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15 Feminist Icons Under The Age Of 20
Today's teenage girls can be overwhelming to anyone who isn't prepared for them. They're loud and they're proud and they have access to more information than any other generation before them. But what may seem intimidating to some has bred some of the most powerful feminist minds The newest crop of teen feminists embody the best parts of their generation: they're loud, delightfully proud, and smart as whips. Indeed, the unapologetic young woman is proving herself to be a mighty force for feminism.
One of the best things about the young women featured below is that they're a community. As you'll see, many of them are friends, have interviewed one another, or have all worked for some capacity for the tie that binds — Rookie Magazine. There's something very comforting about seeing young women build each other up, refusing to conform to that tired stereotype that women are threatening to one another and are obligated to compete. This new generation of women refuses to fit into those pre-prescribed roles for femininity, and if you're ever feeling hopeless in the current state of feminist issues, this list should give you faith that the next generation is taking care of business.
Here are 15 feminist icons under the age of 20 that you'll want to be when you grow up:
1. Jazz Jennings, 15
Dazed Magazine's February cover star Jazz Jennings is inspirational, and not in the cheesy way that quotes you wrote on your high school notebooks were, but in the very real sense that she is brave, articulate, and very down to earth despite being such a force. When she was just six years old, Jennings appear on Barbara Walters' 20/20 to tell the world she identified as trans. Now, at 15, Jennings has her own show, I Am Jazz, and is a fierce advocate for LGBTQ rights. Wise beyond her years, Jennings told Dazed (in an interview with Rowan Blanchard, but more on her later), "I feel like kids are much more open to change, because they're learning about the world and about themselves. But adults can be so stuck in their own realities and what they've lived in the past that they don't realize how things change, times change, ideas change, and that they have to open up their minds and move on from the era they grew up in."
2. Amandla Stenberg, 17
You might remember Amandla Stenberg as Rue in the first Hunger Games movie, but her legacy as a voracious intersectional feminist will be her legacy. Last year, Stenberg floored the world with a video that went viral, asking the question, "What would America be like if it loved black people as much as it loves black culture?" in which she fiercely challenged white appropriation of black culture. A self-possessed teen who doesn't bend to meet social expectations or any backwards sense of propriety, she has come out as proudly bisexual, and was memorably accompanied to prom by a skirt-wearing Jaden Smith. Stenberg is nothing if not marching to the beat of her own, wonderful drum.
3. Malala Yousafzai, 18
After being shot in the face by the Taliban at age 16 for advocating education for girl children in her native Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai became a sheer force of will and intellect. Since surviving the brutal attack, Malala has gone on to be a global activist for female education and the youngest person to ever with the Nobel Prize. For the last three consecutive years she's been named one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," and continues tirelessly and relentlessly to secure access to education to young women all over the world.
4. Mars, 15
If you haven't heard of Mars, now might be the time to get acquainted. She's just set up an art movement called "Art Hoe", which is designed for people of color to explore, create, and appreciate art and how it relates to their identity. It should come as little surprise that Amandla Stenberg is involved in the #arthoe movement. Mars identifies as gender fluid, and is a contributor to Rookie Mag (more on that below!), and is vocal about gender, sex, and race issues, especially with respect to cultural appropriation. Speaking on intersectionality, Mars told The Guardian, "I'm a womanist. If you're a woman of color, or a woman in the LGBT community, you have more things on your back, basically. It's not just gender for you."
5. Tavi Gevinson, 19
Tavi Gevinson started her blog Style Rookie at age 12. What were you doing when you were 12? She quickly became a sensation, not just for being an adorable 12-year-old with eclectic style, but for her thoughtful insights and before-her-years writing skills. In 2011, at age 15, she founded the website Rookie , a feminist website for teenage girls to explore pop culture, gender, sex, race and everything in between. Tavi has spoken openly about women's issues, with Rookie aiming to give all different types of young women a voice and a chance to be a little bit unruly.
6. Girls Against, 17-ish
There's a pretty boring stereotype that teenage girls are petty and preoccupied with their hair and boys. Girls Against surely destroys that toxic idea of female teenage-hood, as their Twitter bio states they are, "Five intersectional feminists fighting against sexual assault at gigs." The group was created when one of the founding members, Hannah Camilleri (17), was harassed at a show. Now their Twitter has over 11,000 followers as the girls promote their anti-harassment message at the same time creating a safe space for other women and girls to share their experiences.
7. Rowan Blanchard, 14
Rowan Blanchard is another one of those bright young women that make your formative years look frivolous by comparison, but who you know would still make you feel good about yourself and validate your experiences by being so warm and full of wisdom and all reasonable and no nonsense. The Girl Meets World star wrote an essay about intersectional feminism (posted to her Instagram) and how white feminism can stifle or even silence the voices of trans women and women of color. "'White feminism' forgets all about intersectional feminism. The way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality. Likewise with trans-women and Hispanic women," she wrote. "We are so quick to applaud white women for commenting on race issues/discussion like #BlackLivesMatter, and #SayHerName, but when a black girl comments on it — she is told she is overreacting or being angry." Blanchard has also written about feminism, and a woman's propensity to say "sorry", for Rookie Magazine.
8. Lily Rose Depp, 16
The daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, Lily Rose Depp has had a lucky life. She recently identified as sexually fluid, and used her position and privilege to advocate for LGBTQ issues. Depp posed in an awareness-raising campaign called "Self Evident Truths", a photo series documenting 10,000 people in the U.S. who don't identify as being 100 percent straight. The project's photographer, iO Tillett Wright, wrote in a caption of the photo he took of her, "She decided she wanted to be in @selfevidentproject because she falls somewhere on the vast spectrum, and I couldn't be happier to welcome her to the family. She's a tiny gem of a good human."
9. Willow Smith, 15
Willow Smith has some attitude on her (in the best way), thanks to empowering parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, the former of whom wrote a message for Willow on her birthday, saying, "Thank you for correcting my heart — and teaching me how to love without constriction or condition." Given her way, Willow would "correct" the world's heart, as she promotes freedom of expression, sexuality, and love. Most recently she took to Twitter to talk about Kesha, writing "We live on a planet where the incubators of our species are constantly abused. If we keep down this road we will ruin our planet to the point of no return #FreeKesha." In January this year she also caused a stir when she promoted the #freethenipple campaign with a photo of herself in a top with breasts painted on it. You know, just Willow Smith being her bad self.
10. Mithsuca Berry, 15
Going by the alias Foxyfries, Mithsuca Berry is a 15-year-old illustrator whose work has appeared in Rookie Magazine. Berry is know for her provocative illustrations, which you can buy prints of at Society6. Grappling with issues of femininity, race and how those are intertwined with identity, Berry uses the visual medium to empower people of all colors, genders and sexualities. Her beautiful artworks include images of Adventure Time characters reimagined as people of color and faces scrawled with the words "I love my blackness and yours".
11. Lila Perry, 17
You might have heard of 17-year-old trans teen Lila Perry from the time she wanted to use the girl's toilet at her high school in St. Louis, only to have more than one hundred students and their parents storm out of the school in protest. Despite being the victim of inexcusable transphobia, Perry has become a symbol of courage for the trans community and indeed, for the more tolerable cis people in her own community. Indeed, the publicity from Perry's case put her on a national press circuit to raise awareness about trans issues in schools, sparking a country-wide conversation about what more can be done to protect LGBTQ teens and promote acceptance in their communities.
12. Sophie Thomas, 13
When Sophie Thomas identified as a feminist, wearing a t-shirt featuring the slogan "Feminist" scrawled across it, and was allegedly told by her school principal to cover it up for a school photo, she became a hero. Thomas fought back against the alleged arbitrary instruction, organizing a protest at which students wore t-shirts that read "Feminism isn't offensive." Her vocal brand of activism has spread from her home in Ohio across the country, and even inspired the viral hashtag #IDESERVEFREEDOMOFEXPRESSION.
13. Lorde, 18
Unlike some of her older contemporaries, teenage Lorde, even when she was just beginning her career in the spotlight, never shied away from proudly calling herself a feminist. She's spoken openly about feminist issues on her Twitter, and in an interview with Tavi Gevinson for Rookie she said, "I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. It's just a part of being a girl."
