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Skipping Ahead: Mitsubishi Reveals 118 MPG PX-MiEV Plug-In Hybrid Concept
by writer: Scott Evans September 30, 2009
With the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show less than a month away, the few remaining participating automakers are throwing down their cars. Following Subaru and Honda to the table is Mitsubishi, with a new plug-in hybrid crossover called the PX-MiEV and a cargo van version of the i-MiEV electric car.
Looking something like an updated Endeavour with a touch of Land Rover styling, the PX-MiEV is Mitsubishi's centerpiece. Though it may resemble the Endeavour, the PX-MiEV -- which stands for Plug-in hybrid Crossover-Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle -- is actually closer in size to the Outlander, but slightly larger. While the hard, boxy, yet simple styling is a big step forward for Mitsubishi crossovers, the real story is what lies beneath.
The PX-MiEV is powered by Mitsubishi's first hybrid drivetrain. Rather than follow the Toyota and Honda route, Mitsubishi has skipped ahead to a plug-in parallel hybrid right out of the gate. Under the hood is a 114-hp 1.6L DOHC MIVEC four-cylinder engine with 92 lb-ft of torque that can either power the wheels directly or act as a generator to power the electric motors. Two 60-hp electric motors generating 148 lb-ft of torque each are mounted on the axles and can propel the car by themselves or work in concert with the gasoline engine. Mitsubishi says the combination is good for an impressive 118 mpg.
At low to medium speeds, the front electric motor does most of the work by powering the front wheels. At higher speeds or when more power is needed, the gasoline engine kicks on to either make more electricity to power the electric motors or to help power the wheels directly, depending on which the onboard computer thinks will be more efficient. The rear electric motor only comes on when the front wheels are slipping, under hard acceleration, or under sudden maneuvers to help stabilize the vehicle. The electric motors also act as generators during braking to recharge the battery.
To keep the PX-MiEV as stable and safe as possible, several specially designed onboard systems work together to dole out power to the appropriate wheels as conditions dictate. The E-4WD (Electric four-wheel drive) system controls the torque split front to rear while the S-AWC (Super All Wheel Control) system uses its E-AYC (Electric-powered Active Yaw Control) system to determine torque split left to right and regenerative braking and the ABS and Active Stability Control systems to keep the vehicle in check. Unlike the Lancer Evo X's AYC system, though, the E-AYC system uses a differential motor to control the torque split between the rear tires rather than a wet-clutch system for better control and efficiency. An air suspension keeps the ride pleasant and can be height-adjusted from the cabin.
Other flashy technology on the PX-MiEV includes the new Multi-around Monitor system, which is modeled after Infiniti's Around View camera system. Like Infiniti, Mitsubishi has strategically placed cameras around the exterior of the vehicle that give a complete, top-down, panoramic view of the area around the vehicle to aid in parking and other tight situations. The PX-MiEV also includes Japan's Driving Support Safety System, which picks up signals from roadside sensors that warn the vehicle's computers about pedestrians and other vehicles in the area. Also onboard are sensors that track nearby vehicles and warn the driver when they're too close or in a blind spot, and the Dedicated Short Range Communications system for toll collection and vehicle tracking.
The interior of the PX-MiEV is just as impressive as the rest of it. Mitsubishi's cocochi (a play on the Japanese word for "cozy") interior is replete with high-tech, soft-touch materials such as seat upholstery that destroys allergens, kills bacteria, and breaks down odors and volatile organic compounds, all while offering heating and cooling features for all four passengers. Heat-reflecting windows and exterior paint and lots of insulation help regulate the interior temperature and cut energy usage by the automatic climate control system. A Driving Monitor System keeps a camera trained on the driver and watches for signs that his or her alertness is slipping, then sets off audible, visual, and vibration warnings and even releases a "distinct" scent to get the driver's attention.
Matching all of this impressive technology is an equally impressive instrument panel. Mitsubishi has taken a minimalist approach and replaced all the regular user interfaces with slick touchscreens with impressive graphics. With three display screens hanging behind the horseshoe steering wheel and a single screen hanging between the front seats, the controls of the PX-MiEV look straight out of a science-fiction movie. That funky steering wheel also houses buttons and switches that allow the driver to control the stereo, climate controls, navigation, and more without taking their hands off the wheel. Visual alerts on the display screens behind the wheel keep the driver informed about the status of the various onboard systems so they need only look down to the instrument panel to verify theninstead ofall around the cabin. Rear-seat passengers get their own center console touchscreen for audio, climate, and other controls.
Even with all of that, Mitsubishi has another trick up its sleeve. Thanks to its plug-in hybrid drivetrain, the PX-MiEV can be charged from standard 100- or 200-volt wall sockets or a special quick-charge station, but that's not all. The system can also store energy in the battery then use it to power a household appliance to reduce home energy costs (electricity rates are generally cheaper at night and more expensive during the day). Or, it can be used on a camping trip or in an emergency when the power is out. When the battery is drained below a certain cutoff point, the gasoline engine kicks on to act as a 70 kW generator to provide power.
Also present at the Tokyo show will be a new cargo van-version of Mitsubishi's tiny i-MiEV electric city car. Eschewing the rear doors and seats for a 62 cubic-foot flat-floored cargo area, the i-MiEV Cargo is designed with small businesses in mind. It offers 100-mile range, though it will no doubt be affected by the cargo load, as will the performance of the 63-hp 133 lb-ft electric motor.
While the i-MiEV Cargo is slated for production in Japan, the future of the PX-MiEV isn't known yet. Even if the concept doesn't make it into production, look for the design and technology to make their way into other future Mitsubishi products.
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Legislation sponsored by Senator Steve Oroho and approved today by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee would eliminate a mandate on small municipalities and help ease the burden of filling boards of health for small towns.
Legislation sponsored by Senator Steve Oroho and approved by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee would eliminate a mandate on small municipalities and help ease the burden of filling boards of health for small towns. (SenateNJ.com)
"Every municipality is required to have a board of health, but for towns with small populations, it can be a challenge to find volunteers willing to serve on local boards and commissions, including the board of health," said Oroho (R-24). "This bill (S-1416) approved today helps solve the problem, allowing municipal governing bodies to serve as boards of health. It is a sensible and efficient solution."
Currently, the township committee members of municipalities that have a population of not more than 20,000 residents are permitted to serve as the municipal board of health. However, members of local governing bodies serving in other forms of governments – borough, town, city, and village – have no such ability in statute.
"This simply treats all small municipalities the same, no matter their form of government, and extends the same courtesy to slightly larger municipalities by increasing the population threshold in the bill to 30,000," Oroho said. "We are eliminating a mandate on small municipalities while making it easier for local governments to meet their statutory responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its residents. The more mandates from the State we can eliminate, the easier it will be for municipalities to control spending and hold the line on local property taxes."
Andover Borough first brought this idea to the attention of the 24th District legislators. Assemblymen Parker Space and Hal Wirths (both R-24) are sponsors of the companion bill in the Assembly.
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Malmö Konsthall was opened in 1975 and is one of Europe's largest exhibition halls for contemporary art. Architect Klas Anshelm has created an exhibition hall with great flexibility, generous space and fantastic light. The construction materials are light and simple: concrete, glass, wood and aluminium. Most of the gallery has a ceiling constructed like a latticework of 550 domes with both natural and artificial light sources. The height of the ceiling varies. The light well - with the higher ceiling - has a big sloping skylight towards the north. Klas Anshelm got inspiration for the construction when visiting the sculptor Constantin Brancusi in his Paris studio. The result is a gallery that is both functional and aesthetic. An exhibition space that presents the artist with endless possibilities.
Malmö Konsthall arranges exhibitions with an international focus which encompasses both the classics of modern art and current experiments.


