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Chattanooga Football Club
Text Request helps our communication stay personal, but at the scale and speed of a large business.
Fan Engagement, Promotions
Keywords, Conversations
We knew texting was the way our fans wanted to connect with us.
We needed a creative way to keep fans engaged.
Chattanooga Football Club's purpose is to build community through the world's game. Soccer shapes culture, develops talent, and unites diverse peoples—which is everything we want to bring to Chattanooga.
When you're a non-profit working with limited resources, you have to be creative in how you stay connected with your community. Especially when a worldwide pandemic hits, and you're trying to keep people engaged. We were looking for some more opportunities to connect with our fans, because email wasn't cutting it. So we decided to look into texting, since we knew it was the way our fans wanted to communicate with us.
Text Request helped us generate ideas for increasing customer engagement.
We chose Text Request to manage our messages, because their support team always gets back to us immediately whenever we have a question or need. They'll regularly hold Zoom meetings with us to help generate ideas for increasing customer engagement, and I feel like they're always in our corner working through things with us.
We regularly use Text Request to message fans for feedback after attending their first game, as well as during the game for SMS promotions. For example, we had a giveaway contest for moms during a game on Mother's Day weekend, and we got great engagement from people in the stadium using Text Request as a way to invite them to enter. We were able to get their entries, plus save their contact info for follow-ups and feedback, by using the keyword feature.
Text Request is also useful during our youth summer programs, when we need to reach parents if there's a change in the drop-off location or a cancellation because of weather. It's also a great way for our operations manager to instantly reach people during game days for last minute staff openings.
" Our ticketing team saw engagement immediately increase when we began using Text Request."
Jeremy Alumbaugh, Managing Director
Texting keeps our communication personal at scale.
Our ticketing team saw engagement immediately increase when they started using Text Request. It transformed our communication strategy coming out of the pandemic, and we're thrilled to be getting all these new interactions with fans, in addition to being able to respond to them quicker.
Our fans are always surprised to learn that we have a small staff, because our messaging is so quick and professional. Text Request helps our communication stay personal, but at the scale and speed of a large business. It's opened the doors to how we reach our city.
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While it can be challenging to find the time to eat meals as a family, it is important to try to make time for this oft-ignored tradition. Here are five benefits of eating meals together as a family.
It gives you quality time together. Due to everybody's different schedule, it can be difficult to spend time together as a family. A regular meal time gives families a chance to regroup, talk and enjoy each other's company.
It helps reinforce good manners. Having a meal as a family is an excellent opportunity to practice good manners. The more you eat together, the more opportunities your children have to practice good manners.
It promotes healthy eating. When you have meals together at home, you can easily control what your children are served. Thus, you can add more fruits, vegetables and whole grains to the menu.
It helps expand children's palates. Instead of serving rice, substitute quinoa. Or serve mashed cauliflower instead of mashed potatoes. If you're serving chicken, add a side of tikka masala sauce for dipping. Having family meals together means more opportunities for trying and hopefully enjoying different foods.
It helps save money. Many families will visit the local pizza shop or a fast food restaurant to save time, but the costs of doing so can add up quickly. It is much more cost effective to prepare and serve a meal at home than to go out to eat. Your family can put the money you save toward something else, such as a vacation or weekend outing.


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Investment planning is as important as earning. Investing in life insurance, term insurance, and health insurance has become a basic necessity for each and every family. If you are an income generating individual, you should be investing in plans that ensure your good health, better future, and conducive financial conditions. The uncertainty of the future scares everyone but maintaining a safe and secure future for your family is essential.
The first thing to consider is the amount of time the tenure will last. The policies usually differ a lot from each other when it comes to length of term. Make sure you choose a time period that is suitable to you according to the various factors like age and financial condition. Long-term insurance plans are generally better than the traditional term insurance plans, since, the tenure lasts longer and hence the amount of savings is more.
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The Academy at Johns Hopkins
Bernard Shiffman
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
bshiffman@math.jhu.edu
Professor Shiffman has been a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins since 1977. He served as chair of the department from 1990-1993 and again from 2012-2014.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Mathematics from 1993-2005 and currently serves as an associate editor for the publication.
His research is centered around complex geometry and analysis- in particular, the theory of holomorphic and meromorphic functions and mappings of complex manifolds. One direction of his current research involves applying pluripotential theory and the asymptotic properties of the Bergman-Szego kernel to study the zeros and critical points of random polynomials, holomorphic functions and sections of line bundles on complex manifolds.
Other interests and previous works include Kobayashi hyperbolicity, Nevanlinna defect relations, separately meromorphic functions, characterization of Moishezon manifolds, Nash-algebraic approximation of holomorphic mappings, and dynamics of rational mappings.
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I thought I'd share some random stuff.
Oh, to be able to actually do this in RL!
I love that the paperboy comes on a jet ski!
So she came in through the floor?? I am not sure because I missed how she got in.....there was an alarm and when she got the first level she went out the front door and set off the alarm!
and made her getaway by boat....which was pretty cool!
Okay, so yhea, I actually jumped and gave out a small cry when I saw the Kraken!
I have not seen the Kracken yet.
Wow! Does the Kracken appear in any town? Anyone know?
WOW, those are great pics! I had no idea that the burglar would come to a houseboat. How funny! And I have not seen the kraken yet either.
Did your sim call the police? I wonder if there is a police boat?
The alarm triggered the police...... he came by car. The houseboat was docked. I wonder too if they would come by boat.
You should have your sim call the police when at sea and see what happens. And call the fire department! It would be fun to see the boats.
Or just pay the fines for the false alarms.
Crash is performing a comedy show. :lol:He has the Sense of Humor trait chip.
Maybe he's saying Laughter is the best medicine.
LOL.... I bet your right!
Squirrel!!! No Crash, it's a chipmunk....beeboop.
Just because he can, hehehehehe!
Great pictures. Bonnie and Clyde better watch out ... Elliott Nest is on the case!
Nice pics of RH! I really like it so far.
I really like this world too daisy, I haven't watched the live broadcast so it's just full of surprises for me.
12% chance of getting "Glowy on the Outside" moodlet.
Jelly Bean-The Sims Wiki Thank you EQ for the link!
Love the pic's Buttons! I haven't been able to play RH that much. Between my builds (which I have taken a break from. Those last two killed my creative juices I think ) and catching up my legacy story and getting back on track with that after taking a few weeks break due to the holidays and my holiday work schedule, I haven't had much time to play my other families.
Hi Mamaj Thanks for peeking at my posts. I hope you have some time to play soon. I'm enjoying this save...although I don't seem to be doing much in the town...isn't that the way it usually goes. My sims skill up and go to work...come home...skill up ....go to work. Although, my criminal "glowy" guy has traveled two times and made the "drop" for work purposes. Which is fun, I must admit.
Wonderful screenshot captures! Fun stories.


