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A Big Tech-aligned group funded through liberal dark money is moving to expand "nationwide," even though about half the states have banned using private money to run elections. The Center for Tech and Civic Life launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence in partnership with organizations funded by the liberal Arabella Advisors and Democracy Fund, as The Daily Signal previously reported. The tech center is the same group that distributed $350 million in election-administration grants in 2020 from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife.
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As millions of children settle into an uninterrupted academic term, widespread classroom disorder is undermining efforts to reintroduce students to in-person learning. This increased disorder corresponds with an increase in district-approved "restorative justice" programs, which address classroom dysfunction through nonpunitive measures. Though these programs have existed for decades, they are gaining momentum nationwide.
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Census May Add First New Ethnic Group since 1997
A new proposal from the Biden Administration calls for the census and federal surveys to add a new group labeled "Middle Eastern and North African," which would mark the first new ethnic group added to federal records since 1997. According to ABC News, the new proposals released Thursday would combine all questions about race and Hispanic ethnicity into a single question, rather than keeping them separate as the 1997 standards do. The proposals were crafted by a group of selected representatives from multiple federal agencies, organized by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
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Biden Administration Playing 'Shell Game' to Mask Illegal Immigration, Former CBP Chief Alleges
Even as the illegal immigration crisis along America's southern border continues to worsen, Biden administration officials are resorting to sleight of hand to downplay the number of migrants crossing into the U.S., alleges former acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan.
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Republicans Bring New Strategy to Wisconsin Reading Readiness Proposal
The latest reading readiness proposal at the Wisconsin capitol, with the backing of the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in tow, may have a chance at becoming law.
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Commentary: There Is a Reason Why DEI Is Little More Than a Costly Failure
Earlier this month, amid howls from the "progressive" Left, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis demanded an accounting of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) expenditures from the state's public colleges and universities. The results are exactly what you might expect. According to a recent report from Campus Reform, in 2022, Florida institutions spent $28 million on DEI initiatives, more than half of that ($15 million) funded by taxpayers.
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Commentary: Sunshine Might Be Free but Solar Power Is Not Cheap
Mississippi residents are consistently told that renewable energy sources, like solar panels, are now the lowest-cost ways to generate electricity, but these claims are based on creative accounting gimmicks that only examine a small portion of the expenses incurred to integrate solar onto the grid while excluding many others.
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January 30, 2023 The Center Square
The United States Customs and Border Protection is asking Americans to stop trying to smuggle in raw eggs from Mexico.
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The Number of Schools Eligible to Participate Increase in Wisconsin Choice Program
Former Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio called the Democratic Party's brand "toxic" Friday during a discussion on "Real Time with Bill Maher."
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EU Approves Use of 'Cricket Powder' in Food, Citing 'Environmental Pressures'
The European Union approved cricket powder as a novel food to be added to bread, pasta, meat substitutes and various other foods, according to a Jan. 3 entry into the EU's regulation database.
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December Consumer Spending Declines; Recession Concerns Remain
Consumer spending fell 0.2% in December from the previous month, the Commerce Department said Friday.
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Commentary: New Regulation Handicaps Disabled Gun Owners
January 30, 2023 January 29, 2023 RealClearWire
The Biden administration's newly released regulations regarding "pistol-stabilizing braces" will instantly turn tens of thousands of law-abiding Americans into felons and create a national rifle registry.
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The group that distributed most of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's controversial election grants in 2020 has designated at least two Utah counties as part of a new effort, despite a state ban on private money funding election operations. The two local juridictions are Cache County, with a population of 137,00, and Weber County, population 267,000.
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Utah School Administrators Admit to Deceiving Parents by Using 'Loopholes' to Teach Critical Race Theory in Classrooms
January 29, 2023 January 29, 2023 HPoling
Less than a week after an undercover investigation revealed that school administrators in Cincinnati, Ohio have admitted to covertly indoctrinating students with Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the classrooms, they discovered similarly that school officials throughout Utah, are prepared to use "loopholes" in order to promote social justice and CRT to their students. Ohio and Utah are both conservative states, which is why activist instructors have devised more covert methods of presenting divisive subjects.
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Republican U.S. Senators File Bill to End China's Permanent Normal Trade Status
Several Republican senators filed a bill on Friday to end China's Permanent Normal Trade Status (PNTR), citing concerns over American job losses and human rights abuses overseas. The China Trade Relations Act, which would strip China of its PNTR, was filed by U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Rick Scott, R-Fla., Ted Budd, R-N.C., and J.D. Vance, R-Ohio.
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Top Soros Director Is Frequent Guest at Biden White House
One of the highest-ranking executives with George Soros' far-left Open Society Foundation (OSF) has been revealed to have close access to the Biden White House, according to newly-released records. As reported by Fox News, the executive director of OSF U.S., Tom Perriello, has made numerous visits to the White House for private meetings and public events over the last two years. Perriello also sits on the board of Governing for Impact, and is part of Soros' inner circle.
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Commentary: The Unknown Impact of Inflation on Rural Americans
When the Federal Reserve convenes at the end of January 2023 to set interest rates, it will be guided by one key bit of data: the U.S. inflation rate. The problem is, that stat ignores a sizable chunk of the country – rural America. Currently sitting at 6.5%, the rate of inflation is still high, even though it has fallen back slightly from the end of 2022.
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Commentary: The Left's New Scheme That Threatens Free Elections
Like a bad movie sequel, leftwing nonprofits like the Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL) are once again pumping millions of dollars in left-wing "dark money" into election offices across the country. Just like they did in 2020, these groups are looking for ways to skew elections and boost liberal turnout in battleground states. But this time, there's a twist. CTCL and its allies aren't just doling out eye-popping grants. They are aiming for nothing less than a shadow takeover of election offices. Through their new $80 million program, called the "U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence," the left is targeting local election offices. The goal: push liberal voting policies and systematically reshape how our elections are run.
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BuzzFeed Announces Plans to Use AI for Content Creation
BuzzFeed announced Thursday that it would begin using artificial intelligence to help generate its content. The company will partner with OpenAI to start producing "AI inspired content," according to CNN Business, and plans to make such output an integral part of its regular business.
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Commentary: The Importance of Reading Difficult Books
In his work The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote that a "reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence." The apparent message in Bloom's flourish is that a reader ought to be after something more difficult to attain than mere pleasure. Passive consumption of entertainment will simply not do. Instead, readers are to be fully engaged with the work in front of them, especially when the process is difficult. It's through this difficulty that a reader inevitably enlarges what Bloom refers to as a "solitary existence," or, put another way, an existential engagement with the human condition.
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Commentary: Parents Must Take Charge of Your Children's Education
Are America's public schools falling apart? The evidence certainly points in that direction.
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Radical Muslim Cleric Convicted in New York of Supporting ISIS
Radical Islamic cleric Shaikh Abdullah Faisal was convicted Thursday on several counts of supporting terrorism after working as a recruiter for the Islamic State (ISIS), according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Faisal promoted a radical interpretation of Islam that supported the idea of killing nonbelievers, leading to his incarceration in Britain in 2003 and deportation from Kenya in 2010, according to the New York Times. On Thursday, District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Faisal had been found guilty several counts of lending support for terrorism after attempting to recruit an undercover officer into ISIS.
