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Songs In The Key Of… Colorado
on 17 April 2020 at 8:26 pm
Whitacre: "Below are some of my favourite tunes from the best Colorado-based musicians and bands…" Photo: Brandon Johnson
Chaperoned by the Whitacre frontman, we head out on a journey of inspiration and music through The Mile High City
The mountain rock made by Whitacre combines elements of folk, Americana and punk, a fusion which allows their songwriting to be both introspective and soaring. Paul Whitacre (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Chase Perry (banjo), Mark Cunningham (drums) and Joe Fishel (bass) have just dropped their new album Seasons and it doesn't take long to understand why the four-piece have taken their hometown of Denver by storm, demonstrating their songcraft, storytelling ability and clear joy at being able to make music together.
Here, frontman Paul pays homage to some of the regions finest music…
Listen to the 12-track 'Songs In The Key Of… Colorado' Spotify playlist here > >
I originally moved to Colorado in 2016 following a passion for rock climbing. I played music as a hobby throughout college but had no idea how vibrant the music scene was in Colorado, nor how quickly the local Denver scene would sweep me off my feet.
After discovering some amazing success stories (listed below) of other artists, I completely changed the trajectory of my life/career to see if I could follow in their footsteps. Below are some of my favourite tunes from the best Colorado-based musicians and bands…
CLEOPATRA (ACOUSTIC DEMO) – THE LUMINEERS
This demo of one of The Lumineers' most popular songs feels as grassroots as the band's early beginnings in Denver. The live acoustic take of this song makes me feel like I'm sitting in on some of the bands' earliest open mic nights on Larimer St.
LADIES DON'T PLAY GUITAR – TENNIS
Denver is one of the most supportive cities of bands with badass frontwomen, and Tennis is at the forefront of those groups for me. The engineering of the drums has such a vintage sound on this track and draws the listener in from the very start, plus I love the sarcasm in the song title.
RUSH ON – NATHANIEL RATELIFF
This song 'hurts' to listen to. The emotion that naturally comes through is unparalleled and sounds like it was done in a single take. This is off of Nathaniel's most recent solo record, and it's by far my favourite song from him. The horn section at the very end gives me chills every time.
HERE, AGAIN – WHITACRE
Drawing from the same painful emotions Nathaniel was crying out in Rush, Here, Again uses complex instrumentation to help propel the message of hurt in a way that causes somewhat of a physical response for the listener.
SHE ALWAYS TAKES IT BLACK – GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV
"I'd never say I love you dear, just to hear you say it back." This is one of those most powerful lines I've ever heard in a song, regardless of it being so simple. The delivery is what makes it hit home so hard. Gregory's tone sounds so honest that it has the listener hanging on for dear life, wondering what every next word is going to be.
CHANGE – CHURCHILL
The first time we met our producer, Joe Richmond, he mentioned he played drums for a band signed to Atlantic Records called Churchill. We all knew of the song Change from the heavy radio rotation it used to get earlier in the 2000s. The mandolin and upbeat folk roots of this song are amazing, simply because it was at the forefront of a massive folk movement that hadn't happened yet.
NOT FEELING ANY PAIN – ESME PATTERSON
Although I found Esme through her collaboration with Austin-based rocker, Shaky Graves, she's got an incredible solo project. I think I first heard this song on Audiotree Live or NPR's Tiny Desk Concert. Like a few of these other songs, it's got such a natural live sound to it. The drums have such a locked-in groove, it's not hard to listen to this song on repeat for hours on end.
OVER MY HEAD – THE FRAY
The Fray is one of the most pivotal bands in Denver music history. Their international success gave so many local bands a hunger/motivation to work hard and make the best music possible. They've been inspiring locals like us for years. Over My Head is my favorite tune from them!
PRODIGAL – WHITACRE
This song sounds quite a bit different from everything else in Whitacre's catalog. We really leaned into our banjo player's bluegrass roots and wrote what we consider to be one of our most country-leaning tunes to date. It's such a blast to play live.
LET THE LEAVES FALL – A BROTHER'S FOUNTAIN
This Fort Collins-based band have been our friends since before Whitacre was even formed. They have 6-7 full-time members and every one of them is hilarious and a blast to be around. This is my favourite tune of theirs. It's so hopeful and encompasses everything they showcase in their live gigs.
HANDLEBARS – FLOBOTS
I've got such a soft spot for hip-hop, and this song is probably the best blend of folk and hip-hop I've ever heard. I don't know if it's possible to not know this song by now, but it rocks if you haven't heard it.
GOOD LIFE – ONEREPUBLIC
Here's another one of those feel-good songs you can just listen to on repeat all day. Perfect for the warm summer drives with the windows down. OneRepublic, like The Fray, is an important pillar in the history of Denver music that have been inspiring the locals for the last decade.
Seasons by Whitacre is out now. Give it a listen at smarturl.it/whitacre-seasons
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Hamilton County residents protest proposed Duke Energy gas pipeline
By: Jordan Burgess, Austin Fast

Three proposed routes for the Duke Energy pipeline (as of May 23, 2016).

SHARONVILLE, Ohio -- Leaders from 14 communities around Hamilton County and members of Neighbors Opposing Pipeline Extension (NOPE) will protest a controversial gas pipeline that Duke Energy plans to lay through the Tri-State.
Opponents to the Central Corridor Gas Pipeline Extension Project will gather at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Sharonville Convention Center with Hamilton County commissioners to make sure local leaders and Duke Energy officials address concerns and questions about the pipeline.
RELATED: Duke's proposed 30-inch gas pipeline ignites firestorm of opposition
NOPE said in a news release that residents along three routes have been receiving notices that Duke will be surveying their properties and taking soil samples over the next few weeks in preparation for the project, whose formal application must be submitted to the Ohio Power Siting Board on or before Sept. 15.
Duke says the pipeline project "will enhance gas supply reliability and flexibility across the system, replace and modernize aging infrastructure and position Duke Energy to supply growing demand for natural gas in southwest Ohio."
Members of NOPE say the 12 miles of pipeline through northern Cincinnati and central Hamilton County could be dangerous, and they don't want it in their neighborhoods.
"It's going to be very disruptive to the community, and we think there's a better way so the idea is to let other people know about it and get as big of a voice as we can," said NOPE member Tammy Reasoner. "We want to get enough momentum going that Duke would consider an area that wouldn't be as dangerous and in as highly populated of an area."
NOPE prepared Tuesday night by gathering its members to make protest signs at a Pleasant Ridge church. Wednesday's meeting comes after similar event that took place June 15 .
Duke has said it can operate the pipeline safely, but it has been taking extra time to consider the project. If it goes forward, Duke has to pick two possible routes and turn them into the siting board, which will then consider the proposal.
Check Duke's frequently asked questions page about the proposed project here . See the three proposed routes below.

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Neil Steinberg makes Chicago Clout Honor Board "Daley Needs Help"
Thieves always have their reasons. The door was unlocked. The pension fund was just sitting there. The old lady wasn't using her car anyway.
Whether these reasons make sense depends, naturally, upon whether you are the one stealing or the one being stolen from.
So of course Mayor Daley has a rationale for grabbing a chunk of Grant Park to build his children's museum. Several, in fact: It's for the kids! To show the kids we love them! To put the kids at the center of the city! Kids! Kids! Kids!
The cold-hearted might call these arguments cynical, an emotional pitch to justify doing exactly what he wants to do. Particularly since the unarguable facts are: a) Chicagoans don't want it there; b) kids being bused in to a children's museum scarcely care WHERE it's located, so long as they get a snack.
Being a more generous soul, I believe that the mayor is not being cynical, but rather has completely lost his mind, unhinged by 19 years in office, the way the pashas supposedly went insane behind their harem walls.
He is sincere, alas, and so really does not understand that the only reason there is open parkland for him to try to steal today is because the 53 mayors before him, some deeply corrupt, managed to keep their penny-pinching mitts off Grant Park and resisted the temptation to put up their concert halls, solariums, social pavilions, or whatever the fashionable public structure of the moment happened to be.
That our Mayor-for-Life is not following their example is a sign of his growing brazenness, and his sputtering attempts to rationalize his expropriation is a sign — in my view — of detachment from reality.
Christopher Kozicki Resigns, Goodbye, don't come back, ya hear?


