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How to use boxing in your rugby training
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Boxing is a fantastic conditioning tool, writes Roy Headey, the RFU's Head of Sports Science.
It's physically demanding but because guys love doing it they don't realise just how hard they're working, and it can get their heart-rates high for sustained periods.
Like tackling in rugby, boxing is all about getting your feet in the right place to punch. It also requires full-body coordination, and your whole body is working while needing to perform explosive movements – as you would in a game.
George Groves, the Commonwealth Super-middleweight champion (right), has worked with the RFU to devise boxing techniques to help players.
Players can use boxing to get fired up on game day, and it's useful when you're coming back from injury and can't yet take part in full-contact sessions but want to train at intensity.
Do low-intensity, low-speed shadow boxing to warm up your trunk, hips and shoulders. Wear wraps to protect the backs of your hands and sparring gloves, where the thumb is stitched to the main part of the glove.
Here are some drills you can do at home:
180 – Two pad-holders will take it in turns to call out a combination of punches for the boxer, who stands in the middle, and has to spin 180° between them. This is hard physically and requires great concentration.
To make it harder, the pad-holders can stop calling out instructions and simply hold the pads out, so the boxer has to recognise which punches to do. To make it harder still, ask him questions about, say, lineout calls or moves at the same time.
Bullying – This makes the training more relevant to rugby, where you have to do a lot of grappling and driving. The boxer throws a set of punches at the pad-holder, and then has to drive him away before the next set of punches. You then swap, so the pad-holder does the driving. This is incredibly tiring, and good practice for when players have to get defenders off them.
Knock down – The boxer throws a set of punches, then quickly gets down on the floor and back up again. This prepares him for the fatigue that can hit you during a game.
Bag work – This won't develop your footwork but it's still exhausting. Great for anaerobic conditioning.
It will be more beneficial if you work on technique as well as punching as hard as you can. It's skills such as footwork and reaction times that will really make a difference to your rugby.
Commonwealth champion George Groves believes boxing can help rugby players because:
It's a different way of practising technique needed for footwork
In drills like 180 you have to get your feet into the correct position before you punch – as in a tackle
You have to think while in a state of exhaustion
This article appeared in the March 2011 issue of Rugby World Magazine.
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Maryland men's basketball knocks off No. 6 Wisconsin, 70-64, for first win over top-10 team since 2016
By Daniel Oyefusi
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Junior guard Eric Ayala scored all 17 of his points in the second half and junior guard Aaron Wiggins added 15 points as Maryland men's basketball beat No. 6 Wisconsin, 70-64, at Kohl Center in Madison on Monday night.
The win marks the Terps' first victory over a top-10 team since an upset of No. 3 Iowa on Jan. 28, 2016, and just the program's third such win since joining the Big Ten in 2014. The last time Maryland beat a top-10 team on the road was Jan. 19, 2008, when it upset No. 1 North Carolina, 82-80, in Chapel Hill. The Terps had lost 17 consecutive true road games against Associated Press top-10 teams entering Monday's game.
Maryland (6-3, 1-2 Big Ten) responded from a shooting slump that lasted from the 3:37 mark of the first half to the 16:14 mark of the second half — 11 straight missed shot attempts — to make nine straight field goals over almost seven minutes en route to picking up its first conference win of the season, and the first over a Power Five opponent. The victory also ended Wisconsin's 10-game conference winning streak.
The Terps shot 64% from the field in the second half and made 11 of their final 12 field-goal attempts.
After a 73-70 loss to Purdue on Christmas Day in which Maryland missed 11 of 21 free throws, the Terps made 12 of 15 from the free-throw line against Wisconsin (8-2, 2-1 Big Ten) and several late to hold off a late comeback bid.
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"We really grew in the last five days," Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. "A lot of meetings, a lot of just being together. And we were terrific in practice [Sunday] so you kind of knew our guys were going to compete. And we just made enough shots and enough free throws to pull this one out."
Wisconsin took a 20-17 lead with 5:30 left in the first half with a 6-0 run, prompting Turgeon to call a timeout. The Terps responded well afterward, with a dunk by senior guard Darryl Morsell (eight points) cutting the Badgers' lead to 25-24 with 3:37 remaining. But that slam would be the final field goal of the half for either team.
Maryland missed its final five field-goal attempts and went scoreless for the remainder of the first half. Wisconsin didn't score over the final 3:58 but a trio of made free throws by senior guard D'Mitrik Trice (game-high 25 points) gave the Badgers a 28-24 lead at halftime.
Both teams shot 10-for-27 from the field in the first half but Wisconsin made just five of 10 free throws. The Badgers missed seven of 15 for the entire game.
Maryland's offensive struggles continued into the second half, with a post layup from Ayala breaking the streak of 11 straight missed shots.
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"It was just a matter of us executing plays, making sure we were getting good looks," Wiggins said of the turnaround on offense. "At one point, we were just coming down and we were just shooting the first shot that we had open after guarding 25 seconds on the defensive end. It was just a matter of us getting good shots.
"There have been multiple times where our team, we might not be shooting the ball well but we're still able to go on a run eventually. Or we know that our time is coming because basketball is just a game of runs and when things aren't going our way, we know it's just a matter of time before things flip and we have a little run in us."
Out of the under-16 media timeout, with his team down 34-28, a savvy adjustment from Turgeon, switching from man-to-man to a full-court press and then 3-2 zone defense, sparked an 8-0 run. Wiggins intercepted a pass for a breakaway dunk to tie the game at 34 with 13:29 left.
"We knew we were going to play some 3-2 [zone]," Turgeon said. "We thought we could use it against this team, we've used it in the past and it was good for us. It kind of got a little bit [off-kilter] and then [Wisconsin forward Nate] Reuvers hit a couple from the high post. [The zone] kind of gave us confidence. It got our offense going because we got some easy ones."
A 3-pointer by junior forward Jairus Hamilton (nine points) gave Maryland a 54-52 lead with 5:09 remaining and the Terps led for the remainder of the game.
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After a 3-pointer by Trice, Maryland led 60-59 with 1:58 left. Two consecutive baskets by sophomore forward Donta Scott (12 points), including a strong two-handed dunk over multiple Wisconsin players, gave the Terps a 5-point lead with 57 seconds left and a string of free throws sealed an impressive win for a Maryland team that had lost three of its past four games.
"I was disappointed in the way we ended the Purdue game," Turgeon said. "I thought we were going to pull that one out. We weren't able to do it, but we're growing. We've gotten so much better since the Clemson game. We just get a little bit better every game, we get a little bit tougher and it finally came all together tonight."
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"We do not talk of such things". An Analyst Travels Through Japan to Consult on the Inter-generational Transmission of Trauma and Learns to Use Her Countertransference to Facilitate Helping a Population with Hidden Traumas.
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Mary Ann Chudy Levy, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine is now retired from her clinical practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy of child, adolescent, and adult patients, but remains active in professional and educational activities. She is a training and supervising analyst with the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and was the first woman to graduate from their program. She has enjoyed her many years as a teacher and supervisor of psychoanalytic candidates as well as psychiatric residents and other clinical specialists. As a past president of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society, she helped facilitate its response to the Columbine shooting disaster where the society members became involved in many aspects of out-reach and clinical support for survivors of that terrible community disaster. She has always been surprised by how much early childhood traumas have contributed to her work with patients and how little acknowledgement of this has been stressed in psychoanalytic training until recently. Scholarly interests have included femininity in psychoanalytic work, and countertransference as well as the treatment and long term effects of traumatic stress.
Dr. Levy was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and received her MD in 1964 from the University of Manitoba. She subsequently completed her psychiatric residencies in Adult and Child Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, followed by her Psychoanalytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis.


