Saint Louis FC announced another addition to the 2018 roster Monday with the signing of defender Jonathon Barden. The defender spent last season in Canada with Otttawa Fury FC. Fans of the local United Soccer League club may remember some of his work from last season.
Barden is the latest signing by the club this offseason. The club will begin its fourth season in the United Soccer League (USL), the second tier of professional soccer in the United States, in March.
STLFC will enter the 2018 USL campaign under first-year head coach Anthony Pulis, who takes over for the departed Preki.
Jonathan Barden has been signed by Saint Louis FC of the United Soccer League.
Jonathan Barden appeared in 27 matches for Ottawa last season, recording a lone goal. That goal, of course came against Saint Louis FC.
Officially listed as a midfielder/defender, he showed off his offensive skills in the 38th minute on September 3 in Ottawa. Barden beat STLFC's Ryan Howe along the sideline before dribbling into the penalty area. He made a quick move to avoid a sliding Ivan Mirkovic before beating Devala Gorrick on the short side.
.@jbarden100 has signed with @SaintLouisFC.
Barden grew up in Harrow, England and spent his youth years playing in West London for the Wealdstone FC youth system.
His soccer career brought him stateside in 2011 to play collegiately at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He made 65 starts over four years for the Dukes program.
While in college Barden played for the Ottawa Fury, then of the Premier Development League. After college, his first professional contract was with Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja in Iceland's top league, the Pepsi-deild karla or Icelandic Men's Premier League.
IBV, as it is more commonly known, plays in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. The town is off the southern coast of Iceland, in case you aren't familiar with the country and think it is covered in ice. The town is comprised of a group of islands off the coast, six of which are only home to a single hunting cabin each.
After two years of playing in Iceland, Barden returned to North America to rejoin the team in Ottawa, now known as Ottawa Fury FC and playing in the United Soccer League.
Despite playing soccer away from England since 2011, Barden still maintains his accent, as you can tell from his interview last year discussing his goal against Saint Louis.
Barden is excited to play for coach Pulis and in front of the St. Louis fans.
Excited to announce my signing for @saintlouisfc! Can't wait to get going with the 2018 season and to play in front of some of the best fans in the league!
Sam Fink will be featured on the latest episode of the This Is Silly! podcast with the St. Louiligans. The characters, some would call them stooges, behind the podcast and Twitter account announced on the social media platform today that they would be recording the episode with Fink on Wednesday evening.
Former Saint Louis FC defender Konrad Plewa will be taking his talents to Herriman, Utah as he has signed a deal with Real Monarchs SLC. Plewa made 20 appearances for Preki last season in St. Louis.
Plewa came to St. Louis last offseason after winning the USL Cup with New York Red Bulls II the previous season. The Polish defender is a little over a year removed from suffering a stroke after returning from a NYRBII road trip in 2016.


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By Yonhap
Published : Feb 27, 2018 - 09:52 Updated : Feb 27, 2018 - 14:31
South Korea's central bank on Tuesday kept its key rate unchanged for the second month in a row as Asia's fourth-largest economy experiences slow growth momentum.
In a widely expected move, the monetary policy board of the Bank of Korea voted to hold the key rate steady at 1.50 percent, maintaining its wait-and-see stance.
In November last year, South Korea's central bank adjusted up the key rate for the first time in more than six years, citing signs of economic recovery.
The decision to freeze the rate had been widely expected as BOK Gov. Lee Ju-yeol had stressed that he would keep monetary policy accommodative to support economic growth further.
It was Lee's last rate decision before his term ends in mid-March.
Gov. Lee said the Board reached the agreement to hold the rate at 1.5 percent by a unanimous show of hands.
"As it is forecast that inflationary pressures on the demand side will not be high for the time being while the domestic economy is expected to continue its solid growth, the Board will maintain its accommodative monetary policy stance," the BOK said in a statement.
BOK Gov. Lee Ju-yeol (Yonhap)
"Through this process it will carefully judge whether it is necessary to adjust its accommodative monetary policy stance further, while closely checking future economic growth and inflation trends," it noted.
The central bank said the country's economy is expanding as anticipated on the back of moderate improvement in consumption and exports, slightly offset by a decrease in facility investment and construction investment.
"The Korean economy is sustaining its trend of solid growth," it said. "However, growth in facilities investment is slowing from the high rates seen last year, and construction investment continues its phase of adjustment."
Market watchers said the South Korean economy will face intensifying downside risks this year, including trade pressure from the United States and potential fallout from ongoing corporate restructuring efforts.
The South Korean government and the BOK forecast that its economy will expand 3 percent in 2018, similar to the 3.1 percent growth in 2017, but there are some pessimistic outlooks that point to numbers dipping as low as 2.6 percent.
"A strengthening of US protectionist trade policies, accelerated monetary normalizations in major countries and the restructuring of in the automobile sector are among the risks the country is facing," said the BOK.
GM Korea, the local unit of the US carmaker, shut down its underutilized plant in Gunsan, 270 kilometers southwest of Seoul, and seeks ways to pull out of the Korean market. At the same time, the South Korean government is considering whether or not to inject fresh funding to help the company continue its Korean operation.
Washington plans to impose anti-dumping tariffs of up to 50 percent on large washing machines and solar cell imports from South Korea. The US Department of Commerce has also proposed punitive tariffs for South Korean steel products.
Gov. Lee said such downside issues are not serious enough to affect the economic growth tendency for the time being, but it will closely check the longer-term effect.
"The effect of the shutdown of the GM Gunsan plan will not really have direct impact on the Korean economy as a whole," he said. "But if the plant closure expands further and the US pressure broadens to our key industrial products, then it could be a big blow to the Korean economy."
Also, the US Federal Reserve will likely speed up its monetary tightening schedule, as the world's largest economy is showing clear signs of recovery.
Currently, South Korea and the US have similar base rates, as the Fed recently adopted an interest rate range of 1.25 percent to 1.50 percent. If the US central bank raises the rate by a 0.25 percentage point next month as expected, South Korea will have a lower interest rate than the US for the first time in more than 10 years.
Market insiders point out that a lower rate may spark an outflow of foreign capital in South Korea, as foreign investors may seek higher proceeds based on interest rates.
But Lee emphasized that a sudden foreign outflux will not happen immediately, saying, "Foreign outflow has been caused not only by the interest rate spread, but also by economic conditions, inflationary trends, foreign exchange and risk appetite in the global financial market."
Moreover, the central bank is concerned about a record high household debt of 1,450 trillion won ($1.35 trillion) as of December last year, noting that it is watching its upside pace.
"Household lending has shown a higher rate of expansion than in past years, although the degree of its expansion has continued to decline," it said. "Housing prices have shown low rates of increase overall, but have risen faster in some parts of Seoul and surrounding areas."
Meanwhile, the central bank chief said the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, which closed Sunday after a 17-day run, will push up the local economy beyond expectation.
In its economic forecast, the BOK anticipated that the Olympics will boost private consumption by 0.1 percentage point during the first quarter of this year.
"We'd predicted a 0.1 percent rise in first quarter growth, but I heard that we didn't catch some 900 billion won in managing costs during the Olympic period," said Lee. "I can't say the exact effect of it, but there should be an additional gain in growth." (Yonhap)


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Q: Re-enable Microsoft Teams on startup So, Microsoft Teams got installed on my laptop and opened on every start. It annoyed me, so I searched for how to disable that and disabled it.
That was almost a year ago - so, unfortunately I don't remember the method I used to disable it. Now, my team has actually started using Microsoft Teams extensively to the point I need notifications from it, and I really need it to start on boot.
I went to Settings -> Apps -> Startup and it doesn't even appear in the list now. I re-installed teams and that did not work. Then, I searched for teams.exe, and I found the .exe for teams in my profile %appdata%\Local\Microsoft\Teams\current folder and added a shortcut for it to the start menu startup folder, but it is still not starting up on boot.
How do I re-enable it opening on boot?

