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I was sitting in the audience as Sheldon Jordan, MD, told of his amazing recovery from a terrible accident, all thanks to a revolutionary new treatment that may be the most exciting breakthrough I've heard of in years. Here's Dr. Sheldon in his own words:
"Four weeks ago I was involved in a very severe motorcycle accident where I almost died. I had eleven rib fractures. I suffered a fractured dislocation of my ankle, and my foot was just hanging like loose skin. I also had a compound fracture of my clavicle, lacerated my liver, kidney and adrenal gland and lost a third of my blood.
"I was a week in the hospital and had six hours of surgery.
"Three days after surgery I had 26 billion exosomes given to me intravenously – by myself (5 ccs of fluid). Now, if anyone's had a rib fracture – and I had eleven – then you know that coughing, laughing, taking a deep breath, lying down, driving a car and feeling the bumps on the road – they all cause intense pain.
"But for me, in two weeks the pain was gone. Something that's unheard of in a 60-something-year-old man like me. I'm at four weeks after the injury and right now I probably can walk." [At the time he spoke, he hadn't tried yet.]
"I took X-rays of my right ankle that shows the fracture has completely healed. But I'm not walking right now because I haven't had a chance to talk with my orthopedic surgeon. But the X-rays (of the ankle) don't even show a fracture line. It looks like it's completely healed on X-rays four weeks later. Anyone ever hear of anything like that? No!
"I also have a plate and screws in my clavicle which was broken like a tea cup – into multiple little bone islands. What I want to do is create new bone there so I'm going to take exosomes and try to inject them in among the islands and see if I can get the bone to regrow."
He added, ". . .it's a story I've never seen before after such a severe acute injury."
Dr. Jordan is a clinical faculty member at UCLA and has a private practice in Santa Monica. He has the advantage of being at the cutting edge of new medical strategies and was able to put his knowledge to work when he desperately needed it himself.
The cutting-edge strategy he decided to try was exosomes, a brand-new offshoot of the burgeoning growth of stem cell therapy.
Remember that word "exosomes." You are among the first to hear about it, but in just a few years it may be as common as aspirin.
In spite of the usual foot dragging by the government and medical authorities, stem cell and related therapies have gained a large following from doctors and patients — because results like Dr. Jordan's are by no means unusual. Exosomes are just the newest twist.
Studies on how stem cells repair the body now show exosomes might be just as effective — or even more effective — for fighting off aging and helping the body's organs repair and regenerate themselves.
What are Exosomes?
Exosomes are derived from flotsam in the body that was once considered to be useless junk.
Work in this area started about fifty years ago, when scientists first discovered what seemed to be tiny little pieces of cell membranes floating in the body. They thought the membranes were cellular garbage.
But now a growing number of researchers believe this "garbage" may revolutionize medicine and lead to anti-aging treatments that will be breathtaking in their effects.
Exosomes are extremely small, fluid-filled sacs containing various proteins that cells use to communicate with each other: signaling proteins. And just as you wouldn't drop a letter in a mailbox without first putting it in an envelope, cells put their messenger chemicals into exosomes – containers that protect their contents with a special type of membrane.
The most exciting exosomes for anti-aging researchers are the ones produced by stem cells. It appears that inside these little message packets are the secret codes that stimulate the body to repair itself in stunning ways.
According to Douglas Spiel, the medical director of Kimera Labs (a regenerative medicine biotechnology company in Florida), and who practices medicine in New Jersey, exosomes have such great potential for fighting aging that "I believe in our very near future, we're going to be able to have an anti-aging longevity serum. We can give you younger patients' exosomes."1
The exosomes Dr. Spiel is talking about are produced by stem cells taken from the amniotic fluid of newborns – a product that is being distributed by Kimera Labs.
The FDA, Stem cell Therapy, and Exosome Therapy
These types of exosomes from Kimera and other companies, says Duncan Ross, a founder and the head of Kimera, are both highly effective and perfectly legal. That last point is a big one in the United States, where stem cell treatments take place under a cloud of vague or not-so-vague threats from the Food and Drug Administration, especially when they involve "foreign" cells from a donor.
The FDA more or less tolerates autologous stem cells – those taken from the patient herself and then reinjected back into her bloodstream. But if the cells are donor cells – taken from a third person and administered to the patient, the FDA considers them a drug, and therefore subject to FDA approval.
But regulators have told Dr. Ross that donor exosomes are not a concern of the FDA. That opens the door to patients obtaining this treatment in the United States without going abroad.
Dr. Ross points out that since the fluid they use does not have any cells in it – just the exosomes made by stem cells – the FDA basically considers it an acceptable therapy outside of the regulatory system. They are "cell secretions," as Dr. Spiel puts it.2
Dr. Ross notes that while Kimera uses amniotic fluid with stem cells in it to produce the exosomes, the stem cells are taken out before the exosome-rich fluid is given to patients.
Among his patients, says Dr. Spiel, treatment with exosomes has proven to be extremely effective – "Parkinson's patients who come in on canes who within three to four months can run and catch footballs. Alzheimer's patients who have shown cognitive changes in as little as two weeks. I have seen motor changes in spinal cord injuries in two days. We're seeing really remarkable findings and we're seeing them in autoimmune disease in my practice."3
Studies have also begun to supply evidence that exosome treatment may turn out to be a medical game changer because of its potential to:
Reverse cellular aging in the body's stem cells: Lab tests at Johns Hopkins show that exosomes may be able to revive older senescent (inactive) stem cells and restore their regenerative capacity for repairing the body.4
Slow the entire body's aging process: A study at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that exosomes in the brain's hypothalamus (the brain's aging-control center) "led to the slowing of aging" in animal tests.5
Reduce fatal heart problems during diabetes: Tests at the University of Alabama are exploring the possibility that exosomes spur immune cell cleanup of dead coronary cells and lower the risk of heart failure after heart attacks in people with diabetes.6
Prevent or treat birth defects: Research at University of California – Davis indicate that adding exosomes to surgical treatment of spina bifida may stimulate better healing and lifetime benefits for kids with birth problems.7
From all the research I've seen, and hearing the experience of medical professionals working with stem cells and exosomes, I'm convinced that a medical revolution is underway. And while stem cell treatment has had some remarkable successes, exosomes – the secretions from those stem cells – may turn out to trump them.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23282#auth-7
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.305990
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5 May 2017 • 8:21am
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Harry Styles, a man so beloved that he makes headlines merely by cutting his hair, will soon be releasing his debut album. For the few uninitiated, Styles is the most popular member of One Direction, a boy band constructed by media mogul Simon Cowell on the X Factor in 2010 who went on to re-invigorate pop's coffers with a whopping four albums in as many years.
But One Direction, while defiant in not splitting despite the loss of member Zayn Malik in 2015, have been on "hiatus" since 2016 - and the remaining members have been swift to follow in Malik's footsteps and embark upon solo careers. Styles signed a solo recording contract last June, a month later Liam Payne signed with Capitol and Niall Horan followed suit in September.
Several agonising months later and, while Horan has released a solo single, nothing has emerged from the band's two main heartthrobs Styles and Payne. However, while Payne is probably too busy with non-musical matters at this very moment - last week saw the birth of his son with girlfriend Cheryl, there's good news for heartbroken One Direction fans, as it looks like Styles' solo output is very close to being made public. Here's what we know so far:
When is he playing live?