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Brexit and COVID: How the mass exodus of EU8 and EU2 citizens is reshaping London
The uncertainty of Brexit and COVID has led many EU8 and EU2 citizens to leave London in record numbers, which will have a profound impact on London.
To get the full picture of what is happening, it is important to know the history of EU8 and EU2 migration in the UK and how it impacted London.
In 2007, when Poland, Latvia, Slovenia and many other EU countries were granted EU free movement, millions of those citizens moved to the UK for better wages and higher quality of life.
This was later followed by Bulgaria and Romania in 2014 when they also were granted freedom of movement. The mass migration had a significant impact on London's economy. Warehouses, hospitality and food manufacturing, and farming now have new hard-working and highly motivated workers to fill in the shortage of gaps in skills. But it is not just business but also catholic churches that benefited from the freedom of movement. In 2006, catholic churches were on the verge of collapsing but now have new young Eastern European Catholic priests and congregations to fill new life into the churches.
All of this changed when the UK voted to leave the EU in June 2016. After the vote, it was uncertain how Brexit would look and shape the UK, which led to certain EU citizens leaving the UK. As the UK became closer to reaching a withdrawal agreement with the EU, COVID-19 bought the world to a screeching halt, and countries across the globe were forced into a strict lockdown. The UK is one of the worst-hit countries in the world. The virus killed more than 127,000 in the UK and forced many businesses into bankruptcy. The pandemic is so grim that it plunged the country into its deepest recession in 300 years, according to the Finical Times.
All of this uncertainty led many EU workers to leave the UK, but some are particularly more than others. There have been many reports from different news outlets regarding the mass exodus of EU citizens. However, it does not specially say which bloc of countries. This report will answer dig a little deep for a better understanding of the data and who is leaving, and the impact it will have on London.
But before we get into the statistics, it is important to understand what countries make up the European Union and how they are categorised because the EU is a large area with a collection of many countries with different languages, cultures and economies. So, it is important to see which EU migrates are leaving.
EU14: These countries joined the EU before 2004, and they consist of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.
EU8: These countries joined the EU in 2004, and they consist of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
EU2: These were the last set of countries to join the EU. These countries are Bulgaria and Romania. They joined the EU in 2007, and 7 years later, on the 1st of January 2014, they were granted free movement across the entire EU.
The data source for this report will be the Office of National Statistics (ONS) Annual Population Survey (APS).
These datasets can be requested here: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/
Figure 1: All EU nationals population in the UK
Source: Annual Population Survey from December/June 2015 to December/June 20211
The first figure is the total number of EU citizens living in the UK from June 2013 to June 2021. As we can see from the figure, all EU nationals were on the rise, despite the outcome of the Brexit referendum in June 2016. The` EU8 population started to decrease one year after the referendum in June 2017. Regardless, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the population of EU8 and EU2 citizens dropped significantly, while EU14 increased.
Figure 2: Distribution of EU citizens in the UK
In Figure 2 above, we see that EU nationals are more likely to reside in London than in any part of the UK, and the largest drop of EU citizens is in London.
After the Brexit vote in June 2016, the EU14 increased until December 2017 when it slightly dropped and pick up again. From the Brexit vote to the just start of the Covid Pandemic (December 2019), the EU14 population climbed from 537,900 to 568,300, a 5.6% increase. And during the early stages of the pandemic, the population climbed from 568,300 to 601,600, a 5.8% increase. And then, during the pandemic, it slightly dropped with the population to 570,000, a 5.2% decrease in June 2021
The EU8 saw a sharp increase from December 2013 to December 2014. And December 2014 to December 2017, there were a small increase and decrease in population. The most significant drop came after December 2017 when the population went from 255,100 to 203,900 in December 2018. Overall, since the Brexit vote from June 2016 to June 2021, the population decreased by 20%.
The most striking is the population of EU2 nationals. The population continued to rise sharply in London despite the Brexit vote. The population increased from 125800 in June 2016 to 190400 in December 2019, a 40.8% increase, just before the COVID. And during the pandemic, nearly half of the population declined. The numbers went from 190,400 to 108,000, a 43.2% drop.
The population gap between EU8 and EU2 between London and other parts have the UK has been narrowed significantly.
Such a drop in the population of EU8 and EU2 citizens will have an impact on recruitment in the UK. Chris Slay, the owner of Acorn Recruitment which specializes in Eastern European workers, said job applications from EU2 and EU8 countries have "virtually disappeared", and it negatively impacted his company's ability to recruit.
"Most realize that they cannot get a job in the UK now unless they get visa support. Most of them do not have a clue on how to find an employer willing to give visa support, and most UK employers don't have a clue about what they need to do to offer visa support" he said.
Chris Slay expressed his frustration with the whole Brexit process. He said Acorn Recruitment and other recruitment agencies have advocated to the British government that they should extend the period of the availability of EU workers by either six months or a year. This will give people and businesses a chance to properly adjust and plan for our future.
He added, "we did not know the fine details because the government issued it very late, so it was hard to plan for the future".
Figure 3: Skills distribution by nationality
Source: The Migration Observatory Analysis of the Annual population survey 2020
Figure 4 | Overqualification by nationality
When we break down the skills in figure 3, the EU8 and EU2 are least likely to work in high-skilled jobs, while EU14 and India are more likely to work in high-skilled jobs. EU8 and EU2, along with Pakistan and other South Asia, are more likely to work in low-skilled.
If we look at figure 4, we see that EU8 and EU2 workers are likely to be overqualified to work in low skilled jobs.
Figure 5 | Earnings of full-time employees by nationality
Figure 5 shows how much the earnings of different nationalities. The 25%, 50%, 75% percent bracket. When it comes to wages, EU8 and EU2 workers are more likely to work for lower wages than any other nationality. 75% of the entire population of EU8 and EU2 workers do not earn more than £32K to £29K. While EU14 75% do not earn more than £48K.
Figure 6: Breakdown of industry of employment
Figure 6 shows the clear breakdown of sectors migrant and UK workers are likely to work in. EU14 are more likely to work in education, health and social work, and professional & scientific. While EU8 and EU2 workers are likely to work in manufacturing, retail, construction, transport & storage, and the hospitality sector. These industries are the hardest hit. Chris Slay said that these industries did not plan for Brexit, and they continued as if they would not be any changes or make new adjustments.
He said the executives in those industries are currently in a position of uncertainty and confusion about future prospects. He added, "and in those industries, employers are always looking for ways to get lower costs for things, so I had some amusing conversations with employers who say' yes, I am prepared to sponsor visas, but I want my workers to be self-employed as well. That is not going to happen".
Chris Slay stressed that there will be serious complications when the country emerges out of furlough and the market opens.
Julian Jessop, economist and former HM Treasury Advisor, also agreed with Chris Slays concern about the complications that will arise when the markets open. "The bigger problem will come when the economy fully reopens, especially as a significant number of those workers have left the country over the last year".
"It seems unlikely that some of these workers will return. This will exacerbate supply constraints and inflation pressures, especially in consumer-facing services, where pent-up demand is likely to be greatest, and in cities like London, which have recently depended heavily on migrant workers, particularly from the EU in general", said Julian Jessop.
But Julian Jessop said that because the Brexit changes had happened when large parts of the economy were shut down due to COVID-19 has at least minimised the disruption because the furlough scheme kept them afloat.
"A relatively high proportion of those workers are employed in sectors like hospitality and tourism where there has been little recruitment anyway. This has provided a little more breathing space for some of the most vulnerable businesses to adjust", he added.
When the markets open up, there will be skill shortages which will leave many businesses vulnerable. Jessop said that it will take some time for businesses to understand and adapt to the new rules "governing the relationship between the UK and the EU" and that "this applies in many areas, including cross-border trade in goods and services, as well as the rules on employment. So, it is very likely that, in the meanwhile, businesses will recruit foreign workers from non-EU nations to fill in the gaps".
The most striking in Figure 6 is the high reliance of the construction industry on EU2 workers, with 17% of the population working in that particular industry, and it is more than double that of any other nationalities.
Professor Noble Francis said that, currently, there are no major issues with skill shortages because the construction remains "significantly below pre-Covid-19 levels".
However, he said that as construction recovers that there will be skill shortages in London now that many EU2 citizens have left the capital. He also said the from 1st of January 2021, the "UK has a new employer-led points-based immigration system", which does not favour the construction industry because "activity is project-based, rather than on permanent contract".
Francis confirmed that 40% of workers in the construction industry are self-employed and 86% of construction employment is in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) that do not have the resource to sponsor workers from outside the UK.
"The likelihood is that in the short-term construction in London recovers, higher wages in London will attract workers from other surrounding regions of the UK, but this increases wage inflation and construction costs", he added.
In the long-term, there would be serious additional issues regarding construction workers' age, he confirmed. "The spike in the age demographic of the UK-born construction workforce is in the 50–65 age range, so that means that UK construction will be losing around 500,000 UK-born workers".
He added that this would cause a serious lack of supply of construction workers, and the higher costs will motivate increased investment in automation of the industry and introduce modern, cheaper methods of construction, which will lead to higher productivity and lower labour cost.
But Noble warned that once part of the construction industry becomes automated, these jobs will be lost forever.
Brexit and COVID will have a major consequence on London. Many businesses did not plan for Brexit, and COVID led EU8 and EU2 nationals to leave the country on a mass scale. Not only will this impact the capital economy but also change the culture of London, with many churches closing because of the lack of worshipers. New Hindu temples and Mosques will pop up throughout London as more immigrations will flow in from those countries to fill in the skill shortages while businesses adjust to the new point-based immigrations for EU2 and EU8 citizens. London has, and has always, been changing, and this is a new chapter for the capital.
Dino Groshell
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In 2011, the Supreme Court rendered an important decision on the subject of the relationship between the Law of Patents and the Law of Unjust Enrichment.
Merck & Co sued Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in the Tel Aviv District Court, alleging that the defendant exploits its Fosalan medicine for the treatment of osteoporosis, which is subject matter of an Israeli pending patent application. The suit alleges that Teva is manufacturing and distributing medicine which constitutes an absolute imitation of Fosalan.
The application was examined, accepted by the Israeli Patent Office and published for opposition. The defendant lodged oppositions against the application and the opposition proceedings are pending.