14. Maisie Williams, 18
We all want to believe that Maisie Williams is just as precocious as her onscreen character, Arya Stark. And while she might not be out for revenge in real life, Williams is still an advocate for strong women. She recently hosted a #LikeAGirl Summit in New York, and while she wasn't "Stabbing bad guys in the eye" or "Selling oysters but really spying" like a girl, she was promoting the idea that doing something "like a girl" isn't a negative thing, as it's so often intended in use. As she told Today.com, "To be like a girl means you can make decisions in your life without having to worry about what anyone says. Because I know my brothers don't. Not at all."
15. Sonita Alizadeh, 18
Sonita Alizadeh is a brave young woman. She escaped a planned, non-consensual arranged marriage in Afghanistan by penning a rap song called "Brides For Sale". The heartbreaking song and accompanying video begins with Alizadeh wearing a barcode on her forehead, with a black eye, rapping, "Let me whisper, so no one hears that I speak of selling girls. My voice shouldn't be heard since it's against Sharia. Women must remain silent… this is our tradition," and telling the story so many young women are too familiar with. It's a story of abuse and ownership, and it caught the attention of the Strongheart Group, who offered her a student visa so she could study in the U.S., where she currently resides. An Iranian documentary filmmaker, Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, has made a documentary of her life, to be released this year.


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Situation 72: Conducting Exhibition– Business English for Listening
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711. What documents are we supposed to offer before the exhibition?
712. I'm planning to hold an exhibition in your center.
713. Could you tell me how to sign an agreement?
714. How should the procedure of renting be handled in your center?
715. I want to know something about the exhibition center's conference faculities.
716. What services are you supposed to provide us during the exhibition?
717. We'll send you a letter of confirmation after receiving your application.
718. Please apply to the Business department 10 months before your scheduled exhibition.
719. Could you give us a brief introduction of exhibition center?
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text: 'One Night Only': Film Review 11:21 AM PDT 7/28/2016 by Frank Scheck FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Courtesy of Cheng Cheng Films One Night Only Still - Publicity - H 2016 Terrific performances and cool visuals enhance this fast-paced, atmospheric feature debut. TWITTER Aaron Kwok and Zishan Yang star in Matt Wu's stylish melodrama blending crime thriller and romance. A desperate gambler and a beautiful prostitute spend a fateful, action-packed evening together in Taiwanese director Matt Wu's impressive directorial debut. Mixing suspense with romance in an uncommonly stylish noirish blend, One Night Only marks its tyro filmmaker as a talent to watch while showcasing the acting talents of its charismatic stars, Aaron Kwok (Port of Call, Cold War) and Zishan Yang (So Young, Miss Granny). The film's central characters are Gao Ye (Kwok), an ex-con and compulsive gambler who has squandered his considerable family inheritance and is now deeply in debt to gangsters who are threatening to kidnap his teenage daughter, and Momo (Zishan), a hooker who mysteriously knocks on his door one night. He tells her that he placed no such order and has no money even if he did, but she insists on sticking around for a while anyway so her pimp won't become suspicious. When Gao Ye notices the large stash of money she's carrying with her, he persuades her to bankroll him for another night at the gambling tables, which leads to a frenetic evening involving Momo's fellow hookers; a blindfolded drag race; an excursion into the underground world of cage fighting; and dangerous encounters with another gambler who'll resort to anything to get his money back. The growing relationship between the two central figures is the heart of the film, with Peng Ren's intriguing screenplay teasing out their backstories and motivations and eventually delivering plot revelations that few viewers will see coming. At times credibility is stretched to the breaking point, but the film works extremely well anyway, thanks to the sizzling chemistry between the two leads who infuse their potentially stereotypical characters with surprising depths. And it all looks terrific, with Charlie Lam's neon-drenched cinematography giving the nocturnal proceedings a distinctively nightmarish vibe that often recalls the films of David Lynch. Distributor: Cheng Cheng Films Production: Fu Jian Hengye Pictures Cast: Aaron Kwok, Zishan Yang, Lei Hao, Andy On, Jie Gao, Tiantian Fan Director: Matt Wu Screenwriter: Peng Ren Producer: Andy Chen Executive producers: Yanjie Sun, Hanhai Chen Director of photography: Charlie Lam Production designers: Lo Shun Fu, Premo Fang Editors: Tang Man To, Hongyu Yang Costume designer: Jewel Yeh Composer: Benson Chen Not rated, 90 minutes FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Frank Scheck firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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Program Description
Uruguay offers picturesque scenery of beaches, dunes, and large lagoons. Experience the intimate beauty of Uruguay, where the people are warm and the land is welcoming. You'll enjoy getting to know the people of this small but unique country!
Scholarships Available
- 385 - Holcomb & Farnell Foreign Study Fund
- 378 - The Grand Forks Scheels Scholarship
- 314 - The YFU Americas Scholarship
- 368 - YFU Community Grant
- 384 - YFU Financial Aid Fund
Age Requirement
Fall departure: April 1, 2000 - August 1, 2003. Spring departure: January 1, 2000 - January 1, 2003. Summer departure: April 1, 2000-August 1, 2003.
Students who do not meet this age requirement or will graduate from high school before the start of their program will be considered for admission on a case-by-case basis.
- Language: Spanish. Previous language study is not required. Families in the north may also speak Portuñol.
- Host Family Placement: Throughout Uruguay in small cities (up to 30,000 people), medium-sized cities (31,000-125,000 people), and the countryside. Students are rarely placed in metropolitan areas.
- School: March to November, with summer vacation from December through February.
- Trips: Optional educational trips are available for an additional fee to year and semester students.
Summer Program
Discover Uruguay
On this summer program, students live with a local volunteer host family in metropolitan Montevideo and immerse themselves in Uruguay's unique culture. Students are enrolled in a Spanish language course at Academia Uruguay, spending their mornings in class before participating in afternoon extracurricular or cultural activities. During the final week, students will get a chance to put their Spanish to the test by going to a local high school in Montevideo. YFU Uruguay also organizes regional cultural activities that include visiting a traditional ranch, attending carnivals and football matches, and experiencing all that Uruguayan culture has to offer!
Academic Programs
While in Uruguay you will live with a carefully selected host family and attend a local high school. Whether you stay for a year or semester, you're sure to make lifelong friends! Part of your experience will be:
School: As a student, you will choose a track of studies such as biology, science, humanities, or liberal arts. Courses within the tracks are generally compulsory. School placement in a private school is possible, and students may be required to wear a uniform. Expectations of students it high, so it will be very important for students to take studies seriously.
Extracurriculars: Uruguayan schools rarely offer extracurricular activities. However, YFU students are encouraged to get involved in their communities by joining local clubs, teams, and other activities in their towns.
Optional Excursions: YFU Uruguay offers a lot of rich opportunities for you to experience South America through optional cultural activities available at an additional cost. These options could include a trip to Iguaçu Falls, a trip to Buenos Aires and Colonia, an outdoor adventure camp in the Cordoba Highlands, an outing to Crows' Creek, or a weekend at the hot springs in Salto. Students also have the option of attending a 6-day YFU summer camp in La Paloma in December, during which they enjoy Uruguay's most spectacular beaches by visiting a variety of seaside nature resorts. More information about all of these optional cultural expeditions will be offered at the arrival orientation in Uruguay.
Orientations: All students applying for the semester or year program must be available for a mandatory 3-day National Pre-Departure Orientation, which usually takes place in mid-July. This orientation is a required part of the program aimed at preparing students for their experience overseas. All students will participate in a one-day local pre-departure orientation in May or June. Upon arrival, students attend a four-day orientation where they learn more about life in Uruguay and work on their language skills. To kick off the program, students also attend an intensive Spanish language course, from which they receive a certificate of completion from YFU and a final grade. Year students participate in a mid-year orientation, and all students will participate in a three-day re-entry orientation in order to reflect on their experiences and prepare for reverse culture shock.
Tuition includes
- Placement with a host family
- Enrollment in a local Uruguayan high school
- Airport transfers
- Domestic and international travel
- All pre-departure and post-arrival orientations
- Pre-program support by trained YFU staff
- Support from a YFU Uruguay Area Representative while on program
- Comprehensive insurance
Program tuition does not include personal spending money. YFU Uruguay recommends that students plan for about $150 for every month that they are on the program.
