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1. Summary. The Budapest Municipal Court ruled December 16 to disband the Magyar Garda Association. The Association will appeal the ruling. However, the Magyar Garda Movement, not a legal entity under the law, remains in place with potential anti-Roma demonstrations likely down the road. End summary.
Magyar Garda Gone - Maybe
2. On December 16 the Budapest Municipal Court, concluding a nine-month on-again, off-again trial, finally ruled on the case brought by the Chief Prosecutor's Office to disband the extreme right-wing Magyar Garda. A key element of the trail centered on the fact that the Magyar Garda Association is a legally registered entity under Hungarian law. Although the MGA leader and right-wing Jobbik party President Gabor Vona established a "Magyar Garda Movement" - which is not a legal entity - earlier this year in an attempt to circumvent the legal definition, the Court ruled that both entities are directly linked, in particular through financial donations. As evidence, the Prosecutor provided a secretly recorded video clip showing Vona explaining to the MGA national assembly in September the connection between the Association and the Movement. In response, Vona, who claims there is no legally binding connection between the two entities, has now filed a law suit claiming the video violated his right to privacy.
3. Continuing, the Court ruled to disband the Magyar Garda Association (MGA) that came into existence in August 2007, finding that the MGA's founding documents' expressed purpose is to preserve Hungarian culture but that their actions actually violated the Hungarian Law on Associations. Specifically, the Court cited a MGA rally in the town of Tatarszentgyorgy in March 2008, when members of the para-military group intimidated the Roma inhabitants, calling "gypsy crime" a threat requiring the MGA's response. The Court stated that the anti-Roma atmosphere created by the MGA violated the human dignity of the Roma minority as well. Following the decision, the MGA lead lawyer said the Association will appeal the ruling, delaying a final decision on the fate of the Magyar Garda Association until 2009.
4. The trial drew considerable public and media attention and was delayed in early September when the presiding judge stepped down after receiving threats. Although far-right demonstrators attended each court session, their response to the Court's decision so far has been without incident, perhaps influenced by a significant police presence in and around the court house. In an incident prior to the Court decision, one of the Magyar Garda's key leaders, Attila Szabo and his wife were attacked in their home by three intruders the evening of December 15. The Szabos, not surprisingly, both claim that the attackers were Roma but that has not been confirmed by law enforcement authorities.
Potential Demonstrations Ahead
5. Even if the court's ruling stands on appeal, we still anticipate further anti-Roma demonstrations, as the Magyar Garda Movement is not affected by the Court's decision. Vona made a calculated and clever decision to establish the Magyar Garda Movement earlier this year. With only ten members in the Association, but well over 1500 in the Movement, the Magyar Garda will continue to draw support. It may even grow as the current economic situation exacerbates the financial situation of many Hungarians, in particular, those in the smaller villages and towns away from Budapest with a significant Roma population. The court's decision is legally correct and politically important - but it will not in itself put an end to the Garda. Foley


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So happy to see you!!!
It sounds like things are not going as well as you had hoped. Sorry to hear about the electric wiring that had to be replaced.
I hope everything else will be good and quick so you can get into your new home.
Happy to see you!!
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Thank you Fern..we are very excited about our new home by the sea. We are anxious to get back there and to the sea again...that's my favorite thing!! Hugs and wags, MistayaReplyDelete
Hi Mistaya, it is good to see you again. The past few days got really busy and I missed your posts.ReplyDelete
Looks like you and M.O.D. settled in quickly at the motel. That is a really cute photo.
Hi SquirrelQueen....we very glad to see you here again. M.O.D. says he isn't spoiling me by M.O.M. and know different!!ReplyDelete
We hope to do the final move to be in our new home by the end of this month. We are anxious to find all the new and fun places to explore!! Hugs and wags, Mistaya and Gail

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John Harms (M.Ed, '71, Ed.S. '77 Couns Ed) has been retired since 1999. "I am now living at Patriots Colony, a Continuing Care Retirement Community for Military Officers. This after living 30 years in Hawaii. Still counseling a few high school student who are grandchildren of residents, primarily using the online SVIB. The School of Education has changed significantly from, I believe, the three buildings we were using on the Main Grounds in 1971 and '77. Dr. Paul Walters was our mentor and adviser to the numerous US Marines that attended the Ed Graduate programs then.
John Harms's Curry Memory
"Dr. Paul Walters and UVA will always be as one in my mindset of Curry. I was in Vietnam, had applied to UVA under the Marine Corps Advanced Degree Program, but heard nothing from them. For some strange reason I had my Graduate School catalog with me. Remembered the name Paul Walters and sent him a letter requesting status. Within three weeks had all my acceptance paperwork and a letter of apology from Dr. Walter.
"One of the most interesting events was my Mental Test and Measurement Course. The US had started bombing Cambodia and some students ask the professor if they could take their current grades and protest against this Government activity. He stated yes and they waltzed out of class. Well, we two Marine's in the class explained this to Dr. Walter and stated we wanted to take our current grade and show support for this activity. Dr. Walter said go ahead. We did, the professor had no option but to let us go, and he became somewhat of a laughing stock of the Ed faculty."


