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United Kingdom and Ireland step up plans to co-host 2030 FIFA World Cup
Chances of a joint British and Irish bid to host the 2030 World Cup have grown after officials agreed to ramp up preparations, according to the general manager of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).
The English FA, which has been leading a feasibility study, presented the findings to other associations at a meeting before the Euro 2020 draw on Saturday.
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"The feasibility study is positive and there's a sense that the right thing to do is go forward," FAI general manager Noel Mooney told the Times.
"This bid is out on the front foot and very well led by the guys from the English FA who gave a very strong presentation.
"It's a chance to get a really credible bid and hopefully win it. I'd be very surprised if there's not a very credible bid from Great Britain and Ireland."
The Times reported the joint bid would have matches played in several English cities, alongside Cardiff, Glasgow and Dublin, with the final to be staged at London's Wembley Stadium.
The funding body UK Sport, which advises the government on which bids to support, said last year that hosting the 2030 World Cup in Britain would be a "crowning achievement."
Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay have announced a four-way bid which could have sentimental value as Uruguay hosted the inaugural World Cup in 1930.
China would be among the contenders if FIFA decide to change the rules on how the World Cup is rotated between regions.
Asian countries are ruled out from hosting in 2030 because Qatar will stage the 2022 World Cup and current regulations prevent the same region from hosting either of the subsequent two tournaments.


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It is a story that will make you want to curl up on the couch and cry.
It is one that will get you talking to your parents about what you should and should not do with your kids in the next decade.
This is a tale that has been told so many times in the rap world that it has become a cliché.
But it is a cliché that is just plain wrong.
For example, here's what the rapper and songwriter Rilo Mazzoni had to say about what it means to be a rapper: "You're not just a rapper.
You're a man.
And you're a king.
And if you want someone to like you, you have to be the king."
That is not an assertion that will surprise you.
"Rapper" is a term that means someone who makes money off of songs.
Rip rap is not about the production of a song; it is about the way that a person makes money from it.
The rapper is often referred to as a producer.
In rap, producers produce the beats that make the songs, so if you are a producer you should be happy to be on the same team as the rapper.
When a rapper comes out with a song, it is the first time a producer will see it, so the producer is given a platform to make a name for themselves.
Producers can then build a career on it, selling their songs to millions of people.
A producer may also receive a paycheck from a record label.
One of the most famous producers of all time, Eminem, has said: "You know, I make music because I want to make money."
This means that if you make a rap song, you are not just producing it.
You are producing the whole concept of rap, from the title of the song to the production to the song title and the lyrics.
Rap is a business.
To put it simply, rappers earn money from their songs and they get paid for that money.
Some producers earn a living by writing songs for rappers.
Others are artists who sell their songs for a living.
Many of these artists are doing it as a career and have no intention of leaving rap behind.
However, a rapper can be a producer for a reason.
And it is not a good reason to leave rap behind, particularly when it comes to a career.
What Is A Producer?
Producer is an extremely difficult word to define.
There are a lot of different terms that can be used to describe a producer, but most of the time a word that does not exist is used.
If you want an example, there is one word that you will probably hear used more than a million times: "artists".
This word has become synonymous with artists, and it means artists who have a passion for music.
Artists are musicians.
They create music with a passion.
I like the word artists, because artists are creative people.
I don't want to use artists.
An artist is someone who creates music and then sells it to people.
A producer does this for a livelihood.
How Is A Musician Made?
An artists career can be made on the basis of their music.
If a song is produced by a producer and is used on the radio, a label will pay a fee for that music.
If a record is produced and sold by a label, a fee is paid to the producer.
The producer can make a living off of their songs, and that money can be split between them and the producer and used for their own personal use.
What Does The Rapper Do With The Money?
Some rappers have even made their own careers on the back of their own songs.
They have become the stars of their respective communities.
Most rappers who have made it as producers have been successful at selling their own albums and releasing their own music, and this has made their careers a lot more lucrative.
Sometimes rappers have sold millions of records and are still in the music business and do not have to worry about making a living from their music anymore.
These artists are making a good living from the music that they made.
Is It A Good Thing?
Before you decide to leave the rap scene, it may not be the best time to do so.
You will be able to work with a much higher standard than what you had before.
So if you think you are ready to move on, don't be discouraged.
Do your research.
Find out who the people in your community like and what they like about you.
And if you do decide to stay, I would suggest that you make sure you are comfortable with the new situation you are in.
As a producer myself, I have seen how hard
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Good day for Team Canada on the 2nd day of racing at the Japan Cup in Japan with 2 podiums: a 1st for Kinley Gibson and Devaney Collier in the Women's Madison and Derek Gee was 2nd in the Men's Omnium.
On Day 1, Lauriane Genest finished 5th overall in the Women's Sprint and Kinley Gibson and Devaney Collier 4th in the Women's Madison.
First 3 riders in each heat advance to final 1-6 and the others to final 7-12.


I think that blogging could easily be considered as a marketing artform.
A modern day artform that is quite relevant to practically any online business. A creative outlet that stimulates ample and recurring opportunity for your business to shine by means of expressing a personal and human side to your business, expressing the passion you feel for your business and being an efficiently articulate platform to create a positive first impression.
Launching your new website is scary and thrilling at the same time!
I remember feeling slightly uneasy before I decided to go live with my On Port 80 website. I didn't know what to expect. I felt apprehensive to share things about myself online and hesitant to promote my work publicly.
When designing a website or brand, photos and illustrations are a must to create a lively, authentic and imaginative experience for the user or customer.
And there are amazing resources available for everyone.
Photographers have been making their artwork available online. And it is amazing what you can find for free. For our convenience, photo platforms have emerged compiling huge amounts of free stock images and offering them to the public along with tags, categories and related images.
A few months ago, James and Craig from M+H Private left their accounting careers to start their own Brisbane based firm.
Soon after the decision was made, James asked if I could help with branding and web design. I was probably jumping up and down on the phone as I always get very excited when a new project comes my way. I love the design challenge and creating websites from scratch.
And SEO helps driving traffic to your website.
More traffic means that more people are finding and visiting your website. This results in more leads and eventually more customers.
Search is the number one driver of traffic to content web pages. The organic search is beating social media by an astounding 300%. This means that is it really important that search engines know about you and your services so that people find and visit you.
In this part I will show you how to implement 3 of those tips specifically on your Squarespace website.
In addition to colours and images, fonts play an important part in website design.
In recent years the font choices for websites have expanded greatly. While web designers previously were restricted to 'web safe' fonts ensuring maximum compatibility between browsers and operating systems, we can choose from a vast selection of professional typefaces today. This has revolutionised the aesthetics of web design bringing the possibilities of print design onto the screen.
The website is your business hub.
All marketing efforts are pointing to your online presence. You are advertising your services, selling products, connecting with customers and educating through blog posts.
The aim is to be found online. And ranking top for your keywords seems to be a desirable goal.
SEO or Search Engine Optimisation seems to be the answer to be found on the internet. SEO is definitely important, but takes time and consistent effort to succeed.
When prospective clients ask how long the design project will take, initially I would have said 3-4 weeks. I felt as though from my end I could easily finish a project within 2 weeks. That is given the client provides the content and input necessary to guarantee the project to be successful for both sides.
Do you want to keep your Facebook friends up-to-date with your Instagram posts?
Preparing one post twice to make sure your Facebook friends get to see your Instagram news can get tedious after a while.
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Once it is set up, every post on Instagram is one click away to appear on your Facebook page. This is how it is done.
You as a business are always looking for new ways to reach out to people.
You want to make sure they know about your offerings, how you work and if you can solve their problem.
Facebook is a good place to start to find get in contact with people reporting 2 billion monthly active users on average.
One of my clients recently asked me about if there was an easy way to get her blog post updates straight to her Facebook account.
It is possible with Squarespace - just one of the many convenient features of the platform. You can automatically push new site content to your social media profiles.
In today's post I would like to announce the launch of The Skin Suite' s new website and share some insights of my work with Sarah, the founder and owner of The Skin Suite. We started the project earlier this year and launched the new website last week. Very exciting.
Squarespace offers an easy and elegant solution: SUMMARY BLOCKS. Summary Blocks present your content (blog posts, products, gallery or project images, or events) in magazine-style layouts.
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With more than 40 Million photos shared, Instagram tells stories from all over the world. Big and small businesses, brands and individuals, celebrities, CEOs, designers and store owners all are creating stunning look books to share with their followers, build relationships and promote their businesses.
There are endless opportunities to share your photos on Instagram, find and connect with people and eventually grow your business. So enter the world of stories, tell yours, reach out and engage!
Here are 6 strategies that can help you build an effective Instagram presence for your business.
Banners are full screen images. They are usually located near the top of a page.
Use a screen wide image as the background for advertising your latest news, product, specials, promotions, collections or events. It looks professional and catches the visitor's attention.
Business websites have a reason and a mission. They are there to help you achieve your business goals, not just to look good. They have to be effective.
Psychology is the study of the human mind and its functions. And since the interaction with a website is predominantly a cognitive action, it is a great starting point. So, how can we design the website "brain friendly"? What leads to more subscribes, increases sales and invites more people to book online?
I have been a bit stuck recently.
I struggle finding my way through this seemingly infinite number of little and big tasks on my plate. When I worked in an office, they were not that noticeable. They were taking care of by a team. This time they are all mine: emails, blogging, templates, calendars, branding, websites, marketing, SEO, accounts, taxes, quotes, sales pitches, outreach, etc.
It is sometimes hard not to give up.
Last week one of my clients asked me to implement horizontal tabs on one of the pages in her Squarespace website. I looked into this before and could not really find anything about it.
I wasn't luckier this time either.
I tried to find alternatives and hoped my client would like the way they looked and worked. I implemented an accordion, anchor links within the page and as a third option I just arranged all the information in one, long page. Neither solution was not really what my client had in mind and also didn't look really nice or worked well on phones.
So I went back - and got lucky: For some reason I played around with a Menu Block and realised that they offer clickable items across the top to display categories like dinner or drinks.
It is easier than you think for someone to get hold of your Google password and then access your account. It can happen when you use the same password for multiple accounts, if you download software or if you click on links within email messages.
Once someone gains access to your email account, they can go through your messages, find your contacts, send and delete messages and reset passwords and maybe even obtain access to shopping or bank accounts.
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As you probably know, Google Plus is Google's own social network. Like other social networks, it allows you to connect with your customers, clients, friends and fans.
Being a part of the Google family, it might only be a little surprise that Google Plus can have a significant impact on your site's SEO (search engine optimisation).
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From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer . . . this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most noirish work to date. Set in Nice-a departure from the author's more familiar Paris-this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the Riviera. Modiano's trademark ability to create a haunting atmosphere is here on full display: readers descend precipitously into a world of mystery, uneasiness, inevitability. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to our hero and heroine, who find themselves trapped by its potential value-and its ultimate cost. Deftly Modiano reaches further and further into the past, revealing the secret histories of the two even as the pressurized present threatens to overwhelm them.


