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Domashny Ochag Chose a Family of the Year
The final round of the 2008 Family of the Year competition was held on December 3 at the School of Modern Theater in Moscow. The winner was the Khanov family of Perm. Although young, this energetic couple has been together for a considerable time, and has three children - all boys.
The Khanovs showed themselves to be a friendly, loving and creative family in the fun and fair battle to earn the honored title of Family of the Year. And they were rewarded for that by winning a New Year's trip to Finland for the whole family.
Taking part in the final round of the competition were 10 families that had been chosen by the magazine as Families of the Month. They had also won prizes from Russian Standard Bank, Radio Alla and Domashny Ochag. The monthly competitions were judged on the basis of the letters and photographs each family submitted, but the magazine staff could not content themselves with selecting the Family of the Year without first becoming personally acquainted with the contestants. Domashny Ochag gathered all of the families and created challenges to test them on their unity and true feelings. Those feelings really did turn out to be true, sincere and incredibly touching. Everybody was moved to tears -- the audience, members of the jury and the contestants themselves.
There were six contests in all: a brief presentation of the family, a culinary challenge, a financial test, a children's contest, "confession of love" and a bonus competition for the hottest kiss. Without a doubt, the contestants outdid themselves for the final contest.
Each contest was judged by a jury that consisted of the Domashny Ochag editor-in-chief, Maria Vinogradova, Radio Alla host Mikhail Pavlov, Russian Standard Bank representative Yekaterina Shishkina and travel agency Labyrinth representative Yekaterina Chilikina. The families earned points for each contest, and the family with the most overall points was named the winner.
Four families finished the competition with an equal number of points, so the jury decided to award them all with prizes. They tossed a coin to decide who would win the main prize, and the remaining three families all received free trips to a swanky hotel in the Moscow region. All of the other participants won gifts from the contest organizers and their partners.
Apart from the contests, audience members and participants had a chance to enjoy magnificent songs from the musical "Karlson," which will premier in Moscow at the end of February. They were also treated to a diverse and entertaining program by the Wizard children's holiday factory - unfailing partners of Domashny Ochag. All attendees also received complimentary sweets from the Konfael company.
«Домашний Очаг» в декабре: ночь нежна
В традиционном праздничном номере – множество идей для идеального Нового года.
Редакционный директор «Домашнего Очага» на саммите Forbes Woman Day
Наталья Родикова приняла участие в сессии «Женское значит социальное».
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На обложке спецвыпуска, посвященного образованию, – певица Монеточка и российские школьники.
Редакционный директор «Домашнего Очага» – спикер Национального рекламного форума
Наталья Родикова примет участие в сессии «Социальная ответственность».


Love is often blocked by conflict, and conflict is often generated by emotional difficulties. The emotional maturity that makes the flow of love easy comes slowly as life is lived. Perhaps emotional maturity is best seen not as an accomplishment (which you either have or don't have) but as a process of becoming. That process can be intensely painful at times along our unfolding journey toward a shift in consciousness. Taking personal responsibility—not blame—is a key. When we realize that most of our conflicts come from natural ups and downs in our process of learning to better handle emotions and not from the dreadful shortcomings of others, then we are ready to grow faster. Lao Tzu said it well: "Only he who contains content remains content." The challenge of loving in an emotionally mature way can be seen as a series of challenges. Let's look in depth at some common ones, with an eye to learning how to gradually resolve them.
We're all upset by various events; and as we get more mature, we're better able to "process" these upset feelings. But while we're learning to handle the feelings, we often "take them out" on those closest to us. If we're in an active mode, we may use some little thing a loved one does as a "trigger" for the feelings just waiting to be released, and they explode. If we're in a passive mode, we may withdraw into ourselves. However, emotional distancing can be a rejection, and people can be just as hurt by it as by explosions.
a. Who are the persons on whom you are most likely to take out your feelings?
b. What kinds of feelings do you most often take out on them (anger, hurt, loneliness, fear; or just anything unpleasant), and in what situations?
c. Close your eyes and imagine yourself striving to take out some feelings on that person—and then change the script. Try some of the ideas listed in the "Breaking the Pattern" section. What happens?
In any good relationship—professional, personal, or parental—each person both gives and receives love and support. Part of the challenge of keeping a healthy relationship is developing an intuitive sense of when (and how!) to give love, and when and how to receive. This is a delicate balance.
Surprisingly, there's a knack to asking for love and nurturing, and it can be learned. When you fully accept that you're needing nurturing and learn how to ask for what you want you'll usually get it. But when you're feeling guilty about wanting support, or have already decided that the other person isn't going to give it, you'll often not get what you need. Frequently, when this happens, you decide that the other person is not caring or supportive enough, and you use this as a reason not to be loving toward them.
On the other hand, if you become too focused on meeting your own needs, you may neglect to give to your partner. Sometimes, when you're not feeling lovable, the best way to get out of it is to just forget about your problems and focus on being loving toward another person. Love is most enriching to the person who gives it. And, through cause and effect, if you give more love, you'll eventually receive more.
a. Right now, in your relationships, are you giving more, receiving more, or having a balance of giving and receiving? Is this typical of how you usually are, or different?
b. If you're receiving a bit too much, think of some ways you could give more in your relationships. If you're giving too much, how could you feel more comfortable in receiving? Can you think of times that others tried to be loving and you cut them off in some way?
