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A minor earthquake and tornado didn't destroy Toronto yesterday. Will the G20 summit mean a disaster for the city? Lake Mistake and an over armed security force may be more than just a little overkill. I doubt the numbers of people in the city disgusted by this circus (protesters, pedestrians, and everyday people) warrant such a heavy handed approach. One thing is for sure, we are going to be in for an interesting ride.
The major media have hyped this thing to the heavens. I pray there are no incidents (whether they are due to yahoo "protesters" or overzealous "security".) This scandalous billion dollar love-in will really be a failure for the Harper government if there is no concrete progress on the "real" issues. Fiscal responsibility, the economy, and the environment should be front and centre. Instead the lead up and staging of this G20 has only highlighted what is wrong with richest nations; their lack of leadership and prudent use of human & fiscal capital.


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Former Card says new QB prep will be difficult after missing offseason
Former Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner, appearing at the NFL 101 All-Access event in L.A. earlier this week, said it will be tough for any quarterback in a new situation in 2011.
In 2004, free agent quarterback Kurt Warner didn't sign with the New York Giants until June 3, deep into the team's offseason work.
While Warner was the starter coming out of training camp, he was eventually benched for rookie Eli Manning and "I never got comfortable with the offense the whole time I was there."
Warner relays the story standing on the field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, at an event meant to highlight the city's viability as an NFL town. But the NFL is in a different place this year, with players unable to have their normal offseason work. Warner, famous for his preparation when he was playing, knows perhaps better than anyone what the missed time will mean to any quarterback – and specifically, whatever quarterback ends up arriving to play for the Cardinals.
Veteran or not, it's a difficult place to be. Warner just remembers back to his Giant days to underscore that reality.
"You can go out and you can function, and do some things well, but it's the nuances of the offense that make players great," Warner said. "The Peyton Mannings, the Tom Bradys, why are they successful? They have been in the same system for eight, nine, 10 years and they know the ins and outs of it and how it works."
Hoping whoever steps in – whether it is Kevin Kolb or someone else – and does well right away may be asking too much. Kolb, in an interview this week on The Dan Patrick Show, said he knows transitioning to a new team with such a short timeline will be "hard" and that because he doesn't know where he will be playing, it's impossible to even get a jump-start.
"You can't put yourself in that situation mentally because if you do, you're liable to be disappointed," Kolb said. "I just know when this bell does ring I have a lot of work to do mentally."
That would stand to reason for any new quarterback. The conventional wisdom across the NFL since the labor trouble started were veteran teams – and more importantly, with quarterbacks in place – would be in a better place than those who weren't.
The Cardinals are in a better position than a team trying to break in a rookie, of course, like Carolina with Cam Newton or Minnesota with Christian Ponder or Tennessee with Jake Locker. "Anytime you can bring in a veteran with experience and the more experience the better, in another system or systems, even a guy comfortable in a pro huddle, that is an advantage," offensive coordinator Mike Miller said.
Limitations exist, however. Kolb, the most popular topic of Cardinals' speculation, has been playing in Andy Reid's West Coast Offense derivative, which doesn't exactly parallel what coach Ken Whisenhunt likes to do. Any new quarterback will also have to create a chemistry with wide receivers that usually begins in the offseason, and learn about his offensive line. In the latter case, the Cards still have to build their group of blockers too.
The Cardinals aside, Warner hesitates in endorsing any quarterback walking into a new situation this fall.
"I don't know how realistic it is to have these guys come in and make an immediate impact," Warner said.
John Skelton is still a possibility for the Cards. The second-year QB started the last four games for the team and, unlike anyone coming in, he is familiar with the playbook and what Whisenhunt and Miller will want to accomplish.
The second offseason for a player, however, is usually his most important. Skelton likely lost the momentum he might have had from the last month of the season once he wasn't able to work at the facility with the coaches.
"The one thing I know about the Cardinals' situation is that they have proven the best player will play," Warner said. "If that's John Skelton who has played a little bit and they feel comfortable with him playing even if they have signed another guy, it wouldn't surprise me for them to say, 'Hey this other guy is still our guy for the future and he just needs some time to get up to speed.'
"But you know it's hard if you go out and make a big splash in free agency or a trade, to then sit that guy on the bench. I think they will get someone who they think can be serviceable early, and he'll be around long enough to hopefully they can hit their stride around midseason."

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Dinka, M.O.. Effect of land use/cover change on the regimes of surface runoff for Lake Basaka catchment. 2016.
Abstract: Lake Basaka is expanding at a very fast rate. An appropriate method of estimating the surface runoff from such dynamic catchment is extremely important to delineate sensitive areas to be protected and to develop suitable management measures. In this study, the surface (direct) runoff was estimated using SCS-CN model, assisted by remote sensing and GIS. The result indicated that Lake Basaka catchment showed significant variability (temporal and spatial) in runoff responses depending on the rainfall amount and distribution pattern and land use/cover change. The significant increase of surface runoff (runoff coefficient) was observed to occur after 1973, which is in line with the significant increment of lake level after that period. The reduction in vegetation cover also resulted in increase of runoff coefficient of the Lake catchment from 0.07 in 1960s to about 0.23 in 2000s.
Citation: Dinka, M.O. 2016. Effect of land use/cover change on the regimes of surface runoff for Lake Basaka catchment.


Portage Bay on the Queen Charlotte Sound, South Island, New Zealand.
This will be the first of several posts that highlight some interesting sounds that I gathered from the South Island of New Zealand, from December 2009 to January 2010. Big thanks to Tim Prebble and others for offering advice!


The USC Aiken Wind Ensemble looks forward to sharing their upcoming performance entitled "Scenes and Settings." The program will feature the works of Robert Russell Bennett, Morton Gould, Wallingford Riegger, Ola Gjeilo, and Anthony Suter. The ensemble is conducted by Dr. Hayes Bunch, Director of Bands at USC Aiken. The concert will be held Thursday, April 18 at 7:30PM in the Etherredge Center for the Fine and Performing Arts on the campus of USC Aiken. The event is free to USC Aiken faculty/staff and ALL students with a student ID. Admission is $10.00 for the general public. ICE credit is available to USC Aiken students.


