse condemnation claims, though it denied TVA's request for summary judgment on plaintiffs' property damage, trespass, and nuisance claims. The court instead granted motions to consolidate those trials into two separate phases: The first phase, which resulted in Thursday's decision, involved issues relating to duty breach and dike failure causation, and in the second phase, "plaintiffs may attempt to prove they were each directly impacted by the spill on an individual basis," TVA said in a statement on Thursday.
TVA said it "has taken responsibility for what happened and is committed to restoring the Kingston area." The utility said it has purchased about 180 properties and settled more than 200 other claims submitted by area residents. It has also paid $43 million to the Roane County Economic Development Foundation for use by communities in the affected area. The recovery project is expected to continue through 2015 at an estimated cost of about $1.2 billion.
"Since the spill in December 2008, TVA's commitment has not wavered—to clean up the spill, protect the public health and safety, restore the area, and, where justified, fairly compensate people who were directly impacted," TVA said. "We are following through on our pledge to clean up the ash while protecting public health and safety. The recovery project is expected to continue through 2015."
According to Alabama-based law firm Beasley Allen—whose attorneys Rhon Jones, Brantley Fry, and David Byrne represented the plaintiffs—at least 500,000 cubic yards of coal ash still remain on the Emory and Clinch River bottoms. The firm, which is also representing plaintiffs involved with the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, said the TVA coal ash spill was much worse: "To put things in perspective with another recent environmental catastrophe, the BP oil spill released more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of nearly five months. The TVA coal ash spill released more than a billion gallons of toxic sludge over 300 acres in East Tennessee within the course of minutes."
In the months following the breach of the TVA's 50-year-old coal ash storage pond at Kingston, TVA has been severely criticized for its maintenance of its ash ponds. TVA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has accused the utility of harboring a "legacy culture" at its fossil fuel plants, relegating coal ash to the status "of garbage at a landfill rather than treating it as a potential hazard to the public and environment."
The incident also heightened national awareness of problems associated with utilities' coal ash surface impoundments and prompted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose the first federal rule to regulate disposal and use of coal ash.
Under one option offered by the EPA's 2010-proposed Coal Combustion Residuals rule, coal ash would be regulated under the hazardous waste provisions of RCRA (coal ash is currently considered exempt waste under an amendment to RCRA). Under the other option, coal ash would remain under RCRA's nonhazardous waste provisions, and states would spearhead coal ash regulation. A final rule is expected at the end of the year.
The EPA estimates that the nation has about 300 coal combustion residual landfills and 584 surface impoundments or similar units. These are used by roughly 495 coal-fired power plants located in 45 states.
Sources: POWERnews, U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee, TVA, Beasley Allen, EPA
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Normally the most relaxed part of baseball's year, spring training will be quite different this time.
The Braves will open camp Thursday in North Port, Fla., with an array of new restrictions and protocols in place to deal with the continuing coronavirus pandemic. The changes will affect fans, players and even the games themselves.
Here's a look at some of the many ways this spring training will be different:
Limited fans at games
The Braves plan to limit attendance to about 1,800 fans at each of their 14 home exhibition games, a team spokeswoman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That's 22.5% of CoolToday Park's full capacity of 8,000 and will allow for at least six feet of distance between pods of occupied seats.
Here's the further complication, according to the team: The Braves have more than 2,000 spring-training season-ticket holders, meaning not all of them can be accommodated at every game. Few tickets will be available on a single-game basis to the general public; those that are available might come from players' unused ticket allotments on the day of a game, the spokeswoman said.
The Braves drew an average of 6,373 fans at the 11 games at CoolToday Park last year before the Grapefruit League season was shut down because of the pandemic. This year's exhibition schedule opens for the Braves on Feb. 28, with their first home game March 2.
No fans at workouts
Last year, the Braves' first spring training in North Port, fans could enter the stadium complex to watch team workouts in the 10 days before exhibition games began. But this year the stadium and its back fields will be closed to the public during workouts, the Braves said.
Here's one way fans might be able to sneak a peek of the action: The Tomahawk Tiki Bar & Grill, open year-round above left field at CoolToday Park, will maintain its regular hours (11 a.m. until 8 p.m.) on the days of Braves workouts. Diners have a view of the stadium field — but not of the back fields, where much of the work occurs early in camp — and will be confined to the restaurant area.
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Restrictions on players, staff
Health and safety protocols, negotiated by MLB and the players' union, will touch most aspects of spring training.
Workouts will be divided into smaller groups than usual, especially early in camp. Players and staff will wear electronic contact-tracing devices while in club facilities or during club travel. COVID-19 tests will be administered at least every other day.
Players, coaches and other team staffers will be required to quarantine with their spring-training household throughout camp except for team activities and other prescribed activities (such as grocery shopping, takeout food pickup and individual outdoor physical activity, including walks.) Indoor gatherings of 10 or more people will be prohibited. Golf may be permitted if COVID-19 safety guidelines are followed. Indoor restaurants and bars will be off-limits. Meals at outdoor restaurants may be permitted.
Players won't be able to sign autographs; fans at exhibition games can view batting practice from their ticketed seats only and won't be permitted to approach the field or dugouts. Players' (and manager Brian Snitker's) media interviews will be conducted by Zoom video conference.
Fewer opponents
Grapefruit League schedules were redone and regionalized to limit travel around Florida. The Braves' 29 exhibition games will be played against just five opponents that train within 10 to 50 miles of North Port: the Tampa Bay Rays (Port Charlotte), Boston Red Sox (Fort Myers), Minnesota Twins (Fort Myers), Baltimore Orioles (Sarasota) and Pittsburgh Pirates (Bradenton).
The Braves will play almost one-third of their Grapefruit League games – nine – against the Red Sox. They'll play seven games each against the Rays and Twins. Dropped from the Braves' original exhibition schedule were games against the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays and Detroit Tigers.
Shorter games?
Because teams will have fewer players at spring training than usual — most lower-level minor leaguers won't arrive until the big-league team breaks camp — exhibition games can be shortened to five or seven innings through March 13 and to seven innings after March 13 if both managers agree.