One of the things that blocks the flow of love between people is when they get enmeshed in each other's problems. When you have a problem and try to project it onto your partner (for example, if you are always "too busy" for quiet time and touching, but blame your partner for not touching you enough) you create a lose-lose situation. As long as you keep thinking it's your partner's fault, you'll never address the real root of the problem—yourself. And so you prevent yourself from feeling close and loving. You need to identify your own problems so that you can work effectively to resolve them.
On the other hand, if you're always trying to own others' problems, you'll tend to block closeness and love, because that means you have to take on all the other person's challenges. For example, if you get upset whenever your coworkers are having a bad day, and feel that you must help "make everything all right," you'll soon be overwhelmed and want to avoid them; because you can't make everything all right for them. Only they can do that. If you can trust them to work out their own problems, without you getting stuck in them, you'll be free to care about others without feeling burdened.
Reflective listening, which means simply identifying what the other person is feeling and then telling what you heard back to him/her, is one technique you can use as a "baby step" toward understanding someone's perspective. Even if you strongly disagree with what another is saying, you can look for what they're feeling and say, "Sounds like you're really angry about that." Sometimes, the other person will feel "heard" and this can start the resolving process.
Really empathizing, however, is a quantum leap beyond any technique. It is intensely moving when, in the middle of a conflict, you just "let your hassles go" and fully feel how the other person is feeling. When you do this, you touch the heart of loving very deeply. It is from such true empathy that you find the wisdom to resolve the conflict in a loving way.
Have you ever experienced what's described above? If so, what were the results?
Getting into emotional conflict is one of the easiest ways to block love. We often use open or hidden conflict as an excuse for not loving the people around us. Over time, we develop patterns of conflict, based on emotional dynamics, that we replay endlessly. When we can predict very closely how a conflict of ours will go; what we'll do, and what the other person will do, and how it will escalate; we're dealing with an emotional habit pattern. If the conflict is usually with the same person, then we probably have interlocking patterns; in some way, our emotional challenges mesh with their emotional challenges.
To start becoming more loving, break the pattern. Some patterns may be easily worked out; the relationship can become more loving quickly. Others can be more deep-rooted and may involve gradually working through many strands of emotions. For those situations, here are some pointers to keep in mind: 1) You don't both have to be consciously working on improvement: if just one person's behavior changes, the dynamic will change. 2) Allow plenty of time for deep-rooted patterns to change. Deep change is possible, but it unfolds slowly. Celebrate any step forward, no matter how minute, as a positive accomplishment, and the pace will accelerate over time.
We stay in conflict when we feel that it's not possible to resolve it. In fact, there are a multitude of different ways to understand any conflict. Here are some "baby steps" that we've found useful for breaking out of emotional conflict patterns, and changing the tone to a more loving one. If one doesn't work, keep trying till you find another that does.
That is to say, stop acting them out or blaming the other person for them. Often, in conflict, we are actually fighting against our own strong feelings that we don't want to accept. You can break the pattern if you stop and go within. Close your eyes, and move toward the feelings you are fighting, allowing them to overwhelm you, without projecting them outward or identify them in your head as being someone else's fault. Feeling and clarifying your feelings is the ultimate resolution to conflicts. When you are clear enough about what is important to you, you can usually present it clearly without fighting.
When you know what you're feeling, it can help to express it. The simpler and clearer you say it, the better. Saying "I'm really hurt!" with feeling and then nothing else for a bit, is clearer than trying to qualify or explain why immediately. Give the other person a chance to respond; let the pace of the interaction slow down.
Conflicts continue when people feel blamed or threatened. You can often defuse fights by telling the other person what you think your part in the conflict is, rather than defending yourself when they tell you what they think your part is. An example is: "I really came home in a rotten mood today, and I guess I've been snapping at you." Saying "I'm sorry" here helps, too.
This is good advice in general and is especially helpful when you are in the midst of a conflict. Often emotional habit patterns can be almost caricatures of themselves, and letting yourself shift perspective and see the funny side of your emotional patterns can be very healing. Obviously, this only works with your patterns. Laughing at the other person is a sure way to escalate the conflict.
This item was discussed in greater detail earlier, but it is one of the best ways to defuse conflict and develop love.
If you explain a little bit of why you are upset, sometimes the other person can understand your perspective better and feel more loving toward you. For example: "Maybe the reason it upsets me so much when you don't pick up your stuff is because I used to share my room with my sister, and she always had her things all over the room. There was never any place for my things, and I felt as if I didn't matter." Even if the conflict isn't immediately resolved, at least there may be greater understanding between you.
Even with someone you're not very close to, touching can communicate caring. A touch on the arm or shoulder, along with an apology or expression of concern, can help calm a tense situation. With a close relationship, touch can be even more important A hug with a friend or child or lover can go a long ways toward re-establishing loving feelings.
"Peeling the onion" is based on the idea that people have emotional layers, like onions. To understand why something bothers you, take an event that was upsetting you and think about it. You'll probably find that it goes back to an earlier event that caused similar feelings, and that that one is connected to an even earlier event, and so on. That's peeling the onion.
Choose an incident where you were feeling loving and something happened to disturb the feeling. Focus on the upset feeling that blocked love for you, and follow it back as far as it will go. What did you learn about yourself?