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Landing of the Rodrigue Brothers
Location: Rodrigue Studio New Orleans, in conjunction with the special exhibition Rodrigue's Heartland: Under the Oaks and Out of the Swamp opening October 14th. Learn more
After more than forty years and hundreds of paintings, it is the dog-in-a-landscape that continues to stand out as George Rodrigue's most popular subject. While the early Blue Dog paintings actually depict the legendary loup-garou in a landscape, by the early 1990s the paintings have clearly transformed into the Blue Dog.
Following a series of health problems in the late 1980s brought on by the chemicals in the oil paints and spray varnish, Rodrigue was advised by his doctors that he must abandon the medium. The only answer was to switch to acrylic paint, a fast-drying water-based paint. The process was a complete change for him, and not an easy one. Coincidentally, it was about this time that Rodrigue began in earnest the Blue Dog Series. The hard-edge of the Blue Dog actually lent itself very well to the acrylic paints. The colors are brighter and more intense than oils.
By the late 1990s Rodrigue was comfortable with acrylics, but his complaint was the rendering of the human figure and landscapes. Without the ability to blend the colors, he avoided these subjects as a painting's pure focus for a decade. Then in 2002 he heard of a new paint, a water-based oil, with no turpentine and no fumes. For the first time since his necessary switch to acrylics, he revisited these classical subjects with these water-based oils. The result is rich and full of depth, a quality more difficult to achieve in the fast drying acrylics. Landing of the Rodrigue Brothers is a master work and a result of Rodrigue's joyful return to the subject and paints that he loved.
The title refers to the story of Rodrigue's ancestors, who walked from Canada to southwest Louisiana in 1755, following their banishment from Nova Scotia by the British. Known as Le Grand Dérangement, families were torn apart and struggled to find their identity and their place, finally reaching a new home, the "Land of the Oaks."
"I grew up feeling a strong relationship to the old things, to the old culture, and I got a stronger feeling when I went to Los Angeles to school. I really started to understand how different I was and how different my Louisiana was. Those people would ask about the very dark trees, the very dark and mysterious swamps — and I hadn't seen these when I was living there. Only when I came back could I see what they were talking about. At that time I resolved to produce something that reflected the Cajun culture, to translate into paintings the history of my people." -G.R.