Application Deadline
The application deadline for all winter and spring departure programs (January-March) is October 1. The deadline to apply for scholarships is December 1. The deadline for all summer or fall departure programs (June-September) is March 15. Programs can fill up before the deadline, so we encourage early submission!
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Do you remember me telling you about that cooking club I joined with one of my favorite friends?
You know, the dinner party I went to where said friend choked on a giblet of corn?
You can read about our enchanting evening here.
Well, this month it was our turn to host and prepare the meal.
And Brittney and I were pretty "into" our theme: Farmers Market.
Which means that nearly every item we used in our dishes, we actually hand picked at the local Underwood Family Farm.
Basically, we got poked by thorns, had dust caked between our toes and nearly broke our backs in 100 degree weather all in the name of a fresh and yummy meal for our dear friends–and it was totally worth it!
Because there was so much that went into this evening, I'm going to break things up into two posts. This post will show you our prep-work for the dinner. And tomorrow I will post the results and final presentation–with some good stories that include a smoke alarm, a feta cheese incident, and a nearly raw dessert.
Our trip to the farm to pick the produce the day before. We even brought the kiddies.
We filled an entire wagon with produce. People were staring.
Then Brittney and I went our separate ways to put the kids down for a nap.
Brittney worked on prepping all the food, because she is pretty much a pro chef {if you ask me}, and there was no sense in having me ruin everything.
The beginnings of our Mediterranean salad.
To die for stuffed peppers. I'm not gonna lie–at first I was skeptical–but then Brittney introduced me to this version of stuffed peppers, and I am a fan for life. I even had a dream about them the other night–they are that good.
And a from scratch cheesecake with fresh picked raspberries.
And while Brittney was busy slaving away in her kitchen, I was at home cleaning, crafting and organizing for the big event. Menu design, place settings, finding enough seats, drinks, flowers, candles, moving furniture–you name it.
I made each guest a custom vintage yo yo brooch that I attached to their napkins,
Stay tuned tomorrow to see how it all came together, and for more details on our menu and recipes.


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Central Jakarta Bina Marga Sub-dept. reminds contractors who are responsible for utility cable excavation project to work neatly and maintain public facilities.
" Our job is to monitor their activities to prevent a mess that can disturb the pedestrian"
Because several underground utility cable locations were left untidy after excavation and it makes sidewalk cannot be accessed.
"Our job is to monitor their activities to prevent a mess that can disturb the pedestrian. Moreover, it i s to prevent sidewalks from being damaged," stated Sukowibowo, Central Jakarta Bina Marga Sub-dept. Head, Wednesday (11/7).
His side found out some untidy underground cables utility locations post excavation on Jalan Percetakan Negara, from Johar Baru to Cempaka Putih.
"They have permit to excavate it, but if they damage public facilities, then our team and Satpol PP have the right to stop their work," he asserted.


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Ghosts of great games past
This past weekend, the New York Yankees came to Wrigley Field for the first time since 2003. A stirring Cubs victory in Game 1 and competitive play throughout most of the subsequent two games briefly made me concerned that I'd have the singular pleasure of eating my words, but true to this year's form the Cubs dropped the final two games of the series to continue their disappointing, uneven season true to form.
What the series did do was revive memories of one of my favorite baseball games of all time: the second game of the 2003 Cubs-Yankees series, on June 7, 2003.
It was a different time. The Cubs that were were contending, one of the best teams in the National League, and expected to make run into the playoffs behind first-year manager Dusty Baker, slugger Sammy Sosa and young pitchers Kerry Wood and Mark Prior. When the Yankees — also in the middle of a typically strong season — came to Wrigley Field, many people saw the series as a possible World Series preview.
To raise the octane further for the second game, the Yankees sent ace Roger Clemens to the mound. Clemens had won 299 games in his career, and would be trying for his 300th, a milestone of pitching success that's often seen as a benchmark for the Hall of Fame (not that Clemens' storied career needed it in those pre-steroid revelation days).
Opposing Clemens was the man seen as the next Roger Clemens: Wood, the fireballing Texan who was one of only two major league pitchers to strike out 20 batters in a single game. The other? Clemens, who had done it twice.
(When I sat down to write this, I had an idea in my head that Wood had been going for his 100th victory as Clemens sought his 300th. Alas, that was a figment of my imagination; Wood's only won 84 games in his 13-year career.)
Wrigley Field was packed, with Yankees fans and the media joining Cubs fans to create an electric atmosphere. Wood struck out four of the first five Yankees he faced and allowed only a single walk through the first three innings. Clemens matched him, giving up a leadoff single and a walk through three.
It was in the fourth that the game first became truly memorable. Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi hit a towering infield pop fly. Both Wood and the Cubs' rookie first baseman, South Korean prospect Hee-Seop Choi, converged on the ball — and collided.
Choi held on to the ball for the out, but paid a hefty price: Wood's glove struck him in the face, knocking him out cold and silencing the roaring crowd.
To that point, Choi had been having a mediocre rookie season, with a low batting average but decent power and patience. But the collision with Wood concussed Choi and sent him to the disabled list.
After that injury, Choi was never the same, bouncing around several different major league teams and the minors before falling out of baseball. Was his concussion to blame? Hard to say, but it was a scary and pivotal moment in Choi's then-promising career.
In any case, Choi was taken off the field in an ambulance after lying out cold for more than 10 minutes, and on to replace him came Eric Karros, a backup first baseman and pinch-hitter whose prior claim to Cubs fans' allegiance had been being part of the trade that dumped the Cubs' underachieving, overpaid catcher Todd Hundley on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
That would soon change.
Wood survived the collision with Choi unharmed and struck out the next three batters, but then Hideki Matsui punished a mistake into the right field bleachers to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead in the fourth. With his sights set on his 300th win, Clemens struck out the side in the fifth, made a brilliant defensive play to erase a leadoff double in the sixth, and entered the seventh having allowed just two hits and no walks with four strikeouts.
He added a fifth of Corey Patterson to start the seventh and then things got interesting.
Sammy Sosa struck a single to left field, bringing up Moises Alou, who drew a five-pitch walk. With the left-handed Karros at the plate and his starter on the ropes, Yankees manager Joe Torre played the match-ups and brought in righty reliever Juan Acevedo.
Karros for his career hit just .260 against righties with a slugging percentage of .447. None of that mattered on this Saturday in June. Karros turned on an 0-1 pitch and hit a three-run homer to the left field bleachers.
In one pitch, the Cubs' 0-1 deficit had been turned into a 3-1 lead. Roger Clemens' shot at his 300th win was gone. So, as it turns out, was Acevedo's career: within days, the Yankees released him, and after a brief stint with the Blue Jays, he was out of baseball for good.
The drama was far from over. In the next inning, Wood gave up a pair of singles around a pair of outs, then walked Derek Jeter to load the bases. In came left-handed reliever Mike Remlinger to face Giambi with the game on the line. Remlinger delivered with a swinging strikeout, part of a strong 2003 season.
In the bottom of the inning, the Cubs tacked on two more runs with a series of hits, and it turned out to be useful, because lurking in the ninth was the 2003 Cubs' closer, Joe Borowski.
"Sweaty Joe," as I always called him during his stay with the Cubs, had been snatched out of the Mexican league the year before, and quickly became one of the 2002 Cubs' more effective relievers. In 2003 he won the closers' job, and he was more or less effective. But his strong record at converting saves didn't disguise the fact that with Sweaty Joe, nothing was ever easy. It wasn't a Joe Borowski save unless the tying run was at the plate (or, preferably, in scoring position).
Sweaty Joe was true to form this Saturday, giving up a leadoff home run to Jorge Posada, and singles to Raul Mondesi and Matsui. That gave the Yankees two chances to tie the game with Juan Rivera and pinch-hitter Todd Zeile. But Joe pulled off his usual juggling act, getting out of trouble after getting himself into it.
Kerry Wood, for those Cubs fans who remember 2003 — and particularly for those who remember 2004 and 2005 — threw 120 pitches that day.
(That, of course, was the difference between Sweaty Joe and the 2004 Cubs' closer, LaTroy Hawkins, who would get himself into trouble and then blow the game.)
