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Odell Beckham Jr. Choked During Win Against Baltimore Ravens
The Browns didn't impress against the Rams on Sunday night. More
Rhonda Reese | 02 October, 2019, 00:15
It's a good day for Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns.
NFL.com's Adam Schein ranked the Ravens as the fifth-most promising of all the 2-2 teams (he had the Browns at No. 2, behind the Philadelphia Eagles). He completed 20 of 30 passes for 342 yards.
As of Friday night, Brown has not responded to Mayfield's snipe. yet.
"Absolutely not, "Mayfield said after the win, according to CBS Sports. We're just competing", Beckham said about the incident".
Try convincing Browns coach Freddie Kitchens that Humphrey didn't choke Beckham. "I just try to focus on what I'm going to say to our player, because you can't control the way the officials see it". "You turn the corner". While running with the ball, he threw off one foot all the way to the Baltimore Ravens' five-yard line. "So guys kind of got exhausted about it".
The Browns are in good position on the scoreboard, at least.
As a result, Cleveland finds itself tied atop the division with the Ravens, who won it past year. The offense just turned in its best game.
Galarian Formes may be coming to Pokémon GO soon
The Pokémon Company recently announced that it would be holding a special broadcast for Pokémon Sword and Shield . Some new Pokemon , perhaps? "My name's Sonia, and I'm a Pokemon researcher", reads a Nintendo post.
Browns center JC Tretter ran to help Beckham and was also penalized on the play.
"That looked like us", Chubb said. He had 66 yards rushing.
As noted by Ravens Wire's Matthew Stevens, Jackson is on pace for the greatest season by a quarterback in Ravens history. It was Baltimore's first turnover of the season.
Landry went into the medical tent at the end of the third quarter.
On that play, four personal fouls were called - two on each team - which offset, but there were no ejections. That is all I am looking for. "That's not really the brand of football I really want to represent". "The whistle blows, it's got to be over with".
The Ravens inducted former coach Brian Billick into the team's Ring of Honor, adding his name to the facade on the upper deck.
The backdrop here was the absence of Pro Bowl Ravens defensive tackle Brandon Williams, who missed the game with a knee injury.
Yemeni Houthis broadcast video showing major attack near Saudi border
Amber Guyger found guilty of murdering Botham Jean
Daniel Jones just made me look like an idiot
The rookie QB made quite the first impression, completing 23 of his 36 passes for 336 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. ET, FOX, DirecTV) in a Week 3 game. "That's what's most exciting". "Just congratulations and just happy for me", Jones said.
Saudi Arabia shuts down pipeline to Bahrain after drone strikes
But in response to a recent decision by the United States to send more troops to the area, Rouhani went on to warn against the presence of foreign forces in the Gulf.
Chelsea's Highest-Paid Stars After Wonderkid's New Deal
Hudson-Odoi and Lampard had face-to-face talks during pre-season amid rumours the player was seeking to leave Stamford Bridge . Callum Hudson-Odoi has put pen to paper in a new five-year-contract with Chelsea .
Facebook is testing hiding 'likes' from users in Australia
On right, the same post as seen in Australia, where the company is testing a feature to hide "like" counts to the public. The Instagram move angered some influencers, who argued that likes are an important business metric for them.
Saudi Arabia agrees to a limited cease-fire in Yemen
It denies responsibility, and the attacks have been claimed by Yemen's Iranian-back Huthi rebels. But they have also said repeatedly the United States was not seeking conflict with Iran .
Saudi Attack: US President, Trump, Announces New Sanctions On Iran
Grain and soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade and livestock futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange also slumped. The Chinese embassy did not immediately respond to a query from AFP . "We've taken it to the degree", Trump said.
When the prosecutors walked into the hall, they broke into cheers. "Hey, hey, hey", she said the person shouted, and she fired. On its face, it seems absurd: Guyger was the trespasser and Jean was the person whose property was being trespassed upon.
Tony Romo makes 2019-20 PGA Tour debut at Safeway Open
On Thursday, Scott - averaging 323.4 yards off the tee - fired a 7-under-par 65 to share the first-round lead with Andrew Landry . Watney needed just 22 putts to complete his round and stay within range of DeChambeau.
Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness reveals he is HIV-positive
In an interview with The New York Times , the 32-year-old admitted he was scared to come out during the height of his popularity. He revealed that he began doing cocaine during his first semester of college and later started smoking methamphetamine.
Google Pixel 4 Styles and Wallpapers app shows robust theming options
The Face unlock process is also explained in the video and he also says that Face Unlock is the only biometric security option. The report mentions that the setup is similar to Apple's Face ID, and that a glance is enough to unlock the phone.
Andrew Scott to Star in Showtime's 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' Adaptation
Steve Zaillian will write and direct the first season. Scott is also an Olivier Award-winning theatre actor. Scott will function a producer on the sequence.
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann Steps Down Amid Stalled IPO
WeWork reported that it has 527,000 members and 528 locations at the end of June and said it plans to open 169 new locations. The news of both Neumanns stepping down from C-suite roles at The We Company comes amid the company's attempt to go public.
Yemeni Houthis broadcast video showing major attack near Saudi border The Houthis announced on September 20 that they would stop rocket and droning attacks on Saudi Arabia if the coalition halted operations.
Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Press Photos Leaked Just 0.33-inches thin and weighing a mere 1.7 pounds (2.4 pound with the keyboard), the Surface Pro is svelte, sturdy, and stable. In our tests, the trailer for Aquaman on its 12.3-inch PixelSense (2736 x 1824) display was astonishingly bright and color-rich.
UK will leave the EU on October 31: finance minister Javid says The United Kingdom will leave the European Union on October 31 , hopefully with a deal, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid said on Monday.
Scientists capture shot of star being ripped apart by a black hole Astrophysicists have predicted that the orbit tightens and the supermassive black holes merger over time. Therefore, NASA went through computer simulations to dig deep into the black hole gravity warps.
Brandon Routh Suits Up As Superman If this doesn't get you excited, well, I don't know what to tell you. "I'll just be straight up about this", he wrote. WB called my agents Friday afternoon when I was in Florida visiting my grandfather in a nursing home.
OnePlus 7 & Pro Prices Slashed Among the other salient features of the 7T flagship phone is its in-display fingerprint sensor as well as face detection feature. With a 1080 x 2400 resolution (FHD+), the aspect ratio works out to 20:9 giving the handset a thinner and bit taller display .
De Minaur wins Zhuhai final, Carreno Busta is Chengdu champ Gerasimov will face Denis Shapovalov of Canada, who dispatched America's Bradley Klahn 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3). He was ideal on serve against Mannarino as well, never facing a break point.
Justin Bieber Shows Off Lavender Grills Ahead Of Big Wedding Earlier in the day, the "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star was seen buying some sex toys from the Hustler store. The couple recently sent out comic book style save the date invitations for a wedding scheduled on September 30th.
Celtic fans react to Kieran Tierney's Arsenal debut Arsenal took on Nottingham Forest in the League Cup 3 round. "He said I'm ready and wanted to play." . If I get it, I will be more than happy .
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Labour to integrate private schools with state sector in latest manifesto Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spent some years of his education at a private school, and several members of his team of senior lawmakers sent their children to fee-paying schools.
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PM Modi presents framed photograph from #HowdyModi event to President Trump The unexpected attendance came almost two years after the Trump administration pulled out of the 2015 Paris accord in 2017. Besides, the President also retweeted the tweet of MEA spokesperson Ravish Kumar and called the event "incredible".
"I Trust Pakistan, Can Mediate Kashmir": Trump In Meeting With Imran Khan He also thanked China for helping out and for providing opportunities to "lift ourselves up from where we are right now". Border security is vital to the United States.
U.S. court seeks explanation from Modi over annexation of IOK Trump also praised the contributions of the Indian-Americans, saying they have enriched "our culture and uplifted our values". Howdy Modi is one of the highlights of the Prime Minister's seven-day tour in the US.
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GI Multisociety Strategic Plan on Environmental Sustainability : Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG
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GI Multisociety Strategic Plan on Environmental Sustainability
Pohl, Heiko MD1,2; de Latour, Rabia MD3; Reuben, Adrian MBBS, MRCP4; Ahuja, Nitin K. MD, MS5; Gayam, Swapna MD, FACG6; Kohli, Rohit MBBS, MS7; Agrawal, Deepak MD, MPH, FACG8; Omary, M. Bishr MD, PhD9
1Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, USA;
2Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA;
3Bellevue Hospital, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA;
4Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA;
5Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA;
6West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA;
7Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA;
8Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas, USA;
9Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Correspondence: Heiko Pohl, MD. E-mail: [email protected]. M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD. E-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL accompanies this paper at https://links.lww.com/AJG/C713 and https://links.lww.com/AJG/C714
This article is being published jointly in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Gastroenterology, and Hepatology. The article is identical in all 4 journals except for minor stylistic differences in keeping with each journal style. Citations from any of the 4 journals can be used when citing this article.
The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States Government.
© 2022 by The American College of Gastroenterology, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and American Gastroenterological Association.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology 117(12):p 1911-1916, December 2022. | DOI: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000002031
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a letter to Nestlé that there was "no credible evidence" to support this claim.
However, according to the FDA, this conclusion could not be drawn from the 36 studies submitted for review, as the majority of these did not properly control for the removal of casein as a confounding variable.
Casein and whey proteins are the two major allergens found in cow's milk. A reduction in allergy symptoms may therefore be attributable to the elimination of casein proteins in the infant formulas, and not just to the partially hydrolyzed whey proteins, said the FDA.
In addition, most of the studies did not definitively diagnose food allergy incidence, which is the appropriate endpoint for measuring allergy risk reduction, said the agency.
Some of the studies also provided no information of the nutritional status of the infants that would indicate that they had experienced normal physical growth during the study period, said the FDA. This could potentially have altered immune mediated responses, thereby affecting allergic reactions.
Nestlé said it was "disappointed and surprised" with the FDA's decision.
"In part this may reflect an incomplete understanding of the scientific support of thepetition, or differences in interpretation of the language of the proposed claim," said the company's medical and scientific director Jose Saavedra.
"This claim would help to inform an even greater number of mothers about a very important and currently available allergy prevention option for infants who are not exclusively breastfed," he added.
The company said it plans to formally ask the FDA to reconsider its decision.
"We are confident that in working with FDA, we can find the best way to communicate the scientific evidence to benefit the greatest number of infants," said Saavedra.
The FDA said it intends to evaluate new information that becomes available, and would consider changing its decision if sufficient scientific evidence supporting the health claim was released.


