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Living Abroad H1B visa H4 visa
Good news for all spouses of the H1B Visa holders
As a spouse of an H1B Visa holder, it used to be the norm that you must apply for your Visa to join your spouse in the US. The H4 Visa is a requirement for H1B spouses who wish to come to the US to work, live, or study.
But two US lawmakers, Congresswoman Carolyn Boudreaux and Maria Elvira Salazar, have introduced a bill in the House of Representatives, which, if passed, will benefit the spouses of thousands of immigrants, including Indians, and address the opportunity gap as well as labor shortage affecting American businesses.
✈ What is the H4 Visa?
H4 Visas are usually issued to dependent spouses and children who accompany H-1B, H2A, H2B, and H3 Visa holders to the US. Many H4 Visa holders are highly skilled people in their own right and previously had careers of their own before moving to the US with their spouses.
📄 What's in the new bill that will bring about significant change?
Introduced by Congresswomen Carolyn Boudreaux and Maria Elvira Salazar on Thursday, the H4 Work Authorisation Act plans to change the current law and grant the spouses of H1B Visa holders an automatic right to work after receiving their H4 Visa.
This means that if the bill is passed, it will remove the requirement for Visa holders to apply for Form I765, an Employment Authorisation Document (EAD).
Both the lawmakers also mentioned that the proposed legislation aims to address the labor shortage in the country affecting the business and will also help the immigrant families thrive in the US.
🤔 Why was this bill proposed in the first place?
Currently, the approval for work authorization can take anywhere from six to eight months, with some applications taking over one year to be approved because of the massive backlog present in the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
The bill, endorsed by the National Immigration Forum and nonprofit advocacy organization UnidosUs, hopes to fill America's labor gap and allow these visa holders to work and provide for their families quickly.
Additionally, the bill could also help reduce the massive backlog of work authorization at USCIS by providing immediate work authorization to H4 visa holders and reducing the number of work authorizations USCIS must process.
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Gotabhaya faults US over unfair treatment of Maj. Gen.
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday alleged that the US government was persecuting Sri Lanka on the basis of false information and wrong assumptions.
A case in point was their recent decision to deprive Maj. Gen. Sudantha Ranasinghe of a US military programme on the basis of his being the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 53 Division during eelam war IV, an irate Rajapaksa said. Had the US Embassy inquired from Army Headquarters, Maj. Gen. Ranasinghe could have been cleared to attend the overseas course as he wasn't with the 53 Division during the war, Rajapaksa said.
Throughout the campaign the 53 Division was commanded by Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne of the Gajaba Regiment, whereas Maj. Gen. Ranasinghe of the Army Engineers was at the helm of the formation for five months beginning late last year. Recently he was appointed the Military Secretary. The bottom line was that Maj. Gen. Ranasinghe hadn't been in command of any of the fighting formations, namely the 57 Division, Task Force I/the 58 Division, 59 Division, 53 Division, 55 Division and three other Task Forces involved in the Vanni offensive.
The Defence Secretary said that he couldn't understand the basis for the US decision to deny a senior officer, of a friendly country, an opportunity to enhance his knowledge.
Army Commander Lt. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya raised the issue with the US Embassy. The Army Chief pointed out that Maj. Gen. Ranasinghe had been left out of the programme without any valid reason. Having listened to the representations made by the Army Headquarters, the US Embassy acknowledged that a mistake had been made.
The Defence Secretary said that nothing could be as foolish as rejecting an officer on the basis of him being in command of the 53 Division or any other fighting formation during the conflict.
Maj. Gen. Ranasinghe took over a state-run project to rehabilitate ex-LTTE cadres in Feb 2010. He succeeded Maj. Gen. Daya Ratnayake.
The Defence Secretary expressed surprise that the US Embassy was unaware of Maj. Gen. Ranasinghe's role as the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation. During his tenure as the rehabilitation chief, Maj. Gen. Ranasinghe worked closely with the international community.
Rajapaksa said that those trying to haul Sri Lanka up before an international war crimes tribunal over accountability issues propagate lies. The alleged use of cluster bombs, too, was another lie propagated by interested parties, the Defence Secretary said, while challenging those accusing Sri Lanka of mass killings, during the final phase of the conflict, at least to come up with one figure. He pointed out that some alleged 40,000 perished during the final phase. Others talk about 70,000 deaths, whereas some British politicians allege 100,000 deaths, the Defence Secretary said.
The Defence Secretary urged the US not to be deceived by false propaganda. "We expect the international community to appreciate our efforts against terrorism. Unfortunately a section of the global community is targeting us over unsubstantiated allegations," Defence Secretary Rajapaksa said.
Responding to a query by The Island, the Defence Secretary said that combating terrorism was a serious matter, which shouldn't be undermined by private agendas of various individuals. The LTTE rump had repeatedly targeted some of Sri Lanka's top military officers, with Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva, currently Sri Lanka's Deputy Permanent Representative in New York being the primary target.
The Sri Lankan government is expected to raise the issue with a high level US delegation scheduled to arrive in Colombo over the weekend. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State James Moore, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence Vikram Singh, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jane Zimmerman are scheduled to visit Colombo and Male during the period of January 26 and February 1. James R. Moore has been a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs since September 2010. Moore was previously the Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in Colombo from 2006 to 2009.