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How do I re-enable it opening on boot?

You need to make sure the program is configured to automatically startup.  You can enable startup Microsoft Teams entry by hitting the Enable button.

If it's configured to automatically startup, and it's not doing that, then the Task Manager -> Startup entry likely has been disabled.

If that entry is enabled, and the application is configured to automatically startup, then you should contact your system Administrator for assistance.  You might also be able to enable it by using Autoruns as an Administrator.

A: Disable on startup for current user:
reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModel\SystemAppData\MicrosoftTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TeamsStartupTask" /v State /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
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Enable on startup for current user:
reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModel\SystemAppData\MicrosoftTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TeamsStartupTask" /v State /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f

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Weekly Crypto Recap – PoolTogether for the greater good
June 28, 2019 by Ria Bhutoria
By Ria Bhutoria and Wilson Withiam
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A closer look: PoolTogether, a lossless lottery leveraging DAI, Compound Finance, and Aragon as building blocks, went live on Ethereum mainnet this week. We provide a closer look at how no-loss lotteries, synonymous with prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, incentivize saving behavior and discuss the historical context behind such programs as well as risks and challenges.
Three things to know: (1) LedgerX received CFTC approval to offer physically settled bitcoin futures (2) Kraken raised $13 million through a crowdfunding campaign (3) MakerDAO announced a list of tokens that could be included as collateral when the network transitions to Multi-Collateral Dai.
Market snapshot: Total crypto market capitalization is around $316.6 billion at press time (up 10.2% w/w). BTC is trading at $11,885 (up 20.1% w/w), ETH is at $306 (up 5.8% w/w). BVOL (the rolling 30-day annualized Bitcoin volatility as calculated by BitMEX) is 65.4%, down from 77.1% last week. (6/28 12:45PM ET)
A closer look: PoolTogether for the greater good
"Low income American families believe they are more likely to build wealth by playing the lottery than by traditional saving with compound interest." — Harvard Business School survey
What is PoolTogether?
Leighton Cusack posted the idea for PoolTogether, a no-loss lottery (synonymous with a prize-linked savings account), in the MakerDAO subreddit in March this year. The project went live on the Ethereum mainnet this week, aided by a $25,000 grant from MakerDAO, the company. Participants can buy tickets for a given pool using DAI – each pool is open for three days and each ticket costs 20 DAI (as a reminder, each DAI is worth about $1, though it has historically experienced small fluctuations in either direction). The pool has no limit and collects as much DAI as possible. All the DAI in the pool is lent out on Compound and is locked up for fifteen days, collecting interest over that period of time. PoolTogether is also using an Aragon DAO to manage its finances.
PoolTogether is a lossless lottery in that participants receive the full amount of the funds they deposited at the end of the fifteen day lock-up period — the potential for upside with technically no downside. At the end of the fifteen day lockup, a single participant wins the interest earned on the funds over that time period. The startup takes a 10% cut of the interest earned and the remainder is paid out as the reward.
The idea of a lossless lottery is not new. It is similar in nature to a prize-linked savings (PLS) account (or a lottery-linked deposit account), which trails back to the seventeenth century. Prize-linked savings accounts use prizes to entice people to save money. In 1694, England launched an effort called the "Million Adventure" to finance its Nine Years' War against France, whereby participants who put £10 into the account earned a ten year return of 6.15% and were in the draw to win prizes between £10 to £1,000 each year for the next sixteen years.
Since then, many countries, including in Latin America, South Africa, Sweden, U.K., Spain, New Zealand, Germany and most recently, the U.S., have leveraged the concept of a prize-linked savings account or lottery to encourage and incentivize healthy savings habits. One example of a successful PLS program includes South Africa's Million-a-Month account, offered by the country's First National Bank, which rose to 750,000 accounts containing a total of 1.2 billion Rand in two years (as of 2007). Another success story is the U.K. Premium Bond program, which had over £31.1 billion outstanding as of March 2006 and was more popular among lower income households than investment products like stocks. Studies found that sales of the product were higher even when aggregate savings were lower.
The U.S. has been a laggard due to strict state and federal regulations around lotteries – specifically the rule that the only entity that can operate a lottery is the state, until more recently. Indiana and Michigan were the first to launch PLS pilots, and the outcome reinforced the idea that such accounts encourage non-savers to begin saving or raise their aggregate savings, especially within low-to-moderate income families. As a result, other states began to see PLS programs as a much more economically healthy substitute for gambling or participating in a lottery. Over thirty states changed their regulations to allow financial institutions like banks and credit unions offer these products. Further, in 2014, the U.S. Senate passed a law allowing federally chartered banks to offer PLS accounts after recognizing the success of these programs in encouraging healthy saving behavior. This is the same principle that PoolTogether uses in crafting its no-loss lottery.
Possibilities of no-loss lotteries like PoolTogether
No-loss lotteries like PoolTogether gamify the process of saving, and are especially effective in tricking non-savers (those who spend as much as they earn or spend more than they earn) into saving their money while getting the opportunity to win (theoretically) free money. Cusack says, "Humans don't act in rational ways economically. This is a way to help them act in a healthy irrational way." If that's true, the ultimate goal for a project like this is to displace traditional lotteries. According to Leighton Cusack (the creator of PoolTogether), North Americans spend $80 billion on lottery tickets every year. And, on average, investing one dollar into a traditional state lottery yields a loss of $0.52.
Simultaneously, a recent study found that 40% of Americans don't have enough savings to cover an unexpected expense worth $400. And based on various studies, this is the demographic that lotteries tend to take money from. Thus, converting some portion of spending to savings could have an instrumental and positive impact. Additional use cases for a concept like PoolTogether have been discussed beyond incentivizing saving. For example, a platform like PoolTogether can be leveraged to create pools that use a lottery system to pay out grants and rewards to fund ecosystem development or charities by classifying predetermined winners.
PoolTogether building blocks
PoolTogether leverages multiple Ethereum-based open finance platforms to handle the flow of funds and provide complete transparency without having to custody user assets. As previously mentioned, all lottery tickets are denominated in DAI, the stablecoin users can borrow against ETH on the MakerDAO protocol. One of the primary benefits of using DAI is that it aligns with the project's the no-loss narrative, as stablecoins have significantly lower price volatility when compared to crypto assets like BTC or ETH.
All of the DAI spent on lottery tickets is then pooled and loaned out on the non-custodial, peer-to-peer lending platform, Compound, where it earns interest for providing liquidity to the Compound money market. The APR for lending DAI on Compound is 8.0% at the time of writing. Compound's lending rates for stablecoins are considerably higher than more volatile alternatives due to greater borrower demand for stable crypto assets. Further, interest rates offered by traditional money markets are a fraction of rates on Compound, meaning any interest accrued in traditional accounts over the same fifteen day period would be relatively lower. As a result, PoolTogether can offer a more compelling no-loss lottery reward without having to touch any customer funds. Further, stakeholders benefit from the added transparency of tracking fund flow via Ethereum smart contracts.
To add to PoolTogether's radically transparent approach, it created an Aragon DAO to manage all finances. Any interested user can access the DAO contract to verify that the 10% cut of lottery winnings PoolTogether takes as a service fee is accurate as well as the allocation of its MakerDAO grant. This use of open source* smart contracts gives users insight into the inner-workings of its processes beyond traditional lotteries or prize-linked savings accounts. Moreover, integrating various open finance protocols into a single app — an effort that may have been near impossible as little as one year ago — exemplifies the growing possibilities of programmable money.
As an example of the cross-platform capabilities PoolTogether enables, Jake Brukhman mentions that users can now lock up ETH into a MakerDAO collateral debt position (CDP) contract to borrow DAI, and then use that DAI to purchase tickets from the PoolTogether smart contract, which proceeds to lend these assets using Compound's smart contracts to earn interest. Notably, PoolTogether can be considered another platform that adds to the superfluidity of collateral within open finance applications.
Some might say that the opportunity cost of participating in a PLS program (or no-loss lottery) is that you miss out on interest payments you would receive by placing your funds into a savings product or higher returns by investing in other assets. However, PLS programs likely draw funds away from gambling and lottery tickets rather than savings and investment products, thus the true opportunity cost is simply spending the money. PLS programs may also appeal to the unbanked. Further, Coindesk makes the point that returns on a traditional savings account are a mere 0.9%, so the opportunity cost is low.
The opportunity cost of participating in the open finance version of a no-loss lottery is forgoing interest that can be earned with certainty by directly lending the funds on platforms like Compound, Dharma, BlockFi and the like. Therefore, large holders might avoid PoolTogether's lottery, as they have a lower chance of earning interest versus a crypto lending platform that promises a return on investment (ignoring other risks).
Declining rates of return