Sometimes, we let our feelings of hurt or anger stop us from loving others. As we become more emotionally mature, we gradually understand more about our feelings, and learn how we can use them to become more loving, rather than letting them block us from loving.
Emotional maturity is a process more than an end result. None of us is fully emotionally mature; rather, we are all striving to be more mature. Emotional maturity has little to do with intellectual understanding or personality or of how emotions work. It is, rather, a real ability to feel our way through life's challenges, while remaining centered and grounded.
Some qualities that lead us to greater emotional maturity are: 1) shifting perspectives, seeing many points of view; 2) trusting ourselves: trusting our evolving ability to meet challenges, and our growing ability to meet our own needs, and 3) accepting life as it comes: enjoying it and seeing the humor in it.
Use the "Baby Step" approach to greater emotional maturity. It often doesn't work when we try to "act as if" we were wholly mature. Usually, we can't even imagine what a really emotionally mature person would do in a given situation. But, in our own situations, we can usually think of a slightly more mature way to act. So, we can take baby steps toward maturity, one at a time, as we are ready to see them. Over time, they'll add up to giant steps.
Often, we get stuck in emotional habit patterns of conflict that block us from loving. When that happens, the first step to becoming more loving is to break the pattern. Some ways to break the pattern are: feeling your feelings, asking for help to break out of a conflict, expressing your feelings, empathizing with the other person, and touching.
The challenge of emotionally mature loving can be seen as many smaller challenges. Among them are: the challenge of balancing nurturing others with nurturing yourself, the challenge of knowing who has the problem, the challenge of not hurting those you love by taking out your feelings on them, the challenge of empathizing with someone while in conflict with them.


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Mike Minor records first career 200/200 season amid controversy in Rangers' win over Red Sox
Minor recorded nine strikeouts in 8 2/3 innings.
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Mike Minor (23) pitches during the first inning of an MLB game between the Boston Red Sox and the Texas Rangers on Thursday, September 26, 2019 at Globe Life Park in Arlington.(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
By Sam Blum
4:28 PM on Sep 26, 2019 CDT
ARLINGTON - Ronald Guzman watched the 9th-inning popup go high into the afternoon air, and drift wide of the first-base foul line. From all directions, he heard people yelling at him to let it fall, and he had to make a split-second decision. Even the pitcher, Mike Minor, was echoing the same message.
"Honestly that play, I was going for it," Guzman said. "... When I got close to it, I heard the whole stadium telling me to drop it."
He decided to adhere to the request. A two-run game, sure. It was a move that even manager Chris Woodward acknowledged is almost "crossing the line." But once that ball hit the ground, Minor would be just one strike away from 200 strikeouts.
It was the only reason Minor was still in the game at 125 pitches in the ninth inning. To finish off a 200-inning, 200-strikeout season. On the very next pitch, he got Chris Owings looking on a pitch that Minor himself acknowledged was "borderline". A standing ovation occurred. And a surely relieved Woodward went to pull his ace. Jose Leclerc got the final out in Texas' 7-5 win.
"It's just an accomplishment that I was look at this past offseason of wanting to improve last year," Minor said. "This year, I got a little bit closer to the end, and a lot of guys were talking about it. ... Then today, I got closer, I knew we were a couple strikeouts away, and I tried to get it. Other that, people say it's hard to do."
As the game waned, it seemed the milestone wouldn't be reached. For one, Minor was at 117 pitches through seven innings. That already matched his season-high. Secondly, the Rangers strongly believed that Boston was intentionally swinging at the first pitch - all to prevent Minor from getting 200 strikeouts.
Minor said after the game he saw Boston's Brock Holt purposefully laughing toward Texas' dugout after popping out. In the eighth inning, the Red Sox were retired on a three-pitch inning - the first instance of that Woodward said he's ever seen.
As Minor was walking off the mound that inning, Woodward said he signaled to his pitcher immediately that he'd be going back out for the ninth inning.
"It got gut-wrenching as a manager," Woodward said of continuing with Minor. "I didn't love the idea that we dropped a popup at the end, but on the other side of that, they swung at three pitches in a row in the eighth inning down by two. So if they have any beef with that, obviously, I'm pretty sure [Boston manager Alex] Cora did. They chose to not try to win the game as well, they were trying to keep him from striking a guy out, which worked in our game to winning the game eventually."
When Cora was asked about the final strikeout, he simply said, "I'm just happy our guys are playing the game the right way."
Minor recorded his 200th inning after getting the first out of the game, on his first of nine strikeouts. A double-play in the sixth inning got him to 205 total innings, surpassing a career-high he set in 2013. And his final moment, his 126th pitch, was a triumphant K of Owings, who had homered off him in the seventh to tie the game.
It was a nice moment for Minor, given his belief that the Red Sox wouldn't let him even get a shot.
"They were trying to mess with me, because they knew what I was trying to do," Minor said. "... I got [Owings] to two strikes because of that dropped ball. And so then I knew I had a couple pitches to get him to swing over something or freeze him."
Minor struggled mightily in his last two starts - allowing 13 runs, 15 hits and seven walks over 10 innings. In terms of innings, it was of course the most laborious season of Minor's career.
