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John Abraham owned North-East United hosted master cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's Kerala Blasters at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Guwahati in front of a nearly packed house on Monday. The renewed enthusiasm for football was reminiscent of the days of football's old glory in the second match of the inaugural 2014 season of Indian Super League. Only yesterday, ISL had gotten off to a rousing and colorful start at Kolkata's huge Salt lake Stadium in the presence of the who's who of Indian celebrities. In a closely fought encounter, Spanish striker Koke's opportunistic first-half goal was the difference between the two evenly matched teams. The former Marseille forward struck an angular right-footer that left the former England goalkeeper David James with no chance, though he made a great attempt by diving full length to parry the ball away. It turned out to be a great start for the NEUFC with fans lustily cheering for them in their home ground against the visitors from Gods own Country. In what could easily be described as a tight contest, Kerala Blasters were not found wanting but the luck was not with them. They had their chances, especially in closing stages but the Guwahati defenders foiled all promising attempts. Earlier too, Kerala Blasters dominated the better part of the first half and pressurized the NEUFC defenders. But they couldn't come close to the target.
The match began at 7 PM Indian Standard Time and the atmosphere was charged with anticipation as the North-East United were playing on their home ground. The two sides featured well-known marquee players from European leagues. Kerala Blasters' David James was uniquely playing three roles in the match. Besides manning the Kerala Blasters' goal post, James was KB's marquee player and also the Manager. It wasn't an easy task for one man to be doing so many duties. North-East United's Joan Capdevila was the Marquee player for John Abraham's side. While David James had 572 EPL appearances on record, Capdevila had been the part of Spain's World Cup winning team in 2010. At the start, NEUFC's David Ngaihte got a ball from outside the box and shot bravely towards the KB goal but David James saved it quite easily. The thunderous roar from the home crowd subsided instantly. No serious threats were mounted on either goal for the first 15 minutes. In the 16th minute, however, KB came very close to a scoring, when Iain Hume was fed a pass that he tapped behind the keeper. But in an agonizing moment for KB, Hume was declared off-side. Kerala continued to invade the NEUFC's goal but failed to find the target. A genuine attempt came in the 27th minute, when striker Sabeeth dodged two defenders and volleyed strongly from just outside of the box but the NEUFC goalkeeper dived to save the shot as KB earned a corner. But the corner was a wasted opportunity as well. In the 33rd minute, a marvelous shot from NEUFC's Durga Boro looked like slotting in the top corner but David James' amazing acrobatics ensured that the ball was kept out of harm's way. At the stroke of halftime, NEUFC clinched the vital 1-0 lead, when Koke's powerful volley had David James diving full length. But James was unable to save the goal and even as the hooter signaled the break, the hosts took the breather with a 1-0 lead in the match.
After halftime, KB came out with renewed determination and began finding an equalizer opportunity. But the game kept stretching with no more goal-ward action from either side. With less than 10 minutes remaining, KB attacked the NEUFC goal but the attempts were warded off. The Guwahati side also had the chance for a 2-0 lead in the injury time and even as James had strayed, a powerful volley from Zodinghliana could only rattle the crossbar. The Kerala Blasters met with disappointment in their first game as the jubilant home crowd reveled in the 1-0 victory for their home team. For NEUFC, goalkeeper Alexandros Tzorvas was the star performer as he saved several goal-ward attempts from KB.


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A New York man who took a selfie while smoking marijuana in Senator Jeff Merkley's (D-OR) office during the Capitol riot pleaded guilty Wednesday to one misdemeanor charge – avoiding a much more serious felony charge of obstructing the joint session of Congress.
James Bonet appeared before U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to enter his guilty plea to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. He faces a maximum sentence of up to 1 year in prison, and a recommended sentencing range of 0-6 months behind bars.
Bonet joined in a mob of thousands of supporters of former President Donald Trump on January 6 that stormed the U.S. Capitol Building in order to disrupt the certification of Electoral College votes for President Joe Biden. During the riot, Bonet posted a number of photos from outside and inside the building, including one captioned, "Right in the doorsteps this is our house we will take it back."
In another post, Bonet uploaded a selfie of him holding a joint to his lips inside Merkley's office, with the caption, "Smoking at the capital building."
Bonet was arrested in late January after the FBI received a tip from his coworkers about his participation in the riot. According to charging documents, the coworkers told investigators Bonet was an avid conspiracy theorist and would frequently discuss them at work, "including the conspiracy theory that the 2020 Presidential Election was 'stolen.'"
In June, a federal grand jury indicted Bonet on six counts, including one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding, which carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
On Wednesday, however, prosecutors agreed to drop the felony charge and the other misdemeanor counts against Bonet in exchange for his plea of guilty to one Class "A" misdemeanor. Prosecutors made a similar move a day earlier for Brandon Straka, a "Stop the Steal" speaker who pleaded guilty Tuesday to one Class "B" misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, despite having initially been charged with a felony count of impeding law enforcement during civil disorder.
In the case of Straka – a right-wing activist who amassed more than 500,000 followers on Twitter through his pro-Trump #WalkAway campaign urging Democrats to leave the party – his plea deal included an agreement to cooperate with ongoing investigations against other riot suspects and to give law enforcement access to his social media accounts. It was unclear what, if any, cooperation was expected from Bonet.
Bonet, who has a previous conviction for marijuana possession, was never charged for having marijuana in the Capitol. The federal penalty if convicted of possession of any amount of marijuana is a maximum of 1 year in prison – the same as the restricted building charge Bonet pleaded to. A second offense carries a minimum sentence of 15 days in jail and a maximum sentence of 2 years in prison.
Bonet will be back before Sullivan in February for his sentencing. Sullivan has previously pressed the Justice Department on Capitol riot cases – notably, asking why a Pennsylvania woman who said she was looking for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to shoot her "in the friggin' brain" wasn't charged for it. In February, Sullivan said, attorneys for both the DOJ and Bonet should be prepared to convince him probation alone would act as a sufficient deterrent for future assaults on the Capitol.
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- With two seriously good Double Plus (A++) sides, you'll have a hard time finding a copy that sounds remotely as good as this vintage UK import - exceptionally quiet vinyl too
- This copy has the Glyn Johns BIG, BOLD sound we demand from this famous producer/engineer
- Forget the domestic pressings, forget the DD Labs half-speed, forget whatever lame reissues have come or will come down the pike - if you want to hear this album right, a Hot Stamper British pressing is the only way to go
- The title song sounds great on this superb copy - the dynamic power of the recording comes through loud and clear
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Big, tubey and rockin', this copy has The Who sound we know from Who's Next so well. Huge and spacious, with lovely three-dimensional depth, the sound has that patented Live in the Studio quality that Johns' practically trademarked. Breathy vocals and great life and presence to every instrument -- this is the way to hear it!
Forget the domestic pressings, forget the DD Labs half-speed, forget whatever lame reissues have come or will come down the pike -- if you want to hear this album right, a Hot Stamper British pressing is the only way to go.
This copy has the Glyn Johns Who Sound we demand from one of the most famous producer/artist collaborations in the history of rock music. (I would argue Johns' work with the Stones is even more legendary.)
This is certainly not the equal of the beyond brilliant Who's Next -- what is? It's an undisputed Masterpiece -- but the best songs here are certainly in that league. The title track is one I used to demo my system with twenty years ago and, with a copy like this, would be happy to again.
What The Best Sides Of Who Are You Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear
- The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space
- The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1978
- Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low
- Natural tonality in the midrange -- with all the instruments having the correct timbre
- Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space
No doubt there's more but we hope that should do for now. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does.
What We're Listening For On Who Are You
- Energy for starters. What could be more important than the life of the music?
- Then: presence and immediacy. The vocals aren't "back there" somewhere, lost in the mix. They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt would put them.
- The Big Sound comes next -- wall to wall, lots of depth, huge space, three-dimensionality, all that sort of thing.
- Then transient information -- fast, clear, sharp attacks, not the smear and thickness so common to these LPs.
- Tight punchy bass -- which ties in with good transient information, also the issue of frequency extension further down.
- Next: transparency -- the quality that allows you to hear deep into the soundfield, showing you the space and air around all the instruments.
- Extend the top and bottom and voila, you have The Real Thing -- an honest to goodness Hot Stamper.
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Mint Minus Minus and maybe a bit better is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)
Those of you looking for quiet vinyl will have to settle for the sound of other pressings and Heavy Vinyl reissues, purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic of these wonderful recordings.
If you want to make the trade-off between bad sound and quiet surfaces with whatever Heavy Vinyl pressing might be available, well, that's certainly your prerogative, but we can't imagine losing what's good about this music -- the size, the energy, the presence, the clarity, the weight -- just to hear it with less background noise.
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- Had Enough
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- Trick of the Light
- Guitar and Pen
- Love Is Coming Down
- Who Are You
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And then there is "Who Are You," a far stronger single than "Squeeze Box," the hit from 1975's The Who by Numbers, and a song that, stretched out over more than six minutes on the LP version, is far more moving than "Won't Get Fooled Again," the band's certified Seventies masterpiece. The dynamics are much more subtle this time — and all the smugness is gone.
"Who Are You" was spun out of the night that Townshend, already drunk after hours of financial haggling, half-recognized two members of the Sex Pistols in a bar: that is, he thought either Steve Jones or Paul Cook was Johnny Rotten. Corrected, he felt even more confused: Why can't I see straight? Cook and Jones, supposedly arrogant young punks working out their rock & roll Oedipal complex, were thrilled to meet Townshend and horrified at what he had to tell them: the Who were finished, used up, wasted. The incident left Townshend passed out in a Soho street, which is where the song begins. Townshend (in the voice of Roger Daltrey) wakes up with one enormous question: Who are you? It's addressed to Cook and Jones (Who are these upstarts, who would never have played a note had not Townshend picked up a guitar more than a decade back?); to the cop who, recognizing Townshend, sends him home without a bust (Who are the fans?); to himself (What does it mean to be a rocker? What kind of wreck has the life made him?); and, finally, to anyone who's listening. "Whooooooo/Are you?" hums the chorus. "I really want to know!" Daltrey shouts back, echoing Donovan's "What Goes On," but while Donovan communicated hippie certainty that all things would come, Daltrey is desperate, sure of nothing.


