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Companies putting public health at risk by replacing one harmful chemical with similar, potentially toxic, alternatives
March 27, 2018 By Anna Watson
A new report "From BPA to BPZ: a toxic soup? How companies switch from a known hazardous chemical to one with similar properties, and how regulators could stop them", published today by CHEM Trust, highlights how industry is being allowed to replace the well-known hormone disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA), with very similar chemicals that may also be harmful.
BPA is a chemical that has been used in thermal paper till receipts, polycarbonate water bottles, and food can linings. It's also a common contaminant of house dust. It was first found to be able to mimic the female hormone in the 1930s and in recent years there has been more and more evidence of its potential impact on health, including increased risk of breast cancer, impaired sperm counts, impacts on diabetes and obesity, and hyperactivity in children.
The European Union (EU) has banned BPA's use in baby bottles, and is phasing it out of till receipts, but it is still extensively used in other products.
When BPA first came to the public's attention over two decades ago, manufacturers scrambled to find replacement chemicals to use in products. Many found that the easiest option was to move to another closely-related bisphenol, such as bisphenol S (BPS). Researchers are now finding many of these closely-related chemicals in people around the world – and they are finding that they are also potential hormone disruptors. However, regulators are not yet controlling the use of these similar chemicals.
Dr Paloma Alonso Magdalena, Associate Professor of Nutrition at Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), Spain, who reviewed the scientific content of the report, said:
"BPA is now well known to have endocrine disrupting properties, affecting a wide range of the body's systems, from reproductive organs to our metabolism. It is very worrying that a number of other bisphenols are now being found to have similar hazardous properties. It does not seem wise to be moving from BPA to these chemicals."
The report also highlights that most companies selling BPS are claiming that it has no hazards. This is even though the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) has said BPS has a "toxicological profile" similar to BPA and should not be used to replace it in products.
Dr Michael Warhurst, Executive Director of CHEM Trust said:
"This report shows that people and the environment are not being properly protected from hazardous chemicals as businesses are moving from one problem chemical in a group to another.
We need EU regulators to phase out groups of chemicals of concern, rather than slowly restricting one chemical at a time. We cannot continue to gamble with people's health like this."
This report is published a year after CHEM Trust's "No Brainer" study, which reviewed the evidence that a number of chemicals, including BPA and BPS, might harm brain development in children.
CHEM Trust has written to three relevant EU authorities, ECHA, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and the European Commission's Health Commissioner, to ask them to restrict the use of groups of similar chemicals to prevent the substitution of one hazardous chemical with related chemicals that have similar properties. The only exception to this should be if industry has good data showing the chemical they wish to use does not have the same properties as those of the chemical being restricted.
ECHA has started investigating BPS, but is asking industry for more safety data rather than regulating its use. As far as CHEM Trust is aware EFSA, responsible for assessing chemicals in food packaging, has not re-examined the toxicity of BPS or other bisphenols.
Our recommendations are:
Regulators should regulate groups of related chemicals, rather than taking a substance by substance approach.
Chemical companies must improve their own assessment of the safety of chemicals.
Downstream users of chemicals should not replace one problem chemical with another similar chemical from the same group.
Workers should ask whether they are being exposed to BPA or other bisphenols, and ask employers to move to safer non-bisphenol alternatives
Consumers should ask retailers whether products such as plastic bottles, till receipts and food cans are bisphenol-free.
We also recommend that EU regulations on chemical safety are still the best way to address this issue, and that the UK should be aiming to stay in this regulatory system. See our chemicals and Brexit page for more details.
The full Toxic Soup report is available here, the Toxic Soup summary report is available here.
Material about the report is also available in French, Dutch and Spanish.
The report has been covered by Chemical Watch, ENDS Report, Food Navigator.com, Product Safety News, The Ecologist, CIEL, Chemsec and Libres de Contaminantes Hormonales.
This timeline illustrates how many years it has taken for concerns about BPA and other bisphenols to lead to action:
Tagged With: Bisphenol A, BPA, ECHA, EDC, EFSA, Endocrine Disruptors, Food contact, Grouping, Letter, Plastics, Regulation, Thermal paper


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I am from the USA, and I will tell you that I am biased against Saudi, b/c I am a US female that a Saudi prince, who was in the US on "business," asked me to come back to the KSA with him. As I'm certain you well know, if you are truly Saudi, that Saudi princes do not accept, "no" for an answer, especially from a woman. He sent members of his staff to follow me everywhere I went to convince me to say, "yes." They offered me money, clothes, a lavish life, etc. etc. I will not tell you how the story ends, b/c it is my story and I never tell it! Not ever. This is all I ever tell of it, but be rest assured, Yousef, that the Saudi's take women out of the USA as well as bring them in. They are vile, greedy, varmints, bottom feeders of society that need to be exposed for who and what they are.
That there are good Saudi's, yes, I agree with you, there are, very much so. I have met them also. But the family spoke of in this article were not those Saudi's. They are the greedy ones of whom you speak. They were able to come to the USA b/c they had money, and you know as well as I do that the only Saudis that come to the USA have money, and the only way a Saudi has money is b/c he has been favored by the Royals in business, education or by servitude. This family was NOT the average Saudi family.