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SANTA ANA, Calif. Since March, the intensity of persecution in Morocco has increased significantly.
These developments in Morocco are alarming, but perhaps not so surprising to some Moroccan Christians. During a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on Capitol Hill last month, a Moroccan Christian who fled the country five years ago testified that Morocco has never been (moderate) as it portrayed it was.
"The fact is religious freedom in Morocco simply does not exist. The West is presented with a fade that is now exposed." The government claims these Christian individuals are guilty of proselytizing, which is illegal in Morocco, but the government has failed to provide any evidence to substantiate the accusations.
Furthermore, the Moroccan government did not follow due process of law in the deportations and denied court hearings to all of those deported. Most of these individuals were expelled from the country without the opportunity to set their affairs in order, say goodbye to friends and family, or even to gather their belongings.
Many of the deportees have lived in Morocco for a significant number of years as humanitarian workers, business professionals and teachers. Some also were deported after spending years working in an orphanage.
Not only has the Moroccan government cracked down on foreign Christians, but they have simultaneously increased pressure on national Christians. Compass Direct News estimates 1,000 Moroccan Christian converts within the country are not recognized by the government.
Open Doors has learned that increased persecution has made it very difficult for national believers to meet and worship together. It appears the Moroccan government is intent on ridding the nation of all Christian influence.
If not challenged on the deportations of foreign Christians, the government may perceive that Christians worldwide will turn a blind eye to increased persecution of national Christians. For this reason, it is imperative that Christians speak out on behalf of both groups.
Open Doors is launching a campaign asking Christians in the West to send a message to their U.S. representatives and senators, asking them to sign a Congressional letter sponsored by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA10). This letter to the king of Morocco (Mohammed VI) requests that the government stop all deportations and allow those who have been deported be allowed to return to Morocco.
Moeller also encourages prayer for the situation in Morocco, which ranks No. 37 on this year's Open Doors World Watch List of the worst persecutors of Christians and whose population of 33 million is 99 percent Muslim.
1) Pray that the expelled Christians would have the opportunity to appeal their deportations and have fair trials so they can return to Morocco.
2) Pray that the Moroccan government will reduce pressure on national Christians and that these Christians would be strengthened in their faith during this difficult time.
3) Pray that the U.S. government will be willing to take the necessary action to pressure the Moroccan government to halt the deportations and increased surveillance and interrogations of national Christians.


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This morning Year 1 went to St Michael and all the angels church in Martlesham Heath to learn about the Christmas story. We had a great time and learnt a lot. Our teachers thought we showed good listening and good manners to all – well done year 1!


my fingers that we would have power back by tuesday for the first day of school so I could pack decent bentos of course! And luckily, the night before, shortly after 6pm, we were up and running again...just in time for my husband to arrive home from Seattle with no real idea of what we'd all endured over the past few days.
I managed to salvage quite a lot of the food. Since it's all vegan, and largely produce, most of it was fine without refrigeration. The hardest part was breaking the kids' habit of randomly opening the fridge to look for snacks throughout the day!
Ryan & AJ's 1st day of school lunches: pinwheel tofu salad sandwiches w/cucumber letters; cantaloupe balls; green beans.
Here are Ryan & AJ off to third and second grades, and Nate ready to head off to his first day of kindergarten! His teacher has asked that I leave a selection of non-perishable snack items in his classroom, so no bentos for him until next year! Sigh.
For the second day of school, Ryan requested he help to make strawberry cream cheese. He chopped up some berries and mixed it with Tofutti cream cheese for bagels.
Ryan & AJ's lunches: cucumber slices; fresh pineapple; roasted chick peas; steamed broccoli; mini bagels with strawberry cream cheese.
Time for some sushi! Ryan and I recently went to the new Wasabi sushi train at the local mall. It was very impressive and had him in a sushi sort of mood.
Ryan & AJ's lunches: sesame tofu & vegetable maki sushi w/side of soy sauce; tiny square of Lake Champlain dark chocolate w/almonds; apple slices; carrots; steamed broccoli; a strawberry; edamame.
I was in the mood for smoked tempeh, so I sauteed some Lightlife Fakin' Bacon. I don't buy it often because Whole Foods has increased the price to just shy of ludicrous, but sometimes I just have to treat myself.
Ryan & AJ's lunches: tempeh, lettuce & tomatoes sandwiches on toasted french bread; mini zucchini muffin; dried apricots; pickles; Tofurky & soy cheese clover garnish; carrots; cucumber slices.
...I had to fulfill the dream meal and tempura batter and fry more of them, topped with Sriracha laced Vegenaise. O.M.G. Worth every friggin' calorie. These would have made wonderful additions to a bento, but I could barely bring myself to share them at all, and they disappeared quicker than Harry under his invisibility cloak.
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From time to time we've ventured down to Wellesley to Elm Bank, a 36 acre garden and grounds of the Massachusetts Horticultural Center. It really is a beautiful place when everything is in bloom, and this time it was host to the Massachusetts Marketplace Festival.
Teeming with enough vendors to empty your wallet and tempt every sweettooth, the festival celebrated New England's farmers, specialty food producers & artisans. Our personal favourite was Vision's Sown, bakers of delicious cookies made with minimally processed and ancient grains; I hope they make their way to our local farmer's market or Whole Foods soon!
I was a little disappointed after cheerfully shelling out admission for myself and four kids, that I then had to pay for separate tickets for almost every activity the kids wanted to do--I must have missed this somehow in their online advertising. I understand there was fundraising to be done, but I don't normally carry a lot of cash, even for bouncy houses and face painting.
Much of our time at Elm Bank was spent in Weezie's Children's Garden. We have come here before to meet up with friends--it's a wonderful creatively landscaped children's play area.
If you're in the area, Elm Bank is worth a visit, festival or no!
This summer the kids don't have any activities where they are away from home during mealtimes. There have been very few bento-making opportunities. So I thought I'd share a bit of our lunch & dinner fare... When I'm not going to be home for a meal with the kids, or if I'm not eating with them for some other reason, sometimes I just put a big plate of food on the table (or picnic table, or floor, whatever!) and they choose what they want.
Other times I'll put out a muffin tin meal. Having a meal of all finger foods is fun for the kids (you know, I bet it would be fun for adults too!).
Summer is full of local veggies from Stearns Farm, so they are the centerpiece of most meals. Often it's easiest to just roast a variety in the oven.
Sit down lunches & dinners at the table are usually family-style now that everyone is old enough. It takes a lot of food to feed everyone nowadays!
Camping can be challenging. I need to bring along more reuasables and fewer disposables. We create a bag of recycling every day, but I need to learn how to create less waste when outdoors for multiple days.
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Modern radar detectors have numerous "bands" of operation. Each band corresponds to a specific frequency range or function. Following is a description of the bands available in Cobra radar detectors. X BAND The frequency range of the X band is 10.475 to 10.575 gigahertz. The X band was the first microwave radar band introduced. Almost all false alerts occur on the X band, because there are many stray signals in this frequency range. Some examples are automatic door openers at supermarkets, some security systems, and microwave transmission towers. K BAND The frequency range of the K band is 24.0 to 24.25 gigahertz. This is the second microwave radar band introduced by radar gun manufacturers. It is rare to get a false alert on K band, but automatic door openers are currently being manufactured that operate in the K band. Ka BAND The frequency range of the Ka band is 33.4 to 36.0 gigahertz. This is the newest microwave radar band. It is rare to get a false alert on Ka band. Ku Band The frequency range of the Ku band is 13.4 to 13.47 gigahertz. The Ku band is being used in Europe. Although the FCC has allocated this band for law enforcement use, currently no radar guns in the USA operate on the Ku band. This may change in the future. Not all Cobra models can detect the Ku band. LASER Laser is light, so this is not a microwave radar band. The laser guns operate in the infrared region, which is invisible to your eye. The infrared region is extremely high in frequency, so it is typically described in terms of wavelength. Cobra radar detectors detect in the range of 860 to 960 nanometers. Cobra's newest models can distinguish between the different laser guns currently in use by law enforcement, so we have split the laser band into separate bands. Older Cobra detectors cannot distinguish between the different laser guns, but they will still provide an alert. It is extremely rare to get a false alert on laser. POP Mode POP mode is not a separate band. Rather, it is a special mode of operation. When the officer uses POP mode, the radar gun sends out a very short pulse. The pulse is so short that most radar detectors will not provide an alert. Typically the officer cannot write a ticket using POP mode, because it is not 100% reliable. But they will use it to sample your speed, and then decide whether to clock you in the normal way. Only a small percentage of radar guns offer POP mode. Higherend Cobra radar detectors can detect the POP signal. VG2 / SPECTRE The VG2 and Spectre guns are special devices used by law enforcement to identify the presence of a radar detector. It looks like a radar gun, but it does not measure speed. It tells the officer if you are using a radar detector. It works because all radar detectors leak a small amount of signal. Radar detectors are currently illegal in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and most parts of Canada. Radar detectors are also illegal in all 50 states for commercial drivers (truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc.). If the above does not apply to you, then you don't have to worry about being detected. All current Cobra radar detectors incorporate special circuitry so that they are invisible to the VG2 gun and to Spectre I. The above bands are all detection methods in use by law enforcement. The following bands are not for law enforcement, they provide safety information. SAFETY ALERT Designed by Cobra, Safety Alert is a system for alerting motorists to emergency vehicles or safety hazards. It requires a transmitter installed on the emergency vehicle. For radar detectors not equipped with Safety Alert, they will provide a K band warning. The motorist will then slow down and look around, taking notice of the emergency vehicle. For Cobra detectors, it will provide a Safety Alert warning, notifying you that an emergency vehicle is nearby. Safety Alert transmitters may also be present at railroad crossings and construction zones. Not all emergency vehicles are using Safety Alert. Each local municipality decides for themselves. STROBE ALERT Many cities have been using a special sensor mounted on traffic lights, which detects a special strobe light on emergency vehicles. When an emergency vehicle approaches the intersection, the lights turn red for all directions. This stops all traffic to help prevent accidents with the emergency vehicle. The newest Cobra radar detectors can detect the special strobe light, and warn you of an approaching emergency vehicle. Not all emergency vehicles are equipped with the special strobe light.


