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Rice is the most important tropical cereal. It is the staple food of half the human race. It is so important in some countries, that they have festivals and celebrations to honour it.There are literally thousands, perhaps as many as 40,000 or more, varieties of rice grown on every continent except Antarctica.
Rice consumption is on the rise. In fact, Americans eat twice as much rice now than they did ten years ago. Marketing analysts attribute this phenomenon to the savvy consumer's awareness of rice as a healthy food.
1 Why should I be aware of this?
2 All about rice
2.1 Types of Rice
2.2 Food Value
2.3 Food value chart
2.4 Food value of Raw Milled Rice – per 100 gm edible portion
3 Rice and health
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Rice is about 98% digestible. It is one of the most easily and quickly digested of all foods.
Rice starch is different from other grain starches as it contains 100% amylopectin, which is most completely and rapidly digested grain starch.
Rice protein, which is about 8% of the grain, has a special benefit as it has eight of the essential amino acids in delicately balanced proportions. Rice proteins are metabolized into health building amino acids. These amino acids build resilient muscles, healthy hair and skin and clearer eyesight. It nourishes the heart and lungs, tendons and ligaments, brain, nervous system and glandular network.
The B-complex vitamins, especially thiamin, Riboflavin and niacin offered by natural brown rice help to nourish the hormonal system, heal wounds and regulate blood pressure. Rice also offers iron to enrich the blood stream and phosphorous and potassium to maintain internal water balance along with other nutrients. It thus helps restore internal balance.
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Rice has been cultivated in south eastern Asia since ancient times where it is one of the oldesr of food cereals. The exact date and place of origin is not really known but one of the oldest mention goes back almost 7000 years ago, when a Chinese emperor established a ceremonial ordinance for the planting of ricethat would later be used by the royal physicians for healing purposes. It was grown in Ancient India as far back as 5000 years ago when it appeared as a plant called Newaree.
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Rice from which only the husk has been removed, but layers of bran and most of the germ retained, is known as brown rice.
Rice from which husk, germ and bran layers have almost completely been removed by power machinery is known as milled rice.
Rice milled to a high degree is known as white rice.
Rice from which husk, germ, and bran layers have been partially removed without the use of power machinery, is known as hand pounded rice.
Rice milled to a high degree and then coated with some foreign substance such as glucose or talcum is called polished rice.
Paddy specially processed by steaming or soaking in water, then heated and dried is called parboiled paddy.
It can then be milled to various degrees or home pounded. It is called parboiled milled or parboiled home pounded.
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Starch constitutes the bulk of the rice grain. The protein content of the rice is lower than that of wheat but is of superior quality and utilized better by the body than the wheat protein. But it is brown rice that is most nutritious and beneficial. Oriental healers through traditional medicines have always advocated the use of natural brown rice as a key to youthful health building because the processing of rice removes many of the valuable B-complex vitamins and some of the minerals.
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Rraw handpounded rice – per 100 gm edible portion
Moisture- 13.3%
Protein-7.5%
Fat- 1.0%
Minerals-0.9%
Fibre- 0.6%
Carbohydrates- 76.7%
Calcium- 10 mg
Phosphorous 190 Mg
Iron- 3.2 mg
Small amount of Vitamin B Complex
Caloric value – 346
[edit] Food value of Raw Milled Rice – per 100 gm edible portion
Protein- 6.8%
Fat- 0.5 %
Minerals- 0.6%
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High Blood Pressure - Rice has a low fat, low cholesterol and low salt content. It makes a perfect diet for those hypertensive persons who have been advised salt restricted diets. Calcium in brown rice, in particular, soothes and relaxes the nervous system and helps relieve the symptoms of high blood pressure.
Body Balance -- Rice diet in combination with milk creates a marvelous body balance. The rice can be cooked in any way but no salt must be added. The two notable amino acids, isoleucine and lysine in the milk are greatly strengthened by rice proteins, thereby enabling them to form stronger body building blocks.
Digestive system disorders-- Rice has a very low fibre content, and is therefore extremely soothing to the digestive system. It thus makes rice ideal for a digestive system disorders.Thick grul of rice mixed with aglassful of butter milk abd a well ripe banana given twice a day is very nutritious in the case of typhoid, gastric ulcer, gastritis stomach and intestinal cancer, colitis, dysentery, piles and indigestion, hepatitis or inflammation of the liver, jaundice, burning and indigestion due to hiatus hernia
Diarrhoea in children -- Rice is useful in treating diarrhea in children. A tsp of powder of charred par boiled rice mixed with a glassful of buttermilk should be given in doses of an ounce every half an hour.
Skin Inflammation -Rice can also be used externally in the form of powder or poultice. The rice flour, dusted thickly over the surface, has a very soothing and cooling affect in small pox, measles, prickly heat and other inflammations of the skin including burns and scalds. Rice powder helps in heat and irritation and has a soothing effect, if dusted over the body. It also makes for an excellent body scrub.
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An average person eats about 300 to 400 pounds of rice a year.
In Burma a person eats 500 pounds of rice a year, an astonishing figure when it is reduced to a daily consumption of 1-1/4 pounds per day.
The Chinese Word for Rice is the same as their word for food.
There are more than 40,000 different varieties of rice.
Grains of rice in a salt cellar will help to keep the salt free flowing.
Rice is cultivated in over 100 countries and on every continent except Antarctica.
On cooking rice swells to give at least three times its original weight.
Rice is a symbol of life and fertility, which is why it was a tradition to throw it at weddings, confetti has now replaced rice.
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Abbeygreen Church is a reformed, evangelical congregation of the Church of Scotland in the town of Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire. It lies opposite the Glebe Park on Abbeygreen.
Abbeygreen Church was born out of the Disruption of 1843. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland of May 1843 saw some four hundred and seventy four ministers leave the Church of Scotland to "come out to form the glorious Free Church of Scotland". The minister of the Parish Church of Lesmahagow at the time was the Rev. Dr Andrew Borland Parker. The Sunday following the General Assembly of 1843 saw Dr Parker preach his last sermon in the Parish Church. Intending to begin an exposition in the Book of Exodus, Dr Parker declared "I can no longer continue in connection with an establishment which has virtually denied the Kingly office of Christ". Dr Parker, five elders and eight hundred communicants left the Church of Scotland and the Parish Church at the formation of the Free Church of Scotland. A plot of land was obtained, opposite the Glebe fields, from the Duke of Hamilton, and the foundation stone was laid in August 1843. On 15 February 1844 Abbeygreen Free Church was opened to the Glory of God, free of debt and without the aid of the Free Church central fund.
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Thirty-year-old Derrick Roper was found dead in his apartment on January 17, 2019, and neighbor Robert Ballard was rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. Derrick Roper's mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Columbia Housing Authority, and Robert Ballard has filed a personal injury lawsuit. The lawsuits both claim that the Columbia Housing Authority should have known about the dangerous conditions in which the apartment building was kept.