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Daniel Kivatinos and Michael Nusimow Recognized Second Year in a Row by Alma Mater Stony Brook University as Leading Innovators in the Technology Industry
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 25, 2016) - drchrono, the industry leading Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform on the iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and web, announced today that its co-founders Daniel Kivatinos and Michael Nusimow have been honored by their alma mater Stony Brook University as recipients of the second annual 2015 40 Under 40 Award. The 2015 Stony Brook 40 Under 40 award winners were selected for their accomplishments and contributions in industries such as technology, healthcare, finance, sports, science & engineering and many others. The winners will be honored at an event on January 26, 2016 at The Edison Ballroom in New York, NY.
"We are proud to recognize Michael and Daniel as pioneers in entrepreneurship and healthcare. They personify the power of a Stony Brook degree and have a relentless pursuit for excellence that is embodied in the Mission of the University which seeks to make a global impact in changing our world," said Matthew Colson, Executive Director of Alumni Relations, Stony Brook University.
Daniel Kivatinos, COO and co-founder of drchrono states, "It's an honor to be recognized once again by our alma mater Stony Brook University. Michael and I feel a great sense of pride receiving this award and humbled to be included among other talented Stony Brook graduates."
Daniel and Michael are actively involved in helping Stony Brook University. They are committed to working closely with the entrepreneurial students and furthermore helping them learn what it takes to create a successful startup. Michael and Daniel started drchrono in 2009 with the goal to make healthcare simple and innovative with the drchrono EHR and practice management platform for physicians and patients. Michael Nusimow has a B.E. in Computer Engineering & Computer Science from Stony Brook University. Daniel Kivatinos holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Computer Science & Psychology from Stony Brook University.
"Stony Brook University graduates are ambitious and creative. They're passionately engaged in issues that matter and are pushing the boundaries of knowledge and expectations in their fields. This year's 40 Under Forty honorees represent Stony Brook's most influential and focused young alumni," said Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D.
Dexter A. Bailey, senior vice president for University Advancement said honorees are nominated by their peers and selected for their achievements in their fields as well as their leadership and community engagement.
"Now in its second year, our 40 Under Forty program continues to validate that Stony Brook alumni are a driven, imaginative community in the pursuit of innovative ideas and solutions," said Bailey. "We couldn't be more proud of each and every one of them."
More information and a list of the 2015 Stony Brook 40 Under 40 Award recipients are available at www.stonybrook.edu/40under40.
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Keeping a diary has never been my thing.
The whole, "Dear Diary, today I saw Jimmy. He's really cute. I think he's going to ask me out soon," thing has never been my style.
Then again, Jimmy was never going to ask me out. He wore a pocket chain, had frosted tips, and he listened to Simple Plan. He was a 7th grade God.
I mean, now he has a criminal record, and I caught him stealing my $400 camera off of the counter at the convenient store, while I was buying sunscreen, but that's entirely beside the point.
Keeping a journal always sounded a little cooler than a diary. It didn't seem to require any type of introduction. It seemed deeper, more personal, and more intimate. I can admit to keeping a journal. Actually, I can admit to keeping at least 10 journals over the last 24 years of my life. I can't honestly say I finished any of them, but isn't that the point of journals? It isn't about a start, or a finish. It's about expressing your feelings, kneading through them in the privacy of your very own binding. Taking them apart and reassembling them like a Lego masterpiece.
That is slightly inaccurate. I never followed the directions on the Lego kits, which is probably why my parents never bought them for me. Now before you go all, "Oh no you DIDN'T, Legos were the bomb dot com" on me, I'm not bashing Lego. I'm just saying that instead of building the Lego Forest Police Station, (is that actually a THING?) I preferred to build…a really tall tower.
My favorite part of this, is that on the Barnes & Noble website, the description reads: Spot the robbers hiding the stolen goods behind a rock!
…Dumb criminals, everyone knows the big tree is where you're supposed to hide your stolen goods!
What I'm trying to say, is that in a journal, I could take apart and reassemble my feelings, until I had them just right. Diary sounded too pretty, too polished, too clean. I needed something messy. I needed room to scratch things out, and the freedom to shamelessly tear pages away.
A journal sounds forgiving.
Like…Hey I don't think you're a bad person for writing this. Get it all out. We're still tight.
Thanks, Journal. High five.
Blogging has always been in its own category, a category I was sure I wanted no part of. Blog? What is that? Is that even a word? It sounds like a disease.
"Ma'am, I'm sorry I have to be the one to inform you, but you've caught a bad case of the blog…"
Am I right? Of course I am. As far as I understood, the blogosphere was a place for people who had similar interests to connect. For example, sometimes blogging connections are made like so:
-Oh, you like to cook? I like to cook! Let's be buds.
-Oh, you like to crochet? So do I! Will you accept this crocheted hat as a symbol of my bloggitude?
-You're married, had the most amazing wedding of all time, and have three BEATIFUL children? Me too! My kids are cuter. Let's be frenemies.
What the heck was I supposed to do in the blogging world? Where would I fit in?
-Oh, the squirrels are trying to steal YOUR crock pot? Me too!
-Oh, you creepily people watch at coffee shops and then write about them against their will? SO DO I!
-Wait, HOLD UP! You're still trying to figure out how to Dougie? I heard all you need is a beat that's super bumpin. Besties!
Not having a niche deterred me from blogging for a very long time. I briefly recovered from this fear while I was living abroad. I settled for keeping a travel blog…aaaand then I came home. Game over.
While sitting in a local coffee shop (coffee addicts, UNITE), one January day two months ago, I dove into the deep end and decided I was going to give this whole blogging thing another try. I have to say, so far it's been a pretty wild ride. Lately, a lot of people have been asking me what kind of blog I write.
Usually I stick with "humorous self deprecation." Somehow describing it as: "…Something about squirrels breaking into my apartment, being terrible at make up, and overcoming my importunate phobia of all things sharky" doesn't sound very official.
I still don't have a clique that I fit into. It's like having lunch tray anxiety in the middle of a busy college cafeteria. You know your friends are somewhere, there is a whole sea of friendly faces, but you're just not sure where you're friends are, or where you are supposed to sit. Worst case scenario, just stand by the waffle machine.
You can't go wrong with the waffle machine.
Ma'am, You've Caught A Bad Case Of The Blog
Keeping a diary has never been my thing.


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Physics: Lightning-fast production of radioactive isotopes
Lightning can trigger an atmospheric nuclear reaction that leads to the production of radioactive isotopes, according to a study in this week's Nature.
It has been proposed that the energy from gamma-rays within lightning can cause photonuclear reactions in the atmosphere, which would produce neutrons and, eventually, positrons (the antimatter counterpart of electrons). However, the reaction had yet to be conclusively observed.
Using four radiation detectors, Teruaki Enoto and colleagues were able to detect neutron and positron signals during a thunderstorm on 6 February 2017 in Japan. From their data, the authors propose that a burst of lightning-triggered gamma-ray photons collided with atmospheric nuclei and initiated nuclear reactions. The atmospheric photonuclear reactions generated neutrons and unstable radioactive isotopes, which generated positrons during decay. The authors suggest that this discovery makes lightning only the second known natural channel on Earth, after the atmospheric cosmic-ray interaction, in which isotopes such as 13C, 14C and 15N are produced.


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Last year I had donated a number of books to the Ashburn Elementary School Library on the hidden curriculum of compulsory government education. All the titles have mysteriously disappeared. Here is the complete text of one of the books by Department of Education whistleblower Charlotte Iserbyt: "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
I have asked Mrs. Walthour to replace the other books that have disappeared from her discretionary fund because the parents and teachers at Ashburn Elementary deserve to hear the truth and deserve an open debate on the subject so we can work together to mitigate the harm to the kids.
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
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Please tell me you saw Thor Ragnarok in theaters this weekend!!!! I really hope you did! It is a truly amazing movie that I can't wait to see a few times to pick out all of the fun. Today I am excited to share our Thor Ragnarok Rachel House interview.
Rachel House was hilarious, down to earth, real and wonderful to talk with. She was open and engaging while really showing how much she loves working with Director Taika Waititi. She has worked with him previously on his smaller budget films so this was a big change from their previous projects. You may recognize Rachel's voice from another Disney project. She was Gramma Tala in Moana! Yes, she is the voice that made us all cry.
Thankfully in Thor Ragnarok she is hilarious and I am in awe of how she kept it together with so much happening around her.
While you were filming the scenes, there was a lot like really deadpan stuff. How hard was it to keep a straight face with all of that, which is hilarious?
I'm pretty used to keeping a straight face, 'cause I've done a lot of Taika's films, and it's always like that. Some of the other actors weren't so good at it. Like losing it. Like they were losing it, especially Jeff Goldblum, 'cause he was so funny. That's not even half of it what you see. It's not even a quarter of what, of the improvisation and stuff that we were doing. And Jeff was just so masterful at improvisation.
Speaking of that, what was your favorite scene that didn't make it, or something that you wish had made it in?
There's a lot, and I think, I believe that they're gonna do a little kinda gag real maybe…with the release of the, something like that Taika was saying last night. There's a whole thing we do with writing out a check, which is so bizarre in that environment.
What's your favorite part about working with Taika?
Just the fun.
What was that like transforming to this character?
Kind of easy-ish. It's a kind of character that Taika always makes me play. You know what I mean?
It's funny, 'cause I just play all these really mean characters, and I'm not mean at all. I'm sort of really ooh about meanness. So I, think he kind of enjoys that.
How did you first get approached for this film? Did he come straight for you?
I got a top-secret audition that I had to do through my agent. And, she said, "Oh, it's for Marvel."
And I said, "Well, that'll be Taika." You know, of course, it will. And she went, "Oh yeah, of course it will." And, then I was given this tiny little saying with a few lines. And then did a tape with, you know, 'cause it's, New Zealand is so small, so one of my buddies, who's a casting director, he filmed. It was just like doing it and then sent it off. And then got a very kind of drawl, email from Taika saying, "Oh, by the way, you got the role." You know, which is really lovely. I don't know if they saw any other people. I'm not sure.
But he sort of, I think he kinds of tried to make it what he wanted to see me do, even though most of it hasn't ended up in the film, but that's okay. It's okay. There's better stuff in the film.
How did you get involved with Taika in the first place?
We've known each other since, I met him when he was 17.
He was in a play in this little theater in Wellington, and he was the best thing about it, you know? And, I was a couple years older, and at drama school at the time. And, Wellington and I just met him after and said, "You were so great. You know, thank you so much." And then started becoming a fan of his little crazy comedy stuff that he'd do with Jemaine and Bret, and another guy called Nigel Collins.
They had this really crazy little, they just did the most stupid things, they'd have sword fights with straws and, re-enact style wars. And, you know, that was their comedy. So, I became a very big fan. From then, we just kept staying in touch. And I had no idea he was gonna end up being an awesome film director. He was an artist, and an actor, and a comedian.
What did you find most challenging as a performer on set every day?
To be honest, my costume. It was really stiff. It was hard to move. And also, when we were doing that spaceship scene, like I was grr, 'cause it's quite stiff. It's beautifully made.
Make sure and head to the theaters to see Thor Ragnarok this week!
Check out the trailer…
Mark your calendars for November 3rd, 2017 to hit the theaters for Thor Ragnarok! Trust me you will want to see the movie as soon as you can!!!!
In Marvel Studios' "Thor: Ragnarok," Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok—the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization—at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first, he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger—the Incredible Hulk!
"Thor: Ragnarok" is directed by Taika Waititi and returns Chris Hemsworth starring as Thor and Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as Loki. They are joined by Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson and Karl Urban, with Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Hopkins. Kevin Feige is producing with Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Thomas M. Hammel and Stan Lee serving as executive producers. Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher L. Yost wrote the screenplay. Marvel Studios' "Thor: Ragnarok" thunders into U.S. theaters on November 3, 2017.