Styles is the first former One Direction member to go it alone on stage. He announced dates for a globe-trotting tour that will see him play in venues from California to Japan. The bad news? There's only fourdates in the whole of the UK, two in London at the Eventim Apollo – which has a capacity of just 5,000 people – with another show in Manchester and Glasgow, respectively.
General on-sale begins at 9am BST today, Friday 5 May.
Full tour dates below:
19/09 - San Francisco, CA - The Masonic
20/09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Greek Theatre
25/09 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
26/09 - Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre
28/09 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
30/09 - Boston, MA - Wang Theatre
01/10 - Washington DC - DAR Constitution Hall
04/10 - Toronto, ON - Massey Hall
05/10 - Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theater
08/10 - Atlanta, GA - Roxy
10/10 - Irving, TX - The Pavilion at Irving Music Factory
11/10 - Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater
14/10 - Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre
25/10 - Paris, France - L'Olympia
27/10 - Cologne, Germany - Palladium
29/10 - London, UK - Eventim Apollo
01/11 - Manchester, UK - O2 Apollo Manchester
02/11 - Glasgow, UK - SEC Armadillo
05/11 - Stockholm, Sweden - Fryshuset
07/11 - Berlin, Germany - Tempodrome
08/11 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - AFAS Live
10/11 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
23/11 - Singapore - The Star Theatre
26/11 - Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre
30/11 - Australia, Melbourne - Forum Theatre
02/11 - Auckland, New Zealand - Spark Arena
07/11 - Tokyo, Japan - EX Theater
When will his album be released?
HARRY.STYLES //12.MAY.17// pic.twitter.com/mmXjvkp9W6
— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) April 13, 2017
After launching his debut solo single Sign of the Times on April 7, Styles waited approximately six days before announcing his album release date: May 12.
He's a little fashionably late so far: In mid-February, BBC Radio One reported that the album would be released "late April/early May" which was backed up by comments from Styles' label boss Rob Stringer, the CEO of Columbia records. Also in mid-February, Stringer told Billboard magazine: "We're close and we're very excited. We have a record we're incredibly excited about and it's not far away from being ready."
What will it sound like?
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One Direction were known for their saccharine ballads and up-tempo bangers, but Malik veered in a far more sensual, soul-led direction for his debut, Mind of Mine, and it's likely that Styles will also want to carve a new sound in his solo work.
In September he made his first big statement as a man free of One Direction with three distinct, fashion-led covers for Another Man magazine. None other than Paul McCartney interviewed him for the publication, upon which Styles was portrayed – as "an immersion into a different facet of his persona" – in the vein of British rockers such as Pete Doherty, John Lydon and Mick Jagger. He didn't, however, discuss his music taste with one of the country's most famous musicians, so we don't know much about what Styles plays on his radio.
Instead, fans were forced to rely upon Nick Grimshaw, BBC Radio 1 DJ and long-term pal of Styles, to shed light on his work. Grimshaw recently told GQ: "I think it will be good. He has good taste and he likes good music, so that usually translates. He's into good music, so surely he'll make good music. He recorded it in Jamaica so I'm praying it's some awful white man reggae."
His single, Sign of the Times, suggested that Styles would stick to big, shiny production rooted in rock guitars and a strong vocal performance. Not that dissimilar, in fact, from boy band breakaway Robbie Williams' early solo material.
Who has worked with him on it?
Styles Sheeran
This is where the big guns really come out. Styles has a veritable who's-who from the music industry on his record - while he's also got the seal of approval from Ed Sheeran, aka the biggest popstar in the world right now.
The pair have been friends for a while after finding pop stardom at a similar point, and Sheeran recently revealed to The Sun that they "jammed out a song" a couple of years ago – although Styles wouldn't be including it on the record: "He came round like two years ago and we jammed out a song. I think he's gone in a totally different direction now." Sheeran did, however, give his thumbs up to Styles's solo work: "It's really good. Anything he puts out is going to be massive, let's be honest. But I think it's very good musically as well."
Robbie Williams let slip that Styles was working with super-producer Max Martin (the hitmaker extraordinaire behind Taylor Swift and Britney Spears's success) and gold-plated pop star Bruno Mars. Speaking to the Radio Times he said: "I met Harry Styles in an airport. 'Oh, you're writing, Harry? Great, who with?' He goes: 'Well, I just spent a week with Bruno Mars, and I'm about to spend a week with Max Martin'."
Meghan Trainor with her ukelele. Harry Styles not pictured. Credit: Media Mogul
In a somewhat unlikely situation, Styles hung out with Meghan Trainor and her ukelele to conjure up "a cute acoustic love thing". The All About That Bass singer told The Sun: "It's real! It's a duet. It's a beautiful song we wrote together on my ukulele. We even recorded a rough demo together with our vocals together. It's a cute acoustic love thing."
Ryan Tedder, songwriter for Adele and Beyoncé and OneRepublic frontman told pop culture website Key 103 that he and Styles had "done a couple of things". "You know, he's a phenomenally talented writer. You know they say you can't judge a book by its cover, but clearly the man has taste in a number of areas and that also is true with writing."
Johnny McDaid, a singer-songwriter who has previously worked with Sheeran after playing in Snow Patrol, has worked with Styles on eight tracks. Last May he told Press Association that "the world is going to be really shocked at what he comes up with".
Four of these tracks have been co-written by producer Gary Go, who has worked with Take That, Kylie Minogue and Rihanna.
After all this commotion, the press release that accompanied the album presented a somewhat lacklustre list of collaborators, consisting of Kanye West producer Jeff Bhasker, his collaborator Alex Salibian and indie throwback Kid Harpoon.
Do we know any song titles?
HARRY.STYLES //12.MAY.17// pic.twitter.com/BnopElUyzP
The tracklisting was announced through Styles' Twitter account along with the album release date, giving plenty for fans to chew on. Is, for instance, Ever Since New York a song about Taylor Swift, whom Styles was pictured dating in the city in late 2012, early 2013 and, many believe, the subject of Swift's song Style?
Already Home, Coco, Endlessly, and 5378 Miles have all been listed with the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) with Styles named as the solo performer, but none made the album tracklisting.
And do we know what the first single will be?
SIGN.OF.THE.TIMES // 7.APRIL.17 // pic.twitter.com/W6ij1giOdX
— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) March 31, 2017
Yes! Sign of the Times. The single made its debut on the BBC Radio One Breakfast Show, hosted by Styles' pal Grimshaw, on 7 April.
What's all this with Ed Sheeran?
Well, Harry Styles Collaborator Sheeran has been dominating the 2017 Top 40. He's currently occupying both Numbers One (Shape of You) and Two (Galway Girl), a comfortable position the musician has become accustomed to in recent weeks. But Styles' release of Sign of the Times last week has put Sheeran's chart-prowess under threat as the former One Direction member took the top spot in the midweek charts. The results of the battle will be seen on Friday, 14 April.
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Sunrises are seen with light created thousands of years ago in the core of the sun.
Sunlight is produced through nuclear reactions in the sun's core. Originally born as energetic gamma rays, after billions of collisions with matter, this radiation reaches the surface and escapes into space. How old is sunlight by the time it reaches the surface?
Most textbooks say that it takes light between 100,000 years and 50 million years to escape. You would be surprised to know that this simple, and very popular, question seems to be without a firm answer! The reason has a lot to do with the assumptions that textbook authors use in making the calculation. Most astronomers are also not particularly interested in a high-accuracy answer, so they tend not to bother doing the tedious calculation exactly. It is actually a very complex problem in physics!