Before the start, Woodward spoke in his office about the importance of him finishing it out, and allowing the longevity to prepare him for next season - when late-season starts might be more meaningful. Going 8 2/3 innings showed he wasn't quite gassed.
"Last year was like [157]," Minor said of his innings in 2018. "And this year over 200. You hope to have that same season, because it means you're winning, you're pitching well. You're over 200 innings when you go into October and into the playoffs. That way it's not foreign. If I didn't have that many innings, maybe I would be tired."
Minor joins Lance Lynn, who also had a 200/200 season. It's the first Rangers duo to do so since 1990, when Nolan Ryan and Bobby Witt both accomplished the feat. The 126 pitches it took on Thursday was the most since Yu Darvish threw the same more than five years ago.
While the story of the day was the Rangers pitcher, it was the Texas bats that avoided a sweep. Danny Santana hit his second grand slam of the season - blasting one off the facing of the second deck in right field.
After Boston hit two home runs to tie the game in the seventh, Willie Calhoun and Rougned Odor went deep in the bottom of the inning to regain the lead.
But the excitement of the game didn't play out in the four homers in the span of four outs. It came from a dropped pop-up, a team doing everything it could to prevent a 200th-strikeout. And then, finally, in Minor reaching the milestone anyway.
"From a number's standpoint, I know it's just a number, but it's a big deal," Woodward said. This guy's been our best pitcher all year. ... All year he's just been unbelievable."
Sam Blum, Staff Writer. Sam covers SMU athletics and the Texas Rangers for The Dallas Morning News, and previously covered Auburn University athletics for AL.com. He's also covered University of Virginia athletics for The Daily Progress in Charlottesville. He graduated from Syracuse University.
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If you take a look at the back side of your vintage Certina, you'll see (at least if it is from the 1950s to the mid-seventies, and the case back has not been polished) two numbers on the case back. These are the reference number and the serial number.
There were three different systems of numbering, depending on the era. Prior to 1958, a reference number, for example, looks like this: 8600-2.
But the composition of the reference number was similar to the following system which was used from about 1958 to 1974. Then, the system was changed again.
It's not clear if the serial numbering was changed in the fifties. It also could be that it continued until the changeover in 1974. Furthermore, it seems that special watches, such as chronometers and gold watches, may have had a separate six-digit numbering.
A reference number from the period 1958 to 1974 has two parts and seven digits. The serial number also has seven digits.
The first two digits indicate the movement that was used. In this example, the 87 stands for the Certina 29-064 (Valjoux 728). The corresponding assignment can be seen in the tables below. The second two digits represent the case material. Here we have a number 01 for a steel case. The last three digits indicate the appropriate model resp. the case style. In this case, the Chronolympic "Regatta" Chronograph.
Please note that the following tables are still under construction and I cannot guarantee the accuracy and completeness of the information.
Have you ever wondered what year your vintage Certina is? There are a lot of requests about that information. Unfortunately, until recently, there wasn't a reliable way to check the serial number with the year of production. Even at Certina itself, it seems that no reliable records exist (based on various requests from collectors directly to Certina, in my experience).
What luck for us vintage Certina aficionados that Martin Lovasz has taken it upon himself to prepare such a list, and also that he welcomes our participation. At this point, thanks again Martin for your work!
The list published below cannot be absolutely guaranteed since it was created from various individual items. Unfortunately, the exact year can only be determined by a few elements. It takes a personal engraving or proof of purchase to determine the exact year. The more such pieces can be added to the database, the more precise the list will be. We are therefore dependent upon your help.
So if you own a timepiece which can be clearly dated, please send me the data. I will then pass the information on to Martin.
After the changeover in 1974 the watches had no more serial numbers.
Using this list, you can roughly date your gold watch. But it is still very imprecise.
A rough estimate of the production period can also be done by the various design markings on the dial.
Until about 1953, the Certina writing on the dial was printed in cursive handwriting, with connected letters.
The name "Certina" is taken from the Latin "certus", meaning "assured", "certain".
Starting in 1954, the modern lettering with block letters in capitals was used, as it is today.
In 1958, the lettering was complemented by the well-known logo with the two rotating "C" shapes, one within the other. In order to find a suitable logo, there was a competition created for graphic designers.


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Kenny Dalglish Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Kenny Dalglish was born on March 4th, 1951. His place of birth was in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a key striker for Celtic. After playing for the Celtic team, he went to become FWA Footballer of the Year for two times. This happened when Dalglish was playing for Liverpool. He was the first ever player to score 100 goals in both English and Scottish soccer. Later in his career, he became a player-manager first for Liverpool then Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United, and Celtic.
Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish was born in 1951 in Dalmarnock which is the eastern end of Glasgow, Scotland. His upbringing was in the northern sections of Glasgow, Milton. Later on, his family shifted to Govan. This is the same environment where soccer icon, Sir Alex Ferguson was brought up.
Dalglish was a Rangers supporter right from the time he was young. His soccer career began with him playing as a goalkeeper. Shortly after, he opted to play the offensive position, and this landed him to Scotland Schoolboys youth. This team was in the under 15 categories.
In 1966, young Dalglish was given an opportunity to play as a tryout for Liverpool. Sadly, he did not make a good impression at first. This made him sign for Glasgow Celtic a year later.