"The AAMC and the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals are opposed to any policy that discourages people from pursuing medical care to which they are legally entitled. The proposed new rule would create a system where individuals are penalized for using health programs for which they legally qualify and could cause them to forgo crucial medical care, bringing with it all the health consequences that could follow.
Teaching hospitals treat a disproportionate share of Medicaid patients, and we know from firsthand experience that access to care is key to insuring that the nation's patients have the stability and continuity of care that leads to better health outcomes. Forgoing necessary care can turn treatable illnesses into more complex conditions that are more expensive and difficult to treat. While this can be disastrous for patients, it also can impact the stability of hospitals that are forced to shoulder the burden of increased costs and uncompensated care, which increases costs for the entire health care system.
In addition to restrictions on Medicaid usage, the proposed rule also could also impede access to housing and food, two social determinants of health, making existing health disparities even worse for many underserved populations. The nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals are dedicated to achieving health equity by improving population and community health and by making health care safer and more accessible, affordable, and equitable for all.


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Tunisia opens investigation into France terror attack suspect
Paris, France Published: Oct 30, 2020, 06.28 AM(IST)
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The knife-wielding Tunisian national shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday before being shot and taken away by police.
Tunisia has opened an investigation after reports that the suspect in the Nice attack is its national, the spokesman for a specialised counter-militancy court said on Thursday.
"The public prosecutor of the anti-terrorism court has opened a forensic investigation into the suspicion that a Tunisian committed a terrorist operation abroad," Mohsen Dali said.
Chief anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said the suspect in Thursday's attack was a Tunisian man born in 1999 who had arrived in Europe on September 20 in Lampedusa, the Italian island off Tunisia that is the main landing point for migrants from Africa.
A Tunisian security source and a French police source named the suspect as Brahim Aouissaoui.
Ricard told a news conference in Nice that the man had entered the city by train early on Thursday morning and made his way to the church, where he stabbed and killed the 55-year-old sexton and beheaded a 60-year-old woman.
He also stabbed a 44-year-old woman who fled to a nearby cafe where she raised the alarm before dying, Ricard said. Police then arrived and confronted the attacker, still shouting "Allahu Akbar", and shot and wounded him.
The attack came just under two weeks after a middle-school teacher in a Paris suburb was beheaded by an 18-year-old attacker who was apparently incensed by the teacher showing a carton of the Prophet Mohammad in class.
To this end, President Emmanuel Macron said France would deploy thousands more soldiers to protect important sites such as places of worship and schools, as the country's security alert was raised to its highest level.
The suspect is in hospital in critical condition.
Tunisia's specialised counter-militancy court spokesman Mohsen Dali told Reuters that Aouissaoui was not listed by police there as a suspected militant.
Thursday's attack, on the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad, came at a time of growing Muslim anger at France's defence of the right to publish the cartoons, and protesters have denounced France in street rallies in several Muslim-majority countries.
US President Donald Trump voiced sympathy for the people of France after the attack. "America stands with our oldest Ally in this fight. These Radical Islamic terrorist attacks must stop immediately. No country, France or otherwise can long put up with it!" Trump said in a Twitter post.
Condemnations of the attack also came from Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, whose President Tayyip Erdogan earlier this week slammed Macron and France over displays of the Prophet Mohammad.
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If you've got a substantial amount of water in your hull after sailing in waves, chances are good that the bow end connection to your spinnaker pole tube is loose. Water should be pouring out the diamond into the cockpit when water enters the tube, but if the tube slides backward it goes straight below decks instead.
The board is flanked by gaskets on either side that help to keep water out. Replacing them can help keep water away from the seam between upper and lower hull pieces.
Sailing without your plugs in is slow and that's a fact.


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This under-35 crowd speaks "Light Warlpiri" almost exclusively.
In the remote village of Lajamanu, the Indigenous Warlpiri millennials of Australia's Northern Territory have devised a language of their own creation: a medley of traditional Warlpiri, Standard Australian English and Kriol, an Aussie brand of Creole.
It's what the kids are speaking, according to Atlas Obscura.
It's estimated that only about 350 to 450 people speak this unique language — which lacks both a future tense and a conventional written form.
The only known attempt of writing Light Warlpiri words so far has been displayed in true millennial fashion — on social media platforms such as in Instagram photo captions where always it's a dealer's choice of spelling and grammatical elements.