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• From the Editor's Desk, 21st Century Vinyl, by John Atkinson
• Expert Schmexpert, by Wes Phillips
• This Month's Audio URL, from Wes Phillips
by John Atkinson
A highlight of recent Home Entertainment Shows has been the Sunday afternoon "Analog Clinic" presented by Stereophile senior editor Michael Fremer. Michael, who writes about vinyl playback every month in his "Analog Corner" column, spends an hour showing Show attendees how to set up a turntable and how to optimize the tonearm geometry. To judge by the attendance at Home Entertainment 2006, held last month in Los Angeles, this is a popular subject these days.
It seemed a no-brainer, then, for Michael to produce a DVD covering the subject in even greater depth. 21st Century Vinyl is the result: On this almost three-hour, double-layer DVD, Michael Fremer sets up three popular turntables. Using close-ups, illustrations, animation, and straight talk, Fremer takes you from leveling the platter to spinning a record. Mikey "guarantees" that after watching the disc, even a totally inexperienced audiophile will be able to set up a turntable (though he recommends first attempting it with an "inexpensive" cartridge).
There's a chapter on selecting tools and even one that suggests the proper set-up mood. You will never confuse this often entertaining, sometimes funny, and always informative DVD with one of those cadaverous home theater set-up discs. Bonus features include: a "tour" of Sterling Sound mastering engineer George Marino's cutting lathe and a 20-page PDF containing more set-up tips and easy-to-understand explanations of fun stuff like tonearm mass vs cartridge compliance.
In his review for Home Theater magazine's website, Mark Fleischmann praised Mikey's DVD, concluding that 21st Century Vinyl is "a helpful bridge between the first flush of analog enthusiasm and a long-term survival strategy."
The information in 21st Century Vinyl will be found useful by veteran audiophiles and tyros alike. The DVD is available from the Stereophile website's secure "Recordings" page for $29.99 plus S&H.
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Expert, Schmexpert, by Wes Phillips
The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons.—Dr. David Butler
Are you someone's expert? I am—and not because I write audio reviews for Stereophile. It's because I "know about that stuff," whatever that stuff might be. You're probably someone who knows about that stuff, too. There are a lot of us around.
Here's my real question: When people ask you your "expert" opinion, do they actually take your advice?
Mine neither.
I remember the first time someone asked my advice on a hi-fi question. I was working at a record store and had painstakingly constructed a nice starter audiophile system: a fairly good turntable, a slightly long-in-the-tooth tube preamp, a classic tube amp, and a pair of compact, British, stand-mounted monitors. You, as a fellow expert, would recognize it as a lovingly matched system that pitted my champagne tastes against the ineluctable realities of a record clerk's salary.
To my friends, it was "that stuff." Which is why I got a phone call from one of my wife's friends, who asked if I could tell her friend which speakers to buy. I was impressed with myself. She'd called me because I knew this stuff! I spoke to her friend, asked what size room she wanted to put them in, how many watts her amp delivered (she didn't know), what kind of music she listened to—
This was where I started losing her. She'd wanted an answer, and she was getting the third degree. Anyway, I finally allowed as how, given her budget, musical tastes, room size, and placement constraints, a pair of Wharfedale Diamonds was precisely what she needed. Did I say "needed"? Nay, they were the speakers she was fated to own—she was going to fall in love with them, and then she'd need an amplifier and a source, and she'd become my novitiate in the sacred order of the audiophile...
None of that happened. I contained myself for as long as I could, and eventually called her to inquire how she and her new Diamonds were getting along. "Oh, I didn't buy them," she said. "I bought something the salesman told me was better."
"You went to the store I told you to go to and they said they had a better pair of speakers than the Wharfedales—at the same price?"
"No, that store was too far downtown. I went to Circuit City."
My audiophile mind tricks had not worked on her. I was outsold by the Circuit City guy.
In many ways, it was I who sabotaged that deal. My wife's friend's friend wanted a simple answer and I'd given her a complicated one. If she'd wanted to get queried about her listening habits and ponder the minutiae of hi-fi ownership, she could have gone to a real hi-fi store—like the one I'd suggested she go to. That's not what she wanted. She wanted to buy an appliance, something that worked and that she didn't have to think too much about.
We audiophiles tend to forget that most people don't divide hi-fi into bad, good, really good, and wouldn't-that-be-nice. To the nonenthusiast, hi-fi is like, well, a DVD player. Have you shopped for a DVD player lately? Okay, maybe I'm asking the wrong crowd—the chances are pretty good you have shopped for a DVD player recently. I'll rephrase the question: If you were going to buy your mom a DVD player, what would you do?
Most folks would go to CostCo, Target, or Wal-Mart and see what was on sale. My friend Jeff Wong—who rates pretty high on the audio-geek scale, maybe even higher than I—recently did just that. Jeff and his brothers came home with a $39 DVD player that had features I paid a lot of extra money for just a few years ago. It worked like a charm out of the box. And if it stops working? Hey, it was a $39 DVD player.
That's what our friends expect everything to be like these days: It should work better and cost less than the old stuff. If we enthusiasts make hi-fi more complicated than it needs to be, or if we immediately start mouthing off about some of the arcana we fixate on among ourselves, we'll be fogging our friends' minds when we should be clarifying them.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.—Robert Heinlein
About 12 years ago, I was visiting my hometown, attending to some details concerning my mother's admission into an extended-care facility, and I took the opportunity to spend the evening—well, the late evening and most of the early morning—with the same rowdy crowd with whom I'd whiled away a substantial part of my young adulthood. For a four-day trip, I believe I'd packed about 60 CDs. I played a lot of new music for my old pals.
"You know," Randy said, "music's just not as important to me as it used to be. We watch movies at home or play computer games, or just read magazines. It could also be that the music's not as good as it used to be."
Emboldened by a small amount of Bordeaux, I countered: "That's a lot of hooptydoodle. The real problem is that you're listening to crap gear. You bought this stuff at the PX when you were on R&R in Japan—and those speakers were so bad, JVC never even tried to sell them in this country."
Okay, maybe it was more than a small amount of plonk. But in vino veritas, and we were all old enough chums to really let it all hang out. My friends Frank and Robin were there that night, and, a week later, announced their intention to build their own house. Because Frank was one of my oldest and dearest friends—he'd helped me move more times than I can remember, and I could always crash on his sofa when I had nowhere else to go—my wife and I decided to give them a special housewarming present: a new hi-fi. It wasn't elaborate; just a simple NAD system with a pair of compact, British, stand-mounted monitors (with stands). I considered telling them how good the stuff was, but I'd been an expert too many times to go there. I just set up the system and shut up.
Frank called two weeks later. "Remember that time you told us we never listened to music any more because we were listening on crap? Well, I thought you'd surpassed yourself for being full of yourself that evening."