By signing Jason Kubel last week the Twins added to what was already a logjam at designated hitter and the outfield corners. Ryan Doumit's role seemed particularly tenuous with his ability to remain an option at catcher in question, possibly leaving him as merely a bad defensive outfielder with a mediocre bat. Apparently the Twins assessed the situation exactly that way, because less than 48 hours after adding Kubel they subtracted Doumit (and then added Kurt Suzuki).
Doumit is under contract for $3.5 million in 2014 as part of a two-year extension handed out by the Twins midway through his first season in Minnesota, but he wasn't worth that money in 2013 and ceased being a good fit for the current roster. Simply clearing his entire salary off the books and removing him from the bad-fielder logjam is an accomplishment for the Twins and getting a recent first-round draft pick from the Braves in exchange for Doumit is an added bonus.
Heading into the 2011 draft there was some talk of the Twins targeting Sean Gilmartin and as a soft-tossing college left-hander he certainly fit their longstanding drafting approach, but they picked 30th that year and the Braves took him two spots earlier. Three years later the Twins essentially acquired Gilmartin for nothing, but that mostly speaks to how far his prospect stock has dropped and how modest his upside was to begin with.
As you'd expect from an experienced college pitcher Gilmartin dominated in the low minors, but he managed just 6.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 20 starts at Double-A and then fell apart at Triple-A this year with a 5.74 ERA, .304 opponents' batting average, and 6.4 strikeouts per nine innings. Plenty of former first-round picks bounce back from struggles in the minors to thrive in the majors, but with a high-80s fastball Gilmartin doesn't seem like a good bet to be one of them.
On the other hand he's still just 23 years old and with only three pro seasons Gilmartin doesn't even require a 40-man roster spot yet, which no doubt played a part in the Twins asking for him in the deal. Gilmartin has had extreme splits in the minors--including an .859 OPS versus righties and a .635 OPS versus lefties this year--and could find a bullpen niche as a southpaw specialist. He's more "minor leaguer" than "prospect" at this point, but the deal is about shedding Doumit.
It's been clear all offseason that the Twins prioritized adding a veteran catcher and after missing out on both Jarrod Saltalamacchia and A.J. Pierzynski they were linked to second-tier options like Suzuki and John Buck. They ended up settling on Suzuki, who'll get $2.75 million to compete for playing time with and hopefully mentor Josmil Pinto. Suzuki was once a young building block for the A's, but huge workloads early in his career seem to have caught up to him.
Suzuki was a college superstar at Cal-State Fullerton, hitting .413/.511/.702 in 2004 before being drafted 67th overall. He debuted with the A's as a 23-year-old rookie in 2007, led the league in games caught in both 2008 and 2009, and then ranked third in games caught in 2010 and 2011. Through his first four full seasons in the majors Suzuki averaged 132 games and 1,145 innings behind the plate, which is a great path to being washed up before age 30.
Suzuki hasn't topped a .250 batting average or .700 OPS since 2009 and combined over the past two seasons he hit .234/.282/.332 in 212 games. That's backup-caliber offense at best and while Suzuki has a strong reputation behind the plate his actual defensive numbers have also been ugly recently. His caught-stealing numbers were consistently mediocre until this year, when 57 of 65 stolen base attempts were successful against Suzuki for an abysmal 12 percent throw-out rate.
Perhaps more importantly, Parker Hageman of Twins Daily notes that Suzuki fares very poorly in his ability to coax strikes out of borderline pitches. Dating back to 2008 he ranked 52nd out of 66 regular catchers in getting called strikes on pitches deemed to be within the strike zone, a metric which rated Doumit dead last during that same span. Breaking that down further into actual runs, Suzuki's pitch-framing graded out to 24.2 runs below average from 2010-2013.
So why do the Twins want Suzuki if he can't hit, his work framing pitches grades out poorly, and this year at least he couldn't throw? First and foremost because the veteran catcher market isn't exactly overflowing with capable options, so it's basically about holding your nose and deciding which huge flaws are palatable. Beyond that the Twins clearly believe more in their scouting and Suzuki's reputation than any defensive numbers.
He's a better option than Eric Fryer or Chris Herrmann, although the risk with Suzuki is that it's easy to envision Ron Gardenhire falling in love with his veteran-ness. As spring competition and eventually a backup and mentor for Pinto he's a perfectly reasonable, inexpensive fit, but if Suzuki finds his way into the lineup 4-5 times per week or perhaps even convinces the Twins to send Pinto back to the minors the signing will look a whole lot different.
For a lot more on the Doumit trade and Suzuki signing--plus the Mike Pelfrey re-signing--check out this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode.
• My assumption was that the Twins wouldn't want anything to do with Mike Pelfrey again after he posted a 5.19 ERA in 29 starts, but both Ron Gardenhire and Terry Ryan repeatedly made it clear that they wanted to re-sign him even with Ricky Nolasco and Phil Hughes already added to the rotation. Bringing back Pelfrey at all is odd enough, but bringing back Pelfrey on a two-year contract worth $11 million plus incentives is something I'm really struggling to comprehend.
In addition to the bloated 5.19 ERA and .300 opponents' batting average he managed just 6.0 strikeouts per nine innings to rank 81st out of 91 pitchers with at least 150 innings as starters. His walk rate of 3.1 per nine innings ranked 70th out of 91 and for all the talk about Pelfrey's ability to induce ground balls his actual ground-ball rate of 43 percent ranked 55th. He was a fly-ball pitcher with bad control and very few missed bats and he ranked next-to-last among all starters in xFIP.
There were certainly some changes within Pelfrey's post-surgery performance, but for the most part he remained the same pitcher relying very heavily on the same fastball thrown at the same speed and his overall results were nearly identical. Which is to say: Not good. Also of note is that Pelfrey has always worked slow, but his pace was excruciatingly lethargic this year. His average of 24.9 seconds between pitches was the ninth-slowest in baseball. He was brutal to watch too.
Clearly the Twins, like their fans, were sick of watching inexperienced starters get their brains beat in, because re-signing Pelfrey and signing Nolasco and Hughes to go with holdover Kevin Correia leaves just one spot in the rotation to be fought for by a group that includes Samuel Deduno, Kyle Gibson, Scott Diamond, Vance Worley, Kris Johnson, and Andrew Albers. And soon they'll hopefully need to make room for stud prospect Alex Meyer's arrival.
Gibson and Meyer are the only starters in that group around whom long-term plans should be made and the Twins had plenty of money to spend, so shoving aside various back-of-the-rotation options isn't a big deal. But why Pelfrey? And why lock yourself into a two-year commitment to a mediocre-at-best pitcher coming off a season in which he was one of the very worst starters in all of baseball?
• Jason Kubel left the Twins as a free agent following the 2011 season to sign a two-year, $15 million deal with the Diamondbacks and now, after one good year and one bad year, he returns to Minnesota on a minor-league deal. This year he struggled with injuries and hit just .216/.293/.317 with a 92/29 K/BB ratio in 97 games, so it's possible that he's simply done at age 32, but Kubel was an above-average hitter in each of the previous six seasons and smacked 30 homers in 2012.
He's never been able to hit left-handers and has no business playing defense at this point, but if used correctly in a part-time role Kubel could be a nice addition. And the price is certainly right. Of course, Gardenhire has yet to consistently platoon anyone in a dozen years and there was already a logjam at designated hitter and the outfield corners with Josh Willingham, Oswaldo Arcia, Ryan Doumit, Chris Parmelee, Chris Colabello, and possibly Josmil Pinto in the mix.
Doumit possibly no longer being an option at catcher means finding a taker for him and his $3.5 million salary would lessen the logjam considerably, but he was almost as bad as Kubel offensively and is every bit as bad defensively in the outfield. Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Kubel will get $2 million in upfront money if he makes the Opening Day roster and could earn another $1 million in potential incentives. Right now I'd bet on him making the team.
UPDATE: Apparently the Twins agreed. Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports reports that they're trading Doumit to the Braves for Sean Gilmartin, a soft-tossing lefty who was a first-round pick in 2011.
• Designated for assignment last week to make room on the 40-man roster for the Nolasco and Hughes signings, Liam Hendriks was claimed off waivers by the Cubs. I've already said my piece on the Hendriks decision, but the short version is that despite never being a particularly promising prospect he's still young enough to be useful and the Twins had a handful of better choices to cut loose. There's a decent chance he'll find himself on waivers again before Opening Day, though.
• Fan Graphs published the annual ZiPS projections for the Twins and ... it ain't pretty.
• Thanks to everyone who bought tickets to the event I'm co-hosting with Twins Daily next month during TwinsFest. We sold out all 125 tickets in three hours, so we're trying to find a way to add some more spots. Stay tuned for more details.
• For a lot more discussion about Pelfrey, Kubel, and Hendriks check out this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode.
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• Rochester's playoff run ended Sunday at Triple-A, so the Twins made seven September call-ups after initially not adding reinforcements. Eduardo Escobar, Chris Parmelee, Scott Diamond, and Michael Tonkin return after playing for the Twins previously this season and Cole De Vries is back in Minnesota for the first time this year after spending much of last season in the Twins' rotation, leaving Shairon Martis and Eric Fryer as the surprising call-ups.
Fryer is a 28-year-old journeyman catcher with 2,081 plate appearances in the minors compared to 34 plate appearances in the majors. He hit just .219/.339/.365 in 65 games for Rochester and is a career .208/.312/.313 hitter at Triple-A, but with Joe Mauer on the disabled list recovering from a brain injury and the Twins apparently no longer as willing to use Ryan Doumit behind the plate they wanted another catcher around for the final three weeks.
Martis is a 26-year-old right-hander who spent most of last season and all of this season in the Twins' farm system after being signed to a minor-league deal. He was a full-time starter until this year, shifting to the bullpen in Rochester and throwing 80 innings with a 4.26 ERA and 65-to-31 strikeout-to-walk ratio. There is absolutely nothing about his performance that stands out, this season or in past seasons, so aside from "they just wanted an extra arm" his call-up is odd.
My assumption is that Fryer and Martis will be dropped from the 40-man roster immediately after the season, in which case adding them now has no real impact aside from not giving those same temporary spots to more deserving options this month. De Vries also seems likely to be dropped, along with a handful of other names as part of the annual season-ending purge. Tonkin is the only call-up in the group with big upside, although certainly some people still believe in Diamond.
• As for who the Twins didn't add, the healthy players on the 40-man roster who haven't joined the team are Aaron Hicks, Trevor May, Danny Santana, and B.J. Hermsen. Of that group only Hicks' lack of a call-up is at all surprising, because May, Santana, and Hermsen all spent the season at Double-A and Hermsen was bad enough to potentially be dropped from the roster soon. Hicks, meanwhile, was the Opening Day center fielder and spent four months in the majors.
Hicks was terrible following an August 1 demotion to Triple-A, hitting .221/.317/.333 with zero homers and a 21-to-10 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 22 games to continue a miserable season that began with the Twins shoving aside development and service time considerations by rushing him from Double-A to the majors at age 23. Of course, Parmelee hit just .231/.318/.370 in 45 games at Triple-A following his midseason demotion and still got a September call-up.
So during the first half of the season Buxton did something only five other players have done in the past 30 years and then during the second half of the season Buxton did a different thing only five other players have done in the past 30 years. Overall he hit .334/.424/.520 with 55 steals, 49 extra-base hits, and 76 walks in 125 games between two levels where the average pitchers were 23 years old. He doesn't turn 20 until mid-December. Buxton is a bad, bad man (or kid, I guess).
UPDATE: Right on cue, Baseball America just announced that Buxton is their minor league player of the year, joining Mauer in 2003 as the only Twins to win the award.
Butch Wynegar, one of the biggest phenoms in team history, was the youngest Twins cleanup hitter at 20 years and 63 days old in May of 1976. In fact, the 90 youngest instances of a Twins hitter batting cleanup all belong Wynegar and then the 91st spot is Tom Brunansky at 21 years and 266 days old. Steve Brye is the odd man out on that list, batting cleanup six times for the Twins as a 22-year-old in 1971 despite going on to be a career .258/.309/.365 hitter.
• After missing all of last season and the first five months of this season following Tommy John elbow surgery Scott Baker finally made his 2013 debut Sunday for the Cubs. He'd been very ineffective while rehabbing in the minors, but Baker tossed five shutout innings against the Brewers in his first start since August 8, 2011. He'll be a free agent again this offseason.
• There was some talk of the Twins being in the mix for Cuban infielder Alexander Guerrero, but he ended up signing with the Dodgers for $32 million.
• While looking up some stats I stumbled across this tidbit: In their respective Double-A careers Michael Jordan (.289) had a higher on-base percentage than Drew Butera (.287).
• Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette wrote an interesting column about Morneau's first two weeks with the Pirates and how he relates to Penguins star Sidney Crosby.
• For a lot more on Buxton's great season, plus talk about Mauer's concussion, Josmil Pinto's hot start, and Trevor Plouffe's future, check out this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode.
