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The best hawker stalls in Penang only locals know about
Hawker-food hunting is a real sport in Penang. Ditch the tourist spots and check out the top five hawker centres locals swear by.
- January 2019
Penang opens in new window is a famous foodie destination so it doesn't take much effort to find delicious street food. There are some famous stalls where you're sure to find throngs of tourists queuing for a taste but Penang-born food blogger Ng Sock Peng opens in new window knows where the locals go. Here are the five food spots to hunt down.
1. Bayan Baru Market Complex
Its close location to industrial area Bayan Lepas means you get hearty dishes at affordable prices. Make a beeline for Sri Indian Food and struggle picking from the staggering selection of 30-plus dishes, including hot favourites like mutton curry. Just be warned: the food usually sells out by 3pm and the queues are unrelenting during lunch hour.
Bandar Bayan Baru, 11900 Bayan Lepas
2. Perak Road Market
Sock Peng swears by the curry rice stall that's been at this market for over 30 years. Locals lovingly refer to it as ginna (Hokkien for "kid") rice — the curry is more sweet than spicy and many long-time residents have fond childhood memories of eating from this stall. The prawn noodles next to the curry rice stall are also highly recommended — the broth delivers a serious umami punch.
Jalan Pasar, 11600 Jelutong
3. Chai Leng Park
With hawker stalls lined along the street for over one kilometre, this is a popular supper joint. According to Sock Peng, New Corner Lok Lok is the most famous food stall here. The concept is simple — pick as many skewers of ingredients as you like (try the deep-fried octopus), cook them in the communal pot of boiling clear broth at every table and enjoy with any of the eight homemade sauces the stall is famous for.
Jalan Kurau, 13700 Butterworth
4. Pek Kong Cheng Hawker Centre
This hawker centre packs many hits, so head there hungry. There's Pek Kong Cheng Wan Tan Mee, where the noodles are handmade by the stall owner and the sauce is enriched with a robust pork stock. For more adventurous foodies, Famous Duck Meat Koay Chiap — a dish of soy-braised duck meat and offal with chewy rice noodles in a combination of broth and rich gravy made from the braising liquid — is a must-try. If you still have room, add on the bee tai bak (short rice noodles) in pork broth. "Be sure to throw spoonfuls of the homemade chilli sauce into the soup," suggests Sock Peng.
Jalan Pasar, 14000 Bukit Mertajam
5. Sungai Pinang Food Court
The clear front-runner of this food complex is Ong Swee Hoe Duck Drumstick Noodle. Regarded as one of the best versions of this uniquely Penang dish, the double-boiled herbal soup that's sweetened with wolfberries and dried red dates helps to take out the gamey flavours of the duck drumstick. Served with silky mee sua (thin wheat noodles), it's a nourishing bowl of food worth sitting in the heat and sweating it out for.
Jalan Sungai Pinang, 11600 George Town


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New Initiative to Support People in the Community
Emergency Contact Card
Knowing where you can turn for help is an important issue and one that many people, particularly expats face day after day. We at Help Vega Baja decided that we would do something to try to alleviate this problem and recently introduced an Emergency Contact Card ( in both English and Spanish ) providing valuable information of where support may be available. This full-page card comes already folded to the size of a credit card and therefore fits very easily into a purse or gents wallet.
On one side of the card details of charities are listed together with other useful telephone numbers, including hospitals, police etc. On the reverse, there is
space for the holder to put as much personal information as they wish. There are boxes for medical conditions, contact information in the event of an accident, allergies, medication and much more - even details of any pets that may be at home alone!
The card is aimed to provide, for example, emergency services details should the holder be taken to A & E and unable to communicate. We have gained permission to have the cards available at GP surgeries in the area, chemists, town halls and many other outlets have already started to take them in to offer to clients. Certain areas of the police are now aware of the leaflets including the N332 group who have also kindly agreed to circulate them in their talks around the area. We also aim to speak shortly with the ambulance service, again to raise awareness. This way we can ensure that we have the best chance of people knowing about the card should someone be involved in an accodent or perhaps simply found wandering the streets.
The leaflets are available from the Charitys San Miguel Centreif you would like to come along to collectone, or if you would like to take a supply to distribute to perhaps a group that you are involved with.
The most important thing is for people to ensure they fill them in.They will only be of help if you fill in the details and carry it with you at all times. There is a copy available on this website that can be printed off plus details of the outlets that have them in stock. If you are interested in having a supply please call us .
Outlets where you can collect your card:
Route 66 Benejofar
Manhattan CaboRoig
Chiefs La Marina
Jilly's Bar Torrevieja
Glens Den Campoverde
The Pub La Marina
Sams Bar La Marina
Glens Bar San Luis
Coffe del Mar Playa Flamenca
The Queen Victoria Pub Cabo Roig
News 4u La Marina
The Angel Sports Bar La Marina
The Loung La Marina
The Hogs Head La Marina
The Winchester Villsmartin
Final Whistle La Marina
Mulberrys La Marina
Twilights Bar La Marina
Frikadellen Bar Cuidad Quesada
Johnsons Supermarket La Marina
Edinas Bar Doña Pepa
Little Don Carlos El Raso
Spice Hut Cuidad Quesada
The Big Eat Cafe La Marina
La Marina Spots Complex
Woodstock Bar La Marina
Yorkshire Linen La Marina
The watering Hole Benjofar
Playa 1 La Marina
Bus stop La Marina
Diamond Flores Cuidad Quesada
Quesdad Fish and Chips Cuidad Quesada
Halfway House Cuidad Quesada
Harrys Bar Cuidad Quesada
Jollys Bar Cuidad Quesada
The old 9th Bar Rojales
El Pirata Bar Rojales

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Marquis Jet Card
So you just sold your company to Google and now you're sitting on this mountain of money wondering what you could possibly treat yourself to this Christmas. We know just the thing, The Marquis Jet Card is a prepaid card that starts at $115,900 for a total of 25 hours of use of airtime via NetJets fleet of 600 private aircraft. [$115,900]


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Telling the Library Story
Archive and related resources for a webinar presented on August 23 by Jamie LaRue which focuses on turning the evidence of our daily patron encounters into short, compelling, and memorable messages that build support.
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Learn how to tell a succinct, powerful story about the value of libraries. Based on OCLC's "From Awareness to Funding" and the latest findings of brain research, this session focuses on turning the evidence of our daily patron encounters into short, compelling, and memorable messages that build support.
Presented by: Jamie LaRue, director, Douglas County Libraries (CO), blogger, and chair of committee who created The Big Hairy Audacious Goal, a public library advocacy initiative.
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- How We Decide, by Jonathan Lehrer
- My Stroke of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor
- Being Wrong, by Kathryn Schulz
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Kyosho MP9 TKI3 parts
Kyosho America announce the release of new option parts for the MP9 buggy. Seen for the first time at last weekend's Neo Race the parts mainly include a new battery box that replace the standard carbon mount, a new receiver box, updated transponder mount, redesigned radio plate with interlocking servo mount brackets, redesigned side pods, a new and harder shock tower as well as new universal shafts. The parts will become available very soon.
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International Chair - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
The European court of Human Rights ordered France to withdraw fluids from Vincent Lambert, a 38 year-old man with cognitive disabilities.
The case came about when Lambert's wife wanted her husband to have his fluids withdrawn to cause his death while his parents wanted to continue caring for him.
The Telegraph newspaper reported that Lambert's wife stated after the Strasbourg court decision that withdrawing fluids will fulfill her husbands wishes while Lambert's mother, Viviane stated:
"It's scandalous. They are condemning my son. We will remain by Vincent's side and will continue to fight,"
|Vincent Lambert's mother
The decision of the European court of Human Rights is considered a precedent case in all of the 47 European states.


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IBC2016: SES, Fraunhofer Debut VR Over Satellite
AMSTERDAM—Berlin-based telecommunications research institute Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI and satellite services provider SES used the IBC show to debut the transmission of virtual reality content over satellite to multiple devices.
The 10K by 2K panoramic video signal is showing up at SES' booth at the conference where it's being relayed directly to an Ultra High Def (UHD) TV and VR head-sets for attendees. Viewers can choose to watch the content in multiple viewing angles, zoom in and out, and change the picture via remote.
The VR images were filmed using Fraunhofer HHI's OmniCam-360 camera and are being transmitted via SES' ASTRA 19.2 degrees east orbital position satellite.
"We use a combination of technologies here exactly to showcase what is possible when using hybrid approaches," said Dr. Ralf Schäfer, Fraunhofer HHI's head of division video, in a statement. "There is no stadium in the world providing enough seats for all enthusiastic fans. So imagine a live event somewhere in the world — filmed with professional cameras like our OmniCam-360 and then delivered to a huge global audience via satellite. And every single viewer at home has the best seat in the middle of the show."
