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Compare the Cheapest Car Insurance Quotes in Costa Mesa, CA
Costa Mesa's average annual car insurance cost of $1,353 is lower than the state average. Esurance is the most affordable insurer at roughly $963 yearly. MoneyGeek rated the cheapest companies by coverage levels and driving history to help you find policies meeting your needs. We also rated the best car insurance companies in Costa Mesa that provide value and quality.
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Although Esurance offers the cheapest insurance in Costa Mesa, the cheapest insurer varies by driving record and coverage levels. Progressive has the best rates for state minimum policies, whereas Esurance is cheapest for drivers with tickets.
For military families, USAA could be the cheapest insurer.
MoneyGeek discovered Esurance is the best insurer in Costa Mesa for balancing cost and service.
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The Cheapest and Best Car Insurance in Costa Mesa
Cheapest Overall - Esurance
Cheapest State Minimum - Progressive
Cheapest With a Driving Violation - Esurance
Best Overall - Esurance
MoneyGeek rated the best auto insurance companies in Costa Mesa, California, based on data from J.D. Power, AM Best and the NAIC.
The Cheapest Car Insurance Companies in Costa Mesa
MoneyGeek analyzed the most affordable full coverage policies in Costa Mesa. On average, the top two companies based on our review are:
Esurance: $963 per year
Progressive: $1,066 per year
Esurance, which offers the most affordable car insurance in Costa Mesa, is more than 77% cheaper than the most expensive policy. The priciest policy is offered by Allied. A full coverage policy usually includes comprehensive and collision coverage. However, your rates can vary based on the liability limits you choose.
Cheapest Car Insurance in Costa Mesa
Full Coverage 100/300/100
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MoneyGeek's methodology involved collecting several full coverage policy quotes in Costa Mesa for a 40-year-old sample driver based on our methodology.
Although a full coverage policy is more expensive, it offers added protection since it includes comprehensive, collision and other coverages beyond a state minimum policy. This comes in handy if you're involved in an accident as comprehensive and collision insurance pays for damages to your vehicle.
Comprehensive coverage: pays for vehicle repair expenses after damages caused by weather, theft and anything not related to a collision
Collision insurance: pays for damages after an accident
However, if you own an older car, you might be better off with liability-only insurance to help save on insurance expenses since you don't want to pay more for insurance than your car is worth.
Compare Car Insurance Rates in Costa Mesa
Ensure you're getting the best rate for your car insurance. Compare quotes from the top insurance companies.
Cheapest Car Insurance in Costa Mesa for Minimum Coverage
If you're looking to minimize insurance costs, choosing a state minimum policy in Costa Mesa is the best option.
On average, the companies that offer the cheapest policies in the city are:
Progressive: $476 per year
GEICO: $527 per year
At approximately $463 per year, USAA is the best option for military families. Progressive is the cheapest option in the city. Its policy is $345 cheaper than the most expensive policy, which is offered by Farmers.
Although cheap, state minimum policies do not include comprehensive and collision insurance. This leaves you at risk if you have an accident since their low liability limits may not be enough to cover all your expenses.
Cheapest Minimum Liability Car Insurance in Costa Mesa
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California state laws mandate that all drivers have a minimum auto insurance policy covering bodily injury liability and property damage liability.
In Costa Mesa, a minimum coverage policy is the cheapest auto insurance option. However, you could end up paying out of pocket in the event of an accident. For instance, a California minimum policy only covers $15,000 for bodily injuries per person. If you're in an accident that results in medical bills worth $30,000, you'll pay the $15,000 balance yourself.
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$15,000 per person, $30,000 per accident and $5,000 for property damage. A more protective level is 100/300/100.
Cheapest Car Insurance in Costa Mesa if You Have Driving Violations
Drivers with prior violations like a DUI, speeding ticket or an at-fault accident will have to pay more for car insurance in Costa Mesa. Our analysis shows that, on average, the following companies have the cheapest car insurance in Costa Mesa for drivers with prior violations:
Cheapest after a ticket: Esurance at $1,219 per year
Cheapest after an at-fault accident: Esurance at $1,506 per year
Cheapest after a DUI: Mercury at $2,172 per year
At $1,213 per year, USAA is the cheapest option for current and former military members who have a speeding ticket. You can get lower rates by displaying responsible behavior for a sustained period. Until then, shopping around between multiple providers can help you get the cheapest auto insurance.
Cheapest Car Insurance in Costa Mesa With a Violation
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Costa Mesa$1,353
California$1,429
U.S.$1,424
The average cost of car insurance in Costa Mesa is $1,353 per year. This is lower than the average price in California as well as the country. Costa Mesa drivers pay 5.3% less than the state average and 5% less than the national average.
Personalized Quotes to Get You the Cheapest Car Insurance in Costa Mesa
Insurance companies in Costa Mesa consider several factors to calculate car insurance quotes, such as gender, age, the make and model of the vehicle and the ZIP code. You should get a personalized quote regularly to check if you qualify for rebates, discounts and to find affordable coverage as your life circumstances change.
MoneyGeek rated the best car insurance companies in Costa Mesa based on average rates, claims ratings and customer satisfaction. We found that the top two providers are:
Esurance: MoneyGeek score of 92 out of 100
AAA: MoneyGeek score of 81 out of 100
Military personnel on active duty and veterans in Costa Mesa, including their family members, should also consider getting insured by USAA. Though the company was not included in our ranking — policies are only available to current and former members of the military — it received a high MoneyGeek score of 90 out of 100.
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Aside from scoring highly on affordability and stability, Esurance offers custom parts and equipment coverage, which is rare among insurers. A full coverage Esurance policy for a 40-year-old in Costa Mesa costs around $963 per year.
More About Esurance
In addition to commonly offered coverages, Esurance also has unique, add-on coverage options. Its rideshare insurance policy, known as ShareSmart, is exclusively available to policyholders in three states, including California. This add-on coverage ensures there are no gaps in coverage between your personal policy and rideshare insurance policy while you're driving for a rideshare company.
If you plan to make upgrades to your car, like installing a fancy sound system, the custom parts and equipment coverage protects you from any damages to these aftermarket modifications.
Read MoneyGeek's Esurance auto Insurance Review
Our runner-up in Costa Mesa is AAA, ranking first in terms of claims ratings. Its full coverage policy costs $1,238 per year, on average, and membership already comes with identity theft coverage.
More About AAA
There are three optional coverages under AAA. Identity theft coverage and roadside assistance are already included in standard AAA policies, whereas rental car and/or travel reimbursement coverage can be added.
The insurer's rental car and/or travel reimbursement coverage shoulders the expenses of car rental or public transportation if your car is not drivable or is undergoing repairs. This is especially valuable for frequent travelers.
AAA's roadside assistance coverage is also very comprehensive and takes care of expenses related to fuel delivery, flat tires, battery jumpstarts and replacements, vehicle lockout services and trip continuation.
Read MoneyGeek's AAA auto Insurance Review
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Average Cost of Car Insurance by Postal Code
Where you live in the state of California also impacts how much you pay for auto insurance. For instance, people living in the 92627 ZIP code pay about $9 less annually for auto insurance than those living in the 92626 ZIP code.
Factors That Impact Insurance Costs in Costa Mesa
In addition to individual driver needs and history, location-specific factors like the percentage of uninsured motorists and the rate of fatal accidents also contribute to car insurance rates in Costa Mesa. How Costa Mesa ranks compared to the 300 most populous cities in the United States can have a significant impact on premium costs.
Most Accidents With Fatalities40th/300
Most Car Thefts210th/300
Most Uninsured Motorists by State12th/50
Personal Injury Protection RequiredNo
Most Annual Rainfall247th/300
Most Rainy Days260th/300