Also, half-innings can end without three outs being recorded. For games through March 13, the defensive team's manager can end a half-inning before the third out provided his pitcher has thrown 20 or more pitches. The idea is to allow managers to map out pitching plans and minimize the number of pitchers in bullpens.
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You're Smarter and Wiser Than You Realize
THREE INVITATIONSFirst invitation: Weed out the wishy-washy wishes and lukewarm longings that keep you distracted from your burning desires.
Second invitation: Refuse to think that anyone else knows better than you what dreams will keep your life energy humming with maximum efficiency and grace.
Third invitation: Say this out loud to see how it feels: "I know exactly what I want. I know exactly what I don't want. I know exactly what I kind of want but I won't waste my time on it because it sidetracks me from working on what I really want."
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In the old-fashioned patriarchal vision of myth, the hero is typically a solitary male who renounces intimate companionship to pursue his glorious, arduous quest. Along the way, sporadic help may arrive from an ineffable muse or deity.
But there are alternative scenarios for the hero's journey. In the tantric tradition, for instance, a seeker's connection with a beloved human companion is essential to his or her spiritual inquiry.
Some early Christians described Jesus and Mary Magdalene as equal collaborators. Sufi mystic poet Rumi may not have actually made love with his teacher Shams (then again, he might have), but it's clear the two men sought divine communion together, not through lonely solo work.
Some modern teachers have also broken from the narrow perspective. The quest for illumination, they say, can thrive on the challenges of loving and living with an actual person. In John Welwood's Love and Awakening, the author reimagines relationship as an "alliance of warriors" devoted to awakening each other's "holy longing."
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I get many requests from people who are going through challenging times in their lives and would like my personal advice. I wish I could respond to these inquiries, because they are often profound and well-thought-out, demonstrating an ability to define the problems at hand with lucid insight.
Unfortunately, I can't respond. My various lines of work are too demanding to add any other tasks to my life, no matter how interesting they might be. But I've developed a general response to those people who seek my personal input. I'm offering it below.
I'm honored that you regard me as someone who might be able to provide answers or solace, but I don't think it would be responsible for me to fling advice your way without knowing more about the complexities of your problem. And I'm afraid I can't give the time necessary to explore those complexities.
The only thing I'll suggest, as you seek to clarify your situation, is for you to arrange to go on a retreat. During that time of withdrawal from the world's everyday madness, I urge you to avoid all media and to be as silent and relaxed as it's possible for you to be.
During the first part of your retreat, spend hours visualizing in your mind's eye the entire story of your life, from the earliest memory to the present moment.
During the second phase of your retreat, begin your meditations by establishing contact with the highest source of wisdom and love within you. You can call this source God or Goddess or your Guardian Angel or Higher Self. Spend luxurious time in dialogue with this source, making sure to ask these questions:
1. "What is it I want more than anything else?"
2. "What is the best way to serve the mission I came to Earth to carry out? What are the very best gifts I have to offer other humans?"
3. "What path will allow me to ultimately learn the most about wise love?"
4. "How do I need to change in order to get what I want, carry out my life's mission, and learn about wise love? What influences and attitudes do I need to eliminate?"
During the third phase of the process, write out a mission statement: what you want to accomplish by the time you die many years hence. Then create a master plan of the actions you will take in order to make that mission statement come true. Include three actions you will take in the next month to get more serious about accomplishing your mission.
During the fourth phase, visualize the following scenarios in lush detail: that God/Goddess loves you, that the entire universe is conspiring to give you the lessons and blessings and kicks in the ass and liberations you need exactly when you need them, and that you are ready to welcome that love and guidance with all your heart.
P.S. I'm a big believer in trusting your intuition. Even if it doesn't lead you to what your ego thinks is a successful outcome, your intuition will always guide you to the experiences that your soul needs.
"Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves.
"The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.
"Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Kate Rockwood writes: Try to think of three new things you're happy about while brushing your teeth at night. The word "new" is important. If you let yourself repeat items, you might default to some variation of 'family, friends, and health' every day.
But if you have to come up with three novel, specific reasons to be happy or grateful, your brain will naturally start making mental notes of things you can include in your list throughout the day.
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People who hate astrology assert that consulting a horoscope column or getting a reading from a professional astrologer is not a sound approach to making good decisions abut one's life.
The haters never follow up that assurance with a detailed revelation of what ARE valid ways to gather the data and insights and ideas so as to make good decisions about one's life.
Do they know about some Bureau of Acceptable Life Information that can help us determine what is and what is not worth consulting as we chart the course of our destiny?
I don't mean to be glib. I am honestly puzzled by the apparent certainty that there are unambiguous methods.
Would the astrology haters approve of the guidance and inspiration we have gleaned from our high school teachers? From our parents? From our friends? In my opinion, none of them are entirely reliable narrators; they are not to be trusted to deliver 100% accurate and wise counsel on how best to live our lives.
And how about the music of Florence and the Machine, and the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, and the movies of Akira Kurosawa? Is it a big mistake for us to eagerly take on influences from them, allowing their art to infiltrate our subconscious minds and subtly skew and shift our attitudes? Are we deluded?
Or how about the philosophy of the Upanishads or Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel or Susan Sontag? Or the psychological ideas of Carl Jung or Clarissa Pinkola Estes or Erik Erikson? Or the writing of Joan Didion or Pema Chodron or Kurt Vonnegut? Or the social science of Malcolm Gladwell? Or the economic theories of Paul Krugman?
Are they all foolproof, unimpeachable sources of wise guidance that we can unconditionally rely on to steer our personal lives in a righteous direction?
Or should we be ruthlessly careful to draw our guidance and inspiration only from paragons of reason and science?
Should our night tables be stacked with books by Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and mathematician Terence Tao?
Should we read passages from their teachings every night in the expectation that they will shape us into paragons of reason and science? That they will unfailingly guide us to make good decisions about how to live?
I don't think so. It's fine if those tomes and others like it constitute part of our own personal Bureau of Acceptable Life Information. But we need to draw inspiration and education from a variety of other sources, as well—each of which, like Hawking and Darwin and Kasparov and Tao, is imperfect and incomplete.