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Today been a calm day, went to hangout with my friends wich was what I needed. The day went past and it was relaxing we had a nice BBQ with chicken, pork, cheese and various other things! Was really nice.
I just got home thats why the post comes so late! But for the past hour i been talking to my friend about various things and that we are fairly simular but in the same time oposites of one another. Intressting discussions happends and i learn something new about my friends and me almost everytime we hangout.
Today i have learned that people around do see that i am not completely fine. I also lately started understanding more and more that i am not fine, but i never put myself first, everyone else is more important then me. (This is how i really feel and act, luckily i have a few people who can make me talk about how i feel myself.)
But now its almost 1am and ima sleep will upload another post later today!


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SIERRA MADRE EDITION SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018 VOLUME 12 NO. 25 PROPOSITION 2018 WATER RATES INCREASE BALLOTS MAILED The Sierra Madre City Council authorized city staff to proceed with the Prop 218 process at its last meeting. Water users in the city will vote on whether or not to approve the proposed rate changes. To that end, the ballots arrived this week in the mailboxes of all ratepayers. The City's water distribution system is comprised of 47.6 miles of pipeline, a large majority of which is over 70 years beyond useful life. The increased amount of water main leaks, totaling approximately 600 in 2016, is directly attributed to the age of the pipes (Bucknam & Associates, 2018). California Proposition 218 requires that a public agency proposing a new or increased property-related fee or charge provide written notice by mail to the owner of each parcel upon which the fee or charge will be imposed. This notice was mailed to the address of each parcel number in Sierra Madre as well as to the owner's address of each parcel in Sierra Madre. A Public Hearing is set for July 31, 2018 on the matter of a proposed water rate increase. The Hearing will be held at 6:30 pm in City Hall Council Chambers at 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA 91024 Visit the Sierra Madre Transparency Portal to learn more about the Prop. 2018 Ballot Process. PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE From: The City of Sierra Madre Subject: MUNICIPAL CODE TEXT AMENDMENT 18-01 (MCTA 18-01) Applicant: City of Sierra Madre Project Location: Properties in the City of Sierra Madre, County of Los Angeles, State of California The City of Sierra Madre gives notice, pursuant to State of California law, that the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider recommending adoption of Municipal Code Text Amendment 18-01, amending Chapters: 17.08 (Definitions), 17.36 (Commercial Zone), 17.40 (Manufacturing Zone), and 17.60 (Variances and Discretionary Permits). The purpose of the amendment is to update the list of permitted and conditionally permitted uses in the commercial zone, update the corresponding development standards, and develop a comprehensive list of commercial zone uses. Additional amendments to the chapters referenced above are intended to achieve consistency specific to cross references in the Commercial Zone and other related zoning provisions. Following a Planning Commission recommendation for approval, the proposed text amendment will be forwarded to the City Council for their consideration. DATE AND TIME OF HEARING PLACE OF HEARING City of Sierra Madre City of Sierra Madre Planning Commission meeting City Council Chambers Thursday, July 5, 2018 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. (Hearing begins at 7:00 p.m.) Sierra Madre, CA All interested persons may attend this meeting and the Planning Commission will hear them with respect thereto. ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The subject ordinance is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Title 14, §15060(c)(2), §15060(c)(3), and §15061(b)(3) of the California Code of Regulations. The Ordinance amending Chapters 17.36, 17.40, and 17.60 will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment; the ordinance does not involve a "project" as defined by Section 15378; and the ordinance is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects that have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment; Therefore, it may be seen with certainty that there is no possibility this ordinance will have a significant effect on the environment. APPEAL: A decision by the Planning Commission is subject to a 10-day appeal period to the City Council. If in the future anyone wishes to challenge the decision of the Planning Commission in court, one may be limited to raising the issues that were raised or presented in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or before, the scheduled public hearing. For further information on this subject, please contact the Planning and Community Preservation Department at (626) 355-7138. SIERRA MADRE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH With summer around the corner, Sierra Madre PD's Neighborhood Watch (NW) Program will be in full swing. This is a great opportunity to meet your neighbors and to hear firsthand information on public safety issues, current crime alerts and other topics of interest. For more information, contact: Lou Oronoz, Community Service Officer Sierra Madre Police Department Office: 626/355-4596 email@example.com Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: email@example.com Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com
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You don't need anyone. You are everyone. Enjoy this one.
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Only us
I take my brother's hand, we stand up, and together we leave the cinema theater of egomind "fight or flight" movies. It has been always just "us" after all. Never "them vs. us". We return to real living. Peace and joy of being. We walk together. We sit and have tea together. Find new fresh … Continue reading Only us
how do you recognize you are in a world of conflict game
It is impossible to believe there is a way out of the world of conflict. But that is the one single work of all spiritual teachers, old and new: to point it to you. The world of conflict has changed (not going to say "it evolved") over time, from physical/war conflict, to achievements/economic conflict and … Continue reading how do you recognize you are in a world of conflict game
The Joker
one solution: love ~ message from Carl Sagan
love or do no harm
If there is one ultimate question for humanity's sanity, it most certainly is "how could we love?" If that's a too big of a matter to be addressed, then we might at least ask "how could we not cause harm to another or to self?" https://youtu.be/TbJ0Pbkt4TA
Five fascinating small towns
Dear Humanity
Dear Humanity, You are becoming quite the animal a spectacular species. It seems it was only yesterday, look at you, so afraid of fire. Soon, electricity is your favorite toy. Next, you tied together all the minds in a big ball of wires. Now, timidly, you approach The fire of your love. Will you dare … Continue reading Dear Humanity
The Secret ~ about the paradigm shift and the need for spirituality
A major paradigm is falling and it is just as distressing (if not more) as it were in the past when another major paradigm fell (the earth is not flat and it is not the center of the galaxy). This time we are faced with an even greater mental shift: We are not separated from … Continue reading The Secret ~ about the paradigm shift and the need for spirituality


