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Sun, 09/29 | Softball vs. Simpson College (Cancelled)
Fri, 05/24 | Softball vs. Wallace Community College-Dothan L, 6-1 (Final) RC | BX
Thu, 05/23 | Softball vs. Chattanooga State Community College W, 11-9 (Final - 8 innings) BX
Thu, 05/23 | Softball vs. Angelina College L, 10-4 (Final) BX
Wed, 05/22 | Softball vs. Tyler Junior College W, 7-5 (Final) BX
Warriors Win Twice at National Tourney
St. George, Utah -- Indian Hills won a pair of games at the NJCAA Division I National Championships to put an exclamation mark on a truly memorable season. When it won its opening game of the tourney -- against 5th-seeded Tyler (Texas) -- Indian Hills snapped a nine-game losing streak in the national event, winning 7-5. After a 10-4 loss to Angelina (Texas), the Warriors bounced back to win a slugfest against Chattanooga (Tenn.) State, 11-9, before bowing out with a 6-1 defeat to Wallace-Dothan (Ala.).
Indian Hills homered in every game at the Canyons Complex, slugging a total of nine, and broke the 100 barrier in home runs for the season. They wound up with 102, second only to the 1999 squad's total of 110. Chloe Olson went deep twice in both the IHCC wins and ended her year with 20. She became the third IHCC player to best the previous season record of 19 homers. Brooke Snider also had a home run in each of the victories and set the new school standard with 27. Macey Harrington added one to her total and ended up with 24. All three are freshmen.
The tourney started with the 13th-seeded Warriors upending number-five seed Tyler, avenging an early-season 3-2 loss and recording their 24th win in a row. Olson had quite a start to her national tourney experience, slamming a first-inning three-run homer to get the Warriors started. Snider had a three-run shot of her own in the 5th to make it 6-2. Olson's second bomb of the game came the following inning and IHCC withstood a late Tyler rally for the win. Alexis Groet scattered seven hits in picking up the victory.
After Angelina tallied a first-inning run in the next day's winner's bracket game, Harrington belted a two-run homer to center field to make it 2-1 IHCC. Angelina went on top 4-2 before a Snider sacrifice fly got the Warriors to within a run. But Angelina tacked on six more runs against Groet and Snider's run-scoring single in the 6th was the only other score for the Warriors.
That pushed Indian Hills into a must-win test against Chattanooga State and Olson and the Warriors responded. Olson had a two-run homer in the 3rd and a solo blast in the 4th. Snider and Alexis Westercamp also went deep. IHCC built a 10-2 lead after 3 1/2 innings, then had to hold on as Chattanooga plated seven runs over the final three innings. Jakala Hall started in the circle for the Warriors and worked into the 6th inning. Groet got the final five outs, four of them on strikeouts, to pick up the save.
A Westercamp solo home run in the 5th inning was the only run Indian Hills mustered against Wallace-Dothan as the season came to a close in the next contest. The Warriors were held to five hits, the Westercamp dinger and two singles each by Snider and Brittni Lloyd.
Lloyd was named to the all-tournament team for her 7-for-15 performance at the plate over four games. She scored four runs. A case could be made for Snider to be included with her teammate on the all-tourney team as she was also 7-for-15 with a pair of homers and six RBIs. Olson went 5-for-13 and four of her hits left the park.
The appearance in the national tournament capped a turnaround for an Indian Hills team that returned from its season-opening southern trip with a 3-8 record. From that point on the Warriors were 39-10 and captured the Region XI regular-season and post-season titles before sweeping number-nine rated Crowder (Mo.) in two games to add the district championshp.
The last national tourney win for Indian Hills had come in the 2004 event, when the Warriors wound up in 4th place. They had dropped both games in each of their last four visits to the tournament.
The Utah trip marked the end of their IHCC careers for four sophomores -- Jaylie Reints, Westercamp, Jordan Hollon and Vanessa Bakley. They were a part of Indian Hills teams that combined to go 88-30 the past two years.
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Q: Natural system of neighborhoods on $X \times Y$ Let $X$ and $Y$ be any topological spaces. Define natural system of neighborhoods on $X \times Y$. Show that on $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}$ it is standard topology defined by euclidean metrics.
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$X \times Y$ is all pairs of $x \in X, y \in Y$. The neighbourhoods of all $x$ and $y$ are included in $X$ and $Y$. I suppose, we should take the products of these neighbourhoods. But I don't understand why it works on $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}$.

A: Since that open  sets in $R\times R$ are of form $U\times V$, where $U$, $V$ are opens set in $R$, a base for topology on $R\times R$ is give by product $B(x,r_1) \times B(y,r_1)$ of open balls with center $x,y \in R$, this is,  such topology is generated by set of form $\{ (b,c) \in R^2; |b - x| < r_1 and |c - y| < r_1\}$, but such that are open balls of sum norm in $R^2$. Beacuse the euclidian norm and sum norms are equivalent, your generated topologys are equal.

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Cyberbullying has become an ever-growing problem mostly amongst teens. It comes with all of the emotional damage as verbal, social, and physical bullying, except with the added fact that it is online for everyone to see. All bullying is hard to handle, but online bullying can be worse, it enables the bully to remain anonymous, and it is can never be fully taken down, the Internet is forever.
DoSomething.org is an organization that fights bullying in all forms, cyber and otherwise. Cyberbullying is easier than any other type of bullying, "81% of young people think bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person" (11 Facts About Cyber Bullying). This is true, cyber bullying is easier to get away with. There is a whole litany of excuses that people can use to get away with cyber bullying, a few could be: someone hacked my account, my friend had my phone, or it was just a joke. In addition to these excuses people can post things anonymously, hide behind no name at all; just remain nameless and faceless. Additionally, bullying in person means you have to look at the individual you are bullying, you can see how it affects them, and even the most heartless bullies can still feel the impact they have. In turn, there is no face to face contact when online bullying occurs, no ability to see how it affects the person being bullied at the moment.