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Squandered Opportunities
6 Ways the U.S. Failed in Afghanistan: Speed Read of 'Little America'
Why did the 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan fail? A nightmarish new book has devastating revelations.
Manpreet Romana, AFP / Getty Images
When Washington Post senior correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran went to Afghanistan to report on the troop surge ordered by President Obama in 2009, he found vicious bickering in the leadership that sabotaged a peace deal, generals who dispatched troops to the wrong places, and rogue commanders who killed civilians and cost soldiers their lives. The result is Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. The author of the National Book Award finalist Imperial Life in the Emerald City gives another nightmarish account of a failed war and squandered opportunities. Here are the most devastating revelations.
Helmand, The War's Biggest Waste of Time
When Gen. Stanley McChrystal took command in Afghanistan in 2009, he wondered why nearly 11,000 U.S. soldiers in that year's troop surge had been sent to a sparsely populated province called Helmand, and only 4,000 were headed to Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city. Hundreds of U.S. troops were killed or injured defending ghost towns in Helmand, for no good reason.
Blame Canada (and Britain)
In 2005 President George W. Bush decided to reduce American forces in Afghanistan and deploy them in Iraq. NATO was asked to help stabilize the region. The Canadians got Kandahar and the British got Helmand.
The British had 9,000 troops in Helmand by 2009. Canada, on the other hand, had deployed only 2,830 soldiers to Kandahar province. Most of them were at headquarters or in support roles, while fewer than 600 were on patrol.
When Andrew Exum of the counterinsurgency advisory group Center for a New American Security asked U.S. Maj. Gen. Michael Tucker why more Canadians had not been sent into Kandahar, Tucker said he did not want to tell the Canadians what to do. Exum wrote in his notebook, "This guy is a jackass."
'Nobody Bothered to Ask'
Adm. Mike Mullen, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged then President-elect Barack Obama to rush the approval of a 17,000-troop increase in 2009—before the new White House could finish a review. The British had asked for as much U.S. assistance in Helmand as possible, but the Canadians had not, and U.S. generals did not want to force the Canadians to cede their territory. So more than half of the forces were about to head to Helmand in the first major military deployment of Obama's presidency. "Nobody bothered to ask, 'Tell us how many troops you're sending here and there,'" Chandrasekaran writes, quoting a senior White House official.
When McChrystal asked for 40,000 more troops later in 2009 and presented his request to Obama in the White House Situation Room, the 14-member War Cabinet also never asked why so many Marines were headed to Helmand.
The Rogue Commander
Col. Harry Tunnell commanded a brigade that included the 1–17 battalion, which patrolled Arghandab in central Kandahar province. He disagreed with Gen. David Petraeus's counterinsurgency theory, compiled as the COIN manual. Tunnell didn't believe in protecting villages and winning over residents through reconstruction; he only wanted to kill the bad guys. He called his unit the "Destroyer Brigade," and his vehicles were painted with the motto "Search and Destroy." Most egregiously, the 1–17 battalion was using the new eight-wheeled armored vehicle, called a Stryker, in places where soldiers should have been walking. They hit roadside bombs, and in one incident seven soldiers and an interpreter were killed. By the end of the 1–17's deployment in Arghandab, 21 soldiers had been killed, the highest death toll of any U.S. Army battalion in Afghanistan.
Tunnell also sent a battalion to far western Kandahar province, and they were subsequently charged with "murdering unarmed Afghans for sport and keeping their fingers as trophies." An investigation absolved Tunnell of any direct blame, but by then Tunnell had relinquished command of the brigade.
Infighting: McChrystal and Eikenberry
In the fall of 2009, Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, sent a cable to the White House and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling into question McChrystal's rationale for the troop surge. McChrystal was livid and thought that Eikenberry should have sent the cable to him first. When Obama decided to impose a deadline on the surge, McChrystal was very critical. Then came the Rolling Stone article that quoted him and his aides calling National Security adviser Jim Jones a "clown," special representative Richard Holbrooke "a wounded animal," and Vice President Joe Biden "bite me." McChrystal resigned the next day.
Infighting: Holbrooke and Lute
The late diplomat and special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was the best hope to secure a peace deal with the Taliban. But many members of Obama's team hated him, and the White House's failure to resolve the dispute sabotaged a chance at a negotiated settlement. Holbrooke was tough to work with. He wanted to sign off on every nonmilitary initiative, but he and his staff were too disorganized to deal with all the paperwork. Eikenberry and Deputy National Security adviser Doug Lute were frustrated and eventually it turned into a nasty dispute. Holbrooke helped select Eikenberry and put him on a short leash, calling him late almost every night and making threats to embassy officials. Holbrooke looked down on Lute, ignored his requests, and made him and his National Security Council staff revise many memos.
Instead of stopping the fighting, the Obama White House let it persist, and even encouraged it—Obama's team didn't like Holbrooke, who had campaigned for Hillary Clinton. The only one to protect him and believe in his diplomatic genius was Clinton, but that wasn't enough. Obama disliked him and sidelined him, while Lute and Jim Jones tried to get him fired. "The consequence was profound: The Obama White House failed to aggressively explore negotiations when it had the most boots on the battlefield," Chandrasekaran writes.


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Who could surprise the Fab 5 Hodge contenders at NCAA qualifiers?
The following is an alphabetical listing of the five undefeated front-runners for the 2014 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy, presented by ASICS, and what wrestlers could give them their biggest challenges at the upcoming NCAA qualifying/conference tournaments. The breakdown lists each wrestler's bonus-point statistics through Feb. 23.
Since Jan. 30, the former national champion and three-time All-American transfer from Wisconsin has wrestled at 184 pounds in five of his final six regular-season bouts for the Sooners. Head coach Mark Cody's squad has struggled with injuries and needed Howe to move up a weight.
Against 174 pounders within the Big 12, Howe has faced just two wrestlers. One was a 22-7 technical fall over Iowa State's Tanner Weatherman on Jan. 12. And on Dec. 1, Howe defeated Oklahoma State's Chris Perry — last year's national champion —4-2. They did not face each other Feb. 9 when Howe moved up to 184 in the second Bedlam dual.
Port, who finished second to Oklahoma's Kendric Maple in last season's NCAA tournament, has faced five Eastern Wrestling League foes this winter, pinning three. The only two to go the distance were Lock Haven's Dan Neff, who lost 4-1 to the Fighting Scot on Jan. 18, and Cleveland State's Jared McKinley, who fell 8-2 on Jan. 24. This year's EWL tournament will be held March 8 in Cleveland, Ohio.
In going 9-0 against Big Ten competition, the true freshman scored one pin and three major decisions. There were four other opponents who lost by decision. To keep his undefeated season alive, Retherford will likely need to again defeat Ohio State's two-time NCAA champion Logan Stieber, who lost 4-2 to the Nittany Lion in overtime on Dec. 15, and Minnesota's Chris Dardanes, who was blanked 4-0 on Feb. 9. Iowa's Josh Dziewa (Dec. 21) and Michigan's Steve Dutton (Feb. 2) also lost by decisions, 4-2 and 7-1, respectively. The Big Tens will be held, March 8-9 in Madison, Wisc.
Sheptock, who earned his first All-American honor last March before ending 2013 with a Midlands championship, is 6-0 against ACC foes this season. The Terp has scored bonus points in three matches: one by pin, one by technical fall and one by major decision. But there are three wrestlers who believe they have a shot of handing Sheptock his first loss this season at the ACC tournament, March 8, in Blacksburg, Va.: Pitt's Max Thomusseit, who lost 4-2 on Dec. 6; Virginia Tech's Nick Vetterlein, who fell 3-1 on Jan. 19; and Virginia's Jon Fausey, who was edged, 3-2 by Sheptock on Jan. 31.
The 2012 Hodge Trophy winner ended his home career in impressive fashion by pinning Clarion's Michael Pavasko in 11 seconds to capture bonus-point victories in 25 of his 26 wins this season.
Against his Big Ten brothers, who will meet March 8-9 in Madison, Wisc., at the Big Ten tournament, this Nittany Lion senior went 9-0 with two pins, four technical falls and three major decisions. It should be noted that Minnesota's Dan Zilverberg did score a takedown against Taylor, Feb. 9, before the three-time All-American rolled up a 13-3 major decision against the Gopher.
The ASICS Race for the Hodge Trophy Update lists the contenders for the 2014 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy. The list is compiled from the current season's numbers through February 9 and is based on dominance and the total number of matches. Results include action from the NWCA All-Star Classic in November.
Like the Heisman Trophy, the official selection is made by the 44-person Hodge Voting Committee, which is made up of all former Hodge winners, some members of the national wrestling media, retired college coaches from different regions of the country, a representative from a number of national wrestling organizations and two votes from a composite fan vote through WIN's website.
The official announcement is made the week following the 2014 NCAA Division I Championships, which will be held in Oklahoma City, March 20-22.


