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WASHINGTON, October 26, 2010 – The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a US$30 million grant to Haiti to help residents of some of the most severely earthquake-affected areas in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area start repairing or rebuilding their homes, return to their communities in safe conditions, and resume economic activities. The program will benefit about 140,000 residents in the capital.
The January 12, 2010, earthquake destroyed an estimated 115,000 houses in and around Port-au-Prince and left some 14,500 others with severe damage and 167,000 with moderate damages forcing some 1.3 million people to seek shelter in temporary camps.
"Moving people out of camps and creating the conditions for their safe return to the original neighborhoods is one of the most pressing needs and is also key for improving their life condition and security situation," said Ronald Baudin, Haiti's Minister of Economy and Finance.
The Urban Community Driven Development Project (PRODEPUR) seeks to improve access to basic infrastructure and services, including removal of earthquake debris, repair and reconstruction of houses, and repair and improvement of community infrastructure. The project will work directly with the municipalities of Port-au-Prince (Carrefour-Feuille) and Delmas (Delmas 32).
The World Bank's support for housing reconstruction in Haiti is closely aligned with the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission's (IHRC) Draft Framework for Neighborhood Reconstruction and Upgrading, currently being reviewed by the Government of Haiti. The Framework aims to facilitate the return of displaced persons to their neighborhoods in order to rebuild their homes, communities and livelihoods.
Specifically, this US$30 million grant will support the following activities:
- Removal of about 60,000 cubic meters of building debris from public spaces and private plots.
- Cash grants for housing repair and reconstruction. This will finance about 5,000 cash grants for owner/resident-driven repair of houses assessed as structurally solid or on-site reconstruction of houses either destroyed or damaged beyond repair.
- Repair and improvement of community service infrastructure, including roads, walkways, drainage ditches and channels, solid waste management, water supply systems, sanitation facilities and related equipments, as well as the creation of community reconstruction centers.
- Advisory services to assist communities and local authorities in managing the debris removal and housing repair and reconstruction process efficiently and in compliance with seismic and other natural hazard safety standards. In addition, this component will help prepare medium- and long-term urban development and housing strategies.
"This project builds on the important concerted efforts being deployed by central and local governments as well as communities in Haiti's reconstruction," said Yvonne Tsikata, World Bank Director for the Caribbean. "This grant recognizes their collective efforts and provides additional resources so they can continue restoring basic services and creating economic opportunities for local residents."
This grant follows-up on the results of the original US$15 million PRODEPUR project, which was approved in June 2008. Since the earthquake, the project has prioritized disaster related needs in targeted communities. These include the removal of debris from public spaces and access roads, as well as cleaning of local drainage ditches, providing temporary jobs to over 5,000 people in the neighborhoods of Cité Soleil, Martissant, Belair, and Delmas 32. Other emergency activities included the repair of neighborhood infrastructure damaged during the earthquake, including community kitchens and a community poultry farm.
About the World Bank Support to Haiti
To help Haiti recover from the January 12 earthquake, the World Bank Group has pledged US$479 million by mid-2011, including relieving Haiti's debt to the World Bank, which has been completed. As of today, the World Bank has delivered over half of this support: US$91 million are available to Government in the form of new projects, over US$106 million have been disbursed, of which 40 percent is in the form of budget support. The remaining 60 percent has been spent on community reconstruction, transitional offices and equipment for the Ministry of Economy and Finance, repairing damaged bridges and roads, draining canals, paying tuition fees for school children and providing them with meals, strengthening Haiti's resilience to disasters, and figuring out how to better manage and recycle debris.
Selected Concrete Results:
- Housed and equipped Ministry of Economy and Finance and Tax Office (over 500 staff), allowing salaries to be paid and revenues to be collected.
- Assessed structural state of 300,000 buildings in Port au Prince; these assessments are crucial to reconstruction planning.
- Removed 90,000 cubic meters of trash and debris from key drainage canals in Port-au-Prince, reducing flood risk to camps in the capital.
- Provided 50,000 solar lanterns to families in Port-au-Prince, increasing safety and reducing fire hazard.
- Provided food supplements to 200,000 children under 2, and health care services to pregnant and lactating women and infants in collaboration with the World Food Program and the Pan-American Health Organization.
- Funded 175,000 children to attend school and fed 80,000 school children a hot meal every day.
- Completed six water supply systems, benefiting 37,000 people in rural communities.


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The Olympics
Well tomorrow the Olympic torch comes through Hounslow and the news reports are all full of traffic chaos and what with the G4S debacle it all feels a bit negative. This blog also makes slightly depressing reading...
At least the sun is out though so I may go and look at what is going on in town tomorrow to get some fresh air and try and build up some enthusiasm for these games. Despite chuntering myself about my increased council tax the year after we won the bid to host the games that I wouldn't benefit in anyway from (will anyone?) and the general costs when we are in a huge recession I am aware it's probably the last time in my lifetime The Olympics will come to London. I do also want London to look good to the rest of the world and not the diabolic shambles of shit the media are portraying it as. One tiny bit of positiveness that is happening is this 38 degrees campaign.
I have just looked up a well known central London hotel and discovered not only is it not sold out for Monday 31st (random date I picked during the games) but the room is selling at a 50% summer discount! So even the hotels who one might assume were going to to do well out of this aren't even sold out....
Luckily for me I am escaping briefly to Birmingham in the middle of it all but other than that I plan on staying away from central London. Unless of course I get a nice outcall booking from a visitor who wants a bit of action!
Talking of which, there has been much debate about how The Olympics will affect us working girls in London. I have no idea. Some think it will be busy and others not. Yes there will be more people in London (particularly East and Central), but less workers (something like 50% of civil servants have been asked to work from home and I have several friends who work in town who have been told they can work at home too) as well as many many people saying 'I'm staying out of London!' Will the huge increase in Olympic tourists and the many officials and others here in a professional capacity be looking for escorts? Not sure... will they traipse out to Hounslow? Possibly not!
I am hoping I am far enough West to avoid to transport chaos so maybe I won't be affected by the 'I'm going nowhere near London' brigade, indeed it may be an advantage and I may get busier. Then again there may be a reduction in the number of business men coming into London so less outcalls at Heathrow Hotels. I really don't know. I shall just have to wait and see.
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Plagiarizing poet withdraws from contest. Wait, poets plagiarize?
The poet C.J. Allen has withdrawn his poem, "Explaining the Plot of Blade Runner to My Mother Who Has Alzheimers," from the shortlist of Britain's Forward Poetry prize after admitting to plagiarizing some early poems. The award for single best poem, the category Allen was shortlisted for, comes with a prize of about $1,600.
Poet Matthew Welton discovered that Allen had plagiarized a number of his poems after attending a reading of Allen's last year. In a post on his publisher Carcanet's blog, Welton compares his own poems to Allen's plagiarized versions.
Jeannette Winterson, a judge for the Forward Poetry Prize, told the Bookseller that she has conflicted feelings about Allen's poem being withdrawn from consideration. "The poem entered for the Forward Prizes is clean. It's a vexed question – if you plagiarise a earlier poem, are you always then a plagiarist, can you never be trusted? Should we judge the poet or the poem?"
It's a fair question, given the surprising recent rash of plagiarism in poetry. This year there have been a rash of publicly discussed instances of poets plagiarizing other's work.
Andrew Slattery, an Australian poet, was stripped of three poetry prizes after it came to light that he had liberally borrowed lines from Seamus Heanney, Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson, though not in a single poem in its entirety. Earlier this year, two British poets, David R. Morgan and Christian Ward, were each outed as plagiarists.
In his post describing his experience of the ordeal, Welton writes that "the idea of writing is very closely related to the idea of belonging to a community of writers." For some, it would seem, the boundaries inside of that community are apparently just a little too loose.
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Born Free, Living Free: Wild Horse Scientists by Kay Fry
Jay knows he's close enough now. Silently, in one fluid motion, he lifts the loaded rifle to his shoulder, takes aim, and squeezes the trigger.
A muffled pop then, a whoosh of compressed air. There's no deafenng explosion, because this gun doesn't fire bullets. It's a lightweight .22, modified for a small dart containing PZP at close range.
The mare's head flies up, more from the sound than from the sting of the needle. The dart pops back out almost immediately, as it is made to do. The wild horse trots off to the comfort of her band, no more concerned than if she'd been stung by a large, pesky horsefly.