Does a concussion mean it's time to move Joe Mauer away from catcher?
Talk of moving Joe Mauer from catcher to another position has been common since 2004 when his rookie season was ruined by knee surgery and got loudest when he spent half of 2011 on the disabled list, but recently he's been so healthy and productive that it's become little more than a whisper. Unfortunately the volume is rising again because Mauer is on the DL and out indefinitely after suffering a concussion while catching last week. It's a very complicated question.
Since coming back from his injury wrecked 2011 season Mauer has hit .321 with a .410 on-base percentage and .460 slugging percentage in 1,149 plate appearances. Among all catchers with at least 600 plate appearances during that two-year span Mauer leads MLB in on-base percentage, ranks second in batting average a few points behind Yadier Molina, and is tied with Molina for second in adjusted OPS+ behind Buster Posey.
In terms of career-long production Mauer and Posey are the players with an argument for being the best-hitting catcher in baseball and Molina enters the mix if the most recent two seasons are given more weight. Mauer has also been an asset defensively, throwing out 43 percent of steal attempts this season and 33 percent for his career compared to the MLB average of 25 percent. And for whatever value you choose to place in Gold Glove awards Mauer has three of them.
Mauer narrowly misses cracking the top-five first basemen in OPS, adjusted OPS+, and weighted on-base average for 2012/2013, ranking sixth in all three categories. Beyond focusing on where he'd stand relative to the truly elite players at each position, his place relative to the average at each position would also fall. Mauer has an .870 OPS for 2012/2013, which is 22 percent above average for a catcher versus 12 percent above average for a first baseman.
As a catcher Mauer is arguably the best at his position and no worse than the top three, producing 20-25 percent more offense than an average player. As a first baseman he'd have zero claim to being the best at his position and realistically slot somewhere in the 5-10 range, producing 10-15 percent more offense than an average player. Or, put another way: By moving from catcher to first base he'd go from elite to merely very good and All-Star spots might be hard to come by.
Of course, it's not as simple as looking at where his production would rank at a new position. By moving away from catcher and avoiding the daily physical toll Mauer should in theory be able to stay healthier, play more games, and increase his offensive output. So perhaps instead of being a top-three catcher for 135 games he'd be a top-eight first baseman for 155 games. And maybe he'd go from a top-eight first baseman to a top-five first baseman by not wearing down as much.
None of that is set in stone, however. For one thing simply playing first base or even designated hitter doesn't make someone immune to injuries and wearing down, as Justin Morneau has sadly demonstrated. There's also no guarantee that moving out from behind the plate will automatically increase Mauer's output at the plate. Mauer's odds of staying healthy and upping his production should be better at a position other than catcher, but it's impossible to know for certain.
Having a great-hitting catcher impacts a lineup a few ways, because in addition to being a strong bat his presence also keeps the team from having to use a weak-hitting catcher and leaves a spot open for another strong bat who doesn't have to be much of a defender at first base, an outfield corner, or designated hitter. If the Twins move Mauer they'd have to find a new catcher who'd be a sizable downgrade offensively and they'd have one less spot for a defensively challenged bat.
In terms of in-house options to replace Mauer at catcher Ryan Doumit is under contract for 2014, Chris Herrmann is holding his own as a rookie, and Josmil Pinto is a step away from the majors at Triple-A. Of course, Doumit catches like a designated hitter, Pinto might end up at designated hitter, and Herrmann is a 25-year-old with a .372 career slugging percentage in the minors. It's not a terrible set of options, but that mostly just speaks to the overall weakness of the position.
Another potential issue with a position switch is that assuming Mauer's production declines as he gets deeper into his thirties like the standard aging curve he'd remain an above-average catcher for much longer because the bar is so low at the position. First base is a much different story, as a decline-phase Mauer hitting, say, .285 with 10 homers and a .750 OPS, would drop to the bottom of the positional pile pretty quickly. He's signed through age 35, in 2018.
Ultimately, though, here's why the speculation about Mauer changing positions has started up again after being dormant for a while: Catching puts players at much higher risk for concussions and none of the above numbers will mean anything if Mauer's career is derailed by brain injuries like Morneau and Corey Koskie before him. Mauer is a great catcher and might "only" be a good first baseman, but a good first baseman is more valuable than a catcher disabled by brain trauma.
This is an impossible question to answer definitively, because brain injuries are so unpredictable that even MLB organizations with $100 million payrolls and doctors with high levels of expertise and decades of experience struggle to effectively diagnosis and treat concussions. In general the amount of Mauer's value that comes from being a catcher and in turn his all-around value are often undersold, but the "should Mauer change positions?" question is no longer just about value.
For a lengthy discussion about a potential Mauer position switch, check out this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode.
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• Kyle Gibson's first taste of the majors likely came to an end Monday, as the Twins demoted him back to Triple-A immediately following his poor outing against the Mets. Gibson pitched well in his Twins debut on June 29, but was mostly a mess after that and returns to Rochester sporting an ugly 6.53 ERA in 10 starts. His secondary numbers are only slightly more encouraging, including just 29 strikeouts in 51 innings and a .327 opponents' batting average with seven homers allowed.
Gibson got knocked around by big-league hitters and looked worn out at times, so considering the expected workload limit in his first full season since elbow surgery shutting him down soon made sense. He's thrown 144 total innings between the majors and minors and by shutting Gibson down after optioning him to Triple-A the Twins keep him from accumulating MLB service time while not pitching, although certainly the demotion could be purely based on performance.
There are some positives to be taken from Gibson's first 10 starts, including an average fastball of 92.2 miles per hour and a ground-ball rate around 50 percent, but the questions about his ability to generate strikeouts remain and overall he looked like anything but a top prospect. Hopefully he can come back strong next season, because Gibson will be 26 years old in a couple months and the Twins desperately need someone to emerge as more than a back-of-the-rotation starter.
• When the Twins traded Drew Butera to the Dodgers on July 31 for a player to be named later or cash considerations my assumption was that their return would be cash and the considerations would be approximately the cost of a bucket of baseballs. Instead they ended up getting Miguel Sulbaran, a diminutive 19-year-old left-hander with a solid track record in the low minors since signing out of Venezuela as a 16-year-old.
As one of the youngest pitchers in the Midwest League this season Sulbaran has a 3.26 ERA and 86-to-26 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 97 innings. For comparison, J.O. Berrios has a 3.45 ERA and 92-to-34 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 94 innings facing the same low Single-A hitters at the same age. Last year the Twins drafted Berrios with the 32nd pick and he has much better raw stuff, so they're hardly prospect equals, but to get any sort of useful player for Butera is shocking.
Sulbaran hasn't cracked any Baseball America or ESPN rankings, but Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com recently rated him as the No. 14 prospect in the Dodgers' farm system. Mayo wrote that Sulbaran "has a good feel for his low-90s fastball" and "his curveball is his best offspeed pitch and both his slider and changeup show promise." Butera is arguably the worst hitter of the past three decades, so any deal would get the "great trade ... who'd we get?" treatment, but this is a nice haul.
• Parting with Butera is the only move the Twins made before the July 31 deadline, but trades can also happen in August via the waiver wire system and they swung another deal by sending Jamey Carroll to the Royals for the familiar player to be named later or cash considerations. If the Twins get anything decent in return for Carroll that would be even more shocking than the Butera deal, because as a 39-year-old impending free agent he had zero value to them beyond this season.
Carroll didn't work out quite as well as the Twins hoped when they signed him as a free agent in November of 2011, but the reasoning behind the two-year, $6.5 million contract made sense. As usual the Twins' infield options were severely lacking and Carroll was a good, versatile defender with strong on-base skills. He did what he was supposed to do in 2012, drawing the third-most walks on the team to get on base at a .343 clip and starting 30-plus games at three positions.
When signing a 37-year-old to a multi-year deal rapid decline is always a risk and unfortunately this season Carroll's usually outstanding strike-zone control vanished and the Twins no longer trusted him to play shortstop at age 39. He was a worthwhile pickup who couldn't hold off father time long enough to provide a great return on a fairly modest investment. And yet among all the middle infielders in Twins history to appear in 150 games only 10 had a better OBP than Carroll.
• As expected, Justin Morneau passed through waivers unclaimed because he's a 32-year-old impending free agent first baseman with a $14 million salary and a .430 slugging percentage. At this point it's unclear if any contending teams are interested in Morneau, but at the very least no teams were interested in Morneau and the possibility of being stuck with the remaining $4 million on his contract.
Clearing waivers means Morneau can be traded to any team, with August 31 as the deadline for postseason eligibility. However, don't expect much if he's moved. Despite a confusing number of fans and media members continuing to act as if Morneau is an impact player he's been a below-average first baseman since the 2010 concussion, batting .257/.317/.409 in 320 games. This year there are 216 major leaguers with at least 300 plate appearances and he ranks 115th in OPS.
• Josh Willingham returning from knee surgery followed by Ryan Doumit coming back from a concussion left the Twins with a roster crunch and they decided to make room by demoting Chris Colabello back to the minors. It's a shame, because Colabello's monstrous Triple-A production warranted an extended opportunity at age 29 and he was just starting to show some promise by hitting .286/.397/.551 with four homers and nine walks in his last 16 games.
Most of the talk surrounding a possible Morneau trade centers on what the Twins might get in return and whether they should try to keep him past this season, but one side effect is that not trading him takes at-bats away from guys like Colabello who could prove useful on a minimum salary for 2014 and beyond if given a chance. Instead, after hitting .354/.432/.652 at Triple-A he got a grand total of 96 plate appearances in the majors.
UPDATE: Well, the good news is that Colabello has already been called back up. Unfortunately it's because Joe Mauer was placed on the concussion disabled list after taking multiple foul tips to the mask Monday. Mauer was dizzy during batting practice Tuesday, which is an awfully scary thing to write following several paragraphs about Morneau being a shell of his former self since a concussion. Brain injuries are impossible to predict, so it's breath-holding time.
Because the beginning of the brawl wasn't captured on video it's tough to tell exactly what went on, but by all accounts Mientkiewicz escalated the situation in a huge way by running out of the dugout to tackle the other manager. Twins minor league director Brad Steil issued a statement saying "that's not the example we want him to set for our players" and "he realizes that's not how we want him to represent the Minnesota Twins."
However, general manager Terry Ryan explained that the Twins left any discipline to the Florida State League, saying: "Doug was apologetic. I think it's taken care of." And the FSL merely fined him, providing quite a contrast to the Twins allowing Double-A manager Jeff Smith to bench Miguel Sano four games for showboating on a homer and reacting poorly to being scolded. It's obviously apples and oranges, but imagine Sano tackling another player and only being fined.
Because that's Frankie. If I try to make Frankie pitch like [someone else], we wouldn't have what we got. That's force-feeding him to do something that he's not comfortable doing. Frankie does pitch the way he pitches. So just let him be him. That's what we did.
Maybe he simply needed a fresh start somewhere else, but "just let him be him" certainly isn't something Twins coaches said often about Liriano and his improvement can be linked to a clear change in approach that runs counter to what the Twins preached regarding fastball usage. He's averaged 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings for the Pirates, whereas the Twins have used 10 different starters this year and none have averaged more than 5.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
• Whatever slim chance Nick Blackburn had of pitching for the Twins again is over following season-ending knee surgery. Blackburn's contract still includes an $8 million team option for next season, but that will obviously be declined. In signing Blackburn to a misguided long-term deal in March of 2010 the Twins ended up paying $14 million for 408 innings of a 5.56 ERA from a guy who would have been under team control through 2013 even without the guaranteed contract.
• Darin Mastroianni wound up spending four months on the disabled list with an ankle injury that was initially deemed so minor that the Twins let him play through the pain for several weeks. He eventually underwent surgery, but now that Mastroianni is healthy again the Twins activated him from the disabled list and optioned him to Triple-A. In other words, Mastroianni lost his job because of the injury. And his 40-man roster spot might be in danger this offseason.
• For a lot more about Morneau going unclaimed on waivers and a look at the Twins' options for improving the rotation in 2014, check out this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode.