The Cubs won the third game, taking two of three from the Yankees. Both teams would go on to win their divisions, the Yankees handily over the Boston Red Sox, the Cubs narrowly, pulling ahead of the Cardinals after a pivotal five-game series in late August and edging out the Astros in the season's final week. The less said about the playoffs that year, perhaps the better.
This year's Yankees-Cubs series at Wrigley was not nearly so exciting, though it was one of the better Cubs series of the year as far as entertainment. The difference, of course, is that the 2003 Cubs team was a good baseball team, while the 2011 Cubs team is a bad one (mediocre, at best). No one murmured about this series being a potential World Series preview, because while the Yankees are certainly (as always) in the hunt, this year's Cubs are certainly not.
The Cubs haven't even given any truly memorable games — perhaps because it's often great teams that produce great games. The last instant classic games I can recall both came in the Cubs' powerhouse 2008: the May 30, 2008 game when the Cubs fell behind 8-0 through four and 9-1 through five, pulled their starters and somehow came back to beat the Rockies, and the Sept. 14, 2008 game when Carlos Zambrano no-hit the Astros in the third-party Miller Park.
To be sure, there have been great Cubs moments even in the disappointing years since then — walk-off wins, pitchers' duels, slug-fests, great match-ups — but no truly great games. Not even the return of the Yankees to Wrigley could recapture that 2003 magic. But that's not surprising, because "mystique" has far more to do with the X-Men than with the Yankees. There's only one true recipe for baseball glory, and that's winning. Sooner or later, it'll happen again to the Cubs. And that's what being a fan's all about.


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Retired for 18 years. Own a class B Roadtrek. Live in N KY just across the river from Cincinnati OH. Live in a small subdivision on 6 acres of woods.
Both retired from universities in the region.
Travel both in N. America and abroad.
Know a great mechanic nearby.
Some computer skills-iPad, itouch, iPhone, Applewatch
No pets
Quartzsite, all over Alaska. Newfoundland and Canada , the Southwest
Melbourne ky is a small town 20 minutes from downtown Cincinnati. 10 minutes to all sorts of shopping and restaurants. 30 minutes to CIncinnati airport. 20-30 minutes from the Reds and Bengals stadium, Symphony Hall, Cincinnati Museum, Zoo And Botanical Gardens, Cincinnati Art Museum, Taft Art Museum and other major attractions. One hour from the Kentucky Horse Park, Keenland Race RTrack and Churchill Downs
20' Roadtrek versatile. 17 years old, almost 200,000 miles. No tow vehicle
This was our second repeat boondocker and as life would have it they shared the property with the same guests that were here last year! Good folks...and thanks for leaving us a little something!
My first BOONDOCKERS Here
Very nice Couple.
Very well traveled
I wish there would have been more time to hear about there travels.
Hope they stop by again.
It was my pleasure to be the host. I am sure you will enjoy being their host too.
We greatly enjoyed our time with these wanderers and we would be happy to host again! Safe travels!
* thanks for your help with the gate!
Was nice to chat with them, He even brought a bottle of wine, Which was very nice :)
Kycliff was just a nice, restful place for me. Beautiful scenery, gracious couple!
So nice to meet with Kycliff again. Great hosts. Highly recommend staying with them. Enjoyed our meal together. Look forward to them visiting with us.
Such a nice stay we had at Linda and Cliff's place. We felt welcomed at the first sight and we were lucky enough to enjoy a meal with them, at the same time chatting about our lives. We also had a peaceful and quiet night in the wood. They are welcome anytime to our home.
We arrived late at night and were cordially greeted. We had a peaceful nice stay and would definitely recommend this location.
This, was our first boondockers experience. Loved it! Very welcoming and accommodating. Looking forward to more experienced like this!
My stay at Kyclif was rejuvenating and enjoyable. My hosts welcomed me into their beautiful home, treated me to a chilled glass of apple cider while we got to know each other, and even gave me a tour of their motor Home! A beautiful pit stop on a long trip, where I felt safe and welcome. The perfect first BW experience!
It's always nice to meet up again with friends we have made on BW. C&L are our kind of people. They made us feel right at home again, and couldn't have been nicer. We couldn't believe that it had been 4 months since the last time we were here. This is a perfect example of why we love this program because we never would have met such good people otherwise.
They were very nice and made us feel welcome. They live in a beautiful, quiet location. I would readily recommend them to anyone.
It was so nice to be able to stay with these generous people, and learn all about their adventurous lives. We learned about Skyline chili and Graeter's ice cream, 2 local favorites. You couldn't ask for nicer hosts, we would definitely drop in on them again, and enjoy an evening chat.
We had a wonderful night here. a very engaging host and we throughly enjoyed our stay in their lovely neighborhood.


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I've been thinking about my journey from secretly supportive to true ally. It's been scary. I grew up in the conservative Christian Church (granted, it was in Massachusetts, but it was a Southern Baptist Church in Massachusetts), my husband went to a Baptist seminary and we spent 10 years in ministry in traditional, conservative churches before starting our little church plant, missio dei.
That means that as I have made it public that I not only support equal rights in marriage but have also changed my belief about what the Bible says about gay marriage, I've taken a stand directly opposite many of my brothers and sisters - people I love. It means that some people who love me, people who have worshiped with me, who taught my children, who welcomed me into their lives when their kids were in our youth group have changed how they feel about me. I've lost some friends. From places where I was once considered a woman with a strong faith, I've been told I'm not a committed Christian, that I've been blinded, that my faith is damaged, that I've elevated my own opinions over the Word of God. I continue to be shocked every time someone assumes I changed my belief because I no longer value the Bible.
I think about my fear the first time I posted a blog post in favor of marriage rights. I was so anxious I couldn't sit still. I almost threw up. I still get anxious sometimes. I added some new Facebook friends recently and as I clicked "add friend," I thought, "Oh gosh, they are going to see my rainbow profile picture!" I still fear. My selfish heart still craves approval from man. It still hurts when I'm told I don't love Jesus enough, that I've thrown out the Bible, when I'm told that I am valuing myself over God. It still hurts to know I'm no longer "in."
But this change - admitting I was wrong about what I thought the Bible said about gay marriage - has come from my love of God's Word. It has come from my love of God's people. The only prayer that has stayed truly consistent in my life has been this: "God, make my heart more like yours." Don't get me wrong - I have a long way to go. I'm still selfish and prideful and quick to anger (just ask my kids). But I also see changes. I feel power to love those that I normally wouldn't. I agonized over walking away from my firmly held belief that God ordained marriage for a man and a woman. I cried. I begged God not to let me make a decision based on what I wanted to see. And yet, as I studied the Bible and saw how gay Christians were in loving, committed relationships, I began to understand just how wrong I was. And the peace I've felt since I finally changed my mind is indescribable. It's that "peace that passes beyond understanding" from Philippians.
I speak out now because of that fear. It was (and is) scary and difficult for me to be out as an ally. I can only imagine just how much more scary and difficult is for a gay person to come out. Can you imagine this? What if the only way for me to be who I am, to be MYSELF with the people I love involved admitting I was gay - risking losing my community, my support system. Risking my life, in some cases. I have a choice here - I don't have to be an ally. I can keep my personal views to myself and leave the LGBTQ community alone. I don't have a dog in this fight. But I can't do it. Jesus calls us to be peacemakers, to love one another, to fight FOR (not against) one another. The more I read my Bible, the more convinced I am that I am to put my own comfort aside, to put the needs of others before my own. And if there's ever a time to do so, it's now.


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Far East Organization
Far East Organization
Far East Organization is one of the most prestigious property emporium in Singapore. With its comprehensive array of real estate developments, the company is considered as a Singapore institution when it comes to residential and commercial developments. Apart from these, the company also specialize in industrial and healthcare space.
Far East Organization has a Corporate Real Estate Business Group that manages a massively diverse portfolio consisting of high-quality options in real estate. These properties are offered for individual and business needs. The group also offers corporate housing for the expatriate community.