Thomas Wrede, VP of reception systems for SES, added: "Satellites are the perfect distribution path for these new kinds of video experiences, as they can manage huge volumes of data being offloaded from terrestrial networks. Furthermore, technology standards like SAT>IP not only allow the viewers at home to pick and choose a device - the TV screen, tablet or virtual reality equipment."
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Sometimes, the reply isn't any. Going through the train might help you make these selections sooner — before you waste too much time on "alternatives" that really aren't. One of an important elements when evaluating a business alternative is market dimension.
Their gross sales efforts, reflecting the range of buyer segments, endure from fragmentation across totally different business items. Public-sector buyers often have slow, exacting procurement processes. Corporate buyers of recent water services typically need not simply elements but in addition built-in options for managing water in manufacturing processes—requiring significant levels of area of interest-sector expertise from sellers. Highly fragmented … Read More


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For the 15th and final time, Jack Morris has fallen short of baseball immortality.
Morris, the St. Paul native and 1991 Twins World Series hero, received 61.5 percent of this year's vote from the Baseball Writers' Association of America. That was more than 6 percent lower than last year and left the durable right-hander well shy of the 75 percent needed for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Three players were elected in voting announced Wednesday afternoon: former Atlanta Braves pitchers Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine and former Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas. Craig Biggio (74.8 percent, two votes short of election) and Mike Piazza (62.2 percent) also outpolled Morris.
"Very, very disappointed," former Twins manager Tom Kelly said. "I don't know what else to say. As we've said over the years, you can't say enough about Jack and what he's done for the game of baseball. He won so many games. He was one of the most dominant pitchers of his era. I just have a hard time accepting it."
Morris, 58, joins former Brooklyn Dodgers great Gil Hodges as the only players no longer on the ballot to cross the 50 percent voting threshold without eventually being honored.
Winner of 254 games in his 18 major league seasons, Morris was attempting to become the third inductee to gain the honor on his 15th and final attempt.
Jim Rice (2009) and Red Ruffing (1967) remain the only final-ballot inductees. Morris' career 3.90 earned-run average would have supplanted Ruffing's 3.80 as the highest for any pitcher enshrined.
Morris, the former Highland Park High School standout and ex-St. Paul Saint, fell 42 votes short a year ago, when he garnered 67.7 percent of the BBWAA vote. Only Biggio, the former Houston Astros star, received a higher percentage (68.2) as the writers failed to send anyone to Cooperstown for the first time since 1996.
Kelly, who managed Morris in 1991 and managed against him for almost a decade, said the honor was "well deserved" for this year's class, but he was hoping for at least one more member.
"It's a tough wall to break through, and I don't really understand sometimes what you have to do to get through that wall," Kelly said. "I know he's a hall of famer in my book and I know in a lot of other people's. When I think of him, I think of Hall of Fame pitchers."
Morris' support had steadily climbed over the years from a low of 19.6 percent in 2001, his second year on the ballot, to 66.7 percent in 2012 and last year's even closer call. He didn't cross the 50 percent mark until 2010, but his candidacy seemed to be gathering momentum as the almost 600 voting members of the BBWAA sought to put his long, productive career in perspective.
Before this year, BBWAA voters had elected just one career-long starting pitcher over the previous 14 voting cycles: Twins TV analyst Bert Blyleven in 2011. Blyleven won 287 career games, 149 of them with the Twins.
Morris spent just one season pitching for his hometown team, but it was unforgettable. He went 18-12 with a 3.43 ERA and went the distance in a 10-inning, 1-0 victory over the Braves in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.
Morris, who was working on three days' rest in his seven-hit shutout in Game 7, went 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA in three starts in the '91 World Series before opting out of his contact to sign with Toronto during the offseason.
He went 7-4 with a 3.80 ERA in 13 career postseason starts, helping the 1984 Detroit Tigers and 1992 Toronto Blue Jays win championships, as well. Morris also made 27 starts for the '93 Blue Jays, who repeated as World Series winners, but he didn't appear in the postseason.
Despite Wednesday's disappointment, Morris still could gain admission via the expansion-era committee, which covers 1973 to the present. However, that body — which includes Twins special assistants Rod Carew and Paul Molitor, former Twins general manager Andy MacPhail and Blue Jays President/CEO Paul Beeston — won't convene again for another three years after giving the nod to a trio of former managers last month: Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox and Joe Torre.
"There are other avenues," Kelly said. "This is obviously the first one that's coming towards us, but I'm confident it's going to happen for him. In my mind, whether it's the veterans' committee or what other avenues there are, he'll definitely get in that way. Hopefully it all works out for him."
The Class of 2014 will be enshrined July 27 in Cooperstown.
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I Can Make A Mess – Enola
I Can Make A Mess
With four Early November albums, two as Ace Enders & A Million Different People, plus the three previous releases from I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, Ace Enders has earned his stripes as a talented and diverse songwriter. Enola continues that diversity, as the album gets off to a subdued start, at times sounding more indie folk than pop-rock. ("Adaption Cell" sounds straight off an Iron & Wine album.) Even when the instruments are more prominent (the chorus of "Wrinkle"), the arrangements are fairly simple, allowing Enders' voice to carry through. Things pick up with "Listen Lesson/Keep Away" which sees Enders reaching for a higher octave while giving his music a new, but surprisingly fitting infusion of electronics. The strongest track is "Lions," which alternates between quiet acoustic verses and quick-paced choruses complete with strings. The one criticism of Enola is its lack of cohesiveness. Often it sounds like Enders had enough ideas to make three albums, but instead he threw them all on one. Enders' gift—and possibly his curse—is that he never wants to get too comfortable with his music. Fortunately on Enola, he succeeds more often than not.
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9 Best Places to Go Shopping in the Civic District
Although diminutive in size, Singapore's Civic District presents plenty of shopping options. From quaint boutiques selling locally designed garments to huge mega-malls, this is one of Singapore's dark horses when it comes to shopping. The Civic District is famed for being the centre for all things historical, and the numerous museums, parks and old-age memorials … Read more


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OK, we all see people around who are "suspended" or "banned". Suspended is pretty self-explanatory. They will be back (or will have the ability to be back) again at some point in the future. But, is banned the same way or is someone who has been "banned" gone forever and ever?
And without identifying any specific person, what types of activities/posts would cause a person to be banned rather than suspended---assuming there is in fact a difference between the two.
This is just something I have been curious about and have never seen discussed.


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Monitoring Weather for Parasailing
The growth of parasailing as an amusement activity has led to calls for standardization. A new ASTM subcommittee, F24.65 on Parasailing, will be developing standards for operations, crew proficiency and equipment. F24.65 is under the jurisdiction of ASTM International Committee F24 on Amusement Rides and Devices
Because weather, particularly gusty wind, has been a variable in parasailing accidents, the first standard developed by F24.65 is F2993, Guide for Monitoring Weather Conditions for Safe Parasail Operation.
"This new standard is a huge step in the right direction to keep parasail operators alert and to monitor weather in a proper fashion," says Larry Meddock, executive director, Water Sports Industry Association, and an F24 member. "F2993 may be the tipping point to ensure safe parasail operations and operators throughout the world."
According to Meddock, insurance companies and the U.S. Coast Guard will be essential in enforcing compliance to F2993 by parasail operators. Both have been very involved in the development of the new standard.
"Once the insurance industry is aware of F2993, companies will most likely adjust their policies to reference the standard," says Meddock. "If there is an accident, an investigator will look to see if the operator was following F2993."
Regarding the Coast Guard, Meddock notes that parasail boats must have a licensed captain to take people out in a boat for hire. If the captain goes out in weather conditions not in conformance with the standard, the captain's license could be in jeopardy.
All interested parties are invited to join Subcommittee F24.65 in its work.
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–Lahore's Metro Bus & Orange Line Train, Karachi's Green Line, BRT of Peshawar to come under scanner
–Assets Recovery Unit on top agenda in PM Khan-led cabinet meeting
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet is all set to give a nod to a special audit of all mass transit systems, including those installed by the outgoing government of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and it is highly likely that the task may be given to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
The cabinet, scheduled to meet here at Prime Minister's Office with Imran Khan in the chair, was likely to take up a nine-point heavy agenda on Wednesday afternoon.
Documents available with Pakistan Today suggest that the special forensic audit of all mega transport projects was aimed at determining the level of finances and subsidies involved in those projects, including Orange Line Metro Train and metro buses of Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi-Islamabad. Finance Minister Asad Umar would brief the meeting over the issue.