Starting this Tuesday we will be having introductory sessions of Yoga led by Yogini Lea. Yoga is widely regarded as a way of improving your health including improving flexibility, muscle strength and control, posture, blood flow, boosting your immune system and many other benfits.
Yogini Lea has practiced Yoga since she was 9 years old. She will be leading introductory sessions from 11am to midday (just in time for lunch!) on Tuesdays. This will be on a donation basis with a recommended donation of £2 per person.
re we so busy that we almost forgot?
It's our birthday, we have been open for two years rescuing perfectly good food from going to landfill and turning it into delicious meals.
We are helping to feed bellies and not bins!
A reminder of the amazing "Bassoonery" concert tomorrow night in aid of the Wheatfields Hospice.
You don't need to be an earthworm to appreciate this event! Bassoonery All Hallows Concert.


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Q: Angular NullInjectorError: R3InjectorError(i) - no provider for X after importing my service "exercise.service.ts" in my newly generated page, the following error keeps appearing (using Angular 13.1 and Ionic 5):
ERROR NullInjectorError: R3InjectorError(i)[X -> X -> X -> X]:
  NullInjectorError: No provider for X!
    at Gc.get (main.js:1:1574683)
    at vg.get (main.js:1:1576039)
    at vg.get (main.js:1:1576039)
    at vg.get (main.js:1:1576039)
    at Uy.get (main.js:1:1605222)
    at vg.get (main.js:1:1576039)
    at Uy.get (main.js:1:1605222)
    at Object.get (main.js:1:1602003)
    at G (main.js:1:1549174)
    at F (main.js:1:1549975)

The service is imported in the app.module.ts providers array:
  providers: [
    StatusBar,
    SplashScreen,
    AngularFireAuthGuard,
    ..,
    ..,
    ExerciseService,
    ..
    ..

And in the "tutorial.page.ts" component as follows:
import { ExerciseService } from '../../shared/exercise.service';
constructor(
    public exerciseState: ExerciseService,
    ..,
    ..
 )

The exercise.service.ts has implemented the Injectable decorator:
@Injectable({
  providedIn: "root",
})
export class ExerciseService {

When I additionally import exerciseService in the module of the component (tutorial.module.ts), the following error appears:
ERROR Error: Uncaught (in promise): Error: JIT compiler unavailable
Error: JIT compiler unavailable

So what is the error and why does it only keep reporting "No provider for X"?
Is there anybody that could help here?
Looking forward for your answers!