Open finance lending platforms like Compound currently offer relatively more attractive rates to lenders than they would receive on traditional finance platforms. However, these platforms are relatively new and rates can fall as these platforms mature and usage goes up, which would diminish the attractiveness of locking up funds in a platform like PoolTogether. This would be especially problematic if gas costs on Ethereum were to rise.
Not "free"
Which brings us to our next point — PoolTogether is not completely free. PoolTogether is built on Ethereum and leverages other projects built on Ethereum. As a result, participants have to pay a small transaction fee (gas cost) in ETH. Moreover, PoolTogether takes a 10% cut of interest that accrues on DAI deposits on Compound. Now that the project has open-sourced its code, it would be trivial for someone to fork it and remove the 10% fee. However, in his latest Proof-of-Work newsletter, Eric Meltzer points out, "In the case where PoolTogether spent all of their 10% rake doing marketing, I'd expect that to outcompete a totally rake-free version that no one would have any incentive to market."
In the U.S., regulators allow banks and credit unions to offer price-linked savings accounts. It is unclear how a project like PoolTogether, which also takes a 10% cut of interest earned on DAI deposits, would be regulated if lawmakers got wind of the project. But according to Balaji Srinivasan, its no-loss outcome may lower the chances of regulatory scrutiny.
While there are considerable barriers to mass adoption as this stage, PoolTogether uses a concept that has the potential to have a positive impact if the crypto industry is able to onboard mainstream users onto such platforms. What continues to blow us away is that projects like PoolTogether would not be as easy and quick to launch without the composable building blocks that exist on platforms like Ethereum. Further, while regulation is uncertain and may vary from region to region, similar to other open finance projects, PoolTogether has created a borderless no-loss lottery that enables global participation for the first time ever and that's something to cheer about.
* Leighton Cusack initially decided to keep PoolTogether closed-source given the importance of economies of scale. After receiving feedback from the community, "specifically around the lack of ability to verify the contracts," they open sourced the contracts the following day.
Weekly market snapshot
This week, the CFTC approved LedgerX's application for a designated contract market (DCM) license, which will allow the company to offer physically settled bitcoin futures. Additionally, this means that LedgerX can offer the product to retail as well as institutional clients. While there is no concrete timeline, LedgerX intends to be the first to market in the U.S. Other firms that intend to enter the futures market include ICE's Bakkt, ErisX and SeedCX. Source.
According to a CFTC report as of June 18th (when the price of Bitcoin was around $9k), hedge fund short positions using CME's bitcoin futures outweighed long positions by 14%, though this was down from 42% the prior week. It's important to note that this doesn't imply that hedge funds are taking short positions solely because they believe the price of bitcoin will fall — it could be a part of a hedging strategy. Source.
JPMorgan clients in the U.S., Europe and Japan have expressed interest in using JPM Coin to enable instant delivery of bond transactions in exchange for cash. The buyer uses JPM Coins to pay for the bonds, which are represented as tokens. It currently takes two days to settle a Japanese government bond transaction. Source.
Synthetix, a synthetic asset issuance platform, suffered an oracle attack, with the attacker receiving 37 million sETH. The CEO and co-founder believes an automated arb bot took advantage of an error in the price feed of sKRW. The team has offered the owner of the bot a bug bounty to help resolve the issue. Until then, they have disabled transfers within the system. Source.
Square has enabled bitcoin deposits in its Cash App for all its users. Users can deposit up to $10,000 worth of bitcoin in any seven day period. Prior, users could buy and sell bitcoin through the Cash App as well as send it to another wallet. Source.
On June 26th, when bitcoin rallied to over $13,000, BitMEX announced that it saw over $1 billion in open interest on XBTUSD, over $13 billion traded on XBTUSD, and over $16 billion traded across all BitMEX products. Source.
This week, Blockstack introduced a new, intentionally Turing incomplete smart contract language for the Stacks blockchain called Clarity, which is currently in developer preview. To date, developers have built over 140 applications on Blockstack without using a smart contract. Blockstack claims that its "approach makes it easier to reason about smart contract behavior, cost, and performance." Source.
This week, MakerDAO announced a number of tokens that could be included as collateral when the network transitions to Multi-Collateral Dai. The community will be able to vote on "the order in which these assets could be entered into the governance system as proposals for review and possible ratification by MKR token holders." The tokens up for vote include Augur (REP), Basic Attention Token (BAT), DigixDAO (DGD), Ether (ETH), Golem (GNT), OmiseGo (OMG), and 0x (ZRX). The Maker Foundation chose these tokens "based on diversity, an average daily volume of several million USD, and the relative stability of each token." Source.
Crypto funding
Crypto exchange Kraken was able to raise $13 million through a crowdfunding campaign that attracted over 2,200 individual investors. The exchange reportedly sought the capital in order to reach the $4 billion valuation it has been trying to reach since late last year. Source.
Placeholder Ventures led a $2.5 million seed round for ConsenSys spin-out 3Box, a startup building decentralized identity tools for app developers. Additional investors included Venrock, Northzone, and CoinFund. The funding will be used to further decentralize the 3Box network and build a managed infrastructure service for developers. Source.
Mulitcoin Capital and Intel Capital led a $3.5 million investment round in dfuse, which also included participation from Diagram Ventures. dfuse provides API integrations into the EOS blockchain and suite of developer tools. The startup is looking to support API access to other smart contract platforms, with Ethereum next on its roadmap. Source.
Image hosting site Imugr received $20 million is venture equity from Coil, and in addition to the funding, Imugr is integrating Coil's micropayments tool for content creators into its platform. Coil was founded last year by former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas and is backed by Ripple's Xpring Initiative, which aims to fund the proliferation of XRP. Source.
Global regulatory roundup
France is creating a G7 task force to understand how banking regulations will be applied to cryptocurrencies like Facebook's Libra, specifically mentioning money-laundering and consumer-protection laws. The announcement just days after Facebook released its whitepaper for its Libra network and participating partners. Previous comments from French regulators have said its government is not opposed to Libra, but insists that Facebook's new digital coin cannot become a sovereign currency. Source.
A group of democratic representatives have introduced a Bill to the House that aims to outlaw political party contributions or donations in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. Andrew Hemingway accepted crypto donations as early as 2014 and candidate Andrew Yang is currently doing the same. Source.
What we're reading
Regulators Have Doubts About Facebook Cryptocurrency. So Do Its Partners. by Nathaniel Popper
Layer 2 scaling on ETH Thematic Insights by Delphi Digital
How Bitcoin Can Help In The Fight For Human Rights by Laura Shin
Examining Bitcoin's Valued Attributes: A Letter to the SEC by Spencer Bogart
Facebook Libra's Master Plan by Eric Wall
An Analysis of Kin's on chain activity by Coinmetrics
What we're listening to
Chain Reaction: IDEX's Alex Wearn: A Sleeping Giant's Plan To Dominate Every Centralized Crypto Exchange
Unchained: Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation on the 3 Reasons Bitcoin Matters
Off the Chain: Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys: The History of ConsenSys and the Future of Automation
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A former professional, Ehrgott won the Illinois State Mid-Amateur and the Illinois Publinx championships, in addition to his sixth Peoria Park District Stroke Play championship. He also placed second in the Illinois State Amateur and finished 13th out of 305 competitors at the USGA Mid-Amateur Championship in Oregon.
Mick Donahue
As a man devoted to sports, Mick Donahue contributed an essential (and sometimes underappreciated) service to organized sports in Peoria for decades. His passion for athletics began as a youth as a participant in the Salvation Army Junior League Tournament and Proctor Center Basketball League. At Peoria Manual High School in the early 50's, he played on the baseball team. After graduating from Manual, he was a player/manager on the LeTourneau-Westinghouse team in the old Industrial League, which was one of the nation's top amateur sports organizations at the time.
Mick spent much of his life coaching, organizing and officiating youth sports in the area, especially baseball, softball, basketball and volleyball. He volunteered as a coach from 1957-72 for the St. Boniface Mustangs. Additionally he coached numerous Little League and Pony League teams.
Over the next several decades, he volunteered thousands of hours organizing and administering officials for various league play in the community. Beginning in 1972, he supervised adult softball and basketball leagues for the Peoria Park District. He also scheduled officials/umpires for the area's catholic grade schools as well as many basketball, baseball, and softball games for the Peoria Public Schools. In his over 30 years with the Peoria Park District, Mick trained, assigned, and supervised officials for adult softball games for leagues at Peoria Stadium and Sterling school. He organized a force of volunteer basketball officials for the Prairie State Games.
Even after his passing in 2011, his legacy in sports continued to have a positive impact for a charitable cause. As a tribute and acknowledgement of his decades of dedication to local softball leagues, a Mick Donahue Memorial Tournament was held in August of 2013, on the park district diamonds near Peoria Stadium. Many teams participated and many others, including umpires, volunteered their services. Proceeds from the successful event were donated to the PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) Foundation, a disease being fought by his granddaughter. Concurrent with the tournament, a park bench was dedicated near the large diamond near Peoria Stadium. The small plaque affixed to the bench, reads, "In Memory of Mick Donahue for his dedication to softball and the Peoria Park District."