Interestingly, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) plans to conduct audit of Green Line Bus Rapid Transit project in Karachi and the Peshawar's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), which was executed by the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The Cabinet is also set to be given a detailed briefing by Barrister Shahzad Akbar, the head of Assets Recovery Unit, regarding an update on the efforts carried out to recover the assets stolen from Pakistan and kept in offshore banks and properties abroad. The Cabinet Division is dealing with the matter.
According to the documents, the Cabinet Division has recommended the establishment of an Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) at the PM Office to ensure inter-departmental coordination in achieving the desired objectives.
The document says that the legal framework provided by existing anti-graft laws would be enough to help retrieve the hidden assets abroad while the tax-related issues would be dealt by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the enforcement of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreement would make it difficult to hide assets abroad.
According to the Terms of Reference (ToRs), any government department would be bound to provide information to the ARU within seven working days of making the request.
The ARU through the law-enforcement agency (LEA) or any relevant department may seek such assistance and information including but not limited to bank accounts, records of companies, revenue records, travel record or data from the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA).
It may also acquire any other information as it may deem necessary from any bank, department or agency of the federal or provincial governments or any other organisation operating within Pakistan.
The ARU has been proposed to include senior officer from the FIA, National Accountability Bureau (NAB), FBR, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), two experts from private sector with expertise of forensic accounting, anti-money laundering, international criminal laws and transnational legal systems and any other officer/agency/firm or individual if so required by the unit.
The unit may request any intelligent agency under the government of Pakistan for its assistance in obtaining any information on any subject within or outside the country.
The ARU will gather existing cases, inquiries and investigations involving unlawful assets abroad from all relevant LEAs. It may initiate legal proceedings domestically or abroad through relevant departments.
The ARU may seek help or assistance of foreign government/firms/lawyers or individuals for tracing out unlawful assets from abroad.
The ARU may refer any of the foreign assets/properties/bank accounts of Pakistani citizens or legal person with suspicion of money laundering or assets falling under suspicion as proceed of crime, to the relevant agency – NAB or the FIA – for expedient action according to law.
The unit will report on its performance to the prime minister through its chairman on fortnightly basis.
The cabinet would also approve a summary seeking abolition of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD). Secretary Cabinet Division would brief the Cabinet Meeting.
Transfer of health-related assets and setups from Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration to Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination by Ministry of Interior would also be placed before the meeting. Constitution of a Task Force to streamline the regulatory regime at implementation level would also be submitted for approval by Minister for Interior Shehryar Khan Afridi.
The Cabinet would also pick one of the three nominees for appointment as Board of Investment (BoI) chairman. The cabinet would also take up another lingering issue of approval to an amendment in rule 12(I) (a) (ii) of Pakistan Navy rules 961. The Defence Division would submit the proposal.
The cabinet would also approve the pending Income Tax Amendment Ordinance in pursuance of Supreme Court's decision in CM No 6155 of 2018 in CP No 57 of 2016 to be submitted by Revenue Division.
Ratification of the decisions taken by the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet in its meeting held on Sep 10, 2018, would also be presented for approval. Secretary Cabinet Division would brief the cabinet over the issue.


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Why is there blood suddenly dripping onto the pipes that I just cut for the roof-canopy frame?
Oh. Yeah. The little chunk of not-quite-cut pipe I just tapped off the end of the length I cut. Sharp metal. Duh.
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Australia's high household debt could complicate rate decisions: central bank By Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) – High household debt in Australia could make the economy less resilient to shocks and complicate future interest rate decisions, the country's central bank said on Friday.
A long boom in Australia's housing market that ended in 2017 had sent the household debt to income ratio to all-time highs, prompting regulators to tighten bank lending standards which in-turn led to home prices crumbling.
The recent property downturn together with miserly wage growth have squeezed household balance sheets and hurt consumer spending, a major reason why the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates twice since June to a record low of 1%.
"Movements in asset values and leverage may be more important for economic developments than in the past given the already high levels of debt on household balance sheets," the RBA said in its 2019/20 corporate plan.
The household debt to income ratio is above 190%, among the highest in the developed world.
"Especially in the context of weak growth in household income, high debt levels could complicate future monetary policy decisions by making the economy less resilient to shocks," it added.
The RBA noted Australia's financial system was currently resilient, supported by strong earnings at the country's biggest banks and higher regulatory capital ratios.
It was "continuing to closely monitor" developments in residential mortgage lending and the risks arising from the high level of household indebtedness, the RBA added.
Home prices are now showing early signs of revival thanks to the rate cuts and government tax rebates to millions of Australians.
The RBA said regulators "stand ready to consider further measures" to address any risks in the system.
The RBA also reiterated that a flexible medium-term inflation target was the "centerpiece" of its monetary policy framework. There had been calls for the RBA to lower the target given inflation has been running stubbornly below 2% for the last few years.
Last month, Governor Philip Lowe pushed back against the idea that central banks simply cannot achieve their inflation targets, saying policymakers were seeking to deliver "low and stable" inflation in a way that maximizes the welfare of the society.
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Below you will find the instruction manual for the Doepke Jaguar. This is a scan of an original document. (Doepek nr 2018)
These are the best scans I have available for the moment. If you have an original one, please provide me with some good scans if possible. Or make me a proposal for the original document.


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My Bank,Our Bank
''Adwumapa Dwetiri'' Credit and Savings – the Bank's Flagship Product.
– Source of Funding: – South Akim Rural Bank Ltd.
– Targeted clients: – Women groups in sustainable trade and other income generating activities.
– Basic Requirements: Meeting the general eligibility criteria.
– Savings deposits: According to total savings as at the time of appraisal. Minimum of GHC1.00
– Equity requirement: Group Solidarity
– Interest Rate: 3% per month or any other rate approved from time to time.
– No COT charges
– Loan Duration: – Four (4) months to six (6) months.


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Muller Greek-style low fat yoghurt took first place this week as the most-recalled ad by consumers. Its ad promoting the light dessert Bliss range is part of a £5m brand-wide spend which will run through until December.
Brand: Muller Greek-style low fat yoghurt
Agency/TV Buyer: VCCP/MediaCom
Recall: 53%
Brand: Aviva
Agency/TV Buyer: Abbott Mead Vickers /Zenith Optimediar
Recall: 35%
Brand: Argos
Agency/TV Buyer: CHI & Partners/Mindshare
Recall: 35%
Brand: Aldi
Agency/TV Buyer: McCann Manchester/UM Manchester
Recall: 33%
Brand: Suzuki Swift
Agency/TV Buyer: The Red Brick Road/The7Stars
Recall: 31%
Brand: Walkers Market Deli savoury snacks range
Agency/TV Buyer: Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO/OMD UK
Recall: 29%
Brand: BT Sport
Agency/TV Buyer: Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO/Maxus
Recall: 29%
Brand: Asda
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Coronavirus vaccine: UK mustn't take 'foot off the pedal' says GP
Many countries are currently battling a third wave of coronavirus thanks to highly transmissible mutations. The UK's strain – B 1.1.7 – is up to 70 percent more transmissible than the previous strain and is thought to be behind the current surge in cases. Fears are also growing about the strains that have hatched out of South Africa and Brazil.
Now a new variant discovered in California is expected to become the dominant strain in the U.S.
Known as L452R, it was first detected in Denmark in March and appeared in California in May, reported The New York Times.
In December, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, sequenced genomes of coronavirus gathered around the state and found that the variant was present in just 3.8 percent of their samples.
By January, it had jumped to 25.2 percent.
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The findings do not necessarily suggest that the new strain is any more contagious than the previous mutation.
As Charles Chiu, who led the sequencing, explained, he and his colleagues worked with a small sample size, so they have not yet proven that this variant is more contagious.
"But there are worrisome signs that this variant may be highly transmissible," he said to the New York Times.
As of Monday, the new variant has been identified in Lake, Los Angeles, Mono, Monterey, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, Dan Diego, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo counties.
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"This virus continues to mutate and adapt, and we cannot let down our guard," said Dr Sara Cody, director of the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department, in a statement.
Following the development, Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, issued a warning to fellow Americans.
He said the variant should act as a 'clarion call' for Americans to get vaccinated.
Anti-vaccine sentiment is strong in America.
A recent survey, conducted by the polling company YouGov and shared exclusively with Reuters, found that less than half of Americans surveyed said they would be willing to have a COVID-19 vaccine, a figure that has remained broadly stable since July.
This compared with 73 percent of people in Britain and 70 percent in Denmark.
What we know so far about the UK variant
Data from whole genome sequencing, epidemiology and modelling suggest the new variant transmits more easily than other variants.
There is currently no evidence that the variant is more likely to cause severe disease or mortality – but we are continuing investigations to understand this better.
What are the main symptoms of coronavirus?
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
- A high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
- A new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or three or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
- A loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal.
- According to the NHS, most people with coronavirus have at least one of these symptoms.