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Jerusalem Even Older Than Thought: Archaeologists Find 7,000-year-old Houses
Discovery made while building a road in Shuafat, in north Jerusalem, includes earliest-known houses in Jerusalem, gemstone beads and stone tools.
Nir Hasson
Ruth Schuster
Bowl carved out of basalt rock, dating back about 7,000 years, found in north Jerusalem during salvation excavations ahead of building a road. Assaf Peretz, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Stone houses and artifacts dating back 7,000 years have been discovered in Jerusalem, demonstrating that the settlement existed even longer than had been supposed. The houses showed various stages of building, indicating that they had been in use for centuries.
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The discoveries are the oldest known remains of human habitation in Jerusalem. Previous discoveries from Chalcolithic-era Jerusalem had included pottery sherds and bones, but not signs of housing.
It had had been widely assumed that the Jerusalem area had been inhabited for 4,000 or 5,000 years.
The homes and artifacts were found by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the neighborhood of Shuafat, in north Jerusalem, in the course of a "salvage excavation" ahead of building a new road.
Lurking just a meter below the surface of the ground, the archaeologists discovered walls, still standing up to a level of five stones, as well as pottery sherds, flint tools, gemstone beads and much more, dating to the early Chalcolithic era, around 5,000 BCE.
Israel has a vast array of archaeological remains going back to the dawn of mankind and before. Remnants from the Chalcolithic era, when man began to develop copper (chalcos in Greek) use to augment his stone tools (lithos in Greek), are common in this area.
Evidence of 7,000-year-old houses in Jerusalem
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In Jerusalem specifically, however, at Abu Ghosh, Motza Junction, and the Holyland compound, Chalcolithic finds had been discovered, but they were sparse, probably because the city and its surroundings have been populated throughout, with constant cycles of building and destruction. Stones used in the walls of ancient homes would have been repurposed, for example - why quarry new ones if old ones will serve.
In the nearby City of David (by the Old City of Jerusalem), for instance, sherds from the Chalcolithic era had been found, but no dwellings.
Prehistoric Jerusalem simply got rolled over by history, explains Ronit Lupo, director of the Shuafat excavation for the IAA. "On completion of the excavations at Shufat, it is quite evident that there was a thriving settlement in the Jerusalem area in ancient times," she said, adding that the homes had been built to high standards that wouldn't have shamed more modern builders.
The flint tool discoveries show what the prehistoric locals had been doing 7,000 years ago, Lupo says: "Small sickle blades for harvesting cereal crops, chisels and polished axes for building, borers and awls, and even a bead made of carnelian (a gemstone), indicating that jewelry was either made or imported. The grinding tools, mortars and pestles, like the basalt bowl, attest to technological skills as well as to the kinds of crafts practiced in the local community."
Mortars and pestles had been in use for millennia by the time this hamlet was erected in Shuafat. Huge ones carved out of boulders and bedrock going back more tham 11,000 years have been found all over the Levant.
The flint sickles found in Shuafat bore the kind of glazing created by use in harvesting grain, a practice developed in the region thousands of years earlier. (Even the production of olive oil was already known in that era.)
Vegetarians, the ancient Jerusalemites evidently were not. "We also recovered a few bones of sheep/goat and possibly cattle; these will be analyzed further in the Israel Antiquities Authority laboratories, permitting us to recreate the dietary habits of the people who lived here 7,000 years ago and enhancing our understanding of the settlement's economy," Lupo added.
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Best And Brightest Asteroid Occultation Ever To Be Visible Across New York State
Below is the official press release by the International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) on the upcoming occultation of Regulus by asteroid Erigone on March 20th. Please reference CNYO.org for more up to date information, they will have more to announce about efforts to monitor this occultation in the next week or two. Meantime, this is your one-month warning!
Public invited to help measure size and shape of distant asteroid
Media contact: Ted Blank, tedblank@gmail.com
Alternate contact: Steve Preston, stevepr@acm.org
Just after 2:05 a.m. EDT on March 20, 2014, anyone with clear skies along a 70-mile-wide belt running diagonally from Long Island and New York City up through New York State into Canada may be able to see the bright star Regulus simply disappear from the sky for up to 14 seconds as an invisible asteroid glides silently in front of it.
A chance alignment of orbits is predicted to cause Regulus to "wink out" as the mammoth asteroidErigone passes directly between Earth and the star, temporarily blocking its light from reaching us (the asteroid itself remains in its normal orbit which never comes anywhere near Earth). Regulus (the star which will wink out) is in the constellation Leo the Lion and, as one of the brightest stars in the sky, is easy to find.
An event where an object in space blocks the light from a distant star is called an "occultation," from the Latin word meaning "to conceal or hide." The International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA), a group of volunteers, collects observations on about 200 asteroid occultations per year. However, this is the first time that such a dramatic and obvious occultation will be visible in such a heavily populated area without the need for any kind of optical aid like a telescope or binoculars.
What makes this asteroid event more notable is that the public is invited to assist scientists in recording the event to measure the size and shape of the asteroid. Just by using a video camcorder, a digital SLR camera with video capability, or just a smartphone or a stopwatch, anyone can contribute to the scientific study of the asteroid in question. "In addition to the opportunity to share in a moment of celestial drama, we hope to enlist thousands of 'citizen-scientists' to time this event, allowing us to document it more thoroughly than any other asteroid occultation in history" said Steve Preston, President of IOTA. "The more observers scattered across the path of the shadow who time the disappearance and reappearance of the star, the more accurately we can measure the asteroid's size and shape."
IOTA has created a "Frequently Asked Questions" page at www.occultations.org/Regulus2014. Here, detailed information may be found on the recommended techniques that the public may use to record and time the event, as well as how to submit their observations for analysis after the event.
Although the asteroid will remain a safe 100 million miles from Earth, as it passes in front of the star its 70-mile-wide shadow will sweep from southeast to northwest across Nassau and Suffolk counties, all five boroughs of New York City and the Hudson River Valley, with the center of the predicted shadow path following a line roughly connecting New York City, White Plains, Newburgh, Oneonta, Rome and Pulaski before crossing into Canada. See Illustration 1 for the current prediction of where the shadow will pass.
Ill. 1. Estimated path of the shadow of the asteroid Erigone during the occultation of Regulus on March 20, 2014. The green line represents the predicted center line of the ~50 mile wide asteroid shadow. The blue lines represent the width of the asteroid, where edges of the shadow would fall if the actual center of the shadow followed the green line. The red lines represent the uncertainty in the path, meaning that the actual shadow will most likely pass somewhere between the red lines. There is a smaller chance that one edge could be slightly outside one or the other of the red lines.
At the time of the occultation, Regulus will be about 40 degrees high in the southwest, or about half-way up from the horizon to a point straight overhead. Illustration 2 below is a "sky-map" showing the star's location in the sky along with some convenient reference points to help get oriented.
Ill. 2. Finder chart for March 20, 2014, looking southwest. The red dot at the top represents the point directly overhead. Regulus will be approximately half-way up in the sky, at the bottom of the reversed "question mark" that makes up the "mane" of Leo the Lion. Saturn, the Moon, Mars and Jupiter are shown on this map in the positions they will occupy on this date, as are the twin stars of Gemini (Castor and Pollux) just above Jupiter.
To choose an observing location, members of the public can refer to Illustration 1 and select any place between the outer lines. Since the path the shadow will follow may change slightly, observers should check the online zoomable map at tinyurl.com/regulus2014map in the days before the event for any last-minute adjustments to the path prediction. Additionally, people situated as far as 10 path-widths on either side of the center line are encouraged to make an observation in case Erigone has a moon which might momentarily block the star's light. Video recordings will be needed to confirm the fleeting disappearance that a tiny moon of Erigone might cause.
After the event, the public may report their timing observations attinyurl.com/regulus2014report, including reports of a "miss," or no occultation. "Both actual timings and 'miss' observations are extremely valuable," said Preston. "Timings of the disappearance measure the asteroid's diameter in the dimension along its orbital path, but 'miss' observations improve our understanding of how wide it is across its path. Furthermore, both types of reports improve our understanding of the asteroid's orbit."
Typically only a few observers see these types of events, allowing the diameter of the asteroid to be measured at just a few places. However, with a large number of observers, the opportunity exists to categorize the asteroid's entire silhouette, as seen for asteroid (234) Barbara in Illustration 3 below.
Ill. 3. Outline of asteroid (234) Barbara obtained by multiple observers timing an occultation in 2009. The observers were spread out across an area over 40 miles wide. The horizontal white gaps in the solid lines represent the period of time when the asteroid blocked the light from the star for that observer. The gaps between the lines themselves represent the distance between observers on the ground. Each observer saw the star pass behind a slightly different portion of the asteroid, allowing the asteroid's diameter to be measured at multiple locations. Note the large crater at the south end of the asteroid. This level of resolution is far greater than anything possible with ground-based telescopes, but more observers would have allowed even finer details to be measured.
Members of the public with additional questions should refer to the FAQ page atwww.occultations.org/Regulus2014, email regulus2014@occultations.org or see the article in the March, 2014 issue of Sky and Telescope Magazine.
About IOTA
The International Occultation Timing Association, with its worldwide sister organizations in Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, S. Asia/India, Mexico, Latin America and South Africa, provides free occultation predictions and planning and analysis software, sponsors online Internet discussion groups and publishes the Journal of Occultation Astronomy. The main IOTA webpage is www.occultations.org. The Yahoo discussion group can be found athttp://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/IOTAoccultations/info and is open to all with an interest in this topic.
A PDF copy of an article from the March, 2014 issue of Sky and Telescope Magazine on the occultation is linked HERE. Permission to include this article has been granted by Sky and Telescope.
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Caramoan est une municipalité de la province de Camarines Sur, sur l'île de Luçon aux Philippines. Elle est située à l'extrémité orientale de la péninsule de Caramoan, appréciée des touristes pour ses plages de sable blanc ou rose.