Well, yeah, it is sort of embarrassing to recall that outburst.
"But the thing is, you were right! Since you gave us that hi-fi, we don't watch TV anymore. I listen to music all day at work, but I find myself thinking, Wow, I can't wait to hear that at home, and when I come home and listen to it again, it is better.
"I don't hear a lot of that stuff you go on—and on and on and on—about, but this is different. It's like the music has more flavor or brighter colors. Even though it's easier to hear stuff, we listen harder."
Yes! My best friend gets it.
No expert was ever paid a higher fee for his testimony.
There's a lesson to be learned there. As an audiophile, I knew that the point of the hobby was to hear better and listen harder, but I'd never actually thought to tell anybody—not even my best friend. Anyone can recommend a pair of loudspeakers—but we experts need to remember what it's really all about. Then, maybe people will actually take our advice.
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A Young Indian Writer explains why she wouldn't return her award in case she gets one
by Paulami DuttaGupta
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I earn my bread and butter through my pen and words. I also romance them; share my deepest fears and thoughts with them. Sometimes I feel no lover or friend is closer to a writer than the pen and words. Also which job in the world gives you this kind of power? A writer gets to write love songs that lovers hum through ages. A writer also gets to shape public opinion. And that is why it pains me when senior Indian writers sought political hypocrisy and selective outrage.
Autumn is my favourite time of the year. There is always love and poetry in the air and the yellowed leaves almost seem to sing a beautiful tune. But this year the air is heavy. No. I am not of the scaremongering group and will not predict any approaching apocalypse. But the air is undoubtedly heavy with hypocrisy. The nation has been bleeding for a long time. Why queue up now and return awards? Why is it that no atrocity made them sit up all this while? Why is it suddenly easy to raise voices?
Writer Shashi Deshpande resigned last Friday from the Sahitya Akademi General Council and said she "deeply distressed by the silence of the Akademi on the murder of Professor M M Kalburgi." Though I haven't read MM Kalburgi's works, I presume he was a great writer and a much respected man. Whether people agreed to what he had to say is not even a point of debate. Dissent doesn't give a licence to kill anyone, writer or not. I therefore share Ms Deshpande's anguish. But I fail to share her opportunism.
Unfortunate as it might be, Mr. Kalburgi is not the first rationalist who was murdered by fundamentals. Narendra Dabholkar was murdered on 20th August 2013. No one talked about 'Silence is a form of abetment' then. No awards were returned. No emotional resignations were written. But of course there was a UPA at the centre and a Congress in Maharashtra. The lanterns at 10 Janpath were burning very brightly.
They say there is a phenomenal increase in cases of intolerance. I want to ask just one question. When was India tolerant? The idea of Gandhi's India is probably romanticized in books. But was India really tolerant? Unfortunately I come from a town that has seen cases of ethnic violence and even terrorism from a very close quarter. Only a couple of years back agitating groups in support of Inner Line Permit burnt two people to death. There was a mob that day too. Does the mob remind you of Dadri? Yes I am sure it does. How are two cases different? The right to life of an Indian citizen was snatched away. One was killed because he was trying to earn. Another was killed for a supposed menu that was not even on his platter. In both cases the 'Idea of India' was at stake. My liberalism teaches me to not be selective over grief. Dadri made sure I couldn't eat meat for a while. Whenever I saw a piece of meat, the helpless faces of the victim's family flashed in front of me. But my liberalism does not allow me to say 'look here one death is more important that the other'. If I cry for Akhlaq, I will also cry for Prashanth Pujari or Vikas Nandwal.
The Indian writers of course have every right to do what they want with the awards. They can just throw it away. But using their clout to shape public opinion is scary. Which major work of art was banned since the Modi government has come to power? If one calls Fifty Shades of Grey, Unfreedom and AIB roast the epitome of creativity, them may be I am intellectually challenged. Or was the opinionated piece called India's Daughter an essential aspect for women's safety in India? Even if I agree with their opinion, I would want to know if these are the only films that were banned? Aandhi and Kissa Kursi Ka are probably the older ones and some might say 'hey I wasn't even a writer then'. But what about 'Girl with a Dragon Tattoo?' That was banned in 2012 under the progressive UPA rule! Come on. This country has seen a ban on a Satyajit Ray documentary and an Anurag Kashyap film.
Or forget bans. Because that is an uncomfortable subject. Who can forget The Red Saree and the quiet ban on it? Taslima Nasreen is probably not even important, since she was born on the wrong side. Had she been anywhere near to Mr. Kasuri's residence; things would be different. And Sir Rushdie doesn't talk about the ban on his books, but just present day India. Let's just talk about the supposed throttling atmosphere for Indian writers. What was done to Perumal Murugan was sickening. But the fate of Joe D'cruz was of no importance? Today they talk of intolerance. How many of them stood by Shirin Dalvi when she was hounded for the Charlie Hebdo cartoons? A leading opinion portal had in fact put up a headline – 'Je Suis Shirin Dalvi anyone?'
Today everything has come down to the 'right to dissent'. Of course that is what Indian writers are all about. Breaking societal norms is what the pen can afford to do. But sadly if we criticize the 'award wapsi', we are almost called unlettered, tagged petty commercial Indian writers and also 'Modi toadies'. But of course. It is the government that doesn't allow us to 'dissent'!
A 'senior' 'journalist' mentioned – 'The new buzzword is 'selective outrage': if you didn't outrage about a crime against a Hindu you have no moral right to outrage when a Muslim is killed.' What they fail to realize is it is not about Hindu and Muslim. If slaughter of Sikhs and Kashmiri Pandits is painful, so are Bhagalpur and Hashimpura and Muzzafarnagar. If it is about the Hindus that were burnt to death it is also about the innocent Muslims that were murdered for no fault of theirs in Gujarat. It is about Indians and not Hindus and Muslims. It is also about Graham Staines and every Dalit that has been killed.
Conscience is a very heavy word. It keeps us sane in these times when human bonding is eroding. But if your conscience has slept through when men were sterilized, when public money was usurped with multiple scams, when women's faces were burnt, when women were raped, when girls were killed in wombs or in the name of dowry; then this country probably doesn't matter to you.
Indians are Indians. Rationalists are rationalists. I just wonder what kind of liberalism makes one cry for someone and look away when someone else is in grief.
P.S – In these three years of my writing career none of my books have become bestsellers or have attracted awards. Even the national award was not for me but for my film. So I will never have an option to return it. But even if I had I wouldn't. Because then my conscience would box my ears and say 'where the hell were you when your country was weeping?'
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Born in Shillong, Paulami Duttagupta is currently based in Kolkata. She has worked as a journalist, radio artist, television analyst, and copywriter. But amongst all these, her favorite job is that of a 'dreamer.'