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Cáin Adomnáin
Cáin Adomnáin'The Law of Adomnán'
Old Irish
Early Irish law texts, Irish religious texts
Initial words (prose)
Cóic amsira rīa ngein Crīst
Ascribed to
Adomnán
Lebor Rátha Bothae
Manuscript belonging to the monastery of Ráith Both (Raphoe, Co. Donegal), now lost. In the exemplar of the Brussels MS below, it was apparently acknowledged as a source.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 I, (a) ff. 101-122, (b) ff. 1-36, (c) ff. 45-52 [s. xv / s. xvi]
ff. 48ra–51va (line 9)
Ends abruptly.
Manuscript written by Cú Mumhan mac Tuathail Í Clerigh, a cousin of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (now lost)
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2324–2340 (3410) [1629]
ff. 76r–82v
Copy written by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh.
See also results from manuscript descriptions
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Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] [tr.] Ó Néill, Pádraig P., and David N. Dumville (eds. and trs.), Cáin Adomnáin and Canones Adomnani, Basic Texts in Gaelic History 2, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2003.
[ed.] [tr.] Márkus, Gilbert, Adomnán's 'Law of the Innocents' — Cáin Adomnáin: a seventh-century law for the protection of non-combatants, 2nd ed., Kilmartin, Argyll: Kilmartion House Trust, 2008.
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Cáin Adamnáin: an Old-Irish treatise on the law of Adamnan, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series 12, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.
comments: For corrigenda, see Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 108.
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[corr.] Meyer, Kuno, "Notes on the Oxford edition of Cáin Adamnáin", Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 108.
[tr.] Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [tr.], "The Law of Adomnán: a translation", in: O'Loughlin, Thomas [ed.], Adomnán at Birr, AD 697. Essays in commemoration of the Law of the Innocents, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 53–68.
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Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín, "Birr and the Law of the Innocents", in: O'Loughlin, Thomas [ed.], Adomnán at Birr, AD 697. Essays in commemoration of the Law of the Innocents, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 13–32.
Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín, "The guarantor list of Cáin Adomnáin, 697", Peritia 1 (1982): 178–215.
Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.
comments: A companion to Binchy (D. A.) 1978a. Review article: McLeod, N., "A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici", Peritia 19 (2005).
202–204 [id. 5.19. 'Cáin Adomnáin']
Kenney, James F., "Chapter III: The Irish church in the 'Celtic' period", in: Kenney, James F., The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies 11, Revised ed. (1929), New York: Octagon, 1966. 156–287.
245–246 [id. 81.]
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So many of our towns and cities suffer from an over population of cars and as a result an increase in congestion and pollution, so why not take the bus?
Have you spotted that St Albans is piloting a new road to rail link for the city with a new bus service linking St Albans' railway stations and the city centre? The scheme launched on 30th January 2017 has been named The Abbey Shuttle, it will travel between St Albans Abbey Station and St Albans City Station via St Peter's Street with the timetable scheduled to coincide with train arrivals and departures.
The St Albans pilot has been funded by the Department for Transport with a £129k grant and will run as a service for a 12 month period. During this time any profits from the service will be reinvested into the route and if it proves to be successful and useful to the commuters of St Albans the contract will extend past the one year trial project.


You're currently browsing page: /trompeter-musiker-komponist/73/electric-treasures/?lang=en of www.markusstockhausen.de.
In September 2007 Markus Stockhausen was invited to organise a special concert in the forum of the 'Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland' in Bonn (museum), within the framework of the exhibition "Ägyptens versunkene Schätze" (Egypt's Sunken Treasures). This was a thematic focus that intrigued Markus Stockhausen immediately, and so he decided to take the thought on board and to bring to light treasures from his own musical biography. "I've often followed the concept of groups who are able to improvise freely. Not in the sense of free jazz, but of a music in which structures, which one might otherwise compose, can appear" says Markus Stockhausen on his decision to form a new improvising jazz quartet.
To improvise and compose music in almost real time together demands a high level of trust. Together with the Norwegian bass player Arild Andersen and the drummer Patrice Héral from southern France Markus Stockhausen has been binding together the collective work on various projects for many years. And so in the year 2000 the work "Kartá" for ECM came into being. The guitarist Terje Rypdal was an addition to the trio at that time. "Kartá was an important milestone for me. Most of the pieces on this CD had been improvised freely. Because of this a very special music was born. And (…) it was the first moment of playing together with Terje that we recorded". Since then Stockhausen, Anderson and Héral have been developing a European musical language together in different combinations (e.g. with Ferenc Snétberger on the CD "Joyosa", Enja Records 2004), and have been expanding their musical vocabulary with regards to the electronic possibilities of samplers, loops, harmonizers etc.
In January 2006, by invitation of the radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg, this successful collaboration was continued under the title "Karta II". The trio was joined by the Italian pianist Angelo Comisso. In Hamburg the producer Stefan Gerdes spoke to Markus about Vladyslav Sendecki, one of the most fascinating keyboard players in Europe. Some years earlier Joachim Ernst Berendt had already suggested to bring the two together.
It is certainly true that the energetic tension of "Electric Treasures" reminds one of the trailblazing "electric" group improvisations, with which Miles Davis shook up the jazz world in the seventies – for example when Stockhausen wires up the crystal clear sound of his trumpet to a ring modulator or when Arild Andersen intones his unswerving bass grooves with an almost tectonic power.
Such associations however only describe a part of the free musical space that is unfolded by the improvisors: from symbiotic acquiescence on the border of inaudibility to driving freebop passages, nervous breakbeat loops (backbeat) on the one hand and tender flugelhorn hymns, the trumpet's crystal clear flights of fancy to atmospheres of mystical impenetrability on the other hand.
As Vladyslav Sendecki says: 'It is rare luck, when an improvised music meeting really works, when the contributions of all participants make up a collective work of art'. «Electric Treasures» is that type of stroke of luck. Congenially staged by the artist Rolf Zavelberg with his "Images of Light", the interaction between the musicians became an experience for the audience.
And that experience still lingers: «Electric Treasures» has now been released as a gripping double CD. "It is a statement which is valid in itself – even if our music might sound very different tomorrow, it was a moment that was worth recording" Markus Stockhausen explains, and continues: "We recorded the concert just in case, as one always wants to have demo material. Vladyslav was the first to hear it and said: 'It's worth making a record out of this'." Together with Christoph Schumacher Markus Stockhausen made the basic mix, then the sound tinkerer Walter Quintus took over the editing of the material and was thrilled: he experienced the quartet's freely improvised music as 'a grab bag'.
"It's not uncommon to find bassists and drummers who work together so well that they become almost inseparable; often hired together because of their distinctive simpatico. It's rarer to find full groups with their own signature, expanding their vernacular by recruiting others for alternate ideas. Trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, bassist Arild Andersen and percussionist Patrice Heral have been working together since 1998 but, despite a singular aesthetic, it's their guest collaborators who have helped build a small but diverse body of work; each project blending recognizable elements and fresh perspectives.
Electric Treasures is the first time they've recorded with a keyboardist. Karta (ECM, 2000) was a largely spontaneous and more electrified affair with guitarist Terje Rypdal, while Joyosa (Enja, 2007) focused more on composition; featuring acoustic guitarist Ferenc Sentberger, with whom Stockhausen also recorded the lyrical Streams (Enja, 2007). Recorded live with keyboardist Vladyslav Sendecki, Electric Treasures shares more with Karta's in-the-moment spontaneous composition. Unlike the ECM disc however, where seven of its eleven tracks were culled and shaped from a ninety-minute free improvisation—yet were still each remarkable for their sense of individual completeness—Electric Treasures documents an entire performance from start-to-finish; a document of exactly what went down.
With little in the way of advance planning, Electric Treasure is all the more impressive for the quartet's ability to pull true form out of the ether. While vamp-based pieces act as striking vehicles for the quartet's stylistic diversity—ranging from unfettered free play and hard-swinging modality to hip-hop inflected grooves and dense, post-Miles jungle rhythms—it's when they create song-like structure that the true meaning of spontaneous composition becomes clear. Abstraction and electronics-filled landscapes turn "Electric Treasures Ten" into a stunning blend of texture and ethereal melody, but it's Stockhausen's thematic lead-in to "Eleven" that—with Andersen and Sendecki picking up on the trumpeter's implicit changes—makes it a poignant culmination to a two-disc set that, even at its most oblique, remains eminently accessible.
Stockhausen's range has never been captured so completely on a single release, moving from a rich acoustic tone to fiercely processed tonalities and the occasional brash tinge; effortlessly flowing from singable melodies to fiery post-bop phrases. Andersen, a double-bassist who cites the late electric bassist Jaco Pastorius as a seminal influence, seamlessly integrates processing and loops into a virtuosity that never sacrifices substance for style. Heral not only locks in with Andersen as if they were joined at the hip, but allows the music to take unexpected shape as his textural breadth combines with a wildly encyclopedic understanding of pulse, spanning cultures and decades. Sendecki is just as moving, a strong soloist with no shortage of the jazz tradition at play, but equally comprised of influences ranging from classical romanticism to ambient sonorities and transcendent impressionism.