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Trump Unveils Plan to 'Save' Education from 'Radical Left Maniacs'
Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday his plan to "save American education" from "the Radical Left maniacs" as part of his 2024 presidential campaign. The plan, unveiled on Twitter, focuses on tackling cultural issues in education including critical race theory (CRT) and gender ideology. Trump proposed cutting federal funding from schools that promote "[CRT], gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto our children," the investigation of schools which engage in "race-based discrimination," and keeping men out of women's sports.
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Biden's National Security Council Held Meetings with CDC on COVID Disinformation, Emails Show
President Joe Biden's National Security Council (NSC) meetings with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about COVID-19 disinformation in 2021, according to documents obtained in an America First Legal (AFL) lawsuit. After the Kaiser Family Foundation published its latest State of Vaccine Confidence Insights Report — a report it routinely produced for the Biden administration — in May 2021, Elisabeth Wilhelm, a "Vaccine Confidence Specialist" at the CDC, shared it with numerous CDC and White House officials, according to emails obtained by AFL. This prompted a meeting between agencies of the federal government, including the CDC and the NSC, about the vaccine disinformation, according to heavily redacted emails.
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Sen. Marco Rubio Cites Project Veritas Undercover Video in Letter to Pfizer CEO on Alleged Gain-of-Function Research
Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R) cited the most recent undercover investigation released by Project Veritas (PV) in a letter to Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, and noted that, according to the PV video, Pfizer may be conducting gain-of-function research to mutate the COVID virus to create additional variants and vaccines to combat them for profit. Rubio's office noted that, in the PV exposé, Pfizer executive Jordon Trishton Walker claimed the drug company is considering the possibility of mutating the COVID virus itself via "directed evolution" in order to keep profiting off a continued stream of vaccines – which he later said would be a "cash cow" for the company.
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SPN Poll: Parents Support School Choice
More than six out of every 10 voters with children under 18 would be receptive to the prospect of their child attending a school outside of their locally zoned public district, a new State Policy Network poll finds. Overall, the SPN State Voices opinion poll of roughly 2,000 registered voters conducted in partnership with Morning Consult through online interviews found that 62% of respondents said they would interested in such an option, some 30% of them very much so.
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As House GOP Secures First Cooperation in Biden Probe, Pressure Grows for Damage Assessment
As House Republicans secure the first government cooperation for their probe of President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents, pressure is building in national security circles to conduct a damage assessment that could determine if the storage of national secrets at insecure locations aided foreign powers. On Thursday, two prominent figures — a new member of the House Intelligence Committee and the FBI's former intelligence chief — became the latest to add their voices to calls for a national security assessment of the five tranches of documents found at Biden's Wilmington, Del., home and his old think tank office in Washington D.C. since November.
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Fiscal Hawks Warn Biden: No Debt Ceiling Deal Without Fiscal Reforms
January 28, 2023 M.D. Kittle
The fiscal hawks are sticking to their guns. On Friday, Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and J.D. Vance (R-OH) joined 22 of their fellow Republican senators in a letter warning President Joe Biden that they will not vote for increasing the debt ceiling without structural reforms to the federal government's budget and debt problems.
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Commentary: January 6 Was the Worst Incident of Police Brutality Since Civil Rights Era
One might be inclined to apply Hanlon's razor—never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity—to the actions of law enforcement on January 6, 2021. One might even be inclined to replace "stupidity" with "incompetence" to explain why police behaved the way they did that afternoon. But a growing body of evidence suggests neither stupidity nor incompetence can justify what now appears to be the worst incident of police brutality against political protesters since the civil rights era. After two years of watching cherry-picked video clips produced by the Department of Justice and the news media to depict Trump supporters as the violent aggressors on January 6, the public now has an opportunity to see what really happened thanks to police body camera footage released at trial.
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Commentary: States Raising Taxes on the Rich Should Expect a Line at the Exit
It's an old aphorism that if you tax something, you get less of it. Seven states are at risk of finding out exactly how that truism applies to wealth tax legislation introduced in each should their proposed taxes become law.
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Twenty-five attorneys general and several other plaintiffs have sued the Biden administration asking the court to halt a federal ESG policy that could negatively impact the retirement savings of 152 million Americans. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court Northern District Amarillo Division naming Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh and the U.S. Department of Labor as defendants.
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GOP Sen. Cotton Vows to Stall Nominations Until Congress Gets Biden, Trump Classified Docs
Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton vowed that lawmakers would stall Biden government nominations until it handed over the materials the FBI recovered from both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. "Until the administration stops stonewalling Congress, there will be pain as a consequence for them," Cotton said, according to The Hill. "Whether it's blocking nominees or withholding budgetary funds, Congress will impose pain on the administration until they provide these documents."
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Agriculture Economists See Several Concerns for Farmers in 2023
Farmers aren't likely to enjoy a calm year this year, according to agricultural economists from Purdue University. After a year of dealing with historic inflation rates, farmers must now be prepared for an economic downturn that could spark a recession. However, there's even more uncertainty across the horizon, said Roman Keeney, an associate professor of economics at Purdue's College of Agriculture.
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Pfizer Executive Heard Claiming Company Considering Mutating COVID Virus Itself to Continue Profiting Off Vaccines, Later Seen Assaulting Project Veritas Founder James O'Keefe
A top-level Pfizer executive revealed to an undercover Project Veritas (PV) journalist that the pharmaceutical giant is considering the possibility of mutating the COVID virus itself via "directed evolution" in order to keep profiting off a continued stream of vaccines. Following the release of the first video, which was published Wednesday, Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations – mRNA Scientific Planner, is seen in a second video assaulting PV founder James O'Keefe and his staff in a restaurant, and destroying the iPad showing the undercover video recordings.
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Court Releases Body Cam Footage of Attack on Paul Pelosi
A San Francisco court Friday released the video and audio tapes of the attack last year on Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi was attacked Oct. 28, 2022, in his and his wife\'s San Francisco townhouse allegedly by David DePape.
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U.S. GDP Ticks Up, but Recession Fears Remain
The U.S. economy grew modestly in the fourth quarter of 2022, despite signs of weak domestic demand, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Thursday. In the fourth quarter, inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) grew by roughly 2.9%, down slightly from 3.2% in the third quarter, the BEA reported. Recession concerns among economists linger, however, amid fears that the Federal Reserve's campaign of interest rate hikes — intended to reduce economic demand to slow inflation — will lead to reduced spending and layoffs, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Schiff Launches Campaign for Feinstein's California Senate Seat, Setting Up Epic Democrat Primary
California Rep. Adam Schiff on Thursday launched his 2024 campaign for Senate, possibly setting up a Democratic primary challenge against incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "When a dangerous demagogue tried to undermine our democracy, I wasn't about to let him," Schiff says in a voice-over in his first campaign ad as videos of former President Donald Trump play.
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Government Report: Unemployment Fraud May Top $60 Billion During Pandemic
A U.S. government report released Monday estimates that there could have been more than $60 billion in unemployment insurance fraud during the pandemic. The report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office says that figure is an estimate spread over the entire unemployment system and should be "interpreted with caution."
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Sens. Ron Johnson, Roger Wicker Introduce Senate 'No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act'
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) and Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker (R) led 45 of their Republican colleagues in introducing the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, a measure that would permanently prohibit federal funding for abortion. Johnson and Wicker introduced the legislation Wednesday, a measure that would establish a "permanent prohibition on federal funding for abortion, replacing the current restrictions with a single, government-wide standard," said a press release from Johnson's office.