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The Aeneid
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All Characters Aeneas Juno Turnus Dido Virgil
All Symbols The Household Gods The Golden Bough Aeneas's Shield The Gates of War
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Turnus gathers his own men and sends a messenger to the city of King Diomedes, a Greek now living in Italy, to try to win him as an ally. Meanwhile, the spirit of the Tiber river appears to Aeneas in a dream, and tells him not to fear the war—he's finally reached his homeland and the destination of his household gods. The Tiber god tells Aeneas to travel up the river until he sees a white sow with piglets (the same that Helenus predicted in Book 3), which will be the sign of the place where Ascanius should build his city, Alba Longa. The Tiber god also says that near this spot live the Arcadian people, in a city called Pallanteum, and that Aeneas should go win the Arcadian king, Evander, to his side. The Tiber god also tells Aeneas to pray to Juno, to make her a little less angry.
It's a good sign for the Trojans that the land itself, in the form of the Tiber, has accepted Aeneas, further indicating his fate to rule this new homeland, despite the coming war. The Tiber's suggestion to pray to Juno seems like a great tactic Aeneas hasn't yet tried, considering Juno's pride and self-importance.
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Aeneas thanks the Tiber god and sails with some of his men along the river. They see the white sow, and Aeneas sacrifices it as an offering to Juno. The men continue, reaching the place where someday Rome's towers will rise, a spot now occupied by Evander's humble home.
For the first time in the poem, Aeneas shows piety also towards Juno. His sacrifice of the fated white pig shows his understanding that Juno is involved in his fate.
The Arcardians are in the middle of a feast to honor Hercules and the gods. When they see the ships arriving, Pallas, Evander's son, goes to greet them so that the feast won't be interrupted. Aeneas explains he wants to ally with Evander in the coming war. Pallas is immediately impressed by Aeneas's nobility. Aeneas meets Evander and explains himself. Evander remembers meeting Priam and Anchises as a youth, and quickly agrees to help the Trojans and invites them to join the feast. Evander tells the story of Hercules and Cacus, which the feast commemorates. Cacus, a monster, stole eight of Hercules's cows and brought them to his cave. Hercules heard the cows mooing, and though Cacus blocked off the cave and breathed fire and smoke at him, Hercules managed to strangle him.
Evander's piety towards the tradition of honoring Hercules, as well as his knowledge of Priam and Anchises, makes him a perfect ally for Aeneas. As we saw at Dido's temple, the Trojans are famous throughout the Mediterranean. Here's another place where the same concerns touch the human heart. The story of Hercules and Cacus can also be seen as foreshadowing the war. Will Aeneas manage to pull off a Hercules-like feat, defeating those who stand against and taking what is rightfully his?
Evander gives Aeneas a tour of his city, and tells its history. During the peaceful, plentiful Golden Age, Saturn named this place Latium. But the Golden Age faded, and the land changed rulers many times, until Evander's fate brought him here. They look at the Capitoline Hill, future location of many important Roman temples. They also pass by the future Forum, now a field for grazing.
It would have been fun for Roman readers to picture their city in its countryside form eleven hundred years before. The tour of the pre-Rome area allows Virgil to extol Rome's greatness, suggesting a second Golden Age—the age of Augustus Caeasar.
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Venus asks her husband Vulcan to build a set of armor for Aeneas, and kisses him as encouragement. Vulcan says he would even have built armor for Aeneas at Troy, if she'd asked. Vulcan gets his Cyclops workers to build a seven-layered shield.
Just like Juno, Venus is always trying to intervene in events. She's just trying to help, rather than harm, Aeneas. But if Aeneas is fated to win, why would he need her help?
In the morning, Evander and Aeneas meet to talk war. Evander says he would like to fight but is too old, but he advises Aeneas to go ally with the thousands of Tuscans who revolted against Mezentius's tyrannical rule. Those Tuscans already wanted to join the war against Mezentius, but a prophecy had told them to wait for a foreign commander. Evander also offers to send his troops and his beloved young son, Pallas, to fight for Aeneas and learn the ways of war.
Evander's trust in Aeneas, and his willingness to hand over his precious son, shows the depth of the bonds that war establishes between nations. War creates new families and eternal enemies.
Red light, accompanied by thunder, appears in the clear sky. Aeneas explains that it's a sign from Venus that war nears. Evander passionately prays that Pallas will return safely, hoping to die if his son is killed. Aeneas and the soldiers set out, with Pallas leading and looking particularly brave and handsome. The mothers of Pallanteum watch them go and cry.
Evander's love of his son parallels Aeneas's piety to his family. The loving and concerned mothers of Pallanteum who wish that war could be avoided but do not interfere in fated events contrast with the mothers of Lavinium, whom Allecto stirred into a crazy frenzy to start a war with the sole goal of thwarting fate.
Aeneas's group finds the Tuscans and camps with them. As they camp, Venus comes down from the heavens to give Aeneas his new armor. Aeneas marvels at the beautiful helmet, sword, and spear, and finally the ornate shield. On the shield, Vulcan has depicted the future of Rome, including important Roman myths and history such as Romulus and Remus suckling from a she-wolf and Augustus Caesar leading the Roman fleet to victory at the Battle of Actium, along with the celebrations in Rome afterward. Aeneas doesn't know what the images mean, but he appreciates them, and "lift[s] onto his shoulders now the fame and fates of all his children's children."
Other than the trip to the Underworld, this moment represents the place in the Aeneid where Virgil gives the most specifics about Rome's future. He touches on many stories central to Roman culture and even mentions politicians and orators of his time period. The shield gives physical form to Aeneas's fate to create the people who will found Rome, and simultaneously suggests both that all of Rome's future will help guard him in battle, and that Rome's future depends entirely on this one man.
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Lugares
Negredo, municipio en la serranía de Guadalajara, comunidad autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha, España;
El Negredo, pedanía de Riaza, provincia de Segovia, enclavada en la sierra de Ayllón.

Personas
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Baldwin-based company Race Awesome is giving the Long Island Marathon the makeover that it deserves.
The company has taken on the role of race director of the 2019 marathon, which will now be known as the NEFCU Long Island Marathon, thanks to its title sponsor, and is scheduled for May 5.
Starting at Eisenhower Park, runners will head south on Merrick Avenue, turn east on Sunrise Highway, make their way through Cedar Creek Park and then head north on Wantagh Parkway before returning to Eisenhower Park.
Eisenhower Park sits in the center of Nassau County, just east of its Hub. To the south are thriving communities full of race enthusiasts who will either participate in the marathon or come out to cheer. There are also flourishing business districts. Merrick Avenue, in particular, is dotted with storefronts and shops that are active in local festivities.
Farther south is Seaford's Cedar Creek Park, a popular spot for spring picnics and parties and the start of a scenic bike path that winds over a series of barrier islands, inlets and bays to Jones Beach State Park and its beautiful beaches.
What makes the New York City Marathon such an iconic race is its emphasis on local neighborhoods — the race was designed to give participants a varied view of the city. The most anticipated running race on Long Island should include the must-see destinations in our communities and give participants, who come from around the country and even the world, a sense of this great place we call home.
The course change will give competitors a more exciting view of local neighborhoods, allow ample opportunities for spectators to cheer them on, and encourage businesses to get involved in the race and its attendant festivities.
The marathon debuted in 1958 as the Macombs Dam Park Marathon in the Bronx, where it remained until 1970. Then it was named the Earth Day Marathon and held in Central Park. It finally moved to Nassau County in 1978 and was named the Long Island Marathon. Until this year, the Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums oversaw its route, most of which ran along Wantagh Parkway, which hardly gave runners a sense of Long Island, the place.
Corey Roberts, who co-owns Race Awesome with his wife, Stacey, said that he formed his company with the goal of improving and expanding races throughout the tri-state area. He received feedback from many past competitors who criticized the marathon for having an uninteresting route. It's a shame that runners felt that way, when Long Island has such diverse geography and communities.
Roberts was tasked by Nassau County with developing a course that showcases the Island, while not interfering with traffic and day-to-day operations in areas the course passes through. He made the right choice in using Sunrise Highway as one of the event's main arteries, choosing to keep part of Sunrise open for vehicles, as opposed to choosing Merrick Road, another one of the county's busiest thoroughfares, and shutting it down altogether.
Competitors, their friends and family members have celebrated the weekend of the marathon, but rarely have there been related festivities all weekend long. Next year, all will be welcome to attend the Long Island Fitness and Health Expo, a free event that will feature professional athletes, nutrition and medical experts, personal trainers and interactive fitness demonstrations. Such a versatile event should draw participants, spectators and businesses that would otherwise not be interested in the race.
The Herald looks forward to reporting on the success of a new Long Island Marathon.


Zinc is also known as spelter, is a metallic chemical element; it has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table. Zinc is, in some respects, chemically similar to magnesium, because its ion is of similar size and its only common oxidation state is +2. Zinc is the 24th most abundant element in the Earth's crust and has five stable isotopes. The most exploited zinc ore is sphalerite, a zinc sulfide. The largest exploitable deposits are found in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Zinc production includes froth flotation of the ore, roasting, and final extraction using electricity (electrowinning).
The element is normally found in association with other base metals such as copper and lead in ores. Zinc is a chalcophile , meaning the element has a low affinity for oxides and prefers to bond with sulfides. Chalcophiles formed as the crust solidified under the reducing conditions of the early Earth's atmosphere. Sphalerite, which is a form of zinc sulfide, is the most heavily mined zinc-containing ore because its concentrate contains 60–62% zinc.