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DRC-sponsored or hosted workshops within the Devils River basin are designed to build a common understanding around this shared resource among landowners and other advocates.
A series of riparian workshops in May/June 2014 kicked off DRC's education program. These landowner/river owner workshops were led by experts in land stewardship and riparian management and follow the successful model developed by the Nueces River Authority. (see remarkableriparian.org)
According to the Houston Chronicle, "Travel on the river has increased tenfold from the few hundred paddlers a year who ventured down the Devils in the 1990s." All those new visitors have an impact on the area's fragile ecology, as well as on the rock paintings made by indigenous tribes who inhabited this area for thousands of years.
DRC works with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to educate visitors about the importance of minimizing their impact and leaving the Devils River basin as they found it. TPWD operates two State Natural Areas (SNA) on the Devils River and has limited and strict guidelines for river access.
Other than the two SNAs, the Devils River is bounded by private property and state laws apply to public access of the river while access to land is limited to the rules of gradient boundary, as defined by Texas courts. More on gradient boundary can be found here.


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To keep the comments as fresh and outstanding as they've been up to this point, we've commissioned Commenting Guru Rob Iracane to write a bi-weekly Comment Ombudsman column. It runs every other week. This is that week.
Mr. Iracane is the guy who approves and deletes comments around here, and the fellow to whom you should address any comment account requests, and he will explore issues involved in commenting, what makes a great comment thread, what's working, what isn't, answer your questions, so on. We want the place to continue to be as much fun as it is every day, and it's not an execution thread like our friends at Gawker do. We like to be inclusive here, because if we're not, we'd be forced to rely on our own wit and knowledge, and that's a scary thought indeed.
So here's this week's column, about the notion of you and your inability to watch YouTube videos ... after the jump. Of course, don't be afraid to let him have it in the comments.
From time to time, Deadspin gives us a little treat in the form of a viral video clip. Maybe it's a slow news day, maybe it's a gem of a YouTube video with someone getting hurt in a hilarious manner, or maybe it's a Stephon Marbury interview that leaves us completely speechless. No matter what, our video sommelier always offers us a refreshing and satisfying clip to accompany the usual Berman sighting or mascot run-in.
Yet some of us are employed at a business that has decided to make use of internet filters and block our access to these YouTubes. Bastards! What do they expect of us during the day, to review our TPS reports without access to visual and auditory amusement? It's the 21st century, man, and television and the internet are converging. Soon, I expect Deadspin to stop posting stories and become a live video feed of Will in his apartment, reading headlines behind a desk and introducing poignant segments about athletes and cancer kids. For now, however, we are treated to the occasional clip that some of us cannot see, and the most irritating comment to read on these posts is something like "Damn company filters. I can't see the video."
Nobody cares that you can't see this video. Seriously. Wait until you get home, turn up your speakers and enjoy Super Trampoline Basketball. Until then, skip the post and go visit a site that doesn't rely on video clips all day, like With Leather. Oh ... wait.
Hey! Comments of the Fortnight!
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Eight men have been indicted as part of a joint U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Missouri Department of Conservation investigation into the interstate and international trafficking in paddlefish "caviar."
The Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri announced yesterday that the men had been charged in four separate indictments for acts that occurred in 2011 and 2012.
The eight men are charged with violations of the Lacey Act, a federal statute which prohibits trade in wildlife, fish and plants that have been taken, possessed, transported or sold in violation of state law.
In this case, Missouri state law prohibits the transportation of paddlefish eggs that have been removed or extracted from a paddlefish carcass; prohibits the sale or purchase, or offer of sale or purchase, of paddlefish eggs; and restricts the purchase of whole paddlefish.
"Illegal wildlife trafficking doesn't just involve rhinos, elephants and other foreign species under siege; it's a threat to U.S. resources as well," said FWS Director Dan Ashe. "We are working with our state and federal partners to ensure that the American paddlefish doesn't end up on the federal Endangered Species List because of the black market caviar trade."
The American paddlefish (Polydon spathula), also called the Mississippi paddlefish or the "spoonbill," is a large, ancient, long-lived species of freshwater fish found primarily in the Mississippi River drainage system. It gets its name from its characteristic long, flattened snout, which can be up to one third its total length and is covered in electroreceptors that scientists believe may be used to find its plankton food.
Paddlefish were once common in waters throughout the Midwest, but overfishing around the turn of the 20th century led to severe population declines. The construction of river dams further affected the species, which has now disappeared from significant portions of its range. Today, 11 out of 22 states within the species remaining range now list the paddlefish as endangered, threatened or a species of special concern.
Cooperative conservation efforts by FWS and other federal agencies, states, and universities are helping protect the paddlefish. However, with the depletion of European and Asian sturgeon populations due to overharvesting, American paddlefish have experienced increased pressure to meet the demand for caviar. In 1992, due to an increased demand for paddlefish caviar and continued decreases in the population, the American paddlefish was afforded international protection by being listed as a species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
All other species of sturgeon and paddlefish were added to the CITES list in 1998. CITES is an international treaty between 178 nations, which seeks to protect rare and declining species by restricting international trade.
One of the men in this case had attempted to export, without a permit, paddlefish eggs in his checked luggage on an international flight from Washington, DC, in violation of CITES.
If convicted, the individual defendants face a maximum penalty of five years each in prison, and a $250,000 fine per count, as well as forfeiture of any vehicles that were used during the commission of the crimes.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Missouri Department of Conservation, with assistance by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys James B. Nelson and Adam C. Cullman of the Department of Justice's Environmental Crimes Section and Supervisory Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence E. Miller of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri.
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Juventus striker Alvaro Morata, reportedly a target for both Manchester United and Liverpool, believes he would thrive in the Premier League. Morata, 23, joined Juventus in 2014, but his former club Real Madrid included a €32m (£25.2m, £35.7m) buyback clause, giving the Spanish giants the opportunity to bring the player back to the Bernabeu either this summer or in 2017.
According to Spanish daily Marca, Real have hatched a plan to cash in on Morata's rising stock in European football. The publication claims the club are prepared to activate the clause this summer but will immediately sell the Spain striker to the highest bidder, believing he can fetch a price of €50m – earning the club a tidy profit of €18m.
Marca add Jose Mourinho, who is widely tipped to replace Louis van Gaal at the Manchester United helm this summer, is a big fan of Morata, having handed his first-team debut to in 2010 as an 18-year-old during his spell in charge in the Spanish capital. Should Real move ahead with their plan to cash in on Morata, the striker would appears ready to jump at the chance to join a club on these shores.
When asked about the Premier League in a separate interview with Marca, Morata said: "I like it. I like it a lot due to the characteristics of its football and because it is more attractive for a striker as it is not as tactical as Italian football."
Morata did however he is happy in Italy. "They [England and Germany] are countries which might suit my style of play better but I am happy in Italy. Juve is a top club and I feel right at home."
Juventus general manager Giuseppe Marotta however admits the final decision on Morata's future will not be in the club's hands. "The fact of Morata staying or not isn't totally down to Juventus," Marotta said, the Daily Express report."The clause? It's the sword of Damocles hanging over the player's stay. It was the only condition in taking him to Turin.
"First there must be an agreement between Madrid and Juventus, I can only reiterate that our choice was targeting a young promising player who has fulfilled that. We're proud, and we're proud of him. We'll open up a dialogue with Real Madrid as soon as possible, to keep him here with us if we can."