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Sports in Five Sep 25 2007
Bears Hot-tied + Go Cubs, Go!+ How to Turn Six Points Into Two
By The Bearscast Hosts, Jeff Webber & Steve Gillies
Make Love in Your Kitchen
Yet There Is Method In It
Skip to: Bears | Cubs | Sox | Fire
Bears in Five
Bears Hog-tied
by Sean Cassidy, Herman Coats and Gabe Dixon
One: "Wrecks is our Quarterback"
It didn't take long for Lovie to reaffirm our misery in what must be the most torturous statement to a Chicago sports fan at the moment. All Bears fans want to know is, if last night wasn't enough to cost Rex his job, then what is? Does his handgun per playing child ratio need to improve three fold or more? Hypothetical multiplication or not, It's true that none of the Bears offense played particularly well Sunday night. Blocking was shoddy for both Rex and Benson, the ground game never got going, and dropped passes sabotaged drives.
Still, despite all the issues the Bears were in this game until the 4th quarter. Then following a Benson turnover and the Bears falling behind by more than one score, Rex did what we all expected — self-destructed. Maybe if injuries hadn't derailed his development... maybe if Rex had grown and developed with the rest of this team... maybe then he'd be ready to lead his team like Tony Romo did Sunday night. But one thing that is not a maybe anymore is that Lovie's loyalty is officially costing the Bears games.
Two: Superman Hit by Slyptonite
Of all the things that happened last night in the "What the on the Water," the most shocking has to be the extremely poor play of Devin Hester. After handing the Bears the ball on the 40 yard-line when the initial kickoff went out of bounds, Dallas coaches caved to their players' and Devin Hester's demands and kicked to him. But while Bears fans were continually excited on every punt and kickoff, hoping, waiting for a big play from Hester to get the back in the game, Superman may have done more harm than good. Hester continually had trouble fielding kicks, causing eerie flash backs to last year, and he outright fumbled one kickoff where he was bailed out by Brendon Ayanbadejo. Hester is a big part of what gives the Bears their advantage on special teams and bails out this anemic offense with his heroic efforts. Methinks he had his glasses on under that visor.
Three: Injury Bug Bites Hard
After taking a week off the injury bug came back to bite the Bears against the Cowboys, and it bit in a big way. As mentioned on NBC, the major reason the losing Super Bowl team typically doesn't return to the playoffs the following year is injuries. Go ahead and add Lance Briggs, Nathan Vasher, and Tommy Harris to the list of injured Bears starters. At one point on Sunday the Bears were down six of their Opening Day defensive starters and one offensive lineman. The Bears came into this season as one of the deepest teams in the NFL, but that depth is already being tested by an almost unbelievable string of industries. Adding an inconsistent offense to a depleted defense could spell disaster for the Bears in a division where Green Bay is off to a 3-0 start. But keep this interesting subplot in mind as the Bears handle Briggs' injury. Lance's contract stipulates that he needs to participate in 75 percent of the defensive snaps this year to avoid another franchise tag. Would the Bears risk victories to keep him around another year? Oh yeah, I like the kind of cereal with TWO SCOOPS! Zing.
Four: Cedric "Run 'Till the Count of One and Fall Over" Benson
After the second 100-yard performance of his career against the Chiefs last week, Bears fans had started to gain some measure of confidence in Cedric Benson. But just like his backfield mate Wrecks, the flashes appear to be too good to be true. Benson seems completely unable to get a consistent push and can't make headway without solid blocking. Perhaps it's the "aging" instead of "veteran" offensive line, but the Bears need at least some facet of their offense working to have a chance. I am just wondering, if both Benson and Grossman tank in the same season, what does that say for the job Jerry Angelo has done? Great picks in the 2nd through 7th round will only take you so far. You can't blow every 1st round pick your team has and stay competitive, so unless Benson can get his act together and average more than 3 yards a carry, Angelo will have the chance to screw up another high 1st round pick.
Five: Izzy "The Beast" Idonije
If there was one bright spot in the game — and this may have been the only one — the Bears blocked a field goal for the third consecutive week. And for the second straight week it was the big paw of Israel Idonije that sent the kick off its course. Idonije has been playing at an unbelievable level so far this season, making huge special team plays and being a solid contributor on the defensive line in substitution packages. I'd list him as the early favorite for the special team representative in Hawaii. So maybe that seems like a minor thing to mention, but with my "Idonije" jersey already ordered and mailed I needed to find something positive to say this week. This jersey's so cool it's gonna pay up on all my bills!
Cubs in Five
Go Cubs, Go!
by Jeff Webber
One: The Magic Number Is Four
The Cubs can screw up anything, so you don't want to jinx things. But we like math here at Cubs in Five and as such, we feel compelled to point out that the odds of even the Cubs blowing a three game lead with only six games left are looooooooooong. The magic number is four; any combination of Cubs victories and Brewers losses totaling four and it's playoff time here in Chicago. Even if the slumping Brewers suddenly right their ship and go, say, 4-2 to end the season, the Cubs could still go just 2-4 and win the NL Central anyway. Don't send out invites to your playoff watching party yet, but it wouldn't kill you to think about what kind of snacks you'd like to serve.
Two: Soto-tally Awesome
24-year-old Cubs Minor League Player of the Year Geovany Soto seems like a godsend. Hot off a 26 HR, 109 RBI, 1.076 OPS season in Triple A Iowa, the young catcher has gone 17 for 43 (.395) with three homers since joining the big club. Add in the four runners he's nailed trying to steal (in 12 games; compare that to Jason Kendall's five in 49 games) and it's easy to get excited. Be aware: Soto has never hit this well before and the Iowa Cubs were weirdly bashtacular as a team this year (even Koyie Hill was raking), so it might be like the year Ronny Cedeno seemed a sure thing. For now, let's just enjoy his hot streak as a potential key to Cubs' playoff magic.
Three: Pitching Helps Our Odds
What a great time for Carlos Zambrano to start pitching like, well... Carlos Zambrano. Six strikeouts and no runs on Sunday? More of that, please. With baseball's playoffs usually decided by pitching, the Cubs trio of Z, Lilly and Hill is going to be tough for any team in the league to match up against. San Diego's trio of Jake Peavy, Chris Young, and Greg Maddux could hold strong, ditto New York's John Maine, Oliver Perez, and Tom Glavine. But Arizona and Philly are both heavily outgunned. We'll see what Vegas has to say once the series opponents are set, but I like our odds.
Four: Reasons to Still Be Afraid
Let's say you read number one and your wounded, bitter, permanently disappointment-scarred inner Cub fan shriveled up in fear, just knowing the Cubs would find a way to screw things up. What way would that be? In all likelihood, it'd Wednesday and Thursday's starter's Jason Marquis and Steve Trachsel.
Five: That Damned Go Cubs Go Song
Yeah, it's probably time you learned the words to that cheeseball country-rock "Go Cubs, Go!" song. Did you know it was written by Steve Goodman, the same guy whow wrote "You Never Even Called Me By Name?" Anyway, if you're going to ride the bandwagon this postseason, you really ought to learn to sing the song. Here's a YouTube clip.
Sox in Five
by Steve Gozdecki
...is "pulling a Buehrle" and taking the week off. Stay tuned next week for our big 2007 season in review and early distant 2008 season preview!
Fire in Five
How to Turn Six Points Into Two
by Steve Gillies
One: Snatching A Draw From the Jaws of Victory
Thursday night: It's injury time in a hard fought match in Dallas. The Fire holds a 1-0 lead. ESPN2 commentator Eric Wynalda is talking about what a solid performance it's been from the Fire and how they deserve to pick up their first win from Dallas in something like eight games. Then, a bit of ball watching from a usually reliable defense and the most hate-able player on Dallas' team, Carlos Ruiz, sneaks in to tie it with the last kick of the game.
Sunday afternoon: The Fire is entertaining a sold out crowd by toying with league leading DC United. Sure, the score is only 1-0, but with the Fire creating chances practically at will, that second goal will come. Only it doesn't. And then in the 86th minute, the usually reliable goalkeeper, Matt Pickens, watches a mis-hit cross he thinks is going out of bounds go into the back of the net. It's been as bad a week for the Fire as possible without actually losing a game.
Two: The Problem With Our Defense Is Our Offense
The natural tendency when you give up late goals is to point fingers at defenders and the goalkeeper. And certainly mistakes were made, you don't need to tell Matt Pickens that. But the most worrying trend is the inability of the Fire's strikers to do what it takes to close a game out. In Dallas, Calen Carr and Paulo Wanchope had plenty of opportunities to either score the insurance goal or hold the ball to kill time. They managed to do neither. Against DC, Chad Barrett (who did manage to finish one of his chances), Calen Carr and Cuahtemoc Blanco were all guilty of missing opportunities in what could have been a rout. The team has made remarkable progress over the past two months. The way the team's playing now, all they need is a striker with a killer instinct, a guy that will score well into the double figures a year, and they'll be competitive with the best teams in the league. But right now, it doesn't matter how well you play if you can't put teams away.
Three: The Playoff Picture
After the results of this weekend, we're currently tied for the last playoff spot with the Columbus Crew. The Colorado Rapids are two points behind us, and have the easiest remaining schedule, with games against bottom feeders Toronto FC and Real Salt Lake. The Fire's run-in is formidable, with Chivas USA away, New England at home, DC away, and then LA at home. The recent performances have been good enough to beat any of those teams, but that doesn't matter. What really matters though is how they bounce back from blowing two leads and how they deal with the pressure of playing in must-win games. Matt Pickens, in particular, looked inconsolable after his mistake, and this will be a huge test for his character.
Four: Blanco and the Art of Diving
I'm probably the only soccer fan I know that thinks the backlash against diving has gone too far. I've always viewed diving as much a part of the game as late tackles, stomping on people's toes in the box before a corner kick, or moving the ball on a set play a few yards forward when the ref isn't looking. None of these are pretty, but it's what competitors do to get an edge. And allowing refs to card players when they think they dove just gives them the opportunity to turn one mistake into two. Having said that, Blanco is taking diving to comical extremes. On Sunday he went to the ground every time he lost the ball. It mostly drew laughter from the hometown crowd, but antics like that will make him very unpopular with other teams fans. Oh, wait. That's not a bad thing at all. What is bad though is that Blanco is furthering the reputation he came into the league with. And all it's going to take is one Brian Hall-type ref to get Blanco in serious card trouble.
Five: But Let's Talk About Something Good
It hasn't been all bad news. The Fire played as well as they have all season for 178 out of 180 minutes. And not only did Chris Rolfe score his first goal since coming back from the ankle injury, it was the kind of goal that made me terrify the neighbors and almost break my couch in celebration. Check it out on the Fire's video page. If he could only get a full season under his belt, that striker problem might become a thing of the past.
Sean Cassidy, Herman Coats and Gabe Dixon are the hosts of Bearscast.com, the best and brightest Bears podcast, part of the Chicago Sportscast Network. Now with perfect pronunciation of "Adewale Ogunleye"...by one of the hosts anyway. Go listen. Send comments to hosts@bearscast.com.
Jeff Webber spends hours and hours every day taking in every printed, spoken, and broadcast word he can find about the Chicago Cubs, and each week till the end of the season he's boiling them down into five simple crib notes you can use to stay on top of any watercooler or corner bar Cubs discussion. Send comments to cubs@gapersblock.com.
Steve Gillies has been a Fire fan since he stood in a torrential downpour while the Fire beat New England 6-0 and he realized watching American soccer games in person was a lot better than watching European football matches on television. Each week he'll give you five things to talk about if you happen to get cornered by one of those soccer people at a party. Send comments to fire@gapersblock.com.
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Futurehealth Plenary Talk by Diane Stoler Demonstration of unique headband for the following applications: Neurofeedback, TLC, Mini Q and QEEG.Unlike other types of headbands that do not allow for the precise placement of the electrode, Neuroband is precise.
Dr. Diane has developed the Neuroband, a neurofeedback headband that can be used to achieve optimum Neurofeedback and various Assessments: QEEG, Mini-Q and Q Assessment.
Clinical trials using the Neuroband EEG version are currently being done at the EEG and Seizure Unit of Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston MA.
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A 20 minute demonstration of the various uses for neurofeedback, TLC assessment, Mini Q and QEEG will be presented. In each the ease of use and low impedence will be demonstrated. Also, special snap electrode pockets have been designed to be used with equipment that utilizies snap electrodes.
The neuroband was specifically designed for patient dealing with stroke, traumatic brain injury, Fibromyalgia, and Post Trauamtic Stress Disorder, because of their sensitivity to touch. It's design allows a person to comfortably fall asleep for sleep studies, and for Alpha/theta training. It has been used successfull by various clinicans and have found it to be extremely effective in their practice.
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Men wanted in attempted child abduction
March 22, 2018 - Updated on December 14, 2019
in Cayman Crime Watch
(CMR) The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) have announced this afternoon that they are looking for two men of interest to assist them in their ongoing investigation in the attempted abduction of a young West Bay child on 10 March.
As previously reported the RCIPS were extremely concerned about recent events involving children and possible predators and formed a special investigative unit to deal with the ongoing investigation.
Their investigations have led them to believe that the child may have encountered several persons earlier in the day and are looking for two men as investigations into a reported incident of attempted child abduction on March 10 continue.
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) said that detectives now have reason to believe that the child in the matter came into contact with several persons who were out and about in West Bay on the day the incident took place.
Given this new detail, police are asking that these persons come forward and assist in the investigations.
Detectives are looking for a man that was operating a car wash at the pond that is located near Batabano Drive, and another man that was walking past the Lake Shore Condos on Bonneville Drive, wearing a green shirt, white shorts and socks with slippers. Both men would have come in contact with her earlier in the day.
The child is a white female under the age of 10 years old with blonde hair, and on Saturday, March 10, between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM her hair was pulled back in a ponytail and she was wearing a white sleeveless top and dark-colored shorts with slippers.
Anyone who saw this child and made contact with her on Saturday 10 March is asked to contact the West Bay Police Station detectives DC Shane Ennis at 926-4588 or DC Teddy Mitchell at 936-1297.
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Geraniol, also called rhodinol, is a monoterpenoid and an alcohol. It is the primary part of oil-of-rose, palmarosa oil, and citronella oil (Java type). It also occurs in small quantities in geranium, lemon, and many other essential oils. It appears as a clear to pale-yellow oil which is insoluble in water, but soluble in most common organic solvents. It has a rose-like odor, for which it is commonly used in perfumes. It is used in flavors such as peach, raspberry, grapefruit, red apple, plum, lime, orange, lemon, watermelon, pineapple and blueberry.
Research has shown geraniol to be an effective plant based insect repellent.
On the other hand, it is also produced by the scent glands of honey bees to help them mark nectar-bearing flowers and locate the entrances to their hives.
In a 1994 report released by five top cigarette companies, geraniol is listed as one of the 599 additives to cigarettes, to improve their flavor. Geraniol and other flavor compounds are found naturally in well aged tobacco.
The functional group based on geraniol (essentially geraniol lacking the terminal -OH) is called geranyl. It is important in biosynthesis of terpenes. In acidic solutions, geraniol is converted to the cyclic terpene alpha-terpineol.
Geraniol should be avoided by people with perfume allergy.
^ Barnard, D.R., and Xue, R. Laboratory evaluation of mosquito repellents against Aedes albopictus, Culex nigripalpus, and Ochlerotatus triseriatus (Diptera: Culicidae), J. Med. Entomol. 41(4):726-730, 2004.
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Making people laugh is one of the hardest tasks, and it becomes harder in Pakistan when you are a girl. Generally, we don't see women choosing this fun profession here but, someone took a step to break this stereotype and guess what! she got successful.
It's our favorite lawyer turned comic Faiza Saleem's birthday and we'd like to share her story here today!
Faiza Saleem is one of those women who dare to stand out with their unique idea. She started her career as a lawyer but soon realized it wasn't her cup of tea. Left it, and became a comedian instead!
Insane, righttt? since there are a very few who dare to listen to what their heart says.
Saleem has always wanted to make people laugh while breaking stereotypes and therefore chose to be a comedian. Not only she became a comedian, she also formed an all girl comedy troupe known as The Khawatoons. The name is taken from the Urdu word 'khawateen' which means women.
The brilliant khawateens of The Khawatoons hail from different backgrounds, age groups and walks of life who are together for the same cause- raising voice against issues like body shaming, gender stereotyping and sexism through theatre and comedy.
Happy birthday Faiza Saleem, keep making people laugh!