One of the ways that cyberbullying is worse than other forms of bullying is that it can never be fully taken down, it is on the Internet, it is there forever. Long after everyone else forgets the bullying ever occurred the person who was bullied will know exactly where to find it and occasionally go back and read what was said. Furthermore, once it is posted people will comment on what the bully has said, whether they are defending the person being bullied or are just adding insult to injury and piggybacking on what the bully had said.
Cyberbullying leads to psychological issues just the same as other forms of bullying, thirty percent of students resorted to self-harm as a result of having been bullied online another thirty percent of those bullied online had suicidal thoughts (Cyberbullying Facts and Statistics). Bullying someone to the point where they feel their best option is to take their life is horrible, whether it is online or in person. Psychological issues are nothing to mess with, teens have enough going against them without feeling like someone is out to get them at school or online as well. Though it may not seem like a large number, ten percent of youth today have tried to take their own lives as a result of bullying (Cyberbullying Facts and Statistics). Ten percent of all youth is not a large number, but ten percent is still too many people when it comes to suicide attempts; the number should be zero, no one should feel like their best option in life is suicide.
This is a subject I am passionate about, I was cyberbullied for six years, throughout middle and high school. I was and still am a theater nerd, I spent my days building sets and acting onstage. I was not popular at all, though I desperately wanted to be. I started talking to some of the popular kids in school and thought they had finally accepted me into their group, I was wrong. I thought they were my friends, so I invited them to one of the productions I was in, they came, they took pictures, and they used them to mock me in one of their blogs. The mocked my appearance, my performance, and just about every other thing they could mock me for. This destroyed my self-esteem, the little self-esteem I had left. I was crushed, I thought these people were my friends. I did not know what else to do, I didn't have anyone to talk to about it, so I stayed silent. I turned to self-harm, and when this stopped comforting me, I tried to take my own life. I do not tell you this to get sympathy, but in order to establish that I have dealt with both online and in person bullying and neither is better than the other, they both leave a person crushed and feeling like they have no value.
Try to refrain from responding, yet save the evidence. Then, you can block the bully where such an option is available – on social networks, messengers, phone, etc.
Don't keep all that's happening secret – tell everything to someone you can trust and reach out for help.
Report about cyberbullying to the Internet provider and teachers (if the bully is from your school).
Always and under any circumstances remember that it's not your fault.
Online bullying is no better than in-person bullying, they are harmful to a person psychologically and sometimes physically. It is not a joking matter, and it can ruin lives.


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Catch Billie Eilish Live In VR This September On Oculus Venues
The 'Bad Guy' singer-songwriter will be streaming her upcoming Spain performance.
Earlier this week Oculus announced that their next Oculus Venues live performance will feature 17-year-old pop megastar Billie Eilish, marking the first time the American singer-songwriter will perform remotely for a VR audience.
"It's really nice to be able to have something that makes the show so accessible, and to have a platform to bring the live experience to people who haven't been able to be at a show yet," said Eilish during an interview with Billboard. "I just want everyone to have a good time. That's always my only goal, even when you're watching the show at home."
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"'Copycat' is really fun. I make everybody get really low, and we all jump when the drop comes in. Even though you'll be watching on a VR headset, you should still get low and jump with everyone."
Organized alongside immersive-streaming company Supersphere, fans of the 'Bad Guy' and "come out and play" artist can log in to Oculus Venues via their Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, and Samsung Gear VR headsets on September 3rd at 6:30pm PT to catch a live stream of her show in Madrid, Spain.
Using the Oculus Venues "solo-viewing" and "social-viewing" options, fans can enjoy the performance privately or dance alongside fellow attendees in a shared space.
Billie Eilish is just the latest major act to perform on the VR live event platform, following well-known musical acts such as Tenacious D, Vance Joy, Lupe Fiasco, Everclear, Chromeo, as well other forms of live entertainment, including comedy shows, movies, and sporting events.
Most recently, the platform hosted a live concert of Avicii's latest studio album Tim, during which audience members were immersed in 360-degree visualizations of each track.
Oculus Venues is available free on Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, and Samsung Gear VR.
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Repeal Citizenship Act immediately: Amarinder Singh to PM Modi
2010-19: The decade's major movements that became strong voices of resistance
Chandigarh, December 16, 2019 09:50 IST
Updated: December 16, 2019 16:17 IST
Amarinder Singh. File photo: Akhilesh Kumar | Photo Credit: Akhilesh Kumar
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh had earlier said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was a direct assault on India's secular character
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has appealed to the Centre to repeal the Citizenship (Amendment) Act while urging the Union Home Minister and the Delhi Chief Minister to do all it takes to bring the situation under control.
"Disturbed by reports from Delhi in the wake of anti CAB protests....urge (Home Minister) Amit Shah & (Delhi CM) Arvind Kejriwal to do all it takes to bring the situation under control & prevent it from escalating further," Mr. Singh tweeted.
He also appealed to the Narendra Modi government "to repeal the controversial Act immediately".
Mr. Singh on Thursday had said the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was a direct assault on India's secular character and Parliament had "no authority" to pass a law that "defiled" the Constitution and violated its basic principles.
Any legislation that seeks to "divide the people of the country on religious lines is illegal and unethical, and could not be allowed to sustain," he had also said in a statement.
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Infant deaths: A bleak winter for Kota's children
While the children's families blame the staff of Kota's J.K. Lon Hospital for negligence, studies show that the government hospital is poorly equipped and understaffed. Mohammed Iqbal reports on the failure of the primary healthcare system which has led to the deaths of more than a hundred children in the last 40 days
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Tennis Great Roger Federer, Rolex Ambassador, Looks to the Next Big Match at the U.S. Open
Roberta Naas / September 10, 2015
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At this stage in the game only the truly big names are left to compete for the 2015 U.S. Open title. Who bigger than Rolex's own Swiss phenomenon Roger Federer? For years Rolex has had its hand in the tennis realm, including being the Official Timekeeper of both the Australian Open and the prestigious Wimbledon.