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Cowboys rookie Ezekiel Elliott takes DeMarco Murray's advice to follow Jason Witten
Ezekiel Elliott has heeded DeMarco Murray's advice. The rookie is looking to veteran tight end Jason Witten in learning to be a pro's pro.
"My impression's been good," Witten said. "I think he's humble. It's only been two weeks, and we haven't even put the pads on to understand that. Obviously, he seems to embrace the expectations they have for him. He wants to get it right. He wants to do things the right way. That'll come. That relationship will come with him."
Murray, who led the league in rushing in his final season with the Cowboys in 2014, told ESPN he reached out to Elliott after Dallas drafted the Ohio State running back. Murray said he told Elliott to follow Witten.
Witten, 34, has missed only one game in 13 seasons while making 10 Pro Bowls. After practice Wednesday, Witten headed to the weight room to run on the treadmill.
"I appreciate DeMarco saying those kind words," Witten said. "We had a great run together. But DeMarco earned that to the year that he had. Zeke's very talented. You can see that. And he works at it. I think that excites me a lot as a veteran player to see a young guy come in and have high expectations but also to want to surround himself with the right guys and do it the right way. I've been impressed with that so far."
Elliott was the fourth overall pick. He rushed for 3,961 yards and 43 touchdowns on 592 carries in his three-year college career.


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WElcome to the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo's virtual exhibit for Witnesses: Buffalo's Holocaust-Era Stories
This exhibition was presented at Buffalo State College from Nov. 1-30, 2017 thanks to the E.O. Smith Arts and Humanities Faculty Development Award. The virtual exhibit mirrors the physical exhibit and follows 8 survivors and 1 liberator through the themes of: movement, anti-Semitism, corporation, and resilience.
Joseph Bolinsky (January 17, 1917-November 15, 2002)
· Joseph was a Combat Engineer in France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia for the 16th Armored Division from 1943-1946.
· He worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) to help displaced Jews in Ansbach and Struth in Germany.
· Because he grew up speaking Yiddish at home, he was able to assist Jews he saw in Munich and could direct them to the Jewish Agency, a relief agency.
· In a video interview with the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, he recounts that he regretted not doing more for the people he encountered while serving in the army.
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Julius "Joe" Diamond (February 1, 1929-March 19, 2017)
· Joe experienced anti-Semitism as a boy before the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia.
· In 1944, Joe and his family were sent to Auschwitz.
· While there, Dr. Josef Mengele deemed him unfit to work. He was sentenced to die, but he was saved by the kindness of a Russian prisoner.
· After the war, he returned to Czechoslovakia, then moved to Great Britain and finally settled in Buffalo where he set up a successful construction company called Diamondcraft Homebuilders.
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William "Bill" Eisen (July 25, 1920-October 25, 2008)
· Bill grew up in a small town in Poland near Krakow where he worked as a tailor.
· He was sent to six different camps from 1942 to the end of the war in 1945.
· Bill's wife Sara was also a Holocaust Survivor. They met in Poland when Bill returned after Liberation.
· After the war, he immigrated with his wife and new born son, Sanford, to Buffalo. Bill eventually became the Director of Alterations for all Kleinhans and Hartmarx department stores.
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Henry Joseph (1925-June 12, 2002)
· Before the war Henry's family owned a matzah factory.
· After Kristallnacht, only one person in their town had the courage to hide the family after they were chased from their home, the Catholic priest.
· Henry and his sister were separated for their safety; Henry went to Luxembourg and Ruth went to Holland. He never saw her again.
· Henry was held in Lodz ghetto until 1944, held in Auschwitz for two weeks, and was then sent on a march to Bergen-Belsen. It was on this march that his group was rescued by British soldiers. As a result of these events, Henry was spared from the atrocities of Auschwitz.
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Stephan Lewy (March 11, 1925-Present)
· After the death of his mother, Stephan's father sent him to live at the Auerbach Orphanage until such time his father remarried and someone could be home to help raise him.
· He escaped Germany through a Kindertransport to France.
· Stephan travelled to the U.S. on the Serpa Pinto in Spring 1942 at the age of 17. Within a year he was drafted into the U.S. Army.
· He worked as military intelligence as a Ritchie Boy and fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped to liberate Buchenwald.
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Dr. Sol Messinger (June 16, 1932-Present)
· Sol and his parents were passengers on the SS St. Louis in 1939. They sailed to Cuba for refuge but were forced to return to Europe. They disembarked in Belgium and upon the Nazi invasion of Belgium, escaped to Vichy (free) France.
· They escaped a detention camp and hid in a small town, where his father did small jobs as a tailor and in return no-one in the town turned them in.
· After three years, the family managed to get passage on the Serpa Pinto in the spring of 1942. After they arrived at Ellis Island, they made their way to stay with family in Buffalo.
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Anna Post [Dula] (1923-Present)
· Anna was the youngest of six siblings and raised in a very religious household.
· Anna's blond hair and blue eyes gave her confidence to blend in and she snuck out of the town to get food for her family.
· Anna was able acquire false papers bearing a non-Jewish identity. The forged birth certificate and identity card bore the name of Salomea Czaplinska. They were excellent forgeries, but ink spilled on the ID card while Anna was adding her fingerprint. The smudges made the ID questionable and caused her to be caught.
· Anna was sent to Auschwitz – but she was never identified as Jewish. In the picture taken you can see the triangle identifies her as Polish. Regardless, the Nazi's tattoo system applied to all inmates.
· After the war she returned to Poland and eventually emigrated to Buffalo in the 1960s with her husband and children.
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Mark Solarz (April 4, 1929-Present)
· Mark was one of seven children born to textile store owners.
· During the war, Nazi's forced him to perform manual labor until placing him in Buchenwald.
· After the war, he moved to Israel where he lived for fifteen years before moving to Buffalo.
· In Buffalo, he worked as a wholesale used car salesman. He and his wife, Dvorah have two children.
Learn more about Mark here
Sophia Veffer (1929-Present)
· Sophia says, "The Holocaust changed her by making her a "Jew." She was always Jewish, before the war it was never dominated her life.
· Her father made arrangements for the family to go into hiding in Amsterdam. Three conditions were necessary for this: "1) You had to have money; 2) you had to know a non-Jewish family; and 3) you had to fit a certain profile -- not look too Jewish, not too young or too old, and you could not be sickly or pregnant."
· She had several hiding places. Hiding was difficult not only for the Jews, but for the host family as well.
· Her current life goal is to influence students to become upstanders: and stand up to the injustice they see in the world.
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Treebo makes business travel easy with 'Treebo for Business'
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New Delhi [India], Apr 27 (ANI): Largest hotel chain Treebo Hotels has announced the launch of 'Treebo for Business' to offer a seamless booking experience to its corporate clients, which will allow the users to check real-time room availability, make instant bookings, avail the customized rates offered to them, make online cancellations and access booking history and preferred choices of employees. In the absence of better options, corporates so far have had to follow an archaic process of manually making and managing bookings for each employee. Multiple travel requests, lengthy negotiation process, and long email exchange and phone calls with the service providers and employees make hotel bookings a tedious job. Treebo for Business has been conceptualised to address these challenges. Treebo for Business is Treebo's first-step towards realizing its vision of accelerating the shift towards automated, self-serve business demand. The first version of the product is targeted at travel managers, but in the coming months, Treebo will extend the program to employees and travel trade partners too. The product will also see a slew of new features including customized approval mechanism, alternate payment modes and tracking. Currently, some of the leading organizations such as Sodexo and Thomas Cook are using Treebo for Business for booking a Treebo for their employees. "Treebo for Business is a great product which helps me book hotels for my employees with ease. Previously making these bookings was a time consuming and a long drawn process but now with the automated tool, I can make bookings and even receive the confirmation vouchers in seconds. The experience is truly hassle free and a great time saver," said Ketan M Solanki, Sodexo. "We are very excited to announce the launch of 'Treebo for Business.' Corporate demand has been one of the most important channels for us and hence, we continue to re-imagine the way corporates travel and make things simpler for our clients. For our existing partners, it would just be a new way of booking their same trusted hotel brand properties, just more conveniently," said Director - B2B and OTA Sales, Niharika Singh. "We have received a tremendous response since the product launch last month with close to 500 corporates clients contributing 10 percent to our daily corporate bookings through Treebo for Business. Corporate travel is most ripe for technology-led disruption similar to where B2C travel was 10 years ago," added Singh. (ANI)


