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UNION — Authorities say an officer at the Union County jail has been arrested after pushing a female inmate against a wall, causing her to cut her head.
State Law Enforcement Division agents said 38-year-old Ronald Pruitt was arrested Wednesday and charged with third-degree assault.
Authorities say Pruitt pushed the inmate on May 31. SLED says the Union County Sheriff's Office asked its agents to investigate.
Pruitt is charged with a misdemeanor and faces up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine if convicted.
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Before 1990s, the relationship between money supply and inflation was positively correlated, however, from 1990 onwards, the US and other major developed countries entered into a new financial era with a typical belief that hyper money supply coexisted with lower inflation. This phenomenon is called "the paradox of inflation". Traditional theories cannot provide reasonable explanations of this new phenomenon. In my study, I have taken the linear filtering techniques which Lucas developed in 1980, and the recursive estimation method, as well as the chow test and F-test, and choose the data of the US, Britain, Japan, Germany, Euro area, BRICKs …
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The fingerprint of human-caused climate change has been found on heatwaves, droughts and floods across the world, according to scientists.
The discovery indicates that the impacts of global warming are already being felt by society and adds further urgency to the need to cut carbon emissions. A key factor is the fast-melting Arctic, which is now strongly linked to extreme weatheracross Europe, Asia and north America.
Rising greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have long been expected to lead to increasing extreme weather events, as they trap extra energy in the atmosphere. But linking global warming to particular events is difficult because the climate is naturally variable.
The new work analysed a type of extreme weather event known to be caused by changes in "planetary waves" – such as California's ongoing record drought, and recent heatwaves in the US and Russia, as well as severe floods in Pakistan in 2010.
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Styles P is back again, just as most of us anticipate the beginning of our Friday night (depending what coast you live on). P has been dropping off two freestyles every Friday, and today is no exception. After hitting us with "Ghost Dilla" featuring Forte and "Ghost Get Down" last week, the "Ghost" theme is continued in full force today with "Ghost Pioneered This."
Styles is most definitely a veteran in the rap game, so calling himself a pioneer isn't too far off. Are you adding this to your weekend playlist? Look out for his second leak, "Ghost Killa" on today's song list as well.
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Most of my niggas is in the kitchen
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JAKARTA, 12 March 2014 – A cross-sectoral meeting on ASEAN Virtual Learning Resources Centre (AVLRC) was held yesterday as a response to the call of the 22nd ASEAN Summit on promoting ASEAN awareness and communicating ASEAN's efforts to the relevant sectors, people and stakeholders, about the benefits of regional integration.
About 50 delegates, including representatives from different sectors and coordinating bodies in ASEAN, and technical experts in the region, attended the meeting. They exchanged views on the development of information and knowledge portals, and lessons learnt using these portals to outreach and educate people about ASEAN.
Participants of the meeting agreed that the AVLRC shall be an extensive database providing a common platform to gather information on ASEAN Member States, or ASEAN as a Community. "It will be an innovative and creative platform to give the public more information on what is going on in ASEAN, tell them how they can benefit from ASEAN, ask them to share what they have learned from the ASEAN integration, and encourage them to contribute to ASEAN community building process," said Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community, H.E. Alicia dela Rosa Bala.
The Meeting agreed that the AVLRC shall not only be disseminating information about ASEAN, but also promote coordination mechanisms amongst different sectors to address cross-sectoral issues. It shall connect the like-minded people in ASEAN, catalyse others to join forces in ASEAN community building, and tell younger generations about their contributions to ASEAN.
The AVLRC will be developed in stages with the first phase focusing on ASEAN's people, culture, history, places of interest, education, youth and ICT (Information and Communications Technology). The Meeting also discussed the way forward to ensure the sustainability and relevance of the AVLRC in the evolving regional environment.
This AVLRC is one of the 15 prioritised projects in the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC), and is funded by the ASEAN Development Fund.


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|Now he'd be reading a Kindle on that lilo
Another phenomenon I've noticed which is perhaps less positive, however, is the way that acquiring books (particularly free ones) seems to have become an end in itself. I might be wrong, but I wonder if people are so overwhelmed by the massive library of books they've accumulated, they're actually reading less. There are people on Goodreads with literally thousands of titles on their 'to-read' lists; no wonder they can't bring themselves to start any of them. A couple of adult reviewers of my 'Swallowcliffe Hall' books (which were originally published for teens) have specifically said they chose them because they were short. My husband tells me that robotics are the next big thing and that in the future we'll acquire foreign languages by means of a translation chip embedded under our skin, but at the moment, there's no such handy shortcut. You just have to sit down and read. There are so many stories out there - downloadable in a few seconds, dirt cheap or free - that we're drowning in them, and perhaps we're valuing them less. Still, too many books are better than too few, I suppose. Maybe after ebooks have been around a few years, we'll become more temperate about them.
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Immigration: What Barbara Jordan Could Teach Donald TrumpBy Rich Barlow
Trump could learn a lot from the late congresswoman's reasoned, respectful thinking on this combustible issue.
Rich Barlow writes for BU Today, Boston University's news website.
Trump could learn a lot from the late congresswoman's reasoned, respectful thinking on this combustible issue.
How animal cognition science shattered my no-new-pets edict.
Populists like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump don't get it. Only parties can solve America's problems.
Science suggests healthy eating is needed for weight loss. So why do taxpayers subsidize junk food?
Our European friends are shirking their fair share of defending themselves.
A complex and inconvenient nominating system is not the same as an undemocratic one.
Gay Talese, take note: Sometimes, obligations to humanity trump the journalist's job.
Neither conservatives nor liberals get it. The former demonize struggling workers; the latter romanticize them.
In his long-awaited apostolic exhortation, the pope underscores that one's own internal compass must take center stage in moral reckoning.
On April 12, the landmark Massachusetts health care law turns 10 years old. The law, which is better known as Romneycare, became a model for the federal reform.
Unions negotiating wages and benefits with their employers would be one free-market solution to inequality, lessening the need for government action.
Free public university tuition would combat inequality, boosting job prospects and lifetime earnings for the have-nots, if we did it right.
This year's two populist candidates have a view of trade as fanciful as any Harry Potter tale.
How today's Republican civil war echoes the past.
Mitt Romney's remarks don't make a lick of difference to Donald Trump's base.
I only worried that new voters might be ill-informed. I never predicted they could be palm-sweaty frightening.
A new explanation of Trump's improbable rise.
Here's hoping the candidates address such questions. The answers will affect us all.
Their blind loyalty prevents them from seeing the truth.
In this year's Republican presidential primary, the Ohio governor's moderate, level-headed persona might actually be doing him a disservice.
Sarah Palin and Donald Trump speak to cultural grievances rather than ideas. And we'd be foolish to disregard the genuine dismay luring some voters to their camp.
Abraham Lincoln is overlooked for his foreign policy. But he modeled restrained realism abroad, and has much to teach us about how to thrive in the post-American century.
President Obama's thematic overview approach was not only an accurate diagnosis of the State of the Union, but preferable as well to the usually detailed, propagandist drone.
Or alternatively: Yes, Richard Dawkins, there is a God.
The candidates' bluster can't conceal that virtually none of them is remotely ready to lead America's military and diplomacy.
Earlier this month, in a rare showing of bipartisan compromise, Congress passed a $305 billion measure to fund roads, bridges and rail lines.
Progressive local regulations risk leaving our greatest cities as playpens for the wealthy, testimonials to our growing inequality.
With the revelation that the San Bernardino killings were inspired, if not directed by, ISIS, we can expect more immigrant- and Muslim-bashing, if that's possible.
The new film about the clergy sex abuse scandal offers a lesson on the perils of blind faith.
It's one year until people will vote in the 2016 presidential election. What's a Republican to do if he can't, in good conscience, support any of his party's candidates?
