There are lots of kind of whizzy bright new ideas being kicked around by car makers to make their cars either safer, more interesting or simply to steal a march on the competition but whilst they make look good on paper, more often than not, they never go into production, simply because they don't actually work in the real world. So Mr. Ford has embarked on a research programme to test some of its technology on the road as opposed to the science lab.
What's referred to as "Car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications" apparently will represent the next huge advances in vehicle safety.
If you've driven a modern well specified car, you will already have experienced things like the Mercedes Distronic intelligent cruise control or lane departure warning systems, automated headlight, wipers and even Fords active park assist which will literally, squeeze you car into a curb side parking slot (that you probably didn't think possible), but these are just the start and its believed, with every car eventually talking too each other, its going to mean its hypothetically possible to stop them hitting each other? Integration seems to be the word (and there's me thinking "Grease" was the word).
So these new tests will take place on public roads, in and around Frankfurt and give engineers from Ford's European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany and the SIM research project partners more of an idea if they can ever actually become a reality.
Obstacle Warning System, which will enable a vehicle to inform other road users of the presence, position and type of a potentially hazardous obstacle in the road.
In car internet access, so that drivers can for example reserve and pay for their parking whilst still on route and indeed, I'm sure we could all think of things we could do with live internet in your car.
An electronic brake light that can take a message from the vehicle up front and let the following vehicle know if an emergency braking procedure has taken place, even if its out of sight, say round a corner up ahead.
Traffic Sign In Assistant will remain in continuous contact with traffic management centres and to get the latest and most up to date information on things like variable speed limits, temporary restrictions and diversions and of course, normal statutory stuff in that area such as speed limits, rights of way etc.
For sure, there are loads of technologies out there now that could easily be used in vehicle design and with the level of in-car sat-nav's and wot not's we have now days, it cant seem like a difficult task to integrate this kind of thinking.
You do however ask yourself, how long after its going to be before road safety organizations say that all this is just too much for the driver to handle and just like mobile phones in cars, start getting lots of regulations as to when and how you can use them.
Anyway, its big bucks here because the funding for the SIM project is an eye watering €53million, of which the German Federal Ministry of Economics and technology together with the Federal Ministry of Education & Research are chipping in €30million of direct support for the project.
Early versions of some of these devices are already on cars we drive now and when ever we get a test car with a weird toy fitted, we always want it to impress us and in many cases they do, but even in the times where they don't quite do what's claimed on the tin, they do provide us with an insight into just how the way we presently use our cars is going to change and that's mainly going to be for the better! But what when they go wrong I hear you shout!


Pongal (January 14 to January 17 2018) one of India's grand festivals, is a harvest festival primarily Marked in Tamil Nadu. Why we celebrate Pongal festival is Pongal is thanksgiving to Nature. The festival is traditionally known as Thai Pongal. 'Thai' means 'tenth' (10th month) and 'Pongal' means 'to boil'. The festival is celebrated in the month of Thai (January-February) during the time when rice and cereals such as sugar-cane, and turmeric are harvested by the farmers.
Mid-January (14th to 17th) is regarded as the most important time in by the Tamilians. This harvest festival falls generally on the 14th or the 15th of January and is the essentially known as 'Tamil Festival'. Locals in the state say 'Thai pirandhaal vazhi pirakkum' meaning 'the dawn of the month of Thai will pave the way for new opportunities'. It means it is the time when one must forget past issues and believe that family problems will be solved. Pongal month is customarily regarded as the month of weddings.
Day 1: The first day of Ponag is significant as on this day Lord Indra is worshipped. It is known as Bhogi festival. The Vedas describe Lord Indira as the thunder god who brings forth rains. Indra has been worshipped for cowherds for the abundance of harvest. Water (rains) is the symbol of life. Therefore bringing plenty of waters to the land means prosperity to the farming communities. An interesting event that takes place on the first day is dismissal of unusable household items. Householders offer the unusable articles into the bonfires. The bonfire is of wood and cow-dung cakes. Young women dance around the bonfire, singing songs praising the gods especially Indra, the spring and the harvest.
Day 2: The second day witnesses the performance of a puja that involves boiling of rice in milk outdoors in an earthenware pot offered to Surya, the sun-god along with other oblations. Traditional dresses and colorations are the special features on this day.In the village, a turmeric plant is tied around the pot in which the rice grains are boiled. It includes the two sticks of sugar-cane in background and coconut and bananas in the dish. One popular act on this day is drawing 'kolam' (like Rangoli), on the ground outside thr home. It is traditionally formed in white lime powder.
Day 3: Mattu Pongal forms the 3rd day of Pongal. It is the day for cattle that are decorated with multi-colored beads, tinkling bells, sheaves of corn and flower garlands. Cattle especially cows are worshipped. Arati is performed on them, so as to ward off the evil eye. Story behind this celebration is that once Lord Shiva asked Basava the bull to tell the humans on earth that they should have oil massage and bath every day and have food once a month. Unintentionally, Basava announced the reverse; eating every day and taking oil massage once in a month. Lord Shiva cursed Basava to live on the earth forever; ploughing the fields and helping people produce more food. This day is associated with cattle.
Day 5: This day is known as Knau or Kannum Pongal day. People wash a turmeric leaf and keep it on the ground. After this, they keep the left overs of sweet Pongal, ordinary rice as well as rice (red and yellow), betel leaves and nuts, two pieces of sugarcane, turmeric leaves, and plantain on the turmeric leaf. This ceremony is performed before morning bath. Women around the leaf ask for the wellness of their husbands and families and then perform Arati their brothers with turmeric water, limestone and rice. Later on water of this mixture is is sprinkled on the kolam drawn outside the house on the ground.


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Highway Billboard Aims to Free Man Convicted in 1995 Shootings
By Regina Waldroup	• Published at 9:51 pm on May 16, 2016
Family members of a man serving a life sentence after being convicted in the shooting deaths of two girls in 1995 hope a billboard erected along a Chicago-area highway will help re-open the case.
Drivers heading southbound on the Stevenson Expressway near the Harlem exit in Forest View will likely see a large billboard that reads "Free Matt Sopron."
The billboard was put up last year, and family members say they plan to put more up in the Chicago area in hopes of raising awareness.
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Sopron, now 43, is currently in prison at the Menard Correctional Center after being one of six teens convicted in the two girls' shootings. Sopron was arrested nine months after the shootings and was convicted in 1998.
But Sopron's family says he is innocent and was wrongly convicted in the case.
"There is no DNA or physical evidence," said Sopron's attorney Allan Ackerman.
Sopron's father claims his son was home sleeping the night of the crime and the family said a number of flaws in the case have been ignored.
Those flaws are highlighted, they say, on a website dedicated to freeing Sopron.
The Conviction Integrity Unit at the Cook County State's Attorney's office agreed to look into Sopron's case.
"A review of this case is open and active at this time," the office said in a statement. "Beyond that, we have no further comment."
Families of the victims could not be reached for comment on the billboard or the family's effort to re-open the case.