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Surprisingly they might not be the same thing?
Following in the footsteps of Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel we reckon that developing a solid style "uniform" is the way forward. It shows that although you may be in town with your supermodel girlfriend (yes, you!), you also have serious work to do.
The "millionaire uniform" of choice is jeans, T-shirt, crewneck sweater, and clean white sneakers all of which are practical without being dumpy. The best part of this look is that anyone can pull it off. The trick is to take your time and find the right basic elements that fit your body like a glove.
It's a look that could be got so wrong though. Whilst you don't have to spend a fortune, you should invest in high-quality items and those overused greying sneakers will have to go! However, once you've found items that fit well and work for you, buy a few different colours of each. Just stick to some universally flattering colours like navy, grey and olive green, all of which are bang on trend this season and stay away from head to toe brights!
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Dependency on laptop service providers would not nullify its probability completely. Some problems may not be as serious as it may seem at its first sight. Keep security system of your machine updated and minimize the need of Laptop Repair. Ensure that your operating system is updated and active. If programs do not get updated, its utility value may get diminished. Make of Post Warranty Laptop Repair in a right way and reduce its need of repair.
A flickering LCD screen may be due to problems in the power supply, and it may rectify repair of power connection. Damaged LCD backlight or screen need frequent replacement. Those who have the aptitude of repairing with the help of tutorials, you may not need to visit the Dell Onsite Support center. Also, avoid buying spare parts from any other source, make use of laptop extended warranty at a price after its initial warranty period. It covers the needs of laptop repair and helps you to get a laptop at cheaper rates.
Door Step Dell laptop service in Rohini may relate to warranty, and it may take place at your company's location. For this, you need to incur a huge cost. Before giving your laptop for repair, make sure that you delete your personal or confidential information from disk before giving it to service centers.


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Citi appoints regional head of insurance Asia-Pacific
Ghosh joins Citi from Allianz with oversight of Citi's consumer banking insurance business
CITI has appointed Sujoy Ghosh as regional head of insurance Asia-Pacific and EMEA, within Citi's consumer banking business, reporting to Gonzalo Luchetti, head of Asia-Pacific and EMEA retail banking. Ghosh will start with Citi in February.
He will oversee the bank's overall insurance business in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA regions including responsibility for all sales, products, marketing and distribution – including both physical and digital and work closely with Citi's cards and loans team to develop and grow the bank's insurance business. In this role, Ghosh will lead Citi's long-term strategic relationship with AIA, Asia's leading bancassurance agreement that was signed in December 2013 and has since been rolled out across Asia-Pacific.
Prior to joining Citi, Ghosh was the regional head of Bancassurance for Allianz in Asia-Pacific responsible for setting up and managing all commercial and strategic partnerships across life and general insurance across Asia-Pacific. At Allianz, Ghosh was credited with building insurance propositions for successful, value-driven partnerships, across both traditional channels like bancassurance, as well as alliances with leading new-age consumer platforms.
Ghosh will bring this extensive insurance experience to lead a key area of strategic growth for Citi's Asia Pacific and EMEA consumer franchise across the 17 markets it serves.
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Troy (NY) – Are those LED lights you have at home not bright enough for you? Research being showcased at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has been targeted to address that issue with a new new type of light emitting diode (LED). Said to offer significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency, the researchers have partially solved the problem of current droop.
This new LED type, developed in collaboration with Samsung Electro-Mechanics, exhibits an 18 percent increase in light output and a 22 percent increase in wall-plug efficiency. This latter item is what measures the amount of electricity the LED actually converts into light. It is mostly being targeted at something called the "efficiency droop," a phenomenon that "provokes LEDs to be most efficient when receiving low-density currents of electricity, but then [begin]s to lose efficiency as higher density currents of electricity are fed into the device."
According to RPI, studies have shown that electron leakage might be a part of the problem. The researchers, focusing on the LED region where the light is generated, found that it contained materials with mismatched polarization. This polarization issue, which is likely causing the leakage, could be reduced by "introducing a new quantum-barrier design." The new design allows that region's layers to have better polarization which, in turn, at least partially addresses the leakage issue.
"This droop is under the spotlight since today's high-brightness LEDs are operated at current densities far beyond [the point] where efficiency peaks," said project leader E. Fred Schubert, head of the university's National Science Foundation-funded Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center. "Our new LED, however, which has a radically re-designed active region, namely a polarization-matched active region, tackles this issue and brings LEDs closer to being able to operate efficiently at high current densities."
LED emitters in the red, green and blue color spectrum are required to produce white light. In the past, blue has been one of the more difficult colors to create. The ability to overdrive these new LEDs, relative to currents present in the older ones, will result in emitters that require less electricity for the same brightness, or that can be made much brighter on the same amount of input power.


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Among the various offshoots from the Grateful Dead, the New Riders of the Purple Sage proved among the most enduring, with a career stretching from 1969 to the present day. Their guitarist and songwriter John Dawson, who has died aged 64 of cancer, was an original member who remained in the band's lineup until the late 1990s, playing a pivotal role in creating the group's most successful music.
Dawson first encountered Jerry Garcia, future guru of the Dead, in the early 1960s in the San Francisco suburb of Palo Alto. Dawson, from a well-heeled New York family, was learning to play guitar and was dipping a toe in the local folk music scene, where Garcia was revered for his virtuoso banjo-playing and performed regularly with Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. Other familiar faces on the folk circuit included the guitarist David Nelson and the future Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.
Dawson moved to Los Angeles to attend college before returning to the San Francisco bay area to try to make his way as a solo folk singer. However, after hobnobbing with the Grateful Dead and experiencing the full force of LSD-fuelled psychedelia via the "acid tests" staged by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Dawson found his vision expanding.
A fan of country music, he now wanted to create a new mixture of psychedelic rock and country. As the San Francisco rock critic Joel Selvin put it: "After an LSD revelation, Dawson had decided to take a more serious whack at singing and songwriting and looked to Buck Owens and Merle Haggard for inspiration." Dawson's ambitions began to take shape when Garcia started to accompany him on stage at the Underground coffee-house in Menlo Park, where Dawson played on Wednesday nights. Garcia was teaching himself pedal steel guitar, with which he would accompany Dawson (nicknamed Marmaduke or McDuke) on oldies such as Long Black Veil or Six Days On the Road, alongside Dawson originals such as Last Lonely Eagle.
The music sounded so good that it became the platform for a new band. Rehearsing at the Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's ranch in 1969, with Hart himself on drums, they added David Nelson on guitar and the Dead's bassist Phil Lesh, and named themselves after Zane Grey's novel Riders of the Purple Sage. The following year Dave Torbert, who played with Nelson in the New Delhi River Band, replaced Lesh on bass and, in 1971, Buddy Cage took Garcia's place on pedal steel. Spencer Dryden (from Jefferson Airplane) came in on drums, and later managed the band.
However, despite the changes, the New Riders (often abbreviated to NRPS) remained intimately entwined with the Dead, appearing regularly as their support band over several years. Dawson earned a songwriting credit on Friend of the Devil, from the Grateful Dead's American Beauty (1970), an indicator of how much Dawson's crusading zeal for country music influenced the Dead at this time. Indeed, with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and Bob Dylan all veering towards country music, Dawson had been one of the first to foresee a significant new musical movement.
After signing a deal with Columbia, the New Riders became seasoned recording artists, releasing an album more or less annually until the end of the 1970s. Dawson wrote every song on their eponymous 1971 debut album, and the combo hit a peak of popularity with the 1973 disc The Adventures of Panama Red. The title track had been written by the veteran bluegrass musician Peter Rowan and became a favourite on FM radio (like many NRPS songs, its subject matter was drug-related), which propelled the album to gold-disc status. Radio Caroline later adopted the New Riders song On My Way Back Home as its theme tune.
As the years passed, the group suffered a string of line-up changes, but even though Nelson and Cage departed in 1982, Dawson remained doggedly at the helm. The multi-instrumentalist Rusty Gauthier became his chief musical mainstay, while a variety of other musicians passed through the ranks. They released a string of albums on the Relix label, including Keep On Keepin' On and Midnight Moonlight, before retiring in 1997.
Dawson declared himself sick of being on the road. He moved to Mexico and started a new career as an English teacher. In 2002, the New Riders were given a lifetime achievement award by High Times magazine, and Dawson was among several NRPS alumni who turned up for the event, despite the onset of emphysema. In 2005, Nelson and Cage launched a rebuilt version of the New Riders. Dawson was not involved, but gave his blessing to the project.
• The photo caption on this article was amended 24 July 2009. The original caption identified the band member second from left as Jerry Garcia. This has been corrected.
• John Collins Dawson, guitarist and songwriter, born 16 June 1945; died 21 July 2009