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Local band Willhorse played the stage at the Golden Civic Centre for the first time at the Rick Hansen Relay Concert on April 12.
Willhorse lighting up Golden music scene
Local rock band Willhorse has been hitting bars, playing shows all over town, and even got the chance to play the stage at the Civic Centre.
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If you have been spending much time at the Rockwater Grill and Bar, or the Taps Pub, then you've probably already seen these guys perform.
One of Golden's hottest bands has been lighting up the local music scene for the past couple months, and recently even hit the stage at the Golden Civic Centre for the Rick Hansen Relay concert.
"That was so great. When we get to play a venue like that (the Civic Centre), it really gives us hope that we're getting closer. Essentially those are the venues that we want to play, constantly. So when we get to experience that on a small scale, that pushes us to work harder," said Jeremy Borschneck, singer and guitar player with the band Willhorse.
The southern rock influenced indie band also features Branden Winterholt on guitar and vocals, Nick Petrowich playing the drums and singing backing vocals, as well as Todd Menzies on bass.
"(Winterholt) and I are cousins, and we toured together for about two and a half years acoustic, just the two of us," said Borschneck, reminiscing about the band came into being. "And then we met (Petrowich) at a gig. We were playing in Swiftcurrent."
"When I saw them play, it was just the two of them sitting on chairs on this big stage with two acoustic guitars. And people were up dancing to it. I thought these guys were so cool, I should go talk to them. I was a musician, playing with another band and thought I should branch out. And we just hit it off," said Petrowich.
Since then, the three have been playing together under different names and different bands. They took a bit of a hiatus, and Borschneck moved to Golden to start his business, the Crooked Antler.
"I had decided to move out here, and explore this part of the world, and I noticed that there was music happening here every night of the week pretty much. So I called these guys and convinced them to come down," he said.
" I was working in Edmonton, and I'd get calls from (Borschneck), and he'd be like 'it's so great, you've got to come down here.' You don't expect it to be as good as it is until you get here," said Petrowich.
"I've always lived in cities, nowhere as small as Golden. But it doesn't seem that small because there's always people coming through, and great culture and great shows."
"It's just such a great community," added Winterholt. "It's been so welcoming. The last couple weeks, we've been playing four nights a week."
In a town the size of Golden, Willhorse is working very hard to keep an audience full of regulars entertained night after night.
"It's a fine line with over-saturating our band, because in Golden a lot of the same people do come to the bars," said Borschneck.
The band has a repertoire of original music, as well as covers of a multitude of different bands. To keep it interesting, they have played both electric and acoustic shows. And when the band hosts jam or open mic nights, which they do at both the Rockwater and Taps on a regular basis, they will each get up and do solo performances.
"It's almost a good thing that it happened though, because it forces us to change and innovate and do something new so that people don't get sick of us," said Petrowich.
And although they do enjoy playing in bars and performing covers, which Winterholt says can range "from anybody like the Stones to lots of 90s stuff like the Tragically Hip," Willhorse hopes to start playing music venues where they can play a full set of their original music.
"Our main goal at this point, is we want to be able to play venues where people come out just to see live music. Where we can walk in with our gear, set up all of our backline, they have a sound guy and a PA system. We do an hour of original music, and then get off the stage," said Borschneck.
"I love playing in bars, it's awesome. But it takes a lot of sacrifices sometimes to go on tours like that," said Petrowich.
The band is planning a small tour for about a month in June and July, and then they hope to come back to record a CD. At the moment, they are recording some music in Golden's Straw Bale Studios.
"We're planning on putting a fundraiser together this summer to record a full album. Right now we're just working on some demos," said Borschneck.
The writing process is a very collaborative process for Willhorse. They each try to bring in their own individual flavours, and hopefully put it all together to come up with something special.
"If any of us write a song we bring it to the band and then we all work on it together. But individually we will all sit down and write music," said Borschneck.
"You can't get possessive over your writing in a band. It should be like a big pot, you throw it all in the middle and share it," said Winterholt.
It is that process that has created several songs that are becoming well known throughout Golden. And the band is continually surprised by the support they have found in the community.
"It's unbelievable how many local people have grabbed onto our music and our sound, and really embraced it and supported it," said Borschneck.
"This place has really pushed us to appreciate what we have around us. And it keeps us going everyday," added Winterholt.
Willhorse has no immediate shows scheduled in Golden, but they will be performing at the Backwoods Blues Festival in Invermere on May long weekend.
To find out more about Willhorse, like them on Facebook.
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We know they're smart, but there's still a lot we don't know.
Though the octopus in the video below may appear deep in sleep, its skin is wide awake. In a matter of seconds, it pulses from coconut white to muted gray to speckled brown, all while the cephalopod clings to a rock, its eyes shut tight. LiveScience recently shared this dramatic video, originally taken by Rebecca Otey in 2017, of a Caribbean two-spot octopus slumbering in a tank in the Butterfly Pavilion, a nonprofit invertebrate zoo in Colorado. The cephalopods are widely admired these days for their intelligence, but is this one … dreaming?
A conscious octopus changes its color and patterning on a dime to fool prey or escape danger. According to Jennifer Mather, a psychologist at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, the color changes originate from a spontaneous, unconscious firing in the octopus's optic lobe. A 2011 study suggests that many sleeping octopuses typically display a "half-and-half" skin pattern, with light areas and dark splotches, regardless of the color of their environment. While this seems like it could betray the animal's presence in its stomping grounds off the coast of Haiti, Mather says wild octopuses keep themselves safe by sleeping in hidden dens.
According to Mather, one of the theories behind sleep is for an organism to rehearse and solidify traces in the brain from experiences of the previous day. Octopus brains do the same kind of thing. "If this central experience is 'dreaming,' and our dreaming is often linked to what has happened before, then octopuses might dream," she says.
The only cephalopod with a proven penchant for dreaming is probably the cutest. A 2012 study led by Marcos G. Frank, now a neuroscientist at Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane, discovered that sleeping cuttlefish demonstrate a form of rapid eye movement (REM), the same stage of sleep that gives us our dreams, distinguished by the spontaneous activation of brain cells, going off like fireflies in a forest. For a cephalopod, this manifests in frantic eye movements under closed lids (octopuses: they're just like us) or erratic shifts in skin coloration (or not). In Frank's study, the sleeping cuttlefish's chromatophores recombined into recognizable patterns, just like ones they displayed while awake. He believes this might be analogous to the weirdly familiar patchwork of human dreams. "This video is the best evidence I have ever seen that this particular cephalopod has a sleep-state similar to what we saw in cuttlefish," Frank says of the Caribbean two-spot octopus.
While Otey's video may be strong evidence, REM sleep hasn't been confirmed in octopuses. That would require a neurobiological investigation in which scientists measure the electrical activity in a snoozing cephalopod. But if octopuses do indeed dream, we hope it's of electric-green sea sheep.
The work could lead to treatments for depression and epilepsy.
How 1940s Prisoners of War Escaped Through Their Dreams Found: The Largest Cluster of Deep-Sea Octopuses Ever Recorded Can Octopuses Teach Us How to Hide?


San Antonio's Bowl and Barrel and HighWheel BeerWorks (part of Dorcol Distilling and Brewing) are teaming up to support Houston after the impact left by Hurricane Harvey. The collaborative businesses are pending an event named "Bowl for Houston" in order to raise and donate money to Ron Nirenberg's, Mayor of San Antonio, Hurricane Relief Fund on Sunday, September 17.
All percent of the event's proceeds from Bowl and Barrel's shoe rentals, and HighWheel sales will be donated to the fund between noon and 6 p.m. on Sunday. Nirenberg's relief fund, will support relief efforts for evacuees in San Antonio as well as provide resources for cities affected by Hurricane Harvey.
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Hi there and Happy New Year! This last year was an amazing year creatively for me. The first half of the year was spent fast and furiously creating for several design teams, including Paper Issues . These were truly invaluable experiences I will never forget. The second half of the year was spent creating for fewer design teams, and a little less often. I much prefer the fast and furious.
Speaking of Paper Issues, I'm part of their Blog Hop today featuring my favorite 15 projects I created in 2015. Here you go, and they are in no particular order. Most of these were previously blogged. Click on the titles to go to the original post for more information.
Thank you so much for taking the time to look through my creative view of 2015. I plan on creating 2016 a particularly crafty year, I hope you'll join my on my journey.
Great pages! My absolute fav is the two pager full bloom theme wow!
Such great layouts! You have a great style!
Great work, Devra! Love your pages!!
Love all your layouts, especially the "in bloom" and the Cubs! Happy New Year!
Great work Devra, love your graphic style!! hard to choose favourites, but I am partial to: NOTES TO SELF, WALKABOUT & QUEEN OF REALITY! Happy New year to you!