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Commentary: The Real Differences Between the Biden and Trump Troves
Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled classified at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware. Yet otherwise, the comparisons between the two cases, contrary to popular punditry, hardly favor Biden.
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Commentary: Nationwide Rent Control Is a Dangerous Proposition
Some of our nation's politicians seem to know very little about basic economic principles despite constantly proposing legislative action on economic issues. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D–N.Y.) now want federal regulators to impose rent control on the entire nation. In their letter to the Biden administration, which was signed by 50 members of Congress, Warren and Bowman request that the administration "pursue all possible strategies" to control high rents. These politicians portray themselves as fighting for the average American, but, if they get their way, the results will be catastrophic.
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Cardinal Says Pope Francis Has No 'Contact with the Holy Spirit' in New Book
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is releasing a book that accuses Pope Francis of giving "privileged status" to his friends that are accused of sexual abuse in the church, according to Catholic news website LaCroix International. The Roman Catholic Church has suffered multiple sexual abuse scandals over the years after several reports from the Vatican found that the clergy, particularly in France, had abused thousands of victims. While Müller says that France's Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (CIASE) 2021 report was "inflated and exaggerated," the cardinal claims in his new book, "In Good Faith: Religion in the 21st Century," that Francis has helped protect those close to him by granting them a special "status," citing the case of Argentine Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, who was convicted in March 2022 of sexual abuse of two victims during seminary, as an example, according to LaCroix International.
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DeSantis Backs Harmeet Dhillon in RNC Race
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis endorsed former Trump campaign attorney Harmeet Dhillon in her challenge to Ronna McDaniel for Republican National Committee chair. "I think we need a change. I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC," DeSantis told Charlie Kirk on Real America's Voice in an interview aired Thursday, one day before the vote for RNC speaker.
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Feds Adapting AI Used to Silence ISIS to Combat American Dissent on Vaccines, Elections
The government's campaign to fight "misinformation" has expanded to adapt military-grade artificial intelligence once used to silence the Islamic State (ISIS) to quickly identify and censor American dissent on issues like vaccine safety and election integrity, according to grant documents and cyber experts.
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Abortion Pill Maker Sues Red States over Bans: 'Impacts the Company's Bottom Line'
A company behind the manufacturing of a pill used in chemical abortions filed a lawsuit on Wednesday morning challenging state bans on the abortions, The New York Times reported. GenBioPro, which makes the abortion pill mifepristone, filed the lawsuit in a West Virginia federal court to argue that Federal Food and Drug regulations (FDA) take priority over state laws regulating abortion, according to the NYT. The lawsuit argues that the FDA's approval of the abortion pill trumps state laws and that abortion bans violate the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which protects interstate commerce.
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Award notices are the formal notices issued after tenders are awarded, advising bidders who won the contract. In a previous blog, we identified a few challenges and shortcomings around these notices. However, despite these shortcomings, we've seen an increasing demand for award information. This tells us that our customers see value in them. At the very least, it's reasonable to expect that people who have gone to the trouble of submitting a tender are curious about the outcome.
At its core, interest in award notices lies in the benefits gained from information sharing.
As an organisation that sits between buyers and suppliers, we encourage buyers who use our e-tendering technology to publicise award notices. We view it as a matter of professional courtesy to "close the loop" and provide full disclosure back to those who took the time to submit a proposal.
But why are purchasers sometimes so secretive? We often encounter a number of common reasons. Sometimes, one side or the other demands confidentiality. Other times, the buyer may believe that knowledge is power and think they are maintaining some kind of bargaining advantage for future work by keeping the results of their tenders to themselves. In yet other situations, the buyer may simply want to avoid having to deal with queries from unsuccessful bidders.
Whatever the reason(s), it's disappointing when the buyer clams up about the results of the tender.
To a supplier, award notices can be rich vein of opportunity and the value of the information runs far deeper than simply finding out who won the contract.
Smart suppliers try to learn from their failures and like to know which competitor has got the better of them. Such suppliers generally have a good idea against whom they are bidding, and sometimes may even have insight into their rivals' competitive offerings and pricing. So, it's valuable for them to see who is picking up business to get a sense of buyers' true preferences.
Large, complex contracts also present subcontracting and direct supply opportunities. For example, a large construction project will require a range of supplies and services, from architectural and drafting work to concrete and plumbing supplies. However far along the supply chain, downstream suppliers are wise to watch out for business opportunities arising from the award of significant contracts.
But the value of award notices extends far further than an individual contract outcome. Good aggregators of tender and award information will provide users access to historical award data, enabling searches across a number of attributes that could include geographical region, industry category, tender close date and contract end date. This enables users to determine where and when future opportunities may arise.
However, we know that award notices are not the tender opportunities themselves and that they present a different type of opportunity, which is why TenderLink distribute them as a separate stream of notification content, avoiding any confusion with our procurement notices.
The publication of award notices is a valuable addition to any tender notification service. Publishing them is in everyone's best interests - the winning bidder, who is exposed to downstream suppliers to help them complete the project; the unsuccessful bidders, who get some closure and insight into their competitors; and the original buyer, who retains the goodwill of bidders who failed to win this time, but remain keen to hone their skills and offer for next time.


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If you are a person with a lot of innovations and ideas then to express it, the blog would be perfect for you. We know many people's aspire is to build their own blogs, but they ignore it for the reason of investment and coding knowledge that are needed in blog creation.
But not like that, you can create your own blog for free without any codings even, and there avail many options that help you in making your blog without charge.
The blog is a really proven way to make money not only the money it boosts your reputation in online and also helps you to share your thoughts and voice.
In that free blogging provider list, Blogger is considered as the best as it is a Google product and my suggestion also the same. It is the one of the top blogs right now, and it is highly credible by millions of web experts around the world.
What is Blogger? Blogger is a free blog publishing platform presented by Google in the year 2003. It includes hosting, Google Analytics, Adsense and all you need in a blog. The blogs created under the blogger will be a subdomain of blogspot.com.
If you are looking a reliable as well as cheap blogging for you, then choose Blogger. Even though it is free, the blogger presents you a quality and perfect blog for you. The Blogger.com has been around for so long that it is very stable because of Google support.
It's free, easy to customize packed with out of box features to offer no fuss solution to the user.
Give you 1GB free storage for all blogs and you can claim additional storage 20GB by paying $5 per year.
It is connected with Google so you can connect your friends and others easily with your blog.
Provides a Blog backup option so, that if anything happens out of control, your work will be kept safe.
As ultimate blog transfer feature is available, with that, you can transfer your blog to WordPress if you want.
Allows access to blogging via mobile apps, SMS and as well as email. It also provides quick access to advertising schemes.
And to start with blogger you don't need to know any of the web designing languages or any others. It is awesome, right? Okay…that's enough of intro lets dive into the topic!
First of all, visit blogger.com and sign in to it using the login credentials of Google account (Gmail account). Seriously you don't have Gmail account! Then you should get a one because without Gmail account you can't create a blog with blogger. So create your own Gmail account now.
On the landing page fill out all the required information and complete the captcha.
Agree to their terms and policies and click "Next step" and this will take you to the profile creation page.
There click "Get started". That's it… your Google account has been created. Now you can use this to sign in blogger.