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The stained-glass window depicting the seasons of life was designed by Sr. Nancy Raboin of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Donaldson, Indiana. The tree-shaped linden wood crossbars of the window recall the linden trees under which Katharina Kasper, congregation foundress, prayed at a roadside chapel. In Germany, the linden tree is also a place to gather. (Courtesy of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Donaldson, Indiana)
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Funeral customs around the world have many common elements, but each culture and each religious congregation puts its unique stamp on the rituals around death and dying. For this month of saints and souls, panelists shared details of how they say goodbye to their sisters, as they responded to this question:
In your experience, what are some best practices around sisters' rituals for the dying, funerals and burial? How do these celebrations of their lives reflect the values of religious life?
Katy van Wyk, a Dominican Sister of St. Catharine of Siena of King William's Town, South Africa, lives in Johannesburg. After teaching, she served in leadership, later continuing in mission effectiveness for Dominican schools. Now, she conducts retreats, volunteers as a community art counselor with underprivileged children, and facilitates empowerment workshops for young women at risk of teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and physical/sexual abuse.
When moving to a retirement home, our sisters are asked to write down details of their funeral and whether they want to be buried or cremated. I think there is an element of trust in this —sisters trust that their wishes will be respected — and they are.
Perhaps an unspoken question is: "Will there be someone at my death bed?" Again, there is trust. Someone will be there; seldom does a sister die alone in the hospital.
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A burial outside Johannesburg, South Africa, for a family member of the author takes place in the Catholic section of a formerly segregated cemetery. Pall bearers include family and friends; after prayers and blessing over the grave, it is filled by men who have attended the funeral, while the mourners sing hymns. People stay until the grave is filled, and family members may then linger for good-byes. All are invited to the home or church hall for refreshments. For white people's funerals, municipal workers fill the grave. (Chardonnay Loonat)
In our congregation, sisters take turns around the deathbed, singing the "Salve Regina" and a German hymn to Our Lady, "Segne du, Maria" ("Bless me, Mother Mary"). There is often good humor around the singing of the Salve. A sister may be on her last breath but "revives" during the singing of the Salve.
Once, I drove two elderly sisters to the hospital to visit another who was gravely ill. Unconscious and barely breathing, somehow, this sister was not ready to let go yet. John O'Donohue wrote:
"May someone who knows and loves
The complex village of your heart
Be there to echo you back to yourself ...
To carry you to the further shore."
Her friend, who knew her well — knew the "village of her heart" — walked her through the difficult and beautiful experiences they shared. I was struck by how the sick sister began to breathe more easily, the expression on her face becoming gentler and totally transformed. Then she just slipped away. It was a blessed and awesome experience.
In keeping with the values of religious life, our funerals are simple, with beautiful liturgies. Recently, our funerals have also become more private. In the past, our sisters were buried in our South African public cemeteries with one or several other funerals happening at the same time. Because of the age and frailty of survivors who cannot attend the burial or visit the grave later, cremation is becoming the better option. On the property of one of our retirement homes, a garden of remembrance has been established where the ashes of the deceased are interred.
Again, as John O'Donohue says: "I imagine that one of the great storehouses of blessing is the invisible neighborhood where the dead dwell." Whether burial or cremation, all is done with dignity. From that "invisible neighborhood," our sisters continue to bless us and to pray with and for us.
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A cemetery in South Africa (Chardonnay Loonat)
Joetta Huelsmann is a member of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Donaldson, Indiana. Early ministries included teaching, religious education and being a parish pastoral associate; later, she was co-director of a personal growth center, a staff member and spiritual director of a house of prayer, and the director of a retreat center. Now, she is serving as provincial councilor of her congregation and is responsible for associates, communications, the justice office and other community programs.
Believing in the resurrection (John 11:25), we Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ fill out a "Resurrection Form" as a starting point for our funeral liturgy and wake service.
One of the considerations is: "What are some favorite themes or significant symbols in your life?" One for me is the turtle, which symbolizes the contemplative pace that is important for my life.
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Photos and memories of Sr. Kate Kuenstler (Joetta Huelsmann)
On our forms, we list favorite Scripture passages, psalms and songs to be incorporated into our service. We suggest celebrants and a homilist as well as other significant people that we would like to have involved in the liturgy. We state a few highlights of our ministry and community life, as well.
A day before the funeral, the sister's body is brought to the chapel for viewing and welcomed by a short prayer service. At the viewing, individuals are invited to sprinkle the body with holy water. That evening, we hold a vespers service, designed with the sister's suggestions. At this service, someone shares a reflection about the significant highlights of the sister's life, after which others are invited to share their memories and stories.
The funeral booklet incorporates pictures of the sister throughout her life, and in the hallway, we have a table of pictures and other objects that were important to her.
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The three display tables in the hallway outside the chapel, created for the funeral of Sr. Kate Kuenstler, are full of pictures and remembrances of Sister Kate. (Joetta Huelsmann)
At the end of the service, the coffin is brought to the hallway outside the chapel under a stained-glass window designed by our sister, Nancy Raboin. The window depicts the four seasons, which correspond to the seasons of our lives. The tree-shaped wooden crossbars of the window are made of linden wood, which has a significance in our history. St. Maria Katharina Kasper, our foundress, prayed and had many inspirations and visions at a roadside chapel surrounded by linden trees. In Germany, the linden tree is also a place to gather.
At the end of the funeral Mass, the closing hymn welcomes the sister into paradise. Incorporated within this hymn, we sing a litany of Poor Handmaid sisters who have gone before her — sisters who lived or ministered with her — and who will welcome her to heaven, as well.
At the end of the final blessing, we all sing "Glorious Title, Handmaid of Our Lord," composed by two of our sisters. From here, we proceed to the cemetery and again bless the casket with holy water as a final goodbye.
Jantana Wongsankakorn, an Ursuline Sister of Thailand, worked in the financial sector for 10 years. Inspired by the simplicity of religious life, she joined the congregation in Bangkok. After biblical studies in India, Mandarin courses in Taiwan and a tertianship in Rome, she ministered as a catechist and a member of the national chaplain team, then as a missionary in Cambodia. Now, she is a member of an Asian Pacific chaplain team and teaches mathematics at the Ursuline school in Bangkok.
In Thai culture, a funeral is one of the most important events in a family. From visiting the dying person through the time of burial, a funeral shows the relationship between the living and the one who left the world.
Most of the population in Thailand is Buddhist. A Buddhist funeral consists of a bathing ceremony, daily chanting by a monk, and cremation. The Thai Catholic funeral is similar. A simple ritual is performed when the body is placed in the casket before being moved to the church. A wake usually involves three days of evening prayers, but it may last up to seven days, as the family wishes.