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This was hot! Hopefully there will be more videos with you two together!
The belly expansion from those two quarter pounder value meals is amazing. Great belly pats, burps, and trying to fit that belly in her shirt.
This was pretty good for the first vid. I look forward to more. You can definitely see Marlene's belly expand as the time goes by in this vid. Personally, I like the natural sound in the video. The candid groan, burp, etc. The music in the video was a bit distracting lol. Still 5 stars tho!
For some reason I'm unable to leave a review after purchasing, so I'll leave this here. This video is definitely worth it for the content at this price. She shows she's definitely a feedee who's about packing that gut.
You can definitely see the weight gain Shar has put on collectively. This vid in particular is awesome because you can see her newly formed deeper hang and new stretch marks creeping up as she stuffs donuts and milkshakes. There is a tiny tiny bit of bellybutton poking in this vid that is very much desired in future vids.
You are getting QUITE fat..
You can really see Bunny's belly expand in this one! The bellybutton play from her feeder is terrific!


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Julia Margaret Cameron – The Directorial Mode of C19th Photography.
Posted on December 27, 2012 by Sandra Kontos
Julia Margaret Cameron, Sadness, 1864. Albumen print, 22.1 X 17.5 cm.
I have chosen Sadness over other more obvious directorial examples in Julia Margaret Cameron's oeuvre because it combines many interesting elements. Cameron was known as a great casting director and sought to reveal the internal qualities of her sitters. In Sadness, the viewer ponders whether Ellen Terry, the great Shakespearean actress was collaborating with or performing for Cameron.
For A. D. Coleman, directorial photography is when, "the photographer consciously and intentionally creates events for the express purpose of making images…" (1) During the 1850s, the directorial approach was an alternative to realism in photography. Anne Marsh writes of this era as producing, "… photographic works which explore the performative and theatrical aspects of photography. The early photographers… provide the opportunity to look at self-consciously created oeuvres which aspired to the unreal, the made-up and, at times, attempted to represent the unrepresentable." (2)
The photograph of Terry aged sixteen, was taken at Freshwater Bay (Cameron's home) while she was on her honeymoon. The portrait reveals Cameron's ability to draw out Terry's character. Terry was an actress and a young bride of a mismatched marriage with the painter George Frederick Watts, a man twenty one years her senior. The couple separated less than a year later.
An interesting reading can be made of this work when firstly, Cameron's personality is taken into account. Secondly, when the questions posed by her technique and directorial style are considered. And thirdly, from a fascinating essay on patriarchal society and sexuality during the Victorian era by Anne Marsh.
In The Magic Image, Cameron is described as "… outspoken, candid… iron-willed… hypnotic [and] determined to express herself…" (3) When Cameron moved to England from her birthplace of Calcutta after marrying the philosopher Charles Hay Cameron (who was twice her age) she "… did not attempt to hide her contempt for the ways of conventional society." (4) It was when they moved to the Isle of Wright that Cameron found the "intellectual stimulus she craved." (5) The illustrious crowd that visited her home included Alfred Lord Tennyson, Longfellow and Thomas Carlyle, and many became the subjects of her photographs. Inspired by the allegorical paintings of her friend George Frederic Watts, Cameron began composing her photographs in a similar style.
George Fredrick Watts, Arion Saved by the Dolphin, 1896. Oil on canvas, 28.5 X 41.5 cm.
There are differing opinions on Cameron's "sloppy" technique and soft focus. Some historians are of the opinion that it was Cameron's inexperience and enthusiasm "to show the greatness of the inner and give likeness of the outer man." (6) Other's suspect a "subconscious unwillingness to submit to any technical principle… [an] obscure desire to subvert technique." (7) In 'Annals of my Glass House,' 1874, Cameron wrote, "… when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon." (8) Photography and its relationship to reality and truth are at work in Cameron's image. Coleman writes, "The issue here is not whether the photographer manipulated the print but the subject." (9)
The collodion tear on the image surface evokes a peeling of layers revealing what is hidden beneath. Anne Marsh refers to Steven Marcus' book The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England, which documents the dualistic interpretation of sexuality. A way of enforcing the construct of women as being controlled within a patriarchal society was achieved by confining women to the home, where women carried out the duties of "chaste mother and caring wife." (10) Cameron photographs Terry in her house, leaning into the shadow against regency wallpaper, tugging at her necklace nervously, her wedding ring subdued.
This dualistic quality is further evidenced in the eroticism achieved by photographing Terry in her petticoat. The fabric, with its Pre-Raphaelite folds and lacework falls slightly off her shoulders and highlights a sensual curve to her hair upswept behind her shoulder. Weston Naef remarks, "There is a very skilful use of light that reinforces the sensual element of the content. The light comes off of her cheek and models the lower part of her jaw…" (11) Her long neck exposed is quite provocative. Marcus' double coding of women and sexuality brings into question the nature of Cameron's directorial gaze. The devout Anglican, mother and wife, and the sexualised image she created subvert Nineteenth century conventions.
1. A D Coleman, 'The Directorial Mode: Notes toward a definition,' in Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the present, ed. Vicki Goldberg, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981, p. 484.
2. A Marsh, 'Ghostly Performances: The Aura of Early Art Photography,' in The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire, Melbourne: Macmillan, 2003, p. 116.
3. C Beaton, G Buckland, The Magic Image, Little, Brown & Company, 1975, p. 62.
7. A Scharf, Pioneers of Photography, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1975, p. 78.
9. Coleman, op. cit., p. 480.
10. Marsh, op. cit., p. 122.
11. N Weston, (ed.) In Focus Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from The J. Paul Getty Museum, Christopher Hudson, 1996, p. 108.
Julia Margaret Cameron http://www.masters-of-photography.com/C/cameron/cameron_sadness_full.html
George Fredrick Watts http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/arion-saved-by-the-dolphin-97313
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Adam Fuss – The Mirrored Surface; Daguerreotypes in the Digital Age.
Adam Fuss, My Ghost, 2001. Daguerreotype, 27.9 x 35.6 cm.
Sekula's claim, that the history of photography is haunted by "two chattering ghosts," seems a perfect statement when discussing My Ghost by Adam Fuss, 2001. Fuss liberally and literally draws on the pictorial and technological history of photography in this series of images. The image in the Art Gallery of New South Wales' collection, is a sumptuous and ephemeral milky blue daguerreotype of a wing spanned white swan. The polished plate creates a mesmerizing otherworldly image coupled with the fact that symbolically, "The swan can be read historically as a mythical creature alluding to love and death…" (1)
Even today, a daguerreotype holds the viewer, it is a magical experience to see one up close. I now comprehend how powerful these images would have originally been to a Victorian audience. Immediately I think to myself, is this Zeus, disguised as a swan descending from the heavens to seduce Leda? No, it is Fuss, captivating his audience, creating a little yelp in the minds and hearts of those of us obsessed with the history of photography and alternative analogue printing processes.
According to Sekula, every photograph is sending a message. So what message is Fuss sending the viewer? In 1840, Edgar Allen Poe described the daguerreotype thus, "In truth the daguerreotype plate is infinitely more accurate than any painting by human hands… the photographic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented." (2) This is one of the ghosts that Sekula speaks of, the ghost of objectivity. Sekula writes of photographic discourse and the authoritative voice of photography as evidence, truth and of affirmation. (3) For Sekula photographic meaning is linked to context. Fuss draws on these definitions inherent in photography's history in My Ghost.
William Henry Talbot, Articles of China, c. 1844. Salt print from a Calotype paper negative printed image, 13.4 X 18 cm.
Fuss documents the swan in a scientific way. Similarly, in 'The Pencil of Nature,' William Henry Talbot employed the objective photographic eye to compile an inventory of the china and glass cabinets in his home at Lacock Abbey. Yet at the same time, Talbot recognized the capabilities this new technology had upon representation and art. This is Sekula's opposing ghost, the ghost of aestheticism.
In this age of digital imaging, to come across images produced in this labour intensive process is so very rare and even more exciting. Grundberg writes, "It's easy to see Fuss's cameraless photograms and latter-day daguerreotypes as reactions to our digital era, in which photography's ring of truth has a hollow sound." (4) A daguerreotype is a "unique-and-precious-object" that cannot be reproduced unlike proceeding photographic processes. (5)