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Workers at the West Valley Demonstration Project pull and smooth out the polyethylene weather protective cover over the Vitrification Facility concrete slab.
Workers at the West Valley Demonstration Project work together to roll out the polyethylene weather protective cover over the Vitrification Facility concrete slab.
Vitrification Facility demolition area after cover installation.
EM's West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently completed the installation of a polyethylene weather protective cover over the Vitrification Facility concrete slab.
This protective cover installation signifies the end of all physical work associated with Vitrification Facility demolition project.
Demolition of this facility was completed Sept. 20, 2018. Installation of the cover is necessary to preclude water infiltration into the below-grade portion of the facility as required in this contract.
The former Vitrification Facility was a three-story, 10,700-square-foot structure made up of structural steel, reinforced concrete and metal siding. It had a footprint of 133 feet long by 102 feet wide. It is one of two vitrification facilities to have operated in the United States, and the first one to complete its mission.
Prior to its demolition, approximately 10,000 cubic feet of material was removed from the facility, including three very large components. This included the safe loading and offsite disposal of 195-ton Vitrification Facility Melter, 167-ton Concentrator Feed Makeup Tank and 150-ton Melter Feed Hold Tank.
Demolition of this facility began Sept. 11, 2017, with Phase 1, and involved removal of the outer sheet metal and steel portions of the facility which had the least radiological contamination.
Phase 2 included the demolition of the heavily reinforced concrete process cell and remaining in-cell equipment.
The final phase was the removal of the crane maintenance room and transfer tunnel which included a 60-ton transfer tunnel door and 100-ton crane maintenance room shield door and other equipment.