Our Ursuline sisters' wakes and funerals are very simple, with Mass, a homily and the presentation of "biography boards," with stories and pictures of the sister and her missions. Hundreds of students might come to the wake, especially for missionaries who served more than 50 years in Thailand. Even students who graduated years ago feel a big loss, for they have felt bonded with the sisters since their childhood.
Sr. Francis Xavier Bell's wake was a little unusual. Most of the visitors were surprised to find coffee and a variety of milk, yogurt and ice cream after the liturgy and eulogy. Why ice cream at a funeral?
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After Sr. Francis Xavier Bell's wake liturgy, the sisters and guests feasted on Zonta ice cream and other milk products. Pictured are Sr. Kanya and Sr. Songsaeng. (Jantana Wongsankakorn)
Sr. Francis Xavier Bell
Bell arrived in Thailand from Brooklyn, New York, in January 1953 to begin serving as a teacher in four Ursuline schools and in religious formation. In 1974, she went to the Ratchaburi Diocese (four hours away from Bangkok) to do social development, later moving to a remote village down a bad gravel road 17 kilometers from any town. The village was on a big piece of land surrounded by wild animals; the soil and water were not good enough for agriculture but were good for grass. To help the villagers develop a sustainable community, she changed the obstacle into an opportunity by developing a dairy farm.
Sister Francis asked for help from Zonta International, the Canadian Embassy and other benefactors to support the project, beginning with 26 dairy cows, which gave 30 liters of milk a day. After a year, they invested in machinery to produce pasteurized milk under the brand name "Zonta." Sister Francis worked there for more than 14 years, training and sending the staff to study abroad. The project continues as a well-known cooperative.
Sister Francis died in 2013. During the five days of visitation, the villagers provided Zonta dairy products every day to show their gratitude. "One taste (of Zonta ice cream) is worth a thousand words!"
Frances Hayes is a Presentation Sister living in Samson, Western Australia. With an academic background in education and history, she moved from primary education to religious education to administration in Australia and later became the English writer at the apostolic nunciature in Bangkok from 1995 to 2000. She then returned to Australia to minister as a support worker in aged care, a volunteer teaching assistant with refugee women and children, and a volunteer in an organization that builds connections with homeless and vulnerable people.
My mother was extremely organized, so it was not surprising that she prepaid her funeral, having purchased two cemetery plots when my father died. I was asked to accompany her as she stipulated details: what type of service (no Mass, as most attendees don't go to Mass), no mourning cars (everyone has their own car), coffin type (nothing extravagant, as I am being cremated), lining material (nothing flashy, I'll be dead), simple floral tribute (flowers will die the next day). To her, it was matter-of-fact; to me, it was a little disconcerting.
Later, I realized how sensible it was, though I did quietly prepare a Mass (we decided to override her decision on that) with readings, hymns and roles for family members. When she died nine years later, our family was able to gather, share, reflect and grieve without the stress of organizing anything.
Recently, the leadership of my own Presentation congregation called for volunteers for a group to assist in the planning and celebration of special occasions, usually golden and diamond jubilees and significant birthdays, but added to these were funerals. Sisters were asked to submit suggestions for their own rituals: loved readings, favorite hymns, symbols, the celebrant and any other preferences. The sister is asked ahead of time about what clothes she wants to be dressed in, whether there will be a public viewing or not, will the coffin be of white or brown wood? Such discussions link death with life and the burial ritual with the baptismal ritual.
Understandably, each death and ritual is very different and personalized for the individual sister. The vigil prayers, Mass and burial are now a reflective experience as we are all focusing on the life of the individual. Comments are now: "I'm not surprised she wanted that reading, she has loved it since the novitiate," and, "I was with her when we first heard that hymn." The shared reflection includes a focus on how the particular sister has been a witness to the life of Jesus Christ and Nano Nagle, our foundress, and thus an aid to the spiritual journey of other congregation members.
For our Presentation congregation (average age above 80), these two practices — setting up our celebration group and individuals contributing to their own ritual — have resulted in greater openness, sharing, reflection and participation with death, seen as very much part of the ongoing journey of life in God.
Earlier this year, reporter Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans wrote a two-part series about sisters called "A Good Death."
Mary Ann Flannery is a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati who has held teaching and administrative positions at several colleges. Before her community (Vincentian Sisters of Charity) merged with the Sisters of Charity, she served as community president and in other leadership roles. She has been a freelance journalist, the director of a Jesuit retreat house, and active in social justice issues for more than 30 years. She continues to offer retreats and spiritual direction.
Evening shadows gather outside her window; the lights within dimmed with respect for the intimate moment — a soul about to transition.
Some of us keep customary vigil as her twin sister sits, head bowed in grief. We pray, and we wait.
This ritual is repeated whether one of our sisters dies in the infirmary, a hospital or a hospice. Sr. Jean Marian Crowley, whose ministry it is to handle the details in the process of a sister's dying and the ceremonies to follow, says, "We try to have the sister die here at the motherhouse, surrounded by family and those who know her. We can pray in her presence, and the familiarity often comforts her."
Preparations have already been made. The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati are encouraged to provide information that will make final rituals meaningful and personal.
"Our practice is to make sure the sister has filled out forms following liturgical guidelines and including all of her designated wishes ... including the disposition of her remains," says Sister Jean Marian.
Sister Jean Marian has handled over 300 deaths and funerals in her nearly 20 years of this ministry.
"We try to make this a reflective, spiritual experience," she adds.
A traditional funeral celebration includes a wake service followed by a funeral Mass and burial of the body or cremains in the community cemetery. Some sisters choose a Mass without a viewing. If she has chosen to donate her remains to medical research — teaching even in death — she will have a memorial Mass sometime later. A recent teachable moment centered on a sister who had taught American World War II pilots how to use radar. The medical students stood there, awed at this sister's story and her contribution to history.
A memorial Mass is also offered for a sister who chooses a green burial. This requires that the sister be interred within 24 hours because she is not embalmed. She is "dressed" in a biodegradable hospital gown and wrapped in a biodegradable cloth, sometimes along with a favorite afghan, then taken to her final resting place. In the cemetery, the groundskeepers reverently remove the body from the hearse on a wooden pallet, and lower it into the grave. We pray the graveside prayers and sprinkle holy water on the remains of our sister.
The impact of this choice is powerful. Last winter, a sister-missionary to Latin America was lowered into her grave, totally free and still giving herself to the Earth she so lovingly served in the poor. A blending of a life and death in the cosmic Christ.
Yes, in death she was still teaching.
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The 2009–10 Dutch Basketball League (DBL) was the 50th season of the Dutch Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands. GasTerra Flames dominated throughout the regular season and lost just three games. Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden player Danny Gibson was league top scorer and won the Most Valuable Player award. GasTerra Flames eventually won its third title in team history, by beating World Class Aviation Academy Giants 4–1 in the playoff finals.