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5 Real Crazy Reasons for Divorce
Marriages can break down in so many different ways, but here are some of our favourites from around the world:
1) In 1997, a California woman filed for divorce after 25 years of what her husband believed had been a good marriage. Two years later the truth came out, in December 1996, just 11 days before she filed for the divorce, she had won $1.3 million on the Lottery. Thereafter to keep the money all to herself she filed for divorce. When the truth came out, a Los Angeles family court judge ruled that the woman had violated state asset disclosure laws and awarded every cent of her lottery winnings to her ex-husband.
2) Earlier this year, an American woman left her husband of 22 years when she found out he had voted for Donald Trump to become president. Apparently, this "betrayal", was the tipping point. "It opened up areas between us I had not faced before," she explained.
3) One Japanese couple who had been married for six years, watched the movie Frozen and he made the mistake of asking her, "Did you really think it was that good?" Well, she did, and the fact that he asked that question made her think about what kind of person he was.
4) A Russian man ran out of money while playing poker, so he bet his wife and lost. When his wife found out, she left him for the man who'd won her and her heart.
5) In 2001, a woman suspected that her spouse was cheating on her because their parrot started repeating several phrases of the husband's telephone calls with his lover. The wife was visiting her parents for a full month, and when she got back, the parrot uttered words such as: "divorce", "I love you" and "be patient". She knew something was wrong, so she decided to divorce him.
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startR.dart
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## What is startR?

* startR allows you to quickly use starting points for projects.
* startR follows [sublime](http://www.sublimetext.com) snippet syntax ${1}, ${2}, ${3}, ... ${n} (_Defaults ${n:default} are not yet supported._)

## Installation

1. Install [dart](https://www.dartlang.org)
2. Execute the following command to make [startr](https://github.com/toolr/startr/blob/master/dart/startr) run anywhere:

    ```bash
    $ ln -s path/to/startr /usr/local/bin/startr
    ```

## Use

1. Copy git clone url from a github repo.
     _Example_: `git@github.com:toolr/hw.angular.dart.startr.git` from [toolR/hw.angular.dart.startR](https://github.com/toolr/hw.angular.dart.startr)

2.  Run startR at your project directory:

    ```bash
    $ startr get <git clone url> [arguments]
    ```

    _Example:_
    ```bash
    $ startr get git@github.com:toolr/hw.angular.dart.startr.git coolprojectname
    ```

## Create a startR

Any github repo in any language can be a startR.  _See Example: [toolR/hw.angular.dart.startR](https://github.com/toolr/hw.angular.dart.startr)_

1.  Replace code throughout your project with ${1}, ${2}, ${3}, ... ${n}.

2.  Whenever you run startR and n arguments, it will replace accordingly.  It even works with filenames.  _Directory names are not yet supported._

## Authors

* [Damon Douglas](http://github.com/damondouglas)
* You?

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Emeritus status for three retired University of Findlay faculty members and one dean was granted during the June 2016 Board of Trustees meeting.
Earning the appointments were Micheal Anders, Ph.D.; Paula Wolper; Anne Albert; and Donald Stansloski, R.Ph., Ph.D.
Anders, who retired this year but will still teach some courses, served as the College of Liberal Arts' professor of music for 35 years. He also conducted UF's Concert Chorale and University Singers, was instrumental in helping to launch the Donnell Broadway Concert Series which brings internationally acclaimed performers to UF for performances and master classes; and directed numerous campus musicals. He is the recipient of the University's Founders Award for Academic Excellence and the Elizabeth and Professor Shiv Kumar Gupta Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Area of Fine Arts.
Wolper, who began her UF career in 2001, was assistant professor of the Hospitality Management Program and director of Oiler Enterprises. She, along with her husband John Wolper, Ed.D., spent several years building the program into a premier educational offering. Part of that included the student-run Village Café, which served delicious meals to the campus and public that were planned, prepared and served by hospitality management majors. Wolper also advised the Hospitality Management Club and initiated Christmas on Campus.
Albert served as an assistant professor of mathematics, joining the faculty at then Findlay College in 1979. She taught more than 23 distinct courses in math and developed 14 of them. She was known for using a wide variety of technology, from graphing calculators to various software packages, in the classroom. Over the years she gave 31 presentations at numerous venues, and was the principal or co-principal investigator on six awarded grants. Her ultimate project before retiring was an analysis of five years of data titled, "Efficacy of Mathematics Placement and Math Prerequisites." As the math department's historian, she researched the progress of mathematics at UF from 1886 to the present, resulting in a publication for the centennial celebration of the Mathematical Association of America and for the Ohio chapter of that same professional organization. Additionally, she was the college's faculty chair during the 2012/2013 academic year, and was co-director of mathematics from 1997 to 2009.
Dean Emeritus status was granted to Stansloski, the founding Dean of the University of Findlay College of Pharmacy. He came to UF in 2004 and was the driving force in establishing the first new college of pharmacy in Ohio in more than 100 years. He worked with former UF President DeBow Freed and other administrators to establish appropriate facilities, the hiring of faculty and staff, formulate curriculum, and accredit the program with necessary organizations. College of Pharmacy Dean Debra Parker, PharmD, BCPS, called Stansloski's impact to the University "tremendous." He continues to serve on the College of Pharmacy's advisory board and the university as a whole as a consultant focused on expanding interprofessional educational activities with the College of Health Professions and the College of Pharmacy.