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Previously couple of years, the U.S. stock market has been risky. Decided by the Trade Management Board for the given class of futures contracts and disclosed to the public not later than 7 days before trading within the first series of contracts of that class commences. Additional, every contract is assured and honored by the inventory exchange, or more exactly, the clearing house or the clearing corporation of the inventory change, which is an agency designated to settle trades of investors on the inventory exchanges.
In the course of the hours the inventory exchanges are open, the worth of the inventory index futures contracts closely monitor the worth of the stock indexes. We suggest new tests to examine whether inventory index futures affect stock market volatility. Dow futures surged 154 points Monday, S&P 500 futures rose sixteen factors, and Nasdaq futures popped forty two points. Inventory market data (inventory value together with a gray band representing past variations) with two potential future traits, mild blue versus.
Borsa Ä°stanbul designs different types of indices so as to allow investors to track Borsa Ä°stanbul markets. Futures and Foreign exchange brokers are excellent at advertising, misleadingly creating the phantasm that buying and selling emini contracts are as straightforward as opening an account with income miraculously materializing. As the worth of the futures rises, the investor will make a positive return. Here you could find premarket quotes for related stock market futures (e.g. Dow Jones Futures, Nasdaq Futures and S&P 500 Futures) and for world markets indices, commodities and currencies.
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B3 was created in March 2017 by the merger of BM&FBOVESPA and CETIP, which gave rise to a world-class financial market infrastructure company, consolidating BM&FBOVESPA's actions in listed merchandise buying and selling and submit-buying and selling, and CETIP's actions in registration and depository companies for OTC securities and financing. The contracts are bought and sold on the futures market – which we'll discover later – primarily based on their relative values. Dow Futures are futures contracts which can be primarily based on the Dow Jones Industrial Common (DJIA). The Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee (CFTC) regulates commodities futures buying and selling by means of its enforcement of the Commodity Alternate Act of 1974 and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
Major View: Image, Title, Last Value, Change, P.c Change, Excessive, Low, Quantity, and Time of Last Commerce. Futures contract is a standardized contract. 1 From 27 March 2018, the Irish Inventory Trade plc will use the trading title Euronext Dublin to carry out its business actions. A futures contract is a financial contract giving the buyer an obligation to buy an asset (and the seller an obligation to promote an asset) at a set value at a future time limit.
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The selection of futures contracts has expanded considerably, and includes a vary of futures on monetary merchandise including the main stock market indexes.
This course builds on students' information of the fundamental ideas and rules of accounting gained within the prerequisite course 1102AFE Accounting for Choice Making. Monetary Accounting, fifth Edition supplies students with an understanding of elementary concepts obligatory to use accounting effectively. Monthly bookkeeping; asset disposal; yr-finish adjustments; International Financial Reporting Standards for SMMEs; department accounts; incomplete data; analysis of financial statements; perceive money circulation; basic value and management accounts; put together manufacturing accounts; costing and budgeting.
The primary difference is that management accounting is introduced to a company's inner neighborhood, while monetary accounting is ready for an external viewers. Know tips on how to apply IFRS to acknowledge, measure, and disclose accounting transactions in actual business conditions. Profitable completion of the earlier learning areas (1-eight) – i.e. hold the National Diploma: Technical Monetary Accounting NQF L5, or equal.
In financial accounting, cost classification primarily based on type of transactions, e.g. salaries, repairs, insurance, stores and many others. Feedback from students in previous choices of Financial Accounting II have indicated that it is essential to have a solid basis in the pre-requisite accounting information acquired in earlier accounting courses to achieve this course. The primary distinction in the battle of accounting vs finance is that accounting has a comparatively narrow focus, whereas finance is wider-ranging, overlaying an array of specializations on this planet of business, economics and banking.
This data drives the interior management of a company's finances, business operations, and technique. Management or managerial accounting is utilized by managers to make selections concerning the day-to-day operations of a business. About this course: Master the technical skills wanted to research monetary statements and disclosures for use in financial evaluation, and learn the way accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting course of.
Be capable of interpreting and analyzing monetary statements prepared underneath IFRS.
Monetary statements might be intimidating, a seemingly inscrutable jumble of acronyms and jargon. It includes the requirements, conventions and rules that accountants follow in recording and summarizing and within the preparation of economic statements. Thus, the final ledger is your go-to doc for all the detailed financial accounting information about a business. Finance makes use of the CFO Forum email list to communicate accounting and monetary reporting updates to Commonwealth entities. Produces the College budget and Annual Financial Statements.
Financial accounting is among the most vital business management instruments, and indispensable for resolution-making processes. Have the ability to notice the discretion and judgment made by management in making use of accounting requirements. Management accounting would not only speak concerning the business pattern; it also talks in regards to the controllable and uncontrollable components, the key areas that need the attention of management, and the way the company is being seen by the traders.
Members in Financial Accounting are eligible for a Certificate of Completion from HBX and Harvard Business Faculty. The monetary statements (balance sheet, balance sheet equation, earnings statement, notes to monetary statements, precept of double entry, examples of transactions, profit appropriation, notion of depreciation, consumption and inventory, assertion of money flows). Managerial accounting's experiences often deal with sub-models inside the organisation, comparable to departments, divisions, geographical areas or product traces.
Function: To introduce college students to the elemental elements, rules, and procedures of financial accounting to allow them to collect, course of and report the monetary accounting data of an entity. This six-week summer season course teaches primary ideas of company financial accounting and reporting. The definition, perform and primary concepts of accounting; Basic Financial Statements and Primary Accounting Equation; The accounts of the Stability Sheet and Earnings Statement; The preparation of the Trial Balance and Adjusted Trial Stability; Finish of Period Process; Closing Course of; Accounting for the purchase, sale and return of goods.
You'll study the basics of monetary accounting from the ground up and apply your understanding of monetary statements in a variety of business settings.
The old-fashioned personal business letter—written on pristine, high-quality paper, sealed in an envelope, and delivered by submit or by hand—remains the only most impressive written ambassador in your company. Whereas the memorandum is the first vehicle for communication inside a company, letters are sometimes used to speak to individuals exterior it, particularly in formal and semiformal contexts. The salutation you will use depends on the title of your addressee, your familiarity with them, and likewise the context of the letter. Click on thejpg file under for the full-size picture, or use the PDF version See under the image for a an explanation of the business letter format elements.
Typical sales letters begin off with a really sturdy statement to capture the interest of the reader. Generally, a business must write a letter to acknowledge a complaint. Even in case you're sending your letter as an electronic mail attachment, you should still embody the tackle to maintain knowledgeable look. Closing: Really helpful formal closings embody Sincerely" or Yours truly." For a more personal closing, consider using Cordially" or Finest regards." Regardless of what you choose, add a comma to the tip of it.
Business playing cards are normally about the identical size as a bank card and landscape in format (vertical layouts can look striking, however could also be inconvenient for recipients' submitting programs or cardholders). You would ship a letter of appreciation to someone in a senior position, reminiscent of your principal or the chairperson of a company. Salutation: Tackle the recipient utilizing Pricey," along with their title and final name, reminiscent of Dear Mr. Collins" or Pricey Director Kinkade." If you don't know the recipient's gender, use their full identify, resembling Dear Taylor Dean." Finally, make sure to add a colon to the end of the salutation.
By the identical token, do not divide a letter into many very quick paragraphs.
A business letter communicates info outdoors the organization and requires a salutation. If you're writing a business letter, choose one of the widespread formats as shown in the instance letters listed beneath. He invented the Penny Put up, which made sending letters within the better London area an affordable business expense. Watch the video under to learn about formal business letters. Letter Wizard ought to only be used when you've got a basic perceive of how one can write a business letter. If you are writing a business letter as part of an examination, try to avoid spelling mistakes.
Although business writing has grow to be much less formal, it's best to nonetheless take nice care that your letter's intention and content material are clear and that you have proofread it fastidiously to examine spelling and grammar. Depending on the kind of business letter you're writing, you'll be able to choose to use among the sentences and phrases prompt below. This practical guide will assist you to write many several types of business letters, from making use of for a job to requesting or delivering info.
Write business emails, letters and reviews quicker! In letters, I believe it comes down to a matter of non-public preference: some folks write the postcode on the identical line as the city, some on the line after. This could embody anything from job title, identification, a notation that there are copies attached at the backside of the doc, or different contact info, equivalent to e-mail address or business cellphone quantity.
Please kind this info onto your company letterhead and make sure your departure date in the letter is within 14 days. The open-format letter does not use punctuation after the salutation and no punctuation after the complimentary closing. You will need to write business letters correctly, as a result of the impression you create is dependent upon how you write them. Rationalization: Exclamation marks and emoticons make your writing relatively informal, so you must avoid them when writing business letters.
On the subject of writing business letters, they are mostly written in the same manner. The immediate objective of your utility letter and accompanying C.V. is to draw this person's attention.
Opportunity Works is committed to empowering people with developmental disabilities. As a 9 county regional economic development alliance, Opportunity Florida is focused on strengthening the existing businesses inside Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty, Wakulla and Washington counties. Select the product, and on the command bar, select Delete Opportunity Product. We plan to help share and facilitate a dialog about advancing meals safety and what individuals, organizations, communities and varied ranges of presidency are doing.
Researchers have discovered that to alter individuals's conduct, their perceptions of social norms are more necessary than their personal beliefs. Their evaluation will measure elevated entry to food, reduced isolation and entry to further services because of the Neighborhood Hub. Lowndes County's inhabitants has seemingly fallen to 4 figures due to poverty, lack of opportunity and an extended historical past of white supremacy And in addition, as a result of people keep dying.
Skilled professionals provide their time and attention to share with you the required instruments to develop your business. Anyone can use Android to create apps and develop competing software program without paying a price or getting into any settlement with Google. His publications on sociology of agriculture and meals, social change and growth, and immigration embody: Starvation-proof Cities (1999); Working Together (2001); Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Food Research (2008); Crucial Views in Food Research (2012 and 2016); and Küresel Gıda Düzeni: Kriz Derinleşirken (2013).
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The work begins at the moment to ensure Charlotte-Mecklenburg is a neighborhood that cares about all of our youngsters and youth —no matter their revenue, background, race or zip code—and the place all of our kids really feel they belong, have large dreams and have the opportunity to realize these desires. Passionate neighborhood leaders, food consultants and organizations are demonstrating leadership, and innovation to make a difference.
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Congress Fails to Ask Tech CEOs the Hard Questions
By Elliot Harmon and Joe Mullin
The Big Internet Companies Are Too Powerful, But Undermining Section 230 Won't Help
The Senate Commerce Committee met this week to question the heads of Facebook, Twitter, and Google about Section 230, the most important law protecting free speech online. Section 230 reflects the common-sense principle that legal liability for unlawful online speech should rest with the speaker, not the Internet services that make online speech possible. Section 230 further protects Internet companies' ability to make speech moderation decisions by making it clear that platforms can make those decisions without inviting liability for the mistakes they will inevitably make.
Even President Trump has called multiple times for a repeal of Section 230, though repealing the law would certainly mean far fewer places for conservatives to share their ideas online, not more.
Section 230's importance to free speech online can't be overstated. Without Section 230, social media wouldn't exist, at least in its current form. Neither would most forums, comment sections, or other places where people are allowed to interact and share their ideas with each other. The legal risk involved with operating such a space would simply be too high. Simply put, the Internet would be a less interactive, more restrictive place without Section 230.
If some critics of Section 230 get their way, the Internet will soon become a more restrictive place. Section 230 has become a lightning rod this year: it's convenient for politicians and commentators on both sides of the aisle to blame the law—which protects a huge range of Internet services—for the decisions of a few very large companies (usually Google, Twitter, and Facebook). Republicans make questionable claims about bias against conservatives, arguing that platforms should be required to moderate less speech in order to maintain liability protections. Even President Trump has called multiple times for a repeal of Section 230, though repealing the law would certainly mean far fewer places for conservatives to share their ideas online, not more. Democrats often argue the opposite, saying that the law should be changed to require platforms to do more to patrol hate speech and disinformation.
The questions and comments in this week's hearing followed that familiar pattern, with Republicans scolding Big Tech for "censoring" and fact-checking conservative speech—the president's in particular—and Democrats demanding that tech companies do more to curb misleading and harmful statements on their platforms—the president's in particular. Lost in the charade is a stark reality: undermining 230 wouldn't necessarily improve platforms' behavior but would bring severe consequences for speech online as a whole.
Three Internet Giants Don't Speak for the Internet
One of the problems with the current debate over Section 230 is that it's treated as a discussion about big tech companies. But Section 230 affects all of us. When volunteer moderators take action in small web discussion forums—they're protected by Section 230. When a hobbyist blogger removes spam or other inappropriate material from a comment section—again, protected by Section 230. And when an Internet user retweets a tweet or even forwards an email, Section 230 protects that user too.
Internet censorship invariably harms the least powerful members of society first.
There were a lot of disappointing mistakes made in this hearing, but the first and worst mistake was deciding who to call to speak in the first place. Hauling the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter in front of Congress to be the sole witnesses defending a law that affects the entire Internet may be good political theatre, but it's a terrible way to make technology policy. By definition, the three largest tech companies alone can't provide a clear picture of what rewriting Section 230 would mean to the entire Internet.
All three of these CEOs run companies that will be able to manage nearly any level of government regulation or intervention. That's not true of the thousands of small startups that don't have the resources of world-spanning companies. It's no surprise that Facebook, for instance, is now signaling an openness to more government regulation of the Internet—far from being a death blow for the company, it may well help the social media giant isolate itself from competition.
Dorsey, Zuckerberg, and Pichai don't just fail to represent the breadth of Internet companies that would be affected by a change to Section 230; as three men in positions of enormous power, they also fail to represent the Internet users that Congress would harm. Internet censorship invariably harms the least powerful members of society first—the rural LGBTQ teenager who depends on the acceptance of Internet communities, the activist using social media to document government abuses of human rights. When online platforms clamp down on their users' speech, it's the marginalized voices that disappear first.
Facebook's Call for Regulation Doesn't Address the Big Problems
In his opening testimony, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear why we can't trust him to be a witness on Section 230, endorsing changes to Section 230 that would give Facebook an advantage over would-be competitors. Zuckerberg acknowledged the foundational role that Section 230 has played in the development of the Internet, but he also suggested that "Congress should update the law to make sure that it's working as intended." He went on to propose that Congress should pass laws requiring platforms to be more transparent in their moderation decisions. He also advocated legislation to "separate good actors from bad actors." From Zuckerberg's written testimony (PDF):
At Facebook, we don't think tech companies should be making so many decisions about these important issues alone. I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators, which is why in March last year I called for regulation on harmful content, privacy, elections, and data portability.
EFF recognizes some of what Zuckerberg identifies as the problems with today's social media platforms—indeed, we have criticized Facebook for providing inadequate transparency into its own moderation processes—but that doesn't mean Facebook should speak for the Internet. Any reform that puts more burden on platforms in order to maintain the Section 230 liability shield will mean a higher barrier for new startups to overcome before they can compete with Facebook or Google, be it in the form of moderation staff, investment in algorithmic filters, or the high-powered lawyers necessary to fight off new lawsuits. If it becomes harder for platforms to receive and maintain Section 230 protections, then Google, Facebook, and Twitter will become even more dominant over the Internet. This conglomeration happened very dramatically after Congress passed SESTA/FOSTA. The law, which Facebook supported, made it much harder for online dating services to operate without massive legal risk, and multiple small dating sites recognized that reality and immediately shut down. Just a few weeks later, Facebook announced that it was entering the online dating market.
Unsurprisingly, while the witnesses paid lip service to the importance of competition among online services, none of them proposed solutions to their outsized control over online speech. None of them proposed comprehensive data privacy legislation that would let users sue the big tech companies when they violate our privacy rights. None of them proposed modernizing antitrust law to stop the familiar pattern of big tech companies simply buying their would-be competitors. Many members of Congress—Republican and Democrat—recognized that the failings they blamed on large tech companies were magnified by the lack of meaningful competition among online speech platforms, but unfortunately, very little of the hearing focused on real solutions to that lack of competition.
Give Users Real Control Over Their Online Experience
Republican Senators' insistence on framing the hearing around "censorship of conservatives" precluded a more serious discussion of the problems with online platforms' aggressive speech enforcement practices. As we've said before, online censorship magnifies existing imbalances in society: it's not the liberal silencing the conservative; it's the powerful silencing the powerless. Any serious discussion of the problems with platforms' moderation practices must consider the ways in which powerful players—including state actors—take advantage of those moderation practices in order to censor their enemies.
EFF told Congress in 2018 that although it's not lawmakers' place to tell Internet companies what speech to keep up or take down, there are serious problems with how social media platforms enforce their policies and what voices disappear from the Internet. We said that Internet companies had a lot more work to do to ensure that their moderation decisions were fair and transparent and that when mistakes inevitably happened, users would be able to appeal moderation decisions to a real person, not an algorithm.
Social media companies make thousands of decisions on our behalf. Why not expose those decisions to users and let us have some say in them?
We also suggested that platforms ought to put more control over what speech we're allowed to see into the hands of us, the users. Today, social media companies make thousands of decisions on our behalf—about whether we'll see sexual speech and imagery, whether we'll see certain types of misinformation, what types of extremist speech we'll be exposed to. Why not expose those decisions to users and let us have some say in them? As we wrote in our letter to the House Judiciary Committee, "Facebook already allows users to choose what kinds of ads they want to see—a similar system should be put in place for content, along with tools that let users make those decisions on the fly rather than having to find a hidden interface."
We were gratified, then, that Twitter's Jack Dorsey identified "empowering algorithmic choice" as a high priority for the company. From Dorsey's written testimony (PDF):
In December 2018, Twitter introduced an icon located at the top of everyone's timeline that allows individuals using Twitter to easily switch to a reverse chronological order ranking of the Tweets from accounts or topics they follow. This improvement gives people more control over the content they see, and it also provides greater transparency into how our algorithms affect what they see. It is a good start. We believe this points to an exciting, market-driven approach where people can choose what algorithms filter their content so they can have the experience they want. [...] Enabling people to choose algorithms created by third parties to rank and filter their content is an incredibly energizing idea that is in reach.
We hope to see more of that logical approach to empowering users from a major Internet company, but we also need to hold Twitter and its peers accountable to it. As Dorsey noted in its testimony, true algorithmic choice would mean not only letting people customize how Twitter filters their news feed, but letting third parties create alternative filters too. Unfortunately, the large Internet companies have a poor track record when it comes to letting their services play well with others, employing a mix of copyright abuse, end-user license agreements, and computer crime laws to prevent third parties from creating tools that interact with their own. While we applaud Twitter's interest in giving users more control over their timeline, we must ensure that its solutions actually promote a competitive landscape and don't further lock users into Twitter's own walled garden.
While Internet companies' moderation practices are a problem, the Senate Commerce Committee hearing ultimately failed to address the real problems with speech moderation at scale. While members of Congress acknowledge that a few flawed companies have too much control over online speech, they've consistently failed to enact structural solutions to the lack of meaningful competition in social media. Before they consider making further changes to Section 230, lawmakers must understand that the decisions they make could spell disaster—not just for Facebook and Twitter's would-be competitors but, most importantly, for the voices they risk kicking offline.
No matter what happens in next week's election, we are certain to see more misguided attempts to undermine Section 230 in the next Congress. We hope that Congress will take the time to listen to experts and users that don't run behemoth Internet companies. In the meantime, please take a moment to write to your members of Congress and tell them why a strong Section 230 is important to you.
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After many trips overseas, it never occurred to me until one of our included tours included a stop at a jewelry shop in the Piazza where I purchased a gold Nefertiti charm. I've loved collecting gold bracelet charms as travel mementos ever since.
Now before I even leave my home, I've learned to research, locate and contact jewelry stores before I even leave my house and get on the plane.
Today's "Throwback Thursday" brought memories of a wonderful, ten day, escorted Trafalgar Tour trip with my two daughters that began in London and traveled, by motor coach across country to Rome, Italy, August 2008. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican was one of the included stops as part of the travel package.
Angels have been with me all my life so it was especially thrilling to have spotted and posed with these two very beautiful marble angelic statutes.