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Webos.Application = function (data, name) {
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Webos.inherit(Webos.Application, Webos.Model);

Webos.Observable.build(Webos.Application);

/**
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Webos.Application._loaded = false;
/**
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 * @private
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Webos.Application._applications = {};
/**
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Webos.Application._categories = {};

/**
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Webos.Application.list = function(callback) {
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Webos.Application.get = function(name, callback) {
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	if (!Webos.Application._loaded) {
		return Webos.Application.list([function() {
			callback.success(Webos.Application._applications[name]);
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		var app = Webos.Application._applications[name];
		callback.success(app);
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/**
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 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
 * @param {Object} [apps] If specified, the function will filter provided apps.
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Webos.Application.listByCategory = function(cat, callback, apps) {
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	var filterFn = function(apps) {
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		return Webos.Application.list([function(apps) {
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/**
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 * @param {Object} [apps] If specified, the function will filter provided apps.
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Webos.Application.listBySearch = function(search, callback, apps) {
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	callback = W.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	var filterFn = function(apps) {
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		for (var key in apps) {
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			if (found > 0) {
				appsToKeep[key] = app;
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		callback.success(appsToKeep);
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	if (!apps) {
		return Webos.Application.list([function(apps) {
			filterFn(apps);
		}, callback.error]);
	} else {
		filterFn(apps);
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};
/**
 * List favorite apps.
 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
 * @param {Object} [apps] If specified, the function will filter provided apps.
 */
Webos.Application.listFavorites = function(callback, apps) {
	callback = W.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	var filterFn = function(apps) {
		var appsToKeep = [];

		for (var key in apps) {
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			if (app.get('favorite') !== false) {
				appsToKeep.push(app);
			}
		}

		appsToKeep.sort(function(a, b) {
		    return a.get('favorite') - b.get('favorite');
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		callback.success(appsToKeep);
	};

	if (!apps) {
		return Webos.Application.list([function(apps) {
			filterFn(apps);
		}, callback.error]);
	} else {
		filterFn(apps);
	}
};
/**
 * List apps which can open a specified file.
 * @param {Webos.File} file The file.
 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
 */
Webos.Application.listOpeners = function(file, callback) {
	callback = W.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	var filterFn = function(apps) {
		var appsToKeep = [];

		for (var key in apps) {
			var app = apps[key];

			if (app.opensFile(file)) {
				appsToKeep.push(app);
			}
		}

		callback.success(appsToKeep);
	};

	return Webos.Application.list([function(apps) {
		filterFn(apps);
	}, callback.error]);
};
/**
 * Open a file.
 * @param  {Webos.File}      file     The file to open.
 * @param  {Webos.Callback}  callback The callback.
 * @return {Webos.Operation}          The operation.
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Webos.Application.openFile = function (file, callback) {
	var op = Webos.Operation.create();
	op.addCallbacks(callback);

	Webos.Application.listOpeners(file, function(openers) {
		if (openers.length > 0) {
			var prefered = openers[0];

			for (var i = 0; i < openers.length; i++) {
				if ($.inArray(file.get('extension'), openers[i].get('preferedOpen')) != -1) {
					prefered = openers[i];
					break;
				}
			}