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs will get their first look at running back Kareem Hunt as an opponent in Sunday's divisional round playoff game against the Cleveland Browns. Based on his time with the Chiefs and the season he's had for the Browns, they won't like the experience much.
The Chiefs haven't suffered in the two seasons since they released Hunt following the surfacing of a video that showed him shoving and kicking a woman. They won the Super Bowl last year and went 14-2 and won a fifth straight AFC West championship this season.
That doesn't mean the Chiefs won't look at Hunt on Sunday and wonder what might have happened if things had worked out differently. They've had seven different backs lead them in rushing in 42 games since releasing Hunt.
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"We love Kareem," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. "He was here and he's a heck of a kid and I'm so happy for him that he's doing well. Really, when it's all said and done, that's the most important thing. You put the game aside and you want to make sure these guys end up heading in the right direction so they can sustain that for the rest of their life and I'm happy for him."
The Chiefs this year made their first real effort at replacing Hunt by drafting Clyde Edwards-Helaire in the first round. His rookie season was good — he rushed for 803 yards, caught 36 passes and scored five total touchdowns — but not what Hunt's rookie season of 2017 was for the Chiefs.
That year Hunt led the NFL in rushing with 1,327 yards. He also caught 53 passes and scored 11 touchdowns. The Chiefs have changed since then, Patrick Mahomes replaced Alex Smith at quarterback and they rely more on pass-catchers like Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill than their backs.
Hunt's numbers with the Browns this season were similar to those of Edwards-Helaire, rushing for 841 yards, while catching 38 passes and scoring 11 total touchdowns. Edwards-Helaire practiced on Wednesday for the first time after missing the previous two games because of ankle and hip injuries. The Chiefs aren't yet certain he will play against the Browns, though his return to practice is a positive sign.
"I had a chance to see him in a couple of the rehab procedures as of late and he gets after it," Reid said. "A lot of it is the way you approach it and the trust you have in the trainers and so on. … I'll tell you, this kid, he just kind of went right at it. I mean, he was fearless with it and as a result, I'd tell you he's probably a little ahead and we've just got to evaluate it. We're not going to do anything to jeopardize him or his career, I mean, that's not what we're doing. We've taken it day by day with him and we'll keep doing that and just see how he does here."
In one of his final games for the Chiefs during the 2018 season, Kareem Hunt dominated the Browns with three trips to the end zone. Scott R. Galvin-USA TODAY Sports
The Chiefs in October added Le'Veon Bell, who led the Chiefs in rushing in one game but has mostly been a role player, even with Edwards-Helaire out of the lineup. He hasn't looked like the impact player he once was with the Pittsburgh Steelers, though the Chiefs haven't given him much of a chance.
"I think he's showing those flashes and the beauty of our circumstance [is that] we have other guys that could complement each other very well so it hasn't been a situation this year where we've required one person to be the guy who carries the mail," running backs coach Deland McCullough said. "So we feel confident in a role that we have for him that he'll be successful."
The Chiefs also have Darrel Williams, who led the Chiefs with 46 rushing yards in their most recent win in Week 16 against the Atlanta Falcons.
"Darrel's been doing that since he's been here when he's got extended opportunity," McCullough said. "One of his greatest abilities is his dependability and the staff loves him. We trust him. The guy's got some skill set that again, when you put him in the right circumstance, the guy can show it."
The Browns will counter on Sunday at running back with Hunt and Nick Chubb. They combined to rush for more than 1,900 yards during the regular season. Hunt scored two touchdowns in the Browns' wild-card playoff victory over the Steelers.
"He's been the lead back at times when Nick was out," Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said. "He goes in there even when we have both guys healthy and we don't miss a beat. He runs extremely hard, tries to fight for every inch that's out there.
"He's somebody I really respect for how he plays, how he works, the type of teammate he is."
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A Lifetime of Fishing Memories By Gary Lewis
Measured in terms of people killed, the last year of World War II (1945) is regarded as the worst year in human history. On April 27, the day Italian partisans captured Mussolini, Gordon Vance caught two in the morning on flies and three in the evening on salmon eggs. The day after the U.S. dropped fire bombs on Tokyo, Gordon Vance dropped salmon eggs in Johnston Lake and caught six small ones. On August 9, the day a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Gordon Vance was on Walterville Canal with a fly rod.
If you don't keep a flyfishing journal, maybe you should. It's a great way to remember good days on the water and figure out how to have more of them. But it can also be a link to the past when a son or daughter finds the journal years later. Think about Gordon Vance. Remember him? No? Well, his family does. When he was a little boy, his mother would give him a pail of water and a stick with a line and a bent pin. "He would sit in the kitchen for hours, waiting for a bite." I spoke to Janice (Vance) McCargar after I received a package in the mail; she had found her father's fishing and hunting journals, kept in a three-ring binder, written in longhand.
Gordon Vance began to keep track of his fishing trips in 1931. Picture a barefoot boy in a tiny kitchen in Missouri in the 19-teens. Picture him a bit bigger in dry-as-a-bone Arizona. "When my dad's family moved again to the McKenzie River in 1926, he thought he had died and gone to heaven." Gordon Vance was 16 when he moved to Oregon.
On May 15, 1932, he writes of fishing Walterville Canal and Cogswell Creek. He caught five on a blue quill body grey hackle and, that evening, on the McKenzie, caught eight "in a hurry on a yellow body deer hair fly."
Twenty-two years old in '32, Vance recorded 15 entries, on Leaburg Lake, the canal, Cogswell Creek, Horse Creek and the McKenzie. In 1933, he fished 20 times and would have fished more, but in September, according to his notes, he picked up a Winchester Model 54 and spent a good deal of time in the woods.
"It was the fashion in those days to keep a journal," Janice said. People took the time to record thoughts and observations. Journaling helped the young man develop his craft on the water and in the woods.
It was fun to think of the determination it took to drive to Diamond Lake, Miller Lake, Odell and Crescent in those days. Easy jaunts now, they were all-day rumbles along narrow timbered tracks in the 1940's and '50s. In 1956, Vance fished Diamond Lake and wrote, "Don, Marion and I gave the Kamloops of the reborn lake an end of the season try. We caught 22 from 15 inches to 18 inches." He added, "A monofilament line is a must. Fish had been eating algae and tasted terrible." Monofilament: we take it for granted now, but it was the latest in fishing technology in the 1950s.
Some things haven't changed. On September 17, 1980, Vance fished Miller Lake. "Thirteen washboard miles from Chemult and up to 5,600 feet, the 550-acre lake is a beauty and if I had taken a fly rod could have been fun." A mayfly hatch was on and Vance had brought the wrong tackle. He ended the day with two small kokanee. In 1990, the year he turned 80, Vance started with a March outing to Triangle Lake and recorded 27 trips on Cottage Grove Reservoir, Hills Creek Reservoir, Odell Lake, Cougar Reservoir, Green Peter, the Siuslaw and on his home waters, the McKenzie and Walterville Canal.
My friend, the noted outdoor writer Scott Haugen, makes his home in Walterville. He remembers Gordon Vance. And he remembers good days fishing the Walterville Canal.
"There used to be really nice cutthroat in it," Haugen said. "When I was in high school, lots of jack salmon used to run up one section. I caught steelhead out of it too."
It was interesting to look at my journals next to Vance's. I started my first notebook in 1980. I was in my teens and lived in southwest Washington and later in western Oregon; he would have been in his 70's when our paths crisscrossed each other's, fishing the North Umpqua and Central Oregon lakes. We have planted our waders on the same rocks and caught trout, steelhead, and salmon in the same holes.
Vance recorded his last entry November 30, 2000, after a day on Foster Reservoir.
"Well, I ran out of luck at Foster or ran out of fishing knowledge." He did catch one salmon, but figured he could have caught more. "Should have had a fly rod or tried smaller spoons or something!"
Vance passed away a month later, at the age of 90, on Christmas Day, leaving a lifetime of outdoor experience in his wake and a journal for his family to remember him by.


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Q: Algebraic Structures: Does Order Matter? (I want to link to similar question with a very good answer: Question about Algebraic structure?)
An algebraic structure is an ordered tuple of sets. One of these is called the underlying set, and the others are operations of various arity. Since operations are functions, which are sets of ordered pairs, this is why we can interpret the components of an algebraic structure to be sets.
For example, a group is a quadruple $(G,0,-,+)$ where

*

*$G$ is the underlying set,

*$0 \subseteq G^0 \times G$ is a nullary operation,

*$- \subseteq G \times G$ is a unary operation, and

*$+ \subseteq G^2 \times G$ is a binary operation.

My question is why we choose an ordered tuple to describe the algebraic structure. For instance, does it make a difference if I define a group to be $(G,+,-,0)$, where I list the operations in order of descending, rather than ascending, arity? If the order doesn't matter, why don't we just define a group to be $\{G,0,-,+\}$, rather than an ordered tuple?
Thanks!

A: The reason is really silly in some sense. Since all the objects ($G,+$ and so on) are sets, how can you know which one is the group, and which one is the addition?
You can say, well, $+\subseteq G^2\times G$. But there are sets $X$ such that $X^2\times X\subseteq X$. So it's really not so obvious as much as we might want it to be.
On the other hand, in an ordered set, you can say that the first element is the group, the second is the operation $+$, and so on.
If you want to be fully formal, a structure is really just an ordered pair $(M,\Sigma)$ where $\Sigma$ is the interpretation function which maps the function, relation and constant symbols of the language to their interpretation in $M$. Just when the language we work in is simple enough, we might skip that and write directly the tuple (knowing full well that the reader will not be confused if we wrote $(G,0,+,-)$ or $(G,+,0,-)$).

A: Suppose that $(G,+,-,0)$ is a group.  Then $(G,-,+,0)$ is not a group. Hence, the order is, in a sense, essential.  On the other hand, which order you choose is pretty much arbitrary, as long as you stick with one.
Less obvious are algebraic structures like lattices and quandles, where there are two binary operations on a set that satisfy identical equational axioms.  In this case, changing the order of the two binary operations does result in a structure of the same sort, but the structures need not be identical, or even isomorphic.
(If one is in the mood to be really pedantic, one could notice that the underlying set in $(G,+,-,0)$ (or just $(G,+)$) is actually redundant, as it is implicitly specified by the binary operation $+$.  In other words, a group "is" just a binary operation.)