It was the first year the league was named the Dutch Basketball League (DBL), after previously being known as the Eredivisie.

Teams

Regular season

Playoffs

The playoffs started on 22 April and ended 25 May 2010. The winner of the playoffs was crowned Dutch national champion. In the quarterfinals a best-of-three format is used, while in the semifinals and finals are played in respectively a best-of-five format and best-of-seven format. The higher seeded team had home advantage and played games one, three, five and seven (if possible) at home. Small bold numbers indicate team seeding.

Source: Eurobasket

Statistical leaders

Awards
Most Valuable Player
  Danny Gibson  (Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden)
All-Star Team
  Danny Gibson  (Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden)
  Ronny LeMelle  (Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden)
  Kees Akerboom, Jr.  (EiffelTowers Den Bosch)
  Patrick Hilliman  (Rotterdam Challengers)
  Matt Haryasz  (GasTerra Flames)
Rookie of the Year
  Mohamed Kherrazi  (ABC Amsterdam)
Coach of the Year
  Toon van Helfteren  (Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden)
Statistical Player of the Year
  Elijah Palmer  (Upstairs Weert)

In European competitions

References

Dutch Basketball League seasons
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Marketers are planning big adjustments to their advertising budgets in 2017. As companies shift more and more focus to their customers, eMarketer reports loyalty programs will reap the benefits of budgetary changes next year.
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Two related surveys were conducted in 2015 (one by Martiz Motivation Solutions and one by Colloquy), which delved into why consumers join and continue to participate in loyalty programs. Responses from the MMS survey revealed the desire to earn rewards (43%) and a low effort to sign up (31%) were top drivers of earning new members, while reasons such as loving the brand's product and sharing brand values had minimal impact.
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If your clients are planning to invest more dollars into their customer loyalty programs, help them determine the factors that will be worth the most bang for their buck. The easier and simpler their programs are to use and sign up for will ensure customer enrollment stays high, but the rewards and offers those customers earn will be their biggest motivator to give your clients their loyalty.
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Home > 2019 > 12/11 > Daily Duce: Gerrit Cole signs in New York, Shapiro speaks about the off-season, and more!
Daily Duce: Gerrit Cole signs in New York, Shapiro speaks about the off-season, and more!
December 11, 2019, 10:30 AM | Cam Lewis
Daily????!
I guess it ultimately didn't matter that they weren't able to shed salary. The Yankees just went ahead and signed Gerrit Cole to a record-setting nine-year deal worth $324 million.
His deal eclipses the one Stephen Strasburg signed the other day and predictably dwarfs the mammoth free-agent deals handed out to David Price and Max Scherzer a few years ago. This deal comes 11 years after the Yankees signed CC Sabathia to what at the time was a record-setting deal for a pitcher. It was worth $161 million. Oh, how times change!
Anyways, here he is as a Yankee…
FIRST LOOK: Gerrit Cole has (reportedly) donned the @yankees pinstripes.
And shaved his beard.
And cut his hair, too.
(per @jonheyman) pic.twitter.com/lq4TAUmui1
— Cut4 (@Cut4) December 11, 2019
This is actually the first huge free agent add the Yankees have had in a little while. I mentioned in my rant post yesterday that the Evil Empire was being uncharacteristically stingy in recent years, but it seems this kind of addition was the one they were waiting to make. We all assumed they would sign one of Bryce Harper or Manny Machado last winter, instead, they waited until this year to solidify their problematic rotation with an ace.
Rather than blowing their load on Jacoby Ellsbury-esque signings just for the hell of filling the stomachs of a rabid fan market with empty calories, the Yankees are being meticulous with the way they swing their dick around on the open market. Over at The Athletic, Marc Carig points out exactly why the new, big-picture-thinking, less-reckless Yankees are terrifying…
At first glance, the Yankees' signing of Gerrit Cole to a record nine-year, $324 million contract feels like a return to the old way of doing business. Indeed, it is the kind of financial muscle flexing that harkens back to the glory days of George Steinbrenner.
But the reality for the rest of baseball is far more grim, for the signing of Cole isn't a blast from the past, but an embodiment of the game's worst fears. The Yankees are well-run, well-heeled and well-schooled in the art of reeling in the big fish. And as a result, the best pitcher in the game joins a team that will be favored to win the World Series.
It happened not because of impulse or short-sighted thinking, but because a calculated process rooted in data led the Yankees to a clear conclusion.
Smart teams still pay the price for elite talent. The Yankees dared to make it rain when the time was right. The death star is fully operational, and now the rest of baseball is left to face the consequences.
Ah, yes, very good. Great, actually!
So, now that Strasburg and Cole are off the free-agent market, what happens next? The Dodgers and Angels, two big-market teams who had been pushing hard to sign an elite arm, missed out on the top targets, and they'll pivot their efforts elsewhere. This leaves the Jays competing with both L.A. teams, along with other teams like Minnesota, for the remaining pitchers out there.
Mark Shapiro, at the very least, is aware that the Jays need to do something. With the two big fish scooped up and the other quality options soon to disappear as the dust settles, the Jays need to be aggressive. No, not pretend aggressive, which has been the front office's word de jour of the off-season, but actually aggressive. Aggressive as in they're outbidding other teams. If not, they're going to get left behind.
"We need to get better. We need to add. We need to strike," Shapiro said Tuesday. "There are different degrees, some may not be how you define that or someone else defines that, but we clearly need to add. We can't just roll the same club out again as it sits there today.
But do the Jays actually want to go ahead and do that? I mean, Shapiro outright said that the team needs to be better than it was last season, and he knows they need to make additions in order for it to happen. Are they actually ready to cash in on the financial flexibility they've created?
"We're very well positioned," he added. "The combination of young talent along with the lack of future commitments, it will never be this again. It's just for this moment."
"There are still some variables, there are still some situations that would lead to a payroll being bigger and there are some variables that if we don't feel the right moves are out there that would lead to the payroll being lower. We're not going to spend it just to spend it, but there's certainly opportunity to go beyond last year in the right circumstance, as well. It's not a static number."
Given the comment about them never being as flexible as they are right now, it would be shocking if the Jays didn't make a couple of serious additions this off-season. Bo and Vlad aren't going to be dirt cheap forever. You have 2020, 2021, and 2022 of those guys being cheap, and then, Vlad becomes eligible for arbitration. Bo will be right behind him. There's a nice window of opportunity right now to capitalize on their low salaries.
Gregor Chisholm aptly uses the Chicago Cubs as an example of what the Blue Jays could be.
A perfect example can be found in how the Cubs built their World Series team. Chicago finished last in the National League Central in 2014 after going 73-89. Despite the record, the Cubs were optimistic about their group of young position players, which included Kris Bryant, Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo.
The Cubs had plenty of hitting but lacked pitching. They could have sat back another year and waited for the core to continue its development, but instead Chicago president Theo Epstein went out and signed Jon Lester to a six-year contract while also adding Jason Hammel, Jason Motte and Miguel Montero to the roster.