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Watch: The amazing new invention revolutionising the way rugby players train
USA players tackle the new innovative mobile tackling bag.
Rugby could soon be ushering in a new way to train, with a revolutionary invention making a big move in America.
The MVP - or Mobile Virtual Player - bills itself as "the first ever self-righting mobile training device", but in layman's terms, it looks to be the first motorised tackle bag.
Controlled remotely and powered by a motor, the MVP simulates an attacking player, being able to move at high speed and change direction.
It provides a moving object to tackle, rather than a stationary bag, and can improve tackling technique without the fatigue and injury concerns which come with regular training.
The MVP can shift, with a 40m time of around five seconds. Crucially, it enables you to practice tackling in a safer way and eliminate the repetitive impact and fatigue associated with player-on-player contact.
It has uses in several areas, able to also be used as a rush defender or kick-chaser to put players under simulated game pressure, as seen below.
The technology was developed at Dartmouth College, an Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.
The technology was initially developed for the NFL, but rugby teams in the USA have used it, including the USA men's and women's sevens teams.
USA Eagles Sevens captain Madison Hughes said: "It is exciting to see sports equipment develop in response to the growing need that athletes have to protect their bodies; protect their heads while still being able to get valuable practice reps and be able to practice their technique in an environment that's going to make it safe for them as an athlete."
The MVP, that retails for just over US$800 ($1,086), has also been taken up by club sides in the States.
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The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are revealing how deep and broad their support is, just after the March 31 fundraising deadline that marked the end of the first quarter of 2019.
While candidates officially have until April 15 to file their first-quarter reports, Democrats in the packed field have already begun announcing their fundraising totals, as well as who supported them, since the first quarter ended Sunday night.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced that his campaign raised over $2.25 million since joining the 2020 race in March. Citing a rise in grassroots donations, the campaign said that they have surpassed the DNC's debate requirement to secure 200 donors from 20 different states.
"This first-month fundraising shows strong grassroots momentum for Gov. Inslee's message of defeating climate change," said Aisling Kerins, Inslee's campaign manager.
"Jay Inslee is the only 2020 candidate who will make climate change the top priority. That clear message allowed Gov. Inslee's upstart campaign to raise money at a faster clip than many better-known candidates. We will continue to build momentum, as voters look for a candidate who will prioritize climate change and who has the executive experience to defeat Trump and advance a progressive agenda in the White House."
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's campaign raised $3 million in Q1 and is ending the quarter with just over $10 million in cash on hand.
Gililbrand's communications director Meredith Kelly said in a statement that the senator is now in a "stronger financial position" than a vast majority of other candidates in the field.
"These fundraising totals means Kirsten can continue to grow her operation in early states in ambitious ways, focused on introducing her to voters, building strong relationships and earning support in living rooms, tap rooms, coffee shops and college campuses," Kelly added.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign announced that she raised over $6 million in donations in the first quarter. The campaign said they received support from 135,000 "grassroots donors" who made more than 213,000 donations.
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar's campaign announced that the Amy for America team raised over $5.2 million in seven weeks. The contributions to the campaign, combined with over $3 million the senator raised last year, bring her end of quarter total to over $8 million with $7 million in cash on hand.
"On the day she announced her candidacy for president, Klobuchar said her campaign would be a 'homegrown one.' In the last seven weeks, Klobuchar has reinforced that point -- she's met with thousands of voters across ten states, participated in town halls, answered hundreds of questions about the issues facing our country and shared her plans to create an optimistic economic agenda that will move America forward," the campaign said in a statement.
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker today announced to supporters that he raised over $5 million in February and March and currently has over $6 million cash on hand. The Booker campaign says that while 82 percent of those who donated have never donated to his campaign before, they did not reveal anything about Booker's number of donors or the share of small donors.
The Democrat did however, claim that he did not take any donations from "corporate PACs or federal lobbyists" in order to build a campaign "one dollar at a time from people like you."
"I couldn't be prouder of what this team has built together in the two short months since announcing our campaign for president on February 1st, and it's all thanks to your support," added Booker.
Booker referred to himself an "underdog" in the 202o race in his note to supporters, acknowledging he hasn't run for office since 2014.
"That's why your help these past two months has been so crucial, and it's why I'm so grateful to you. You're the reason we're in this fight, and your support has allowed us to show the country that we'll be in this for the long haul," he said.
Beto O'Rourke's campaign announced that the former Texas congressman raised $9.4 million from 218,000 contributions made during the first 18 days of his grassroots campaign for president.
The campaign said that O'Rourke raised an average of $520,000 per day "without taking a dime from PACs, special interests, lobbyists and corporations" making him the "highest per-day raising candidate in the Democratic primary."
"In just 18 days, people in every state and from every walk of life have organized in homes, contributed a few bucks online and united together to show that the power of people is far greater than the PACs, corporations and special interest that have captured, corrupted and corroded our democracy for far too long," said O'Rourke in a statement.
"Not only is this a sign of our grassroots strength during the first two weeks of our campaign but it is a sign of what's possible when you put your full trust in the people of this country," O'Rourke added.
Former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro announced that his campaign raised more than $572,000 since the beginning of April, half of the total first quarter fundraising of $1.1 million. The campaign said that they received support from 50,000 unique donors wit the average donation totaling $32.
Castro campaign manager Maya Rupert said in a statement, "We met our internal goals for the first quarter, and in the first two weeks of April have smashed our fundraising goal for the month. In the process, the campaign released a policy proposal for immigration that fearlessly presents a progressive vision for immigration reform. We're building a sustainable, impactful campaign for the long term that respects its staff, volunteers and supporters."
Earlier in April, in a moment of transparency, Castro revealed on MSNBC that he hand't quite reached a fundraising milestone, throwing his shot at qualifying for the Democratic Presidential debates into question.
"I haven't reached the DNC's 65,000-donor threshold yet, but I'm working hard to earn my spot," Castro admitted on The Rachel Maddow show. Castro, however, used the dismal numbers as a fundraising opportunity, emailing supporters that he still is refusing to take "corporate PAC money."
"I want you and your family to know that YOU are who I'm fighting for -- not those who can pay their way into Washington," Castro said. He added in a plea for donations to make it to the first debate stage: "I know I can get there and make you proud."
Touting its outreach to small donors, entrepreneaur Andrew Yang's campaign reports a preliminary fundraising haul of $1.7 million from over 80,000 individual donors in February and March alone.
"An outsider candidate raising nearly $2 million in two months in entirely small contributions is unheard of. Andrew Yang has proven he can build an online fundraising army from scratch - the Yang Gang effect is real," said Campaign Manager Zach Graumann in a statement.
Yang will now qualify for the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami in late June, becoming the first non-elected official to have made the stage in the last 40 years since Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign raised $18.2 million in campaign donations in the first quarter, according to campaign manager Faiz Shakir, who spoke with reporters in a conference call Tuesday.
The campaign has raised $32 million in total, including the $14 million that the campaign started with. This solidifies Sanders' position as a frontrunner in the race.
California Sen. Kamala Harris' presidential campaign has raised $12 million from more than 218,000 individual contributions in the first quarter of 2019. With the average contribution totaling $28, the Harris campaign said that over 99 percent of her donors can contribute again.
"A nationwide network of hundreds of thousands of grassroots supporters has stepped up to lay the foundation for a winning campaign," said Harris campaign manager Juan Rodriguez.
"This is a campaign powered by the people, focused on making health care a right, putting $500 a month in the pockets of working Americans, and giving every public school teacher in America a raise. We're excited by the support we're already seeing."
While he's still in the exploratory phase of his 2020 campaign, South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced on Monday that initial reports showed his campaign raised over $7 million since launching his exploratory committee in January.
Buttigieg acknowledged that while many other candidates in the field may out-raise him, his $7 million is a big deal for what's been seen as an "underdog project."
"We are not part of the national political machine. We started with just about 20,000 people on our email list, and not many people even knew who I was. But as more and more people around the country begin to hear our bold vision for the future, more and more people are investing in this effort," Buttigieg said in a statement on Monday.
"With a first fundraising report like this, we certainly cannot be ignored," he said.


