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If you hear about people investing in IPOs and wonder what is an IPO then read on.
What is an IPO?
IPO stands for Initial Public Offering. A company comes up with an IPO to raise funds from the public. Essentially the company asks money from the people by offering shares of the company to them. In a layman language, any company which is not in the stock market comes in the stock market through an IPO.
IPO Jargons
- Issue size – The amount of money which the company is looking to raise from the market through the IPO.
- Lot size – One lot means the minimum number of shares you need to apply for.
- Price Band – Since the company is not trading in the stock market so the share price of the company is not fixed. Hence they give a price range which they deem is the approx. price of the company basis their valuation. You need to bid for the IPO in this price range.
- Issue Open & Close Date – The IPO of the company is open for bidding during these dates (generally it is a three-day window)
What is the advantage of investing in an IPO?
There are many benefits. Here are few of them:
- IPOs are priced attractively. That means you can make gains on listing
- Many companies give a discount to IPO investors
- Due to new regulations, IPO allotment chances for retailers have increased
- Many IPOs have performed very well in the last 2 years
- It is a very simple gateway to enter into the stock market investment
How much return can I expect?
IPOs are equity investments. Hence there is a risk. You cannot predict returns. But if you choose IPOs carefully then you can make profitable investments. Here are some stocks that came out with IPOs in the last few years and gave very good returns.
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listed (21-3-2017)
|Shankara Building
listed (05-4-2017)
|PSP Projects
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|Apex Frozen Foods
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# Closing price on NSE as on 29th Jun 2018
Take a look at the above table. Some IPOs have had a good listing. Others have had a good listing but have done very well after that.
Upcoming IPOs
If you want to be part of the Indian IPO story, you can start off by looking at our list of forthcoming IPOs.
The major IPO which is coming in this month is of HDFC Asset Management Company (HDFC AMC) which can be a good start to start your investment journey.
A word of caution is warranted here. Don't blindly invest in IPOs without understanding the business and the financials from the IPO prospectus. IPO investing is equity investing after all, so it involves market risk. However, tighter regulation and better pricing has made IPOs a safer and more attractive market to participate in.
How to Apply for an IPO?
To apply in an IPO you need 3 things
- Savings account with at least Rs. 15,000: Why 15k you ask? That is the bare minimum application amount. When you apply in the IPO the application amount gets put on hold and is withdrawn only when IPO is allotted to you. You keep on earning interest on the amount which you put on hold.
- DEMAT account: DEMAT account is an account in which the shares allotted to you reside after the allotment in dematerialised form. (too jargonised? You can ignore it – all you need to care about is getting the DEMAT account opened)
- Trading account (to sell shares once the allotment is made): Once the shares are allotted to you & the IPO gets listed in the stock market – you need the capability to sell those shares in the stock market. A trading account enables you to do that.
To know more & start investing click here:
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Adding to the onslaught of sexual violence in India, a Danish tourist says she was gang-raped in New Delhi after asking a group of men for directions to her hotel. The 51-year-old woman got lost and approached the men, who allegedly took her to a secluded area, robbed and beat her, and raped her repeatedly at knifepoint on Tuesday. Delhi police say they have detained suspects for questioning.
The tourist was visiting the Indian capital for a week, staying at a hotel located near a popular shopping center. Following the incident, she managed to reach her hotel where reception called police. Amit Bahl, owner of the Amax Hotel, says she was crying and "not in good shape."
"When she came it was miserable," Bahl said. "I am really ashamed that this happened."
Denmark's ambassador to India, Freddy Svane, confirmed to the New York Times that a Danish citizen filed an allegation of rape. The woman left India on a previously scheduled flight Wednesday after she was taken to the Danish embassy.
The case follows a wave of sexual assaults in the country, including a recent death sentence for four men who raped and murdered a 23-year-old in New Delhi. And let's not forget the Mumbai gang-rape incident — where a young photojournalist was assaulted while her colleague was tied and beaten — or the string of sexual violence in lesser-known areas, including the rape of a 3-year-old. They're headlines that have become all too commonplace in India, and many cases often fly under the radar for being dime-a-dozen.
Noted Indian personalities and celebrities have spoken out against the rise in brutality, and are even tackling the idea of rape culture with satirical PSAs.
An astonishing 53 percent of children in India report having experienced one or more forms of sexual abuse, according to a 2007 report by India's Ministry of Women and Child Development. More than half of children ages 5 to 12 were sexually abused, and 50 percent of them knew the person, who was in a position of "trust and responsibility."
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We live in the era of "Ground breaking researches and new therapies". Cord blood research and Stem cell therapy are the buzz words that carry the "wow" factor, as good as "AI "(Artificial intelligence) in the field of Technology
Whilst scientists looked at umbilical cord blood as the "holy grail" that could offer cure against most incurable diseases, Ironically they have failed to look into the most primitive of issue of, when to stop the umbilical cord blood flow, by clamping and severing it, to separate the baby from the mother.
Let us get some perspective on the umbilical matter in the natural world.
In chimpanzees, after giving birth, the mother leaves the cord alone and nurses their off springs with the cord and placenta attached until the cord dries out and separates naturally. It takes a day for this process to complete.
Though the behaviour sounds so strange, in some animals, the mother will nibble through the cord, thus separating the placenta from the offspring. The cord along with the placenta is very often eaten by the mother, to provide nourishment and to dispose of tissues that would otherwise attract predators.
As far as humans are concerned, there seems to be an extreme and intense urge to severe the cord, as soon as the baby is born. It is perceived as race against the time, and umbilical cord gets severed within seconds, in most instances. If we think logically, this is quite a strange behaviour of humans.
Medical fraternity has woken up to this idea recently, and alternate option has been considered and put into practice.
The postulations that delaying the cord clamping( upto 2 minutes), could potentially help the newborn babies, was put to test. The presumption is that the delay in clamping the cord would allow the baby its due amount of blood, in the most natural way, and therefore would benefit the baby greatly.
Various studies showed both short term and long term benefits. Short term benefits such as increased blood volume, higher blood pressure and thereby increased cardiovascular stability and better survival rates have been attributed to delay in cord clamping.
Long term benefits such as better neuro developmental outcomes, reduced incidence of long term lung problems and problems of vision in premature babies, have also been reported.
But those studies were small and difficult to be accepted as proof of positive outcomes, attributable to delayed cord clamping.
However, very surprisingly, the most recent and the largest study ever done, in Australia and New Zealand , the APTS ( Australian Placental transfusion Study), has clearly shown that there was no clear benefit in the group of babies who were subjected to delayed clamping of the cord, compared to those babies whose umbilical cord were clamped immediately.
No one knows the reason why the benefits of delayed clamping are not shown in the latest study. Perhaps Human babies have adapted to the strange habit of frantic hurry of clamping and cutting the cord.
Those children in the Australian study will be being followed up to find out how well they would be doing in the long run. We will have to wait until then to ascertain, if there is, at least, some long term benefits of delayed cord clamping.
At present, what do we do with the umbilical cord?
The answer to that question remains a "mystery"
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These two American brothers grew up in China. This documentary series shows them heading back to re-discover the mainland. Going Local starts out in the most south-western place in China, brushing their teeth outside a shack overlooking a gorgeous river.
They're in Yunnan, bordering Tibet and Southeast Asia, so it's the countries most culturally diverse area. They quickly realize the government's "Minority Park" might not be the most genuine introduction to the culture, and head out with the locals.
I really enjoyed "traveling" with them, they are interested in the culture, game for any adventure, and are good with a camera.
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Before Uwe Boll started challenging critics to boxing matches or Drake and Chris Brown started scuffling, MTV had the idea to render all celebrity beefs, real or completely made up, into absurdly and occassionally very funny stop-motion animated vignettes. The show was Celebrity Deathmatch, with Nick Diamond and Johnny Gomez as our announcers, and the pit matches dreamed up by creator Eric Fogel, the man behind the rightly beloved MTV series The Head, ranged from the obvious (Madonna vs. Michael Jackson) to the outright bizarre (Charles Manson vs. Marilyn Manson). The show was cancelled in the late 1990s and then revived in the mid-aughts for two seasons on MTV2, and now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the show is set to make its return to MTV2 with Fogler back on board as creator.
As THR explains, the new series will also incorporate more modern touches to the series, which was last cancelled in 2007. Both Twitter and Facebook comments will become part of the show's overall design, though its currently unclear as to how the show will utilize the many components of social media to upgrade the show. There've also been zero hints as to what celebrities may be involved in this new slew of gore-tinged fights, though I can't imagine the likes of Kanye West or Justin Bieber not being on Fogler's to-do list. Regardless, the show marks a possible return to MTV's weirder, funnier roots, rather than their current slate of empty, grim dramas, such as Eye Candy, Teen Wolf, and the upcoming Scream series, which they've unfortunately been turning out for the last decade or so.