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The cat is out of the bag. If you wondered if the CDC was getting its Covid -19 guidelines from anywhere other than science, the answer has just been revealed.
Jon Levine, writing in The New York Post, says, "The American Federation of Teachers lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on, and even suggested language for, the federal agency's school re-opening guidance released in February." The emails were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative watchdog group Americans for Public Trust and provided to The Post.
To refresh your memory, in February, new CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced CDC study results confirmed it was safe for schools to reopen even before teachers were vaccinated.
In an article published January 26th in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), three researchers from the CDC found "little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission" of the coronavirus. The CDC researchers looked at more than 90,000 students in 11 North Carolina districts and found that only 32 students and staff members were infected in school, while 773 got infected during the same period out of school. The science was clear; reopening schools was safe for children and teachers.
Dr. Walensky announced these findings to the press and recommended reopening of the schools. She said, "Vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools." But when the press asked questions about her statement with White House press secretary Jen Psaki, she replied Dr. Walensky was speaking "in her personal capacity" and not as the Director of the CDC.
This made little sense at the time. As the Director of the CDC, Dr. Walensky always speaks in an official capacity. But her conclusions about the study and her recommendations would not become official CDC guidelines. Now we know why.
The teachers unions would not tolerate the reopening of the schools without more money and more time for teachers to be vaccinated. Never mind that the science did not support the need for these things. The New York Post article explains what happened next.
Levine says, "The documents show a flurry of activity between CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, her top advisors and union officials – with Biden brass being looped in at the White House – in the days before the highly anticipated February 12 announcement on school re-opening guidelines."
An email from AFT senior director for health issues, Kelly Trautner, reads, "We were able to review a copy of the draft guidance document over the weekend and were able to provide some initial feedback to several staff this morning about possible ways to strengthen the document. We believe our experiences on the ground can inform and enrich thinking around what is practicable and prudent in future guidance documents." She described the AFT as a "thought partner" with the CDC.
Levine writes, "With the CDC preparing to write that schools could provide in-person instruction regardless of community spread of the virus, Trautner argued for the inclusion of a line reading "in the event of high community-transmission results from a new variant of SARS-CoV2, a new update of these guidelines may be necessary." This exact language appeared on page 22 of the final CDC guidance."
The AFT also demanded special remote work concessions for teachers "who have documented high-risk conditions or who are at increased risk for Covid-19," and that similar arrangements should extend to "staff who have a household member" with similar risks. This also made it into the final text.
Dr. Walensky clearly changed her tune after the White House, and the AFT, intervened. Even liberal CNN anchor Jake Tapper was amazed when interviewing Dr. Walensky just a few days later on February 14. Tapper asked, "Can you point to any scientific reason for students in the United States not to return to in person classes tomorrow?"
Walensky dodged the question with this response, "If you're in middle school or high school we would advocate for virtual learning for that group. . . We really don't want to bring communicable disease into the classroom." She repeatedly refused to offer a scientific explanation for the re-opening avoidance. She said, "We all know that mask breaching is among the reasons that we have transmission within schools when it happens. Somewhere around 60% of students are reliably masking. That has to be universal. So, we have work to do."
This clearly is a statement not supported by the CDC's own scientific studies. Yet Walensky allowed herself to be used by the White House – and now we know the teachers unions – to further their agendas. This White House supports teachers unions – but not scientific studies. I suspected as much in earlier posts (CDC Director Caves to Politics, CDC Credibility Gone), but now we know for sure. It's time to stop looking to the CDC or this White House for scientific guidance on the coronavirus pandemic.


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Guests coming for dinner and the weather had turned surprisingly cold. I felt the need for a soup first course but didn't have anything handy in the fridge. Wondering what I could pull together, I looked into the fridge and found a half a butternut squash waiting to become something. With a couple fresh sweet onions, that piece of squash brought a satisfying warmth before the rest of the meal.
1. Make a broth or use a good vegetable stock. I used mushroom stems, celery, onion, ginger.
2. Steam the cubed squash.
3. With a cup of water in a pan, add the dry herbs and the marmite, all the onion in large slices chopped in half or quarters. Stir fry that until it begins to get sticky to the pan, then add the broth, straining out all the stuff.
4. Transfer to the bigger stock pot, add the squash (you can smash the squash ... leave it in chunks, or puree it before you put it in.) Cook all together for about 10 minutes. I used a potato masher to smash the squash while leaving the onions mostly intact though quite soft and translucent. Add the frozen spinach -- it will thaw immediately!. Cook more if you want, or serve just like that! Probably great with just a little parmesan cheese if you eat that...
Butternut Onion Soup
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* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calories needs. courtesy of cronomieter.com using my data.


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NDC 0115-1679-34 Alendronate Sodium
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The NDC Code 0115-1679-34 is assigned to a package of 4 blister pack in 1 carton > 1 tablet in 1 blister pack (0115-1679-30) of Alendronate Sodium, a human prescription drug labeled by Amneal Pharmaceuticals Of New York Llc. The product's dosage form is tablet and is administered via oral form.
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Nikon Coolpix S9700 How To Set Up Wi-Fi Settings And Install Video
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Now that you have your new Nikon Coolpix S9700 let us show you how to set up the Wi-Fi setting to connect your camera.
Follow the steps in this snapbridge video and you will be connected and ready to go. You can transfer your photos and movies to your computer, phone or tablet after installing the app for your specific operating system.