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The Best New Ice Cream Flavors For The (Non)Summer Of 2020
Over the past four years, I've covered new ice cream releases in early June. That way, you can enjoy them all summer long. But this year… when did summer even start? Is it defined by weather or ease-of-living? Because life hasn't felt easy since March. Also, do we even want more summer? Don't we just need it over with?
All the existential angst of 2020 slowed down our ice cream rankings, to be sure. But with August past its midway point and the season coming to an end, we suddenly feel like… well… not extending summer exactly, but definitely maximizing it in whatever ways we can. And eating ice cream certainly has that effect. Plus all the national brands (and many local ones) ship anywhere in the country these days. Meaning that you can get these flavors right to your doorstep — via delivery or a shopping service — without breaking quarantine.
Here are the best new ice cream flavors for the Summer of 2020 to help you finish the season strong.
Pro Tip: As a maker of ice cream, a lover of ice cream, and a man who weighs a solid 20 pounds too many because of ice cream, I take my home-eating experience very seriously. This year, I discovered that if you buy storebought waffle cones and toast them in the oven for a few minutes, even previously stale cones will crisp up enough to taste homemade.
They'll also lose their shape though, so be prepared to reshape them when you take them out of the oven.
McConnell's S'Mores
Last year, McConnell's won "flavor of the summer" with their "Honey Cornbread Biscuit." It's still on their site, in limited quantities, so you probably don't want to miss that one, if you haven't tried it yet. But the S'mores entry from this year — which actually isn't on their site right now, likely because it's temporarily sold out — is also a winner.
The secret here is that the marshmallow bit — the ice cream base — isn't saccharine sweet. It's more like a modified-vanilla bean, with new flavor notes but no overwhelming sugary-gooeyness. The graham cracker swirl gives a nice textural balance, while the fudgy chocolate is gooey, which works nicely.
Bottom line: A pint that conjures s'mores without the mess. And this isn't even McConnell's best flavor of the year.
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Häagen-Dazs Rose & Cream
Häagen-Dazs has really been leaning into the whole booze things over the past few years — their Spirits line caught our eye in 2019, too. This year's entry is four things all at once:
Boozy but not overpowering.
Tart in a way that ice cream rarely is (that white grape/ vinous tartness).
Incredibly creamy.
The first time I've really found myself wanting more of anything Rosé flavored, including the wine itself.
The alcohol infusion is legit without being overpowering here and the "peaches and cream" concept with wine really seems to work.
Bottom line: The best thing to happen to rosé since the memes.
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Serendipity Strawberry Fields Sundae
Serendipity is new, but the ice creamery behind it, Serendipity 3, is a New York institution. Especially amongst celebrities, a point the property is very eager to make on their website. Well, what can we say? The famous people are right this time. Serendipity is making quality pints with thoroughly thought out flavor combinations.
Earlier in the summer, Dane Rivera said that the tartness of cheesecake wasn't really working as ice cream in many of The Cheesecake Factory's flavors. But it shines here — with literal bits of cheesecake and graham cracker crust embedded in an ice cream base that would best be described as "light on the strawberry."
Bottom line: This is a more balanced, brighter strawberry ice cream. And definitely the best strawberry flavor I've had in a long time.
Coolhaus Queens' Coffee
Coolhaus
Thre are a few flavors this year that are just really, really good riffs on a classic ice cream iterations. This is the perfect example. The Three Queens Coffee Blend, from Allegro Coffee, is produced in East Africa by three different collectives of female coffee farmers and entrepreneurs across Malawi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The result? Really, really good coffee ice cream.
How much better could a coffee ice cream be than the classic Häagen-Dazs coffee pint? Well, a fair bit. Whereas other coffee flavors are just that, this is actually definable as a light roast, with layered notes of chocolate and tropical fruit and a fantastic aroma.
Bottom line: It's literally the best coffee ice cream I've ever tried and a great reminder that classics are classics for a reason.
Ripple Cookies and Cream (Four Pack)
Ripple is less of an ice creamery and more of a plant-based dairy — selling a variety of vegan milks and powders. But that might be for the better, because they clearly know how to make a vegan flavor taste like the real thing. I'm calling out the cookies and cream, but really any part of this four-pack would hit this list before vegan offerings from most full-blown ice creameries (including many of the other brands on this list).
All that said, don't be fooled into thinking that we're talking about healthy ice cream here. Whereas low cal ice creams were definitely a thing (which I campaigned vehemently against) for a while, this year saw releases that were every bit as fatty and sugary as their dairy-filled counterparts. That's fine with me. I know what I'm getting into when I have a bowl of ice cream, I embrace it. If your approach is similar, you'll love these flavors.
Bottom line: This is the Impossible Meat of ice creams — you won't know it's not vegan.
McConnell's Boysenberry Pie
The pie crust in this flavor, made with rye flour, is the heartiest crust you'll find in any ice cream and 99.99% of actual pies. It ends up making the perfect flavor combo (in a perfect ratio) — balancing out the boysenberry ice cream base and adding nice texture and flavor notes. I think perhaps the best thing to say about this tart-savory combo is that with 50 pints for testing in the freezer, it was the only one I found almost empty when I got around to trying it.
Bottom line: Another great example of McConnell's distinct ability to produce flavors that feel bright, un-muddled, and natural — while also coming up with creative plays on classic flavors.
THROWBACK PICK: Salt & Straw Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons
Salt & Straw
Unless I'm mistaken, Salt & Straw — the dominant food-truck-turned-multi-city-scoop-shop that really defined the hipster ice cream boom in LA and Portland (in San Francisco it was Bi-Rite Creamery; NYC had multiple entries that could lay claim) — didn't have any new, non-vegan pints come out this year.
Which, technically, means they're not on our list. But it's a quarantine year, so exceptions can be made.
Time to shout out the flavor that made Salt & Straw famous: Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons. This pint is the flavor that brought salted ice cream to the masses. Sure, "salted caramel" was around — but it was still overly sweet. This is a legit sea salt ice cream with caramel running throughout (and not too much of it, either). It's so salty that it'll remind you of making vanilla ice cream with rock salt as a kid and accidentally getting some of the rock salt in your batter. But by the end of the pint, you won't mind if the caramel is gone — the salt is powerful-yet-balanced, the texture is pure silk, and the sweetness ratio is spot-on.
Bottom line: The best pint of ice cream I've ever had and a lock as the dessert during my death row meal.
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Nurtured by the highest average seasonal temperatures in all of Canada, the region's name is derived from the Coast Salish word "Khowtzun" meaning "The Warm Land". The mild weather, beautiful surroundings and relaxed lifestyle make this area particularly appealing to retirees, artists, families and those trying to escape the trappings of the larger urban areas.
Home to only 74,000 people, the fast growing region stretches from the Malahat in the south to Ladysmith in the north encompassing the communities of Mill Bay, Shawnigan Lake, Cobble Hill, Cowichan Bay, Maple Bay, Lake Cowichan, Youbou, Honeymoon Bay, Crofton, Chemainus, Saltair and of course Ladysmith. The region is actually larger than a good number of countries.
Ideally situated between Victoria and Nanaimo, the valley is itself a bedroom community to those larger cities and also offers easy access via ferries and air to Vancouver and Seattle. Victoria and Vancouver also offer International Airports. The Island Highway, which has seen dramatic improvements over the past few years, connects all the communities of the island to the Cowichan Valley and also offers some of the nicest scenic driving anywhere.
Breathtaking scenery, mild climate year round and the natural geography of the valley make this area a spectacular place for the outdoor enthusiast. Protected by the Gulf Islands, the water's of this area are a boater's dream come true. Ocean kayaking, sailing, power boating, fishing, scuba and windsurfing are all at your doorstep. Excellent moorage is readily available and cruise ships now frequent the area. Local ocean waters provide fisherman the opportunity to catch Salmon, Cod and a wide variety of fish species.
The Cowichan River, one of the first in Canada to be deemed a Heritage River, offers superb Steelhead and Trout fishing and has an international reputation for angling. The Cowichan Footpath, a 12 mile trail along the Cowichan River, gives access to some great scenery.
There are other notable rivers that wind through the region like the Chemainus and Koksilah rivers. Beautiful Lakes dot the area and both Shawnigan Lake and Cowichan Lake are frequented by campers and sun seekers alike and both offer access to the west coast.
Duncan, known as the "City of Totems", is central in the Cowichan Valley and offers much of the area's amenities. Such amenities include shopping, Community Center, Theatre, Pool, Library, Schools, Curling Rink, Museums, Community College, fine dining, pubs and hotels and more. The Island Savings Community Center boasts the world's largest hockey stick and puck (205 feet long and weighing 31 tons) and is also home to the BCHA "Cowichan Capitals"(great hockey!).
Forestry and farming are the principal industries in the region. Several forestry companies along with their lumber mills and pulp and paper mills have provided employment for much of the local population. Forestry has been somewhat on the decline and tourism is gaining momentum as a local industry. Cut backs in forestry as well global and local economic factors have created good real estate opportunities for buyers in the Cowichan Valley.
Whether you are looking for a retirement home, a hobby farm, a quiet place to raise the kids, a luxury waterfront home or just a recreational get-a-way, the Cowichan Valley has it all.
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Q: Negative numbers with exponents in Python Why does Python give me 2 different answers for the following?
print(-1**2)   # prints -1
print((-1)**2) # prints 1

A: The ** operator has precedence over -, so -1**2 is in fact -(1**2)
List of operator precedence in python from highest precedence (top) to lowest precedence (bottom):

Operator
Function

()
Parentheses (grouping)

f(args...)
Function call

x[index:index]
Slicing

x[index]
Subscription

x.attribute
Attribute reference

**
Exponentiation

~x
Bitwise not

+x, -x
Positive, negative

*, /, %
Multiplication, division, remainder

+, -
Addition, subtraction

<<, >>
Bitwise shifts

&
Bitwise AND

^
Bitwise XOR

|
Bitwise OR

in, not in, is, is not, <, <=,  >,  >=, <>, !=, ==
Comparisons, membership, identity

not x
Boolean NOT

and
Boolean AND

or
Boolean OR

lambda
Lambda expression

A: Python parses print(-1**2) in the following order:

*

*Get's the exponent of 1 ** 2

*Negates the result.
So it becomes this:
>>> -(1 ** 2)
-1
>>>

Because -1 translates to print(0 - 1 ** 2). But in the order of operations table, ** (exponents) is higher ranking than -.
Therefore, Python math follows the order of operations in regular math, ** is more powerful (has more priority over) -.
As mentioned on Wikipedia:

The acronym PEMDAS is common. It stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction.