Individual excellence isn't easy to come by, and it's not always consistent. However, finding an athlete that represents the same quality and precision that Rolex holds dear seems to be undeniably possible. Federer comes close. Very close. With his record breaking 300 weeks as the No. 1 ranking in men's singles tennis he's about as precise and consistent as it gets. He's won 17 Grand Slams, one Davis Cup title and a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic games in London.
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Rolex has had a passion for creating sports-minded, rugged timepieces since the turn of the 20th century, and, by the early 1900's had perfected the water resistant watch and moved on to the shock resistant watch. Today, watches like the Rolex Oyster Perpetual, with its waterproof Oyster case, and self-winding Rolex Calibre 3132 movement, combine a robust look with the reliability one expects. Now we wait to see if Federer has that same reliability and performance in these last days of the US Open. After Federer's win last night against Richard Gasquet, his sights are now set on the semi-final against Stan "The Man" Wawrinka.
Of course, Roger Federer isn't Rolex's only big name to make an appearance in the U.S. Open. Some other notables are Ana Ivanovic, Milos Raonic, and quarter final knockout Jo-Wilfried Tsonga — all driven by a passion for excellence.
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Teen charged in fatal DC metro stabbing of Kevin Sutherland, ex-intern for Conn. congressman: report
By: Jeremy Tanner
Police arrested Jasper Spires, 18, in the apparent random attack. (DC Police Dept.)
WASHINGTON — District of Columbia police have arrested the man suspected of fatally stabbing a former intern for Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes on a Metro train Saturday.
Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes (left) changed his Twitter profile photo in memory of his former intern, Kevin Sutherland (right).
Officers arrested Jasper Spires Monday and charged him with first-degree murder in the deadly attack.
Kevin Sutherland, 24, an American University grad from Connecticut, was riding the Red Line when he was stabbed to death on Independence Day. Sutherland's friends told police the attack appeared to be random , taking place on a crowded train.
According to court records, police arrested Spires in an unrelated case Thursday in Northwest, Washington. Spires allegedly walked up to a man and asked him, "What do you have in your pockets?" before grabbing him by the throat and slamming him against a wall. Spires was arrested minutes later and initially charged with a felony.
Am absolutely heartbroken by the tragic loss of intern, staffer & wonderful friend, Kevin Sutherland. I've known few as selfless & decent.
— Jim Himes (@jahimes) July 5, 2015
That charge was downgraded to a misdemeanor and Spires was released from police custody Friday, according to court records. "We're pretty distraught that he was released for a similar if not less deadly crime two days earlier," Joe Sutherland, Kevin's uncle, told the Post.
Sutherland is originally from Connecticut, and worked as an intern for Himes as an intern after moving to D.C.
"Am absolutely hear broken by the tragic loss of intern, staffer & wonderful friend, Kevin Sutherland," Himes tweeted Sunday. "I've known few as selfless & decent."
Along with politics, Sutherland loved photography, videography and technology, and ran a website where he showcased his work. He also wrote extensive pieces about the latest news or just his daily musings.
American University released the following statement:
"We are heartbroken to learn that the American University and the AUSG community has lost an individual who is emblematic of who we all are, and who we hope to be.
Kevin Sutherland was truly the best of us. He was incredibly kind. He was utterly and completely devoted to his friends. He used his intelligence and his talents to be a champion for what he believed in.
We are all better for knowing Kevin.
Our hearts are with Kevin's family and friends during this time of immeasurable loss and grief."


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Portland Bolt Celebrates 100 Years
Portland, OR – February 20, 2009 – In 2012, Portland Bolt and Manufacturing Company will celebrate its 100th anniversary. From its humble beginning in a 6,000 square foot livery stable in 1912, Portland Bolt has grown to become one of the leading anchor bolt and nonstandard construction fastener manufacturers in North America.
Portland Bolt was founded by JM Llewellyn in July of 1912, and by 1916, the 15-employee company was producing annual sales of $100,000. In the early years, products manufactured by Portland Bolt included bolts, rivets, pole pins, washers, dies, and tools for machine shops. Portland Bolt was manufacturing products for the ship building industry, telegraph companies, and railroads and shipping as far north as the Canadian border, as far south as San Francisco, and as far east as Montana.
By the mid-1920s Portland Bolt had moved to a larger manufacturing facility on Northwest 14th and Lovejoy Street in Portland and had added a hot-dip galvanizing line. Portland Bolt operated out of this facility until 1974, when the Llewellyn family sold the business to Melvin Peters and Morris Galen. Their intention was to fulfill the company's obligations and then liquidate the assets. While operating the facility, they realized that the company had more potential as a viable entity than liquidation offered. They sold off the galvanizing line and moved the facility to Northwest 12th and Johnson Street.
In 1988, the company was purchased by David Ederer and Brian Sonnenberg, then President, and in 1992 was moved to its current 85,000 square foot facility at Northwest 35th and Guam Street. A hot-dip galvanizing line specifically designed for threaded fasteners was added in 1994, bringing the company's focus as a bolt manufacturer and hot-dip galvanizer full circle.
The 1995 acquisition of Seattle-based Northwest Bolt & Nut Company expanded Portland Bolt's manufacturing capabilities and marketing reach. Since then, all manufacturing processes have been centralized to the current location in Portland.
During 2005, the company's management and ownership changed to what it is today. Jonathan Todd took over day to day operations and became an owner, while Brian Sonnenberg retired after 35 years in the steel industry but remained as Chairman of the Board.
"Shortly after the company was started, product was being manufactured for projects around the Northwest," said Jonathan Todd, Portland Bolt President and Owner. "Through the years we adjusted to the needs of our customers, which in turn had us sending product throughout North America. In the last 15 years, with our reputation of dependable product deliveries and impeccable customer service, our bolts now reach all over the globe. We are extremely proud of the efforts of the people who make up Portland Bolt and the relationships we have created over a century of doing business."