If you have been relying on your friends to do the researching about something, then you are among the list of many others who do that. Instead of all that hassles, you should ascertain that you have also done your own researching. When you are carrying out the construction, ensure that the expert is doing the right thing to make your commercial bathrooms and offices look attractive. This is why you need to ensure that you are using the best tips to land with the best expert.
If you know of a friend who has the right referrals in his/her mind, then confront him/her so that you end up selecting the best professional. If you are looking for the best builders who have what it takes, then approach people who have sufficient experience and those whom you can easily trust. The other thing that you need to think about is the credentials of the individual person you are about to contract. When you do the search seriously, you would not have to mind about the kind of building you will get and the results to expect. You can be certain about having the right services when you use the best research to settle for the best outcome for your commercial place.
You cannot just trust a provider who tells you that he/she has the documents but he/she does not have any of them. See to it that they are trained and has hands of experience. If you think that a contractor who has worked on a residential building will work well in the commercial work, then you are mistaken. If you need the best evidence, then ask to see some of the tests exams, as well as the certificates, have been updated by the right organization. They need to have passed and recommended to professionally work. Never have only one expert to rely on but you should ensure you have a plan b in case the other one lacks to appear for the work.
Of course, if the expert has had experience, then he/she should feel confident enough to show you his/her projects he/she has done in his/her past. If you can hardly get some proof, then just be sure that it could be lies. In case you are offered with the references, then settle make your efforts to call each one of them so that you get the best results. You then need to ask the client if they were happy about the work was done by the officials. The plan of the project should give you some green light or red light to determine what you note about the contractor.