By embracing global terror, the Islamic State may have rushed into a bigger fight than it can handle.
Unlike the symbolic rejection of Keystone, the Clean Power Plan has teeth. And as a regulation, it would bypass Congress and its Republican anti-environmentalists.
Canada's recent elections yielded a new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who vowed to rev his country's slumping economy with public works and deficit spending. Can it work here?
Debunking the two most commonly held misconceptions about the Democratic front-runners once and for all.
As secretary of state, Clinton hailed the Trans-Pacific Partnership as "the gold standard in trade agreements." By now demanding its defeat, Rich Barlow says she is playing politics.
Whoever said the solution to our domestic killing fields was an either-or proposition?
The Kentucky senator's views on foreign policy help set him apart in a crowded field. But they don't play well in the GOP base.
Will Black Lives Matter go the way of the Occupy movement, pushed into self-inflicted irrelevance?
Anti-abortion activists are harrying the wrong enemy. The law, not Planned Parenthood, should be the focus.
Francis is one of the world's most formidable diplomats, flexing the Vatican's foreign policy muscle in a way unseen for at least a generation.
Jeb Bush suggested last week that the Obama administration's foreign policy decisions in Iraq set the stage for ISIS. Not so, says Rich Barlow.
It's time for hard-headed examination of how too many officers treat African-Americans. One place to look for answers, ironically, is Cincinnati.
In the 2016 election, it looks like the question of who'll rebuild America will be a marker defining the wise from the foolish.
Obama has adopted Reagan's mantra of trust-but-verify, and that's a good thing.
On tour in South America, Pope Francis asked forgiveness for the church's sins. Why American politicians would do well to take note.
Might Europe's financial sickness leapfrog the Atlantic and thud on our own fragile recovery?
How might an issues-oriented Republican make sense of such a sprawling field?
The encyclical scanted a key point: while market forces contribute to the problem, they are unavoidably a vital tool in fixing it.
The Charleston church shooting suspect is not an aberration. We must confront these darker demons of our nature.
The pope's tribunal is a longstanding demand of victims, as episcopal enablers helped perpetuate the clergy sex abuse scandal but largely have escaped punishment.
He might not secure the Democratic nomination, but he is likely to influence the race.
Today's most tantalizing civil liberties case shines a light on a lesser-known group of rights-deprived victims whose plight demands attention: Chimpanzees.
The upscale grocer practices "conscious capitalism," but its workers and others still need programs like Obamacare.
The political philosophy is great for back-benching, but not for governing.
A report that Christianity is ebbing in America needn't alarm believers, if they can recognize a teachable moment with their non-believing countrymen and women.
If you want to cure poverty, give people money, right? It's not that simple, says Rich Barlow.
Progressives are denouncing President Obama's pending Pacific trade deal. The deal may be dumb. So is much of the criticism.
Advocating paid vacation isn't bellyaching about work. It's about pushing back against a mindset that mistakes round-the-clock labor for virtue.
Carroll's Jesus is desperately necessary in an era that's not only informed by science but beset by misguided war, indifference to the needy, and hostility towards those who are different.
In Indiana's law allowing businesses to turn away customers they find objectionable on religious grounds, religion is not a lovely fig leaf concealing ugly malice. It is the root, the cause of the prejudice behind the law.
A book on the 1970s summons comparisons to 2015 — and why we're better off than we think.
Universities would do well to remember how badly tarnished the Catholic Church was by its secretive handling of sex abuse allegations.
Losing a job, always devastating to a family and especially children, appears especially so when Dad is the one pink-slipped.
Critics' despair is premature; Francis wouldn't be the first leader who temporized before doing something that had to be done.
Why it's good for the planet–and the economy–to do something about climate change now. And why the deniers either don't get the science, or don't want to.
Blame the salesman, sure. But those who knowingly buy snake oil aren't without fault.
It's time for introspection in the land of Kennedys and Romneys: Are public unions acting against the public interest?
Since he was elected to the papacy one year ago, Francis has had to face an ongoing crisis — the sexual abuse of children and victims' demands for accountability.
Fixing our bridges, roads and water lines will not only put people to work and buffer us against any global economic swoon — it might even pay a political dividend.
Why the 2016 Republican National Convention should be held in Las Vegas.
Considering the alternative, we should all be thankful for our big, fat capitalist Christmas.
Closed-captioned goofs remind us that technology, made by humans, incorporates human fallibility, and that over-dependence on it breeds oversight.
The federal farm bill runs out in September, and so far, there is no compromise in Washington to extend it. To understand what lawmakers should do, you first must know all the bad the current policy does.
Oregon may have solved the student loan crisis. If President Obama is smart, he'll take the "Pay It Forward" plan and run with it.
The Rev. Andrew Greeley, who remained devout even as he challenged the church, will be laid to rest Wednesday.
"Disadvantaged" has a different meaning today than it did in 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson made the case for affirmative action for black students.
Other nations have pulled off universal insurance without crashing and burning. There's no cause to think that this big, capable country can't match them.
With April 15 bearing down, Rich Barlow read the Center for American Progress's report on "Hidden Spending In The Tax Code" so you don't have to.
A modest proposal to fight world hunger and global warming, enjoy a tasty meal — and gross out most of your friends.
Desperate to re-brand themselves after last November's drubbing, the GOP should endorse a seemingly radical idea that's actually solidly conservative: a New Deal-style jobs program.
Inflation is largely perceived to be a dirty word — but attitudes are changing. Some economists believe a modest, sustained inflation is just the tonic for our global recessionary hangover.