If you have any of the main symptoms of coronavirus, get a test to check if you have coronavirus as soon as possible.
You and anyone you live with should stay at home and not have visitors until you get your test result – only leave your home to have a test.
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11 Takeaways From a Cross-Country Tour of College Football's Media Days
Over the past three-plus weeks, I attended four of the Power 5 conference media days, starting at the SEC in Hoover, Ala., before visits to the Big 12 in Frisco, Texas, the Big Ten in Chicago and then the Pac-12 in L.A. There was a lot of interesting stuff mixed in as we all gear up for the 2017 season. The following are some of the things that resonated with me from what I'd heard and saw this month.
1. David Blough's speech: I've known Blough since he was a high school quarterback in Texas. I interviewed probably nine or ten dozen quarterbacks—in various stages of their careers—for my book The QB. None were more impressive than Blough was: He's far from the biggest quarterback, but his character and his maturity—especially for a high schooler at the time—stood out. Folks in Big Ten country learned that last week when the Purdue QB had the honor of being the featured speaker at the Big Ten's annual Kickoff Luncheon, which is attended by all of the league's head coaches, athletic directors, star players and another 1,000 or so fans and dignitaries.
Blough's five-minute speech ranged from his five trips with his classmates to South Africa to his Big Ten–leading 21 interceptions in 2016, but more than anything it wove together the virtues of football through its bond of diversity, love and understanding that culminated with a standing ovation.
"To me, what makes football the greatest game in the world, is that it teaches us to love one another," Blough said. "A college football locker room consists of roughly 105 members. Black, white, Hispanic and Asian. Rich, poor and from the middle class. Christian, Muslim, Jew and atheist. We've had players from Sweden; Compton, California; Miami, Florida; Paris; right here in Chicago, Illinois; small town Indiana and just about everywhere in between. We even have players who affiliate with different political parties. And you know what? That's the beauty of life.
"On this stage with me are 14 of the finest football coaches in the country, who come from 10 different states and were born over the course of four decades. Each with a number of experiences that have placed them in the seats they are in today. Each, the leader of a team as diverse as any organization the United States has to offer.
"In this room, there are fans that bleed blue, despise The Team Up North. Others that say 'On Wisconsin' or 'Go Hawkeyes,' all brought together by football. I believe football teaches life to those who play it. However, it doesn't have to stop there. Our country could learn from football because diversity is also what makes the United States special, there should be unity rather than division. Football taught me that it starts with looking past the differences of the people around you, and loving them for who they are. That's the beauty of life."
Blough told me he wrote a rough draft in four or five hours over two nights that was the byproduct of, among other things, a lot of conversations with the chaplain at Purdue, and the Boilermakers' new coach of player development. "After I wrote the rough draft, I shared it with people who I really respect—a couple pastors, coaches, mom, girlfriend," he said. "They helped with wording a couple of changes."
Oh, and Blough delivered the whole thing without a teleprompter or notes. He didn't set out to memorize the whole thing, but simply through practice and having typed every word he started remembering it. "One of the Purdue video guys taped me and I watched that a ton," he says. "By saying it and reading it, I think it just became memorized. I messed up the first sentence on the stage trying to read it, so I just went without it."
2. Derrius Guice's energy: This year's media days often felt like they were almost about who wasn't there as much as who was. There was no Saquon Barkley or Luke Falk or Josh Rosen or Jalen Hurts, but LSU brought its stud tailback and his mega-watt personality. SEC Media Days is the biggest whirlwind setup of any of these gatherings, with players and coaches being shuttled from room to room, often with a backpedaling cadre of cameramen in tow. Guice was amped for all of it. More memorable than any sound bite was watching him goof around for live TV news-show teases back in his native Louisiana at the end of a loooooong day. Guice seemed as fresh as he did six hours earlier, before the whole gauntlet began.
3. Joel Lanning's selflessness: It's rare to see two-way players in major college football these days. It's even rarer when the combination is a middle linebacker/quarterback, but Lanning is pretty special. The 6' 2", 230-pounder was Iowa State's starting QB for most of the 2016 season, but he welcomed the chance to become the team's starting middle 'backer after the coaching staff suggested the move in order to make the team better. Lanning will still see some action at QB in certain situations.
"He is a really talented football player," ISU head coach Matt Campbell says. "He's exactly what you want in your program. He's the reason why we made the improvement we had last year, just because of his toughness and his will. He's special, a really unique kid.
"This has the potential to be a really neat story."
Iowa State's bold plan to turn its starting quarterback into a starting linebacker
4. Nick Saban's new motto: Losing the national title game to Clemson obviously didn't sit well with Saban, and the way he's using that defeat is probably on its way to becoming a coaching motto around the sports world. Saban repeatedly said, "I don't wanna waste the failure," referencing the lessons he hopes his program has learned from the loss as well as the lack of accountability that he feels led to it. That should be a scary thought for other SEC programs—so is Saban noting that this is the first time Alabama has had a returning starter at quarterback since 2013. The Tide have gone 40–4 since then.
5. Josh Rosen's evolution: Rosen, UCLA's talented junior quarterback, wasn't at Pac-12 media days last week, but he was the most talked-about subject among the Bruins in attendance. The program is coming off a 4–8 season, and Rosen missed much of last season with a shoulder injury. In the spring, he'd told us how being sidelined from football had provided him with perspective that will make him a better QB. His coach Jim Mora went into greater detail on that point.
"I think that he's progressed tremendously," Mora said. "I think it's a huge credit to Josh Rosen in the way that he's matured and the way he's approached this off-season. Just like all these young men, they get it at different times. I think a lot of things factored into Josh having the productive off-season that he's had, certainly being injured and having football kind of removed from his life as a player at the time that he did, that affected him. Humbling himself to a certain degree and accepting coaching.
"I think he's been asked a couple times is it helpful or hurtful that he's on his third coordinator, quarterback coach. For some it might be hurtful. For Josh I think it's helpful because he loves information. He loves to absorb information."
In a conference loaded with star QBs, Rosen is the wild card. It'll be fascinating to see he and the Bruins try and bounce back from a dismal 2016.
6. Christian Kirk's work ethic: In his first two college seasons, the Texas A&M wideout has produced 163 catches, 1,937 receiving yards and 16 touchdowns, along with five kick return TDs. The 5' 10", 200-pound Kirk is quick and strong, but it's his determination that coaches say makes him special. One of Kirk's former coaches, Dave Marsh, now the offensive coordinator at Campbell University, had some terrific stories illuminating that.
From the time Kirk was four, he would wake up at 5 a.m. during the summers to go to work for his dad's mobile detailing company. "It'd be 110° and we'd wash cars all day, and then I'd come back home around seven at night," Christian says. "I'd do that all summer. That's how I learned about hard work. Getting down and doing the work that not a lot of people want to do, but my dad was passionate about it. I saw that passion."
7. P.J. Fleck's persona: The new Minnesota coach brought his Row the Boat mantra to the Big Ten. I know some folks are skeptical, but I think he's an excellent addition to the conference and is making the Gophers relevant. In a business that tends to be overstuffed with cliché, the 36-year-old Fleck is still hard to turn away from, even if you didn't intend to listen in to his interview session for a few minutes. "We love the challenge," he said. "We love the chaos. We love the dirty water, as we call it. For the people who ask why did you take this job? That is why I took this job. We love walking in a situation like that, and that is why I took this job. It fits me. I'm the King of the Toos—too small, too short, too inexperienced, too young. That's who we are."
8. Connor Williams's path: The nation's best left tackle is an honor student and plays with a mean streak that NFL scouts love. The 6' 6", 310-pound junior arrived at Texas as just a three-star recruit and had a unique perspective stemming from his days at Coppell High, in the Dallas area.
"Going to Texas, I thought everybody would be a Solomon Thomas," Williams told me, referencing this year's No. 3 pick in the NFL draft, a former high school teammate.
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9. Tom Allen's pitch: Taking over Indiana's football program was always going to be an uphill climb, especially in a division that also features teams coached by Urban Meyer, Jim Harbaugh, James Franklin and Mark Dantonio, but give it up to the new IU head man. He was very impressive in explaining what he told his team after taking over.
"I challenged our team with this concept. When I met with our players after I took over, I wrote these three numbers on the board—I did this with our staff as well—50, 26, 10. And I asked them if they knew what those numbers represented, and they didn't.
"So I proceeded to tell them. It's been 50 years since we won the Big Ten; it's been 26 years since we won a bowl game; it's been 10 years since we had a winning season at Indiana. We're going to accomplish all three of those, I told our team. If you don't believe that, you need to leave. Said the same thing to our staff. I love them. I appreciate them. But I want a coaching staff, I want a football team that believes."