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Aboyne (in gaelico scozzese Abèidh, in scots Abyne) è una cittadina dell'area amministrativa scozzese dell'Aberdeenshire, nel Regno Unito, situata sul fiume Dee, a circa 42 ad ovest di Aberdeen.

La cittadina conta una piscina presso la Aboyne Academy, campi da tennis, campi da bocce ed è sede del più antico campo da golf a 18 buche del Royal Deeside. Nei pressi del villaggio si trovano il Castello di Aboyne e il loch di Aboyne.

In origine ad Aboyne vi era una stazione ferroviaria, che venne chiusa il 18 giugno 1966. L'edificio oggi ospita alcuni negozi ed il tunnel che corre sotto il villaggio è sede di un club di armi da fuoco. Il giorno di mercato ad Aboyne è noto come Fèill Mhìcheil (che in gaelico scozzese significa "Fiera di Michele").

Storia
Il nome "Aboyne" deriva da "Oboyne", registrato per la prima volta nel 1260, derivato a sua volta dalle parole gaeliche "abh", "bo" e "fionn", che significano "[luogo del] fiume della mucca bianca".

Il villaggio di Aboyne fu fondato nel 1671 da Charles Gordon, I conte di Aboyne che, nello stesso anno, ricostruì l'ala ovest del Castello di Aboyne. Il luogo in cui sorge il castello è legato al numero limitato di attraversamenti del Mounth, sui monti Grampiani a sud. Nel 1715 Aboyne fu teatro di un "tinchal", ossia una grande caccia, organizzata da John Erskine, VI conte di Mar, il 3 settembre, come copertura per la riunione dei nobili e laird giacobiti per discutere il progetto dell'insurrezione giacobita del 1715. La rivolta ebbe inizio tre giorni dopo a Braemar.

L'ex scuola pubblica di Aboyne venne utilizzata come scuola superiore per l'area circostante, e durante la seconda guerra mondiale fu luogo di rifugio per molti sfollati da Glasgow. Gli alunni locali seguivano le lezioni al mattino, mentre quelli evacuati nel pomeriggio; gli ulteriori evacuati vennero ospitati nella sala della chiesa vicina, e oltre 1.250 persone furono evacuate verso l'area del Deeside nel 1939.

Religione
La presenza cristiana del VIII secolo ad Aboyne è attestata da una una croce in pietra dei Pitti chiamata Pietra di Formaston. La lapide è incisa anche con caratteri ogamici che sono stati traslitterati con "MAQQOoiTALLUORRH | NxHHTVROBBACCxNNEVV." Questi sono i nomi pitti Talorc (TALLUORRH) e Nehht (NxHHT), entrambi nomi di re. Infatti, Bede disse che il re dei Pitti Nechtan IV (morto nel 732) accettò la fede cristiana in risposta agli insegnamenti di Adamnano, abate di Iona, portando alla fine il suo popolo alla cristianità. La prima chiesa di Aboyne fu dedicata ad Adamnano, e presso il cimitero di questa chiesta fu scoperta la Pietra di Formaston; questa fu poi rimossa per essere spostata nel castello di Aboyne, ed oggi è in mostra al museo di Inverurie.

Nel 1237 Alessandro II conferì ai Cavalieri Templari la libertà di acquisire terre in Scozia, e Walter Byset, Lord di Aboyne, diede al Precettorio templare la chiesa di Aboyne. In seguito, tra il 1239 e il 1249, la chiesa fu data in uso ai templari da Radulf, vescovo di Aberdeen. Secondo i termini della carta, i templari si sarebbero fatti carico del potere politico della chiesa e avrebbero mantenuto un vicario, mentre il vescovo avrebbe mantenuto l'autorità in campo spirituale. Alessandro II confermò la donazione il 15 aprile 1242 e Papa Alessandro IV nel 1277, lo stesso anno in cui Giovanni di Annan, cappellano di Alessandro III, fu nominato vicario. Aboyne, insieme ad altri possedimenti templari in Scozia, fu retta dal Precettorio di Torphichen nel XV e XVI secolo, e rimase così fino alla riforma protestante.

Nel 1761 venne costruita una nuova chiesa ad Aboyne e nel 1842 un'altra chiesa venne costruita sul sito della struttura del XVIII secolo. Nel 1929, con l'unione della Chiesa di Scozia, fu formalmente dedicata a San Macario; nel 1936, questa chiesa si unì alla Chiesa Libera Unita e, 50 anni dopo, fu abbinata alla chiesa di Dinnet, il che portò nel 1993 all'unione tra le due: oggi la chiesa è conosciuta come Chiesa Parrocchiale di Aboyne-Dinnet. Nel 2006 Aboyne-Dinnet fu unita con la chiesa di Cromar.

Clima
Aboyne ha un clima oceanico (Köppen: Cfb), simile a gran parte del Regno Unito. A causa della sua posizione interna in Scozia, Aboyne può raggiungere temperature molto basse e può essere interessata da nevicate abbondanti. Tuttavia, le temperature possono raggiungere valori eccezionali per la latitudine, in particolare durante i mesi invernali a causa del Föhn: detiene il record di gennaio e marzo per le più alte temperature della Scozia, 18,3 °C raggiunti il 26 gennaio 2003 e 23,6 °C il 27 marzo 2012. Quella di gennaio è anche la più alta temperatura del mese del Regno Unito, e il record è condiviso con Inchmarlo, nel Kincardineshire e Aber, nel Gwynedd. Il record di febbraio per la Scozia è stato superato il 21 febbraio 2019 con 18,3 °C.

Turismo e cultura

In estate, durante la stagione turistica, il numero di persone e veicoli cresce sensibilmente. Gli Highland Games sul Village Green si svolgono in agosto; il giardino presenta anche strutture per il rugby e il calcio, oltre ad un parco giochi e al magazzino del Club di Canoa di Aboyne, "The Canoe Cathedral".

La famiglia reale britannica alloggia in estate nel vicino castello di Balmoral, nei pressi di Aboyne.

Tra le attrazioni all'aria aperta vi sono il golf, le camminate, il ciclismo, i trek in montagna, il kayak, la canoa ed il volo a vela, con aliante, subito fuori dal villaggio. Aboyne è divenuta popolare tra gli appassionati di volo del Regno Unito e di tutta Europa a causa delle sue correnti d'aria, per via dell'orografia circostante. Il campo volo ha due piste di conglomerato bituminoso, che corrono in direzione est-ovest, ed una webcam,  oltre a piccoli centri di monitoraggio meteo. Aboyne ha anche un percorso per le mountain bike presso l'Aboyne Bike Park, situato a Bellwood.

Il vecchio Aboyne Curling Club aveva la sua stazione ferroviaria privata, la Aboyne Curling Pond railway station, situata presso il loch di Aboyne.

Il vicino passaggio per Ballater è un'area per scalatori. Il villaggio di Dinnet si trova alcune miglia ad ovest ed è il primo insediamento situato all'interno del parco nazionale di Cairngorms. Gli escursionisti ed i ciclisti possono salire sul monte Keen a partire dalla foresta di Glen Tanar.

Vi sono due scuole, la Aboyne Academy e una scuola primaria; l'accademia conta 650 studenti, circa un terzo provenienti dalla cittadina, e i restanti due terzi dai villaggi circostanti. La scuola ha accesso ad una piscina e una palestra gestite dal vicino Deeside Community Centre.

Belwade Farm, un sito protetto per cavalli, si trova nelle vicinanze.