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Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
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In this masterclass, Professor Augustin Dumay is accompanied by young violinist student Vasily Smykov playing Tchaïkovski's Concerto. After listening carefully to Vasily Smykov's interpretation -cut short for it is very long-, he praises him on his technique and quality of sound. He assures him that these precious qualities will follow and help him during his career, however, professor Dumay proceeds to share a few hints to improve one's sensibility to Tchaïkovski's work. Augustin Dumay reminds us that Tchaïkovski often wrote pieces with ballet in mind, and that one's interpretation should take dancing (and therefore dancers) into account.
He then proceeds to explain that while one can master the technical aspect of music, the capacity to reflect intelligently upon it has no end and should be pursued indefinitely.
What we learn in this masterclass
A piece introduction should feel like it is taking you somewhere,
A reminder of the importance of the spacing between the bow and violin,
The importance of phrasing over bow technique,
To interrogate oneself and the context of the piece before and while practising,
Not to fear a certain fever that can sometimes take hold of an orchestra.
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 by Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 is Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski's only concerto composed for violin. The piece is in three movements : Allegro moderato in D major, Canzonetta: Andante (G minor), and the Finale: Allegro vivacissimo (D major). The first movement begins in a sonatina arrangement that includes an introduction, exposition, development, recapitulation, and finally a coda. An orchestra provides a quick introduction in D major until finally the soloist enters with a cadenza like response. Next, the solo starts the exposition with the cantabile main theme.This is followed by a masterful sequence of rapid scales and triads, and then a second theme is introduced in A major. Starting now from a point of calm, the music modulates as the mood intensifies and develops an elevated climax.
Simultaneously, the main theme is echoed by the accompanying orchestra.
Moving on to the development section, this segment starts with a series of chromatic shifts, ending in C major. The solo violin plays a light variation of the main theme, which is followed by a strong orchestral tutti of the main theme in F major. The music builds up to a cadenza characteristically Tchaikovskian — using some of the violin's highest notes — which ends with a trill. The orchestra reemerges and recapitulation commences harking back to the original theme once again in D major.
Moving forward to the finale, a reprise of the second theme in D major takes place, which is then followed by "a race" between the soloist and the orchestra to the very end in a fast-paced coda.
Composer: Tchaïkovski
Piece:Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Professor: Augustin Dumay
Student:Vassily Chmykov
Instruments: Violin
Date:16 February 2022
Producer: Produced by the Saline royale Academy
Spoken language:French
Subtitle languages: English
I am not talking about personal choices here. I am talking about organization, phrasing, form. It is true for everybody.
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He is Master in Residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (Brussels) where he teaches young violinists of the highest level, most of them winners of major international competitions.
Augustin Dumay began his career in 1980 thanks to Herbert von Karajan, who invited him to play as a soloist with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Since then, he has gone on to perform with Europe's best orchestras, including the Philharmonia, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Mahler Chamber, Camerata Salzburg, Tonhalle Zürich, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Montreal Symphony, under the direction of S. Ozawa, C. Davis, C. von Dohnanyi, C. Dutoit, G. Rozhdestvensky, D. Zinman, Y. Temirkanov, K. Masur, W. Sawallisch, K. Sanderling, I. Fischer, as well as with the leading conductors of the new generation such as D. Harding, A. Gilbert, and R. Ticciati.
His duo with pianist Maria João Pires has toured the world several times. His fifty recordings for EMI and Deutsche Grammophon have won multiple international awards.
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Born in Votkinsk, Russia on April 25th, 1840, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the son of a metalworker and a French immigrant, and the second of six children.
Young Pyotr showed an interest in music early on and, although destined to be a public servant at first, was placed under the care of a professional music teacher by his father shortly after the sudden death of his mother from cholera.
He travelled through Europe extensively and settled in St-Petersburg when he was a young man, to study music at the newly founded conservatory. Tchaikovsky had a very private life that was constantly under scrutiny due to his rising fame. He married a young woman to avoid questions about his sexual orientation, but was very unhappy. By 1878, he began to write music full time after finding a patroness outside Russia and wrote most of his most famous works such as the opera Eugene Onegin, the Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, and the Violin Concerto in D Major. Tchaikovsky grew tired of his busy city life and rented a place in the countryside, where he spent his days walking, reading, and composing music. He died of cholera in 1893 at the age of 53 after drinking unboiled water.
Tchaikovsky's legacy reaches many people thanks to a very emotionally involving and rich musical landscape that keeps seducing audiences all over the world.
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A high-voltage part of system of ignition concern along with the coil of ignition and the distributor – about them already there was a speech – as well high-voltage wires, tips of wires with помехоподавляющим the resistor and, of course, spark plugs.
The thick connecting wires passing from the coil of ignition to the distributor or from the distributor to spark plugs (to model with the 6-cylinder engine without the distributor), usually do not deliver any efforts. They should be densely inserted the tips with помехоподавляющими resistors (noise elimination for radio) into nests of a cover of the distributor of ignition. Them штекерные connections should not be oxidised, and they should have a good contact to tips of spark plugs.
For 4 and 5-cylinder engines you need to get necessary for you отрез a multiwire flexible copper high-voltage wire and brass plugs concerning here for the cable ends in shop of spare parts. To squeeze brass plugs on the cable ends, to put on tips of spark plugs and tips with помехоподавляющими resistors before fixing, it is ready.
The help: "not tight" places in high-voltage wires can be noticed if to glance at night at the working engine in a motor compartment. Then the sparks of ignition slipping on a cable are well visible. The weak light patches of light "running" on a cable, on the contrary, are absolutely harmless.
In Audi it is possible to apply only certain tips of spark plugs. Suitable tips should have own resistance 4—6 clod.
The same concerns and tips with помехоподавляющими the resistors established on connections of the distributor and the coil of ignition. Their own resistance should make 0,6—1,4 clod.
Бегунок the ignition distributor also should have defined помехоподавляющий the resistor 0,6—1,4 clod. It is designated by an inscription «R1».
The help: if the engine constantly or from time to time (at damp weather) works not on all cylinders, it can be quite often connected with faulty tips of spark plugs. There there is a spark leak through изоляционный a material between a metal cover and a high-voltage electrode. Otherwise on a candle tip in most cases it is impossible to define, whether it "punches". For check replace a tip of a candle with another. The help on the journey: remove the metal screen of the tip.
High-voltage wires of the distributor of ignition incorporate to candles according to an ignition order. Figures show, to what cylinder (an account method: in front back) the corresponding wire should be brought. At the left the 4-cylinder engine, on the right – 5-cylinder is represented.
For equal work of the engine cylinders, for example the 4-cylinder engine, light not as 1 – 2 – 3 – 4, and in a sense words randomly. According to an ignition order high-voltage wires are brought to a cover of the distributor of ignition. If бегунок the distributor at the removed cover of the distributor and the removed dustproof cover shows on a mark on the brink of the distributor case, means, the cylinder 1 (what ahead of all the others in a movement direction) is in the ignition moment. It is a starting point at putting on of wires.
The 4-cylinder engine: 1 – 3 – 4 – 2, бегунок the distributor rotates to the right (clockwise).
The 5-cylinder engine: 1 – 2 – 4 – 5 – 3, бегунок the distributor rotates to the right (clockwise).
The 6-cylinder engine: 1 – 4 – 3 – 6 – 2 – 5. The distributor is absent – the order of connections of wires of a high voltage to a package of coils of ignition corresponds to an order of cylinders. An example: the high-voltage wire from connection behind on the right conducts to the cylinder behind on the right.


