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"Welcome to the City of Volunteers," reads the sign at the entrance to Sun City, where row after row of small, one-story houses with manicured lawns, low walls, and evenly spaced citrus trees line the streets. Through the streets the elderly steer their golf carts and few, if any, teenage drivers can be found. This is a place, as many Arizonans will tell you, that is unlike any other in the Valley.
Sun City, a master-planned retirement community founded in 1960, has one of the world's most concentrated geriatric populations, according to CenterWatch, a clinical trials listing service. The average age is 72, with around 1,500 residents over the age of 90.
When Dr. Joseph Rogers, an Alzheimer's disease researcher, visited this city more than 20 years ago, he looked around at the homes and the golf carts and set his eyes on a remarkable opportunity.
As people age, their chances of contracting crippling diseases and developing disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, arthritis, prostate cancer, and pancreatic cancer increase dramatically; for example, according to the Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's affects 1 in 10 individuals over 65, and nearly half of those over 85.
That means that Sun City, with its large elderly population, is likely to have a remarkably high (if not the highest) concentration of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prostate cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
Rogers was the first research scientist to turn his attention to this community when, in 1986, he left the University of Massachusetts and Harvard's National Alzheimer's Disease Research Center to found the Sun Health Research Institute (SHRI) in Sun City.
The institute, resting in the shadow of the much larger Sun Health Boswell Hospital system, looks like just another research center. But a closer look—beyond the place, to the people inside—reveals something more extraordinary: SHRI is not just a place for science; it is an internationally recognized institute that has built its success upon a reciprocal relationship between dedicated scientists and an extremely generous community.
It is a community-based research center that understands both its history and its purpose today, as an institute extending its reach beyond the walls of Sun City and its influence across the bioscience landscape in Arizona and throughout the world.
"What we want is for the patient to live a longer life with dignity, a quality of life with dignity," said Dr. Alex Roher, senior scientist and head of the Napolean M. Longtine Center for Molecular Biology and Genetics.
When Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap laid out a ten-year plan on how Arizona could become a national and international leader in niche areas of the biosciences, it listed as Strategy One the need to build the state's research infrastructure. Strategy Four, the Roadmap went on to report, was to "encourage the state's citizens to become a more informed citizenry in the biosciences."
Since founding the institute, Rogers has made Strategy Four his number one priority, and all his scientists today continue to do so as they also focus on developing that critical research infrastructure.
"This city might be one of the most unique resources the Arizona bioscience community could offer to the world," said Dr. Tom Beach, senior scientist and head of the Dr. W. Harold Civin Laboratory of Neuropathology.
Homegrown Research
The idea for Sun Health Research Institute began more than 20 years ago with a vision championed by Sun Health Boswell Hospital's first CEO, W. Austin Turner, its board chairman at the time, Dr. Haakon Bang, and an early medical staff leader, Dr. Baird Horton. They wanted a research institute committed to studying age-related diseases.
The nonprofit hospital system faced formidable obstacles, including a lack of institutional funding for such an enterprise. If research was to be done, it would need support from the community, and it would need scientists willing to take a risk on the fledgling institute, said Pamela Meyerhoffer, chief executive officer for the Sun Health Foundation.
Meyerhoffer, who helped spearhead the campaign to establish SHRI, said people were initially skeptical that the community would be willing to invest in research that would not benefit them immediately. But once hospital officials reached out to the community, the skepticism abated.
"They were saying that while what's discovered may not help me, it will help future generations," she said. "They captured the universality of it maybe even before we did. "They were excited by the thought that as these discoveries are made, they wouldn't just help the people who built this institute but everyone everywhere."
To build the institute, Sun Health recruited Rogers, a well established Alzheimer's researcher on the East Coast and an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School.
"He had to really have a lot of faith and confidence in the possibility of Sun Health Research Institute in order to make it happen, because he came to nothing," Meyerhoffer said.
In terms of funding and buildings, there really was nothing for Rogers when he came to Sun City in 1986. His first office was in an abandoned building, and his first lab bench was a plastic fold-up table borrowed from the hospital cafeteria. But Rogers says that did not matter to him because Sun Health offered him something incredibly valuable: a community like no other that he could tap into for research.
"You can do great aging research at Harvard or Johns Hopkins in theory, but without the subject population it really becomes difficult," Rogers said. "Here we have a community that is not only generous but enthusiastic about participating. And they participate at every level: Every piece of equipment and furniture, every inch of the walls and floors represents the charitable contributions from the community."
After meeting with Rogers in 1986, Cleo and Bob Roberts, two prominent members of the Sun City community, latched on to his vision of improving the quality of life for the elderly. They gave Sun Health Foundation its first donation of $750,000 to get the institute off the ground.
"It's the baby I never had," said Cleo, who has, along with her late husband, donated millions of dollars to the clinic. "It's done so much for Alzheimer's research. I'm just proud to see how far it's come."
The Roberts' donation was a turning point for the institute, which, along with its Arizona consortium partners, is now listed as one of only 29 Alzheimer's Disease Core Centers in the nation. With the Roberts money, SHRI was able to renovate an old office building and convert it into laboratories. From there, Rogers began to build his institute, modeled after one of his former employers: the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
"The Salk Institute is an ideal place and culture and environment to do science—everything there was really geared towards making the science happen," said Rogers, who is a recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer's Disease Research from the National Alzheimer's Association. "And that's the way we are here."
Alex Roher moved to Sun City in 1995 because he saw SHRI as a place where he could tap the community and focus solely on science with no teaching responsibilities. Since then, he has co-published a major paper linking cerebral arteriosclerosis (hardening and thickening of arterial walls) to Alzheimer's.
Dr. Yong Shen, head and senior scientist of the Robert S. Haldeman Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, recently published groundbreaking findings that show the molecular mechanisms by which a toxic molecule called amyloid peptide may be overproduced in a brain with Alzheimer's.
When asked what attracted him to SHRI, this leading Alzheimer's researcher replied simply, "Scientific freedom and minimal bureaucracy."
Engaging the community
SHRI's operating budget is run almost entirely on grant money. This year it has an active grant total of $30 million, including a $7.6 million award from the National Institutes of Health on behalf of the Arizona Alzheimer's Disease Consortium and its partners.
"The scientists here are entrepreneurial scientists," Rogers said. "They don't look at science as an entitlement; they look at it as an opportunity to go out and get the funds they need."
The money SHRI raises through grants must pay for just about everything except buildings and equipment. That, in part, is why the community involvement is so important to the institute. The volunteers save the scientists thousands of dollars.
"I triple my volunteers' salaries every year!" Rogers said.
Sun Health's retired medical chief of staff volunteers as a physician in the institute's clinic once a week. Three retired Ph.D.s volunteer in Roher's laboratory, and two of them have published more papers in their retirement hours at SHRI than they did while working in the universities or industry.
Perhaps the greatest volunteer, Roger says, was Dr. Harold Civin, a retired pathologist who joined Rogers in starting SHRI's brain bank that today has become world-renowned for tissue quality and availability and is expanding into a full-body tissue repository.
Scientists who study the common age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's face a stark challenge. These disorders are uniquely human and in order to study them, researchers need tissue collected as close to life as possible before the process of decay alters the organs and their chemicals.
Despite the obstacles, SHRI has managed to build one of the world's best brain banks, shipping tissue to nearly every continent in the world.
"More than 2,000 people in the northwest Valley—without any advertising or financial inducement at all—have enrolled in our tissue bank," Rogers said.
When Rogers first arrived in Sun City, he desperately wanted to start a tissue donation program, but he lacked a board-certified pathologist to run it. Then fate intervened.
In the early days of the Institute, Rogers spent a lot of time speaking to the community. At one point he found himself at a church lecture lamenting the need for a pathologist. As Rogers finished the lecture and prepared to leave, Civin approached him.
"Not only am I board-certified," he told Rogers, "I'm bored, period. Just give me an office and a microscope. I'll do the job for you."
Civin ran the program for the next ten years of his life until the onset of Parkinson's forced him to retire as a volunteer.
By the time Civin donated his brain—his final gift to the institute—the tissue donation program, under his watch, had reduced the time between death and autopsy to an average of 2.5 hours. It is the shortest port-mortem delay in the world.
"The next closest place is maybe 8 hours or 12 hours," Beach said.
To keep the time so short—to make the science happen—all the scientists pitch in and help. At some point during their career at SHRI, everyone is on call 24/7 to retrieve a donor's body, even if the death occurs in the middle of the night.
"The only way you're going to get a short post-mortem delay reliably and consistently is by spreading the responsibility out over many people," Beach said. "So we have three rotating team captains who are on call one month out of every three. The technicians and scientists are supposed to help by being on call one month every year and a half."
This dedication seems to be a character trait of the SHRI scientists. Many of them leave leading universities from around the world to work in Sun City and focus exclusively on the science. To that end, they will help collect the tissue and reach out to the community they need to do research.
"You see, here we are not only using financial resources from the community for the benefit of Alzheimer's disease research, but also the human asset," Roher said.
For her research on fibromyalgia (a debilitating condition characterized by muscle, joint, or bone pain, fatigue, and other symptoms), Dr. Dianne Lorton, who left a pharmaceutical startup to become senior scientist and head of the Robert J. Hoover Center for Arthritis Research, is now out in the community recruiting donors for the whole-body donation program.
Just last month Dr. Jeffrey Joyce, senior scientist and head of the Thomas H. Christopher Center for Parkinson's Research, gave a lecture on Parkinson's that attracted more than 180 people.
"We believe we have a responsibility to communicate what we are doing, but it also builds a rapport with the community that just won't quit," Rogers said.
Giving Back
Because the community helped build the institute, Rogers will tell you, the institute has a responsibility to give back to it.
"We exist because of this community, and we exist for this community," he said. "The community made it possible, and we accept that trust that they have given us, and we are dedicated to finding medical breakthroughs that will benefit them as well as others worldwide."
That is where the relationship between Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, director of the Cleo Roberts Center for Clinical Research, and Dr. Larry Sparks, senior scientist and head of the Dr. Ralph and Muriel Roberts Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Research, comes in.
Just six years ago, Sabbagh arrived at SHRI at the age of 34 to build a clinical program from scratch that now is expanding to twice its size, in a second three-story research building currently under construction.
A few days into his job, Sabbagh met Sparks. The two worked together closely to develop a new model for clinical research that eliminated the boundaries between the bench and the bedside. Sparks takes his discoveries into the clinic and follows them closely, and Sabbagh is very involved in the science of it all.
"You want to understand the science, what the genesis of it is," Sabbagh said. "And when you know the idea, you see that 'wow, that's really important.' Then you take ownership in seeing that the studies get done right."
"Normally, I would not be allowed to do what I do," Sparks added.
Nine years ago, Sparks arrived in Sun City with a major discovery in tow. While at the University of Kentucky, he had found a connection between cholesterol and Alzheimer's, and realized that cholesterol-lowering drugs could potentially stop the progression of Alzheimer's. But his research went nowhere—and Sparks wanted to test it out.
"Kentucky was a candy store for basic research," he said. "I saw this as an environment that might be a candy store for clinical research. Half a million people over 55 years of age, sounds pretty interesting. At Kentucky, I suspected that Lipitor therapy could slow the progression of Alzheimer's. It wasn't until I got here that I started testing drugs in the laboratory to see if lowering cholesterol really worked."
Rogers explained, "We empower our Ph.D.s to take their discoveries into the clinic. And that's what Sparks did. Entrepreneur that he was, he went to Pfizer and got placebo and Lipitor and money to run a trial."
The trial was small, with only 60 people, compared to the traditional 600.
"But everybody down to the last person says it was done correctly, it was done in a rigorous manner, standardized approach, good methodology, good statistical analysis—every litmus test, we passed it," Sabbagh said. "So we weren't big, but we were right. And so we try to do good science, rigorous science."
Rogers agreed. "In my view, it's the most successful trial in Alzheimer's disease that's ever been done. It's going to turn out to be the most effective treatment we have yet for combating Alzheimer's."
Sparks, Sabbagh, and other SHRI investigators published their results last year and the article set off a wave of trials trying to duplicate their results.
"One hundred million dollars is being spent replicating what we did. And we did it all by ourselves. It was our baby," Sparks said. "That's the most attractive part about it. It was our science, it was our trial; it was our baby. And now because of that, we're doing other people's work."
SHRI's clinical trial program is on the receiving end of cutting-edge Alzheimer's treatments being discovered around the country. It is considered a premier program that ranks among the most storied East Coast clinics such as those at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. Most of the country's major clinical trials are conducted in Sabbagh's clinic, and SHRI is often one of the only sites in the West with access to the latest medical treatments in their early stages.
One study, called the "third generation vaccine study," is only being run in six sites in America. SHRI is the only such site west of the Mississippi.
"We're part of all of the major clinical trials," Sabbagh said. "We're not on the outside; we're in the circle that makes a difference. So a vice president of a company will call us and say, 'Hey, Marwan, we want you to do a clinical trial.' They know all about us."
While Sabbagh is running other trials, he still remains closely connected to the other SHRI scientists. Sabbagh and Sparks are planning a number of other projects together, and they hope their work will ultimately culminate in a large-scale, six-year prevention trial.
"Marwan and I are now a team," Sparks said. "Everything that I come up with now, he is part of in some way or another. If it's going to work, you'll see us cross the finish line together."
Rogers will tell you another hallmark of SHRI's success is the extensive collaboration that goes on among the scientists.
"We work together here," Rogers said. "And that creates synergies that make our collective impact ever so much greater than the sum of our individual efforts."
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Yokota Bible Institute Fall Semester begins
Yokota Bible Institute (YBI) is a satellite campus of Faith Bible Institute in Monroe, Louisiana. Come join us as we study through the Bible chronologically in 10 Simple Steps with an interactive DVD format utilizing student workbooks, charts, 3D maps, and images to produce a unique and engaging learning experience. Yokota Bible Institute meets each Monday night from 6:30-9:30pm. We look forward to you learning with us as we join the over 40,000 students who have been trained thru Faith Bible Institute.
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Time was, when a theatre production was critically panned we could expect to see it swiftly booted out of the West End faster than you could say "follow the yellow brick road", but these days it's not that simple.
Take Wicked for example. While scorn wasn't heaped upon it when it opened in 2006, reviews didn't exactly shower it with praise either. The Guardian compared it to an 'industrial product'; the Telegraph said that 'No one could accuse Wicked of being a great musical…'; and the Independent recorded that 'The production manages to feel at once overblown and empty.'
However, as the Guardian pointed out this Saturday, five years later Wicked is not only still running, but it's massively popular. Grossing £145 million at the box office and becoming the first West End production to gross £1 million in one week.
Did the critics get it wrong? No. Critics are, after all, just people with their own opinions, likes and dislikes. They just happen to make a living writing reviews. This doesn't make them relevant to the exact target audience of each and every production that they see – neither does it make them right and everybody else wrong.
So how did Wicked become so popular? Simples (sorry…), the audience enjoyed it. People went, had a great time, and told their friends and family. Only these days they tell them via social media. At time of writing, Wicked has more than 625,000 Facebook fans, the official YouTube channel has 22 uploads which have been viewed almost 250,000 times, and the official London twitter feed has just short of 17,000 followers. In short, Wicked fans not only love the show, they share their love for the show online. In situations where you have thousands of people endorsing something publically, it really doesn't matter what a handful of industry experts think of it.
You just have to look at insane level of manic devotion inspired by The Da Vinci Code – which the Guardian described as '450 pages of irritatingly gripping tosh…' (Gripping? No. Tosh on the other hand…) – to see how much the power has shifted. Cultural opinion-makers were once held up as purveyors of ultimate taste – now its much more about us. The image we want to present to the world, how we want to position ourselves – with the crowd or rebelling against it – and just putting our opinion out there as equal to that of the traditional opinion formers. Now that we can comment on their reviews online, or @mention them on Twitter, the cultural gatekeepers of old are looking much more like you and me.