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Località dell'Aberdeenshire


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Takoma Park Library History
The Takoma Park neighborhood received the first purpose-built Neighborhood Library in the history of the DC Public Library system on Nov. 17, 1911. Prior to receiving funding for the public library branch, Takoma Park residents were served by a private subscription library. The current Takoma Park Branch at 416 Cedar St. NW was funded through a $40,000 contribution by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. One of four Carnegie-funded library buildings in Washington, D.C., the Takoma Park Library represented the beginning of a system of branches that today encompasses 25 branch libraries and one central library.
The one-story Renaissance Revival style brick building was designed by the Washington-based architectural firm of Marsh & Peter. The building has continuously served this upper-Northwest community since 1911, and remains a community focal point. The Takoma Park Neighborhood Library stands in the Takoma Park National Register Historic District designated in 1983. The building received an extensive makeover in 2009.
The suburb of Takoma Park, located in the northern section of the District, began as a real estate venture in 1883 when Benjamin Franklin Gilbert purchased 90 acres spanning the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. By the 1890s, the area had grown into a popular commuter suburb, offering the convenience of streetcar service to the city's center combined with the natural, healthful surroundings of a semi-rural setting. At the turn of the 20th century, the burgeoning population of Takoma Park created a demand for additional services that residents had formerly received in the city center. One such amenity was the convenience of a nearby library.
The relative wealth and high level of education in the community made possible the organization of a local library, privately run and funded through community subscription. This small lending library, known as the Takoma Club and Library, was opened May 1, 1900, at numbers 10, 12 and 14 Oak Ave., across from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad station. The library originally held approximately 100 volumes, growing to 600 by 1903. This library served the community until 1911, when the present public library branch was opened.
Financial path to a new library
Meanwhile, the Washington Public Library's Board of Trustees had begun studying the possibility of placing branch libraries in various locations throughout the city. A committee on branches was formed, headed by Charles J. Bell. At the dedication of the Central Library on Jan. 7, 1903, library philanthropist Andrew Carnegie offered an additional $350,000 to "build Neighborhood Library buildings from time to time as the trustees may call upon me to do so." As was his policy, the offer required that the District of Columbia provide the sites and also pay for reasonable maintenance and operating costs once the libraries were built.
Two efforts were made to secure authorization from Congress to accept Carnegie's offer. First was a bill (HR 14048) designed to permit the gradual construction of a number of library branches to form a public library system. The bill was passed by the House in 1904, but later defeated in the Senate. Congress feared that District of Columbia officials might proceed too quickly with the plan, thus adding too rapidly to the city's tax burden.
The second effort included a bill granting authority to establish the same neighborhood library system, one branch at a time, with the first neighborhood library in Takoma Park. This bill (S 6406) passed the Senate in June 1906. On Jan. 30, 1907, a hearing of the House District Committee's Subcommittee on Education, Labor and Charities convened to consider the new legislation. After testimony by representatives of the public library and Takoma Park's citizens, the committee failed to report the bill to the House for a vote, and thus allowed the resolution to die.
Takoma Park was chosen out of the 20 neighborhoods that applied as the location for the first neighborhood library in Washington. The residents had demonstrated their interest in and commitment to establishing a public library branch by their organized effort to obtain a site for the building, as well as by sustaining a subscription library for several years prior to applying for the public library branch. Other factors that were influential in Takoma Park's successful application to obtain the city's first public library branch included its remoteness from the central library and the close proximity of several large public schools.
After the second bill passed the Senate in 1906, the community got together and raised $1,800 to purchase a building site for the new library. They were confident that the House, which had already approved the first bill, would pass the new legislation. The chosen site was selected after careful consideration in cooperation with the staff of the Public Library. It was purchased on behalf of the neighborhood by the trustees of the Carnegie Library Association of Takoma Park, D.C., an organization formed to promote and support the establishment of the library branch. In a letter to Congress, the trustees described the property as "the most desirable one available in Takoma Park," with "a frontage of 67 feet on Cedar Street." The level site was centrally located one block from the railway station and the terminus of the trolley line.
The final obstacle in the establishment of the Takoma Park Neighborhood Library was overcome on April 4, 1910, when a newly introduced bill (S 4624/HR 16327) authorizing construction of the Takoma Park branch was approved by Congress. The bill provided for the acceptance of Carnegie's donation, the use of the donated site, the establishment of a Neighborhood Library on that site, and the establishment of a commission to supervise the erection of the branch along with provisions for the "suitable" maintenance of this branch.
After the passage of the bill, the process was speeded along with the designs completed by late 1910. The architectural firm of Marsh & Peter was retained to develop the design for the Takoma branch. William Johnston Marsh, the senior partner of the firm, was born and educated in Washington. His architectural training consisted of several apprenticeships, the last of which was in the office of the noted architects Hornblower & Marshall. He left that office in 1898 to form a partnership with Walter Gibson Peter (1869-1945), a fellow Washingtonian trained at MIT and apprenticed to Smithmeyer & Pelz, A.B. Bibb, and Hornblower & Marshall. The firm of Marsh & Peter designed many important Washington landmarks, including the Evening Star Building (1899), Walter Reed Army Hospital (ca.1908), the Farmers and Mechanics Bank (1921-22), and the DAR Administration Building (1923). Marsh & Peter had been invited to participate in, although not awarded, the design competition for the Carnegie-funded Central Library of Washington, completed in 1903.
A library designed
Marsh & Peter designed an ornate Renaissance Revival style library building in a diminutive form for Takoma Park. The building's footprint measured only 58 by 85 feet. The one-story, hipped roof, brick and stone building was distinguished by its wide cornice articulated by dentil molding and frieze, and an imposing central entry surmounted by a semi-circular arched fanlight and flanked by Ionic pilasters. Two symmetrically balanced, semi-circular arched windows flanked the main entry.
The interior of the library was designed to contain a main reading room (measuring 35 by 55 feet) at the front of the building, and a combined children's room/lecture hall (measuring 31 by 33 feet) at the rear. This multipurpose room at the rear incorporated a recessed alcove with a fireplace and raised platform for presentations. The basement space was occupied by a librarian's restroom, a small kitchen, a workroom and a living room for the janitor. The interior woodwork was rendered in quartered light oak and finished in a silver gray shade. The walls were painted in various shades of ivory, white and soft green. Particular attention was paid to the lighting, heating and ventilation of the building with the most current technology being employed. In addition, an intercommunicating telephone system was installed.
The new branch was intended to serve the citizens of Takoma Park, who were mainly employed with the federal government, their children and the residents of the densely populated surrounding areas. These areas included Brightwood, Park View, Petworth, Saul's Addition, Sligo and Forest Glen. Two large public schools located in Takoma Park and Brightwood also influenced the siting of the public library branch in Takoma Park, as it was hoped that the library would work in conjunction with the public schools to educate the youth of these neighborhoods.
Takoma Park Library opens
The Takoma Park Neighborhood Library opened Nov. 17, 1911, with many prominent speakers, including Theodore W. Noyes, president of the Library's Board of Trustees, Dr. George F. Bowerman, Head Librarian of the DC Public Library, Reverend Thomas C. Clark of the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church, and Colonel Gilbert C. Kniffen, a representative of the Takoma Park citizens group. The speakers praised the efforts of the community for obtaining the library with Dr. Bowerman predicting that it would become a "social and intellectual center of community life" in Takoma Park.
The branch opened with 3,871 volumes purchased or permanently transferred from the central library, which continued to supplement the branch collection. The first branch librarian was Alice Ramsburg, a former employee at the central library. She was assisted by a children's librarian, an assistant librarian and a janitor who lived in the basement.
The library quickly assumed a central role in the life of the community. In the first two weeks, three local organizations held meetings in the building's lecture hall. These were the Takoma Park Citizens Association, the Boy Scouts and the Home Interest Club. Community use of the library peaked in 1925 when 230 meetings and classes were held for 5,716 patrons. Book circulation was promising in the first seven months, reaching 23,663 volumes.
However, the operation of Washington's first neighborhood library was not always smooth. Less than a year after the opening, Congress reduced the annual appropriation to a meager $1,560, necessitating the discharging of staff and a 20 percent reduction in the branch librarian's salary. The hours of operation were also reduced to three days a week, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Over the years, a combination of federal and private money has maintained and improved the Takoma Park Neighborhood Library. In 1940, a five-year building renovation program was approved with an allocation of $21,500, intended to update equipment and provide for routine building maintenance. Plans to replace the aging, crowded branch with a new library building were discussed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a part of the District's Capitol Improvements Program, but never came to fruition. In 1977, air conditioning was installed, but otherwise the building remained much as originally designed by Marsh & Peter in 1911, until 2009, when the building received an extensive makeover.
The Friends of Takoma Park Neighborhood Library, a volunteer support organization formed in 1982, sponsors fundraising initiatives and special events at the library.


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Julia Ormond , née le  à Epsom dans le Surrey, est une actrice britannique.

Elle est l'ambassadrice de l'Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime.