Once a photon of light is born, it travels at a speed of 300,000 km/sec until it collides with a charged particle and is diverted in another direction. Because the density of the sun decreases by tens of thousands of times from its lead-dense core to its tenuous photosphere, the typical distance a photon can travel between charged particles changes from 0.01 cm at the core to 0.3 cm near the surface. As a comparison, most back-of-the-envelope estimates assume that the sun's interior has a constant density and that the 'free path' distance for the photon is about one centimeter. It is these estimates that find their way into many popular astronomy textbooks.
The interior of the sun consists of three major zones, each with its own unique properties. (Courtesy: Berkeley - SSL)
Once you know, or assume, a typical distance between collisions, you also have to figure out how many steps the photon has to take to travel from the core to the surface. This is called the Random Walk Problem. The answer is that, if you take a sequence of N random steps, each for example of one meter length, the distance you travel from the starting point will be the square-root of N. After 100 random steps you will travel about 10 meters, but it will take 10,000 steps to travel 100 meters, and one million steps to travel about one kilometer, and so on. Because the density of the sun changes from the core to the surface, it is common to represent the interior of the sun as a collection of nested shells of matter, each with a typical average density. You then calculate how many steps it takes for a photon to travel through each shell. During each step, the photon travels at the speed of light so you can calculate the time required for each step. By multiplying this by the number of steps taken, you can calculate how long it takes the photon to traverse each shell, and then add up all the times for the other shells.
When this random walk process is applied to the interior of the sun, and an accurate model of the solar interior is used, most answers for the age of sunlight come out to be between 10,000 and 170,000 years. Rarely do you get answers greater than a million years unless you have made a serious error! Why do you still see these erroneous estimates of '10 million years' still being used? Because textbook authors and editors do not bother to actually make the correct calculation themselves, and rely on older published answers from similar textbooks.
Light escapes the sun's core through a series of random steps as it is absorbed and emitted by atoms along the way (Courtesy - Richard Pogge Ohio State U.)
So, sometimes a simple question can have many inaccurate textbook answers because it is not considered a very important question to scientists, and no one bothers to take the time to really work out the answer to their best ability! As another example, in 1971, the physicists Alfred Goldhaber and Michael Nieto at the Los Alamos Laboratory estimated the maximum mass of the hypothetical graviton particle - the carrier of the force of gravity. Their answer of 10-62 grams seemed incredibly insignificant. Over a decade later they published an improved version of his original paper. They noted that they had originally made an error in their 1971 paper, so that the calculated mass was actually over a billion times larger. In all that time, no one had ever caught the published error!
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It wasn't a great day at the office for Indian National Cricket Team on the other day at Delhi. In fact, the last three games haven't been that good for the team against Australia in the 5-match ODI series. They suffered hat trick of defeats to concede a series victory for Australia. Meanwhile, the fast bowler Irfan Pathan expressed his concern on the current Indian setup.
The won the first couple of game at Hyderabad and Nagpur. However, Australia pulled their socks up in the next couple of games to push the series to a decider at Delhi. When it all boiled down to one good game, they delivered the goods and sealed the series.
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India tried various players for the number 4 slot in the recent past. After heavy research, they came to the conclusion that is going to do the job for India in the ICC World Cup 2019. But, a couple of series completely changed the trust in him.
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Joe Biden Is Bankrupting The American People
Jason B Truth
Like many of you out there, I am an American voter who who trusts that our checks and balances will protect our democracy from harm.
*Note - This Article Here Of Mine Was Initially Published On February 14, 2021.
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What I'm about to mention herein may be a little off-topic, but I'm sure you will agree with me about it. Among the vast groups of family vloggers on YouTube, there is this one family whose channel goes by the name of "Meet The Millers." They are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and you can tell that they are a very close-knit family. If you have watched one of their videos, you cannot help but to admire them for setting a positive example to other families throughout our nation regardless of whether or not you are a Mormon.
Anyhow, the parents in the Miller family have a toddler named Jensen, and they have a very difficult time getting him to go to sleep. Whenever it is time for them to put him to bed, he is very resistant about it and he will verbalize how he doesn't want to do it. The minute he knows that they're taking him to his crib, one of the first words out of his mouth will be NO.
Jensen is only two years old, and he can talk in sentences. He may be a handful for them whenever they need to get him to go to sleep, but he is such an adorable kid that you have to realize that neither one of his parents are able to get angry with him for giving them a hard time about putting him to bed. You can watch how this routine of theirs plays out in the YouTube video below.
Jensen Miller Doesn't Want To Go To Bed
My best advice to Jensen's parents to get him to go to sleep would be for them to show him a DVR recording of a Joe Biden speech. Mr. Biden has to be the most boring elected official ever to serve in office since I don't know when. After showing one of that Biden clown's speeches to his kids, the Miller parents will be causing their kids to fall asleep left and right insofar as they would hear snoring everywhere in their house.
I could make the above-described suggestion to Derek and Bre Miller, who are the parents, regarding their toddler, Jensen. However, the comments sections of most of their YouTube videos are turned off. Doesn't COPPA drive you crazy? All right. I realize that we have to have it because of all the nonsense that was happening on YouTube before it was enforced. Of course, that's another article for another time.
Unfortunately, the fact that Mr. Biden is extremely boring is the least of our worries regarding his presidential regime. He has been bankrupting everyday Americans as a result of his job-killing Executive Orders that will also cause a spike in gasoline and utilities throughout our nation; and if he is not removed from the Oval Office or at least stopped in some legal way, it is only going to get worse.
Okay. I get it. We could all use some good news after all the nonsense that this Biden clown has put our nation through since he first entered the Oval Office last month and began signing Executive Order after Executive Order to sabotage all of President Donald J. Trump's hard work. Well, I do have good news. However, I will first have to plow through all the bad news to get to the good news herein.
If you read my article titled "Biden Supporters Are Beginning To Have Regrets" and my article titled "The Keystone XL Pipeline: Cutting Through All The Biden Baloney," you will soon realize that there can be no debate that Mr. Biden is destroying our economy by killing thousands and thousands of American jobs. While he frolics in the comfort of the Oval Office, signing away the future of the American people, his actions are compounding the suffering and the poverty that the COVID-19 pandemic has already brought to our nation.
It is beyond my comprehension why anyone defends Mr. Biden at this point in time. Luckily, there are people out there who are fighting back to put this clown in his place. The best that we can hope for is that a team of American patriots in Arizona get to the bottom of what happened in Maricopa County during the 2020 American presidential election; and if it results in the state of Arizona being flipped from Mr. Biden to President Trump, perhaps a domino effect of this nature will also ensue in the 15 other states that disbelieve that Mr. Biden received the most votes in them in the 2020 American presidential election and President Trump will immediately get a second term in the White House within the next month or so.
Never mind 2024. That year is so faraway, and Mr. Biden and Kamala Harris can do so much harm to our nation between now and then. We want President Trump to be in the White House in 2021 as in before spring gets here.
1. Joe Biden Is Killing American Jobs By The Thousands With His Anti-Oil Executive Orders
Just the other day I came across a very interesting news clip of Sean Hannity describing how Mr. Biden's Executive Orders to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline and to ban fracking on Federal land have put droves of Americans out of work. Moreover, these are Americans who were making a six-figure income in the fossil-fuel industry before Mr. Biden stripped them of their livelihood. Many of these same Americans have families like the Millers that I introduced to you further back herein. You can watch that same news clip below.
