What Are Learning from Hurricane Maria?
Would you be prepared for conditions like we are seeing in Puerto Rico?
As Category 5 Hurricane Maria began to threaten The Caribbean, preparations began in earnest. The warnings from weather services were dire and catastrophic damage was a certainty. With many in the storm's path, the official forecast was quite accurate inside of 5 days and with public access to model guidance, the very wise and cautious had as much as 8 days to prepare.
We advise all followers and subscribers to follow official forecasts from the National Hurricane Center, Storm Prediction Center, and National Weather Service. While NC Weather Happens, LLC is a private weather consulting company, we emphasize official forecasts and attempt to highlight local impacts to clients and social media.
What follows is a summary of their response and DOES NOT Replace any official preparedness recommendations. It is also important to understand we are talking about a weather related event, but preparedness can be extended to include such areas as civil unrest, war, electromagnetic pulse, or hosts of other doom and gloom unknown scenarios. Preparedness is whatever you are preparing for.
The island will have little to no power grid for a year or more.
Food will likely only be available through aid stations for an extended period of time.
As residents endure, patience is likely to run out and lawlessness will become an issue.
Candles / Lanterns / Flashlights and a supply of batteries.
The list can be as long as you want based on your family's needs and circumstances and should get you through the most common disruptions. Those we are frequently exposed to include Ice Storms, Extended Power Outages, Flooding along the coastal plain, and wind damage.
We are proposing to you an extension of the 72-hour preparedness kit to 10 days.
The short answer for Puerto Rico: The only preparedness option with a guarantee of survival, would be to leave the island before the storm. As that is not possible for the vast majority, after 3 days, we see supplies running out from their own advance preparations and more reliance on external aid.
What would a 10-day Kit look like and what would it include?
Here are some ideas to consider before hitting the stores. A Q&A section follows to help you get started.
This is the number one item on any preparedness list. You can survive many days without food, but not more than 3 without water.
It is recommended to have 1 gallon of water in storage for every person per day.
A typical residential hot water heater holds 30-60 gallons of clean water. Attaching a short hose to the drain valve at the bottom, and then filtering the sediment out with a clean cloth will work just fine.
Keep some Chlorox and / or water purification tablets on hand to keep your collected water clean.
5-Gallon potable water containers can be found at any camping store or outfitter. Just change the water every 6-months.
Remember that much of your water will be used in food preparation so plan for that as you prepare your list.
A 10-day supply sounds daunting to assemble, but is not that difficult if you have a well-stocked kitchen. To begin, go to your pantry and see what you already have on hand.
"Junk Food" is a convenience item and not used in this discussion, so if your pantry is filled with chips, soft drinks, and moon pies, you might have more work to do!
The USDA recommends a caloric intake of between 1,000 and 3,200 calories per day. Use this number as a starting point. Read the labels to get an idea of what you have.
Assume Frozen and Refrigerated food will spoil if not used/consumed in the first 24 hours.
Make a list of every item and use that as your shopping list (discussed below).
A single can of prepared soup can contain 300 – 600+ calories and feed 2 people one meal.
Check the Use-by / Sell-by dates on the product. Make sure to have the freshest products in your supply before disaster strikes.
If the can is dented or swollen, DO NOT USE. Generally, canned food will be safe to eat for up to 2 years under ideal storage conditions in cool and dry place.
Keep in stock only those foods you and your family enjoy!
Dried beans are an excellent source of protein but require a lot of water to prepare. The cooked beans can be used to supplement a canned product chosen above for a hearty meal.
Rice. Rice Rice Rice! Can't stress this enough… rice is a starch and will provide a quick energy boost which may be extremely important especially in winter. It is very cheap. A 25-pound bag is less than $25 at a warehouse store. It can also be used to stretch out a good canned meal so you can reduce the amount of canned goods you are going through.
Pasta Noodles. Pasta is another source of sugar and can be used to stretch out any meal plus it is quite filling. Keep in mind that it is also water intensive, so monitoring water usage is important with dried goods.
These are retail pre-packaged food kits usually dehydrated or freeze-dried.
There are many different manufactures that you can order from.
They are easy to store and have a 10 – 25 year shelf life and are quite tasty.
Look for high calorie content and low sodium as many are just too high in salt.
All require water so your water storage needs to be robust and frequently monitored.
Spices – Sugar, Iodized Salt, Pepper, Seasonings, Canned / Bottled Sauces. All of these will kick up any bland meal plus add extra minerals and calories which will be much needed in a crisis.
Processed Food – Canned items like Spam, have a 5-year shelf life and can be prepared many different ways.
Chocolate – Not much to add here other than having comfort food around can do wonders for one's spirit.
A credit / debit card is useless when there is no power but having cash on hand will let you get needed supplies.
When making a purchase, only display what is needed.
Events longer than 10-days, precious metals become extremely valuable for exchange.
Pet food or if 10 days is not possible, account for pets eating some of your own supply.
All their meds and toys.
These items will be needed to prepare food, keep things clean, and promote safety.
Flashlight and supply of batteries.
A cook stove and supply of fuel. These can be found at any outdoor section in a big box store and are relatively inexpensive.
5 Gallon Bucket(s) – The uses are incalculable for a 5 gallon bucket. You can store that 25 pound bag of rice in it! Use to remove debris, sanitation, haul fresh water, etc. There are entire pages on the web dedicated to their multiple uses!
Duct Tape – As many rolls as you can store. Can be used for anything and everything.
First Aid Kit – This can be as elaborate as you want to make it up to and including surgical grade!
Good set of hand tools for any repairs (hammer, screw drivers, pliers, saw, loppers, etc).
Sanitation supplies – Soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush, feminine hygiene, diapers, and toilet paper. Did I mention Toilet Paper? Remember when you run out, you have to get creative quickly, so make sure you have enough for 10 days!
A battery or hand-cranked emergency radio.
Heat source for winter months (kerosene heater with fuel, wood stove, etc).
(Never use gas grills or camp stoves indoors and keep a fire extinguisher handy when they are in use).
Now I know what I have, where do I start?
Shop as you normally do at your favorite store. The only thing you will do differently is take advantage of BOGO's. Make your purchases as you normally would, but just buy some extra, as you are able. Soon, that stockpile will grow. Look for sale items and go after them. Hygiene products can be best stored in the travel size and they are generally around a dollar. The dollar store is a great first resource to get the most bang for the buck!
Dedicate some shelves in your house, preferably in a cool dry place, and store them there. This does not have to be a massive house restoration project with a dedicated warehouse! You will be surprised how much stuff you can have on a well-organized 3-foot bookcase! Just be sure to keep your stockpile out of the elements and safe from pests. This is an investment into your survival so it needs to be protected.
I have a good 10-day supply. Now what?
If you followed the first rule, "only buy what you like to eat", then going forward is simple. USE IT! Treat this extra supply as you would the items in your normal pantry. The only thing you will do differently is make a note of what item was removed so that it can be replaced on your next shopping trip. Keeping your stock rotated will insure that all your perishable and non-perishable items are as fresh as possible when a disaster occurs.
What about all the stuff in my Fridge and Freezer?
Unfortunately, after the first 18-24 hours, food begins to spoil or defrost. Some guidance on the web on this issue suggests having a barbecue! Before things begin to spoil, cook it as soon as it is safe to do so. Cook everything to Well-Done. Eat it. Share it. Feed the pets. Just do not get into your stockpile unless you have to. Anything left over, dispose of as you can. Remember, trash will pile up and be subject to wild animals and scavenging. Just bury the leftovers.
What happens if I run out of water and aid isn't available?
Then you might want to look into a water purification product. I can endorse the "AlexaPure Pro" Gravity Fed Water Filtration System because I own one. It is easy to use, and the filter will last a very long time holding 2 gallons at a time. Couple this with a rainwater collection device (like the roll of plastic mentioned above) or rain barrels for your gutter, and you will have an endless supply of fresh water. It is also advisable to have a supply of water purification tablets on hand or Chlorox. ¼ teaspoon per gallon of water will disinfect your water nicely. There are many ideas out on the Web on this topic.
What happens if it looks like the disaster will be longer than 10 days?
This is a matter of what do you want to prepare for? Generally here in North Carolina, should a major disaster occur like Maria, aid from numerous sources will be flowing into shelters or distribution sites as soon as it is safe to do so. In our scenario here, we offer insight into how we can prepare for our known disasters. Many of them have lasted longer than 10 days, but they were very localized. If we look beyond this as a premise, then we are moving into "prepper" territory and beyond the scope of this article. If that is an area you wish to explore, there are some great prepper resources out there to peruse.
I live in an Apartment in the City and there just isn't any room. Where do I put everything?
As I said above, you'll be surprised at how much stuff you can put in a small space. You have to be creative. A plastic tub that slides under the bed can hold 60 cans of food! Just one 3-foot-long shelf can hold several weeks' worth of pasta! You can add under-the-sink shelving for under $10 for added storage. The most difficult part is getting organized. You will find that as you clear one shelf, you have all this stuff that still needs to go somewhere. At that point you need to sort things out and let out of date items go.
I am seeing in Puerto Rico, that lawlessness is beginning to occur and it's only been 72 hours since the storm. How do I keep my supplies from being stolen?
This is a sensitive subject and one I ask folks to consider carefully. There may be a time where you have to decide whether to keep your family alive or have your means to do so looted. Defense is a personal decision you have to make. This is beyond the scope of this article as it raises all kinds of scenarios and moral/ethical questions. So for this article, we strongly suggest you simply not tell anyone you have a stockpile and encourage those you trust to begin their own 10-day supply.
Why does FEMA suggest a 72-hour supply?
In Emergency Management, it has been observed that during the first 72 hours of a disaster, it takes a while for relief to arrive. The first 24 hours, the incident is usually still occurring and difficult to get resources in, so people need to hunker down and fend for themselves. Once the incident passes, aid is brought in, but it still may take a while before it gets to you, so the first 72 hours are critical for everyone. What you have in your 72-hour kit may be all you have until aid arrives.
This 10-day thing is overwhelming!
Folks, this is just a little article to get you thinking and to ask this one question: How can I take care of my family for 10 days? The ideas presented here have been gleaned from the Internet and Emergency Managers and when put into practice, is quite easy to maintain. Once you get started, it's also good to have a practice night. Everyone in the family gets a "lights out drill". No phones. No TV. It's ok to use plumbing but just make sure everyone knows what do to if the bathroom were not available. Get out the camp stove and prepare a meal outside. Read stories by candle light or play a game…make sure all the candles are out and the stove is cool, then turn in for the night. Take notes of what worked or needs improvement. Then improve on it and repeat until you are satisfied.
In no time, you will find yourself prepared. Once you are confident that your 10-day supply will keep you and your family safe, then you can go after those "prepper" scenarios if you wish.
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Maarten de Rijke is chaired Professor in the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. He has previously held positions at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam and at the University of Warwick.
His current focus is on intelligent web information access, with projects on search and discovery for informal text, vertical search engines, question answering, weakly or semi-structured documents, and multilingual information. Application areas include media analysis, scientific literature, cultural heritage, and political information.
He has published over 400 papers, has published or edited over a dozen books, is editor for various journals and book series, and a current or former coordinator of evaluation efforts of the Crosslingual Web Track at CLEF and Blog Track at TREC. He is a co-founder of, and consultant to, Talking Trends, a spin-off in the area of online media analysis.