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As you prolly know, I live near a lake. Which means lovely picnics by the shore, fishing time, and gorgeous photo locations.
My pal Robert recently bought a small fishing boat and we spent last weekend chillin', doing some fishing , and overall having a fantastic time. I thought the topic of preparing a fishing boat was a nice fit for the new series "Pal's Advice" so, here I hand it to Robert's:
When you are looking to go out for a fishing expedition the one thing which every fisherman has to be sure about is the state of the boat.
There are numerous advantages of fishing from a boat as compared to fishing on a small vessel. A boat can reach into many areas meaning that you will have more fishing ground to cover. Here are some of the tips for preparing your boat for fishing.
My 5 Steps to enjoy fishing weekends on your new boat
1. Register Your Boat
Many states require that before a boat is taken out to water, the owner have to register the boat and get the required papers.
Once the boat is licensed stickers and papers will be displayed on the side to show the jurisdiction that the boat falls under.
The licensing of the boat will make use of letters and numbers which will be issued to the boat and stuck somewhere visible on the boat. It's important that one checks the guide to fishing boat registration letters to know the actual steps to have the boat registered.
2. Purchase Safety Equipments
A boat before it can go for fishing expedition requires having a number of safety equipment. Law requires most of these equipment while others are just for your safety.
The safety equipment which you will need to include life jackets and personal floating equipment.
The law requires that there be enough life jackets for everyone on the boat.
3. Purchase supporting equipment
A boat before it can go out fishing it needs to have supporting equipments. One of the key supporting equipment that you need is the anchor.
The anchor will come in handy when you are looking to keep the boat is a stationary position or when you are looking to add more stability to the boat.
When purchasing an anchor, it's important to make sure that is enough nylon rope to reach the bottom
4. Check the integrity of the boat
Before you can go out fishing you need to check the integrity of the boat, this means that you have to check for signs of wear and tear around the boat.
The things which you need to be looking out for include cracks, dent, or signs of water damage. The areas which you need to pay very close attention are the bottom part an around the rivet.
The next areas to check is in the lights are working correctly and whether the boat has any other signs of defects.
5. Check the motor
The other equally important place that you need to check is the motor. You need to make sure that there is no fluid leak and just to be on the safe side, you can change the oil.
It is also important to check if there are parts which need replacement and replace them before going out to the waters.
Clean the different part of the motor like the propeller and remove any debris that may have been stuck.
You should now be prepared to get your boat ready! See you fishing 😀
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US retail sales fell less than expected in February, but a sharp downward revision to January's sales could reignite concerns about the economy's growth prospects.
Tuesday's weak report from the Commerce Department bucked the trend of recent labor market data that had suggested the economy remained on solid ground despite some concerns that a recession was looming Reuters reported.
Retail sales dipped 0.1% last month as automobile purchases fell and cheaper gasoline undercut receipts at service stations. January's retail sales were revised down to show a 0.4 percent decline instead of the previously reported 0.2% increase.
"Consumers remain cautious and hesitant to spend despite an improving jobs picture and evidence of accelerating wage increases," said Alan MacEachin, an economist at Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, Virginia.
Retail sales excluding automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services were unchanged after a downwardly revised 0.2% increase in January. These so-called core retail sales correspond most closely with the consumer spending component of gross domestic product and were previously reported to have risen 0.6 percent in January.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales slipping 0.2 percent and core retail sales rising 0.2% in February.
Last month's weak core retail sales reading, together with January's modest gain, suggest that consumer spending will probably remain tepid in the first quarter after growing at a 2.0 percent annualized rate in the fourth quarter.


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Sarasota's Elizabeth Delaney joins a rare group of supercentenarians, but seems unimpressed at the milestone.
Spending a quiet, rainy Tuesday at her daughter's house in south Sarasota, Elizabeth Delaney seemed relatively unimpressed that her 110th birthday made her eligible for a very exclusive club of supercentenarians, believed to include fewer than 450 people worldwide.
Delaney, thought to be Sarasota County's oldest resident and known to be an avid lover of sweets, was more entranced by the prospect of a cream pie brought by the home health aide who helps with her showers.
Delaney uses a wheelchair, and her eyesight and hearing have faded. But ask her how she feels, and you get no complaint. Instead, she changes the subject: "That's something wonderful, to have a hearing aid. I wish they could do as much for the eyes as they do for the ears."
Born in Philadelphia on March 12, 1903, Delaney has no difficulty recalling moments from her extended past. She will describe feeding quarters into the gas meter in her cellar as a girl, or marvel over the instant gratification of a microwaved meal: "Just imagine a machine like that; you put your food in there and cook it in a couple of minutes. Even with gas and electric, you had to wait."
But the idea of herself as a scientific phenomenon, a rarity wrought by some combination of genetic fortune and modern medicine — this she treats with a smile and a shrug.
"I have no control over it, no thought about it," Delaney says. "I just think — I'm here. I like living, I guess."
The study of supercentenarians is a relatively young field — kickstarted by a 1998 article in the journal Science that questioned why the likelihood of death in a given year tends to level off to 50 percent when an individual reaches 110.
Basic facts — such as how many people 110 and older actually exist in the world — are not yet nailed down, because of the difficulty of verifying records in various countries. A database is being compiled by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, but it is not open to the general public. The scarcity of supercentenarians is a barrier to researchers trying to assemble a scientific sample.
But there already is one known characteristic that sets supercentenarians apart: They don't simply succumb to normal wear and tear more slowly than the rest of us. Instead, they reach what we now consider the territory of old age — 85 and beyond — in a far better state of health. Their ability to sidestep the aches, ills and disabilities that were once considered a mandatory part of growing old is known as "compression of mortality."
And scientists want to know how more of us might be able to pull this off.
Study of centenarians
Delaney is enrolled in the New England Centenarian Study, which began in 1995 as a Boston-area inquiry into why so few 100-year-olds showed evidence of dementia.
Thomas Perls, a professor of geriatrics at Boston University who conducts the study, is now concentrating on supercentenarians to discover why they make it to the end of life with so few health problems.
"Their example provides an enabling message about aging: The older you get, the healthier you've been," Perls said. "Most of that you have a role in determining, in terms of your health behaviors."
According to the New England study, supercentenarians like Delaney are one in about 7 million. There were about 60 to 70 of them in the United States in 2010.
Most of them are women, very few have ever been obese and a history of smoking is rare.
Perls' team has found that exceptionally long lives form a pattern in the families of most of their subjects.
Delaney's family, originally from Ireland, was not a remarkable model of longevity. Her daughter Rose Jones is nearly 91 — and declares she feels much younger — but Delaney's parents and siblings did not survive to an advanced age. And while her love for desserts and avoidance of vegetables may not be an example the rest of us should emulate, her gentle friendliness and willingness to live in the moment are qualities shared by other supercentenarians, Perls said.
The subjects in his study, he said, "tend to be quite extroverted, and they score quite low for neuroticism. That has to do with being able to handle stress well."
'I have everything I want..."
Delaney celebrated her milestone birthday a bit early on Friday at the Senior Friendship Center, where she has been a day visitor for 12 years.
She rises at 7 a.m. and the bus picks her up an hour later, usually returning her in time to watch her favorite TV program, "Judge Judy." When the bus is late, she said, she gets a little mad.
But for the most part, she is content, and grateful to her close-knit family: "I have everything I want or need; I have every care."
While Delaney does not consider herself unusual, she is clearly struck by the difference between her and the "old people" she shares three days a week with.
"I find that a lot of people at the center, they've lost their memory and they don't know where they are and things like that. I think they're too young for that," she said.
"And the men and the women, they go to the bathroom so often," she added. "I wonder why that happens."