My guess is Allen will end two of those long droughts sooner than later, but that Big Ten title seems like too big of a long-shot.
10. Tom Allen's rising star: The best-kept secret in the Big Ten, and perhaps college football, is Indiana linebacker Tegray Scales. Last season, he led the nation with 23.5 tackles for loss (up from 5.5 in 2015), and he figures to snap one of the more startling droughts in major college football—the Hoosiers haven't had any linebacker drafted since Van Waiters in 1988. If the 6' 0", 230-pound Scales doesn't stick in the NFL, he's got an intriguing fallback plan: MMA.
"I think that is something I could possibly go into if football doesn't work out," Scales, a former nationally ranked prep wrestler, told me. "As soon as I'm done with football I am going to do stuff like that for sure."
Scales developed into a star as Allen took over the Indiana defense last season, responding to his coach's challenge to become a leader. The Ohio native also said a big reason for his emergence was that he learned how to watch film. "I used to watch film just to watch it," he says. "I didn't know what to look for."
Scales learned how to study things like what an offensive guard was doing on a given play or what the running back's depth is. Next up is becoming more consistent and tightening up little fundamental things. "I made a lot of plays coming downhill, but I also missed a lot of one-on-one tackles that I still regret to this day," Scales says.
11. Rich McKay's seats: From the "It Just Means More" files of the SEC, we bring you this nugget from a visit with the Atlanta Falcons president about Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the new home of the SEC title game. McKay said the project's mission was to change the experience for the fan because the experience from home "is pretty good, and it's not getting worse."
"We don't think technology is gonna be the solution," he told me. "There aren't people who go to games and try to watch replays on their phones. We do think that the fan wants to be treated in a way where their experience is special and to do that you've got to think about food, the way they get around the building—entry and exit and the seats they sit in."
The new stadium has 21-inch seats (arm to arm), up from the 19-inch seats in the Georgia Dome and from the 14 or 15-inch seats at many college stadiums. And that's all of the seats, not just the ones at the premium level. Hopefully, the airlines are reading this.


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The 107 MPH Man: Michael Kopech's Quest to Be the Hardest Thrower of All TimeMarch 15, 2017
TYLER, Texas — To the classic Bull Durham scene in which we learn candlesticks make nice wedding gifts, add this: Trailer hitches make awesome Christmas presents.
It's true.
I am in a rental car trailing The Most Interesting Prospect in Baseball to a health-food restaurant for lunch. He has just finished a three-hour-plus workout at his gym, Accelerate Performance Enhancement Center, with a small group of fellow baseball players. It is late January, and in case I lose the gargantuan black Hummer H3 or confuse it with another on the road, I keep my eyes glued to a trailer hitch with the Chicago White Sox logo on it.
Michael Kopech's father gave it to him as a Christmas present shortly after the Boston Red Sox shocked him by making him a centerpiece in their trade for Chris Sale. Really, it was the perfect gift, because suddenly Kopech badly needed to replace the Boston Red Sox trailer hitch that had adorned the back of his H3.
Of course, this alone isn't what makes Michael Talbert Kopech The Most Interesting Prospect in Baseball. Nor is the fact that he learned of the deal just as he was emerging from the cryogenic chamber at APEC on Dec. 6.
Those are parts of it, but so too is his 50-game suspension in 2015, when he was with Class A Greenville, for testing positive for a stimulant banned under the minor league drug program. And the incident last spring, when he broke a bone in his hand while punching his roommate, a teammate, and put himself on the shelf for two-and-a-half months.
And then there is that fastball, all 105 mph of it. He created a buzz in January when he hit 110 mph at APEC, but that was while he was doing a drill in which he took both a running start and a crow hop before he released the pitch. Still, it went viral.
At the age of 20, and ranked by ESPN.com's Keith Law as the game's No. 1 overall pitching prospect entering spring training, Kopech has miles and miles of open road in front of him.
If it isn't already, it's going to be difficult not to notice Kopech. Already he has a made-for-the-tabloids relationship with girlfriend Brielle Biermann, a television personality who is the daughter of Kim Zolciak (The Real Housewives of Atlanta) and the adopted daughter of former NFL player Kroy Biermann (Atlanta Falcons), a blond mane straight from the Noah Syndergaard Collection (until he clipped it this spring because of club regulations) and a Twitter account, both philosophical and inspirational, in which he delivers motivational musings, team news and even some romantic moments.
"I feel like this is a kid who can change the game," says Bobby Stroupe, Kopech's personal trainer and the founder and president of APEC. "I think he's going to throw 107 mph. I really do. And not just once or twice a month."
So does Kopech, who tweeted as far back as 2013 that a 107 mph fastball was a goal of his and then reiterated it in January over a curry chicken salad sandwich at the Honey Tree eatery and health-food store.
Despite the snap, crackle and pop of the noise, spend a day with Kopech and you'll find an unfailingly polite, relentlessly honest and unflinchingly friendly kid to whom there is far more substance than some of the swirling headlines might indicate.
THERE IS NO HITCH to Kopech by the numbers.
One hundred and five miles per hour?
Really. It was in a game for Class A Salem in July when one of Kopech's fastballs was clocked at 105 mph. The potential for that kind of dominance is why the Red Sox picked the 6'3" right-hander from Mount Pleasant in the first round (33rd overall) of the 2014 draft and handed him a $1.5 million bonus. The way his fastball sizzled as he grew has fueled imaginations for years—starting with his own.
Throwing 100 mph always was a goal. He hit 97, 98 in high school, and 99 multiple times after he turned pro. Then, in a game at Class A Greenville the week before he turned 19 in 2015, one of his fastballs finally lit up radar guns at 100.
"So I stopped caring [only] about how hard I threw," says Kopech, whose very first pitch in his first Cactus League game earlier this month was clocked at 100. "I hit 100, so I can throw 100. I started worrying more about how I was pitching. After that, the velocity just came. It was easy. Sometimes I'd be in the sixth inning throwing 100. It was pretty easy for me after that."
Much of it, he says, has to do with his regimen at APEC. He likes that the training is from the ground up.
"Once I got stability under me, mobility, everything just seemed easier," he says.
Always, he was strong for his age. But once he developed his legs and his core, that's when he began to feel comfortable inside his own body.
Nobody has thrown more heat in a game during the radar-gun era than New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman, whose fastball has been clocked at 105 mph. Yet Kopech, along with Stroupe, believes that as he develops, he one day will hit 107.
"It's something I told a scout right before I got drafted, and the scout actually laughed at me," Kopech says. "And you know, I understand. It's laughable almost to have goals that big. But I think that's the size your goals should be. If you're reaching a level of something somebody laughed at before, that's pretty amazing. If you're setting goals that someone has already reached, then it's not that big of a goal, in my opinion."
When he first spouted about hitting 107 on Twitter, Kopech didn't really think that much about it because he was 17 and, well, it was social media. But it's out there, and now it's something for Kopech to chase.
He emphasizes, however, that 107 is not his main goal. What he really wants is to reach his potential, which "is to be a dominant pitcher that's throwing 97 or 107 or 67—whatever. It doesn't matter."
Velocity can be a sensitive and misleading topic, especially for prospects who must harness other parts of their ability before everything comes together. So it was no surprise that as news of the 110 mph throw began to spread Jan. 17, Kopech's phone blew up with texts and messages, many from the White Sox front office.
The general tone: What in the ever-loving name of Bob Feller is going on? Are you whacked, cranking it up that much in mid-January?
"Not quite in those words," says Chris Getz, a former big league infielder and now Chicago's director of player development, smiling. "First and foremost, we were trying to build a relationship, and we had to learn who the kid is."
Pretty much the White Sox's entire baseball operations department called or texted to make sure they didn't have a five-alarm fire on their hands. Getz was first to reach the club's new right-hander. Pitching coach Don Cooper followed in short order.
"Which is understandable," Kopech says. "I know they don't want me out there blowing out my arm or going 100 percent in mid-January when we're not even in spring training yet. I think they were just being precautionary.
"Most people looked at the video, and it looked like I just went out there and started throwing as hard as I could. But, really, we were doing max-velocity throws for the first time, and I was already at a point I didn't think I'd be at yet."
Getz and Co. were looking for information, wanting to understand Kopech's training philosophy before they accused him of doing something stupid. He explained his program to them, and that eased their minds some. Still, they reminded him to be careful.
"I understand," Kopech says. "As a player, I realize that we're investments. It makes sense."
Says San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt, who was a frequent participant this winter in Kopech's workout group at APEC: "I don't care what anybody says; you don't hear that—not in the offseason, not in January. That is superimpressive.
"It's gotta be unheard of."
THERE IS A SMALL problem. Nearly three years into his career, and with his clearest path to the majors yet in a rebuilding organization, Kopech has not yet completed a full season as a professional.