			W.Cmd.execute({
				executable: prefered.get('command'),
				args: [file]
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			op.setCompleted();
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			op.setCompleted(W.Callback.Result.error('No app found to open "'+file.get('basename')+'"'));
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	return op;
};
/**
 * List apps by type.
 * @param {String} type The type.
 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
 */
Webos.Application.listByType = function(type, callback) {
	type = String(type);
	callback = W.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	return Webos.Application.list([function(apps) {
		var list = [];
		for (var key in apps) {
			var app = apps[key];
			if (app.exists('type') && $.inArray(type, app.get('type')) != -1) {
				list.push(app);
			}
		}
		callback.success(list);
	}, callback.error]);
};
/**
 * List apps categories.
 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
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Webos.Application.categories = function(callback) {
	callback = Webos.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	return Webos.Application.list([function() {
		callback.success(Webos.Application._categories);
	}, callback.error]);
};
/**
 * Get a specific category.
 * @param {String} name The category.
 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
 */
Webos.Application.category = function(name, callback) {
	name = String(name);
	callback = Webos.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	return Webos.Application.list([function() {
		callback.success(Webos.Application._categories[name]);
	}, callback.error]);
};
/**
 * Get the prefered app for a specified type.
 * @param {String} name The type.
 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
 */
Webos.Application.getPrefered = function(type, callback) {
	type = String(type);
	callback = Webos.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	return Webos.Application.list([function() {
		Webos.ConfigFile.loadUserConfig('~/.config/prefered-apps.xml', null, [function(config) {
			if (config.exists(type)) {
				callback.success(Webos.Application.get(config.get(type)));
			} else {
				callback.success(null);
			}
		}, callback.error]);
	}, callback.error]);
};
/**
 * Set the prefered app for a specified type.
 * @param {Webos.Application|String} app The app or the app command.
 * @param {String} type The type.
 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
 */
Webos.Application.setPrefered = function(app, type, callback) {
	if (Webos.isInstanceOf(app, Webos.Application)) {
		app = app.get('command');
	} else {
		app = String(app);
	}
	type = String(type);
	callback = Webos.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	return Webos.ConfigFile.loadUserConfig('~/.config/prefered-apps.xml', null, [function(config) {
		config.set(type, app);
		config.sync([function() {
			callback.success();
		}, callback.error]);
	}, callback.error]);
};
/**
 * List apps by type.
 * @param {String} type The type.
 * @param {Webos.Callback} callback The callback.
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Webos.Application.getByType = function(type, callback) {
	type = String(type);
	callback = W.Callback.toCallback(callback);

	return Webos.Application.getPrefered(type, [function(app) {
		if (app) {
			callback.success(app);
		} else {
			Webos.Application.listByType(type, [function(apps) {
				callback.success(apps[0]);
			}, callback.error]);
		}
	}, callback.error]);
};

/**
 * Clear the app cache.
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Webos.Application.clearCache = function() {
	Webos.Application._loaded = false;
	Webos.Application._applications = {};
	Webos.Application._categories = {};

	Webos.Application.trigger('reload');
};

})();

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My family spent a lot of time outdoors growing up, skiing all winter, then hiking and camping in summer. This set the foundation for my love of fitness.
To always stay active! Being healthy definitely brings balance and happiness to my life, and I hope that I can share that passion with others.
My boys' school, because it connects me to my kids, their peers and the community.
I am also working to develop youth programs at Level 10 to encourage all kids and teens to be active and feel good about themselves.
I hope to bring good energy to each session, and for everyone to have fun while working hard – a few laughs can be a welcome distraction! Everyone has different goals and fitness levels, so I like to encourage each individual to focus on their own personal goals and expectations.


text:
cd $PSScriptRoot
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If I had a tenner for every rogue claim someone's made about millennials and the housing crisis in the last 12 months, I'd be a very rich woman by now.
My personal favourite is still the ridiculous "stop buying avocados and you could afford a home" argument from 2017, but since then we've also been told that millennials don't need living rooms. And now? Apparently if we all live in micro-homes, London's housing crisis will be solved.
For those who are unaware, a micro-home is exactly as bad as it sounds. By definition, these "homes" have less than 37 sq metres of floor space (the average home in England and Wales is 90 sq metres,which is still way below the European average) – so they kind of resemble student halls. Or a small cupboard with a bed in. Often these will be part of a collective living situation, where you share communal areas with other people who live on your floor or in the building.
Think Tank, The Adam Smith Institute, claim that living in these "homes" will give an "affordable opportunity" to young people. They also (ridiculously) claimed that Londoners in particular are more comfortable living in smaller apartments.
Now, there's no denying that our housing crisis is becoming increasingly terrifying – particularly in the capital. In the last 20 years London's population has grown by 25%, but the number of homes has only increased by 15%. The result? Expensive rent that's rocketing up each year, a shortage of decent homes to rent, and a home ownership crisis.
But are tiny, cupboard-sized apartments really the answer to the problem?
One of the best things about flatsharing is the sense of home it gives you. You can choose to live with just one or two friends, if you like. You can choose your own wall art and cushions and make it into a proper home. You can have your own space (and it might even be quite spacious), but also choose to hang out with your flatmates when you feel like it.
I don't doubt that some people have a really great experience in a micro-home/collective living situation. Popular co-living scheme, The Collective (above) in Old Oak houses 500 people, with communal living rooms, dining areas, kitchens, a library, cinema room, spa, gym and restaurant on site too. Ensuite rooms offer a bed, wardrobe, kitchenette, desk and small bathroom – and will set you back £1061 each month (on a 12 month contract). Yes, they're beautifully designed, and that's a seriously luxe list of facilities to have access to. They're marketed for their supposed sense of community, and opportunity to meet people from all walks of life.
But if I'm paying over a grand each month, I'd expect a room I can actually walk around in for the money. I'd expect something bigger than eight square metres, specifically.
And then there's the social life. These places are marketed as being a community, but I reckon that's pretty hard to guarantee. Sure, some people in the building will be up for making friends – but with the daily slog of working long hours, commuting and only really having time for dinner and duvet every night when you get home, I'll bet co-living can often feel like living in the city's most overpriced, overcrowded hotel.
London mayor Sadiq Khan reckons the capital needs more than 50,000 new homes a year to combat the shortfall in affordable accommodation. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure micro-homes are the answer.
Cramming people into tiny spaces does nothing to solve the housing crisis. Instead of expecting Londoners to shell out a grand every month on a cupboard, we should be building more genuinely affordable and well-designed places to live.
And of course, there are still flatshares. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would rather get around the issue of a pricey London rent by sharing with friends, in a reasonably sized flat that actually feels like a home. Granted, I've got no cinema room, but I'll take my living room and £780 rent any day.
Image credits: Emily Wang, The Collective.


Total trip – 28.4 miles (This completes the Southern portion) by far the most popular.
I could have hiked this entire section in one long and arduous day, but I'm glad I didn't! The views were too amazing. This hike to shelter cove was easy. I was up early admiring the ocean yet again. This time I got a little antsy and left before everyone else. I probably left around 8 am, and arrived at shelter cove around 11:30 am. I really had to poop, so that propelled me into town. Options for the ol #2 are going where the high tide will sweep it away, or up the creek which was probably everyones water source, and poison oak was everywhere. I chose to make it to town.
The first thing I realized when I left camp was… I was completely isolated. There was no one around. We had been seeing people, a lot of people, over the last couple days. This morning I felt completely alone, and I loved it.
Water sources are a plenty on the Lost Coast Trail, as many streams flow down from the mountains, as the ocean fog will keep replenishing. At times, this section of the trail was quite rocky. At other times, you could walk barefoot. Oh man, I love walking (sorry, "hiking") barefoot on the beach.
Time to relax. No rush, only 7 miles to town, and I am pretty much done by 11 am.
Roc Doc caught me on the last mile, and we hiked together into Black Sands Beach parking lot with pizza on our mind. We noticed Shelter Cove was 2 miles up "the hill" as the locals called it. Screw that, it's like a 3000 ft mountain. We hitched a ride into town from one of the local caretakers of the recreation areas and had some lunch at the cash only (only place open) deli.
Everyone else rolled in around 2-3 pm and we paid for a stupid campsite next to the cash only (only place open) deli. Beer in shelter cove costs $15 for a 6 pack. This town is not very hiker friendly at all. So we ignored the weird stares, put up with the grumpy old guy that owns the only wifi in town, and drank as much as we could.