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Back HIV-Related Conditions Neurocognitive Damage to Blood-Brain Barrier May Explain Neurocognitive Problems
Damage to Blood-Brain Barrier May Explain Neurocognitive Problems
Category: Neurocognitive Problems
Published on Friday, 08 July 2011 11:12
Written by Matt Sharp
HIV weakens the blood-brain barrier, which may help explain low-level cognitive impairment in people with HIV despite effective antiretroviral treatment.
Numerous studies have shown that people with HIV are more likely to experience mild-to-moderate cognitive impairment, and at an earlier age, than HIV negative people. The precise reason for this is not well understood. HIV enters the brain during early infection, but does not infect neurons.
Eliseo Eugenin from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and his colleagues have been studying astrocytes for years. These cells are an integral part of the blood-brain barrier, a network of blood vessels that protects the brain from toxins and other harmful substances. Astrocytes help to support the blood vessels that make up the barrier wall.
As described in the June 29, 2011, Journal of Neuroscience, using human cells in a laboratory model the team found that HIV infects approximately 5% of astrocytes. They saw similar results in a previous study in 2007. Infection of even this small proportion of astrocytes led to the death of others nearby, making the blood-brain barrier more porous.
The researchers next looked at structures called gap junctions that telegraph chemical signals from one astrocyte to others. They found that the HIV-infected astrocytes emit toxic signals that kill other surrounding uninfected astrocytes, compromising the integrity of the blood brain barrier. Blocking gap junctions prevented changes to the barrier, indicating that these lethal signals are transmitted via these junctions.
"This [blood-brain barrier] disruption is due to endothelial apoptosis, misguided astrocyte end feet, and dysregulation of lipoxygenase/cyclooxygenase, BKCa channels, and ATP receptor activation within astrocytes," the study authors wrote. "All of these alterations in [blood-brain barrier] integrity induced by a few HIV-infected astrocytes were gap junction dependent, as blocking these channels protected the [blood-brain barrier] from HIV-infected astrocyte-mediated compromise."
Eugenin's team performed similar experiments using brain tissue from macaque monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (a relative of HIV), and found that infected astrocytes had the same effect on surrounding cells.
"Researchers have been stymied to explain why HIV-associated neurological complications persist, despite potent combination antiviral therapies that have dramatically improved health and survival," said Igor Grant from the University of California at San Diego in a press release issued by the Society for Neuroscience, which publishes the journal. "This study provides a possible explanation indicating that minute numbers of infected astrocytes can trigger a cascade of signals that could open the brain to various toxic influences."
While antiretroviral therapy has been useful in preventing serious neurological problems such as severe dementia and meningitis, 40% to 60% of people with HIV still have low-level cognitive impairment. As people with HIV age and are at higher risk for neurocognitive decline, this research may lead to new treatment approaches to block or modify these signaling pathways that lead to cell death and weakening of the brain's protective barrier.
Investigator affiliations: Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
A Eugenin, JE Clements, MC Zink, and JW Berman. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection of Human Astrocytes Disrupts Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity by a Gap Junction-Dependent Mechanism. Journal of Neuroscience 31(26):9456-9465 (abstract). June 29, 2011.
Society for Neuroscience. HIV Disrupts Blood-Brain Barrier. Press release. June 28, 2011.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Solving the Puzzle of Cognitive Problems Caused by HIV Infection. Press release. July 1, 2011.
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Sera Trimble: in pursuit of perfection
November 25, 2019 Petrol Mum
Sera Trimble might just be the living embodiment of 'the American dream'. From starting off as a valet at a local hotel in her hometown of Seattle, to becoming one of Hollywood's most sought after stunt drivers, all in less than a decade, Trimble's rise to the top of her profession has been nothing short of stratospheric.
In this exclusive interview with Porsche that we have shared below, Trimble explains her route to the top, why she likes to under-promise and over-deliver and why her constant quest for perfection has left her with a strong affinity for a German brand that shares an equally focused mindset …
Were you always interested in driving cars for a living?
My interest in driving cars for a living was a natural progression. In high school my job was delivering Pizzas, which was a male-dominated driving job. Then when I moved to Seattle to go to art school, I worked at a Blockbuster video store, which involved a lot of chatting to guys about movies. From there I transitioned to working as a valet at a hotel, which also involved a lot of chatting with guys, but this time about cars. And then somehow, I ended up combining both by driving cars and working on movies. A natural progression.
Not every valet goes on to be a stunt driver. How did you make it happen?
When I was working at the hotel in Seattle a film crew from LA was staying there. After watching me whip cars around the front of the hotel, the Director on the shoot came up to me and asked if I'd ever thought of driving for a living? My response was "well, look at these cars that I'm driving right here". But he pressed on: "No, I mean on commercials and TV". I didn't even know that was a thing at that point.
He then invited me down to the shoot as a Production Assistant (PA) so that I could see the camera crane, picture car and the precision driver. I jumped at the chance and I paid a fellow valet $40 to cover my morning shift so I could go and hang out with the film crew.
I really enjoyed working at the hotel because I loved who I worked with and it was very hard for me to think about getting a different career outside of the hotel industry. But I met this film crew, and everyone was really nice, and I thought, you know what, this is something that maybe I could go and do. I like all these people.
Then four months later I flew to LA.
And is that when you started your driver training?
Yeah. I took the Rick Seaman stunt driving school, which the driver from the prior shoot referred me to in LA. He said it would be better if people knew that I had a decent amount of experience with certain manoeuvres like 90-degree slides and 180s.
It was a three-day school and internally I kept thinking, "I don't want to move to LA if I'm bad at this". Thankfully at the end of the three days the instructors at the school said, "You should move here and do this". And I did.
However, the first three years in LA were spent being a PA on commercials to learn what everyone does and the set etiquette, and I spent every extra ounce of money on doing some sort of driving training, because I never wanted to get hired to be a driver and not be able to do what they wanted.
Because if you say you're a professional at something, you should be a professional. Getting there and saying, "I don't know how to do that", that's unacceptable to me.
Would you say you're on a constant quest for perfection?
Yes. Because I want to be a good driver, not a good female driver.
I'm consistently trying to improve my skill. I'm always trying not to suck. That's basically my job. My whole life is trying not to be a YouTube fail video that goes viral.
Did you ever experience a big break moment?
One of the first big jobs my mentor, Brent Fletcher, put me in for was a Domino's commercial, where the delivery driver is delivering pizzas in what looks like Gotham City — it was around the time The Dark Knight came out — and she's getting chased and rammed by the Joker's car.
I had worked on commercials for years before that with average budgets. But when I showed up to this commercial it was huge — two giant camera packages, trailers — it looked like we were on a movie.
To this day it is still one of the most intense shoots I've done for all sorts of reasons. Lots of variables.
Is that the job you're most proud of?
No. That would be a commercial where I had to do a reverse 180-degree slide into a parking space.
The premise was that a young girl was taking her driving test at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) and her mom tells her to do it 'just like we practiced'. Then the young girl goes ripping around the driver's-ed course, slides through the slaloms and then does a reverse 180 into a parallel parking spot in front of the DMV.
What made the manoeuvre particularly difficult was that it was supposed to be a forward 180 into the space, which I had rehearsed. But the car wouldn't allow me to perform the manoeuvre as the electronics just shut everything down as soon as they sensed the rear wheels had locked up. So, I couldn't power slide into it, and I couldn't use the hand brake.
Then the stunt coordinator (Brent Fletcher) pitches the idea that we could do a reverse 180 to a stop, although he admits that the difficulty level is way harder. I tried to downplay my nerves but if I got one element wrong, between lifting off the throttle, flicking the wheel and transferring the weight, the car would just walk backwards into the kerb. And it was around this point I was also told that this particular car was handmade because it wasn't a factory vehicle yet, and the wheels were the only set in America.
We decided to work on the manoeuvre out in a parking lot to the side. At one point I even had to ask my mentor for a moment, and he laughed at me because I was pacing around and hyperventilating – I'm a very under-sell, over-deliver person, but I'm not a 'keep my cool person'.
In the end we went for it. The speed had to be very specific so that the car didn't over rotate and hit the kerb. Thankfully I had a passenger in the car, who was stunt doubling the driving instructor, and he acted as my speedometer as I was looking out the rear window. So he'd call out, "18, 20, 22" and then "hold, hold, hold". And then I'd listen for the verbal cue on the radio to whip the car around.
It was so technical and precise, but we did it three times and I didn't hit the kerb once.
You get to drive all manner of cars for your day job, but what do you have in your own garage?
Well, I have a pretty filthy G-body 1986 911 Carrera with IROC bumpers. It looks a bit like a 964 — I don't really like the look of the impact bumpers, I prefer a streamlined look. And then I have a Macan on the driveway, because the streets around here are pretty poor quality and it soaks up the bumps brilliantly.
Why Porsche?
Because they're great. I got interested in trying a different platform after having a number of rear-wheel drive, front-engined sports cars. So, I went mid-engine, rear-wheel drive with a Cayman GTS, which was my introduction to the Porsche brand.
Ironically, though, I'm not the kind of woman who likes to be seen in a new car, so I had it for four months and drove it only on Saturdays and Sundays at 6am up Angeles crest Canyon driving with friends. And then I would park it by 9am to avoid attention.
In the end I decided to swap it for a Macan, which has a lot of the characteristics of the Cayman but is a little more understated. I use it mostly to commute and for road trips, but it's surprisingly fun to canyon carve in.
But your old 911 is your true love?
Yes. Although it was a bit of a love/hate relationship at first, because when I got it the whole transmission needed to be rebuilt. But when it was fixed, I went on a 1,000-mile drive with my friends up to Big Sur to go camping. It was 1,000 miles in three days, avoiding highways and just using backroads.
I have never experienced a car you can drive so hard, sitting at 4,500-5,000 rpm for hours on end while it's 110 degrees outside. The temp gauge never went higher than halfway. It was the most impressive beating of a machine I've ever seen. And it happens every year with 20 of us, with a big majority of the group being in old 911s, 356s or 912s. I love seeing everyone's modifications to a car that looks so similar to the untrained eye — everyone's little personal details. I can certainly appreciate that now.
How much tinkering have you done to the 911?
A lot. The first thing I changed was the differential. I love a limited slip diff, because I like how the car responds to it; on track, the way that it responds when you lift off the throttle is amazing. The whole suspension has also been reworked — there are dropped spindles in the front, which allows it to sit lower but it makes it challenging to get out the driveway. And it used to have a splitter which I've cut back a bit to make it more useable.
There are also all-new motor mounts, a new exhaust to replace an aftermarket item that droned at a cruise and flat black Fifteen52 wheels. I love that the car has no chrome.
In my profession I could be perpetually jobless for the rest of my life or someone could call me tonight and make me work tomorrow. Oh actually, I did get called earlier today and I have to work tomorrow! I better put that in the calendar …
In terms of cars? The Macan is great for the rough streets in my neighbourhood and the '86 Carrera is just me — it's loud, it smells of exhaust fumes, and it sounds and looks like a rough and tough race car. I'm not a new Porsche girl, I like the super-rough old Porsche.
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Blitilda és un personatge que apareix en dues genealogies carolíngies, la Genealogia domni Karoli, del començament del segle IX i la Genealogia domni Arnulfi'', del segle IX. És donada com a filla del rei Clotari I (o Clotari II segons els documents), esposa d'Ansbert i mare d'Arnulf de Metz al començament del segle VII. L'existència d'Arnulf és confirmada per documents contemporanis, al contrari dels seus pares. Les dues genealogies són massa tardanes per tenir qualsevol autoritat. La filiació reial de Blitilda o Biliquilda és impossible des d'un punt de vista cronològic.