King Stefan Uroš promises to the citizens of Dubrovnik possesions they held at the time of his father's death and legal settlement of disputes regarding possessions acquired later, and regulates various other issues in mutual relations (original).
Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku, Beč 966a.
B) in this collection and C) Draft or copy (mid 13th century) in Kiev.
Original dating clause: In the year 6762, indiction 12, in the month of August 23.
P. Karano-Tvrtković, Srpski spomenici, 29–31, no. 21; F. Miklosich, Monumenta Serbica, 45–47, no. 46; Diplomatički zbornik IV, 567–569, no. 495; S. Novaković, Zakonski spomenici, 150; A. Solovjev, Odabrani spomenici, 46–47, no. 29; LJ. Stojanović, Povelje i pisma I–1, 18–19, no. 21; P. Đorđić, Istorija srpske ćirilice, 270, ph. 46 (only photo); Zbornik I, 211–214, no. 58.


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Q: How do I use Entity framwork on an existing database with out migrations? I have an existing database that has tables like Surface, that hold different surfaces (not plural like EF seems to like).
I have created a type that uses data annotations thus:
[Table("Surface")]
public class Surface
{
    [Key]
    public Guid SurfaceKey { get; set; }
    public string SurfaceType { get; set; }
}

And I've create an entity framework context, and repository etc. Now when I access this in an MVC view, I get a message that the

'The model backing the 'EFDbContext' context has changed since the database was created...'

What difference does it make if it's changed? I might not have typed in something or another.
So what? I'm not asking EF to use my database. I have an existing database, I need to map it to classes, Entity Framework should quietly oblige, with no stupidity of migration. I'm not migrating. Every time I do a rebuild, it should start from scratch.
I just want to access my existing database, and if I compile with a typo, it should be forgotten when I correct the error and recompile.
How do I do this?

A: You configure this feature in the context class that you create.
public class MyContext : DbContext
{
    static MyContext()
    {
        Database.SetInitializer<MyContext>(null);
    }

    //....
}

Here's a useful link regarding database initialisers

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I've been asked, even criticized, about adding a focus on nutrition to Desert. There's a reason why. I had poor nutritional examples growing up. Being confused on the issue of nutrition cost me a lot. I remember yo-yo'ing a lot. The only time I even came close to being my desired weight was when I did high-intensity workouts daily. At one point, I was exercised about 6 hours a day. I was in multiple dance classes and a karate class, as well as another karate club that met for two hours three days a week. I also rode my bike to campus, and even added a one hour workout when I got home. I was still thirty pounds overweight. I can attest to the coined phrase "You cannot exercise away a bad diet."
It was hard to consider diet for me, because I had a genetic heritage that leaned on the heavy side. I felt trapped, having a low metabolism. It seemed if I even looked at what others ate, I was the one who gained weight.
Every once in a while, someone would mention diet to me, but it did little to sway me. Why? Bad examples.
Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven. Every scene he's in, he's eating something unhealthy.
In Hollywood and at school, lots of "lean" people were eating the things I loved: pizza, ice cream, hamburgers, fries, bread, cake, cookies, etc.
I also knew several "weighed down" people who were eating a healthy diet.
It wasn't until I was in college, having just finished my laps in swimming plus a jog, that I stopped by to visit a friend--a slim friend who never seemed hungry. It seemed so unfair as I watched her prepare herself a salad and two small slices of pizza.
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I started to believe in nutrition, but I didn't have faith that someone like me could do it.
I was right, and I was wrong . . .