It's perfectly reasonable to look to astrology as one of our sources, because astrology is a branch of psychology, as well as an art form—a mode of storytelling.
It's designed to stimulate our imaginations as we ruminate on what it means to be a human being.
It's an evocative mytho-poetic system that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns and have fun speculating about the big picture of our destinies.
P.S. Self-anointed "debunkers" rail against astrologers' predictions, acting as if speculating about the future is a crime against rational thought.
Meanwhile, economists, meteorologists, sportscasters, trend analysts, and political pundits are out there regularly making bad prognostications based on dubious data.
In my view, they spread more delusion and cost people more money than those of us who divine cosmic omens. In the case of errant weather forecasts, they can even be responsible for people in the paths of extreme events losing their lives.
Cliff Mass, a meteorologist and professor of atmospheric sciences, analyzed how badly the National Hurricane Center botched its forecasts for Hurricanes Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Mass presented his critiques as evidence of a systemic pattern of incompetence by official sources.
As for predicting financial futures, public finance journalist Liza Farmer wrote an article with a headline that sums up a general consensus: "Why Economists' Predictions Are Usually Wrong."
Writing in The Guardian, journalist Adam Shaw added another nuance, discussing the fine points of "Why Economic Forecasting Has Always Been a Flawed Science."
Some spiritual teachers say you're most likely to succeed at meditation if you sit quietly in a sanctuary. They believe you need to retreat from the world in order to develop compassionate objectivity about life.
The 18th-century Zen Buddhist teacher Hakuin Ekaku had a different view. "Meditation in the midst of activity is a billion times superior to meditation in stillness" was his motto.
PS: My opinion is that there's a high probability that both approaches will work!
Dawn Robertson wrote a thank-you note to her ego. She said:
Dear Beloved Ego,
I'm sorry the conscious and spiritual communities have given you such a bad rap.
Thank you for caring how others perceive me.
Thank you for letting me believe I can actually make a difference in the world - whether true or not.
Thank you for not letting me hide beyond humility to make myself small.
Thank you for the selfies and self promotion.
Thank you for pushing me to crave validation through my acts of service.
Thank you for allowing me to be a unique human who can be self interested at times.
Thank you for delightfully reminding me I have a story during the good times and the bad.
Thank you for the drive to be "successful" and allowing that marker to be fluid.
Thank you for pushing me to take myself more seriously.
Thank you for helping guide me to make decisions and revealing my fears.
Thank you for questioning the bullshit around me while others may following along sheeply.
Thank you for letting me be human and messy.
Your future self has time-traveled into the past to enlist the spirits of your ancestors in a plot to unlock your sleeping genius.
Somehow I have become immune to one of the most popular emotions of the modern world: malefic ecstasy; also known as exultant malaise; also known as blissful pessimism.
So many people get intense pleasure as they think and talk about horrific events. I don't know how I avoided that curse, but I did.
Care to join me?
I invite you to conspire with me to perpetrate lucid dreams and intimate empathy and revolutionary fucks and plain old everyday miracles that will overthrow the psychopathic misogynist plutocratic militarism that desecrates the ecosphere?"
I invite you to conspire with me to puncture, fracture, and shred the iron curtain between The Ordinary Real World and The Other Real World? Will you collude and connive with me to thwart the genocide of the imagination? Do you promise to plot and scheme with me to defrock and excommunicate and depose the priests of fundamentalist materialism?
I invite you to be my ever-surprising long-lost friend from Foreverland, a prayer rebel helping me to stay apprised of the ever-present origin of the world, an honest trickster skilled at washing water and burning fire. I invite you to be an alphabet eater who takes really good care of the big secret, and a gamemaster of the cosmic lottery that pays off everyone who doesn't win as well as everyone who wins.
I invite you to be a reverent rascal and discerning intellect and mystical activist and emotional genius who inspires us to bestow an inexhaustible supply of rowdy blessings on every living thing we encounter, regardless of whether they bestow rowdy blessings on us?
I'm all about the gradual, slow-simmering approach to just about everything.
My aspiration is to be reverential and devotional toward the cumulative effects of small minute-by-minute meditations in the midst of "ordinary" life and the manageable day-to-day self-transformations that are hard but not too hard.
When I was young I loved to cultivate senses-reeling ecstatic breakthrough, but now I'm more inclined to commune with the chronic, low-level ecstatic union that thrives on opening to every little experience I encounter. Neither is "better," of course. I'm just talking about what has been right for me in recent years.
I would love to practice tantra 24/7, worshiping and drawing inspiration from each small gift the daily rhythm brings.
Dare to Be Boring Day is coming up soon. I invite you to celebrate it whenever you feel the urge. We all deserve a break from the oppressive demands to appear smart and to be entertaining.
On Dare to Be Boring Day, it will be socially unacceptable to demonstrate your wit and verve. Longwinded, rambling monologues full of obscure details will be mandatory. The more clichés and buzzwords you use, the better.
Tell worn-out stories your friends have already heard many times. Flesh out your disjointed sentences with awkward silences. Discuss at length your plans for switching laundry detergents, the collection of matchbooks you had as a child, and the time you almost traveled to the Walmart in another town, but didn't.
I'm wishing you "A Trace of Grace" with the help of Azerbaijani mugam singer Alim Qasimov.
My ability to become who I aspired to be would have been impossible without the right to legal abortion.
Earlier in my life, my women partners and I had abortions. I am fortunate we weren't forced to bring children into the world that we couldn't properly care for.
Ultimately, my wife and I chose exactly when we did want to bring a new human being into the world—when I had enough money and emotional maturity to do so.
Legal abortion made it possible for me to be a conscious, loving father for the one child I welcomed and helped to raise.
My life is successful, and an important factor contributing to that grace has been legal abortion.
A male reader said that he supports abortion, but found it mind-boggling that so many women are "careless," get pregnant, and need an abortion. Here's how I responded:
Does he not know about all the women who are bullied and manipulated by men into not practicing safe sex?
I've been married to one woman for years, but before that I encountered numerous women who thanked me profusely for offering to use condoms—because their experience had always been that the men they'd had sex with hated to use condoms and tried to coax them to not use them.