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On April 20th in downtown Santa Monica, CA, StartEngine hosted the second ICO 2.0 Summit. Over 1,041 people attended, and the event was a smashing success. Just ask the people who tried the hummus-quinoa wraps. They were delicious.
In total, there were 7 keynotes, 40 speakers, and 16 ICO pitches at the day-long event. The room was packed as industry leaders sat together to discuss the future of ICOs and the path to liquidity for security tokens.
Much has changed since StartEngine's first ICO 2.0 Summit on November 10, 2017. After many statements from the SEC, the regulatory climate is shifting as the definition of a utility token narrows. The turning tide was clear from the very first panel at the ICO 2.0 Spring Summit when moderator Jay Samit asked, "what type of clarity would you like from the SEC [on what makes a token a security]?" That question echoed throughout the day as industry leaders debated the differences between utilities and securities and, in turn, what that means for the businesses issuing tokens.
That question and many more were addressed as attendees heard from keynote speakers, including Chia co-founder Ryan Singer, Upfront Ventures managing partner Mark Suster, angel investor Gil Penchina, and CryptoOracle partner Lou Kerner. Panelists covered everything from ICO litigation to the path to liquidity in the secondary marketplace to structuring a regulated ICO, the ICO 2.0's namesake.
What makes a token a security?
There were also several announcements from the summit, including PrimeTrust's CEO and Chief Trust Officer Scott Purcell telling the crowd that PrimeTrust is working on a Regulation Crowdfunding crypto escrow. Josh Stein, the CEO of Harbor, one of the event's panelists, also announced the week of the summit that Harbor had successfully completed a $28M raise to develop its securities token platform.
After the summit, attendees gathered in the courtyard for a cocktail hour and an artwork raffle as the sun set over the Pacific. Missed the summit? While you can't recreate the magic of a happy hour past, you can join over 6,000 people that have already watched the summit online.
If you're interested in being a part of the tokenized future, don't miss the next ICO 2.0 Summit on October 19, 2018 in Santa Monica, CA!