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Wierzbicki Lab: New paper offers insights into mysterious world of non-coding RNAs
Arabidopsis study reveals special class of non-coding RNAs may help silence DNA stretches vulnerable to genetic mix ups.
Arabidopsis photo by Dawid Skalec. Diagram from Böhmdorfer et al.
A new paper from the Wierzbicki lab reveals some insights into the mysterious world of non-coding RNAs. Gudrun Böhmdorfer, a postdoctoral fellow and co-authors, took advantage of a unique feature of a model plant organism Arabidopsis thaliana to discover how these RNAs may help maintain genome integrity.
In each cell, genetic information for the production of proteins is stored in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA.) A closely related nucleic acid, ribonucleic acid (RNA) transfers the genetic information from the DNA to the protein production sites in the cell. But RNA turns out to live a secretive double life, says Andrzej Wierzbicki, an associate professor in MCDB. In addition to its role in protein coding, RNA performs a multitude of additional functions.
Böhmdorfer and colleagues used Arabidopsis thaliana because this plant contains a specialized enzyme that produces a class of non-coding RNAs. The presence of this enzyme, known as RNA Polymerase V, allows the scientists to overcome two important barriers to making progress in studying RNAs in other organisms –- identification of non-coding from coding RNA and specific experimental elimination of an entire class of non-coding RNA. Arabidopsis thus provides a "genetic toolset" for unprecedented insight into the mysterious world of non-coding RNAs, says Wierzbicki.
The researchers' study of the specific class of non-coding RNAs revealed that their production is controlled by a mechanism completely different than those known for other RNAs. This non-coding RNA provides binding sites for an important protein in DNA methylation, which silences genes, and this binding occurs during production of the non-coding RNA.
Importantly, this non-coding RNA production targets edges of potentially harmful DNA regions known as transposable elements or transposons. This assures that the transposons are silenced while allowing the neighboring genes to be active.
This work not only revealed several mysteries of RNA but also opened the door for future studies of other intriguing properties of these important nucleic acids, says Wierzbicki.
eLife: "Long non-coding RNA produced by RNA polymerase V determines boundaries of heterochromatin"
Gudrun Böhmdorfer, Shriya Sethuraman, M. Jordan Rowley, Michal Krzyszton, M. Hafiz Rothi, Lilia Bouzit, and Andrzej T. Wierzbicki
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"An Echolls Family Christmas" is the tenth episode of the first season of the American mystery television series Veronica Mars. Written by Diane Ruggiero and directed by Nick Marck, the episode premiered on UPN on December 14, 2004.

The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) as she deals with life as a high school student while moonlighting as a private detective. In this episode, Veronica investigates when someone steals Logan's (Jason Dohring) money at a poker game. Meanwhile, Keith investigates a mysterious person who is stalking Aaron Echolls (Harry Hamlin). Despite ranking low in the ratings and marking a season low in terms of number of viewers, the episode was critically lauded.

Synopsis

Veronica and Keith decorate their Christmas tree. Meanwhile, Duncan (Teddy Dunn) dances around drunkenly at a poker party with Logan, Weevil (Francis Capra), and two others, Sean (Kevin Sheridan) and Connor (Travis Schuldt). Weevil wins $5,000 from Logan when they both go all in. However, when Logan opens his money box, he finds that the money is missing. Weevil grows angry and asks each of the other members for $1,000. The next day at school, Duncan confronts Weevil, who stole his laptop. Veronica approaches him, and Duncan tells her about his problem. Duncan tells Veronica that his computer contains some private information regarding their past relationship. Veronica asks Weevil for the computer back, but he refuses. Weevil explains why he was at the card game and says that Logan had an opportunity to hide the money during the game. Logan's mother, Lynn (Lisa Rinna), visits Keith and tells him about threatening letters that a mysterious person sent to her husband. Later, Veronica talks to Duncan, who gives his side of the story. Duncan also blames Logan. Later, Duncan confronts Logan about stealing the money, but he refuses to give any details. When Keith visits the Echolls' house, he finds a pumpkin outside their front door with Aaron's face on it and a knife through it. Veronica stops by the Echolls' house and talks to Logan, and he says that he thinks that Connor stole the money.

Veronica visits Connor's movie set, and she questions him about the poker game. However, he does not know who could have stolen the money. Veronica attempts to visit Sean, but his father turns her away. After deducing that the pumpkin probably has something to do with a halloween encounter or incident, Keith goes to the caterer of the party Aaron was at that day. The caterer tells him that Aaron was having an affair at that party. The next day, Veronica talks to Sean, who tells her that he thinks that Weevil stole the money. Keith talks to Aaron, who admits to the affair and says that it was with his agent's wife, Monica Hadwin (Emmanuelle Vaugier). Veronica frets about Duncan's diary before Veronica comes up and makes a deal with Logan: He will host another poker game so Veronica can determine who the thief is. At the poker game, Veronica reveals her findings: Duncan was faking being drunk in order to win the money, not steal it, Connor was simply using a muscle enhancer, and Logan is not the thief because his room was messy (and Veronica figures that if he hid the money, he wouldn't tear apart his room looking for it. Veronica figures out that Sean is the criminal, not Weevil. Sean stuffed the money into the recycling and picked it up the next morning. Sean and Weevil go off by themselves, presumably so Weevil can punish him.

Keith talks to the caterer again and asks her to describe the woman she fired. The poker guests then go to Aaron Echolls' party. Veronica, off by herself, finds Jake Kane and confronts him about the pictures of her taken by his security chief, Clarence Wiedman. Jake screams at her that he doesn't know, and Keith views the scene. Jake then angrily talks to his wife, Celeste (Lisa Thornhill), who actually sent Clarence to take the pictures. The majority of the guests go outside to sing Christmas carols while Aaron is confronted by his stalker, the woman whom the caterer fired. The stalker stabs Aaron, but the other guests do not notice because they aren't there. Keith tackles the stalker, and Lynn calls for an ambulance as Logan looks on, ending the episode on a cliffhanger.

Arc significance
Veronica confronts Jake Kane at the party about the surveillance photos sent to her mom. Jake denies knowing about them, but leaves while grabbing Celeste and saying, "What did you do?" to her.
Aaron Echolls is stabbed by a jealous former lover, which results in his wife learning of her husband's infidelity with other women.

Music
In addition to the series' theme song, "We Used to Be Friends", by The Dandy Warhols, the following music can be heard in the episode:

"Little Bit More" by Tony C. and The Truth
"Slow Hands" by Interpol
"Saturday Night" by Ozomatli
"Camp-Fire" by Starling Electric
"Little Drummer Boy" by The Dandy Warhols

Production

The episode was written by Diane Ruggiero and directed by Nick Marck. "An Echolls Family Christmas" marks Ruggiero's third writing credit for the series (after "The Wrath of Con" and "The Girl Next Door"). In addition, this episode is Marck's second directing credit for Veronica Mars (after "The Girl Next Door"). All series regulars appear in the episode. Also, recurring characters Aaron and Lynn Echolls as well as Jake and Celeste Kane appear in the episode after not appearing for several episodes. Some fans of the show cite this episode as one of the best episodes of the series as a whole. This (and the following episode) are the only episodes of the series to be aired out of production order. The following episode, "Silence of the Lamb" was produced before this episode, but was aired after, due to "An Echolls Family Christmas" being a Christmas-themed episode which aired as season's final episode of the year in December 2004.

Reception

Ratings
In its original broadcast, "An Echolls Family Christmas" received 1.90 million viewers, ranking 109th of 111 in the weekly rankings. This episode is the lowest-rated episode of the first season.

Reviews

The episode was critically acclaimed. In a glowing review, Rowan Kaiser, writing for The A.V. Club, stated that "this episode works at every level: it's tense, it's funny, it's light, it's dark, it stands alone, it builds up the plot, it's plausible, and it's surprising." The reviewer also wrote that "It also allows for some wonderful bits of dramatic irony." He also praised the poker game, the guest stars, Keith's storyline, and the episode's Christmas feel. Television Without Pity gave the episode an "A+," its first such rating for the series.

Price Peterson of TV.com also gave a positive review. In his episode verdict, the reviewer wrote that "This episode WORKED. There are few things better than seeing a bad person get reformed…Plus I just love me a Christmas episode, you know?"