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Posted on February 5, 2019 by Robert Sullwold
Tonight, Council will hold a special meeting at which the four finalists vying to be selected to develop the "West Midway" site at Alameda Point will make presentations.
Slideshows of proposed designs are banned. Instead, expect to hear the presenters – and those on Council – blather on about how any development on the site should be "vibrant," "robust," "sustainable," etc.
But what the Merry-Go-Round will be listening for – and what we were looking for as we read the written responses to the request for qualifications – is evidence of the developer's ability to deliver, on schedule and on budget, a project whose economics are challenging, to say the least.
The economics are daunting primarily because the developer will be required to construct not just the backbone infrastructure for the 22.8 acres on which it will build its own 291-unit project but all of the backbone infrastructure for the entire 34-acre area south of Midway Avenue between Pan Am Way and Main Street. This is necessary to make it feasible for a non-profit developer to build a 267-unit supportive and affordable housing facility on the 9.7 acres next to the West Midway site.
Constructing this much infrastructure will not be easy – or cheap. As the RFQ disclosed, all of the utilities within the 32 acres "are old and deteriorated and will need to be replaced." At the City's request, a civil engineering firm prepared a "preliminary cost estimate" for the area-wide backbone infrastructure work, which was attached to the RFQ. The total tab came to $56.9 million. But the RFQ went on to caution that this estimate was "for informational purposes only" and "not a guarantee."
In addition, the City has imposed a couple of other requirements that adversely affect the economics for a developer, one on the expense side and the other on the revenue side of the ledger.
First, the developer will be required either to adopt the City's "Project Stabilization Agreement" for public-works contracts or enter into its own project-labor agreement with the construction trades unions. By whatever name, this type of agreement makes it difficult to employ non-union workers on a project, which results in an increase in labor costs of between 5 and 15 percent (to use the range cited by former City Manager John Russo).
Second, the RFQ specified that the 291 new housing units must include 31 "moderate-income" units (defined as housing affordable by households earning between 80 and 120 percent of area median income) and a minimum of 26 "workforce" units (defined as housing affordable by households earning between 120 and 180 percent of AMI). The former requirement is derived from the settlement agreement between the City and Renewed Hope governing all new residential development at Alameda Point. The latter arises from the "specific plan" for the Main Street Neighborhood (of which the West Midway site is a part) adopted by Council in March 2017.
Taken together, these requirements will ensure that the West Midway project will not become an exclusive enclave for the well-off. But they also mean that the developer will not be able to charge top dollar for 57 of the 291 units, thereby diminishing project revenue and decreasing market value.
From our perspective, these economic challenges make it especially important for the decision-makers to scrutinize, very carefully, the track records of the four finalists. Among other things, we would want to know not just how many multi-family residential projects the developer has built, but how many of these projects included below-market-rate housing (and how much) or were saddled with project labor agreements. Most importantly, we'd want to know whether the developer ever has been responsible for completely replacing the backbone infrastructure in the area in which its project was located. If so, was the work done on schedule and on budget?
Of the four finalists, the one about which Alamedans already know the most is Alameda Point Partners, the developer for the 800-unit Site A project for which ground was broken last May and infrastructure construction now is under way. For better or worse, this means that APP's track record is right out front for all to examine.
Both the configuration and the timing of the Site A project have changed since APP got the deal. For example, the original proposal called for 72 moderate-income units to be interspersed among the market-rate units. But in July 2017, APP told Council that this plan was no longer "feasible," and it requested an amendment to the DDA allowing it to move 70 of the 72 moderate-income units out of the market-rate buildings and into a separate building, not part of the original scheme, that would be reserved for housing for teachers and other employees of the Alameda Unified School District. Council approved the amendment, but it is worth asking what this change signifies about APP's capacity to deliver the moderate-income units in the West Midway project.
Moreover, under the original DDA, Phase 1 of Site A was scheduled to close in December 2016, at which time the City would transfer title to the land to APP. The backbone infrastructure work was supposed to begin 30 days after closing, but APP asked for, and received, three extensions of the closing date, the final one to April 9, 2018. For each extension, APP offered good reasons – or at least reasons deemed satisfactory by Council – but, again, it is worth asking how APP intends to prevent a similar delay in commencement of the infrastructure work if it gets the West Midway contract.
We don't mean to pick on APP, and maybe the events we've identified could be regarded as a "learning experience" that cuts in APP's favor. In any case, only one of the other four finalists appears to have performed infrastructure work akin to that which will be required of the West Midway developer: Catellus, which developed the Bayport and Alameda Landing projects on the site of the former Fleet Industrial Supply Center on the northern waterfront in Alameda and, according to its response to the RFQ, is installing infrastructure at Mission Bay in San Francisco that includes new stormwater and sewer systems. (Another finalist, Brookfield Residential, cites in its response to the RFQ a project involving the relocation of a U.S. Army Reserve base in Dublin and construction of a "master-planned community" on the vacated site, but the scope of the infrastructure work is unclear.)
We'd like to hear more on this subject from both of these firms.
Given the economic challenges facing the developer of the West Midway site, we think it is also vital to pin down the finalists on their ability to finance the project from pre-development through construction to certificate of occupancy. The last thing the City – and advocates for supportive and affordable housing – need is for Council to approve a developer based on a presentation that pushes all the right buttons – and then see nothing happen on the site because the chosen firm can't come up with the dough to start, much less finish, the job. One Del Monte warehouse project is quite enough.
As it happens, all of the finalists for the West Midway project have solid financials:
APP is backed by Trammell Crow, which, according to APP's response to the RFQ, has assets under management exceeding $15 billion across the United States.
Catellus is owned by TPG Capital, which has more than $70 billion of assets under management around the world.
The Jamestown/Cypress Equity Investments partnership is made up of Jamestown, which has more $10 billion of assets under management, and Cypress Equity Investments, which has amassed a real-estate portfolio worth $5 billion.
Brookfield Residential is – relatively speaking – the piker in the group. Its total assets at the end of 2017 amounted to a mere $4.2 billion.
Financial credentials like these may earn the four finalists the enmity of the City of Alameda Democratic Club ideologues eager to rail against "global conglomerates," but they show that each of the developers has the resources to put its own cash into the West Midway project. It would be useful to know, however, just how much of an equity stake each finalist intends to take, since the more a developer is willing to put at risk, the less likely it is to walk away. (We note that, by the time ground was broken at Site A, APP had sunk $15 million in equity funds into the project.)
But equity is only one element of project financing, and each finalist also needs to be asked: Where's the rest of the money going to come from?
We'd be particularly wary of any developer who proposes to rely on public, rather than private, financing for the West Midway project. One way to pay for infrastructure is to create a community facilities district, which then issues bonds to be repaid by taxes assessed against subsequent property owners. The problem is that this approach, by increasing property taxes on new housing units and commercial buildings, makes them more expensive – and thus less desirable – to potential buyers or renters, which in turn may compromise the marketability of the project. Indeed, the RFQ cautions that the City will authorize formation of a CFD designed to pay infrastructure costs only of it "determines that the resulting total annual tax burden on the property . . . is not unduly burdensome."
Of the four finalists, Catellus appears to have depended most heavily on public sources of funds. Its response to the RFQ stated that, for both Alameda Landing and Mission Bay, infrastructure costs were "reimbursed through public financing." For another project located in Mueller, Texas, a special district similar to a CFD was an "essential tool in funding the development." By contrast, the only CFD created – so far – for Site A is the one established to shoulder the annual costs of the transportation demand management program and related items.
But private financing is not always easy to get. Indeed, when APP sought extensions of the Site A closing date, it usually cited the need for additional time to "secure" and "finalize" funding commitments from third parties. What funds are available from what sources, and at what price, for the West Midway project depends on a host of factors affecting real-estate investments in particular and the economy in general. In their responses to the RFQ, none of the developers delved into the financing for any of its prior projects, but we'd be interested in getting more details about where the developer got the money – and whether it thinks it can go back to the same well again. It surely would be nice – although highly improbable – if one of the finalists was able to offer the same assurance Carmel Partners did when it was pitching the North Housing project to Council: "Our money is already in place!"
We have to confess that we are not confident that all, or perhaps any, of our questions will get asked tonight. The staff report directs Council's attention to three "important considerations" in selection of a developer: "diversity of developer base," "commercial vision," and "job creation/training." None of these has any bearing on the developer's ability to deliver a project on schedule and on budget. Moreover, at least a couple of our Council members probably consider the developer's financial resources and management skills less important than its willingness to build a LEEDS-certified transit-oriented development with an ample supply of bike racks.
But if the practical issues are ignored entirely, the City will be proceeding at its peril.
Site A: 2017-01-17 staff report re amendment to Site A DDA; 2017-01-17 staff report re amendment to Site A DDA; 2018-03-06 staff report re Site A DDA amendment
Main St. Neighborhood: 2017-10-24 Ex. 1 to staff report to P.B. – Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan
West Midway project: 2019-02-05 staff report; 2019-02-05 Ex. 1 to staff report – Request for Qualifications; 2019-02-05 Ex. 4 to staff report – Statement of Qualifications
This entry was posted in Alameda Point, City Hall, Development, Housing and tagged Alameda Point Partners, Brookfield Residential, Catellus, Cypress Equity Investments, Infrastructure, Jamestown, Main St. Neighborhood, Trammell Crow Residential, West Midway. Bookmark the permalink.
4 Responses to Battle of Midway
NYBORN2012 says:
Solid observations and information here. Council members are about gaining popularity and attention from Sacramento politicians, thus your questions are far to relevant for the council to ask. If Frank were still on Council, he would ask them. Maybe Tony will this time? Catellus has supported the Alameda community in many ways over the past few years and has invested in many programs and non profit organizations here. All things considered, I'd lean in their favor.
Steve Gerstle says:
You raise some interesting questions, Robert; however, I disagree with this conclusion, "But if the practical issues are ignored entirely, the City will be proceeding at its peril."
What would be the greater peril for their political careers, approving a project that meets political standards that does not get built, or approving a project that does not meet political standards but does get built? To rephrase Calvin Coolidge, "The business of America is politics."
Steve, i Don't think he means the Council, but the City itself. The Del Monte has been tied up for decades by developers who cannot seem to develop it.
Mike McMahon says:
The last iteration of developing the Del Monte project has so many pre-conditions that the developer ran out of money to develop the actual project, which I believe is the point of this current post.