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To Improve Peacekeeping, UN and AU Need to Improve Partnership
June 22, 2018 by Gustavo de Carvalho
Residents of Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur, queue up to receive medical treatment from the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), as part of a medical campaign in the area. (UN Photo/Olivier Chassot)
The Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative, in the words of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, is part of a new attempt to mobilize political action around the United Nations peacekeeping reform process. The A4P is structured around overcoming the inadequate performance of peace operations through the four "Ps" described in the 2015 High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO): people, politics, partnerships, and performance. More than developing new recommendations, the A4P aims to bring together elements of different reviews of the UN peace and security architecture as a means to create a cultural shift in the organization, and ultimately to realize better results for peace operations in the field.
The inclusion of partnerships in this process creates the need for a closer look at one of the UN's most important partners when it comes to peacekeeping, the African Union (AU).
Since its creation in 2002, the AU has been able to showcase some of its comparative advantages in responding to new demands for peacekeepers, including in environments facing asymmetric threats. The increasing demand for organizations to step in can be seen by the wide range of peace operations mandated by the AU, as in Burundi (2003-2004), Sudan (2004-2007), Somalia (2007-to date), or Mali (2013). In recent years, the AU has also authorized a range of more offensive types of operations led by countries in a specific region, often referred to as ad hoc security initiatives, such as the Multinational Joint Task Force against Boko Haram (MNJTF) and the G5 Sahel Force.
At a strategic level, the UN Security Council and AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) have increased their interaction, including through the hosting of joint bi-annual meetings. Operationally, the partnership takes place at several levels, from joint mission specific planning and desk-to-desk meetings. One example is the UN-AU joint task force on Peace and Security, that aims at reviewing the status of the engagement between the two organizations, and is represented by senior officials from both the UN Secretariat and the AU Commission.
The Joint UN-AU framework for enhancing the partnership on peace and security, launched in April 2017, is often seen as a culmination of efforts to boost coordination between the two organisations strategically and operationally. One year on, however, there is still much to be done in ensuring a greater degree of coherence and coordination between the two institutions, particularly when it comes to ensuring continued buy in that strengthens their relationship.
The challenges facing the relationship between the two institutions have been quite accurately described. UN-AU relations, according to research, are at times "characterised by considerable conflict, mistrust, and tension, often hindering the predictability and conduct of effective peace operations." Examples of challenges can be identified in 2017 when the Security Council refused to approve funding of the G5 Sahel Force or current challenges in ensuring continued support to the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
What Can be Done to Enhance the UN-AU Partnership?
At a strategic level, there are many opportunities for the AU PSC and the Security Council to engage beyond their bi-annual meetings, which are often criticized by limited implementation and insufficient follow up of their communiqués. Hosting more regular meetings between the AU PSC and the Security Council could be a useful way to further develop political processes and coordination of day-to-day decisions. This could, for instance, be done by further using the Security Council ad hoc working group on conflict prevention and resolution in Africa as a means to provide a structured space for engagements between the two organizations. While achieving common visions between the two organs will remain a challenge, more constant interaction between them could assist in increasing mutual understanding of opportunities and constraints for coordination.
In order to achieve such a shift, the role of the three African members (A3) in the Security Council is critical. In 2018, the A3 is composed by Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, and Ethiopia, and in 2019, Ethiopia will be replaced by South Africa. By championing AU voices in the Security Council, the A3 have a key responsibility to further ensure that AU practices and discussions can support strengthened cooperation between the two institutions. Therefore, addressing divisions among A3 members and limited coordination between positions taken in Addis Ababa and New York are critical. This would be particularly relevant when the Security Council shows willingness to respond or support processes led by the AU.
Both organizations will also have to further clarify their roles and responsibilities in the deployment of ad hoc security initiatives. The G5 Sahel, for instance, was politically supported and authorized by both the Security Council and the AU PSC, but neither organization controls (or funds) the deployment of the operation, which is done directly by its troop contributors and other external partners. The inability of the Security Council to resolve its divisions regarding the types of support to the G5 Sahel and use of UN assessed contributions for funding of the force, especially between France and the United States, showed there is much to be done in resolving the differences between UN members on how to ensure sustainable and predictable funding to the AU.
In current and future ad hoc deployments, it is important that both organizations develop the appropriate policy guidelines, including issues related to funding, command and control, and doctrine, that can further clarify roles and responsibilities between them and their level of engagement and mutual support.
Part of the problem between the two institutions relates to the fact that their issues are not simply political, but bureaucratic. States are ultimately responsible for the political direction and accountability of international organizations like the UN and the AU, but bureaucrats still enjoy substantial design leeway due to the need for bureaucratic expertise.
One way to increase bureaucratic coordination between the UN and AU relates to more frequent and structured joint planning, analysis, and desk-to-desk interaction. While this should be done between the two organizations, it is however clear that there is still a great capacity gap between them. Expectations of what either party can contribute should therefore be realistic.
A capacity comparison between the UN Secretariat and the AU Commission shows very different levels of capacity between the two institutions. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the UN, for instance, has around 500 staff based in New York. Its AU counterpart, the Peace Support Operations Division, has a much more modest structure, with a few dozen staff in Addis Ababa.
Both organizations have liaison offices to the other. The UN office to the African Union (UNOAU), has considerably increased in size and relevance since its creation in 2010. The office now has around 50 staff, with the specific task of enhancing the partnership between the two organizations, focusing particularly in developing the AU's long-term capacity building and short-term operational support. However, as shared by the head of the UNOAU, Haile Menkerios, it is still important to minimize competition and duplication between UN and AU, through improved understanding of the dynamics, limitations, and challenges of each organization.
Many external partners have seconded staff to the AU Commission as a means to increase its capacity. The UN could consider seconding a larger number of personnel that are imbedded within the AU Commission. Such secondments are useful not only because they provide increased capacity to the AU, but also because they could improve the UN's own understanding of how the AU Commission operates internally in the long term.
The AU, on its part, needs to strengthen its presence near UN headquarters. At the moment, the AU only has a small office in New York. During fieldwork in New York in April 2018, many stakeholders shared a degree of frustration with the overall capacity of the office to influence policy processes at UN headquarters. This limited role was attributed to the size of the office as well as limited clarity regarding its role, reporting lines, and decision-making processes.
The UN and AU have, as mentioned, stepped up their attempts to strengthen the effectiveness of their partnership. According to one AU official, the partnership should be based on mutual trust and support. Speaking to the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the official expressed that there is still a sense of competition between the two institutions in their engagements. Therefore, it is important that better burden-sharing through a clearer division of labor, mutual trust, and burden-sharing arrangements is agreed upon. Only then can the organizations move toward a true partnership.
Gustavo de Carvalho is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.
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To Align Peacekeeping Mandates and Resources, Improve the Link Between the Security Council and Fifth Committee
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In the north, where I grew up, the coming of autumn brings with it a feast for the senses. On this particular day we were hiking in Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada. I can still feel the crunch of dry leaves underfoot as we walked along the forest floor. The leaves of the maples and dogwood above me were ablaze with colour. The brisk fall wind rustled through the leaves overhead as if to say, "winter is coming!" Soon, all of these magnificently outfitted trees would be bare, waiting for the coming of spring.
The sugar maples (Acer saccharum) had turned glorious shades of gold and yellow. The red maples (Acer rubrum) were decked out in scarlet, vermillion, orange, and even peachy pink. The tree on the left of the painting, the dogwood (Cornus alternifolia), had deepened to a collection of purple-red, pink, and violet. What a treat for an oil painter! With each painting, as I relive the experience of being there, I feel a profound sense of gratitude for the wild beauty of nature.