References

External links

"An Echolls Family Christmas" at Mars Investigations

2004 American television episodes
American Christmas television episodes
Veronica Mars (season 1) episodes

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Bhubaneswar: With Odisha witnessing a steep rise in the number of daily COVID cases, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now increased surveillance mechanism at railway station with the help…
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Published: Sunday, 11 April 2021
Last updated: 11 April 2021, 12:52 PM IST
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Bhubaneswar: With Odisha witnessing a steep rise in the number of daily COVID cases, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now increased surveillance mechanism at railway station with the help of the railway authorities.
As per reports, the BMC authorities took stock of the arrangements made at Bhubaneswar Railway Station on Sunday.
As per arrangements, the passengers arriving from other States will now require to produce a COVID negative report (RT-PCR test report) or final vaccination certificate at the BMC kiosk set up at the station.
In case, any passenger does not have either of the reports, they will have to complete a registration process so that necessary tracking and follow up action by the health authorities.
"Local passengers will have unhindered access, only passengers from other States having high-Covid infections will have to go through this process. We have constituted six teams with two members each, to be deployed at the station," informed Subhendu Sahu, Deputy Commissioner, BMC.
The entry and exit routes to the station have been changed. As per the BMC authorities, the passengers coming to the station will now enter from Master Canteen bus terminus side and exit will be from Reliance Fresh side.
Urging the passengers to cooperate with the authorities, Chittaranjan Nayak, Station Director of Bhubaneswar Railway Station said, "People will face problems with the specified entry-exit points, but we request them to bear with us so that we can effectively put surveillance measures at place.
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2022 World Cup: TF1, BeIN… On which channel will we be able to watch the matches?
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From the opening match on November 20 to the final on December 18, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will offer football fans no less than 64 games to watch. All matches will be broadcast on the various BeIN Sports channels. Those who only have free-to-air channels at their disposal will however be able to find the most beautiful competition posters on TF1.
The unencrypted channel will broadcast a total of 28 World Cup matches, including all the matches of the France team, from the start to the end of the competition. During the group stages, TF1 will also broadcast one match per evening, at 8 p.m. This will lead to the evening news being brought forward to 7:20 p.m.
For the second phase, those of the knockout matches, TF1 has the right to choose three of the eight round of 16. The channel will then broadcast three of the four quarter-finals, then will offer the entire end of the competition: the two semi-finals, the small final for the 3e place and then the grand finale.
Sunday November 20
5 p.m.: Qatar – Ecuador on TF1 and BeIN Sports
Monday November 21
2 p.m.: England v Iran on BeIN Sports
5 p.m.: Senegal – Netherlands on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: United States – Wales on TF1 and BeIN Sports
11 a.m.: Argentina v Saudi Arabia on BeIN Sports
2 p.m.: Denmark – Tunisia on BeIN Sports
5 p.m.: Mexico v Poland on BeIN Sports
20 hours : FRANCE – Australia on TF1 and BeIN Sports
11 a.m.: Morocco – Croatia on BeIN Sports
2 p.m.: Germany v Japan on BeIN Sports
5 p.m.: Spain v Costa Rica on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Belgium – Canada on TF1 and BeIN Sports
11 a.m.: Switzerland – Cameroon on BeIN Sports
2 p.m.: Uruguay – South Korea on BeIN Sports
5 p.m.: Portugal v Ghana on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Brazil – Serbia on TF1 and BeIN Sports
Friday November 25
11 a.m.: Wales – Iran on BeIN Sports
2 p.m.: Qatar – Senegal on BeIN Sports
5 p.m.: Netherlands – Ecuador on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: England – United States on TF1 and BeIN Sports
11 a.m.: Tunisia – Australia on BeIN Sports
2 p.m.: Poland v Saudi Arabia on BeIN Sports
17 hours : FRANCE – Denmark on TF1 and BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Argentina – Mexico on TF1 and BeIN Sports
11 a.m.: Japan – Costa Rica on BeIN Sports
2 p.m.: Belgium – Morocco on TF1 and BeIN Sports
5 p.m.: Croatia v Canada on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Spain – Germany on TF1 and BeIN Sports
11 a.m.: Cameroon – Serbia on BeIN Sports
2 p.m.: South Korea – Ghana on BeIN Sports
5 p.m.: Brazil v Switzerland on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Portugal – Uruguay on TF1 and BeIN Sports
4 p.m.: Netherlands v Qatar on BeIN Sports
4 p.m.: Ecuador – Senegal on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Wales – England on TF1 and BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Iran – United States on BeIN Sports
4 p.m.: Tunisia – FRANCE on TF1 and BeIN Sports
4 p.m.: Australia v Denmark on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Poland – Argentina on TF1 and BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Saudi Arabia v Mexico on BeIN Sports
4 p.m.: Croatia v Belgium on BeIN Sports
4 p.m.: Canada – Morocco on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Japan – Spain on TF1 and BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Costa Rica – Germany on BeIN Sports
4 p.m.: South Korea – Portugal on BeIN Sports
4 p.m.: Ghana – Uruguay on BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Cameroon – Brazil on TF1 and BeIN Sports
8 p.m.: Serbia v Switzerland on BeIN Sports
From Saturday 3 to Sunday 18 December
For the knockout matches, TF1 has not yet made its choice for the round of 16 and quarter-finals. The matches that the channel will broadcast will be fixed according to the teams that will be qualified and the interest of the various scheduled matches. BeIN Sports will continue to broadcast all matches, including those that will also be on TF1.
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MMA: what measures are taken to ensure the safety of fighters?
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Brutal and merciless. MMA, legalized in France since 2020 only, has a bad reputation. For the first time, the UFC, the main organization of this sport invites itself to Paris on Saturday September 3rd. The 15,000 spectators expected at Bercy will be able to witness a deluge of blows and armbars. Several rules have nevertheless been put in place to guarantee the safety of participants in UFC Paris.
First, contrary to the idea we have of the discipline, which brings together all the existing martial disciplines, not all blows are allowed. It is possible to strike with the hands, legs and knees, as well as to throw his opponent on the ground and subject him to submission techniques, submission keys, even to strike him with his fists once he dropped.
Boxing, wrestling, grappling
This set of techniques comes from the most used sports in MMA: English boxing, kickboxing, wrestling and grappling. However, it is forbidden to hit your opponent with a head butt, or a blow behind the head. The private parts are also off limits. Fighters cannot use their feet or knees or elbow downwards against their opponent on the ground, nor insert their fingers into their holes or scratch them.
Also, like boxing, MMA fighters are split by weight to even out fights. The men are split into eight categories, from flyweight (under 56.7kg) to heavyweight (under 120.2kg) with a super heavyweight category with no weight limit. As for women, they are classified from strawweight (under 52 kg) to featherweight (under 66 kg).
Doctors watch
Participants compete in a ring, often an octagon, surrounded by a fence. This "cage" protects them from projections that could send them beyond the combat space.
Doctors are also present on the edges of the ring. They are notably put to use by a new rule, which stipulates that fighters who receive a shot in the eye can get five minutes to recover. At the end of this period, the doctor decides whether the fight can continue.
As early as 2016, a parliamentary report called for the legalization of sport precisely to better regulate it and improve the safety of combatants. The UFC today claims 3.8 million fans in France, making it "the second most important country in Europe on social networks" for the organization, despite the criticism that MMA faces. In 2015, the president of the judo federation claimed in a controversial exit that he was "a refuge for jihadists" and "an invention for doing business" without "educational aspect".
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Football on TV: on which channels (and at what prices) to watch the matches
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► League 1
To follow the first division championship, it will be necessary to multiply the subscriptions. Prime Video – Amazon's service – has acquired the rights to broadcast 80% of the matches for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons. With the "Pass Ligue 1", it will cost you €12.99/month or €99/year (or even €89 if the subscription is taken out before the end of August to have access to Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches) . A price to be added to the cost of the classic subscription to Prime Video.
The Canal+ channel will broadcast the remaining 20% of matches. Again, you will have to pay € 20.99 per month with a one-year subscription.
► Cups
Fans of French clubs who wanted to follow their career in the Coupe de France could so far do so on the channels of the France Télévisions group or on Eurosport. For next year, nothing is certain. The French Football Federation, judging the proposed amounts insufficient, refused to award them last April and declared its call for tenders "unsuccessful". Negotiations remain open.
Prime Video will also broadcast 80% of Ligue 2 matches. For the rest, you have to turn to BeIN Sports, for €15/month.
Fans who do not want to pay will however be able to enjoy a free match every Saturday at 7 p.m., broadcast on the L'Équipe channel.
► Champions League
The two best posters of the prestigious Champions League will be co-broadcast by Canal+ and RMC Sport (with a subscription of €19 per month). The other matches will be broadcast on BeIN Sports.
The final, which is one of the events that must be broadcast on a free channel, will also be visible on TF1.
► Europa League and Europe Conference League
The other two European competitions, the Europa League and the Europa Conference League, are shared between three channels: Canal+ and W9 reserving the best posters, the rest of the matches will be on RMC Sport.
► Foreign championships
Fans of the Spanish, Italian and German first division championships will be able to follow the matches on BeIN Sports, while Canal+ will exclusively broadcast the Premier Leaguethe English championship.
► World Cup 2022
The TF1 group, which owns the TMC channel (on TNT), will broadcast 28 matches free of charge, including the 16 most beautiful posters of the group stage of the 2022 World Cup. This includes in particular the opening match, all the matches of the France team, the two semi-finals and the final.
The BeIN Sports channel will broadcast the 64 matches, 36 of which are exclusive.
► On the side of women's football…
For the 2022-2023 season, D1 is broadcast on the Canal+ group channels. The DAZN streaming platform owns the rights to the Women's Champions League until 2025. Select matches will be streamed for free on the DAZN YouTube channel.
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Platini-Blatter trial: what are the charges against the defendants?
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After six years of investigation, Michel Platini and the ex-president of Fifa Sepp Blatter appear from Wednesday June 8 before the federal criminal court of Bellinzona, in the south-east of Switzerland, in the case of payment suspect who broke their career in 2015. The verdict of the trial, which is held until June 22, is expected for July 8.
► What are the charges against the defendants?
The two former leaders of European and world football are accused of having "illegally obtained, to the detriment of Fifa, a payment of 2 million Swiss francs (1.8 million euros, editor's note) in favor of Michel Platini".
Michel Platini advised Sepp Blatter between 1998 and 2002 during the latter's first term as head of FIFA. The two men signed a contract in 1999 agreeing to an annual remuneration of 300,000 Swiss francs, fully paid by Fifa.
However, in January 2011, almost ten years after the end of his activity as an adviser, Michel Platini "enforced a claim of 2 million Swiss francs" paid by FIFA "with the competition" of Sepp Blatter, reveals the prosecution. For the charge, it is a payment " unfounded "obtained by inducing "artfully mistaken" the internal controls of Fifa by false assertions of the two leaders. These appear for " scam ", "disloyal management", " breach of trust " and "false in the titles".
► What is their defense?
Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter declare that from the beginning they decided orally on an annual salary of 1 million Swiss francs. The balance was paid late because, at the time the agreement was established, Fifa's finances did not allow an immediate payment. "This is a salary balance, owed by FIFA, by oral contract and paid under conditions of the most perfect legality. Nothing else ! I acted, like all my life and all my career, with the utmost honesty," assures the Frenchman.
Even more, Michel Platini considers himself the victim of a conspiracy, noting that when the affair broke out, in 2015, he was a favorite to take the head of Fifa. He denounces in particular the role of Gianni Infantino, the current boss of world football, elected in 2016, who was his former right-hand man at UEFA and against whom he filed a complaint in November 2021 for "active influence peddling".
Since 2020, Gianni Infantino has also been the target of a procedure relating to three secret meetings with the former chief prosecutor, in which a magistrate and the former legal director of Fifa have just been charged. But Swiss justice has so far refused to join the two files.
► What are they at risk?
Both men face up to five years in prison and a fine. Civil party, Fifa wishes to be restored the salary and social charges paid in 2011 to Michel Platini "so that the money embezzled by the defendants for personal purposes is returned to the one and only purpose for which it was intended: football".
The affair has also made Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter pariahs of football. Suspended for the first time in October 2015 by FIFA's Ethics Committee for a period of ninety days, they were then banned from all football-related activity for a period of eight years, reduced to six years by an appeals committee. In May 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced Michel Platini's suspension to four years.
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World Cup 2022: what would be the worst and the best draw for the France team?
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France, the reigning world champion, is preparing to discover its first three opponents for the 2022 World Cup, which will take place in Qatar between November 21 and December 18. The draw for the group stages will take place in Doha on Friday April 1 at 6 p.m. French time.
How are hens made?
The draw method is as follows. The thirty-two qualified teams are divided into four hats, according to several criteria including their FIFA ranking. Here is their composition on April 1 in the morning.
Here are the hats for the group draw for the 2022 World Cup. 🏆
What would be :
The worst group? 👇
The best group? 👇 pic.twitter.com/De0POcFRHX
– The Passion Of Football (@passion_du_foot) March 31, 2022
For the first time this year, three participants have not been officially qualified for the FIFA World Cup. These teams will be known during the intercontinental play-off matches which will be played in mid-June. The country representing Asia will face that of South America, that of North and Central America will play against that of Oceania. In Europe, the ticket to Qatar will be contested between Scotland, Ukraine and Wales.
The best draw: Switzerland, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia
On paper, Switzerland is the weakest team in pot 2, along with the United States. But crossing the Nati at the next World Cup could be an opportunity for the Blues to take their revenge after the elimination in the round of 16 of Euro 2020 on penalties. Xherdan Shaqiri's teammates haven't shown great serenity in their last matches. Apart from two clear victories against Lithuania and Bulgaria, Switzerland remains on several draws (Northern Ireland, Italy twice, Kosovo) and a defeat against England.
→ READ. 2022 World Cup: the Blues, an exciting qualification before a long wait
Tunisia also struggled to convince, qualifying narrowly for the World Cup by a single goal in the play-offs against Mali. The Eagles of Carthage finished third in their group, however very weak, during the qualifying phases. Saudi Arabia for its part does not present a particular obstacle for the Blues, despite the recent arrival of Hervé Renard as coach.
The worst draw: Germany, Senegal and Ecuador
Germany is the scarecrow in the second hat. Eliminated from entry at Euro 2020, the Mannschaft changed coach after 14 years with Joachim Löw. Since the arrival of Hans-Dieter Flick from the Bayern Munich bench, the German team has not lost a single match, offering themselves several attacking cards (9-0 against Liechtenstein, 6-0 against Armenia, 4-0 against Iceland).
Senegal could also pose problems for the France team, thanks to a workforce made up of players playing in the biggest European clubs. Sadio Mané's teammates (Liverpool) showed their solidity in their play-off against Mohamed Salah's Egypt. Finally, the youth of Ecuador – who outclassed Colombia in qualifying – could also give Didier Deschamps' team a hard time. The Tricolor compensates for its inexperience with the physical and technical qualities of its players.
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City Lodge Hotel Dar es Salaam opens first batch of rooms
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City Lodge Hotel Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is opening its first batch of 41 rooms today (16 November 2018) on the first and second floors. The hotel will have 148 rooms in total when complete. Anneke Pienaar is general manager.
Exterior view of new City Lodge Hotel Dar es Salaam in Tanzania
Opening special for City Lodge Hotel Dar es Salaam valid from 17 November 2018 to 28 February 2019 is as follows, quoting promocode NOWOPEN:
15% Midweek discount, from Monday to Thursday
25% Weekend discount, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Special rates: Midweek - 1 pax: USD 148 and 2 pax: USD 187; Weekend - 1 pax: USD 132 and 2 pax: USD 165
Discount bookable on www.clhg.com and direct with the hotel quoting promocode NOWOPEN
Standard room rates, not on special, are: 1 pax: USD 175 and 2 pax: USD 220.
The newest hotel in the Group is located on the corner of Magore and Vijibweni Street in Upanga, 13km by road from Julius Nyerere International Airport and close to the city centre, embassies, Aura Mall, Botanical Garden, National Museum and other cultural and social points of interest.
The hotel features three boardrooms, with Boardroom 1 accommodating up to 18 pax and Boardrooms 2 and 3 up to 10 pax each (these rooms open into one space). City Lodge Hotel Group's own brand #Café restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and light evening meals and there is a sundowner bar and swimming pool for outdoor relaxation. The hotel has wireless Internet access, a fitness room and 24-hour reception and check-in services.
Rooms are spacious and air-conditioned, with queen or twin beds and one suite with an interleading room. Interleading rooms are available. Five rooms are equipped to meet the needs of guests with reduced physical ability. Other in room features include: television with selected DStv channels, bathroom with shower (bath in selected rooms), tea and coffee making facilities, electronic safe large enough to fit a laptop, and a desk with lighting and plugs for easy connectivity.
The City Lodge Hotel Group has grown its footprint in Africa considerably, having opened 147-room Town Lodge Windhoek in Namibia; 104-room Town Lodge Gaborone in Botswana; and 171-room City Lodge Hotel at Two Rivers, Nairobi in Kenya in 2018. These add to the Group's existing properties in Kenya, the 84-room Town Lodge Upper Hill, Nairobi and the 120-room Fairview Hotel, Nairobi. Construction is underway on the 148-room City Lodge Hotel Maputo in Mozambique, expected to open in 2019.
In South Africa, construction is underway on the 154-room Town Lodge Umhlanga Ridge in KwaZulu-Natal and City Lodge Hotel at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg recently added on 62 additional rooms. Once the new hotels are fully operational, the group will offer 7,902 rooms at 62 hotels in six countries in East Africa and Southern Africa.
CEO Andrew Widegger says, "By obtaining a detailed understanding of our continent, we will be able to introduce the same quality product our guests have grown to love in South Africa to other African countries."
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This SPEC Kit explores research libraries' participation in institutional efforts to train faculty, staff, students, and other researchers in the principles of responsible conduct of research (RCR) and ethical research practices. The survey includes questions on the institution's training activities, on training roles currently undertaken by librarians, and on librarians' willingness to expand instruction into the arena of responsible conduct of research.
The SPEC Kit includes examples of RCR websites, citation management guides, and RCR workshop and tutorial materials, and information about academic integrity and plagiarism, using copyrighted materials, data management, and research animal welfare.
Leonard, Michelle, and Denise Beaubien Bennett. Responsible Conduct of Research Training. SPEC Kit 336. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, September 2013.