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There's an obscure story in 1 Kings 13, where an unknown prophet was given a prophetic word for King Jeroboam at the altar in Bethel.
The "man of God" told him that a future king (Josiah) would desecrate the altar one day with the bones of the dead (vv. 1-3). He was also rebuking Jeroboam for violating the office he held. He announced the altar would immediately break in half, which it did (vv. 3,5).
The prophet was also told by God not to accept any food or drink and not to return the way he came.
Unfortunately, this unknown leader was duped by an "old" prophet who deceived him, by saying an angel had told him something different than what God had said (a lie). The young prophet violated God's instructions and ended up being killed by a lion (vv. 11-25).
We must keep God's Word as our authority and use discernment, remaining obedient, even when speaking to people of God.
Reflect + Pray
1. Think about a time a follower of God deceived you. How did you feel? In what ways did you deal with that deception and move on from it?
2. Do you prioritize the Word of God over everyone else's? What are some practical ways you discern what is from God and what isn't?
3. In what ways can you be more obedient to God in your daily life?
4. Next Sunday marks Clergy Appreciation Day, and we definitely appreciate our amazing Foursquare ministers! Pray for the pastors in your life to be given peace, fresh hope and renewed vigor for ministry.
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Women's sportswear company with '08 sales estimated at $37 million purchased for $150 million
Athleta Inc., a homegrown Petaluma catalog retailer that carved out a niche selling women's sports apparel on the Internet, is being acquired by Gap Inc. for $150 million, the two companies said Monday.
Athleta, which has 250 employees, will stay in Petaluma, said Louise Callagy, spokeswoman for San Francisco-based Gap.
"Everything is going to remain the same," she said. "Athleta will continue to be run out of the Petaluma headquarters."
Athleta will become a brand in Gap's online store, along with Banana Republic, Old Navy and Piperlime, said Glenn Murphy, Gap's CEO.
"Athleta is a great success story with loyal customers that now will become part of the Gap Inc. family of brands," he said.
Founded in 1998, the company markets clothing and footwear designed for swimming, running, hiking, yoga, skiing, tennis, cycling, golf and other sports. About 90 percent is sold under the Athleta brand.
The company, which targets active women between 25 and 55, grew in recent years with women's increased participation in sports, according to Athleta officials.
Athleta rang up an estimated $37 million in sales last year, according to Hoover's Inc., an online business database. The privately held company does not disclose revenues.
"With Gap Inc.'s e-commerce platform and iconic brands, more customers will learn about Athleta," said Joe Teno, Athleta's current CEO. "We continue to provide our existing customers with the great products and service they've come to expect from us."
Teno will become Athleta's president with the acquisition.
Athleta was founded by Scott Kerslake, a cyclist, surfer and former investment banker who saw a market for high-quality exercise apparel specifically designed for women. With $700,000 in seed capital from friends and family, he started the business in Petaluma as an online and catalog retailer.
Athleta designed a line of private-label bodywear and sports apparel and added selected items from manufacturers including Patagonia, Adidas, Marmot and Hind.
Kerslake left Athleta in 2004, and Blue Highways Holdings acquired a majority interest in 2006.
That year, Athleta moved its main distribution facility to Grove City, Ohio, to be closer to customers in the Midwest and East Coast.
Today, Petaluma remains the headquarters, with a 24-hour call center, customer service department, design and product development located there. More than half of Athleta's 250 employees work in Petaluma.
Athleta sells its products on the Internet and in its catalogs. It will circulate 21 million copies of its catalogs this year, according to the company.
Gap saw Athleta as an opportunity to grow in the $31 billion women's active apparel market, Murphy said.
"This strategic acquisition complements our brands perfectly and allows us to leverage our new online platform to expand into this significant retail sector," he said.
In June, Gap launched Universality, an online platform that allows shoppers to browse and buy from all of the company's brands in one shopping cart with a single shipping fee.
Gap had $15.8 billion in sales in 2007 and has 3,100 stores in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
"We're delighted to be selling Athleta to The Gap," said Bruce Willard, manager of majority owner Blue Highways Holdings. "They'll provide the backing of one of the country's pre-eminent clothing brands and bring enormous resources to help Athleta grow from here."
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Our staffers don't roller skate much — in fact, we hadn't in more than a decade — but when we do, it's at Philly's only outdoor roller rink at Blue Cross RiverRink Summerfest, opening today for the summer season.
This Delaware River waterfront destination by Penn's Landing, Spruce Street Harbor Park and the Independence Seaport Museum is big on summer nostalgia. You'll find classic arcade & carnival games you (probably) haven't played in years, a Ferris wheel and carousel, food from Franklin Fountain's Clubhouse and Chickie & Pete's Crabshack and a nine-hole mini-golf course where each hole was designed with recycled materials designed by a local artist. And adults can enjoy the 200-seat lodge serves up beer, cocktails and bar bites.
Return for special events like storytime in the lodge on Saturdays, Latin Nights June 7, July 5 and Aug. 2, and a closing-day bash on Sept. 3.
P.S. We didn't trip over our skates. Not even once.
Blue Cross RiverRink is located at 101 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19106.