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PitchBook released its July snapshot this week. Key indicators included:
- The global IT sector accounted for 46% of deal flow in the month.
- About 670 investors participated in at least one financing during the month.
- Twenty VC funds closed last month, totaling almost $3.5 billion in capital commitments.
- There were 127 exits during the month, 80% of which were acquisitions.
Other notable exits included several healthcare IPOs, including ProNAi Therapeutics, Neos Therapeutics, and ConforMIS.
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Email: email@example.com Originally from Kalamazoo MI, Matt Hughes performed in numerous symphony orchestras and jazz ensembles in the Midwest. After receiving his BM from Michigan State University and his MM from Western Michigan University, He moved to New York City to tour and record with jazz great Betty Carter. He has worked with the Cab Calloway Orchestra and had the honor or recording " The Bass" one of bassist Milt Hinton's unrecorded features with the Orchestra. Hughes was a featured performer at the International Society of Bassists convention and has performed chamber music at the Greenwich house in New York City, at Penn State University and Potsdam University. Mr. Hughes has performed with several Symphony Orchestras from Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Grand Rapids and Lansing, Michigan to The Cincinnati Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The New York repertory Orchestra and Moody Blues strings. He has also performed on Broadway in the Broadway musical "SWING". In the Jazz Idiom He has performed with ensembles such as The Glenn Miller Orchestra, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, The Jimmy Dorsey, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Gene Krupa Orchestra, The Grand Hotel orchestra, the Bill Warfield Big Band, The Next Legacy Orchestra, The Mills Brothers and has also performed with Jimmy Heath, Eric Alexander, Myron Waldon, Jon Hendricks, Donald Harrision, Jack Dejohnette, Billy Hart, Richard Stoltzman, Milt Hinton, John Boutte, Lea Deliara, Jim Rotundi, Anthony Wonsey, Chip McNeill, Chip Stevens, Jim Pugh and Glenn Wilson to mention a few. In all Hughes has traveled to more than 30 countries around the globe to perform and clinic in a wide a variety of context. This winter he toured with Max Weinberg (former music director for late night with Conan O'brien and drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band) and recorded an new CD with Pianist Travis Wesley Mr. Hughes has taught at Western Michigan University. He is currently a teaching assistant at the university of Illinois where he is finishing his doctor of musical arts.