Then you have to confirm your profile, and it's very crucial because profile gives you an identity and connects you with your readers. Are you not interest in publishing your real identity then you can select "limited blogger profile" and by this you can display your name you provide.
Once you have logged in to your account successfully, you will see a page with "New Blog" button on the lefts side. Simply tap on it can continue to enter the details.
Now comes the question what is my blog name? I know due to excitement some may have landed here without thinking about the title and for those I have provided some facts.
You have to choose a title that clearly represents your blog niche before that decide what type of blog you focus because there are many types of blogs like travel blogs, marketing blogs, portfolio blogs, fashion blogs. Without passion you can't maintain a blog efficiently, hence decide it based on your interest.
The address represents the URL of your blog, and so make it similar to your site name. With "Check availability" option you can find whether your URL is available or not if it is already chosen you will see a yellow box else you can use it.
Your URL will be as yourblogname.blogspot.com; the Blogspot extension comes as default for all blogs. It can be cut out by paying $10 per year otherwise it is free.
In URL, you can use as many letters you want but avoid using hyphens, underscores, colons and other similar characters. Choose the one that is short and easy to remember; this will help the visitors to remember your blog easily.
Next, choose a template and it is the basic layout of your blog. By default, you will have options with seven types of templates and later you can change it. Favorably, after creating the blog, you will get many templates and most of them comes as free. If you really want something stunning and unique then go for paid templates.
If you have all the steps correctly, then click "Create Blog".
Wow! Congratulations you have created your own Blogspot blog, and that's also very fast. Seems like a miracle, right?
Now your Blogspot blog is created and to enhance this further you need to do some more things. First, start creating pages like "About" page or any other needed page to share any important information about your blog.
Then start writing your blog. To create a blog post by selecting "Create New Post" on the left side of your blog dashboard Or it can do by clicking Settings -> Posts -> New Post. There enter any catchy title and start writing content as you like.
It's time to make some additional changes to your blogs like adding a logo, header and any other intuitive template or removal of any features. All these can be performed from the settings option.
How to Earn Money with My blog?
Yeah! You heard right, and the best way for income is promoting ads, the Google Adsense is considered as the one of the best money making option for Blogspot bloggers. When you have filled up your blog with some legitimate posts and then you can start using Adsense. For that select "Earnings" from "Settings" and enable "Adsense" to your blog.
Sign up for Adsense; you can do this by using existing Google account or by creating a new account.
Complete the application form, accept their terms and conditions and wait till your application get approved.
What you can't find Adsense in you blog or you are denounced by it? Don't worry; you can use some other Adsense alternative and moreover there are several ways to earn money, and they are affiliate marketing, selling ad spaces, writing paid reviews, using text ads.
To get more traffic to your blog upload the post frequently with unique and related content, also maintain good keyword density.
Be true to your users and post the content that is trending and you should hear your readers voice.
And also make sure to follow the authority blogs in your niche and it will aid you in increasing your blog exposure.
If your blog loads more time, it will frustrate the reader and pressurize them to leave your blog. Hence, optimize your blog loading time regularly.
Avoid posting illegal and immature content in your blog, If done then Google will delete your blog without any prior notice and all your work will get vanish.
That's all for now If I found any other tips assuredly I will update it in this post.
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Wanting to avoid the hot weather, we've scheduled our annual customer appreciation event for Saturday, September 20 from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
If you're heading to the fair that day, stop by and fill up on a delicious assortment of brunch selections, including scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, sweet rolls, fruit, and... mimosas! Think how much you'll save on food at the fair!
Regular daycare dogs are welcomed, too! If your dog doesn't regularly attend daycare with the K9 pack, please call us ahead of time so we can make sure everybody will get along.
Look for a sign-up sheet in the office and daycare building and let us know if you'll be joining us.
Big Dog daycare will be closed on Friday, September 26 to allow K9's three licensed veterinary technicians (Laurie, Melissa and Jenny) to attend the Washington State Veterinary Medical Association (WSVMA) annual conference in Yakima September 26 - 28.
To keep a license current, veterinary technicians must complete 30 hours of continuing education every three years.
If your dog regularly attends daycare on Friday, please contact us to arrange a different day for your dog to come that week. Thank you.
If you are making travel plans in October and need boarding, please note we will not schedule any boarding from October 3 to 10. Laurie is planning ahead for a much-needed break and a chance to get out of town. Doggie Daycare will remain open during that time.
We already have wait lists for boarding over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
We give priority to regular K9 customers calling to schedule boarding over the busy holidays. New or infrequent customers are placed on a waiting list until the priority reservation date has passed.
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Huawei Mate 30 Pro to be unveiled just before the iPhone 11 hits stores
Published Aug 16th, 2019 10:05PM EDT
Image: YouTube
We're reasonably confident that the iPhone 11 will hit stores on September 20th, considering all the recent leaks, including a revelation that comes directly from Apple. But other leaks are now saying that one of the iPhone 11's biggest rivals this fall will launch just a day before the iPhone 11 will hit stores. That's Huawei's Mate 30 Pro, the successor to the Mate 20 Pro, which was a handset well ahead of its late 2018 Android rivals last year.
Just like previous Huawei flagships, the Mate 30 series might be launched in a major European city, and we already have an idea of what that city might be. According to the Tech Garage, the Huawei Mate 30 series of phones will be unveiled in Munich, Germany on September 19th.
This isn't the first time Huawei has hosted a media event in the Bavarian capital, as two of the Mate 30 Pro's predecessors were also unveiled in Munich, including the Mate 9. The Mate 20 series, meanwhile, was announced in London last October.
More interesting than Huawei's return to Germany is the change of date. A mid-September launch means the Mate 30 Pro will hit stores several weeks earlier than its predecessor and could give Huawei a significant sales boost in the holiday quarter, at least when it comes to the European market.
Also, Huawei would be in a better position to fight the latest iPhone by unveiling the new Mate 30 Pro just nine days after the September 10th iPhone event.
That said, it's unclear why Huawei is in a hurry to bring the device to market, assuming the September 19th press conference is real. Maybe Huawei does want to go head-to-head with Apple, something no other smartphone maker has attempted. There's a reason why Samsung's Galaxy Note launches moved to early August.
One other plausible reason concerns the Huawei ban. The Chinese company may want to have its second flagship of the year in stores as fast as possible, to ensure that it doesn't lose access to Google's Android. Weeks ago, when news of the ban hit the company, Huawei told customers that all the devices available in stores would continue to receive regular Android updates regardless of whether Google will do business with Huawei or not.
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Gateway Arch National Park, Saint Louis
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Gateway Arch National Park is an American national park located in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The memorial was established to commemorate:
the Louisiana Purchase and subsequent westward movement of American explorers and pioneers;
the first civil government west of the Mississippi River; and
the debate over slavery raised by the Dred Scott case.The national park consists of the Gateway Arch, a steel catenary arch that has become the definitive icon of St. Louis; a 91-acre (36.8 ha) park along the Mississippi River on the site of the earliest buildings of the city; the Old Courthouse, a former state and federal courthouse where the Dred Scott case originated; and the 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) museum at the Gateway Arch.
The immediate surroundings of the Gateway Arch were initially designated the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (a national memorial) by executive order on December 21, 1935. The Gateway Arch was completed on October 28, 1965; the area surrounding it was redesignated as the "Gateway Arch National Park" (a national park) in 2018. The park is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS).