Another important point is that taking birth control pills can wreak havoc on a woman's body and even on her psyche. Some women have a torturous relationship with those drugs as a result.
Plus, with birth control pills, YOU HAVE TO TAKE A PILL EVERY SINGLE DAY. Missing one day could make it possible for you to get pregnant.
Condoms are mostly effective, but a lot of men don't like them, and resist using them. It's also true that condoms with spermicides, which are the most effective condoms, can be irritating to the vagina and also make women susceptible to infections.
Women who endure the painful procedure of having an IUD implanted may have heaver periods and more intense menstrual cramps. Their periods may be irregular, and they can bleed between periods.
.A diaphragm is at most 88% effective. A sponge is at most 88% effective, usually less. A cervical cap is between 71-86% effective. Spermicide is 71% effective. A birth control implant is 99% effective but can cost as much as $1,500.
An internal condom is 79% effective, and costs no more than $3. Outer condoms, worn by men, are just 85% effective—hardly a foolproof way to avoid pregnancy.
A birth control patch is 91% effective and has to be replaced weekly; can cost up to $150.
A birth control shot is 94% effective and cost up to $100 every three months.
A birth control vaginal ring is 91% effective and can cost up to $100 every month.
All the above comments are meant to address those people who wonder—without having done any research or talked to actual women—why abortion is even necessary given the fact that "there are so many birth control methods."
I appeal to men who might be reading this to be well-educated about how abortion rights are under attack in the U.S. Be well-educated about why it's so important for women and people with wombs to have the right to decide what happens with their own bodies.
Be well-educated about the various forms of birth control that are available, and about how most of them are imperfect and/or problematic in some way—which is why we need to have abortion to end pregnancies that weren't prevented by birth control.
If you have personally experienced an abortion with a partner, talk about that with your male friends. Also, talk with your male friends about the importance of us being more involved with abortion rights.
Read about the possible long-term side effects of hormonal birth control for women.
Lance Wilburn writes: To be clear: The irony of all of the abortion bills is the complete lack of male inclusion. Women do not magically become pregnant. There is a man attached to every abortion.
Why are men not being included in the Texas law's jail time for abortion? Because this isn't about abortion, it's about men controlling women.
It's an easy topic for white men to flex their power over to remind the womenfolk that they will always have to kneel to them.
If it were actually about abortion, we would be discussing early and continuing sex education, free birth control, healthcare for all, making childcare financially feasible, mandatory parental leave, increasing WIC, hard sentencing for rape, fixing the foster care system, and making adoption more accessible.
This is not about abortion. Don't fool yourself.
— Lance Wilburn
Planned Parenthood is the most helpful and inexpensive source of information about various birth control methods, but that organization is being harassed and defunded. So it's getting harder and harder for women to get access to its information.
Many women tell me that when they hear me talking about my experiences with abortion, it' the first time they have ever heard a man even talk about abortion, let alone advocate for it and describe his experiences with it. That's appalling to me. Men should be fully engaged in every aspect of these issues.
"If a fetus is a person at 6 weeks pregnant, is that when the child support starts? Is that also when you can't deport the mother because she's carrying a US citizen? Can I insure a 6 week fetus and collect if I miscarry? Just figuring if we're going there, we should go all in."
—Carliss Chatman Law Professor, Washington and Lee University
A good way to help is by Donating to abortion funds, organizations that help people pay for and access abortion care when they don't have the financial means to afford it on their own. Abortion funds use donations to help cover the procedure costs, transportation, and a place to stay before, during, and after. These funds can also be used to cover time off from work, childcare costs, and other financial barriers people who need abortions may experience.
Planned Parenthood is an excellent organization to help.
Causes like Sister Song, Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, National AsianPacific American Women's Forum, and Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE), to name a few, are doing the vital work of centering on women of color, who are often the most endangered by abortion bans and restrictions to reproductive rights. Links to these groups here.
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Marburg University organizes a conference on the glocalization of development. Local life worlds are increasingly permeated by global norms and global knowledge, which challenge local institutions and authorities. The aim of the conference is to develop key elements of an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective on localization processes and the University of Marburg welcomes proposals for papers from the fields of sociology, political science and law on one side and anthropology on the other side. The will be divided into two distinct parts, a classical scholarly conference with pre-designed panels, presentations and discussions as well as a "non-conference" which lacks a fixed agenda but will be participant driven, i.e. the participants decide on the content and the course of the day.
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The organising committee has informed the IOC of possible revisions to the locations of some of the Games venues and organisers are considering moving certain venues into locations in the Greater Tokyo area, some as far as an hour's drive from the city centre.
The original Tokyo bid promised a compact Games with the majority of the venues located within a five mile radius of the Olympic village, far more condensed than many recent Games. Only the shooting, modern pentathlon and football events were originally planned to be held outside of the five mile Olympic village zone.
The new plans could see some venues being moved out as far away as the city of Saitama which could result in some considerable transportation headaches. However, organisers have insisted that the revised plans would be made possible with improved transport infrastructure whilst still cutting costs. The IOC has previously praised Tokyo's venue layout and have been impressed by the city's progress.
The cost of the Games has been a cause of contention amongst Tokyo's citizens with protests being held against the new 80,000 seated stadium which will replace the current National Stadium.
Tokyo governor Yoichi Masuzoe has had to defend the new plans and told a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan that he has a responsibility to Tokyo taxpayers.
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This morning in Davos, President Kagame joined business leaders at a breakfast hosted by Hon. Tony Blair and Marc Holtzman. A traditional side event at the World Economic Forum, the meeting brought together business leaders to learn about the investment opportunities in Rwanda.
Speaking on Rwanda's progress in the last twenty years, President Kagame explained to Ours has been a vision, identifying our challenges, having plans to address them and focus on activities that will benefit our people those present the mindset Rwanda continues to adopt:
"We have a vision based on identifying our challenges, having plans to address them and focusing on activities that will benefit our people."
President Kagame added that the tragedy Rwanda experienced history continues to serve as a lesson to ensure that history never repeats itself:
"It's about the discipline and the mindset that can apply to turning challenges into opportunities and allow people to grow and move forward."
President Kagame also encouraged all present to join Rwanda's journey of transformation through partnerships that are both profitable and contribute to Rwanda's priorities.