PZP is what makes it possible for wild horses to continue living free on Assateague Island today.
In this latest addition to their notable nonfiction series, Scientists in the Field, Kay Frydenborg's Wild Horse Scientists (Scientists in the Field Series) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), the author follows two scientists engaging in ground-breaking field research – Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick, whose original specialty was embryonic transplantation, and Allison Turner, of the National Park Service, assigned to monitor the wild herd on Assateague. For more than twenty years, these two had engaged in detailed observations and laboratory studies to devise a radically new birth control vaccine for wild horses, to be used both on the barrier islands of the Atlantic coast and in the American West.
With the demise of natural predators, the single greatest threat to North America's wild herds has been overpopulation. The only intervention then available to those who wanted to perpetuate the wild herds had been annual drives to round up the horses, pen them up, and cull the bands by roping the foals and finding adoptive owners. But the stress and danger to the horses and an increasing backlog of unadopted horses convinced horse lovers that they needed a more benign form of population control, one that was 100 per cent effective and non-invasive, one that even enabled the affected mares to live longer, healthier lives in the wild.
Enter our intrepid animal behavior scientists, whose meticulous documentation of the individual horses, collection of specimens which analyzed hormone fluctuations in the native horse population, and careful experimentation under difficult conditions–intense heat, storms, damp, misty cold, swarms of mosquitoes, and dense vegetation – allowed for eventual proof of the efficacy of cutting-edge vaccines.
Frydenborg's text is clear and highly readable, even suspenseful at times, and the color photographs of America's iconic wild horses stud the pages with illuminating illustrations that amplify the text. Numerous text boxes provide middle readers with background information – on the evolutionary history and color variations of horses, archaeological findings, and intriguing Fast Facts – and extensive appendices with glossary, bibliography of books, web sites and other media, and a detailed index make Wild Horse Scientists (Scientists in the Field Series) not only fascinating reading for horse enthusiasts but a great source of inspiration for young would-be scientists who may be attracted to active outdoor field study.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's center-left government said on Wednesday it had reached an agreement with the main opposition parties to beef up anti-terrorism laws after a series of attacks around Europe.
Sweden has taken a number of measures in recent years to combat extremism but plans have been speeded up since April, when a truck mowed down pedestrians on a busy shopping street in Stockholm, killing five.
The government said new measures would include increased checks on individuals considered a possible threat, greater information sharing between authorities and safety improvements in public places such as sports stadiums.
"The most important thing is that we are united against terrorism across the political spectrum," Minister for Home Affairs Anders Ygeman said.
"We are going to go forward robustly in making it more difficult for terrorists and increasing security in our country."
The government has already said it will fast-track plans to make it a criminal offence to be a member of what it deems a terrorist organization.
In 2010 it became illegal to recruit or encourage people to commit terrorist crimes. That was extended last year to include travel to fight abroad or undergo military training and helping to finance such trips.
Passport laws were also tightened in 2016 to make it more difficult to trade in Swedish passports.
The new measures will require the approval of parliament.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Judy Jarosz was approached by Foster's and asked to help with this article by sharing her husband's story. Initially she was hesitant, but after talking with family members, she decided that what Vincent would have wanted more than anything else was to ensure that other people don't suffer from the same ordeal. Judy shared Vincent's story — being interviewed several times and connecting the reporter with doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital — in the hopes of informing them about and potentially saving them from deadly sepsis ... because that is what Vincent would have wanted.
By DYLAN MORRILL
NEWMARKET — Vincent Jarosz, 62, of Newmarket, began to feel extraordinary pain in his heel around Thanksgiving last year. It wasn't rare for him to feel pain. It had been with him since 2012, when he fell and shattered the heel. He did not undergo surgery because doctors feared that a staph infection he contracted 13 years earlier after having a rod inserted in a broken leg, could flare up again and cause serious harm.
Jarosz chose to take the doctors' advice and deal with the heal pain for the rest of his life. It was typically bearable. But around Thanksgiving last year, he felt pain like he had never felt before. He called his doctor and set up an appointment.
About a month later, on Jan. 3, Vincent Jarosz passed away.
Born in Exeter in 1951, Vincent Jarosz graduated from Newmarket High School in 1969 and the University of New Hampshire in 1973. He had two children, Michelle, 20, and Ryan, 17. Jarosz spent about 27 years working for the Newmarket Ambulance Corps and served as its president for a time.
He was also a Newmarket firefighter. His love for all things related to firefighting extended outside of work. He collected a massive amount of firefighting memorabilia and was respected as an authority on firefighting hand tubs and other antique firefighting equipment. A 1940s Seagrave Fire Pumper occupies the Jarosz home's garage on Lang's Lane in Newmarket.
Jarosz is no longer around to enjoy his firefighting memorabilia because he was one of the approximately 750,000 Americans who annually suffer from a condition called "sepsis." According to WebMD: "Sepsis is a serious medical condition caused by an overwhelming immune response to infection. Chemicals released into the blood to fight infection trigger widespread inflammation."
In other words, it is a syndrome in which a person's body inadvertently harms itself in response to an infection; sort of like friendly fire. Nearly a quarter of those diagnosed eventually fall victim to the syndrome.
Sepsis typically accompanies only the most serious infections, according to Steve Calderwood, a physician and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Doctors are still trying to determine just how Jarosz got his initial infection, and if the shattered heel had anything to do with it. They suspect that the infection Jarosz had over a decade ago lingered around his body and was somehow triggered.
What is known is that Jarosz got an infection and, as his body tried to fight it off, he developed sepsis. This developed into septic shock, which eventually took his life.
Sepsis is known to strike unexpectedly and kill quickly. Healthier people are less likely to develop sepsis, but are not immune. In 2009, 20-year-old Brazilian Supermodel Bridi da Costa developed a urinary tract infection and died from sepsis within days, according to a 2009 CNN article.
Symptoms of the syndrome are similar to those of a bad flu. However, when sepsis evolves into its deadly form, septic shock, symptoms become more serious and more noticeable. They include blotchy skin, low blood pressure, lack of urination, and confusion.
While doctors have made strides in sepsis detection, the natural ambiguity of the symptoms make it hard to detect, according to Dr. Jim O'Brien, the Board Chair for the Sepsis Alliance, a California-based organization that aims to create awareness of sepsis and provide support for survivors and family members of victims. Once people start experiencing the more serious symptoms it is often too late.
"(Sepsis) is diagnosed very frequently in hospitals," said O'Brien. He praised hospitals for the adoption of modern detection techniques, but said more can still be done.
Despite the syndrome's fatality rate, sepsis is relatively unknown among the general public. Only 40 percent of Americans have ever heard of sepsis, according to a 2012 study by Harris Interactive. "The American public doesn't know about sepsis at all, relative to the danger it poses to them," said O'Brien.
Mass General's Calderwood said that people can shield themselves from sepsis by keeping their hands washed, getting appropriate vaccinations, and becoming informed about the symptoms of the syndrome.
The overwhelming swiftness of sepsis, combined with the fact that most people don't know what it is, often leaves the loved ones of victims asking what happened and why.
That was true of the Jarosz family.
By the time Vincent Jarosz saw his doctor on Dec. 3, his heel pain had started to subside. But he had developed back pain and didn't want to cancel a doctor's appointment, so he went anyway. His orthopedic doctor referred him to his primary care doctor, who prescribed painkillers and told to come back if they didn't work.
A couple of days later and still feeling pain Jarosz visited the emergency room at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital. He underwent tests that determined he had a bacterial infection called methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, or MSSA.
There are about a dozen types of bacteria that typically cause sepsis. MSSA is one of the worst.
The bacteria were found to be attacking Jarosz's kidneys. He started to become disoriented a few days after being admitted to the hospital, because the bacteria diverted blood on its way to his brain. He couldn't think clearly.
"By Wednesday they put him in ICU because of his kidney and his liver and the weird things that were going on within his thinking process," said Jarosz's wife, Judy. "That's when I realized that it was more serious and there was more going on."
As is often the case with sepsis, what started as something minor had quickly developed into something much more serious and scary. Just days earlier, Vincent Jarosz had been up and about. He talked about going skiing. He was his normal self. But out of nowhere, a strain of bacteria turned his life upside down.