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The sheer size of the arch is not apparent at all until you're standing right underneath it! A must-visit at least once in your life. The grounds were beautifully kept. Could not go up in the arch.... more
The sheer size of the arch is not apparent at all until you're standing right underneath it! A must-visit at least once in your life. The grounds were beautifully kept. Could not go up in the arch.... more »
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It was a cool experience. The ride to the top is in a rather small capsule that is part Ferris wheel - part elevator - part sci-fi ride back in time that takes about 4 minutes to reach the top. Once..... more
It was a cool experience. The ride to the top is in a rather small capsule that is part Ferris wheel - part elevator - part sci-fi ride back in time that takes about 4 minutes to reach the top. Once..... more »
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Against Nfl Triumphalism
In the middle of a really interesting article that's mostly about education, Malcom Gladwell offers this aside:
N.F.L. teams don't run the spread. They can't. The defenders in the pros are so much faster than their college counterparts that they would shoot through those big gaps in the offensive line and flatten the quarterback.
Some version of this explanation has actually been floating around for as long as I've been a football fan.Anything that happens in the college game but not the pro game is because the NFL is too fast. Thirty years ago, the West Coast offense was a college offense that wouldn't work in the NFL because the defenders were too fast. Same with the 3-4 defense, the one-back offense, and pretty much every other major football innovation.
The reality is that college football is a much more innovative game than pro football. Why? Two main reasons spring to mind. First, NFL coaches are more likely to get fired, and thus more afraid to do something that defies the conventional wisdom. Coaches who employ innovative strategies that don't succeed right away are not liekly to keep their jobs long enough to see the long-run payoff. Second, unlike the NFL, where the draft tends to even out the talent pool, college programs have enormous long-run disparities in talent. There's a huge incentive for underdog programs to experiment with innovative strategies.
The upshot is that college football always has a far more diverse set of offensive and defensive styles, and NFL fans who observe the difference will always assert that this is because NFL players are too fast for any other strategy to work. The logic seldom makes much sense. Gladwell, for instance, says that wide splits between offensive linemen can't work in the pro game because NFL defenders are faster. This is true, though he doesn't consider the fact that NFL linemen are faster as well. You could easily tell a story about how the spread offense works in the NFL but not college because all NFL linemen are quick athletes who can cover a lot of ground, while colege linemen are just fat, unathletic tubs of goo.
Last month, Matthew Yglesias linked to a video of three trick plays Boise State pulled off in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, before tempering his enthusiasm thusly:
I much prefer the pro game to the college version, but if you're going to watch college football it's much more entertaining to see teams that really college it up with options, trick plays, and generally goofy stunts that you couldn't get away with against the too-fast, too-athletic NFL defenses.
Go watch the video, and tell me how any of those plays depended upon defenses not being fast enough. If anything, they all employed the defenders' speed against them -- faster playes would have just run further in the wrong direction before they figured out what was happening. On the first play, a hook-and-ladder, the reciever does beat and out-of-position defender to the sideline, and it's possible that a super-fast defender might have caught him, but in the NFL the receiver would be faster, too. The speed explanation becomes particularly strained when you realize that the defense, Oklahoma, was stacked with NFL-calibre athletes while the Boise State offense was dramatically less athletic. Boise's lack of athletic talent is exactly why it's devised such innovative offensive strategies.
--Jonathan Chait
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Communications and advertising executive and broadcaster Veoma Ali passed away this morning.
Ali, a beloved voice on Capital Media HD 99.3 and formerly of Starcom Network Inc., was also a consultant and columnist of the Barbados Today Inc.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to Ali's family, friends, colleagues and loved ones.
RIP. Those camera lights are questionable.
My sympathy goes out to her loved ones, the media fraternity, and indeed Barbados Today.
Oh dear. Condolence's to her family and friends. RIP.
She was an outstanding broadcaster for years. I do remember her from her days with Starcom Radio, and her columns in your paper. Condolences to her love ones!
My condolences must go out to Veoma Ali's family and friends because I loved hearing her deliver the Entertainment News on Hott 95.3 FM.
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Is Tia-Clair Toomey Retiring?
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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.
In today's edition:
Did Tia-Clair Toomey announce her retirement?
CrossFit to release a new affiliate toolkit to gym owners
The dying stigma of CrossFit and where the sport goes from here
Jayson Hopper talks about his Games performance and off-season plans
NOBULL and the NFL talk about their new partnership
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"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." - Rabindranath Tagore
Is She or Isn't She? Has Tia-Clair Toomey Decided to Retire From CrossFit Competition?
"For the sixth time and for the final time, Tia Toomey is the Fittest Woman on Earth!" When Sean Woodland announced her plans to retire during the live broadcast on the final day of competition at the 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games it signaled the end of an era of dominance by Toomey.
Or did it?
Woodland's statement was unequivocal, but in multiple follow-ups, Toomey's responses have left a lot of room for doubt as to whether she's retiring.
What's been said so far: Is Toomey going for a seventh title or is she just building suspense for an autumn announcement?
Sean Woodland on the live broadcast of the final event of the CrossFit Games: "If you're wondering why Tia Toomey took her time and soaked it in, this is it. She's planning to retire after the CrossFit Games."
Toomey on the floor after winning the 2022 CrossFit Games responding to Niki Brazier's question: "Do you come back one more time or is this the end?" The six-time champion responded with a smile, "That's the question. We'll see."
Woodland in a tweet after the Games explaining why he said that on the live broadcast: "I had confirmation and permission from her camp to do it and that's the only way I would have even thought about mentioning it."
Toomey in tears behind the scenes after walking off the floor: "The last five bar muscle-ups will be remembered forever."
Toomey at the press conference immediately following the Games: "Well technically I didn't announce my retirement." She then added, "we'll see. There's a bit of a trend going around, announcing retirement and then coming back. I'll just keep you guys guessing."
Toomey in an Instagram post on August 11: "Seven sounds better, don't you think?"
Toomey in a VLOG on August 16 in response to Shane Orr's question: "What does 2023 look like," to which she responded: "To be continued."
Shane Orr, Toomey's husband, coach and manager, had no comment regarding Toomey's plans when the Morning Chalk Up reached out to him for a comment.
The big picture: It's no secret that she and her husband are very guarded and protective of the decisions they make. Everything they do is calculated and has a particular end state in mind. The decision of whether she's stepping away from competition or not is one no doubt she has decided on but wants to do it on her own accord and platform.
We do know that her camp gave Woodland and the CrossFit team their blessings to announce that this would be her final Games. However, she is reluctant to say it herself at the time and has remained noncommittal since, carefully choosing her words and avoiding saying that she is done, even on her own social media platforms.
Whether Toomey decides to retire or not will have a serious impact on the female side of competition where she's dominated the last six seasons.
We know that she's been invited to compete at the Rogue Invitational at the end of October and it stands to reason she'll return to compete for a shot at what could be upwards of a $250,000 first-place prize purse.
Delaying an announcement after Rogue would also give CrossFit's media team more time to prepare a proper tribute to the queen of CrossFit.
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AIRWAAV Athlete Rich Froning cemented his place among the all-time greats by once again finishing on top of the podium with Mayhem Freedom.