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One of the sharpest comparisons for Americans trying to understand the resilient appeal of Donald Trump is the rise of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi in the 1990s.
Rising from the ashes of a widespread corruption scandal that tarred Italy's entire political elite, Berlusconi, one of the country's wealthiest businessmen, rose from 1994's power vacuum to what would become nearly two decades dominating Italian politics. Though he lost power less than a year after his first election, he stormed back to power in 2001. Despite a short-lived turn in 2006 to the center-left's Romano Prodi, Berlusconi once again returned in 2008. Forced to resign in 2011 amid a debt crisis, Berlusconi still led the Italian right to what amounts to a draw in the 2013 election.
It's as if Italian voters just couldn't help themselves, such was the spectacle of a showman that the Italian media dubbed 'Il cavaliere,' the 'knight.' Time and again, Berlusconi's charms proved irresistible. It's not out of the question that he might mount yet another comeback by the time that the 2018 elections roll around.
The similarities between Trump and Berlusconi -- their 'say it like it is' populism, their willingness to engage demagoguery, their wealth, their vulgarity, their ability to tap into the emotions (both positive and negative) of their supporters -- are manifest.
But there are important differences.
For all of Trump's bluster, he doesn't control nearly the share of the American economy that Berlusconi did. For one, Berlusconi's net worth is nearly $6.5 billion, according to Forbes, about $2 billion wealthier than Trump (again, according to Forbes). But that $6.5 billion punches far stronger in Italy's economy than Trump's $4.5 billion wealth punches in the United States, which has the world's largest economy and a far less insular network of business elites.
Berlusconi, through his media company, Mediaset, controlled six of Italy's most popular private television channels when he was in power. Now, regardless of whether Trump's self-branded empire of real estate and other interests impress you, he certainly doesn't control the American media. Far from it, given his on-again, off-again feud with the right-leaning Fox News and his attacks on other media outlets.
While Trump, like Berlusconi, wants to use libel laws aggressively to chill press freedom, he cannot shape American television media coverage like Berlusconi did in Italy. For all his skills in attracting media attention, Trump still lacks one of the most important tools that explains Berlusconi's rise to power -- and one of the keys that kept him so long at the center of power.
Though both figures are litigious, Trump's legal troubles over, say, the ill-fated Trump University pale in severity compared to Berlusconi's personal legal woes. Berlusconi spent much of the 2000s seeking immunity from the Italian parliament from outright prosecution. An early 2003 bill designed to shield the top five government officials from criminal trials, was thrown out by Italy's constitutional court a year later. A subsequent 2008 effort, targeted to just the top four government officials, was also thrown out by the Italian judiciary, as was an attempt by Italy's Chamber of Deputies to extend immunity to Berlusconi in 2010.
It's not an exaggeration to say that Berlusconi's decade-long battle to shield himself from liability was among his chief parliamentary priorities.
For good reason, perhaps, given the long list of offenses for which he's been convicted since leaving office in 2012.
Most sensationally, Berlusconi was convicted in 2013 on charges relating to payment to an underage Moroccan prostitute, Karima El Mahroug (sensationally referred to in the Italian media as 'Ruby Rubacouri' -- Ruby the heartstealer). Though the conviction was overturned by an appeals court in 2014, the wild stories of Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties may have damaged his reputation more than anything else in what's still a conservative Catholic country.
More recently, in July 2015, he was convicted of bribery while in office by a court in Naples, though that might yet be reversed on appeal. Berlusconi apparently paid €3 million to Sergio De Gregorio, a member of Italy's senate, to join the center-right between 2006 and 2008, helping bring down the Prodi government.
Berlusconi was convicted in 2012, a year after leaving the premiership, for tax evasion, and an Italian court in 2013 upheld that verdict, clearing the way for the former prime minister to serve a one-year community service sentence and barring him, temporarily, from holding public office.
Though Trump hasn't released his tax returns and, in a debate in late February, argued he has been subject to 12 consecutive IRS audits, there's no indication that he faces criminal charges for tax evasion -- or anything else, for that matter.


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Monday, June 11, 2012
Beer foam.
Sorry I have nothing fun to report. Their is the party in Wisc. with the foaming beer and comments ending in my saying I didn't even have time to swallow. And then....a bounce house at this high school graduation.
Just went in to get another cup of coffee and to take a Xanax (breakfast of champions) and some Advil cuz I had a headache which I've had off and on for three day. It's not bad, it's just there. Hunter is making out some price tags for my sale. Then my eyes fill with tears because of his kindness. I know. I know. But anytime someone does something kind for me,....I cry. And it's not that people aren't sometimes kind.....it's just that I am weird that way. I also cry at the sweet innocence of babies and animals. Peace.
9 comments:
- Coffeypot said...
Swallowing is important.
- June 11, 2012 at 10:25 AM
- Gnetch said...
I also have those times when I feel like little things people do touch me. I guess we're both weird. :)
- June 11, 2012 at 12:09 PM
- The Geeks Paradise said...
No shame in becoming emotional when someone goes out of their way to do something nice for you. Hope you get rid of that headache soon.
- June 11, 2012 at 2:34 PM
- My name WAS Female, I shit you not! said...
Count me in on the teary eyes over animals and babes. ;0)
Hope you have one HELLOFA Garage Sale m/f. (((hugs)))Pat
- June 11, 2012 at 4:25 PM
If you can't find your receipt for the camera then call the store and ask them to print you out a new one.
Oh and I think you should also feel proud of your empathetic heart. I am a crier too. Heck we could get together and watch LMN and cry our eyes out over some beer foam. xoxo
- June 11, 2012 at 5:24 PM
- lotta joy said...
While I DO NOT cry, the emotions make a serious lump that I swear makes it hard to swallow.
And, I've taken one xanax a day for 20 years. I monitor myself. Then when I have to go to a new doctor, they insist I'm hooked and I have a fight on my hands. If I was hooked, (in a bad way) I believe I'd be on 20 a day by now. But that's another post.
- June 11, 2012 at 8:17 PM
- Rob-bear said...
You have been through a difficult time, so I'm not surprised by the headachy stuff. I do hope all the paperwork for the insurance people came together (let me guess: was some of it hiding with the camera receipt?). And glad to hear Hunter was helping.
Blessings and Bear hugs.
- June 11, 2012 at 9:13 PM
- Ms. A said...
I'm a crier, too. I hate it, but have no control over it.
- June 11, 2012 at 9:47 PM
- Just Be Real said...
Special..... Blessings to you dear one.
- June 12, 2012 at 6:40 AM