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Basic info on Service animal policies
Basic info on Service animal policies Jan 1, 2020 18:19:27 GMT
The law does not compel people to accept animals in their home. Airbnb does.
There are specific exemptions under the FHA for not accepting SA or ESAs - if it is an owner-occupied building of 4 units or less (2 units of less in some states with tighter regs, like CT), if the owner has 3 or less single family homes and does not rent thru a real estate broker (OTAs are online service providers, not real estate agents), etc.
Anyone doing direct bookings or using an OTA with different assistance animal TOS doesn't have to go thru this crap. HA/VRBO address only SA IIRC, so hosts with them can follow FHA regs (which apply to *residential* housing, not vacation, transient STR) on ESAs at least.
Service Animal Exceptions:
www.humanesociety.org/resources/fair-housing-act-and-assistance-animals?
"Housing covered by the Fair
All types of housing, including public housing, are covered by the FHA *except*: 1. Rental dwellings of four or less units, where one unit is occupied by the owner; 2. Single family homes sold or rented by the owner without the use of a broker; 3. Housing owned by private clubs or religious organizations that restrict occupancy in housing units to their members."
FHA Exemptions By State
fairhousing.foxrothschild.com/2013/04/articles/fha-basics/the-fhas-mrs-murphy-exemption-a-50-state-guide/
(Note: you MUST check your state's exemptions too. They can legally be more limited than the FHA ones above (e.g. CT restricts owner-occupied dwellings to 2 units or less, not 4 as in FHA)
web.archive.org/web/20190227023814/http://www.bhgrlaw.com/blog/housing-provider-obligations-under-the-fha-and-ada-do-i-need-to-allow-service-assistance-animals-in-my-short-term-vacation-rental/
"Arguably, the FHA would not apply to most short-term vacation rentals because such rentals are typically "transient" in nature, and the property is not the "residence" of the occupant. However, such determinations should be made on a case-by-case basis. Some relevant factors in determining whether the property constitutes a "residence" subject to the FHA include: (1) the extent to which occupants treat the property like their own home by doing activities such as cooking and cleaning; (2) the length of time the occupant lives in the property; (3) the intent of the occupant to return to the property; (4) the absence of another residence; (5) the presence of common living areas such as a kitchen and living room; and (6) the nature of the occupancy. Id. Note that the length of the stay is not the single determinative factor...
Exceptions to this law include buildings with four or fewer units where the landlord lives in one of the units, and (b) private owners who do not own more than three single family houses, do not use real estate brokers or agents, and do not use discriminatory advertisements."
www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/fair_housing_act_overview
"The Fair Housing Act covers most housing. In very limited circumstances, the Act exempts owner-occupied buildings with no more than four units, single-family houses sold or rented by the owner without the use of an agent, and housing operated by religious organizations and private clubs that limit occupancy to members."
HUD to Strengthen Landlords' Rights in Service Animal Requests
magazine.realtor/daily-news/2019/05/15/hud-to-strengthen-landlords-rights-in-assistance-animal-requests
"...'HUD does not recognize these pay-to-play certifications as reliable," Grosso said. "You should not feel held hostage by a policy where tenants don't have to demonstrate in a reliable manner a legitimate need for the assistance of an animal."
Grosso said HUD is developing new guidance that will address for the first time what "reliable verification" means as it pertains to tenants' service animal requests. It's not clear when the guidance, which is currently under federal review, will be released..."