16 1Be sure to welcome our friend Phoebe in the way of the Master, with all the generous hospitality we Christians are famous for. I heartily endorse both her and her work. She's a key representative of the church at Cenchrea. 2Help her out in whatever she asks. She deserves anything you can do for her. She's helped many a person, including me. 3Say hello to Priscilla and Aquila, who have worked hand in hand with me in serving Jesus. 4They once put their lives on the line for me. And I'm not the only one grateful to them. All the non–Jewish gatherings of believers also owe them plenty, 5to say nothing of the church that meets in their house. Hello to my dear friend Epenetus. He was the very first follower of Jesus in the province of Asia. 6Hello to Mary. What a worker she has turned out to be! 7Hello to my cousins Andronicus and Junias. We once shared a jail cell. They were believers in Christ before I was. Both of them are outstanding leaders. 8Hello to Ampliatus, my good friend in the family of God. 9Hello to Urbanus, our companion in Christ's work, and my good friend Stachys. 10Hello to Apelles, a tried–and–true veteran in following Christ. Hello to the family of Aristobulus. 11Hello to my cousin Herodion. Hello to those who belong to the Lord from the family of Narcissus. 12Hello to Tryphena and Tryphosa—such diligent women in serving the Master. Hello to Persis, a dear friend and hard worker in Christ. 13Hello to Rufus—a good choice by the Master!—and his mother. She has also been a dear mother to me. 14Hello to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and also to all of their families. 15Hello to Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas—and all the followers of Jesus who live with them. 16Holy embraces all around! All the churches of Christ send their warmest greetings! 17One final word of counsel, friends. Keep a sharp eye out for those who take bits and pieces of the teaching that you learned and then use them to make trouble. Give these people a wide berth. 18They have no intention of living for our Master Christ. They're only in this for what they can get out of it, and aren't above using pious sweet talk to dupe unsuspecting innocents. 19And so while there has never been any question about your honesty in these matters—I couldn't be more proud of you!—I want you also to be smart, making sure every "good" thing is the real thing. Don't be gullible in regard to smooth–talking evil. Stay alert like this, 20and before you know it the God of peace will come down on Satan with both feet, stomping him into the dirt. Enjoy the best of Jesus! 21And here are some more greetings from our end. Timothy, my partner in this work, Lucius, and my cousins Jason and Sosipater all said to tell you hello. 22I, Tertius, who wrote this letter at Paul's dictation, send you my personal greetings. 23Gaius, who is host here to both me and the whole church, wants to be remembered to you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our good friend Quartus send their greetings.24 25All of our praise rises to the One who is strong enough to make you strong, exactly as preached in Jesus Christ, precisely as revealed in the mystery kept secret for so long 26but now an open book through the prophetic Scriptures. All the nations of the world can now know the truth and be brought into obedient belief, carrying out the orders of God, who got all this started, down to the very last letter. 27All our praise is focused through Jesus on this incomparably wise God! Yes!