Joe Biden And His Administration Appear Not To Care About The American Unemployment Problem
As explained in the video above, Mr. Biden has a pipedream that he can take all of the people who have lost their jobs because of his actions and move them into job positions related to his "Green New Deal." People who worked for the Keystone XL Pipeline and for companies that did fracking have lost valuable union jobs thanks to Mr. Biden, and both Mr. Biden and John Kerry share this same delusion that they can move these same people into new jobs created by the green, renewable energy industry that has not yet materialized here in our nation.
In reality, Mr. Kerry couldn't care less about what happens to these jobless Americans in the meantime. He lives lavishly in the lap of luxury that his marriage made possible for him. He's not realistic in that the People's Republic of China currently has an edge on the green, renewable energy market with the production of solar panels, energy-related windmills and the likes.
Some of you out there may have been Democrats at one time as I was four years ago. If you voted for Mr. Kerry in the 2004 American presidential election, don't feel ashamed of it. Most Americans had not learned yet what he was all about back then. He had just about everyone in our nation fooled back then.
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An important point that Sean Hannity makes in his video above is that Mr. Biden's Executive Orders to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline and to cut back on fracking are going to make our nation dependent upon anti-American countries like Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the People's Republic of China for our gasoline and oil needs while Mr. Biden is having this supposed fossil-fuel-free fantasyland of his built here in our nation. There is going to be a spike in gasoline prices at the pump, heating bills and everything else that necessitates fossil fuels.
Mr. Biden and his henchmen are not our friends. They want to seek statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico for the sole purpose of turning our nation into a one-party dictatorship. Mr. Biden wants to appoint additional justices to the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") on the Democratic ticket so that he can eliminate any opposition to his reign of terror.
When I first heard Sean Hannity on the radio back in 1997, I do admit that I did not have a very high opinion of him. As Bill Maher is now, back then Mr. Hannity was obnoxious, smug, cocky and pushy with everyone who phoned in to his radio talk show to speak with him if they did not agree with him. However, through the years, this man has really cleaned up his act and done his research. Now, I'm always interested in hearing what he has to say whenever I see him on Fox News.
In his video above, Mr. Hannity delivers a very accurate speech regarding how our 45th president has been wrongfully persecuted with the impeachment trial. Luckily, President Trump had a professional lawyer who was able to secure him an acquittal. You can get more details regarding the impeachment charges against President Trump in my article titled "A Kangaroo Court Impeached President Donald J. Trump Twice." Also, President Trump's lawyer provides an interview regarding what went on in the impeachment trial, in the news clip below.
President Donald J. Trump's Defense Attorney Gives Emotional Reaction To Impeachment Acquittal
Word is now out that there are Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are so disgusted and appalled with the actions of extremist Democratic lawmakers like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Adam Schiff, just to name a few, that they have decided to leave their political party. Mr. Biden and Kamala Harris have only added more heat to that same fire ever since they were sworn into office in their current capacities. This trend has also worked its way into the realms of elected state officials.
One such elected state official who has left the Democratic party is Vernon Jones. You can watch him talk about his decision to do so in the news clip below.
Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones Complains About The Trouble That The Mainstream News Media Is Causing Everyone
We may not have to wait until 2022 for additional Republicans to get into office either on Capitol Hill or in state legislatures throughout our nation, because now we have a trend of Democrats switching over to the Republican Party. People are waking up and smelling the coffee.
2. Elected State Officials Are Fighting Back Against Joe Biden
In recent news, fourteen states have asked Mr. Biden to rethink his Executive Order cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline, and they are threatening to bring lawsuits against him if he refuses to rescind that same Executive Order. You can watch a news clip below that provides all of the details about it.
Joe Biden May Have To Change His Mind About The Keystone XL Pipeline
As the video above reports, attorney generals from 14 different states have threatened Mr. Biden with civil litigation if he refuses to reissue the permit for the resumption of the Keystone XL Pipeline. His decision to issue an Executive Order to cancel it has caused more harm than good to our nation and our economy for reasons specified above. Well, if Mr. Biden decides to be stubborn about changing his mind, he can be rest assured that he will be spending a great amount of time in court. Then again, he can always do everyone a big favor and concede the presidency to President Trump.
3. There Is Still Hope Of Overturning The 2020 American Presidential Election
The Arizona state senate is not going to back down on seeing the impending forensic audit of the voting machines, the ballots and the likes from the 2020 American presidential election in Maricopa County through from beginning to end. Unfortunately, they are currently encountering some bumps here and there in their pathway to that goal. However, they will stand strong. Dr. Lyle Rapacki interviews Arizona State Senator Sonny Borrelli to discuss these same concerns in the YouTube video below.
Arizona State Senator Sonny Borrelli Complains About The Maricopa County Board Of Supervisors
In his interview above with Dr. Rapacki, Mr. Borrelli reports that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors have not been delivering on their promise to grant the Arizona state legislature access to the voting machines, the ballots, and other voting materials from that county that were used in the 2020 American presidential election and to allow a forensic audit of them accordingly. He also complains that they've been misusing the court system to stifle the process.
In that same interview above, Mr. Borrelli complains that Republican Arizona State Senator Paul D. Boyer did a Mitt Romney on all other Republican state senators when the Arizona state legislature voted on a resolution to hold the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in contempt for ignoring the subpoena that the Arizona state senators had issued against them. Mr. Boyer's vote killed that same bill.
Mr. Borrelli expresses his outrage that Mr. Boyer pretended to be all for the contempt resolution and changed his mind at the very last minute on how he intended to vote on it, without letting anyone know ahead of time. In figurative words, Mr. Boyer is now in the doghouse because of it according to Mr. Borrelli.
Mr. Borrelli reports that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors have been attempting to tamper with the integrity of how the forensic audit will be conducted. He adds that public officials in the Maricopa County government mishandled many aspects of the 2020 American presidential election insofar as their conduct rose to the level of criminality and would warrant prosecution by Arizona's attorney general.
Even though the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors have argued that the Republican Arizona state senators are making the investigation into alleged voter fraud and election-related irregularities into a partisan matter, Mr. Borrelli has assured them that election integrity is its only purpose. He claims that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors lied in denying that there was any kind of Internet connection with the voting machines in their district in the 2020 American presidential election, and he has found indication that there was and that fact alone could constitute voter fraud.
Near the end of the interview above, Mr. Borrelli explains to Dr. Rapacki that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors have been causing needless delays in the execution of the forensic audit so that they can manipulate the passage of time in a way that will delay it even further. Mr. Borrelli stresses that he and his colleagues' efforts to get the above-described forensic audit to happen is not going away.
In a subsequent video, Dr. Rapacki interviewed Shelby Busch and Steve Robinson, who are the founders of "We the People Arizona Alliance," to find out how they have been organizing the recalls of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and what has been happening with that same mission of theirs. People have asked Shelby and Steve for help in recalling Mr. Boyer as well. Unfortunately, this same video is no longer available on YouTube. Therefore, I will describe what I saw in the video herein.
According to the above-described interview, Steve and Shelby have performed an election-integrity investigation because of their concerns about voter fraud, irregularities and the likes in Maricopa County during the 2020 American presidential election. They submitted evidence of voter fraud to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and asked them not to certify the election results shortly after the 2020 American presidential election. However, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors did so.