Chicago went on to win 97 games the following year before losing in the NL Championship Series. The Cubs upgraded again that winter by signing Ben Zobrist, John Lackey and Jason Heyward, among others. The additions upped Chicago's win total to 103 and resulted in the organization's first World Series title since 1908.
I don't think anybody realistically expected the Jays to go out and sign Cole or Strasburg. But missing out on a higher-end name like Ryu or Keuchel would be incredibly disappointing. There's still plenty of time and a handful of solid names out there on the market, but things are going to start picking up now. Let's hope the front office is finally ready to make something happen.
Also, speaking of Bo and Vlad's cheap salaries, Shapiro mentioned that there has been some internal dialogue about the possibility of handing out early long-term extensions to the team's young stars. We've seen this quite a bit recently, with Atlanta locking up Ronald Acuna after one season of play and the White Sox signing Eloy Jimenez before he even reached the Major Leagues. It'll be something we'll likely hear more about come spring training.
"A lot of conversations internally about all of our zero-to-three players, but as I've said before and I'll say again, we tend to use spring training as the timing to actually conduct those conversations just because we've got a limited number of hours and a lot of work to get done in the off-season so right now we're focused on the more pressing business, which is trying to add players to this core," Shapiro said.
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The Extremist Community: Nine More Years in a Penal Colony for Left Resistance Founder Darya Polyudova
Darya Polyudova, holding a placard that reads, "Ukraine, we're with you." Photo courtesy of The Insider
The founder of the Left Resistance movement, Darya Polyudova, has been sentenced to nine years in a penal colony on charges of "creating an extremist community." Polyudova was already serving time on another charge, and had three years left to go in her sentence.
The Second Western District Military Court has handed down the new sentence to the activist. It agreed with the prosecution's arguments that the Left Resistance, as created by Polyudova, was an "extremist community." And yet, at the moment there is no such organization listed in the Russian Justice Ministry's registry of "extremist organizations."
In addition to "creating an extremist community" (Article 282.1.1 of the Russian Federal Criminal Code), the court found the activist guilty on two counts of "condoning terrorism" (Article 205.2.2 of the Russian Federal Criminal Code) over posts published on the movement's social media page.
The sentence took into account Polyudova's previous sentence of six years, which she received in 2021, writes Mediazona.
Polyudova was the first person in Russia charged under the criminal code article outlawing "calls for separatism" (Article 280.1). This accusation was brought against her in 2014 for trying to hold a "March for the Federalization of the Kuban" in Krasnodar.
One charge after another
Polyudova began her career as a political activist in Novorossiysk, where she organized Strategy 31 protests. Due to constant arrests and dismissals from work, Polyudova was forced to move to Krasnodar, and later to Moscow.
She went on pickets in support of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar political prisoners, and the defendants in the Moscow Case and the Network Case, against the construction of a landfill in Shiyes, and against plans to build a church on a city square in Yekaterinburg.
In 2017, Polyudova was released from a work-release penal colony where she spent two years on charges of calling for separatism, and founded the Left Resistance. The description of the movement on its VK page stated that it "stands against the oppressor capitalists and for all the oppressed and the power of the working people." The movement's members attended protest pickets and distributed leaflets.
In January 2020, Polyudova was arrested again on charges of calling for separatism — this time for a solo picket where the activist stood holding a placard that read, "Kuriles, stop feeding Moscow! Long live the Far Eastern Republic!"
She was also charged with publicly condoning terrorism over a repost of a message about the Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev.
The calling for separatism charge against Polyudova was eventually dropped due to the liberalization of Article 280.1 of the Russian Federal Criminal Code. However, in September 2020, the activist, who by that time had been in remand prison for more than six months, was charged with a new offense.
The FSB regarded her statements about Yevgeny Manyurov, who opened fire at the FSB headquarters on the Lubyanka in December 2019, as grounds for charging Polyudova with "condoning terrorism." Later, this charge was reduced to a charge of calling for separatism.
In May 2021, Polyudova was sentenced to six years in a penal colony on charges of publicly condoning terrorism and calling for extremism.
Polyudova was presented with new charges of "creating an extremist community" in December 2021, while she was in remand prison awaiting an appeal against the previous sentence.
Source: "Activist Darya Polyudova sentenced to nine years — this is her third prison sentence," BBC News Russian Service, 23 December 2022. Translated by TRR
Left Resistance founder Darya Polyudova has been sentenced to nine years in a penal colony, while Left Resistance activist Kirill Kotov has been sentenced to three years probation, the Telegram channel Free Kirill Zhukov reports.
Polyudova's sentence incorporates the previous verdict against her and will run from January 2020, when the young woman was remanded to a pretrial detention center in a previous criminal case, her lawyer Leonid Solovyov told OVD Info.
The prosecution had requested just this sentence for Polyudova, but had asked that Kotov be sentenced to three years in a penal colony.
Polyudova was accused of "creating an extremist community" (per Article 282.1.1 of the Criminal Code), while Kotov was accused of involvement in an "extremist community." Polyudova was also charged on two counts of public calls for terrorism or "condoning terrorism" (per Article 205.2.2 of the Criminal Code).
According to the FSB, Polyudova created the Left Resistance to "plan and commit crimes, […] namely, public vindication of terrorism and public calls for extremist activity." Investigators argued that the "extremist community" engaged in holding pickets and making posts on social media.
In addition to Kotov, four other activists have been charged with involvement in the extremist community: Sergei Kirsanov, Alyona Krylova, Igor Kuznetsov, and Andrei Romanov.
On 18 November 2021, the FSB searched two addresses as part of the case against the Left Resistance, including the house where Kotov used to live. The criminal charges against the movement were made public on 3 December 2021. Tomsk opposition activist and RusNews journalist Igor Kuznetsov was already in remand prison in connection with the case of the Telegram channel Chto-Delat! Andrei Romanov and Alyona Krylova were not in Russia, while Sergei Kirsanov and Kirill Kotov were released on their own recognizance. By this time, Polyudova had already been sentenced to six years in a penal colony in a previous case.
Polyudova was charged under the article criminalizing calls for terrorism over posts made in 2019 on the Left Resistance's social media page, including a post entitled "Execute the traitor Putler for treason!" Forensic experts detected "calls for the violent seizure of power" and "use of violence against the security forces" in these posts. Another criminal count was based on posts made on anniversary of the annexation of Crimea and pickets in support of defendants charged with involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Polyudova founded the Left Resistance movement in 2017. Its activists said that the new left-wing organization's purpose was to replace the "opportunistic Communist Party" and "defend genuine communist ideas."
In May 2021, the court sentenced Polyudova to six years in a penal colony. She was found guilty on two counts: "condoning terrorism" (per Article 205.2.2 of the Criminal Code) in connection with a repost on VK, and "calling for extremist activity" (per Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code) for statements about the actions of the shooter outside the FSB headquarters building on the Lubyanka.