Vincent Jarosz was transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Dec. 14. The hospital did extensive testing and eventually concluded that the bacteria in his body had made its way to his heart.
"(MSSA) was in the blood when he was in New Hampshire, and then we detected that it was in the heart later," said Dr. Darlene Fusco of Massachusetts General Hospital, Jarosz's lead doctor. "Although we were able to clear the (MSSA) from the blood stream, his organs had been so affected by the septic shock that he couldn't recuperate and his liver and kidneys continued to fail."
Jarosz's body, in a desperate attempt to kill the deadly MSSA bacteria, was killing his vital organs. Sepsis was in the process of claiming another victim who had appeared to be in good health just a few weeks earlier.
"That's when the doctor came to me and said that we have to talk about the white elephant in the room," said Judy Jarosz. "There is a strong possibility that he might not survive this."
Her husband, who just a few months earlier was enjoying late fall, passed away on January 3. For the Jarosz family, sepsis was the answer to the question of what claimed Vincent's life. They're still contemplating the "why."


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93 points – "Very smart, modern and delicious Shiraz – a bargain!" Andrew Graham, www.ozwinereview.com.au
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88% Shiraz, 12% Mataro. Shiraz from three vineyards – Dry Creek vineyard and Whites Valley vineyard in the Sellicks Foothills sub region, and the Sherry vineyard (planted 1955) in the Kangarilla sub region. Crushed and destemmed, 12-14-day ferments. Pressed to tank and settled for three days before gravity racking to French and American oak hogsheads (7% new).
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Medical District
Before Woodrow Wilson grew up in Augusta and later became President, before the Masters Golf Tournament began, before James Brown shined shoes on Broad Street and later started a music revolution, Augusta was known as a healthful resort town. So the city has deep roots in medicine.
The Medical College of Georgia was established here in 1828 and since then, more than half a dozen medical facilities are located in Augusta. Just outside of downtown, the Medical District is home to Augusta University and the Augusta University Cancer Center, Children's Hospital of Georgia, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, University Hospital, Select Speciality Hospital, Walton Rehabilitation Hospital, several urgent care/primary care walk-in clinics, a pediatric urgent care center and any hundres of physicians and surgeons in private and group practices.
The Medical District of Augusta, is officially, a special-use zoning district located between downtown and historic Summerville. The district is bounded to the north by Walton Way, to the east by R.A. Dent Boulevard, to the west by Heard Avenue, and to the south by Wrightsboro Road.
In addition to hundreds of short- and long-term patient care beds, the Medical District is home to several historic neighborhoods and offers students, faculty and staff of the various medical facilities a variety of places to live, from new apartments to lofts in historic downtown buildings to stately older home


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Hametz is leavening, specifically the yeast that makes dough rise. According to the biblical account of the Israelites exodus from Egypt, they had to depart so quickly, there was no time to allow the bread they were baking to rise. Thus, their first meals in the desert included a flat, hard bread called Matzah. From that time to this very day, one of the foundation pieces of the week-long celebration of Passover is eating matzah and ridding the house of hametz.
Rabbi Kerry Olitzky, in his book "Preparing The Heart For Passover", teaches "The rabbis suggest that the leaven transcends the physical world. This leaven, this hametz, also symbolizes a puffiness of self, an inflated personality, an egocentricity that threatens to eclipse the essential personality of the individual. Ironically, it is what prevents the individual from rising spiritually and moving closer to holiness. Thus, what hametz effectively does in the material world is exactly what it precludes in the realm of the spirit. That's why it has to be removed."
The process of searching out and eventually ridding ourselves of physical hametz can also be understood on a spiritual level. This is a holiday of cleaning, sorting, and throwing out the leaven that has gathered over the year in the hidden corners and recesses of our mind and body. Egocentricity and selfishness are the bloated examples of too much hametz. Passover is a time for re-assessment of priorities, removing the attitudinal tendencies of personal superiority or inferiority.
Chicago-based author Anita Silvert writes, "Hametz is what makes things puff up with air; the difference between matza and Wonder Bread is just air. On a transcendent level, our spiritual selves can be over-inflated, puffed up by our egos. When our egos get too inflated, they erupt and begin seeping into everything we do, and affecting every relationship we have. True too, when a house is filled with the chametz of insensitivity, anger, self-centeredness or indifference, it will also erupt, and the effects will seep out of the very walls of the home."
The ritual practices of Passover, as with the other celebrations of Jewish life, are not for the sake of an all-powerful deity, but a discipline for those who do them. If I can take the time to purge my home and possessions of any source of leavening agent, how much more so myself? And, if I can be seen ridding myself-both physically and spiritually-of hametz, what sort of ripple-effect might this have on those whose lives I touch?
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Speed dating on Navy Pier's Centennial Wheel
Love is in the air...or 200 feet in the air to be exact! Navy Pier is bringing speed dating to the Centennial Wheel for a truly unique way to find love on Thursday, February 9.
The Pier has partnered with Chicagoland Singles to help create love connections just in time for Valetine's Day. If you're a local single looking to try a new, unique way to dating, find out more details about the event here.
Jon Hansen previewed the event this morning on You & Me and sent two couples on a blind date! One of those couples being our very own reporter, Jackie Kostek. Check it out below.


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Jennifer Lawrence is apologizing after fans and others on the internet found her disrespectful in her story about her scratching her butt on sacred rocks in Hawaii.
In a recent interview on the Graham Norton Show, Jennifer told the story about how when she was filming in Hawaii for Passengers, she found some "sacred" rocks that "were so good for butt-itching." However, her scratching her butt on the rocks caused the rocks to fall and almost hit a sound guy. But she received backlash for the story, with some calling the story "truly disgusting" and others asking for Jennifer to apologize to the Hawaiian people.
Jennifer issued the apology statement on Facebook on Friday, saying, "I meant absolutely no disrespect to the Hawaiian people. I really thought that I was being self deprecating about the fact that I was 'the curse', but I understand the way it was perceived was not funny and I apologize if I offended anyone."
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"I want to take a second to let the folks at OCP know what a genuine pleasure it was to watch their performance of Les Miserable. There was some serious talent on that stage and I truly appreciate the opportunity to enjoy that kind of talent right here at home. It literally brought tears to my eyes! I've had the privilege of seeing this show in London, Houston and even College Station and it was just as much a privilege to see it tonight. If you haven't seen it you have two more nights. Do yourself a favor! Thank you Anne Regan Lilyquist for reserving some seats for us this evening. You and the rest of the cast we're outstanding! BRAVO!" – Wyatt Prejean
"Went yet again to see Les Miserables. But who can stay away from the show? It was great, so much talent in one building. Can't wait to see, hopefully participate in the next show coming." – Dusty
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The Hubble space telescope has done its fair bit for humanity over the years, managing to capture plenty of fantastic looking photos of far away systems and galaxies. Well, it is about time that it gets replaced, don't you think so? The successor would most probably be the James Webb telescope, which is currently being constructed in Maryland at the Goddard Space Center. In fact, this new telescope has even been described to be the top priority over at NASA, where the Senate had already passed $658 million in funding for the project for this year alone. NASA astrophysicist Amber Straughn claims that the James Webb telescope is the world's largest space telescope, where it will be pushed four times farther than the moon in order to pick up information about galaxies and stars.
The US might be the most powerful country on earth right now, but in terms of per capita income, it definitely is not the richest as there are other countries such as Singapore, the tiny city-state in South East Asia that has taken top spot. As to how President Obama is going to work out the bill to pay for this extremely powerful telescope remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure – it is going to cost the country a whole lot of money. To infinity and beyond!
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This is a wordpress dashboard tutorial. This wordpress dashboard tutorial is meant to be followed along by you – it is a captioned screencast covering the basics of your wordpress dashboard, which means that I have a recording below in which I walk you through understanding your WordPress dashboard.
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June 7th, 2012
6-7-12 (vs. Chicago Cubs)
It was a quick turnaround between Wednesday's and Thursday's games, and I met Pam in Johnson Creek at just before 11:00 am. Pam works at Tetra Tech in Madison. We were co-workers for the 14 months that I was employed before beginning my 162 game adventure. She reads the blog, so she probably won't like hearing this, but she was sort of a motherly figure while at work. She's really cool though and I promised that I would take her to a game at some point during the season. I might just have to take her to another game seeing because of how well the day went. If you read the blog on a regular basis you may remember me mentioning Pam before. She was the one who (famously) said "that's f****** awesome!" when she saw me for the first time after hearing about what I was planning on doing.