After Steve and Shelby had found out what the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors had done in contrary to their wishes, they requested a forensic audit of the voting machines, the ballots and the likes that were used in that same county in the 2020 American presidential election. However, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors gave them the excuse that they could not grant their request inasmuch as they did not have the legislative authority to do so. Therefore, Steve and Shelby went to Rudolph Giuliani for assistance in getting the Arizona state legislature to grant the authority for such a forensic audit, and he helped them make it a reality. The Arizona legislature issued a subpoena to the Maricopa Board of Supervisors for access to the voting machines, the ballots and the likes that were used in the 2020 American presidential election in that same county.
Afterwards, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors became difficult and uncooperative with Steve and Shelby. For example, they tried to delay proceedings so that the Arizona senate session would end and the Arizona state legislature would have to execute the process all over again to issue a subpoena to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for the above-described election-related evidence.
In their above-described interview, Steve and Shelby complained to Dr. Rapacki that Arizona State Senator Boyer's betrayal caused a significant amount of damage to the expedition of the process by which they could get the above-described forensic audit completed. For that reason, they have decided to put in motion the recall of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors so that these public officials can be held accountable for their abuse of power and authority and ultimately be removed from office.
In this same interview, Steve and Shelby assured Dr. Rapacki that the above-described forensic audit would happen in Maricopa County. They also added that Mr. Boyer had already been censured. They complained that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors had told lie after lie after lie, and a recall against them would be a major blow to their political reputations.
Anyhow, if the above-described forensic audit in Maricopa County uncovers evidence that President Trump really won Arizona instead of Mr. Biden and the 15 other states that believe themselves to have suffered election-integrity problems last November follow suit, producing the same results, Mr. Biden could find himself having to pack up and move out of the White House in the near future inasmuch as President Trump would, therefore, receive a second term in the Oval Office immediately. Who would be our vice president in that event is just as much of a mystery to me as it is to you. Of course, that's another article for another time.
4. Donald J. Trump Is A Non-Partisan President
Whether Biden supporters wish to admit it or not, President Trump has always been a non-partisan president. President Ronald Reagan and both of the Bushes were solid Republicans to the core who catered mainly to the conservative right. However, during his four years in the Oval Office, President Trump was a leader who did not only serve the needs and the objectives of conservative Republicans, but he also looked out for the best interests of moderate Independents like me and even liberal Democrats.
President Trump may not have always agreed with liberal Democrats during his four years in the White House, but he never respected them any less than he respected conservative Republicans and moderate Independents. In 2012, Senator Mitt Romney got caught disparaging underprivileged voters in a video from Boca Raton, Florida, and those same actions of his damaged whatever chances he had of beating President Barack Obama in that year's presidential race. However, President Trump never treated the less fortunate differently from middle-class Americans or wealthy Americans during his tenure in the White House. In fact, he even helped underprivileged African Americans in their war against racial oppression as described in my article titled "Did The Federal Bureau Of Investigation Sabotage President Donald J. Trump's Reelection Efforts?"
In many ways, President Trump changed the image of the Republican Party insofar as it was no longer the party of the rich and the elite after he got into the Oval Office. However, the only person that Mr. Biden cares about is Mr. Biden. Numerous employees of the Keystone XL Pipeline voted for him last November, but he turned around and pulled the plug on their livelihood. President Trump would never have treated Americans in such a disgraceful manner. He lives in reality, whereas Mr. Biden lives in a dangerous fantasy world to the exclusion of all reality.
Mr. Biden is a crook who will go to whatever length to stay in the Oval Office for as long as he can. Mr. Biden didn't even get into the White House by legitimate means. The 2020 American presidential election was clearly stolen from President Trump. Biden supporters can rant and rave about how they believe that there was no voter fraud in this past presidential election and how they believe that it was the safest election ever in American history, but the facts are eventually going to come out and even they will not be able to deny them.
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5. My Final Thoughts Regarding This Topic
Mr. Biden may become the most abhorred president ever to serve in the White House. The mere fact alone that he has to have military troops in Washington, D.C. to protect him demonstrates that he did not really get the 80 million votes that he claimed that he did. The irony of it all in that regard is that he was likely not elected as our legitimate president, because the 2020 American presidential election reeks with polling procedural derelictions, irregularities, voter fraud and all sorts of suspicious activities.
Mr. Biden has committed the ultimate insult to injury by signing Executive Orders that have killed thousands of American jobs. If he had never run for president, our nation may or may not have gotten another four years of President Trump; but at least our nation would have been so much better off without Mr. Biden in the White House.
It is a shame that we don't have a parliamentary system like Canada in which our Congress could quickly force Mr. Biden out of office for doing the kind of stupid things that he has done since taking office last month. Even if the Democrats now hold the majority in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, I would not doubt that there are Democrats who would side with Republicans in getting rid of him. House Representative Tulsi Gabbard is a reasonable woman in that respect, and House Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is no major fan of Mr. Biden. Democrats in elected offices are even leaving their own party because of extremists like Mr. Biden and Kamala Harris.
Fortunately, elected state officials are standing up to Mr. Biden and refusing to put up with his sabotage of our nation's livelihood and our economy. Attorney General Ken Paxton has even taken him to court to dispute an Executive Order of his related to the immigration controversy.
A team of confident Americans are currently attempting to rectify any problems that may have occurred in Arizona in the 2020 American presidential election. Unfortunately, bad actors in positions of authority and power have stood in their way, and recently an Arizona state senator (Paul D. Boyer) decided to come out of the RINO-Republican closet at their expense.
House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has already submitted Articles of Impeachment to seek the removal of Mr. Biden from the Oval Office as described in my article titled "Joe Biden's Tentative Presidency May Be Short-Lived." However, what will truly provide us with a promising future is if the above-aforementioned forensic audit in Arizona ultimately causes a positive domino effect that will grant President Trump a second term in the Oval Office preferably before spring of this year. If he were to get back into the Oval Office immediately, he would never leave the American people high and dry as Mr. Biden has done so. You be the judge.
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Jason B Truth (author) from United States of America on February 14, 2021:
@The Logician Thank you for your comment. Yeah, the national debt is currently a nightmare for the American people. Joe Biden is only going to make it worse as long as he remains in the White House. President Trump at least had us all going in the right direction in his efforts to reduce the national debt. Therefore, it is more imperative than ever that Joe Biden be removed from office in one way or another. There are many ways that his removal from office can happen. However, the events in Arizona triggering a domino effect in all 16 states that have uncertain election results would be the best way for it to happen, if it meant President Trump getting a second term in the Oval Office within a year's time.
@Sharlee A lot of people think that Joe Biden won't even make it till July because of his declining cognitive health and because of Kamala Harris's overly ambitious desires to move up to the presidency. House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's Articles of Impeachment won't be of any benefit to Biden either. The forensic audit in Arizona may be a long shot, but, then again, it may be the match that will light the fire that will remove Joe Biden and Kamala Harris quickly from office and pave the pathway for President Trump to get back into the White House for a second term in office before this spring.
The Logician on February 14, 2021:
Another great article Jason. You always hit the nail on the head.
One thing though, America was bankrupt long before Biden became president. Our legislators all know it but will never talk about it..."it" being our massive unfunded (never to be funded) liabilities, never mind the multiple billions of dollars of which the government has no idea where they went. The present value of these unfunded obligations is an estimated $45.8 trillion estimated to grow to over 65 trillion in ten more years or so.
So who's to blame for bankrupting America?