In 2014–2015, Polyudova was accused of calling for extremism and separatism. She was then sentenced to two years in a work-release (i.e., minimum security) penal colony.
Source: "Left Resistance founder Darya Polyudova sentenced to nine years in a penal colony," OVD Info, 23 December 2022. Translated by TRR
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Darya Polyudova
Darya Polyudova, holding a placard that reads, "Ukraine, we are with you."
Image courtesy of Ivan Astashin
A subscriber has reported that he received a letter from political prisoner Darya Polyudova in which she told him about her court hearing in the Moscow City Court on May 12.
Let me remind you that left-wing activist Darya Polyudova is currently doing her second stint in prison on political charges.
In 2015, the activist was sentenced to two years in prison for "calling for extremist activities and separatism": this was how the authorities viewed her preparations for a March for the Federalization of the Kuban.
After her release, Darya continued to be involved in political activism. But in January 2020 Polyudova was arrested again. In May 2021, she was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of "condoning terrorism" and "calling for terrorism." The court regarded posts about Shamil Basayev and a phrase about the "Lubyanka shooter" Yevgeny Manyurov, who opened fire on FSB officers near Lubyanka Square in Moscow in December 2019, as evidence of Polyudova's guilt.
In both cases, the Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Polyudova as a political prisoner.
However, the Russian state's persecution of Darya Polyudova has not ended there. In late 2021, the FSB opened another case against the activist. Now she stands accused of "organizing an extremist community," i.e., the so-called Left Resistance movement. Under the new charges, Darya may face another six to ten years in prison.
In this new case, Darya has been remanded in custody. Of course, she is already in custody. Without a new criminal case she would have been in a prison camp a long time ago [serving the sentence for her previous conviction], but the investigation wants her in a pretrial detention center.
Darya is appealing all the court decisions on the extension of her remand in custody. The court will consider her appeal of the latest extension on May 12.
Come and support Darya Polyudova!
11 a.m, 12 May 2022, Moscow City Court, 8 Bogorodsky Val, Room 327
Source: Ivan Astashin, Facebook, 7 May 2022. Translated by the Russian Reader
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Extremists (The Serial)
Extremists
Hundreds of people throughout Russia are being prosecuted or have already been convicted for voicing their own thoughts, which the current regime does not like. The campaign against dissent has been masked as a campaign against "extremism." Our video project's goal is to acquaint you more closely with several so-called extremists. The FSB and the Interor Ministry have spared neither time nor effort in combating them.
Propaganda represents extremists as dangerous people, ready at the drop of a hat to segue to terrorism. Posters hung on billboards in Moscow call on citizens to identify "extremists" on grounds such as the desire to manipulate, megalomania, identification with a hero, a low level of education and culture, and a tendency to risky behavior and devaluing the lives of others.
"Extremists are people ¶ who call for destruction of the country's integrity, ¶ try and seize power, ¶ organize illegal armed bands, ¶ engaged in terrorist activity, ¶ finance or facilitate terrorist activity, ¶ besmirch the flag, seal, and anthem; ¶ call for the introduction of Russian troops [sic], ¶ spread lies and slander, ¶ incite mutual hatred, ¶ call for violent, sow fear and panic. Psychological portrait of an extremist: aggressive, cruel, radical, many prejudices, stereotypical thinking, irration behavior; low level of education and culture. How to identify an extremist: megalomania, fanaticism, desire to manipulate, tendency to risky behavior and devaluing the lives of others, the search for enemies, self-identification with a hero." The poster also includes local telephone numbers for the FSB, police, and Emergency Situations Ministry.
Do the subjects of our video project fit the propaganda portrait?
Krasnoyarsk resident Semyon Negretskulov really likes Scandinavia. His blog on the social network VK mainly dealt with Finnish history and modern life in Finland. When he posted a few texts about the Greater Finland project and historical photographs of Vybog (Viipuri) that was enough for the FSB to charge him with promoting Finnish greatness. His call to help political prisoners was also deemed extremism.
Danila Buzanov had to spend a year and a half in prison for an ordinary brawl at the VDNKh in Moscow. "Anti-extremism" police officers from Center "E" turned a fight with a vendor selling Donetsk People's Republic paraphernalia into charges under Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code: inciting hatred and enmity towards the social group "ethnic Russians/Russian citizens who support the Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic."
Boris Yakovlev, a musician from the town of Dno, believes that sooner or later a revolution will happen in Russia. People are poor, the authorities are thieves. When Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russia had exhausted its limit of revolutions, Yakovlev reacted like this, "Hey, Medevedev, who exhausted it? You, the Rotenbergs, the Putins, the Chaykas? We haven't exhausted our limit, Medvedev. He doesn't want revolutions. Kiss my ass, Medvedev! He doesn't want revolutions. But we want them to get rid of you Medvedevs and all the rest. What part of his body does this guy think with, huh?"
The FSB regarded this and similar posts as calls to extremism. Yakovlev would have been sentenced to five years in prison, but he did not wait around to hear the verdict and requested asylum in Finland.
Darya Polyudova decided to troll the authorities, who in 2014 demanded the federalization of Ukraine. Polyudova organized a March for the Federalization of the Krasnodar Region. As a result, she was the first person in the Russian Federation to be convicted of calling for federalism.
Alexander Byvshev, a teacher of German in the village of Kroma in Oryol Region has gone to court to face a third set of charges for poems he wrote in support of Ukraine, and a fourth criminal case is in the works. More frightening than the revenge of law enforcement agencies has been the reaction of his fellow villagers.
These are just a few of the many hundreds of cases of Russians who have been prosecuted for words, opinions, and reposts. You can find a collection of banned "extremist" content at zapretno.info.
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Show Trial
Police Show Up to Evening in Support of Political Prisoners
Police showed up at the Moscow cafe Dozhd-Mazhor, where an evening in support of political prisoners had been scheduled. Our correspondent reported that around fifteen officers entered the space, inspected it, and then went outside to the entrance and proceeded to ID everyone leaving the cafe.
Later, police tried to detain activist Habib Poghosyan. They claimed an APB had been issued for his arrest on suspicion of theft. Poghosyan refused to show the officers his internal passport, while they demanded he go with them to a police station. After several minutes of negotiation, the police officers left. The play started a little late.
Show Trial, a fantasy play about how Ildar Dadin's upcoming appeals hearing should turn out, and the itinerant exhibition {NE MIR} took place at the Moscow club Dozhd-Mazhor on March 29. Video by Vladimir Borko
"We believe that Ildar's trial was a show trial, and so we decided to stage Show Trial, with a prisoner of conscience as the defendant. We will show people how such trials should be conducted, not only Ildar's trial but also the trials of other political prisoners, including Darya Polyudova and Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, whose appeals are pending, and Dmitry Buchenkov and Pyotr Pavlensky, who are under investigation. We will also be recalling Alexei Sutuga, Alexander Kolchenko, and other people in prison on trumped-up charges for their beliefs," said the evening's organizers.
In addition to the performance, the art cafe hosted an exhibition dealing with the topic of unlawful arrests and trials. Poets and bard singers performed after the play.