Fuss titles the series, My Ghost, effectively alluding to the history of mortuary photography and the photograph as a memento mori. In a singular image, Fuss has captured both these ghosts. The clinical pose of the dead swan is set free, imbued with a spiritual quality as it floats hauntingly in a milky blue sky. Grundberg writes, "Fuss's photographs might be said to superimpose the presence of absence on the absence of presence." (6)
V&A Channel. Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography. Adam Fuss – This is a revealing and evocative look at Adam's Fuss's working environment and an insight into his creative ideas.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/channel/people/photography/shadow_catchers_camera-less_photography_adam_fuss/
1. Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 December 2012, <http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/156.2001/>
2. A. Sekula, 'On the Invention of Photographic Meaning' in Thinking Photography, ed. Victor Burgin, London: Macmillan, 1982, p. 87.
4. A. Grundberg, 'Adam Fuss'. Artforum, Vol. 41, Issue 1, September 2002, viewed 20 December 2012, <http://search.proquest.com.wwwproxy0.library.unsw.edu.au/docview/214348639?accountid=12763>
5. Sekula, op.cit., p. 95.
6. A. Grundberg, 'My Ghost'. Artforum, Vol. 9, Issue 2, Summer 2002, viewed on 20 December 2012, <http://search.proquest.com.wwwproxy0.library.unsw.edu.au/docview/214350852accountid=12763>
Adam Fuss http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/156.2001/
William Henry Talbot http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=106520
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Alfred Stieglitz – Why I Photography Clouds.
Alfred Stieglitz, Equivalent, 1929. Gelatin Silver Print, 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Stieglitz repeatedly used a number of motifs in his work. In New York, the symbols of modernity such as skyscrapers, snow covered streets, views of city buildings from his window, trains & railways, ferries & ocean liners, depict a changing, bustling world. In his Lake George years, Stieglitz photographed friends that visited, the farmhouse, sheds, fields, grassy knolls, clouds and dying poplar trees. Perhaps, his most famous works are the 300 or so photographs of his wife and muse, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
Stieglitz first photographed clouds in 1922 when he was 58 years old. It began with a simple statement from the artist, "I wanted to photograph clouds to find out what I had learned in forty years about photography." (1) Inspired by the work of O'Keeffe, "whose paintings were deeply expressive of her visual, emotional and psychological experiences," (2) Stieglitz developed his theory of clouds being the equivalent of his life experience.
Further investigation into Stieglitz's photographs of clouds reveals a complex range of influences and readings of these fascinating images. In his early years in Europe he greatly appreciated the composers and painters of the German Romantic period. (3) In 1912, he published an excerpt in Camera Work from Wassily Kandinsky's book Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Kandinsky wrote of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso: "These are the seekers of the inner spirit in outer things." (4) He greatly admired the transcendental writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson that elevated the spiritual above the empirical. And lastly, he was undoubtedly well-acquainted with Symbolist theories of the picture as a metaphor. (5)
His early experiments with clouds, Music – A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs No III, 1922 & Equivalent 1924, are both anchored to the ground by small hills and trees. But, in the Equivalents of 1929, no such connection or narrative exists. The photograph depicts the clouds on an angle which disorientates the viewer. Krauss writes that photography, "offers a direct, transparent relationship to experience." (6) Krauss describes the significant feature of these works is what Stieglitz chose to reject and present with only the gesture of a cut. (7) Stieglitz relinquished control over his subject which Krauss interestingly compares to Marcel Duchamp's readymades.
The world became a vehicle for Stieglitz to express the profound feelings he was experiencing. "There seemed to be something closely related to my deepest feeling in what I saw, and I decided to photograph what was within me." (8) Stieglitz wanted to transmit meaning using clouds as a metaphor. He said, "My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life." (9) Therefore, his thoughts, emotions and experiences could correspond to abstract forms, lines and colours. Stieglitz wanted his photographs to look like photographs and to embody the medium's inherent qualities. Sekula writes of photography's dual nature; symbolic and realistic, art against documentary photography, "photographer as seer vs photographer as witness." (10) With Stieglitz's Equivalents, Sekula believes a quintessential aspect of the medium as evidence has been renounced in favour of a metaphorical romanticism.
1. D. Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, Aperture, New York, 1960, p. 143.
2. S. Greenough, 'Alfred Stieglitz and the Idea of Photography', in Alfred Stieglitz the Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010, p. 32.
3. J. Annear, 'An Introduction', in Alfred Stieglitz the Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010, p. 18.
6. R. Krauss, 'Stieglitz/"Equivalents"', in October. Vol. 11, Essays in Honor of Jau Leyda (Winter, 1979), p. 129, viewed 14 December 2012, <http://www.jstor.org/stable/778239>
8. D. Norman, The History of Photography Series; Alfred Stieglitz, Aperture, New York, 1976, p. 6.
9. D. Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, p. 144.
10. A. Sekula, 'On the Invention of Photographic Meaning', in Thinking Photography, ed. Victor Burgin, Macmillan, London, 1982, p. 108.
Alfred Stieglitz http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/artwork/Stieglitz-Equivalent1842+.htm
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Observations of the Author (using Christian Boltanski's, 'What they Remember' as a model)
Posted on December 7, 2012 by Sandra Kontos
On the back of the Artemis pendant she wears around her neck, the words "Courage" are engraved.
The middle finger of her right hand is slightly crooked. She broke it as a child. Riding her bike she scrapped her hand against a wall. She flicked her hand clicking it back into shape. Too scared to tell her mother of the accident, she hid her hand & swollen finger from her for weeks.
She loves the smell of cigar smoke. It reminds her of her father.
She nearly kissed a girl on a summer's night in tall grass. The girl wore a red dress.
Whenever she is in Athens she visits the Acropolis. She often thinks about how many people have walked the same footsteps she is now over the ages.
She has eliminated black from her wardrobe preferring earthy colours; greens, browns and blues.
She has an alter ego named Roxy Manet. Roxy wears black.
She is very selective about the people she spends time with.
She loves the quiet of the mornings, often reading and listening to classical music.
She is an artist, mostly working in photomedia.
Her childhood was happy.
On special occasion's her mother & siblings would have dinner at her father's restaurant. She often ordered fresh strawberries & cream for dessert. Her father always wore a suit and tie.
She devours books.
She has very eclectic taste in music.. from Preisner to Radiohead.
She laughs when her friend J says, he's "gagging" to see her.
She carries a lot of things in her bag.
She used to wear a ring on her ring finger which was given to her on Xmas Eve 2004. She no longer wears the ring. Sometimes she feels her ringless finger, for a few seconds her heart sinks.
One night she especially delighted in seeing her beloved dog's sausage silhouette in the lightly dimmed kitchen.
She wears her hair short.
She loved riding her bike as a child.
6 August 2012.
She loves the colder months of the year and contemplates her mother's maiden name which translates as "without winter" from Greek.
Once she lay on the grassy hillside full of wild flowers at the stadium in Ancient Olympia. It was a warm day in Spring. She remembers smoking a cigarette and looking at the patterns the clouds made in the sky.
She had a Burmese cat named Kitty Scout. He was named after a character in one of her favourite books, "To Kill a Mockingbird".
She is very sentimental, often keeping what may be insignificant to most.
Once a girl gave her honeysuckle to taste. With that gesture, the drop of sweetness in her mouth, her heart swelled and came undone.
She enjoys moments of solitude.
Her memory is a little scattered at times which she often blames on a period in her life when she smoked a lot of pot.
She collects decorative boxes.
As a child she loved playing the piano and often memorised long pieces because she couldn't read music very well.
She often photographs clouds like Alfred Stieglitz did.
She wants to hike to St George, a church at the top of the mountains in Nestani, Greece… and she finally did on 2 May 2016.
Most of her photographs are drawn from memories, perhaps they are too overwhelming to keep inside, she needs to archive the emotion by making a photograph of it.. those impossible bodily experiences, to "materialise memory" as Zelizer eloquently puts it.
She has a scar on her right knee from a moped accident in Santorini. After the fall, her first words were, "Is my camera OK?"
She can recite Lord Byron's, "She Walks in Beauty".
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Henry Potter auch Harry Potter genannt (* 4. Oktober 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri; † 24. Januar 1955 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Golfer.