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Giovanni Battista Vitali  fue un compositor y violinista italiano del denominado Barroco Medio, nacido en Bolonia el 18 de febrero de 1632 y fallecido en Módena el 12 de octubre de 1692.

Autor de cantatas, oratorios y  producciones instrumentales, creó una síntesis entre el contrapunto de sonata de iglesia y libre melodía de cámara. Influenciado por Jean-Baptiste Lully, fue precursor junto a Giuseppe Torelli en introducir el minué en la suite.

Entre sus obras hay que destacar doce sonatas instrumentales y dos salmos.

Sobre la célebre chacona en sol menor para violín y bajo continuo, se cree que es obra de su hijo, Tommaso Antonio Vitali, pues el manuscrito reza tan sólo Tommaso Vitallino. Sin embargo, lo más probable es que haya sido obra del violinista Ferdinand David (quien estrenó el concierto para volín de Mendelssohn). David dijo haberla descubierto, y la publicó junto con otras obras. Hoy se la puede oír también con una orquestación de Ottorino Respighi.

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Compositores de Italia del siglo XVII
Músicos de Italia del siglo XVII
Nacidos en Bolonia
Fallecidos en Módena

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Which products are best suited to mobile advertising?
No doubt it is the first thing you look at when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you see before you go to sleep: your mobile phone. Imagine when checking the weather app before you leave the house a banner pops-up showing an ad for a new movie. What will be the chance that this banner will have any effect on you?
Mobile phones have become a part of our lives. According to eMarketer (2015a) US adults spend an average of 3 hours per day on mobile devices. Therefore, it is not surprising that global spending on mobile advertising has been rapidly growing up to more than $100 billion in 2016 (eMarketer, 2015b). Marketers want to grab the opportunity to capture your attention while browsing on your phone. However, marketers are not very happy with the effectiveness of their mobile advertising campaigns. Most of the time, they do not know what they are doing and are using a so-called 'spray-and-pray' mentality.
Because of the large-scale investments that are being made in mobile advertising, a better understanding of factors affecting mobile advertising campaign performance is needed. This is where Bart et al. (2014) saw an opportunity for research. Their main question is: 'Under what product-related conditions are mobile display advertisements effective in changing consumers' product related attitudes and purchase intentions?'.
Bart et al. (2014) used a multi-campaign, multi-industry data set from a large U.S. market research agency. 39,946 consumers participated in their field study and completed a questionnaire about products featured in 54 mobile display ads from 2007 to 2010. This large and double mixed data set is one of the main strengths of the paper. The authors estimated Average Treatment Effects (the difference between the mean attitude or intention ratings in the exposed and control conditions) for attitude and intention, moderated by product involvement (high or low) and product type (utilitarian or hedonic).
The most striking result from their study is that mobile display advertisements tend to only be effective for products that are both utilitarian and have high involvement, such as washing machines and family cars. These ads, on average, increased positive attitude by 4.5% and intention to buy by 6.7%, while hedonic and low involvement product ads (such as a sports car or toilet paper) had no effect.
An underlying psychological reason for this result is that high involvement goods are relevant and consumers are likely to have retained information about them. Even though mobile display ads do not include a lot of information they do have the ability to influence consumers by triggering their memory about a product that has already been assessed. In addition, a higher involvement with the product tends to be processed cognitively rather than emotionally, which is why mobile display ads work better for utilitarian products rather than hedonic products.
The main managerial implications of this study are that given a product, marketers can now better understand whether a mobile display ad will be effective or not. Also, given the decision of a marketer to invest in a mobile display advertisement campaign, they can have a better sense of what product to use and how to position this product in order to maximize campaign effectiveness.
So after reading these results and interesting findings, what do you think, will a banner on your phone showing a movie ad have an effect on you?