Soccer Career
After signing up for Glasgow Celtic, Kenny Dalglish did not play for the team right away. Instead, he was out on loan to Cumbernauld United. Later on, in September 1968, he made his first-ever appearance for the Celtic senior team. He spent a few years before gaining a first choice position as a striker for Celtic.
Soon, Dalglish proved that he could perform and help Celtic in winning games. With Dalglish as the striker, Celtic won First Division titles for four times. In addition to this, it won 4 Scottish and League Cups in the period, 1971 to 1977.
After significant success with Celtic, Kenny Dalglish joined Liverpool in 1977. His transfer fee was approximately $768,000. This was a record transfer during this time for the two British clubs. His impact on his new team Liverpool was profound. He wore Keegan's number seven shirt while making his first debut for Liverpool in August 1977. This was the season's opener game held at Wembley.
Liverpool was playing against Manchester United while contesting for the Charity Shield. Dalglish first goal for Liverpool came on 20th August while playing against Middlesbrough. While at Anfield for his first game at home, he scored in their 2-0 win over Newcastle United. Dalglish made a significant impact on Liverpool while competing for the European Cup. He scored the only goal while playing against Brugge, helping Liverpool clinch the European Cup.
After his success during the first season at Liverpool, the coming six years were also record-breaking. While still playing for the Reds, Dalglish helped Liverpool win two other European Cups. During this period, he won the FWA Footballer of the Year for two times.
In 1983, Dalglish scored his 100th goal for Liverpool. This made him gain the recognition of being the first player to reach this mark both in Scottish and British soccer. Five years later, he was named Liverpool's player-manager. In 1990, Dalglish retired from football and continued with his management career until February 1991.
International Career
Kenny Dalglish success also extended internationally. He made an appearance in World Cup three times, i.e., 1974, 1978 and 1982. During this period, he made a record of 102 caps. He scored 30 goals in his international career.
Management Career
Shortly after leaving Liverpool in 1991, Dalglish was named the Second Division manager for Blackburn Rovers. He was successful while managing this team and they made it into the premier league. In 1965, Dalglish led Blackburn into the League championship. Later on, he took the position of the club's director for a full year before leaving.
After Blackburn, he spent a short period managing Newcastle United. After that, he was named director-turned-manager for Celtic for one season. In 2009, Kenny Dalglish was back to Liverpool, but this time he was managing the youth team. In 2011, he served as a Liverpool's manager for a short period. He led Liverpool to clinch the League Cup in 2012 before his dismissal.
Kenny Dalglish had a wife is called Marina. They have been married together since 1974. The couple has four children including Kelly, Paul, Lynsey, and Lauren. In 2003, Marina was diagnosed with breast cancer. Nonetheless, she managed to recover from this.
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But Republicans support the way US President Donald Trump handled his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin by an unmistakable majority, according to a new poll indicating that about four in five Republicans approved of the American head of state's behavior. The president's approval rating stands at 43 percent, or, four percent higher than his term average of 39 percent, according to a Gallup poll published July 15.
Trump made it crystal clear during the 2016 campaign season that he intended to warm the bilateral relationship with Russia as a hallmark of his presidency, He made a promise to potential voters: "I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia from a position of strength only, is possible, absolutely possible," Trump said at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington in April 2016. "Common sense says this cycle, this horrible cycle of hostility must end and ideally will end soon. Good for both countries."
When all the votes were tallied, and the GOP candidate earned the minimum 270 Electoral College votes required to secure the presidency, voters effectively entrusted Trump to fulfill his campaign vows. A poll released Thursday by Axios and Survey Monkey showed that 79 percent of Republicans expressed total approval when asked, "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Trump handled his press conference with Putin?"
Former President Barack Obama affirmed the importance of voting, and its significance as a mark of approval for a candidate's promises, during his 2012 victory speech. "I know that political campaigns can sometimes seem small, even silly. And that provides plenty of fodder for the cynics that tell us that politics is nothing more than a contest of egos or the domain of special interests… elections matter. It's not small; it's big. It's important. Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. We have our own opinions. Each of us has deeply held beliefs. And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs passions, stirs up controversy."
"That won't change after tonight, and it shouldn't. These arguments we have are a mark of our liberty."
The US head of state said on Twitter Thursday: "The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more. There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems… but they can ALL be solved!"
The White House press secretary later divulged that Trump asked National Security Adviser John Bolton to invite the Russian president to Washington later this year.