President Kagame ended the day with an interview with Al Jazeera's Ali Velshi. During the three day meeting, President Kagame will also participate in sessions on Millennium Development Goals as well as a televised CNN session entitled "Can Emerging Markets Deliver Global Growth." The session will be moderated by CNN Emerging Markets Anchor John Defterios. Participants will include Nouriel Roubini, NYU Economics and International Business Professor, Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault Nissan Alliance and Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs of Turkey.
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Maryland Online Gambling & Betting
Maryland sports betting is LIVE. On November 23rd, Maryland legalized sports betting with seven online sportsbooks in the state, just in time for Thanksgiving Day sports action.
Maryland Sports Betting Bonuses & Promos – 2023
Is Online Sports Betting Legal in Maryland?
Yes, sports betting is legal in Maryland, with several of the best betting apps now accepting wagers from within the state. Gov. Larry Hogan signed HB 940 into law on May 18, 2021, which legalized retail and online sports betting in Maryland, but it wasn't until November 23, 2022 that online sportsbooks were approved to launch.
Here is a look at the path to legalization in the state:
Legalization Timeline
- November 23, 2022 – Online sports betting officially launches in the state of Maryland.
- October 27, 2022 – Sports betting operators have applied to become licensed in Maryland. Those applications included Caesars, DraftKings, FanDuel, Barstool, PointsBet, and more.
- October 19, 2022 – Maryland's online sports betting launch is expected around Thanksgiving. SWARC reassured the launch timeline between Nov. 21-Dec. 5.
- September 22, 2022: John Martin director of MLGCA says he expects online sports betting to be operational in Maryland by the end of 2022.
- September 6, 2022: The Sports Wagering Application Review Commission opens applications for online sports betting operators, signaling sports betting could launch prior to the end of 2022
- April 30, 2022: The MLGCA remains hopeful online sportsbooks will launch soon, with a target set for the NFL season.
- September 1, 2021: Rules and regulations remain under review.
- May 18, 2021: Governor Larry Hogan signs HB 940 into law
- April 12, 2021: The Maryland state legislature passes HB 940 approving legal online wagering
- November 3, 2020: Maryland voters support legal online sports betting on the general election ballot
Maryland Online Gambling
Online casinos and online poker still haven't been made legal here yet, but if you're looking for online sports betting, Maryland has launched on November 23, 2022.
In this Maryland Online Gambling Guide, we'll take you on a whistle-stop tour of what will be available and what won't. You'll be pleased to hear that there's just as much of the former as of the latter and that the Maryland online gambling industry looks set to explode in the months and years ahead.
Sports Betting in Maryland
Sports fans in Maryland can bet on a comprehensive range of events both at home and internationally when they visit retail casinos and download Maryland betting apps. This includes not only all professional sports, such as football, baseball, hockey, and basketball but also college games.
Online sports betting is live in the state of Maryland, with the first mobile sportsbooks launching on November 23, 2022. New customers in MD can sign up and claim sportsbook promos today!
Maryland Sports Teams to Bet On
Sports fans who like to bet on their local teams will have plenty of options here. The state is home to both the Baltimore Ravens, Baltimore Orioles, and the University of Maryland. The neighboring Washington Commanders, Nationals, Wizards, and Capitals provide additional local betting options.
Types of Bets Available in Maryland
Whether you visit a land-based sportsbook or an online one when they arrive, you will have access to the widest possible range of bets and markets. Sportsbooks here offer moneylines, totals, spreads, prop bets, parlays, and more, so be sure to explore all of the possible options before striking a bet.
Because there are multiple sportsbooks in operation in Maryland, you can easily sign up with several and shop around for the best possible odds before deciding which one to bet with. Another useful advantage of joining multiple sportsbooks is that you'll be able to claim a separate welcome bonus from each one.
Online Casinos in Maryland
Online casinos have not been made legal in Maryland at the time of writing, so if you want to play Blackjack, Roulette, Slots, or other casino games, you will need to visit a land-based venue in the state. This isn't an ideal situation for casino gaming fans, but many hope that a successful launch of online sports betting sites will pave the way for another look at online casino gaming law in the future.
As far as land-based casinos are concerned, there are six that are open for business. All of them offer a good range of slots and video poker games as well as the most popular table games.
Horse Racing in Maryland
Maryland is a state that has some very strong ties to the sport of horse racing. The state is home to several major racecourses, including Laurel Park, the Rosecroft Raceway, and Pimlico Race Course. The latter of those will be very familiar to knowledgeable horse racing fans because it hosts the Preakness Stakes in May each year.
This is one of the biggest Grade 1 events in the country and the second of three races that, along with the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes, make up the Triple Crown.
There is plenty of on-track betting available in Maryland, and you can also place bets with TVG, which is a dedicated online racebook. When mobile sports betting goes live in the state it will be even easier to bet on the Win, Place, or Show because most sportsbooks also offer a comprehensive range of horse racing markets.
These cover events in Maryland, across the USA, and around the world, so betting on the Grand National in England will be just as easy as betting on a small handicap race staged in the Old Line State itself.
Online Poker in Maryland
There is no provision for online poker in the current gambling legislation, nor is this situation likely to change in the near future.
Poker games can only be played in licensed land-based venues, so even home games are illegal and the state is quick to enforce the law when it is made aware of violations. As with casino games, if you want to play poker you will need to visit a properly licensed and regulated land-based venue in person.
Daily Fantasy Sports in Maryland
Although sports fans will have to wait until online sportsbooks go live before they can start betting remotely in Maryland, daily fantasy sports enthusiasts are already well catered for. You can bet with virtually any of the major DFS platforms here, including FanDuel and DraftKings, and you'll enjoy access to the full range of sports and leagues.
Daily Fantasy Sports have been legal in this state since 2012, and additional regulations were introduced in 2017 to make it even better for customers. You can bet on NFL, MLB, NBA, NCAAB, and more, so if you want to warm up your sports betting muscles in preparation for the arrival of mobile sportsbook apps, this could be a good way to do so.