Also mentioned on the Python Docs:

Operator
Description

(expressions...), [expressions...], {key: value...}, {expressions...}
Binding or parenthesized expression, list display, dictionary display, set display

x[index], x[index:index], x(arguments...), x.attribute
Subscription, slicing, call, attribute reference

await x
Await expression

**
Exponentiation

+x, -x, ~x
Positive, negative, bitwise NOT

*, @, /, //, %
Multiplication, matrix multiplication, division, floor division, remainder 6

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One of the quirkiest utility vehicles in the subcompact segment, the Puma entered production for the European market in October 2019 at the Ford Motor Company's assembly plant in Craiova, Romania. Also available in Australia and New Zealand, the B-segment crossover is based on the seventh-generation Fiesta supermini, hence the absence of AWD.
The much cooler brother of the EcoSport is offered exclusively with three-cylinder turbocharged engines, a six-speed manual, and, more recently, a seven-speed DCT. Mild-hybrid assistance is offered as well because the European Commission has enforced a fleet-wide average target of CO2 emissions of 95 grams per kilometer. At the very top of the lineup, the 197-horsepower Puma ST can be considered the jacked-up alternative to the Fiesta ST hot hatchback.
As the headline implies, the cleverly-packaged crossover from Romania has recently captured the attention of Jim Farley. Indeed, it's that Jim Farley who runs the Blue Oval since October 1st, 2020. "Wish this came to North America and other markets," said the head honcho on Twitter, which prompted a few of his followers to ask if the Puma will arrive stateside in the near future.
"Love it," and a smiley face also need to be mentioned in the thread's comments, but nevertheless, we never received a confirmation from the 58-year-old chief executive officer and president of Ford. This leaves the fate of the Puma on a cliffhanger, but I wouldn't be surprised if the inevitable would happen.
The EcoSport for the United States is a very bad crossover with little in the way of rear legroom and a small trunk. The so-so ride comfort, iffy plastic trim, and underpowered engine choices aren't to the liking of potential customers either. Even in the Old Continent, the Puma has outsold the EcoSport by a huge margin last year (118,180 units compared to 47,548).
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In 1966, Ohio cops chased a UFO into Pennsylvania. Then the government got involved, and things got really weird.
by James Renner
Illustration by Ben Smallridge
Chief Gerald Buchert (left), Deputy Dale Spaur, and Dispatcher Robert Wilson were hounded by the press after the incident.
Major Hector Quintanilla led the Air Force's Project Blue Book in the 1960s.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek did not endorse the official ruling on the Ravenna case.
Spaur drew the UFO for investigators.
Chief Buchert's photo, digitally enhanced by Paul Hynek.
Walter Novak Harry Buchert took over for his father in 1986.
April 17, 1966, 5 a.m.: Chief Gerald Buchert is on patrol in Mantua, when the Portage County Sheriff's Department sends word over the radio for its deputies to look for lights in the sky, last seen headed east.
Buchert races home to wake his wife and grab his camera. Joan Buchert is still groggy as Gerald leads her from the house, babbling excitedly but making little sense. She becomes annoyed with his refusal to explain why she must venture outside in her bathrobe before sunrise.
She stops complaining abruptly as he points into the dark, cloudless sky. An object resembling two tea saucers joined together hovers not far from their yard. Light emanates from it, but it makes no sound. Then it moves slowly and deliberately to the east, tilting and tipping along the way. Gerald snaps a photo before the object moves out of sight.
At about the same time near Ravenna, Portage County deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur "Barney" Neff are investigating a car abandoned at the side of a rural road. The vehicle appears to be filled with radio equipment. Painted on the side is a triangle with a lightning bolt through it and the words "Seven Steps to Hell."
From behind, they hear a strange electrical humming sound. They turn and watch in amazement as a saucer-shaped craft -- perhaps 50 feet long and 20-some feet high -- rises slowly from behind the trees and hovers in the air. A bright light shines from the bottom, bathing the ground. Squinting, the officers make out what appears to be a dome on top and a protrusion like a thick antenna.
Spaur remembers his radio and reports what he's seeing. After a confused exchange, the dispatcher advises the officers to shoot it down, so they'll be able to prove their story. Spaur draws his gun hesitantly and aims it at the craft.
At the Ravenna police station, Sergeant Henry Shoenfelt suddenly wonders whether Spaur and Neff have spotted a government weather balloon. He gets on the radio himself and reverses the order to fire. Wait there, he says, until someone can be sent with a camera.
But then the craft suddenly starts hauling ass to the east. Spaur and Neff scramble back to their car and give chase.
Half an hour later, Spaur and Neff are miles out of their jurisdiction, racing down dark, rural roads at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. Near the Pennsylvania border, Officer Wayne Huston of the East Palestine PD joins the chase, which continues over the state line. Even as the impending dawn pales the sky, the lights of the strange craft remain distinct.
Back in Ravenna, the dispatcher calls an air-traffic control tower in Pittsburgh. While they are on the phone, Spaur radios in to say there are already fighter jets in the sky, flying toward the craft. Another Portage County deputy also sees three jets moving to intercept.
At about 6:15 a.m., Spaur and Neff's car sputters -- it's running on fumes. They pull into a Conway, Pennsylvania service station, where Officer Frank Panzanella stands drinking coffee, watching the object sail by.
Moments later, Spaur, Neff, Huston, and Panzanella listen as their radios pick up chatter between pilots who are chasing the craft. As they catch sight of it below them, the saucer accelerates rapidly, heading straight up this time, and disappears.
When residents of Mantua, a small community in Portage County, called the police during the 1960s, the phone rang in Gerald Buchert's house.
"As kids, we weren't supposed to touch that phone," says his son, Harry Buchert. "For a while, it was a one-man police department. So he was it, 24 hours a day. My dad was very dedicated to the police department. It's probably what caused his death." Gerald Buchert was still chief of police when he suffered a brain aneurysm in 1986.
In life, the chief was known for his stubbornness. "If he thought something was right, he wouldn't back down," recalls Joan, his wife. But he'd be forced to make an exception -- publicly, at least -- amid the furor touched off by his close encounter.
The next morning, The Plain Dealer and three other papers carried stories about the high-speed, two-state chase. The PD quoted Buchert as saying the object was "round when I looked straight up at it, but when it moved to the left -- I feel like an idiot saying this -- it looked like a saucer, like two table saucers put together."
The attention from the local media was only the beginning. Tiny Mantua and other parts of Portage County were soon overrun with reporters from all over. The UFO phenomenon was already decades old in 1966, but this sighting was one of the most dramatic -- and seemingly credible, coming from police officers -- ever reported.
"It was like we set off a bomb in this town." recalls Joan Buchert. "My husband lost 20 pounds in three days."
Harry remembers the endless phone calls and knocks on the door. "It was three days of living hell."
Buchert wasted no time in getting his film developed. He was known for working by a simple code -- "Cover your ass" -- and that's what the photo would do. Or so he thought.
When he was finally satisfied that he'd captured an image of the craft, he called the Cleveland office of the FBI. An agent referred him to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton. Buchert relayed what he'd seen and was told that someone would be in touch.
Major Hector Quintanilla called the next morning. In addition to the incident, they discussed the photograph. The major told Buchert he could release a grainy copy of the photo to the press, but that he should send the negatives directly to him. The chief readily agreed.
Only later did this seemingly routine request begin to look like a setup. As it turned out, photographic evidence and vivid eyewitness accounts would mean little to the Air Force. From his office at Wright-Patterson, Quintanilla released a statement: Buchert's film was "severely fogged," he wrote, and the fuzzy image on it was nothing more exciting than a processing defect.
Furthermore, he said, his experts concluded that the officers had chased a stationary object -- the planet Venus, warped by atmospheric conditions. Nothing unusual appeared on radar, he said, and no fighter jets were sent up.
The press abruptly backed off, but the cops were incensed. They were hardworking men, devoted to their jobs and respected in their towns, and the United States government had just told the world that they were stupid enough to have chased a planet from Ravenna to the outskirts of Pittsburgh.
Buchert later documented his frustration: "I was advised . . . that what I saw was PROBABLY only the planit [sic] Venus as it was in that general area," he wrote on April 22, 1966. "I asked the Major [Quintanilla] if it was the planit [sic] Venus then how come it moved up and down and to the side. I at one time kept the wires from the telephone pole in view and the object DID go below the wires and then above them. The wires were NOT moving. I was advised by the Major that this was due to the atmospheric conditions most likely."