Yesterday, I got to thinking about my past week. It had a little bit of everything in it. Then it occurred to me that much of what happened during it, all tied together in a way. I'll talk about that at the end of this post, but first, here's what my week brought me.
Monday: After a full day of work, I went down to the Guest House of Milwaukee with my wife and another family. Guest House is a men's transitional housing and job placement facility in downtown Milwaukee. I hate to call it a homeless shelter, because it really is so much more than that. This is not just a bed and a meal, it's a program to get homeless, jobless men back into the workforce and living on their own. They help address addictions, mental health issues, abuse and other things.
Because my wife and I are not experts in those areas, we help where we can. She does the lion's share of the work - planning and shopping for food and then preparing it, whereas I show up and help serve the men when I can. We serve monthly, but lately she has been doing it twice a month as part of our church, CollectiveMKE. I can't say enough about how blessed we are by the responses and gratefulness of the guys at the shelter. They thank us profusely and help us where they can. We do this because it's the right thing to do, and we're the ones who end up coming away blessed.
Wednesday: The Waukesha Public Library hosted a presentation called The Hidden Impact of Racial Segregation in Waukesha County. It was presented by Reggie Jackson a teacher at Milwaukee Public Schools and head griot at the Black Holocaust Museum. His presentation, ideas and the statistics he brought to light were eye opening. I've always known Milwaukee was the most segregated city in the US, but what I learned was how it is as much a regional and even statewide issue as it is at the city level.
The talk even mentioned housing covenants drawn up in the 30's that are still actively on the books (though not legally enforced) today. These covenants restricted housing ownership in certain subdivisions and neighborhoods to whites only. More eye opening were some of the steps our government took (and is still subtly taking) to red line areas and restrict where low income housing could be built. The whole thing was shocking and sad.
And the part that I have the hardest time with is reconciling that I'm part of the problem. I moved to Waukesha in part to be closer to my job, but also because we had some criminal incidents near us (some racial, some not) when we lived on the East Side of Milwaukee. I might have been better served to stay and work toward better solutions than to just flee. But here I am. Now what can I do to make Waukesha a better place to live for all?
Mr. Jackson ended the message with hope giving the audience ideas on where they can make a difference. It begins with acceptance, understanding and getting to know one another. He said something to the effect of, "We all bleed the same when we're cut." That kind of sums it up.
Thursday: I went down to Summerfest for the first time in over 20 years on Thursday, primarily to hear my favorite band, The Church. My wife and a friend of ours and I ended up seeing not only them, but some old bands from our past, The Suburbs (an 80's band from Minneapolis), Soul Asylum (also from Minneapolis), Tommy Tutone (of 867-5309 fame), a Smiths cover band and a couple of local acts.
And it occurred to me how much I love the concert experience. It brings people together to share a common appreciation for a band. I have been to over 40 major concerts over the years and I've got a few more coming up yet this summer.
And so thinking my week through, I couldn't help but tie all of these activities to what I like to call the hippie ideals. All of these behaviors, for me personally anyway, came out of growing up in the 60's and 70's. I was taught to care for those with less, to love ALL people - especially those not like us, and to work toward a better world by staying educated, engaged and involved to social justice issues.
Even the concerts come out of the whole rock and roll awakenings of the 60's and 70's. Because as a generation that was born on Bob Dylan and Crosby Stills and Nash singing about change, action and revolution, we need to have fun too. And there's nothing better than live music to help with that. It brings people together and is the great equalizer. If you want to dance, black, white or brown, go for it. No judging here.
So, while I don't pretend to have been a hippie - I was a little young for that - I saw enough of the protests and riots and unrest to have it affect my world view. And I had brothers, sister and a mother who instilled some of the core values of the generation in me. We're all people and we're in this thing together.
While I don't feel like any one person can change the world, everyone can do a small part to change it and if we did, it'd be a much, much better place today. Because if we aren't living out what we learned during the dawning of the age of Aquarius, then we maybe never learned it in the first place.
Below are some links to help you become more involved.
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MORE TO SUPREME COURT'S NCAA DECISION THAN JUST SPORTS
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There has been a plethora of articles about the Supreme Court's 21 June 2021 decision upholding a decision that the restrictions imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on education-related compensation to student athletes violate the antitrust laws. Many have opined that the decision signals the death knell of the NCAA; others portend a wave of lawsuits by athletes against the NCAA and US universities. But for those not focused on such matters, the decision is important for the antitrust treatment of joint ventures and to general business decision-making.
In this regard, the NCAA is a joint venture: it comprises member universities that have joined together to create the rules and regulations associated with collegiate sports. There is nothing in the decision itself that would allow a reader to conclude that the Supreme Court has rejected the existence of the NCAA as a legitimate joint venture. While Justice Kavanagh did write a scathing concurring opinion that will be cited as questioning the premise of the NCAA, no other justices joined.
Importantly, with this understanding of the NCAA as a joint venture that serves a role in governing collegiate athletics, the focus was on the operating rules of that venture, i.e., the rules governing the compensation of student athletes. In studying this issue, a unanimous Supreme Court confirmed and articulated various key principles of antitrust jurisprudence, relying heavily on the famous Areeda antitrust treatise and Chicago School-oriented case precedent:
The Court confirmed that restraints associated with the operation of what may otherwise be viewed as a beneficial joint venture are subject to antitrust scrutiny. This has been part of the traditional analysis of joint ventures since the Department of Justice set forth such an analysis in the late 1970s, but really has its foundation in then-Judge Taft's ancillary restraints doctrine from the late 1800s.
The Court also confirmed that such restraints will ordinarily be analyzed under the so-called "rule of reason", which requires the factfinder to consider all of the facts surrounding the alleged restraints to determine whether, on balance, the restraint is anticompetitive. This continues a clear trend by the Court to embrace broad use of the rule of reason and avoid evidentiary shortcuts for analysis where the conduct at issue is not simply a naked restraint of trade.
The Court confirmed that alleged societal benefits of the restraint that are unrelated to the competitive effects will be ignored. This embracing of the consumer welfare standard will of course be somewhat anathema to many progressives (or at least a group of them) who seek to restore the importance of some of the original goals of antitrust, including the democratization of the economy.
And perhaps most importantly, the Court affirmed that "antitrust courts must give wide berth to business judgments before finding liability" and must be careful not to mistakenly condemn legitimate business practices which will "chill" the very conduct that the antitrust laws were meant to encourage. Again, this will be anathema to many progressives as they desire to broaden the scope of the application of the antitrust laws.
In this instance, none of these principles helped the NCAA, but their articulation should provide comfort to the business community, particularly in an environment of potentially transformative change to antitrust enforcement at the federal level.
At the same time, the case reinforces an important lesson that harkens back to the Supreme Court's 1985 Aspen Skiing decision – when a company (or joint venture) makes important changes to the way that it is doing business that may have an impact on others, it must pause and ensure that those changes are justifiable from an antitrust standpoint. It should also think more broadly and question whether those changes undermine the rationales given for other behaviors. Again, it does not appear that the NCAA engaged in this type of soul-searching, and it was left with a relatively thin defense of the conduct before the Supreme Court. As recounted below, the Supreme Court called out the fact that the NCAA did not change its alleged restraints with reference to the goals of promoting consumer demand for college sports – the NCAA's justification for the restraints in the first instance. Indeed, the Court noted that the court below had found that some of the restraints were not at all necessary to preserve that demand.
A group of current and former college football and basketball athletes at the largest universities (so-called "Division I" schools) brought suit challenging the NCAA's rules that restricted payments to and other methods of compensation for the athletes as illegal price-fixing. Broadly speaking, the NCAA defended these charges on the grounds that the limits were necessary to preserve the amateur nature of collegiate sports, a distinct product for which there is obvious and substantial demand.
District court decision
After a 10-day trial before a district court judge, the judge upheld the NCAA's rules relating to athletic scholarships and other compensation relating to athletic performance. It condemned, however, the NCAA rules that limited education-related benefits (including internships, scholarships for graduate or vocational school and tutoring). Critical to these rulings were its findings that the NCAA had "near complete dominance of, and exercise[d] monopsony power" in the market for "athletic services" in Division I football and basketball and that the NCAA's limits on compensation produced anticompetitive effects (i.e., in a competitive market, athletes would receive higher compensation). Weighed against these anticompetitive effects were the NCAA's justifications for the limits. The NCAA had claimed that the limits increased output of college sports and that the preservation of "amateurism" benefited consumers. The district court rejected the first justification and accepted the second, even though the alleged benefits flowed to people other than the affected athletes and hence were in a different market from the alleged restraint.
Faced with a lack of evidence to support that the restrictions affected consumer demand, the court conceded that the rules limiting compensation relating to athletics did help differentiate collegiate sports from professional sports. As such, the district court found limitations on athletic scholarships and payments related to athletic performance to be reasonable in preserving that distinction. But the district court drew the line when it came to education-related benefits, such as payments for tutoring or scholarships for graduate school, since such education-related matters would not likely affect consumers' perception of the amateur status of collegiate athletes. The district court entered an injunction consistent with its finding. The district court's ruling, and the scope of its injunction, were affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The student athlete plaintiffs did not appeal the ruling regarding the restriction on athletic scholarships and payments, but the NCAA sought a Supreme Court review of the ruling on education-related benefits.
In a unanimous decision written by Justice Gorsuch, the Supreme Court upheld the lower courts' rulings and the scope of its injunction. It is somewhat remarkable how truly narrow the decision was. The Court made clear that it did not need address, among other things:
the propriety of the NCAA justifying the restraint on the athlete labor market by claims of benefits in the market for the consumers (viewers) of collegiate sports;
that the NCAA has monopsony (buyer) power in the athlete labor market; and
that the NCAA's restraints on education-related benefits have decreased price and lowered output (the harms of the exercise of monopsony power).
Thus, before the Supreme Court even began its analysis, the Court noted that "this suit involves admitted horizontal price fixing in a market where the defendants exercise monopoly control". This setting undoubtedly colored the analysis that followed: it very much laid bare the NCAA's core defense that, as the rule-making body for collegiate athletics, it was entitled to broad latitude, approaching immunity, for setting those rules. It was this defense that the Court picked apart in a very fact-specific application of traditional antitrust principles.
The Court began its own analysis by addressing the NCAA's assertion that the courts below had erred in applying the so-called "rule of reason", the "'fact-specific assessment of market power and market structure' aimed at assessing the challenged restraint's 'actual effect on competition . . . '". In rejecting the NCAA's request for application of what has been called a "quick look" analysis to confirm that the NCAA's rules were consistent with the antitrust laws, the Court said that the NCAA's admitted market power would preclude such a truncated approval. The Court distinguished between the education-related benefit rules and other potential NCAA rules, noting that the alleged restraints at issue were not necessary to allow the sport contests to proceed in the first instance. Hence, the Court found that a more complete analysis was appropriate.
The NCAA also took issue with the way in which the district court had applied the rule of reason. Here, its principal complaint appeared to be that district court had required the NCAA to show that each individual rule was the least restrictive means of achieving the result sought by the rule. The Supreme Court took exception to that argument, suggesting that the district court's analysis had not been perfect but had been a fair rendition of the method of analysis that the Court had set forth in its American Express decision several years ago.
Of particular note was the Court's rejection of the NCAA's argument that the district court had "redefined" what it meant to be an amateur athlete. The Court explained that the NCAA was attempting to avoid antitrust scrutiny by defining an "amateur" with reference to the restraints at issue. Instead, the district court had been required to determine whether the NCAA's restraints "harmed competition and whether any procompetitive benefits associated with [the] restraints could be achieved by 'substantially less restrictive alternative' means". The Court noted that the district court had found that the NCAA itself did not have a consistent definition of an amateur athlete and that:
the rules on compensation had changed significantly over time;
the rules were established "without any reference to 'considerations of consumer demand,'"; and
some rules "were 'not necessary to preserve consumer demand'".
The NCCA presented other arguments to overturn the result and the injunction, but the Supreme Court patiently rejected each of them, leaving the district court's decision and injunction against the education-related restrictions standing.
The NCAA decision will undoubtedly generate additional litigation, and Justice Kavanaugh's strongly worded concurring opinion invites as much. Moreover, the many new state statutes (some of which take effect as early as 1 July 2021) allow for payments to successful college athletes for use of their images and likenesses. This important development seems likely to throw the whole issue of compensation for "amateur" athletes in turmoil, while potentially diluting the future role of the NCAA.
Therefore, in the end, the lasting consequences of Supreme Court's NCAA decision may be both inside and outside of the collegiate sports world. This unanimous decision should, at a minimum, cause multi-party joint ventures to re-examine the venture's operating rules which could be alleged to restrain competition among members to ensure that such rules are factually defensible and consistent with the procompetitive purposes of the joint venture.
At the same time, companies may take comfort that in a time of tremendous turmoil in the antitrust sphere, primarily generated by the big digital platforms, the Supreme Court has warmly embraced a fairly traditional, and predictable, approach to Sherman Act analysis of horizontal restraints among competitors.
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Fixed rate mortgages saw a significant drop in costs in the last 12 months compared to five years ago, data found.
Two-year fixed rates saw a 24% reduction in costs, while a five and three-year fixed product came down in costs by 21 and 13% respectively, according to Mortgage Brain's latest product data analysis.
The cost of a 90% LTV two-year fixed is now eight per cent lower than it was this time last year.
And 90% LTV five and three-year fixed rates cost two per cent less than they did at the beginning of January 2018.
The price of a two, three and five year 60% LTV fixed rate product is also down by up to 10% over the same period.
In monetary terms, the eight per cent reduction in cost over the past 12 months equates to an annual saving of £612 on a £150k mortgage.
Compared to five years ago, borrowers face a potential annual saving of £2,214 for the 90% two-year fixed, and £2,052 and £1,152 for the five and three-year products, respectively.
However, Mortgage Brain's short-term analysis showed little movement with mortgage costs for the majority of mainstream products since the beginning of October 2018.
Of those reviewed, only a two year tracker saw a movement in cost with a 60% LTV product down by 0.5% and a 70% and 80% LTV product up by the same amount.
Mark Lofthouse, CEO of Mortgage Brain (pictured), said that while there is little to get excited about in terms of rate and cost movement over the past three months, the UK mortgage market has shown some big improvements over the past few years.
Legal & General Home Finance has rolled out its income lifetime mortgage to the market.