Maryland Lottery Games
The state of Maryland has been running lottery games for almost 50 years. These are governed and operated by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, and the aim of the lottery is to raise funds for a variety of good causes, including education and public health. The first Maryland lottery game was called Twin Win, and its first draw was held on May 24, 1973.
Over the last five decades, the number of lottery games available to players in Maryland has expanded quite massively. Twin Win has long gone, but today you can buy tickets for Pick 3, Pick 4 and Pick 5 games, as well as Bonus Match 5, all of which take place on a daily basis. A Multi-Match game takes place every Monday and Thursday and offers a top prize with a minimum value of $500,000.
A couple of multi-state lottery games (meaning those that can be played in multiple states across the US) offer even bigger prizes to the jackpot winners. Maryland residents can participate in both Mega Millions and Powerball. Mega Millions has a minimum jackpot of $40 million and is played every Tuesday and Friday. Powerball also has a minimum jackpot of $40 million and is played every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Maryland lottery tickets can be purchased from over 4,400 retailers, including gas stations, bars, and convenience stores.
eSports in Maryland
eSports have become big business in the last decade or so. While betting on eSports isn't yet quite as popular in the US as betting on traditional sports, it is certainly heading that way.
Fortunately, the lawmakers in Maryland have been well aware of this for some time, because they included eSports in the same legislation that made sports betting legal. This means that eSports betting can already take place in land-based sportsbooks and it will also be available to users of online sportsbooks when they go live.
The Future of Maryland Online Gambling
The future of MD online gambling looks bright. The launch of sports betting on November 23, 2022 means that the state is now live! It is hoped by many that a thriving online sports betting industry in the state will pave the way for the legalization of online casinos, and perhaps even online poker sites at some point.
For now, Marylanders are quite happy to know that they will soon be able to bet on their favorite sports from the convenience of their computers, tablets, and smartphones.
Maryland Online Gambling FAQs
Common questions about online gambling sites in Maryland.
Is it legal to gamble online in Maryland?
Sports betting in Maryland is live. Online casinos and poker games are still illegal.
Is online poker legal in Maryland?
No. Online poker sites, such as WSOP, are illegal in Maryland. The recent sports betting legislation does not include online poker.
Can you bet on sports in Maryland?
Sports betting was legalized in 2021. Sportsbook apps will be launching soon.
Can you play online casino games in Maryland?
Not yet. Online casino games are still illegal in Maryland.


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#SaferInternet4EU Awards
The #SaferInternet4EU Awards were one of the milestones of the #SaferInternet4EU campaign. After the call for best practices, the jury deliberation and the public vote, the three lucky winners were announced during the Awards ceremony at the Safer Internet Forum (SIF) 2018 in Brussels on 20 November 2018.
Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, awarded the trophies to the three winners and all other finalists.
Watch the winning entries below...
Qwwwiz "Stay Safe Online" App
Author: Students from the High School of Tichero
Developed by high school students, this quiz app is targeted at students aged ten and above. It aims to encourage critical thinking, positive online behaviour and online safety. It is available in Greek, English, German and French.
Travelling Around the Virtual World
Author: Nina Jelen
By turning her classroom into a virtual world, Nina Jelen used creativity and games to promote positive online behaviours among elementary school pupils and to raise awareness about the risks of inappropriately using the internet.
Safely Online
Author: Gezinsbond and Child Focus
Safely Online is a set of tools and trainings developed to educate parents about the safe use of new media, to protect their children from harmful digital behaviour. This programme targets socially disadvantaged parents in particular.
Congratulations to the other finalists in the Youth category...
2nd place: Lili Leißer
3rd place: Lorcan Tuohy
Congratulations to the other finalists in the Teacher category...
2nd place: Rose-Marie Farinella
3rd place: Marta Turlinska and Eduard Ivinski
Congratulations to the other finalists in the Organisation category...
2nd place: Deutsche Telekom
3rd place: The Diana Award
See background information on the #SaferInternet4EU Awards.


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The Sifang Art Museum announces the first solo museum exhibition in China by UK-based artist Haroon Mirza. The exhibition 'Tones in the Key of Electricity' is structured as a type of 'composition', or 构成 (gòuchéng), with two aspects. The first of these focuses on helping to disentangle the recent ocularcentric shift in Western societies and the privileged position that the visual holds in both cultural analysis and contemporary art. The second employs the framework of 复制品 (fuzhipin), a term in Chinese that describes an exact copy of the original that retains a value equal to that of the original, with no negative connotations, to offer an alternative schema for concepts of the replica and the copy that depart from Euro-American definitions of these terms. Occupying the entirety of the museum, the exhibition will run for a significant six-month duration.
By thinking through ways of hearing as a method of widening the cultural scope and offering another mode of perception for the audience, the exhibition utilizes a structure of 声 (shēng) and tonality, common aspects of languages in East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Africa, in which a shift in tone does more than simply expressing emotion, as it does in the English language, instead conveying a completely alternative meaning, or even multiple meanings.
Further, two major installations are 'copied', or 'fuzhipin' from Mirza's practice to make up the particular melodic pattern and the specific 第一声 (dì yī shēng) (first tone), or 第二声 (dì èr shēng) (second tone) of the exhibition, each one building on the other in layers as part of the show's 'sound shape', engaging with both the immaterial light and the sonic domains of the artworks and the architecture of the Steven Holl-designed museum. Shown alongside other earlier works, such as Siren (2012), Too Many Lingzhi (2015), a collaboration with Gaia Fugazza, and a new iteration of Rules of Appropriation (2019), these two works of Copy of 9/11-11/9 (2019) and Copy of Pavilion for Optimisation (2019) were rebuilt with reference to the originals according to specific instructions by the artist, with materials and equipment sourced locally in China.
The framework of tonality, and the experience of both the artworks and the building, become audible in works such as Copy of 9/11-11/9 (2019), that comprises four videos and eight channels of electrical signals that have been physically expanded and placed across the different spaces of the museum. This allows both the audio and the visual elements of the installation to be experienced across the various lower galleries in the museum.