The battle between interior decorating professionals and average Joes everywhere has come to a bitter, bitter end. Decorators, utterly spent from fighting the good fight, have retracted their ban on televisions being gloriously mounted above a flickering fireplace.
The New World Order did not come without some serious contemplation — and perhaps a little heartbreak. In the end, their reasoning was pretty straightforward: Aesthetic principals mandate that whenever a fireplace is present (yes, even in Florida), it should be the focal point of the room. Reality requires the same of the television set.
Alas, it was a conundrum with only one clear solution. Now, it's all about making this new age look cohesive.
Some of Bryant's most trusted tricks for perfecting a mantel design involve blending unexpected textures in small groupings to create interest. A bit of sheen here, a rustic, blackened bronze or wrought iron trinket there, and the style is complete.
A word of caution, though: One thing design enthusiasts aren't ready to give up on just yet is their general disapproval for tiny, personal photographs cluttering up an otherwise impressive mantelpiece. Instead of placing framed photos above the fireplace, consider giving them their own special designated gallery wall or viewing table so they can be properly admired.


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Couples retreats are common along the coastal areas and several luxury hotels offer "pet packages" for those who choose to bring their pups. Sample local beer at one of the many breweries located throughout the state, many of which offer behind-the-scenes tours, along with dozens and dozens of fine wineries as well. Stay in a cabin where Wi-Fi signals are nil or enjoy a modern urban hotel with dozens of fine restaurants, trendy bars and cultural landmarks within walking distance.
Beyond offering a glimpse into ancient history, Jordan is also making a name for itself as a luxury destination. Hilton opened the Dead Sea Resort & Spa in March 2017, making it the first Hilton in the country. Located at the lowest point on earth, some 1,345 feet below sea level, the resort offers beach access, Middle Eastern cuisine, and treatments containing the mineral-rich black mud. —Jess McHugh
Those who think they've seen and done it all in the Bahamas should think again. Baha Mar, the multibillion dollar hotel and casino development on Nassau's Cable Beach, will be fully up and running when Rosewood resorts launches there this spring. (Baha Mar's Grand Hyatt and SLS properties are already drawing visitors with their sophisticated, contemporary rooms.) On neighboring Paradise Island, the iconic Ocean Club resort is under new management with Four Seasons. And at Atlantis, the adults-focused Cove resort now has an outpost of Sip Sip restaurant, Julie Lightbourn's Harbour Island favorite, while the family-friendly Coral Towers debuted a new lobby, guest rooms, and pool courtesy of star hotel designer Jeffrey Beers. And T+L's World's Best winner Kamalame Cay has added stylish beach bungalows — stand-alone suites that start at a whopping 450 square feet and feature private verandas and outdoor showers. —Jacqueline Gifford
The Big Easy turns the Big 3-0-0 this year, and in this city where the good times roll, the parties will be epic — think citywide art shows, supersized Mardi Gras parades, and a festival of lights using landmark buildings as backdrops. Thirteen years after Hurricane Katrina, there is much to celebrate: The Central Business District, once a dead zone after dark, now crackles at all hours thanks to four new hotels (the Ace, Troubadour, Catahoula, and NOPSI), each with its own rooftop bar. The neighborhood is also home to new restaurants like Maypop — a Vietnamese-Creole joint from acclaimed chef Michael Gulotta. Another area coming to life is the three-mile riverfront, where a renovated Spanish Plaza will reopen this spring. More riverfront updates, including a new Four Seasons Hotel, will roll out in the next few years. Toast the tricentennial at the Sazerac House, a French Quarter museum dedicated to the official cocktail of New Orleans, opening later this year. —Allison Entrekin
The Quisby $50+ Wyndham Garden Hotel Baronne Plaza $93+ The Whitney Hotel $99+ B on Canal $106+ Pelham Hotel New Orleans, La $116+ International House Hotel $118+ Royal St. Charles French Quarter/Downtown $119+ Royal Crescent Hotel $120+ Holiday Inn New Orleans-Downtown Superdome $122+ Chateau Hotel $122+ Holiday Inn Express New Orleans - St Charles $122+ Wyndham New Orleans - French Quarter $126+ French Market Inn $136+ Bienville House $141+
The logo of the red umbrella was created in 1870 when it appeared in a newspaper ad for the young insurance company. It was revived in the early 1960s, when it was given its signature red color by Harry W. Knettell, then the account executive for The Travelers and Vice President at the Charles Brunelle advertising agency. During the late 1960s Charles Brunelle was the largest advertising agency in Hartford, a city known as "the insurance capital of the world" due to the many insurance companies in that town. The Travelers was one of their many insurance company clients.[44][better source needed]
Certain that his team erased his memory of the previous day, MacLaren retraces his steps in the case of a disturbed youth with a horrific future. The future is changed due to his positive impact on the boy. Jeff, confronting the Travelers with his knowledge of their existence, is overwritten by a new Traveler. Grace grants the predecessor of the Director, an AI called Elsa, access to the Internet so MacLaren and his team can use it to find Traveler 001.


Calgary/Fraser Valley – Kinder Morgan Canada Limited announced that it is suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. KML also announced that under current circumstances, specifically including the continued actions in opposition to the Project by the Province of British Columbia, it will not commit additional shareholder resources to the Project. However, KML will consult with various stakeholders in an effort to reach agreements by May 31st that may allow the Project to proceed. The focus in those consultations will be on two principles: clarity on the path forward, particularly with respect to the ability to construct through BC; and, adequate protection of KML shareholders.
"As KML has repeatedly stated, we will be judicious in our use of shareholder funds. In keeping with that commitment, we have determined that in the current environment, we will not put KML shareholders at risk on the remaining project spend," said KML Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Kean. The Project has the support of the Federal Government and the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan but faces continued active opposition from the government of British Columbia. "A company cannot resolve differences between governments. While we have succeeded in all legal challenges to date, a company cannot litigate its way to an in-service pipeline amidst jurisdictional differences between governments," added Kean.
"The Government of Canada believes that the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline is in our national interest, which is why we approved the project and why we continue to stand by our decision.
This crucial resource project will expand export markets for Canadian resources and create thousands of good, middle class jobs and no one should be standing in the way of those jobs and the families that stand to benefit.
The Government of Canada calls on Premier Horgan and the B.C. government to end all threats of delay to the Trans Mountain Expansion. His government's actions stand to harm the entire Canadian economy. At a time of great global trade uncertainty, the importance of Canada's role in the global energy market is bigger than individual projects and provinces.
We will act in Canada's national interest to see that this project is built. Our government's approach to resource development will grow our economy and protect the environment. These are not competing interests, they are shared priorities. We have the responsibility to ensure the stability and growth of the Canadian economy and to get our resources to market, and British Columbia shares in this responsibility.
Our government stands behind this project and has the jurisdiction in this matter. Under Canadian constitutional law, this is well-established and clear and has been reaffirmed by multiple courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
On Kinder Morgan's decision to suspend non-essential spending on the Trans Mountain expansion project.
"British Columbians expect their government to stand up for their interests and our coast, and to do everything we can to protect our land and waters, our coastal communities and our local economies.
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Q: Why is ThreadPool slower than Process Pool on pandas read_pickle? I have measured the performance of a parallel read_pickle() execution on a Linux machine with 12 cores and Python 3.6 interpreter (code launched in JupyterLab). I simply open many pickled dataframes:
import pandas as pd

def my_read(filename):
    df = pd.read_pickle(path + filename)
    print(filename, df.shape)
    return df.iloc[:1, :]

files = ... # array of file names of about 130 pickled 1 000 000 x 43 dataframes

Since this is an IO-bound operation rather than a CPU-bound one, I would expect the threaded solution to win over the process-based one.
However, this cell:
%%time
from multiprocessing import Pool
with Pool(10) as pool:
    pool.map(my_read, files)

gave
CPU times: user 416 ms, sys: 267 ms, total: 683 ms
Wall time: 3min 37s

while this one:
from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
with ThreadPool(10) as tpool:
    tpool.map(my_read, files)

run in
user 7min 28s, sys: 1min 58s, total: 9min 27s
 Wall time: 10min 25s

Why?

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Q: How to make PHP mail() function work like cPanel on Plesk So I have been using cPanel to administer my sites for quite a while, but have recently moved my sites onto a VPS running Plesk 11.5.30.
I have contact forms on these sites that use the PHP mail() function, but since the move they don't get delivered with no errors. All the contact forms are sent to an external email address which resides on a different server. Also the from address is set to be the email address of the person that filled out the form.
Here is a simple example of what I am trying to do:
mail( "email@anotherdomain.com","Test Email","Test Message","From: <customer@domain.com>");
So basically I want to use the PHP mail() function to send emails to an external domain and set them to come from the submitter's email address. This had been working fine on the cPanel server, but Plesk doesn't seem to like it.
Some of the sites do use the server for mail and some use external services.
I have searched for a while and cannot find a similar situation, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
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I have read the duplicate question and I have followed all of those steps. I would like to hear from someone who has been the the same situation (moved to a Plesk and their mail() function stops working), or knows what my issue is.