"Our longevity can be attributed to our ability to adapt to an ever-changing marketplace," said Portland Bolt General Manager Greg Lindsay. "We manufacture different products now than we did years ago and our products are sold to different industries and over a much broader geographical region."
In 2011, Portland Bolt manufactured and shipped over 6.2 million pounds of anchor bolts and construction fasteners to more than 2,300 different customers in all 50 states, 9 of 10 Canadian provinces, and 32 different countries. Current markets include power and energy, marine construction, steel fabrication, mining, pole line, light rail, and highway construction. Portland Bolt operates in a modern 85,000 square foot manufacturing facility that includes a state of the art hot-dip galvanizing line. Products manufactured include hex and square head bolts, anchor rods, bent anchor bolts, U-bolts, eye bolts, square plates, tie rod assemblies and numerous varieties of specialty fasteners. Visit Portland Bolt's website at www.portlandbolt.com.


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I love getting new plates! And I was in YW as a counselor and I LOVED IT!! You will have so much fun! The girls are getting married and having babies now and they still keep in touch with me and it is so neat watching them grow up and make the right decisions!
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Q: Why use JWT refresh token I'm not sure I understand the concept of refresh tokens. I know what they do - store them somewhere and whenever the access token expires, get a new access token with them.
It is obviously very important to not leak this refresh token because otherwise a third party could obtain a new access token with it. Therefore it need to be kept extra safe.
My question is: Why not just keep a long lived access token extra safe? Where is the difference in security?
Here is how this fact is described by auth0.com e.g.:

Benefit: Shorter windows of access for leaked access tokens (these expire quickly, reducing the chance of a leaked token allowing access to a protected resource)"

That does not make any sense to me. So the access token expires quickly and therefore it is "not bad" if it is leaked.
On the other hand it is very bad if the refresh token is leaked. So why not just try to keep the access token as safe as the refresh token and have the exact same outcome but one less token to manage?

A: Sometimes it helps to think of the other side of the problem, e.g. the token issuer, not the token owner.
Example
Imagine someone's account has been removed / blocked by administrators.
With a token system, there is no way of invalidating all current tokens - the main point of JWT-style tokens is that possession of a valid token avoids centralised checks (in fact, the same is true of session cookies too really).
Problem with single token system
So to make this more efficient / convenient, in a single-token setup the lifespan of that token is sometimes quite large, meaning that owner (bearer) can have access for hours or days. Oh dear.
Solution: refresh token
A refresh token system, as they Auth0 guide said, allows this normal lifespan to be reduced (e.g. to minutes or seconds) before a refresh needs to be done. At this point, the server / centralised control can check if that account has been blocked or permissions are still good, and issue a new access token accordingly. It's still long enough to provide the performance gains of not calling the auth flow all the time (and of course not sending credentials)
Another use-case
A similar use case is the user losing a phone / device and they need to (effectively) revoke the token it had.
Hope that helps a bit.


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Gun photo taken at Westerville South High School
AJ June 2, 2022
Updated 2022/06/02 at 12:27 PM
WESTERVILLE – Westerville Police are investigating after a photo of a person holding a gun was apparently taken outside Westerville South High School.
The photo was reported to police on May 26 by Westerville South principal Mike Hinze.
According to a police report, the picture appears to have been taken in the Westerville South parking on Illinois Avenue. It showed a young male hunched down next to a red vehicle, showing the gun to the person taking the photo. The school's football stadium was clearly visible in the background.
A copy of the photo was sent to administration of both Westerville South and Westerville North, but nobody recognized the person in the photo. An officer watched security footage from the previous day, but didn't see the red vehicle in the area where it appeared to be parked.
The last day of school for Westerville was May 25.
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Last week I found some really fun accessories for my bar cart in none other than the dollar section at Target…so I couldn't resist. The small decanter, swizzle stirrers, and the plates were such a fun find and perfect for that little corner in my dining room.
I even found this sweet little pineapple in our travels to Hawaii. A lovely woman on the Big Island makes these out of scrap fabric, ribbon and her empty thread spools.
Pineapples are popping up everywhere now so they're pretty easy to find. I've found some great pineapple accessories at Tweed, one of my favorite places to shop, plus some cute ones at The Shops at 5807. Hobby Lobby and Homegoods seem to be well stocked too.
So now when you see pineapples popping up on the blog, or throughout my Instagram feed, you'll know why!
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When I ordered shoes via Piperlime a couple weeks ago, I was mainly concerned about whether they would fit or not. Ordering shoes sight unseen can be tricky to say the least. The box arrived (in record time) and I was equally excited by the inside of the box covered in limes as by all the little extras they threw in.
Not only did my shoe box arrive unharmed because it was in a much larger box, but my shoe box was wrapped in chocolate brown tissue paper with a lime sticker. As if the cuteness factor could not get any higher, they enclosed a card not only complimenting me on my fabulous taste, but warning me how my friends are going to have serious shoe envy. Delightful, clever, color coordinated and wonderful could sum up my first shopping experience with Piperlime. I am impressed with an individual goes the extra mile, but a growing company like this to still care to wrap a box in tissue is truly a diamond in the rough.


EBA Millionaire Mentor, Guy Levine is clearing a space on his shelf this week to make room for his Entrepeneur Award!
Guy received the achievement at the Salford Business Awards on 31st May.
The Entrepreneur Award recognises individuals who have shown the desire to succeed with their own ideas and have had the ambition to turn those ideas into a successful business. Entrants were asked to clearly demonstrate their business idea and start-up process, showing evidence of a well-researched business plan and forecasts for business performance.