Cloud data integration software accumulates data from various applications and stores it in the cloud, providing users with numerous security benefits. Businesses can access and manage this data remotely, across different devices and from any location. Some of the most widely used cloud data integration tools include Zapier, Jitterbit and Dell Boomi. Here are some of the ways this software boosts data security.
Cloud data integration optimizes a company's IT security by reducing the need for data centers and other on-premise infrastructure. These programs also enhance security by reducing malicious attacks from external sources. With cloud data integration, companies no longer have to rely on old software and legacy systems that might be vulnerable to bugs and viruses.
Security is a growing concern for businesses of all sizes, as 1.9 million data records are compromised every day. As a result, more companies are investing in cloud technology to keep their data secure.
As data is automatically backed up and saved in the cloud, data integration software users can access this information after a natural disaster or emergency. This provides quick access to their information after a computer is compromised or destroyed. Businesses can find data in one centralized location, too, instead of having to search various applications.
Disaster recovery is one of the top reasons companies invest in cloud data integration. Just one hour of downtime can cost $8,000 for a small company and $700,000 for larger enterprises.
Insider threats are responsible for 43 percent of all data breaches, according to research. Employers now use cloud data integration software to reduce these internal security violations. These programs let IT administrators set up access controls so only the right staff can access valuable data.
Cloud data integration programs consolidate multiple applications, providing brands with greater control over who obtains their data. User permissions can be granted to restrict access to confidential or sensitive information, for example, or block access entirely.
Cloud data integration software combines data from third-party applications and stores it in the cloud. This benefits businesses by minimizing security breaches and malicious attacks, keeping data safe in the event of a natural disaster or emergency, and restricting or blocking user access. More companies are investing in this technology: cloud computing now makes up a third of all IT infrastructure spending.


That is true, that part about it being okay to make mistakes, but not all mistakes are created equal.
On the way between my house and the grocery store there is a railroad track. If you get caught by a train going by, you might sit a while. Sometimes we've counted over 200 cars rumbling by.
One afternoon I was on my way home in our old Odyssey van, and right before I got to the track, the bells started clanging. I saw the train way down the way, and for some dumb reason I was in a hurry, didn't want to wait so I gunned the engine to rush through the crossing.
Then . . . CRACK!!!
I didn't see it coming, the long red and white striped bar crashed down, breaking the windshield and scaring me seriously.
For a frightening split second I thought the bar would hold me there but it raised back up and I quickly drove across the tracks. On the other side the red light stopped me, and there I sat, trying to breathe, while a long and loud train passed close behind my van.
The light finally turned green and I drove the two miles home, shaking with fear (imagining about what could have happened) and shame (Sarah, how could you be so stupid?) and guilt, knowing I had to face Jake.
There is a beautiful story in the Old Testament (Genesis 27-33) about twin brothers. Jacob lied and cheated his brother Esau and ran away to live far away from him for fourteen or more years.
That day I came home with the broken windshield, I didn't expect Jake to throw his arms around my neck and kiss me – and he didn't – but his face and words gave me the message: Don't worry. It's okay.
The pain in my belly — the wave of fear, shame and guilt caused by that 'mistake' — started to calm, as I believed Jake's face.
There were years of my life that I didn't let myself be okay with making mistakes. I lived trying to earn love and show everyone I was someone special.
I knew about God and Jesus, but I had not experienced the power of His grace, His unconditional and complete forgiveness and acceptance.
In a world like this, and with a limited heart like mine, it's hard to believe in Unlimited Love like that.
It's hard to see the forgiving face of God.
But it would be a serious and grievous mistake not to.
Oh Sarah….. I can't believe you did that!
So grateful God spared you and gave Jake kindness towards you. I so often want to run ahead of God instead of waiting my turn.. I might not have a broken windshield, but I have experienced broken peace due to my own agenda. May we all SLOW down and trust God's will and way with our lives.
Another timely spiritual lesson, Sarah! Mercy shown when the bar went back up so you weren't held in the path of destruction! Grace shown by Jake to you as he has his own stories of pencils and erasers where he experienced gracious understanding and forgiveness from you as from one "pencil to another." Love your real life learning episodes you write so well and share so personally.


