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Top 12 Entertainment Apps to Go For in 2021
May 29, 2021 April 19, 2021 by james vines
Mobile industry is always expanding as more and more apps are added to enhance user-experience and transition on the digital front. The rise of COVID-19 pandemic which prompted global lockdowns, curfews and induced work from home/remote working culture further resulted in significant growth of the digital industry while adding more and more mobile apps to their respective OS's online store.
That said, two of the most dominant app stores are Google Play Store (Android) and Apple Store (iOS); both are now billion dollar-worth industries . Other than work and business, a large share of amazing UAE mobile app developers with dedicated Dubai mobile app development working for the entertainment industry which further expanded with online streaming platforms.
Let's have a look at some of the coolest entertainment mobile apps we're sure to see dominating 2021; for both Android and Apple devices.
1. Netflix
4. Amazon Prime Video
6. Twitch
7. PUBG Mobile
8. Google Play Books
9. Minecraft
10. Among Us
11. Teach your Monster to Read
12. Duolingo
The US-based on-demand video streaming service provider has earned global fame mostly because some of the best television shows are now hosted and premiered for early watch first! None other than Netflix, it now has more than 200-million paid subscribers worldwide and a bit more for free-trial version.
The streaming service however, now has many competitors such as Amazon Prime Video, HBO Box, Hulu and recently launched Disney Plus. Total mobile app downloads for Netflix was 24-million, including 8-million iOS app downloads and 16-million Android. Netflix app is available to download on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Find out more about Netflix from the URL given below.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix
Perhaps, no entertainment app or prominent names can beat the likes of YouTube, being owned by Google as one of its leading streaming platforms. Other than downloads and streaming, the monthly user login rate for YouTube surpass two-billion whereas daily number of hours streamed are minimum one-billion. This particular streaming mobile app recorded approximately 20-million downloads and available for both Android and iOS. Check out more about the biggest entertainment channel from the URL below.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
Spotify had its origin from Sweden and is a prominent music streaming app that can be conveniently used on both mobile and desktop computers. Total number of active user-base is more or less 250 million whereas registered/paid subscribers are around 120 million however; do note that monthly subscription charges are different from a country to another so check yours in advance.
New subscribers are however offered three months of free service with access to all the features. Total number of downloads till date are more than 21 million; combining both Google Play and Apple Store. Learn more about Spotify from the given link.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify
Also known as Prime Video, the US-based online video on-demand service operated by Amazon is famous for best movie download app, streaming unseen, original and exclusive content along with some of the most popular television shows that viewers can watch anytime, anywhere. For paid members, movies and shows from renowned broadcasting channels namely HBO, SHOWTIME and STARZ can be watched. Total number of app downloads for both Android and iOS are more or less 15-million. Check out more details by visiting the URL provided below.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Video
In June 2015, Apple officially released its own music streaming service by the name Apple Music to compete the likes of YouTube Music and Spotify. At first, the service was exclusive only to Apple devices which limited the number of users, paid subscriptions and downloads, thus prompting corporate owners to change their decision and enable downloads on Android devices as well.