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Take a look at the cool freebie that Copenhagen is offering up today. They are giving away free sets of Limited-Edition Coasters. You can choose which ever one you want most. To claim this offer, just create a free account on Copenhagen's website (21 years old or older only). After that, look for the newest promo, hit the "Take home a piece of history" button, claim your offer and confirm your mailing info. This sample will most likely take 6 to 8 weeks to arrive at your door. This offer will last as long as the company's supplies do.


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Terry Reid tears it up at Plan B
Terry Reid is in the history books for turning down a chance to play with Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin and turning him onto this new kid named Robert Plant. So it was appropriate that he opened his set Saturday at Plan B nightclub in Thousand Palms with Rod Stewart's "Some Guys Have All the Luck."
What was surprising was to see how much passion the British singer-guitarist put into that song and his entire set at this 40th birthday party for CV Music Show host Alex Burdon-Young. Stewart sang that plaintive song with sort of a lackluster lilt, but Reid tore into it like the man nicknamed Superlungs after his recording of "Rich Kid Blues" and "Superlungs My Super Girl."
Reid has sung jazz, country and acoustic rock, but he never sounded better than with the superlative bass player Nigel Dettelbach of Slipping Into Darkness.
Reid, who lives in Palm Desert, rehearsed three nights with members of that band that played the 2013, but then Alvin Taylor — drummer for the likes of George Harrison, Eric Burdon and Billy Preston — sat in with no rehearsal and helped the band just rip it up. Burdon-Young also stood in for a fun duet of Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me."
Slipping Into Darkness was supposed to headline the Plan B show, but someone went to Plan C and put them on early in the evening. Those who missed this up-and-coming Desert Hot Springs group can hear them perform songs from their excellent new album, "SHurpedelic," at 11 tonight at Schmidy's Tavern in Palm Desert.


CSS - Tableless - Khai's personal knowledge vault.
Generally speaking it's difficult to obtain proper horizontal alignment in CSS. Horizontal alignment wholly depends on the float declaration, which, though supported by all modern browsers, is supported according to two different models, with minor variations even between browsers that support the same model.
These problems aren't unsolvable; coding a simple four-block layout with the float declaration is quite possible. Nonetheless the danger of insolvable browser incompatibilities increases exponentially with every floating block you add.
In the bad old days web developers placed all page elements in tables, and if the page didn't look as expected it needed yet more tables inside the already existing tables. This process was repeated until the page worked. The underlying theory seemed to be "If we squeeze enough HTML into the page it'll work eventually." It made for eternal download times and nonsensical markup that was impossible to update.
Minimal table use means: use as little tables as possible.
In general you should style the DIVs inside the TDs instead of the TDs themselves. For instance, browsers see a width declaration on a TD as a sort of advice, and they don't hesitate to overrule it when they think it's necessary. They will always obey width declarations on DIVs, though.
The only exception is the vertical-align, which must be declared on a TD.
CSS Aid's "Tables without Tables" misses the point (or: the dark side of web standards).