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Home Newsroom News and press releases Attacks against journalists in Spain are unacceptable, says OSCE media freedom representative
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Attacks against journalists in Spain are unacceptable, says OSCE media freedom representative
TORONTO 1 April 2014
TORONTO, 1 April 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed today deep concern about the violence and intimidation by police against journalists covering the demonstrations which took place in Madrid on Saturday 29 March 2014.
According to media reports (eldiario.es and periodismohumano.com) and professional associations (Asociación Nacional de Informadores Gráficos de Prensa y Televisión, Federación de Sindicatos de Periodistas de España and Federación de Asociaciones de Periodistas de España), journalists who clearly identified themselves were attacked by police officers. Police also prevented the journalists from taking photographs and gathering information. The names of the journalists are Gabriel Pecot, Mario Munera and Juan Ramón Robles from eldiario.es, William A. Criollo (a freelance journalist) and Raul Capin from Diario DID, Mundo Obrero.
"Any attempt to intimidate or to attack journalists is a clear violation of the right to freedom of the media and cannot be tolerated," Mijatović said. "I call on the Spanish authorities to properly safeguard and improve journalists' safety when reporting on public demonstrations and to thoroughly investigate these serious attacks."
Mijatović has repeatedly stressed the importance of journalists' safety as it constitutes a basic pre-condition for the effective and full exercise of the right to freedom of information and for a free and democratic media landscape.
Mijatović is in Toronto participating in an international conference on Internet freedom.
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media observes media developments in all 57 OSCE participating States. She provides early warning on violations of freedom of expression and media freedom and promotes full compliance with OSCE media freedom commitments. Learn more at www.osce.org/fom, Twitter: @OSCE_RFoM and on facebook.com/osce.rfom.
Jennifer Adams
Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
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Office: +43 1 51436 6813
Fax: +43 1 514 36 6802
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Sorry guys, but I have to disagree with your assessments of the myths of the hobby!
I used cheapo craft store brushes for years of drybrushing, and they got shredded in record time. Sometimes I would trim the bristles as you said, depending on the brush shape. However, earlier this year I got some of the Citadel drybrushes just for the heck of it, and they still look like new after about 8 months of use. Haven't used the Army Painter brand, but I assume they will hold up good too. Well worth the $5-8 for the more expensive brushes.
On a side note, maybe for Christmas I will invest in some Windsor&Newtons and see if they really do make a difference.
On the water cups, I've been painting a lot of white lately and not only am I cleaning my brush in the usually red or blue water, but I even use that water directly to water down my white paint! Same for metallics. I usually paint the metals on my models first (not sure why, just like doing it that way) and I don't change the water before painting the rest of the model. The amount of pigment in the water is just so minute. Sometimes I will use my cup of water for days at a time.
Anyway, it's all opinion. Just thought I would share mine.
Oh, I agree with you both on the NMM!
For blending, I think you need to consider two kinds. Really, what you were talking about I think is technically called "glazing". It's where the paint is so thin that you put down only a very small amount of pigment on each brush stroke. Using some blank paint medium can help a lot there. The other (or the real?) blend is a wet blend. That's where you put two colors on the model, and swirl or "blend" them together with a brush (or two brushes). This usually involves a paint retarder. Sometimes, you can combine the two and do a blend with glazes!
Greg mentioned about doing blending on certain parts, and doing normal layers on other parts. I couldn't agree more! Some surfaces really lend themselves to a blend, and other times it could be overly difficult for no gain.
The last model I did (a dragon), I blended the gem on the top of the head and the tongue (wet blend) and the large tops of the wings (glazed). The rest of the model was all layered. I just felt that those surfaces lended themselves to the techniques in question.
Dropper bottles versus pots? I like them both, for different reasons. In general these days I learn more towards the dropper bottles. I think for the washes the pots are a very nice way to use them though since they don't sit well on a wet pallet. Tend to agree with Greg too that the pots are convenient for getting a very small amount of paint for a touchup.
Hmm, I paint right out of the pot lots of times. For details? No way. But for basecoats, right out of the pot yo!
I do prefer using daylight bulbs, but I think in general you need to think about where your audience will be viewing your models. Since that is usually in a store or a gaming hall, it'll probably be under fluorescent bulbs. For me, I like the way the colors are represented by a daylight bulb and that is also how I photograph them (by the way, I need to built a real photo booth) but I don't expect them to look exactly the same under all conditions.
I'm sorry to hear Mike is done with his Terrain Tips for now. I wish I could think of something else I'd like to know about in order to draw him out of retirement, but from my newbie terrain builder's perspective he's been comprehensive and I don't know what might be missing. I think that even if Painting Tabled was a dismal podcast (quite the opposite, of course!), it would be worth downloading for the terrain tip alone. Great job, Mike!
On brushes, it's impossible for me to insist to someone that no, they're wrong, they're not doing work that satisfies them with their cheapo brushes!! -- but based on personal experience, if they did get some good brushes (probably Series 7s, aka. Vorpal Paintbrush +3), I'm confident they'd eventually admit that the upgrade was worth it. My painting got significantly, noticeably better when I invested in good brushes. The technical part of miniature painting is mostly brush control, and that's what a good brush is all about, helping you to hold the right amount of paint and putting it where you want it to go. One's painting might be OK with a lesser brush, but better painting is always worth striving for and a good brush helps facilitate that.
If you ever want to look at samples to really challenge your ideas of what an exceptional miniature can look like, this is a great source. I occasionally look to it for inspiration, but it's often just as likely to make me feel like I'm still a complete novice. But hey, that's the point of reaching for greatness - sometimes one needs a kick in the pants.
Lots of great tutorials on his site and the work that group does is top notch. I highly recommend it!
While I like and definitely appreciate NMM and have used it fairly competently on some of my models in the past, I think it's easy to trend to a more cartoony look when it's used, so it needs to be done carefully. But that's part of the skill of the technique is not just doing it, but doing it intelligently and to best effect.
On brushes - I'm definitely an advocate of brush quality, but by use. Basecoats, any brush that holds a tip will do. Drybrushing, use brushes you've already destroyed - it's where old brushes go to die. But once you get to layering and details, you absolutely will feel the difference with a good brush.
MUCH better pricing - spending $10-12 for a size 0 or 1 series 7 is absolutely worth the investment. I definitely encourage you to give it a try!
Great suggestion for getting high quality brushes at lower prices.


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Eskimos open season Saturday
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IROQUOIS FALLS – The puck is set to drop on the Abitibi Eskimos 2012-13 season at the Jus Jordan Arena Saturday night. Following two weeks of practice, a pair of exhibition games and a number of player additions and deletions, the Eskimos are ready to kick off their Northern Ontario Junior 'A' Hockey League regular season against the Sudbury Nickel Barons — formerly the Cubs and before that the Jr. Wolves. Assistant coach Marc Cashmore will be behind the bench for both Saturday night's home opener and Sunday's first road game, in Kirkland Lake against the Gold Miners. "I am kind of nervous myself, since (coach and general manager) Paul (Gagne) is not going to be here for our home opener," Cashmore said. "This will be my first time for a home opener. I coached four games last year and I think it was a 50/50 split, two wins and two losses. "I don't know if the boys will be nervous. "We just don't know what to expect from them right now. "We know Blind River beat them (Sudbury) in exhibition and they have basically the same roster as they had last year … they have a couple of returning vets. "But I think we will be all right. We have some new players, compared to the ones we had during our exhibition games (8-2 and 4-1 losses to Kirkland Lake." The biggest change for the Eskimos is in net, with the addition of Marc Audet, from the camp of the OHL Sarnia Sting, and Darren Cave, who played midget hockey in Cochrane in 2011-12. Neither puck stopper was with the Eskimos for the exhibition losses against Kirkland Lake. Martin Bilodeau, who was with the Eskimos last season, and Nick Heimer, a 20 year old from Minnesota, were both released following those two games. "All I am really trying to accomplish is helping my team to make it to the playoffs," Audet said, prior to joining his new teammates for his first practice. "I am hoping to bring some confidence to the team and hopefully the guys will have confidence in me, too." A 15th-round selection of the Sting, the 16-year-old Thunder Bay native played in Colorado last season. "I gained a lot of knowledge and that bit of experience at the OHL level," Audet said of his time at training camp earlier this year with the Sting. "I got to play with some great guys. "We have a great group of guys here, too, and I think we are going to have a really great season." Audet is a big fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins Marc-Andre Fleury and tries to pattern his game after the big puck stopper. "That style really allows you to cover a lot of the net," he said. "You have to have really quick legs and be able to move quickly down low." Like Fleury, Audet is a big goaltender, who plays a technically sound game. The defence, anchored by returning vets Kealey Cummings, Daniel Villeneuve and Kevin Walker, should be solid, with newcomers Simon Desrosiers, Jordan Ste-Marie, Cody Parker and Bryce Robert bringing additional skill, size and toughness to the roster. "I am expecting it (Saturday's home opener) to be hard hitting," Walker said. "We had a bit of bad blood with them last year and it's really going to be a big game for us, because it's the first game of the season. "We are going to come out and try to set the tone for the rest of the year." As a veteran, Walker knows the importance of getting off to a good start. "We have to make sure other teams know it's not going to be easy, or a walk in the park, when they come into our building," he said. Walker, a stay-at-home defender, plans to keep his game simple this season. "I just want to make the smart plays and do my job and make sure they don't put the puck in our net," he said. Up front, the Eskimos will be without the services of Corey Hamel, who centred Abitibi's top line last season and played in the first exhibition game in Kirkland Lake. Hamel, a Rouyn-Noranda native, has opted to return to Thunder Bay, because of school. In his place, the Eskimos have added forward Jesse Paul, who spent the 2011-12 season with the Stoney Creek Warriors of the Greater Ontario Jr. B Hockey League. "I think our team has improved since our exhibition games," Cashmore said. "We have a game plan, just our basic game plan, right now and we have got to get this game plan down so that they don't have to think about it … so it comes naturally.
Nickel Barons win season opener
NOJHL Notebook: Week 2 in the NOJHL begins tonight


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It's very easy to recognize a Scandinavian interior design. But there isn't just one Scandinavian style but several and they all have certain elements in common. For example, all Scandinavian interiors have wooden floors, most often light and they can be seen in all the rooms apart from the bathroom.
The color palette in Scandinavian decors is very light and simple and it usually includes shades of gray and blue as well as a lot of white. Sometimes bold touches of color can be seen here and there.
One of the things you often expect to see in a Scandinavian home is one of those traditional fireplaces placed in the corner of a room. The fireplace is not the focal point of the décor in the room and they have simple designs and shapes. In fact, Scandinavian decors are minimalist throughout and they usually lack accessories and purely decorative details.


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La televisió pública russa RTR pren el relleu a l'altre ens públic rus, C1R, i torna a organitzar una preselecció oberta d'una única gala, com ja va fer el 2010.

Qualsevol artista o compositor pot enviar les seves propostes a la RTR a partir del 28 de desembre de 2011 fins al mes de febrer de 2012. Posteriorment, un jurat de la RTR triarà els 25 artistes que passaran a la final televisada, que tindrà lloc el 26 de febrer de 2012.