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'American Idol' is a music competition reality television series that needs no introduction to those who follow reality shows. A long-standing show, 'American Idol' used to air on Fox from its inception till 2016, but it currently airs on the ABC network.
Created by Simon Fuller, the show started off as one based on Fuller's British music competition show 'Pop Idol', which aired from 2001 to 2003. Season 1 of 'American Idol' premiered more than a decade back in 2002, and since then, the show has seen a whopping 17 seasons air, and has become one of America's most successful and popular television shows. As it stands, 'American Idol' season 17 is done and dusted, and fans of the show are already looking forward to season 18. Here's everything we know about it.
American Idol Cast: Who is in it?
Being a reality show that has spanned for nearly two decades, 'American Idol' has seen dozens of contestants. Even the judges for the show have undergone some changes over the years.
In its original lineup, the show was co-hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman, while the judges included producer and music manager Randy Jackson, former pop star Paula Abdul, and British music executive Simon Powell. From the eighth season, the panel of judges saw several changes, and included the entry and exit of personalities like Latin Grammy Award-nominee singer-songwriter Kara DioGuardi, famous talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, pop star and actress Jennifer Lopez, rock legend and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, pop stars Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj, singer-songwriter Keith Urban, and Grammy Award and Emmy Award-winning singer Harry Connick Jr. From Season 16, pop star Katy Perry, famed singer-songwriter from the '80s, Lionel Richie, and country musician Luke Bryan took over as the permanent judges of the show.
Apart from the panel of main judges, 'American Idol' has also seen several guest judges make appearances over the years, with some notable ones being Quentin Tarantino, Donna Summer, Gene Simmons, LL Cool J, Jewel Kilcher, Olivia Newton-John, Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne, Adam Lambert, and Neil Patrick Harris.
As far as contestants are concerned, dozens have taken part over the years, but we aren't going into the details of each season here. Over the years, starting from Season 1 to Season 17, the winners have been Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze, Scotty McCreery, Phillip Phillips, Candice Glover, Caleb Johnson, Nick Fradiani, Trent Harmon, Maddie Poppe, and Laine Hardy respectively.
In the ongoing Season 18, Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez, and Harry Connick, Jr. are expected to return as judges. Of course, we will also see a set of entirely new singing talents competing the top prize.
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American Idol Plot: What is it about?
'American Idol' is a music competition reality show that has seen some format changes over the years. However, the basic format of the show has remained the same and it involves a panel of judges who hear all contestants perform during auditions, and select a bunch of "top contestants" who proceed to the main rounds. In the main rounds, there are different forms of competitions, including solo and duet competitions, in which the contestants have to take part. After each such round, the judges of the show critique the contestants and decide who gets to progress to the next round. This continues, through the elimination and the semi-final rounds, until just two contestants are left. These two remaining contestants then compete for the title of 'American Idol' in the season finale, and the winner gets the title and recording contracts which can be as valuable as one million dollars.
A notable aspect of 'American Idol' is that it allows the television audience to vote for contestants who they think have been outstanding performers. By allowing this, the show gets the audience actively involved in each round, and allows contestants to be judged by the world at large rather than by a few judges. Further, 'American Idol' also gives viewers glimpses into the lives and the struggles of the contestants, thereby adding another dimension to the show.
In Season 17, the auditions involved performances by 40 contestants, from whom 20 were chosen to proceed to the following rounds. As the show progressed, contestants were gradually eliminated till only one remained and took home the title of 'American Idol'.
Now that we have gone over the format of the show, a bit must be said about its legacy. Since its inception in 2002, 'American Idol' has been an outstanding commercial success, attracting as many as 30 million viewers per season (in its heyday), and attracting advertisements and sponsorships from industry giants such as Coca-Cola, AT&T, Ford, and Apple's iTunes. It has also been a cultural phenomenon, insofar that it has inspired dozens of other singing competition shows such as 'Rock Star', 'The Voice', 'The X-Factor', 'Rising Star', 'The Sing-Off', and 'Nashville Star'. Further, it has also inspired non-singing reality shows, such as 'Dancing with the Stars' and 'So You Think You Can Dance', and has made reality competition shows a staple of American television.
American Idol Season 18 Release Date: When will it premiere?
'American Idol' season 17 premiered on March 3, 2019. As far as the next season goes, we have good news for the fans. On May 13, 2019, ABC renewed the show for another season. 'American Idol' has seen its ratings and viewership decline over the past few years, and the makers are trying to reinvigorate viewers' interests in the hugely successful show. 'American Idol' has been a mainstay of American television for nearly two decades, so it was a forgone conclusion that ABC would renew the show. Note: American Idol season 18 is the same as American Idol season 3 when seen from ABC's point of view, since the show has seen only two seasons at abc.
Even though no release date was announced, we would expect 'American Idol' Season 3 to air sometime in March, 2020. We are keeping our ears open for news on the release date of the show, and we will update this section when we hear more.
American Idol Trailer:
While we wait for release of 'American Idol' season 18, here is the trailer for Season 17 to refresh your memories.
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Whether opera lover, music lover or a simply a tourist in Verona, if you have the opportunity to attend an opera in the Arena of Verona, it is an experience that you should not miss. There is definitely something magical in listening to Aida's arias soaring up to the sky from the stage with a spectacularly lavish stage set.
Attending an Opera at the Arena di Verona Opera Festival is an extraordinary experience, watching performances with the rich sets, the ensemble, the orchestra, the lyrics, the dance company, and costumes that have enthralled millions of spectators from all over the world for more than a hundred years.
The Verona opera festival takes place every year from June to August. Almost every day, different opera performances are shown, so that we can enjoy different famous opera every night. From "Aida" to "Carmen", "Nabucco", "Turandot" and "Madame Butterfly" we can see the most famous operas in the world.
The festival is traditionally held in the almost 2000 years old Roman amphitheatre known as Arena di Verona which is located in the heart of the city. After the Colosseum in Rome and the amphitheatre in Capua, the Roman arena in Verona is the third largest Roman amphitheatre. With its gigantic dimensions of 140 metres in length and 110 metres in width it dominates the Piazza Brà from the north.
It was built in 30 A.D. and was purposed for games, which were to entertain the Roman government, like gladiator fighting, bloody combats, chariot races, public executions, or bullfights. Back in Roman times 20,000 spectators jeered and roared with blood lust in this giant arena. There were sweat, fear, noise, blood and anguish. Now there still are, not much has changed in this arena over the last 2,000 years. Where once gladiators fought to the death, now mighty tenors and sopranos enliven the stage with the appearance of every passion in operas. The tragic operas convey horror, pity, fear, and sorrow. Dying for love is permitted, even praiseworthy, but murder for revenge will get its karmic due.
The Arena Opera Festival we know today started when a grand "Aida" opera was staged to celebrate in 1913 the centenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi. A phenomenon was born: an annual event presenting four to six large-scale operas over three months. The Arena can accommodate up to 15,000 audience members at each performance, seated either in comfortable chairs in the middle of the Arena, or on the myriad ranks of stone seats that surround the basin.
As you enter the Arena through one of the many gates and climb the steps, you find yourself on the threshold of another world. Opera is a marriage of the arts, a musical drama, full of glorious song, costume, orchestral music and pageantry. It is the medium through which tales and myths are revisited, history retold and imagination stimulated.
So, whether down at the bottom in the stalls or high up on the stone tiers, you can watch the gigantic stage, admire the spectacle, and shout: "Bravo!"


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Investment firm to acquire water park chain
MADISON – A Wisconsin-based indoor water park chain is being sold to a private investment firm in New York City.
Great Wolf Resorts Inc. announced this week that it has entered into an agreement with an affiliate of Centerbridge Partners, LP. Although the terms of the deal haven't been disclosed, the company was purchased three years ago by Apollo Global Management for $798 million.
Great Wolf currently operates 12 indoor water park chains across the U.S. and Canada under the Great Wolf Lodge name. Another chain is under construction in California.
A spokeswoman told the Wisconsin State Journal that the ownership change isn't expected to impact jobs in Madison, where the company's headquarters are located.
Great Wolf employs about 5,000 people nationwide, and roughly 250 people in Madison.