In 1962, Far East Organization built its very first residential development, the Jalan Pacheli at Serangoon Garden. The project was preceded shortly with the country's first 2 1/2-storey villas that feature a rooftop garden. The Singapore Hilton Hotel, one of Singapore's most prestigious accommodations, is established in 1969, while the Mugliston Hill, the Far East Shopping Centre, and Lucky Plaza were built during the 1970s. Far East Plaza, once hailed as Southeast Asia's Biggest Shopping Centre was launched in 1983, while the former Ming Court Hotel (now Orchard Parade Hotel) was built in 1987.
The company marked the property development history when it was awarded with the ISO 9002 in 1994; the very first in the industry. Subsequent property developments followed, including:
- Qbay @ Tampines (JV Sekisui, Fraser, FEO)
- The Orchard Parksuites
- The BayShore
- Far East Square
- The Fullerton Hotel
- Far East Plaza
- GardenVille
- Whitewater
- Icon
- Glutton's Square
- Novena Medical Centre
- The Sound
- The Cape
- Silversea
- Ferra @ Leonie Hill
- Seastrand @ Pasir Ris
- Siena
Far East Organization Vision, Mission, and Core Values
Far East Organization is a highly- respected company because it maintained a good image and practices its vision, mission, and core values.
Its goal is to inspire better lives and to develop properties that exceed customers' expectations. It is important for the company to earn their customers' trust. Far East Organization ensures that their actions follow their core values, which they refer to as BUILD: Business excellence, Unity, Integriy, Loyalty, and Diligence.
Awards and Recognition
Committed to give customers high-quality, innovative real estate to customers, Far East Organization is not overlooked by many award-giving bodies.
The company has received the FIABCI Prix d'Excellence for several years for different projects. The most recent winners include the Hillvista for the residential high-rise category and the Novena Lifestyle and Medical hub for specialised project category. More projects, such as The Clift, received the FIABCI Singapore Property Awards, while the BCA Construction Excellence Awards were given to eight of Far EAst's residential and commercial developments.
The South East Asia Property Awards recognised the company as Southeast Asia's Best Developer of the Year and Singapore's Best Developer of the Year in 2011. The URA Architectural Heritage Awards are also given to several Far East Organization projects, including The Fullerton Heritage, The Fullerton Waterboat House, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, and Far East Square. The URA Architectural Heritage Awards is presented by the URA as a recognition for owners, contractors, and professionals who do their best to restore and conserve monuments and buildings.
With these awards and recognitions, the Far East Organization is truly one of the highly acclaimed property developers that will surely create more high-quality properties for residential, commercial, industrial, and specialized uses.


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Some 21 US states allow banks to foreclose on delinquent homeowners without first suing them in court, a concession that lets lenders bypass the costlier and lengthier legal process required elsewhere. Now research finds that states endorsing such shortcuts suffered an inordinate amount of economic damage at the height of the recent recession.
The pain included far higher foreclosure rates and bigger plunges in home prices, new housing construction, and auto sales, according to a study by Professor Amir Sufi, Princeton University's Atif Mian, and the University of British Columbia's Francesco Trebbi. But the researchers also find some evidence that the more-beaten-down states experienced stronger recoveries as foreclosure rates declined nationwide.
The stark differences in fortunes between these judicial- and nonjudicial-foreclosure states allowed the team to measure the economic damage inflicted by home foreclosures, using data from 2008 to the end of 2012. Previously, economists struggled to isolate and measure independently the macroeconomic damage caused by any specific financial friction such as a credit crunch, high unemployment, or institutional failures.
The researchers find that foreclosures exacerbated the recent recession by fueling a broader economic decline early on. Home-foreclosure rates skyrocketed in the early days of the financial crisis and peaked in 2010. Housing prices dropped 10%–20% nationwide between 2007 and 2009. Residential investment (as defined by new housing-construction permits issued) dropped 80%, and auto sales dropped 41%. The researchers conclude that foreclosures caused 33% of the decline in house prices, 20% of the decline in residential investment, and 20% of the decline in auto sales.
Separating home-foreclosure data by judicial- and nonjudicial-foreclosure states proved key to teasing out the relationship between this wave of repossessions and the deterioration of the broader economy. States allowing nonjudicial foreclosures consistently reported higher foreclosure rates. But the researchers find that foreclosure rates were the only significantly different variable between judicial- and nonjudicial-foreclosure states.
However, delinquent homeowners in nonjudicial-foreclosure states were twice as likely as their counterparts in other states to experience foreclosure. And higher foreclosure rates were accompanied by much larger drops in home prices. By one measure, house prices in nonjudicial-foreclosure states fell by 43% from the middle of 2006 to the beginning of 2009, versus only 28% in states requiring a court process.
Moreover residential investment dropped significantly more in nonjudicial states from 2007 to 2008, and that activity remained significantly lower in 2009. Auto sales were 5%-–10% lower in nonjudicial- versus judicial-foreclosure states between 2008 and 2011.
The number of US foreclosures declined dramatically in 2011 and returned to precrisis levels by the end of 2013. The research suggests that states with the higher foreclosure rates early on experienced stronger recoveries by some measures. Home prices in recovery years spiked higher in nonjudicial-foreclosure states than in judicial-foreclosure states. By 2012, the two groups were reporting roughly equivalent five-year home-price gains. Auto sales showed a slightly bigger rebound in nonjudicial states. Statistically, there was little difference in residential investment between the two groups during that time.
The authors warn that the data during this recovery period is less conclusive. But the results tentatively imply little advantage to speeding up the foreclosure process. During an economic recession, spreading out the pain over time might make the worst of times a little less bad.


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Favorite Disney Characters: How long do you want to be here?
Favorite Disney Princess: When I was younger Sleeping Beauty because I thought she was the MOST beautiful princess in the world. Now I think I'd like a lil bit of a mix of Sleeping Beauty, Merida, Mulan and Jasmine.
Favorite Disney Sidekick: Mushu from Mulan. He is fabulously hilarious and wildy witty. "Get the bags cricket, let's move it heifer"; "It's porridge and it's happy to see you"; "Did you see those guys, they popped out of the snow, like daisies"!
Favorite Disney Song: Oh man, I can't pick, I seriously love to sing them alllllll!
Which Disney character would be your best friend? Merida. Tomboy princess, hellllllo PINKY!
Who would be your Disney pet? Gus-Gus, I mean he's just so cuuuuuuuuuuuute!
Have you ever been to Disneyland? Yes, twice but the first time doesn't count. My parents packed all three kids up in the car when I was maybe four and drove us from Montery to Disneyland and wouldn't you know, the park was closed unexpectedly. CAN.YOU.IMAGINE!?! No Internet or Apps to check on, just drive up to the park to find it closed. My poor, poor parents. We went later that summer though, phew!
You is your favorite Disney Villain? BOOOO on all the villains, they are the worst. I have to pick two Scar from the Lion King and Goob from Meet the Robinsons.
Do you collect anything special? No, not really. We used to collect the VHS [haha] and DVDs but now it's only if we LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the movie. Can't wait to snatch the ones we have at my parent's house when kids start making their appearance.
What Disney film would you star in if you could? Meet the Robinsons so I could use my inventions to jump into ALL the other Disney movies. But for real, I think I would like to star in the Princess and the Frog, LOVE NOLA and the music and dancing in the movie is my favorite.
How old were you when you watched your first Disney Movie? I believe three of four. My parents took me to see Snow White when it was relaunched in theaters. I'm sure I was a model child.
Who is your favorite Disney couple? Karl and Ellie. I know we don't get a lot of time with them but they just seem to be the sweetest couple in the world and I love the love they share with each other.
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This question has been raised during January 28th 2020 webinar:
Why do we need TH110 and HeatTag in same time?
Let us see Expert answer.
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Jean Commeignes
Power & Building Exchange Community Manager
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TH110 gives advance signal on the rise in temperature which would be as a result of overload/loose termination/inadequate tightness in bus bars/lesser contact pressure in floating contacts of breakers. Alerts prevents major accident, loss of life and distruption in power .Keeps O&M team free from continous monitoring and free up their energy&time , Helps to monitor critical areas which are non accessible in normal time. I am not clear about What's heat tag?
Hi All
Got to know on Heat Tag from one of the Schneider article on Electrical fire prevention guide and is as below:
Schneider Electric's Solution: HeatTag
HeatTag is neither a fire detector nor a smoke detector. As
shown in Figure 1.9, between 170°C and 200°C, typical
LV cable-insulation materials, such as PVC / XLPE / EPR,
are subject to invisible transformation. These abnormal
conditions can be detected by HeatTag.