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Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn son, and Hillary Clinton, the former New York senator, brought their campaigns to New York City over the weekend. As polls show Sanders making gains on Clinton's sizable lead in New York, and with a whopping 291 delegates at stake, the two candidates were campaigning intensely ahead of the April 19 primary. On Saturday Sanders took his campaign on a four-event blitz throughout the city, while Clinton held a rally geared explicitly toward Latinos.
Both campaigns had put to rest their most bitter battle-du-jour to date, this one around who was and wasn't qualified to be president. But the campaigns didn't go easy on each other either.
Sanders's day started in Washington Heights in the ballroom of United Palace. By the time the rally got under way at 10 am the hall was two-thirds full, with about 1,000 in attendance. The actor Kal Penn jokingly introduced himself as Bobby Jindal and warmed up the crowd before Senator Sanders and his wife, Jane, came to the stage. With the aid of concert-hall acoustics, a booming microphone, and the calm of a seated, early-morning crowd, Sanders gave his stump speech at a normal speaking volume, weaving in an attack on Clinton, who this week stood next to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as he signed a $15 minimum-wage bill into law for the state. Clinton only supports a $12 federal minimum wage, Sanders noted; he didn't mention that she does support states that increase their minimum wages on their own.
In Washington Heights, Sanders got a strong reception when he contrasted his record with Clinton's. He ticked off familiar critiques: her vote for the Iraq war, her Super PAC support, her friendship with Henry Kissinger, and her six-figure speaking fees from Goldman Sachs. Sanders launched into the bit of physical comedy he's honed at multiple campaign events and on late-night shows, miming for the crowd the release of speeches he's given to Goldman Sachs. He winds up like he's pulling a folder from his suit jacket, then throws empty air at the crowd.
White Sanders supporters—among them many senior citizens and new parents with young children—outnumbered the people of color, despite the fact that it is a historically Latino neighborhood. Toddlers turned the aisles of the historic concert hall into a playground, punctuating Sanders's speech with their wails and whines.
"[Corporations] are taking the money we need to fix our problems," said Mohammad Ali, 67. Ali, who was born in Bangladesh ("but it wasn't Bangladesh yet, it was Pakistan then"), said he taught special ed in a Queens elementary school for seventeen years before retiring. He'd supported Bill Clinton in the past and Obama in 2008, and still remembered that Hillary Clinton had supported the teachers' union when she was senator, but he liked Sanders better because he trusted him more. "We can spend $3 trillion killing people in Iraq, but it only takes $1 trillion to feed children in America," Ali said, paraphrasing a line from Sanders's speech.
Carla Cruz, 23, said she was drawn to Sanders because "everything he says sounds like a solution." A Dominicana from the Bronx, she said her vote for Sanders in the April 19 primary would be the first time she'd participate in a presidential election. She felt most passionately about "getting money out of the political process."
She brought to the Washington Heights rally a homemade sign that read Latinos con Bernie, with illustrations of the flags of various Latin American countries dancing around the text, reflecting just a small range of New York City's Latino diversity: the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela. "Our voices are very muffled compared to everyone else who's talking," Cruz said of US Latinos.
An hour and a half later, every seat was filled in the hall at Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. (One of them was taken by Cruz, who hadn't gotten her fill yet of Sanders.) The racial demographics were much different at the Bronx Community College event. Many in the hall were Bronx Community College students who broke out in chants while they waited for Sanders. "BCC! Feel the Bern!" they shouted. Bronx Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda didn't let the turnout go unacknowledged. He remarked when he came to the stage: "I keep hearing how Bernie Sanders is only supported by white men. I see so many beautiful people from all walks of life," Sepulveda said.
Sanders, launching into the same stump speech he'd given just minutes earlier, ended up having to move more slowly toward the portion of his remarks that focused explicitly on people of color, because the crowd so desperately wanted to hear his proposals. "How is it that in minority communities people can't get affordable housing? How does it happen that the school buildings are falling apart and we're not attracting the quality teachers that our kids deserve?" The crowd, reacting to his calls for immigration reform, police reform, closing the black-white youth employment gap, cheered for every line. And when Sanders said, "We're going to invest in young people and education, not jails and incarceration," the crowd gave him a standing ovation for many seconds. He didn't get that reaction in Washington Heights.
Marian Stewart Titus, 59 and a professor in the English department at BCC, and her sister, Judith Stewart-Dodd, 74, both of the Bronx, said they had been on the fence about Sanders. The sisters are Jamaican, and liked Bill Clinton in the 1990s and were "die-hard Obama supporters" in 2008 and 2012.
"I wasn't a Sanders supporter originally but after I came here I realized I'm going to have to vote for him on the 19th. There's no BS with Bernie," Titus said. "Initially I just didn't know who he was. But seeing the success he's had in various primaries and learning more about him I realized I need to give him more of my time."
She knows that Sanders doesn't have the same kind of trust among voters of color that Clinton does, but appreciates that Sanders has made a concerted effort to deal with his knowledge and relationship gaps with black and immigrant voters. "I have always wondered why African-American voters are so devoted to the Clintons, and I think the adoration the Clintons enjoy is not deserved," said Titus.
Sanders continued on with his New York City campaign spree in Long Island City and then to the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Three hours later and a dozen miles away in Sunset Park, a crowd of several hundred packed into The Landing Cafe, a new food-hall development in the formerly waterfront manufacturing warehouses in Industry City, for an event the Hillary Clinton campaign billed as a "Latino organizing event."
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a lecturer at Columbia University and a Stanford and Princeton graduate who happens to be a DREAMer from the Dominican Republic, was the first to take the mic, giving remarks in support of Clinton in English and then Spanish for the attendees, where white people seemed to be at least as numerous as other people of color. Padilla is the star of Clinton's first New York Spanish-language television ad, which the campaign released this week. In the ad and onstage Saturday evening Padilla praised Clinton's compassion for immigrants, including him. Clinton helped secure a visa for Padilla after he'd finished his studies abroad so that he could return to the United States.
Among the other openers were New York Representative Nydia Velazquez, whose district includes Sunset Park, and the Puerto Rican singer Toby Love. Love sang several of his hits, including a Spanish cover of Michael Jackson's "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," and urged the crowd to back Clinton on April 19.
"I say this as a Nuyorican, and an American," Love said in between songs. "We need a leader who will always have our backs, am I right? She stood by Latinos, she fought for immigration reform.… She was with us." The crowd cheered, and Love, an entertaining singer, put on a great short set complete with backup dancers. It was not clear that many in attendance knew who he was beforehand, though.
"She's very consistent, and she's very experienced—she's the most experienced candidate in the race right now," said Vanessa Londono, 32, a Clinton supporter. Londono, who is Colombian, said immigration meant the most to her personally. Londono came out when her friend Judi Stroh, 34, who said, "[Clinton] has the most experience of any candidate literally ever in the history of the world."
"I've loved Hillary for forever because she's been out there since the '70s getting shit done," Stroh said. She appreciated Clinton's work on expanding healthcare access and said that she's dating a Bernie supporter right now who calls Clinton a liar, and Stroh tells him, "Well, I get crap happens, but she gets shit done," Stroh said. "And, well, she's a politician," Londono said, her attempt to soften the accusation.
Rigo Lara, 26 and a Sunset Park resident, came not as a Clinton supporter but as a curious member of the community. "I come here with some skepticism and seeing clearly the demographics, this is not a majority Latino crowd," Lara said. Lara, an artist who's involved with Sunset Park activists who work on development and gentrification issues, said he was also troubled by the location of the Clinton event, inside a newly remodeled food hall that caters to those who want boutique food experiences on original wood floors. "It seems a very strange location, because this is the site of what has become an increasing trend of developers, a certain class of New Yorkers, to move into predominantly immigrant neighborhoods and disrupt what is in Sunset Park a historically working-class waterfront," he said. "She could have gone to one of the many churches in Sunset Park, which have equal or more capacity than this, and had a totally different turnout."
Lara said that, while he's a registered Democrat, he wasn't particularly enthused about either Clinton or Sanders. But he still planned to vote.
Once Clinton got to the stage, the crowd full of rapturous Hillary supporters cheered her every line. Clinton, working through her own stump speech, included several witty lines about the gender and racial pay gaps which affect women and women of color in particular. "I don't think women going up to the cashier at the supermarket are told, 'Oh you're a white woman, you only have to pay 78 cents on the dollar. You're an African-American woman, you only have to pay 68 cents on the dollar, or you're a Latina woman you only have to pay 58 cents on the dollar,' because that's ridiculous."
"There is no gender discount, right?" Clinton said. Clinton also mentioned her support for Padilla, the Ivy League professor who'd grown up undocumented, and reminded the crowd that she'd supported the DREAM Act when it was first introduced while she was senator.
"I want to tell you, my very first experience with Latinos," Clinton said on Saturday. "It's hard to believe, but back in the day, I grew up in Chicago, it was surrounded by farm fields." Migrant workers from Mexico who followed the harvests would pass through Chicago, and when Clinton's church asked if anyone wanted to babysit children while their parents worked the fields, Clinton volunteered. She was 11. Clinton told the story in great detail, explaining that the experience taught her that Latinos were just like her. The story, while sweet, didn't come across as particularly enriching.