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 Festival de la Cançó d'Eurovisió 2012

Festival de la Cançó d'Eurovisió 2012


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Is YG's new song "Stop Snitching" a 6ix9ine diss track?
He performed the cut at Coachella and confirmed his new album drops next month.
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Although Tekashi 6ix9ine is already serving time behind bars, YG still has a lot to say about his longtime nemesis. On Sunday night, the Compton native turned up the heat at Coachella by debuting a new track that all but puts the rainbow-haired rapper on blast.
Reportedly titled "Stop Snitching," the song takes aim at 6ix9ine, who agreed to work alongside federal prosecutors in their ongoing investigations of New York's Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, the gang the rapper was formerly a part of, in order to lighten his 47-year prison sentence.
"You got caught with some shit / With your best friend and your clique / Y'all got caught hittin' a lick / Everybody went down 'cause you snitched, ah," YG rapped on the menacing track as a giant mugshot of 6ix9ine was projected onto the stage next to the words, "Stop Snitchin'."
YG also revealed that his forthcoming album, which he postponed due to Nipsey Hussle's untimely death, is due out next month. "I ain't even know how to motherfuckin' walk and talk. I couldn't get out the bed," the rapper told the crowd. "The only reason I'm up here is because I've been drinking a whole lot of motherfuckin' tequila. But my n***a gone, I gotta deal with this shit, so I decided to push my album back to May 3, goddamnit."
While you wait for YG's new album to arrive, check out his performance of "Stop Snitching" below:
That new @YG . Album dropping May 3rd ? pic.twitter.com/COHNBtD9o4
— rudy [|] (@EpicGod24) April 15, 2019
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In an interview with Sky Sports News last Tuesday evening, West Ham United joint chairman David Gold stated that he hoped manager David Moyes would stay in East London after picking up 33 of their 42 points to help the club retain its Premier League status.
The next day however, it was decided that the Scotsman's contract would not be extended and Gold, along with David Sullivan have now turned to the former Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini to succeed Moyes, with the Chilean signing a three-year deal.
Pellegrini returns to England after leaving the Citizens at the end of the 2015/16 season, following early confirmation that he would be replaced with former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager Josep Guardiola.
Pellegrini will I'm sure look forward to seeing who he faces in his first game in charge of the Hammers when the fixtures are released on June 14. For now though, with the summer transfer window having opened last week, his first task is to mould his own squad ahead of the new Premier League campaign.


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Home News Realme X2 with Snapdragon 730G, 30W VOOC Charging Launched at Rs. 16,999
Realme X2 with Snapdragon 730G, 30W VOOC Charging Launched at Rs. 16,999
Realme had been teasing the launch of a Snapdragon 730G variant of its 64MP camera-laden Realme XT for months now. And today, the Chinese giant has finally launched the much-awaited 'Realme X2' (previously known as Realme XT 730G) in India. It has been priced pretty aggressively to take on the Redmi Note 8 Pro and completely annihilate its competition (ahem..Redmi K20) in the sub-Rs. 20,000 segment.
Realme X2: Specs and Features
Realme X2 boasts the exact same design as the Realme XT. The device touts a polished glass rear panel and a plastic frame, with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection both on the front and rear. There's only minor changes under the hood on the Realme X2 when you compare it to the Realme XT.
First, the Snapdragon 712 chipset on the Realme XT has been swapped out for a more powerful and game-centric Snapdragon 730G chipset. It's coupled with up to 8GB RAM, 128GB internal storage, and a dedicated microSD card slot that allows for storage expansion up to 256GB. It still runs ColorOS 6.2 based on Android 9 Pie and there's no word on when Realme's fork for ColorOS 7 will arrive.
Second, Realme has upgraded the charging technology from 20W VOOC 3.0 aboard the Realme XT to 30W VOOC 4.0 Flash Charge on the Realme X2 to provide even faster-charging speeds. You still get a 4,000mAh battery pack, same as Realme XT, inside and users can fully charge it around 75 minutes.
Rest of the specifications remain exactly the same as the Realme XT, but here's a quick round-up. Realme X2 sports a 6.4-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with a waterdrop notch, 19.5:9 aspect and 91.9% screen-to-body ratio. There's an in-display fingerprint scanner on board as well.
In the camera department, Realme X2 features a quad-camera module with a primary 64MP (f/1.8) Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor. This is coupled with an 8MP ultra-wide lens with an 119-degree FOV, a 2MP macro lens, and 2MP depth sensor. The device includes a 32MP (f/2.0) selfie camera onboard as well.
Realme X2 will be available in three configurations and has been priced starting at Rs. 16,999 for the 4GB+64GB base variant. The other two configurations – 6GB+128GB and 8GB+128GB are priced at Rs. 18,999 and Rs. 19,999 respectively. The smartphone comes in 3 attractive colors namely Pearl Green (also known as Avocado Green), White, and Blue.
The first sale for the Realme X2 is scheduled for December 20 later this week and it will exclusively be sold via Flipkart and Realme's online store. So, if you had been waiting to grab the Redmi K20 when its price dropped then go ahead and grab the Realme X2, you can't go wrong with it. Am I right or not? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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With a history of over 1000 years as a Japan's old capital, Kyoto is no doubt the epitome of refined and rich Japanese culture. From 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and many more worth visiting historical sites to the little-known world of Maiko, Kyoto gives new discoveries almost on a daily basis even to the locals. If you are planning a visit to Kyoto for whether a short or long period of time and seeking a way to get the most out of the limited time, simply throw your wish list to us and we make it happen for you by crafting an itinerary from scratch to suit all your needs. Because our staffs actually live in the city, we can always keep you updated with information from a tiny local event held in a shrine to how much cherry trees' blossom have progressed to make your trip to more unique and rewarding than travelling alone. Let us handle your forthcoming Kyoto visit, and you won't regret it.
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Q: Datetime Module and Timedelta I need to add onehour to the currenttime and subtract it with the minutes, e
For example:current time = 7:31,addedhour = 7:31 + 1 hour = 8:31,required time = 8:31 - 31 = 8:00
Any help or a workaround will be greatly appreciated.
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import time
addedtime = (datetime.now() + timedelta(hours=1)).strftime('%H:%M')
    requiredtime = addedtime - timedelta(now.minutes).strftime('%H:%M')

A: You're setting addedtime to a string rather than a datetime, then getting into trouble because you're trying to subtract a timedelta from that string:
>>> addedtime = (datetime.now() + timedelta(hours=1)).strftime('%H:%M')
>>> addedtime
'23:30'
>>> addedtime - timedelta(minutes=4)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str' and 'datetime.timedelta'

Instead, keep them as timepoints for as long as you need to manipulate them as timepoints, converting them to a string when you need the final result:
>>> time1 = datetime.now()
>>> time1
datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 17, 22, 23, 55, 860195)

>>> time2 = time1 + timedelta(hours=1)
>>> time2
datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 17, 23, 23, 55, 860195)

>>> time3 = time2 - timedelta(minutes=time2.minute)
>>> time3
datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 17, 23, 0, 55, 860195)

>>> time3.strftime("%H:%M")
'23:00'

Of course, you can also do it as a single operation since you can both add one hour and subtract some minutes with a single timedelta:
>>> final = (time1 + timedelta(hours=1, minutes=-time1.minute)).strftime("%H:%M")
>>> final
'23:00'

A: Why not explore one of Python's many amazing datetime libraries ...
pip install parsedatetime
import parsedatetime as pdt
from datetime import datetime

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cal = pdt.Calendar()
    dt, result = cal.parse("10 minutes before an hour from now")
    print(datetime(*dt[:6]))

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Once again, BlackBerry will be attending the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida October 5-9. With a robust agenda of the hottest topics in IT and business, industry defining mastermind keynotes, hundreds of solution providers and the opportunity to network with more than 6,000 peers, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the world's largest gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives.
On Sunday, October 5 at 4:45pm BlackBerry's Michael K. Brown will be presenting "BlackBerry: Expanding Government Mobility in the Face of Rising Cybersecurity Threats." During the 30 minute discussion, Brown will discuss how technology decision makers within the government can enact policies to help all employees have a better understanding of the best practices for mobile security. Such policies include: educating employees about potential threats, selecting trusted technology, and separating work and personal data.
If you're attending Gartner Symposium, come and visit the BlackBerry booth (#945) on the ITxpo show floor. We'll have giveaways and additional information on how companies migrating away from BlackBerry continue to be just a myth. We will also be demoing BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10) at the booth and provide a hand-on opportunity for attendees to experience the BlackBerry Passport.
If you can't attend Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, follow the event on Twitter at @Gartner_Inc or #GartnerSym. You can also follow @BlackBerry4Biz and @BlackBerryNews for highlights from BlackBerry's participation at the event.


What did 2018 look like for you as a business in the Dallas area? Did you accomplish your goals? Did you grow throughout the year? And what are you establishing as your goals for 2019? Before we kick off the new year completely, we thought we would take a closer look at our top posts from 2018. What were people reading about or asking about throughout the year that we could help with? Here are the top five tips we provided to employers last year.
1. How to avoid employee burnout.
Employee burnout can be a huge issue and affect not only the individual employees but your entire team. How can you spot it before it becomes a major issue in the workplace? In this post, we take a closer look at the issue and the steps you can take to address it. We include information about how it affects your company and how making it a priority will go a long way to solving the problem.
3. Asking what their last boss would say.
4. Why do employees look for a new job?
5. Big growth in Texas.
Throughout the year, we took a closer look at the employment trends affecting businesses in Texas as a whole, and especially the Dallas area. In this popular post in October, we broke down some of the reasons the area is booming. Low unemployment rates and multiple growing industries help keep Dallas at the top of the nation's list of thriving economies.
Do you want more great advice in 2019? Contact the team at Meador Staffing today to work with a leading staffing agency in Houston TX today.