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During the Global Game Jam 2016 that I attended in Southampton I joined a small group of people to create a game based upon the theme 'Ritual' within only 48 hours.
Throughout the process I completed a range of tasks including 2D sprite art for all the assets in game, Array-based map generation and a small bit of coding for weapons.
The Game can be downloaded from the link below but you must ensure you have Visual Studio 2015, to run the game simply open the file within visual studio and select run in the top window.


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Vastefasesynthese is een synthesemethode waarbij moleculen worden gebonden op een vaste stof, doorgaans polymeerkorreltjes (typisch polystyreen) met reactieve functionele groepen op het oppervlak. Deze methode staat in contrast met de gangbare chemische syntheses, die meestal in een oplossing verlopen. Vastefasesynthese heeft het grote voordeel dat de overmaat (niet-gereageerde) reactanten eenvoudig kan worden verwijderd door filtratie. Het nadeel van de methode is dat niet alle reagentia even snel of gemakkelijk reageren op zo'n vaste fase.

Toepassing
Vastefasesynthese wordt doorgaans gebruikt in de organische en bio-organische chemie, bijvoorbeeld bij de synthese van peptiden en DNA. Daarbij speelt het gebruik van beschermende groepen een prominente rol. Het is namelijk zo dat in iedere reactiestap slechts 2 functionele groepen met elkaar mogen reageren, omdat anders de kans op mengsels van reactieproducten ontstaat. Daarom worden alle functionele groepen die niet mogen reageren afgeschermd. Soms wordt hiervan afgeweken en worden bewust mengsels gevormd. Dit vormt het onderwerp van de combinatoriële chemie. Dergelijke syntheses worden betiteld als divergente syntheses.

Methode
De basismethode van vastefasesynthese bestaat erin om de polymeerkorrels toe te voegen aan een oplossing van het reagens. Na de reactie wordt de oplossing verwijderd middels filtratie en worden de korrels gewassen. De eventuele aanwezige beschermende groep wordt vervolgens verwijderd en een volgende reactie kan worden gestart. Dit proces kan ook worden geautomatiseerd. Na afloop van alle reacties wordt de binding tussen de polymeerkorrel en het gesynthetiseerde eindproduct verbroken.

Onderstaande figuur toont schematisch het verloop van een vastefasesynthese. Daarbij wordt in de eerste reactie een reagens X-R gekoppeld, maar de R-groep wordt daarbij eerst beschermd met een P-groep. De tweede reactie verloopt gelijkaardig.

Zie ook
 Vloeibare arraysynthese

Chemische synthese

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I wrote this post in August 2013 and contemplated posting it for a while, then kind of forgot about it. I am posting it now because I am 25 weeks pregnant and my body is going through drastic changes that I have started reflecting on.
Recently I have had a few people comment on my body. "Have you lost weight?", "You look skinny." "Are you okay?" I was surprised at how offended I was when I heard these comments.
I have always had a small frame. Growing up I was super small. I would read magazines, desperate for a way to gain weight. I would work out and then eat hard-boiled eggs (I read somewhere that protein after the gym would help build muscle). I was twelve. I just wanted to fit in, feel normal.
My mom reassured me that I was normal. "Just wait until you're older, you will appreciate your high metabolism. You are going to love shopping in your 20's." … she was right.
Rock Climbing in Red Rocks, Nevada with my Mom, April 2002. I turned 17 on this trip.
At seventeen I finally started to gain some weight, breaking 100 pounds in grade 12 I was over joyed. I started to fill out my clothes. I needed a bra! University hit and I guess I put on the "freshmen 15″, it was a good thing. At 5,6" and 115 pounds I had grown out of my boyish figure and found my confidence.
I should also mention I was a very athletic growing up. I started gymnastics when I was 3, I had a secret dream of winning an Olympic Gold medal. That dream was crushed at age seven when we moved to a small town without a trampoline or a foam pit. In middle school I participated on my school's sports teams. I didn't make the cut in for JV Volleyball in grade 9 so I joined my schools cheerleading/dance team and started rock climbing with my family. Dance was my true passion. Beginning at the age of 8 it was a big part of my life until second year University.
I bought my first gym membership in 2004. I loved working out. I learned how to use the weight machines and the free weights. I would bring my text books and read them on the cardio machines. I started to notice my body changing. I was seeing muscle definition in my arms and abs. I gained weight, I would float between 125 and 135, but the numbers didn't mean anything. I loved the way my clothes fit and I felt stronger and more powerful than ever.
It's not like I was super fit for all of my early 20's. I am still human. There were times when I would let physical activity drop off my priority list and over indulge in food and booze but I always managed to balance things out. The "squish" was a great motivator to get me back to the gym and back on track. I was not interested in buying new jeans on a student budget. I definitely took for granted how easily my body bounced back.
Finishing University and moving to Toronto really threw me out of my routine, again my body changed. Weighing myself, I was between 120 and 130. I was had lost weight, but my jeans were a little tighter. I didn't feel fit, I didn't feel strong.
Two years ago I started group fitness classes and more recently started running. I work really hard and I eat well. I am healthy. I guess I am lucky I had the experiences I did growing up and that loosing weight was never a struggle for me. (I am also lucky to have "good" genes. My dad is very athletic and my mom, while less coordinated, is strong with a tiny frame.) I have never owned a scale. Truthfully I was too cheap to buy one once I moved out on my own. At 28, 5,6″ and 128 (ish) I feel like I am in the best shape of my life.
The word "skinny" still makes me cringe. I can't stand when people describe me as skinny, I am fit. I am strong. Somewhere along the line, I started to associate the skinny with unhealthy. The pressures that girls and women face in our society to be skinny are unnerving. Fad diets, weight loss pills, eating disorders, this obsession in our culture to be skinny. It scares me and I want nothing to do with it, so please don't call me skinny.
You only get one body, take care of it. Be strong.
It took me so long to realize I didn't WANT to be skinny. Its what I chased my whole life, to have someone look at me and call me skinny. But in my 30's I've learned more about myself than ever before and realized that being healthy is all that matters. My husband could care less if I have washboard abs. He'd probably prefer I didn't, because then I couldn't eat his fantastic dinner or share some of that brie. And of course, I'd kind of like to be able to have that stuff too! So glad you're in sync with your body and stronger than ever. Cheers and keep growing that little miracle!


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Q: How to change repo branch/tag after repo init url -b TAG? I did
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mkdir grapheneos-$TAG_NAME
cd grapheneos-$TAG_NAME
repo init -u https://github.com/GrapheneOs/platform_manifest.git -b refs/tags/$TAG_NAME

and compiled everything. Actually, it was not GrapheneOS profile but my own profile which has a fork of it. Then, I changed some things on the xml on the fork. Is there a way I can point to the new TAG without having to delete all the repo and doing repo init again? I already spent some hours compiling everything and didnt want to delete it.

A: By the new TAG, if you mean the one specified in repo init after -b, you could just run repo init -u https://github.com/GrapheneOs/platform_manifest.git -b $NEW_TAG_NAME and repo sync to update the repositories.
Which repositories are downloaded and which revision is checked out are decided by the manifest. So if you want to use a specific manifest, you could also simply copy that manifest to somewhere and run repo sync -m $path. Here $path could be the absolute path to the manifest or its relative path in .repo/manifests if it's been placed under .repo/manifests.

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Actress Go Ara gave a warm winter present for 100 of the 'Black' shooting staffs. Go A Ra gives coats to 100 staffs.
In this winter, Go Ara prepares coats as gifts for the staff who fought day and night on set, Go Ara gives coats directly to the exhausted staff and shows a warm atmosphere.
In the drama OCN 'Black', Go Ara plays Kang Ha Ram as a woman who can see death. Go A Ra is a beautiful and hard-working actress in this drama until she has been evaluated and declared as an actress who made a successful transformation in a different genre.
Moreover in the episode (19/11), Go Ara was stabbed with a knife by Woo Hyun (Wang Yong Chun) who shocked viewers because this situation allowed Kang Ha Ram to be killed thus strengthening expectations of this week's broadcast.
As the meeting progresses, the mysteries of prediction of death become hot topics and viewers can watch the drama on OCN every Saturday-Sunday at 22.20 KST.