We pulled into the Cooper 1 Lot at 11:49, and made our way inside. We went to section 227, and Pam took game photo number 57. I gave her instructions and she got the job done. Thanks Pam!
During Wednesday's game Adam DeCock stopped by for an interview. We had walked back to the cross aisle in front of the press box and my back was facing the wall directly under the press box. Adam then stood in front of me and I realized his voice recorder was also a video recorder. I was surprised and stepped aside and at first was like "Whoa whoa whoa, what's going on?" I told him that I was expecting just a audio interview, and that I don't really miss pitches, so we'd have to figure something else out. I wasn't mean or anything, and it wouldn't have been a great interview anyways with all the background noise from the game and whatnot. We agreed to do the interview on Thursday, and we wound up going to the service level of the stadium and doing the interview in one of the media rooms where they film player interviews sometimes. Adam is a MLB correspondent for the Milwaukee Brewers and was doing the interview for Cut4, which is a fan website than MLB created where people like Adam upload videos and other noteworthy articles. I don't know when it will go up, but it should be within the next week or so.
After the interview Pam and I went to hi to the Ice Man. With the way he was saying "she must be proud of you" I realized he thought she was my mom. I told him that Pam wasn't my mom, but that she did look somewhat similar to my mom, so I gave him a pass. We then stopped at a concession stand for beers and bratwurst. Well, Pam got a Brat, I got a Polish. I've had four or five Polish sausages at Miller Park this year and I kept forgetting to ask for sautéed onions, which are free of charge. I didn't forget on Thursday and it added to the Polish's deliciousness. We said hi to Bill, and then ate our respective encased meats below the press box in the cross aisle (out of the sun). Since I knew we'd be in the sun for almost two hours before the roof provided some shade I figured we should minimize our time in the sun. We got to our seats with a few minutes to spare and got situated for the game.
The first nine Brewers that came to the plate went down in order, but through three innings the Cubs had no runs to show for their three hits, so it was knotted at zero. Norichika Aoki broke the tie with his first over the wall home run of the year. He had an inside the park home run on April 20th, in just his 12th major league at bat. His home run in the fourth barely cleared the right field fence, but I'll take the cheapie. Here's Aoki getting a high five from Braun after his homer.
Randy Wolf was the starter for the Brewers, and he definitely deserved the win. He pitched six and two thirds, giving up one run on four hits and two walks, while striking out six. Greinke and him must have a bet going as to who can throw the slowest pitch. I think Greinke had hit 55 mph earlier in the year, but Zack outdid himself on Wednesday with a 53 mph curveball (a "slowball" at that speed). Wolf tried to match it but he couldn't, bottoming out at 56 mph on Thursday.
The Brewers scored a run in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI single from Kottaras and held the 2-0 lead going into the seventh. An RBI double by Koyie Hill got the Cubs on the board and cut the lead to 2-1. In the top of the eighth inning K-Rod retired the first two batters then gave up a single to Soriano. Bryan LaHair pinch hit for the Cubs, and I was telling Pam that he's probably their best power threat, and what'ya know; he went deep to give the Cubs a 3-2 lead. In the bottom of the eighth the Brewers answered when Chart hit a two-out RBI double to tie the game at three.
Neither team scored in the ninth and the game went to extras, the sixth time that I've gotten to see free baseball this season. Well, this year a bunch of the games are free, so I should probably re-phrase that, but you know what I meant. Axford pitched both the ninth and tenth, and it was six up, six down for the Ax Man. Leading off the bottom of the tenth was Norichika Aoki, who had hit his first "real" home run of the year earlier in the game. This is what ensued after the 2-0 pitch to Aoki (clockwise from top left):
1) His Brewers teammates preparing to mob him at the plate. I cropped it a little but made sure to leave the Cubs catcher in the frame. It's a walk off, so it wouldn't be right to show it without somebody on the losing team walking off the field.
2) Aoki just after he ceremoniously flipped his batting helmet.
3) Aoki going airborne (while his helmet floats mysteriously above the dirt).
4) Party time! If you click the image you can get a better look, but Aoki's right foot is just about to touch home plate. The home plate umpire is watching closely, to make sure Aoki touches home.
Final Score: Brewers 4 – Cubs 3. It was a great ending to a hard fought game. When K-Rod gave up the two runs in the eighth I told Pam that before Thursday's game the Crew had never lost a game that they had led going into the eighth since K-Rod joined the team. I thought for sure it would've been the end of that streak, but Chart and Aoki came through and got the job done.
Before the eighth inning started I had a fan a few rows in front of us take a picture of me and Pam. You can just barely make out Pam's eyes due to her hat, but I promise it's her. I rarely wear hats, but since I knew we were going to be in the sun for two hours I brought my hat along. We were in the shade by 3:00, but once I wear a hat and get a little sweaty, I can't go back to no hat. If I took it off it would've looked like a combination of two or three Alfafas from the Little Rascals, and a matted down lawn.
I almost forgot the funny fan moment of the game. In the top of the ninth when Campana came to the plate a Cubs fan (in his 60s) said: "Use your wheels, chop one to short[stop]." On the very next pitch Campana did just that, and was subsequently thrown out by Edwin Maysonet. I looked back at the guy and heard/saw him tell his friends: "Well…. he's fast." Good stuff.
Friday is the opener of the Padres series, and the first game of the last series of the home stand. This is the last nine game home stand, so the remainder of the season will consist of the three, six, or seven game variety.
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6-6-12 (vs. Chicago Cubs)
I had an oncologist appointment on Wednesday morning, and I had kind of forgotten about it. It was a 12:15 appointment and I was in bed until 11:00 am. I didn't go to bed until 2:30 am and didn't fall asleep until after 3:30, so before I get dubbed lazy, consider the circumstances. The appointment was just to see how I was doing, but there really wasn't a point for it. I'll be getting a blood test in July that tells us if it's still in remission (in the blood stream at least). Then in October I'll have my yearly bone marrow biopsy (which will tell the more thorough story regarding my remission status).
After the appointment I went back to my parent's and tried to get stuff organized for the week ahead. I'll have more time after the day game tomorrow, errr, today (it's 12:05 as I type this). Day games after night games are always tiresome, but the break between the day game and the next night game makes it worth it. I can sleep when I'm dead is what I keep telling myself. I left for the game around 3:30, and pulled into the Brewers 1 Lot just after 4:30. I got there extra early yesterday because I wanted to make the trek to the general parking lot and hit up people back there. I think (and this is just speculation), that there are more young people in the general lot, because I hadn't been back there yet to promote what I'm doing. It's the younger people that I'm encouraging to join the registry since they'll have more years of being a potential donor. I also talk to older people and encourage monetary donations. It doesn't make much sense for people in their late 50s to join the registry if they're only going to be in there for a few years. Be The Match needs both monetary donations, and also people willing to be a donor if they're called upon so it's kind of a balancing act on their part.
I went back to my car just before six to grab my stuff, and was inside by 6:05. I had been tweeting that my second ticket was available again, and at the last second @JasonLatus said that he'd join me at the game. After talking to him at the game he said that he had seen my tweets from earlier in the day, but once crunch time came he stepped up to the plate and delivered with a $40 donation to Be The Match. I was already inside with the ticket when I saw his tweet, but I was able to leave it at the ticket window inside Miller Park, and they took it to the will call window.
Once inside I went to section 228 and got game photo number 56 taken by a nearby fan. He took three pictures and they were all pretty good. The third one was the best, but when I went to scale the image size down just now I noticed that the jumbotron had two girls in the stands on there when the picture was taken. You may not have noticed it, but it's going to bug me. I still like it better than the other two, so I'll have to live with it. I tried to blur them out even more than they already were, but it's still somewhat of a distraction.
I met with Nathan in the team store by Friday's, and he handed off the new gear that the Brewers are providing. Kathy and Tyler: I know you read the posts so I can't say thank you enough for the merchandise and everything else you guys have done for me. Jill (the merchandising director) gets a nod as well because she worked with Kathy and Tyler to figure out how it would all work. Below are the three shirts Nathan picked out for me, and the hat that the Brewers will wear on July 4th (The fill inside the M is camouflage). I think they wore it on Memorial Day also, but I'm not certain. I was in the Upper Deck at Dodger Stadium that day, so I didn't get any close looks at the players.