En route to a dear friend's wedding, I came down to south early this week in the name of TCB: seeing Miss Ann Marie's new digs in DC and handling some doctor's visit nitty gritty (did you know that under the small provisions of Obamacare that have already been enacted my insurance is required to cover my lady-doctor checkups!? Pretty stellar considering how essential these things are. But I digress.). It has been glorious Indian Summer in Virginia, maples just starting to change, the last yellow wildflowers and British Soldiers brimming over well kept yards and highway medians alike, beautyberries shining purple, zero humidity (!), and glorious sunsets. Last night we went out to the original Jamestown landing site for a party. Bluegrass (played by my dad's band, featuring the head archeologist for the active Jamestown dig on banjo), BBQ, and this view through the magnolias. This 1607 landing spot was the place of the first permanent English settlement in America, where the first vote was cast, the first beads traded, the first oyster eaten. Yesterday it seemed as if they may have picked this location for its beauty, its softness and light. But, then you've gotta think they picked this spot essentially because this island is the only place on the James river between the Chesapeake and the impassible fall line at Richmond where they could pull their boats right up to the land, tie their bowlines to the trees, and hop ashore. In essence, and perhaps with the most American impulse of all, they stopped here because it had the best parking. In fact, I think that's why New York wasn't settled until 1625, those guys had to keep circling the block looking for a spot.
haha… awesome. As a native Virginian and now BK resident… I totally hear you. love it!
The only saving grace of Brooklyn parking is the apparently totally-allowable-middle-of-the-street-U-turn. When I come back down to VA, I execute "Brooklyn U-ies" with abandon and get looks of horror from my passengers. Ahh, the alternate side!
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As we get further away from the April 1 Spurring Education Energy Day, I get more introspective about what we accomplished on that one day in April.
To be honest, it has taken that long to get back to normal. This event was a first of its kind for our industry. STEER company members worked tirelessly to build an experience for almost 1,000 students and teachers that was fun and engaging. But, also, that taught them about the skills needed to work in the oil and gas industry.
The range of students was massive and wide reaching. Students from the Rio Grande Valley, Coastal Bend, Eagle Ford South Texas Region and San Antonio came to the arena our San Antonio Spurs play to check out our event.
They had various backgrounds, some came from STEM school and some had never seen a pump jack in their lives. But, they all shared one thing in common. They were all polite, engaged, and left inspired. And, in return, we left inspired as well. The past two years has been hard on the oil and gas workers. Those who have been fortunate to keep their jobs, feel the loss of their comrades. This event helped to remind us why we do what we do for a living and pay it forward.
When we first thought of this event, I was unsure if we could actually pull it off. No one had done something like this. I couldn't be more proud of our companies' willingness to participate, and so proud of the teachers and students for traveling from near and far.
I thought I would be relieved when the stress of this event was over, that I could get back to my "day job" traveling throughout South Texas educated about our industry and engaging in the community. I thought that if we inspired one child to graduate from high school and enter in a STEM career, we would call this event a success. Boy, was I in for a surprise, a beautiful surprise.
Over the past few weeks, teachers and students have been sending us the most amazing feedback and thank you notes to our STEER and our companies. The cherry on top was a video and signed photo from the School of Science and Technology Main in San Antonio. Thank you Nancy Thompson for introducing us to your amazing teachers and students. I will treasure this gift for years to come.
All the worrying, stressing and planning (and replanning) to make this event a success was worth it because of what came out of the event. Encouraging students to look into a STEM career, and hopefully end up in the oil and gas industry. Now, it is back on the road for this oil and gas woman.
If you want to learn more about the event, check out our recap video from the Spurring Education Energy Day by clicking here.