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text: Why You Should Be Using Native Marketing as Paid Advertising Content Marketing By Kaiya Mallaburn 14 January 2019 In the larger scheme of marketing, there are different tactics used by digital marketers to optimise their reach to a desired audience. One of the novel ways, which is recently gaining popularity is native marketing. This technique basically implies putting out content on a host website like Facebook, for example, which is embedded so subtly, you would never guess it's actually an advertisement. Posting content on a webpage, which syncs effortlessly with the layout and page structure is at the very core of native advertising. Native marketing is a relatively new way to market online, but it received plenty of critique and buzz around its use, especially across social media. The term native marketing is synonymous with native advertising. It is a novel term, but the core concept dates back from infomercials and newspaper adverts. Today however, it's a bit more specialised than a mere advertisement targeting a general audience, and being too blasé with the hard sell. Native marketing is thus a great, yet subtle way to advertise. With this, adverts can be pushed towards a specific target market based on your chosen demographics whilst the ad can visually match the organic or natural look and functionality of the hosting website. This type of marketing is predicted to be a $4.6 billion market, considering it is still a fairly modern way to advertise, that is now nipping at the heels of the fairly long and opinionated practice of display advertising which once stood at $6.4 billion in 2015 (Moz 2016). Cut Through the Noise Native advertising has powerful applications and results that traditional Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising cannot contend with. Its ability to cut through the noise online allows brands to have optimal exposure directly to their target audience, at a potentially cheaper cost, yet with greater click-through rate. Any publisher knows that the success of their digital marketing lies in good exposure and interaction between the audience and the content they offer. Yet, despite numerous warnings, publishers still come under fire from Google for carrying out the once-popular activity of high-frequency guest posting. Therefore, native marketing now presents a solution to those looking to undertake brand and content amplification. To put it quite simply, if you want instant viewers, you can pay for them in a pro-active, but less promotional way. Chances are, you won't receive a backlink through a paid ad promoting transactional content. However, take a native advert promoting informational content and instantly you have a way to naturally create a worthwhile backlink profile, in a short span of time versus solely organic. The most common form of native advertising can be seen on social media. These stories and ads aren't forced upon the user to either like or reject, rather they are embedded with the natural and organic feed of the social platform that the user is visiting. In this way, they appear unobtrusive, when compared to conventional banner adverts, sponsored stories or ads specifically target users based on consumer metrics and/or data that social platforms have, because of their proprietary cookie tracking tools such as Facebook pixel. You may or may not have seen this in support of a company's content or product marketing efforts. Native advertising is a nice way to amplify your content especially if it does not push the hard sell but rather intrigues or leads your target customer to make an informed decision on your brand or product on their own terms. Choose Your Channel The platforms you position your ads on, should allow you to be specific enough to identify your target audience to push the message you want to convey. If you're targeting a business consumer, chances are Linkedin might be more appropriate than Facebook. You want to focus your budget and effort on a channel that works best for you instead of wasting it on one that doesn't have enough potential for high number of click-throughs. Then again, multiple channels work best if you want to consider multivariate testing on different types of channels based on your theories, and the time of day your target audience would interact with those native channels. This way, you can either rule them out completely or assign a budget to that channel without discounting it completely. Here are some native advertising channels to consider: Facebook Twitter Buzzfeed Huffington Post Taboola Outbrain Conversation Over Conversion Although native advertising positions your brand or product directly in front of your desired target customer, the impact and opinion of the hard sell remains the same and customers just don't like being sold to. Pushing content over conversion based advertising through native marketing is more acceptable as an advert to your web consumer. In fact, Millennials are keen on this type of advertising over the traditional types, whereby 51% of 18 – 44 year olds prefer to see trusted branded content, be it through blog articles or infographics, instead of a traditional product advert. Native advertising is not about the product or service but about ideas and social issues. An article with a link baiting title or one that elicits emotion, which educates or is conversational, is more likely to garner a click-through than your everyday 10% off coupon. For young people this trend is everywhere. Rather than reading a newspaper the younger audience is more inclined to read a blog article as a way of gathering information, regardless of the intent. As such, they are naturally exposing themselves to the ways in which brands can reach them through engaging and conversational content blog articles offer. It's in this instance that brands have the opportunity to weigh in on the discussions and educate their target consumer. It enables them to position their product or service, before the customer even considers any purchase as the solution to their information query that brought them to this content in the first place. In Conclusion Native advertising allows for an opinionated expression (biased or not) on a product or topic aimed at a relevant target market. 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Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Ed Gass-Donnelly first appeared on the scene with This Beautiful City, a dramatic debut that went on to be nominated for a handful of Canadian film awards. Renowned character actor Peter Stormare appeared in his follow up Small Town Murder Songs, a gritty crime tale that got people talking at 2010's Toronto Film Festival. The Last Exorcism Part II is his first foray into mainstream horror and third feature film.
Simon Bland: Hi Ed, what was the first horror movie you saw that really scared you?
Ed Gass-Donnelly: Oh god, you know what I remember being traumatised as a kid by? It was one of those movies where I saw it again 20 years later and I was like 'Oh my god, this is so not scary at all'. It was called Ghost Story. It's a black and white film but I just remember there were certain images from that I remember seeing when I was under 10 and having nightmares from it.
SB: Do you have a favourite horror movie?
EGD: Probably my favrouite is The Shining. The Shining and Rosemary's Baby are two that I really love but if I had to pick between the two it would definitely be The Shining. There's a bunch of other movies that I like for different reasons. I like horror movies especially when they can somehow really be trendsetting, I love The Others because it just felt like a great character piece but it was scary and had unique reveals and for me it was just stimulating on a lot of different levels as appose to just being scary. Another favourite of mine is The Devil's Backbone. I'm more drawn to the artier horror stuff.
SB: Exorcisms in movies tend to be overshadowed by what The Exorcist did so well. How did you try to make your exorcism scenes different?
EGD: Yeah it's funny especially with the word 'Exorcist' - any mention of exorcism in the title and people are like 'So what's your movie called? The Last Exorcist of Emily Rose?' I've actually had somebody think that that was the title - 'The Last Exorcist of Emily Rose', combining four different movies into one! For me it was really about trying not to do a traditional exorcism scene. It was much more, I think, ultimately like a seduction because in the first movie the demon had taken her and what I found much more interesting was the idea of rather than this thing trying to take her, the idea of it actually trying to seduce her and invite her in and the people who are trying to exorcise her aren't privy to that and again are they frauds or are they even good at their job? We have no idea but I tried to make it much more about the intimate relationship between her and the demon and ultimately that the two are inherently made for each other and are actually one. Unless you're going to try and top The Exorcist in terms of head spins or top the original Last Exorcism with somehow more bending, that for me is not frankly to my forte or taste. I was much more interested in how we can make this different from an intellectual or emotional perspective.
SB: Talking about the seduction aspect...did you try to mirror that with Nell's personal relationships and what she is going through in what's left of her normal life?
EGD: Definitely. For me, all of those things, everything that happens to Nell is almost pre-ordained. If this demon is all powerful and can do all this stuff why can't it just take her? But instead it creates this little road map that she goes down thinking she has her own free will but creating all the points to choose the moment where she will actually invite him in and take his hand. So for me it's all these little seductions, whether it's from the very beginning just her looking at her own reflection and choosing not to put on the cross or the sensuality with this other girl putting lipstick on her, to boys, to all of these things until the very end and simultaneously she starts having these more sexualised dreams. I love the idea of possession as a metaphor for teenagers discovering their sexuality.
SB: Was it fun writing a character who was at war with herself?
EGD: It was. I think the most interesting elements of the movie are frankly unspoken because it's a lot of her alone or her reactions and the core, the plot is very simple but for me it was always about the detail of her internal journey of her responding to this world and ultimately choosing to act or deciding to say at war at herself, babbling 'is this right or this wrong?' 'this goes against everything I was brought up to believe but at the same time it's exciting and feels right' so that element, it really just suited her as an actress because she really is just so emotionally committed and available and I had the confidence that because I already knew who the lead of the film was going to be and I was already a fan of her work, I felt really strongly that she was going to be able to deliver a great performance that way.
SB: Eli Roth returns as a producer. How hands on was he?
EGD: He definitely had ideas but at the same time he was very respectful. There was something like seven producers, they were fans of my work and they just trusted me. They really just let me have a lot of freedom to do what I want. I think the reason they hired me is because they liked my take on it. That said, as we were editing they would all definitely weigh in and have their ideas. I like being collaborative because I like to do things my own way but then I want to test them to see if I'm getting the response I intended and they were all just really talented smart guys so I just felt like I was surrounded by really good people. Just from a personal experience the whole process working with the producers was frankly a lot of fun. They're good people, that's one of the best things about filming, it would be the worst to be making a movie for a year with people you hate! That would be awful, whereas I felt really lucky that I was surrounded by good fun people who were smart and resourceful.
SB: And finally, growing up who was your favourite horror character? Jason? Freddy? Michael Myers?
EGD: You know what it's funny - it's more of a guilty pleasure I guess, I remember when I was a kid I watched all the Chucky movies. As a kid that was definitely something I had to admit I watched a bunch of!
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Farmer's Market Finds
"Vegetables in the Brassica family."
Pomegranites on display.
Satsumas in season.
The focus at last week's market was brassica, or cruciferous vegetables. These are vegetables in the mustard family like brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli or kohlrabi (basically all the things I didn't love as a kid!) In addition, there were colorful persimmons, satsumas, and pomegranates on display. On this day, however, I had my eye on the brussels sprouts.
While I love the idea of bacon and brussels sprouts, for a change in taste and texture try roasting with just olive oil, garlic and salt. Roasting brings out the "meatiness" and depth of flavor (sometimes referred to as umami) in the sprouts. Also consider a salad of chopped roasted sprouts, cooked pancetta and hard boiled egg drizzled with a red wine vinegar dressing.
Garlicky Roasted Brussels Sprouts
- 1 lb. Brussels sprouts, sliced into ¼ inch disks
- 1 clove garlic, finely minced
- Olive oil – enough to coat, about 1 T.