I talked with Bill (the usher) again and then while walking to my seats Jason caught up with me. We got situated for the game and with Greinke on the mound I was feeling pretty good about the Brewers chances.
The game was scoreless early but in the fourth inning the Brewers got on the board in a big way, with four runs on five hits. Three of them scored with two outs so that was nice to see. Braun's double scored Aoki, Ransom's double scored Braun, and Conrad's single scored Hart and Ransom. I got a picture as Ransom slid home safely, and again I wish I had a faster lens. The shutter speed for the below photo was 1/125 of a second, and I probably needed a 1/400 picture to achieve decent clarity. I'm starting to seriously consider purchasing a nicer lens. The $1,000 price tag is (obviously) the only thing holding me back. So I can either man up and lay down the cash, or start asking players to do things more slowly so I can capture their actions better. I would prefer the latter but I'll probably wind up doing the former.
In the top of the fifth Greinke had a chance to strike out four in an inning because a wild pitch on strike three allowed Ian Stewart to reach. The next at bat ended with a strike-em-out-throw-em-out double play and it's apparent that Maldonado has an amazing arm behind the plate. Lucroy is a great defensive catcher, and has a decent arm. If he had the arm Maldonado has he'd be right up there with Yadier Molina of the Cardinals (he's close as it is, in my opinion). Greinke settled for three strikeouts in the inning, and had 12 in the game, while giving up just two hits and two walks. The Brewers tacked on a run in the fifth, and then blew it open in the eighth. Taylor Green hit his first Major League home run, a three run shot to right, and I knew it was coming. Ok, maybe not "knew", but was hopeful. Every time he had come to the plate this year I would say "He's still looking for his first major league home run." My hard work finally paid off and the Brewers celebrated with fireworks after Green rounded third.
This linescore is more of what I was looking for when the Cubs came to town. Final Score: Brewers 8 – Cubs 0.
Some advice: never second guess yourself while picking a sausage race winner, it backfires. I went with the Bratwurst originally, and then right before they took off I changed it to the Italian. I hate Italian sausages, what was I thinking? Of course Bratwurst had a come-from-behind victory, cementing my original estimation that the tallest contestant would win (always look at the legs). My uncle hates the sausage race, and I never understood why. Look at the all the heads in the Brewers dugout, where are they looking? You guessed it, at the sausages! I know it's ridiculous and all, but it's a heckuva lot better than the tool race, or whatever it is that they do in Atlanta (and other parks), it's a joke. In Atlanta they have a paint brush, hammer, hand saw, and power drill, and they wear these little boots. Maybe I'm a little biased, but the sausage race was the first of it's kind, and it can't be topped.
After the bottom of the eighth inning I had a fan take a picture of Jason and I. He told me that he wasn't very photogenic, so I hope he's not mad about me posting the pic. He might look like he wasn't happy, but he can confirm that we had a good time at the game. We talked about baseball, my journey, and also how cool he thinks it is. The 25-31 record has been the hardest part of the season so far, but hearing people like Jason tell me that what I'm doing is awesome and to not regret it reassures me that I made the right decision.
That's all for now. I'm going to the game today (Thursday), with a former co-worker. Her name is Pam and we're meeting in Johnson Creek at 11:00 am. A good time should be had by all.
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If you find any difference me and other,
so you are my only soulmate..
You are the greatest thing that ever come into my life and i won't let anyone take you away from me..
I love you after all this time i still love you,
it was always been you,
it was you yesterday ,
it was you today,
it will be you tomorrow & for the rest of my life. it will be you ,
i love you
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Everyday with you is another happiest day in my life,
knowing you are a part of it tickles my insides,
don't go away or i'm going to die,
stay with me & share these moments of my life..
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A real boy never "give up on" his girl,
he fight for her...!!
Love marriage may be happier,
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Relationship don't need cute voice and lovely faces relationship need beautiful heart and unbreakable trust..


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It can be helpful to monitor your cellular data usage statistics from your iPhone if you use a lot of data and are worried about overage charges that might occur if you hit your data cap. The iPhone cellular data statistics are a running total, however, so you will need to reset them periodically if you want to have a clearer idea of how much data you are using each month.
Our guide below will show you the menu to access on your iPhone that allows you to reset your cellular data use statistics. You can perform this process each month, or each wekk, depending upon the type of data that you are trying to collect.
Reset Mobile Data Usage Statistics on an iPhone 7
These steps were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10.2. These same steps will work for most other versions of iOS as well.
Step 1: Tap the Settings icon.
Step 2: Select the Cellular option.
Step 3: Scroll to the bottom of the screen and touch the Reset Statistics button.
Step 4: Tap the red Reset Statistics button to confirm that you want to reset your stats.
Additional notes about resetting your iPhone cellular data usage statistics
- The amount of data shown on this screen only indicates data used over a cellular network. It does not include any data used over Wi-Fi networks.
- The statistics shown on this screen may vary when compared to cellular data usage as indicated by your cellular or mobile provider.
- You can disable cellular data usage by individual apps by scrolling up on the Cellular menu and tapping the button to the right of an app that you do not want to allow cellular network access.
You can also disable cellular data usage entirely on your iPhone. This can be beneficial if you are already over your monthly data cap and want to limit any potential overage charges. Note, however, that most apps will prompt you to re-enable cellular data usage whenever you open them on a cellular network.


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FX has set the premiere dates for two of the year's most anticipated new comedy series, Atlanta and Better Things, as well as the return of the acclaimed and award-winning American Horror Story for its sixth installment, it was announced today by Chuck Saftler, President of Program Strategy and COO, FX Networks. Atlanta, a half-hour comedy series … [Read more...]
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As one television host recently noted, we're all human beings and therefore we all make mistakes. That's true enough. Even presidents, after all, aren't exempt from the laws of nature. So when President Obama said a few days ago that his administration didn't have "a strategy" to deal effectively with ISIS, most of his cheerleaders in the media, presumably, assumed it was a gaffe. But was it?
As of this writing, ISIS terrorists (some of whom are Westerners) have already beheaded one American journalist and reportedly decapitated another. At least one American has died fighting for the caliphate, and we don't know if other American traitors, suspected of joining the group, will have their US passports rescinded, either.
Needless to say, these are all serious concerns. Hence why most Americans are troubled by what President Obama said last Thursday:
The president said last week at a press conference that the United States doesn't have a strategy yet for dealing with the group which threatens to defeat democratic forces in Iraq and send the messy civil war in Syria further out of control. Seventy-three percent (73%) of voters are concerned that the United States does not have a strategy for dealing with this military group, with 47% who are Very Concerned. Twenty-five percent (25%) are not concerned by this lack of a strategy, but that includes only four percent (4%) who are Not At All Concerned.
The president has authorized selective U.S. airstrikes to halt ISIS advances but has ruled out sending troops back to Iraq. Just 30% think the United States should send troops to defeat ISIS, but that's up from 12% last December. Opposition to sending troops back to Iraq has fallen dramatically from 71% in December to 58% a month ago. Now just 41% feel that way. A sizable 29% are undecided.
In other words, nearly half of respondents say they are exceedingly nervous that the president has no plan whatsoever to confront this threat.
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Deciphering Buddha Imagery
- By Rick Groleau
- Posted 02.18.03
Whether in the form of a wall painting, statue, or some other religious artifact, an image of Buddha is meant to serve as an inspiration to Buddhists and as a way to honor and remember Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism (as well as other Buddhas). But there are many depictions in Buddhist art that resemble—yet aren't—"The Enlightened One." This interactive reveals common traits that will help you to recognize an image of the Buddha and to understand the meanings of the five most common hand gestures—or mudras—used in Buddhist art.
What you need to know to recognize an image of the Buddha
This feature originally appeared on the site for the NOVA program Lost Treasures of Tibet.
Chanda, Ramaprasad. 1934. "The hair and the Usnisa on the head of the Buddha and the Jinas." Indian Historical Quarterly, September 1934:669-673.
Kumar, Nitin. 2001. "Mudras of the Great Buddha: Symbolic gestures and postures." Exotic India, August 2001.