We LOVE overnight oatmeal at our house! My older kiddos love to mix up their own the night before and then they have their perfect breakfast ready for them in the morning. You can eat them hot or cold so they are PERFECT! Here's one of our favorite recipes.
These make ahead breakfasts are a staple at our house!
In a large jar, layer your ingredients starting with about a 1/2 a cup of old fashioned rolled oats.
Your favorite nuts. We like pecans at our house.
Then we top with some fruit that is full of antioxidants.
Blueberries and raspberries are perfect. Next add a spoonful of either Cinnamon or Maple Jif® flavored Peanut Butter Spreads.
I also like to add a few chia seeds as well.
Doesn't it already look divine?
Now cover with your favorite kind of milk. You can use cow's milk or your favorite almond, coconut or soy milks.
I also top with a little honey and vanilla extract.
Gently stir your ingredients, top with a lid and place in the fridge overnight.
In the morning, you'll have a lovely jar full of yummy oatmeal ready and waiting for you. I LOVE to eat it cold, but you can pop it into the microwave for a minute or so to warm it up if you like yours hot. Either way tastes great!


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Moving offices isn't as simple as powering down your equipment, boxing it up and moving it to the new location. The process is actually quite complex and requires a ton of planning to make sure the execution is seamless.
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Jan-Michael Vincent
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme.
The show was created by Donald P. Bellisario. The first three seasons star Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, and Jean Bruce Scott. After the original series was cancelled, a fourth season, with an entirely new cast and on a much smaller budget, was filmed in Canada for the USA Network.
The show's distinctive musical score, which was originally orchestral-based and shifted to more synthesizer-oriented arrangements early in the second season, was composed and conducted mainly by Sylvester Levay. Udi Harpaz conducted the scores for many later second and third season episodes.
Genre: Action, Action & Adventure, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War & Politics
The Mechanic
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.
Buffalo '66
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Burt Reynolds plays a legendary stunt man known as Sonny Hooper, who remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop pain killers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
Deadly Embrace
A beautiful but horny and neglected Beverly Hills wife hires a hot young stud as a gardener. It eventually gets through to her husband that some hanky-panky may possibly be going on, and he begins to spy on her.
Vigilante Force
Vigilante Force is a 1976 American action film concerning a Vietnam War veteran (Kris Kristofferson) and his buddies, who are hired by his brother (Jan-Michael Vincent) and others in a small California town for protection from rowdy oil-field workers.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Born in East L.A.
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico – without speaking a word of Spanish!
Alienator
Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send out The Alienator to execute Kol at all costs. Kol meets up with some teens and Ward Armstrong and together they all try not to get killed by the pursuing Woman of Death – The Alienator.


From science to comics, get familiar with these groundbreaking African-American innovators and creators you might not have heard of.
May 18, 2016. Dr. Frank Smith African American Civil War Museum. In 1982 Smith was elected to the D.C. City Council and served for 16 years. His council.
combining the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar and the Museum of the Confederacy into one new museum that aims to tell the stories of the Union and the Confederacy, as well as.
Feb 3, 2016. Chuck Hicks, director of the D.C. Black History Celebration Committee addressed participants Feb. 2 at a kickoff reception at the African.
Despite nearby sites like Gettysburg and the presence of the National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg's significant involvement. However, absent from this celebration were the 180,000 African-American.
Jul 26, 2018. The African American Civil War Museum, capping off a week of celebrations, recently honored Pepco with its Corporate Citizen Award during.
Oct 31, 2017. My favorite monument is the African American Civil War Memorial in my hometown, Washington, D.C. and my second favorite is. Dr. Frank Smith, founder of the museum, historians, and politicians spoke about the exploits of.
Destination DC, the District's tourism bureau, says it will no longer include in its annual visitors guide an advertisement from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick. nine members.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly called Confederate General Robert E. Lee "an honorable man." The founding director of African American Civil War Museum took exception to the idea.
Y" image_size="large" trending_posts="true"] *The African American Civil War Museum in Washington, DC will host the "More Than a Fraction: African American Heritage & Culture" presentation of.
represents the completion of a goal first set out more than a century ago when a group of black Civil War veterans in DC proposed a national museum celebrating African-American contributions to the.
The abolitionist and Civil War spy lived the second half of her life in the city. The museum and the Library of Congress jointly acquired the photo for $161,000 at a March 2017 auction.
Clark is instead showcasing a different flag flown by the Confederacy during the Civil War: the one. the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. "This is the flag that.
Hari Jones was the curator of the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.
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MCN Build modernized the African American Civil War Museum into a centerpiece of the U Street community. The modern historical attraction features.
Set in an old schoolhouse behind the African American Civil War Memorial, the museum makes the point that for some, the Civil War was about secession.
The bookstore, focused on Lincoln and the Civil War. or museums along the way. If you're planning to hopscotch between attractions on the Mall — say, from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial to the.
Bunch, the. tell us less about the actual Civil War but more about the uncivil peace that followed. It is often easier to take our attention away from the harsh realities of history. At the.
Discover the closest metro/subway station to the African American Civil War Memorial & Museum in Washington DC.
Check out African American Civil War Museum 's events, learn more, The museum is located at 1925 Vermont Ave, NW Washington DC 20001 and is open to.
Nov 9, 2014. The African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington, DC commemorates the more than 200000 soldiers of the U.S. Colored.
DC. African American Civil War Memorial and Museum. These soldiers who fought for freedom during the Civil War are also the focus of a memorial in the.
. the African-American servicemen from the Civil War can research their heritage through the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington, DC. Sesquicentennial events will be taking.
Nov 15, 2016. African American Civil War Museum Honors Two Leaders Who Work. was touted as the "Location of the Month" by the DC Film Commission.
The first black president of the US has formally opened the first US national museum about African-American history, in Washington DC. Barack Obama said the $. Black veterans of the US Civil War.
A never-before-seen photograph of Harriet Tubman as a young woman went on view today at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American. tintype images of Civil War-era abolitionists.
On Friday, the president upgraded the status of the 373-acre Camp Nelson in central Kentucky, a significant site for African-American soldiers. barracks and visit a museum containing objects from.
Apr 14, 2017. Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, or FREED, was founded in 2005 in association with the African American Civil War Museum in D.C., and its.
WASHINGTON DC — With this year marking the 150 anniversary of the American Civil War, a new, fully-renovated African-American Civil War Museum is set to open its door on July 18 in Washignton DC. The.
While the army kept records of their backgrounds and where they fought as well as their fates and fortunes, they reside, in paper format, in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. and.
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The African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation and Museum. stands in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., near Howard University.
A group of black women in Washington. black women of the Civil War in a different spin on re-enactment groups. Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, or FREED, was founded in 2005 in association with.
Apr 5, 2011. African American Civil War Museum Moves into Awesome New Building. to the new space at 1925 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20001.