- Salt & pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice the brussels sprouts into thin disks (see picture). Mince the garlic. Toss together with enough olive oil to coat (1-2 T) and add salt/pepper to taste. Roast sprouts and garlic for 15 minutes, and then toss. Roast for another 15 minutes and turn off the oven. Let rest in oven another 10 minutes or until tender. Enjoy!
"Roasted brussels sprouts."


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Keys to Beating the Aztecs
If you're like me you've had January 26th marked on your calendar, highlighted in anticipation of the showdown between the 4th-ranked San Diego State Aztecs (20-0, 5-0) and the No. 9 BYU Cougars (19-1, 5-0).
San Diego State is one of two undefeated teams remaining in college basketball, and has now cracked the Top 5.
Both teams have taken care of business in conference, and have won games on the road in tough college basketball atmospheres. Wednesday night will be no exception for this game in Provo.
Expect the Marriott Center to be packed with Cougar fans cheering on their team, for the biggest game in Mountain West Conference history.
For the Cougars to be successful they will need to impose their will on the Aztecs and execute the game plan Coach Rose and his staff has prepared.
A big key to executing the plan will be the big men staying out of foul trouble and on the floor. Brandon Davies and Noah Hartsock have been playing extremely well of late, but have been hampered throughout the year with foul trouble.
This Aztec team is the most athletic team BYU will have faced up to this point. Along with the athleticism, they are very long and are playing very good basketball, shooting over 49.2% from the field — good for 7th in the nation. Solid defense and the ability to keep SDSU off the glass will be crucial for BYU's success.
Along with the defense by the big men, they will need to play well on the offensive end as well.
Davies has shown he can be dominant on the low block, and Hartsock has worked hard on his outside shot and rebounding ability. Establishing an inside presence will go a long way in relieving some of the pressure on Jimmer and Jackson on the outside, and could be a big deciding factor in the game.
SDSU isn't known for its outside shooting, so we may see some zone defense by the Cougs, but rebounding out of the zone will be a must. Point guard D.J. Gay proved he has range by hitting seven threes against New Mexico at the Pit.
Kyle Collinsworth is coming off his best performance as a Cougar in Fort Collins by scoring 16 points on 6-8 shooting and grabbing 6 rebounds to go with 6 assists. He will also play a big part in the success for this BYU team that relies so heavily on their two senior guards. We have also seen Kyle getting minutes at the back-up point guard when Jimmer sits. Kyle's versatility and quickness at 6'7", and his ability to play multiple positions on the floor is proving to be huge.
This game will be a circus, full of hype, publicity, and speculation. If the Cougars can keep their big men on the floor, get the job done on the defensive end, and rebound the ball, they will win.


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When you're hungry and you don't have the brainjuice to magic up complicated dishes in the kitchen, then hot dogs is a simple and tasty alternative. At least that's what Mr Chooch and I decided on the other day. We picked up a bunch of sausages and those funny French hot dog breads. But… well…. We opened the hot dog bag (they come in a bag here, they do) and saw that they weren't sausages. They were SAUSAGEBOOBIES!
Not sure what else to say, really.
We still ate them. There are people starving in this world, after all. But we did remove the nipple ends and feed them to Pooch. She didn't think they were creepy at all.


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The Vikings don't plan to use running back Adrian Peterson much, if at all, during the preseason. For the past two days, they haven't used him at all during practice.
According to Matt Vensel of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Peterson has missed practice the last two days due to an undisclosed personal matter. He is expected to travel to Kansas City with the Vikings for the team's third preseason game of 2014.
Peterson hasn't touched the football during the preseason since 2011, when he had 14 carries for 81 yards during the third preseason game, against the Cowboys.
This year, the Vikings have their first new offense since 2011. It could take some time for Peterson to get comfortable in the attack, given the absence of preseason reps.


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This is not a competition so much.
I have a vague recollection of seeing a film, probably on American Sky TV on holiday that looked to have been shot in the late 90s or early 2000s.
It was a particularly haunting film that while not blockbuster material, I wouldn't mind seeing again.
The plot was about a conspiracy.
A number of children had won a competition and had gone on a light aircraft which crashed and those onboard were killed.
One child's parents suspected that there was more to the incident than a plane crash.
In the end, it became apparent that the plane journey was a setup. The aircraft had been consumed by some kind of creature that was normally invisible.
The whole competition was to get the children together and provide them as a kind of human sacrifice to the creature.
When the parents got too close to the truth, the firm that organised the flight tried to dispose of them.
The parents had the help of a black female police officer who was killed either by the creature or, I think, by the firm's henchmen.
I remember she used a Glock 17 to defend herself when she investigated a building but it didn't do her much good.
The form of the creature as I recall was like a giant mouth in the sky with tentacles and was ghost-like, even when it could be seen.
I thought I'd come across the film here at first because the poster looked similar to the creature and the basic premise is similar but the plot is completely different:
I've tried searching after all sorts of combinations of keywords but Google won't help me. Can anyone help me nail down this (probably-made-for-TV) movie?


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WW2 diary reveals what life was like inside POW camps
|Ref: 7-A16555, NZ POWs alongside camp huts, 1944, Sir George Grey Special Collections
|Ref: 7-A16552, showing a cast of Anzacs on stage in a POW camp, 1944, Sir George Grey Special Collections
Margaret plans to entrust the dairy and artefacts to the Hocken Library in Dunedin, so that they can be preserved and accessed by future generations. She hopes that other people will look in their own attics and that of their relatives and see if they also hold valuable accounts of the war. With the number of returned WW2 servicemen greatly reducing each year, it is essential that this information is found and cared for.
|Ref: 7-A16548, POW camp, 1940s, Sir George Grey Special Collections


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The big, uncertain picture: 2017 Global Economic Outlook
If one word could describe the world outlook for 2017, it's uncertainty.
That was the take-away from the Big Picture panel at WorldCity's largest Global Connections event held Jan. 27, 2017 and headlined by Donna Hrinak, president of Boeing Latin America and the Caribbean; Eric Farnsworth, vice president the Council of the Americas; and Magdalena Ramada, senior economist at Towers Watson.
"We're just not sure what's going to happen, and in particular, we're just not sure what's going to happen in D.C. and in this country," said Hrinak. Her feelings were shared among the sold-old crowd. When asked to choose between" anxious" or "optimistic" for the short term, a majority of people raised their hands for "anxious."
Risks from social instability and inequality
For economist Ramada, the anxiety stems from "profound social instability we're seeing in most democracies." Fed by inequality and polarization, "societal risks are on the rise, and that's not for emerging markets anymore," she said. "Now, all the questions I get are for developed markets."
Yet all three panelists are hopeful too. Ramada sees promise for tech innovation, including cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. She and Farnsworth are heartened by economic progress in Latin America and its middle class that mushroomed in the past decade. And Hrinak is buoyed by continuing growth in commercial aviation around the globe.
But they're concerned about the effects of a Trump administration, especially in the nearby Latin American region.
"2018 is going to be a huge round of elections across the region," said Farnsworth, pointing to voting next year in Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and other nations. "Depending on the direction Washington takes on the economic side, that could very directly impact the region," he said, "bringing to power some folks who may not be a part of the establishment."
Latin America generally would like to expand business with the United States, but Trump may not be so keen.
"This would be irony," said Farnsworth. "Because at a time when many in Latin America are looking for a close relationship with the United States, particularly on trade and investment, the United States seems to be…going the other direction, not wanting to engage in that way with the region."
Amid the uncertainty, many multinational companies are sitting tight and watching.
"It's a wait and see game," said Ramada. "A lot of long term and strategic decisions are being delayed…This is for every company at every level in every region of the world."