Because of the suspension for the banned stimulant and the fistfight, he too often has remained idling, like a sports car stuck in the garage.
So Kopech spent the winter working at APEC, and doing little else. Though he commuted roughly 90 minutes each way between his parents' home in Mount Pleasant and the gym the previous offseason, he moved into an apartment a few blocks from APEC in the fall so he could build his days around offseason workouts.
"That's the big reason I like living alone," he says. "Nothing against other people, but I think I'm more focused. Not that others aren't—maybe they're just as focused as me—but not in every category I find important."
Workouts, nutrition, sleep and mental discipline—all grabbed Kopech's utmost attention over the winter. And it's hard to argue with someone who declines to put himself in a position to be tempted by things that might knock him off course.
"It's not necessarily that I don't have the willpower to say no to something," Kopech says, "but I don't want to have someone bringing home a chocolate cake and leaving it on the counter when I'm having grilled chicken and broccoli for the 29th time in a row. Little things like that. Or someone wanting to hang out at a buddy's house at 11 p.m. when we have to report at 7 the next morning."
That, he says, is close to what happened last March when he was helping to celebrate his Red Sox roommate's birthday not long after they reported to camp. He declines to mention his sparring partner's name because it never was made public and "I don't want him to be brought into it now after it's all over with. He had a good year last year, and I hope he continues to do great. He was one of the first persons who called me after I got traded. He's a good friend of mine."
What happened?
"Just a disagreement," Kopech says. "I was trying to get him to bed. It was late, and I was trying to get him in the house, and he didn't want to get in the house, and it escalated pretty quickly. He took a swing at me, and I took a swing back.
"I didn't want to keep him from celebrating his own birthday, but at the same time, we had to report at 6 a.m. the next day. It was one of those situations."
Kopech connected with the back of his friend's head and fractured the fifth metacarpal in his right hand. His friend connected with his face, and Kopech says he broke his nose.
"If I had advice for anyone else, it's that you shouldn't fistfight. At least, not with your pitching hand," he says with a wry smile.
Predictably, the Red Sox were livid. Then-general manager Mike Hazen publicly said it was "stupid." Kopech didn't disagree. Things happen, and you move on. What he knows is this: If it happens again, he will react far differently. He still has a screw in his hand to keep it stable, and his doctor told him that if he hits anything else, the screw could seriously damage his hand.
It was the second sketchy incident in eight months for Kopech. The first came the previous June, just after he was named to the South Atlantic League All-Star Game, when he was placed on the suspended list. He's still baffled by how he tested positive for oxilofrine, the substance for which sprinters Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell had tested positive. He says he was extremely careful to take only supplements that had been approved by NSF (an organization that develops health standards for food, water and consumer products).
"I wish I knew what it was to this day," Kopech says. "It's not something I want to talk about a whole bunch because it draws a lot of negativity. People either believe what I say or they don't. But the fact of the matter is I made a mistake somewhere, and I have to own that. I just don't know quite where I made the mistake."
So now he inspects food labels closer than the FDA. Scours ingredients. Avoids supplements most of the time, opting instead to limit himself to natural foods and the occasional protein shake. It is why we are parked here at a Honey Tree table, and why Kopech orders most of his offseason meals from this place. They make a week's worth of food for him at a time.
The way he sees it, you must find places you trust. And all the food here is natural and organic.
Since the stimulant was found in his system, he figures he's been drug tested "more often than most guys. But it's a given. I understand. I don't take any offense to it. I just have to pass them, and I'm comfortable with what I've been eating."
Says his father, Michael Peter Kopech: "It was devastating on so many levels. It's hard to describe."
So on to Chicago Kopech goes, a fresh start in hand, lugging with him some fairly heavy baggage for a man so young.
"It's a big reason why I got into the mentality I'm in now, the mental game and what kind of mindset you should have," says Kopech, who keeps a cluster of self-improvement books on his nightstand, including Rhonda Byrne's The Secret. "I wouldn't think this way if I hadn't gone through the adversity I've gone through. I wouldn't have the people around me I do have around me if I hadn't gone through what I have.
"As much as I don't like talking about it, it has put me in position to be more successful and handle more adversity and stay away from negative people with bad intentions. It's changed my whole life.
"I hate giving credit to anything that didn't do much for me, but at the same time, it made me realize who I need to be instead of who I am."
Says Belt: "I'd like to see him go out and get a full year in and see what he can do. He is on the cusp of making the big leagues."
THE NIGHT BEFORE WE meet, as part of an outing with his new representatives, Creative Artists Agency, Kopech spent time with major leaguers Syndergaard, Michael Wacha, Shelby Miller and others in a suite at a Dallas Stars NHL game.
He asked Syndergaard, a grizzled veteran who is all of 24, what he wished he knew when he was Kopech's age. Syndergaard told him that one day, Hall of Famer Greg Maddux came to speak to the team, said "learn how to control your fastball" and walked out. That brief encounter, Syndergaard said, is what took his game to another level. It wasn't simply about Syndergaard's pure cheese but about him throwing strikes when he wanted to and backing hitters off the plate when he needed to.
"Obviously, [Kopech] is a very physical guy, and he's extremely nice," Wacha, a fellow Texas high school product, said this spring of hockey night with the Stars. "I had heard about him over the offseason throwing fuzz."
They talked pitching, training and assorted other things. With Kopech headed for his first major league camp, Syndergaard and Wacha told him of their experiences.
He's wanted what Syndergaard and Wacha now have since he was four: the major leagues, the competition, the proving himself at the top level. His father, a lawyer, never played baseball but read everything he could while providing his son a self-taught hardball education.
"If there was something written about baseball and pitching that I didn't read, it probably was because it wasn't published," Michael Peter Kopech says. "I plagiarized, stole and borrowed everything I could, and the good stuff I applied to him, and the bad stuff we flushed and went on to the next thing.
"That's always what I've told him to do with everything in life."
Kopech is not a Jr. His middle name, Talbert, comes from his great-grandfather, but he lists his father as one of the biggest influences on his life.
"I could go on about my dad all day," he says. "He's something else. He's a big part of the reason why I want to be so successful."
He says his father put himself through college, trashed his body in a serious motorcycle accident, then pulled himself back together and put himself through law school.
His father's family lived on a farm in Texas and worked hard to keep that going. The motorcycle accident occurred during his senior year at the University of Texas. He had been accepted into the UT School of Law, but the accident instead sent him into traction for three-and-a-half months, followed by more time in a body cast. So much for law school. When he healed, Michael Peter Kopech went to St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio.
"I was a member of a law firm that went on to become one of the most successful law firms in the state of Texas, and each one of the people involved in the firm has more money than they know what to do with," he says. "But I decided—because my son at age four wanted to be a professional player—I'd be a T-ball coach instead."
You might have heard that there isn't much money in T-ball coaching.
"But I'm rich beyond imagination because of him," Michael Peter Kopech continues. "I'm just a poor country lawyer now; I make enough to keep the lights burning and to go watch him play every now and then, and I'm really happy with that."
Kopech became aware early on of his father's favorite player, Nolan Ryan. Then he gravitated toward watching Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens. Guys who brought pure heat.
Then Tim Lincecum won the first of back-to-back Cy Young Awards in 2008, when Kopech was 12, and that further fueled his imagination.
"I feel like if you take a big guy and do what Lincecum did, you could do more than anyone's ever done," he says. "And that's what I want to do."
Kopech is 6'3" and 205 pounds. Lincecum is 5'11" and 170. The way Lincecum fired off the mound toward the plate in his delivery, and the velocity and movement that generated...
"I feel like if I could be that explosive, as big as I am, then I would have an advantage over everybody," Kopech says. "I try to incorporate what he did into what I'm doing.
"That's the guy who really changed the way I look at pitching."
It wasn't long before the Kopech family hosted a parade of professional scouts. Of the 30 MLB clubs, representatives from 27 scheduled in-home visits. They sat at the Kopechs' kitchen table. They flattered. They talked. They ate. And they listened intently as the schoolboy star expressed his desire not simply to become an impact major leaguer, but also one day to become a Hall of Famer.
THERE IS NO TELLING whether they will get, ahem, hitched in the end, because as they navigate their very public romance, both Kopech and Biermann are on career tracks that could shoot them into the stratosphere.
But when she Instagrams a photo with a caption like this...
...let's just say it doesn't go unnoticed by even the most focused and oblivious of seamheads.
"I don't know where that came from," Kopech says, chuckling. "She's obviously beautiful, and people call her 'Barbie' all the time for obvious reasons. I think she embraces everything from every aspect of life, and that's what makes her who she is. She can take negativity and turn it into positivity."