Vessantara (Tony McMahon). 1993. Meeting the Buddhas: A Guide to Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Tantric Deities. Windhorse Publications, 1993.
- © WGBH Educational Foundation
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In This Issue
• Tasar Worlds: It's been a tough one...
• A thrilling day at Cowes Classics Week Day 3
• All Aboard for the 21st Jersey Regatta!
• Winners return to the Rolex Fastnet Race
• 38 Copa del Rey MAPFRE
• Alinghi and Oman Air neck and neck after five full-on races at Copa del Rey MAPFRE
• Shirley Robertson catch up with the fastest man around the planet - French offshore star Francois Gabart
• Class 40: Setting up a selection mode for the next Route du Rhum
• World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award
• Correction
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Swan 115-003 Highland Fling 15
• • Sly 53 - STEVE WONDER 2
• • Soraya
• The Last Word: Jon Stewart
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Tasar Worlds: It's been a tough one...
Click on image for photo gallery.
Race 4 Finish order (provisional) First AUS 2942 James Burman, second AUS 2848 Rob Douglass and third 3rd GBR 2877 James Peters
Race 5 Finish order (provisional) first AUS 2813 Rick Longbottom, second AUS 2922 Lloyd Lissiman and 3rd AUS 2831 Paul Ridgway HISC's very own James Peters and Charlie Darling recorded hitting 13.8 knots on the Tracker today!
Leading positions after 5 races, 1 discard (provisional)
1. Rob Douglass / Nicole Douglass, AUS, 7 points
2. Rick Longbottom / Darryl Bentley, AUS, 14
3. James Burman / Tara Burman, AUS, 15
4. James Peters / Charlie Darling, GBR, 15
5. Michael Karas / Molly Jackson, USA, 16
A thrilling day at Cowes Classics Week Day 3
Spinaway X, the oldest yacht in the fleet. Photo by Tim Jeffreys. Click on image for photo gallery.
One group which managed to find relatively peaceful conditions away from the bumpy mid-Solent was the committee boat race area for the Swallows, Vintage Dragons, Flying Fifteens and Bembridge One Designs, sponsored by Robert Oatley Wines. Even so the race team's course setter Matt Cowan explains "We had around 12 knots of breeze at the committee boat and just under a mile up the race course to the west it was blowing more like 20 knots."
Like all the entries in Cowes Classics Week each of these classes boast a classic heritage with the 15 strong Swallow class originating as a two-man Olympic class for the 1948 Olympics but now sailed with three crew. The class has developed into a thoroughly modern classic as demonstrated by the competition on the water. Mike Wigmore in Gwaihir showed that he was coming back to defend his previous 2017 and 2018 titles when he added todays' three races to his first position of Monday to keep him ahead. Harry Roome in Skua was today's scratch boat, with two wins but a no-show for the final race.
The Bembridge One Design, a smaller but equally graceful boat, shared the same race area. Slower that the Swallows and without spinnakers these hardy little yachts relished the courses even in the gusts. They were also able to get three races in. The strict one design fleet, which is resident at Bembridge Sailing Club is a close relative of the Alfred Westmacott designed XOD, both over 100 years old. Hugh Doherty sailed BOD10 into the lead today with a 1,2,3 with wins also going to last year's BOD Champion Russ Fowler in BOD1 and Charles Able-Smith in BOD7.
Further north towards the mainland shore conditions were even more lively. The XOD fleet, the largest in the event, with 37 entries, was dominated by Roger Yeoman sailing Xcitation, finishing today one point ahead of another previous Cowes Classics Week champion Max Crowe with Clair de Lune.
Racing continues tomorrow and Friday. The Darings, Vintage Dragons, and a host of other boats, all of whom are designs of more than 50 years old, will be on the start lines along with a others including Twisters, Contessa 26s and, for one day only, the Seaview Mermaid fleet will take part.
Red Funnel is Signature Sponsor of Cowes Classics Week and live coverage from on the water comes courtesy of Cowes Radio 87.9fm.
All Aboard for the 21st Jersey Regatta!
Key to the ongoing success of this most popular of events is the warm regatta community atmosphere in which competitors of all ages and experience compete in sportsboat, cruiser/racer, Quarter Ton, dayboat, dinghy, sport catamaran and windsurfer classes. The organisers' guiding principle is to ensure a great welcome and three days of camaraderie, fun and keen racing for all. Visiting boats, especially, provide that added ingredient that puts the local sailors on their mettle whilst, often, winning many of the prizes and coveted silverware.
The Regatta gets underway on Thursday 5th September with the traditional welcoming reception in St Helier YC. The racing programme opens on Friday morning with a long race for the sportsboat and cruiser/racer classes, the 'small boat' classes racing later that afternoon. Friday's races are 'standalone' whilst races held on Saturday and Sunday count towards the Jersey Regatta class championships, in each class, and the IRC Channel Islands Championships that are the major feature of the cruiser/racer programme. All IRC-rated boats will be competing for the Championship titles and, additionally, the great prizes provided by Spinlock, the IRC Sponsors. This year sees a change in the Sportsboat and Class 1 programme with two longer races replacing the traditional three 'round the cans' races on both days.
However, this sailing extravaganza is not only about competing, winning and having a good time on the water, it is complimented by a lively social programme ashore that is intended to provide everyone with plenty of opportunity to unwind and enjoy the camaraderie and ever-warm welcome that awaits them in the Clubs.
For local and visiting boats alike, Jersey Marinas, supporters from the first edition in 1999, will be providing complimentary berthing and will be available to provide such other assistance as may be needed to help things run smoothly.
Condor Ferries, also long-time supporters, are providing discounted fares for those Regatta entrants wishing to transport their boats to the Island; this kind offer covers accompanied boats on trailers
For further information, please contact the Regatta office, , or call 00 44 (0)1534 732229.
Winners return to the Rolex Fastnet Race
Didier Gaudoux and the crew of his JND39 Lann Ael 2 return as the defending champions. Photo by Carlo Borlenghi/Rolex. Click on image to enlarge.
Many past winners will be setting sail from Cowes this Saturday lunchtime for the start of this 48th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's premier event.
Over the last three editions, French crews have lifted the Fastnet Challenge Cup exclusively. Didier Gaudoux and the crew of his JND39 Lann Ael 2 return as the defending champions. This season Lann Ael 2 has competed in the RORC's UK offshore programme (her best result being 7th in the Myth of Malham).
Since 2017, Lann Ael 2 has been converted to twin rudders, which Gaudoux says has improved her performance reaching in a breeze, at the expense of light wind and upwind pace. Her sail plan has been slightly enlarged, increasing her rating.
According to Gaudoux some key members of Lann Ael 2's crew have also changed: "My daughter is pregnant and my son is in Canada for business. But the rest are similar, guys who know the boat quite well." Significantly Figaro sailor Fred Duthil, the sole pro on the boat two years ago, has been replaced by another leading Figaro sailor Fabien Delahaye.
Never to be underestimated is Gery Trentesaux, overall winner in 2015 with the JPK 10.80 Courrier Du Leon, when, while racing in IRC Three he finished half way up in IRC One on the water (despite being OCS and then taking 40 minutes to restart thanks to the ebb tide). He is also one of the most experienced Fastnet competitors having first taken part in the 1977 race at the age of 18.
This time Trentesaux returns with Courrier Recommande, a newer JPK 11.80. Launched last year, she won October's Rolex Middle Sea Race and since then her owner says that they have "changed many sails and many things. The boat is quite fast upwind and reaching. She is not so fast downwind in medium weather."
This season the Rolex Fastnet Race is Trentesaux's principle objective, although he maintains modestly that "we are just coming to participate... The Fastnet is the best race in the world, a mythical race. All the good boats enter it. You have a maximum of 100 boats in the Rolex Sydney Hobart and Middle Sea but 400 in the Fastnet - there is no competition."
38 Copa del Rey MAPFRE
With a strong Mistral wind blowing on the Mediterranean to the north of Mallorca, the third day of the 38 Copa del Rey MAPFRE was the most challenging yet. Racing in gusty offshore NE'ly winds of 12-25 knots, the winning watchwords were keeping it safe and simple in many of the 11 divisions.