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Rihanna and Drake hold hands, flaunt budding relationship after leaving London club together
By Rachel Maresca
Caught in the act! Rihanna and Drake were spotted holding hands in the back seat of a car in London on Thursday night. (XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM/RP1SE1)
If you don't know, now you know: Drake and Rihanna are a couple.
The two singers were spotted holding hands in the back seat of a car in London on Thursday after a night out at club Tramp and dinner at Novikov in Mayfair.
This is the first official sign of PDA for the rekindled pair, who have been practically inseparable over the last few weeks.
The 26-year-old Barbadian beauty supported Drizzy, 27, throughout the now-completed European leg of his tour by attending a number of his recent shows.
RiRi has found love again with Drake after briefly dating the rapper inbetween her tumultuous on-again, off-again relationship with Chris Brown.
Drake told Rolling Stone in a February interview that the duo were "just friends," but that status certainly seems to have changed.
"I mean, I think about it," he told the mag on starting a romantic relationship with Rihanna.
"Like, 'Man that would be good.' We have fun together. She's cool and s-t. But we're just friends. That's my dog for life."
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Nothing happening. No fish as of yet.
This morning still no fish, but today is another day.
Hey Bev, started to make it a go up that this weekend but friends came into town early Friday so dulled my plans for any fish'n.
We had some heavy hitters out there this weekend! The weather turned out fishable, unfortunately the fish didn't show up. It was good to see the regulars and nice to meet new folks.
Thanks for the update. Do you know if any shorts or decent sized bluefish were caught?
Jay, I did hear of a snapper on Sat.
Where are the stripers and where are the big blues? Least I know I wasn't alone comin up empty.
Sam, that was really nice of you guys to do that !
it was fun being in the tourney despite not catching.
congrats to the drawing winners.
Good to see you again, Myles. I know you guys fished really hard. Hopefully the striped ones will make a show soon!
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace SampleClassLibrary.Simple
{
    /// <summary>
    /// 単体テストの対象となる「何かを実行するクラス」です。静的メソッドのみを取り扱います。
    /// </summary>
    public static class StaticSomethingExecutor
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// 静的なメソッドで、引数を全て足して返します。ただし、引数が first=10, second=100, third=1000 を超える場合は例外になります。
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="first"></param>
        /// <param name="second"></param>
        /// <param name="third"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static int PlusArguments(int first, int second, int third)
        {
            if (first > 10) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("first", "first に 10 より大きい値が指定されました。10 以下の値を指定してください。");
            if (second > 100) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("second", "second に 100 より大きい値が指定されました。100 以下の値を指定してください。");
            if (third > 1000) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("third", "third に 1000 より大きい値が指定されました。1000 以下の値を指定してください。");