Like Spotify, subscription rate for Apple Music varies from a country to another so you can check yours easily on the respective app stores. Total number of app download from both Play Store by Google and App Store by Apple is 1.2 million so far and rising steadily. Get a detailed insight on Apple Music from the link provided below.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Music
Twitch is video streaming service and Amazon's subsidiary whereas the name comes from its operating team that's called Twitch. Being highly interactive, Twitch is a general-purpose streaming platform which means users can even upload their preferred media files like movies, music and even games. Although the service is originally for video streaming, the app gained fame for its game streaming service and can be subscribed against different packages based on monthly charges. Total app downloads are 7.5-million combining both iOS and Android. Here's the URL for you to get more insights on Twitch by Amazon.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_(service)
Mobile gaming has been around for a while but the trend truly lighted up with the release of PUBG Mobile, becoming one of the most popular gaming entertainment source with lowest subscription fee per month. Co-produced by Xbox Game Studio, Krafton, Tecent games and PUBG Corporation, its released has reshaped the gaming industry for everyone while climbing to the year's top five most sought-after entertainment apps of all time. Savvy gamers can download PUBG Mobile app on both Android and Apple devices. Total number of downloads is approximately 11-million and growing for Apple and Google Android devices. Visit the link below for more details on the famous game.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayerUnknown%27s_Battlegrounds
Google Play Book or Google eBook as formerly known is an ultimate reading app to host a lot of books in its digital library including the audio playbook feature which further makes it worth subscribing to. Owned and operated by search engine giant, Google Play Book offers official distribution rights from various digital libraries and eBook platforms like Scribd, Book mate, Kindle Unlimited, Playster, Kobo Plus and many others. Total downloads so far are 1.2-million combining results of both Play Store and App Store. Check below for more details on Google Play Books.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Books
In 2020, Minecraft celebrated its 11th anniversary and still among the most lovable kids entertainment app which lets your little ones to build their own world from blocks and creative ingeniousness. Available to download on every phone, table, desktop computer and laptop, Minecraft is a paid app but if you're looking for free alternatives, there're plenty more options available like Roblox and Terraria. Total number of downloads is nearly 1.3-million for both Apple and Google Android. The URL below provides more detailed insight on Minecraft, feel free to check it out.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
Becoming a super hit app in 2020 given to the pandemic-prompted lockdown and curfew, Among Us is a multiplayer game for 4-10 players. For both grown-ups and children, the game lets you choose between two opposing groups namely Crewmates or Imposters that are assigned to either spaceships or planet bases, defending their team against each other. The game has potential to remain popular in 2021 as well so it's worth downloading. Total number of downloads, combining results from both Android and iOS app stores is approximately 50-million. Here's more to know about the game.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_Us
Nominated for BAFTA award and a series of inventive apps, Teach your Monster to Read falls in the category of gaming entertainment app for children allowing them to improve their vocabulary, letter skills and encourages reading. In short, it's a complete Montessori for children especially during the closed education institutions and schools. More or less 10k downloads have been recorded till now for both Google and Apple devices. The link below will redirect you to the official game website, providing more details and insight on the app.
SOURCE: https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
Learn to read and talk in 36 languages including Spanish, Japanese and French with the amazing education plus entertainment app, developed for both adults and children alike. The Streak feature of Duolingo is actually a pro version to ensure you load it up daily for learn and play at the same time. It's free to use as long as you're okay with the advertisements but paid version is ad-free named as Duolingo Plus. The app sums up to more or less 9-million downloads as a combined result from both Apple App Store and Google Play Store. To know more about the game, check the URL provided below.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo
Almost everyone today owns a smartphone so don't forget to download the entertainment apps from the list provided above. It's all about fun, learning and entertainment.
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DITMARS — Australian-inspired Queens eatery The Thirsty Koala just added a little bounce to its burgers.
The Astoria restaurant, which opened in December at 35-12 Ditmars Blvd., started serving kangaroo burgers, sliders and steaks last month — and the marsupial meat is so popular chef and co-owner Katherine Fuchs said she sells more of it than regular beef.
"I think it's popular because people are craving different experiences with food," she said, adding the food scene is trending towards novelty meats.
"There's a lot of other meat out there. People are eating elk, they're eating emu, they're eating ostrich," she said. "So why not kangaroo?"
Kangaroo meat is on the menu at an Astoria eatery.
The new 'roo offerings include a $15 8-ounce burger with "the lot" — Australian slang for all-the-fixings — that comes topped with bacon, beet root slaw, grilled pineapple, caramelized onions, house-made goat cheese and a fried egg, all squeezed into a brioche bun.
The kangaroo sliders are served with a cucumber pineapple salsa, sautéed shallots and a chipotle sauce. The kangaroo filet — a cut of meat that's a cross between a strip steak and a tenderloin — comes with a side of kumara mash, a type of yam that's grown in New Zealand.
They order the kangaroo meat from a ranch in Queensland, Australia, by way of the Hunts Point Market in the Bronx.