Sharlee on February 14, 2021:
Yes, he is and doing it quickly. And note the media does not really report much on all his EO or the true devastation of all the businesses we have lost due to the pandemic. One only needs to look around. One only needs to do a bit of research, not pretty. He will be a four year if that president.
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Women's Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week Singapore 2012: The First Look
Marina Bay Sands will be transformed into an international fashion hub this year-end as Women's Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week 2012 hits our shores. WFW will showcase the Fall/Winter collections from international labels and HCW will showcase the works of 8 Parisian Haute Couturiers, 5 of whom will be in Singapore for the first time.
The first press conference for these events took us to Marina Bay Sands where we were treated to an exclusive sneak peek (as well as shameless self-promotion on the part of Marina Bay Sands) into what to expect at this year's Haute Couture Week (Women's Fashion Week seems to have been not-so-sneakily swept under the rug at the moment. But then again, Haute Couture is where the VIPs (& the moolah) are at, so no surprise there).
First up on the catwalk were models of Julien Fournié, who has been touted at being highly adept at pushing the boundaries of fashion in an understated manner. His 6 creations that he showcased to the press came in hues of white and beige, appearing minimalistic at first glance but very intricate upon closer examination.
Clearly, Fournié enjoys experimenting with revealing cuts, all done in a tasteful yet playful manner – the epitome of "business in the front, party at the back" (The second dress on the left actually had a black strip going down the middle to act as strategic coverage!).
& here's the man himself, workin' it in his own best catwalk pose with his models, Frank Cintamani (founder of Fide Fashion Weeks) and Mark Juliano (Senior Marketing VP of Marina Bay Sands).
The second design house presenting was On Aura Tout Vu, whose name pays homage to a famous French phrase, "You think you've seen it all". Well, we definitely have not seen it all and that point was proven when the first thing they brought out on stage were 2 man-horses (I almost expected to see the first model walk out dressed as the White Witch from Narnia).
This collection is the total opposite of Fournié's. It makes its statement by going against the grain of "less is more", and chooses instead to adopt a whimsical, "more is crazier and therefore more fun" approach. Embellishments and bright colours are more than enough to go around and every piece is distinctly different from the other. At the end of the presentation, it is clear that the man-horses fir perfectly into a collection that is inspired by "somewhere else kingdom", to quote the official name of the full collection.
My sentiments are at the end of the event are mixed. On one hand, the designs were quite exquisite but on the other hand, neither designer showcased the best pieces of their collections (& I should know, because I love both these design houses). Julien Fournié showcased a collection one season old albeit with slight tweaks to his designs and On Aura Tout Vu did not show off their most amazing pieces (trust me, Google their F/W collection. You will not be disappointed. These guys have designed for Lady Gaga).
However, to look on the bright side, there's no sense in bringing out the big guns to a small fight right? This was probably just a teaser and perhaps these design houses and the other 6 to be showcased at Haute Couture Week will wow the crowd with their best creations at the actual event instead, where it is estimated that 6000 guests will be present. To get in on all the action, watch out for Women's Fashion Week from 23 – 25 November and Haute Couture Week from 29 November – 2 December, at the Rain Oculus, Marina Bay Sands.
(All images courtesy of : Word of Mouth Communications)
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Bulldogs Assign Goaltender Frank Palazzese to Nailers
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BULLDOGS ASSIGN FRANK PALAZZESE TO NAILERS
Palazzese has a record of 8-10-0 in 19 games with ECHL Wheeling this season
MONTREAL, QUE. – Montreal Canadiens and Hamilton Bulldogs general manager Marc Bergevin announced today the Bulldogs have assigned goaltender Frank Palazzese to the ECHL's Wheeling Nailers.
Palazzese was recalled by the Bulldogs on Jan. 16 and served as backup to Mike Condon on Jan. 16 and Jan. 17. In 19 games with Wheeling this season, he has a record of 8-10-0 with a 3.56 goals-against average and .885 save percentage. Before turning pro this season, the 21-year-old played five seasons in the Ontario Hockey League. In 175 career OHL regular season games with the Sudbury Wolves, Kitchener Rangers and Kingston Frontenacs from 2009 to 2014, the 6-1, 175-pound goaltender had a record of 71-69-26 with a 3.13 goals-against average, .914 save percentage and seven shutouts. The Toronto, Ont. native signed a one-year, two-way American Hockey League / ECHL contract with the Bulldogs on Oct. 7, 2014.
The Bulldogs will be back in action on Friday, Jan. 23 when they'll host the Toronto Marlies at FirstOntario Centre at 7:30 p.m.
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Bulldogs Recall Goaltender Palazzese from Nailers; MacDonald to Canadiens
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Carey Price is day-to-day with an upper body injury.
MONTREAL, QUE. – Montreal Canadiens and Hamilton Bulldogs general manager Marc Bergevin announced today the Canadiens have recalled goaltender Joey MacDonald from the Bulldogs, while the Bulldogs have recalled goaltender Frank Palazzese from the ECHL's Wheeling Nailers.
In 16 games with Hamilton this season, MacDonald has a record of 6-7-3 with a 2.96 goals-against average and .902 save percentage. In 133 career NHL regular season games with the Calgary Flames, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders and Boston Bruins, the Pictou, N.S. native has a record of 44-61-15 with a 3.00 goals-against average, .902 save percentage and two shutouts. In 316 career AHL regular season games with the Bulldogs, Abbotsford Heat, Grand Rapids Griffins, Toronto Marlies, Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, the 6-0, 197-pound goaltender has a record of 150-132-19 with a 2.64 goals-against average, .913 save percentage and 24 shutouts. The Canadiens signed MacDonald as a free agent on July 1, 2014.
In 19 games with Wheeling this season, Palazzese has a record of 8-10-0 with a 3.56 goals-against average and .885 save percentage. Before turning pro this season, the 21-year-old played five seasons in the Ontario Hockey League. In 175 career OHL regular season games with the Sudbury Wolves, Kitchener Rangers and Kingston Frontenacs from 2009 to 2014, the 6-1, 175-pound goaltender had a record of 71-69-26 with a 3.13 goals-against average, .914 save percentage and seven shutouts. The Toronto, Ont. native signed a one-year, two-way American Hockey League / ECHL contract with the Bulldogs on Oct. 7, 2014.
The Bulldogs will be back in action tonight when they'll host the Grand Rapids Griffins at FirstOntario Centre at 7:30 p.m.
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What Should the Canadiens do With Budaj, Tokarski?
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By Dale Lamontagne, Lead Correspondent, Bulldogs Hockey Report
About a year and a half ago, Montreal Canadiens fans thought the goaltending position was weak. But now the Habs have Carey Price, Peter Budaj, Dustin Tokarski and Zachary Fucale in the organization. Pretty good, eh?
MILTON, ON. — The Montreal Canadiens will have to decide what they are going to do with their back up goaltending situation this summer. Carey Price, Montreal's starting netminder, was injured in Game 1 of third round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Head coach Michel Therrien made the gutsy decision to start rookie Dustin Tokarski over NHL veteran Peter Budaj.
Although, the Habs lost Game 6 to the New York Rangers and were eliminated, I fully believe Therrien made the right call by giving Tokarski the chance to shine – and boy oh boy, did he look good out there! Tokarski played very well and he was able to give the Canadiens a legitimate shot at winning the series when many fans thought there was very little chance doing so.