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Written and directed by Mastrodimos, Nadya's Sleepover, Invite Only is a dark comedy that tells the story of a group of preteen friends--five girls and one boy--who turn a seemingly routine slumber party into a clandestine fight club. This is a film about kids learning to redefine their relationships with their bodies, navigating gendered expectations, and realizing the lengths true friends will go for each other.
We are currently in post-production.
Nadya's Sleepover, Invite Only - Work in Progress
Blue Light Arts Retreat
Ruby walks to cabin
Surveying the property
Another image of the property
Karl-Mary works on two laptops
In an effort to build a community for young women and gender non-conforming folx in the early stages of their careers, Mastrodimos and Karl-Mary Akre co-founded and organized the Blue Light Arts Retreat. Central to this idea is giving young folx who struggle to balance their creative process with the demands of urban life a quiet place to focus on their art. For the inaugural retreat in June 2019, a half-dozen artists gathered in Kerhonksen, NY, to spend a weekend working on a variety of projects and collaborating.
Mastrodimos and Akre have already started planning a winter retreat and hope to continue growing the Blue Light Arts Retreat.
The 1 Train is Delayed
The 1 Train is Delayed Ep. 1 with Eden Ariel
Looks like the 1 Train is delayed again. While you wait, check out strange tales of children's book writers, vloggers, and doomsday-prepped college students. Did we mention there's a musical performance from Eden Ariel, too?
The 1 Train is Delayed Ep. 2 with Denitia
Looks like the 1 Train is delayed again. While you wait, check out strange tales of haunted daughters, AOC fans, and a questionable family business. Did we mention there's a musical performance from Denitia, too?
The 1 Train is Delayed Ep. 3 with TrashKing
Looks like the 1 Train is delayed again. While you wait, check out strange tales of aggressive brunches, "The Bachelor," and trash tornadoes. Speaking of trash, did we mention there's a musical performance from TrashKing, too?
The 1 Train is Delayed Ep. 4 with Awksymoron
Looks like the 1 Train is delayed again. While you wait, check out some Mummy Rights Activists, heart-warming coming out narratives, and....what? Is "The Sopranos" even relevant anymore? You know what IS relevant? A musical performance from Awksymoron!
"The 1 Train is Delayed" Ep. 5 [Season Finale] with Mylo
Looks like the 1 Train is delayed again... with sinister consequences. While you wait, you're welcome to play some Jeopardy, enjoy some fresh /finger/ foods, and get a behind the scenes look at some voice acting... If all of that isn't enough to draw you in, a musical performance from Mylo should!
In Fall 2018, Mastrodimos developed a new production initiative for Barnard students interested in creating a freeform web series. Under her guidance as staff-supervisor, the students spent that semester learning how to use advanced production equipment, editing techniques, and preparing sketches and scripts. The result is "The 1 Train is Delayed," and during the Spring 2019 semester, the team of approximately 26 students produced and released five 20-minute episodes, each with a musical guest. By the end of the show's first "season," students who in September had never stepped foot on a set or held a camera before were directing episodes and teaching their peers how to use the equipment; they are now working to organize next fall's shooting schedule.
All five episodes can be viewed on the official "The 1 Train is Delayed" YouTube channel or on the Media Center's website. The program was also featured in The Columbia Spectator in February of this year.
Emerging Filmmaker Hannah Ahn and cinematographer Kyra Chen on set. Photo by Ruby Mastrodimos
Emerging Filmmaker Mentorship Program
In December of 2018, Mastrodimos was part of a team which was awarded the Barnard Inclusion Grant from the Council for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for after proposing the Emerging Filmmaker Mentorship Program. The initiative is a semester-long intensive intended to encourage young womxn interested in careers in filmmaking but who feel discouraged due to their race, gender, sexuality, or socioeconomic background.
The three mentees chosen for the Spring 2019 semester represented a wide array of identities and narratives. Mastrodimos served as a mentor for Barnard senior Hannah Ahn during the production of her first short film, "Poisonberries," the story of a young girl whose larger-than-life anxieties may not be unfounded.
Read more about the Emerging Filmmaker Mentorship Program here.
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Advocates Urge Federal Update of Gender-Biased Crash Test Standards
By Kea Wilson
Image: Ivan Radic, CC
Simple reforms to federal testing standards could end horrific disparities in car crash deaths between the sexes — and the impending enactment of the new infrastructure bill is the perfect time to implement them, a new coalition says.
In a letter to US DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg, advocates from Vehicle Equity Rules in Transportation (also known as Verity Now) urged federal regulators to update Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and the New Car Assessment Program to require the use of "biofidelic" crash test dummies that better simulate the effects of vehicle impacts on the bodies of cisgender women and non-binary people who were assigned female at birth. They also want the agency to make a commitment to regularly review those standards and update them as the average height, weight and physiology of the sexes change over time, and to implement the latest crash testing technology as it improves.
Those might seem like small shifts, but the coalition says they could save up to 1,342 lives every single year. Studies show that when they're inside of a car at the time of a crash, women and people who were assigned female at birth are 17 percent more likely to die and 73 percent more likely to be seriously injured than a driver or passenger who was assigned male at birth who's struck in the same conditions. That's thanks, in part, to the fact that most crash test dummies are designed to mimic the body proportions and internal physiology of bodies typically characterized as male — and despite being made aware of the problem decades ago, regulators have failed to update their approach.
"I can just not, for the life of me, believe this is still happening in the United States," said Susan Molinari, a former member of Congress from New York and Verity Now co-chair. "But I guess we shouldn't be surprised; women have been left out of all kinds of testing and clinical trials for decades, and this isn't any different."
Source: VERITY
There's less research on how likely people of various genders are to survive car crashes when they're not inside a vehicle — probably because until recently, federal regulators haven't been required to test how well vulnerable road users fare in vehicle collisions at all, leaving the private sector little incentive to do so, either.
Under the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the regulators who supervise the New Car Assessment Program will, for the first time, be required to test and provide information to prospective car-buyers on how likely their vehicle is to kill or injure a pedestrian, a critical standard that other nations adopted way back in 2008.
Unfortunately, that won't actually prevent cars that fail such tests from being sold, the way an update to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards would — and it won't address the larger reasons behind gender disparities in crash deaths, either. Studies have shown that male-identified pedestrians are twice as likely to die from injuries sustained in car crashes than females, but researchers speculate that has more to do with the fact that men are more likely to walk in dangerous environments, like attempting mid-block crossings on high-speed arterials, than their physiology. (No one has comprehensively studied how like pedestrians of different genders are to survive when struck by similar cars traveling at similar speeds on similarly designed roads, though as SUVs continue to dominate U.S. roads, it's worth noting that the height of the average bumper is quickly rising towards the head and neck level of the average American female-identified person, who is typically shorter than the average male.)
Some researchers have questioned whether behavioral and environmental factors might help explain sex disparities among car occupants involved in crashes, too; a recent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study found that men are more likely than other genders both to drive aggressively, and to buy SUVs, trucks, and large cars that are typically more deadly to the occupants of smaller cars they strike.
But few doubt that sexist vehicle testing standards are a major contributor to the problem, or that crash testing standards desperately need to be fixed.
"A woman [or person assigned female at birth] is not a little man," added Molinari. "Our necks are less muscular, so we experience more whiplash than men [and assigned females at birth]. Women sit closer to the steering wheel; our abdomen muscles are built differently and respond differently when they're hit; our spines have less muscle. There are just so many differences in the impact that a crash has on our bodies, and we should not be afraid to recognize those differences and compensate for those differences."
With the new car assessment program set for a pedestrian-friendly overhaul anyway, advocates say it's the perfect time to correct all the inequities embedded in the program — and in every program under the U.S. DOT's purview, including the motor vehicle safety standards.
"NHTSA can do this tomorrow," said Molinari. "And if they don't, we'll go the congressional route and get legislation that mandates that they do. There are real people behind the statistics, and making them wait 40 years without updating this regulation is ridiculous. We've waited long enough."
Filed Under: Car crashes, FMVSS, Gender-Aware Planning, Mobility Justice, NCAP, Promoted
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America's top regulatory agency is failing its mandate to "keep people safe on America's roadways" — and to truly accomplish it, they need to fundamentally change the way they operate.
Why U.S. Car Crash Reporting Is Broken
Nearly a third of car crashes involving a vulnerable road user goes unreported in the nation's capital, skewing District crash totals that are critical to making changes — but advocates say that stunning stat is just the tip of a much larger national iceberg.
NBA Star Shawn Bradley Paralyzed in Crash
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Former Dallas Mavericks player Shawn Bradley announced today that he was struck by a driver while riding his bike, paralyzing the NBA star and reminding America that no one is safe from our national traffic violence epidemic until we commit to ending it.
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By Kea Wilson | Apr 28, 2020
Federal regulators have failed to consider safety of pedestrians in their vehicle safety standards for far too long— and now the Government Accountability Office is calling them out.
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The recent crash of two D.C. Metro trains has laid bare a glaring lack of authority at the obscure local committee that is supposed to ensure transit riders' safety, as the Washington Post reported today. But the problem is bigger than the nation's capital: The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has not issued broad safety rules […]
Advocates Demand Better Car Safety Standards
The next baseline infrastructure bill can no longer ignore the need for common-sense vehicle safety improvements that save vulnerable road users' lives, a coalition of advocates and lawmakers said on Tuesday.