            return first + second + third;
        } // end function

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        /// 静的なメソッドで、引数が自然数(0を含む正の整数)かどうか?を返します。
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        /// <param name="value"></param>
        /// <returns>自然数の時は True を返します。それ以外は False を返します。</returns>
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        {
            return (value >= 0);
        } // end function

    } // end class
} // end namespace

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This March, Contemporary Applied Arts presents Colour Theory, a kaleidoscopic selection of exquisite decorative and functional hand-crafted objects to celebrate spring.
On display will be a spectrum of colour and style across our entire gallery and featuring beautiful pieces from all our represented disciplines to complement and enhance each other.
This is the first in a series of showcases and exhibitions celebrating our 70th anniversary year, in which we focus on the innate harmony between the work of all our maker members and on the non-hierarchical approach of showing remarkable objects of varying materials and styles side by side, which is so characteristic of our multi-disciplinary organisation.
A wide range of our maker members working in ceramics, glass, furniture, jewellery, metal, paper, textiles and wood will be included in this showcase.


Hoodia is a succulent plant native to South Africa which is known for it's slimming and healthy properties.
In recent years, Americans have been importing hoodia from Africa to solve various health issues, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Hoodia in itself is not a cure, but in combination with a healthy diet and regular insulin injections, it can enhance weight loss and improve the body's response to diabetes medications.
Hoodia is a natural appetite-suppressant. Many diabetics are instructed by their physicians to lose weight or maintain a slim figure, and hoodia can help reduce the urge to overeat.
Hoodia is sold in capsules or tablets in most health food stores. It is fairly inexpensive, costing an average of $1 per day. Often, it is available in the form of a milk drink or chew.
While there has been little research confirming the health benefits of hoodia, most scientists agree that its benefits are worth exploring. As a plant-derived substance, it is completely natural and unlikely to harm the user unless he or she has a rare allergy. The few existing studies have shown that hoodia tricks your brain into believing you're full, at least in the short term.
As with any supplement, it is essential to maintain a schedule. If you add hoodia to your diet, you may become accustomed to the reduction in appetite, and the amount of food you eat could increase drastically if you stop taking the pills. Keep a journal of your weight fluctuations before an after hoodia, and if it seems to have no effect, discontinue use.
Look for capsules with higher concentrations of P57, the active ingredient in hoodia. It is higher in formulas ground from the stem of the plant than extracted.
Maintain your regular diabetes treatments. If your doctor advises that you administer insulin injects, do not discontinue this practice. Hoodia is not a replacement for regular diabetes medicine.


A generous dollop of moderately toasty oak mixes with the highly layered nose of black cherry, cassis, warm earth and an impressive array of sauvage and underbrush notes. There is excellent richness to the overtly powerful and muscular flavors that possess an imposing sense of scale that continues onto the textured and mouth coating finish. Like several of the wines in the range in 2013 this is a big but not really massive wine that retains a sense of proportion even though the underlying structure is quite firm. This will need plenty of patience however. 93-95 points, Tasted: Jan 15, 2015, Drink: 2028+ Issue: 57. Don't miss!
Since 1825, the Faiveley family has always cultivated the vineyards with the greatest respect for its terroirs in Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune and Côte Chalonnaise. Its goal is to propose the very best wines that Burgundy can offer. They characterize high quality and unique diversity. Each bottle of Grand Cru or Premier Cru is the faithful reflection of these values.


VIEWERS of the BBC Panorama programme earlier this week will have been shocked at the callous and cruel treatment inflicted on the patients at the Winterbourne View residential care home for people with learning difficulties and autism.
SOUTH AFRICA has called for an immediate ceasefire in Libya after lengthy talks between the South African president and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. But Russia has abandoned its attempt to pose as an honest broker in the civil war and has now joined the imperialist chorus clamouring for Gaddafi to go, following the G-8 summit where it received western pledges to support Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation and French agreement to sell them four Mistral-class helicopter carriers.
TWO MAJOR reports hit the headlines on Monday and they are inextricably linked. The first, from the International Energy Agency (IEA), warned that global carbon emissions reached a record level last year, after a dip in 2009 caused by the global economic crisis.
The other report, from Oxfam, says that world food prices are expected to double in the next two decades, endangering the lives of millions of the poorest people on the planet.