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Was this an innocent mistake or another calculated ploy to slight a conservative author? You decide.
The Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard reports that David Limbaugh, a best-selling author and popular Townhall columnist, has been curiously left off the New York Times bestseller list -- even though his book is flying off bookshelves everywhere. As a matter of fact, it's already reached pinnacle status on Amazon.com, boasting higher book sales in recent days than most other print publications on the market.
What, then, could possibly explain this glaring omission?
The New York Times Book Review, which has a history of belatedly recognizing conservative bestsellers, has banished conservative legal author David Limbaugh's latest, Jesus on Trial, from its upcoming best seller list despite having sales better than 17 other books on the list.
According to publishing sources, Limbaugh's probe into the accuracy of the Bible sold 9,660 in its first week out, according to Nielsen BookScan. That should have made it No. 4 on the NYT print hardcover sales list.
Instead, Henry Kissinger's World Order, praised by Hillary Clinton in the Washington Post, is No. 4 despite weekly sales of 6,607.
As Secrets wrote about a similar banishment early in the sales of conservative Dinesh D'Souza's America, the Gray Lady is mysterious in how it calculates its list. A spokeswoman said, "We let the rankings speak for themselves and are confident they are accurate."
If so, Limbaugh's book should easily have made the bestseller list. The fact that it didn't certainly suggests that the New York Times is once again engaging in anti-conservative bias.
President and publisher of Regnery Publishing, Marji Ross, told Townhall she was absolutely "flabbergasted" by the news.
"Basically, we were flabbergasted when we got the New York Times bestseller list...and saw that Jesus on Trial wasn't listed on their top 20 print books," she said. "We saw sales of nearly 10,000 copies for David's book, and we knew from past experience what that translates into. And that certainly is enough copies to always make it onto the bestseller list."
She explained that Limbaugh's book sold roughly 9,600 copies (according to advanced figures) while Henry Kissinger's book sold roughly only 6,600 copies -- and yet Kissinger's book landed at No. 4 on the bestseller list.
"When we saw Henry Kissinger's book at #4, we literally couldn't believe it," she said.
Be that as it may, this isn't the first time something like this has happened.
"We've seen this kind of thing before where one of our books [is slighted], and frankly, I think it happens a lot to conservative authors and conservative titles and conservative publishers," she added. "But this time was truly the most shocking."
You can learn more about ways to receive a free copy of Jesus on Trial by clicking here.
After all, regardless of what the Times thinks, the book is still very much worth reading.


text: Latest News Olawale Latest News on Education 03 April 2019 Hits: 1616 AT LAST! PRESIDENT BUHARI SIGNS NEW MINIMUM WAGE BILL Print Email On Thursday, 28th of March, President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the N30,000 minimum wages proposed by Labour into law. This is a step towards bringing the long-heated negotiation between the Nigerian Labour Congress(NLC) and the Federal Government of Nigeria to an end. President Buhari said the payment of this new minimum wage will commence in May, 2019 to mark the international Workers' Day. The new minimum wage bill was passed by the national assembly last week Tuesday. Prior to this, during Senate plenary on March 18 2019, the 8th Nigerian Senate recorded a landmark achievement has it approved N30, 000 as minimum wage for workers in Nigeria.The new chairman of the ad-hoc committee set up to review the bill, Francis Alimikhena, presented a report . In the committee's report, it was recommended that N30, 000 be approved as minimum wage for Nigerian workers. It was also recommended that the federal government put in place a procedure to review revenue sharing formula to enhance state capabilities towards implementation of the new wage.The committee also recommended N75,000 as a penalty for not keeping records of employees. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki commended the efforts of the committee in ensuring that the Nigerian Labour Congress did not go on strike before the lawmakers did the needful. Recall that after much deliberations, the Nigerian Senate approved the sum of N30,000 as the new national minimum wage. In addition, the lawmakers also approved N75,000 as the penalty for non-compliance with the law. Prev Next tweet


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General George S. Patton is seriously injured in a car accident and not expected to survive. "The Last Days of Patton" tells the story of these last few months of the General's life and the Army Medical Corps efforts to save him.
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Release Date: 1986
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There are 2 little things though. The music is too loud and/or my voice sound is to low. I kinda fixed it in my second video which hasn't been uploaded yet. But the sound of my voice in the second video is alot better.
I also rendered the video in 16:9 while I recorded it at 16:10 what happens then is that a little bit of video is missing on the top and bottom. I also fixed that in my second video.
I hope you guys like it!
I recommend watching in original quality on full screen. That's the best way to watch the video.
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So this is my second video in which I tried to fix the 2 little issue's
I hope you enjoy it!
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The Optionally Manned Technology Demonstrator is a prototype vessel that could be used to deploy logistics capabilities and sensors. In the future, vessels will need to be manufactured faster and incorporate new designs to support each Navy mission.
The team needed to create a 30-foot proof-of-concept hull out of carbon fiber composite material. With just four weeks to get the job done, the Navy didn't hesitate to get their feet wet—they dove right into learning about Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM). The new technology deep-dive at the MDF lasted about a week. By week two they were printing their design. The rapid turnaround and round-the-clock printing of BAAM allowed the team to assemble the six pieces of the hull during the third week.
The cost of a traditional hull ranges from $600,000 to $800,000 and typically takes 3-5 months to manufacture. Using BAAM reduced hull production costs by 90% and shortened production time to a matter of days—giving the Navy the opportunity to create "on demand" vehicles while also saving time, money, and energy.