Dadin's appeals hearing will take place at 10 a.m., March 31, in Moscow City Court. Attorney Henri Reznik will represent Dadin at the hearing.
The hearing, which had begun on March 23, was postponed because the panel of judges had not been informed whether the defense had examined the minutes of the trial, and the defense had not been provided with audio recordings of the hearings.
On December 7, 2015, Judge Natalia Dudar of the Basmanny District Court sentenced Dadin to three years in a minimum security prison under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violations at rallies). However, the prosecutor had asked the court to sentence the activist to only two years in a minimum security prison. Dadin was accused of involvement in "unauthorized" protest rallies on August 6, August 23, September 13, and December 5, 2014.
It was the first guilty verdict handed down under the new law, which was inserted into the Criminal Code in 2014.
During his closing statement at the trial, Dadin said the article under which he had been charged was deliberately unconstitutional, "criminal, and political," and has been designed to crack down on activists.
Translated by the Russian Reader. Thanks to Comrade VZ for the heads-up
hecksinductionhour art, protest, putinism, solidarity, theater 2 Comments March 30, 2016 2 Minutes
The Crime of Speaking Up in Russia: Solidarity with Dadin and Polyudova
Vadim F. Lurie
The people's assembly [to publicize an appeals hearing in the case of Ildar Dadin, sentenced in December 2015 to three years in prison for the heretofore unknown offense of "repeat unauthorized protesting"] did not come off. [Nor did Dadin's appeals hearing in Moscow City Court: it was postponed to a later date.] There were fewer people in attendance than the day before yesterday, the day Nadiya Savchenko was sentenced. But the picketers decided to spread out along the Nevsky, and members of the National Liberation Movement (NOD) wandered around searching for them, trying to pester and troll them.
The most successful at this was a bearded specimen, who yelled, "Look, a real live national traitor! A Maidanite, a Banderite, funded by the State Department!
The passerbys, who usually do not pay much attention to people standing holding placards, mostly regarded them sympathetically thanks to this spiel.
"What a viper sentenced Dadin! Free Ildar Dadin!" Local police detain veteran democratic activist Igor "Stepanych" Andreyev. Petrograd, March 23, 2016. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
Petersburg police surround a picketer, demanding he produce his documents. Petrograd, March 23, 2016. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
A member of the so-called National Liberation Movement (NODS) scans the Nevsky for "national traitors." Petrograd, March 23, 2016. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
"Free [Ildar Dadin! No to Article 212.1!" A picketer stands in front of Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral. Petrograd, March 23, 2016. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
"Free Ildar Dadin!" Petrograd, March 23, 2016. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
"Down with Article 212.1!* Free Ildar Dadin! Congratulations, Nastya and Ildar!" Petrograd, March 23, 2016. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
"Free Darya Polyudova,** sentenced to two years in a work-release prison as an extremist for a repost on Vkontakte." Image of Polyudova with placard: "Ukraine, we are with you." Petrograd, March 23, 2016. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
Translated by the Russian Reader. Thanks to Vadim F. Lurie for his kind permission to republish his photos here.
*Despite the obstacles, Russia's opposition continued to organize protests. So last summer in 2014, the Kremlin effectively criminalized all peaceful protests and assemblies. Article 212.1, which went into effect in January 2015, amends the previous law in a considerably more punitive manner, carrying up to 5-year criminal prison terms for repeated protests. This law has a "3 strikes" feature, stating that anyone who has been convicted 3 times for the administrative offense of 'violating the regulations governing public rallies,' within a six month period is subject to criminal liability. With these laws and their particular application against political critics, the Putin regime is sending a powerful message heard throughout Russia of a repressive new reality unseen in decades: If you dare to speak out against government policies or leadership, the authorities will ruthlessly treat you as a common criminal and send you away for years in penal colonies. [] A young protester named Ildar Dadin became the first person to be convicted under Article 212.1 for having protested 3 times within a 6-month span. Ildar Dadin engaged in a completely benign peaceful protest, mostly standing alone holding a sign expressing his opinions, specifically about releasing political prisoners, the need to change power in the Kremlin, and to end the war in Ukraine. Until his trial in December, Dadin had been confined to house arrest. But on December 7, Dadin was sentenced to 3 years of actual prison time in a penal colony for simply exercising his constitutional right to express his opinion. Yes, Russia's Constitution under Articles 29, 30 and 31 guarantees freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. But the new laws make those guarantees not worth the paper they're written on. (Paula Chertok, "New Normal in Russia: Putin Critics Punished with Harsh Prison Terms," Euromaidan Press, January 6, 2015)
**Dispatches: The Crime of Speaking Up in Russia
Tanya Lokshina, Russian Program Director
A left-wing political activist has been convicted of inciting separatism and extremist activities, the latest in a series of criminal prosecutions in Russia against people who dare speak their minds online.
Unless the December 21 ruling by a court in Krasnodar in southern Russia is quashed on appeal, the accused, Darya Polyudova, 26, will spend the next two years behind bars. The charges against her derived from three posts she published on her page in VKontakte (VK), Russia's most popular social network.
All three posts had to do with Ukraine. The one that triggered the incitement to separatism charge – in Russian law, making "public, online calls aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation" – was not even written by her. It was a flippant comment by another user, which Polyudova shared on her page, about supposed demands by local ethnic Ukrainians of the Krasnodar region to be incorporated into Ukraine.
The second post, deemed by authorities as "public calls to extremist activities," was a photo of Polyudova with a poster that said, "No war in Ukraine but a revolution in Russia!" The slogan did not include any advocacy of violence.
The third one was a commentary about how the situation in Russia was intolerable and Russians needed to follow the example of Ukraine's Maidan activists, take to the streets, and bring down the government. These are strong words, but didn't include any specific action plan.
Polyudova's VK page has all of 38 followers, and most of her posts draw very few comments. Her words can't be taken as inciting violence, and they certainly didn't pose a "danger to the public," as Russian law requires for criminal prosecution.
Polyudova's prosecution is one in a growing number of cases where Russians are being punished for speaking their mind. This autumn, a court in Tatarstan sentenced an activistto three years in prison on very similar charges. Since the return of Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin in 2012, the Russian government has instituted an unprecedented and sweeping crackdown on critics of the government, and one of its tools has been overbroad and vague anti-extremism legislation. As the space for freedom of speech in the traditional media narrows, the government is now going after the Internet and targeting individuals who try to stir public debate about sensitive issues, especially Ukraine.
Until her trial, Polyudova was relatively unknown. But by criminally prosecuting her, the government is sending a chilling signal to Internet users across country – if you think you can speak your mind online, think again.
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After a long day of Uni.. 9am to 6pm to be precise, and only 5 min for lunch. It's dinner time! Luckily for me, living on campus means that I have my flat mates keeping me company. Looks like we are gonna have dumplings and stir-fry!