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We are a stiff-necked people. It is our greatest weakness, but it is also our greatest strength.
Rabbi Yitzhak Nissenbaum, who lived and died in the Warsaw Ghetto, taught ,"Almighty God, looks upon this people with favor, because what is now their greatest vice will one day be their most heroic virtue."
And the Lord said to Moses: "Go, descend, for your people that you have brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly.
"They have quickly turned away from the path that I have commanded them; they have made themselves a molten calf! And they have prostrated themselves before it, slaughtered sacrifices to it, and said: 'These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up from the land of Egypt.'
"I have seen these people," the LORD said to Moses, "and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation." (Exodus 32)
We know the ending of the story. We are still here. But we are a stiff-necked people and too often disobey God. We do tend to turn away from God, from His teachings. We get lost in the cacophony of everyday living. Or just surviving. But we come back. We do Teshuva – We repent. Take heart; it is our greatest weakness but it is our greatest strength.
It is as our strength that we must take pride, for we have survived the millennia pf attempts to exterminate us. We have suffered pogroms, persecution; we have been though auto de fés, ghettoized and put in shtetls. We have been through inquisitions and expulsions. And we have been gassed, shot and sent up in smoke. Despite the hate from so many, despite the attempts to exterminate us, WE are still here. We are stiff- necked. Like Mordechai in the Purim story, we will bow down to no one but God.
And that must irritate our enemies. This is what brings out their hate for us. They are jealous of us. Of our strength. Of our refusal to kneel, kow-tow, bow, or disappear. And today it is Israel that sticks in their craw. In less than 70 years the Jewish people have built a country that rivals all others, including many whose history is hundreds of years old. In less than a century, the Jewish state is a wonder in the making. A country that extols freedom and tolerance – perhaps too much – and love of other. This is a country of young people who are innovative, who excel in science and medicine, agriculture, green energy, music, art. A flourishing country when all around them are countries that are mired in death and destruction. Peoples who are tribal, unable to even like each other. Who live in countries that have contributed nothing to the betterment of the world, only terror and death.
None Compare to the State of Israel
Israel was declared a country at the same time as Syria and Iraq and India and Pakistan. Look at those countries, today. None compare to the State of Israel. None.
Never have the Jewish people wallowed in victim-hood, blaming others for our losses. Never have we demanded tribunal after tribunal to reconcile nor do we spend our time demanding reparations for the evil done to us. Never have we sat in refugee camps, waiting, waiting, waiting for other to fix it for us; to make it better. Had we done that we would be long gone. WE have always, like the phoenix, risen from the ashes – FROM THE ASHES – to reinvent ourselves. Rather than taking revenge as others have done throughout history, we have chosen to honor our God and care for all of His creations.
This is also what makes others hate us. We will not bow down to their ways. We will not break down and cry. We will not look back and get stuck in the past. We always look forward to the future for WE "choose life" for us and our children and our childrens' children.
Anti-Semitism is in the blood. It courses through the veins of the vast majority of people on this planet. But we are stiff-necked people. We will not bow down to their demands. We will not convert to their ways no matter how sweet the siren song. We will not give up our homeland, not an inch.
Rosh Hashana – a Time to Unstiffen our Necks
Rosh Hashana is once again awaiting us. A new Year. New hopes and dreams. A time for gratitude, but also introspection. This is the time when WE, the Jewish people, unstiffen our necks, just a little, to bow down before our one God in order to ask forgiveness from others and from God for our sins. Our greatest sin, brothers and sisters, is forgetting to remember who we are, where we come from. God, in His Infinite Wisdom, made us separate from other nations. He chose us to be a Light unto those Nations, a dangerous vocation because He knew we would be attacked for daring to bring into the world a new ethic, a revolutionary ethic of compassion. An ethic that demands of all to care for the other; to move beyond tribe, so difficult to do. Killing the messenger is so much easier than learning to care for the stranger. So many have tried to extinguish the light. It will not happen.
I leave you with these extraordinary words. The special Al Chet prayer written in memory of the Six Million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, in the mahzor (High Holiday prayer book) of Rabbi Jules Harlow, the Rabbinical Assembly, 1972:
"We have sinned against You, and them, by refusing to hear,
And we have sinned against You, and them, by betraying friends.
We have sinned against You, and them, by hesitating.
And we have sinned against You, and them, by useless conferences.
We have sinned against You, and them, by being overcautious,
And we have sinned against You, and them, by not using our power.
We have sinned against You, and them, by senselessness.
And we have sinned against You, and them, by despairing.
We have sinned against You, and them, by being patient,
And we have sinned against You, and them by frivolity at dreadful times.
We have sinned against You, and them, by appeasement.
And we have sinned against you, and them, by theological rationalizations.
We have sinned against you and them, by complacency.
And we have sinned against You, and them, by communal strife
For all these sins, forgiving God, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement."
Yes, we have been stiff-necked. Kishinu oref.
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Welcome to Sultry Springs, Texas: where home can be the perfect place for a fresh start.
For West Coast filmmaker Bobbi Gallagher, going back to Sultry Springs is a last resort. But with her career in tatters, a documentary set in her hometown might be just what she needs to salvage her reputation. She just can't let anything distract her again. Not even the gorgeous contractor her brother asked to watch over her. As if she can't handle filming a few rowdy Texans.
Golden boy Trey Lewis, with his blond hair and Technicolor-blue eyes, is a leading man if Bobbi ever saw one. He's strong and confident and—much to her delight—usually shirtless. He thinks keeping his best friend's baby sister out of trouble will be easy. But he has no idea of the trouble in store for him...
Bobbi Gallagher's mama used to say men were like one-ply toilet paper: transparent, disposable, and only good for one thing. Ironically, it wasn't until Mama ove
Bobbi Gallagher's mama used to say men were like one-ply toilet paper: transparent, disposable, and only good for one thing. Ironically, it wasn't until Mama overdosed and Bobbi went to live with two men that she finally understood what a healthy relationship looked like. And while she didn't share her late mother's hatred of the male sex, she couldn't understand why young women—like the radiant bride in her viewfinder—were so eager to torch their freedom by getting married.
Grasping one cool, titanium tripod leg, Bobbi rotated her Sony Camcorder to capture the bride and her father as they swayed on the polished, twelve-by-twelve, parquet dance floor. Too bad the old guy didn't teach his daughter there was a vast world beyond husbands and babies. She gradually zoomed in on the dad's tear-streaked face, figuring she could edit the footage set to some cheesy background music, like that "Butterfly Kisses" song.
God, was this what her life had come to? Creating sappy video montages? She'd wanted to make a difference in the world—to let her films speak for those without a voice. If her friends from UCLA could see her now…
"Nice ceremony, dontcha think?"
Flinching to attention, Bobbi glanced over her shoulder at an elderly woman in a skintight, black spandex dress hemmed just above the knee. She looked like a cougar version of that little old lady from the Tweety Bird cartoons—right down to the wire-framed bifocals teetering on the tip of her nose.
"Beautiful," Bobbi said with a manufactured grin. "I think they'll be really happy together." According to statistics, they'd be divorced within five years and fighting over who kept the dog, but she kept that to herself.
"Back in my day, folks didn't bother with all this poppycock." Granny-on-the-prowl raised her glass of gin toward the sea of white-draped tables that flanked an open bar. "They left church and drove straight to the motel." Waggling her brown, penciled-on eyebrows, she whispered, "To bury the weasel."
"Oh, uh…" Don't picture it! Don't picture it! Damn. Too late. "I should probably get back to—"
"Hey, you look kinda familiar." Granny paused and wrinkled up her already wrinkled forehead. "Do I know you?"
Whirling back to the camera, Bobbi used her hair as a curtain and scratched her nose, an old nervous habit she'd never managed to break. "Nope. I'm from Inglewood, not LA." Six months ago she'd been all over the local news like a bad rash, but she'd given herself a little makeover since then, bleaching the signature hot pink streaks from her blond hair, then asking Papa Bryan to dye everything red and give her the same boring, asymmetrical bob as all the suburban soccer moms.
"Hmmm. I know you from somewhere. Maybe—" Suddenly, Granny stopped and sniffed the air. "Hot diggety! The buffet's open!" And then she was gone, shuffling through the crowd and elbowing anyone careless enough to get in her way.
Talk about saved by the smell. She'd have to do a better job staying out of sight, maybe back up and film from the room's periphery. The daddy-daughter dance ended, and Bobbi tapped the pause button and then made her way to the ladies' room while guests feasted on the artery-clogging buffet offerings.
Once inside the toilet stall, a handmade sign caught her attention: Please don't flush paper towel's. Thank's! Oh, Judas Priest. Apostrophe abuse drove her nuts, and she knew she wouldn't be able to relax until she rescued that poor sentence. Fortunately, she kept a bottle of Wite-Out in her purse for just such an occasion. After covering the errant marks with correction fluid, she smiled and released a quiet sigh of relief, then waited for the restroom to vacate before fixing all the other signs too.
She returned to her post to shoot some footage of the cake, especially the couple's iced blue monogram and the delicate, pink, spun-sugar roses that adorned the top layer. The sweet scent of buttercream icing flooded her nostrils, causing her stomach to rumble in response.
"Taping weddings now?" said a man's nasally voice. He laughed—an obnoxious ahr-ahr-ahr that sounded like a barking seal—and added, "Oh, how the mighty have fallen."
Bobbi froze and clenched her teeth. She didn't have to turn around to know that thick Brooklyn accent belonged to Garry Goldblatt, trash-media mogul and creator of the sickening Chicks Gone Crazy series, where drunken college coeds with daddy issues bared their breasts and ditched their dignity for a few fleeting seconds of "fame."
Their paths had crossed several times since they'd first met six months ago at the Golden Calf awards…the night her work had won for best documentary. That was before she'd placed her trust in the wrong person and lost everything: career, reputation, spirit. Garry was right—she'd fallen from the stratosphere straight into the depths of wedding bell hell.
"Got a nephew with a bar mitzvah coming up," he teased. "Want that gig? I can put in a good word with my sister."
"I'm working, Garry." What a lie. Bobbi would deliver the best damn wedding video anyone had ever seen, but it wasn't work, not to her. "Go away."
"Actually," he said, ignoring her request, "I'm glad you're here. I was gonna call you on Monday."
Bobbi left the camera running and turned to face him, scanning his short, bulbous frame, bald head, and the bushy, black tufts peeking out from beneath his nostrils. Garry had always reminded her of Humpty Dumpty. After the fall. Squaring her shoulders and lifting her chin, she asked, "Why?"
"Got a proposition for you."
"Don't waste your time. I'm not taking off my top."
He flicked a glance at her C-cups for a moment, appraising her like a jeweler might inspect a diamond through his loupe. "Pretty decent rack, but that's not what I had in mind."
"What, then?"