Last week, Bruce Muller, a branding agent, founded an initiative called 'Awake SA', a website and Facebook community dedicated to 'waking up' white South Africans to their privilege. According to a News24 article, Muller founded the project in response to recent events in South African society, amongst which the Penny Sparrow-Chris Hart-Gareth Cliff fiasco is, apparently, included. The vehicle for this 'waking up' is a 'Pledge' in which white South Africans 'acknowledge' their privilege, dedicate themselves to fighting racism, and 'giving back' to the community.
We, the authors, are writing this article in response to what Awake SA seeks to do, and what they have published since their establishment. Inspired by their calls for open and honest engagement, we will address what they regard to be one of South Africa's biggest problems, referring specifically to their arguments, and also to those forwarded by critical race theorists in general.
Calls for open and honest engagement on the topic of race and identity, and the role it plays within the South African context, have been widespread since the end of the Apartheid era. However, it is often forgotten, or overlooked, that race and identity have been critically interrogated during the lifespan of the former regime. Entities such as the Institute of Race Relations and the then-Progressive Federal Party did not come to the conclusion that all individual South Africans, regardless of race or ethnicity, should be treated equally in the face of just law, on a whim. The black consciousness movement was also founded during the height of the National Party's power. It is therefore important, going forward, for us to acknowledge that race has been discussed and hotly debated (both constructively and destructively) within South African civil society.
Awake SA's goal of making South Africans more politically-conscious is laudable; this objective is largely shared by the Rational Standard. Moreover, issues of race can be significant, and should be explored in an open and honest manner – as they have been before. Awake SA's manner of doing things, however, seems backwards: taking the 'Pledge', as the website suggests, is a pre-requisite for joining their community and learning more about white privilege. This is problematic for any initiative or project which aims to educate and facilitate introspection, since it appears to pre-emptively define the boundaries (and perhaps, conclusions) of thought and opinion, rather than allow exploration and independent learning.
It is important to consider how Awake SA intends to facilitate an open and honest discussion around white privilege if, from the outset, it requires engaging whites to acknowledge their white privilege. If the participants acknowledge their privilege and declare their intention to help with the combating of racism and the advancing of social justice, is the exercise not futile? Indeed, it appears as if Awake SA simply seeks to gather pledges. Any pledger who rejects the notion of white privilege after having 'signed up' and internalised the underlying theory advanced by Awake SA, exposes himself to accusations of hypocrisy. This, ostensibly at least, appears to negate the idea that these discussions will be 'open' and 'honest'.
This raises an important question: to what extent will dissenting views (if at all) be tolerated? Dissenting viewpoints are important in discussion and education – which Awake SA seeks to facilitate – and present a healthy opportunity for both sides of a debate to strengthen their arguments.
"It is the view that it is impossible to be incorrect about the reality of 'white privilege' or one's attribution of it to particular cases. Anyone who disbelieves in it does not see the issue clearly enough, or cynically benefits from it, or endorses white privilege.
Are we allowed to come to the conclusion that white privilege does not exist? Or may we perhaps conclude that white privilege is not a problem? Can we say either of these things without being considered, as a default position, ignorant or malicious? If Awake SA's answer is 'yes', then it is clear that it is committed to an honest discussion on the topic. If the answer is 'no', then Awake SA has predetermined the outcome of its initiative, which has the effect that it is not a 'discussion' or an 'engagement', but rather a lecture.
This section of our argument will not touch directly upon anything that Awake SA is claiming. Instead, we believe this is relevant to the broader context of the 'social justice' community to which Awake SA ostensibly belongs.
Advocates of social justice have claimed, quite consistently, that the South African press media act as defenders of the status quo, which is likely considered to be the system of 'white supremacy'. A basic understanding of Marxian theory would reveal the parallels: white supremacy is the 'base', and the media is part of the 'superstructure' which supports the base. Part of this superstructure, of course, is the business community, the Democratic Alliance, AfriForum, the court system, and according to some, even the African National Congress government.
In Marxian theory and its derivatives, society comprises a 'base' and a 'superstructure'. In terms of racial power relations, this composition is thought to be as shown in the diagram.
However, we have discovered quite the opposite to be true. Awake SA's establishment was reported in News24 within a week of its founding. News24, as we know, is a subsidiary of Naspers – a company often accused of being a financial beneficiary of Apartheid. It has been referred to as an Afrikaner megacorporation. Nonetheless, here is a guardian of white Afrikaner monopoly capital, giving good press to an initiative which seeks to expose the very foundation it wants to protect! And, certainly, this is not a once-off occurrence: News24 Voices has been the host to many a social justice advocate's essay, and these have, in fact, come to dominate the opinion-editorial columns of most of the South African press media.
Building on the dominance of the social justice narrative in the press media is its widespread support in intellectual circles. This is not necessarily limited to academics at public universities, but includes civic 'thought leaders' and community activists, such as the founders of Awake SA. We are of the opinion that this school of thought is certainly not marginalized, and represents the intellectual status quo.
Indeed, Awake SA's initiative is predicated on the idea that social conflict along racial lines is at a zenith. This, too, is indicative of the Marxian roots of Awake SA's underlying point of departure. 'Class conflict' is a central theory in Marx and Engels' works, and purportedly exists on a perpetual basis between socio-economic classes. It is accepted that this 'conflict' has the potential to turn violent. Neither of these scholars pointed to a tangible example of what was described in the class conflict conception, though, and there has also not been such an instance since their death. An entire philosophical movement, known as the Frankfurt School ('Critical Theory'), was established to examine and explain why this conflict never erupted.
Nonetheless, intellectuals and civil society in South Africa have transposed this notion of class conflict onto the race debate, and have long since accepted its premises. Clearly, Awake SA is of the opinion that a state of 'social conflict' exists between white and black South Africans. The Institute of Race Relations reported earlier this year that the majority of South Africans, of all races, believe that race relations have improved since the end of the Apartheid era. On the ground, in schools, in friend circles and on the street, there is no 'social conflict'. The 'conflict' exists in statistics based on false premises, in academic studies, and only according to certain academic theories. Indeed, when Oxfam reported recently that a very small minority of the world's population owned the majority of the world's wealth, no riots or outrage occurred among the common man, but only among those with an academic interest in it. While inequality may present various issues, none of them are based in 'conflict', or in race.
Marx paradoxically spoke about the inevitability of class conflict and struggle, while insisting that it was the role of intellectuals to create the 'consciousness' needed to bring about the opposition. Those intellectuals who would paint race relations in South Africa as being significantly worse than they are, run the risk of fulfilling that role – thereby manufacturing the conflict themselves.
We have not gone to great lengths to address Awake SA's specific arguments related to white privilege in this article. However, this is intentional. This piece stands to set the tone for the open and honest debate we hope to have with initiatives such as Awake SA and its partners on the concept of white privilege. We have addressed two central points we believe must be stated at the outset of the engagement: the premise of 'open and honest' discussion, and the fact that we do not engage from a dominant and widely-supported perspective. We believe we offer an alternative narrative to that which currently dominates. One thing is for certain: the debate around white privilege is, contrary to popular opinion, far from settled.
Authors: Haussamer is an actuarial science student at the University of Cape Town, and Van Staden is a law student at the University of Pretoria.