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BREATHE LIKE THE CHAMP IN YOUR NEXT WOD.
In case you missed it: Lauren Kalil, the host of The Bottom Line, spoke to 2022 Games rookie and fan favorite Rebecca Fuselier about her debut at the CrossFit Games and those moments on the Capitol stairs:
"I would never quit. I would die before I quit."
Reminders: The pre-season schedule is loaded this year and before you know it we will be into qualifier territory. Here are some dates to block out on your calendars.
The first round of Rogue Invitational invites are out already. If you were a top Games finisher this year, check you inbox (spoiler: none of us at the MCU received one). The finals will take place October 28-30 in Austin, TX. The Rogue Invitational qualifier kicks off on August 26 and runs through the 28th.
The Butcher's Classic qualifier (in Copenhagen, Denmark) starts on August 26. The event is scheduled for October 7-9.
The Dubai CrossFit Championship qualifier lasts from September 8 through September 22. The finals will take place December 2-4 in Dubai, UAE.
Wodapalooza, which is scheduled for January 12-15 has two separate qualifiers, one for individuals, which runs September 15-26 and one for teams, running October 13-24.
Ten-Year Anniversary: Move Fast Lift Heavy is hosting a ten-year anniversary party and lift off on October 1. Check it out.
Jobs Jobs Jobs: Loud and Live is hiring. There are a BUNCH of positions available in business development, management, finance, and video/graphics. Apply now.
Congrats: Brendan Rice was just named the new Chief Revenue Officer at Wodify.
CrossFit to Release Content Kit to Affiliates to "Re-Energize the Brand" and Drive More People into the Community
In the coming months, CrossFit LLC will launch a content kit to affiliates to help gyms with their sales and marketing efforts.
"One of CrossFit HQ's priorities this year is to invest and re-energize the brand…The intention of our new content is two-fold — to improve the perception of CrossFit and encourage people who've never tried CrossFit before to try CrossFit at a local affiliate," explained Gary Gaines, CrossFit's global head of affiliates, about the big picture plan behind the kit.
The details: The content kit will contain various tools to help affiliates market themselves, including a video library with content gym owners will be able to share with their community and prospective members on their social media channels, website or through emails.
It also contains a content creation guide with instructions for generating and distributing "authentic content" created by members of that affiliate's community, as well as an image guide with customizable images.
Further, the kit offers an email series with templates that can be customized and sent to prospective members, as well local media outreach email templates so affiliates can generate coverage by their local media outlets.
Finally, it offers a four-week marketing plan guide for affiliates, which provides a roadmap for building awareness and bringing in new prospects.
The big picture: On top of this being a way to "re-energize the (CrossFit) brand," there has been a lot of talk—and demand from the affiliate community—about the need for CrossFit to help affiliates financially since Eric Roza purchased CrossFit LLC in June 2020, and it's something Roza committed himself to immediately.
"We have to provide a lot more value to our affiliates," Roza said at an August 2020 Town Hall, where he committed to building tools and software to help affiliates become more financially successful.
In light of this, this content kit has to be seen as a step forward in this commitment.
OPINION: The Dying Stigma Around CrossFit and the Democratization of Functional Fitness
The 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games are in the rear view mirror and it's time for us to take stock of the sport, the season, and where we go from here.
The 2022 season was another one filled with highs and lows–wins and losses–capped off by the Games in Madison and a new CEO in Don Faul. But there are bigger, more philosophical questions we should be asking ourselves: where is CrossFit as a methodology and what is the trajectory of the sport, for both the elites, and the everyday gym warriors who head to classes before, during and after their real jobs?
Two things come to mind: one, there is still a stigma around CrossFit. This is notable in the fact that we here at the Morning Chalk Up have difficulty getting celebrities to talk to us about doing CrossFit, even though lots of them are doing it. Mega movie star Chris Pratt talking about doing Murph over and over to prepare for a role is a good start, but it's still clear to see: when some people hear the word CrossFit, they do not have a positive response. Why is this?
Jayson Hopper: "I felt like I was maturing as the weekend went on."
Two-time CrossFit Games athlete Jayson Hopper had a slow start in Madison. With a goal of top 10 and starting the week in the bottom half of the field, he had a lot of work in front of him to earn enough points to reach his goal. Morning Chalk Up's Lauren Kalil sits down with Hopper to talk about how he ultimately surpassed his goal on the leaderboard, some of the highlights from the Games and even teased ahead to a team he's creating for Wodapalooza.
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NOBULL and NFL Execs Talk About New Scouting Combine Partnership
NOBULL, a brand synonymous with and born from CrossFit, has announced that it will be the presenting sponsor of the NFL Scouting Combine. The multi-year deal starts with the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine and designates NOBULL as the "Official Combine Training Partner of the NFL" and the "Official On-Field Supplier of Apparel and Headwear for the NFL Combine".
"NOBULL is a training brand for people who work hard and don't believe in excuses, and this new partnership with the NFL perfectly encapsulates everything we stand for. To have the opportunity to provide these aspiring professional athletes with the chance to perform their best during one of the most important events of their lives is a landmark moment for us," said NOBULL co-founder Marcus Wilson.
"We could not be more thrilled to work with the NFL to develop this partnership and find new ways to support the incredibly hardworking prospects pursuing their dreams of playing in the NFL."
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A commonly forgotten movement, the L-sit is an exercise that can make 20 seconds feel like 20 minutes. Add in a pull up, and you have the ultimate core strength and gymnastics movement. Here are Scott Panchik's progressions to increase the difficulty of the movement gradually and master the movement.
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2/10 - 2/12: Fittest if the Coast Championship (Charleston, SC)
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2/12: The 2023 RCF Winter War (Londonderry, NH)
2/18: Moultrie South Georgia Classic (Norman Park, GA)
3/1 - 3/31: Barbells For Bullies: Sit Ups For Pups (Online Event, United States)
3/18 - 3/19: Okanagan Valley Throwdown (Penticton, Canada)
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Interview: Washington Football DB Ronald Darby
ASHBURN, VA -- August 23, 2020 Washington Football Team defensive back Ronald Darby speaks to the media after practice on Sunday morning.
On how the secondary has performed in training camp so far:
"We've been able to accomplish communicating. We weren't able to have OTAs, everything was over Zoom. So, to be out there and be able to communicate and have people coming at you at full speed, we've been able to do a good job at that and creating turnovers."
On how he feels this season after injuries in his past:
"I feel great. Coming off the ACL the year before and going through last season, I was having a lot of lower muscle problems like strains. I've been taking care of myself this offseason. I had a little bit more time due to the fact of Covid and not having OTAs, so I stayed on top of my body. I feel great. I'm human, I feel a little sore out there. They've been hard practices. We've been going against some fast guys. But I'm feeling good."
On how the coaching staff emphasizes not making mistakes:
"You can't really emphasize not making mistakes. It's about coaching mistakes. Mistakes are going to happen. But, the main thing of not making mistakes is making sure your eyes are good, keep drilling yourself on your technique even when you're tired. You've just got to stay on top of yourself. Mistakes happen, so you just fix your mistakes."
On facing WR Terry McLaurin in practice:
"He's really talented. He's one of the best I've went up against because he's going to work each play. He knows how to get out of his cuts full-speed. He's smart, he wants to learn and get better. He's really good, and he's young. That's the scary thing. He's still young, so he's got a lot of years. He's only going to get better. He's a really talented player."