HeatTag detects and analyzes the different gases and particles
in the air of the switchboard (14 gases measured, along with
particles), applies a complex algorithm to select internal cable
issues from other phenomena, and can distinguish abnormal
situations that indicate a cable is overheating and sends an
alarm via email or SMS.
A fire in an electrical cabinet can come from overheating or deterioration of the connections and also from excessive heating of the cables.
The TH110 allows continuous monitoring of the temperature at the level of connections through which a minimum current of 5A is passed. The TH110 cannot monitor the condition of the cables over their entire length, Schneider Electric has thought of adding an advanced gas analyzer by air suction. The analysis of the air will make it possible to detect the odorless particles which emanate from the cable sheaths and which are predictors of a high probability of a fire starting.
By combining both the thermal monitoring of connections and cables, we ensure better prevention of the risk of electrical fire.
TH110 or more generally "Thermal monitoring" and HeatTag are two different principles. TH110 is a battery free wireless temperature sensor for busbar or large cables. Installing and connecting to an upper system these sensors in various location of an MV or LV cubicle allow to follow in real time the temperatures of connections. This solution provide an accurate information of the real time temperature status of the equipment. it allow also to run algorithm corraleted with current measurement to detect abnormal heating. It can avoid infrared inspection.
HeatTag is a smart sensor analyzing the air in the cubicle, it detect particles released by insulation materials when reaching abnormal but not yet dangerous temperature. (it "smells" the heat).
The use of one or the other or a combination of both is the result of risk analysis and ratio benefit / cost analysis.
As a rule of thumb in switchboard with low load profile and/or limited number of busbar connections the risk of hot spot due to bad connection on busbar is low, the monitoring of cables connections of feeders with HeatTag only is a good compromise.
On the opposite in Switchboard with a heavy load profile or large switchboard with complex busbar arrangement with multiple busbar connections, monitoring the busbars connection with dedicated sensor is very relevant. HeatTag can then be used additionally to monitor feeders cable connection.
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Allen Monroe Arbogast, age 72 of Smithfield, PA passed away suddenly at his home on Thursday, April 30, 2019. He was born on September 23, 1946, a son of Pearl and Hazel Irene Arbogast.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife of 49 years, Lynda Arbogast; brothers: Marvin, Larry, Buddy and Garland Arbogast.
He is survived by his son, Scott (Carla) Arbogast of Masontown; grandchildren: Ian Hall, Michaela Collins, Logan Arbogast, Jennifer Arogast; Siblings: Joe (Donna) Arbogast of Uniontown, Debbie (James) Gabeletto of Smithfield, Matilda Peters of Virginia, Darley Arbogast of Hawaii; many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Allen's family will receive friends from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. on Monday, May 6, 2019 at the Goldsboro-Fabry Funeral Home, Inc., 23 E. Church Street, Fairchance, PA. 15436. Interment is private.
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Sept. 16: The family-friendly race series is free to all under age 15, and adults can also sign up for the individual races for $10 each. This is the second in the three-race series. It is a two-mile loop beginning on Walkers Road, opposite the former John Gray High School, then on to South Church Street before finishing on Denham Thompson Way. To register, visit www.caymanactive.com or in person on race day by 7:15 a.m. The race runs from 7:30-9 a.m. Entrants in the Pram & Pet divisions are reminded to state that when registering. Chip timing registration closes 15 minutes before the race starts. Race Caribbean will record times, then produce and circulate the race results.
Sept. 16: Opa! My Big Fat Greek Gala, to benefit the Crisis Centre. Event will be held at Ristorante Pappagallo, starting at 7 p.m. Expect a welcome cocktail, Greek food, live entertainment and silent auction. Tickets are $150 per person or $1,250 for groups of 10. Contact [email protected]
PAWS Bodden Town Community Dog Wash
Sept. 17: Mission House in Bodden Town from 9-11 a.m. This event is free and all dogs are welcome. PAWS volunteers will be on hand, bathing dogs and speaking with anyone who may need financial assistance for spay/neuter, veterinary care, etc. Volunteers are always welcome to assist. For more information, call PAWS at 916-3957 or 916-1731. Check out its Facebook page for more details.
Figure Drawing
Sept. 19: Last day to register. Visual Arts Society offers Figure Drawing six-week workshop from Sept. 19-Oct. 24, from 7–9 p.m. Location: Watler House Studio at Pedro St. James. This is an opportunity for intermediate artists to develop their figure drawing skills. Fee is $130 or $180 for non-members. Includes use of studio/easels and boards, live model, guidance from a qualified art instructor. Drop-in fee is $25/$35 per session. Email
[email protected] or call 546-9422.
Corporate Mixology Competition
Sept. 21: 100 Women in Finance invites teams to compete for Best In Glass in the second annual Mixology Competition at KARoo in Camana Bay from 6-8:30 p.m. Teams of four can enter for $500 (US$625) per team. Individual Taster tickets are $50 (US$60) each and include cocktail tasting, passed hors d'oeuvres and the right to vote on your favorite cocktail. For more information and to register a team, please contact [email protected] Net proceeds to benefit the Breast Cancer Foundation.
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We investigate a PDE-ODE system describing cancer cell invasion in a tissue network. The model is an extension of the multiscale setting in [28,40], by considering two subpopulations of tumor cells interacting mutually and with the surrounding tissue. According to the go-or-grow hypothesis, these subpopulations consist of moving and proliferating cells, respectively. The mathematical setting also accommodates the effects of some therapy approaches. We prove the global existence of weak solutions to this model and perform numerical simulations to illustrate its behavior for different therapy strategies.
A nonlocal stochastic model for intra- and extracellular proton dynamics in a tumor is proposed. The intracellular dynamics is governed by an SDE coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation for the extracellular proton concentration on the macroscale. In a more general context the existence and uniqueness of solutions for local and nonlocal SDE-PDE systems are established allowing, in particular, to analyze the proton dynamics model both, in its local version and the case with nonlocal path dependence. Numerical simulations are performed to illustrate the behavior of solutions, providing some insights into the effects of randomness on tumor acidity.
Starting from the two-scale model for pH-taxis of cancer cells introduced in [1], we consider here an extension accounting for tumor heterogeneity w.r.t. treatment sensitivity and a treatment approach including chemo- and radiotherapy. The effect of peritumoral region alkalinization on such therapeutic combination is investigated with the aid of numerical simulations.
We prove the global existence, along with some basic boundedness properties, of weak solutions to a PDE-ODE system modeling the multiscale invasion of tumor cells through the surrounding tissue matrix. The model has been proposed in [22] and accounts on the macroscopic level for the evolution of cell and tissue densities, along with the concentration of a chemoattractant, while on the subcellular level it involves the binding of integrins to soluble and insoluble components of the peritumoral region. The connection between the two scales is realized with the aid of a contractivity function characterizing the ability of the tumor cells to adapt their motility behavior to their subcellular dynamics. The resulting system, consisting of three partial and three ordinary differential equations including a temporal delay, in particular involves chemotactic and haptotactic cross-diffusion. In order to overcome technical obstacles stemming from the corresponding highest-order interaction terms, we base our analysis on a certain functional, inter alia involving the cell and tissue densities in the diffusion and haptotaxis terms respectively, which is shown to enjoy a quasi-dissipative property. This will be used as a starting point for the derivation of a series of integral estimates finally allowing for the construction of a generalized solution as the limit of solutions to suitably regularized problems.


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CHATTOGRAM: Member of Bangladesh Coast Guard recovered 60,000 pieces of Yaba tablet and seven kilograms of cannabis from Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar district on Friday.
Lieutenant Commander Abdullah Al Faruk of the Cast Guard (East Zone) in a press release said that acting on a tip-off, a team of the Coast Guard conducted drive in Jailar Dwip area under the upazila at around 5:30am.Sensing presence of the Coast Guard-men, the smugglers fled the scene leaving the drugs.
Later, a total of 60,000 Yaba tablets and seven kilograms of cannabis were recovered from the spot, read the press release.
Filing of case in this connection was under process, it added.