"Five English phrases" is the "name" of this game, but some day I'll have to come up with a single word that means the same thing. Maybe quinque-Angli-phrasis. That's Latin, Latin, and Greek. Nah, it should be something more rhythmic, more elegant–just better.
Both the complex and the simple can be graceful, and at least they're both usually interesting to us linguaphiles. Complex single words derived from other languages often translate into simpler descriptive phrases in English. Native American peoples and other indigenous cultures have created many such words, and we see it in the Latin-based scientific names of plant and animal species.
English word roots, parts, or loan words may be Greek, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Native American, Gaelic, Zulu, Egyptian, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, Japanese, Chinese, Slavic, Fijian, or some combination of these or others.
No language that one can learn across cultures, continents, and oceans can ever remain pure in itself. No country made so culturally rich and economically strong by the influx of so many immigrants can claim an authentically singular native tongue. Thus, English reaching out from its origins remains multi-lingual, just as America collecting its masses and individuals has always been so.
In the grand scheme of global language development, the difference between word and phrase dwindles in significance, and in comparing how different languages are constructed, the division of linguistic units may begin to seem rather arbitrary.
Still, while my series fixates on the phrasal unit in English, I might as well enjoy the poetry, mysticism, and general creativity of the descriptive wildlife phrases that equate to the single words naming animals we know.
Certain one-word mammal names have quite appropriate phrasal meanings.
hippopotamus – Its common name is "river horse," from the Greek, because it spends most of its time in lakes. The pygmy hippopotamus likes forest streams.
As you may gather from the examples, words that name less common wild animals stem from a core concept that takes more familiar things and specializes them based on the unique animal's appearance or behavior. For instance, someone may not be familiar with a hippopotamus outside of Africa, but a horse is a much more common sight and, so, a concept we can use as a foundation for meaning. The complete phrases can seem either fitting or odd depending on one's frame of reference, but the core concept penetrates.
Even if you don't know the proper label for an unusual animal, if you start with its most unique features, you may just hit upon a phrase that means the same thing. Close is often close enough. After all, if communication can truly bring about human harmony, and if language's best purpose is communication, then a shared sense is the key to shared meaning.
pygmy hippopotamus mother and baby. source: pinterest.com via duckduckgo.com.


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Follow the adventures of the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the timeline based on the new movies as they continue their five-year mission of discovery into unchartered space.
In "Deity" the crew arrives at the previously unexplored planet Banks-216, sending an away team that becomes exposed when a massive alien ship arrives in orbit. Then, Captain Kirk and the crew are about to encounter their strangest discovery yet… themselves, in the Mirror-Mirror storyline "Live Evil." Plus, the ship faces off with a renegade faction of Orions intent on disrupting the truce between their species and the Federation in "Reunion." In "Legacy of Spock" the elder Spock joins the last survivors of Vulcan to search the galaxy for a new home. And in "Connection" the crew come into contact with a ship that looks eerily familiar. Collects the final 13 issues, #48-60, of the first Star Trek ongoing series from IDW.
Following the events of Star Trek Into Darkness, the U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a new five-year mission of discovery, but is interrupted by a visit from the classic character Q, who challenges this timeline's Captain Kirk to solve a classic no-win situation… if he can, in "The Q Gambit." In "Behemoth," the crew come upon a damaged alien vessel of unknown origin. Discovering the injured pilot inside, they learn of a new threat of unprecedented power. In "Eurydice," the Enterprise finds itself adrift, farther from Earth than any other starship has ever traveled. And, in "The Tholian Webs" the ship becomes trapped in INTERPHASE, a dangerous condition of space within which the ship's structural integrity–and the crew's sanity–are at risk. Collects issues #35-47.
The new adventures of the Starship Enterprise continue with stories featuring the new crew, in the new timeline. After the events of Star Trek Into Darkness, the U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a new five-year mission of exploration.
Collects the stories "The Khitomer Conflict," "Parallel Lives," "I, Enterprise," and "Lost Apollo" from issues #25–34 of the ongoing Star Trek series.
The New Adventures of the Starship Enterprise continue with stories focusing on the new crew in the new timeline that takes place between the first and second movies plus the story "After Darkness," which picks up where Star Trek Into Darkness leaves off, all with creative collaboration with writer/producer Roberto Orci! Collects issues #13–24 of the ongoing Star Trek series.
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Starting with the Kelvin Timeline and the prequel that led into the 2009 Star Trek movie, Countdown details the origin of the mysterious Nero, the Romulan that ultimately threatened the survival of the entire universe! Then, in Nero, find out what he did in those cold, dark, lonely years spent waiting for his nemesis to arrive. Both brought to you by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurztman, Mike Johnson, Tim Jones, and David Messina.
In Spock: Reflections, the follow-up to Countdown, discover what could drive a man to abandon all he knows and go live with the Federation's sworn enemy, his real motivations, and what brought him to this place in his life. A Vulcan on Romulus? Absurd! Or is it? By Scott Tipton, David Tipton, and David Messina.
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Hi, my name is Andrew Aquino.

I am a seasoned and passionate developer. I have worked on over several apps in my career, two of which are live. I am a student at heart, forever learning and increasing my craftsmanship. I have chops in both UX and product management. I am experienced in leading and/or working with colleagues to execute the developmental cycle of mobile applications, as well as software architecture, product planning, ideation, execution, analysis, and iteration. I take into account the overall needs of the business, stakeholders, and of our users in my decisions.

On my spare time, I like to create frameworks that (to the best of my abilities!) make developing easy for everybody. My first one is Atlantis, a logging framework, made for XCode written in Swift. My second one, Whirlpool, is a lightweight iOS chat framework. There are many others in my GitHub. I also made my own Node.JS server that's being used by many of the production apps I've worked with.

Other things about me: I love hiking, camping, going to festivals, listening to music, fitness, watching movies, grabbing a couple mulitas at Gus' Lunchbox, meeting new people, hanging out with friends, and bettering myself as a person!

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The Clover Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run forty-one times at New York State's Gravesend and Aqueduct racetracks between 1888 and 1932. A race for two-year-old fillies, it was contested over a distance of five furlongs on dirt.

The first Clover Stakes was hosted by Gravesend Race Track from inception in 1888 and run through 1908 and then for a last time in 1910. Passage of the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation by the New York Legislature under Governor Charles Evans Hughes led to a compete shutdown of racing in 1911 and 1912 in the state. A February 21, 1913 ruling by the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division saw horse racing return in 1913. However, it was too late for the Gravesend horse racing facility and it never reopened.

Picked up by the operators of the Aqueduct Racetrack, the Clover Stakes returned in 1914 and would run continuously through 1932. The valuable race then fell victim to the effects of the Great Depression in the United States which forced track owners to cut costs dramatically and eliminate some events in order to provide funding support for others.

The final edition was run on June 15, 1932 and was won by Sonny Whitney's Disdainful, stablemate of his Champion and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Top Flight who won the 1931 running of the Clover Stakes.