Electrical signals are transmitted through several strips of coloured LED lights, arranged with specific relation to the building. These electrical signals are also converted into sounds that make up parts of the audio composition of the works. The installation integrates video footage and subject matter that addresses the current global political climate. The video discusses the seismic events that have occurred internationally over the course of the past fifteen years, from the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11th, 2001 to November 9th, 2016, the day the votes for the US presidential elections came in – grounded again by the Icaro healing songs of the Indigenous peoples of South America.
Included in the exhibition is a new iteration of Mirza's Rules of Appropriation series, entitled Rules of Appropriation (2019), which examines notions of collaboration and speaks to the failure of non-collaborative practice. Important to Mirza's practice is a critique of the 'material' expansion of cultural capitalism, which places an emphasis on individualist desire, hierarchy, and forms of 'forced cooperation'. The work comments on the problematic appropriation of contemporary artists' work by fashion and other industries, and considers the lack of protection for artists when it comes to their artistic identity. The series was developed after the French fashion house Louis Vuitton – the world's most valuable luxury brand, valued at $28.1 billion – appropriated Mirza's artworks without consent for its 2018 window displays, including those at international flagship stores in London, New York and Shanghai. By incorporating designer bags that were obviously Louis Vuitton imitations, amongst other objects, into Rules of Appropriation, the work highlights the fashion industry's double standards in relation to its own use of appropriation in contrast to its strict regulations against 'knock offs', or imitations.
Shown in the context of China, where concepts such as 仿制品 (fangzhipin) and 复制品 (fuzhipin) offer alternative approaches to notions of the copy and the replica from those in the West, the work highlights the realities of outsourcing production to China, the origin of almost 65 per cent of all counterfeits seized globally, according to the UN; the relationship between culture, global supply chains and other forms of appropriation, and the growing need for governments and multinationals to reconsider ideas of copyright and to employ a greater understanding of open-source initiatives as a fundamental condition of lateral globalisation.
Referencing the architecture of the Sifang Art Museum, Mirza has created a new series of site-specific 'light works'. These works, which Mirza considers as 'wall drawings', explore his interest in compositions using electricity and light. Referencing a type of 'anti-form', these silent works use geometric lines of coloured LED strips and cables to highlight their spatial environment and the surrounding architecture.
Another key work in the composition of the exhibition is Mirza's new version of Pavilion for Optimisation, entitled Copy of Pavilion for Optimisation (2019), a purpose-built sound chamber designed to create the maximum amount of reverberation possible. Viewers are invited to enter the chamber and experience the continuous prolongation of a sound. The chamber, in which no two walls are symmetrical or parallel, was constructed with architect Omar Mirza. Within the chamber a single strip of white LED lights up the chamber for a brief interval; a white speaker hangs in a corner and fills the room with sound from a live feed of water from an external shower.
The exhibition will also feature a special new work by Mirza that responds to the recent exchange the artist has had with both fashion house Louis Vuitton, and more recently with Off-White Founder and LV Men's Artistic Director Virgil Abloh. The artist has also made a series of special 'un-collaborative collaborations' editions available at the museum for purchase, a limited edition 复制品 (fuzhipin) collaboration between Haroon Mirza and Louis Vuitton.
About the exhibition
Dates: Jun 7, 2019 - Dec 8, 2019
Opening: Jun 7, 2019, 15:00
Venue: Sifang Art Museum
Courtesy of the artist and Sifang Art Museum.


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At Harbor Fish Market, we pride ourselves on carrying only the best seafood available. Fresh, frozen, smoked, value-added…you name it. One of our bestselling brands is Ducktrap River of Maine, high quality and traditionally smoked seafood.
In 1978, Des Fitzgerald, founder, decided to try his hand at smoking fish, and the rest is history for Ducktrap. With premium grade seafood and tried and true brining and smoking methods, they cure some of the best tasting smoked seafood coming out of Maine. It starts with the seafood but choosing the wood for smoking is just as important. Local wood such as apple, cherry, maple and oak are used for smoking.
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At the interfaith service concluding the Confronting Islamophobia conference (May 6-7, 2011) at Saint Mark's Cathedral, Rabbi James Mirel opened his remarks saying "...let it be well noted, a Jew called Muslims to prayer in a Christian church. That one sentence says it all!"
The "all" was all that we hoped for, an event where Christians and Jews could lean more about and from Muslims; and where Muslims could experience the interest and openness of neighbors who care about their well being in our community.
The conference I Am My Brother's Keeper, Confronting Islamophobia was already being described as a watershed event in Seattle for the mutual understanding and shared work undertaken by a broad range of Muslims, Christians and Jews. About 600 people had gathered the evening before to hear Imam Feizal Abdul Rauf from the Cordoba Center in New York City give a compelling talk and to lead Muslim evening prayer that began with an incredibly beautiful call to prayer. Moderator Phil Ginsberg enabled discussions that were both honest and respectful.
The 35 protesters across the street, of whom the media hoped to make much, declined the invitation to join us and learn more. By the time the Imam arrived, their group had dwindled to 6 cold, wet people.
For a day and a half, Muslims, Christians and Jews gathered to learn, to discuss issues, to consider strategies for combating Islamophobia and to worship together. The energy in the rooms was so warm, so positive and hopeful that we all had a glimpses of what could be. The sincere interest to know more about the other, to celebrate the dignity of difference, and to grow in one's own faith was remarkable.
The Mideast Focus Ministry of Saint Mark's sponsored the event that grew out of my concern about the increase in Islamophobia and Muslim's loss of civil rights. There is much that reminded me of 1930's Germany and the question "Where were the churches?" It is time to ask where we will all be on this question. To focus us on the question, we began and ended with the scriptures in all three faiths that command us to love our God with all our heart and our neighbors as ourselves.
The morning focused on learning more about Islam as a faith and Islam and the West. Imam Jamal Rahman and Dr. Yovnne Haddad gave talks that challenged us to go deeper in our understanding both spiritually and intellectually. The afternoon focused on how to create strategies to combat Islamophobia. But it was perhaps modeling what could be done that was most effective. Jeff Siddiqui had asked for a few minutes to talk about the two imams who had been put off a plane because of their dress that morning. Our own Sentaor Cantwell chairs the transportation committee. So during the day we drafted a petition to her that people signed and handed in during the worship service. A concrete commitment to action.