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Today's Scripture:
John 6:25-35
When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal." Then they said to him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." So they said to him, "What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" Then Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Food for Thought:
In this passage, Jesus tells his disciples to work for the food that doesn't perish. What do you think he means by this? Food that perishes could be a metaphor for the things that we clamor after that do not really matter.
Prayer: God who clothes the grass of the field and feeds the birds of the air, free us from all fear and worry that, trusting in your goodness, we may always praise your mighty deeds and give you thanks for the bounty of your gifts. We pray this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


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American poker player Elena Stover talks to BLUFF Europe on how ladies like to be treated at the poker tables, and Marsha Wolak launches an online poker-training site catering for women.
Do you know how to treat a lady at the poker table?
If you don't then I suggest you check out Elena Stover's BLUFF Europe article on the very subject, and if you do, then check it out anyway because you are probably deluded.
Men don't really know too much about women.
If they did, we wouldn't have a billion-dollar industry designed to teach men in the art of communication and understanding of the female of the species.
It's easy to assume that men are divided into two camps. Those that try very hard to treat women in the right way, and those that couldn't care less. But Elena Stover makes a very good point when she says, "It occurred to me that some male poker players may legitimately not know what to do when they find themselves with a woman in their midst, and that might account for some of their more uncouth behavior."
We do have a core group of young players who only meet females once an hour when their mothers bring them some food during their five-minute poker break.
So this advice is for you guys.
Don't call women by pet names. Honey, sweetheart, darling, babe and treacle are all off the menu. I am guilty as charged with this one. It's become a part of my vocabulary.
A few days ago, I sneaked my son into a 15-rated movie. As the young lady let us through I said, "Thanks babe."
"Dad, what on earth did you call her babe for? She looked about 16?"
I couldn't answer him. I really couldn't. I have no idea why those words came out of my mouth. I won't be alone.
They don't want to be asked if they have a boyfriend. Stover believes that the question is a personal one about her love life and it should be stricken from the record. She believes that she's there to play poker and not to speed date.
Another piece of advice is not to flirt with the women at the table. She does use the word 'excessively' but men being men, they really won't know the difference between the two. And don't show them too much attention when they make a good play. Treat them in exactly the same way that you would treat a man.
Stover believes asking to buy her a drink would make her feel uncomfortable but I just think it's a way to weed out the dicks, especially as the drinks will probably be free.
Macho posturing is not just an elaborate feather-waving dance that will piss women off. It pisses men off as well. It's uncomfortable, awkward and sickly, so cut it out.
Other ways to deepen your knowledge of the opposite sex are to read anything that John Gray puts out into the world of Kindle, and a personal favorite of mine is a book called Woman an Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier.
Online Poker Training for Women
World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder, Marsha Wolak, has created what I think is the first online poker-training site dedicated to women. The welcome sign does contain a caveat that men are welcome also but the site is definitely intended for females.
The sites mission statement is to, 'empower women to excel in poker by sharing our passion, skill and knowledge of the game in a comfortable and affordable online platform to help achieve their short and long term poker goals.'
The site currently has two full-time coaches with WSOPC ring winner Natasha Barbour joining Wolak, and the WSOP bracelet winner Ronnie Bardah has also recently joined the site to do some work as a guest pro. Bardah is a member of Team Ivey.
The site is called Femme Fatale Poker Training and if you are female and looking for a man free zone (Ronnie Bardah apart) from which to learn more tricks of the trade, then get over there and check it out.


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Teaven Curtiss has maintained his innocence from day one. In June of 2020, he was indicted for allegations of the most serious kind. At Teaven's trial, an entirely false narrative… read more →
Teaming up with the MacArthur Justice Center (https://www.macarthurjustice.org/), Eric has filed a Petition for Cert to the United States Supreme Court on an issue he has been litigating for years.… read more →
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PHASE I – Determine the content and face validity of the vulvar acute genital injury score (VAGIS) using a modified electronic Delphi (e-Delphi) method in a national panel of SA forensic experts.
Scale Development (De Vellis, 2003)
- Step 1 – Determine clearly what is it you want to measure – this study seeks to measure AGI after SA
- Step 2 – Generate an item pool – the item pool will be generated through a rigorous review of literature and the investigators empirical clinical experience
- Step 3 – Determine the format for measurement – the format for measurement will be in the form of the Vulvar Acute Genital Injury Score (VAGIS)
- Step 4 – Have the initial item pool reviewed by experts – The investigator of the proposed study will reduce the item pool before initial review by experts. The reduced item pool will be evaluated for content validity (described later) by assessing relevance, clarity and appropriateness by an expert Delphi panel (described later).
- Step 5 – Consider inclusion of validation items – the additional items to be validated by the expert Delphi panel will be the theoretical framework, the measurement framework, the operational definitions, scoring, format, and overall ability of the VAGIS is at measuring AGI after SA.
- Step 6 – Administer items to a development sample – the VAGIS will be validated using content experts as described in Step 4 and Step 5.
- Step 7 -Evaluate the items – Items on the VAGIS will be evaluated using content experts as described in Step 4 and Step 5.
- Step 8 -Optimize scale length – The length of the VAGIS will be optimized using content experts as described in Step 4 and Step 5.
Basic assumption: A group's opinion is more valid than an individual's opinion. A multi-staged survey method used to quantify the judgment of experts, assess priorities, and/or to make long range forecasts on a new or subjective topic that lacks high-quality evidence.
3 types: Classic, Modified, Modified e-Delphi
Classic Delphi
Usually consists of 2-3 rounds.
Round 1 – A survey is sent for Item generation. Item reduction occurs, and themes are identified.
Round 2 – A consensus level is set. A summary of results is sent to the participants. Descriptive statistics (mean, mode, percent agreement) are employed and a free text is evaluated using a coding schema.
Round 3 – A summary of results is sent to the participants. Data are analyzed in a similar manner as Round 2. Additional rounds are performed as necessary until consensus is achieved.
Modified Delphi
Round 1 – item generation round is replaced by opening statements developed after a rigorous review of the literature.
Round 2 & 3 – Then continues as classic Delphi method until the predetermined consensus level is achieved. Consensus is usually achieved in 2 rounds.
Modified e-Delphi
This is the approach for the current study. Similar to modified Delphi method. Consensus is usually achieved in 2 rounds. Uses internet online surveys such as Survey Monkey or RedCap, which allows faster turnaround time for participant responses and contains cost.
Establishing Content and Face validity – Delphi participants will be asked these seven questions in order to validate the content of each item on the scale.
- Does the general theoretical framework research support inclusion of the item on the tool?
- Does the measurement framework support how the item is measured on the VAGIS?
- Is the operational definition for each of the item choices correct?
- Are the choices for each of the item scores appropriate?
- Is the format appropriate?
- Is the level of language appropriate?
- Overall affirmation of this item?