Planning to travel with food allergies is no small task. I've done it, mostly for the weddings of family and friends, or for a vacation in a house with a kitchen. Traveling to a place with a kitchen is a great way to travel with food allergies! Shorter trips, though, or trips that involve hotel stays, can be a bit trickier. Those have not been the best experiences for me, mostly because I didn't plan well enough.
I learned the hard way that if I miss the hotel fruit-and-yogurt continental breakfast option, I may not find another. "I'm sure I'll find someplace that has a bagel" may not be the case when you take the New Yorker out of New York state. And when you are with a big group, it can be difficult if you don't want to force everyone out of the Mexican restaurant they've been wanting to try.
My solution? I need to get better at traveling. Traveling is not the number one priority in my life, so I haven't made it a huge priority with food allergies. My private practice, my family, my home… these are my primary focus. I'm up for an adventure here and there, but I'm not hopping on a plane to Tokyo on a whim. That being said, if I want to travel in the future with any sort of ease, or join in a family vacation in the future without inducing panic, I need to make it a priority.
Later this winter, I'll be traveling for a long weekend to Georgia. Thankfully, I have a wonderful sister and sister-in-law who agreed to join for a short trip to see a new place and support me in practicing food-allergy travel. I'm now researching restaurants and food options in the area we plan to stay. I look up a couple of restaurants, and when I start to feel anxious about the whole thing, I take a break (or plan out foods I can pack with me).
I'll keep you posted on how it goes! And for those of you reading with your own food restrictions, please feel free to comment with any tips or advice on travel strategies that have worked for you.
Ok, readers, I have something new for you to check out. Along with writing and cooking, I work as a therapist (I may have mentioned that before…), and I recently made the jump into the world of private practice. I invite you to check out my website, www.perspectivesroc.com, to learn about Perspectives Mental Health Counseling. Starting from Scratch will remain a blog focused on food, coping with health issues, and cooking. However, the Perspectives website may be an added resource for any readers who are looking for more help.
Perspectives will feature monthly journal exercises and mindfulness tips, mental health resources, facts about counseling in general, and information about my private practice for anyone interested in counseling services.


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Web 2.0 is the most exciting thing to happen to education since the schoolhouse. It is a limitless classroom, allowing students access to anything they can define. Includes what's a digital citizen, how to create a blog, a classroom internet start page, a classroom wiki, how to join social networks and post pictures on Flikr, where to go for podcasting and online docs, and more.


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The Northwestern State University Student Services Center is the first campus building to be recreated in Minecraft, a popular video game.
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Jayce Gentry, president of the NSU Gamer's Guild, a student organization made of people who enjoy playing a variety of video and card games, explains that Minecraft is a PC game where you can build anything you want.
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Longtime local businessman Robert Hable, Executive Manager of Foy Motors in Many, has announced his candidacy for Mayor of Many.
"We have just gone through a year of everything being turned totally upside down, and I want to be a part of a growing, thriving community that serves all of its citizens," Hable said. "There are a lot of great people in Sabine Parish, we have a lot of diversity, and I've been able to make a wonderful life here because of that. So, it came down to a choice: I could put my head in the sand, pretend everything will be okay, and say, 'You know what, I'm not gonna do this' or I could dig deep into my heart and give everything I've got to do all the good I can for this town. And that's what I intend to do."
A protégé of the late Julian Foy, Hable came to Many from Shreveport in March 1998 to work at Foy Chevrolet after getting his Business Administration degree at Northwestern State University.
Florien veteran recalls attending Eisenhower's 1953 inauguration
Bobby Williams of Florien recalled the excitement of inauguration day in 1953, which he attended while enrolled in Officer School at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia.
"In the fall of 1952, I had returned from overseas duty and was stationed near Washington, D.C.," he stated.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower had been elected president of the United States to replace President Harry S. Truman.
"Our officer's school was ordered to enter a unit in the inauguration parade," he recalled.
He did not remember how but managed to be relieved of the parade duty.
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Joseph, Norma Thomas observe milestone wedding anniversary
Joseph C. and Norma Thomas Martin were married at the Gasaway German's (J.P.) home on January 5, 1951. They lived in Port Arthur, Texas, for 35 years and on Toledo Bend for the past 35 years of their marriage.
Ebarb High School names 2021 Students of Year
Ebarb High School is pleased to congratulate their Students of the Year for 2021. Pictured are 12 th grader Lexie Hillman, eighth grader Madelyn Wilson, and fifth grader Kyndel Gillie. Congratulations!
Mike Tarver Announces For Many Mayor
Mike Tarver
Longtime public servant Mike Tarver announced today that he will seek the office of Many Mayor in the March 20 primary.
Tarver stated, "After much prayer and careful planning of my time and resources, I have decided to offer myself again as your Mayor. I feel I can be an effective Mayor as I have vast experience."
He continued, "I have served in elected office as Many Mayor for eight years, on the Many City Council for four years, and as Justice of the Peace for 18 years."
State's unemployed to begin receiving $300 federal benefit boost
(The Center Square) – Unemployed Louisiana residents have begun receiving an additional $300 in weekly benefits provided by the federal government, the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) said.
The LWC has distributed about $7 billion to nearly 700,000 Louisianans since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the commission said. Most of that money has consisted of federal dollars, although the state's unemployment insurance trust fund was tapped out during the pandemic, forcing the state to borrow from the federal government to pay legally required benefits.
Though the original federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act pro-grams that made the additional benefits available expired Dec. 26, the replacement bill was signed the following day and recipients will not miss a payment, the LWC said. CARES Act recipients will have their prior claim restored and will be able to continue receiving benefits as before.
Cindy Lewing named Sabine Parish Principal of Year
Cindy Lewing
Cindy Lewing, principal of Zwolle Elementary School, is the 2020-2021 Sabine Parish Principal of the Year.
The school year has been challenging for ZES, which is home to Pre-K through sixth-grade students, dealing with both the COVID-19 pandemic closures in the spring and re-opening in fall. Still, she continued to lead the school and help bring along the construction and completion of a new state of the art elementary wing and administrative offices with the latest security features, which opened to students and staff this school year.
"My greatest accomplishments at ZES are introducing and implementing 'Leader in Me' and educated ZES students on how to be leaders in the classroom today and leaders of the community tomorrow," Lewing said. "ZES's school performance score (SPS) is currently a 63.8, a 2.4 increase over the previous 2018 SPS. ZES earned an 'A' letter grade for student progress in 2018 and 2019.
UMW officers installed
Installed at the Christmas luncheon hosted at the home of Diann Migliore on Thursday, December 10, 2020 are new leaders of the United Methodist Women of First United Methodist Church of Many.
Louisiana to get $342.2 million to promote broadband investment
(The Center Square) – Thirteen broadband providers in Louisiana will share $342.2 million in federal dollars meant to promote highspeed internet access in areas where it's not currently available.
The program is meant to subsidize development of internet infrastructure in areas where there aren't enough potential customers to otherwise justify the investment.
A total of $9.2 billion was doled out nationwide to 180 bidders, the Federal Communications Commission says. Providers must meet periodic buildout requirements that will require them to reach all assigned locations within six years.
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My name is Cameron or you can call me Cam for short. I've recently decided to get into Lucid Dreaming because of one of the benefits I've heard about it was the exploration of one's creativity within the dream. One thing you guys probably should know is that I'm Deaf and hard of hearing, I've worn a Cochlear Implant since I was two years old currently 21 now. So I don't know if any of you have any information on deaf people with lucid dreaming because I go to bed without the CI to recharge the battery. The reason I wanted to get into lucid dreaming because of the creativity since my interest is in Films and Graphic Design. I've watched plenty of films about lucid dreaming and I'm sure some of you have seen the popular one called Inception by one of my favorite directors, Christopher Nolan. I would like to kind of explore my dreams like Inception or a space travel lol. Just something to get my creative juice flow so I can start coming up with great movie ideas.