So the question is, do the Habs send Tokarski down to the Hamilton Bulldogs and risk losing him to waivers, or do they trade him before, or after the draft? Another option is to send Budaj down to Hamilton to make room for Tokarski, or they can trade him for a draft pick. It is pretty obvious that the Canadiens will not get much in return for either goaltender, but it's better to receive a draft pick than losing one of them to waivers and get nothing in return.
At this point, I think if they trade Budaj and keep Tokarski, the Habs are making the better decision. I know some fans believe Tokarski's value is higher than the market would suggest, but if he is traded this offseason, the club won't get as much as they would if they trade him within the next year or two. That's if he plays well with the Habs in that time. With Zach Fucale in the pipeline, Tokarski will not be nothing more than just a backup in Montreal. So, I say build up his stock and then trade him within the next two years.
Budaj has one year left on his deal and I think his days in Montreal are numbered. It should be considered what Tokarski has done with the Habs this season. It has been incredible. There's a reason why Montreal inked him a new two-year deal in early April, and it makes you wonder what the Habs are thinking about in goal. Tokarski has proved himself this season that he can handle the pressure and can jump into a game at any time.
There's no doubt in my mind if the Habs decided to send Tokarski down to the Bulldogs he would be claimed off of waivers. And what would be the point in that, right? So, if Budaj is moved not much is lost and the club would gain a draft pick – which will be used in the future.
The summer in Montreal should be interesting, that's for sure.
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Bulldogs to Play Two Games at Bell Centre in 2013-14
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Bulldogs to play host to Syracuse and Binghamton at the Bell Centre in 2013-14
Thursday, 19.09.2013 / 4:46 PM / News
MONTREAL – The Hamilton Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens' AHL affiliate, will play two games on the Bell Centre ice during the 2013-14 regular season. Under the direction of former Canadiens defenseman and Hamilton head coach Sylvain Lefebvre, the Bulldogs will successively host the Syracuse Crunch, Tampa Bay's AHL affiliate, on November 22 and the Binghamton Senators, Ottawa's AHL farm team, on February 21, 2014.
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The two games from the Bulldogs 2013-14 regular season schedule will give Montreal hockey fans an opportunity to see some of the organization's prospects. Last year, the Bulldogs had a 1-1 record at the Bell Centre winning 3-2 against the Rochester Americans and dropping a 4-1 decision to the Crunch.
It will be the Bulldogs' 10th and 11th contests at the Bell Centre in the history of the AHL franchise. The Bulldogs first ever match-up at the Bell Centre was played on March 18, 2007 versus the Syracuse Crunch, just a few weeks before the Canadiens' AHL affiliate captured the first Calder Cup in franchise history. Carey Price, the Canadiens current goaltender, was a member of that championship Bulldogs squad in 2006-07.
Tickets for those two match-ups starting as low as $15.50 will go on sale on Saturday, September 21 at 12 p.m. (noon). Family packages are available for as low as $99 and include four tickets in the reds, four hot dogs and four soft drinks. Also, fans purchasing tickets for both Bulldogs games at the Bell Centre will enjoy 15% off.
For more information on the Hamilton Bulldogs visit www.hamiltonbulldogs.com.
Tickets available at the Bell Centre Box Office on Saturday September 21 at 12 p.m. (noon).
Order online at: www.evenko.ca or by phone at (514) 790-2525 and 1-877-668-8269
Ticket prices: $15.50 to $69.50
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Emma Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, tidigare Emma Hart, ursprungligen Amy Lyon, född 26 april 1765 i Neston, Cheshire, död 15 januari 1815 i Calais, Normandie, var en brittisk dansös, modell, kurtisan och societetsdam, mest känd som den brittiske amiralen Horatio Nelsons älskarinna.

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Hon var dotter till en smed, och kom år 1777 till London som tjänsteflicka. Hon var en tid anställd som skådespelare vid Drury Lane Theatre, och därefter som dansös och modell hos en samtida sexolog, James Graham, i hans "Temple of Health" som sålde in sina teorier och kurer med föreställningar som bland annat innehöll grekiska gudinnor.

Hon var vid denna tid en kurtisan. Hon inhyrdes 1781 som "värdinna" och dansös på en svensexa på ett gods av Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, under vilken hon ska ha dansat naken på bordet. Hon fick ett barn med Fetherstonhaugh, som dock vägrade erkänna barnet.  Hon blev istället år 1782 älskarinna till Charles Francis Greville, som 1786 överlät henne till sin morbror, sir William Hamilton, som var brittiskt sändebud i Neapel, mot att denne betalade Grevilles skulder. Emma och William Hamilton gifte sig 1791 och hon fick genom äktenskapet titeln Lady Hamilton.

Emma Hamilton blev en av de ledande figurerna i Neapels societetsliv; hon blev en känd konstnärsmodell, ofta porträtterad som romersk gudinna. Bland hennes beundrare märks Goethe. Genom sin vänskap med drottning Maria Karolina av Österrike blev hon även en politisk faktor av vikt.

Hon träffade Lord Nelson första gången 1793 och efter hans återkomst från Nilen 1798 blev hon hans älskarinna. Det påstås att hon svimmade då hon såg honom efter återkomsten; han hade förlorat höger arm såväl som de flesta av sina tänder samt led av svår hosta och var dessutom blind på höger öga. När William Hamilton år 1800 kallades hem från Neapel, reste hon tillsammans med älskaren och maken genom Europa hem till Storbritannien.
Hon skötte om Nelson i sitt hem och då han fyllde 40 år ordnade hon en fest med över tusen gäster. Hon födde honom den 30 januari 1801 dottern Horatia, som 1822 gifte sig med en präst vid namn Philip Ward och dog 6 mars 1881.
Det sägs att Nelson under slaget vid Köpenhamn 2 april 1801 medförde Emma Hamilton, som installerades i ett hus strax utanför Helsingborg. Hennes make avled 1803 och hon och Nelson levde sedan helt öppet tillsammans.

Vid sin död 1805 efterlämnade Nelson åt Emma en årlig summa på 2 000 pund. Likväl, på grund av sin slösaktighet, lyckades hon försätta sig i svår skuld. För att undkomma sina fordringsägare tog hon sin tillflykt till Calais i Frankrike. Där avled hon i fattigdom, svårt alkoholiserad, den 15 januari 1815.

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The Latest Edition of The Sri Lankan Scientist Magazine is Out Now!
The first issue for the fourth volume of the Sri Lankan Scientist Magazine is out now and will be available for purchase from Sarasavi and Vijitha Yapa book shops island wide.
In latest issue of the Sri Lankan Scientist magazine, we cover the 150th anniversary of the Sri Lanka Tea Industry. Many Scientists from the TEA Research Institute and related institutes discuss various aspects of science behind Tea industry in Sri Lanka. In a special article Mr. Rohan Pethiyagoda, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tea Board discusses about the importance of Research in uplifting the industry through improving the quality and productivity of the tea producing process.
In another section Dr. Chinthaka de Silva from ITI, explains the importance and the science behind the Nobel price winning LIGO detector which detected gravitational Waves for the first time, Apart from those few articles there are many scientific articles included in this edition of the magazine.
The magazine will be available for online purchases through www.scientist.lk/shop soon.


Infolio is a cloud-based collaboration platform that helps businesses organize their digital content, such as documents, tasks, notes and emails, within a single solution.
Infolio sends emails and notifications to users for content changes, task updates and new comments. Managers can assign tasks to team members, set due dates, receive notifications on task progress and chat with team members within the application.