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Data Availability StatementData and materials used and/or analysed through the current research are available through the corresponding writer on reasonable demand
By Dawn Thompson on Thursday, December 3, 2020
Data Availability StatementData and materials used and/or analysed through the current research are available through the corresponding writer on reasonable demand. treatment, diethylstilbestrol and hAMSCs had been implemented to POF mice by intraperitoneal shot and intragastric administration, respectively. After either 7 or 14?times, ovarian function was evaluated with the oestrus routine, hormone amounts, ovarian index, fertility price, and ovarian morphology. The karyotype was determined in offspring with the G-banding technique. hAMSCs monitoring, immunohistochemical staining, and real-time polymerase string reaction (PCR) MK-6096 (Filorexant) had been used to measure the molecular systems of damage and repair. Outcomes The oestrus routine was retrieved after hAMSCs transplantation at 7 and 14?times. Oestrogen levels elevated, while follicle-stimulating hormone amounts reduced. The ovarian index, fertility price, and population of follicles at different stages had been more than doubled. The newborn mice got no apparent deformity and demonstrated normal growth and development. The normal offspring mice were also fertile. The tracking of hAMSCs revealed that they colonized in the ovarian stroma. Immunohistochemical and PCR analyses indicated that changes in proteins and genes might affect mature follicle formation. Conclusions These results suggested that hAMSCs transplantation can improve injured ovarian tissue structure and function in oxidatively damaged POF mice. Furthermore, the mechanisms of hAMSCs are related to promoting follicular development, granulosa cell proliferation, and secretion function by improving the local microenvironment of the ovary. Keywords: Premature ovarian failure, Hydrogen peroxide, Human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells, Diethylstilbestrol, Reproduction, Ovary, Microenvironment Background Premature ovarian failure (POF) is usually a gynaecological endocrine disease characterized by abnormal oestrogen levels and gonadotropin, which manifests as irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, infertility, and perimenopause syndrome affecting women younger than 40?years of age. Approximately 1% of women under the age of 40?years could develop POF [1]. The reasons for POF may be varied, including genetic predisposition, autoimmune conditions, infections, and iatrogenic causes [2]. Long-term health consequences, CITED2 including psychological distress, infertility, osteoporosis, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, and increased mortality, have significant impacts on the quality of life for women diagnosed with POF [3]. The mechanisms of POF genesis and progression involve follicle atresia, granulosa cell apoptosis, interstitial fibrosis, and disturbed sex hormone levels. There may also be an imbalance in immune function and inflammatory responses [4, 5]. Therefore, in addition to elevated follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and reduced oestrogen and anti-Mllerian hormone(AMH) amounts in the blood flow, adjustments in the appearance of some substances take place in the neighborhood ovary [6 also, 7], including a number of follicular development-related development factors, like the forkhead container L2 gene (FOXL2), octamer mixture transcription elements (Oct4), development differentiation aspect-9 (GDF-9), leukaemia inhibitory aspect (LIF), and stem cell aspect (SCF). Far Thus, there are restrictions of hormone substitute therapy, in vitro oocyte maturation or oocyte/ovarian cryopreservation for transplantation on POF [1, 3]. Nevertheless, simply no radical get rid of is however designed for reversing the POF to a standard ovarian function and framework. There can be an urgent have to enhance the current treatment strategies. Stem cell therapy continues to be suggested being a encouraging measure in the treatment of several human diseases and applications of regenerative medicine because of the self-renewal and differentiation abilities of these cells, which can replace the damaged tissue, or the paracrine cytokines and exosomes, which can rescue injured tissues [8, 9]. Recent studies have shown that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) [10C14], amniotic fluid stem cells [15C18], adipose-derived stem cells [19, 20], human umbilical cord MSCs [21, 22], and menstrual blood stem cells [23C25] can restore ovarian function and fertility in mice models of POF. However, many of the suitable cell types currently identified for clinical application involve invasive procedures or have a low magnitude of the original stem cells. Amnion is usually a waste item of perinatal tissues sources therefore the procedure to acquire individual amniotic mesenchymal stem cells (hAMSCs) is certainly noninvasive rather than MK-6096 (Filorexant) under ethical issue. hAMSCs might prevent age-related reductions in proliferative and differentiation potential features [26]. hAMSCs have the normal features of multipotent MSCs, including self-renewal, high prices of proliferation, multi-differentiation capability, anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects, and paracrine activity [27C32]. Research workers have got reported that hAMSCs secrete quite a lot of several elements, including HGF, IGF-1, VEGF, EGF, GDF-9, bFGF, and several miRNAs [33]. Therefore, hAMSCs are a perfect cell type for the treating injury. The efficiency of hAMSCs continues to be demonstrated in a number of trials, including studies analyzing hAMSCs as a MK-6096 (Filorexant) treatment for heart failure, myocardial infarction, Alzheimers disease, and spinal cord injury [34C39]. A few studies possess reported that hAMSCs can save ovarian function in chemotherapy-induced POF mice [40, 41]. However, whether hAMSCs transplantation can restore ovarian function in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced POF with oxidative damage is still unfamiliar. In this study, hAMSCs were injected intraperitoneally into H2O2-induced POF mice to evaluate the restorative effect on ovarian function. The mechanism underlying hAMSCs-mediated maintenance was further analyzed. Methods Isolation and.
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"This is by far the most difficult post we've ever had to write. On Tuesday night's Chili Ride, we lost a beloved member of our Sunnyside family," read a lengthy post on the shop's Instagram page.