I have perfected roasted chicken and vegetables.
A favourite weeknight fall and winter meal of mine is roasting a couple chicken legs, separated at the joint for even cooking, with chunky cut vegetables. I started making this combination for myself sometime during university, after I learned to make Oven BBQ Chicken from the Joy of Cooking. My standard method in the past used barbecue sauce, applied as described in the Joy recipe, and I would surround the chicken parts with zucchini, button mushrooms, and bell pepper. Sometimes I'd add some potatoes.


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by The Seminole Tribune - July 24, 2012
By Andrea Holata
BRIGHTON — With summertime in full swing on the Brighton Reservation and hundreds of youth out of school, Brighton has two summer camps with many activities to keep the youth engaged during their break.
The camp has no shortage of action, including media production, aviation building, arts and crafts, movies, health, volleyball, softball and football, just to name a few. The activities are offered by the Boys & Girls Club and the Recreation Department.
Recreation holds their summer camp from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and all community youth are invited to participate.
With several Tribal members attending the camp daily, Recreation's main focus is on sports, but it also works with the Arts and Crafts Department to provide a craft hour for youth each week.
The camp also promotes an early morning fitness hour.
"It keeps them active, out of trouble and promotes healthiness," fitness specialist Ignacio Orozco said.
If youth participate throughout the week, they are treated to a field trip, such as ice skating, bowling and movies.
In addition to Recreation's youth summer camp, the Boys & Girls Club has a summer camp for youth as well.
Under the direction of Boys & Girls Club unit manager Derek Pierce, the summer camp, on average, has about 40 daily participants between the ages of 5-18. The camp focuses on keeping the kids' minds stimulated in a fun, structured environment.
"A lot of what we are doing is pretty heavy stuff, particularly with the music," Pierce said. "They write lyrics and learn time management in sort of a structured way."
The youth also do other things to help spark their interests. The latest projects include rocket building and the home makeover of a doll house.
"These projects stimulate good conversation. It gets them thinking about their future," Pierce said. "They are related to science, to math, and we get to see where it goes from there."
The younger kids can choose from all sorts of fun activities, including arts and crafts, movies, tether ball, jump rope and kickball.
"I like coming to camp because we get to play all kinds of games," Jana Johnson said.
Pierce said he hopes everyone will give the camp a try.
"Kids got to have something to do over the summer – something that's structured, safe and fun," he said. "Sometimes parents want a break, and we provide those kinds of services to give the kids structure and attention that they deserve over the summer."
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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship
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A self-replicating 3D printer also scores a prize
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Underride car crashes are among the most deadly accidents in Turkey, according to a report by the country's General Directorate of Highways. The accidents occur when a car collides with the rear or side of a large truck and gets stuck underneath it.
After learning about how fatal the crashes can be from recent news reports, Kerem Bayhan was inspired to develop a technology to help reduce them. Bayhan, who lives in İzmit, Turkey, is set to study medicine this semester at Hacettepe University, in Ankara.
He says he sees science through a "solution-based lens": He isn't looking for new problems to solve; he is seeking simple solutions to current problems such as underride collisions.
Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. He came up with a mechanical barrier system that attaches to the hood and connects to the car's electronic control unit. The outer layer is made of energy-absorbing material, and the second layer is made of metal. Airbags are placed between the first and second layers to propel the hood attachment forward. When the car's active safety system senses an impact is about to occur, the device extends before the crash happens to protect the driver and passengers.
Kerem Bayhan
The invention won Bayhan the US $10,000 IEEE Presidents' Scholarship, which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. He also received a complimentary IEEE student membership. The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. Established by the IEEE Foundation and administered by IEEE Educational Activities, the award is given annually at the ISEF to one student for an outstanding project that demonstrates an understanding of an IEEE field of interest. Recipients are selected by a team of IEEE members.
Bayhan plans to pitch his device to the Turkish government and car manufacturers. He hopes to talk with Turkey's science minister and the TOGG [Turkish Automobile Joint Venture Group], a new company formed by the government. The TOGG is working on designing electric vehicles.
A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER
The second-place winner was Brian Minnick, who developed a self-replicating 3D printer. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He plans to study material science and engineering.
The concept of a 3D-printed 3D printer was a theory before Minnick began his project three years ago. Several research articles he came across said it was impossible to create such a machine because it would be unable to print motors and other electronic parts. Although 3D printers require conductive materials, Minnick found during his research that commercially available filaments were not conductive enough to print the necessary components.
Brian Minnick
That didn't stop him, however. In fact, the very idea of it seeming impossible is what motivated him to pursue the project, he says.
"I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device."
His solution was to create a sintered solder paste material that was conductive enough and 3D printable. The material is made of a high-metal-load, low-melting-point paste, which is sintered into a thermoplastic scaffold. It was important for the metal in the paste to ensure reliability while its melting point would prevent damaging the scaffolding. The material is distributed from a 3D-printed paste extruder that consists of an outer case, a syringe, and a motor. This development allowed the printer to take shape.
Minnick says the opportunities the printer creates are plentiful. The main application he sees is the creation of a self-replicating spaceship. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel. Sending out several spacecraft is far more expensive than sending out one that could self-replicate.
Biopolymers—materials that can be grown rather than manufactured—could be used to build self-replicating factories, Minnick says. Constructing such facilities in underdeveloped countries would lower the cost of industrialization while speeding up processes.
RIP-CURRENT DETECTION SYSTEM
Boglarka Ecsedi, an incoming Georgia Tech freshman studying computer science, created a rip-current detection system that incorporates machine learning. The invention earned her $400.
Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. Because the currents generally can't be seen by the naked eye, it's hard to detect one, let alone avoid getting caught up in one. According to the U.S. Lifesaving Association, there are more than 100 rip current deaths each year.
Ecsedi says she hopes her project will raise awareness of rip currents among people who don't live near an ocean but vacation at one.
Boglarka Ecsedi
"A lot of people can be exposed to this danger," she says, "especially from landlocked countries, like Hungary," where she lives.
Ecsedi determined that using machine learning could help detect the treacherous currents. Her system uses an image-processing algorithm with a real-time deep neural network that filters through images and video of the water to detect rip currents. Her method has the ability to evolve with new data.
"A machine-learning approach is effective because we can build algorithms that are able to recognize this phenomenon on images and video recordings," she says.
She began working on the project while she was a research intern at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The city was an ideal place to tackle the project because of its beaches, she says.
After returning to Hungary, she had to turn to other methods to finish the model, however. Using Google Earth, she was able to gather and annotate more than 1,000 images of beaches in Africa, Australia, and North America.
Ecsedi says she hopes to develop a mobile application that will allow people to detect rip currents just by using their smartphone's camera.
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A fake contract masked a design exercise–and started an industry
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In 1971 video games were played in computer science laboratories when the professors were not looking—and in very few other places. In 1973 millions of people in the United States and millions of others around the world had seen at least one video game in action. That game was Pong.
Two electrical engineers were responsible for putting this game in the hands of the public—Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn, both of whom, with Ted Dabney, started Atari Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif. Mr. Bushnell told Mr. Alcorn that Atari had a contract from General Electric Co. to design a consumer product. Mr. Bushnell suggested a Ping-Pong game with a ball, two paddles, and a score, that could be played on a television.
"There was no big contract," Mr. Alcorn said recently. "Nolan just wanted to motivate me to do a good job. It was really a design exercise; he was giving me the simplest game he could think of to get me to play with the technology."
The key piece of technology he had to toy with, he explained, was a motion circuit designed by Mr. Bushnell a year earlier as an employee of Nutting Associates. Mr. Bushnell first used the circuit in an arcade game called Computer Space, which he produced after forming Atari. It sold 2000 units but was never a hit.
This article was first published as "Pong: an exercise that started an industry." It appeared in the December 1982 issue of IEEE Spectrum as part of a special report, "Video games: The electronic big bang." A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.
In the 1960s Mr. Bushnell had worked at an amusement park and had also played space games on a PDP-10 at college. He divided the cost of a computer by the amount of money an average arcade game made and promptly dropped the idea, because the economics did not make sense.
Then in 1971 he saw a Data General computer advertised for $5000 and determined that a computer game played on six terminals hooked up to that computer could be profitable. He began designing a space game to run on such a timeshared system, but because game action occurs in real time, the computer was too slow. Mr. Bushnell began trying to take the load off the central computer by making the terminals smarter, adding a sync generator in each, then circuits to display a star field, until the computer did nothing but keep track of where the player was. Then, Mr. Bushnell said, he realized he did not need the central computer at all—the terminals could stand alone.
"He actually had the order for the computers completed, but his wife forgot to mail it," Mr. Alcorn said, adding, "We would have been bankrupt if she had."
Mr. Bushnell said, "The economics were not longer a $6000 computer plus all the hardware in the monitors; they became a $400 computer hooked up to a $100 monitor and put in a $100 cabinet. The ice water thawed in my veins."
The ball in Pong is square. Considering the amount of circuitry a round ball would require, "who is going to pay an extra quarter for a round ball?"
Computer Space appealed only to sophisticated game players—those who were familiar with space games on mainframe computers, or those who frequent the arcades today. It was well before its time. Pong, on the other hand, was too simple for an EE like Mr. Bushnell to consider designing it as a real game—and that is why it was a success.
Mr. Bushnell had developed the motion circuit in his attempt to make the Computer Space terminals smarter, but Mr. Alcorn could not read his schematics and had to redesign it. Mr. Alcorn was trying to get the price down into the range of an average consumer product, which took a lot of ingenuity and some tradeoffs.
"There was no real bulk memory available in 1972," he said. "We were faced with having a ball move into any of the spots in a 200-by-200 array without being able to store a move. We did it with about 10 off-the-shelf TTL parts by making sync generators that were set one or two lines per frame off register."
Thus, the ball would move in relation to the screen, both vertically and horizontally, just as a misadjusted television picture may roll. Mr. Alcorn recalled that he originally used a chip from Fairchild to generate the display for the score, but it cost $5, and he could do the same thing for $3 using TTL parts, though the score was cruder.
The ball in Pong is square—another tradeoff. Considering the amount of circuitry a round ball would require, Mr. Alcorn asked, "who is going to pay an extra quarter for a round ball?"
Sound was also a point of contention at Atari. Mr. Bushnell wanted the roar of approval of a crowd of thousands; Mr. Dabney wanted the crowd booing.
"How do you do that with digital stuff?" Mr. Alcorn asked. "I told them I didn't have enough parts to do that, so I just poked around inside the vertical sync generator for the appropriate tones and made the cheapest sound possible."
The hardware design of Pong took three months, and Mr. Alcorn's finished prototype had 73 ICs, which, at 50 cents a chip, added up to $30 to $40 worth of parts. "That's a long way from a consumer product, not including the package, and I was depressed, but Noland said 'Yeah, well, not bad.'"
They set the Pong 2 prototype up in a bar and got a call the next day to take it out because it was not working. When they arrived, the problem was obvious: the coin box was jammed full of quarters.
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'RHOA' Star Kandi Burruss Responds To Nene Leakes' Possible Shade About Her Spinoff's Ratings: 'What Are The Ratings On Her Show?'
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Nene Leakes and Kandi Burruss didn't get off to the best start when Burruss joined the cast in Season 2 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
The Kandi & the Gang star's show debuted to ratings under 1 million but has grown tremendously and remains a hot topic on social media. But Leakes wasn't impressed. In a recent interview, Burruss responded to Leakes' retweets about her show's ratings.
Nene Leakes retweets about Kandi Burruss spinoff ratings
In the beginning, Kandi & the Gang's ratings were lower than some expected. Per one social media user, the show came in 69th place in its time period for its debut episode. The show reportedly had just 0.12 viewers within the demographic of viewers ages 18-49.
On Tuesday, Mar. 8, fans noticed Leakes responded to a shady tweet about the show.
The post spoke to the series premiere's low ratings, accompanied by Leakes' iconic quote, "You can never win when you play DIRTY. Stay woke!" Leakes told former co-star Phaedra Parks such during the Season 6 reunion special after she alleged that Parks' tried to bring her family on the show in order to expose Leakes' failed relationship with her sisters.
— NeNe Leakes (@NeNeLeakes) March 8, 2022
Some of Leakes' fans are boycotting Burruss' spinoff altogether with one fan tweeting: "I refuse to watch, for so many reasons. And I've always believed Nene, she is missed." Leakes rescinded, "Thank you."
Leakes has accused Burruss of blocking spinoff opportunities for her. Burruss denies such. Now, Leakes alleges she's been blackballed. The former New Normal star has also claimed she was phased out of the show over two seasons and punished by network executives for speaking out about alleged racism and discrimination.
Kandi Burruss responds to Nene Leakes
Buruss is tired of Leakes' tirade against her. In a recent interview with Pop Culture, Burruss shot back at Leakes about speaking about her show.
"What are the ratings on her show? I don't want this to be a big shade-throwing contest between her and I because just like she can throw shade at me I can throw shade at her," she said. "But my whole thing is I do not understand why she does that. Back when she did have a show…me and her wouldn't be on the same page and I still would be posting, telling people to watch her show. Just because that's just how I am."
She questioned why Leakes' fans are constantly gunning for her.
Moreso, she makes it clear that she's responsible for having her shows and not Bravo as she pitches them to the network. Prior to Kandi & the Gang, Burruss had four spinoff specials on the network. She also notes other cast members on the show such as Kim Zolciak and Porsha Williams have also had spinoff specials.
"We pitch our shows. A lot of them don't pitch shows. A lot of them think, 'I'm so great that Bravo should just throw a show in my lap.' That is not what I do," she continued. "Me and my husband, we come up with these ideas, and we pitch them. Sometimes, the network is for it; sometimes they aren't. Everything we do does not get picked up. People love to talk about how our first-week ratings weren't as big as they needed to be. But the one thing that y'all also didn't notice is our other show, 'Kandi's Wedding,' was over 2.4 million viewers."
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Hello and welcome! Do you miss the old Project Zombie days? Do you wish you could go back in time to the simple days and fight off zombies and other players with your friends? Well wish no more with Project Zombie Rewind 2.0! B_Ju and I, FatDog_ are currently in the works of re-creating the old Project Zombie. If anybody is willing to help recreate this amazing server with us please feel free to message me. It is almost done and we really only need to play test right now. We are also putting our own little twist on it with our own plugins and a new expansion. Also, any old players will be getting a new OG rank for free! If you have any questions do not hesitate to message B_Ju or me.


Virago Spirits took home our first medals in the spirits division of the 2019 World Beverage Competition. Our Four-Port Rum received a gold medal and our Port Cask Finished Rum received a platinum medal with "Best of Show" recognition.
This year, competitors hail from 27 countries and all parts of the globe: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Haiti, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Puerto Rico, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and of course The United States. With so many entries, the judging went into January to finalize the winners.