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Robert Thorburn,  (1818–1885) was a Scottish miniature-painter and associate of the Royal Academy.

Life
Robert Thorburn, born at Dumfries in March 1818, was the son of a tradesman. He received his early education at Dumfries High School. He soon developed a love of art, and, owing to the kindness of a neighbouring lady, was at the age of fifteen sent to Edinburgh to draw at the Academy, where he made rapid progress and gained distinction. About three years later he came to London and entered the classes of the Royal Academy. As a native of Dumfries he enjoyed the special patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, whereby he obtained many commissions.

Thorburn's success as a miniature-painter was soon secured, and for many years he shared the patronage of fashionable society with Sir William Charles Ross. In 1846 he received his first commission from Queen Victoria; many followed. Miniature-portraits of the Queen, and of the queen with Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, are reproduced in Sir R. R. Holmes's Queen Victoria (1897).

Thorburn's miniatures were of a larger size than usual, showing more of the figure and often accompanied by a landscape background. They are painted on large pieces of ivory, sometimes on pieces joined together. Their extreme finish produces a sense of monotony and flatness where the colours have lost their freshness. They were, however, very much admired at the time of their production, and at the Paris International Exhibition of 1855 Thorburn was awarded a gold medal. One of his most widely known miniatures is that of the Duchess of Manchester, a reproduction of which is given in J. J. Foster's British Miniature Painters (1898). The same work contains a portrait of Thorburn from a miniature by himself and a list of Thorburn's principal sitters, comprising most of the beautiful ladies of the time.

Thorburn was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1848. When photography began to supersede miniature painting, he took to oil-painting, and exhibited portraits and other subjects at the Royal Academy exhibitions with moderate success. He had a house at Lasswade, near Edinburgh, but died at Tunbridge Wells on 3 November 1885 in his sixty-eighth year, having quite outlived the great reputation of his earlier years.

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 Cust. L. H.; Burnette, Arianne (2004). "Thorburn, Robert (1818–1885), miniature painter". In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
 Foster, Joshua James (1898). British Miniature Painters and Their Works. Nottingham: R. B. Earp & Sons, Ltd. pp. 80–83, 91–97, 101, 110–111.
 Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011). "Thorburn, Robert". In Benezit Dictionary of Artists''. Oxford University Press.