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Exports to China can grow with extension of duty-free access to 380-plus new products
·August 9, 2022
The extension of duty-free treatment to 98% of tariff lines will help Bangladesh to further increase its exports to China, the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka said Tuesday.
A tariff line is World Trade Organization-jargon for a product as defined in lists of tariff rates.
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his recent visit to Bangladesh, announced that the duty-free treatment of 98% of goods in the different tariff lines originating from Bangladesh will take into effect on September 1.
This will further help to boost Bangladesh's export to China, said the Embassy. But what if the new products added to the list find no demand in China? That is why some perusal of the new tariff lines, and just how many the 1% rise represents, is important.
China had been providing duty-free facility to 97 percent of Bangladeshi products, including all garment products, since July 1, 2021. We now know that 383 new products, including leather items, have been added to the list now, thereby expanding the benefit to 98 percent of the products.
Read: Bangladesh-China ties promoting common prosperity, shared benefits: Beijing
Here the Chinese side are keen to point to the addition of leather products from Bangladesh that will now enjoy duty free access to the huge Chinese market. Several kinds of basic leather products added into the 98% zero-tariff lines are "good news" to Bangladeshi exporters in the leather industry, which the Chinese have been really playing up as an industry with huge potential in Bangladesh..
Businessmen in the leather industry have already been focusing on the opportunity provided by the duty-free treatment, according to the Chinese Embassy.
Programs are even underway to facilitate Chinese manufacturing enterprises related to leather products to form business relations with Bangladesh's leather exporters, it said.
Bangladesh has many high-quality agricultural, livestock and fishery products too, many of which have been added to the list.
For example, China said, the national fish of Bangladesh, the hilsa, is among both the 97% and the 98% zero tariff lines, and has already acquired the inspection and quarantine access to the Chinese market.
Bangladesh's mango, jackfruit, guave, honey, and beef are all listed as duty free products in both the 97% and the 98% tariff lines.
Varied by different categories of tariff lines, compared with duty-free treatment on 97% tariff lines, there are several hundred products now added to the list in getting to the 98%,
Some of these are agricultural products, crude oil of groundnut, crude cotton-seed oil, liquid crystal display panel, paper product, saloon cars and chemicals, are all included, said the Chinese Embassy.
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Scunthorpe town centre store to reopen after £150k refurbishment
The branch has been closed to allow for its modern makeover to take place
The Poundstretcher Extra store on Station Road, Scunthorpe, is set to re-open after undergoing a refurbishment
The Poundstretcher store on Scunthorpe's Station Road will be re-opened this Saturday (July 22) at 8.30am following a £150,000-plus refurbishment.
Customers have been told the store has had a complete modern makeover, both internally and externally, to overall create a high quality shopping experience.
The store has been closed this week to allow the refurbishment to take place.
Poundstretcher area manager John Graham said: "We look forward to offering our loyal customers of Scunthorpe a bigger and better offer on branded food and toiletries at unbeatable prices in a more spacious shopping environment.
Opening date set for new Scunthorpe High Street post office
"Everyday essentials, such as homeware and petcare, have been refreshed and our seasonal offer continues to be strong with massive pricing reductions across the whole department. We look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday morning."
The company, which has traded at the Station Road site since 2000, also operates another branch in the town on the Lakeside Retail Park.


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In future, conventional power plants based on coal and natural gas will have to work much more flexibly than was previously the case. One reason is that they work in close conjunction with power fed into the electricity grid from renewable energies, which means that the power plants run more often under partial load. This imposes greater stresses on the components and in a different manner than they were originally designed for. The new BINE-Projektinfo brochure entitled "Material loading in flexible power plants" presents a new concept for investigating and evaluating power plants with varying loads.
This enables operators and monitoring institutions to calculate the stability of components in terms of their damage more accurately and without compromising on safety.
Adjusting inspections to the actual load
Until now, conventional power plants were designed for full-load operation with constant pressure and temperature conditions. However, if in future it is intended that they should only produce the electricity requirement not covered by renewables, this will require a new, flexible mode of operation. For all components, this means more part loads, more start-up and shut-down cycles, and more extreme and rapid temperature changes. Scientists have therefore studied the loads on thick-walled power plant components under cyclic temperature changes. They have developed and tested a new method for conducting fracture mechanics-based analyses of the damage tolerance. The findings were also incorporated into a draft guideline for the fracture mechanics-based concept, which is currently in the validation phase.
The results are important for the business calculations made by power plant operators because the more frequent partial load operation causes not only higher maintenance costs but also reduced revenue from electricity sales than under full-load operation. TÜV Nord carried out the research project together with the University of Rostock and Research Centre Jülich.
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Current cigarette smoking among U.S. high school students lowest in 22 years.
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Cigarette smoking rates among high school students have dropped to the lowest levels since the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) began in 1991, according to the 2013 results released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
By achieving a teen smoking rate of 15.7 percent, the United States has met its national Healthy People 2020 objective of reducing adolescent cigarette use to 16 percent or less.
Despite this progress, reducing overall tobacco use remains a significant challenge. For example, other national surveys show increases in hookah and e-cigarette use. In the YRBS, no change in smokeless tobacco use was observed among adolescents since 1999, and the decline in cigar use has slowed in recent years, with cigar use now at 23 percent among male high school seniors.
"It's encouraging that high school students are making better health choices such as not fighting, not smoking, and not having sex," said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. "Way too many young people still smoke and other areas such as texting while driving remain a challenge. Our youth are our future.We need to invest in programs that help them make healthy choices so they live long, healthy lives."
The YRBS provides data related to behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence. The 2013 survey found encouraging reductions in physical fighting among adolescents:
The percentage of high school students nationwide who had been in a physical fight at least once during the past 12 months decreased from 42 percent in 1991 to 25 percent in 2013.
Fights on school property have been cut in half during the past 20 years. Sixteen percent of high school students were in at least one physical fight on school property during the 12 months before the survey in 1993, compared to 8 percent in 2013.