This is by far the most difficult post we've ever had to write. • On Tuesday night's Chili Ride, we lost a beloved member of our Sunnyside family, Kurt Lange. Kurt collapsed mid-ride from an apparent heart attack and was unable to be saved, despite the best efforts of his cycling family, good samaritans and emergency personnel. • The sadness and grief we feel is profound, and reaches new depths with each passing hour. All of us who were lucky enough to ride with Kurt know that he was an incredibly special man - a kind, funny, easy-going, thoughtful, generous, positive, straight-shooting, good-natured, good man. Kurt was protective and supportive of us personally and as a group. We all genuinely loved riding with him and hanging out with him. When Kurt wasn't on a ride, his absence was felt and noted by everyone. It sounds cliche, but it's the sincere truth: Our rides simply will not be the same without him. • Of course, Kurt had a real family, too, and all of our hearts ache for them. As much we hurt for losing our friend and riding partner, we cannot fathom the pain they are enduring after losing their father and grandfather. We ask the entire cycling community to lift Kurt's family up in prayers for peace and comfort, and hope his loved ones know how much we appreciate them sharing him with us these last couple years since he started cycling. • Kurt's legacy will live on in all of us privileged enough to ride with him. All of us who were with him Tuesday night will never, ever take anything or anyone for granted. Kurt reminded us that in an instant, everything can change. We are changed forever, and will always ride with Kurt in our hearts. •Kurt's funeral services will be held at 10 am on Thursday, June 21 at Reedley Cemetery with a reception to follow. Cards may be sent to Creighton Funeral Home in Kingsburg. •We have started a gofundme account to help Kurt's children and grandchildren during this devastating time. Please donate and share! Link in bio. •We have a memory book at the shop to give to his family. Please come write a memory to give them comfort. •A memorial ride is being planned. Details coming soon.
Vanessa McCracken, who owns the shop with husband John, calls Lange's death "utterly devastating" and says it changed everything for everyone who was on the ride.
Whatever struggles the shop might have gone through lately, they no longer seem important, McCracken says. Last month, a car crashed through the front door of the shop on Kings Canyon Avenue, destroying merchandise, knocking out the computer system and leaving cash registers buried underneath a pile of rubble. They had just finished repairs on the shop.
"A car smashing through your shop doesn't seem too significant," McCracken says.
"This put everything else in perspective."
McCracken struggled with whether to post about Lange's death on social media. But Lange was so important to the cycling community around the shop. He was always thoughtful and generous and, ultimately, the McCrackens say they hope the cycling community can repay some of that generosity to his family.
To that end, the shop started a GoFundMe campaign. (Lange deeply supported any and all fundraisers the shop ever had.) The money will go to his family.
Since the campaign went up Thursday, it has raised more than $1,100.
There is also a memory book at the shop, and the McCrackens are urging those who knew Lange to share their stories.. It will eventually be given to Lange's family.
The shop is planning a memorial ride. It will be open to all levels of bicyclists, and McCracken hopes Lange's family will be able to participate so they can get a small sample of the community he seemed to love.
And on Tuesday, they will continue with the Chili Ride, McCracken says. The group will stop for a moment at the point where Lange went down. Then, they will finish the ride that he didn't.
"I intend the ride to be a time for all of us to heal," she says.
Services for Lange will be held at 10 a.m. June 21 at Reedley Cemetery. The cycling community is invited. Cards can be sent to Creighton Funeral Home in Kingsburg, but the family is requesting no flowers, according to Sunnyside Bicycles.


I wish you peace and all good things. May you be filled with the wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit as we approach the great solemnity of Pentecost. Let us keep at the work of building a world ready to receive its creator and redeemer—and surrender joyfully to the rule of God.
Sunday, May 20, when we take part in the parish ministry fair.
Thursday, May 24, when we hold a Taizé service with prayer intentions for immigrants.
Monday, June 4, when we hold our next monthly meeting.
Sunday, July 15, when we hold our first-ever picnic.
Here is an update on activities and projects.
Our study group is having great conversations about ecology. Our discussions have generated a few ideas for personal ecological conversion, parish action, and policy advocacy. We will continue meeting every other Thursday until May 31. Then we will make the transition from a study group to a working group this summer. The working group meetings will be open to all.
Our street outreach has emerged. On Saturday, May 12, 10 a.m., we walked through Inwood and Washington Heights and gave out 20 bags containing sandwiches, clothing, and other basic necessities. We thank the Allen Hospital for donating amenity kits with hygiene and first aid items, and C-Town Supermarkets for donating food. Coming up this summer: more days of outreach, a film about homelessness, and a trip to a homeless drop-in center. The next working group meeting is Wednesday, May 30, 6:30 p.m. in the Choir Room. Contact Alba Fresco, amfresco@gmail.com.
Our next Taizé prayer service on May 24 will offer intentions for the needs of undocumented immigrants. All are welcome at this bilingual, contemplative prayer service in the tradition of the ecumenical monastic community of Taizé, France. We will gather in the chapel of San Damiano Retreat Center from 7 to 8 p.m. There will be hymns in English and Spanish, Scripture readings, and veneration of the Cross.
We are still looking for volunteers to start a working group. Let us support the New Sanctuary Coalition. Let us visit Aura Hernandez and her infant child who have taken sanctuary at Fourth Universalist Society on the Upper West Side, and Amanda Morales and her three children at Holyrood Episcopal Church. Please contact Brother Anthony to arrange a group visit.
Community Board 12 and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer have heard our voices on the rezoning plan. They would like to see changes to the city's proposal. But the struggle continues. The City Planning Commission held a hearing on May 9. The City Council will hold a hearing in late June. The decision to approve a rezoning plan rests with these municipal bodies. It will take all of us in the community to push our city leaders to make necessary changes to the current rezoning proposal if we want to preserve affordable housing in Inwood. The JPIC rezoning working group will continue to educate and mobilize the parish at key moments of the rezoning review process. Please join! Contact Graham Ciraulo, gciraulo86@gmail.com.