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Book can be purchased by emailing hello@brooklynhill.press.
It's been a long time coming – my debut novel that is. Not my first novel, but the only one so far to see the light of day. Like every other author, there has been an apprenticeship, one that is continuing and I hope will do so for a long time.
My first book I wrote when I was seven or eight, Lucky the Little Sparrow. It was about, you guessed it, a sparrow I had rescued from a flooded gutter and tried to nurse back to health. Unfortunately, his name didn't reflect his reality. He died in spite of the family's best efforts.
Then there were the angst-ridden poems of adolescence which won me the occasional recognition. I guess the crown back in those early days was my poem Peru about an earthquake in said country. The fact my world consisted of Timaru with the occasional outing to the big smoke, Christchurch, and I had never experienced an earthquake, didn't stop me from winning first place in a national competition.
Since those days, I have done some considerable travel and come across some amazing people, many born to countries way less blessed than ours. Sometimes I stop and wonder what it would be like to be forced to flee your home, leave behind your security and your dreams and any hope for the future.
It's easy to write off those people as some homogenous blob that we don't see as individuals; they are simply refugees living somewhere we don't know, fleeing countries and circumstances we can't begin to understand. It is those people and their stories that I have woven through the pages of The Boy With a Suitcase. I hope they come alive and show how they cope in the worst of circumstances with the only hope a distant one that their children will someday have all the important things they have lost – security, community and love.
I always thought it would be a life changing moment to produce that elusive first novel and in a way it is. It's certainly doubled my workload. It feels like I now have two full time jobs. Is it worth it? Absolutely. There is a degree of satisfaction in giving birth to a whole community of characters and watching them grow and develop and go off into the world on their own terms. And they do. Some of the outcomes and actions in The Boy With a Suitcase were certainly not in my mind when I sat down to a pile of blank pages.
I fervently hope you enjoy the journey.