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The Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports on your iMac Pro support video output. You can use an external display, a projector, or an HDTV with your iMac Pro.
Note: The Thunderbolt 3 ports on your iMac Pro are managed by two controllers, one for the two left ports, the other for the two right ports. Each controller can support two 4K displays or one 5K display. So you can connect up to four 4K displays or two 5K displays to your iMac Pro. To connect two 5K external displays, for example, connect the first 5K display to either of the first two Thunderbolt 3 ports, and the second 5K display to either of the last two Thunderbolt 3 ports.
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Jean-Marc Vallee Leads Reese into the 'Wild'
With ''Dallas Buyers Club,'' the French-Canadian filmmaker earned his stars Oscars; now he's on track to do that again, and maybe nab one of his own
Matthew McConaughey calls him "a sensitive anarchist." Laura Dern compares him to Hollywood New Wave director Hal Ashby. And Reese Witherspoon says he's the only director she would trust with "her baby," an adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild. Jean-Marc Vallée may be one of the best directors working today, and it's possible you don't know his name. That's about to change.
The Canadian, 50, first broke out with 2005's French-language film C.R.A.Z.Y., but he emerged as a phenom with last year's Dallas Buyers Club, especially after McConaughey and Jared Leto took home Oscars for their roles. Now comes Wild, featuring Witherspoon (who also produces) as a nature newbie who hikes the Pacific Crest Trail after the sudden death of her mother (Dern). "I don't know if there is anyone else who could have made this movie with such respect, grace, and love of these women," says Dern. As with Dallas, both of Vallée's stars seem bound for Oscar nods.
What is piquing the interest of actors — and audiences — is Vallée's moviemaking style, closer to documentary than to traditional features. He favors natural lighting, a skeletal crew ready to capture spontaneous moments, and no rehearsal. "The actors don't feel the light coming from the hot spotlights; they don't have to hit a mark on the ground," Vallée says. "They just use the space. I'm there trying to have the right lens, be at the right spot to capture it. Once I've got a great script like Dallas or Wild, I want to honor the script and not show off — even though I have a big ego."
Vallée's approach gave Witherspoon the confidence to pursue Strayed's gritty story, which includes scenes of graphic sex and drug use. Even moments on the trail had a doc-like authenticity. "When you see me constructing the tent in the movie, that's the first time I've ever put up the tent. When I'm trying to light the stove, I really had never lit the stove before. When I got fire and was able to make a meal, I was actually excited," she says. "He really pushes you to be in the most authentic places you can be. You shed all your bad habits because there is nowhere for you to hide."
McConaughey recalls the director's willingness to listen to his most off-the-wall ideas during nightly Skype sessions prior to filming Dallas. And Dern says Vallée urged her to improvise for her character, Bobbi. "'Laura, Laura,"' she says, imitating Vallée's Québécois accent. "'Come here. We are going to make up a scene. Say something that Bobbi says.' And it's in the movie. Every. Single. Time. There are no three minutes wasted."
He doesn't waste time in his narratives, either. For most of Wild, Witherspoon's character walks alone in the mountains, but her real journey is internal, as she grapples with memory and grief. A lesser director would have employed long flashbacks to communicate that, but Vallée preferred fragments of image, sound, and music. Jumping off Nick Hornby's script, he combined snippets of Strayed's childhood, shot at different camera speeds in different locations, and inserted them into the film at different moments. "Jean-Marc chose a style that created the way we understand memory," says Witherspoon. "Sometimes memory comes in a flash. Sometimes it slows down. Sometimes it's violent and abrupt. And sometimes it's a full scene. He did a great job capturing that."
Music plays a big role in all of Vallée's movies. "Making a film is about finding the right playlist to accompany the story," says the ex-DJ (and son of a DJ). "I like to find tracks that help define the characters. That's why I don't use a score. Never." As it happens, Vallée grew up in a Montreal household with "more records than books" and turned to filmmaking in college. "I thought I was going to be the next Orson Welles," he says. But he spent a decade making C.R.A.Z.Y., a coming-of-age story that was Canada's top-grossing movie in 2005. He followed that with 2009's The Young Victoria and the 2011 romance Café de Flore.
Actors soon noticed his ability to tell emotional stories without sentimentality. Vallée is now directing Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts in Demolition, set in the aftermath of a fatal car accident. "I've found my niche, my voice, and there are some people in the industry that understand and like the voice," he says. "I go to bed at night and I think, 'Yeah, you are living your dream."


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This year two events coincide for the Piovan Group, which will be exhibiting at both Plast – stand B71-C72 – and Ipackima, stand A67-B64.
The concurrence of the two shows is the ideal opportunity for offering the Italian market new products, new solutions and high-level engineering for both the plastics and the food processing worlds.
At the Ipackima fair, Penta – the Piovan company that designs and manufactures large-scale systems for the storage and handling of powder raw materials– will be displaying several solutions including the new DryAir4Food, a dryer designed to handle a crucial step in in the treatment and storage of sugars, flours and cocoa powders such as the ambient air dehumidification.
Other interesting innovations include the process automation controls exhibited by Progema - a new company of the Piovan group - in demo version on a dedicated workstation.
Come visit us at Plast - hall 24, stand B71-C72 and at Ipackima - hall 3, stand A67-B64.


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An USS abdomen has been performed which confirms mild hepato-splenomegaly. CXR was reported as normal. Faecal elastase, TTG, TFTs, ILGF1 all normal. You phone the haematology registrar to look at the blood film in view of the abnormal FBC. Questions: … Continue reading
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Gladys Elmira ~Daughter of Mr.&Mrs. C.A. Ackerman
Leon Reporter-Iowa
September 26, 1895
The home of Mr and Mrs. C.A. Ackerman which was made so bright by the birth of twins less than a year ago, was darkened by the shadow of death Saturday evening, when the spirit of one of the twins, little Gladys Elmira, took its flight to the golden realms above. The little darling had never been very strong from the time of its birth. The baby boy is also very low.
The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, conducted by Reverend Hughes, of the M.E. Church. The fond parents have the sympathy of the entire community in their affliction.
*The article never mentioned the boy twins name.
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My mother was a baker. My father was a baker. I am a baker. I hail from Rust River Falls. The home of the best bakers in all of Almebezbik. The farmers and villagers love the bread and biscuits I bake. They say it can calm a sour stomach and even helps them recover faster from small injuries.
A few days ago, the ground quivered and shook like nothing we had never seen before. Luckily our dwarven ovens are built solidly and withstood the shaking. Four days later a young man and his father came to town. They said there was a terrible earthquake up on the mountain.
It was but two days after that Rust River Falls was attacked by a terrible dragon. The dragon laid waste to the village and the farms far and wide. Many of the villagers, including Mother, Father and I hid in the ovens, which protected us from the worst of the dragon's rage.
It wasn't until our village shaman blinded the dragon and drove him off that we could venture forth and survey the damage. Alas, the shaman was mortally wounded and none of us had the skills to save her. Not even my best biscuits could help.
The elders held a council and selected me to go out into the world and find a new shaman for our village. Perhaps I can find what they ask among the fey of Ithil'Quessir or the men of Foortmaar. Kinnickinnic, the strange orphan boy, says he will accompany me on my journey. He's a scrawny little thing. I don't know what good he can be, but I feel sorry for him. Then there's Patch. Now he's a strapping boy. He'll be a good help if we get into a scrap.
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FHA Loans – Income Qualifications
|FHA has designed its program to assist people to purchase homes and refinance existing mortgages. Therefore the income qualifying guidelines are more flexible than traditional Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Conventional Home Loans.
One of the first questions we will ask will consider is how much of your total income you will spend on housing. This information helps the lender decide whether you can comfortably afford a home.
When you are qualifying for a loan, a we will use your gross income. That means all the money you earn before taxes, including overtime, commissions, dividends and any other sources –as long as you can show a steady two year history for these sources.
Your monthly housing expense as a percentage of your monthly income is called the housing expense (a.k.a.: front-end) ratio. FHA suggests to spend about 29% of your income on your house payment (including the mortgage, property taxes, mortgage insurance and hazard insurance).
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Back in high school, there was this guy.