" You want optimistic things?," asked Ramada. "I think 2018 will get us out of that state of lethargy."
China's ambition in Latin America
If Trump opts to work less in Latin America, China could pick up the slack, Farnsworth said. The Asian superpower has become active in Latin America in the past 15 years and helped keep the region out of recession in 2008-2009.
"What is China's ambition in the Western Hemisphere?," asked Farnsworth. "Look, China has 1.4 billion people that they need to feed…How do you supercharge your economy? You bring in as many commodities as possible from abroad."
Unlike the United States, China's "policies in the public and the private sector are highly aligned," added Ramada. "Asian multinationals and Chinese multinationals are investing heavily in Latin America and in Africa and in Southeast Asia," said Ramada, even noting a big Chinese investment in the Brickell area of Miami. That alignment provides long-term stability, "which is not the case with most multinationals of the Western world."
Concerns over cybersecurity, climate change
Besides social instability, Ramada sees two other important sources of risk: cybersecurity and the environment. While there are new tools to mitigate risks on computers, the corporate community is not doing enough to keep governments accountable on cybersecurity, said Ramada.
An audience member asked panelists how companies should react to consumer demands for environmental protections if the U.S. government backs out of climate-change agreements.
"A lot is being done to build resilience," Ramada told the crowd."We're trying to work on the mitigation side of the effects of that, more than actually eradicating the causes. Eradicating the causes is something that can only be done if there is an international will in a consolidated and unified way. I don't see that happening sadly."
The importance of collaboration worldwide
Boeing, however, does sees reasons for optimism on climate change in aviation.
"The airlines have set some very ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions," said Hrinak. "Freezing the growth in emissions by 2020, and then reducing by 50 percent the greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050, …with 2005 as a baseline. It's going to be very difficult to reach these targets unless the entire industry works together."
That collaboration may well prove vital for groups across the world to reduce uncertainties this year.
Global Connections is one of four event series organized by media company WorldCity to bring together executives in greater Miami on international business topics. WorldCity will launch its 2017 "Who's Here" directory of multinationals in South Florida on Feb. 24, 2017.


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The shock resignation of Justice Lowell Goddard as chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) last week, offered in a perfunctory two-line letter without explanation, followed by a statement that likewise gave little away, initially brought howls of outrage against the New Zealand-based lawyer, claiming victims would see it as a betrayal; but this was soon followed by hints that she had actually been sacked.
My guess is that she was indeed pushed, because her incompetence after 18 months in the job was becoming an unsustainable public embarrassment. She had shown herself to be confused by "local law" i.e. English law, and even fell down on the basic role of a judge during a hearing, failing to invite opposing arguments in the normal way. But there is also reason to believe she was set up to fail. So, was this an Establishment plot, as was immediately alleged by the "survivor" lobby in line with their long-standing devotion to conspiracy theory?
Not exactly. What I have in mind is a conspiracy of just one person, and if you think that is a contradiction in terms you are technically correct, although I was once the sole convicted conspirator in a case of conspiracy to corrupt public morals, so do not underestimate life's capacity for turning up impossible things!
As for the prime and only suspect in this "plot", or Machiavellian manoeuvring, we do not need to look far: Theresa May, now Prime Minister, was the Home Secretary responsible for installing Goddard, after the first two incumbents in the job, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss and Dame Fionna Woolf had both fallen victim to the victim lobby. Both had been seen as Establishment stooges who would guarantee a cover-up of "Westminster VIP paedophilia", then the obsession of the moment, as celebrity paedos had been immediately post-Savile.
So why would Theresa May want to set up Goddard to fail? Same reason she has given the Three Brexiteers jobs in her government. The referendum vote meant that May, a Remain supporter, has had Brexit foisted on her government. Very well then, let those who got the country into this mess be the ones given the impossible task – as she quite likely sees it – of making it work. When they fail, they will be the ones seen to have failed rather than the Prime Minister. Smart!
The Home Secretary, as she then was, also had a pretty shrewd idea the IICSA was in deep trouble too. As with the referendum result, which she could not defy because it had majority support, she could not simply drop the IICSA either: the powerful victim lobby would have been baying for her blood and would have swept her from office before you could say "lying compo seekers" or "attention-seeking fantasists". Instead, in a move of stunning cunning, she gave the "survivors" exactly what they wanted, in the full knowledge that far from surviving, they would soon be shipwrecked again.
There is a wealth of evidence for this. Lauded for her careful attention to detail, Theresa May would most assuredly have done due diligence on Goddard. She would have known the New Zealander was not all she was cracked up to be. Superficially she seemed well qualified. You don't get to be a QC for nothing, she had a long record of supposedly distinguished service on top public bodies, and as a judge her nickname in her home country was God, which suggests a certain level of esteem.
What May would also have known, though, is that Goddard's high-flying reputation was "earned" not for genuine public service but the exact opposite. As Heretic TOC pointed out when she was given the IICSA gig, a survey of New Zealand judges gave her the lowest possible rating. She was ranked 63rd out of 63! Legal commentator Vince Siemer noted that many lawyers were "extremely critical" of Goddard's "opportunistic public stances, liberties with the truth and contrarian judgments". On his website Kiwis First, he said she was widely seen by lawyers as a political puppet – the sort of person who would do the Establishment's bidding in order to advance her career.
But as Siemer hints, that is precisely what May might have found attractive. She would have understood that Goddard, rather than doing the right thing – which might mean opposing the survivor lobby's injudicious "always believe the victim" dogma and their demands for an unfeasibly huge, unfocused inquiry – could be relied upon to just go with the flow, even if that inevitably meant eventual disaster. But that wouldn't matter because by then May would probably have moved on to some other job, such as, oh, I don't know, Prime Minister or whatever!
Goddard even had "form" with her excuses. In her departure statement, she referred to how hard it had been for her to leave her family behind, as if she had failed to realise, when offered the job, that Britain and New Zealand are on opposite sides of the planet. This was reminiscent of the over-privileged whinging she used in order to advance her earlier career, for Siemer tells us "She was appointed to the Independent Police Conduct Authority after she complained sitting on long cases in the High Court was too stressful on her back." He continues, "Her days on the IPCA were mired in secrecy, political manoeuvring and tardy rulings. She routinely sided with Crown immunity, suppression of information and against human rights."
And, most pertinently, he asked:
So what did the Home Secretary mean when she assured MPs … that Goddard's Inquiry will not be thwarted by the Official Secrets Act in an investigation which will delve into governmental department files in circumstances where there appears to be complicity by officials in the scandal? A hint might lie in comments of the 'fixer' Home Secretary May has appointed. "The inquiry will be long, challenging and complex," forewarned Goddard J.
Experience tells us you can take Goddard J's assessment to the bank. Hopefully the British prefer an exhaustive and complex inquiry to an accurate and transparent outcome.
Exhaustive and complex it is certainly set up to be. The sheer immensity of the scale has necessitated the employment of 155 inquiry staff in dedicated offices around the country, dozens of lawyers have been expensively engaged, the projected cost has ballooned to £100 million, and – get this – hundreds of new allegations are arriving each month. The most recent report I have seen puts the figure even higher: the current rate of new allegations being forwarded to the inquiry team, according to the Mail on Sunday, is running at more than 100 a day.
It now looks entirely possible that the volume of allegations could outpace even this huge inquiry's capacity to deal with them, so the endpoint, originally targeted at 2020, could keep getting further and further into the future. So instead of just one more successor, Goddard could be followed by a whole chain of them, linking from century to century like the kings and queens of England – an absurdity one might think would be terminated by the inevitable death of the victims, and hence their inability to give testimony or be cross-examined. But you never know these days: Jimmy Savile, Lord Janner and others have been pursued beyond the grave, so don't underestimate the ingenuity of the victims' descendents. It could all end up like Jarndyce and Jarndyce!