Records
Speed record:
 0:58 flat @ 5 furlongs : Top Flight (1931)
 0:55 2/5 @ 4.5 furlongs : Sweet Lavender (1900)

Most wins by a jockey:
 3 – Fred Littlefield (1890, 1894, 1900)

Most wins by a trainer:
 6 – James G. Rowe Sr. (1888, 1907, 1908, 1916, 1917, 1923)

Most wins by an owner:
 6 – Harry Payne Whitney (1916, 1919, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1929)

Winners

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1888 establishments in New York (state)
Recurring sporting events established in 1888
Discontinued horse races in New York City
Gravesend Race Track
Aqueduct Racetrack
Flat horse races for two-year-old fillies
1932 disestablishments in New York (state)

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enVerid Systems (Houston, Texas) – LVI Energy Services strategic partner enVerid will retrofit building ventilation systems with modules that remove indoor air pollutants such as carbon dioxide. This enables the indoor air to be recycled while greatly reducing the amount of outside air ventilated into the building and reducing the loads on the HVAC system. Facilities will experience significant energy savings with this retrofit technology. Ten separate commercial building demonstrations will be conducted over the next 3 years.


Containment Protocols: RPC-502 is to be contained in a blast proof metal container that measures 120 cm in length and 25 cm in width. The container should only be accessible through a five-digit keypad entrusted by Dr. ████████, and a few within the Research and Containment Department.
Onsite personnel should be equipped with sound-proof headphones and polyvinyl chloride gloves as to prevent personnel from being affected upon insinuating physical contact with RPC-502.
In the event of one or more instances are affected through RPC-502's anomalous properties, all RPC-502 instances are to be immediately terminated on sight.
Description: RPC-502 is a long African blackwood staff that is decorated with an ornate silvery fixture depicting a goblin holding a red orb. This fixture has been revealed to be made out of aluminium, and upon closer observation, the orb appears to be made out of tourmaline.
Feeling of numbness within the body.
Body temperature decreasing to -5°C degrees.
Development of sharper forefront canines.
Decelerated production of red blood cells.
Following initial contact with RPC-502, subjects (henceforth designated as RPC-502-1) will appear to act homicidal and will harm any person, including animals, within their vicinity causing RPC-502-1 to assault and extract blood through any parts of the body.
Affected instance's erythropoietin1 will rapidly decrease the production of red blood cells and will heavily influence RPC-502-1 to extract blood through other means, such as exsanguination on organisms that have a circulatory system. Further observations has shown that RPC-502-1 significantly heals injuries at an accelerating rate and is immune to all known strain of diseases, but does not appear to be immune to fungal related diseases.
Observation onto RPC-502-1 instances have shown that unaffected subjects may still be affected by the anomalous properties when in contact with RPC-502-1 through biting transmission. Additionally, more than one subjects can be affected through RPC-502's anomalous properties— and does not appear to have any sort of limitations onto how many subjects can be affected.
Discovery: Following an increase of unsolved homicidal cases that involved victims having their blood exsanguinated by unknown means within ████████, WA, Authority operatives were dispatched to investigate these cases under the cover as federal agents. Further investigations led Authority operatives to an affected instance of RPC-502-1 when a 911 emergency call was intercepted regarding an unknown individual attack people within the streets. The individual was later identified as RPC-502-1, and was terminated by Authority operatives when RPC-502-1 attempted to harm an operative in the process.
1. The control production of the red blood cells around the body.
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APPs are one of the fastest growing segments of the health care workforce, and their role in transforming care delivery is critical as health care evolves and the focus on team-based care intensifies. In many organizations, the number of APPs has sometimes grown "organically" - often one physician or surgical specialty at time. Many hospitals and health systems now employ hundreds of APPs with little to no strategy and infrastructure to support them. To tap into the full potential of APPs, leading organizations must take a step back to intentionally design their care models to better integrate, optimize and engage this increasingly important provider group.


This pizza is cooked right in the pan that the sausages were cooked in, so you end up with a nice tasty bottom, and who doesn't like a tasty bottom right? If you're looking for low fat then run away right now, I have nothing for you today.
This is the February recipe from my The Great British Bake Off 2015 calender.
It's a substantial pizza which serves 4. There are a couple of things I'd do differently if I made it again, but I'll come to that at the end.
– 50g block pecorino cheese (or parmesan if you can't get pecorino).
1. Put the flour into the bowl of a mixer with a dough hook. Put the yeast on one side and the salt on the other. Make a well in the centre and pour in the oil and water. Mix for a few minutes until you get a smooth elastic dough. If you don't have a mixer with a dough hook, then bring it all together by hand in the bowl, turn out onto an oiled counter and knead for about 10 mins until smooth and elastic.
2. Place the dough into an oiled bowl, cover with a piece of oiled cling wrap and leave for about an hour in a warm place. Prepare the topping while the dough is rising.
3. Preheat oven to 200C/400F. Oil a large baking tin, mine is about 35cm x 27cm. Place the sausages in the tin and cook in the oven for about 20 mins, turning once or twice.
4. While the sausages are cooking, tip the canned tomatoes into a sieve over a bowl and leave it to drain the majority of the liquid out, shake it around now and again.
5. Crush the garlic cloves and mix them into the tomatoes.
5. Drain the mozzarella and roughly pull it apart into strips.
6. Using a vegetable peeler, shave the pecorino cheese.
7. When the sausages are cooked, remove them from the tin and keep the tin as it is. Turn the oven up to 220C/425F. Slice up the sausages.
8. When the dough is risen, tip it straight into the tin that the sausages were cooked in. Using your hands stretch it out to the sides, it will keep shrinking back, but persevere. When you've done your best, leave it for 10 minutes to relax. Then stretch it a bit more going up the sides of the pan a little too. Bake the dough for 10 minutes.
9. Scatter the mozzarella over the base, then the slices of sausage, then spoon on the tomatoes, and finally the shaved pecorino.
10. Put back in the oven for about 25 minutes until the edges are golden brown and the filling is hot and bubbling. Remove from oven and leave it in the tin for a few minutes before cutting.
And voila! I wouldn't recommend trying to make a vegetarian version of this, or using any alternative to the sausages, because the base really needs to cook in that spicy sausage fat for it to be what it is, otherwise it's something different, you know?
– I would make the canned tomatoes into more of an actual tomato sauce first rather than using them just as they are. Canned tomatoes are a great ingredient but I do think they need some cooking first.
– I'd add some herbs on the top, maybe some fresh basil leaves thrown on after cooking. I just feel it needs a bit of green.
– I was going to say I'd make a thinner base because I'm more of a thin crust gal, but on second thoughts, this pizza is meant to be deep pan, so I won't mess with that.
So, anyone want a slice?
Oh man! And you posted this right at lunch time in Idaho too.
Oops! Well hey, we just ate it a couple of hours ago, and there's still some left, I'll blog-zap it to you (that's a thing right?).
It should be a thing. It absolutely should be a thing.
What a question to ask me. .. who doesn't love a tasty, spicy, well rounded, with enough meat bottom…. or are we talking about pizza?
I think we can talk about both. If you eat lots of pizza then you get lots of meat on your bottom right?
Am I younger than you? I'm sure I'm no better at cooking than you, I just happen to post what I cook! Either way I'm happy to adopt you, but you realise that means you'll have to actually speak to me, in person, right?
Sounds delicious even now when I'm taking chemo (I'm not having nausea). How about for the green part, throwing in some cilantro? Hee hee.
I usually prefer a thin crust, but this was tasty!
I'm not usually one for sausage on pizza, but this sounds so amazing!
It's the tasty bottom that does it!