Certainly that was the case for three Maxi 72s in the Mallorca Sotheby's IRC Class where Dario Ferrari's Cannonball sailed to a second and a first to maintain a one point margin over Hap Fauth's newer Bella Mente which mirrored their scores going 2,1. Proteus suffered a technical breakdown in the first race and their DNF drops leaves the class's early leaders in third. Previously this class has seen all three boats tied on points and the tie break deciding the title.
Tomorrow's races conclude the Preliminary Series. The class leaders then carry one point into Friday and Saturday's Finals, second get two and so on in what is a new initiative for this edition.
1. Paprec Reciclaje, Stephane Neve, (6)+3+1+3+1+2=10
2. Team Vision Future, Mergui Mikael, 3+2+2+1+3+(4)=11
3. Freccia Rossa, Vadim Yakimenki, 1+(5)+4+4+2+1=12
... 7 boats
1. Rats on Fire, Rayco Tabares, (3)+1+3+1+3+1=9
2. Estrella Damm, Luis Martinez, 1+(5,5)+1+3+1+3=9
3. From now on, Hernan Mones, 2+3,5+2+2+4+6=13.5
... 15 boats
1. Teatro Soho Caixabank, Daniel Cuevas, (2)+1+2+2+1+1=7
2. El Carmen - Elite Sails, Jose Coello, 1+2+1+1+2+(4)=7
3. Rivareno, Christian Plump, (4)+4+3+3+3+2=15
... 20 boats
1. Vertigo Dos Texia, Jorge Martinez Doreste, 1+1+(7)+1+2+2=7
2. Airlan Aermec, Juan Cabrer, (17)+5+3+6+1+1=16
3. Tanit IV - Medilevel, Nacho Campos, (11)+2+10+2+4+6=24
... 27 boats
Mallorca Sotheby's IRC
1. Cannonball, Dario Ferrari, (3)+3+1+1+2+1=8
2. Bella Mente, Hap Fauth, 2+2+(3)+2+1+2=9
3. Proteus, George Sakellaris, 1+1+2+3+(DNF)+3=10
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1. Solintal, Ignacio Camino, 1+1+3+1+5+2+2+(9)+5=20
2. Bribon Movistar, Marc de Antonio, (7)+3+6+4+4+1+4+1+1=24
3. Grupo Garatu, Juan Vazquez, 2+2+1+(8)+7+5+3+2+3=25
... 11 boats
ClubSwan 50
1. Cuordileone, Ettore Mattiello, 2+1+3+1+2+(5)=9
2. Stella Maris, August Schram, 3+7+(9)+3+1+1=15
3. Cetilar-Vitamina, Andrea Lacorte, 1+(6)+1+4+4+6=16
... 14 boats
Swan 45
1. Swing Cube, Paolo Bucciarelli, 1+3+2+2+(5)+1=9
2. Porron IX, Luis Senis, 2+1+(3)+3+1+3=10
3. Fever, Klaus Diederichs, (5)+2+4+1+4+4=15
... 6 boats
Mallorca Sotheby's ClubSwan 42
1. Natalia, Natalia Brailoiu, 1+3+2+3=9
2. Dralion, Pit Finnis, 4+6+1+2=13
3. Nadir, Pedro Vaquer, 2+2+6+5+1+(7)=16 ... 11 boats
Purobeach Women's Cup
1. Dorsia Sailing Team, Natalia Via-Dufresne, 1+1+1+3+(4)+1+1+2+3=13
2. Federacion Gallega, Patricia Suarez, 4+2+2+4+3+3+2+1+2=19
3. Federacion Balear, Helena Alegre, 5+(7)+7+1+1+5+3+3+1=26 ... 12 boats
Alinghi and Oman Air neck and neck after five full-on races at Copa del Rey MAPFRE
After a faltering start to day one of the 38 Copa del Rey MAPFRE, Alinghi turned on the afterburners to take the final two races of a full-on, five-heat afternoon in the latest round of the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour in Palma, Mallorca.
The recently crowned GC32 World Champions sit tied on points with Oman Air who won the first and third races of the day. The warm northeasterly breeze was blowing 15-18 knots straight off the shore of Palma, although there were some big gusts and wind shifts ready to catch the foiling catamaran crews unawares.
Aside from the double bullets notched up by Alinghi and Oman Air, Red Bull Sailing Team won the other race of the day. Double Olympic Champion Roman Hagara can see a noticeable improvement at the front of the fleet compared with a couple of years ago in this still young one design flying catamaran class.
Racing continues on Thursday with a start time of 1300 hours local time, and with moderate breeze on the forecast. It should be another sparkling day of GC32 competition in Palma.
1. Alinghi, 10 points
2. Oman Air, 10
3. Red Bull Sailing Team, 12
4. Zoulou, 21
5. Black Star Sailing Team, 23
6. M&G Tressis Silicius, 29
Shirley Robertson catch up with the fastest man around the planet - French offshore star Francois Gabart
He's the youngest ever winner of the solo around the world marathon the Vendee Globe, but Francois also holds the title for the fastest ever solo lap of the planet, achievements that have made him a household name in his native France.
Gabart set a remarkable world record in 2017 when he spent just 42 days 16hours 40minutes and 35seconds to sail alone, non stop around the world, coming within just 2 days of the overall crewed world record. The landmark achievement was set sailing the giant 100ft trimaran 'Macif', a foiling trimaran capable of sustained periods of high speed out in the world's toughest sailing conditions...:
"I love speed. I'm not afraid of speed and I have to say that sometimes I even think that speed is not dangerous, that it's sometimes safer to go fast."
As a six year old child Gabart spent a year at sea with his parents, as on a whim they decided to take off to see the world. He attributes a degree of his success to these formative days spent enjoying the experience of being out at sea. His sailing career started well, he was national champion in the competitive Optimist class. Several national titles followed as Gabart set his sights on Olympic success, but admits to Shirley that even then, his horizons were slightly wider...:
"There was something missing when I would just sail around the buoys, and then go back to shore at night. I was thinking 'why can't we jusy try to go further, sail into the night and just go'"
And so began a search for something more. Gabart discusses with Robertson the unique French pathway to becoming an offshore professional, and how he tentatively set off around the world on his one and only Vendee Globe race, aged just 29.
Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast is available to listen to via the podcast page of Shirley's own website, at www.shirleyrobertson.com/podcast or via most popular podcast outlets, including iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcast and aCast
Class 40: Setting up a selection mode for the next Route du Rhum
The Route du Rhum destination Guadeloupe 2018 was a great success for the Class40 with 53 Class 40 participants for more than 57 projects pre-registered before registration closes on March 31, 2018. If the organization had planned to limit the number to 40 in its Race Notice, faced with massive entries, it had increased it by 10 boats in January before accepting 3 more just a few weeks before the start. The announcement of a waiting list had further discouraged some late projects.
In view of the enthusiasm generated by this race and the renewal of quota per class for the 2022 edition, the Class40 wanted to invest in the management of the future list of pre-registered applies more. It has thus proposed to OC Sport a selection process that is more relevant and adapted to class development.
Priority rules process
This selection system only provides priorities in the event of exceeding the limit on the number of boats that will be set by the organization. The main objective is to give priority to runners who participate in class races on a regular if not ad hock basis, who are used to the Class 40s and are therefore comfortable with the support from the point of view of safety and performance, establishing a criteria of miles travelled in the race by the skippers concerned. Furthermore, to correct the possible pernicious or inequitable effects for class development, Class40 built from mid-2021 will automatically be awarding a place to not slow boat buildings. Moreover, the Class40 is proud to have a lot of members who do not live in Europe. To be allocated a place without entering this system of miles, a non-European skipper will have had to participate in a Class40 transatlantic between 2017 and the closing of registrations.
The full selection mode is available in the Races section of the Class 40 website www.class40.com
World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award
This year marks the second annual World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award, and we're looking for a diverse and talented applicant pool so that we can honor and empower the best and brightest leaders of sustainability in the sailing world. This award celebrates the effective execution or ongoing delivery of high-impact, highly-replicable sustainability initiatives, aligned to World Sailing's Sustainability Agenda 2030.
Do you know someone who meets this description? Can't forget the fantastic project you saw while on vacation? Or, perhaps the best nominee is right in your backyard or office!
The 2019 winner will receive a $10,000 prize to support its sustainability initiatives and an iconic, perpetual trophy that is made from recycled carbon fiber from an America's Cup boat. Better yet, the work of these winners will serve as a catalyst for positive change and inspire others to start their own sustainability projects.