There were thirteen workshops, from which participants could choose three. There was standing room only when Kathleen Christian talked about The Role of Islamophobia on US foreign policy. Efforts to understand different ways of evaluating the issues pushed some to engage fiercely on the tough questions. An equally large crowd sat and stood to lean more about "Sharia, Canon Law and the Constitution" an effort to understand the roles of civil law and religious law allowed by a constitution that supports the rights of all. Yvonne Haddad wove together information as varied as new insights about the Crusades and the role of Muslim women since 9/11 that shared both complexity and space for engaging. Jamal Rahman and Rabbi Ted falcon lead group discussions that one participant said "melted" her prejudices.
Not every workshop was outstanding. But the bar at the top was very high! And we didn't answer questions about militant fringe Islam that were in many participants minds. The speaker on Sharia was talking about the US, not about remote and primitive villages that we hear about on the news. Questions about violence asked in other workshops weren't always answered well. We have more to learn about how to deal with the ideas promoted by the media. The focus here was on mainstream Islam. That part was outstanding. It was just a beginning. We used almost 400 lunches provided by two different chefs, about 150 of which were for youth and those working on the conference. There were halal and vegan options. We spread a wide net in the community for participation by each faith and by all ages. Muslims, Christians and Jews worked, with equal numbers of each faith involved in the effort. (Fewer Jews attended because it was Shabbat.) That includes 9 steering committee members, 52 volunteers, 43 co-sponsors, 22 workshop leaders and panelists, 5 clerics, 4 speakers, 6 musicians, 4 videographers and a technical crew of 4. These numbers don't include the 5 mosques that provided hospitality, with dinner and programs Saturday evening.
The closing service with Bishop Greg Rickel, Imam Fazal Hassan and Rabbi Jim Mirel was a celebration of our shared experiences and a commitment to action. The music by Abráce, as warm and honest as the conference, pulled it all together. Bringing us in with The Storm is Passing Over, they provided the rhythms and music of Egyptian Copts, of a Hebrew/Arabic song of peace, a Jewish/Ladino song about the birth of Abraham, and more. It was a wonderful experience of the ways our differences can bring us together.
By evening many people had engaged so fully that they went home, missing a very important part of the experience. (Perhaps we had one too many workshops.)
It was dinner at the different mosques that cemented the feeling that one had reached past the veil of "Otherness" to real connection for those who did go on to dinner. One mosque had a quiz on Islam for its guests and the guests.y got all the answers right! I took that as a good measure of what was learned during the day. But more important were those who talked about the warmth, the hospitality, the power of just sharing a meal and relaxing together.
We are only beginning to answer the question "Where will the churches be?" In convening the conference, I learned a great deal about how vulnerable Muslims are here in Puget Sound, about a loss of civil rights that is hard for the rest of us to comprehend because it is for the most part hidden. But I have no doubt that almost everyone who attended the conference left caring about the rights of someone they met; that they will read the news differently and some will answer the call to action.
Brenda Bentz I am my brother's keeper conference steering committee chair
co-convener Mideast Focus Ministry
Mideast Focus ~ Saint Mark's Cathedral 1245 Tenth Avenue East Seattle, WA 98102206.323.0300


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Yatağan, Muğla
Sights of interest
Situated in the heart of ancient Caria and, during the 13th – 14th centuries, of the territory of the Anatolian beylik of Menteşe, the district boasts several localities of interest rich in history and in natural beauty. The region is covered in large part by Mediterranean pine forests.
At a distance of 10 km (6 mi) to the west of the district center, in the direction of Milas, is the ancient site of Stratonikeia, in the present-day village of Eskihisar, and at walking distance from the ancient city is its sanctuary Lagina, near the present-day township of Turgut. Turgut was called Leyne officially until recent date and is still called as such locally.
Another spot of interest is the village of Çaybükü on the road to Muğla. The village is famous for its old and restored coffee house, Belen Kahvesi, mentioned in a nationally renowned song called "Ormancı", which has as theme a tragic event that took place there in 1946. The coffee house is a tourist attraction today both because of the curiosity aroused by the song and also due to its magnificent view of the surrounding plain. Once again, Çaybükü had a different official name, Gevenes, until the 1950s and that name is still used locally. An unsuccessful petition was even made by the inhabitants in 2006 for a return to the former name, but while the Ministry of Interior Affairs could accept Geven, it did accept Gevenes.[3] The village is referred to by name in the song, under its former official name of Gevenes.
Yatağan Power Plant
Since the 1990s the town has attracted world attention due to the ecological pollution by the nearby Yatağan Thermal Power Plant, one of the largest Turkey's coal-burning power plant, built in 1976. There have been campaigns to shut it down by Greenpeace since 1994, and several shutdown court orders have been issued, only to be overruled or ignored because of the energy shortage.[4]


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Synergy Card
Taking your group's communication and commitment up to the next level
This is the second of two group norms cards for teams. The Synergy card is for more advance team that are committed to deeper connections and more transparency around reactions, emotions, interests, and advocacy. Most teams should start with OPG's BING card and then, when ready, introduce the norms on the Synergy card.
This card is a durable, laminated, waterproof card stock, ready for any teaching environment.


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It's not easy to combine a local boutique style with a contemporary feel. Designing Fhra Hair Salon, Simone Subissati Studio managed to do that by balancing volumes and lines and keeping up with an on-street level perspective.
One side, the salon is characterized by three-dimensionality: a one-piece sculptural wooden structure hosts a workstation, cupboards and some shelves.
On the other side a minimal iron structure supports a long wooden shelf with drawers and holds a mirror that extends all along the wall.
Simone Subissati said "Fhra hair-styling salon is based in Ancona, Italy, and takes inspiration by the interior design of a local atelier studio, The project includes two different and parallel structures that interact with each-other creating a contemporary space".
Lights are designed in order to enhance the perspective principles that define the project. Simone Subissati Studio designed all furnitures and complements as well: the floor lamp, the seatings, the carpet that takes inspiration by a gearwheel and the small table with screwed legs.
Photos: courtesy of Simone Subissati Studio – www.simonesubissati.it