Actually, forget the cross-examination. In addition to the public hearings, the inquiry has set up a "Truth Project", enabling anyone claiming to be "victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to share their experiences with the Inquiry. Their accounts will not be tested, challenged, or contradicted." In true Orwellian style, the inquiry will thus facilitate fantasy but call it truth!
The inquiry is supposed to be investigating a range of institutions, including local authorities, the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Immigration Service, the BBC, the armed forces, schools, hospitals, children's homes, churches, mosques and other religious organisations, charities and voluntary organisations, regulators and other public and private institutions. The inquiry's website tells us "It will also examine allegations of child sexual abuse involving well known people, including people in the media, politics, and other aspects of public life." It will consider historic allegations going back to 1945. Whew! Even just reading the list is exhausting, never mind investigating it.
The opening session of the IISCA, which has yet to hear any actual evidence after 18 months, involved preliminaries concerning alleged abuse within the Anglican Church. Those present heard that the Archbishops' Council alone had handed over 7,000 "items of disclosure". According to one press report, this would be "a mere drop in the ocean of paperwork". Ben Emmerson QC, the Counsel to the Inquiry, warned that "There are 100,000 items in the archive, which mostly comprises individual children's files, and some 26,000 boxes of material held in locations around the country."
This is utter madness. What on earth is supposed to be the point? It has nothing to do with justice. The inquiry is passing new allegations to the police, but that course is always open to complainants anyway. As for institutions, rather than enabling them to learn lessons from past mistakes, probing ever deeper into their history will only reveal what is abundantly known already: the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. As Luke Gittos wrote in Spiked, the IICSA seems to be just an extremely expensive form of therapy for disturbed people – disturbed for all sorts of reasons, not necessarily past sexual abuse – who want someone to talk to and make them feel important.
That might be a valuable exercise were it not for its huge cost, not only in terms of its massive commandeering of resources but also because it is even more grievously expensive in another way. The inquiry's work, like the black farce recently seen in the disastrous police investigations of alleged VIP paedophilia, is likely to come at the expense of innocent people. It is bad enough when the reputations of deceased individuals such as former Prime Minister Edward Heath and former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, are baselessly trashed; this dangerously undermines confidence in public life as well as causing needless distress to families and friends. And it is far worse when it wrecks the lives and careers of the living, such as the unfortunate former MP Harvey Proctor, who has called for the IICSA to be dismantled, saying the inquiry was "in thrall to every fantasist alive".
Even the mainstream media are now beginning to take the point. As David Rose, writing in the Mail on Sunday, put it:
It is a truth that if publicity is given to allegations that a famous person once committed acts of sexual abuse, many others will pile in with similar claims. Some may be genuine, but the multi-million-pound industry run by lawyers seeking damages for abuse 'survivors' has established a strong financial motive for those prepared to lie. And where police, politicians, and, yes, public inquiries have made clear that their bias is towards 'believing the victims', there is little risk of such perjury being exposed.
Your Honour, I rest my case.
The plethora of investigations into "child sexual abuse" (CSA) is matched by a torrent of surveys on the subject. Here in the UK most of them seem to be published by the NSPCC in its annual report, which I swear comes out monthly.
But the latest survey, by the respected Office for National Statistics (ONS), is far more authoritative and will be worth studying carefully. So for that reason I will make no comment on the figures at present but simply say that they are being touted as "the first official estimates of their kind in the world". They are based on asking adults to recall sexual encounters experienced during their childhood.
The ONS survey asked about all kinds of abuse, not just sexual. That is good, and there is no problem, in theory at least, with the definition of "abuse" that is used in relation to sexual encounters. The report quite properly defines abuse in terms of harm. It quotes approvingly a definition taken from a document called Working Together to Safeguard Children, which defines abuse as: "A form of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm, or by failing to act to prevent harm." Turning specifically to sexual abuse, the survey includes "sexual assault by an adult", which is further specified as "sexual assault by rape or penetration (including attempts)" and also "other sexual assault – this includes indecent exposure and unwanted touching/kissing of a sexual nature" [My emphasis].
Here is the problem: it seems no questions were asked about wanted or acceptable sexual contacts. Unless that possibility is spelled out, what is the respondent supposed to report? My guess is that most would feel they were meant to report any sexual contact with an adult, even if it was desired, based on the fact that below the age of consent their willing participation does not amount to legally valid consent. Thus I suspect that the figures would only be truly meaningful if accompanied by the respondent's own personal rating of the contact, perhaps on a scale ranging from "Very negative" to "Very positive".


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There was a "bumping of bellies" between a Republican activist and a Democratic official in Indiana after the Republican official allegedly took pictures of voters at a polling place, the Indiana Star reported.
Marion County's Democratic Party chairman, Ed Treacy, got into a shouting and shoving match on Saturday with Ernest Shearer, a Warren Township Republican Party official, according to media reports.Shearer told police that he was taking pictures of Treacy walking out of the polling location when the Democrat began cursing at him, bumped him and hit him in the nose with a business card, the newspaper reported. He told police that he was chest-bumped three times.
Treacy told the newspaper in an e-mail that there was a "bumping of bellies," and said that Shearer had been taking pictures of voters "in an intimidating manner."
"There had been an earlier confrontation with other Democratic volunteers," he wrote to the paper. "I asserted that Mr. Shearer was behaving in a manner designed to intimidate voters."
Shearer said he should be allowed to photograph what he believed was a violation of election law.
"I just thought it was odd that the party chairman was out at the polling site on a Saturday afternoon," said Shearer. "As Treacy was leaving the building, he started calling me an (deleted), asking me what was I doing taking his picture in a very loud, almost a screaming voice. He was completely out of control like someone on the Jerry Springer Show."
As TPMMuckraker has reported, conservatives are getting involved in anti-voter fraud campaigns — many of which have a monitoring component — ahead of the midterm elections this year. Democratic officials have said that such tactics like taking photos of voters at polling stations have been used as an intimidation tactic.
Here's local station Fox 59's report on the squabble.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally met with lawmakers to kick-start the process of passing the budget for 2019 elections.
The leadership of the electoral umpire met with the house of representatives committee on electoral and political parties matters in Abuja on Wednesday, regarding the N189 billion budgeted for it to conduct the election.
President Muhammadu Buhari had sent a virement request to the national assembly seeking approval of the budget but the lawmakers were unable to pass it before embarking on recess.
Following calls to reconvene and pass the budget, the national assembly leadership met with INEC last week to consider the way forward over the matter.
Addressing members of the committee, Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, defended the budget as what would be enough to conduct the poll.
He said out of the N189 billion, N134.4 billion will be used as operation cost while N6 billion was budgeted for feeding security officials during the election.
He added that N27.5 billion will be used for election technological cost while N22.7 billion will be for administrative cost.
Aishatu Dukku, chairman of the committee, said the lawmakers will be transparent in considering details of the budget.
"It is important for us to approach the budget proposal from both process and content perspective," she said, adding: "It is only by so doing that one can begin to unravel the intricacies of the entire range of issues involved."
She also said the committee hopes the government would address issues that have to do with election funding "unlike the previous budgets that were not productive in the entire planning of elections."
The commission subsequently met with the senate committee on INEC over the same matter.
At the senate meeting, Yakubu said the increase in the budget — as against the N120 billion requested in the 2015 elections — was necessitated by the increase in number of political parties, registered voters as well as high exchange rate.
The commission has so far registered 91 political parties as against the 44 that were in place in 2015.
"Also associated with political parties, is monitoring of party primaries, congresses and conventions. There is also the processing of nominations. We have 12,558 constituencies which means INEC has to process about 141,778 nominations," he added.
"We also have more electoral constituencies. Right now we have about 68 more constituencies and there is also increase in the number of registered voters.