For the first time, the surveys conducted by states and large urban school districts gathered information on texting and e-mailing by adolescents while driving. The survey's findings indicate that the use of technology while driving continues to put youth at risk:
Among high school students who had driven a car or other vehicle during the past 30 days, the percentage of high school students who texted or e-mailed while driving ranged from 32 percent to 61 percent across 37 states and from 19 percent to 43 percent across 15 large urban school districts.
Nationwide, 41 percent of students who had driven a car or other vehicle during the past 30 days reported texting or emailing while driving.
The new YRBS report shows mixed results regarding youth sexual risk behaviors.
The percentage of high school students who are currently sexually active (had sexual intercourse during the past three months) has declined from 38 percent in 1991 to 34 percent in 2013.
Among the high school students who are currently sexually active, condom use also has declined from 63 percent in 2003 to 59 percent in 2013. This decline follows a period of increased condom use throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
The report also indicates varied trends in obesity-related behaviors in recent years, such as excessive screen time and drinking sugar-sweetened beverages like soda.
From 2003−2013, the percent of high school students using a computer three or more hours per day (for non-school related work) nearly doubled from 22 percent to 41 percent.
The percentage of high school students who watch three or more hours of TV on an average school day decreased since 1999 (from 43 percent to 32 percent).
There was a significant decrease in drinking soda (or pop) one or more times per day from 34 percent in 2007 to 27 percent in 2013.
"The Youth Risk Behavior Survey is an important tool for understanding how health risk behaviors among youth vary across the nation and over time," said Laura Kann, Ph.D., chief of CDC's School-Based Surveillance Branch. "We can use these data to help schools, communities, families, and students reduce youth risk behaviors that are still prevalent and to monitor those that are newly emerging."
About the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
CDC's YRBSS is the only surveillance system designed to monitor a wide range of priority health risk behaviors among representative samples of high school students at the national, state, and local levels. National, state, and large urban school district surveys are conducted every two years among high school students throughout the United States. These surveys monitor priority health risk behaviors including unintentional injuries and violence; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection; tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; unhealthy dietary behaviors; and physical inactivity. These surveys also monitor obesity and asthma.
More than 13,000 U.S. high school students participated in the 2013 National YRBS. Parental permission was obtained for students to participate in the survey, student participation was voluntary, and responses were anonymous. States and large urban school districts could modify the questionnaire for their own surveys to meet their needs. The 2013 YRBSS report includes National YRBS data and data from surveys conducted in 42 states and 21 large urban school districts.
The National YRBS is one of three HHS-sponsored surveys that provide data on substance abuse among youth nationally. The others are the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – a primary source of statistics on substance use among Americans age 12 and older (www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda.htm); and the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse – part of the National Institutes of Health– and conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (http://monitoringthefuture.org). The MTF study tracks substance use and related attitudes among students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades.
The 2013 YRBS data are available at www.cdc.gov/yrbs.
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Ragged edged fissures or crawling in a paint film usually due to poor wetting of the surface during application.
In painting, an application of color that would have resulted in a flat area of paint (covering with an even thickness), but resulted instead in running streaks and bare spots, usually because of poor wetting of the surface.
An effect that occurs where a paint will not remain spread in a continuous film.
Areas of a wet film where the coating material recedes or 'pulls away' from the surface.
An application of colour that was intended to result in a covering of even thickness, but resulted instead in running streaks and bare spots, usually because of poor wetting of the surface.
In painting, streaks, bare spots, running paint (normally from over-wetting). Usually a mistake, the desired result being uniform coverage, but poor technique causes the streaking and incomplete coverage.
A defect in which a wet ink or varnish recedes from small areas of the surface leaving either no coating or an attenuated one. (See reticulation).


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Bob earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Princeton University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.


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You know that when a last placed team plays like a middle of the pack team, a player gets hurt and even a dog gets hurt, it's playoff season.
The regular season is merely a warm up for the big time, the post season. And while Eleven spent the entire regular season battling with Backcountry Cannabis Club for the last spot in the standings finishing tied with a record of 3-11, the post season provided a boost as they went toe-to-toe with the Whetstoners in the first round Tuesday evening at Gothic field.
And Eleven did grind it out as a team while the Whetstoners appeared in and out of consciousness through seven innings before pulling off a 21-18 win.
Pumped at their first experience as a new team in the playoffs, Eleven spent the top of the first inning, first pitch swinging, scoring two runs off RBI hits from Ryan Kay and Barry.
The Whetstoners went immediately to work in their first at bat with almost their entire batting order stepping to the plate. While most of the hits were little dinks here and there, they still scored five runs led by Zach Matthias who swung his bat like a mighty flanged mace to crush a three run home run.
Given that the two teams were on nearly opposite ends of the spectrum coming into the playoffs, one just warming up winning five of its last six games and the other losing its last six games, it appeared we would have one of those games after that first inning.
But, alas, Eleven proved more than their 12th place seeding as they pulled off a two out, three-run surge. Lindsay Beltchenko sparked it with a big hustle infield single, Vic Chilson singled, Katy Kay popped a RBI single through and Neil Beltchenko and Andrea Schumacher each dropped RBI singles in shallow centerfield to tie the game 5-5.
Then disaster struck for Eleven, well specifically Lindsay, as an injury forced her and her husband Neil to leave the game and take a trip to the doctor. Following a long pause in the action, the Whetstoners remained at bat and rattled off five runs with Alex Mattes-Ritz driving a two run dinger over the right center fence,Barb Peters stroking a RBI single and Sean Feese smacking a two RBI triple.
The injury to Lindsay cast a shadow over the Eleven bench but they remained focused and responded to score a couple of runs and clamp down on defense to keep the Whetstoners well within reach.
They finally reeled the Whetstoners in during the top of the fourth inning as Ryan crushed a two run shot over the left field fence and Barry and Elliot Manning each connected for RBI hits to put Eleven on top 11-10.