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To save his flailing real estate development project Mitch McKenna knows what he must do: persuade his nemesis and neighbor Emma LeFleur to go to bat for him and convince the town that he's a sweetheart. Easy as pie, unless you consider he's threatened to bulldoze her home with her in it.
Lily Santana is an author of contemporary romance. Her first book, Unexpectedly You will be released August 26, 2013 with Carina Press.
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St. Louis Bullpen
Posted on May 15, 2020 May 14, 2020 by John Fleming
At some point, baseball isn't worth it
My favorite part of watching football is when the quarterback throws a ball in a spot where only the receiver can catch it and the receiver defies what we think we know about acrobatics to complete the reception. My least favorite part of watching football is the unavoidable fact that the sport is destroying its competitors.
The moral justification, one that I find entirely oversimplistic but not completely devoid of merit, is that the players have agreed to do this. Those competing at a level below college are not legal adults, and those in college are not being paid for their services, but there is some validity to the argument that adults should have the right to put themselves in danger for a paycheck. But that doesn't mean I enjoy watching the danger. Sports have generally moved away from components that create excessive chance of brain injury among their competitors–even the most rabidly pro-beanball baseball fans ask that players hit by pitch are hit far away from the head, and rules changes in hockey have made fighting nearly obsolete and body checking less advantageous than in the past. Football has made some steps, but the progress has been comparatively glacial. Though maybe sufficient progress is impossible in this sport's case.
The first half of May usually represents a high water mark for the sports calendar. Baseball is fully into gear, the NBA and NHL playoffs are exhilerating and chaotic, and international professional soccer leagues are winding down. What I wouldn't give at this point for just one of these familiar diversions to be in place. Particularly when the Blues have made long playoff runs, I have proclaimed that I wish I could bottle up the NBA playoffs, which I neglect by comparison, and keep it in storage for a less sports-loaded time. That claim is starting to feel like a prophecy.
That said, I understand why I am being deprived of these sporting comforts. The world is a dangerous place, and in order to prevent unnecessary mass casualties, I have to stay at home and watch old sporting events and master my NBA 2K15 game (I mean, the soundtrack is maybe the most unimpeachable sports video game soundtrack I've ever heard–it sets up hours of gameplay quite well). When my grandpa was called to sacrifice, he had to fight in World War II. I'll take it.
At the risk of aligning myself with Norman Chad's widely-ratioed Washington Post column from last weekend arguing that we need less sports in our lives, I would argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has showed that we can survive without wall-to-wall sports. It's a small silver lining amidst an onslaught of horribleness, but there is something liberating about feeling like you can have fun without sports. That said, I wouldn't argue against one coming back.
And the next major American one back might be baseball. The NBA and NHL are up against major calendar restraints–even if they could restart their leagues tomorrow, the calendars would extend into August without major playoff format changes. The NFL, perhaps the sport best suited for a pandemic in the sense that it is a largely made-for-TV product with a relatively insignificant share of revenue derived from stadium attendance, might still start on time–they have nearly four months to decide. Baseball is somewhere in the middle, and countless proposals for shorter seasons and crazier postseason formats have been offered to assure that a 2020 baseball season happens.
The concessions to the "integrity" of the game don't bother me. I'm fairly apathetic to the designated hitter, but even if I despised it, I can't imagine preferring no baseball to DH baseball. I'd rather not see the Cardinals stuck with an erratic schedule with arbitrary divisions, but if it brings me baseball, that doesn't bother me. The concern I have about a resumption of Major League Baseball is my concern that I am watching a sport that does not care about the health and safety of its labor.
In March, the MLB Player's Association and Major League Baseball reached a financial agreement where the players would received pro-rated salaries in accordance with how much of the season is played, and in exchange, players would still accumulate service time. It was a rare case of the MLBPA supporting its more lowly paid players, who will now be able to reach arbitration and free agency sooner, rather than its richest players, who will lose the most from their salaries. But a deal was reached. And now, MLB owners, who continue to have firmly closed financial records and are uniformly wealthier than even the richest MLB players, are crying poor and insisting that players accept less money. And now, because owner salaries aren't printed in the sports section while player salaries are, players are being asked to sacrifice a bigger chunk of their contractually-obligated salaries, and public perception is coming down against them.
On Tuesday, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, net worth of $3.4 billion, decried MLB players for "holding out" during a time when everybody is sacrificing (he did not note that MLB players are functionally furloughed until the games resume). On Wednesday night, Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Blake Snell voiced his opposition to the owners' proposed 50-50 revenue split and cited health concerns as the reason such a split was "just not worth it". What followed was a chorus of outcry about how Blake Snell is rich and plays a kid's game for a living and how I'd play for free if they'd let me. And I get it–I know how much Blake Snell makes, and it's more than I make. I don't even know the name of the Tampa Bay Rays' owner off the top of my head, nor how much said owner makes (editor's note: Stuart Sternberg, net worth of an incredibly modest by MLB owner standards $800 million).
I tend to believe MLB owners are lying about their financial situation. It is possible they aren't, but given the revenues of the league and the constant appreciation of franchise values, it seems unlikely that the situation is actually dire (that said, if they were willing to open their books, I'd keep an open mind). But one thing is certain–they are not inherently putting themselves at more risk with the opening of the sport once again. An owner can conduct team business from home. Players cannot. Even if games are played in empty stadiums, the sport must be played with dozens of people present, at the minimum. Players have lives and families and it is impossible for them to remain completely segregated from them–either they threaten to expose them to COVID-19 or they will be forced to spend months away from them. Neither sounds pleasant. I don't want either to happen on my accord.
Some baseball fans have taken to following the Korean Basbeall Organization, and while I wish those fans all the best, I can't get into it. The time differences make it difficult, but most of all, I am unfamiliar with the narrative arc of the KBO. I know Major League Baseball players and teams and I am caught up on the storylines of it. As such, I care about the people involved. And I don't want the people involved, virtually none of whom I have ever met and none with whom I have a relationship of any kind, to be hurt. And if baseball cannot assure the safety and emotional well-being of its players, I don't know that I want to watch it. I have agency in this. Just as my passion for football was tested by concerns over the safety of its players, I am being put in the same position with baseball. And I'm not sure that I know where I will stand.
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how would your rate your health in general now?
During the past 4 weeks, have you had any of the following problems with your work or other regular daily activities as a result of your physical health?
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21. How much bodily pain have you had during the past 4 weeks?
22. During the past 4 weeks, how much did pain interfere with your normal work (including both work outside the home and housework)?
These questions are about how you feel and how things have been with you during the past 4 weeks. For each question, please give the one answer that comes closest to the way you have been feeling.
How much of the time during the past 4 weeks . . .
23. Did you feel full of pep?
24. Have you been a very nervous person?
25. Have you felt so down in the dumps that nothing could cheer you up?
26. Have you felt calm and peaceful?
27. Did you have a lot of energy?
28. Have you felt downhearted and blue?
29. Did you feel worn out?
30. Have you been a happy person?
32. During the past 4 weeks, how much of the time has your physical health or emotional problems interfered with your social activities (like visiting with friends, relatives, etc.)?
How TRUE or FALSE is each of the following statements for you.