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Over the past years, street food has attracted attention worldwide through blogs, even meriting a conference in Singapore and the Philippines.
But in Metro Manila, you wonder where the ambulant vendors with their goods are today. With the clearing of sidewalks and the gating of residential villages, food vendors can't bring their wares anywhere.
The food once available only in streetcarts has moved on to permanent stalls in MRT, LRT stations, provincial bus and other transport stations.
The biggest upheaval is how street food has been "upgraded" in the malls. Though some are still in carts, these carts are in the malls, in alleys and passageways that pass for sidewalks.
The street food vendors are still ready to run away at the slightest sign of a clean-up crew. Thankfully the boiled peanut vendors with their carts no longer are distractions on Edsa. I welcome the rare call of the balut vendor on our street in our gated subdivision at night. The buko vendor even rings our bell to ask if we want his fresh juice with thin slices of meat extracted right before our eyes.
My earliest memory of street food was the smell of gaas (kerosene) cookers on carts on Roxas Boulevard that sold kropek and popcorn in waxed paper bags. That was when the only people's park was Luneta.
'Pot pot'
Breakfast could be pan de sal delivered by the bakery bicycle that would toot its horn (which is why people tended to call the vehicle "pot pot"). Or it could be puto and cuchinta from the man balancing two tin containers, both of which had a cone-shaped cover. Or maybe the taho vendor who also balanced tin containers though shaped differently, long and cylindrical, one containing the tofu, the other the syrup and sago, all of which end up in your glass or mug since there were no plastic containers then.
Merienda brought different sounds—the tinkle of the ice cream man's bell or the cow bell-like sound from the binatog (steamed corn kernels) man.
Gilda Cordero Fernando in her story, "Good Housekeeping in Pagsanjan" (Philippine Food and Life, Anvil Publishing, 1992), wrote of the hawker's cry at breakfast—"Puto, kutsinta, bibingka, pasingaw… Putong bula, suman!").
Thankfully, she described the two unfamiliar names to me—pasingaw, which is "steamed rice cake resembling bibingka"; and the putong bula, which is "large, white puto sliced on the bias."
Doreen Gamboa Fernandez in "Tikim" (Anvil Publishing, 1994) had one chapter on "Balut to Barbecue: Philippine Streetfood" that she qualified as "not only a convenience" but "is a lifestyle."
But that "lifestyle" may no longer be so given the conditions stated above.
Artificial, sterile
Bryan Koh, Singaporean author and friend, e-mailed his thoughts on street food in Singapore.
"It is a thing of the past… I can understand the motivation behind it, what with the upkeep of hygiene standards, but I also feel that we have lost something beautiful. You can still get good local street food in parts of Singapore, but in markets and food courts that, really, just seems so artificial and sterile. It's sad, really."
Our street food and the hawkers' cries may exist only in a museum some day, just as it does in Macau. One exhibit there shows a street scene in the old days and you press a button to hear the call of hawkers or the horn of peddlers on bicycles.
Pretty soon, street food will also just be part of our food history, read about but not experienced. Even the names will be a thing of the past.
A good example of that is the "dirty ice cream," what the nuns in Catholic schools called unbranded noncommercial ice cream to dissuade their colegiala ward from buying. Do Caviteños still have the pansit istasyon, not noodles as the name suggests but sauteed monggo sprouts sold in the bus station?
Can we still relate to Doreen Fernandez's quote of colegiala English describing skewering fishballs as "make tusok-tusok"?
We will also lose the most imaginative, funny street food names of barbecued meat parts—"Adidas" for chicken feet, "PAL" for chicken wings, "IUD" for the intestines, "Walkman" for pork ears and "Betamax" for congealed pork blood. They will go to where early techie equipment ends up— "into the dustbin of history" (attributed to Leon Trotsky).
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In OS X versions prior to 10.5, if you wanted to preview a font, you had only a couple of choices: you could view it in Font Book, or in an application that supported some form of font previews. In Leopard, though, there are at least three new ways to preview fonts. If you just want a quick idea of what your fonts look like, just open a fonts folder (your user's is in your Library/Fonts folder; the all-user fonts are in the top-level Library/Fonts folder, and the system fonts are in /System/Library/Fonts) in the Finder. In list and column view mode, you'll see a very small preview icon of the font, showing the letters "Ag" in each font's face. Switch to icon view, and you'll get a somewhat larger version. Switch to Cover Flow view, and you'll get a flippable view of those same preview icons.
The best way to preview fonts in 10.5, though, is with Quick Look. Select a font file in the Finder, then press the Space Bar. Instead of seeing a huge version of the "Ag" icon, you'll see uppercase and lowercase versions of the alphabet, along with the digits 0 through 9. This makes it simple to get a quick glance at a font.
But what if you really want to take a close look at that font? It turns out that the Quick Look PDF zoom keys also work when previewing a font. So just press Command-Equals a few times, and you'll be looking at a really close-up view of your selected font. (Zoom back out with Command-Minus when you're done.) If this doesn't seem to work for you, make sure the Quick Look window is active first—clicking on it is the easiest way to do that. As with the PDF zoom, you can zoom in or out much more than you would ever practically find useful.
Note that when testing this hint, I occasionally had a problem where the previews wouldn't show in Quick Look, especially on my large top-level Library/Fonts folder—instead of the alphabet, I'd simply see the font's actual icon. In those cases, simply leaving the folder active in the Finder seemed to fix the problem—I think this is because the Finder has to generate the previews first, before you can use Quick Look on them.


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Winter in Paris
I have so many beautiful photos to share from my Paris trip. I always feel soooo inspired in that city (it's hard not to!) You can still find magic on every corner even in the dead of winter in Paris!!! Most of the pieces I wore from my trip are now on sale – so be sure to snap them up before they're gone! I LOVE scoring stunning winter pieces like this coat in end of the season sales.
Soia and Kyo is a relatively new to me outerwear brand that has some of the chicest, high quality coats on the market. I've been eyeing this pretty taupe wrap coat – and this one for spring.
Styling My Coat
I can't stop wearing this faux croc bag from Mango which just got restocked in this style. Trust me – you will wear it with everything too. Speaking of pieces that can be worn with everything, this Wolford turtleneck bodysuit is AHHH-MAZING.
Bodysuits instantly slim your entire figure and they just make you feel good. Seriously, if I'm ever feeling blah I slip one on with high waisted jeans and my day turns around. This one from H&M is a total steal – and I'll link a few of my other favorites below!
Last but certainly not least, can we talk about this BCBG dress? (Similar here!) I bought it in St. Tropez 5 years ago for a fun night out on the town, and to be honest, after that night, I rarely wore it again. When I was packing for Paris, I saw it hanging in my closet and thought maybe I could "winter-ize" it. I put a turtleneck underneath – and wallah – the dress came back to life and the outfit was made! I love re-wearing pieces and am excited to keep styling it for seasons to come.


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Yaritza Angélica Millones LópezAge 27
28 Apr 2019
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Beaten and suffocated
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Yaritza was found in her apartment in the Balvanera neighborbood. She had been dead for several days.
Yaritza had moved from Peru to Argentina three years earlier after experiencing systemic discrimination in her birth country.
She was born on December 6, 1991 in Peru and had lived in Argentina for three years. Her family heard the news last Sunday. Her mother is a housewife and her father a taxi driver. He traveled to Buenos Aires this weekend to identify her body. "Her mother, her brother Cristian and I are very sad. My daughter was a very calm, good girl who loved little animals. We talked on the phone often, and the last time, she asked her mother, 'If something happens to me, will you take me and take care of my animals?' She said they had threatened her," Carlos Alberto told Presentes.
Yaritza survived through sex work. She lived with two dogs and a cat in a two-room apartment, on the eighth floor of a building in Balvanera. Her neighbors worried because they stopped seeing her and her pets were restless. Friends had a bad feeling: it was not normal for Yaritza to not answer their calls. "They approached the building and as nobody answered, they and the neighbors decided to call 911. They also communicated with the person who rented the apartment to enter. The Homicide Division entered and found her body. She had been dead a few days without life, "Marcela Tobaldi, coordinator of the Rosa Naranja, told Presentes.
Yaritza had approached this organization to ask for advice on the procedures to make the gender change.
"We met sometimes," recalls Tobaldi. "She started going to the Defensoría, where I work. Then we got together in La Rosa Naranja and we had some friends around to my house. She was a sweet girl, very loving. She recently called to say that her updated ID had come through.
This weekend, Tobaldi and Yaritza's friends met with the father of the victim to see how to move forward. "I want Justice to be done," he said. "At 13 or 14 we already knew who Yaritza was. I accepted her and did not want her to leave. But she wanted to make her life in her own way, that nobody told her anything, that's why she left Peru with a friend. I studied computer science and worked. My daughter finished high school, but there they all discriminated against her. In Peru it is like that," says the father.
For La Rosa Naranja, Tobaldi asks: "we want the UFEM (Special Prosecutor in Violence against Women and LGBT + people) - which intervened in Diana Sacayán's transvesticide investigation - to be part of this investigation as well" . There are strong suspicions that the crime was committed by someone who knew her. Her companions believe that she was suffocated and beaten on the head.
Tobaldi adds: "The fact that she is a migrant must be highlighted. Justice is not the same for a poor person, trans and migrant as for a trans and middle class Argentinian. It is proven that transgender people suffer double discrimination because they are migrants and the structural and systematic discrimination that transgender people have. They suffer double. Being a transvestite in the city of Buenos Aires means paying a very high price in life and also in the final destination, death. "