On playing in Head Coach Ron Rivera's defense:
"I love it. It's a lot of different things. I'm used to always just being man-to-man 95, 98 percent of the time. It's a man defense, but there's a lot of things you don't have to worry about. You can play aggressive to certain things and you can have your eyes back on the quarterback on certain things. I love it a lot. And you've got the front that we have, which will cause pressure. You can make a lot of plays on this defense."
On how he fits in the defense:
"Like I said, this is my first time playing in this type of defense. Ever since I've gotten drafted, I've been in a man-to-man defense my whole career. I like it a lot, I like coach and coach always has liked me and I feel like this is the perfect fit for me."
On playing under defensive backs coach Chris Harris:
"It's good because sometimes we've had those hard days where the energy isn't there, and he's going to stay on top of us and always bring that energy. It's always good to hear coaching and tips from someone that did what you did. He's been in the league. He's played in the league so there are things that he's seen. Having actually been out there, he knows what's going on out there. So, it's good to have someone out there like that. He brings energy every day. He's going to come every day with the energy."
On how he would describe the cornerback play:
"It's hard to really answer that. I just know this defense can set you up and make a lot of plays. You've got to also be disciplined with your eyes. You've got to know what's going on. Certain things you don't take. You've got to learn what to be aggressive on and learn what you don't have to be aggressive on."
On if there is a Batman theme with Harris saying 'Welcome to Gotham City':
"I don't know where that came from. I think that was the first time I've heard him say that. I don't know where he got that from, but we don't have any Batman themes going on."
On being from D.C. and adjusting to the team name change:
"It was crazy to me. As a little kid, when you grow up a fan you always want to play for the team you grew up watching. The one year I come here, the name is taken away. I'm playing for the Washington Football Team. I'm happy. It's a blessing."
On if they still discuss Covid-19 protocols:
"Yeah, they still are very strict on it. When we do meet, they make sure we stay six feet apart and then we carry our trackers on. My tracker is in my pocket right now. If we blink red in the meetings, we make sure we separate more. We're on top of it a lot still. Everyone in the building takes it seriously."
On if players regulate each other with social distancing:
"They did a great job of making sure everything is how it's supposed to be. If there ever is a problem, Coach's door is always open. Any type of problem that we have, we can always go to Coach and talk about it. Since I've been here since camp has been going on and everything, I haven't had any complaints or anything."
On what makes players good communicators:
"The main thing about communication is knowing what you're doing. We go over the same stuff in meetings, walk throughs, walk-through meetings, in practice. We're doing it over and over and over again. The more you see it, the easier it is for you to know what's going on. So like, when it comes to communicating you've just got to know what's going on."
On coming back home to play:
"It feels good to be back home, but you've always got to stay focused. I grew up around here, so there could be a lot of distractions if you allow it to be. But Ashburn is just far enough to get away from everything back home. It's like a 45 to an hour-minute drive to get back home. It's good to be back. I'm not sure how the season's going to go as far as fans and things like that, but I've got a good group back home with people that are going to make sure I'm on the right path and doing things right."


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Group backs BAI's assurance of ample pork supply to meet Yuletide demand
Pork chops are displayed for sale in this file photo.
A leader of the Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) on Wednesday dismissed claims by "economic saboteurs" that there is a shortage of pork supply in the country.
In a news statement, SINAG Chairman Rosendo So said stocks of pork would last beyond the first quarter of 2023, citing government data that cold storages for pork imports are overflowing.
"The contents of the cold storages are getting bigger, beyond their capacity. This week, it is at 110 million kilos, the biggest recorded stock of pork imports," he said.
"We have been saying this since the discussions on the tariff reduction on pork and rice at the Senate and the Tariff Commission as early as January of last year," he said.
If there was a supply gap on pork, even rice and chicken, So said, the farm-gate price of rice, pork or chicken will go up.
"But farm-gate [price] of live hogs is only at P155 to 175 per kilo. There is no shortage, but there are exploiters," he said.
"Importers and traders continue to dominate the retail market and rake [in] profits at the expense of the producers, consumers and the foregone revenues of the government," So pointed out.
On Tuesday, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) assured the public that there is sufficient supply of pork as well as chicken and eggs during the holidays.
Jovee Marie de la Cruz
Jovee Marie Dela Cruz covers the House of Representatives for the BusinessMirror. Her beat may be political by nature, but most of her stories revolve around measures affecting the country's fiscal structure, economic standing and business climate. She earned her master's degree in communication from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and obtained her political science degree from the Universidad de Manila.
Delay in implementation of law to hike Pinoy competitiveness and employability slammed
ARTA bares red tape busters for logistics sector
Searca head pushes for culture of agri-innovation
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DOE maps out options to sustain NPC operation in off-grid areas
Energy rationing, additional budget, tariff applications, and government borrowings are some of the solutions drawn up by the government to sustain the operations and ensure the continued delivery of power supply by the National Power Corporation (NPC) in off-grid areas.
byLenie Lectura
You will certainly ask the question why I am combining the future of innovation, which drives management in 2023, with better health-care systems. The main reason is that many companies are hampered by medical issues of their employees because of the pandemic that hit us in 2020.
DAR distributes land titles to farmers, turns over bridge project in E. Visayas
THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has turned over a P9-million bridge project in Balangiga, Eastern Samar and distributed 1,047 land titles to 1,006 agrarian-reform beneficiaries from six provinces in Eastern Visayas.
byJonathan L. Mayuga
Mindanao to recover prepandemic interest via pioneering tourism expo
DAVAO CITY—Mindanao will attempt to recoup interest of tourists and travelers through the first Mindanao Tourism Exposition (MTE), with Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco assuring her department's full support.
byManuel Cayon


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Thus, I've been testing a pair of Opedix "Knee-Action" knee unloading tights for a few weeks (don't worry about any style violations, I've been wearing them under loose fitting softshell pants). The idea with these things is they wrap some fairly stiff stretch fabric around your knees in such as way as to transfer some load to your hips. We're talking just small amounts of energy transfer, but a tiny bit every step can add up to tons — as well as much in the way of knee wear prevention.
I'm convinced the Opedix tights work (see a science take here), but with several downsides. Mainly, if you wear them correctly, Opedix tights have to be anchored at your hips. That means you may have to cinch the waist drawstring uncomfortably tight, or even combine that with suspenders. Otherwise, if you've got a slim cardio athlete's body (you be the judge), you'll find yourself constantly pulling up the Opedix tights and re-cinching the drawstring as they slip down over your small rear end (again, you decide). Fiddling like that might work during a casual day of snowmobile rescue, but won't cut it for a difficult backcountry ski climb and descent.
Conclusion: Recommended for knee problem prevention or to help with existing condition. But plan on re-doing our leg wardrobe and possibly installing suspenders.
I ski up in the northwest and always use these Opedix tights under my ski pants. After multiple knee surgerys, these are the only things that help my knees. I've never had a problem with the tights falling down but do remember they took sometime getting used to how tight they are around the knees though.
Hi Ray, you'll have to call Salewa/Dynafit NA about the spare parts.
Those screws indeed may eventually break — I've had that happen here on some of our older bindings.
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With a new single out and homecoming gig at Yellow Arch imminent, we caught up with the dark pop peddlers to talk about some reyt tasteh plans for 2018.