The game then turned into a slugfest as each team traded blows through the last three innings racing the clock the entire time to get the full game in. The Whetstoners threw the initial punch scoring three runs off a walk and a big hit down the left field line from Meghan Dougherty. Eleven counterpunched in the top of the fifth when Josh Schumacher proved he's still got it with a solo dinger and Ryan stroked a RBI triple.
The Whetstoners had Eleven against the ropes heading into the sixth inning knocking in four more runs including a two run inside the park home run from Lawson Yow. But Eleven's rope-a-dope got them out of trouble as Dujardin led off with a big hustle single and scored on a single by Manning. Erinn Dalton connected for a RBI single to pull Eleven within two runs and the 6:30 p.m. time limit pending.
Eleven's defense held the Whetstoners to one run to finish up the sixth inning at 6:29 p.m. and allowing a seventh and final inning to be played.
Eleven did what they could to continue to keep their hopes alive as they tied the game 18-18 in the top of the seventh inning. Andrea led off with a single and scored on a double by Dujardin. The Whetstoners turned the second out but Manning stepped up to the plate with two outs, two runners on and down by two runs to punch a two RBI single and tie the game 18-18.
The Whetstoners turned the third out to keep the game tied and then after a couple of base hits, Mathias went to his trusted flanged mace of a bat again to decimate the ball for a game-winning three run home run and the 21-18 Whetstoners win.
Fortunately for Eleven, the post season is a double-elimination format so they have a chance to keep chugging and slugging through the playoffs. Meanwhile, I'm expecting big things out of the Whetstoners.


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"Licking The Bully's Boots": Why Would Anyone Want To Be Trump's VP?
Let's be honest – Donald Trump is definitely not a team player. A cursory look at his business, entertainment and political careers tells us that, other than family, his litigious bullying means that he usually goes it alone. That's why we've seen so much upheaval among his campaign staff. He tends to be drawn to the most unsavory of characters (Roy Cohn and Paul Manafort) as mentors/partners. But mostly he likes people he can bully. That's what Mark Bowden reports from the time he spent with Trump back in 1996.
Trump struck me as adolescent, hilariously ostentatious, arbitrary, unkind, profane, dishonest, loudly opinionated, and consistently wrong. He remains the most vain man I have ever met. And he was trying to make a good impression…
It was hard to watch the way he treated those around him, issuing peremptory orders—"Polish this, Tony. Today." He met with the lady who selected his drapery for the Florida estate—"The best! The best! She's a genius!"—who had selected a sampling of fabrics for him to choose from, all different shades of gold. He left the choice to her, saying only, "I want it really rich. Rich, rich, elegant, incredible." Then, "Don't disappoint me."…
What was clear was how fast and far one could fall from favor. The trip from "genius" to "idiot" was a flash. The former pilots who flew his plane were geniuses, until they made one too many bumpy landings and became "fucking idiots." The gold carpeting selected in his absence for the locker rooms in the spa at Mar-a-Lago? "What kind of fucking idiot . . . ?"
We've seen the same kind of thing in how he has treated Republicans who have been willing to lick the bully's boots.
As others have noted, Trump really isn't that interested in winning the support of fellow politicians. He is a bully, and what he craves is their submission. Once Chris Christie endorsed him, Trump took visible joy in treating the New Jersey governor as a personal lackey, publicly poking fun at his weight and even telling him that he could no longer eat Oreos.
The dilemma is that no matter what you do, Trump's goal is to make you lose. If you cross him – as Republican Susana Martinez did – you get clobbered. And if you submit, you get clobbered. That's because, in Donald Trump's mind, he always has to be the winner and he has no respect for losers.
So now we're at the point in the 2016 presidential race when all eyes turn to who Trump will pick for the ultimate team-player spot – vice president. Yesterday Sen. Bob Corker wisely withdrew from this contest and it looks as if Sen. Joni Ernst has as well.
What I find interesting is that two of the guys who still seem to be in the running know a thing or two about being a bully themselves – Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie. I'm sure they are both smart enough to know what it means to play on "Team Trump." So why are they so gung- ho to do so?
First of all, I suspect that they both think that they are smarter bullies and can out-Trump him. That's what narcissists usually assume. But I also suspect that they have calculated that if Trump actually makes it to the White House, he won't last long. Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell have already suggested that there are "Constitutional remedies" if he were to veer off course. In other words, he would be impeached and his vice president would be the man left standing. Neither Gingrich or Christie want to be Trump's lapdog permanently. They want to be president and see Donald Trump as a way to get there.
By: Nancy LeTourneau, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, July 7, 2016
July 7, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Chris Christie, Donald Trump, GOP Vice President Candidate, Newt Gingrich	| Bob Corker, Bullys, Joni Ernst, Mitch McConnell, Paul Manafort, Roy Cohn, Susana Martinez | Leave a comment
"Classic Kindergarten Bully Antics": Trump's Narcissism Makes It Hard For Him To Tack To Center
In the weeks following Trump's mathematical lock on the GOP nomination, the candidate and party establishment have attempted to come to a detente and make overtures toward tacking to center in the general election. We have seen high-profile politicians say that Trump's political racism and bigotry is an act he put on to win the primary election that he will drop in the general. We have seen Trump himself attempt to use more generically populist pitches than the specifically nativist themes he has consistently used to win Republican support.
But the problem is that Trump's personal history and personality are going to make it very difficult for him to move into a less offensive general election mode.
Even the most casual observer can see that Trump is a classic narcissist. Like most narcissists, Trump tends to do and say whatever is best for him even at the expense of everyone else. Most importantly, he is congenitally unable to apologize and take responsibility for past bad behavior, or even concede that a critic might have a valid point. His reaction to being criticized is to immediately engage in childish and petty personal attacks against his critics.