A: Check the function first:
    if ( function_exists( 'mail' ) )
{
    echo 'mail() is available';
}
else
{
    echo 'mail() has been disabled';
}

It's likely to be your apache or smtp settings have changed OR mail in php is disabled


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Virginia Lee Madsen, 84, of Morris, Ill., passed away Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, at home.
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Janet Adelaide (Wolf) Carmack was born in 1919 to Louis A. and Cora (Pretorius) Wolf on a small farm outside of Urbana, where she lived until graduating from Urbana High School in 1937. After graduation, she attended business school in Fort Wayne. Home for a visit, she was about town when she caught the eye of a tall, handsome, young man, Robert P. "Bob" Carmack, from Peru, who was cruising around town with a friend. He told the friend, who happened to be her cousin, he had to meet her. Married in 1941, they enjoyed 59 wonderful years together, ever devoted to each other and their two sons, Steve and Mike.
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When William Waite died, after a life steeped in black magic, his family thought the terror was over. Two years later, all the people close to him begin to suffer from mysterious illnesses, including the loss of a baby. His youngest, Brandon Waite, desperate to protect his family, digs into his dead father's bag of tricks. But his desire to protect his loved ones forces him to cover up his own tentative steps into witchcraft, leading him to mix deception with demon conjuration, and isolating himself in a terrible world where his soul hangs in the balance. The townspeople he grew up with have always known there's something wrong with the Waite family, and their worst fears are proven true in a fiery climax on town hill, when the devil returns to New England. Includes the four-issue miniseries in addition to previously unpublished stories and behind-the-scenes art.
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Iranians: 1 Student Dead in Protest
AFSHIN VALINEJADJuly 17, 1999 GMT
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) _ One student died in Iran's recent pro-democracy protests and about 1,400 people were arrested, student leaders said Saturday in their first estimate of how many demonstrators were detained.
The announcement by the Council of Student Protesters could raise the official death toll in the protests to three. The students did not provide further information on the latest reported death.
Authorities have said that only two people, a soldier and a cleric, were killed in the unrest.
The students did not say how they arrived at their count of 1,400 arrests, and the government has not provided figures.
The unrest began when police stormed a Tehran University dormitory on July 8, hours after students rallied against the banning of a liberal newspaper. One person was killed and 20 were injured in the clash, which hard-line clerics apparently backed.
The next day thousands of students protested in the streets of Tehran, and within days the demonstrations swelled and spread to eight other cities. Riot police began cracking down on July 12.
The protests highlighted the struggle between reformists in the government, led by President Mohammad Khatami, and the conservatives who control the police, judiciary and broadcast media.
The student council said Saturday it planned to meet with the Supreme National Security Council, which is headed by Khatami. The students did not say when they would meet.
Also Saturday, the reformist newspaper Neshat reported that police had detained three dissidents, identified as Khosrow Seif, Behzad Namazi and Mehran Mirabdolbaghi.
They belong to the small Iran Nation Party, whose leader, Dariush Foruhar, and his wife were stabbed to death in their home late last year. The authorities have arrested rogue Intelligence Ministry agents in the killings.
In a separate statement, the student council reiterated its demand for the resignation of the national police chief, Hedayat Lotfian, whom they blame for the raid on the hostel.
A leading conservative body, the Association of Qom Seminary Theologians, called on the government Saturday to seek out the ``revengeful enemies″ behind the protests.
The clerics thanked Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for quelling the unrest which was ``about to become a national catastrophe,″ the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.