And who could refute that? Quintanilla had an authority on such mistaken-identity cases, civilian astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, working for him. But it would later become clear that Hynek had been out of the loop on this one.
Even after the reporters had left Mantua and the excitement had died down, Buchert felt as if everyone in town was looking at him funny. He almost resigned. Over time he learned to live with the notoriety, but he never forgot. In a scrapbook, he kept every report, every newspaper article, every scrap of information pertaining to the day that he couldn't bring himself to discuss.
Harry has that scrapbook now. He keeps it in his office at the Mantua police station, where he has served as chief since his father's death. For years, he has wanted nothing more than to find some way to clear his father's name. This would be no small feat, given the time that's gone by and the "official conclusion" of the Air Force. But Harry has some unlikely allies: the sons of the government officials.
Karl Quintanilla's earliest memories are of his father, Hector, getting ready for work. Donning his Air Force uniform. Sliding a firearm into his shoulder holster. Handcuffing a briefcase to his wrist.
In the early 1960s, Hector Quintanilla had been a security officer for the Air Force out of Rome, New York. But after declining assignments related to the escalating conflict in Vietnam -- Hector worried about leaving his family and perhaps not returning -- he wound up in Ohio, chasing flying saucers.
Apparently as punishment for defying his superiors, Hector Quintanilla was assigned to Project Blue Book, the Air Force's investigation into unidentified flying objects, conducted at Wright-Patterson from 1952 to 1969. According to the Blue Book manual, the project had two missions: "First, to determine whether UFO's pose a threat to the security of the United States; and, second, to determine whether UFO's exhibit any unique scientific information or advanced technology which could contribute to scientific or technical research."
Quintanilla was a skeptic. Though willing to accept the possibility of other civilizations, he believed that the distances between our world and others were far too great to traverse. Whether his superiors knew this or cared isn't clear, but skepticism was definitely an asset. The Air Force wanted rational explanations for the thousands of UFO sightings that were being reported each year, and Quintanilla was prepared to provide them.
Unfortunately, investigating possible alien encounters was not a 9-to-5 job.
"He got called. Often enough, it was in the middle of the night," Karl recalls. "He was always grumbling, moaning about it." Sometimes he would go himself. "And sometimes he would send Hynek."
Dr. J. Allen Hynek had been a professor of astronomy at Ohio State and Ohio Wesleyan in 1948 when witnesses in western Kentucky, including the commander of Godman Air Force Base, reported seeing a craft that look like "an ice cream cone topped with red." Air Force officials theorized that what they had really seen was the planet Venus, low on the horizon, through fog. What they lacked was a respected civilian who could back up these claims for a fearful public.
"So they called the closest astronomer," says Paul Hynek, the doctor's son. "They needed a person in the field to say it was bunk." This suited Dr. Hynek just fine; he relished the challenge of overcoming panic with science. And he was still consulting on UFO cases when Quintanilla was assigned to Blue Book.
"Our house had all these relics," recalls Paul Hynek. "My bedroom, much to my chagrin, was the biggest UFO library in the country. We were a normal suburban family. But there were all these incongruous things, though. We had a Christmas tree, but most of the bulbs were UFOs."
"People used to ask Dad if he believed in UFOs," says Scott Hynek, Paul's younger brother. "He challenged the word 'believe.' 'I haven't seen a whale,' he would say. 'But you wouldn't ask me if I believe in whales. There are enough reports of them to believe they exist.' Then eventually he saw a whale and couldn't say that anymore."
There were also the phone calls. Answering them became a favorite pastime for the Hynek kids. Sometimes it was a guy calling himself Prince Michael of the Perseids. Another would warn that star movements were indicating that their father's life was in danger.
"The phone would frequently ring at dinner," says Scott Hynek. "He would always take the call. A certain amount of these people were crazy, some weren't. It was hard to tell the difference. But if you're in your car and it suddenly stops and you see something in the sky, you're going to seem strange even to people who know you. He gave people a chance to tell their stories."
Over the years, Dr. Hynek was able to explain away nearly every reported sighting. Hector Quintanilla was haunted, however, by the unexplained 2 or 3 percent. Hynek empathized, but the unresolved cases were a source of tension.
"Dad sort of felt [Blue Book] was a dead-end job for Air Force personnel," says Scott Hynek. "It was their job to make us feel safe about what was going on in the sky. But sometimes they wanted to fit a square peg into a round hole."
Karl Quintanilla recalls meeting Dr. Hynek once, when his father brought the scientist home for dinner. Even then, he knew that the men were at odds. "My father felt Hynek was exploiting the subject for his own notoriety. In other words, when Dr. Hynek would go to press conferences, it wasn't with the exact line [my father] wanted."
Hector Quintanilla worried that someday there would be a dramatic, credible sighting that Hynek would not be able to dismiss as Venus or an airplane. Such a scenario could ruin his career. Obviously, the UFO phenomenon was just a case of overactive imaginations. But that 2 percent -- what of those? Why couldn't the astronomer just do his job?
Quintanilla's concern over Hynek's methods may have been why he didn't consult the scientist on the Ravenna case.
William Powers, Dr. Hynek's assistant at the time, blew Quintanilla's cover. In a letter to Spaur and Neff, Powers wrote: "I found out considerably more about this event than the Air Force investigator did, because I cannot agree with the evaluation publicly released a few days after the sighting. What you have reported to me could not possibly lead to such a conclusion [the Venus explanation]. As a matter of fact, Dr. Hynek agrees with this. He was not consulted before this news release was put forth."
When Quintanilla found out about the letter, he realized that if the situation were going to remain contained, he could no longer avoid visiting Mantua. The Buchert home was his first stop.
Joan Buchert recalls the well-dressed man from the Air Force as friendly. "We sat and had coffee," she says. "They discussed the picture. They discussed the priest."
"The priest" was the head of St. Joseph's Church in Mantua. The Bucherts cannot remember his name, only that he had come to Gerald and said that he too had seen the object. Another highly credible witness, another thorn in Quintanilla's side.
After this visit, the Air Force became "highly involved," Harry Buchert says. "We were bombarded by calls at home. My Dad had more meetings with the Air Force. They were trying to tell him it was a weather balloon. He couldn't change their minds. You just surrender to it eventually."
On May 10, Quintanilla conducted taped interviews with Spaur and Neff, their boss, Sheriff Ross Dustman, and dispatcher Robert Wilson. The transcript shows that Quintanilla seemed to alternate between the Venus and weather-balloon explanations, but remained adamant that the officers had not seen anything out of the ordinary. He denied that Air Force jets had been dispatched, insisting that nothing had shown up on radar.
Silent through most of the interview, Dustman spoke up near the end, apparently out of frustration: "Well, I, I feel this way about it. It's too damn bad that these things are running around through our sky over our heads, and the United States Air Force and the government doesn't know what's going on out there. Because there's too many of them, and there's too many people have seen it." (Dozens of civilians claimed to have seen the craft as well.)
"What does the Air Force think these are, Major?" Wilson asked.
"Misinterpretation of conventional objects and natural phenomena," Quintanilla responded.
"What category does this go under? What Dale saw?"
"Place it under the category of satellite and atmospheric observations."
Dustman: "Well, I'm sorry it's turned out this way, because I know a lot of people have come to me and they saw the same damn thing, and there's too many people involved for this thing to be a mirage, or somebody's imagination."
Soon after Quintanilla returned to his base, Chief Buchert was ready to call it quits. The mayor was annoyed with him, and everyone else was giving him sideways glances. "The only reason he stayed [on the job] was, I made a call to his mom and dad," Joan Buchert says. "It was a frantic phone call. His parents had a big impact on him. I don't know what they said to him, but he was better afterwards."
When a Plain Dealer reporter came calling about six months later, Buchert turned him away. "It's something that should be forgotten," he explained, appearing nervous.
Officer Neff also declined to be interviewed, but his wife spoke. "I hope I never see him like he was after the chase," she said. "He was real white, almost in a state of shock. It was awful.
"And people made fun of him afterwards. He never talks about it anymore. Once he told me, 'If that thing landed in my back yard, I wouldn't tell a soul.' He's been through a wringer."
Today he lives in Florida "with two of them Taco Bell dogs." He can talk about it now, though he prefers not to. "When I left Ohio, I got away from it all," he says. "I don't look up anymore. I look down. I just want to forget." But he stands by his story.