On April 28, I gave a day of recollection on social justice and discipleship at Holy Cross-Saint John the Baptist, the Capuchin parish in Midtown. A few Good Shepherd members joined me. In the near future, I would like to offer a similar day of recollection at Good Shepherd on the charisms, or gifts, God gives us to work for justice.
JPIC will be a part of the parish ministry fair on Pentecost Sunday, May 20. All the groups, ministries, and societies of the parish will participate. This was our idea. Let's show up and make our ministry visible to others! We hope that this exhibit of the good works of Good Shepherd will help bring our community together in ways that make us a stronger witness to the Gospel of liberation and life.
Finally, save the date of July 15 for our first picnic! Let us rejoice in God and in one another as we seek the reign of God in our world.


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Microsoft Readies WMF Patch
By Sean Michael Kerner | January 03, 2006
The Windows Metafile Format (WMF) flaw is not quite a zero-day exploit anymore, but it's not quite patched yet, either.
Microsoft has completed the development of a security update to fix the WMF flaw, which appeared last week. However, the update is being tested for quality control and isn't going to be released until Tuesday, Jan. 10.
An attacker could take advantage of the flaw to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable Windows XP and Windows 2003 system.
The exploit targets how IE handles pictures that are transmitted by malicious sites hosting the .wmf file. The flaw saw numerous variants and was reportedly being exploited in the wild. The WMF exploit also had been added to the popular Metasploit Framework, which could potentially also allow for easy execution.
The updated Microsoft advisory acknowledges that, though the vulnerability is "serious" and attacks are being attempted, "the scope of the attacks are not widespread."
Part of the reason for the mitigation of the flaw's impact is the fact that the major antivirus companies have updated their virus signatures to prevent execution of the associated virus.
Microsoft's own Windows OneCare Live Beta also provides protection against the vulnerability.
In its updated advisory, Microsoft also addresses the reason it is taking Microsoft so long to issue a security update.
"Creating security updates that effectively fix vulnerabilities is an extensive process," the advisory states.
The advisory explains that Microsoft security personnel spend time to investigate the severity of the vulnerability, as well as its impact on applications. Updates are developed for every supported version of the supported product, localized for 23 languages and then issued simultaneously worldwide.


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In 2018, the Australian music industry has found a place on the world stage unlike any it previously occupied. Now recognised as an incubator of innovative artists, thought-leading professionals, and vibrant music scenes, the music industry needs an event that can keep pace with its rapid evolution. On July 4 and 5 2018, CHANGES, a collaboration between The Push, Yarra City Council, Music Victoria and the Victorian music community, is assembling a roster of ground breaking voices, events and programming.
Music Victoria was proud to host an Industry roundtable on campsite litter in our offices yesterday - involving key representatives from the festival circuit and a behaviour change expert from Monash Uni, brought together by Green Music Australia.
Music Victoria is excited to announce the successful applicants for their 2018 Music Works, Live Music Professionals program – a free professional and business development program for independent promoters, venue owners, venue managers and band bookers supported by the Victorian Government's Music Works initiative.
Music Victoria thanks everyone who signed up or renewed their subscription during the 2018 Membership Drive.
Today, as part of this week's sold out Music Cities Convention, Music Victoria announced the complete findings from the 2017 Melbourne Live Music Census, to over 300 music industry leaders from across the globe.
Music Victoria is looking for a highly motivated, project driven outcomes-focussed General Manager to head the newly announced Victorian Music Development Office (VMDO), including leading a small team of program staff.
Music Victoria has been tasked with the delivery and management of the Victorian Music Development Office (VMDO) at the Collingwood Arts Precinct following an announcement from Martin Foley, Minister for Creative Industries. The Minister announced the final exciting stage in the State Government's $22.2 million Music Works package at a ceremony held at the Collingwood Arts Precinct today.
Off the back of the fantastic Melbourne Live Music Census 2017 results released last week, we have another huge week in Melbourne music coming up. The Music Cities Convention is happening this week and there will be hundreds of international delegates converging in Melbourne to discuss what makes a music city.
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"I'm going to go home and watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer," says Ed Sheeran after serenading a sold-out crowd at his Radio City Music Hall headline show. The 22-year-old Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter isn't concerned with being anything other than who he really is: the folk-pop rapper your parents might actually listen to. And so far, this refreshing approach seems to be getting him places. Don't believe us? Ask his 6.5-plus million Twitter followers, nearly 3 million Facebook fans, and the thousands of screaming girls who show up at countless concerts simply to see him.
Some may think Ed is an overnight music sensation, but the Halifax, England, native grew up in an artistic home where his love of music was nurtured at a young age. "My parents worked in the art world," Ed says. "They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do."
Marching to his own beatbox has certainly paid off for the rising superstar. In 2010 alone he played more than 300 shows, from homeless shelters to slam poetry sessions to open-mic nights. During a brief L.A. gigging stint he caught the eye of actor Jamie Foxx (who gave him a couch to crash on), and at the front lines of London hip-hop battles he befriended the U.K.'s best underground rappers (who played an instrumental role in the making of one of his EPs). "I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues," Ed says of his relatively recent American fame. "I've got to be known as the new kid [a little longer]."