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News New Audi A8 luxury car unveiled
A rival for the likes of the Mercedes S-Class and BMW 7 Series, the new A8 is more spacious than its predecessor, and comes packed with some impressive new technology.
Fourth generation of Audi's biggest saloon
Longer than previous model, with more space inside
On sale in September, with first deliveries late this year
These are the first pictures of the all-new Audi A8. The company's largest saloon will go on sale later this year, bringing more space, luxury and technology than its predecessor.
At 5.17 metres long, the new A8 is almost exactly the same length as its major rivals, the Mercedes S-Class, BMW 7 Series and Jaguar XJ. Like them, it will be available in both standard and long-wheelbase forms, the latter increasing the distance between the front and rear wheels by 13cm to give even more space in the rear seats.
The front end of the new car is dominated by its large grille and the company's LED headlights with laser lighting, while the rear has an LED light strip running across the full width of the car.
Inside, the new A8 will provide even more space than its predecessor, and the long-wheelbase version has the option of a 'relaxation seat' in the rear. Not only does it incorporate a footrest, there is also a unit built into the back of the front seats that can massage or warm the soles of the rear seat passenger's feet.
In addition, passengers in the back can control the ambient lighting, the reading lights and seat massage, as well as making private phone calls through a separate unit. The remote control, with its smartphone-sized display, is a removable unit housed in the centre armrest.
In the front, the A8's infotainment system is operated by a new system based around a 10.1-inch touch-screen. When it's turned off, its screen fades to black, meaning it blends almost invisibly with the black material that houses it in the dashboard. It works in conjunction with not only a second touch-screen display on the transmission tunnel that controls the air-conditioning system, but also a voice control.
Technology is a major feature of the new A8, and Audi says this is the company's first car to have been developed for highly automated driving. So, among the features available is Traffic Jam Pilot, which can take charge of driving in traffic at speeds up to 37mph, controlling the accelerator, brakes and steering.
Beyond that, the car can also park itself through the remote parking pilot and remote garage pilot systems. The manoeuvre can be started by the driver – who doesn't need to be sitting in the car – via an app, and they can watch a live stream from the car's 360-degree cameras of the car doing its thing on their smartphone.
Every model comes with Audi's quattro four-wheel drive system, but four-wheel steering and a fully active suspension are also available. So, depending on the speed the car is travelling at, the rear wheels are turned either in the same or the opposite direction as the front wheels. That means the car combines easy low-speed manoeuvrability with more dynamic handling and great stability at higher speeds.
Beyond that, the height of each wheel can be controlled electronically, allowing the car to deliver smooth ride comfort or sharp handling, depending on what the driver wants.
Eventually, A8 buyers will have a choice of five engines, but the first cars to arrive will be powered by a pair of turbocharged 3.0-litre engines, one petrol, the other diesel. They will be followed in due course by a 4.0-litre V8 diesel and a 6.0-litre W12 petrol engine in the most expensive model, as well as an e-tron hybrid model that combines a 3.0-litre petrol engine with an electric motor, which gives up to 31 miles of driving on electric power alone.
As yet, there's no word on how much the new A8 will cost, but we would expect the range to start from somewhere around £70,000. All Audi has confirmed so far is that order books will open in September, with first deliveries expected late this year.
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January 19, 2021 | Seafood exporters hit by Brexit get up to £100,000
Amazon has announced its investment in 26 new utility-scale renewable projects totalling 3.4 gigawatts (GW) of energy capacity around the world, including the major Scottish onshore wind project at Kennoxhead, South Lanarkshire.
The company said Amazon Wind Farm UK at Kennoxhead is the largest single site corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) in the UK.
It will be completed over two phases in 2022 and 2024 and produce 129 MW of energy once operational.
Kennoxhead is Amazon's second CPPA in the UK, the first being the Kintyre Peninsula in Scotland in October 2019.
Amazon said the 26 new projects will make it the largest-ever corporate purchaser of renewable energy.
"These projects will supply renewable energy for Amazon's corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers that support millions of customers globally," said Amazon.
"They will also help advance Amazon's goal to be net-zero carbon emissions across its business by 2040.
"Part of that commitment is powering Amazon's infrastructure with 100% renewable energy, and the company is now on a path to achieve this milestone by 2025, five years ahead of the initial 2030 target."
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, said: "Amazon is helping fight climate change by moving quickly to power our businesses with renewable energy.
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The 26 new wind and solar projects are located in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the US.
Miranda Ballentine, CEO of Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), said: "Private sector investment is essential to scaling renewable energy at the pace necessary to drive global climate action.
"The U.S.-based projects alone make Amazon's announcement 270% larger than the largest corporate procurement announcement from a single off-taker to date, and showcase the company's leadership and commitment to a clean and prosperous energy future."
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Tag: cognitive dissonance
How Do Anti-Vaccine Folks Respond to New Information?
Ever wonder why most anti-vaccine folks don't change their mind and get their kids vaccinated and protected when they "do their research" and "get educated" about vaccines?
You would think that they would, considering that anti-vaccine talking points are all based on myths and misinformation.
While some do change their mind, even before they are faced with an outbreak or their child getting sick, the biggest reason that others don't is that they are stuck in an echo-chamber of like-minded folks.
This discussion is a good example of how this works.
The original poster wasn't aware that measles was on the rise all over the world and that people are dying.
How do you respond to the fact that people are dying of measles?
So do they understand that reason behind the deaths is because those folks were unvaccinated?
Why didn't "extreme poverty, poor nutrition, and a lack of sanitation" cause more measles deaths in Ukraine, Philippines, and Brazil before now?
It's always the vaccine with these folks…
It is anything and everything except that they weren't vaccinated!
According to whom? You can actually go to the national health sites for each of these countries and find the data for yourself, if you were really interested in doing research.
And that they aren't in America!
That's not America… yet. Our measles cases are rising though and sooner or later we will start seeing measles deaths.
So what's wrong with their thinking?
To start, these countries aren't underdeveloped!
Brazil and the Philippines are newly industrialized countries and while Ukraine is considered a developing country, it is hardly the developing country without sanitation and nutrition that these folks make it out to be.
The problem in all of these countries isn't a lack of nutrition, clean water, or health care. It is that too many folks are unvaccinated!
That becomes easier to see when you look at where else we are seeing a lot of measles deaths – the rest of Europe.
In the past 12 months, there have been 22 deaths from measles in Romania, Italy, France, and Greece.
Are folks in Italy suffering from malnutrition? Do they not have clean water?
There have been 64 deaths in Romania since there outbreaks started a few years ago.
Although Romania is a developing country, it isn't a lack of clean water and sanitation that is causing measles deaths. It is that too many people in Romania are unvaccinated!
And too many people are listening to anti-vaccine propaganda.
Vaccines are safe, with few risks, and are obviously necessary.
More on How Anti-Vaccine Folks Respond to New Information
VAXOPEDIA – 10 Reasons You Aren't Vaccinating Your Kids
VAXOPEDIA – When Was the Last Measles Death in the United States?
VAXOPEDIA – More About Measles Deaths in the United States
VAXOPEDIA – Who Dies with Measles?
VAXOPEDIA – But Did Anyone Die?
VAXOPEDIA – Did the Measles Vaccine Have Only a Meager Effect on Deaths
VAXOPEDIA – Did Better Hygiene and Sanitation Get Rid of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases?
ECDC – Monthly measles and rubella monitoring report, May 2019
Italy – Measles & Rubella News: the measles-rubella integrated surveillance bulletin
How to stop the outbreak of measles in Ukraine
The Story Behind The Worst Measles Outbreak In The European Union
UNICEF-WHO Philippines: Measles Outbreak, Situation Report 10, 1 May 2019
The intellectual dishonesty of the "vaccines didn't save us" gambit
Vaccines saved lives – scientific evidence
WHO – Vaccination greatly reduces disease, disability, death and inequity worldwide
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Why Are Anti-Vaccine Folks Panicking over the Measles Outbreaks?
Do you sense something in the air?
No, it's not measles.
Ever notice that it is folks who don't vaccinate who use words like epidemic and panic whenever we have large measles outbreaks?
It is talk of panic about measles.
I'm not panicking.
I am definitively concerned about these outbreaks, because I understand that they put a lot of folks at unnecessary risk for getting a life-threatening disease. And I understand that these outbreaks are getting harder and harder to control, but ultimately, since more and more people get vaccinated during an outbreak, they will eventually end.
So why are anti-vaccine folks panicking?
Yes, your immune system gets to a whole new level after a natural measles infection – it resets.
It's easier to be anti-vaccine and leave your kids unvaccinated and unprotected when you don't think that you are taking much of a risk.
You likely still know it's wrong, so cognitive dissonance pushes you to believe that vaccines don't work, vaccine-preventable diseases aren't that bad, vaccines are full of poison, or that you can just hide in the herd.
It gets much harder during an outbreak, when you realize that it is almost all intentionally unvaccinated kids getting sick. And typically an intentionally unvaccinated child or adult who starts the outbreak.
Why wait until an outbreak starts to get your kids vaccinated and protected or to start recommending that your patients be vaccinated and protected?
Is my child going to start an outbreak?
If measles is so mild, why do so many of these folks go to the ER multiple times and why do some of them get hospitalized. Why do people still die with measles?
Full Stop! Someone did die during the 2015 measles outbreaks in Washington.
That's when the panic starts to set in.
Are you really doing what's right for your child?
Who are these people I'm getting advice from and what's their motivation?
The only "mass hysteria" is in anti-vaccine Facebook groups. Is Larry Cook using it to raise money for himself?
Am I really supposed to skip my kid's MMR because they did a Brady Bunch episode about all of the Brady kids getting measles?
Will I regret not vaccinating my child?
Why don't any of the people in my Facebook groups who talk about how marvelous measles used to be in the old days talk about how they called it a "harmless killer?"
Of course, there is an easy way to stop worrying and panicking about measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases – get your kids vaccinated and protected. Vaccines are safe and necessary.