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From the earlier poll, I am actually 23.
derp I already forgot what I voted haha it was 21 or 23 but I think I actually voted 21. Maybe I should ask some people how old I am haha.
And the obvious answer is bacon, come on now.
Bacon is disgusting. You can have mine.
Sounds like a brilliant plan Ronao.
Nevermind, Ahk ate them. He took it when I was not looking. Sneaky thing. You can have pretty much anythibg elee though. Not the steak. I want that.
u.u okay then. I'll eat every single fruit you have then because everyone knows fruits are most definitely a whole level above any other food in the universe.


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Program ended with exit code: 87

Does anyone know what this exit code refers too. Google isn't helping much.
UPDATE: I have found that this was being caused when I was trying to call
[mutArray objectForIndex:indexpath.row]

and the index was outside the range of the array.
The stacktrace didn't include anything else besides the code 87 message. Also the console window didn't even slide up when the app crashed. Not very useful I guess. Anyone know how to make it more useful in these situations?

A: "Anyone know how to make it more useful in these situations?"
First, use CMD-SHIFT-R in XCode to show the console window.  You should have seen an error message about accessing an array with an out of bounds index.
Also, use CMD-Y to build & debug (vice CMD-R to build & run) your app.  If it crashes, you will be in the debugger (CMD-SHIFT-Y for debug window) with the exact line of code that crashes, as well as a stack trace, all your variables, etc.


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Thomas 'Tom' Albert Azinger (born July 2, 1935, in Parkersburg, West Virginia) is an American politician and former Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. He represented District 10 from January 1995 until his retirement in 2014.

Education
Azinger earned his BS degree from West Virginia University.

Elections
2012 Azinger placed second in the three-way May 8, 2012 Republican Primary with 3,355 votes (35.4%), and placed first in the four-way three-position November 6, 2012 General election with 12,955 votes (27.1%) ahead of incumbent Republican Representative John Ellem, Democratic Representative Daniel Poling, and Republican perennial candidate Frederick Gillespie, who had run for the seat in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010.
1990s Azinger was initially elected in the 1994 Republican Primary and the November 8, 1994 General election, and re-elected in the November 5, 1996 General election.
1998 Azinger placed in the four-way 1998 Republican Primary and was re-elected in the seven-way three-position November 3, 1998 General election with Democratic incumbent J. D. Beane and Republican nominee Gene Modesitt.
2000 Azinger placed in the four-way 2000 Republican Primary and was re-elected in the six-way three-position November 7, 2000 General election with incumbents Beane (D) and Modesitt (R).
2002 Azinger placed in the five-way 2002 Republican Primary and was re-elected in the six-way three-position November 5, 2002 General election with incumbents Beane (D) and Ellem (R), who had been appointed to replace Modesitt.
2004 Azinger placed in the five-way 2004 Republican Primary and was re-elected in the six-way three-position November 2, 2004 General election with incumbents Beane (D) and Ellem (R).
2006 Azinger placed in the four-way 2006 Republican Primary and was re-elected in the six-way three-position November 7, 2006 General election with incumbents Beane (D) and Ellem (R).
2008 When Representative Beane left the Legislature and appointed Representative Daniel Poling (D) ran for re-election, Azinger placed first in the seven-way May 13, 2008 Republican Primary with 3,109 votes (23.9%), and placed first in the six-way three-position November 4, 2008 General election with 11,067 votes (19.2%) ahead of incumbent Representatives Ellem (R) and Poling (D).
2010 Azinger placed first in the eight-way May 11, 2010 Republican Primary with 2,613 votes (21.4%), and placed second in the four-way three-position November 2, 2010 General election with 9,853 votes (26.8%) behind incumbent Ellem (R) and ahead of incumbent Poling (D) and Republican nominee Frederick Gillespie.