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Pope advances sainthood causes for 17 women
January 16, 2019 admin Nation & World, News
VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis approved Tuesday the next step in the canonization causes of 17 women from four countries, including the martyrdom of 14 religious sisters killed in Spain at the start of the Spanish Civil War.
After meeting with the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Jan. 15, the pope gave his approval to the declaration of the martyrdom of Sister Maria del Carmen and 13 companions, all religious sisters of the Order of Franciscan Conceptionists, who were killed in Madrid in 1936.
Pope Francis also approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Swiss laywoman Blessed Marguerite Bays, paving the way for her canonization in 2019.
Bays, who was born in La Pierraz, Switzerland, in 1815, was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. She never married but gave her life to the needs of the people of her parish and neighborhood, especially the sick and dying, children and young girls, and the poor, whom she called "God's favorites."
After developing intestinal cancer at the age of 35, Bays asked Our Lady to intercede that her suffering from cancer would be exchanged for a suffering more directly connected to the suffering of Christ at his Passion.
The holy woman was miraculously healed of the cancer Dec. 8, 1854, the day Blessed Pius IX declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. After the healing, Bays began to experience a sort-of ecstatic immobilization every Friday, where she would relive physically and spiritually the events of Christ's passion. She also received the stigmata.
Bays' deep devotion to prayer, which had been a focus of her life since childhood, included a strong love for the Blessed Virgin Mary and for praying the rosary. She also loved the Eucharist and spent many hours in adoration.
Bays died at 3 p.m., on Friday, June 27, 1879, and was beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1995.
Two women were also declared Venerable Jan. 15: Sister Anna Kaworek, a Pole and cofounder of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Michael the Archangel (1872-1936); and Maria Soledad Sanjurjo Santos (religious name Sister Maria Consolata), a sister of the Congregation of the Servants of Mary Ministers of the Infirm (1892-1973) from Puerto Rico.
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Strong Revenue By Sportsbooks Assisted State's Gaming Industry In July
Despite smaller handle, the sportsbooks doubled their earnings from the month before
Gary Rotstein
Strong success by Pennsylvania's sportsbooks against bettors in July helped the state's gaming industry boost its overall revenue total, according to monthly figures released Wednesday.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported that all forms of commercial gaming generated $429.1 million in revenue last month, with $177.1 million of that amount allocated to state and local taxes. The revenue figure was up from $389.8 million in June and from $423.7 million in July 2021.
Those improvements came despite a dip in iCasino revenue, which at $98.6 million fell below $100 million in a month for the first time in 2022.
Offsetting that decline was an unusually strong hold of 9.9% by the sportsbooks, reflecting their win rate against bettors from the $336.5 million in total handle for the month. It resulted in $33.2 million in gross revenue by the operators, with $25.4 million of that amount taxable after adjustments for the promotional credits they gave to customers. That adjusted revenue was about twice as high as the amount in June.
A slow period, but lucrative for books
Mid-summer is typically the slowest period for sports betting, as the sports calendar is reduced to only Major League Baseball among the four major U.S. sports. The $336.5 million in betting volume was less than the $393.5 million in June and the lowest since July 2021. One piece of good news for the 14 online and 18 retail operators was that July did not repeat the unusual June scenario in which betting activity actually fell off from a year earlier.
The operators' revenue figures, of course, represented the other good news, with FanDuel customarily leading the way. From $124.9 million in bets (40.1% of the online handle), it saw $14.9 million in gross revenue, with $12.1 million of that taxable after credits.
DraftKings, which has sharply cut back its level of promotions, saw $5.3 million in gross revenue and $4.6 million in adjusted revenue from $75.8 million in handle.
BetMGM's taxable revenue was also much higher than is typical, at $1.3 million from $3.8 million in gross revenue after taking $42.1 million in bets. In four months since last December, it had actually reported a net loss in revenue and avoided paying taxes for the month.
While PENN Entertainment's Barstool Sportsbook handled even less in volume than a year ago, with just $20.1 million last month (6.5% of the online market), it again did well in the revenue department. It grossed $1.9 million and had $1.4 million in adjusted, taxable revenue.
A mixed bag for other key types of gaming
The 18 online casino sites were close in July to what has become their monthly norm, but it was still unusual to see them drop below the $100 million threshold. Their $98.6 million came from $71.9 million in slots play, $23.9 million in table games, and $2.8 million in rake from online poker tournaments and cash games at four sites.
The $300.6 million in brick-and-mortar slots and tables revenue at 16 casinos was significantly better than the $269.1 million they earned in June. The dimmer side of the July number was it was actually less than the $309.8 million in revenue they took collectively in July 2021 from just 14 locations, before two more mini-casinos began operating in the state.
Photo: Gary Rotstein
Gary is a longtime journalist, having spent three decades covering gambling, state government, and other issues for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in addition to stints as managing editor of the Bedford (Pa.) Gazette and as a reporter for United Press International and the Middletown (Conn.) Press. Contact Gary at gary@usbets.com.


The woman who broke these stories, Erin Elizabeth ofHealth Nut News, spoke to Luke Rudkowski and recounted that three of the doctors were found outside in the woods, who died of alleged suicide, four established murders and several who died suddenly for no apparent reason. Even family members have questioned their deaths since autopsies don't seem to confirm a reason for their deaths.
USA: 12 Holistic Doctors have now died within a little over 90 Days.