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I am now in full festive swing….
Here's my Christmas checklist:
Cards – Check
Candy canes – Check
Presents – Check
Decorated the tree – Check
Christmas jumper – Check
Everything is well under way, and to celebrate I'm donning a Christmas jumper. What makes this little number special is it is completely bespoke and embroidered to myown design. I like to create my own look and like to wear something a little different to the usual.
It's from Clothes 2 Order….and I think it's cool that you can choose or design your own ideas. If you fancy it, all you have to do is choose your design and get your order in. Not feeling creative, don't worry, they have many styles for you to choose from.
Being design conscious, I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted on my jumper. My advice is to keep it simple, because the idea I had in mind was too intricate to be embroidered within the time scale and alas I just ran out of time to come up with a new illustration.
You could get a favourite festive slogan embroidered or even printed onto a favourite colour jumper, cool hey? In fact if you are stuck for present ideas, this could be a great personalised gift for someone as a jumper doesn't have to be just for Christmas, it would make a special birthday gift or maybe create a great vibe at a group event; like a hen, stag or work do, how cute!
Many people have started making plans for national Christmas Jumper Day, it's held every year in December, in 2016 National Christmas Jumper Day will take place on Friday, December 16th. Many people support charities by wearing their Christmas jumper to work, this little number would be perfect.
I'm definitely up for my next jumper, I am considering whether to get my initials embroidered on it or perhaps a witty quote, the possibilities for creative freedom are endless! What design would you choose?
Now, back to those tempting candy canes, nom nom.
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Seismotectonics of the Loma Prieta, California, region determined from three-dimensional Vp, Vp/Vs, and seismicity
Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth
By: D. Eberhart-Phillips and A.J. Michael
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Three-dimensional Vp and Vp/Vs velocity models for the Loma Prieta region were developed from the inversion of local travel time data (21,925 P arrivals and 1,116 S arrivals) from earthquakes, refraction shots, and blasts recorded on 1700 stations from the Northern California Seismic Network and numerous portable seismograph deployments. The velocity and density models and microearthquake hypocenters reveal a complex structure that includes a San Andreas fault extending to the base of the seismogenic layer. A body with high Vp extends the length of the rupture and fills the 5 km wide volume between the Loma Prieta mainshock rupture and the San Andreas and Sargent faults. We suggest that this body controls both the pattern of background seismicity on the San Andreas and Sargent faults and the extent of rupture during the mainshock, thus explaining how the background seismicity outlined the along-strike and depth extent of the mainshock rupture on a different fault plane 5 km away. New aftershock focal mechanisms, based on three-dimensional ray tracing through the velocity model, support a heterogeneous postseismic stress field and can not resolve a uniform fault normal compression. The subvertical (or steeply dipping) San Andreas fault and the fault surfaces that ruptured in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake are both parts of the San Andreas fault zone and this section of the fault zone does not have a single type of characteristic event.
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- Data can be shared between the PS Vita and PS3 versions, on one account. So you can play the same character at home, go out with your Vita and carry on elsewhere (but not on 3G if I read it correctly).
- Expect gradual convergence of PS3 and Vita realms to allow players of both versions to play in the same battles.
- A much improved G3 update is due this month with improved server integration, and many new features. Video of the G3 edition below.
- No 3DS version planned due to lack of common code base (not that 3DS owners will mind I suspect)
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Monster Hunter Frontier G getting unified PS3/Vita characters
Bad translation time, but the developers of MHFG are talking to the Japanese press about a major update to the game and service ahead of the ahead of the imminent PS3 and Wii U launches and 2014's Vita launch. A few points they make are:
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Welcome to my honest Unlock Your Hip Flexors review. The authors of this program Rick Kaselj and Mike Westerdal are claiming to teach ten dynamic stretching exercises that can strengthen hip flexors and provide benefits such as belly fat loss, better sexual performance, improve energy and much more.
The human body was powerful and flexible, but we spend most of the time sitting in front of the computer or watching TV. We are no longer getting exercises that we need. As a result, we are getting lazy and gaining weight.
Rick Kaselj's Unlock Your Hip Flexors teaches you easy exercises that you can easily incorporate into your lifestyle to fix your hip flexors. These hip flexors can affect anyone doesn't matter men or women, age or fitness level. We will take a deeper look into this program to find out if it really worth the money:
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How I Came Across This Program?
My buddy encourages me to join GYM after a terrible breakup with my girlfriend. Soon I found a new love, and that was 'lift heavy.' I am always looking for articles, tips, and techniques by fitness experts to improve my deadlift strength.
At 90 Kg of the lean muscular body, I often found myself competing with guys heavier and bulkier than me, which make me feel weak and much to improve.
I often feel disappointed because I was doing everything correctly. My diet was full of protein foods but I don't know why I can't able to lift 500 pounds (which was my target).
At one stage, I decided to adjust my target to somewhere near 400 pounds. I failed many times, and in the process, I hurt my back many times and losing my hope.
But lucky, I don't give up.
In this review, I am going to share my experience with Unlock Your Hip Flexors program and also tell you how it helped me to increase my deadlift to whopping 500 pounds (took six months though)
I will show you how this program works and help you in understanding how it can work for you.
Let's jump into this program.
What Will You Find Inside Unlock Your Hip Flexors?
After purchasing the program, you will redirect to the secret download page where you can download the main manual, and other bonus books into your computer or Smartphone. Here is what you'll get:
Main Manual – This is just 63 pages manual that you can read quickly about hip flexors and exercises that you can use to strengthen them.
Coaching Video – In this video Mike will explain the right way to perform all ten exercises. You can use this video to remove your confusion about these exercises and learn the right way to perform them.
Follow Along Video – Once you learn about these exercises, you can use this follow along video to perform exercises without any explanation. In this video, a female trainee will perform all ten exercises so you can follow her without any disturbance.
Bonus 1 (Unlock Your Tight Hamstrings Manual & Videos) – This is a very valuable bonus as it teaches how you can strengthen and unlock your tight hamstrings. This bonus also includes one manual along with two videos (coaching and follow-along).
Bonus 2 (The 7-Day Anti-Inflammatory Diet) – Inflammation is the cause of many diseases and illness. This free bonus contains a 7-day diet plan that you can use if you are suffering from inflammation.
What Is Unlock Your Hip Flexors by Rick Kaselj?
As its name suggests, this program is all about hip mobility to improve overall fitness health. This program offers ten dynamic exercises to strengthen your hip flexors.
For those who don't know, Hip Flexors known as Psoas are two crucial muscles that connect upper and lower body. These hip flexors muscles are crucial for all bodily movements such as walking, running, jumping, lifting etc.
This program aims to make your hip flexors strong and flexible. When these hip flexors performs as they should be then your performance will increase, the body will burn fat quickly, and your energy level will increase.
However, when these hip flexors become tight, then your overall body performance will decrease, and you get stiffness in your lower back and hips.
Benefits Of Strengthen Your Hip Flexors
Flat Stomach:
A good balance in between the hip flexors and abdominal muscles (abs) provide flat and lean belly. However, when hip flexors aren't flexible, you gain more weight.
No Back Pain:
When hip flexors aren't flexible, they put a strain on back muscles. If you don't strengthen your hip muscles by engaging in right exercises, there will be no balance in between your back and abdominal muscles which gives you constant back pain.
Good Posture:
By training your hip flexors, there will be a balance between upper and lower body which results in good posture while walking. If you constantly found yourself leaning forward or the side instead of standing straight, it is a clear indication that your hip flexors need training.
Improve Blood Circulation:
Tight hip flexors restrict blood circulation in the different parts of the body that increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, weight gain and many other problems. However, by training your hip flexors you will able to sleep well, your sexual performance will increase (yes there is a connection between abdominal muscle and sexual health) and your energy level will increase as well.
Meet Mike Westerdal and Rick Kaselj:
One of the reasons for me to select this program was it is created by two professionals who are expert in their own field. The knowledge and experience of both the authors add a lot of credibility to this program.
Mike Westerdal:
He is a fitness trainer helping people in his local GYM to reach their weight loss and muscle building goals quickly and easily. He focuses on strength training including core training, muscle building and bodybuilding.
Besides working with people personally, Mike is also the teacher and author of many muscle building programs that are trending in the fitness field.
He is the founder of very popular site called criticalbench.com in which he is sharing muscle building and strength training tips and has over 2000+ videos in his Youtube channel with over 200K subscribers.
Rick Kaselj:
Rick Kaselj is considered as a perfect source when it comes to kinesiology because he has over 16 years of experience in this field. He also has a master's degree in exercise science.
He is one of the leading professional for exercise, injury and sports training. He has worked with countless men including celebrities and athletes helping them to exercise and achieve their goals without any injury.
His articles published in many fitness magazines and he also appeared in fitness programs. If you are a fitness freak, then you may saw his name in health magazines.
Things That I Like:
Simple and Easy-to-Follow:
I really like the way this program is organized in such a simple and easy-to-follow way. Many programs try to solve multiple problems, but they make it difficult for users to understand and fail in their execution. Unlock Your Hip Flexors system is different because Mike and Rick created manual and videos on one problem that is Tight Hip Flexors.
Those who don't know, Mike and Rick are offering the whole program for just $10. Surely, this amount is less than your one McDonald's meal. Usually, program sells at $50, but for a limited time you can get this whole program in just $10.
As I already mentioned, Rick's Unlock Your Hip Flexors program includes two bonuses. Unlock Your Hamstrings contains exercises on unlocking hamstrings while 7-day anti-inflammatory diet is one of the best diets you can include in your lifestyle, but this is completely optional.
Money Back Guarantee:
Even this program is affordable, but you will have to pay nothing it fails to work for you. Mike and Rick are offering 60-days money back guarantee, and within these 60 days if it doesn't work then you can return it and get your full money back.
Things That I Don't Like:
No Physical Copy or DVD:
Many weight loss and fitness programs are offering the option to buy physical copies. However, I don't find any option to purchase a physical copy in this program. Maybe authors want to offer this program at affordable rates. If you want a Physical copy, then you can print the manual.
Too Many Addons:
I don't really like the way authors push other addons with the program. I don't know why they don't put all information into one package. Maybe it is a sale tactic, but anyways, the main Unlock Your Hip Flexors book is available at $10.
My Results With Unlock Your Hip Flexors:
Being able to lift 500 pounds was a great achievement and a great confidence booster for myself.
Before using this program, I can't able to lift more than 400 pounds. I tried so many things such as changing my strategy, seeking advice from professional, consuming mass grainers but nothing works for me.
But now I can lift 500 pounds and started winning bets in the GYM. I can even lift heavy weights than guys that are more muscular and heavier than me!
As a bonus, my running speed has become a lot faster and can able to do a backflip as well (I have professional Gymnastics training as well)
Overall, I am a much better athlete now than I was, all thanks to this program!
I don't want to waste a lot of your time by providing you lots of detail but I just want to say I am feeling much stronger now. It's has been a roller coaster for the past 8 weeks but now I am feeling much better now and it has been a great accomplishment for me.
Now at this time, I am happy to announce that I finally able to lift 500-pound x 11 reps mark, and you are now able to see my results, so buckle up!
Here I am sharing my video in which I am lifting 500 pounds (11 times) that I achieve with the help of this program so that you can see what level of athleticism you can expect from this program.
Final Verdict – Is Unlock Your Hip Flexors For You?
This program is not for those people who don't want to put on their efforts to unlock their tight muscles. This program is very simple, and you only need to spend short period to strengthen and loosen your tight hip flexors. After three weeks, you will start noticing a difference in your life.
If you are ready to put on 'work' on your body and ready to unlock your tight hips then definitely this program is for you.
It doesn't matter if you are young or old, male or female, having a sedentary lifestyle or an active athlete, you can definitely enjoy improving overall performance by fixing your tight hip flexors.
With just 10-15 minutes of daily activity, you can get flexible muscles which will help you lose weight, lift more weights (if you are bodybuilder), get rid of back pain and improve your sex life.
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A First-Time Hang-Glider Holds On for Dear Life!
If you haven't seen it yet, an American tourist named Chris Gursky went hang-gliding for the very first time while on vacation in Switzerland, and almost lost his life.
It was a tandem flight with a professional pilot who FORGOT to lock Chris's safety harness onto the glider.
They get a running start off the side of a 4,000-foot mountain edge and Chris quickly finds himself hanging onto the pilot with his right hand, and the metal bar with his left. At one point his hand slips off the pilot and he grabs the guy's leg.
The maneuvering continues for two minutes and 14 seconds until they come in for a rough landing.
Chris ended up with a torn bicep and a broken wrist. He had surgery on the wrist and doctors inserted a titanium plate and seven screws. But despite nearly DYING, he said he definitely plans to go hang-gliding again.