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This new designation follows the announcement by the Dutch Ministry of Health and European Commission in November 2018 that BSI had been appointed as a Medical Devices notified body in the country for active implantable medical devices, medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices. Then in January 2019, BSI was designated as an EU notified body for the Construction Products Regulation.
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Companies undergoing digital transformation typically require agile, efficient, and real-time integration between their core business systems and hybrid cloud deployments. How can such real-time integration be achieved when the core business system is a mainframe? The short answer: an in-memory digital integration hub.
Most large enterprises, especially those in financial services and insurance, rely on mainframes for mission-critical business operations, and these business systems create a high volume of high-value data. For these organizations, successful transformation requires effective and flexible information flow between these mainframes and cloud applications.
An in-memory-powered digital integration hub optimized for the mainframe enables them to achieve exactly that goal. There are numerous potential use cases for a digital integration hub, including the delivery of 360-degree customer or 360-degree business views. These enable real-time flow of banking information to cloud-based functions such as rates and pricing or compliance, and providing a current, comprehensive view of clients and their policies for insurance organizations.
The importance of mainframes in digital transformation
Mainframes provide key value as the center of gravity for operational data for large enterprises. Two-thirds of the Fortune 500, 44 of the top 50 worldwide banks, and eight of the top 10 insurance companies use mainframes to process core batch as well as real-time transactional workloads.
For these businesses to reach their digital transformation goals and aggregate the information they need from across disparate, siloed data sources, they must be able to combine data generated by multiple mainframe applications with data from other data environments in real time. They must then be able to effectively and efficiently share this information to consuming applications in hybrid cloud environments without impacting their systems of record in order to drive real-time business processes.
For example, to generate top-line growth, enterprises need to effectively power real-time upsell and cross-sell opportunities by leveraging a holistic view of the client. In the financial services sector, multi-national and regional banks benefit from linking client information across multiple lines of business, which may include demand deposits, retail banking operations including credit cards and mortgages, investments, and private banking.
The information required to create this valuable linkage needs to be derived and composed from numerous transactional and batch environments and their related data sources, many of which are hosted on mainframes. In some cases, combining this information with other sources typically not on the mainframe, such as data warehouses, data lakes, or SaaS applications, can provide significant value.
The most efficient and cost-effective way to integrate information from all of these sources is via a high-performance digital integration hub running on the mainframe, which will support high throughput, low latency use cases. A digital integration hub running on the mainframe provides efficient integration with transactional and batch systems of record and can also integrate with other data hubs in the enterprise architecture.
How a digital integration hub creates a more effective information flow
An efficient digital integration hub on the mainframe can aggregate and compose information derived from multiple on-premises transactional and batch systems with minimal or no impact on systems of record. In addition, it can combine mainframe data with data not residing on the mainframe. A digital integration hub can create and compose information based on that high-value data and populate the resulting information into a powerful and scalable in-memory cache.
The aggregated information, residing in the high performance in-memory cache, can be accessed in real time by numerous business applications using a variety of APIs, such as REST and JDBC/ODBC, or Apache Kafka for event-based architectures. Consuming applications can range from back-office systems to customer-facing applications, such as those related to omnichannel banking. A synchronization layer, or change data capture layer, ensures that current data in the systems of record is processed, and initiates the re-computation or re-aggregation of information whenever source data changes.
The most popular and cost-effective solution for building a real-time digital integration hub is with an in-memory data grid, a component of an in-memory computing platform. An in-memory data grid pools the available CPUs and RAM and distributes data and compute across the cluster of servers or cores. By aggregating data in memory and applying massively parallel processing (MPP) across the distributed cluster, an in-memory data grid maximizes processing speed.
While an in-memory data grid can be deployed on a cluster of commodity servers, a digital integration hub optimized for mainframe data benefits from being deployed on specialty mainframe processor cores. Generally, an in-memory data grid can be deployed on-premises, in a public or private cloud, or in a hybrid environment.
The combination of in-memory data caching and MPP provides real-time performance that is up to 1,000x faster than a solution built on disk-based data storage. In-memory data grids may support a range of APIs, including support for key-value data and, in some solutions, SQL. ACID transaction support may also be available to ensure no loss of data when transactions are processed on the in-memory data.
The distributed computing architecture of the in-memory computing platform also makes it easy to increase the compute power and RAM of the cluster by adding new nodes or additional hardware resources. The in-memory computing platform automatically detects additional resources and redistributes data to ensure optimal use of the available CPUs and RAM.
Relevant data is cached in the digital integration hub, with the compute workload distributed across the in-memory computing server or core cluster. Business applications, including everything from back-office systems to consumer-facing websites to mobile applications, can access information such as 360-degree customer or business views that would be impossible to achieve in real time without the digital integration hub.
The advantages of running a digital integration hub on a mainframe
A digital integration hub on the mainframe is best suited for use cases where the predominance of data originates on the mainframe. It has two major technology components, the in-memory compute runtime and caching layer and the data virtualization and synchronization layer. Both components provide unique advantages and optimizations.
The in-memory computing layer in the digital integration hub on the mainframe pools the CPU cores and RAM allocated for its use; MPP is accomplished by running the cache queries in parallel across the allocated cores. The data virtualization and synchronization layer provides automatic parallelization of the access to a large variety of data from core systems and can provide change data capture functionality for those data sources. The communication between the data abstraction layer and the in-memory compute layer is further optimized within the mainframe to leverage shared memory.
Additional benefits of running the digital integration hub on a mainframe include:
- Currency of information: Locating the digital integration hub where the underlying data originates means the aggregated information is derived from current business operational data in real time, rather than from stale data after it has been moved off the mainframe.
- Security and governance: With a digital integration hub on the mainframe, computation and aggregation of data occurs on a highly secure platform, leveraging its existing auditing and governance capabilities rather than exposing raw data off-platform.
- Cost: A digital integration hub on the mainframe can take advantage of attractive pricing mechanisms of the platform such as specialty engines. It also reduces the I/O costs of moving bulk raw data off-platform during operations.
- Scalability: Co-locating the digital integration hub with the transactional and batch systems provides greater scalability. It also provides high performance via memory-to-memory techniques for data integration and via event aggregation at the source of the data.
- Unparalleled disaster recovery: Persisting in-memory digital integration hub instances on the mainframe to an RDBMS such as IBM Db2 z/OS enables users to leverage their existing investments in highly reliable and well-tested mainframe disaster recovery infrastructures.
- Ease of information access: A digital integration hub on the mainframe facilitates information sharing with existing business applications that are already integrated with the mainframe.
How the digital integration hub can reduce time to value