Hers is a different world, he acknowledges, and all you need to do to confirm that is check the couple's social media followers. Biermann has 931,241 on Instagram and another 214,033 on Twitter. Kopech has 66,651 on Instagram and 18,246 more on Twitter. While his focus is the narrow strike zone, hers is the broad world of entertainment.
"She just has a lot more guys around, and that makes me uncomfortable," he says. "But it's something I have to realize, Hey, it comes with the lifestyle, and it's only going to get worse, so no sense harping on it now."
Besides, he knows, the insecurity could run both ways, but Biermann is cool with his diamond life, so that's the prism through which he views things.
The two met last summer through, yes, baseball. Red Sox prospect Michael Chavis, whom Boston picked seven spots ahead of Kopech in the first round in 2014, knew of Biermann from his hometown of Marietta, Georgia. Kopech reached out, and Biermann visited him in Florida while he was rehabbing his broken hand. Then as he was driving north to join Class A Salem, he stopped to visit her in Georgia, and it's been love and social media ever since. She's learning baseball. He loves the mental discipline she practices. And she's not the only one who sends digital roses.
Fact is, Kopech expresses himself quite a bit on social media. Read enough of his tweets, and you may feel like running through a wall for the guy:
"This sounds kind of selfish to say, but I want everyone to be like me," he says. "I want everyone to have this mindset that, no matter what you do, you can be successful. There are too many people who settle. I'd never want to settle, and I never will settle."
He has the early stages of a changeup, a pitch he worked on refining in the Arizona Fall League, where he went 3-0 with a 2.01 ERA in three starts in autumn, with 26 strikeouts and eight walks in 22 1/3 innings. The experience boosted his confidence, and while Cooper, the White Sox pitching coach, continues to work with him on that pitch this spring, he also would like to see Kopech develop a curveball because he likes his starting pitchers to have four pitches in their repertoire.
As close as Kopech appears, the majors aren't just over the next hill. There is work to do, and plenty of it. As Getz says, there is no substitute for innings, and getting Kopech to pitch his first full season as a professional is the Sox's primary focus right now. He will start the season either at high-Class-A Winston-Salem or at Double-A Birmingham. With a great summer, he possibly could see Chicago late this season. Probably, it will be 2018 at the earliest before he makes his major league debut.
"I never had a full season, so I've never really had a chance to advance during the season," Kopech says. "If I want to move, this is the year to move. If I go in and have a strong spring and then start at Double-A or wherever, start strong there, I think I can give myself a chance to move pretty quickly this year."
One day soon, the White Sox hope to hitch their fortunes to Kopech and a plethora of other young, talented players they've recently acquired through trades and the draft like Yoan Moncada, Lucas Giolito and Carson Fulmer.
Gone but not forgotten, of course, is the old Red Sox trailer hitch that once served as the beacon for Kopech's future. He remains thankful to Boston for many things, including the way it handled him. There is no chip on his shoulder to prove the Red Sox wrong as he moves forward. At least, no chip that can be easily seen.
"The Red Sox were very supportive of me since I was drafted," Kopech says. "It was a rough couple of years, but they never gave up on me. All I wanted to do is show them I could be a guy for them.
"I hope this trade, getting Chris Sale, is very fortunate and works out for them. And I'll feel like I helped them from that standpoint and maybe give them back a little bit of what they gave me."
Scott Miller covers Major League Baseball as a national columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow Scott on Twitter and talk baseball.


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Friday and Saturday morning were admittedly not fun. Saying goodbye to Justin was beyond painful. But the tears really didn't last as long. I was crying because I would miss him, but as soon as I hopped in the car, I was smiling and eager to arrive at my New York home. The plane rides were actually very nice: not much turbulence, I got some reading done, and I listed to Don Savage's podcast, Savage Lovecast. The bus from LaGuardia was fine, and I saw the most beautiful view from the bridge of Manhattan's skyline at sunset. This city will never cease to inspire me.
But the best part of yesterday had to be the hellos. Last night was a flurry of hugs, Mario Kart 64, Pinkberry's grapefruit froyo, sushi and thai iced tea, and puzzles. It felt like I never had left. The best thing is that it continues until tuesday! It's like Christmas all over again, except this time the presents are my friends. I feel so lucky to know all of these people, and I can't believe that I get to spend another semester with them.
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Equality Florida today released its endorsements in the Aug. 14, 2012, South Florida primary:
Gwen Margolis (DEM)
Florida Senate District 35
(Miami Dade County)
Equality Florida Action PAC is proud to endorse Gwen Margolis for her re-election to the Florida Senate. Gwen has been a vocal supporter of LGBT equality for decades and co-sponsored multiple pro-LGBT bills during her time in the legislature. Gwen is also endorsed by the Florida Education Association, SEIU Florida and Florida Medical Association. If re-elected, Gwen will continue to fight for LGBT Floridians in the Senate.
Joe Gibbons (DEM)
Florida House District 100
(Broward County, Miami Dade County)
Joe Gibbons has been a consistent supporter of the LGBT community while in Tallahassee. Joe has co-sponsored bills to end Florida's discriminatory ban on gay and lesbian adoption; ensure workplace protections for LGBT Floridians and to enact a statewide domestic partnership registry. Joe received a 100% rating on our candidate questionnaire and has also been endorsed by the Police Benevolent Association, AFL-CIO and the United Teachers of Dade.
Sharon Pritchett (DEM)
Florida House District 102
(Broward County, Miami Dade County)
Sharon Pritchett is running a strong campaign in the Democratic Primary for this open State House seat. From 2003-2011 Sharon served as the first citywide council member for the City of Miami Gardens. She was born and raised in Miami and served 28 years as an investigator in the Public Defender's office. She received 100% on our candidate questionnaire and is also endorsed by the South Florida AFL-CIO, United Teachers of Dade and AFSCME.
Jose Javier Rodriguez (DEM)
Florida House District 112
(Broward County, Miami Dade County)
Jose Javier Rodriquez is running an exciting grassroots campaign to be the next Representative from District 112. Jose was a volunteer in the US Peace Corps and graduated from Harvard Law School. After graduation, he returned to Miami to give back to his community by working at Florida Legal Services, helping people who could not afford a lawyer. Jose received 100% rating on the Equality Florida candidate questionnaire and has been endorsed by AFL-CIO, SEIU and United Teachers of Dade.
David Richardson (DEM)
Florida House District 113
David Richardson is running to be the next state representative from Miami Beach and has an opportunity to become the first gay man elected to the Florida legislature. He has been a certified public accountant in Florida for the last 27 years and wants to go to Tallahassee to help eliminate wasteful spending. David has served as the President of the Miami Beach Condo Association, and on the Victory Campaign Board of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. David is running in a winner takes all Democratic primary on August 14
Ken Keechl
Broward County Commission District 7
Ken Keechl made history in 2006 when he was elected as the first out gay county commissioner in Florida. While on the Broward County Commission Ken sponsored an amendment to Broward County's Human Rights Act that added 'gender identity' as a protected class. Since then he has worked to enact numerous pro-LGBT policies in cities across Broward. Ken is also endorsed by the Police Benevolent Association and the Broward Firefighters and Paramedics.
Katherine Leach
Broward County School Board District 3
Katherine Leach has strongly supported the implementation of a comprehensive anti-bully policy in Broward County. Appointed to the School Board in 2011, Katherine is running for re-election. She received a 100% rating on our candidate questionnaire and is also by the Police Benevolent Association, Wilton Manors Mayor Gary Resnick and Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler.
Shelly Solomon
Broward County School Board District 4
Since 2007, Shelly Solomon has been a strong advocate for comprehensive anti-bully policies that include LGBT youth. In 2007 she was instrumental in the passage of Broward's policy, which has served as a model for the state. Shelly has served as the co-chair of Broward County's Anti-Bullying Task Force and on the Anti-Bias, Anti-Hate Task Force. If elected to the Broward County School Board, Shelly will continue to work to provide a safe learning environment for all students.
Franklin Sands
Broward County School Board District 8
During his service in the Florida legislature, Franklin Sands has been a proven ally to the LGBT community. He co-sponsored legislation to provide workplace protections to LGBT Floridians and legislation to create a statewide domestic partnership registry. Franklin received a 100% rating on our candidate questionnaire and has been endorsed by the Broward Teachers Union, AFL-CIO and the Police Benevolent Association.
Robin Bartleman
Broward County School Board District 9
Robin Bartleman is a true champion for LGBT youth as a school board member. During her time on the Broward School Board she fought hard to pass the state's first fully inclusive anti-bully policy that includes protections for LGBT students. Robin has supported the creation of gay-straight alliances in school and supported the Day of Silence. She has received a 100% rating on the Equality Florida candidate questionnaire and we are proud to support her in her re-election efforts.


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Sunday, February 2, 2014
Diva Interviews Thaao Penghlis!