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Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. offered some eyebrow-raising comments in an interview with Frank Cusumano of 590 The Fan (audio link). You'll want to listen to the entire chat for yourself, but we'll cover some pertinent elements here — in particular, his highly questionable claim that the baseball industry isn't even a terribly profitable one.
DeWitt says he believes there will be a 2020 season and that the game will be fine in the long haul. Baseball has "always survived and come back stronger," he says.
But that doesn't mean it'll come about through a mutually satisfactory bargaining process. Indeed, DeWitt seemed less than optimistic that the sides will end up agreeing to terms.
"At some point we do have the right to implement a season and pay full salaries and the only way it makes sense is with a shorter season," he said. "And that's I think the way it'll turn out."
DeWitt insists that the owners want to make the season as long as possible. At the same time, he rejected the idea of pushing play outside the normal bounds of late October/early November. He cited concerns of a second COVID-19 wave and called it "a little bit of a ridiculous proposal" to imagine "Christmas shopping while you're watching the World Series on television."
The Cards' chairman left little doubt as to where the league sees its leverage. "We understand that if we implement a season — a shorter season — that they will get full pay but in total they'll make less money," he said. "So it really doesn't make a lot of sense for them to continue to hold out."
That's all interesting enough, but DeWitt's most notable comments came when he attempted an explanation of the owners' overarching position that players should share in the downside of a limited 2020 campaign. The host posed the question why players should subsidize losses even when their salaries have declined on average while the game raked in record revenues over the past two seasons.
DeWitt rejected the idea that declining salaries were tied to more profits: "don't think for a minute that the reduced payroll added money in the pockets of the owners because it didn't." Citing the growth of non-player personnel — from 240 to 400 in the past six years, he says — DeWitt claims "It's a bit of a zero-sum game" because "a lot more is put into training, conditioning, promotional work, front office, analytics."
One might respond that what the teams are really doing with those alternative investments — given the areas of emphasis DeWitt cited — is looking for more efficient ways to spend their roster-related funds. And to boost the profitability of the existing product.
But DeWitt insists, against all reason, that "The industry isn't very profitable, to be quite honest." It's rather a remarkable quote.
Depending upon how one draws the lines around the multi-faceted business efforts tied to the game, it may be possible to narrowly support such a claim. But surely, when you pull in broader efforts — television, retail, real estate — someone is making money in the industry?
DeWitt even rejects that notion in large part. He referenced the Cardinals' massive Ballpark Village effort — the second phase of which the team values at $260MM. It's an opportunity to benefit St. Louis, he says, but for the Cardinals? Per DeWitt, "we don't view as a great profit opportunity."
DeWitt went on to suggest that it's the players' own historic preference for market-based salaries that is gumming up the efforts to resume play. Other sports are "aligned with the players," says DeWitt, because "the more the revenue the more the players get based on a formula." It's interesting that this viewpoint arose at this particular moment, during a downturn. And it's not entirely clear why such a sophisticated businessperson suddenly feels he and his fellow owners aren't able to adequately consider costs and revenues when bidding on talent.
DeWitt notes that there's "been a little bit of distrust" when it comes to the players believing ownership's sharing of financial information. Frankly, it's not hard to see why. Players have indeed shared in the benefits over the years, as DeWitt notes, even as franchise values have soared. Even though many of the league's main profit-generating efforts have occurred somewhat outside the scope of the arena the players can access directly, they've no doubt been able to secure greater paydays as a result. But it's inconceivable that wealthy investors would continue to tie up billions of dollars into a business that doesn't throw off profits. Arguing otherwise won't help rebuild that missing trust.