References

External links
Official page at the West Virginia Legislature

Tom Azinger at Ballotpedia
Tom Azinger at OpenSecrets

1935 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the West Virginia House of Delegates
Politicians from Parkersburg, West Virginia
People from Vienna, West Virginia
West Virginia University alumni
21st-century American politicians

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Caitlin Lynagh
The Soul Prophecies Series
About Caitlin
Caitlin Lynagh was born in Cardiff in 1992, and has lived in or has relatives in nearly every corner of Britain. Her love of fantasy, science and general curiosity of the unknown, inspired her to write her first two novels, Anomaly and Hidden Variables, later combined into one novel 'Another Path'.
Her third novel, 'Lost Frequencies' is due to be published on November 19th and Caitlin is currently working on her fifth novel.
She now lives in a little town in Cumbria on the edge of the Lake District, and works part time at a large second-hand bookshop. When she isn't reading, writing or drinking tea, Caitlin gives writing advice and writes blogs at the 'Diary Of A Young Writer'.
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The Soul Prophecies Series includes: Lost Frequencies, Anomaly and Hidden Variables (Another Path), and finally Quantum Messenger (not yet published).
I never intended to write a series, but when I began writing Anomaly, I realised there was far too much information, story and too many characters for just one book. At that point I didn't realise that there would be four novels, but I tried my best to write each book so that they could be read in any order and as standalone novels too. I'm a fairly creative person with a big imagination, but I could have never imagined how hard it would be to write a book. My respect for authors and their craft has grown exponentially over the years, and I strive to get better at writing and telling stories with every novel I publish.
Anomaly was a personal novel for me, and when I embarked on this first novel I decided then and there that I wanted to write books that not only told good stories but also challenged our beliefs and understanding. I wanted to ask questions and to get my readers thinking, whilst also providing an interesting and fascinating book to read. This turned out to be much easier said than done, and I don't know if I have of if I ever will achieve these goals.
Anomaly follows Kyle Hunter's story, and challenges his beliefs over life and death. He finds himself asking questions about religion and science, and what it means to be alive, whilst facing up to his tragic past and all the things he has lost.
Hidden Variables follows Sophia Leto's story and challenges her beliefs over what it means to be a good person. She discovers that there is a blurred line between good and bad and that our emotions control all of our decisions.
Lost Frequencies follows Zerren, Ehi and Ahrl on their ancient planet Iyeeka. They find themselves questioning their beliefs over life, death and time as they travel across their world in search of a way to save their species from complete extinction.
Quantum Messenger follows Apollo, a sentient artificial intelligence who discovers emotion and thought, and questions what it all means. He witnesses all the good and bad of humanity and struggles to come to terms with the mortality of humans.
As an unexpected but happy consequence of writing this series, I have found that some members of the science community have been interested in some of my science-based ideas from Anomaly. For more information about this please visit https://thesaganist.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/could-dark-energy-be-another-dimension-of-time/
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Is the professional moving company Toronto registered?
Unless the company is authorized to practice, you should not depend on it for packing and moving your things. There are several regulatory bodies that run a thorough check and issue license to the movers. Hence, it is mandatory as a consumer to ask if the mover can produce you the certificate to confirm their authenticity. Without the confirmation, you should not proceed in hiring the services.
What things will be covered in moving?
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There are professional movers who will only help you with loading and deliver your things to the destination. However, only the best movers will assist you in systematic packing, loading, and ship the things. Furthermore, they will even help you unpack and arrange the things. This is why you should be talking with the executives and knowing what kind of assistance would they offer you with.
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The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently launched a new joint initiative: the HIV Health Improvement Affinity Group. The HIV Health Improvement Affinity Group will bring together state public health and Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) agencies to collaboratively improve health outcomes for Medicaid and CHIP enrollees living with HIV by identifying opportunities to strengthen the HIV care continuum among these populations.
Builds stronger relationships among state Medicaid/CHIP programs, state public health departments, and other partners (e.g., primary care associations (PCAs), federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), local health departments, and other relevant public and private entities).
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This study presents a unique islanding detection and optimal load shedding scheme for radial distribution systems integrated with dispersed generation (DG). A straightforward and effective passive islanding detection method is developed based on the phase-area technique and employing a probabilistic neural network-based classifier. Once the system detects unintentional islanding state, it utilises an optimal load shedding scheme to prevent system collapse thanks to load-generation mismatch and voltage instability encountered in the islanded part of the system. The optimal load shedding theme is developed primarily based on the backtracking search algorithm. Extensive tests conducted with the DigSilent Power Factory® software and MATLAB® software on the IEEE 33-bus system with four DG units considering many eventualities of islanding condition were utilised to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed islanding detection methodology and also the optimal load shedding scheme. The results showed that the proposed method can effectively detect the islanding events and stabilise the islanded part of the system with minimum load curtailment.