More on Measles Panic
VAXOPEDIA – Are You on the Fence About Vaccines?
VAXOPEDIA – Anti-Vaccine Points Refuted A Thousand Times
VAXOPEDIA – Anti-Vaxxers Should Be Able to Answer These Questions Correctly
VAXOPEDIA – How Do Anti-Vaccine Folks Think?
VAXOPEDIA – Dear Anti-Vaxxers,
VAXOPEDIA – This Is the Modern Anti-Vaccine Movement
VAXOPEDIA – The Moral Outrage of the Anti-Vaccine Movement
VAXOPEDIA – Answers To Frequently Asked Questions About Immunizations
VAXOPEDIA – 100 Myths About Vaccines
VAXOPEDIA – Answers to Anti-Vaccine Talking Points
VAXOPEDIA – 50 Ways to Get Educated About Vaccines
VAXOPEDIA – Why Do We Only Worry About Measles?
VAXOPEDIA – Can MMR Shedding Start a Measles Outbreak?
VAXOPEDIA – What to Do If Your Child Is Exposed to Measles
VAXOPEDIA – The Pacific Northwest Measles Outbreak of 2019
VAXOPEDIA – News on the Latest Measles Outbreaks of 2019
To the Parent of the Unvaccinated Child Who Exposed my Family to Measles
One more time: Vaccine refusal endangers everyone, not just the unvaccinated
Meryls Marvellous Measles
The Disneyland measles outbreak: "Dr. Bob" Sears says measles isn't that bad, and an antivaccine activist invokes the Brady Bunch fallacy
Disneyland Measles Outbreak Hubbub
The Roots of the Vaccine Panic
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Making Sense of Anti-Vaccine Arguments
Have you ever tried to understand or make sense out of the things anti-vaccine folks say?
Consider what a group of anti-vaccine folks did with the above post about a child with severe complications to a chicken pox infection…
It's always a vaccine injury…
What are some of the big complications of chicken pox infections? Complications that help make chicken pox deadly?
That's right, secondary skin and soft tissue bacterial infections (cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis). In fact, bacterial super-infections of the skin are the most common complication of chicken pox infections.
"Necrotizing fasciitis can lead to sepsis, shock, and organ failure. It can also result in life-long complications from loss of limbs or severe scarring due to surgically removing infected tissue. Even with treatment, up to 1 in 3 people with necrotizing fasciitis die from the infection."
Necrotizing Fasciitis: All You Need to Know
No, chicken pox is not necrotizing fasciitis, but all of the breaks in the skin from chicken pox lesions give bacteria, including group A Streptococcus (group A strep) and Staphylococcus aureus, plenty of opportunities to enter a child's body and quickly spread.
No one in the Netherlands dies with chicken pox???
We often hear that chicken pox isn't serious in other countries that don't routinely use the chicken pox vaccine. Don't believe them.
On average, about two young children die in the Netherlands each year due to chicken pox.
"Based on the results presented in this study we estimate that between 3 to 8% of all Dutch patients with varicella, depending on age, consult a GP due to a complication. Our findings are similar to data from Germany, France and the United States of America, were it is estimated that in approximately 2 to 6% of cases attending a general practice. Furthermore of these varicella patients 1.7% experiences complications severe enough to seek hospital care."
Pierik et al on Epidemiological characteristics and societal burden of varicella zoster virus in the Netherlands
And folks in the Netherlands have similar rates of complications as we did in the United States in the pre-vaccine era and many are hospitalized.
Do you understand what's happening in these comments? When folks choose to skip or delay their child's vaccines, they will work hard to justify their decision.
Escaping cognitive dissonance explains a lot of anti-vaccine arguments.
That's not surprising.
"the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change."
cognitive dissonance definition
If you aren't going to vaccinate your kids, do you want to think that you are leaving them at risk for such a serious complication, even if it is rare, or will you make up reasons for why the story can't possibly be true?
Now these folks become skeptics?
Sure, these folks believe every vaccine injury story on Facebook without any proof, but all of a sudden they all become skeptics when faced with a story highlighting the known complications of a vaccine-preventable disease.
That's the modern anti-vaccine movement.
More on Making Sense of Anti-Vaccine Arguments
VAXOPEDIA – Who Dies from Chicken Pox?
VAXOPEDIA – 10 Myths About Chicken Pox and the Chicken Pox Vaccine
VAXOPEDIA – Believe It or Not, Chicken Pox Parties Are Still a Thing
VAXOPEDIA – Is the Chicken Pox Vaccine Creating a Shingles Epidemic?
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Dissonance
Why It's Hard to Admit to Being Wrong
Cognitive Dissonance Helps Explain Why We Hate To Hear The Truth
"There must be a reason," or how we support our own false beliefs
CDC – Chickenpox Can Be Serious
CDC – Necrotizing Fasciitis: All You Need to Know
Early diagnosis of post-varicella necrotising fasciitis: A medical and surgical emergency
Necrotizing fasciitis secondary to chickenpox infection in children
Necrotizing fasciitis in an infant secondary to varicella zoster infection
Necrotizing fasciitis – A possible fatal varicella complication
Post-varicella epiglottitis and necrotizing fasciitis.
A case-control study of necrotizing fasciitis during primary varicella.
Necrotizing fasciitis as a complication of chickenpox.
Periorbital varicella gangrenosa: A rare complication of chicken pox.
Periorbital Varicella Gangrenosa.
Study – The epidemiology of varicella and herpes zoster in The Netherlands: implications for varicella zoster virus vaccination.
Study – Epidemiological characteristics and societal burden of varicella zoster virus in the Netherlands
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Where Are the Latest Chickenpox Outbreaks?
Breaking News – 32 cases at a school in Northern Kentucky (see below)
Chicken pox is a now vaccine-preventable disease thanks to the chicken pox vaccine that was first licensed in 1995.
Despite being added to the childhood immunization schedule in 1996, and the addition of a booster dose in 2007, we do continue to see occasional outbreaks of chicken pox.
Although chicken pox is said to have been a rite of passage for kids, it was never something that any of us looked forward to.
At best, you had five to seven days of fever and an itchy rash that covered your body.
"My life changed forever on June 30, 1988, when I had to stand by helplessly as an infectious disease claimed the life of my oldest child, Christopher Aaron Chinnes, at the age of 12."
Rebecca Cole on Chickenpox Claimed the Life of My Son Christopher
But of course, some people had much more severe cases of chicken pox and some people died.
Chicken Pox Outbreaks
In the pre-vaccine era, before the mid-1990s, most kids got chicken pox.
And chicken pox parties, while not as common as some folks imagine, were definitely a thing, because you didn't want your child to become an adult and get chicken pox, when it was more dangerous. But since most kids got chicken pox so easily, most got it when they were kids, even without a chicken pox parties, and tragically, many learned that it wasn't only dangerous to adults.
Why are we still seeing clusters of chicken pox in schools when a safe and effective vaccine is readily available?
These days, most cases and outbreaks of chicken pox are in unvaccinated children and adults.
32 cases at the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and Assumption Academy in Walton, Kentucky leading to the quarantine of all unvaccinated students (March 2019)
7 new cases in the outbreak associated with the Asheville Waldorf School in West Asheville, North Carolina, bringing the case count to 41 in that outbreak, including 4 cases in the community as the outbreak continues to spread (Nov 2018)
6 new cases at the Asheville Waldorf School in West Asheville, North Carolina, bringing the case count to 34 in that outbreak (Nov 2018)
several students at Hoquiam High School in Hoquiam, Washington (Nov 2018)
at least 28 cases at Asheville Waldorf School in West Asheville, North Carolina (Nov 2018)
at least 5 cases at Daybreak Primary School in Battle Ground in Clark County, Washington, leading to quarantine of at least 38 unvaccinated students who will be kept out of class for at least 21 days (Oct 2018)
at least 5 cases at two schools in Ottawa County, Michigan, including Waukazoo Elementary and Kids First – Early Childhood Center in Jenison, leading to the quarantine of at least 34 children (Oct 2018)
a cluster of chicken pox cases in Grant County, Washington at Park Orchard Elementary, North Elementary and Longview Elementary schools (Sept 2018)
at least 5 cases at the The Little Red School House Too daycare in Westbrook, Maine (May 2016)
These cases are just the tip of the iceberg though, as there are still about 7,000 to 10,000 chickenpox cases reported in the United States each year. And that's with some states, like Oregon and Washington, not reporting cases of this Nationally Notifiable Condition to the CDC.
Cognitive dissonance helps explain how these folks try to explain that chicken pox isn't dangerous.
Still, since chicken pox caused a few hundred deaths and at least 10,000 hospitalizations each year less than twenty-five years ago, that's a lot of progress.
Getting Chicken Pox
How do you get chicken pox?
Since it is very contagious, if your child is exposed to someone with chicken pox or shingles, then they might develop chicken pox in about 10 to 21 days (incubation period).
Of course, if they vaccinated and protected, then they probably won't, although mild, breakthrough chicken pox infections are still possible in vaccinated kids.
Their risk is higher if they:
are unvaccinated, either intentionally, because they have a true medical exemption, or because they are too young for the vaccine, which is first given when kids are 12-months-old
are partially vaccinated, with only one dose of the chicken pox vaccine
have a problem with their immune system, including kids getting chemotherapy
In addition to being at risk for chicken pox, non-immune pregnant women, newborns born to women who develop chicken pox at around the time of delivery, premature babies, and those are immunocompromised can be at risk for severe disease.
Avoiding Chicken Pox
Want to avoid chicken pox and the chance of ending up in a chicken pox quarantine and having to stay out of school for 3 weeks or more?
Get your kids vaccinated.
That's not an option for some kids with true medical exemptions though, including most kids who are immunocompromised. When they get caught up in one of these outbreaks and get exposed to chicken pox, it becomes a matter of life and death to work to try and prevent their getting chicken pox.
More on Chicken Pox Outbreaks
CDC – Monitoring the Impact of Varicella Vaccination
CDC – Managing People at Risk for Severe Varicella
CDC – Strategies for the Control and Investigation of Varicella Outbreaks Manual, 2008
Ask the Experts About Chicken Pox
CDC – Chicken Pox Outbreaks
WHO – Varicella
Chickenpox Claimed the Life of My Son Christopher
Once a Childhood Rite of Passage, Chickenpox is Vaccine Preventable
Stroke: An underappreciated complication of chickenpox that we should never see
Five Varicella Deaths That Could Have Been Prevented
MMWR – Notes from the Field: Varicella-Associated Death of a Vaccinated Child with Leukemia — California, 2012
MMWR – Varicella Death of an Unvaccinated, Previously Healthy Adolescent — Ohio, 2009
MMWR – Epidemiology of Varicella During the 2-Dose Varicella Vaccination Program — United States, 2005–2014
Study – Varicella Outbreak Surveillance in the United States, 2015–2016
Study – Trends in varicella mortality in the United States: Data from vital statistics and the national surveillance system.
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Q: COM, return a DATE information I need to return from a COM server a date information. I saw the DATE type in IDL which in C/C++ was mapped to a double type. When I return the date I would convert internally from SYSTEMTIME to double in order to match the required output type like this:
... comIFaceMethod(DATE* result)