Ryan has spent the week getting one of his two bikes up and running. We knew that Anna can't ride a little bike that fast so we looked at alternatives on Ebay and Craigslist (why buy new?).
We could do a trailer which she does no work or whats called an Adams Trail A Bike where she rides and even gets to peddle. Well we chose that Adams bike because they were first to respond to us and who knows how long Anna could fit in a trailer too.
She had a ball yesterday, we went to the library, Lake Erie and back. The cool thing is we have the attachments to move her from Ryan's bike to mine in less than a minute.
How cool! We are looking to do the same thing with Samuel. How far was the ride? Did she get tired?


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BBC found the missing tape of "Anna Karenina" with Sean Connery.
In the archives of the BBC was found the English adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina" in 1961. Tape has long been considered lost.
In a two-hour movie starring British film legend Claire Bloom and a young Sean Connery. The picture was shown only once on TV, and then lay on the shelf, and then completely disappeared from view. In this film adaptation has been very warmly received by critics, who praised the actor's work Connery in the role of Count Vronsky. Many believe that without this work in the filmography of the actor, it is unlikely he was invited to play the popular James Bond.
It is curious that "Anna Karenina" was discovered shortly before the anniversary of Sean Connery, who turns 80 on 25th of Aug. .
In the near future movie will be restored and released on DVD.
I'd like to see that movie!


In order to create, one need only entrust their soul to the sea. In order to destroy, one need only summon a whirlpool to swallow the land. Everything comes from water, and one day everything will return there.


Tonight The Satellite is hosting Ghetto Blaster, French Style Furs, Spencer Moody and the Anzalone's, Strange Vine and DJ Dan Micicoff. It's free admission and @2 well drinks/tap beers.
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Mayu Kishima
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Mayu Kishima caused a stir in the music world in 2000 when she became the youngest-ever Japanese top-prize winner in the Junior Division of the 8th Wieniawski International Competition in Lublin. She went on to win First Prize and the David Garrett Award for outstanding musical interpretation at International Music Competition Cologne in 2011, as well as the First Prize at the First Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition in 2016.
In 2004, Kishima's performance with the Russian National Philharmonic and Vladimir Spivakov was lauded by a Russian newspaper, which said "It's no wonder the great Mstislav Rostropovich calls her 'the world's best young violinist'. She awed the audience with her superb technique and mature understanding of the music". The following year, Kishima performed with Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Rostropovich, National Symphony Orchestra of USA, London Symphony Orchestra and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. She was highly praised by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "She was made known to the world by Rostropovich in the same way that Karajan made Anne-Sofie Mutter famous and Maazel made Hilary Hahn famous".
Kishima has participated in several recordings thus far. On the strong recommendation of Vladimir Ashkenazy, who was then Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra, she recorded Tzigane with the orchestra on the album Ravel: Orchestral Works. She has also released two solo albums Chaconne and Rise. Her performance at Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano in 2015 was included in the live recording Argerich & Friends, released on Warner Music in May 2016.
Currently based in Paris and Cologne, Kishima performs frequently in Europe. Recent highlights include performances at Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, as well as concerts with Saito Kinen Orchestra and Mito Chamber Orchestra.
Kishima has studied with Izumi Hayashi, Kazuyo Togami, Toshiya Eto, Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, Machie Oguri and Chihiro Kudo, among others. In 2002, she received a fellowship for overseas study from the Japanese Ministry of Culture. She also participated in the Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Switzerland in 2008 and 2009. In 2012, Kishima graduated with top grade from Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, where she studied with Zakhar Bron. In 2015, she graduated at the top of her class from the graduate school of Hochschule fur Musik, with all professors awarding her highest grades, and received Germany's national qualification for musicians.
Kishima plays the Antonio Stradivarius "ex-Petri" 1700 violin, kindly loaned by Dr Ryuji Ueno.
Mayu Kishima's website


Posted March 13, 2018 & filed under Visit Rehoboth Beach.
Delaware beaches popularity are extending far wider than the traditional summer months.
Thanks to warmer temps, an uptick in off-season offerings and a strategic marketing plan, Delaware beaches are beginning to see quite the draw from tourists all year round.
Although swimsuits may not have been packed for this trip, many tourists enjoy not only the slew of festivals offered during the beach off-season, but also the surrounding shops and restaurants that cater to these visitors.
The dream of Delaware beaches becoming a hot spot all year round dates back to 1989 and the first Sea Witch Festival, a Halloween-themed event hosted by the Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce. Since then several festivals focusing on anything from dogs to sand castles have popped up during the off-season, drawing visitors to these unique offerings.
Flash forward to today and Delaware beaches have become an enticing draw for tourists all year round. And local businesses and restaurants are more than welcoming to this new influx.
The Avenue is one such establishment that caters to area visitors and eager beachgoers all year round. Conveniently located one block from Rehoboth Beach and the boardwalk, The Avenue offers a peaceful and inviting sanctuary for out-of-town guests.
Unwind from everyday life and pamper yourself at The Avenue's apothecary and spa featuring a variety of services, including massages, facials and nail services.
The Avenue is also sure to satisfy your cravings with a complimentary wine and cheese in the afternoon and fresh baked cookies in the evening.
For those interested in visiting Delaware beaches, visit The Avenue for more information.


What a fantastic 1st year this has been. Who would've thought it'll be so much fun building a materials recommendation engine start-up with so much potential to help revolutionize science and change the world we live in.
As Intel partners the team has been busy presenting our solution at Oxford Uni (UK), Maryland Uni (USA), Hutchinson (France), IMEC (Belgium), The European Technology Transfer Offices Circle (Italy) and local to home NanoIL (Israel).
It seems like many moons have risen and fallen yet in fact only a year has gone by since this all began. Materials zone has not only gained interest from government and industry but we've now validated the process we've coined as upcycling data. As quoted by David Suter "Recycle makes that something fit the same purpose, upcycling takes that something and makes it better – in our case better data." Presentations in front of tech transfer officers and taking centre stage at MNE, our team have done a grand job, globetrotting the universe, educating the market on Upcycling.
The rise of fiber reinforced thermoplastics and thinner semiconductor wafers, it's been a big year all round, with MZ being sure to scream and shout about our materials insights engine playing that key role in understanding big data. This, coupled with our commitment for 2019 to go about solving interoperability amongst labs – we look forward to sharing and releasing something more on this soon.
Aluminium materials once again is seeing a year-on-year increase in scientific research, mainly due to the overwhelming demands from OEM's striving for super lightweighting opportunities.
After attending EMRS, Materials Zone are also noticing an inflection point for the graphene industry due to last years heavy requests in consumer electronics, under-the-hood roles in automotive, wind turbine coatings and energy storage.
Environmental considerations are on top of most people's agendas with once again the automotive sectors electric vehicles and energy storage dominating this area.
This is all great news for Materials Zone as many material science innovation labs are looking to have an edge over others, our software grants them this.
In closing, new materials can now be discovered for hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars rather then the hundreds of millions of dollars it once cost. And with the vast use case and industry benefits ranging from faster 3d printing, more powerful semiconductors and longer lasting batteries, this industry is going through a transformative materials revolution.
From staff relationship building exercises where cooking lessons were on the menu through to meeting finance ministers, touring the east coast of US and demonstrating the potential of our product to academia and industry in Europe. Mission accomplished. 2019 KPI – Lets go!