So does Officer Wayne Huston, who left his job in East Palestine, moved out west, and started going by his middle name, Harold. People track him down occasionally, he says, and he's gracious, but won't dredge up the past. In the aftermath, he took a lot of heat for leaving his town unprotected to join the chase. "The chief of police and I didn't get along. [The incident] didn't help. I really don't want to go further than that."
Pennsylvania officer Frank Panzanella refused to be interviewed. He is not known to have recanted any part of his account.
Dale Spaur fared the worst -- perhaps because he was alone among the cops who saw the UFO again, about two months later. He lost weight and began disappearing for days at a time. He left his job and his wife. Six months after the chase, a PD reporter found him living in a motel in Solon, gaunt and destitute.
"I have become a freak," he said in his last known interview. "I'm so damn lonely. Look at me . . . 34 years old, and what do I have? Nothing. Who knows me? To everyone I'm Dale Spaur, the nut who chased a flying saucer."
"I know Dale had a lot of problems after that, but I'm not sure they were all caused by the UFO," says Henry Shoenfelt, who was the sergeant who advised Spaur and Neff not to shoot at the object. "All of the problems that occurred in his life after that, he blamed on it. I can't agree with that. We all have to accept responsibility for our actions."
Still, he adds, "I never doubted what happened. Not for one second."
As recently as two years ago, Spaur had a small house in Rocky River. His mail is forwarded to a post-office box in West Virginia, but his whereabouts are unknown.
During Major Hector Quintanilla's interview with the police officers, one of them asked, "What did you do that you got this kind of job?"
"I really don't know," Quintanilla responded. "I've often asked myself that question."
Whether the historically skeptical major was moved at all by his interviews with the officers is not known. In any case, it did not affect his ruling. The Venus explanation stood.
But not everyone was willing to accept it. In May 1966, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), then a 10-year-old, civilian-run organization, took an interest in the case. Investigator William Weitzel picked up where Quintanilla had left off, collecting every report and newspaper article he could find, and reinterviewing Spaur several times. The most intriguing piece, however, came from Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the Air Force consultant. Hynek noted that Venus had risen at 3:35 that morning and would have been too high in the sky, by the time of the sightings, to be mistaken for an aircraft.
In 1968, Weitzel personally delivered his files to the University of Colorado, where researchers were conducting a review of UFO sightings for the Air Force. But their report, submitted to Congress in 1969, made no mention of the Ravenna case. Armed with the researchers' conclusion -- that "further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby" -- Congress disbanded Project Blue Book.
Quintanilla was free. He retired from the Air Force not long after and focused on golf, until a golf-cart accident left him with head injuries from which he never fully recovered. He died in 1997.
But he lived long enough to see his son Karl follow in his footsteps, in a manner of speaking. After working as a cameraman on game shows and soap operas, Karl Quintanilla began editing UFO documentaries. His best-known work to date is a Sci-Fi Network show on Bob Lazar, a physicist who claims to have worked on a top-secret "reverse engineering" project involving a captured UFO stored at a government base in the Nevada desert.
Karl told his father about Lazar. "He said, 'That's not the government, but be careful,'" Karl recalls. "I think he was suggesting there were other parties interested. A black operation. Maybe not the government, but it comes to the government in the end."
In January, Karl received a scanned version of the Buchert photograph through e-mail. After viewing the digitally enhanced image, Karl was not inclined to dismiss it as a processing glitch, as his father had done in 1966.
"The longer I look at it, the more fascinated I become," Karl says. "In the enhanced picture, it does have the classic [saucer] shape. There's the classic tilt forward, like the craft I've seen in the [Lazar] video. With all due respect to my father and the Air Force, given the fact that [the police] were tracking this thing at 103 miles per hour, saying it's Venus is a stretch."
After Blue Book folded, a disillusioned Dr. Hynek moved his family to Chicago and founded the Center for UFO Studies. Uninhibited by government overseers, he spent the rest of his years applying the scientific method to reports of sightings from around the country.
In 1976, a young Steven Spielberg hired Dr. Hynek as a consultant for a movie. Its title, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, borrowed a phrase Hynek had coined. A scene near the beginning, in which police chase UFOs through rural Indiana in the middle of the night, is an homage to the 1966 Ohio-Pennsylvania incident.
Dr. Hynek died in 1986.
His son Paul Hynek, a partner in the production company behind many episodes of the MTV series Driven and other reality-based projects, also has seen enhanced versions of the Buchert photo. He too rejects the Venus explanation.
"By 1966, [my father] had already investigated thousands of UFO sightings, and he wrote extensively about just how often throughout the ages the planet Venus has been mistaken for a UFO," Paul says. "So . . . when he says that this picture -- and whatever was reported by the Ohio deputies who zoomed into Pennsylvania in hot pursuit of it -- was not in fact Venus, it's hard for a reasonably open person to dismiss it.
"This shows what I believe were the misaligned interests of my father and the Air Force. For my father, a dispassionate scientific observer, the goal was to shed scrutinizing light on the reports, and let the chips fall where they may.
"Does it mean that it's a spaceship from Mars, with little green men? No. It just means that given the available evidence, it remains a UFO -- an unidentified flying object."
The Ravenna case attracted the attention of Dr. James E. McDonald, the physicist, meteorologist, and former Naval intelligence officer who spent most of his career in the 1950s and '60s arguing for real scientific inquiry into the UFO phenomenon.
The incident "calls for reevaluation not only on the scientific grounds involved, but also to avoid unfairly subjecting to local public ridicule the several officers who have testified," he wrote. "The available evidence (especially Wm. Weitzel's extensive report for NICAP) seems to me to make the astronomical explanation, that now stands as the official Air Force evaluation, quite unreasonable."
Problem is, there's no one to hear an appeal. The Air Force has been out of the UFO investigation business -- officially, at least -- since Project Blue Book was shut down.
Five days a week, Harry Buchert patrols the streets of Mantua from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. When he pulls out of the station, he passes the baseball field dedicated to his late father. At the end of his shift, he writes reports on the day's events -- usually nothing more exciting than traffic violations and domestic disturbances -- in an office his father once owned.
The episode with the UFO is always at the back of Harry's mind. He remembers the frenzy of the town in the days following the incident, his father's uncharacteristic acceptance of the humiliating explanation.
Harry has spent his life following in the footsteps of his old man. So it's only fitting that he'd want to write the final report on the one piece of business his father left undone.
Validation will not come from the Air Force, but maybe the opinions of Karl Quintanilla and Paul Hynek will help put the matter to rest. Or maybe from one of the pilots whose planes the officers saw. Or maybe from Dale Spaur, who may still be out there somewhere, running from his memories.
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Options for your main courses at both lunch and dinner were set up so you could have an Italian favorite like Spinach Ravioli (L) or Homemade Gnocchi (D). Fish lovers might want to dive in for the Tilapia Funghi at lunch with mushrooms, peppers and a garlic white wine sauce or the dinner time Salmone al Limone with lemon, capers, spinach and white wine.
Francesca's Tavola was the hardest table for me to walk away from. Part of the reason was that I didn't want this Felt Like a Foodie Chicago Northwest Restaurant week preview to end but the other part was that I was enjoying the atmosphere and the people around me so much.
Thank you ever so much to the great folks at Francesca's Tavola….you are what it means to be Italian….it is simply about eating great food and being surrounded by great people. Your community is so lucky to have you in the neighborhood!
My last picture was a little heart that I swirled in my melted gelato with the raspberry coulis….it totally sums up how happy I was after this visit!
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There are lots of great videos on the internet relating to cars that don't necessarily require a whole discussion thread to itself. If you see any interesting cars vids in the net... share them with others in this thread!
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That thread is already stickied and has 1400+ replies and is still regularly updated. In fact was last posted in less than 15 days ago. Why does this thread exist?
I can move that one here if anything. Let me know.
I like that idea. We better tell Trev006 though so he doesnt freak out and think his thread went to waste.
We can just sticky this thread and move the "movie cars" thread in the Garage as well.
I saw this on Top Gear a while ago and though this was a pretty cool race. I've never seen the Veyron actually race anything, so this was pretty sweet.


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