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Carlsbad 5000 Announces Partnership with Skechers
February 28, 2020
Skechers becomes official footwear partner and title sponsor of the iconic Elite Invitational
CARLSBAD, CA – Feb. 28, 2020 — Groundwork Endurance has announced its partnership with Skechers for the 35th annual Carlsbad 5000 presented by National University. The global footwear company will serve as official footwear partner as well as title sponsor of the Skechers Performance Elite Invitational, the event's iconic professional races, set to take place on Sunday, March 22, 2020.
"I am extremely excited that Skechers has officially joined forces with the Carlsbad 5000. Their dedication and commitment to the running community is unmatched and we look forward to working with their talented team to ensure that our 35th year is the best yet," said Meb Keflezighi, co-owner of Carlsbad 5000 and longtime Skechers-sponsored athlete.
"We're pleased to again join Meb and the Carlsbad 5000 organization as title sponsor of the iconic Elite Invitational race—especially since Edward Cheserek will attempt a repeat win," said Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers. "This event is known as the world's fastest 5K, so it's a great opportunity to illustrate how our award-winning and innovative Skechers GO RUN footwear can help runners get their speed on."
The event also announced that headlining the 2020 Skechers Performance Elite Invitational will be Kenya's Edward Cheserek and Dejen Gebremeskel of Ethiopia. Cheserek, the defending Carlsbad 5000 champion and Skechers elite athlete, matched what was then the IAAF 5km road world record in a winning time of 13:29 at the 2019 Carlsbad 5000. The 17-time NCAA National Champion holds personal bests of 3:49.44 for the mile and 13:04.44 for 5,000 meters on the track. He recently ran a sub-4:00 mile, finishing second at the Camel City Elite Races with a time of 3:59.84.
"Winning the Carlsbad 5000 last year was an incredible experience and I am looking forward to racing again in March," said Cheserek. "This event has everything you could want in a road race. The course is beautiful and the huge crowds make the atmosphere very special."
Gebremeskel was a virtual unknown before arriving in Carlsbad for the first time in 2010, when he finished second to Eliud Kipchoge. His victory the following year sparked a four-year run of dominance at the event – the longest winning streak in its event history. He would also add a fifth win in 2017. In addition to his impressive success at the Carlsbad 5000, Gebremeskel has earned two world championship medals over 5000 meters, taking silver at the 2012 London Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.
"It's fantastic that King Ches will be returning to Carlsbad after his record run last year. Defending his title won't be easy with Dejen Gebremeskel in the field and we expect a battle for the ages at this year's race!" said Keflezighi.
As the official footwear partner, Skechers will maintain a strong digital presence in the lead up to race week festivities and will host an interactive experience for participants and spectators at the Health & Wellness Expo over event weekend.
The Carlsbad 5000 will celebrate its 35th edition the weekend of March 21-22, 2020. Since 1986, the prestigious event has seen 17 World records and eight U.S. records, as well as numerous national and age group marks. The famous seaside course starts and finishes in downtown Carlsbad, taking runners past some of Southern California's most scenic coastal views along the way. The full day of racing begins at 6:55am on Sunday, March 22 with events for all ages and abilities. At 12:00pm, the Skechers Performance Elite Invitational takes center stage as the world's fastest pros compete for a substantial prize purse and pursue new records. For more information or to register for the event, visit www.Carlsbad5000.com.
About SKECHERS USA, Inc.
Based in Manhattan Beach, California, Skechers (NYSE:SKX) designs, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle footwear for men, women and children, as well as performance footwear for men and women. Skechers footwear is available in the United States and over 170 countries and territories worldwide via department and specialty stores, more than 3,550 Skechers Company-owned and third-party-owned retail stores, and the Company's e-commerce websites. The Company manages its international business through a network of global distributors, joint venture partners in Asia, Israel and Mexico, and wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada, Japan, India, and throughout Europe and Latin America. For more information, please visit about.skechers.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Reference in this press release to "Sales" refers to Skechers' net sales reported under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. This announcement also contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, Skechers' future domestic and international growth, financial results and operations including expected net sales and earnings, its development of new products, future demand for its products, its planned domestic and international expansion, opening of new stores and additional expenditures, and advertising and marketing initiatives. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking language such as "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "project," "will be," "will continue," "will result," "could," "may," "might," or any variations of such words with similar meanings. Any such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to such differences include international economic, political and market conditions including the challenging consumer retail markets in the United States; the disruption of business and operations due to the coronavirus; sustaining, managing and forecasting costs and proper inventory levels; losing any significant customers; decreased demand by industry retailers and cancellation of order commitments due to the lack of popularity of particular designs and/or categories of products; maintaining brand image and intense competition among sellers of footwear for consumers, especially in the highly competitive performance footwear market; anticipating, identifying, interpreting or forecasting changes in fashion trends, consumer demand for the products and the various market factors described above; sales levels during the spring, back-to-school and holiday selling seasons; and other factors referenced or incorporated by reference in Skechers' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. The risks included here are not exhaustive. Skechers operates in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time and we cannot predict all such risk factors, nor can we assess the impact of all such risk factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Given these risks and uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. Moreover, reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance.
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According to the release, election day is now scheduled to take place July 14 with early voting set for July 6-10. The last day to register to vote in the runoffs is June 15 and the last day to apply for a ballot-by-mail is seven days prior to the election, or July 7.
"We will continue to work with the secretary of state and keep our residents informed about additional updates regarding the runoff elections," Trautman said in a statement. "We encourage voters to take advantage of early voting and ballot-by-mail options."
Additionally, Harris County Clerk offices remain closed to the public until further notice however, employees continue to serve the public via email and phone.
While many county clerk services are still available, unavailable services at the moment include requesting a marriage license, opening an assumed name, filing of a home birth record, requesting a birth certificate, requesting acknowledgement of paternity, filing power of attorney of a minor and requesting a liquor license.
"We will continue to reassess our resources and staffing needs on a weekly basis," Trautman said in a statement. "The health and safety of both the public and our employees is our highest priority."
For more information about the upcoming primary election runoffs and other services provided by the Harris County Clerk's Office, click here.


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Description: Swiss police arrested six FIFA officials on corruption charges from the United States.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: May 27, 2015
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/05/27/fifa-officials-corruption-charges.cnnmoney/
Questions for Discussions:
- Why do you think corruption became a wide-spread problem in FIFA?
- How much is leadership at the center of this story?
- How would you clean-up the organization and prevent future corruption from developing?


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Some late payment practices in UK are despicable
by Jack Large
As part of the Government's continuing efforts to improve payment practices, legislation was introduced in April 2017 that requires the UK's largest companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) to report twice a year on payment metrics, including the average time taken to pay supplier invoices.
Average time to pay
Late payment continues to be an issue for small and medium-sized businesses as it can affect their cash flow and their ability to trade. The Spring 2018 edition of the Lloyds Bank Working Capital Index highlighted that customer payment times remained a challenge with six times as many companies reporting longer payment times than reporting shorter. Lloyds Bank's analysis shows that the average time to pay was 37 days, and 65% of companies pay longer than 30 days and despicably 9% pay after 60 days:
Paid later than agreed terms
The report shows that:
- On average 32% of invoices were paid later than agreed terms.
- 23% of companies reported paying over 50% of invoices later than agreed terms.
- 2% of companies reported paying over 90% of invoices late.
Participating in the payment code
Performance of companies that participate in a payment code was a little better than those who do not participate:
Source & Copyright©2019 - Lloyds Bank
Small suppliers are treated really badly
The report looks positive, however, Paul Christensen, CEO of London-based fintech, Previse, believes that it doesn't show the very different fortunes of small suppliers compared to big suppliers. Previse's research of over 4,000 suppliers (image attached) shows that on average, the smallest suppliers have to wait two months longer to get paid than the largest, see figure below:
Source & Copyright©2019 - Previse
Christensen commented that "This isn't good enough. We need to realise that small suppliers don't have the same bargaining power as their larger counterparts, nor the same access to early payment options like supply chain finance. We need solutions specifically targeted towards smaller suppliers, who need help the most."
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Why volunteer on National Public Lands Day? Because every time you enjoy recreating in the great outdoors – whether camping, hunting, fishing, biking, hiking, bird watching, or sight-seeing – chances are you're most likely using public lands. Lands that belong to you! National Public Lands Day is a special day set aside where you can give back and show your appreciation for public lands. It is also a day to take pride in the ownership of our precious lands and join in a nationwide effort to improve them for future use. So, lend a hand and play a part in the stewardship of your natural and recreational resources!
The Cerrito Boat Ramp at Abiquiu Lake is located at the east side of the dam 2 miles west of the Hwy 84 and Hwy 96 junction. For more information, or details on how you or your organization can help, call the Abiquiu Lake Project Office at 505-685-4371.
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October 10, 2019
At 8 p. m. on October 1st, the 70th Anniversary Gala was held in Tiananmen Square by Zhang Yimou as the general director. Xixun Technology assisted BOE and Auroled to create the world's first foldable "handheld LED light screen" wonderful appearance! As night fell, A hundred miles Chang'an Street became a gorgeous stage. 3,290 mass actors each held a light and shadow screen, which together constituted the breathtaking themes of "The Lofty Great Wall", "Flying Kite", "Flying Peace Dove" and "Flying Five-Star Red Flag", showing the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up to being rich and strong. BOE's foldable "handheld LED light screen" IoT display system solution using Xixun technology control card, showing the unique charm of LED display technology to the world! So how is such a shocked visual effect achieved? The creative team proposed a creative picture of "Peace Dove", the BIT team first digital simulated the picture with a computer and put it into a two-dimensional scene, dismantling and refining it into 3290 modules (each module representing a LED light screen). Under each LED light screen, there is a Xixun Android control card E16, content storage device and player to present the picture in the memory through wireless. After that, the key frames and point-in-time of each module were determined according to the flying trajectory of the peace dove , and compile the training manuals such as formation changes and performance passwords for 3290 actors. Actors only need to hold up the LED light screen and keep position correctly without any operation on the screen. In the end, 3290 LED light screens together to form the huge colorful light and shadow patterns. Equipped with the world's leading Xixun asynchronous Android card E16 and AIPS messaging system, for the first time, 133,800 frames of content are quickly delivered to 3290 screens in a short time, and 3290 screens are unified video switching using wireless LORA technology to ensure the screens integrity and coordination with live music and lights. Originally, the directorial team designed 4 programs, 8 minutes of performance, but finally changed to 90 minutes, this also brought unprecedented difficulty to quickly deliver tens of thousands of large video materials to the control card in a short time through wireless 4G. At the same time, it is necessary to realize the complex shift of more than 3,000 screens, ensure the overall restoration of the video, and the video wireless control to achieve millisecond synchronization, which is undoubtedly a big test for the current LED display technology. In order to overcome the difficulties, Xixun Technology established a "Problem-solving team" under the guidance of R & D director Yang Zuodong, stationed in Beijing and strictly control each control card, through repeated communication with the experts of Unicom operators, the material design professor of BIT, the technical experts of LED display factory and the experts of the wireless LORA module, discussed and debugged the products day and night, overcame the difficult problems at the critical moment, and together created an unprecedented visual feast for the 1.4 billion Chinese people. Each component on the LED display is independently researched and developed by Chinese enterprises, which fully reflects the development of LED display technology in China and gradually approaches the world's advanced level. The perfect presentation of the National Day celebration, in addition to the first-class high-tech, there are many unknown heroes silently paid for this feast. 3290 members, 87 days of closed training, 120 people support teams provide service of 7 * 24 hours, more than 4000 sets of handheld LED light screen equipment ... everyone is telling their love for the motherland with their own actual actions. It is precisely because of your efforts that this perfect celebration can be created. Thank you very much for the perfect cooperation between BOE and Auroled display manufacturers and Xixun Technology. Countless days and nights we worked side by side, and finally turned the beautiful ideas into a perfect realities. The pressure and difficulties encountered during this period are unimaginable. Xixun Technology pays tribute to every hard-working staff, and to our great motherland! Finally, special thanks to the leaders of the National Day Celebration Command, all the expert teachers, the director team, the Blackbow team, the BIT team, the Auroled team, the BOE team, so that technology and art have once again achieved a perfect fusion, and for the motherland's 70th birthday dedicated to a beautiful, splendid, world-class celebration, let the world witness the Chinese miracle again!