One of the best things about St. Patrick's Day is that you don't have to be of Irish heritage to celebrate and enjoy the festivities. Although St. Patrick's Day began as a religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland, today many Americans embrace the spirit of the holiday and become Irish at heart for 24 hours, wearing green and feasting on Irish fare.
While there's no corn in corned beef, the meat gets its name because most corned beef cuts are briskets that have been brined, or "corned." To make corned beef tender and flavorful, a gentle, long cooking method is recommended, which makes corned beef and cabbage the perfect recipe for a slow cooker. Just pop the ingredients into the slow cooker on St. Patrick's Day morning and your festive meal will be ready at the end of your day.
If you don't have a slow cooker, you can always make corned beef and cabbage on the stovetop or in the oven using a braising method. There are also lots of delicious options for corned beef leftovers. You can make corned beef sandwiches with hearty mustard on crusty bread or reubens with Thousand Island dressing, sauerkraut, cheese, and rye bread. Or, use the leftovers to make corned beef hash as a special treat for lunch, dinner, or breakfast.
If you don't want to cook corned beef but are looking for another traditional Irish dish, try colcannon, which is a comfort food combination of mashed potatoes and cabbage. Although colcannon is often flavored with ham or bacon, you can easily leave out the meat for a vegetarian dish. Not a cabbage fan? Try substituting kale for the cabbage.
This traditional Irish bread employs baking soda instead of yeast, which gives it a unique taste and texture. Because you don't have to wait for the bread to rise, Irish soda bread recipes are usually quicker to make than traditional yeast breads. Try a basic Irish soda bread recipe, or this version this version with currants. Serve Irish soda bread alongside corned beef and cabbage or colcannon, or toast it for breakfast with butter and jam. Thick slices of Irish soda bread make a great base for sandwiches, too.
There are a lot of good reasons to cook Shepherd's Pie besides celebrating St. Patrick's Day. In addition to being comfort food at its best, Shepherd's Pie is a one-dish meal, a great way to use leftovers, and you can make it ahead. Although it's called a pie, this is actually a savory dish made with meat, potatoes, and vegetables. There are many variations and you can adapt the ingredients to your own taste.
The basic method for Shepherd's Pie includes some type of browned meat (ground beef is popular in the United States, lamb is often used in Britain, and you can also use chicken or turkey if you wish to lighten up the dish a bit.) The meat is usually browned with onions, garlic, and seasonings to give it flavor, and then is mixed in with gravy to keep the base of the pie moist. Vegetables are usually added to the meat and gravy mixture. Traditionally, peas and carrots are included (frozen vegetables work well for this if you're looking to save time), and corn, mushrooms, and even green beans are often added as well. Some Shepherd's Pie recipes include fresh or canned tomatoes in the base.
The meat, gravy, and vegetables are placed in a casserole or oven-safe dish and topped with mashed potatoes, to which an egg and cheese are sometimes added. Then, the entire dish is baked in the oven until the meat is heated through and the potato top is golden. For a different twist, you can use mashed sweet potatoes for the top.
Start with bowl of mashed Yukon potatoes. Add sour cream, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, chives, egg yolk, teaspoon of salt, and teaspoon of black pepper and stir until smooth. Heat oil in skillet over medium-high heat.
Add lamb and cook until browned. Pour off any excess grease, and season with salt and pepper. Add tomatoes with liquid and vegetable medley and cook for 5 to 10 minutes.
While that is cooking, in a small saucepan heat beer and add beef bouillon. Bring up to a simmer and add cornstarch mixture. Then add that to lamb mixture and simmer until thickened.
Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish. Pour in lamb mixture. Spoon mashed potatoes over and make sure the potatoes cover all meat mixture. Top with 1 cup cheese and sprinkle paprika over the casserole. Pre-heat oven to 350'F.
Cook covered with foil until hot. If the the ingredients are still hot when it goes in the oven, bake 25-30 minutes. If the casserole ingredients are cold, bake for about 45 minutes.
Uncover and place under broiler until cheese is bubbly and golden, about 2 minutes.
It's hard to find anyone who doesn't enjoy the sweet, buttery goodness of freshly made shortbread. Serve shortbread for dessert as a perfect ending to a heavy meal, by itself or with ice cream. Or, put shortbread on a decorative plate and serve it with coffee or tea for a mid-morning, afternoon, or bedtime snack.
If you don't have time to try a new recipe this St. Patrick's Day, there are some other easy ways to get the day off to a festive start. Add a drop of green food coloring to the milk at breakfast, or make green eggs or pancakes simply by mixing in a few drops of green food coloring to your scrambled eggs or pancake batter before cooking. Decorate the table with green napkins, placemats, or candles. For a special St. Patrick's Day centerpiece, arrange shamrocks, Bells of Ireland, or white flowers with green foliage, tied with green ribbons. Make sure to wear something green or to accent your wardrobe with a green scarf, socks, jewelry, or other accessory to show your St. Patrick's Day spirit.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper; set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar. With the mixer on low, slowly add flour. Continue mixing until dough comes together to form a ball.
Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface; roll out dough to about 1/4-inch thickness, dusting rolling pin with flour as necessary to prevent sticking. Using a 2 1/4-inch round, fluted cutter, cut out dough. Transfer to prepared baking sheet, spacing about 1 inch apart. Gather up any scraps, gently re-roll, and repeat cutting process. Take care not to overwork dough.
Transfer baking sheet to oven and bake until shortbread just begins to turn golden, about 30 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool. Shortbread may be stored in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
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Former World No.2 Vera Zvonareva made good on a qualifying wildcard to oust No.4 seed Irina-Camelia Begu in the first round of the Tashkent Open.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Former World No.2 Vera Zvonareva made good on a qualifying wildcard to oust No.4 seed Irina-Camelia Begu in the first round of the Tashkent Open.
It's a full-circle moment for Zvonareva; after suffering two years of injuries and false starts, Zvonareva made her return to action earlier this year at an ITF event in Fergana, Uzbekistan.
Zvonareva fought through three rounds of qualifying in Tashkent to reach the main draw, where she came back from a set down to stun the No.4 seed Begu 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.
"I've been away from the circuit for the last two years and it's always tough to get back on a larger stage," Zvonareva told Tashkent Open's Sunder Iyer.
"I would like to thank the Tashkent Open for giving me a wildcard to play the qualifiers - it's a great opportunity for me to play some really talented players and hopefully I'll be able to get my rhythm too."
Up next, the two-time Grand Slam finalist will take on Pauline Parmentier after the Frenchwoman eased past Risa Ozaki 6-2, 6-4.
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The "Departure" in 2 Thessalonians 2:3
2 Thessalonians 2:3	by Thomas Ice
In March 2004 I wrote a Pre-Trib Perspectives about why I believe the Greek word apostasia was mistranslated in the King James Version as "a falling away" and the New American Standard Bible as "the apostasy." Instead, the most accurate and therefore the best translation should be "the departure." ...
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Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy [departure] comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
In March 2004 I wrote a Pre-Trib Perspectives[1] about why I believe the Greek word apostasia was mistranslated in the King James Version as "a falling away" and the New American Standard Bible as "the apostasy." Instead, the most accurate and therefore the best translation should be "the departure." Greek scholar and theologian H. Wayne House says, "I have sought to demonstrate that the departure of the church may be the proper understanding found in the Greek word apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 2:3."[2] My colleague at the Pre-Trib Research Center, Tim LaHaye says, "I have come to the conclusion that the weight of evidence favors 'departing' as the proper translation of apostasia in the original text, not 'apostasy' or 'falling away' or 'rebellion.'"[3] I will be revisiting this issue in this article. I now want to revisit this matter and provide further information that has strengthened my belief that this passage is teaching a pre-trib rapture.
It was noted in my previous article that the best translation for the Greek word apostasia is "depart" or "departure." Gordon Lewis summarizes the usage as follows:
The verb is used fifteen times in the New Testament. Of these fifteen, only three have anything to do with a departure from the faith (Luke 8:13; 1 Tim. 4:1; Heb 3:12). The word is used for departing from iniquity (2 Tim. 2:19), from ungodly men (1 Tim. 6:5), from the temple (Luke 2:27), from the body (2 Cor. 12:8), and from persons (Acts 12:10; Luke 4:13).[4]
The mother of all Greek lexicons, Liddell and Scott, defines apostasia first as "defection, revolt;" then secondly as "departure, disappearance."[5] Paul Lee Tan notes, "The definite article 'the' denotes that this will be a definite event, . . . Paul refers here to a definite event which he calls 'the departure,' and which will occur just before the start of the tribulation. This is the rapture of the church." [6]
The use of the article in this context is meant to denote a one-time event, which the rapture fits into. It is hard to think of how the process of apostasy at the end of the church age could be viewed by believers around the world as an identifiable, one-time event. However, this would not be a problem if that event were the rapture. Further, how could an apostasy be a sign to the church since many New Testament Epistles warn about apostasy in the first century and Jude said it has arrived in his day (Jude 3–4). Apostasy is a moving target while the Rapture will be a clear event.
The first seven English translations of apostasia all rendered the noun as either "departure" or "departing." They are as follows: Wycliffe Bible (1384); Tyndale Bible (1526); Coverdale Bible (1535); Cranmer Bible (1539); Breeches Bible (1576); Beza Bible (1583); Geneva Bible (1608).[7] This supports the notion that the word truly means "departure." In fact, Jerome's Latin translation known as the Vulgate from around the time of A.D. 400 renders apostasia with the "word discessio, meaning 'departure.'"[8] Why was the King James Version the first to depart from the established translation of "departure"?
Most scholars say that no one knows the reason for the translation shift. However, a plausible theory has been put forth by Martin Butalla in his Master of Theology thesis produced at Dallas Theology Seminary in 1998.[9] It appears that the Catholic translation into English from Jerome's Latin Vulgate known as the Rheims Bible (1576) was the first to break the translation trend. "Apostasia was revised from 'the departure' to 'the Protestant Revolt,'" explains Butalla. "Revolution is the terminology still in use today when Catholicism teaches the history of the Protestant Reformation. Under this guise, apostasia would refer to a departure of Protestants from the Catholic Church."[10] The Catholic translators appear eager to engage in polemics against the Reformation by even allowing it to impact Bible translation. By 1611, when then original version of the King James Bible came out, the translators changed the English translation tradition from "departure" to "falling away," which implied "apostasy." Such a change was a theological response to the Catholic notion that the Reformation was a revolt against the true church; instead, Protestants saw Catholic beliefs as "the falling away" or "the great apostasy. This would mean that the shift in translation was not based upon research of the meaning of the original language but as a theological polemic against the false teachings of Romanism.
It is well established that E. Schuyler English is thought to be the first pretribulationist to propose that "the departure" in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 was a physical departure and thus a reference to the pre-trib rapture. However, history records that at least a couple of men thought of this idea before English's series of article in 1950.[11] J. S. Mabie is said to have presented the view that "the departure" refers to the rapture as early as 1859 during a prophecy conference in Los Angeles.[12] He later wrote his view in an article published in November 1895 in a periodical called Morning Star.[13] Another pre-English proponent of "the departure" as the rapture was John R. Rice in a book in 1945.[14]
Literary Structure
In addition to the many reasons already cited for why apostasia should be translated as "the departure" and understood as a reference to the rapture of the Church before the day of the Lord, I should not forget to mention that the literary structure of the passage also supports the rapture view. It appears that Paul later in 2 Thessalonians 2:6–8 repeats the same two events mentioned in 2:3, thus supporting the rapture view for verse 3. Both events are stated twice in the passage: first, "the departure" (rapture) and "the revelation of the man of sin" (verse 3), and second, the restrainer (Holy Spirit) "is taken out of the way" (rapture) and "that lawless one will be revealed" (verses 7–8). If "the departure" is some form of apostasy then the parallelism is broken. Whatever Paul was saying in verse 3 is reiterated in verses 6–8. This literary construction is another factor that tips the scale in favor of seeing "departure" in verse 3 as the pre-trib rapture event.
The apparent reason why these two events are repeated twice is for the purpose of expounding in verses 7–8 upon the introductory statement in verse 3. Gordon Lewis notes:
In this passage we have this progression of thought. Before the outpouring of divine wrath will be "the departure" and then the revelation of the antichrist (2 Thess 2:3–4). But before the antichrist will be revealed the restrainer must be removed (2 Thess 2:6–12). With this understanding, then, the departure (2 Thess 2:3) is synonymous with the removal of the restrainer (2 Thess 2:7).[15]
We see the paralleling of "the departure" with the departure of the restrainer (Holy Spirit). Since most pretribulationists believe the departure of the restrainer is the Holy Spirit and is an argument for pretribulationism, it would make sense that they should be more open to "the departure" as a reference to the pre-trib rapture.
Critics of pretribulationism contend that if the rapture before the tribulation is taught in the New Testament, then where is it clearly taught. I believe that other passages teach it as well, however, 2 Thessalonians 2 teaches that the rapture must occur before the day of the Lord (i.e., the tribulation). The purpose of Paul's writing to the Thessalonian believers in his second epistle was to comfort them in light of a false teaching that they were in the tribulation (2 Thess 2:2). If apostasia refers to a departure from the faith before the tribulation, then how is that a comfort? However, if the departure is the rapture, then there is a comfort since they will be rescued and taken to heaven to be with the Lord before the coming wrath of the tribulation. Also, if this passage does not refer apostasia to the rapture, then imminency is lost because they would be looking for a great apostasy rather then Christ. Maranatha!
[1] Thomas Ice, "The Rapture in 2 Thessalonians 2:3", https://www.pre-trib.org/articles/all-articles/message/the-rapture-in-2-thessalonians-2-3.
[2] H. Wayne House, "Apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 2:3: Apostasy or Rapture?" in Thomas Ice and Timothy Demy, eds., When the Trumpet Sounds: Today's Foremost Authorities Speak Out on End-Time Controversies (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1995), p. 286.
[3] Tim LaHaye in Tim LaHaye, Thomas Ice, Ed Hindson, eds., The Popular Handbook on the Rapture: Experts Speak Out on End-Times Prophecy (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2011), p. 171.
[4] Gordon R. Lewis, "Biblical Evidence for Pretribulationism," Bibliotheca Sacra (vol. 125, no. 499; July 1968), p. 218.
[5] Henry George Liddell and Henry Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Revised with a Supplement [1968] by Sir Henry Stuart Jones and Roderick McKenzie (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1940), p. 218.
[6] Paul Lee Tan, The Interpretation of Prophecy (Winona Lake, IN: Assurance Publishers, 1974), p. 341.
[7] House, "Apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 2:3," p. 270.
[9] Martin William Butalla, "The Departure of the Restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2:3," ThM thesis, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1998, pp. 58–60.
[10] Butalla, "Departure of the Restrainer," pp. 59–60.
[11] E. Schuyler English, editor of Our Hope, a monthly publication that started a series in October 1949 and it ran through March 1951 teaching that "departure" referred to the rapture. English later published these installments in his book, Rethinking the Rapture (Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers, 1954).
[12] Terry Arnold & Mike Claydon, "'Apostasia' (2 Thess. 2:3) – Apostasy or 'Rapture'?" Australia Diakrisis (Vol. 2, No. 48; November/December 2007), p. 4.
[13] Richard R. Reiter, "A History of the Development of the Rapture Positions," in Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Paul D. Feinberg, Douglas J. Moo, and Richard R. Reiter, The Rapture: Pre-, Mid-, or Post- Tribulational? (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984), p. 32.
[14] John R. Rice, The Coming Kingdom of Christ (Murfreesboro, TN: Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1945), p. 152.
[15] Lewis, "Biblical Evidence for Pretribulationism," p. 217.