The Diva interviews actor Thaao Penghlis on Monday, February 10th at 9pm est on our Blogtalkradio show. Thaao is currently starring on General Hospital reprising his role of Victor Cassadine. Thaao is mostly known for his dual roles of Tony DiMera and his dastardly lookalike cousin, Andre DiMera on Days of our Lives. Thaao was nominated for a Lead Actor Daytime Emmy Award for his roles on Days. Thaao has two movies coming out this year, "Hard Right" and "Job's Daughter."
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4 Ways Brands Can Make Strong Connections With Buyers
Author: Admin 16 Jan
As we move ahead into 2019, brands are scrambling for more ways than ever before to make lasting connections with buyers.
We are in an age of the buyer where consumers no longer rely on sales people to help them make purchasing decisions; your customers are engaging in their own research to learn more about brands and the products they sell.
That said, integrating trust signals and bridges into your marketing strategies will garner stronger connections with your target audiences and lead to an increase in sales and brand awareness.
Here are four ways to help make it all possible.
1. Put in the Research to Discover Your Buyer's True Needs, then Market to Those Needs
One of the biggest mistakes companies make that prevents them from forming strong connections with their buyers is to market to people based on assumptions.
Business owners and CEOs may think they know their buyers better than anyone else, but the truth of the matter is that many of their beliefs stem from assumptions and an inherent bias.
This is why savvy companies partner with a growth marketing agency capable of doing in-depth research on their buyers, industry and competitors to truly understand who their customers are and what motivates them to make a purchasing decision.
HubSpot partner growth marketing agencies have the advanced tools and platform to create detailed buyer personas, score leads accordingly, segment them into specific groups, and nurture the right audience members with custom content that meets their needs. But without the right team to do the research and the tools to categorize and market to them, leads will fall through the cracks.
By researching your buyer audience and marketing to them with custom content and the right cadence, you will be delighting people with the content they need to make an educated purchase. And when you are able to do this, you are forming a strong bond with your customers.
2. Present Products As Solutions to Common Problems
We already talked about understanding your buyers before marketing to them. Take this a step further; once you know their common pain points and have been able to define what constitutes their ultimate solution, present your products as their saving grace.
For example, if you are an ecommerce company that sells sporting goods, rather than market your baseball gloves under all the common buzzwords and phrases like "MLB certified" and "100% leather", instead add a solution-based term within a specific context to one of your buyer personas.
These could include "baseball gloves for small hands", "first base glove with added wrist support" of "infield baseball glove with added extra padding".
By presenting products through language that offers solution-based products not only will you attract a higher quality level of organic traffic, you will also form a strong connection with buyers by creating an intimate reason for their business that taps into a pain point.
3. Make the Buyer the Hero of Your Story
You will create connections with customers who can envision using your products, and who feel valued by your brand. Just look at Nike and their controversial marketing campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick.
They made a risk by alienating a smaller margin of their buyer audience, but overall the strategy worked and sales went up by 31% in a matter of days after the ad went live. Why? Aside from the political angle, people identified with the message, and with Kaepernick's struggle.
Let your brand tell a story, and make your buyer the hero. Let's return to the baseball glove example. If a large portion of your buyers are college players with big dreams to make it to the majors, tell a story about an outfielder who plays for State and who is occasionally watched by major league scouts.
Make him the hero, and the glove his "excalibur"–with the right glove he can make those amazing plays that will showcase his talent before the judges who hold his fate in their hands, you get the idea.
4. Let Your Brand and Products Promote a Lifestyle
People don't just buy products for their features, they also invest in a lifestyle. Once you have a firm understanding of who your buyers are and how they live their life (or want to live) you can make a strong connection by showcasing your brand and products in a desired lifestyle.
You may think this is something only international powerhouse brands can successfully do. But this is not the case. Just because you aren't a mega brand like Coca Cola or Apple doesn't mean you can't create a target lifestyle around your products to form connections with consumers.
You probably see ads on Facebook and Instagram all the time for things ranging from cosmetics to jewelry, and from socks to hats. And some of these brands are new to you.
Click on a few and look around their site. You are bound to find some that present a clear lifestyle.
Let's look at an example: Remember the ads run by the Lincoln car company featuring Matthew McConaughey?
Lincoln cars are considered mid-range luxury vehicles, but the presented lifestyle combining the height of opulence with a carefree attitude resonated with cross-section of consumers and sales surged for the first time since 2007.
Why? Because people wanted to live the life in those ads.
When you can showcase your brand and its products within the framework of a desired lifestyle, strong connections with buyers will result, and your high-revenue targets can be hit year-after-year.
The Old Saying Still Applies
Since the 1950s sales teams and marketing ninjas have echoed the same phrase: "people buy from people and brands they like".
This old saying is still relevant today, but within the context of modern marketing and highly educated consumer groups.
When you can form strong connections with buyers, your growth will skyrocket, and so will your standing within your industry.


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As far as I am concerned, a qualified car radio should be integrated with both practical and entertainment features, which can bring both great convenience and enjoyment for you in car. Therefore, if you think your car radio is not up-to-date enough to be compatible with many modern features, it is suggested that you can consider replacing it with a new aftermarket car radio. This article is mainly about how to remove your factory radio and install a new car radio by yourself in a 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009-2012 Mercedes-Benz GL Class X164 GL300 GL320 GL350 GL420 GL450 GL500 GL550. If you own the same car model and plan to replace your factory radio, you can take the following installation guide as a reference.
Some tips before the installation:
1.Please disconnect the power before the installation.
2.Please prepare a lever and a screwdriver before the removal and the installation.
3.Please keep all the separate parts from the car. Please take great care of the dashboard to avoid scratching it during its detachment and installation. Please keep handy any parts from the car and make use of all the original screws from the car as much as possible. so each related part of the unit can be fixed securely.
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1. The original car radio.
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3. Pry the air conditioner panel out and remove it.
4. Remove two screws that fixed the radio on the dashboard with a screwdriver.
5. Use your finger to pull the buckles down.
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DLGAP3A gene on chromosome 1p35.3-p34.1 that encodes disks-associated protein 3, a membrane-associated guanylate kinase that may play a role in the molecular organisation of synapses and neuronal cell signalling, and which may act as an adapter protein linking ion channels to the subsynaptic cytoskeleton.
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We want to remind people even though the art itself is really cool and neat, there really is a reason behind this. We want to encourage people to stop at one of our information tables, find out if they can be a foster parent, or if there are other ways they can help. – Deborah Lindner, communications manager for the Utah Foster Care Foundation
SALT LAKE CITY — Artists dropped to their knees and began blending chalk on The Gateway's sidewalks Friday to begin an event meant to promote Utah's need for more foster care.
The chalk murals of the Utah Foster Care Foundation's 11th annual Chalk Art Festival are for the public to enjoy and to draw attention to a larger issue.
Utah has about 1,300 foster families to care for about 2,600 children currently in foster care. It's not enough, said Deborah Lindner, the communications manager for the Utah Foster Care Foundation.
"Children are always coming in and out of foster care, and foster families sometimes come in and out of foster care," Lindner said. "There's an ongoing demand."
About 140 artists gathered to take part Friday in the two-day event. Free to the public, the festival provides an opportunity for attendees to ask questions about getting involved in foster care, volunteer for the foundation, or to donate money to foster care programs.
"We want to remind people even though the art itself is really cool and neat, there really is a reason behind this," Lindner said. "We want to encourage people to stop at one of our information tables, find out if they can be a foster parent, or if there are other ways they can help."
The festival's message this year is "Foster Care Changes Lives," she said. Down the Gateway sidewalks, foster families and children were pictured on signs with links to where people can read about their stories online.
"I hope that people walking through the event enjoy the art, and that it triggers them to find out more about the children in foster care who may be right in their own neighborhoods," Lindner said.
The festival typically raises about $20,000 for foster care programs and attracts between 35 and 50 families expressing interest in joining the foster care program. Lindner said those gains can make a big difference.
"This means I'm not alone," said Renee Calkins, a foster care parent. "It's a lonely place to be sometimes because there aren't a lot of us — there really aren't. I think it's amazing that there is something this big and this neat that people can come to for free to enjoy with their families and to ask questions about how to help."
Artist Jonas Mitchell said he hopes his art will prompt people to stop, look and simply notice not just the drawing, but also the need to help.
"Having a single piece, even if it's this large, people won't notice," he said. "But when they're all together … people take notice."
The festival continues Saturday, when the public can vote for their favorite chalk art murals; winners will be announced at 6 p.m. Also, at noon on Saturday, five Foster Dads of the Year will be named, representing each of Utah's Foster Care regions.
More information about how to help is available on the Utah Foster Care Foundation's website.
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