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Pragmatic Play has added Live Speed Blackjack tables to its live dealer Blackjack offering.
Players preferring the cut and thrust of a speedy game of Blackjack can now get their fix on these superfast tables.
Every aspect of the game has been tweaked to provide the quickest table game experience without sacrificing the quality and enjoyment of the game.
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Key Features of Pragmatic Speed Blackjack Live include:
Pragmatic Speed Blackjack plays like a regular game of Blackjack. The primary difference is the speed of dealing the player's 3rd and subsequent cards.
Blackjack is about beating the dealer, with two ways a player can achieve this. Firstly, by having a higher hand value up to and including 21. The second way to win is for the dealer to Bust Out his hand while you still have a hand in play. Identical hands will be Pushed, with the player's bet returned to him when this happens. A Blackjack beats a Twenty-One.
In the regular game, the dealer usually deals the cards from left to right, but this is relatively slow, and the main reason Pragmatic created their version of Speed Blackjack.
Players are encouraged to use the pre-decision facility to keep the game flowing, which signals to the dealer the action the player wants to take on his hand.
The order in which players respond with their Pre-decisions dictates how the dealer deals the extra cards. You'll see the 3rd cards given to the players in what appears to be a random order. The process repeats until all players stand or bust their hands.
The quicker a player decides, the sooner he'll receive the cards.
Speed Blackjack follows Vegas rules, so the dealer can check for Blackjack when he has an Ace.
Optional Side Bets are available to play during Speed Blackjack. Once you've made your bets, no further action is required, as the playing interface handles the identification and payment of winning hands.
The 21+3 Side Bet uses the player's first two cards, and the dealer's up card to form a 3 card poker hand. If the hand forms a straight, flush, or 3 of a kind, the player will win and receive a payout per the pay table.
For The Perfect Pairs side bet, the player's first two cards must form a pair. Different payouts are given depending on the type of pair, i.e., same coloured pair, any pair, or a perfect pair where both cards are the same.
The game's computer system makes the payments automatically if there is a win.
The 21+3 side best has an RTP of 96.30%.
Hand | Usual Payout | Probability |
Suited three-of-a-kind | 100:1 | 0.02% |
Straight Flush | 40:1 | 0.02% |
Three -of-a-kind | 30:1 | 0.52% |
Straight | 10:1 | 3.10% |
Flush | 5:1 | 5.88% |
Perfect Pairs has an RTP of 95.90%.
Hand | Usual Payout | Probability |
Perfect Pair | 25:1 | 1.69% |
Coloured Pair | 12:1 | 2.89% |
Mixed Pair | 6:1 | 5.78% |
A new feature in this game is the ability to set pre-decisions on how to play the hand should certain events occur.
If the Double or Split radio button is on, you get the opportunity to make the playing decision during the game. A sliding scale of hand values for doubles is between 7 – 16, while you can choose to split between 2 and 20.
Other game settings of note include the Bet Behind feature. You can set whether to follow when the Player doubles, takes insurance or Splits his cards.
The number one rule when playing Pragmatic Speed Blackjack is to use Blackjack Basic Strategy.
Basic strategy will ensure you play the hand at its optimum regardless of when you get the cards.
This strategy does not care about the order you receive your cards, so worrying about what happened before is pointless. The strategy focuses on your cards and the card the dealer is showing. All playing decisions are taken from that information and are mathematically proven to be the best way of playing.
Some players like and insist on sitting in certain positions on the blackjack table. They might want to get their cards first, in the middle, or even last.
In Speed Blackjack, that is all irrelevant. Speed Blackjack is not the game for you if you like the certainty of when you get your cards.
I advise using Basic Strategy and playing at the pace you like, even on the Speed Table.
The main difference between Speed and Regular Blackjack is speedier decisions and the order in which the players receive the cards.
These two elements are enough to speed up the game. Everything else is the same.
If you're not bothered when you get your cards, the Speed version is the best to play as the game keeps moving nicely. Generally, players on these tables want a quick game, so they act quickly.
In regular blackjack, everything is a bit slower and more chilled.
However, you will still get players that make strange decisions on both tables. Don't expect experts to be sitting next to you. Everyone has their playing style, and you'll see it all.
Pragmatic Speed Blackjack is a variation of regular blackjack, where the dealer prioritises the dealing of the cards to players that make their playing decisions the fastest. As a result, waiting time is reduced, which speeds up the game.
Speed Blackjack plays precisely the same way as regular blackjack. You're dealt your cards and make your playing decisions as usual. You have to be quicker about making your decisions.
Speed Blackjack from Pragmatic returns an RTP of 99.59%.
Use Basic Blackjack Strategy when playing Pragmatic Speed Blackjack.
I would recommend playing Pragmatic Speed Blackjack at Leo Vegas or BetVictor casinos.
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WVU Football Recruiting
BREAKING: Richardson stays home, chooses West Virginia
Morgantown, WV – Prized in-state recruit Amir Richardson announced his decision today in front of friends, family and teammates at nearby University High School. Richardson chose West Virginia over offers from Army, Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, Marshall, Pittsburgh and Temple.
Richardson checks in at 6'2″ 200 lbs and was recruited to West Virginia as a safety. He has the prototypical SPUR build that Tony Gibson likes to use as a hybrid safety. Guys like K.J. Dillon and Kyzir White have found a tremendous amount of success at the position. Both made it to the NFL.
Richardson also plays receiver at University and could realistically play that position at the next level. He has great hands and makes some pretty unbelievable catches that you can find on his highlight reel. Obviously, having great hands as a safety is a plus, but it could give the Mountaineers something they haven't had in quite some time: a ball-hawking safety.
This decision came fresh off of Richardson's appearance at WVU's annual Showtime camp, which was held over the weekend.