The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has announced another Treasury Bond issue next week, even while allegations of irregularities at a previous bond issue continue to mount.
The Central Bank hopes to raise Rs.30 billion for the government through these bonds. An announcement issued by the Central Bank states that they have planned to issue bonds of ten billion rupees, maturing in four years and six months, and another 20 billion rupees maturing in eight years and five months.
The interest rate for the Rs.10 billion bond series is 10.6 percent, while the Rs.20 billion bond series will go for an interest rate of 11.2 percent.
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Friday، 29 March 2019 10:40 AM
Stronger Evangelical-Muslim relations key to achieve Middle East peace
Marc Schneier
So much of late has been written about the warming of relations between Israel and its Gulf neighbors. While I have long advocated this is an important pathway to Middle East peace, a recent study has pointed out another thoroughfare that must be cleared if we are to achieve this end.
According to the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's new poll on Evangelical Christian-Muslim relations in the US, there are pronounced differences and mutual misunderstandings between the two faith communities but it also revealed the potential of Evangelicals to be game-changers in achieving rapprochement between Israel and the Muslim world.
For example, the survey asked, "If a Muslim nation were to engage in cooperation with Israel (developing bilateral, strategic and economic relations, have an active Jewish community, supply oil to Israel) how would you feel toward that Muslim nation?" An overwhelming 82 percent of Evangelical respondents said they would feel either "very favorable or somewhat favorable to such a nation." Intriguingly, 72% of Muslims also affirmed that position – a much more positive attitude toward the Jewish state than evinced in recent misguided remarks about the Jewish State by Muslim Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
In fact, 76% of Evangelical respondents said knowing that a particular Muslim nation is moving to strengthen ties with Israel would make them more optimistic about their overall assessment of US relations with the Muslim world (70% of US Muslims had a similar assessment). Interestingly, Evangelicals tend to perceive lower levels of support for Israel among Muslim nations than is actually the case; with nations like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Azerbaijan being perceived respectively by only 19, 14, 13 and 12% of Evangelical respondents as being supportive of Israel. This shows there is potential for consequential opinion change if Evangelical opinion leaders visit these countries.
In other words, the greatest opportunity to improve negative Evangelical perceptions of Muslims and Islam is to expose Evangelical opinion leaders to a story few of them have yet internalized; namely, that major Muslim nations are moving to end their conflict with Israel, and ally with the Jewish State against the virulent pan-Islamist extremism being spearheaded by Iran. Once the Evangelical community comprehends that reality, it will strongly endorse those efforts and feel decidedly less suspicious of Muslims in general.
Yet while Muslim-Jewish relations have decidedly improved, those of us in the field understand that we will never be able to reach full reconciliation without achieving peace between Israel, the Palestinians and the larger Muslim world. To accomplish that, we need to engage Evangelical Christians and help them overcome their preconceived anti-Muslim beliefs by getting them into contact with Muslims who have made the strategic decision to cooperate with Israel.
Why is this so important? Compared to only about 16 million Jews in the world, there are an estimated 60 million Evangelicals in the US, and more than 600 million globally. Evangelicals are the largest conservative constituency in the US; the bedrock of support for President Donald Trump, and a community presently rife with misconceptions and misinformation about Muslims and Islam. If those negative perceptions can be changed and the conservative wing of the US political spectrum comes to understand that they can find common ground with moderate Muslims, the present sharply polarized political dynamic will shift in a positive direction.
Far-fetched? Not at all. Within the lifetime of many of us, Evangelical Christians abandoned longstanding anti-Jewish attitudes and became ardent supporters of Israel. Something similar can happen vis-a-vis Evangelical attitudes toward Muslims, especially if they come to understand that by building ties with Islamic Middle Eastern nations, they can help Israel achieve its longstanding dream of achieving peace with its neighbors while helping avoid an endless, violent conflict between Islam and the West.
It is for that reason that earlier this month, I led a mission of US Evangelical opinion leaders to Azerbaijan to meet with President Ilham Aliyev and leaders of the Azeri Muslim community in order that they could experience firsthand a Muslim country which is pro-Israel. Several participants went from skepticism and distrust at the beginning of the trip to understanding from their encounters with Azeri Muslims that belief in Islam is not an insuperable obstacle to accepting Israel as a Jewish state. As one leader said to me; "For the first time, I realized that not all Muslims are hostile to Judeo-Christian values."
It is significant that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two nations at the heart of the Muslim world which have been upgrading military and economic relations with Israel, recently hosted delegations of American Evangelical leaders. They have come to understand the importance of outreach to the Evangelicals; making the point to their guests that Islam and Evangelical Christianity are traditional faiths that share core values such as daily prayer and the importance of family and community.
Peace and reconciliation are possible only if we bring all major political and religious constituencies – liberal and conservative alike – to the table and into support of that goal. For the sake of Israel and peace in the world, we must therefore focus energy and resources into transforming Evangelical-Muslim relations for the better.
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Young Romanians Who Honourably Represent Us
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Currently, pianist Alexandra Dariescu has a busy schedule in London as well as other major world cities. Below, we are presenting you a short interview given by the young pianist to our London correspondent, Dan Vasiliu:
At the age of nine, she made her debut as a soloist alongside the Chişinău Symphony Orchestra, two years later she started to win her first international awards, and a scholarship won during the ninth grade helped her enter Pocklington School in Great Britain.
'Very important doors opened for me once I came here. I found it very easy to adjust, as I was only seventeen at the time. If I had come for a master's degree or later, it would probably have been a little harder for me. However, as I was in high school, not at the Conservatoire, they shaped me according to the British style', Alexandra Dariescu says.
Alexandra was then advised to go to a pre-selection at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the forty-pound registration fee being paid by her History teacher.
'I was auditioned by the Head of Department, who asked me, "Do you mind if someone else auditions you, as well?". And so, Karol Presland, another very important teacher from this college, came to audition me and then she asked me, "Do you mind if the Conservatoire Principal auditions you, as well?". I said no, of course, and I played again. At the end, they told me they would very much like me to study there', Alexandra Dariescu says.
She graduated first in her class and went on to do a master's degree at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in the meantime continuing to win prestigious awards, such as the one awarded by the 'Maurice Ravel' Academy. The BBC has described her as 'a rising star', and she is invited to play alongside the world's greatest orchestras in some of the most famous concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall in New York.
'I very much enjoy the fact that they always call me "the young Romanian pianist", because we have an incredible history in what regards the world of the piano, and so many people exclaim, when I tell them that I come from Romania, "Oh! You have Dinu Lipatti, and Radu Lupu, and Clara Haskil!" This is an immense joy and a huge honour', Alexandra Dariescu says.
She has also been invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London next year, a place where only the most talented artists go. However, she hardly receives any invitations to perform in Romania. Why is that?
'That's a good question. I have no idea why this happens! Probably because the time has not yet come for me to perform at home. Since I left in 2004, I have only given one concert last year, for the TVR Iasi regional studio. Otherwise, it would be a great pleasure for me, so when they invite me, I shall be delighted to come. I think that performing at home is the most beautiful thing.'
Translated by Cristina Firoiu
MTTLC graduate, Bucharest University


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'Green burials' are on the rise as baby boomers plan for their future, and funerals
Jay Castaño visits Congressional Cemetery where he plans to be buried in a shroud. Castaño is part of a new movement of people -- mostly baby boomers -- who want a more natural way of going from dust to dust. (Kate Patterson/For The Washington Post)
By Ellen McCarthy
Ellen McCarthy
Feature reporter
Jay Castaño knows exactly what his funeral will be like.
A few days after he dies, friends and family will gather in Southeast Washington, say a few kind words and put his unembalmed body straight into the Earth.
"I want to be wrapped in a shroud like a little burrito," says Castaño, a credentialing officer at a D.C. public charter school. "They can call it a Chipotle funeral. They can wrap me up and throw me there and cover me up with some grass and soil."
He doesn't even have a particular preference for the shroud. "It could be a bedsheet," he says, "as long as it's clean and nice."
For the record, Castaño has no plans to die anytime soon. But the 65-year-old has written in his last will and testament that whenever he does pass, he intends to become part of the "green burial" movement — a push to strip away the trappings of the modern funeral industry and get back to basics. Dust to dust and all that jazz.
Materials tout Congressional Cemetery's green burial options. (Kate Patterson/For The Washington Post)
"I want to be part of a tree, be part of a flower — go back to being part of the Earth," he says.
Also: "I am a tightwad." Those fancy caskets don't come cheap.
As baby boomers head toward retirement and the great hereafter, they're thinking more about what will become of their remains. And what they're thinking is what they've thought during every phase of life: Status quo? Buck that.
For some, that means planning elaborate send-off parties and purchasing tricked-out mausoleums. But for an increasing number, it entails a return to simplicity, a desire that has given rise to the green burial movement and, naturally, a burgeoning industry to support it.
"They want to do something different — something that not many other people are doing," says Ryan Helfenbein, funeral director at Bestgate Memorial Park in Annapolis, Md., which turned a wooded corner of its cemetery into a green burial ground eight years ago. There, graves are dug by hand to reduce the carbon footprint, and plots are marked by engraved river rocks rather than traditional headstones.
At Washington's Congressional Cemetery, where Castaño bought a plot two years ago, most of the 20 to 30 burials carried out each year are green or "natural burials," according to Margaret Puglisi, the cemetery's vice president. It's the only cemetery in Washington that allows the practice. Bodies are not embalmed, there are no cement grave liners and the caskets — if they're used — are made of biodegradable materials such as pine and wicker.
"It has a lot to do with giving back to the Earth — the circle of life," Puglisi says.
There are no firm statistics on how many natural burials have taken place — after all, digging a hole for Grandma in the back yard would count as "green" — but a 2008 survey by funeral industry researchers Kates-Boylston Publications found that 43 percent of respondents would consider having an eco-friendly burial.
Fiona Weeks had never heard of the practice when her mother, legendary Washington gossip columnist Diana McLellan, told her that she wanted one. McLellan had melanoma and informed Weeks of her wishes several months before her death in June.
"She was not necessarily an environmentalist, but she felt that she should be part of the Earth again," Weeks recalls of her mother, who worked for a time at The Washington Post and was 76 when she died. "It's so simple. And it doesn't seem as invasive as having someone fill your body with chemicals."
McLellan had joked with her daughter that she wanted to be wrapped in a luxurious Scalamandre silk before being placed in the ground. That seemed like a tall order, but when the time came, Weeks did order a saffron-colored silk shroud from Kinkaraco, a California company that sells green burial products made from natural fabrics.
Weeks bought a wicker casket that she thinks would have appealed to her English-born mother and had it lined with a mattress pad filled with lavender. "The only thing about a green funeral is that you have to bury the person pretty quickly because they start to smell," Weeks says. "So the bed of lavender was great. I hate to think of what it would've smelled like if we hadn't had that." (There always were some unintended consequences of going au naturel.)
The 130 people who attended McLellan's funeral at Congressional Cemetery were greeted with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries. Instead of a traditional ceremony, there was a series of toasts, and then McLellan was laid to rest.
Weeks got a few complaints from folks who couldn't make the funeral on such short notice — McLellan died on a Wednesday night and was buried on Saturday — but, she says, many more people "came up to me after and said, 'That's exactly how I want my funeral to be.' "
And however they want it to be, the ever-expanding funeral industry will be happy to oblige. Beyond green burials, recent years have seen a wave of entrepreneurs offering creative options for those who choose cremation: a biodegradable urn that contains a seed so that a tree will grow from the ashes; a Chicago company that turns human ashes into diamonds (five color choices available); a British firm for music lovers called And Vinyly that presses ashes into vinyl records; and a field of crafty Etsy vendors who will turn your loved ones into glass art or canvas paintings.
When Castaño, who is divorced, told his family about his burial wishes, they weren't surprised. He was born in Cuba, where the burial process is much less elaborate than it is in the United States. He'd read in the cemetery's monthly newsletter that Congressional was offering green burials, and he didn't like the idea of being "filled with chemicals and then locked up two or three times — first in the coffin, then a cement box, then covered with dirt." And he didn't like the idea of leaving his living relatives to pick up a big tab.
"I believe in simple things," Castaño says. "I wanted something very private, very quiet, unpretentious. People will have a chance to be with my dead body for a while and then go out and have a good meal."
The point, he says, is this: "People have a choice not only in matters of life, but also in matters of death."
Ellen McCarthy Ellen McCarthy is a feature writer for Style. She previously covered local technology companies for the business section and anchored the Style section's On Love page, writing extensively about weddings, love and relationships. She is the author of "The Real Thing: Lessons on Love and Life from a Wedding Reporter's Notebook." Follow