Biografie
Potter spielte Golf beim St. Louis Country Club. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 1904 in St. Louis konnte er mit der Trans Mississippi Golf Association im Mannschaftswettkampf die Silbermedaille gewinnen. Im Einzel hingegen schied er in der ersten Runde bereits gegen den Briten Simpson Foulis aus. Neben seiner olympischen Silbermedaille war ein zweiter Platz beim Missouri Amateur 1907 sein größter Erfolg im Golfsport. Potter zog später nach New York City, wo er in einer Anwaltskanzlei arbeitete.

Sein Bruder Clarkson Potter nahm ebenfalls am Golfeinzel bei den Olympischen Spielen 1904 teil.

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Q: Is it possible for blasters to explode? Are there any examples in canon or Legends of a blaster backfiring or exploding due to impact or enemy fire?
Since some blasters use tibanna gas to increase their damage output, is it possible that this gas could explode? While reading up on tibanna gas it sounds like it isn't too volatile on its own, but maybe being compressed and weaponized gives it explosive potential.

A: Yes, various models such as the E-web, Subaqua, and others as described below, were prone to overheating, for various reasons, and exploding. From the Wookieepedia page for blasters:

A side effect of firing blasters was the gas conversion enabler
  heating up as gas was energized by the power pack, which could cause
  blasters to overheat, sometimes to the point of destruction..

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*If blasters are poorly maintained or improperly modified they can overheat/melt/explode.

*Either the E-11 (the standard issue sidearm for Stormtroopers) or the E-11b (a modified variant of the E-11) was also known for overheating, but Wookieepedia is confused about which it is.

*If they are overused by being set to an overload shot (one maximally powerful burst), as described here:

However, some disruptor pistols were capable of being set to overload,
  a setting which greatly increased the pistol's power for a single
  shot. Unfortunately this usually resulted in the firearm being
  rendered useless, due to the weapon's internals suffering damage from
  focusing even more energy into what was already an unstable form of
  tibanna gas particles.

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*If they are overused by being fired on full automatic as described here:

However, setting the weapon to full automatic fire drained the power
  pack in less than twenty seconds, and the wielder ran the risk of
  overheating the internal components and causing an explosive overload.

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*A specific example of this is the death of Granta Omega, who died when his E-web overheated and exploded, severely wounding him before Obi-wan Kenobi finished him off:

Omega manned an E-web against Kenobi. His weapon overheated and
  exploded. Omega was thrown against a wall. He made another attempt to
  attack Kenobi, but was too weak, and Obi-Wan was forced to kill Omega
  with his lightsaber.

N.B.1. I was not able to find any canon examples of a blaster exploding due to enemy fire, but that does not mean that they don't exist.
N.B.2. I found a non-canon reference to intentionally overloading a blaster and then throwing it away, and thus using it as a grenade, but I am not confident in the source.

A: In the The Old Republic: Annihilation there is an example of a blaster exploding:

  Karrid runs for the command pod and Theron throws is ruined blaster inside, activating it just before the pod closes. The blaster explodes, killing Karrid. source

this occurs because:

 Theron Shan uses the blaster barrel as a lever to open a door and it is bent.

Found a link to the book that describes why the blaster explodes later on in the novel, second paragraph from the bottom:
link (caution there may be spoilers here if you haven't finished)

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Q: Target machine refused connection for cache in Django I am trying the code in the django-redis documentation page (http://niwinz.github.io/django-redis/latest/#_expire_persist):
from django.core.cache import cache
cache.set("foo", "value", timeout=25)

I am getting an error message when running this code: "redis.exceptions.ConnectionError: Error 10061 connecting to 127.0.0.1:6379. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it."
I set my cache settings in the settings.py page as described in the documentation, and I do not think the problem is being caused by a firewall, as I was able to get the regular redis caching with JSON to work. What could be causing the problem, and how should I fix it?


We keep on developing Meteonorm. We update the data base and algorithms, add additional features and remove possible bugs.
On this page you can follow the version history.
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Optionally remembers the output format setting.
Note: This version had been retracted due to problems with file paths on certain Windows installations. All changes have been integrated into version 7.0.22.
Corrections of the radiation output when using a horizon with temporary shadowing.
Corrections of the radiation output of locations above the polar circle.
The preview should now correctly indicate which data (meteonorm or imported) was used in the calculation.
Location data changes for Guatemala, Potsdam, Sede Boqer, Gillot.
Improvements for the spanish and italian translations.
Changes to the graphical interface: More information visible.
Fixes beam output for TMY3.
Improves handling of coordinates in the location information dialog for international users.
Adds wind load information to preview.
Custom locations are now sorted alphabetically.
Monthly dew point temperature values are now handled correctly. Import of relative humidity enabled.
Fixes a bug in the user-defined locations dialog (entering latitude/longitude).
For locations with high horizons, corrected global radiation data is now used per default. In previous versions, original global radiation data is used per default (register modifications; only for approx. 20 Swiss weather stations).
Test reference stations of DWD: change of time reference and limitation of high beam values. In previous versions partially too high beam values have been calculated (in morning hours) due to time reference errors.
Horizontal beam (H_Bh or G_Bn) is now correctly named in user defined output format.
Adding a constant horizon on a topological horizon resulted in an invalid horizon.
Improvements to the monthly values import table.
Corrects wrong parameter output for PVSyst calculations.
User defined locations are now searchable.
Minor improvements for the user interface.
Improved Internet connectivity and proxy handling.
Changes license management: One serial number is now valid for all users on one system.
Adds an easy way to define constant horizons.
Underdefined horizons (Less than one point per 90°) are now calculated correctly.
Corrects radiation periods for weather stations in the output preview.
Improves Internet connection handling for registration and maps.
New, simpler save data dialog.
The file extensions for custom formats are now configurable.
Minor bugfixes and correction to some location coordinates.
Fixes severe localisation problems in regions where commata are used instead of decimal points (Germany, France, Norway et al.) This also fixes crashes during startup for french users.
Implements automatic proxy server detection and prevents crashes during the registration process.
Fixes report generation for the TMY2 format.
Horizon files saved by meteonorm 7 are now compatible with PV*SOL.
Sun paths are now correctly drawn on the southern hemisphere.
Minor bug fixes and corrections of translation errors.
Total redesign of software, more intuitive handling.
New map tool for site selection.
New import interface for user defined data (including current data by internet).
Redesign of the horizon tool, including calculation of reflexions of panels.
Access to climate change forecasts (3 IPCC scenarios).
Updated database including 8'300 weather stations.
Output of the uncertainty of yearly values of radiation and temperature for any site.
Wind load zones for Germany and Switzerland and snow load zones for Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France.
Updated interpolation models to calculate mean values for any site in the world.
Calculation of direct radiation and inclined planes with additional models.


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Week 29, 15 July 2016
Steak au poivre, with the sauce starting to bubble
What a week it's been, that exciting time when all the hard work we've done preparing recipes for the magazine comes to fruition during the photography sessions with our photographers and stylists, Mike Emmett and Bec Smith. These sessions serve three practical purposes: they provide that final test under pressure, and confirm the dishes are right for the table; in other words they are not too cheffy or too difficult for normal cooks to prepare and present; and, of course, the all-important photos—the final proof of the pudding!
Our recipe creators, Lesley Russell and Yolaine Corbin (who is also a Thermomix consultant) worked in tandem to create some wonderful dishes for the Spring/Summer edition, focusing on the food of France. Our favourite, and likely cover shot, was that traditional French Bistro classic, steak au poivre, which, for inexplicable reasons, seems to have drifted out of favour. First came the brilliant, intoxicating aroma emerging from the Thermomix as the peppers are pulverised, then the sizzle of the steak in the burning pan, and finally, the bubbling of the creamy sauce as the mix of cream and beef stock and port all come together to enrobe the steak.
Pictured from top left: Pain Perdu, with a compote of berries, pear and ginger; Gaston Lenotre's fruit pastilles; Philippe Mouchel's French Onion Soup; Yolaine Corbin's family interpretation of tapenade, with dried figs.
The next edition also includes an essay by the brilliant American food writer, Ed Behr, who has been writing wonderful observations of food and wine for thirty-plus years in his regular newsletter The Art Of Eating. Behr has just released his latest book The Food & Wine of France (Penguin), and he writes in his introduction: "The old dishes are mostly gone, except the stereotypical selection in a retro-ish bistro, and even those dishes may not be intact. To be clear, I mean coq au vin, gratinéed onion soup, sole meunière, salade Niçoise, frisée aux lardons, moules frites, Steak frites, steak au poivre…" As well as the steak au poivre, our next edition includes great French favourites pommes dauphine, quenelles Lyonnaise, salmon soufflé, brioche, pain perdu, French onion soup, tapenade Provençale, fruit pastilles and many more. I have been reading Behr's work for most of those 30 years and his newsletter is now available digitally. For those interested in the essence of food, and the great characters who produce it, a subscription is a must.
One of the favourites of our Instagram feed during the week was the photos we published of young Charlie Jones, the eight-month old son of Bec Smith. Charlie was at every session, helping, helping—when he wasn't sleeping or eating. If only we could all be eight months old again, contemplating on a life ahead.
Some years ago, travelling through Tasmania, I came across a café offering "peanut butter pesto", which despite a nagging curiosity I couldn't make myself try it, even for research. That led to something positive. I commissioned one of our regular authors, Victoria Heywood, to write a book which I had pencilled in the title of "Good Food, Shit Food". Our distributor blanched at the thought (despite the fact that main streets across the world feature the FCUK fashion shops), so it ended up as "Good Food, Bad Food". Victoria did a wonderful job providing 80+ recipes of dishes that every young man and woman leaving home should know and love, counter-balanced by versions that really shouldn't be considered (eg peanut butter pesto).
I was reminded of this chain of events from a report in Melbourne's Age newspaper (July 15), in which Matt Preston describes coming across a "blue smurf latte", a "concoction" of, wait for it, "coconut milk, lemon, ginger and 'live' E3 algae powder". This follows the growing craze for coffees laced with nut milks, soy milks, any milks but milk milks. Preston, who has been a regular contributor to The Age, was less than praising in his assessment of the latest offering: "Humans do not normally eat blue coloured foods—there aren't many in nature—and we prefer to brunch further up the food chain than fish (the only type of creature that willingly eats algae)." It's a brilliant article, deserving of many readers, and much self-assessment.
As a benefit for readers of the newsletter, we're offering Good Cook, Bad Cook for $19.95, including postage and handling (within Australia) [normally $29.95]. Just go to https://books.slatterymedia.com/store/viewItem/good-cook-bad-cook and insert the code GCBC2016 and the book will be in the next mail.