Click here to nominate someone by telling us why this individual or organization deserves to win this award, and how they have contributed to a more sustainable sailing industry or used sailing as a platform to promote sustainability.
The deadline to nominate a sailor, sailing club, class association, Member National Authorities, or any other organization that is delivering sustainability initiatives is August 23rd.
re: our story last night about Greta Thunberg's voyage on Malizia II across the Atlantic. We incorrectly stated that Malizia II was owned by Yacht Club Monaco. The IMOCA yacht 'Malizia' ist not owned by the YCM. The owner is German business man Gerhard Senft from the Stuttgart area. The YCM chartered the boat for the next Vendee Globe.
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I was discussing, with a church leader, the condition of the world today and our need for revival. The church leader said that throughout history we have always seen world conditions that were thought to be bringing us to the end of society. He said look at what we thought just before WWII. At that time we thought the world was coming to an end. I can agree, we have always had wars and rumors of wars. We have always had violent storms and earthquakes.The thing that we haven't had is the moral attack to make this nation a Godless nation. A supreme court looking to redefine God's word on marriage. Prayer being taken out of schools. Abortion being legal and now needing guns for protection in schools and churches. The creating of "A New Norm" for what a typical family should look like. America has never been threatened like this in all our history. This same attack is happening in all nations. Darkness is covering the whole earth. Man's kingdom without God will be in failure. Our goal in this hour, is to stay focused on Jesus. We are to live in His will and bring it to earth. Colossians 3, verses 1 and 2 tells us what to do:
If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.This tells us, if we focus on the world and what man does, we will become part of the problem. If we focus and seek the things above that God has for us, we will become the answer. Sure, darkness is covering the earth, but Isaiah 60 says to "arise and shine for your light has come." The glory of the Lord has risen upon you! God is telling us, even when deep darkness covers the people, His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising. This is what revival will look like. It will awaken us to all that God is and all that He has. Our heavenly Father will begin to raise up fathers who will restore the hearts of children to their father and the hearts of fathers to their children according to Malachi chapter 4. People who have had an identity crisis will be moved from an orphan spirit to the spirit of adoption as sons and daughters of the King. This revival will be known in the city as much as in the church. The love of the Father will be known as never before. This great love will allow the Holy Spirit to be unrestricted as He moves through believers. All that the Kingdom of God has will come on the earth in its fullness. There will be a revolution of revelation. This will bring an understanding of God's truth as we have never had before. Signs, wonders and miracles will be exhibited as never seen before. The harvest will be so numerous that it can't be counted. Now it is time to set ourselves into 2 Chronicles 7:14:
If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.The promise is to us! If we will humble ourselves and pray and seek His face, He will hear from Heaven, pour out His Spirit on all flesh and heal our land.


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The first article introduced you to the paleolithic, ketogenic and modified Atkins diets. If you haven't read it yet, CLICK HERE. In this second article, you will read about the Mediterranean, vegetarian and vegan diets.
First, let me remind you that the goal in choosing a way of eating is:
Have health and pleasure sitting at the same table with a common objective of making you feel great, energized physically and mentally!
The Mediterranean diet
This nutrition choice is more of a lifestyle choice. Also called Cretan diet, it is inspired by the people who live around the Mediterranean.
Seven principles of the Omega Plan of the Mediterranean lifestyle:
1. Eat foods that are rich in Omega-3s (fatty fish, nuts, seeds and oils). Omega-3 supplements.
2. Use monounsaturated oils: olive and canola oils.
3. Eat at least seven portions of fruits and vegetables every day.
4. Eat more plant-based proteins such as peas, beans and nuts.
5. Avoid saturated fats by choosing lean meat sources and opting for dairy products that are low in fats.
6. Avoid oils that are rich in Omega-6s: sunflower, corn, safflower, grapeseed and soya oils.
7. Reduce the intake of trans fatty acids: margarine and other solid vegetable fats: hydrogenated oils, commercial pastries, fried products, fast food and processed foods.
Garlic, onion, spices and herbs are very commonly used while cooking. A moderate consumption of red wine is accepted. As for sweets, they should be consumed sparingly. Whole grain products are included in this diet. Sheep yogurt and especially sheep cheese are recommended, but milk isn't.
The Omega Plan is varied and easy to follow. It is known to protect the cardiovascular system, regulate the proliferation of cancer cells, normalize your metabolism (which defeats the X-syndrome, obesity and diabetes), balance your mood, facilitate neuronal communications and balance your immune system.
Ref : Le Régime Oméga 3 – A. Simopoulos – J. Robinson – M. de Lorgeril – P. Salen, 2004
Vegetarian and vegan diets, veganism
The vegetarian diet refers to a type of diet that excludes animal meats.
There are, however, a few variations:
- Lacto-ovo-vegetarianism: consumption of animal products is permitted, such as dairy products, eggs and honey.
- Lacto-vegetarianism: dairy products are accepted, but eggs are not.
Semi-vegetarianism: fish and seafood are part of the menu. In fact, this approach is similar to the Mediterranean diet.
The vegan diet or "strict vegetarianism" only includes plant-based foods.
It's the same for veganism, but veganism expands further into a lifestyle rather than just a way of eating. All products that come from animals are excluded: wool, leather, cosmetic products that are tested on animals, etc.
These approaches bring together people who seek to protect their environment as much as their health.
One of the challenges with these diets is consuming too many carbohydrates. Hence the importance of prioritising foods with a low/medium glycemic index that are rich in fibers.
What about anti-nutrients?
- Phytic acid: it is found in the thin shell around seeds, grains and legumes.
- It impedes the assimilation of many minerals and trace elements: calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, etc.
- Phytic acid is said to be the # 1 enemy of vegetarians and vegans.
- Excess phytic acid increases acidity and inflammation.
- Solution: soaking in purified water for 4 to 12 hours before cooking can neutralize part of the phytic acid by activating the germination process.
- Fermentation also helps to neutralize a large part of the phytic acid. Sourdough bread is a great example of this.
- Lectins: they are present everywhere in the plant kingdom, especially in cereals (wheat and grasses family), legumes (beans, soybeans, lentils), peanuts and vegetables of the Solanaceae family (eggplants, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers).
- Lectins are known to cause inflammation so if they are consumed in large quantities, they can damage the gastrointestinal mucosa and have repercussions on your health.
Solution: soaking and germinating your grains and legumes before cooking them could reduce the dangers of lectins. Do not use a slow cooker to cook your legumes and grains, as their low temperature increases the lectin content. Germination and fermentation greatly reduce the lectin content of the foods that are otherwise high in lectins. Breads that are made from sprouted grains are much easier to digest.
Plant-based diets rich in carbohydrates VS plant-based diets rich in live, colorful, nutritious foods.
A vegetarian or vegan person who only eats pizzas, pasta, rice, sandwiches, cereals ... will not experience any of the health benefits of these diets. They might actually see a decline in their health.
Risk of deficiencies of a plant-based diet: the most common deficiencies are those of iron, zinc and vitamin B12. Supplementation will easily mitigate this risk.
Digestive difficulties
If the digestion of legumes, cruciferous (broccoli, cabbage, etc.) or sulfur foods (garlic, onion) causes you bloating, gas or abdominal pain, you would benefit from adding to your meals a vegetarian enzyme formula that includes all the different types of enzymes, particularly good amounts of cellulases and hemicellulases. These enzymes are made by the bacteria in your gut, but your gut microbiota may not be harboring them in sufficient quantities.
Before making the switch to a plant-based diet, do your research! The market is full of recipe books and cooking classes.
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The Bears finished their round of initial interviews with five candidates for the job of general manager and now are bringing two finalists in for second interviews, a source with knowledge of the situation told CSNChicago.com.
Kansas City Chiefs college scouting director Phil Emery is expected to be one of the finalists as is New England's Jason Licht.
A final decision had not been made as of late Monday afternoon and no formal offer had been made, according to the Bears. The winnowing process has begun, however.
Comcast SportsNets Kip Lewis reported sources telling him that Jimmy Raye, one of the five candidates interviewed last week, was informed that he was no longer a candidate.
Earlier Monday one NFL source told CSNChicago.com that Emery and current Bears player personnel director Tim Ruskell were considered 1-2 after the first interviews.
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