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It has taken significant resources to prototype and implement the character customisation system as significant game functionality needed to be rewritten to work with configurable character parts, the 0.3.0 alpha build released with this post, has a functioning character selection screen with a set of sample character costumes for testing (including the existing Kigurumi characters, and a selection from the new Wrestler / Luchador and other miscellaneous outfits).
The 0.3.0 alpha build replaces the 0.1.5a "stable" alpha build as the default build on Steam Early Access (the 0.1.5a build is available for download through the Steam "BETAS" tab as a legacy build for the Early Access community to compare the gameplay, performance, stability, and other game content of the last Unity 4.x build with the Unity 5.x builds).
The 0.3.0 alpha build also replaces the 0.2.6c "unstable" build until the logic for the prototype "break" and "race" game modes is rewritten to work with the character customisation system (the "break", "race", "king of the hill", and "capture the flag" game modes will be exposed for testing in a coming "unstable" alpha build).
The 0.3.0 alpha build also has an improved camera system, a new particle effect system (for the fire on the 'incinerator' stage), new post processing and colour grading effects, the first versions of the significantly revised UI and menu systems, numerous modifications to stages (a rebuilt 'incinerator' stage, and modified 'buoy', 'girders', and 'fans' stages), and new running, standing headbutt, front slide, rear slide, and sitting character moves.
For reference the full character customisation screen is disabled in the 0.3.0 "stable" alpha build as the UI does not currently protect against conflicts between costume parts, a version of the full character customisation system (with support for saving customisations) will be exposed with other prototype game stages and content in the coming "unstable" builds.
The modifications and fixes made in this build are:
- added character selection / join game screen
- added a standing headbutt move (tap the button mapped for 'duck' to headbutt)
- added a running move (hold the button mapped to 'jump' to run)
- added a front sliding move (hold the button mapped to 'duck' when running to front slide)
- added a rear sliding move (hold the button mapped to 'kick' when running to rear slide)
- added a sitting move (hold the button mapped to 'jump' when stationary to sit)
- added a setting for enabling / disabling Xinput (to support more than four Xinput devices to be used concurrently) - this setting has been disabled as more testing is needed
- added preset Wrestling / Luchador clothing and mask selections (for testing)
- added preset miscellaneous clothing selections (for testing)
- added post processing and colour grading to game stages
- added rebuilt 'incinerator' stage
- added new menu music[soundcloud.com]
- added basic Steam API support
- added setting to enable / disable exiting the game with game controllers (if enabled press the ESCAPE key to exit to the game menu when in game)
- modified climbing implementation (to make characters feet contact with surfaces when climbing)
- modified fullscreen implementation (to test support for Nvidia Game Stream service)
- modified object and enemy targeting systems
- modified character system to more accurately identify kill volumes
- modified B side music for the 'chute' and 'girders' stages
- modified audio levels and triggers replaced previous fire particle effect with an improved fire particle effect
- replaced the previous game manger systems with rewritten game manager systems
- replaced the prototype game camera system with an improved game camera system
- replaced music for 'incinerator' stage
- replaced fade transition implement with a rewritten solution (to fix the transition failure issue)
- fixed character explosion issues in some contexts
- fixed music warping transitions
- removed status bars
- removed the rear and front railings from the 'fans' stage
- removed stairs from platform ends on 'subway' stage
- temporarily replaced previous water and buoyancy system with a placeholder system (while compatibility issues with the new water and buoyancy system are fixed)
- temporarily removed the 'cat' kigurumi due to an issue with skinned meshes


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City Mulls Enterprise Zone
GRAND RAPIDS — City commissioners took a big step last week toward establishing a third Neighborhood Enterprise Zone (NEZ) in the city by setting a hearing date to designate one for Belknap Lookout, an older residential district just northeast of downtown.
Designating the area's 28 acres as an NEZ would give homeowners an opportunity to get property-tax breaks for improvements made to their homes that increases the value of their properties. New homes built within the area would also qualify for a reduction.
"It is consistent with our master plan," said Victor Vasquez Jr., assistant city manager for planning and community development.
About 140 parcels are being considered for an NEZ in Belknap Lookout, an area that is bordered by Matilda Street, the railroad tracks, Lafayette Avenue, Fairbanks Street, Coit Avenue, Newberry Street, Hester Avenue and Fairview Avenue.
"The neighbors are very supportive of this," said 2nd Ward Commissioner Rick Tormala.
In fact, the Neighbors of Belknap Lookout requested the designation in hopes that gaining one would bring significant investment into the neighborhood — exactly what the $3.5 million, 20-unit condominium project being done by the Grand Rapids Co-housing Community (GRCC) is doing.
"The NEZ designation would offset some future development costs by having the lowered tax burden on the residents at GRCC. This is the first project of its kind in West Michigan, and the NEZ will help to market and attract additional homeowners to this project and area," wrote GRCC President Steve Farber in a letter to the city that was co-authored by Kristi DeKraker, executive director of the neighborhood association.
NEZ status for Belknap will get an afternoon hearing before commissioners on Nov. 22.
"This is another one of our economic development tools that will improve the neighborhood and create jobs," said James Jendrasiak, 1st Ward city commissioner.
The city has already granted NEZs to Turner Gateway on the city's near west side and to North Baxter on the city's southeast side.
Commissioners will also hear requests for industrial tax abatements tomorrow evening from Grand Rapids Sash & Door Co. and Wolverine Printing.
GR Sash & Door is in the process of consolidating its operations to a 250,000-square-foot facility at 219 Canton St. SW by moving work from other Midwest locations to the structure's north side. The company, which manufactures pre-hung doors and windows, also plans to purchase $3.9 million worth of new equipment.
The consolidation would relocate 115 jobs to the city, and GR Sash & Door would create another 15 jobs from the project. Should the city grant the company an abatement, roughly $330,000 of a projected $800,000 in new property taxes generated by the project would be exempted over the next dozen years.
The Robert Grooters Development Co. is assisting with the consolidation.
Wolverine Printing plans to buy new digital printing and finishing equipment that will cost nearly $700,000 and create five new jobs from the purchase. The commercial printer would save $33,000 of an estimated $85,000 personal-property tax bill if the city endorses Wolverine's abatement request.
Both hearings are part of the commission's meeting that gets under way at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the commission chambers.


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Music, Food, and Beer!
The sound of a raucous celebration coming from the inside of a corner building in Williamsburg could be heard as I approached Berry and North 3rd halfway from the block. A long rectangular building, which looks like it could have been an old factory, is covered with "authentic" hand painted signs saying Bierhaus and Willkommen. The Radegast Hall & Biergarten, made up of three distinct indoor sections (the main bar, the biergarten, and the back hall or cook area) makes you feel like you've just been transported to Munich during Oktoberfest, steins in hand and beer taps in every corner. I ventured in to this local favorite because I went to see the Raya Brass Band perform in the midst of this drunken mayhem. A Balkan/Gypsy band that had impressed me the first time I saw them perform a few months ago, the Raya Brass Band was to get the party started at this already festive bar. I had no idea what to expect, atmosphere-wise, and as I left the main bar with a tall Weiss beer in hand along with my camera, I was overwhelmed by the sheer size and energy that was coming from the biergarten. Long picnic tables with sturdy benches lined both sides of the room, seating 20 or more people at each. Hipsters celebrating birthdays, families with babies, local Brooklynites, outside Manhattanites and beyond all congregated to share something together that they all love - music, food and of course, beer!
The band, also described as an "Eastern European Wedding Band" (as you can see why from this video) got the entire place buzzed (if the people weren't already from the libations being served). A band consisting of traditional instruments not traditionally seen together at a bar in New York (accordion, saxophone, trumpet, tuba, walking bass drum), and playing music that seems maybe familiar at times, but very exotic at others (uneven meters, songs in 5/8 or 7/8, slightly unnerving scales). It's a trip, and the way this band migrates from one table to the other, shifting rooms and getting every single person transfixed to their music is infectious. With musicians climbing on tables, dancing with patrons and literally bouncing around the room, you just can't help but want to join in.
As I finished my first beer, the smells from the open grill began to overtake me - sausages of every kind, including those of venison, were all cooking and filling the room with tempting aromas. Perfectly cooked fries were calling my name, and if you did not get the hint already, nothing in this place is small. Large food portions, large beer portions, large everything! As the band continued to play, I made friends with neighboring tables (happy birthday, Rebecca!) sharing with them my overly large order of fries.
As the afternoon turned to evening, the light began to fade in the biergarten and a dim yellow glow came from each table. The day hadn't even reached 7pm, but the whole place was filling their bellies with food to replenish themselves of energy for the Raya Brass Band's last set. I couldn't help myself but dance with the group, and neither could new onlookers. It was a perfect fall afternoon; thank you, Max Fass (accordion player and friend) and the rest of the RBB!
The Raya Brass Band play regularly at the Radegast Hall & Biergarten on Saturdays starting at 4:30pm - be sure to check out their schedule for upcoming shows and events!