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Anahid Ajemian Avekian (1924-2016)
IN MEMORY OF ANAHID AJEMIAN AVAKIAN
Ms. Avakian was a member of the Composers String Quartet, in residence at Columbia in the 1970s, and she was a longtime member of Columbia's music faculty. Her full obituary is available below:
Anahid Ajemian was born in New York, in 1924. She began her music studies early at the Institute of Musical Art, which later merged with the Julliard School. After graduating from the Lincoln School, Miss Ajemian continued her education at Julliard, studying violin with Edouard Dethier, chamber music with Hans Letz and Felix Salmon, and played in and with the Julliard orchestra under Albert Stoessel and Edgar Shenkman. In 1946, while still a student of Edouard Dethier at the Juilliard Graduate School of Music, she won the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Award. In the same year, she made her debut at Town Hall and received the Distinguished Achievement Medal from Mademoiselle magazine as the Young Woman of the Year in Music. Among the many honors that have followed, the Order of St. James appointed her a Knight of Malta for her lifelong support of contemporary classical music.
With her pianist sister Maro, she concertized in Europe, Canada and throughout the United Stares in a wide repertoire including works which for written for them by such distinguished composers as John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, Ernst Krenek, Wallingford Riegger, Carlos Surinach and Ben Weber, among many others. Together and separately, the Ajemians recorded extensively for Columbia, RCA Victor, MGM and Composers Records Inc. They were the first musicians to receive the Laurel Leaf Award of the Composers Alliance for Distinguished Service to American Miss Ajemian and her sister were equally known for their interpretations of the standard classical repertoire. A unique feature of the many television programs they taped for NBC's "Recital Hall" and the National Educational Television Network was their series of programs comprising the complete cycle of all ten Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano. They appeared as soloists under the batons of Dmitri Mitropoulos, Leopold Stokowski and Izler Solomon, and recorded with the latter two.
Also during the 1940s, Miss Ajemian co-founded the New York City-based organization "Friends of Armenian Music Committee", which did much to launch the career of fellow Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness, via a series of well-received New York concerts of his music. These concerts were repeated in Boston, San Francisco and Los In the mid sixties, Miss Ajemian and her fellow violinist Matthew Raimondi founded the Composers String Quartet at the suggestion of Gunther Schuller, which quickly earned an international reputation and toured in more that 26 countries, including the Soviet Union, India, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, Japan, Southeast Asia and China. The Composers String Quartet recorded extensively for The Musical Heritage Society, Nonsuch Records, Composers Recordings, Inc and Columbia Records among many others. The Quartet's 1970 recording of Elliott Carter's First and Second Quartets was honored by a "Grammy" nomination, received "Stereo Review's "Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year" Award, and was acclaimed by "High Fidelity" as "Best Quartet of the Year" and one of the "Fifty Greatest Albums of the Decade." Time magazine called it "an astonishingly brilliant and unique achievement."
The Quartet was in residence at Columbia University in New York City and The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. For many years, they were the primary performers at the Mt Desert Festival of Chamber Music in Northeast Harbor, For many years, Miss Ajemian was a long-time member of the Columbia University music faculty and served as a judge for several music organizations, including the annual Naumburg Foundation Awards.
She is survived by her husband of sixty-eight years, recording executive George Avakian, their daughters Maro and Anahid (Gregg), son Gregory, and two grandchildren.