"We'll need to open more voting points, engage more ad-hoc staff, supervisors and returning officers," he said, stating that as at August 11, the commission has registered 12.1 million voters."


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"The faster you run, the sooner you're done."
Yes, I know this post is a little late, sorry guys, but I finally got a chance to post it. Yay!
At the time I registered for Swamp House, the intention was to run the half marathon distance because, how could I pass on a $30 registration fee to run a half marathon? It turns out that after working with Coach Victoria with Run4PRS, the answer to that question is, yes I sure can and should!
Based on my end goal and doing what's best for my body, I turned a half marathon registration into a 5K race registration without any regrets. Having raced Shark Bite 5K back in January reminded me how hard 5K races can be if the goal is to PR. Training based on speed and distance is so different, but that's what I asked for from the moment I committed to one day qualifying and running the Boston Marathon. The only catch is that eventually I will be training for speed and distance all together. Well, better not talk so much about it because the brain cannot know what's really coming, lol!
It has been an interesting cycle after running Shark Bite 5K and logging the most monthly mileage I have ever logged so far for the 28-day month of February with 90.1 miles in the run bank. In anticipation for Tomoka half marathon, an out-back route with bridge, I asked coach for some hill training. So I did a 3-time up-and-down bridge workout a week before Swamp House 5K which included a 2-time 1 mile tempo run at HMGP (8:45) in the same workout (executed at 8:20 and 8:33 pace) and closed the workout with 8 miles at 9:44 average pace. To say that my legs were tired afterwards would be an understatement, but they are also getting much stronger.
Therefore going into the Swamp House 5K, my legs were tired but my calves were angry, very angry. I could not stop drinking my healer beet smoothie. I implemented dry sauna sessions after my runs, more foam rolling, icing, compression, elevation, stretch, sports massage by my hubby and using the pool for cool water therapy which averaged at about 68-72 degrees depending on the FL weather this time of the year.
For the past 3 weeks, my warm ups had been so uncomfortable due to calf tightness. It was a stop-go-run-walk-run festival until they felt like it was time to loosen up. It was no mystery that a quick warm up before the race and a cool down after the race was a must. During my shake out run of 1.5 miles, I had to stop with only .60 into the run to stretch my calves. I tried not to panic and though that I would be doing the same since on race day I had a .50 mile warm up. That gave me a sense of easy. After stretch, I proceeded to the final mileage and it was a okay with .25 mile at a faster pace and the last .25 with strides.
I had done everything I could have done in prep for Swamp House. On the eve of the race, my husband helped with a session of sports massage and active isolated stretch. I stretched, foam rolled, and spent 1-hour in the pool resting my legs in a 72 degree water. Nutrition was also on point!
For the past two 5K races, I had two goals: a PR and an age group award. I knew that my legs were tired so an age group award was a bit of a high goal to be achieved. I am thankful that the morning of the race the weather did cooperate for a 5K race with temperatures in the low 60's. I was debating whether run on my tank top or just sports bra. After spending some time waiting for race organizers to figure out the starting line, I went with the sports bra choice. I am glad I did and I am not sure why I even contemplate on that.
Once again, I was on the very front with all the other fast runners. Unfortunately, I started way too fast and soon started to slow down closing mile 1 at 8:04. The second mile was really tough. The negative thoughts started to show up and remind me how hard it is to run a 5K and how heavy my legs were. I had my Momentum Jewelry "Never Give Up" bracelet in the same wrist I use Masshole (my Garmin). It did help a lot to shut up those negative thoughts because the Never Give Up reminds me the time I was on the 25th miler of Tomoka going onto a bridge. I saw the bridge, I took a few running steps, but I gave up on running. I had to walk at that point and I missed my sub-5 goal by 00:1:49. So now, every time I am on a race and I think about walking, I think about my Never Give Up bracelet.
The second mile was not pretty, but I didn't stop. I slowed down the pace to 8:39. All of the sudden there were so many women passing or running next to me that could be in my 35-39 age group. For a moment I was worried; however, I let go of that feeling and started to focus on what I could control – securing a PR. I have been working so hard to earn another PR. Whether my legs were heavy or not, I needed to push and show to myself that I was getting better and faster. More importantly, that my mental fitness was catching up with my physical fitness.
I started to pick up pace not long after I hit mile 2 and from that point on, there was not slowing down. It was hard, but I wanted to finish the discomfort and earn a PR. Seeing the finish line was a relief. At that point, I was not focused on the age group award but to cross the finish line with a sweaty new PR. My husband was cheerfully waiting for me at the finish line and took some pictures. This time I saw him nearby and heard him yelling for me to run. And I did run a little harder but not hard enough to secure a first place in my age group. Say what?!
I was very happy with a Garmin 25:38 time (my previous PR was a 26:20). I ran a .50 mile cool down and the stiffness and discomfort was real. I really had pushed my legs to the limit on this race. The post-race festivities was very nice, actually. They had Dunkin Donuts, a local brewery, clothing vendors and a PR bell. Kurt did enjoy some coffee and donuts but he really liked the two free beers he got.
It didn't take too long for race organizers to post the results for the 5K as it became available. We were on the very front of the race results board display when it was getting ready to be posted. Once up, it didn't take long for Kurt to loudly speak that I had won second place. I was like, seriously! Kurt's eyes works faster than mine so when were looking at the picture he took of the result, he soon realized that I had missed first place by just 1 second! My time was 25:40, that's a 40 seconds PR. I was thrilled and in shock for missing first place by just 1 second. And that's the 1 second difference, right on camera!
Swamp House 5K, like many 5Ks did not award a finisher medal. But because I had won second place in my age group, I was able to bring a bling home and meet a city's mayor. Yes, the city of DeBary Mayor Garcia was awarding the winners with the medal! I thought it was super clever and a warm gesture of the city to welcome so many runners that came from close and as far as Pennsylvania to run Swamp House 5K and half marathon events. And for the first time, I rang the PR bell. It was a fun moment for me and for Kurt too. He has been my witness in seeing how hard I've been working to become a faster and a more efficient runner. My happiness becomes his happiness and he had a blast. It is a pleasure to always put a race medal around his neck. And this time he too was part of ringing the PR bell.
May many more occasions like this happen in the near future.
"Never Give Up. Great things takes time."
~Dhiren Prajapati


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Rick Hatch Custom Detail
This gem needed much help to bring her back to her glory days. There were some nay sayers circling around Race Day as to what we can do for her to bring her back from traveling in the most harshest conditions to a show room shine. Let us just say they are strong Race Day fans now!
Below are the results:
Package used:
Ceramic shielding to protect the bike from reoccurring wear and tear. (Call to schedule)
Ceramic coating on the engine to reduce heat buildup and prevent any grease/grime accumulation (Call to schedule)
Here are the results:
After our 2 step cyclo-polishing, which includes clay bar and iron decontamination, you will see that the scratches and oxidation are completely gone revealing the bikes' true beauty and original sparkling paint job. The bike was later encased in a ceramic shell to protect it from every dulling out and being victim to the elements!


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7 Unbelievable Health Benefits of Asparagus
March 6, 2017 by Shaun
Filed under The Fitness Bug
Asparagus, the member of lily family is the wonderful blend of health, texture, and taste. Arrival of spring brings along this wonderful gift called asparagus that is nutrition packed for unbelievable health benefits. Local markets flock up with crunchy asparagus on advent of spring. It slowly becomes the part of every kitchen due to its versatile nature that makes it good for any dish. This amazing spring vegetable is native to western Asia, northern Africa, and Europe. There are many exotic ways to use asparagus in scrumptious meals, but one thing that always remains the same is its health quotient. Some of the amazing health benefits of this spring vegetable that can positively affect your health are –
1. Rich in folic acid
Folic acid is essential to human body, especially when it is under the growth stage. Expecting mothers are prescribed folic acid to ensure proper growth of nerves and brain of fetus. Asparagus is found to be rich source of folic acid and one single asparagus will amount to 70% of your daily folic acid requirement. One can put asparagus to soups, salads, or simply juice it up to meet the daily folic acid target.