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You may remember that we had several tornados in this area on New Year's Eve. Well, we had another one yesterday on Good Friday. In fact, we may have had more than one. I was blessed, again, that it/they were not by my house.
I did have some heavy rain and wind in the afternoon with accompanying hailstones. I looked out to see how big they were and I'd guess dime size. They melted pretty quickly.
But in the evening we had a tornado which struck at the airport. It tore the roof off one concourse, broke most of the windows and in the words of people who actually saw the damage "left the area looking like a war zone." The major radio station jumped on sending reporters out to survey the damage in the various areas. One talked to a man who was on an airplane at the airport when the storm hit. They were still at the gate when the wind picked the plane up about 30 feet in the air and moved it laterally over two departure gates. All the airways were destroyed and it was some time before they got a big bus out to the plane so they could get the people off.
Another young woman was on a plane when the storm hit. She had a six-week old baby with her. The baby slept through the entire affair.
We have miracles … one church lost its steeple but the 300 parisheners were able to take shelter in the attached school. No one in the area lost his life in the storms. Five people were taken to the hospital with injuries. They were treated and released.
The airport hopes to be back in service tomorrow at a 70 percent level. That's dependent upon how quickly the electric company can restore power to them. The runways are fine and the damage to the second terminal isn't as severe as the main terminal.
While all this was taking place, I was at a concert by the choirs of the Baptist church in Fenton. At the start of the evening, the pastor welcomed us and announced they had a plan because of the weather. We should all note where the exits were. If necessary, we'd go downstairs to the fellowship hall. One of his members told him he should be able to take care of the problem. His response was, "I'm on the preaching committee. I'm not on the weather committee." Right at the conclusion of the concert, a storm cell moved up a nearby highway and dumped lots of rain. However, I stayed in the church foyer until it let up and then came home.
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"Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." - Mark 10:15
Statistics tell us that conversions to Christ are fewer in number during the latter years of life. One might think that the older a person the wiser they would become and therefore more prone to believe. But, too often age brings pride and self-sufficiency. On the other hand, children generally know nothing of either deficiency.
Yes, I speak of pride and self-sufficiency as deficiencies. Anything that inhibits an individual from receiving the kingdom of God is most definitely a deficiency. All too often, the more that we know, the greater our arrogance. The more we achieve, the greater our independence. Jesus came right to the point... keep it simple like a child, or you'll never get the picture of faith.
When was the last time you turned down the helping hand of someone my friend? Do you wonder why you did that? Was it really because you didn't want to impose? Or was it a deeper issue of personal pride and self-sufficiency? Accepting the helping hand of the Lord and embracing his grace demands nothing more and nothing less than a child-like faith.


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Author Affiliations: Divisions of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism (Drs Skyler and Sosenko), Pediatrics, and Psychology (Dr Skyler), Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) occurs in individuals with a genetic predisposition to the disease, predominantly from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-related immunogenotype that accounts for approximately 60% of the genetic influence. In these individuals who are genetically at risk, an environmental trigger is thought to initiate an immune response targeting the insulin-secreting pancreatic islet β cells.1,2 The initial immune response also may engender secondary and tertiary immune responses that contribute to the impairment of β-cell function and destruction of β cells.3 The rate of development of T1D varies, probably related to non-HLA genetic factors and additional environmental factors beyond the triggering exposure.4
Skyler JS, Sosenko JM. The Evolution of Type 1 Diabetes. JAMA. 2013;309(23):2491–2492. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.6286
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Solids, Spots, and Dots Club Hosts Large Regional Clinic
Members of the Solids, Spots, and Dots 4-H Club in Rhoadesville have been busy with horse activities, including their weekend hosting of a state show qualifying clinic. The club successfully recruited 33 youth from nine different counties to participate in this event. Members were fortunate to experience beautiful weather for the event at Amber Hill Farm. Participants gained experience under the watchful eye of USEF judge Dede Bache Shumate and were able to learn from her instruction and experience. 4-H horse youth are qualifying and preparing now for the state show to be held in Lexington in September.


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Sport in Iraq
Sports in Iraq There are a wide variety of sports played and followed in Iraq. Football is the most popular sport and hobbies in Iraq. Football is a considerable uniting factor, following years of war and unrest. Basketball, swimming, weightlifting, bodybuilding, taekwondo, boxing, kickboxing, and tennis are also popular sports and hobbies.
Football is the most popular sport in Iraq. The Iraq national football team were the 2007 AFC Asian Cup Champions after defeating Saudi Arabia in the final, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2006, Iraq reached the football final of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, after defeating former FIFA World Cup semi-finalists South Korea and eventually finished as runners-up, winning silver. The football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, saw Iraq finish in fourth place, with the Italy national football team claiming bronze from a single goal.
The Iraqi Football Association is the governing body of football in Iraq, controlling the Iraq national football team and the Iraq Super League (also known as Dawri Al-Nokba). It was founded in 1948, and has been a member of FIFA since 1950, and the Asian Football Confederation since 1971.
Al-Shorta (Police Club) are considered the biggest club in the history of Iraq, having won the league in two of the past four seasons and they also have an Arab Champions League title to their name which they won in 1982. Other big clubs include Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Zawraa, Erbil SC, Duhok SC, Al Talaba and Najaf FC.
Basketball is a popular sport in Iraq. There are at least two leagues, the Iraq Basketball Association, the country's professional organization, runs a number of adult and youth leagues, and the Iraqi Premier League, for elite players.
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Iraq has a world-champion kickboxer in Riyadh Al-Azzawi.
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Gisela Graham brings together all the celebrities of the Fairy Tale world at a glamorous Christmas party, and invites you to hang them all on your tree. The Mad Hatter tips his hat in a jovial greeting as he swings his candy stripped cane to welcome his guests to his tea party. This wonderfully detailed resin decoration of the Mad Hatter from Gisela Graham's Fairy Tale Christmas collection will bring the magic and enchantment of childhood Fairy Tales, as well as smiles of delight when it is hanging on your Christmas tree.
From small beginnings 30 years ago Gisela Graham has built up one of Europe's leading giftware design companies. She has made her name crafting beautiful decorations for Christmas, she also uses her creative flair to designing useful, pretty things for the home and garden. Gisela is personally in charge of a talented in-house team of designers at the converted stable-yard that serves as her London office. She's involved in the design and selection of every one of the 4,500 products in her range and sells to shops worldwide.


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A washed out road couldn't stop Leo and Judy Blanch, Westvale Merino 36th annual ram sale near Wollun on Wednesday.
A drastic phonecall and some very quick work by council repaired the flood damaged entrance road just in the nick of time for the ram sale.
Ram numbers on offer were down from 56 in 2019, the fifth ram of the day reached the top price of $1800.
A decline in ewe numbers in the region saw 15 of the 33 rams offered 15 sold at auction with a further two selling after the hammer for an average of $876.
Repeat buyers were out in force to scoop the Westvale genetics cream at bargain prices.
Two generation buyers, Linda Waters and Chris Dunne, The Range, Enmore, once again secured the top price ram sired by H42 for $1800.
The September 2017-drop ram measured a fiber diameter of 17.7 micron with 2.5 per cent standard deviation, 14.3 pc coefficient of variance and a comfort factor or 99.95.
Mr Dunne along with Ms Waters flock is based on Westvale genetics, the harsh season didn't alter their plans and they have continued to hold and maintain their 17.5 micron average flock throughout the drought.
Volume buyer Charlie Webber, Woodville, Bendemeer, returned after a short absence to buy seven rams for a top of $1200 and an average of $772.
Mr Webber loves the consistency of the Westvale rams.
"They have so much wool, if they stuck their tounge out it would have wool on it," he said.
The sale was conducted by Schute Bell and Landmark with John Settree as auctioneer.