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Medical Assistant Schools in Charlotte
If you've ever wanted to start a career in the medical field and serve the people of Charlotte, you may be a perfect fit for a medical assistant program. This career allows you to work alongside doctors and nurses while providing valuable services to Charlotte's 842,000 residents.
Before you can start a career and work with patients, you need to a get a great education! Check out our list of medical assistant schools in Charlotte. You can then contact any schools you may want to attend.
There are many different settings that employ medical assistants. You may find work at some of Charlotte's best hospitals, include the Carolinas Medical Center, Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, and Novant Health Matthews Medical Center.
One of the main benefits of studying in a large city like Charlotte is the easy access to public transit. In Charlotte, you have the Charlotte Area Transit System. CATS offers bus and rail service, allowing you to get wherever you need to go whenever you need to get there.
Medical Assistant Education in Charlotte
Since you'll be working closely with patients, it's important to have a strong foundation of knowledge in medical skills and theories. The majority of medical assisting programs are at technical colleges and community colleges. The good news is that tuition at these schools is often considerably less than tuition at four-year schools. For example, tuition at South Piedmont Community College is $76.00 per credit for residents and $268.00 per credit for non-residents.
Throughout the course of your MA program, you can expect to take classes in many different areas and topics. Some of the classes you may have to take include Medical Office Laboratory Procedures, Clinical Procedures, Medical Terminology, and Pathophysiology. All of these classes give you the knowledge and skills you need to successfully complete a practicum course. In your practicum course, you may go to a local clinic or hospital and use your skills on real patients. In addition to your practicum course, you may get lots of practical experience in each class as you learn new skills.
Some schools may recommend pursuing certification as a medical assistant. All certification goes through the American Association of Medical Assistants. You can apply to take the Certified Medical Assistant exam as soon as 30 days prior to graduation. Upon passing this exam, you get a certificate that is good for five years.
Career Outlook for Medical Assistant Graduates in Charlotte
After you have worked hard and completed a degree or diploma in medical assisting, it is time to start your career! In general, there are two main jobs you can take on. There are approximately 4,010 MAs working in the Charlotte metro, according to 2016 BLS data.
In general, this degree can help you earn a very competitive starting salary. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that Charlotte medical assistants earn an average salary of $33,330 per year (BLS, 2016).
There are several ways you can increase your earning potential and take your career to the next level. You may wish to take continuing education seminars as new medical technology comes out. These courses can also help you learn about new treatment techniques. It's also important to network within the community. If you join the North Carolina State Society of Medical Assistants, you can attend networking events, find job postings, and go to continuing education seminars.
Salary numbers provided are from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.


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By now you'll have heard of the Facebook avatar and waiting to understand the way to Make an Avatar on Facebook all by yourself. The Facebook avatar has been released for a few months now, but not every country can make use of it yet.
But some users have started creating their avatar on their Facebook account. The great news is that a short time ago. The Facebook avatar was expanded to some new countries just like the Africa countries and a few other countries.
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Make Avatar on Facebook
Make avatar Facebook sounds somehow but you'll understand that it's talking about the avatar feature on the platform. For you to know the way to make your avatar, you would like to understand more about the Facebook avatar.
Facebook Avatar could also be a replacement feature introduced on social media that allows users to make their cartoon-like version of themselves. This feature is analogous thereupon to Snapchat's Bitmoji and Apple's Memoji.
The feature has been available within the US, Australia, and also other countries for a brief time now and has finally been launched in India.
Facebook Avatar
Apart from the names of nations mentioned here, the avatar feature has been released in numerous countries. Which it's only available to those users who are using the Facebook mobile app.
There is a period when people are saying their Facebook avatar not performing on the program. Does one know that the rationale why the avatar isn't working? This is often the rationale that the feature isn't available in your country otherwise you haven't updated your Facebook app.
Another reason is that sometimes after updating your app, the avatar page won't load because I even have also experienced it before. So, what I did is that I left my Facebook app after updating it for each day before I access it again to look at the avatar page and it works perfectly.
Facebook Avatar Page
The avatar page is additionally referred to as the Facebook avatar background. this is often the page where you'll create your avatar and it's easy. There are numerous uses of the avatar, you'll use it as a Facebook avatar sticker, for your daily posts, chat, and also comments.
Facebook avatar iPhone, this is often to allow you to know that for those iPhone users, you'll also use your iPhones to make your avatar by using the Facebook mobile app. I found an internet site that says Facebook avatar on desktop.
What you ought to know is that there's no option of making the avatar on a desktop if you're using the Facebook web version. But if you're using the mobile, you're liberal to make use of the avatar feature on your desktop.
Facebook Create an Avatar
This is where we'll be rounding off this text, the part where you'll be guided on the way to make or create a Facebook avatar for free of charge. There's an avatar maker app, the Facebook avatar maker app is that the mobile app of Facebook itself.
So, all that you simply got to create your avatar is to download the Facebook app or if you have already got the app. You only need to update the app on your app store, that's all. After updating or downloading the app, you'll now follow the steps below in other to form an avatar of the platform.
- Launch the app on your mobile smartphone and log in to your Facebook account thereon.
- Go to the avatar page by clicking the menu icon at the highest of your account on the app.
- Scroll down, you'll find the avatar option button, and click on thereon.
- After that, you'll be taken to the Facebook avatar page which is additionally known to be the background.
- Select your preferred skin tone and tap on Next.
- Now choose a hairstyle for your avatar. you'll select Short, Medium, or Long and thus the color for your hairstyle.
- Next, select your avatar's face shape, complexion, and face lines.
- Now select an eye-fixed shape and color for your avatar.
- Next, you opt on the eyebrow shape and color.
- You also can add glasses for your avatar.
- Now customize the nose and mouth.
- Next, select the beards and color of the facial hair.
- Next, choose a body shape.
- Now choose your avatar's outfit.
- Tap on Next then Done.
These are the method that you simply got to undergo just to form your avatar on the Facebook mobile app platform.
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Hexagon Composites, a designer and manufacturer of clean fuel solutions for commercial vehicles, has acquired a 40% stake in Cryoshelter GmbH, an Austria-based company specializing in the development of cryogenic tank technology for liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid hydrogen (LH2).
The Hexagon Group provides compressed natural gas (CNG), including renewable natural gas (RNG), compressed hydrogen and battery-electric systems as part of its portfolio of clean fuel solutions. Liquid storage of natural (renewable) gas and hydrogen will add a new dimension to its existing offering, complementing its portfolio and unlocking new opportunities for Hexagon Agility and Hexagon Purus, respectively.
"Cryoshelter has a potentially disruptive technology with competitive edge compared to existing technology alternatives in the market. Our goal is to aid the commercialization and industrialization of this technology," says Jon Erik Engeset, CEO of Hexagon Composites. "The addition of Cryoshelter's technology extends our product portfolio to include leading liquid gas solutions. This will further strengthen our efforts to drive decarbonization in the heavy-duty transport sector, support Europe and other key geographies in securing energy independence and reinforce our position as a global leader in clean energy solutions."
"Our people possess extensive education, knowledge and experience in the engineering and design of cryogenic tanks. We are excited to team up with Hexagon as they bring industrial expertise, a global presence and customer potential to escalate the scale up of our operations," states Dr. Matthias Rebernik, CEO and founder of Cryoshelter. "Hexagon's investment into our company is proof of confidence in our technology."
In liquid form, natural (renewable) gas has a high energy density. Cryoshelter's technology leverages this energy density by providing utilization of vehicle frame rail space. This results in a driving range that is comparable to diesel and a total cost of ownership that is significantly lower for the fleet owner.
Together, Hexagon and Cryoshelter will industrialize Cryoshelter's existing LNG technology and production capability, and use the LNG technology platform to further develop liquid hydrogen (LH2) solutions for heavy duty transport.
Hexagon Composites ASA will make an initial investment to acquire 40% of Cryoshelter's liquid natural (renewable) gas (LNG) business, with options to buy remaining interests over the next 3 to 10 years. Together with Cryoshelter, Hexagon will further develop the technology and scale up the business over the coming years.
Hexagon Purus ASA (owned 73.3% by Hexagon Composites) will make an initial investment to acquire 40% of Cryoshelter's liquid hydrogen (LH2) business, with options to buy remaining interests over the next 5 to 10 years. Together with Cryoshelter, Hexagon Purus will further develop the technology and business over the coming years. (Reference Hexagon Purus announcement, April 21, 2022).
The separation of Cryoshelter's liquid natural (renewable) gas and liquid hydrogen businesses recognizes the different phases of market and product development. There is an established market for liquid natural gas mobility solutions and Cryoshelter's technology is already at a pre-commercial stage, while the market and products for liquid hydrogen storage are in the early stage of development with longer timeframe to commercialization. Closing of the transaction is expected to take place by the third quarter of 2022, subject to fulfilment of certain closing conditions and customary regulatory approvals.


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I'd love to say that we needed some more exploring in our life and chose these parks after doing lots of research. No, no, make no mistake. The only reason we stopped at Starved Rock State Park and Mattheissen State Park in Illinois is because we were going to and from Chicago and the dog needed walked.
I had seen a cool picture in my hiking group on Facebook and saw that the state park it was taken in was right on our way! We were Starved Rock first timers and we were definitely taken aback by how BUSY it was when we pulled in. Luckily, we did a hike that was away from the main action, so it wasn't a huge issue.
We chose to do the LaSalle Canyon hike. Full disclosure: it was a lot of stairs and quite a bit of climbing in and and out of places, not to mention very muddy in certain sections of the trail, but when we got to the waterfall, it was so worth it! Parking for this trail was not by the visitors center or lodge. We had to drive through the park and on the highway to get to the trailhead. There was plenty of parking at the trail head, along with portable toilets. The hike was fairly shaded, but we lathered ourselves in bug spray (thank goodness!) and still received a few bites on the arms.