Changes to files and folders are updated and synced in real-time, which helps team members maintain access to the latest versions of content. Infolio also offers a mobile application for iOS devices for remote usage. Integrations include applications like Dropbox, Google Drive, Salesforce, Box and Office 365.
Infolio offers services to users on a monthly subscription basis. The package includes support via email, FAQs and through an online knowledge base.
They designed Infolio so I can really do useful collaborating--communicating, editing, creating--on iOS and not just on the desktop. Good use of iOS11.
My team can get our Infolio space messy at times, so if there's lots of collaborating I occasionally want to drop out old items or notes.
Easy to use & free. Works on iPhone, iPad and browsers. Lets people, images, notes, links, docs & lists into a pinboard that I can share with my team and clients.
This app brilliantly solves a huge problem shared by design teams everywhere. Designers and agencies are notoriously addicted to whiteboards and ACRES of sticky notes. That's fine for in-person team meetings, but not when team members are scattered across the globe. Bravo, Infolio!
There's really not much to dislike. I suppose a workflow tutorial or two would be good for newbies like me.
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Home / News / UNC collaborates with NC Department of Public Safety, Durham County Sheriff's Office on opioid addiction treatment
UNC collaborates with NC Department of Public Safety, Durham County Sheriff's Office on opioid addiction treatment
By Thomas Hughes
Two new projects are part of a NIH-funded network to improve opioid addiction treatment in criminal justice settings. Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, is a co-principal investigator for one study and site-PI for the other.
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD
Evan Ashkin, MD
Media contact: Tom Hughes, 984-974-1151, tom.hughes@unchealth.unc.edu
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – August 1, 2019 – Researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine will collaborate with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and the Durham County Sheriff's Office to implement and evaluate two new opioid addiction treatment programs for people in the criminal justice system.
Both of these projects are part of a new initiative by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that created a network to improve opioid addiction treatment in criminal justice settings. The NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded 12 grants totaling an estimated $155 million to form the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) to support research on quality addiction treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) in criminal justice settings nationwide.
UNC will collaborate with the Department of Public Safety to link people in community supervision in Brunswick County to medication-assisted treatment via peer support specialists. Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of social medicine, is co-principal investigator for this project, which is funded under NIDA's $10.8 million grant to Brown University.
"These projects respond to the fact that people recently involved in the criminal justice system are at extremely high risk of overdose and often have very little access to substance use treatment," Brinkley-Rubinstein said. "With this funding we will be able to expand access to treatment and implement innovative linking programs to stem the rising numbers of overdose deaths in North Carolina."
"People reentering their communities face significant challenges to find work and a place to live and to reestablish relationships with their families and friends," said Tim Moose, chief deputy secretary of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice in North Carolina's Department of Public Safety. "We want them to connect with supportive services in their local communities. Opioid treatment is an important way we can help them stay on a healthy successful path."
UNC will also collaborate with the Durham County Sheriff's Office to link people in the Durham County Detention Center to substance use and primary care services via a community health worker with the UNC-led Formerly Incarcerated Transition (FIT) Program. Brinkley-Rubinstein is a site-PI and co-investigator on this study along with Evan Ashkin, MD, a professor in the department of family medicine. This project is funded under a separate JCOIN grant to Yale University.
"The FIT Program has been successful in linking people coming out of incarceration with needed health services," Ashkin said. "We are hopeful we can leverage our prior work in the community and with Lincoln Community Health Center to assist with treatment of opioid use disorder in this highly vulnerable and at-risk population."
"As the maintainer of detainees here in Durham County, we look forward participating in this program where we will learn national best practices to expand the treatment for opioid use disorder," said Durham County Sheriff Clarence F. Birkhead. "While we continue to work with a similar federal program with the Department of Justice announced in May, this NIH-funded initiative will go a long way to augment opioid addiction treatment programs for people housed at the Durham County Detention Center."
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Big Data, Big Plans
As Germany gears up for digitalization across the industrial landscape, the market for big data is undergoing a period of pronounced growth. The impact of the information explosion on big industry in particular, will be nothing short of electrifying.
The big data market just got bigger. The forecast growth for 2018 was ten percent on the previous year for hardware, software, and combined services in Germany, according to the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom). "More and more companies are using intelligent data analysis as a foundation to propel their business forward," says its president Achim Berg. "Big data applications are creating ever more value across all industries, from diagnosis support in health industries to emergency service management in natural disasters."
Growth is most pronounced in the hardware sector, with 18 percent year-on-year growth forecast for 2018 (and a turnover of around €671m). But the highest turnover is still in software, where €3.1bn has rolled through the accounts in 2018, a nine percent rise on 2017. The ICT services sector is not far behind, recording a €2.6bn turnover (year-on-year growth of 11 percent).
A data mining demonstration in the Industrie 4.0 area at the Bosch research center in Renningen, Germany. The electronics giant is working on new methods for extracting useful information from large amounts of data and evaluating it, for example, to predict machine maintenance requirements. © picture alliance/dpa
The information explosion
Big data is defined by Bitkom as the ability to process huge quantities of data from different sources at high speed. New forms of database, speech analysis, or visualization tools are the key components. And the quantity of data is growing almost exponentially. Cloud-based computing experts Domo attempted to quantify the ever-increasing magnitude of bytes flying around the globe in their "Data Never Sleeps" presentation: 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created per day – a 90 percent increase over the previous two years. The report also notes that more than half of the world's web traffic now comes through devices. It reckoned there were 3.6m Google searches per minute in 2017 and 4.1m YouTube video views.
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2,500,000,000,000,000,000
(2.5 quintillion) bytes of data are created every day, says cloud computing expert Domo.
But it is in big industry where big data could have the most impact, revolutionizing the way we work and enabling the Internet of Things, which allows for real-time data exchange between objects, machines, and production plants. To drive uptake, developers are creating IoT platforms that allow companies to design their own applications.
Last year, one in three industrial companies invested between five and ten percent of annual revenue in IoT apps. Worldwide spending on IoT is estimated to reach some €650bn this year; and by 2025, McKinsey say, IoT tech will add as much as €3tn in value to networked factories.
Germany is a global nodal point for research for big data, especially in the critical areas of security and IoT, with facilities such as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance drawing worldwide acclaim.
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Germany's strategic position
Unsurprisingly, many overseas companies are looking to invest in Germany, in order to reap the benefits of its research institutions. The Italian company Fincons is one such example, with plans to set up an office in Germany in 2019. "Germany is perhaps Europe's most crucial market for big data," says deputy CEO Francesco Moretti. "Thanks to this and our successful collaborations with tier 1 players in this country, we are planning to set up a more permanent presence here, both in terms of customer volume and proximity to expertise particularly in the field of research and development. The conditions for our expansion are ideal for creating long-term value for our company in an industry on the crest of sharp growth."
Market statistics portal Statista reckons that the size of the big data market in services will have more than doubled between 2016 and 2020 to €2.267bn, while the size of the overall market is forecast to be around €3.8bn in 2020, more than 100 percent up on the 2016 level. "Big data is one of the most important aspects of Industrie 4.0, which is currently central to Germany's future industrial strategy," says Henri Troillet, senior manager ICT at Germany Trade & Invest. "Germany's commitment to the industrial and digital revolution has created a fervent climate for investment in a pioneering field with almost limitless potential. Add in the size of the domestic market and the world-class digital infrastructure, and the future for Germany in this market is going to be extremely globally relevant."
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