A digital integration hub abstracts and decouples the underlying data contexts and formats from the consuming applications, allowing for greater flexibility when adding new consuming applications. The digital integration hub also reduces the complexity of joining, aggregating, and computing information from multiple systems of record on the mainframe without requiring changes to those systems. A digital integration hub cache can also be used for multiple consuming applications and scenarios, providing "implement once and reuse" benefits.
An ecosystem of integrated business solutions that can leverage the digital integration hub on the mainframe can further reduce time to value. For example, it may allow users to avoid custom application coding and maintenance costs by using packaged business solutions that can leverage the hub's APIs. The digital integration hub can enable financial services businesses to build ACH, ISO20022 (SWIFT), ISO8583-1 (credit card format), and custom templates into the data abstraction and virtualization layer, which can enable interaction with the systems of record without impacting their performance.
A digital integration hub underpinned by in-memory computing is rapidly becoming a foundational technology for powering digital transformations. For use cases in which the center of gravity of a company's operational data resides on a mainframe, a digital integration hub deployed on the mainframe provides a vital, cost-effective, performant, and secure solution for enabling high-value information flow between systems of record and business processes across the hybrid cloud environment.
Nikita Ivanov is founder and CTO of GridGain Systems, where he has led the development of advanced and distributed in-memory data processing technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience in software application development, building HPC and middleware platforms, and contributing to the efforts of companies including Adaptec, Visa, and BEA Systems.
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With so much attention on B2B cell phone scrubbing after the October 16th TCPA cell law change, don't forget about the National Do-Not-Call List. As the FTC was quick to point out at the most recent Washington D.C. Pace Summit: B2B telemarketers need to scrub out home-based businesses on the national DNC list, something few B2B call centers seem to do.
In other words, you can't use your exemption to call small businesses that are on the Do-Not-Call List—cell or not!
Watch 3 reasons B2B's should register with DNC List
This video is for informational purposes. Be sure to consult your own attorney for questions specific to your business.
Does this mean I need to register with the National Do Not Call List as a B2B Exemption?
Our legal contacts are recommending that you do so, especially since that's the only way you can get a Subscription Authorization Number to either download the list yourself or give to a top DNC Service Provider to scrub. It'll also save you the $17,000 yearly fee B2C companies pay.
The Good (kind of):
- These small to medium business folks have indicated they're not going to buy anything anyway. They just don't want to be called—and actually may be saving you some time.
- The amount of numbers scrubbed out or eliminated from your DNC "business" list shouldn't be that many. D&B tells us that 20% to 25% of small to medium businesses have their numbers on the DNC Registry. Compare that to over two-thirds of all consumer numbers being on the list.
- You should be able, after consulting with your Council, to register as an Exempt Entity that only calls businesses at www.telemarketing.donotcall.gov for free, saving you the $17,000 plus for the year.
The Bad (for the most part)
- The FTC apparently is upholding the original sacred DNC consumer exemption, no matter how a number is advertised, as long as it's on the list.
- You now have the additional burden of scrubbing National and other DNC Registries with your new B2B cell scrubbing procedures as required after October 16th
- States continue to get in on the action, piggy-backing on the new cell phone laws. You'll want to include State Lists in your overall scrubs too.
Think the DNC violation suits for business-to-business calls can't happen to you? - Think again.
I recently spent a week with a top tech company sales manager. Although his cell number was on the National DNC Registry, he continually received 2 to 3 unsolicited calls per day from other tech companies wanting his business. Although his number was hidden on Linked-in pending his approval to give it out, he was well aware data providers were making his hidden Linked-in data available - and thus the calls.
My friend also happens to be a DNC Compliance expert, and knows exactly how to sue these companies and turn their world upside down under both DNC and TCPA statutes - which he elects not to do (fortunately for them). But predatory attorney's entering the B2B calling environment aren't being so friendly.
To be clear, we're talking about two separate B2B calling violations here:
1. Violation of the October 16th TCPA cell phone update: can't use auto-assist to dial cells without written permission.
2. Violation of the National DNC Registry: can't call any number on the Registry, including cells, without an existing business relationship or having received prior written permission.
Cells have been getting all the attention lately. So don't be fooled or lulled into thinking cell scrubbing, archiving, and identification is enough. Beware of someone's "business" number that is on the DNC list!
For more information, see our page: "B2B Marketers should consider National DNC List Signup."
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GOLF: Central York defends District 3 3-A title with narrow win over Manheim Township
- Central York defended its district golf title by defeating Manheim Township by four strokes.
- Carson Bacha tied for the low round of the day with an even-par 72.
- York Catholic finished in second place in the Class 2-A tournament to Brandywine Heighrts.
A year ago, when the Central York golf team ended a run of five consecutive District 3 Class 3-A titles by Manheim Township, it looked like the Panthers were starting a run of their own in the team competition.
Central York returned all of the starting members of that 2016 district championship team for 2017, including Arizona recruit Joe Parrini and Carson Bacha, who burst onto the scene as a freshman.
So, when the Panthers teed it up on Wednesday, Oct. 4, to defend their district crown at Briarwood East Golf Course, it came with the added pressure of living up to expectations.
While Central's team score wasn't as low as 2016 score of 300, the Panthers were again good enough to hold off Manheim Township, winning with a four-player score of 307, four strokes better than the Blue Streaks, to successfully defend last year's championship.
"With all our guys returning from last year, our main goal was to get back to states this year," Panthers' head coach Sean Guerin said.
In order to qualify for team states, Central had to win districts first.
On a day when temperatures were relatively warm, but with a constant breeze, nobody went particularly low.
Bacha finished with the low score for the Panthers and tied for low round of the tournament, posting an even-par 72. Parrini had an off day by his own high standards, shooting 76, while Will Gekas posted 79 and freshman Jun Lee fired 80 as the four scores that counted toward Central's team total.
Both Bacha and Parrini had up-and-down rounds, with Bacha salvaging more out of his day. Despite struggling on the four par-5 holes, Bacha got after pins on the other 14 holes. He played most of his round under par, but a double-bogey on the par-5 ninth brought him back to even par, where he finished his day.
"It was very solid," Bacha said about his round. "I didn't play the par-5s as good as I wanted. I played them at 2-over, but other than that, it was a very solid round. It didn't play easy out there, so it felt pretty good."
As for Parrini, he never quite could get positive momentum going. Starting on No. 12, Parrini played his first seven holes in 2-over before making an eagle on the par-5 second to get back to level par. However, he instantly gave a stroke back on the next hole, eventually posting a 2-over 39 on the front side before finishing off a 2-over 37 on the back.
Gekas fired a 40 on the front side and 39 on the back to finish off his 79, while Lee's 80 was a low enough to count toward Central's team score.
"We started a freshman this year, Jun Lee, Julianne's brother," Guerin said. "He averaged 75 for us all year and it felt like he was that missing link to our five-man rotation in order to get it done in districts and possibly states. Will Gekas went out and shot 79 and last year he shot 79 (Wednesday). Obviously, he's improved this year, but it was tough out there when the wind picked up, so for him to gut it out is growth on his part."
The Panthers will head to states to compete in the team competition on Wednesday, Oct. 25, when they will look to improve on last year's third-place finish. Heritage Hills Golf Resort will again play host to the state tournament.
Class 2-A tournament: In the 2-A tournament, first-time participant Brandywine Heights took home the team title with a score of 346.
That score was eight strokes better than runner-up York Catholic, which finished with a 354 total.
Jon Giambalvo was the low man for the Fighting Irish, shooting a 79. Russ McPaul shot 81, Ben Andrasi had a 95 and Max Kile's 99 counted toward the team total.
Despite Giambalvo and McPaul both having lower scores than Brandywine Heights' lowest man, York Catholic didn't quite have the depth that the champions showed.
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