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Miniature of the MonthThe Cox Building by Ashby & JeddThis month just over a decade ago, one of Maysville's most notable landmarks caught fire. The Cox Building at the corner of Market and Third is an architectural treasure cherished by the community. Throughout the years, the 1887 Richardsonian Romanesque brick structure has housed a post office, hat shop, auto parts store, grocery, toy shop, printery, confectionery, music studio, Masonic temple, funeral parlor and sanitarium. On the bottom level, it was home to Kilgus Drugs, which any local will tell you was an important part of their past. The 1/12th-scale miniature created by Allison Ashby & Steve Jedd serves as a tribute to the historic building. Depicting what the pharmacy and soda shop looked like in the '50s, it includes tiny re-creations of vintage medicinal products, household goods, toys and those swirling chrome seats permanently situated at the soda fountain counter enabling you to watch your favorite refreshment in progress. This time of year, it also includes tins of Christmas candies, holiday wrapping paper and bows and all the trimmings that made the real Kilgus a festive stop for holiday cheer. While the interior of the miniature is what has led to so many nostalgic memories, it is the exterior of the structure that will go down in history along with the original structure. When architects found out there were no records, diagrams or blueprints to rebuild the fine angled roof and turret of the Cox Building, they turned to the research and talents of Ashby & Jedd to help engineers restore the building to its historical architecture. The roof of the miniature helped architects rebuild the original structure's roofline after a fire in 2010.
Allison describes the commission of the Cox Building as serendipitous, which it is indeed when you consider that its original design did not include the roof. The initial plan was to create a corner projection of the facades of the Third and Market sides which the Kilgus Drugs room box would then be inserted. Ironically, it was the roof that forced Ashby & Jedd to reconsider. "The geometry of the conical, or witch's hat roof, made that (design) impossible, so the plan had to be changed," she explains. The resulting miniature, complete with roof, would prove to be more valuable than anyone would know just three years later. The miniaturists were able to supply a few photographs to architects but it was the 1/12th structure that really became useful in the restoration, says Allison. Imagine the architects doing what miniaturists do, but in reverse! In building the miniature. Ashby & Jedd used a variety of materials to limit the weight, time commitment and expense. The shingles on the model's witch's hat are natural slate pieces individually cut to fit. The shingles on the rest of the roof were made of asphalt. The roof was framed just as its full-size counterpart. The authentic-looking exterior is made from real cast and fired miniature bricks—13,000 of them. "Because we did not have access to scaffolding or a hydraulic lift, we based our measurements off the size of one of the full-sized bricks on the actual building," says Allison. "We stood on the street and counted courses of bricks between windows and courses of stone." "The full-sized bricks are a type of Roman brick," she continues, "which means that they are shorter in height than common brick." That proportion required each one of the cast bricks to be cut down in height using a diamond wheel on a rotary tool. The "stone" elements were made by Steve out of basswood, individually numbered, then hand carved and painted by Allison to resemble scaled-down sandstone. Steve also created the windows using the same techniques that were used to build the originals with individual sashes and casings. All in all, it took Ashby & Jedd about a year and a half to complete. The miniature was then installed in November 2007. It remains one of the KSB Miniatures Collection's most popular exhibits. The Cox Building miniature is one of three of Maysville's historic structures created in 1/12th scale by Ashby & Jedd. It is on permanent display in the KSB Miniatures Collection. |


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Blue Earth, MN WIC Programs, WIC Clinics, and Office Locations
View our list of WIC Clinics, Office Locations and Programs in Blue Earth, Minnesota below. Select the location to find out more specific information. See all Faribault County Minnesota WIC Clinics.Our list of WIC options and centers is by no means inclusive and is always growing. Please check back so you can see our latest WIC Office.


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Spin Off, Fall 1985 Digital Edition
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This issue is all about color! Get expertise and guidance on color combinations in spinning, discover natural dyeing techniques, experience the dyes of Mexico, and much more. Projects include a merino scarf, cashmere scarf, and a Norwegian luskofte.
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- Let's go for a spin by Lillian Byerly
- Spin Off Book of World Records
- Something Old, Something New
- Swatches and Fine Threads
- Coming Up in 1986
- A Personal Approach to Color by Ann Matlock
- Felted Wool Landscapes by Pat Showalter
- What to do with a Rainbow by Ann w. Klinect
- Cotton in the Natural Dyepot by Ella Baker
- Dyes of Mexico by Michele Wipplinger
- Fiber Foray: Color Exercises for the Beginner by Celia Quinn
- Show & Tell
- Nature: A Color Source and Inspiration for Traditional Sweaters by Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts
- Thoughts on Sweater Design by Libby Dewees
- Learning the Flax of Life by Romedy Murrow
- Hints for Dyeing by Anne Bliss
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- Spinning Guild News & Views by Ann W. Klinect
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- Highlights by Celia Quinn
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Henry Seton
Humanities Teacher
Henry Seton is a humanities teacher-leader and writer. He formerly served as the Humanities Department chair at the Community Charter School of Cambridge in Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Harvard College and was a member of the Urban Scholars Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and newborn son.


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Photograph: Club Evropeistika
Ruse is a cosmopolitan city situated at a crossroads. Different ages have left their mark on the city's diversity of cultural layers through its 2000 years of history. But one thing remains unchanged – it's spirit, free and eternal like the great European river which creates influences, connects, inspires life and gives promise to the future…
Ruse is the biggest Bulgarian city on the Danube, the most important transport, logistics, economic and cultural centre in Northern Bulgaria. The population amounts about 160 000 residents.
The city was founded 23 centuries ago as a port of the ancient Thracians. At the end of the 1st century AD, the Roman fortress Sexaginta Prista became part of the Roman Danube Limes - the Northern border of the Empire. The name Sexaginta Prista in translation from Latin means Port of 60 ships. The remains of the fortress today are an outdoor exhibition.
In the Middle Ages the city existed as a joint settlement with the Romanian city of Giurgiu. In the beginning of the 17th century Ruse started to develop as a commercial centre and its port was becoming increasingly important for the foreign trade between Central Europe and the Balkans. The city was marked on all geographic maps of this period.
In the 1860's Ruse became the capital of the Danube vilayet of the Ottoman Empire with a territory which comprised land of three modern countries. The first industrial companies were established and the first railroad line was built here. During the second half of the 19th century, the city becomes a seat of 11 European diplomatic missions.The influences of modern Europe became tangible, and changed the everyday lifestyle of the inhabitants of the city. A lot of Bulgarian national heroes from the Revival period are connected with the city. The role of Ruse as one of the most important cultural-historical centres of the country is also result of the fact that the city is the pioneer of modernity in Bulgaria.
Ruse welcomes its guests with rich cultural heritage – fruit of the enterprising and European city of its citizens, who at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century attracted prominent European architects and builders to create the urban architectural environment. Dozens of monumental buildings today have the European cultural heritage sign.
In the 1950's in Ruse was built the largest and until recently the only bridge in the Bulgarian part of the Danube River basin, which today creates new opportunities for the development of the city. The democratic process in Bulgaria started here a quarter century ago as a reaction to the severe environmental problems in Ruse and Giurgiu. The cult documentary "Breath"dedicated to the ecological drama of Ruse and Giurgiu in the 1980's became a national symbol of the protest against the political hypocrisy of the totalitarian state.
Ruse is a bridge which marks and overcomes borders and its history it's been both a centre and a capital city. The first symbols of modernity in the industrial age in Bulgaria were born in Ruse. The ideas of humanism, scientific, technical and economic prosperity were introduced to the European south-east from here.
The history of Ruse is an exciting tale about the emergence and the turbulent life of a community, united by the bright and enterprising spirit of the local inhabitants which nowadays we can rightly call Danubian. Regardless of the historical twist and turns it continues to face challenges and cross borders to openly communicate with the outside world to accept cultural differences and to create progress.
Ruse is a Danube port where cultural influences from West and East, North and South meet and take roots. Both the people living here and the new comers perceive Ruse's identity as a bridge between cultures.
"All that I experienced later had already happened in Rouschuck" this is how the Ruse-born Nobel Prize laureate summarizes his memories from his home town. The picturesque kaleidoscope of languages, customs, religious cults and communities, artistic and architectural models is reflected in the cosmopolitan spirit of Ruse. As in all big cities the spirit of today's Ruse is created in the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of an economically prospering multi-cultural society. And nowadays Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews, Turks, Roma are peacefully coexisting here. They freely practice their Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims religions. Today when Europe is so close to the long-awaited goal to put separation behind and to share common values the example of Ruse is inspiring.
The monument of Liberty in the centre of Ruse embodies the determination of its citizens to defend their freedom and civil rights as a supreme European value and energy for constructive change. They were the ones who started the civil protests against the totalitarian communist regime, which initiated the democratic changes in Bulgaria.
With the expansion of the European Union, the Danube River becomes a symbol of European unification, the European river par excellence. More than 60 years ago, the building of the EU started with the economic and political idea of the Rhine Strategy as an initiative for solving post-war problems. Today the Danube Strategy is called to solve the post-totalitarian problems of United Europe. Ruse is part of this process.
Motivated to preserve and develop its bright identity as a free spirit city and bridge of cultures, Ruse, the biggest Bulgarian Danube city, confidently declares its affiliation to the values of New Europe.
A symbol of the richness and multiculturalism of the Danube area, in partnership with its Romanian sister-city Giurgiu, Ruse is determined to establish itself as European centre and leader of cross-border cooperation.