{
SYSTEMTIME computed;
::SystemTimeToVariantTime(&computed, result);
}

Is this the correct way of transfering a date information through COM ? I ask this because this kind of works but I also see some strange results sometimes and don't know the reason. My last alternative would be to define my own SYSTEMTIME struct in COM to transfer results but I would prefer a better solution...
In the example above I compute "computed" some place else and I also validate result from SystemTimeToVariantTime conversion

A: The code sample showed a correct way of transferring date information through COM.
"I ask this because this kind of works but I also see some strange results sometimes" - it works now.


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A little league baseball field is damaged after this week's severe storms.
Community members are banding together to help clean up the facility before the season begins. Meanwhile, the Seneca Athletic Board is allocating funds to begin the repairs immediately.
"Very urgent you know. We were already pushing time and now with this it's going to be even harder," says Blake Scribner, Athletic Club Vice President.
Seneca Athletic Board members are used to dealing with flooding damage on the baseball fields.
"We had a flood a couple years ago that took down mostly all of our fences and ruined the field, so we had to bring in dirt and we've filled in as much as we can and tried to replace all the dugouts … all the fences for the dugouts," says Blake Scribner.
Plans were already in the works to upgrade the little league dugouts. But with a recent severe storm, one of the dugouts suffered greatly from gusty winds.
"On the backside of the dugouts, their all … the fence is ripped up from the floods. All the dugouts need replaced .. where the kids sit the benches need to be replaced and that was our agenda, to start doing here in a couple weeks and then the winds came and blew the roof and blew down the little league dugout," says Scribner.
The coaches have now put up caution tape around the dugout because of the safety hazard and are beginning efforts to restore it to once again be a safe and fun place for kids.
"Oh I think it's very important. I mean you have to have safe dugouts for the kids to play in and good facilities. You know you want to be proud of what their playing on," says Chris Yust, Seneca High School Head Baseball Coach.
And now with baseball season fast approaching, the Seneca Athletic Board is asking for help.
"Every spring I mean we need as many volunteers as we can get to help, not only with you know things that have been damaged over the winter, but just clean up and get ready … field work maintenance for the season," says Chris Yust.
"It was just you know six, seven of us, eight guys down there on the weekend trying to get ready and taking time away from our families to get everything ready, but now everybody's trying to help out and get everything accomplished, so it's a good thing," says Blake Scribner.
Team drafts will begin in March, while the season starts in April.


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