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A photo has just been leaked online which could possibly be the design for the upcoming next-gen GPU RTX 3080 Ti by ASUS. It's suspected that the photo is from an internal meeting at ASUS to discuss the potential designs for Nvidia's next-gen cards. It shows a Black and Silver color scheme as well as 3 axial-tech based fans and a very large heatsink underneath. The title of the slide translates to "next-generation ROG STRIX".
Most interestingly though, the tag at the bottom left of the card seems to read "3080 Ti", which suggests that this would be the flagship model of the RTX 30 series. That may not come as a surprise to most, but it could certainly debunk the rumors of an RTX 3090 card replacing the Titan RTX. But whether or not the RTX 3090 really exists, have a look at the leaked photo for the RTX 3080 Ti below:
There is no specified launch date or price just yet, but considering how fast these leaks and updates are coming out, Nvidia is bound to officially reveal the entire lineup soon I'm sure. We already know that the RTX 3080 is confirmed and what the founder's edition looks like thanks to those leaked pictures and Nvidia launching an official investigation into the leaks.
For now this is still a rumor though, so take this all with a helping portion of salt, and to be honest the more I look at the photo the more I think it's photoshopped, I mean just look at the choppy image of the presenter in the corner. The design itself looks legitimate, but I'm not buying the first slide. Then again, the image was apparently much lower resolution, so who knows really.
But either way, fingers crossed that more image leaks come out or an official announcement is made soon at least!
What do you think? Could this be the official RTX 3080 Ti design by ASUS? Does this mean there is no RTX 3090? And what do you think of the design if it is real? Let us know your thoughts on it!


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Aged just 17 and already with a Youth Olympic Games gold medal in his pocket, Connor Bell exudes all the confidence you might expect from one of New Zealand's most exciting teenage sporting talents.
From his parents' lifestyle block in Kaukapakapa, just north of Auckland, the 1.93m-tall discus thrower talks articulately of his future, which he hopes will lead to an international career.
Yet the mood becomes less jovial when he talks of a difficult period he experienced as a "chubby" student at intermediate school, where he was bullied.
"I found dealing with bullying difficult and not being able to handle it made me more of a target," explains Connor. "I was a bit different, I stood out and I was an easy target to push around. I didn't have the maturity or experience to deal with it."
Connor's entry into the world had been far from straightforward. Mum Jenette describes the "bumpy start" after he was born nearly four weeks premature and immediately transferred into an incubator.
Despite his unscheduled early arrival, Connor weighed a healthy 3.4kg, with Jenette commenting, "He was bigger than Texas and in length was on the 90th percentile."
A tall, energetic kid, he had an idyllic upbringing, attending the local country primary school, and enjoyed playing a range of sports from soccer, rugby and cricket to swimming and motocross.
But after dad Stephen and Jenette opted to send Connor to an intermediate school in Auckland because it offered a greater subject range and to help ease the transition into high school, his world quickly changed.
"I went from a school of about 60 kids to 1100 kids," recalls Connor. "I didn't have any friends and I was around a bunch of kids who were different to me."
Bullied both verbally and physically, Connor became more introverted. Playing video games was his release. He put on weight and tried to avoid school-related activities by feigning sickness.
It was tough on Connor's parents to watch their previously effervescent and fun-loving son struggle.
"He was coming home at night visibly upset and as a parent, you feel quite powerless," tells Stephen.
"Bullies by their very nature don't do things in front of teachers, but we tried really hard not to step in, and instead equipped Connor with the skills and tools to develop that confidence of how to deal with it himself."
As Connor found other mechanisms to cope, the bullies backed off and then late in his final year at intermediate, the direction of his life took a sharp turn for the better.
During the annual athletics day, the tall, strong Connor decided to enter the discus throw, fuelled by competing against a bully who had made his life hell.
"There was definitely a rivalry," Connor explains, "and that day I threw the discus 32m to win the competition."
A fire was lit inside the youngster, with Jenette describing the moment as Connor "finding his herd".
Spurred on by this victory, the youngster joined North Harbour Bays Athletics Club and just over a year after making his discus debut, he was proud to be crowned New Zealand secondary schools champion.
Connor had discovered his passion and launched himself 100% into the sport. He studied videos of discus greats at length, spent hours hurling the discus around a paddock, and practised his spinning technique so many times on the lounge and dining-room floor that the carpets needed replacing.
"If I was trying to watch something on TV, he'd drive me nuts because he'd be spinning on the carpet," says Jenette. "But like any parent, you just want to see your kids do something that fires them and with Connor, that was discus."
Connor quickly rose to being New Zealand's number- one schoolboy thrower.
Coached for a period by two-times Olympic champion Dame Valerie Adams, he landed gold at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas before enjoying his finest hour, taking out the Youth Olympic Games title in Buenos Aires in October last year by a staggering 18m margin.
It was a huge moment for the Westlake Boys' High School student.
"It was fantastic to see his success," says Stephen, adding, "but we would have been super-proud of him wherever he finished."
Connor's next major target is to win gold at next year's World U20 Championships in Kenya and he has also not ruled out qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
So what would Connor say now to the bullies who made his life so tough during his time at intermediate school? "I'm happy the way things played out because every experience is an opportunity to learn," he says.
"I wouldn't quite be the same person had I not undergone those learnings. Part of the reason to compete in discus that day at intermediate school was driven by rivalry with the bullies and if that hadn't happened, I probably wouldn't have gone on to enjoy the success I have."


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Monday, 16 November 2009
Free cat calorie counter.
A few hours on from the last posting and Frank is none the worse for his adventure to the vet.
He is good and a gentleman when he is there.
All round large fluffy kitten in fact.
It's the ten minute car trip that he's not too keen on.
Nothing broken, maybe a torn ligament in his foot. Medication for a week.
It hurt us more than Frank. We were in there less than 4 minutes.
My joke of soon having to get a mortgage to pay the vet went down like a lead balloon at the reception desk..............
The problem being he is too big and too old now to go jumping from high fences.
He has a cat flap he could use but that's not macho.
If you want your cat to stay healthy it might help to follow a good exercise routine.
Jumping onto the living room couch must be worth 3 calories
Jumping up on top of a wardrobe (two tries) 10 calories
Chasing after a bird 250 calories
Chasing after a dog 100 calories
Being chased by a dog 10 calories
Rearranging pillows 100 calories
Moving from one side of the bed to the other 350 calories
Tail twitching 3 calories
Being shoved off a chair 3 calories
Finger painting with a tin of paint 110 calories
Responding to a call (first) 0 calories
Responding to a call (second) 0 calories
Responding to call (third) 0 calories
Taking a walk outside with the boss 20 calories
Taking a walk outside alone 2,500 calories
There is a bright side to this story, at least the birds will be safer for a while and the mouse population should have doubled by the time Frank gets back into the swing of things.
Posted by Soggibottom at Monday, November 16, 2009
Labels: Calorie counter
3 comments:
- WendyCarole said...
hope Frank is better soon.
- 17 November 2009 at 18:42
Thanks Wendy....
- 18 November 2009 at 01:20
- DAWNIE said...
Yes they are expensive items, but their company is just priceless.
- 24 November 2009 at 11:04
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Two arrested are suspects in multiple crimes
Santa Monica police have arrested a man and a woman from Los Angeles who are suspected of committing as many as nine residential burglaries in the city.
Officers were called at 2:27 p.m. November 11th to an apartment complex in the 2800 block of Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, where a neighbor alleged that he saw a man and a woman look into an adjacent apartment window and try to open the front door, Sgt. Renaldi Thruston said.
The neighbor alleged that the male suspect removed a window screen and was later seen walking away from the apartment with a television. Realizing the actions of the two suspects were suspicious, the neighbor said he called police.
Officers quickly arrived at the scene and after a short foot pursuit, they located and detained both suspects, Thruston said. Police recovered a television and a laptop computer which had been taken during the incident in the complex's laundry room and on a path and returned the items to the tenant, Thruston said. A vehicle was also impounded by police in the area.
Officers credited the neighbor's actions with assisting in the suspects' arrest.
"Because of the neighbor's awareness and diligence, coupled with quick police response, the
suspected burglars were arrested before they could get away with the victim's property," Thruston said.
The suspects were identified as Jovani Manuel Morales, 25, and Joselyn Keny Galdamez, 30. Morales was booked for burglary, possession of stolen property and probation violation, and Galdamez was booked for burglary and probation violation, Thruston said.
The two suspects matched the description of suspects in a residential burglary in the 1700 block of California Avenue the previous week, Thruston said. They are believed to be responsible for as many as nine burglaries in Santa Monica, including one in the 1400 block of Idaho Avenue earlier on November 11th, as similar methods of operation were used in those incidents, Thruston said.
The burglaries involved mostly electronic items, but police have not determined a total loss from the incidents, he said.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call Santa Monica Police Department detectives at (310) 458-8451, or the watch commander at (310) 458-8427. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may call the We Tip hotline at (800) 782-7462 (800) 78-CRIME.