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Oregon/Stanford Tonight
61_Shasta November 7, 2020, 11:03pm #1
Oregon/Stanford will start as scheduled at 5:30 tonight on both ABC & ESPNU. At approximately 6 pm Mountain Time ABC will cut away to cover President-Elect Biden's speech. Coverage will continue on ESPNU & the ESPN app.
utahute2008 November 8, 2020, 12:13am #2
Thanks for the info. I want Stanford to win because I really like coach Shaw, but we need Oregon to dominate to get into the playoff picture. With their Rose Bowl win last year, I like their chances to impress the committee.
mUUser November 8, 2020, 1:20am #3
Appears to be overridden by a super spreader event. Will have to hit one of the other games.
sancho November 8, 2020, 1:59am #4
Did they move it to another channel? I'm watching Clemson/ND, but it's halftime. I'll switch to Oregon/Stanford if it's on somewhere
salUTE November 8, 2020, 2:07am #5
it's on now on espn3
Check out all that Utah prep talent in this game
LAUte November 8, 2020, 2:37pm #7
mUUser:
No super spreaders anymore. The virus is no longer useful.
Swanton November 9, 2020, 5:28pm #8
My thoughts after week 1: Oregon looks good. Like, really, really good. And clean. Stanford is not a bad team. And Oregon just did Oregon/SEC stuff to them. Oregon looks like how Utah looks at it's best. And Oregon is young. IF they keep this up, they could be USC-early 2000's good. They desperately need to keep Cristobal. If he runs the table this year, with his recruiting, I'd offer Saban/Swinney money.
9/11 on third downs? Are you kidding me?
USC…is USC. Look, they have more talent than anyone not named Oregon and it showed. USC played for 5 mins on Saturday and still won. ASU was perfect for 55 and lost. It's not fair. IF USC had a real coach, they'd be a top 5 team overnight.
If I'm USC, I go hard after Urban/Whitt (won't happen)/Fickle/…someone like that. Someon who will run the ball 40 times a game and play tough defense. ■■■■ the throw game. USC has so much talent, if they do what Pete Carroll did and run all over everyone and play tough defense…they'd be Pete Carroll's USC.
Throwing the ball is so overrated for a team like USC. And it's good to see Oregon know this lesson as well. Yeah, you have to be able to throw the ball. But if you can run it and stop the run, you will win most of your games (I think Whitt said a few years ago that if you hold an opponent under 100 yards rushing, you win over 80% of your games, no matter what the passing stats are).
I haven't seen Utah play, which clouds my judgement, but after week 1, there are two teams, talent wise, out there and everyone else.
Oh, and Daniels still can't throw from the pocket. It's weird. I've never seen a QB who is a level 10 outside of the pocket and a level 2 inside the pocket. He just can't do it. He looks like he doesn't know how to throw if he's standing still.
sancho November 9, 2020, 5:30pm #9
Swanton:
Throwing the ball is so overrated for a team like USC.
I think you are living in the 2000's. The best, most talent laden teams now - Bama, OSU, and Clemson - all balance the run with a lot of passing.
NewbombTurk November 9, 2020, 5:53pm #10
He looks like he doesn't know how to throw if he's standing still.
The Sundance Kid of QB's
Swanton November 9, 2020, 7:16pm #11
sancho:
So, I just looked at Alabama. I looked at every play on every scoring drive until they got up by 3 TD's, because at that point you are probably going to see a lot more rushing than passing.
This year, they have thrown the ball 125 times and rushed it 128 times. Against good teams (A&M and Georgia) they threw it 65 times and ran it 82 times.
Clemson passes until up 21: 179. Rushes: 149.
Ohio State passes until up 21: 57. Rushes: 52.
While the pass is important and you need to be able to do it, it's still a running/defense game.


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Q: Select values in relation to date dataframe python 3 I would like to sum values in the profit column with respect to the date year 2011. How should I do it?
import pandas as pd

raw=pd.read_excel('D:\Python\Sample-Superstore-Subset-Excel.xlsx')
data=pd.DataFrame(raw)
df1=data[['Order Date','Region','Profit']]
collect=0
for index,row in df1.iterrows():
    if(row['Order Date']==(2011)):
         collect=collect+row['Profit']
    else:
         pass
print(collect)

Sample of data:
       Order Date   Region     Profit
      0 2012-05-28  Central     1.3200
      1 2010-07-07     West     4.5600
      2 2011-07-27     West   -47.6400
      3 2011-07-27     West   -30.5100
      4 2011-07-27     West   998.2023
      5 2011-11-09     West  1388.0523
      6 2013-07-01     West  1001.4453
      7 2010-12-13     West  4390.3665
      8 2012-05-12     West  -141.2600
      9 2011-05-26     West  1045.4673

A: Try this code:
year=[value[0:4] for value in df["Order Date"]] #this returns only year values
df['year']=year #assigning the year values in the actual dataframe
df1=df.groupby(['year']).sum() #getting the total profit year wise
df1.rename(columns={'Profit': 'sum'}, inplace=True) #rename the column with sum
df2=pd.merge(df,df1,on='year') #combine the data frame
df2=df2.drop('year',axis=1) #drop the year column we created for calculation

df2 is the data frame you are looking for.
if you want to get the data of only 2011 do this before dropping the year column
df2=df2[df2.year=2011]
df2=df2.drop('year',axis=1)

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