Biographie
Julia Karin Ormond est la fille de Joséphine, une technicienne de laboratoire, et de John Ormond, un concepteur de logiciels. Elle a fréquenté des écoles indépendantes, notamment à Guildford High School, où elle a fait ses débuts dans des spectacles de théâtre.

Elle se découvre très tôt une vocation pour le théâtre et se prépare à une carrière artistique en effectuant ses études à Guilford High school et à la Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art de Londres, dont elle sort diplômée en 1988.

Vie privée
Julia a été mariée à Rory Edwards, un acteur qu'elle a rencontré lors d'une production. Ils divorcent en 1994. En 1999, elle épouse l'homme politique Jon Rubin. Ils divorcent en 2004. Ils ont une fille, Sophie Rubin, est née en 2004.

Elle est une militante engagée pour la lutte contre la traite des personnes depuis le milieu des années 1990, et a récemment conclu un partenariat avec l'Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime.

Le , elle a été nommée Ambassadeur de bonne volonté des Nations unies.

Elle a été sacrée, à 55 ans, « Actrice la plus sexy du monde » par les lecteurs du magazine Glam'mag dans son numéro d'avril 2020 et ce, pour la seconde année consécutive.

Carrière
Ses premières prestations théâtrales lui valent déjà la reconnaissance de la critique : elle reçoit en 1989 le London Critics Circle Award de la meilleure jeune révélation pour sa performance dans la pièce  d'Ödön von Horváth.

Elle fait ses premiers pas à la télévision en 1989 dans Traffik, le sang du pavot et Capital City . L'année suivante, elle tourne dans un épisode d'Inspecteur Wexford.

Elle commence sa carrière au cinéma en 1991 dans Intrigues impériales de Michael Anderson où elle incarne Catherine II de Russie, aux côtés de Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Plummer, Franco Nero, Marthe Keller et Maximilian Schell.

En 1994, elle joue dans Légendes d'automne avec Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas et Anthony Hopkins et Nostradamus de Roger Christian.

L'année d'après, Sydney Pollack lui confie le rôle dans Sabrina et elle donne la réplique à Richard Gere dans Lancelot, le premier chevalier en jouant le rôle de Guenièvre.

En 1998, avec Le Barbier de Sibérie du cinéaste russe Nikita Mikhalkov, sa carrière s'internationalise un peu plus.

En 2001, elle joue dans Coup monté  (The Prime Gig) de Gregory Mosher. Deux ans plus tard, elle est à l'affiche de Résistance réalisé par Todd Komarnicki.

En 2005, elle joue dans plusieurs épisodes de Beach Girls. Elle fait son retour au cinéma en 2007 dans les films I Know Who Killed Me et Inland Empire de David Lynch.

En 2009, elle retrouve Brad Pitt dans L'Étrange Histoire de Benjamin Button et elle est à l'affiche du film en deux parties Che, 1re partie : L'Argentin et Che, 2e partie : Guerilla de Steven Soderbergh.

En 2011, elle est présente dans une salve d'épisodes de New York, section criminelle. Au cinéma, elle incarne l'actrice Vivien Leigh dans My Week with Marilyn de Simon Curtis.

En 2013, elle joue dans The East de Zal Batmangli et elle incarne une sorcière dans la série Witches of East End avec Mädchen Amick, Jenna Dewan et Rachel Boston. La série est annulée l'année suivante après deux saisons.

En 2017, elle tourne au cinéma dans Rememory de Mark Palansky, le moyen métrage Pharmacy Road de Jake Szymanski et dans la mini-série Howards End. L'année suivante, on la retrouve dans Les Petites robes noires de Bruce Beresford.

En 2020, elle est à l'affiche des films Un Fils du Sud de Barry Alexander Brown et Reunion de Jake Mahaffy et de la série The Walking Dead : World Beyond.

Filmographie

Cinéma

Longs métrages

 1991 : Intrigues impériales (Young Catherine) de Michael Anderson : Catherine II de Russie
1993 : The Baby of Mâcon de Peter Greenaway : La fille
 1994 : Légendes d'automne (Legends of the Fall) d'Edward Zwick : Susannah Fincannon Ludlow
 1994 : Nostradamus de Roger Christian : Marie
 1994 : Captives d'Angela Pope : Rachel Clifford
 1995 : Sabrina de Sydney Pollack : Sabrina Fairchild
 1995 : Lancelot, le premier chevalier (First Knight) de Jerry Zucker : Guenièvre
 1996 : Smilla (Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee) de Bille August : Smilla Jaspersen
 1998 : Le Barbier de Sibérie (ibirski tsiryulnik) de Nikita Mikhalkov : Jane Callahan
 2001 : Coup monté  (The Prime Gig) de Gregory Mosher : Caitlin Carlson
 2003 : Résistance (Resistance) de Todd Komarnicki : Claire Daussois
 2007 : I Know Who Killed Me de Chris Sivertson : Susan Fleming
 2007 : Inland Empire de David Lynch : Doris
 2008 : La conjura de El Escorial d'Antonio del Real : Ana de Mendoza de la Cerda, Princesse d'Eboli
 2008 : Surveillance de Jennifer Lynch : Elizabeth Anderson
 2008 : Kit Kittredge, journaliste en herbe (Kit Kittredge : An American Girl) de Patricia Rozema : Margaret Kittredge
 2009 : L'Étrange Histoire de Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) de David Fincher : Caroline
 2009 : Che, 1re partie : L'Argentin (Che : Part 1 : The Argentine) de Steven Soderbergh : Lisa Howard
 2009 : Che, 2e partie : Guerilla (Che : Part Two) de Steven Soderbergh : Lisa Howard
 2011 : My Week with Marilyn de Simon Curtis : Vivien Leigh
 2011 : The Music Never Stopped de Jim Kohlberg : Dianne Daley
 2011 : The Green de Steven Williford : Karen
 2011 : Albatros (Albatross) de Niall MacCormick : Joa
 2012 : Chained de Jennifer Chambers Lynch : Sarah Fittler
 2013 : The East de Zal Batmanglij : Paige
 2017 : Rememory de Mark Palansky : Carolyn Dunn
 2017 : Pharmacy Road (Tour de Pharmacy) de Jake Szymanski : Adriana Baton
 2018 : Les Petites robes noires (Ladies in Black) de Bruce Beresford : Magda
 2020 : Un Fils du Sud (Son of the South) de Barry Alexander Brown : Virginia Durr
 2020 : Reunion de Jake Mahaffy : Ivy

Télévision

Séries télévisées
 1989 : Traffik, le sang du pavot (Traffik) : Caroline Lithgow
 1989 : Capital City : Alison
 1990 : Inspecteur Wexford (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries)  : Nora Fanshawe
 2005 : Beach Girls : Stevie
 2008 - 2009 : Les Experts : Manhattan (CSI : NY) : Commandant Gillian Whitford
 2010 : Nurse Jackie : Sara Khouri
 2012 : New York, section criminelle (Law and Order : Criminal Intent) : Dr Paula Gyson
 2012 :  : Marie Calvet
 2013 - 2014 :  : Joanna Beauchamp
 2016 : Incorporated : Elizabeth Krauss
2017 : Howards End : Ruth Wilcox
2018 : Forever : Marisol
 2019 : Le doute (Gold Digger) : Julia Day
 2020 - 2021  : The Walking Dead : World Beyond : Elizabeth Kublek

Téléfilms

 1992 : Staline d'Ivan Passer : Nadya, la femme de Staline
 1999 : La Ferme des animaux (Animal Farm) de John Stephenson : Jessie (voix)
 2001 : Au service de la liberté (Varian's War) de Lionel Chetwynd : Miriam Davenport
 2004 : Volonté de fer (Iron Jawed Angels) de Katja von Garnier : Inez Milholland
 2010 : 20 ans d'injustice (The Wronged Man) de Tom McLoughlin : Janet Gregory
 2011 : Temple Grandin de Mick Jackson : Eustacia
 2013 : Explosion solaire (Exploding Sun) de Michael Robison : Joan Elias

Notes et références

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Naissance en janvier 1965
Naissance à Epsom
Actrice anglaise de cinéma
Actrice anglaise de télévision
Actrice ayant incarné Catherine II de Russie
Actrice ayant incarné la reine Guenièvre
Primetime Emmy Award de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle
Satellite Award de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle
Personnalité engagée dans la lutte contre le sida au Royaume-Uni