"Chicks Gone Crazy earned me some serious coin, but reality TV's trending now, and I'm getting in while it's still hot. I started a new series called Real Life, Real Love. I wanna focus on what it's like to be young and single today—playful, sexy stuff, but clean enough to air on my network before nine. Here's the thing," he whispered, leaning in and bathing her in his sour scotch-breath. "The competition's focused on the metropolitan market, but they're ignoring a huge demographic that I intend to swoop in and snag. The hicks."
"Hicks, as in…"
"The rural community. My first project's called Sex in the Sticks, and I want you to shoot it."
"Are you serious?" Bobbi took a step back and tried to gauge whether Garry was jerking her around. She wouldn't put it past him—the man had some serious brass berries and a moral compass that pointed due south.
"Serious as a tax audit. I don't dick around when it comes to business, Gallagher."
"I saw your piece on child migrant workers. A little long and boring—actually, it dragged worse than my grandpa's balls—but you got a knack for getting people to spill their guts, and you catch raw emotion like nothing I've ever seen. Sex in the Sticks isn't the respectable, politically correct shit that usually wets your panties, but it beats this"—he hooked his thumb toward the wedding cake—"don't you think?"
Slimy bastard or not, the man had a point. Besides, it wasn't as if she had other offers. Nobody—not even her closest "friends"—returned her calls these days. She ran her tongue over the smooth surface of her front teeth and began to take his proposition seriously. "What's involved, exactly?"
"Simple. I'll hire the crew, and I'll front you a few months pay. Looks like you need it. Go to the middle of nowhere—we're talking Podunk, cattle-rustling, bull-riding, sheep-fucking, redneck country—find a couple of sexy, single cowboys, and follow them around while they go looking for love in all the wrong places. At the end of the summer, edit the footage into four or five one-hour segments. If I like it, I'll pay you twice your old salary to produce Real Life, Real Love."
Great leaping Buddha, that was six figures—curvy figures too—with enough cash up front to pay off the bills that had piled up since she'd been sacked. Working for Garry wouldn't salvage her reputation within the industry, but it would get her foot back in the door. And with that kind of salary, she could squirrel away enough money to make an independent documentary in a couple of years—and do it right this time—which could bring her back from exile. Realizing her dream wasn't dead, just dormant, made the inside of Bobbi's chest bubble with effervescent hope. She even knew the perfect place to film Sex in the Sticks.
"It could work," she said, careful not to betray her excitement and give him all the power, "if I stayed with my brother in Texas for the summer."
"I didn't know you had a brother."
"Neither did I until a couple years ago."
"Whatever." Garry's eyes followed a well-endowed bridesmaid as she swished past in her strapless taffeta gown. "I don't care where you go as long as it's remote."
"Not to worry," Bobbi said with a small laugh—the first to escape her lips in months. "I know just the place."
A storm was coming. Trey Lewis felt it in his bones—literally. Ever since the accident two years ago, when he'd barely survived a twenty-foot nosedive off old Mr. Jenkins's roof, Trey's femur throbbed like a giant's heart whenever a new weather system rolled in. He tipped his head back and shook a tiny waxed paper envelope of BC Powder onto his tongue. The bitter taste of crushed aspirin made him shiver, but nothing worked faster than this stuff.
Running his fingers through his damp, freshly washed hair, he escaped the scorching Texas sun and pushed open the door to Shooters Tavern. It was five o'clock on the button—respectable drinking time—and he needed a cold Bud like nobody's business. And since his best friend, Luke Gallagher, owned the place, and Trey had helped him renovate it, all his drinks were on the house. For the next hour, at least. Trey was about to drop a bomb on Luke, and his free suds would be history after that.
For the last decade, Trey had supervised the construction crew for Helping Hands, Luke's nonprofit group. They'd done some great work over the years, but having a best friend for a business partner—butting heads over everything from concrete to contracting—had started to affect their friendship, and it was time to move on. Besides, he'd applied to have his military record expunged in exchange for accepting a civilian contracting job in Dubai. He'd known a couple of guys who'd done it already, and it had opened up a world of opportunity for them. It might even get his dad speaking to him again.
The soothing scents of hops and sawdust and the sounds of laughter punctuated by clacking cue balls greeted Trey like an old lover, and even though his eyes hadn't adjusted to the darkness yet, he made his way blindly to his favorite seat. He'd worn that path thin over the years, and he knew it by heart. Hoisting onto his bar stool—the one with his name carved on the underside—Trey smiled and sighed as his butt cheeks molded perfectly into the leather-covered cushion.
"Bud," he told the bartender, a brand-new redheaded boy who didn't look old enough to drink. Probably some college kid visiting his folks for the summer.
"Bottle or draft?" asked the boy in a voice that cracked on the last note.
"Draft. Always draft." Trey shoved a couple of bucks tip across the polished bar and swiveled around to check out the place.
He could see now, all the way to the pool tables in the back where his buddy, Colton Bea, the county's youngest deputy, was hustling a bearded, potbellied biker type. While the clueless mark bent over the pool table setting up a shot, Colton pretended to ride the guy's ass from behind, pumping his hips, rolling his eyes in mock ecstasy, and making wild O-faces. Yep, that was Sultry's finest, right there.
If Trey leaned a little to the left, he could see into the new room he'd helped Luke add on last summer, where a shiny, new mechanical bull had just taken up residency. It was all the buzz among folks in three counties, but Trey had no desire to straddle a piece of machinery designed to launch his cajones into his throat, so he returned his attention to the neglected Bud in front of him.
That first pull of ice-cold draft mingled with the leftover aspirin coating Trey's tongue, and he grimaced before taking a few quick chugs to wash it down. "Hey, kid," he said, wiping his forearm against his mouth and nodding toward the flat screen mounted on the wall. "Put on the Cubs game, will you?"
But the redhead wasn't listening. Hell, he looked lobotomized the way he stared, slack-jawed, at something near the front door. When Trey darted a glance in that direction, he understood why.
"Hot damn," he heard himself whisper.
"You ain't kidding," the bartender said.
But Trey wasn't listening. His gaze fixed like carpenter's glue on a different redhead, one curvier than the road to hell and twice as hot, who'd just wheeled a travel suitcase in the front door. She was a California girl—he'd bet his last brewski on it—big city, not beach. Coastal girls were laid back; they wore ponytails, denim cutoffs, and not much else. "Laid back" and this lady didn't exist on the same plane.
Looking like she'd just stepped off some edgy designer's runway, she planted her mile-long legs apart, standing ramrod straight and gripping her hips with manicured hands. A sleeveless pink top clung to the swell of her breasts—C-cups, Trey had a knack for these things—while a thin, white belt cinched her tiny waist. Her fiery-red hair was cut long in the front, short in the back, and not a single, pin-straight strand looked out of place. "California" paced a small circuit by the door and scanned the room, probably waiting for her eyes to adjust to the darkness. Since she couldn't see him ogling, Trey took in her strappy, high-heeled sandals, then worked his way up her long, tan legs to her black shorty-shorts, which encased the most delicious pair of thighs he'd ever seen in his life—thick and tight and so smooth he could almost feel her velvet skin against his palms.
Double damn! Trey was a thigh man, through and through. When he wrapped a woman's legs around his hips, he wanted to feel soft flesh, not bone, and he wanted between California's luscious thighs more than he wanted the Cubs to win the World Series. Well, not quite that much—a man had to keep his priorities straight—but enough to fight off every other drooling fool in the bar that night. Trey didn't know California's name or how long she planned to stay in town, but one thing was certain: he'd take her home tonight or die trying.
Ignoring the ache in his leg, he hopped down from his bar stool and ambled slowly toward the door, appearing in no hurry. California glanced up and her eyes widened, revealing warm, green irises that reminded Trey of the undersides of leaves when the sun shone through them.
"Need some help with your luggage?" Trey nodded toward her suitcase.
For several seconds she said nothing, just rubbed the tip of her cute button nose. Finally her full, red lips curved into a smile that would kick the wind out of any man's lungs. "What's your name, cowboy?"
Cowboy? Trey was from Chicago, but whatever. He'd play along. "Trey," he said, smiling and making sure to flash his dimples, those surefire, panty-removing gifts from God. "How 'bout you?"
California's lips parted in awe—a classic case of dimple daze. "I'm Bobbi. Are you single?"
Wow, she didn't waste any time. Holding up his left hand to showcase the absence of a wedding ring, he said, "Yes, ma'am."
"Totally single? No girlfriend?"
"No girlfriend." His ill-fated relationship with Trish, the cocktail waitress at Shooters, had ended over a year ago. "I'm all yours, darlin'."
"Great!" She scratched her nose again and smiled wider. "Let's get together later and chat."
Score! Thank you, baby Jesus! This was shaping up to be the easiest lay ever. That was, until a new voice joined the conversation.
"Well, now, Trey," Colton Bea said in his slow drawl, "who's your friend?"
Trey felt his back stiffen. Colton was poaching tail, a direct violation of the Bro Code.
"I'm Bobbi," California answered while looking Colton up and down, seeming pleased with what she saw. Not surprising since the crazy, cockblocking bastard had inherited the lethal combination of russet skin and jet-black hair from his Cherokee mama and blue-green eyes from his Scots-Irish daddy. All the local girls flopped onto their backs like trout when Colton walked by. "Are you single?" she asked him.
"Oh, yeah." Colton used his index finger to tip back his Stetson. "You're safe with me, honey. I'm a lawman."
"Only because his granddaddy's the county judge," Trey retorted. "Don't you have someplace to be, Colt?"
"Wonderful." California clapped her hands together and leaned forward, just enough to give Trey a peek down the front of her blouse, where the curves of her voluptuous breasts strained to escape the confines of her black lace bra. Triple damn! "I have to meet someone real quick, but then we should all get together. I have a proposition for you gentlemen."
Good Lord, what kind of kinky shit was this girl into? Trey didn't care how hot she was, threesomes were off the menu, especially when another dude was involved. The risk of crossing swords was too high. Plus, nobody liked boldly going where their friends had just gone before.
Colton raised his black eyebrows and gave a shrug that said I'm up for it. "I'll be right over there, honey," he said, tilting his hat toward the pool tables. "Just holler when you're ready."
"Hey," she said to Trey when Colton had walked away. "Can you tell me where to find Luke Gallagher?"
Oh, snap. Now everything made sense. Before Luke married his childhood sweetheart, June, he'd avoided relationships in favor of cheap, one-night stands. From the stories Luke had told, it sounded like most of the women he'd slept with were straight-up freaks, like this one. He knew Luke had come a long way and busted his butt to get June to marry him, and Trey wasn't about to let some old booty call ruin things for his buddy.
"He's probably home," Trey said, knowing full well Luke was in the back office. "With his wife. What do you want with him?"
"I'm his sister."
Trey couldn't help but laugh. This chick had moxie; he'd give her that. "Nice try, darlin'. Too bad you're talking to his best friend. I happen to know Luke's an only child." California was undeniably sexy as hell, but it was time to take out the trash. "Why don't I give you a ride back out of town?"
"No, really." Her posture stiffened and she folded both arms beneath her breasts. "He's my half-brother."
"Give it up, lady. Luke's done with skanks. Now, how about that ride?"
"Wha—" A crimson flush crept up her long, slim neck, past her cheeks, and all the way to her hairline. "You can take that ride and shove it up your—"
"You're leaving here one way or the other." Trey pushed open the front door, grabbed her suitcase, and tossed it out onto the gravel parking lot. "You gonna come peacefully?"