We have so many Fun and Interesting Folks living at Brunswick Plantation and Golf Resort! Kathy and Mike Spadaccini are among the newest additions! They are currently having a house built in The Hamptons section of the Plantation. Meanwhile, they are renting a house in the Georgetown section to live here while their house is being built. They are exploring the area and enjoying all of the Fun things there are do in and near this Two State Solution to Fun!
Kathy and Mike really enjoy going to the beach at Sunset Beach in the mornings, their favorite Beach Time! They both enjoy days at the Plantation pools, among the other amenities at Brunswick. Mike enjoys playing golf, as he has for years. Kathy is new to golf and learning to play …But loves it! Tennis was Kathy's favorite sport in the past. Kathy and Mike enjoy eating and socializing at the 19th Hole and also the special events Robin schedules there. They liked being entertained by the Elvis Impersonator and are looking forward to the Parrot Head Party…Tribute to Jimmy Buffet! It is all more Fun for Everyone at The 19th Hole!
Kathy Carroll and Mike Spadaccini connected on match.com and met for the first time at the Sweetwater Tavern in Merrifield, Virginia. It was Memorial Day! Mike, being retired from the Air Force, opened his arms and Welcomed Kathy with…"Hug a Veteran"! I am assuming it was after the Hug that they shared a delicious artichoke appetizer! It seems that the hug and the appetizer were the start of something good!
They began to see each other regularly. Kathy says that Mike and his groups of friends always had something fun on the agenda…Theater, Wolf Trap performances, and vacations, to name a few! They were always upbeat and ready to go! Kathy appreciated it when Mike took square dance lessons for a year to receive an Official Square Dance Certificate because she loved to square dance! Now, that's Love! After four years of Fun and Frolic, their their wedding was on Memorial Day in May 2014! Now Kathy can "Hug a Veteran" Every Day!
Kathy was is originally from Virginia. She went to college at the University of Tennessee and earned her masters in in Memphis. Since her Dad was a government employee, she had the opportunity to do summer jobs at the Pentagon. Her career after college was in teaching and counseling.
Kathy's husband at that time was in the Dept. of Foreign Commercial Service, which afforded them the opportunity to live abroad. The couple had three year tours of duty each in Indonesia, Israel, and Venezuela. So, Lucia, their daughter experienced living and going to school in different cultures.
Kathy taught at International Schools in all of those countries. There were also some teachers from the country where they were located. This gave her the opportunity to know them personally. Every country has it's own unique culture which one respects and traditions to abide by while living there. Kathy says that she found that…People always make the place you are!
One example of a cultural significance, was that in Indonesia, women don't go sleeveless. So, Kathy was sure not to do that there. She also did not play much tennis in Indonesia, as it was just too hot during the day for that sport. Kathy and her family lived in government housing in Indonesia. She did get to know Indonesian people and found them to be gracious and kind. She said she would go back there "In a Heartbeat"!
Kathy's family was in Israel in Tel Aviv in 2001 – 2004, at the time of the mall and bus bombings. However, she said there was no one-on-one crime. They felt safe even though there was tension with helicopters overhead. It was the time of the build up the Iraq war. They were evacuated before the 2nd Gulf War but returned 4 months later. The American Embassy had certain places off-limits, so you knew where you could go and where to avoid. They lived in a gated community there. Kathy said that it might take some time, but once you got to know an Israeli citizen, you had a Friend for Life!
Venezuela has wonderful weather but was more restricted than other places Kathy had lived. Her family lived in an apartment there with a view of the mountains through the glass. She did not go out at night alone there though. There were teachers from Venezuela at the International school.
After their tours overseas in 2007, Kathy's husband passed away from cancer. She said the felt she had lost her husband and her way of life! This is when Kathy worked as a counselor at inner city schools…Another experience in education and life adjustment.
Kathy's daughter, Lucia, now lives in Providence, Rhode Island and works for Americorps at the Children's Museum in Studio Art/ Photography. She earned her degree at Smith College in Massachusetts. Kathy's brothers and their children live in Virginia, as does her 93 year old Mother. Her family is close and enjoy getting together. Kathy and Mike can visit Family at Virginia Beach… More Beach Fun for Everyone!
Mike retired in 2004 with 30 years in the Air Force! He had two years entering Air Force Associates/Community College of the Air Force. He earned his undergraduate degree in Resource Management from Troy State. He later attended Troy State and earned his Masters in Public Administration.
Over his career, Mike worked as a Morse Systems Operator (2 yrs.), an aircraft machinist (11yrs.), and spent his last 17 years of 30 years of service working for the AF Management Engineering Program (i.e. industrial engineering) as a Manpower and Organization Analyst. Mike's final assignment to the Pentagon was the Chief Enlisted Manager for the manpower community, and he retired as the senior Chief Master Sergeant (E-9) having served in that grade for 10 years.
After the Air Force, he did 10 years of consulting for LMI Logistics Management Institute. This program was created by McNamara under President Kennedy. He still does some consulting for them when they contact him.
Mike met his wife in England and their son, Brian, was born in a hospital on the economy in England. Mike's wife was with him for most of his tours in the Air Force but has since passed away. The family had a few tours to England that included RAF Chicksands, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Fairford in the Cotwold area of England. Brian attended some schools on the British economy. While at RAF Alconbury, Brian attended a DODDS Dept. of Defense Dependents School. Mike loved the English countryside and enjoyed the British pubs! The Cotswold area of England is particularly beautiful!
Mike was stationed 5 years at McQuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, his home state. So, he got to see the world and spend some time near home! Mike also had a two year tour at Tampa Bay, Florida.
Mike was working in an office at the Pentagon on 9/11. His office had been moved to another location in the building a few months earlier. His previous office took a direct hit on that dreaded day! It took two days to cleaning the air from the contamination in the remaining buildings. Mike was back at work in his office soon afterward. It is certainly a memory that one never forgets! Mike worked at the Pentagon until his retirement in 2004.
Mike says his son, Brian, is his Best Buddy! They showed this to the world when they each performed the wedding ceremony for each other….On different Wedding Dates! According to Virginia law, you may get a certificate as a Civil Celebrant for a Day which authorizes you to perform a wedding ceremony.
Kathy and Mike married on Memorial Day in May of 2014. This was chosen to commemorate their first meeting on Memorial Day four years earlier. Their ceremony was held at Pistone's, their favorite Italian Restaurant, where they lived in Virginia. Kathy's friends decorated the restaurant for the ceremony beautifully with Beach decor since they were moving to the NC Beach! Brian conducted the marriage ceremony pronouncing Kathy and Mike…Husband and Wife! It was a Beautiful Day!
Brian and Christie, the woman of his dreams, decided to marry on Halloween! Everyone was to come in costume, including the Bride & Groom! Mike was dressed as Buzz Lightyear & Kathy went as his adoring Jesse! Talk about Fun! Fun! Fun! Mike, a Civil Celebrant, conducted his son's marriage ceremony! What a special way to start a new life…With your Father bestowing God's Blessing along with His Own Blessing!
Kathy and Mike Make Brunswick Plantation Their Home!
Kathy and Mike knew they wanted to live in a beach area. Their friends, Tammy and Tom O'Neill live at Brunswick Plantation and Golf Resort. They came to this area and looked several places, including St. James and Ocean Ridge. Mark Reddick gave them their tour of Brunswick Plantation. While they were looking at a house being built, Janna and Mark Madera came by and asked them if they could help them. It was the Madera's house they were looking at and they invited Kathy and Mike with Mark to go through with them. They were impressed with how open and friendly everyone was at Brunswick! Whether they were at the 19thHole or anywhere on the Plantation, people spoke or waved!
Everywhere they went in the area, they always met someone from Brunswick Plantation! When they went to eat at Fibber's On The Water, Ralph Carbone took them around the restaurant to meet other people from the Plantation! Ralph is the owner of Fibbers and lives at Brunswick! It seems like everyone was from somewhere different, and you always met a group of people with whom you have something in common. It is a good support system and feel like "You Belong Somewhere"!
Kathy and Mike eventually decided to buy a lot and build their house in The Hamptons section of Brunswick. They like that area because it is less tame with lots of space. They were also impressed with the value of the property and the building incentives offered to them.
Kathy likes the idea of a new house and choosing her design of kitchen, as she loves to cook and entertain! Though she loves to cook, Kathy says Mike is a Master on the BBQ grill…Especially his Korean BBQ! Mike loves having his choice of garage and den where he enjoys spending much of his time at home!
Though they are still exploring the area, there are some places that they consider favorites! They enjoy going out with friends to Fibbers On The Water, The Grapevine, Chianti South, Boundary House, Causeway Gourmet (Shrimp & Grits) , Molly Darcy, and Midtown Cafe to name a few restaurants!
They also enjoy Broadway at the A Beach and Barefoot Landing! They want to learn the Shag dance! Kathy and Mike are interested in Day Trips to near-by sites! They also plan to do some traveling once their house is completed and they are more settled!
Kathy and Mike feel that there are Great Friends Everywhere! They feel that Brunswick Plantation is "One Big Community" near the beach they love! They feel Happy to make their home at Brunswick Plantation and Golf Resort! Their license plate shares their attitude about Life using the Indonesian alphabet! TDAAPA 2 ….No Tidak, What Apa, What Apa…Translation: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff! Welcome Kathy and Mike Spadaccini, A Groovy Kind of Couple…More Great People of Brunswick Plantation!
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Man accused of South Carolina killing arrested in Arizona
Originally Published: September 20, 2018 2:57 p.m.
LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina authorities say a man suspected in the fatal shooting of another man last month has been arrested in Arizona.
Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon told The State newspaper that 26-year-old Jamal Devontae Coburn was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals on Wednesday in a suburb of Phoenix. The sheriff's department had tracked Coburn to the Glendale, Arizona, area.
Koon says in a statement that Coburn was arrested on a murder charge in the Aug. 24 shooting of 27-year-old Corey Jamison.
The sheriff's department has said that Jamison was found dead at an apartment complex in West Columbia, South Carolina. Investigators have not provided any information on a possible motive.
Coburn awaits extradition from Maricopa County. It is unclear if he has a lawyer who could comment.
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My name is Rachel, and I am a read-aholic. Am I in the right meeting??? I love to read all sorts of genres of books. My personal favorites are fantasy and historical fiction. I try to read every chance I get. When I meet new people, they tend to ask me why I am carrying a book around; then, they ask what I am reading, of course.


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Ecuador eliminates USA in Under-20 World Cup quarter-finals
Posted on September 11, 2019 by P30 News
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The South American champions secured their place in the last four while the Americans fell in the quarterfinals for a third straight tournament
First-half goals from Jose Cifuentes and Jhon Espinoza were enough to hold off the United States in a 2-1 Ecuador victory in the Under-20 World Cup quarterfinals in Poland.
A pair of goals stemming from long-range strikes doomed the U.S. Under-20 national team to defeat, with Ecuador showing the quality that won them a South American Under-20 championship on its way to securing a place in the Under-20 World Cup semifinals.
Ecuador captain Espinoza scored the winner just before halftime after a left-footed Gonzalo Plata shot from distance rattled the crossbar and bounced to Leonardo Campana, who slipped the ball to Espinoza, who beat the U.S. defense to bundle the chance home. A VAR review confirmed that Espinoza was onside for the goal.
Tab Ramos' U.S. team failed to find an equalizer in a second half that consisted mostly of U.S. possession and organized Ecuador defending. Ecuador still managed the most dangerous chances of the period, hitting the crossbar with one chance and forcing a pair of difficult saves from U.S. goalkeeper David Ochoa.
Ecuador opened the scoring in the 30th minute when Jose Cifuentes unleashed a 30-yard blast past Ochoa after his team broke on the counter-attack following a turnover by Chris Durkin.
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The Americans needed just six minutes to respond though, with Tim Weah continuing his outstanding tournament with a 36th-minute goal. The Pairs Saint Germain forward volleyed home a corner kick after it bounced off an Ecuadorian defender for his second goal of the tournament.
Ecuador took just one minute longer to reply, with Espinoza's decisive strike coming seven minutes after Weah's goal.
Ecuador settled into a defensive shape in the second half, allowing the United States to control the bulk of the possession, but the Americans couldn't turn that possession into dangerous chances, even after Ramos inserted quick Wolfsburg winger Ulysses Llanez for Barcelona winger Konrad De La Fuente at halftime.
Unlike its round of 16 upset of France, the Americans couldn't muster a second-half rally, even after inserting Justin Rennicks as a late substitute. Ecuador stayed organized defensively and kept the United States from truly testing Ecuadorian goalkeeper Moises Ramirez.
The victory moves Ecuador into the Under-20 World Cup semifinals, the furthest an Ecuadorian team has ever gone in a FIFA competition, where the South Americans will face the winner of South Korea's quarterfinal against Senegal.
The loss eliminates the Americans in the quarterfinal round for the third straight U-20 World Cup tournament.
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