Las Cruces, N.M. - In an ongoing effort to provide top-notch constituent service, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich's (D-N.M.) staff will hold Mobile Office Hours on Friday, April 19 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Senior Center in Reserve. Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions regarding Social Security benefits, Medicare, immigration, veterans benefits, student loans, and other federal programs. All are encouraged to attend.


Today I had my second Dual Fraxel treatment on my face ... my face is so inflamed - it is HOT!
BUT I should be all healed within the next 8 days, and hopefully my melasma is diminished lots more. I also popped into my Dentist yesterday and picked up some teeth whitening product - it was $300 cheaper than I thought it would be! OOOHHH YEAAAAHHH! So I'm getting the pearly whites sorted as well!
But oh my when I got home from the Clinic at midday ... I felt sooo hungry this afternoon and evening. I had a craving for some really fatty food, but I didn't buy any on the way home and there is NO WAY I'm going out in public looking like this!
SO ... I had some of my delicious creamy spinach and zucchhini soup to tide me over then I made some yummy tomato and spinach sauce, then stuffed cannelloni with spinach and riccotta ... and had a healthy feast! SURE, I overate (by 200 calories) ... SURE I feel really full right now ... but I think I'm doing pretty flaming (excuse pun) awesome!
And its all thanks to Spark People ... NOWHERE can you get this type of support, any hour of the day and continually updated and improved every day ... INSPIRATIONAL!


The holidays are here! Snow has blanketed the ground, and everyone is going home or elsewhere for Christmas (or trying to–the airports are closed!). I'm spending Christmas in Scotland, but before I go, I wanted to leave a little gift to all of the lovely Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier fans out there.
The Oliviers at a party thrown by Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont in 1953. Vivien's first social appearance after her nervous breakdown.
Vivien Leigh at a party thrown by Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont in 1953. Her first public appearance after her nervous breakdown.
Thanks so much for the great pictures and a special thanks to Mark for sharing! I wish you both a happy holiday and a wonderful new year. Enjoy your time in Scotland. I hear the mull of kintyre is breathtaking! (If you're going there!) Congratulations on your successful semester.
Thanks Sylvia! Happy holidays to you as well! The semester is over, but all my papers are due in January, so I'm still working!
Thanks so much…they are wonderful. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. Enjoy Scotland.
Wonderful pictures!! THANKS you &Mark for sharing. All my gratitude to you for sharing your webpage, text, pictures, post in fb, twitter, tumlbr, your wonderful and dedicated work this year the fans of vivandlarry.com & the Oliviers, will be waiting for news, travel, school and adventures in London.My best wishes to you, Merry Christmas and very happy New Year, sincerely Bea from south of Chile.
Merry Christmas! Thanks for sharing the pics, love the behind the scenes shot from That Hamilton Woman!
Hope you enjoy Scotland – isn't London snowy enough for you???!!!


I've always been confounded by the presence of both .bashrc and .bash_profile and how they related.
The difference is powerful, surely, but also annoying. Most of the time, you just want something to always run in bash, and you don't care about login vs. non-login.
Which is why it's recommended to have .bash_profile merely source .bashrc.
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Mostar, Then And Now
On November 9, 1993, one of Bosnia-Herzegovina's cultural treasures became a casualty of war. The Old Bridge in Mostar, built in 1566 during the Ottoman Empire, was destroyed by shells fired by Croatian gunners amid fierce fighting with Bosnian Muslims.
The destruction was ordered by Slobodan Praljak, a former commander of Bosnian Croat forces, who was found guilty of the crime in 2013 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). "It's just an old bridge," Praljak was quoted as saying in 1993. Praljak's 20-year sentence was upheld by judges on appeal in The Hague on November 29, 2017.
A new bridge built largely from the original stones was unveiled in Mostar in 2004, becoming a symbol of postwar reconciliation. These combination photographs compare the war-ravaged sites of Mostar with the reconstructed city.
(This gallery was originally published in April 2013.)
1 People cross a makeshift bridge in Mostar after the destruction of the 16th-century Old Bridge in 1993. On the right, the new bridge as it appeared in 2013. The reconstruction was completed in 2004 at a cost of $15.4 million, financed by a World Bank loan and international grants.
2 The makeshift bridge that replaced the destroyed Old Bridge, and the rebuilt structure in 2013.
3 The Mehmed Pasina Mosque in Mostar, heavily damaged in fighting in 1993, and the mosque as it appeared in 2013
4 A man reads on the steps of a damaged building in the old section of Mostar in 1993. Below, the same street in February 2013.


On June 4, 2016 thousands of secular Americans came together at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC to Speak Up for Reason and show the rising power of the secular American voting bloc.
The goal of the Reason Rally was to showcase the presence and power of the nonreligious voting bloc, and to demand that reason be put at the forefront of our public and political discourse. We excited and empowered attendees about that message to take back home and apply at the local and state levels.
Not only do we celebrate our secular, atheist, agnostic, humanist, freethinking, and nonreligious identities, we are prepared to exercise our power at the voting box to bring good sense back to government. But the Reason Rally is first and foremost a celebration — with awesome speakers, bands, entertainment, and political leaders — all there to celebrate and support the secular community.
It's important for us as a community to just come together, be among like-minded folks, and celebrate who we are and what we've accomplished. We call it a "voting bloc party" because we want to capture that feeling of community and celebration alongside the strong message of growing political influence.
Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C.


Kevin Tappin taught us a course on open face casting. We used a baby dress to cast. We built our box with plywood, glued down our dress, make the hydroperm casting material, pulled the dress out and filled the mold with coarse glass frit. Several days of drying were followed by two days in the kiln. The second day at the course was spent chipping the plaster casting off and then hours of cold working, staring with a coarse bit on the grinder, followed with a medium bit and then a fine bit. The next couple of hours were spent using the diamond pads to the edge so we had a smooth edge. I tried it a second time at home and made two baby hats and booties. It was lots of fun trying another glass form. I realize that there is a lot to learn in this this field of glass.