Now then, chaps. How's 2018 treating you so far?
Jake: Busy! We've been recording new songs for our next release. It's been nice to have some time out from travelling.
Cal: It's been a chance to take stock of where we are and figure out what we are going to bring to the table this year.
It's shaping up to be a big'un by the looks of things – there's a UK tour to get stuck into! What's it like on the touring bus with Vuromantics?
Jake: By 'bus' do you mean Callum's Yellow Fiat Panda?
Sam: I've been trying to get these guys to eat somewhere other than Toby Carvery but have failed miserably. We usually have some great music to keep us company though.
Cal: Yeah, as long as we've got either the Tool or Chaka Khan CD on I'm oreyt.
The Yellow Arch gig on March 10 should be a belter. Any other venues that you're particularly looking forward to playing?
Sam: Yes, special shout out to the bands playing Yellow Arch; we love Sheffield and it's a great line-up with Humbar, Any Other Way and Intervene joining the antics.
Cal: It'll be great to get back to Night and Day in Manchester as we always have a blast in Northern Quarter. There's also Bristol and the big end of tour party at London O2m that's destined to be a highlight and support band The Strangers are particularly worth a look in; their a wacky Cockney hip-hop, rock 'n' roll riot.
Sam: We're hoping to put it out as a free download to coincide with the tour.
Jake: It was written last summer before a gig in Birmingham, where we performed with a drum machine. We felt like we were in Flight of the Conchords that night! It's got that 80s Gary Numan & Talking Heads vibe going for it.
Cal: The mix is sounding great, definitely sounds like progression. We're looking forward to getting it out there!


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Created by a local teacher, Digital Learning Cymru has downloadable digital resources such as images, videos and sound that can be used in any way you think is appropriate for teaching children.
A project that explores the potential for Early Years pupils to learn with, through and about ICT.
A collection of web sites created by teachers in the UK offering free, quality-approved teaching resources.
From climate change to poverty, Global Dimension is a unique site for teaching resources that bring the world into the classroom.
Your gateway to teaching and learning resources online. The Virtual Teacher Centre section now had a large range of colourful resources ideal for online teaching or for use on a whiteboard.
The site that supports Teachers TV, the TV channel that offers the unique opportunity to see how other teachers teach by letting you in the classroom.
Devised by education professionals and drawing on front line research, seeingscience provides a wide range of interactive resources to support science teaching at Key Stage 3. This free resource is available online and on CD-ROM.
A gateway signposting existing resources and a bank of new materials for supporting teachers of languages in their use of ICT.
A free library of quality English resources including lesson plans and schemes of work. All are professionally produced in PDF format and are a must for English teachers of 11-18 age range.
Resources for teachers of English language and literature, as well as basic information about how to acquire skills in ICT and Internet technologies.
Aims to provide easy access to educational web sites and help teachers use the web in the classroom.
Advice on all kinds of topics of interest, including a directory of useful web sites and lists of jobs within the profession.
Covers all aspects of the National Curriculum.
Lively discussion and links to free resources and materials for the busy ICT Co-ordinator.
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Education reports available to download in PDF format. Also includes a link to obtain the Acrobat Reader software to view PDF files if you don't already have it.
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Hundreds of worksheets, activities and resources for primary school teachers.
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List extensive product information of Tractors (include Farm Tractor, Garden Tractor, Wheel Tractor, Walking Tractor), provided by Tractor manufacturers, suppliers and exporters in china and around the world.
Tractor Specification: Type: Wheel Tractor ; By wheel: 2WD ; Usage: dock tractor ; Certificate: CE ; Tractor- Sinotruk Hova Low-speed tractor, used in the dock and overloading condition, is improved in the base of Styer-technology.With good performace and good price, it has been used widely in the docks in China and is welcomed by many foreign places.
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All of the reports published by OFSTED should be put in to this category.
The Winstanley School opened as a new school in January 2017.
Since opening the school has not been inspected and so there are currently no OFSTED reports for The Winstanley School.


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Skill Level : 2
Scale : 1:48
Length: 23" (590mm)
Height: 19" (490mm)
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COLONIAL KETCH MARY BYRNE 1826
Ketches were river & coastal traders brought to the colonies of Australia by Europeans in the early nineteenth century that evolved into designs that suited Australian coastal & river waters. The vessels had two masts and a simple sets of sails so they could be managed by crews of three seafarers.
Ketches were integral to Australia's maritime history. They connected the city and country before the advent of road and rail. The ketch is quite manoeuvrable in light winds and with a shallow draught they were well suited to negotiate the coastal rivers to transport farm products, grain and minerals to the city and shipping goods and supplies to isolated river and coastal communities along the extended coast of east and south eastern Australia.
The ketch Mary Byrne is named after a young Irish girl. In 1826 Mary Byrne was sentenced in Dublin to seven years and transported to the colony of New South Wales from Dublin. Her crime was stealing a lace handkerchief. Mary's mother Jane appealed in writing to the local authorities to save her daughter on the grounds that she was an only child and her father was dead. This was all to no avail. Mary was transported on the Lady Rowena, which left Dublin in January 1826 and arrived in Sydney in May. The ship carried 102 females from Ireland, most transported for 7 years for minor crimes.
Upon arrival in Sydney Mary was assigned to Mr Still, at Bunkers Hill as a servant. The Sydney Gazette reported that Mary had an argument with a fellow worker in the kitchen which resulted in the police being summoned. Her employer Mrs Still came to her defence saying she was a church going lass and engaged to a policeman. Mary, again, found herself in trouble when another employer refused to pay her and Mary confronted the woman demanding her wages. This time, Mary received 3 months in the Female Factory at Parramatta. There is no doubt Mary was a feisty lass, for upon sentencing Mary was heard to state that she didn't care as she'd just have to sweep a few floors.
Mary eventually set-up house in the Rocks area of Sydney with John Burke, himself a convict who was issued with a ticket of leave. John Burke was a blacksmith, by trade but did serve some time as a police officer. The 1828 census shows that Mary and John had a daughter called Margaret, but sadly there is no further evidence of her existence. In about 1832 they had a son called John, who went on to marry Mary Coe at St Mary's church in 1856. Mary Coe too, was descended from convicts.
We next hear of Mary Byrne, when she was admitted to the Sydney General Hospital in May 1842. She died soon after of Erysipelas, which was also written up in the Sydney Gazette. The government records of Mary's autopsy state that she had a 'visitation from God'. Mary died, a convict, when she was just 36 years of age. Mary Byrnes descendants lived in The Rocks for well over 100 years and continue to live in Australia today.
A double plank on bulkhead construction with laser cut plywood. The kit comes complete with all timber, rigging cord, and wooden and metal fittings. All parts and fittings are of the highest quality. It Includes 46 A3 pages of full colour photos and detailed drawings.
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El Castillo de Banchette (Castello di Banchette en italiano) es un antiguo castillo situado en el pueblo piamontés de Banchette en el norte de Italia.

Historia
Las ruinas del castillo, que se remonta al , fueron restauradas en la mitad del  por la familia Pinchia. Sucesivamente, el edificio fue restaurado otra vez por Emilio Pinchia, político, escritor y poeta. Estos trabajos fueron dirigidos por el arquitecto Ottavio Germano, colaborador del más célebre Alfredo d'Andrade.

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