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KATHMANDU: At least 44 people have been killed after an aircraft carrying 72 people crashed in Nepal.
The plane was flying from the capital Kathmandu to Pokhara on Sunday when it crashed. Pokhara is a bustling tourist town about 200km (124 miles) west of Kathmandu.
There were 72 people on the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines, including four crew members, said airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula.
Nepal Police Spokesperson, Tek Prasad Rai, told Al Jazeera that the death toll has gone up to 44, adding that no survivors have been found so far.
Jagannath Niroula, spokesman for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority, confirmed the figure.
"Thirty bodies have been recovered and sent to hospital," Niroula told Reuters news agency. "Another 14 bodies are still lying at the crash site and authorities are bringing in a crane to move them."
"Responders have already reached there and trying to douse the fire. All agencies are now focused on first dousing the fire and rescuing the passengers," local official Gurudutta Dhakal said.
The craft made contact with the airport from Seti Gorge at 10:50am (05:05 GMT), the aviation authority said in a statement. "Then it crashed."
"Half of the plane is on the hillside," said Arun Tamu, a local resident, who told Reuters he reached the site minutes after the plane went down.
"The other half has fallen into the gorge of the Seti River."
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Kathmandu, Ramyata Limbu said locals in Pokhara asserted weather and visibility was "good" when the plane crashed.
"So its [the crash] shocking and surprising," said Limbu. "Eyewitnesses said the plane was having problems before it crashed into a gorge close to the airport."
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called an emergency cabinet meeting after the plane crash, a government statement said.
"I am deeply saddened by the sad and tragic accident of Yeti Airlines ANC ATR 72 which was flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara with passengers," he posted on Twitter.
"I sincerely appeal to the security personnel, all agencies of the Nepal government and the general public to start an effective rescue."
A committee to investigate the crash has been formed by the government.
In May, a plane owned by Tara Air crashed less than 20 minutes after taking off from Pokhara.
At least 309 people have died since 2000 in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Everest where the weather can change suddenly and make for hazardous conditions. (Int'l Monitoring Desk)
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)

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4 ex-fraternity members get jail in pledge's hazing death
Posted: Jan 9, 2018 / 10:11 AM EST / Updated: Jan 9, 2018 / 10:11 AM EST
FILE – In this May 15, 2017, file photo, Raymond Lam, center, leaves the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa. Lam is one of four men from the New York City borough of Queens who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2013 death of Chun "Michael" Deng, a fraternity pledge from the Baruch College […]
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) – Four New York City men were given jail sentences Monday in the death of an 18-year-old fraternity pledge during a 2013 hazing ritual in Pennsylvania, with a judge saying she believes they succumbed to "brainwashing" and "indoctrination" that is rampant at fraternities around the nation.
Baruch College freshman Chun "Michael" Deng was blindfolded, forced to wear a heavy backpack and then repeatedly tackled as part of the fraternity's Crossing Over initiation ceremony. He was knocked unconscious and later died at a hospital.
Police charged 37 people with crimes ranging from aggravated assault to hazing to third-degree murder.
"Not one person out of 37 picked up a telephone and called an ambulance. I cannot wrap my head around it," Monroe County President Judge Margherita Patti-Worthington said. "So there's something greater going on here, and I think it's probably really prevalent. We see across the country these issues in fraternities."
The four defendants sentenced Monday, Kenny Kwan, Charles Lai, Raymond Lam and Sheldon Wong, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, hindering apprehension and other charges.
Kwan got 12 to 24 months in county jail. Lam and Wong were sentenced to 10 to 24 months each. Lai, who spent 342 days in jail after he was unable to make bail, was sentenced to time served.
All four defendants apologized, a few of them tearfully.
Lam was the most emotional, saying he has been consumed by guilt. He said he has attempted to kill himself.
"The guilt will never go away, and I think about Mr. Deng every day," he said.
In a statement to the court, Deng's mother wrote about the anguish of losing her only son and demanded a sentence that would send a message about hazing.
"This punishment should forever remind them of the pain and grief we will carry for the rest of our lives as the result of their misconduct," Deng wrote. "It is also our hope that the punishment may also save lives by sending a clear message to other fraternities and their members that the outrageous tradition of hazing will no longer be tolerated and must be ended once and for all."
Earlier Monday, the Pi Delta Psi fraternity was banned from Pennsylvania for 10 years and was ordered to pay a fine of more than $110,000 for its role in Deng's death.
The judge and a prosecutor slammed Pi Delta Psi for calling itself a victim of rogue fraternity members, saying the fraternity tolerated and even encouraged hazing for years.
"It's the epitome of a lack of acceptance of responsibility. It's their rituals and functions that led us here today," Monroe County Assistant District Attorney Kim Metzger said in court.
Pi Delta Psi has 25 chapters in 11 states, including one at Penn State University that will now have to be disbanded.
In a written statement, Pi Delta Psi, an Asian-American cultural fraternity founded in 1994, said its now-disbanded Baruch College chapter brought "shame and dishonor" to the national fraternity.
Pi Delta Psi's attorney, Wes Niemoczynski, argued that Pi Delta Psi had developed a "no excuses" hazing policy before Deng's death but said the policy worked on the "honor system" and proved to be inadequate.
The fraternity's initiation rituals "involved some physicality, but they certainly did not involve the level of physicality, the level of inhumanity and the depravity of the individuals who are also coming before the court," he said.
The defendants sentenced Monday faced the most serious charges. Dozens of other defendants have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to probation.
Corrects earlier versions to show that the pledge who died was 18, not 19.