The problem with petty personal attacks is that they quickly tend to devolve into bigotry. So it is that when a judge with a Hispanic surname ruled against Trump in the ongoing scandal of his fraudulent ponzi scheme "university," Trump's reaction wasn't to suggest that all the facts had yet to come out, or that the judge had misinterpreted the data, or even that the judge had a politically motivated agenda as a secret liberal. These are the sorts of defenses that people who aren't egomaniacal narcissists might make.
But not Trump. Trump's reaction was to slam the judge for the crime of being Hispanic.
Trump goes for the jugular every time to silence his critics by placing himself (in his mind) on a level above them and denying them the right to even dare to judge him, by virtue of some innate inferiority on their part. It's classic kindergarten bully antics. And in adult political life, it's almost impossible to engage in kindergarten bullying without repeatedly stepping across lines of racism, sexism, and bigotry. This isn't just a problem for him as a candidate, of course: it's a problem for the entire Republican Party, which is aghast
But then, the GOP did this to itself. You can only use dogwhistled racism and sexism to deprive the middle class of its living standards for so long until that middle class stops buying into the hidden rhetoric and the plutocrat-friendly ideology, and starts to want more overt policies designed to help members of their own tribal identity.
It just happens to be that Republican voters picked a narcissist bully who will be constitutionally unable to do what it takes to win a general election. He just can't help himself.
By: David Atkins, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, June 5, 2016
June 7, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Donald Trump, GOP Establishment, GOP Voters	| Bigotry, Bullys, Hispanics, Middle Class, Narcissism, Nativism, Racism, Sexism, Trump University | 2 Comments
"Donald Trump And His Subversive Sense Of Humor": A Man Who Views Assessments Of Women On Their Appearance
I used to have this poster in my office reflecting the timeless wisdom of a relief pitcher named Larry Andersen. Today he does Phillies radio broadcasts. A friend who's a calligrapher made it for me.
"Hey, you're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
The poster got lost after we moved, and my wife doesn't miss it. Possibly because it reflects an aspect of my personality she's sometimes uneasy with: the part that helps me do a pretty good Donald Trump impression. The part that reflects my bygone youth in New Jersey, the Insult State.
The part that makes her laugh until I imitate Trump attacking Hillary Clinton as a woman The Donald would not want to see naked.
The accent, gestures, and exaggerated mugging all come easy. You've just got to imagine a chimpanzee with a trust fund. See, if he hadn't inherited a couple of hundred million bucks from his old man, Trump would have ended up cheating used car buyers and standing around on New York street corners patting his groin and hooting at passing women with the other primates.
"Hey baby, I got a piece of candy for you. Right here in my pants."
Like that.
How Trump reacts to finishing second in Iowa remains to be seen. I'm guessing the minute he realizes he can't bulldoze and bluff his way to the presidency, he's gone. But at least he's given us some laughs, more than you can say for most of them.
Which brings us to Trump's big celebrity feud with Fox News head blonde Megyn Kelly. Has any victim of The Donald's verbal assaults ever benefited more from his scorn?
Before the two tangled during the first GOP presidential debate, Kelly was best known among the cable channel's audience of AARP All-Stars—a foot soldier in the annual "War on Christmas" who once indignantly assured viewers that Santa Claus is a white man. Also an imaginary man, but never mind.
Now thanks to Trump, she's a name brand. It'll be interesting to watch where the notoriety takes her. At 45, she's probably too old to be the fourth Mrs. Trump, but wouldn't that be an entertaining premise for a bad movie?
The feud began, as the world knows, when Kelly, an incisive interviewer, asked The Donald about his practice of calling women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals." He tried to joke his way out of it, but Kelly doubled down, asking about the time he told a contestant on "Celebrity Apprentice" how cute she'd look on her knees.
A classic bully, Trump whined that Kelly was biased. "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever," he told CNN.
He's all chivalry, our Mr. Trump.
Bickering continued until The Donald tried to make Fox News drop Kelly as moderator of its next GOP debate, which he vowed to boycott unless he got his way. CEO Roger Ailes called his bluff. Refusing to show up now looks like a mistake after Iowa. Trump's going to bully foreign leaders into submission, but a TV executive defied him and he's afraid of a girl?
Not good for the brand.
Smarting, Trump then said he wouldn't call Kelly a "bimbo" because it would be "politically incorrect." That's Republican-speak for refusing to call a spade a spade. (Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. Know what they mean?)
Next he reposted some pinup shots of Kelly on Twitter: "Criticizes Trump for objectifying women. Poses like this in GQ magazine."
I hesitate to admit that I laughed out loud. Low-cut negligee, "Hello, Sailor" look and all, Megyn didn't much resemble Walter Cronkite.
Not that valuing women strictly as sexual objects was what Kelly complained about. But whatever else you can say about Trump, he's got a subversive sense of humor.
Should it matter that Mrs. Donald Trump, version 3.0, has herself posed buck nekkid for GQ? Perhaps not, but it's funny too. Built like a Slovenian outhouse, the fair Melania.
I wonder if Mrs. Trump's pre-nuptial agreement is fully vested. Because it's hard to think that First Lady's a role that would suit her. In some ways, the White House is the jewel of the federal penitentiary system.
Meanwhile, Washington Post reporter Janell Ross, seemingly not from New Jersey, asked some pertinent questions:
"Doesn't the content of that tweet… strongly support the core theories behind the question that Kelly asked Trump in the very first debate? Is a man who seems to view assessments of women based largely or perhaps only on their appearance fit for the Oval Office in 2016? And, if he is, what are the political ramifications of putting him in office and giving him the bully pulpit?"
The correct answers are: yes, no, and more of the same.
But Melania can rest easy, because it's not going to happen.
By: Gene Lyons, The National Memo, February 3, 2016
February 4, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Donald Trump, Fox News, GOP Primary Debates, Sexism	| Bullys, Hillary Clinton, Megyn Clinton, Melania Trump, Republicans, Roger Ailes, Women | 1 Comment