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Fuga nei mondi perduti (Ports of Call) è un romanzo di  fantascienza dello scrittore statunitense Jack Vance pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1998.

Racconta il viaggio picaresco del giovane Myron Tany attraverso la Dominazione Gaenica; il romanzo Lurulu del 2004 ne è il seguito.

Storia editoriale
Fu pubblicato nel 1998.

La traduzione italiana di Maura Arduini è stata pubblicata dalla Mondadori nel 1999, nel volume n. 1352 della collana Urania e poi di nuovo nel 2007, nel volume n. 45 della collana Millemondi come parte dell'antologia Myron Tany e I vandali dello spazio, che comprende anche il seguito Lurulu ed un terzo romanzo: I vandali dello spazio.

Trama
La famiglia di Myron vorrebbe per lui una carriera sicura e rispettabile nella finanza; tuttavia, quando la sua ricca ed eccentrica prozia Madame Hester Lajoie entra in possesso di uno yacht spaziale, Myron improvvisamente scopre che la realizzazione dei suoi sogni d'avventura a lungo soppressi è a portata di mano.
In qualità di capitano della nave spaziale entra al servizio di Madame Hester nel suo viaggio alla ricerca di una clinica ove sembra sia possibile ripristinare la perduta giovinezza dei clienti ricchi; Myron scopre presto che sua zia è tanto capricciosa quanto esuberante e dopo una discussione, si ritrova solo su un pianeta remoto.

Invece di tornare a casa, Myron trova lavoro come agente commerciale su un vecchio cargo dello spazio, continuando così a viaggiare tra gli esotici pianeti della Dominazione Gaenica.

Collegamenti con altre opere dell'autore
Il romanzo Lurulu del 2004 ne è il seguito.

Critica
Elizabeth Hand, recensore di F&SF, ha lodato Ports of Call definendolo "delizioso", dichiarando che "si gode di Ports of Call come si fa con una restoration comedy, per l'oltraggiosa purezza dei suoi personaggi e la precisione della potenza descrittiva spesso lunatica, di Vance".

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Bibliografia

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Romanzi di Jack Vance
Romanzi di fantascienza

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A ComputerWorld Canada article by Shane Schick discusses the recent non-announcement by Microsoft claiming that it would open its specifications to competitors, including FLOSS. This is Microsoft's latest attempt to get off the radar of European regulators for their monopolistic behavior, and is sound and light with no substance.
The Software Freedom Law Center has published A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects.
Lies, Damned lies, and IIPA/BSA/etc statistics.
One of the key tools used by lobby groups like the IIPA is statistics to try to "prove" that there is massive harm to them, and which must be remedied in the way they propose. An analysis of their statistics often indicates that their real target is competitors, not copyright infringers.
These studies need to be debunked as they have a large influence on governments who have outsourced this key policy tool to special interest groups. William Patry documents on his BLOG (Via Google Cache) how, lacking any investigative resources of its own, USTR uses figures given to it by IIPA. If you read transcripts from Canadian parliamentary committees studying "counterfeiting and piracy" or Copyright and patents, you will see that Canadian politicians are no better. It is frustrating to know how many amazing economists are working for Industry Canada and other departments, and yet Industry Committee never bothered to consult them when they are studying critical economic policy.
Those debunking these studies are not apologists for copyright infringement. I document how this infringement harms companies like my own more than the members BSA/ESA/etc. I am very interested to stop software copyright infringement, but believe that the policies promoted by the BSA/ESA/etc have an anti-competitive effect and do not reduce software copyright infringement.
Can virtualization help with bigger problems like climate change?
Listening to some recent talks, I noticed what seems like a conflict. Interviewed for CBC's Spark, Nicholas Carr (full interview) says we are moving to cloud computing. Also on a recent Spark show, Bill St. Arnaud explains (full interview) how the Internet causes carbon emissions, and tells us we need to move data centres closer to power and cooling. Then we have Eben Moglen, Director at the Software Freedom Law Center, talking about the technology of memory and the major problems of putting our data out on the cloud, with that data being manipulated by software which we do not control.
John C. Dvorak thinks that Bill Gates is going to leave Microsoft and then come back. I write on IT World Canada why I disagree, and think there will be more than enough interesting things to keep him busy and interested via his foundation.
Just a quick note for those who have been watching, I received my XO this afternoon. I signed on to the Give 1, Get 1 within an hour of it opening, which suggests that other Canadians should start to receive theirs soon as well.
I dropped the battery in, turned it on, and all is well. I've put it on the power pack just to refresh the battery. Won't have time to play with it much right away, but will post thoughts on it to the BLOG soon.
McAfee filed a report last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission that made a few statements about risks associated with their use of some Open Source software. These statements received quite a bit of media attention.
There is a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) spread about Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) licenses. While companies dependant on older competing business models suggest these licenses are complex or "ambiguous", the reality is quite the opposite.
New York Times headlines about the OLPC.
I find this New York Times article by John Markoff interesting. First the editors used the headline "demise of One Laptop Per Child" and now uses "Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children". Inside the article John is quite clear that OLPC was really leaving Intel because Intel was harming the project.
At the meeting, the board agreed that Mr. Negroponte should make a final effort to end Intel's efforts to disrupt One Laptop's sales.
A rapprochement never happened, however.
It is like some editor refuses to believe that it is Intel that is in the wrong, or that OLPC is doing well and might possibly be better off without Intel's involvement.
I want to clarify the roll I play in CLUE: The Canadian Association for Open Source, and my involvement with the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance. This article is my strong endorsement of CSIA, and my suggestion that all Free/Libre and Open Source Software companies and professionals join CSIA. I also want to promote the CSIA White Paper just released.


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The 2018-19 Victorian Budget will be handed down on Tuesday 1 May, followed by the Commonwealth Budget on the 8 May.
What will this mean for the public health sector?
VHA members are invited to attend the FREE VHA Budget Breakfast on 9 May, to be briefed on the highlights and impacts of the State and Commonwealth Budgets by David Rumble - Principal, and Jayesh Kapitan – Director, at VHA partner RSM.
A panel of budget experts, facilitated by VHA CEO Tom Symondson, will include Jayesh Kapitan with Emily Wilhelm Director of Health Technology at PwC and Emma Turner Special Counsel at Russell Kennedy Lawyers.
Where: First State Super | Level 13, 15 William Street, Melbourne.
This is a no cost member-only event.