2. Accelerates digestion
It promotes the growth of healthy gut bacteria in intestine, which further slows down the growth of unfriendly bacteria. The stomach and intestinal health is boosted to accelerate the process of digestion while absorbing all vital nutrients from the food one eats.
3. Regularize bowel movements
Asparagus can be taken to regularize bowel movement due to mild laxative properties that it possess. It can be included in daily meals to fight constipation, acid reflux, and heaviness in stomach. The fibers in this vegetable are good for flushing out toxins from your body effectively.
4. Prevents cancer to certain extent
The lily family vegetable contains anti-oxidants that would prevent cancers of many types. There are studies supporting the cancer preventing properties of asparagus, which suggest that asparagus extract is capable of altering the structure of cancerous cells to prevent the harmful effects.
5. Boosts your brain
Brain activity slows down with aging, but regular consumption of asparagus would make your brain fight out the cognitive decline effectively. It contains folate required for healthy brain functioning. When asparagus is used with B12 rich foods like meat, poultry, fish, dairy, and other such foods then they together work for brain flexibility making your brain alert.
6. Natural diuretic
Amino acid called asparagine present in asparagus makes this spring veggie work as natural diuretic. It is good source of potassium too that helps in lowering the sodium effect in the body. Asparagus has very low sodium content. Juice of asparagus can be recommended in conditions like kidney stone and other urine irregularities as it works as an effective diuretic.
7. Loaded with vitamins and minerals
Anti-oxidant rich vegetable contains all that you need to be healthy. It is superb source of various vitamins like vitamin E, A, C, and K. Vitamin A in asparagus keeps your night vision sharp and vitamin C boosts your immunity. Vitamin E keeps your skin and hair healthy for most desired youthful look. Apart from these vital vitamins, it also contains minerals like iron, potassium, manganese, and folate that are important for healthy functioning of body.
Asparagus is health rich but more interesting fact about this spring surprise is that it can be used in different ways to prepare most exotic recipes. You can roast it, bake it, add it to soups and salads, or just juice it up for amazing health benefits that you always wanted. For extra benefits, club it with other healthy ingredients for wholesome diet.
Author Bio: Karishma is into writing profession and have written on various subjects till date. Though her profession wants her to write on various genres, she prefers to write on health care out of her passion for this subject. She has contributed her work for Turmeric Curcumin Shop and many more.


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|Loa of the Sea
|Venerated in
|Haitian Vodou, Folk Catholicism
|Shells, fish, blue, white, green, brown, oars, boats, mirrors,telescope, fish hooks, net, sailors'iform
|Sea, river, fishermen, sailors, sea captains, pirates, Thursday, ships, boats, wind, waves, sea travelers
Agwé (also spelt Goue, Agoueh, or Agive), is a loa who rules over the sea, fish, and aquatic plants, as well as the patron loa of fishermen and sailors in Vodou, especially in Haiti. He is considered to be married to Erzulie Freda and La Sirene. He goes by several titles, including koki la me ("Shell of the Sea"), koki dore ("Golden Shell"), "The Angel in the Mirror", "The Eel", and "The Tadpole in the Pond".[1]
Agwe Family[edit]
Met Agwe is the loa of direction. His territory is the winds and the currents, waves and depths of the oceans. He helps sailors find their bearings when lost at sea. He provides inspiration and guidance whenever an individual needs them in times of turmoil, loss, or indecision. He lives in a glorious palace under the seas. Patron of sailors, sea travelers, and pirates. ("Master Agwe")
Agwe Arroyo or Agwe Tawoyo/Agwe 'Woyo ("Agwe of the Streams") is captain of Immamou, the ship that carries the dead to Guinee, the afterlife. He cries salt-water tears for the departed. He assisted the souls of those that suffered crimes against humanity during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Papa Agwe is envisioned as a handsome African man with green eyes, sometimes lighter skin, often wearing a naval officer's or sailor's uniform. He is considered to be a gentleman who commands respect and embodies several ideals of masculinity including bravery, reserve, and provision.
Agwe Flambeau ("Agwe of the Torch") is from a realm of boiling water, like a hot springs or an underwater volcanic eruption. He is appealed to give rivals bad luck in fishing or sailing. He is also invoked to avoid or remove bad luck at sea, to avoid sinking or drowning, or to stop or prevent rough seas and bad storms.
Agwe Ge-Rouge ("Agwe of the Red Eyes")
His colors are blue, white, and occasionally sea-green or brown. His veve (ritual symbol) is a boat with sails. His symbols are painted shells, painted oars, and sea life like the seahorse and starfish. He is syncretized with the Catholic saint Ulrich of Augsburg and occasionally the archangel Raphael, both of whom are depicted holding fish. His holy day is Thursday.
He is saluted or signaled with blowing on a conch shell and/or volleys of gunfire. When he possesses a devotee he often pushes himself around the temple on a chair (his boat) with a cane (his oar), shouting naval commands and saluting members of the congregation. His chevals ("horses" or possessed devotees) need to be kept moist with wet sponges or damp towels and have to be kept from running into the sea, where Agwe belongs.
Small offerings to Agwe are poured or dropped overboard in deep ocean water. Large offerings to Agwe are left on constructed rafts (barques d'Agwe) which are floated or towed out to sea. If the raft sinks, it is accepted; if it returns to shore it is rejected. After the offering is left, the supplicants cannot look back at that place or it will anger Agwe. Chevals must be prevented from falling or leaping into the sea and drowning, as it would offend Agwe. Nothing toxic (lead pipes, cement bags, garbage) must be used to weigh down the raft; if it will hurt or pollute the sea, it will anger Agwe.
His offerings include:
- Beverages: champagne, naval rum, or anisette. Coffee with sugar and cream.
- Items: mirrors, a telescope, toy ships or scale ship models, oars or paddles, sea shells, turquoise beads or jewelry, fish-shaped sculptures or jewelry, fish hooks and nets, nautical uniforms or medals.
- Food: Savory exotic foods, melon, boiled cornmeal, rice cooked in coconut milk, rice cooked with lima beans, boiled or fried ripe bananas, white cake, cane syrup, almond oil, olive oil.
- Sacrificial Animals: White roosters, male ducks, and white rams or goats whose wool has been dyed with indigo. They are afterwards prepared, cooked, and then placed in serving dishes or on plates as a sacrifice (as king of the seas, he doesn't get hot food at home).
He is rarely offered seafood. If it is offered (perhaps to celebrate a bountiful year, good fortune, or a joyous occasion) it must be prepared and then cooked in a pan or oven. Then (to be fit for the table of the king of the sea) it must be served on a white china dish with blue patterns.
See also[edit]
Agwe's ship is crewed by other Loa as well:
- Agassou, Papa Agwe's first lieutenant, shown in the form of a crab.
- Silibo, the patron of the sacred baths.
- Oya-Iansan, the loa of strong winds and stormy weather. She is also a petro warrior loa as Ogou Yamsan - one of the Ogoun Family - a riotous sailor or marine who revels in stormy sailing and war at sea.
- Ogou Balendjo, Ogou in his aspect of the healer.
At Agwe's ceremonies, they arrive first to make sure the place is fit for "The Admiral".
Pop Culture[edit]
Agwe is also a character in the musical Once on This Island as the god of water. A recent appearance of Agwé on stage was Once On This Island where he was one of the four gods: Asaka (Azaka) mother of Earth, Agwé god of water, Erzulie goddess of love and Papa Gé (Papa Ghede) demon of death.


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