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Times are changing and the Oxford Dictionary is keeping up.
We added 'yas' to the dictionary today. What did you do? https://t.co/citVHg4BXb pic.twitter.com/iPs9F7ZWAY
— Oxford Languages (@OxLanguages) February 23, 2017
Other choice words include slang terms such as "#squadgoals", "haterade", and "biatch".
Mashable reports that past additions have words including "awesomesauce", "manspreading", and everyone's favorite excuse: "butt- dialed".
Don't believe? Check out screenshots of some of the latest additions below:
To those unhappy at Oxford's decision to include these millennial terms, here's what the Dictionary has to say: "Slang terms are just as real as any other word, and are included in the dictionary in just the same way. Slang includes text speak, which tends to be abbreviations of words – which are also just as valid as any other word." Read the full statement here.
Other interesting entries that made its way into this year's edition are "craptacular" (defined as Remarkably poor and disappointing), "otherize" (a person or group of people different from and alien to oneself), as well as "herd mentality" (the tendency for people's behavior or beliefs to conform to those of the group to which they belong).
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"Holiness is infinite compassion for others — Happiness is great love and much serving."
This was inscribed on the inside cover of Donaldina Cameron's well-worn bible. By this definition, Cameron's life was filled with incredible holiness and much happiness. Her story of fighting sex slavery in early San Francisco Chinatown and saving Chinese girls forced into prostitution is documented in Julia Flynn Siler's new book, The White Devil's Daughters. The "white devil" refers to Cameron herself, who was described as such by the slave owners hoping to discourage the enslaved girls from seeking refuge with Cameron.
What would eventually become known as Cameron House was originally known as Occidental Mission Home for Girls. The first half of the book describes the origins of the home and its operations before Cameron came. Cameron arrived originally as a sewing teacher and quickly became the superintendent. Her job consisted of not only overseeing the rowdy house of often over 50 traumatized girls but physically rescuing girls from brothels herself. None of the women working in the home conformed to the dainty Victorian standards for women of the time; in one instance Siler describes, Cameron herself scales a ladder and climbs across rooftops to rescue a young girl.
One worry I had when starting the book was that this would become another white, Christian savior narrative, like those of European colonists in "exotic" nations all around the world. However, I soon found my initial worries to be wrong. The women who ran Mission Home, while white and Christian, were humble in regards to themselves and their culture. Rather than forbid any language but English or any foreign cuisine in order to Westernize the girls, both Cameron and a former superintendent, Margaret Culbertson, did their best to learn Cantonese to better communicate with the girls they rescued. They found that the rescued girls preferred their native foods and the Mission Home tried its best to cater to their tastes. Rather than suppress any "exotic" culture, both Cameron and Culbertson warmly invited and encouraged it.
Cameron and Culbertson's failures to ever fully grasp Cantonese created a need for both women to have close aides who did speak the language of those they were trying to help. Both superintendents' right-hand women started as former slaves who were rescued by the Mission Home. These alliances are the focal point of a major theme in this book: the importance and strength of female relationships. Tien Fuh Wu, a former slave girl rescued by the Mission Home, is another protagonist in the book. She eventually becomes Cameron's closest confidante until the end of their lives. The relationship between Cameron and Tien Fuh Wu exemplify both the amazing results of the work of the Mission Home — turning a former traumatized girl like Tien Fuh Wu into a progressive and independent woman — and also the lack of a superiority complex in the white women who ran the home. Any doubts that this is a story about white savior complex is further dispelled by Cameron's recognition that "her mission [was] helping other women on their way to independence and hoped to give Asian women the same privileges that she enjoyed" (pg. 165).
Some readers, especially those less familiar with San Francisco or less interested in the wider history of the city, may find certain parts of the book slow. Siler goes into great detail about certain gangs, political figures and businesses in Chinatown and beyond. Many chapters began with passages that seemed to have nothing to do with the Mission Home. While some readers may find these passages dull or distracting, they not only serve to paint more detailed and fleshed out picture of San Francisco in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but Siler makes sure to always tie it back to the Mission Home. It is a very well-organized book in that no character who is introduced is done so unnecessarily. The detail with which Siler introduces all the relevant players of San Francisco in that era makes the recognition of their names later on in the story much more enjoyable and memorable.
The White Devil's Daughters is filled with tales of female success, female struggles and female happiness. It tells the stories of small moments of feminine joy, like the humble but beautiful weddings held in the doorway of the Mission Home. It tells the stories of courageous women who go against cultural norms to save those in need, and of women who survived unspeakable trauma yet learn to live again.


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Digital Chromebook Curriculum
Every student will receive their own Chromebook device which is loaned by the Trust in agreement with Parents / Carers when they join the Academy. The use of 1:1 devices in and beyond lessons is a key part of our Digital Strategy and is the gateway to the wealth of experiences and information available to students within and beyond their community. Parents are required to collect a child's device, it cannot be handed directly to students when first loaned, and you will need to sign a Loan Agreement Form. Students will also be required to sign an Acceptable Use Policy when they first use their devices in the Academy. We strongly encourage parents to invest in a Chromebook sleeve case to protect the device and ensure it lasts the required time while their child is attending the Academy, affordable covers can be easily found online.
Students are expected to take care of their device and responsible for ensuring it is brought to the Academy fully charged every day as part of their compulsory equipment list. They should not leave their device charging overnight as this will shorten the battery life and lead to complications in period 4 and 5 lessons should they be required to use their device frequently throughout the day.
Chromebooks can support students to learn in a multitude of ways, but do not replace traditional writing in books and will not be used every lesson. As an Academy we are aware of protecting students, and staff, from excessive screen time and encourage you to ensure students do not spend a significant proportion of their evening time using devices. For further guidance on how to use Chromebooks, please visit the LAT Chromebooks Website.
The Digital Leigh Learner
- Communications through a variety of digital media
- Collaborates with others online
- Develops conceptual understanding through multimedia platforms
- Engaged in online learning
- Reflects on online feedback, responding to comments
emotional intelligence
- Explores alternative viewpoints, cultures and contexts online in an open-minded fashion
- Digital Citizen aware of online etiquette, a caring and compassionate digital user
- Balanced use of digital and non-digital media to learn
- Uses online platforms and software to enquire and seek answers
- Critical thinkers who challenges information they are exposed to online
- Creative thinker who explores new creative digital media to enhance their learning
- Takes risks trying new digital platforms and activities as a part of their learning process
- Resilient when learning and implementing new digital skills
- Takes responsibility for the care and use of digital services
- Applies Academic Honesty Policy with integrity at all times
Digital Curriculum
The intended Digital Curriculum will ensure:
- Provide opportunities to develop digital literacy, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.
- Students have access to the world beyond the Academy, maximising their exposure to local and global contexts to solidify understanding of concepts.
- Every teaching class has a Google Classroom through which they can access resources and learning tasks both within and beyond lessons.
- Students have access to electronic textbooks with the ambition that all departments move to digital textbooks, as part of the LAT 2025 Vision.
- Where necessary and appropriate, teachers upload worksheets, tasks, Google Slides, extension tasks, linked videos/ YouTube clips, alternative instructions to the students Google Classroom. These can then be accessed by students at a later time and date when reviewing content.
- Opportunities for students to engage with a variety of multimedia learning platforms independently e.g. SENECA, Tassomai, myON
The intended Digital Curriculum will not:
- Replace exercise books – students will be expected to complete written work by hand, including assessments, unless a digital medium is needed to enhance the learning experience e.g. when collaborating with others on a Google Doc.
- Replace students opportunities or dedicated time to develop their handwriting skills, freewriting and 'self checking' skills for SPaG.
- Replace the teacher as the main point of instruction and support – teachers will not become mere facilitators but will balance the delivery of their curriculum with direct instruction and input, alongside coaching students through digital tasks.