"You sonofabitch! Who the hell do you think—"
Then Trey did what any good friend would do: he hauled her meddling, home-wrecking ass out of there. Leaning into her midsection, he hoisted California over one shoulder, clamped a hand over her sweet thighs, and carried her into the muggy haze. Squinting against the sunlight, he walked toward his Chevy pickup while the screeching hellcat pounded her fists right into his kidney.
"Goddamnit!" he hissed, stumbling from the pain. Someone had taught this girl to fight. He slapped her hard on the backside—enjoying it a little too much—and she screamed like he'd just appeared outside her shower with a butcher knife.
"Hey!" Luke's familiar voice yelled from behind. "What's going on out here?"
"Luke! Get this asshole off-a-me!" California cried, laying it on thick with the damsel-in-distress act.
"Just go back inside," Trey said, giving Luke a pointed look. "I got this."
Luke fell back a step like he'd taken a bucket of water to the face. "What the hell're you doing to my sister?"
"Your what?" Stupefied, Trey let California slide to her feet while blinking in shock at his oldest friend. "You never told me you had a sister."
"Yeah. I've been meaning to…"
"Well, ain't that some shit." Trey guessed he should apologize to California. But when he glanced at her again, it was only to see her closed fist hurtling toward his eye.
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Pope Francis Helps Normalize Security & Police State in the U.S.
Largest security operation in U.S. history unlikely to hold that record for too long.
Ed Krayewski | 9.28.2015 9:30 AM
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More than 800,000 pilgrims flocked to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway yesterday to watch Pope Francis celebrate Mass in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (the "Rocky" museum). They poured into security checkpoints that took hours to get through. They were prohibited from bringing in things like ammunition, explosives, firearms, and selfie sticks but also things like apples and other hard fruit, because of the potential for those things to be used as projectiles.
None of the pilgrims going through the checkpoints had any chance of being anywhere close enough to the pope to chuck an apple or a battery or anything else at him. Better safe than sorry, right? On MSNBC over the weekend, Chris Matthews gushed over how much "style" the Vatican's own security detail had. He told the story of being able to see Bill Clinton walking through Lafayette Park (across the street from the White House) and how you used to be able to walk into Capitol Hill to see your Congressman, before "everything changed."
That security deserves higher prioritization today than it did before 9/11 is a widely held belief that goes without scrutiny in some circles, including much of mainstream media. The pope's visit to the United States could've been a powerful moment to challenge that orthodoxy. A man who puts his life into God's hands could spurn the Secret Service's. A pope who calls Christian gunmakers "hypocrites" could pump the brakes one driver of demand for firearms—the ever expanding theater of U.S. security services. Instead, the papal visit produced the largest security operation in U.S. history. Pilgrims got to test their faith not just with the journey to Philadelphia, but the journey through the checkpoint too.
My wife and I, who have been living in Philly for the last year and a half, drove down to West Philly yesterday to try to walk over to see the papal Mass. A national guard at one of the security checkpoints pointed to a man holding a Chinese flag about halfway between where we were and where the security check started. It had taken him an hour to get there, the guard said, so we went to a local restaurant to watch the Jets fail to get the Eagles to 0-3. The first one was closing because business had been so quiet. The second was open and we were the only patrons there the entire time. The bicyclists had a blast—many normally ride through the streets like there are no cars, but this time there actually weren't. The streets were closed to vehicles for miles around where the Mass was being held.
Philadelphia's city government got a lot of heat for scaring away potential tourists this weekend with their obsession for security. The city changed tacks earlier this summer, launching campaigns to encourage Philly residents and businesses to stick around for the papal visit. It was probably too little, too late. While some businesses expected a busy weekend—especially since the city government had noted the economic boon the papal visit would be—and stocked up accordingly, businesses that stayed open saw significant drops in sales this weekend. Pilgirms, apparently, came to Philly to see the pope not eat a cheesesteak. The street vendors selling Pope Francis- and Vatican-branded merchandise told me their sales were good and that the local police and other security agencies on the ground were leaving them alone. Even pilgrims want a souvenir to commemorate their trips.
The economic costs of the papal visit to Philadelphia—estimated by some to be equal to the losses incurred during Hurricane Sandy—will be what's debated among Philly residents and what local politicians will be punished for if it gets that far with voters. It may not. Mayor Michael Nutter leaves office this year, and the election in November is expected to be a walk for the Democratic candidate in the majority Democrat city.
But no one will be punished electorally for allowing Philadelphia to be the ground zero for the largest security theater performance in U.S. history because, as Chris Matthews and so many other media personalities said this weekend, "everything changed," Except it hasn't. Abraham Lincoln's assassination changed the course of U.S. history but didn't lead to the creation of a security bubble around the presidency. Neither did Chester Arthur James Garfield* getting offed by someone looking for patronage, nor William McKinley's assassination by a foreign-born anarchist "terrorist."
The assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in 1981 didn't lead the pope to demand a tighter security bubble on future public trips. Instead he asked for people to pray for his would-be assassin. He met the man's mother and sibling and even visited him in jail. In 2000 the pope asked the president of Italy to pardon the man who tried to kill him. To his credit, like John Paull II, Francis has eschewed a bulletproof popemobile. But he should be eschewing the larger security bubble that feeds a culture of fear, and the violence that breeds, as well.
Terrorists, anarchist, Islamist or otherwise, can only kill people and destroy property. They can't change social and political norms. Only reactions to terrorism can do that. And they have been doing that. The pope, Philadelphia, the feds, the mainstream media, all of "us," failed to take the opportunity of the papal visit to reverse that trend, instead contributing to the further normalization of the all-encompassing security state.
*Never forget.
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Northern Limestone Alps
For other uses, see Northern Alps.
The Northern Limestone Alps (German: Nördliche Kalkalpen), also called the Northern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps north of the Central Eastern Alps located in Austria and the adjacent Bavarian lands of southeastern Germany. The distinction from the latter group, where the higher peaks are located, is based on differences in geological composition.
Königssee Obersee near Berchtesgaden
Parseierspitze
3,036 m (9,961 ft)
Austria and Germany
Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Bavaria
Range coordinates
47°20.5′N 14°13.3′E / 47.3417°N 14.2217°E / 47.3417; 14.2217Coordinates: 47°20.5′N 14°13.3′E / 47.3417°N 14.2217°E / 47.3417; 14.2217
Parent range
Eastern Alps
Age of rock
Permian and Jurassic
Type of rock
Limestone and dolomite
AVE classification of the Eastern Alps:
Central Eastern Alps
Southern Limestone Alps
Western Limestone Alps
2 Alpine Club classification
If viewed on a west–east axis, the Northern Limestone Alps extend from the Rhine valley and the Bregenz Forest in Vorarlberg, Austria in the west extending along the border between the German federal-state of Bavaria and Austrian Tyrol, through Salzburg, Upper Austria, Styria and Lower Austria and finally ending at the Wienerwald at the city-limits of Vienna in the east.
The highest peaks in the Northern Limestone Alps are the Parseierspitze (3,036 m/9,961 ft) in the Lechtal Alps,[1] and the Hoher Dachstein (2,996 m/9,826 ft). Other notable peaks in this range include the Zugspitze, (2,962 m/9,717 ft), located on the German-Austrian frontier and listed as the highest peak in Germany.
Alpine Club classificationEdit
Ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps according to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (from east to west):
Groups of the Northern Limestone Alps
(purple lines showing international borders and the borders of Austrian states)
Vienna Woods (1)
Gutenstein Alps (2)
Rax and Schneeberg (3)
Mürzsteg Alps (Schneealpe) (4)
Türnitz Alps (5)
Ybbstal Alps (6)
Hochschwab (7)
Ennstal Alps (including Gesäuse) (8)
Upper Austrian Prealps (9)
Totes Gebirge (10)
Dachstein Mountains (11)
Salzkammergut Mountains (12)
Tennengebirge (13)
Berchtesgaden Alps (14)
Lofer and Leogang Mountains (15)
Chiemgau Alps (16)
Kaiser Mountains (17)
Brandenberg Alps (18)
Bavarian Prealps (19)
Karwendel (20)
Wetterstein and Mieming Range (21)
Ammergau Alps (22)
Allgäu Alps (23)
Lechtal Alps (24)
Lechquellen Mountains (25)
Bregenz Forest Mountains (26)
Limestone Alps
Geography of the Alps
^ Reynolds, Kev (2010). Walking in the Alps, Cicerone, ISBN 978-1-85284-476-9.
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The Democrats and Trump Disagree on the Tax Plan
The income of middle - class Americans would eventually rise more than 4,000 dollars if the rate of corporate tax cuts came into being. This is what the administration of Donald Trump said in a analysis on Monday to counter Democratic criticisms that its tax proposals will overwhelmingly benefit the rich. The president of the United States, Donald Trump has spoken about the Iran nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington on the 13th of October 2017. The White House and the top Republicans in Congress have unveiled a wide framework for the reforms in tax laws but the lawmakers have yet to work out the details of a legislative proposal.
The president of the US has said that he would like to see the US corporate rate of income tax rate be reduced to 20 percent from the currently existing 35 percent rate of the tax. The White House Council of Economic Advisers performed an analysis and stated that a lower rate of corporate taxes would give companies the incentive to invest in new machines that would be requiring more skilled workers who would then be paid higher wages. Chuck Schumer who is a Senate Democratic leader accused the administration of Donald Trump of deliberately manipulating the numbers and facts in its analysis and has also mentioned that the companies are already sitting on a lot of cash.
Chuck Schumer said in a statement on Monday that as the president likes to point out at the stock market which is at record highs and companies are raking in unparalleled profits and yet the wages have remained relatively on the flatter side. He also said that this is the positive proof that the companies already have a cash windfall but they are not using it to increase the wages of the workers. The Tax Policy Centre which is a nonpartisan research organization clearly stated that the overall benefits of lower corporate taxes are tilted heavily toward those with higher incomes. It also said that that the taxpayers in the middle - income group would be receiving less than about 10 percent of the benefit of a cut in the corporate tax rate while the top 20 percent would be receiving the benefits by about a high 70 percent. The centre has also said that the top 1 percent would be able to receive about one third of the total benefits and the top 0.1 percent would be getting about one fifth of the total benefit.
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On a recent trip overseas, Scott was delighted to find French brasserie food was so simple and delicious. In this class, Scott shares simple shortcut cooking techniques to make your French cooking special. Recipes include: perfectly poached eggs on garlic-oil brushed toast with tart salad greens, vinaigrette dressing and char-grilled fresh asparagus; classic steak frites, seasoned seared beef eye fillet with a side of crunchy hand-cut fries, béarnaise sauce without egg yolks or butter and watercress salad; oven roasted en papilotte (wrapped in a parcel) whole trout with caper butter sauce and toasted almonds; and finally, fragrant smashed raspberry and vanilla crème brulee with a twist!