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Sprout is excited to welcome new official Audio Partner EPOS
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Copenhagen, Denmark – May 10, 2021 – Sprout is elated to officially welcome EPOS, the unchallenged pioneer of high-end audio solutions and innovative technology, to their ranks as Official Audio Partner. Sprout, together with EPOS, look forward to elevating the gaming experience of our players through the Power of Audio.
EPOS has already made a name for themselves in esports - and how could they not? EPOS was founded with a mission to unleash human potential by perfecting audio experience and delivering innovative designs with their entire product range of audio solutions. EPOS products open the way to superior audio technology for all gamers. EPOS provides excellent products of unmatched quality that are the perfect fit for the highest level of competitive esports.
Sprout has had a very fruitful first half of 2021 already, coming out on top at the German championship, prevailing at the Unites Pro Series and pocketing the gold medal at the European Development Championship.
We are now ready for the next leap and are looking forward to a great upcoming season where Sprout and EPOS are thrilled to pursue the next level of #GrowSprout.
"With EPOS we have the perfect partner to meet the auditory demands of a professional esports team. We want to offer our players the best possible solution to utilize their full potential. Now we can support this with innovative products." Sven Thomas, Executive Manager of Sprout
"We are thrilled to join forces with Sprout as Official Audio Partner. In throwing the full weight of our exceptional engineering, technology and product portfolio behind the team, EPOS will elevate Sprout to the next level of competitive gameplay, through total immersion and unrivalled accuracy in audio and communications. We look forward to joining Sprout as they build on the incredible success so far." Steven Smith, VP Global Sales, Gaming, EPOS
About Sprout
Sprout was founded in late 2017 in the capital of Germany, Berlin. Not long after, Sprout decided to join the ESBD, the German federation of esports to actively help shape a healthy development of esports.
Currently, their major focus is their CSGO Team. The present line-up has already accomplished grand titles, on both international and national grounds. Sprout remain the untouched German champions for three consecutive seasons already, scoring the last title in the beginning of the year. Besides that, the active roster stood their ground at the United Pro Series as well as the European Development Championship, season 2, emerging with the gold medal. Another great accomplishment was set just recently as Sprout took the chance and paved the way for German talent promotion majorly and, with that, set a vast milestone for German esports history. Sprout has taken a young and promising talent under their wing, utilizing a spot in a renown German sports school, and allowing him to join their active roster. In doing so, Sprout can contribute to German talent promotion in a responsible way.
For more information about Sprout, visit https://sprout.gg/
EPOS is an audio and video solution company developing and selling devices for business professionals and the gaming community. Based on leading and advanced technologies, the Danish founded company delivers high-end audio and video solutions with design, technology and performance as paramount parameters.
The establishment of EPOS is based on the decision to let the business segments of the joint venture – known as Sennheiser Communications – between Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG and Demant A/S evolve in different set-ups. Alongside the introduction of a new own-branded portfolio, EPOS continues to sell the current Sennheiser Communications portfolio co-branded as EPOS I SENNHEISER.
EPOS is part of the Demant Group – a world-leading audio and hearing technology group. As such, it builds on more than 115 years of experience of working with innovation and sound.
With headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, EPOS operates in a global market with offices and partners in more than 30 countries.
Find more information at www.eposaudio.com
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Copenhagen, Denmark – November 23, 2022 – Expert audio brand EPOS rolls out an update to its affiliate program taking collaborations with streamers and content creators to the next level. The new community program is improved to be more rewarding and engaging by introducing a tiered system allowing for closer relationships with the community members.
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Abortion Under The Gavel Again
On December 4, 2021 December 4, 2021 By drnc11In Culture Wars, history, News Commentary, Political Commentary
Cover photo credit: <https://reproductiverights.org/case/scotus-mississippi-abortion-ban/>.
Abortion rights are once again at the Supreme Court of the United States. Oral arguments were presented on Wednesday (12/1) over the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Center. If the SCOTUS rules in favor of the state of Mississippi, upholding its Gestational Age Act, a new precedent will be set for individual states to set new restrictions on the female healthcare procedure with 15 weeks as the new cut off date to obtain said procedure (the current cut off date is 24 weeks). Whereas several more conservative states have interests in enacting similar laws within there their own jurisdictions, a ruling from the SCOTUS in favor of Mississippi would effectively kick the issue back to the states. The silver lining for the more liberal states would be that they could enact their own protections for abortion services within their jurisdictions but there would still be a burden on lower class women in conservative areas; obviously if you're in a lower economic class you cannot travel as easily as if you were more financially stable.
I think that if the SCOTUS rules in favor of Mississippi in Mississippi v. Jackson Women's Health Center it will further damage what credibility the court holds. The right to an abortion was cemented in 1973 with Roe v. Wade and affirmed in 1992 with Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
The Chief Justice of the SCOTUS at the time of Roe v. Wade was Warren Burger, a life-long political scientist and lawyer who helped secure his home state for then-Republican presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower back during the Republican presidential convention of 1952. Warren Burger was nominated to the SCOTUS by President Richard Nixon in 1969 whom apparently agreed with Burger's more strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Burger would later vote with the majority in Roe v. Wade as well as lead a unanimous court against President Nixon in United States v. Nixon.
The Chief Justice at the time of Planned Parenthood v. Casey was William Rehnquist, an American lawyer who also believed in a more strict interpretation of the Constitution emphasizing the 10th Amendment, reserving powers not explicitly given to the federal government to the respective states. Rehnquist opposed both decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Abortion rights have survived two conservative chief justices and has been established law in the United States for 48 years now, enough time to envelope two generations of Americans. The SCOTUS was designed to create a relatively stable system of law throughout these states while resisting shaky whims of populations, it was not meant to be a political body as are the U.S. Congress and the office of the Presidency. If the current conservative majority on the SCOTUS rule in favor of Mississippi, I fear that the court will become more political and divisive with justices reversing whatever rulings their personal politics dictate at the time.
The rhetoric against abortion is a religious pseudo-argument, a remnant of archaic thinking that limits critical thinking skills and ties humanity to superstitious traditions masquerading as wisdom. Religious pseudo-arguments have no place in what is supposed to be a secular government. The argument in favor of abortion as a legitimate medical procedure is an empirical, libertarian argument advocating for individual liberty placing one's autonomy over their physical body above nebulous ideas of the "sanctity of life." Arbiters of the law need to root their argumentation and discourse in practical aspects of the physical world rather than in vague and hypothetical religious concepts.
There is also the subject of equality between males and females to consider: like most mammals female humans bare more of a burden in child rearing simply because they are the ones to physically give birth to the child. This phenomenon of evolution gears mammals towards family groups for survival in nature. However, modern human societies are relatively insulated from the harsh realities of nature and our technology and understanding of science have almost guaranteed the survival of our young (at least in developed, wealthy countries). The tight-knit, closed family groups which humans relied upon for survival in our early history are arguably less necessary. Whether or not this speculation of our social evolution is a net positive or a net negative for our morals is a subjective debate which I will not advance upon further but it is undeniable that our modern medical tools and practices around reproduction have elevated human females in our social positions by giving them more control over the ability to reproduce.
Oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization as captured by CSPAN.
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Paralegals are the assistants at law firms who help with various administrative and legal duties. Most paralegals research the law for lawyers and help draft legal documents a lawyer will need for their cases. At the same time, paralegals organize and maintain all the legal files that are in a law firm. Paralegals may work in a typical law firm environment or work for large corporations, which often employ legal departments to help with internal or external legal issues.
Since a paralegal is an integral assistant and partner to lawyers, their academic and professional training is quite high compared to other assistants in similar industry sectors. If a student or person is interested in becoming a paralegal, they should follow the unique professional routes that can help them toward their goal of paralegal employment.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), paralegals have several opportunities to invest in academic enrichment toward a paralegal career. One of the more basic paths is to enroll in an associate's degree program in paralegal studies. Most of those degree programs are available at community colleges. Some 4-year colleges provide bachelor's degrees in paralegal studies as well. If one already has a baccalaureate degree, there are master's degree or certificate options in paralegal work. Many programs may offer an online paralegal degree as well; helping working professionals work while they earn their education. Whichever path one chooses, try to enroll in a program that is approved by the American Bar Association (ABA). Like law schools, paralegal programs are reviewed and verified by the ABA as meeting the highest quality standard of paralegal learning. The BLS states that, as of May 2012, there are 270 ABA-approved paralegal programs across the country and across education levels.
Any program, like an online paralegal degree, will focus on the daily operations of paralegals. Conducting legal research and properly citing and writing down legal code is an essential skill that is learned in most paralegal classes. In addition, classes on forms of law are taught, such as property law, tax law, constitutional law, criminal law, and business law. Besides those classes, basic computer classes are also recommend in the curriculum as many paralegals will need to use the computer for administrative and research purposes. Other classes may include public speaking, college-level mathematics, business leadership, and college-level research skills.
Internships are proving to be integral assets for paralegals and many academic paralegal degree programs will offer internships in the curriculum. Internships will give the student practical experience working at a law firm or a corporate office. The experience gives the student the chance to apply what they learn in school to a workplace environment. Arguably, such an experience will benefit the graduate when they enter the paralegal job market.
Many law firms or corporate offices will desire candidates who may have training in the paralegal field. However, the BLS notes that some organizations may hire a person and then train them in paralegal work because of the candidate's experience in a particular field. Say the candidate has worked in a tax office before and a law firm focused on tax law hires this candidate because of their tax experience. The law firm will have to spend some time training the candidate, but the candidate had previous professional experience in the field. The best rule of thumb is to have some administrative work experience, experience in the similar field of law as the law firm or corporate office, or have internship experience.
Certification is professionally optional according to the BLS. Certification is provided by organizations like the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) or the National Association of Legal Professionals (NALS). Certification is awarded to a candidate who meets education and experience prerequisites and pass a specific certification exam, like the Certified Legal Assistant certification. Having these certifications could be helpful to a paralegal graduate who wants to stand out from competitors.