Reference librarians need to be thoroughly familiar with the reference tools at their disposal, in order to most appropriately and efficiently connect patrons with information and services. To that end, and at the request of MLS Reference learners, we introduce Reference Field Trips, as series of guided, on-site explorations of services and information producers within the Commonwealth.
This June join us at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the nation's leading comprehensive resource for family history research and the largest Society of its kind in the world. Through scholarship, research, education, and content, NEHGS is a wealth of family history information, in easy reach.
Attendance is limited. Locations are chosen based on potential interest and enrichment of Reference providers. Tours will be focused on Reference relevant services. MLS will not provide transportation.
Please note this is an R&D project to assess feasibility of the educational model.


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Maren Morris And Kelsea Ballerini Enjoy Therapeutic Girls Night Out
posted by Blake Taylor - Jul 22, 2019
Now, this is my kind of therapy session.
Female country stars Maren Morris and Kelsea Ballerini recently shared an adorable photo showing the two of them enjoying a night out together full of long therapeutic conversations with a drink or two somewhere in the mix.
Morris shared the photo to Instagram captioning it, "quarterly therapy session with @kelseaballerini." The two, along with fellow female country star, Carly Pearce, have been open in the past about their close friendship. Pearce, who's out on the road for Jason Aldean's "Ride All Night Tour" commented on Morris' photo, "Fomoooooo X 10." Although, I'm sure the "Closer To You" singer is absolutely loving life out on the road, I'm sure she was a little bummed to be missing out on this kind of quality time with the girls.
Ballerini later shared the same photo to her Instagram, with a caption that subtlety references the way the music industry seems to pit women against one another. "There's enough to go around," Ballerini expresses.
Recently Morris told CMT, "We all support each other. I think that's how we've been able to prevail through such a drought of female representation at country radio." She continues, "I don't really find it a chore to do that because I grew up listening to amazing women on the radio and I feel like I've always been a girls' girl- I'm still friends with my best friends from high school and junior high."
Further, Morris shares, "There's really something about the female spirit I'm attuned to and want to write for. So, when my friends are doing well and upping the bar, I want to shine a light and put it on them because it's about paying it forward."
Preach, girl! Love to see women in music coming together encouraging and supporting one another on the wild journey.
Morris' new all-female group just dropped their new single, "Redesigning Women" last Friday (July 19). Give the track a listen below.
Photo: Instagram / @marenmorris


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The Loving decision and the cases before it were a part of the civil rights movement. These are a few of the important steps that finally set the stage for legal interracial marriage.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954):
This landmark decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), establishing that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.
From the Supreme Court decision:
Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment - even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal.
View the complete legal document on FindLaw
Civil Rights Act of 1964:
This act outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, encouraged the desegregation of public schools, prevented discrimination by government agencies, and prohibited discrimination by employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Here is a quote from Title II, Section 201 of the original text:
All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.
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Scientists from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Skoltech have demonstrated the high-temperature superconductivity of actinium hydrides and discovered a general principle for calculating the superconductivity of hydrides based on the periodic table alone.
They have used a new algorithm to discover a material that could become a superconductor at close to room temperature. It will superconduct at minus 20°C (minus 4°F) – although it still needs to be squeezed under high pressure.
The stability of numerous unexpected actinium hydrides was predicted via the evolutionary algorithm USPEX. The electron–phonon interaction was investigated for the hydrogen-richest and most symmetric phases: R3̅m-AcH10, I4/mmm-AcH12, and P6̅m2-AcH16. Predicted structures of actinium hydrides are consistent with all previously studied Ac–H phases and demonstrate phonon-mediated high-temperature superconductivity with TC in the range of 204–251 K for R3̅m-AcH10 at 200 GPa and 199–241 K for P6̅m2-AcH16 at 150 GPa, which was estimated by directly solving the Eliashberg equation. Actinium belongs to the series of d1 elements (Sc–Y–La–Ac) that form high-TC superconducting (HTSC) hydrides. Combining this observation with previous predictions of p0-HTSC hydrides (MgH6 and CaH6), we propose that p0 and d1 metals with low-lying empty orbitals tend to form phonon-mediated HTSC metal polyhydrides.
A group of chemists led by Artem R. Oganov, Professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Skoltech, discovered that certain elements capable of forming superconducting compounds are arranged in a specific pattern in the periodic table. It was established that high-temperature superconductivity develops in substances containing metal atoms that come close to populating a new electronic subshell. Metal atoms inside the crystal are assumed to become highly sensitive to the positions of the neighboring atoms, which would result in strong electron-phonon interaction ‒ the underlying effect of conventional superconductivity. Based on this assumption, the scientists supposed that high-temperature superconductivity could occur in actinium hydrides. Their supposition was verified and confirmed: superconductivity was predicted for AcH16 at temperatures of -69-22 oC at 1.5 million atmospheres.
"The very idea of a connection between superconductivity and the periodic table was first put forward by Dmitry Semenok, a student at my lab. The principle he discovered is very simple and it is really amazing that no one had hit upon it before," says Artem Oganov.


Substance abuse has detrimental effects on a marriage, any children involved, extended family, friends and colleagues. Fighting and stress, caused by financial and emotional issues due to the substance abuse, can set the couple up for a vicious cycle in which substance abuse increases to reduce tension created by the conflict, according to American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Domestic violence may also occur when the partner under the influence grows uncontrollably angry. If the substance abuser admits there is a problem, treatment is an option.
While the substance abusing spouse needs help to control the illness, the sober spouse needs help in dealing with strong emotions that continue to arise due to the drug abuse, according to "Substance Abuse Treatment and Family Therapy," available through the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The sober partner may feel depressed based on an inability to express disappointment, anger, stress and anxiety. This partner may neglect personal needs while attempting to keep the peace with the substance-abusing spouse. The sober spouse may live in fear of a failed marriage or others discovering the problem. Financial issues may arise if substance-abusing party loses a job or spends money frivolously, or if the family's insurance is unable to cover needed treatment.
At some point, the sober partner in the marriage often begins to cover up the problem to prevent friends, family and colleagues from noticing that anything is amiss, according to Dr. Harry Croft in the article "Effects of Substance Abuse on Family Members" on the Healthy Place website. In some instances, the sober parent may try to be everything for the children in an effort to ensure their comfort, according to the NCBI book. This parent may hide the other's substance abuse from the children, which may cause emotional damage as the children's reality is denied.
Shame plays a big part in the sober spouse's desire to cover up any mistakes the other spouse might make or to deny that there is a problem in the marriage. For example, a wife may call her husband's boss and say he has a stomach virus when, in reality, he is passed out and hung over from the night before. The sober spouse may feel helpless, and this may lead to secrecy and withdrawal from the outside world in an attempt to project the image that all is well, according to Dr. Croft. The more a sober partner enables the addicted spouse, the more co-dependency develops, reports the NCBI publication.
The sober spouse has likely heard many broken promises that the other partner will "stop using" or "get sober." Maybe the substance abuser has stopped, only to start up again. Substance abuse is an ongoing, chronic problem, and relapses are common in the early stages of treatment, according to Dr. Croft. While the non-abusing spouse may feel hopeful, that hope can turn to anger with each repeated relapse or broken promise. Substance abuse treatment programs can assist both the substance abuser as well as the spouse. Family therapy, with extended family members and children, as well as 12-step programs can help assist in recovery for everyone involved.