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Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Review
The Nonary Game returns…
I loved 999, but hadn't played this sequel yet due to glitching issues with the 3DS version. With the third game out and me now having a Vita, I decided to go back to this to finish the trilogy in order.
The general setup is largely the same, with nine people kidnapped and forced to play a life and death game at the whim of their captor, who is hinted to be posing as one of the nine. Once again the game is a combination of almost visual novel type story sections and adventure game style puzzle sections. There's a very different feel to this versus 999, but the atmosphere is still appropriately dark and foreboding and things come together pretty well. The puzzles are good, the characters nicely varied and reasonably engaging, and the narrative compelling. When the game first came out I wasn't a fan of the change in visual style from the first game, but I found now I barely even noticed. The game looked good and the graphics were appropriate.
The plot is intriguing, and makes good use of the branching aspect. I found the philosophical incorporations of both the Prisoner's Dilemma and Schrodinger's Cat quite interesting, but I'll admit I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff in general. There's a TON going on as things progress. Magnitudes more so than in 999. It leads to an end with almost too many twists, but I was fine with it overall (although I have mixed feelings about what this all means as a follow up to 999). The parallel branching nature does undermine some of the drama, as the Ally/Betray choices don't have the same kind of impact when you eventually have to go back and choose the other.
There were a couple instances of "carrying the idiot ball," but otherwise the characters' reactions and motivations fit well among branches. A couple of things (mostly related to game's workings) were left implied when they should have been made explicit, which is kind of surprising given all the exposition in parts. There were also a few instances of wasted potential, such as a clever development that should have had big implications but is instead used only when it's introduced and never mentioned again, and a character who oddly fades into the background at points where they could/should have been important.
While not being quite as tight as 999 nor reaching the same heights, Virtue's Last Reward is an excellent sequel that is more ambitious than its predecessor and largely succeeds on the grander scale. I don't know that I entirely like where this is all going story-wise, but I am definitely fully invested in seeing how it turns out. Bring on Zero Time Dilemma.
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Braked at the start of his dream
A young teenager with mild intellectual disability finally fulfilled his dream of playing for a real hockey team, seeing his life upside down, just two years after its inception, due to the epidemic.
When asked how he lived last year, unable to play hockey with his friends, Antoine Guinness couldn't answer. Not because he doesn't know what to say, but because he is full of emotion and tears.
"He's very emotional when we talk about this." "He's finding it so hard because he lived just for her," explains Gabriel Tossignant, the mother of the 15-year-old hockey fanatic.
In 2018, his father, Gaston Genius, created an adapted hockey team for youth with disabilities or autism spectrum disorder. Story made the front page of magazine.
An unexpected dream for Antoine, who was unable to play in an organized league due to his methylmalonic acidemia, which causes him vision problems in addition to a slight intellectual disability.
Photo by QMI, Guy Martel
COVID turned the lives of many young people with intellectual disabilities upside down, including that of Antoine (pictured left), who was finally able to be part of a team thanks to his father's initiative.
But the epidemic interrupted the teenager's dream just before the start of the team's second season.
He didn't have many friends outside of hockey, so that had an effect on his behavior, he was more isolated. "He created a lot of pressure on him, to get out of his routine and lose his directions in this way," says the young man's father.
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This situation does not surprise Dr. Gilles Julian, pediatrician and founder of the foundation of the same name.
The epidemic has had a major impact on young people in the past year. We see dire consequences, especially when it comes to anxiety. The children have literally suffocated. "
Thankfully, Mr. Guinness kept an icy roof and hockey deck in his backyard for a few years, allowing at least Antoine and his younger brother Laurent to play their favorite sport.
A glimmer of hope
But the teenager was not in his place since he learned that soon he would be able to resume training in the ring.
The Charlesburg Hockey Organization allowed him to train with one of his coaches this week, but only in his family's bubble.
"It's the first step. We are keeping our fingers crossed because accelerated grafting will allow [tenue] Next season! »Mrs. Tousignant divorces.
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Having basic knowledge about the common gadgets at home makes it easier for people to deal with them. Instead of seeking technician's help or hiring an expert, what is better to do, one can do basic troubleshooting to clarify the issue and check the root cause of it. Focusing on the basic troubleshooting for XBOX 360 does not necessarily means that there are errors to be expected. This is just to increase user's awareness also for their convenience.
A system failure can cause the XBOX 360 to stop working properly. It may be frustrating but you have to avoid tinkering the gaming console. There are different troubleshooting guidelines that can help you address the issue. XBOX 360 can actually show the specific types of error on the screen. Each error code means specific issue and this can help you resolve it and faster to start playing, for example, in pokemon.
One of the possible errors that you can get is E64. It connotes DVD driver error which may be caused by DVD time out. It may also be due to missing F/W chip on your DVD. E65 however is the complicated version of E64 error. It may be an issue with the tray during the boot up.
Troubleshooting guides can greatly help in finding solutions for the common XBOX 360 errors. They contain detailed information and step by step procedure to pacify it. Apart from DVD drive, it could be an issue with faulty hard disk as well. This is illustrated by E67 referring to connection errors between the console and hard drive. As for E68, this error is already concerning the fans. It is also known as Hard Drive EPROM error.
These errors can be solved quickly with the use of hotfixes. Other common issues that could arise due to excessive use are three red lights error, overheating, and not working at all without any error. Displaying of three red lights and overheating are interrelated issues. When there are 3 red lights being displayed, overheating is the most common root cause.
XBOX 360 is a significant gaming console but it should be placed on a safe environment. To avoid overheating, ensure that there is proper ventilation on the XBOX 360's location. If it is already heating up excessively, allow it to cool down first. During times that the XBOX is not overheating but it keeps displaying 3 red lights, make sure to check all the cables attached to the system. Some loose cables could be culprits, too.
In severe cases that XBOX 360 does not work without giving any errors, professional assistance might be needed. Repairing it with advance techniques will require technical expertise.
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Arsenal Mesut Ozil Transfer Transfer: Mesut Ozil speaks on 'regrets' about joining Arsenal
by NEWS on 03:47 in Arsenal, Mesut Ozil, Transfer
Arsenal midfielder, Mesut Ozil, has said he will never regret his decision to join the club.
Ozil moved to the Emirates from Real Madrid in a £42.5 million deal in 2013.
The German helped the Gunners clinch three FA Cups and a Community Shield and was named the club's player of the season award in 2015/2016.
However, in recent years, Ozil's role has diminished to the point where he has been excluded altogether by manager Mikel Arteta.
The 32-year-old was left out of Arsenal's Premier League and Europa League squads this season and is now set to leave in the January window.
However, Ozil insists he will never be ashamed of his Arsenal career.
"Of course," he replied on a Twitter Q&A session, when asked if he's enjoyed his time with the club.
"There have been many ups and downs so far, but all in all I'll never regret my decision to join Arsenal. And to be honest, the last couple of games before the corona break in February & March 2020 made [it] really a lot [of] fun.
"I've enjoyed that time a lot and I've thought we're really on a very positive way. But after the break things unfortunately changed…" Dailypost
Labels: Arsenal, Mesut Ozil, Transfer