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Cape Breton sports quick reads - Dec. 20, 2021
Eagles' prospect debut, former Caper honoured, Ellis in action, former Cape Breton hockey exec dies, Yankees win Little League title
Jeremy Fraser | Posted: Dec. 20, 2021, 11:45 a.m. | Updated: Dec. 21, 2021, 5:51 p.m. | 4 Min Read
On Sept. 23, the Yankees captured Sydney Mines and District Little League's major division playoff championship, ending a very close series with the Red Sox at the Nicole Meany Memorial Ball Park. Front row, from left, Jude Petite and Brett MacMillan. Second row, from left, Matthew MacInnis, Alex Compton, Nicholas Eveleigh, and Michael Forrest. Third row, from left, Nathan Ivey, Seth Compton, Maia MacDougall, Breton Taylor, and Nole Murray. Back row, from left, Shane Petite (coach), Ryan Ivey (coach), and Matthew Eveleigh (coach). Missing from the photo was Dave Compton (coach). PHOTO CONTRIBUTED/DOUG IVEY. - Contributed
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — A Cape Breton Eagles prospect made his Quebec Major Junior Hockey League debut against the Charlottetown Islanders on Saturday.
Forward Nolan Stewart was called up by the team for the club's final game before the Christmas break, which happened to be in his home province of Prince Edward Island.
The Montague, P.E.I. product had no points and a minis-1 rating and two hits. He was 1-for-2 in faceoffs.
The 17-year-old Stewart is currently playing with the Charlottetown Bulk Carriers Knights of the New Brunswick/Prince Edward Island Under-18 Major Hockey League. In 17 games, he has eight goals and 18 points with 60 penalty minutes.
Stewart is a 10th round pick of the Eagles at the 2020 QMJHL Entry Draft.
Cape Breton Capers standout inducted into Newfoundland, Labrador Soccer Association hall of fame
Cape Breton Capers women's soccer standout Sarah Drake was recently inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Soccer Association hall of fame as part of the class of 2020.
Drake played for Cape Breton University in the late 1990s and early 2000s and during her time was recognized as an Atlantic and Canadian university most valuable player and first team all-star. The Bruin, N.L., product was also an Atlantic University Sport top scorer and rookie of the year.
In 2003, Drake was named to Team Canada for the World University Games in Seoul, South Korea.
Other inductees into the NLSA hall of fame for 2020 include Jennifer Andrews, Sarah Arnott, Scott Betts, Keith Jackman, Pat Marshall, and Dragan Mirkovic.
In other NLSA hall of fame news, Debbie (Hunt) Shortall, mother of Cape Breton Eagle defenceman Conor Shortall, was inducted into the hall of fame as an athlete for 2021. She's joined by Jeremy Babstock (athlete/builder), Scott, Bishop (athlete), Richard Kelly (athlete), and Jeff Warren (athlete).
The women Capers play the Acadia Axewomen at 4:30 p.m., while the men face the New Brunswick Reds at 7 p.m. in Atlantic University Sport championship semifinal soccer action on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. - Contributed
Former Cape Breton Eagle head scout, hockey operations director dies
A former member of the Cape Breton Eagles organization has died.
Gary Lesage passed away earlier this month. The cause of his death and age was unknown at publication time.
Lesage worked with the Eagles organization for more than 10 years, beginning in the late1990s. He served as the club's head scout and later the hockey operations director.
Defenceman Morgan Ellis walks to the ice as a member of Kolner Haie for a German Ice Hockey League (DEL) during the 2018-19 season. - Contributed
Former Cape Breton Eagle Ellis, Team Canada finish Channel One Cup
A former Cape Breton Eagle defenceman wrapped up the Channel One Cup with Team Canada on Saturday.
Morgan Ellis and the Canadian club finished the tournament with a 4-1 loss to Team Finland at CSKA Arena in Moscow.
Ellis finished the tournament with one assist in three games. Meanwhile, the Canadians completed the event with a 1-2 record, the club's only win coming against Team Sweden on Friday.
The 29-year-old Ellis played three-and-a-half seasons with the Eagles from 2008 to 2012 before being traded to the Shawinigan Cataractes in 2012.
This season, the Prince Edward Island product is suiting up for Eisbären Berlin of the DEL in Germany. In 26 games, he has a goal and five points with a +10 rating.
Yankees win Sydney Mines and District Little League major championship
On Sept. 23, the Yankees captured Sydney Mines and District Little League's major division playoff championship, ending a very close series with the Red Sox at the Nicole Meany Memorial Ball Park.
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My first experience with OS was way, way, way back in my 20s. I was working with a psychotherapist at that time to get help for clinical depression and a lot of anxiety. He gave me an assignment at the beginning of our work together. The assignment was to write down everything I did for three days in the order I did them. If I multi-tasked, he wanted me to write each thing beside the other(s) in the same time slot.
When I came back the next week to review my assignment with him, he nearly fell off his chair. "You need about nine people's days to tackle what you are trying to do in just one day of the one life you have been given," he admonished. He helped me untangle my to-do list and make only the commitments that I could keep at that point in my life and still leave room for things I simply did because I enjoyed them. I came to see that my depression and anxiety was self inflicted.
But I did not learn my lesson yet.
I repeated the same scenario in my third decade, in my fourth decade, and now, in the opening years my fifth decade. Except now, the end result of this propensity wasn't depression or anxiety (although they were along for the ride, too). No, the end result has been cancer. This is why I am writing about this now: there is a direct link between a lack of "self care" and the development of the most serious conditions which arise as a result of a suppressed immune system. Doctors and research studies around the world all agree: stress kills.
I think our digital age makes it even harder to stay in touch with the things our physical bodies need from us and easier to lose track of the things we mean to do, but don't actually do long enough to create a habit out of them. We have become Big Brains, connected to the world online like never before, completely networked into this worldwide, digital brain. And not just at work anymore, it's from the moment our eyes fly open to the second they shut tight at the end of the day, even as we are still reading our posts, Pinterest, Instagram, BBC, or whatever it is you read. We are sitting (sometimes even lying) in front of large and small screens for hours, with nothing moving except our eyes and maybe our fingertips — for HOURS, and days, and weeks, and months, and years. Some of us (I'll admit it) even take our device into the WC in the middle of the night to see what we may be missing while we take that biological break that woke us up in the first place!
Except that we are NOT Big Brains, and we certainly are not digital entities, even though we may act like we have lost sight of that version of reality. We are conscious, sentient beings inside of a very physical, analog "machine," if you will. And if our machines are not take care of the way they need to be in order to continue functioning well, life will not turn out for us the way we envision.
1. Move. Your lymphatic system, one of the anchors of your immune system, gets sluggish when you sit still hour after hour, day after day. And getting up to go to the fridge is not enough movement! It is simple to take time every fifteen minutes to stand up and bounce in place, walk around your office or cubicle, march in place, anything to get your blood flow going and your lymphatic pump activated. The next time you are sitting in front of your computer or socializing on your mobile device, just pay conscious attention to how much time passes while you are there. That Big Brain can completely lose track of time, and before you know it, two hours will have passed!
2. Breathe. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Of course you are breathing while you are alive. It's automatic. But what's not automatic is HOW you breathe when you are caught up in the Big Brain. Most of the time, if you check in with yourself, you are breathing shallowly. Or, worse yet, you are holding your breath a good part of the time. Congratulations: this is the #1 way to stimulate the body-machine to kick in the hormones and neuropeptides that communicate to the systems of the machine that there is danger, shut down all non-essential systems, and get ready to run!!! Or fight!!! Save yourself! And one of the non-essential systems in this body state is your immune function.
3. Drink water. It's so common to look at what we have beside us all day and see coffee, tea, or soda. And do you even realize that Big Brain absently uses the body-machine to reach out from time to time for a sip or two of those beverages, perhaps never even ONCE in the day pouring a glass of still water for the poor machine? Guess what, just like your car, your body-machine does not run on coffee, tea, or soda. It runs on pure water! Water is used by the lymph system to create that strong lymphatic flow that is needed to keep your immune system alert and on guard.
4. Practice good sleep hygiene. Most of us have no idea how important the hormone Melatonin is to our body-machine. And we aren't aware that having lights on right up until bedtime (or watching TV, using the computer or mobile devices) suppresses the production of Melatonin. Not aware of this at all. In order for your body-machine to reset itself every night (which is really what this machine needs to do), we have to keep lights off the hour or two before we are going to sleep, use the night mode on our devices, and make sure we are good and asleep by the time our body-machine's factory setting initiates its reset process: 11 PM. You like Jimmy Fallon? So do I. That's why DVR is such a wonderful thing. Use it and get your body-machine in bed and let it sleep.
I hope you will heed these tips, so you will get the most out of what is actually the most amazing device you have. Take care of your body-machine. You only get the one.
To learn more about using your Big Brain to keep your body-machine in tip-top shape, please read anything written by the amazing Dr. Daniel Amen. He is the Brain Doc!


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