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1885 deaths
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Your particular background and experiences compel you to use your talents to make a difference in the world. You're looking to further your career and your cybersecurity skills in this Age of Information. Seattle Pacific's MAM-CYBER program equips students with a comprehensive understanding of how to identify and manage risk, training them to assess and alleviate an organization's specific vulnerabilities in order to protect the integrity, security, and confidentiality of its digital assets.
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Accreditation Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
Upcoming Application Deadline The next deadline for domestic students is 2/1/2021 for Spring quarter
Expected Time to Completion 24 months
Format Working professional friendly (part-time, evenings); On Campus
Credits to Graduate 45 credits to complete
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Cost $895/credit
Your particular background and experiences compel you to use your talents to make a difference in the world. You're looking to further your career and your cybersecurity skills in this Age of Information.
Seattle Pacific's MAM-CYBER program equips students with a comprehensive understanding of how to identify and manage risk, training them to assess and alleviate an organization's specific vulnerabilities in order to protect the integrity, security, and confidentiality of its digital assets.
THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS DIFFERENCE
A Master of Arts in Management with an emphasis in Cybersecurity from Seattle Pacific integrates business competence and Christian character, inviting students to think and act strategically, apply in-depth knowledge, communicate effectively with various teams, and learn to provide values-based leadership to the management of cybersecurity in organizations.
Intended for students who recognize the need to develop and expand knowledge and expertise in security —
especially those seeking to enter the security field — the MAM-CYBER program enables graduates to provide leadership in managing cybersecurity in business, government, and civil society as impact-oriented, responsible professionals informed by a Christian perspective.
Why Seattle Pacific?
From its inception in 1977, SPU's School of Business, Government, and Economics upheld an unwavering dedication to excellence ― quality faculty and curricula, commitment to values and ethics, and dedication to graduating students ready and able to impact their professional and personal worlds.
AACSB Accreditation
Seattle Pacific was the first school of the nearly 100-member Council for Christian Colleges and Universities to achieve the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) distinction. AACSB International represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide. As a member, we are part of a united movement to improve the quality of business education around the world, helping to develop the next generation of great leaders. Four out of five alumni from AACSB-accredited schools say their graduate management education contributes to improvements in their competitiveness, proactiveness, innovativeness, and creativity. Also, SPU is listed as a Best Business School in the West by The Princeton Review.
Deep Ethics Emphasis
Built on an ethical foundation, all graduate programs at SPU offer first-class business education through the lens of Christian faith and values. Students take at least two ethics classes, and ethical issues are integrated throughout the curriculum. The School of Business, Government, and Economics also operates the Center for Integrity in Business.
Flexible Format
The MAM-CYBER program offers students countless opportunities for interaction with one another and with faculty beyond the classroom, all while keeping in mind that many students are working professionals. Our evening courses are designed to accommodate varying work schedules. Classes are smaller, allowing students to get involved with professors and fellow students in a cooperative and reciprocal learning environment.
Mentor Program Advantage
At SPU, students are encouraged to follow their inspiration and imagination while benefiting from a top-rated mentor program that connects them with professionals in their chosen fields of study. To enhance the MAM-CYBER experience, we offer a mentor program that gives students access to more than 900 business people and professionals from a variety of companies, industries, roles, and levels of experience. Meet one-on-one with a mentor or multiple mentors for a richer learning experience and to gain network resources for future contacts.
Valuable Connections
When you graduate with an MAM-CYBER degree from SPU's School of Business, Government, and Economics, you join a community of alumni and partnering stakeholders who stay connected. As a graduate, you'll find experienced and engaged, top-level business professionals eager to lend their support.
Robust Suite of Career Services
Shaping a definitive course of action upon graduation is vital. That's why we offer a robust suite of career and professional development opportunities including career counseling, job-search coaching, résumé development, workshops and seminars, networking events, and mentoring through SBGE Career Services.
Curriculum (45 CREDITS*)
The MAM-CYBER program develops readiness to act as a purpose-driven cybersecurity leader.
Ethical Perspectives Courses (6 credits)
BUS 6201 Christian Faith, Values, Ethics, and the Marketplace (3)
BUS 6202 Business Ethics: Current Issues and Moral Leadership (3)
Leadership & Behavioral Skills Courses (6 credits)
BUS 6260 Managerial Communication (3)
BUS 6266 Leadership in Organizations (3)
Specialized Cybersecurity Knowledge (15 credits)
ISM 6331 Information Systems Security
ISM 6332 Information Security Risk Management
ISM 6333 Cyber Security and Disaster Response
ISM 6334 Cyber Crime Investigation and Digital Forensics
ISM 6336 Cyber Security, Business and Public Policy
*Certain BUS 5xxx-level coursework from SPU may be applied.
Approved Professional Designation Exam.
Substitute additional BUS or ISM elective credits for waived 61xx credits by prior approval as needed to reach a minimum of 45 credits (0–15).
Application (3 credits)
BUS 6939 Management Consulting Practicum (3)
*Foundations Courses (27 credits)
Business foundations pre-requisite coursework may be satisfied by prior undergraduate coursework or may be completed at SPU.
BUS 6110 Macroeconomics for Managers (3)
BUS 6120 Managerial Finance (3)
BUS 6130 Financial Accounting (3)
BUS 6132 Managerial Accounting (3)
BUS 6140 Legal Environment of Business (3)
BUS 6150 Managerial Marketing (3)
BUS 6164 Operations Management (3)
BUS 6170 Information Systems Management (3)
BUS 6171 Statistics for Business Decisions (3)
Possession of the MOS Certificate in Excel is also a pre-requisite.
To view the official curriculum requirements and course descriptions for the MBA degree, visit the online Graduate Catalog.
Transfer credit from other institutions will be given only for graduate-level courses from AACSB-accredited schools covering the same body of knowledge. Students may transfer a maximum of three courses (9 credits). Acceptance of transfer credit is determined by the associate dean for graduate programs. Elective course offerings vary each year based on student interest and relevance of subject matter to the business community. Consult the graduate director to select a customized and appropriate sequence of courses.
Students attending the MAM-CS program on an F-1 Visa are strongly encouraged to include BUS 6939 as their CPT experience. Completing a project in cooperation with an enterprise under the sponsorship of a faculty member is similar to doing an internship. Students have an opportunity to apply the knowledge gained from a significant amount of their prior coursework to a meaningful project for a business. This constitutes a very valuable opportunity for international students to become more familiar with U.S. business practices and meets the criteria for Curricular Practical Training.
Supporting the careers of our graduate business students and alumni is a high priority for the School of Business, Government, and Economics. These career resources are available:
Graduate students may use the Center for Career & Calling Resources for Current Graduate Students which include online vocational resources and résumé tips, workshops, and events.
Job Leads
Job leads are posted in SPU's job posting board, Handshake, as well as in the SBGE LinkedIn group.
Career Counseling, Job Search Coaching, and Résumé Assistance
Where do you plan to work once you graduate? How do you plan to land your next job? If you just started your graduate business program, you might not know what is on the other side of your degree. A list of qualified, vetted career counselors and coaches is available to students who desire one-on-one assistance (i.e. résumé writing, career exploration counseling or job search coaching, career assessments, or other related activities). This is on a fee-for-service basis.
Professional and Career Development Workshops
Managing your career is critical for success in today's turbulent environment. To accelerate your development, each quarter we host one career related workshop on topics such as job searching, networking, résumé writing, interviewing, etc.
Alumni/Student Networking Events
Connecting alumni and current students together is a win-win for everyone. Networking events are held to connect and help current students and SBGE alumni navigate life in the workplace.
A mentor can be a pivotal influence in your career. Our Center for Applied Learning offers a world-class, individually customized mentoring experience that pairs you with a mentor based on your career goals and aspirations. Find out more about the Mentor Program.
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Tuition and fees for 2020–21
per credit
Total costs $40,275 based on 2020–21 tuition. (Any needed prerequisite coursework is available at an additional cost.)
one time application and matriculation fee
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to complete
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Before applying for aid, you must first be admitted to a graduate program. Make sure you:
Enroll in at least 3 credits (or half-time) toward a degree or eligible certificate each quarter.
Complete and submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) each year.
Just like undergraduates, you may take advantage of scholarships and loans. SPU does not have a deadline for graduate financial aid, though earlier is always better than later! Learn more
Learn more about administrative, certification, and other program fees.
Generally, you must have at least a 3.0 GPA in your undergraduate studies and evidence of at least one year of continuous, full-time, substantive work experience after receipt of the bachelor's degree on your résumé. GMAT or GRE test scores are not required for applicants who demonstrate strong alignment with the program's goals and who have at least a 3.0 cumulative undergraduate GPA. (Scores may be requested from those who do not meet the minimum requirements for admission.)
While the university is operating under COVID-19 protocol, the GRE/GMAT test is optional for admission.
Applicants must submit the following:
Online application and $50 application processing fee.
Current résumé as evidence of a substantive work experience. You will need at least one year, continuous full-time, post-bachelor's degree experience at the time of application. More is preferred. This is a significant factor in the admission decision process. Applicants with less than one year of post-baccalaureate professional work experience, but who are otherwise strong candidates and are currently employed in a meaningful professional role may be considered.
Official transcript from colleges or universities attended. Include the transcript from the institution that granted your bachelor's degree with the posted degree appearing on the transcript. Also, send official transcripts for all institutions attended following your undergraduate degree, as well as any other schools where you earned credits that may be used to request waivers of foundations courses.
Personal statement (3–4 pages) responding to the essay questions listed in the online application.
Two professional letters of recommendation listed in the online application (optional).
The application for admission, application fee, and personal statement must be received by the dates listed below. Recommendation letters, official transcripts and test scores must arrive before an admission decision can be made.
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Qualified individuals may take up to five courses if they have an undergraduate degree (as evidenced by an Official transcript(s) from an accredited institution); a minimum cumulative undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of 3.0; and a minimum of one year full-time post-baccalaureate work experience (as evidenced by a current résumé).
Prequalified students must apply for admission to take additional courses. Prequalified status does not guarantee full admission at a later date.
Conditional Admission
You may request conditional admittance into the School of Business, Government, and Economics under these conditions:
You are a student who needs an F-1 visa to study in the United States.
You have graduated from an accredited four-year institution. Your transcript must show completion of a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
You have achieved at least a 3.0 GPA on the US 4.0 scale.
You have a minimum of at least one year, continuous full-time, post-bachelor's degree experience at the time of application. You will be required to submit a résumé with job titles, duties, start date and end date (month and year), Internships and job training are not accepted as full-time employment.
If approved, you will receive a Conditional Letter of Admission from SPU. Conditional admission assures that you will be considered for admission, if you satisfy all admission requirements at the time of your intended enrollment.
Please complete this form to request conditional admission to a graduate program in the SPU School of Business, Government, and Economics.
Visiting Graduate Students
If you have been admitted to a graduate degree program in another accredited institution, you may enroll for up to 9 credits at Seattle Pacific University — with the approval of the School of Business, Government, and Economics.
To gain admission as a visiting graduate student, you must submit:
Letter from the dean's office at your home institution stating that you are in good standing at that institution.
Current résumé.
International students are an important part of Seattle Pacific University. A vibrant and active international population, SPU's international graduate students represent 32 different countries.
In addition to general admission requirements, international students must also submit:
TOEFL score of at least 90 on the iBT, or an IELTS official score report of at least 7.0 if English is not your first language. Otherwise strong applicants with a TOEFL score of 84-89 (IELTS 6.5) may be probationally or conditionally admitted with the requirement to successfully complete SPU approved ESL coursework prior to or at the outset of enrollment and continuing as needed.
Official financial statement reflecting financial support equivalent to the cost of the first year of graduate study. Complete the Declaration of International Student Finances form and send it to the address listed on the form, along with an original bank statement and copy of your passport (front and back).
For non US transcripts, provide a transcript evaluation by World Education Services (WES) or Foundation for International Services Inc. (FIS). (A page-by-page evaluation is sufficient, but a course-by-course evaluation is needed to determine if any pre-requisite foundations have been satisfied.)
All official transcripts must be submitted in English. International applicants are responsible for all costs associated with this service.
For other questions, please check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
Alumnus Kedmon Mapana leads music festival in Tanzania.


What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.


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CARandDRIVER pins 2013 SRT Viper GTS against its grandfather
by PapaCars
Image source: Doran Eirok via Flickr
The 2013 SRT Viper has marked a very significant point in Chrysler's history, especially after their recovery from kicking the bucket from bankruptcy a few short years ago. But since then, it's been widely cited that Chrysler and all of its subsidiaries are doing exponentially better than they used to.
That said, to see if Chrysler's top efforts have paid off, CARandDRIVER had decided to do some practical testing by pinning the original Dodge Viper GTS against the current 2013 SRT Viper GTS. However, to keep it fair, the original Dodge Viper GTS is a modified example.
Check out more news on the SRT Viper.
Though ultimately, this test is to see how much better the new 2013 SRT Viper is when compared to its original predecessor, which is still an extraordinarily capable vehicle.
via Video: CARandDRIVER pins 2013 SRT Viper GTS against its grandfather – egmCarTech.


Commitment to Education | ReNewton 2030 | Newton, Kansas | Two cities. One community.
Planning for the education of Newton's children and workforce doesn't quite fall under the City government's jurisdiction. Still, participants in The ReNewton Project wanted to ensure the city will remain supportive of efforts to educate all Newtonians — from preschool through adult.
A quality school system is a primary selling point for any community. And as efforts continue to recruit new residents and employers to the area, having a strong school system is a key component of any economic development efforts.
Retain the neighborhood school concept.
Plan for parks adjacent to any future school sites.
Continue to provide for expanding early childhood education and day care needs.
The plan also recommends that the community strengthen its relationship with Bethel College.
The plan also recommends a similar partnership with Hutchinson Community College, to provide adequate workforce training. Newton must keep up with workforce needs in order to attract new industries to the region.