Older brother of a friend. We were all over their house for a birthday party or whatever, and he was back in his room playing Super Nintendo games using something none of us had ever seen before. It was a Doctor SF3, or a Multi Game Hunter, or maybe it was even a UFO Super Drive Pro 6 as illustrated above.
Whatever: All we knew was that he was playing Super Nintendo games off of floppy disks, and that blew our minds.
Backup devices like this were all the rage in the exotic Orient during the Super NES era, and many of them found their way to the States. Emulation of the SNES was a pipe dream at that point, but hackers had developed these devices to copy games right off of the ROM cartridge to a standard 3.5" floppy disk, then run the games from the disk.
The other day, I found one in a San Francisco thrift store for $3. Did the hacked-together hardware still work after all these years? The surprising story is below, but first let's look at the rest of the stuff I found that day.
These Electronic Arts 3DO games have actually been kicking around San Francisco's chain of Goodwill stores for the last couple of months. I've seen them in two different stores, first for their original price of $9 each. Whoa, Goodwill price artist: Don't burn your lips on the crack pipe there.
So I made a tradeoff: I let them sit there and get shipped to the Goodwill outlet, where unwanted things go to die in literal bargain bins. And there I bought Space Hulk, Road Rash, and Shock Wave for $3 each. And since everything was buy four, get one free, I supplemented these with Art of Fighting and the wonderfully-named Doom Troopers for SNES.
That, then, is $12 for everything instead of $9 for one, for which I think was worth waiting. Yes, the games are worse for the wear; the cardboard boxes are dented from being abused in the store and two of the instruction manuals are missing now. I think that just makes them more lovable, like they were in need of being rescued and brought to a good home.
I have no such good excuse for the copy of Crash 'n Burn ($2).
In the interim between first seeing these games and actually buying them, I was introduced to the classic Games Workshop board game Space Hulk. So I'm interested to see how the 3DO version tackles it. I'm not guessing very elegantly.
Anyway, on to the ol' UFO Super Drive Pro 6. It didn't come with a power cable. In fact, a little research online turned up the fact that many of these things didn't come with power cables when they were new – apparently they were designed to use the DC "wall wart" power adapters that came with most game consoles, and they figured that anyone who bought one of these probably had some extras anyway.
As it turned out, and there is no way this is a coincidence, the power adapter from that Famiclone I picked up on St. Patrick's Day worked perfectly.
When I plugged it in (and believe you me, with a SNES plugged in, it's hard to find another place to put another wall wart) (and now I know how 32X owners felt), I heard a reassuring sound – the disk drive had just whirred a little. That was a very happy noise.
In fact, as far as I can tell, the external power is only for the disk drive. The rest of the machine works without additional power. Observe!
This seemed like it was going to be a lot more user-friendly than I thought! Inside the "Utility" menu, it had very clear options that would let me back up a cartridge to a disk.
NOTE: I would like to stress here that I was merely making a personal backup of Super Castlevania IV to be used only in the event that my cartridge died.
Alright, let's back that mother up! Hmm, why did the operation totally fail? My bad: I didn't format the disk first. Luckily for everyone involved, the UFO Super Drive does that too.
With disk properly formatted, an awaiting empty vessel, it was time to fill it with vampirey goodness:
I gave it the creative name "Castle" because I was sick of picking out letters from the menu and I let 'er rip. And it worked! And when I went to load up a game, Castle popped right up on the list of the disk's contents.
Now, the game doesn't run off of the floppy. When you want to run one, it takes all of that data and dumps it into the RAM inside the UFO.
And then, the screen fades out! And it all goes black. And then...
...it stays black. For a while. And then my television says "No Signal."
"That's not good," I think to myself. "It only says no signal when the SNES isn't on anymore*.*"
I take out the UFO. I plug in the Castlevania cartridge without it. No signal.
I've just fried my Super NES, I think. Not just a regular cheapo SNES, but a collectible late-model edition. Oh man, oh man. This is bad. It isn't turning on.
This is what Nintendo always warned me about! I've used an unauthorized third-party device with my console and now I've voided my warranty and they're going to kick me out of the Fun Club for sure.
Luckily, a few minutes later, it turned back on again.
Now, this is where a normal sane person would thank the god of videogames for answering his prayers and never put the UFO Super Drive Pro 6 near another piece of electronics again.
So of course I immediately put it back in there to try again.
At this point, I figured I'd try a different game. Art of Fighting didn't work either, and yes I do realize that this was probably the first time any person on earth ever tried to double his supply of Art of Fighting games.
But this evening, after giving up for a while, I remembered that the UFO Super Drive can also play cartridge games and apply Game Genie style cheat codes to them. So I figured I'd give that a shot. And that actually worked. But I noticed that the way it played the games was to first dump the game data to the internal RAM.
So I thought, why isn't this working? Everything seems functional. So, for no other reason than it didn't seem right that it didn't work, I tried one more time to back up Castlevania and run it.
And then!
Not sure why it started out not working and eventually decided to start playing nice. Not sure why Simon Belmont looks like a whole bunch of garbage data. Not sure I'll ever use this thing again, especially considering that my SNES flatlined for a second there. All I know is, it might be flaky, but it works.
Images: Chris Kohler/Wired.com
See Also:
- Weekend Thrifting: Spinning Bird Kick
- Weekend Thrifting: I Think I'm a Famiclone Now
- Weekend Thrifting: Riding the Slalom to Subterranea
- Weekend Thrifting: 'New' Super Mario Bros.
- Weekend Thrifting: The Best Kind of Yard Sale
- Weekend Thrifting: It's Yard Sale Season
- Weekend Thrifting: Along Came a Spider
- Weekend Thrifting: Several Different Weekends


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The retrieval by the Presidential Electoral Tribunal at the Supreme Court of some of 1,284 ballot boxes from different municipalities and cities in Negros Oriental particularly for the 2016 vice presidential race could possibly spell out the truth whether or not there was cheating in the Leni Robredo-Bongbong Marcos race. This is because Negros Oriental count is chosen as among the top three determinants since the Marcos alleged disparity in results in Negros Oriental.
COMELEC Records will show that in Negros Oriental, then vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos lost heavily to Vice President Leni Robredo who garnered 255,000 votes as against the 66,000 votes of Marcos, the biggest difference in terms of percentage throughout the country. Marcos lost by over 200,000 votes and the biggest difference came from Negros Oriental count.
Dumaguete City Election Officer Atty Gildu Agoncillo disclosed that Negros Oriental is among the top three among 20-protested provinces by a losing candidate for vice president in the 2016 elections.
Recount of ballot boxes from 17 other provinces will depend on the results of the recount of the pilot provinces.
In the event of a dismissal of the complaint, there is no need to proceed with the recount of protested ballot boxes from the 17 provinces, according to Atty. Emil Maranon, legal counsel of vice president Robredo who was in Dumaguete to observe the retrieval operation over the weekend until yesterday.
According to Maranon, a recount of the protested ballot boxes in Camarines Sur was completed, ongoing in Iloilo to be followed by a recount of the protested ballot boxes from Negros Oriental, where Marcos has alleged about widespread cheating and fraud during the 2016 elections.
Since 2Go shipping is the official carrier, the 1,284 ballot boxes from Negros Oriental will be loaded as soon the inter-island vessels arrive next week. It will be picked up at the port and will be brought to the Supreme Court warehouse in Ermita, Manila for safeguarding.
VP Robredo's counsel is confident that the results of the recount will match with the results on election day up to the last vote, provided the correct threshold is being used.
Maranon noted that results in electoral protests in previous elections in 2010, 2013, and even 2016 would show no discrepancy between the results of the recount and the results on election day because the machine is accurate.
When interviewed in Dumaguete yesterday, the legal counsel said discrepancies were noted in Camarines Sur because the Supreme Court applied a different standard. He said the high court should follow the threshold set by the Comelec.
VP Robredo's camp is confident the recount will prove that Negrenses "ay hindi mandaraya because this is what Marcos is trying to say."
Dumaguete City treasurer Cristina Merced was on hand during the retrieval of the 122 ballot boxes from Dumaguete, even as some minor issues were noted on the conditions of the boxes.Robredo's camp filed a formal motion before the Supreme Court regarding what happened on the first and second day of the retrieval operation of the ballot boxes in Negros Oriental to be transparent with the things that transpired during the transport and storage of the ballot boxes.