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Праві (інакше кажучи правиця) — в політичному сенсі відстоюють погляди, за якими деякі соціальні порядки, ієрархії та нерівності є неминучими, природними, нормальними або бажаними, зазвичай підтримуючи цю позицію на основі природного права, економіки чи традиції. Вони розглядають ієрархію та нерівність як природний наслідок традиційних соціальних відмінностей або конкуренції в ринковій економіці. Термін «праві» зазвичай означає «консервативний або реакційний сегмент політичної партії або системи».

Історія

Терміни «праві» та «ліві» вперше з'явилися в французьких Національних Зборах часів Великої Французької революції. В ньому виникли три напрями: праворуч сиділи фельяни — прихильники конституційної монархії; в центрі сиділи жирондисти — помірні прихильники республіки; ліворуч сиділи якобінці, які виступали за радикальні перетворення. Таким чином, спочатку правими називали тих, хто бажає зберегти наявний стан (консерваторів), а лівими — тих, хто виступав за зміни (радикалів).

До середини XIX століття ліберали, що виступали як за політичні свободи, так і за свободу підприємництва, розглядалися як ліві. Але потім, з розвитком соціалістичних ідей, лівими стали називати насамперед їхніх прихильників, які прагнули до соціальної рівності. Праві ж партії виражали інтереси монархістів, легітимістів, великого землеволодіння та клерикалів.

У XX столітті з'явилася ідеологія фашизму, яка поєднувала радикальний етатизм та заперечення демократії з критикою соціальної нерівності — не випадково партія Гітлера називалася націонал-соціалістичною робочою партією. Фашистів традиційно відносять до правих («ультраправих»), але вони принципово відрізняються від лібералів, яких сьогодні відносять до правих, оскільки вони виступають за зменшення участі держави в економічному житті (зокрема, за зниження податків та витрат бюджету). Саме за такі переконання правих лібералів у другій половині XX століття почали називати правими, оскільки колишні традиційні праві (монархісти, клерикали) втратили популярність.

Останнім часом політологами, соціологами та соціальними психологами визнається, що традиційний поділ на лівих та правих неадекватно зображає реальний спектр думок в суспільстві. Так, абсолютно незрозуміло, куди в цій шкалі можна помістити, наприклад, лібертаріанців. Також у людини можуть бути переконання в одній області (наприклад, в економічній), що вважаються традиційними для «лівих», а в іншій (наприклад, політичної) вважаються «правими». Ситуація ще більш ускладнюється розмиванням програмно-ідеологічних розходжень та політичним зближенням традиційних партій в західних політичних системах в останні 100 років, взаємопроникненням та взаємозбагаченням різних систем поглядів; так, соціалісти суттєво «поправішали» та перестали істотно відрізнятися від нових лібералів, які стали як би «правими». Істотно і те, що в посткомуністичних країнах і, особливо країнах пострадянських, поняття «правизни» та «лівизни» нерідко вживаються в значенні, протилежному прийнятому в країнах з розвиненою демократичною системою — так, в епоху перебудови лібералів та антикомуністів часто іменували «лівими», а традиційних ортодоксальних комуністів — «правими».

У зв'язку з тим, що двополюсна політична шкала («праві» та «ліві») не дозволяє достатньо коректно зобразити погляди як на роль держави в контролі життя суспільства, так і на роль держави у забезпеченні соціальної рівності, то все частіше використовується чотирьохполюсна шкала (діаграма Нолана), запропонована американським лібертаріанцем Девідом Ноланом в 1970 р.

Кругова діаграма:

Праві партії України
 Всеукраїнське об'єднання «Свобода»
 Реформи і порядок
 Народний Рух України
 Українська народна партія
 Українська платформа «Собор»
 Християнсько-демократичний союз (Україна)
 Правий сектор
 УКРОП
 Національний корпус
 Конгрес українських націоналістів
 Національний Фронт
 Європейська Солідарність

Примітки

Література
 О. Шевченко. Нові праві // Політична енциклопедія. Редкол.: Ю. Левенець (голова), Ю. Шаповал (заст. голови) та ін. — К.:Парламентське видавництво, 2011. — с.505 ISBN 978-966-611-818-2

Політика

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