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|Aug. 6, 2017 12:11 PM PT1:11 PM MT2:11 PM CT3:11 PM ET19:11 GMT3:11 12:11 PM MST2:11 PM EST2:11 PM CT23:11 UAE15:11 ETNaN:� - For the second straight year, Atlanta Falcons cornerback Jalen Collins will be suspended for the start of the season for a violation of the league's policy on performance enhancers. This time, the suspension carries a bigger bite: 10 games.
Analysis: The NFL announced Sunday that Collins has been suspended without pay for the first 10 games of the 2017 season. He was suspended for the first four games in 2016. Collins, a second-round pick in 2015, has said he failed drug tests at Louisiana State.


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According to Wikipedia, artist Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits exhibited at the most notable museums around the globe.
Jason Farago at the New York Times writes, "… the photographer Cindy Sherman — who knows more than most about the deceptions of selfies — has quietly been exploring Instagram's potential for something more than self-promotion. She created a private account on the service last October while in Tokyo; last week, without warning, she unlocked her account and changed her handle to @_cindysherman_. (She originally went by @misterfriedas_mom, in honor of her pet macaw.) At a stroke, she revealed not only quotidian 'grams of sunsets and lunches, but also more than three dozen distorted selfies, deformed by unnatural smudges, copious flares and kaleidoscopic reflections."
Farago continues, "I can't say why she decided to make public the nearly 600 photographs on her account, but I'll call it an act of generosity from an artist who is less outgoing than most Instagram hounds. Her new mobile selfies are by turns outlandish, hilarious and poignant. They demystify the influences and experiments of a great artist, even as they also point to the gap between Ms. Sherman's vital, unsettling practice of sideways self-portraiture and the narcissistic practice of selfie snapping."
If you're on Instagram, you like Cindy Sherman's work, or at the very least, you're interested in contemporary art, check out Sherman's feed or follow. I'm a combination of bewildered, amused and intrigued each time I see one of her photos!


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Top employee development trends for the year
If you are like every other working professional on earth, you probably spent a good part of January making lists. Resolutions. Goals. Objectives. Targets. It's what people do to ramp up and settle into a new year. So in that grand tradition, we have one more list to add to the mix: Four trends that we believe will have the biggest impact on your employee training and development planning in 2019.
Trend #1: Alignment Brings Results
Employee development efforts can't succeed in a vacuum. Yet all too often, employee training and development programs are still mostly siloed and disconnected from higher-level business objectives.
Breaking this cycle isn't easy; it requires an active, sustained effort to build productive relationships with your executive team and other key departments across your organization. But with these connections in place, you can create employee development and performance management initiatives that support, align with, and make meaningful contributions to your most important and strategic business goals.
When your business hits those strategic goals, the people in your organization will feel like they've made meaningful contributions if you've done the work to align what they do with the most critical business objectives.
Trend #2: There's Nothing Soft About Soft Skills
The verdict is definitely in. Today, people value transferable skills (often called "soft skills" or sometimes "human skills") like emotional intelligence, negotiation, active listening, and collaboration more than traditional job-specific skills, and your employee training and development program should acknowledge and reflect this reality.
That's not to say you should immediately abandon all your job skills training and convert your learning center into a yoga studio. But it's important to recognize the crucial role that transferrable skills training plays in boosting employee retention, developing leaders, and building a positive, productive company culture. It's no surprise that communication and emotional intelligence (EI) trainings are surging in popularity. And if you're not already riding the Soft Skills Express, it's definitely time to jump on that train.
Trend #3: Employee Development is About More Than Employee Development
You've heard the cliché: Businesses no longer choose employees, employees choose businesses (or something along those lines). If that's true (and it usually is), the breadth and quality of your employee development program has a direct, unavoidable impact on your ability to recruit and retain the best people.
We live in a world where the practical lifespan of most skills is about five years, which makes ongoing learning and development more valuable than ever. And if current and potential employees see that you're willing to make a serious investment in their long-term success, you gain a significant advantage over competing employers. Finally, in a competitive employment environment, it's always a good idea to promote your commitment to employee development as part of your recruitment program—and make it a visible, prominent piece of your employee benefits package.
Trend #4: Technology, Technology, and Technology (Did We Mention Technology?)
Technology advancements shape and impact employee training and development in a big way every year. And in 2019, there's enough happening in this space to fill multiple articles. Or books. Here's a quick list of some of the biggest, most promising technology developments you should explore and keep an eye on this year (if you're not already):
• People Expect Blended Learning. This concept goes beyond simply providing online or mobile access to learning programs and materials. It's about designing and creating holistic experiences that cater to people's habits and their busy lifestyles. With blended learning, classroom training, on-demand, mobile, and other formats and platforms all work seamlessly together to provide rich, versatile, and personalized experiences. Blended learning is also about providing easy, anytime access, so people always have quality training and development opportunities at their fingertips.
• UX Matters. When it comes to online experiences, we are basically all spoiled. People are accustomed to easy, frictionless, intuitive experiences whenever they shop, play, or read online. So today, if you present your employees with a hodgepodge of PowerPoint decks, SharePoint docs, video files, and web pages cobbled together in a legacy LMS, they will give up and tune out—no matter how good the content is. That's why so many smart organizations are investing in new end-to-end employee development platforms. They understand that they have to offer their employees the same quality experiences as their favorite news sites or shopping apps—and that a more unified, advanced learning and development technology platform is the best way to make that happen.
• UX Matters Part II: Flash Is Over. Speaking of legacy, this is a friendly reminder that Flash—the heart and soul of so much training content over the past 20+ years—is officially headed for obsolescence in 2020. If you don't have an active plan for updating or replacing any Flash-based content and apps that are still up and running, it's time to create one.
• Making Employee Development Smarter. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become pervasive—whether it's Netflix telling you what to watch next or driverless Ubers zipping around Las Vegas. In the employee development space, AI makes it possible to create new kinds of smart, customized, user-focused learning experiences that grow and adapt as people advance and move into new roles. AI will continue to play a central role in most areas of our work and personal lives—and that definitely includes employee training and development.
• Immerse Yourself in VR. Augmented and virtual reality have gone mainstream in a big way, and they hold fascinating possibilities for employee development. The cost of developing AR and VR content is coming down quickly. More low-cost VR devices are becoming available (including ultra-inexpensive options like Google Cardboard). And that opens the door to new categories of immersive, engaging, and ultra-realistic learning experiences that will help take your employee development efforts to the next level.
• Would You Like to Play a Game? The word "gamification" carries a bit of baggage. But in the context of employee development, gamification is not about turning your entire learning program into a Fortnite spinoff. It's about building a competitive rewards or points system that motivates people to actively participate in your employee development plans. Setting up some friendly competition and rewarding people for their learning achievements is a proven way to boost participation and improve results.
That's our list of some (but certainly not all) of the trends that we believe will have a significant impact on employee development in 2019. We hope they're useful. Chances are, you're already actively thinking about and working on many of them, because they all have the potential to make your employee development program an even more essential and valuable part of your organization's success.
Check out our e-book to learn more about the future of employee development.


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