The Thirsty Koala also uses lamb sourced from Australia for its herb-crusted double lamb lollies, and the menu also incorporates a number of Oz-based herbs and spices that co-owner Christine Chellos — a Sydney native — brought back from a recent trip home.
The restaurant is a labor of love for Fuchs, Chellos and another co-owner, Alex Styponias — longtime friends and Astoria residents.
Styponias said his first kangaroo-eating experience was his own restaurant's dishes. He said he "got hooked" on the meat after trying the burger last month.
"It's really, really yummy," he said. "I would say it tastes like a filet mignon. It's really sweet and tender, and it's not as gamey as one would think."


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Greencore says its annual results are "in line" with last year but fears the current sterling-euro exchange rate will continue to erode profits
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Irish-based food company Greencore has said its annual results are, so far, "in line" with last year but is concerned that the current sterling-euro exchange rate will continue to erode profits.
The company supplies prepared chilled, baked and convenience foods to the UK, but said that demand had lessened in that market, which it describes as being "tough" at present.
"If the EUR/GBP level were to continue in the 0.88 to 0.90 range for the rest of the current financial year, the translation effect year-on-year would reduce group operating profit by circa €8 million, and profit before tax by circa €6 million," said Greencore chairman Ned Sullivan.
Recent restructuring initiatives, which include the closure of its frozen desserts site at Crosshills in the UK, and its exit from a grain and agri-trading business in Ireland, have resulted in a one-off charge of €18 million this fiscal year.
The company, which is due to announce its half-year results in May, expects to generate "a more significant proportion" of annual earnings from the second half of its fiscal year than it did in 2008.

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The far north is where the rubber meets the road for hard-core adventure junkies. If you were born to be wild, take your own Minsk motorbike; if you weren't, go with a jeep and driver.
This section is broken into two sections: the Northwest Highlands, which include Lao Cai, Sapa, and the Dien Bien Phu Loop; and the North-Central Highlands, a shorter route including Ba Be Park and the small towns of Cao Bang and Lang Son.
In addition to breathtaking landscapes of the Tonkinese Alps and off-the-map destinations like Dien Bien Phu, one of the main attractions in the region is the villages of the ethnic minority hilltribes. The weather is much cooler here than in Vietnam's often sultry lowlands and coastal plains, so bring some layers, and be ready for some good adventures.
The region's most accessible and popular choice for luxury travelers, backpackers, and tour groups, Sapa can be reached by overnight train from Hanoi. With a range of good accommodations and dining, Sapa is a good base for trekking to hilltribe villages or as the first or last destination on a rugged highland adventure.
Below we've outlined the long loop starting in Hanoi and including the towns of Hoa Binh, Mai Chau, Son La, Dien Bien Phu (where the French forces in Indochina fell), and Lai Chau before crossing the high pass to Sapa. The trip is a real hoot and takes from 4 days to 1 week of adventurous road travel along some treacherous tracks through beautiful mountain scenery in the heart of the Tonkinese Alps. A trip around the loop is a great chance to experience Vietnam "off the track" and have contact with ethnic hilltribe culture.
Another route included in this chapter leaves Hanoi and heads directly north via the town of Thai Nguyen to the Ba Be Lake National Park, then to the riverside town of Cao Bang, where rural day trips take you to a stunning waterfall and to hilltribe markets, and finally to Lang Son, a provincial outpost, before returning to Hanoi. Different hilltribe groups call this region home and weekend markets abound.
When Traveling in the Northern Vietnam- Bring cash. You can find local banks in each of these little towns to exchange U.S. greenbacks, but usually at a much less favorable rate. Apart from in Sapa, there are no ATMs in the region. Just bring enough Vietnam dong to cover expenses (on your own, plan to bring about 500,000 VND/$25/£14 per day). Even the smallest hamlet in Vietnam has good postal service, you can make calls via an international phone, and the Internet is accessible in the smallest town (you might even catch sight of the proverbial "thatched-roof Internet cafe"), but service is very slow, even in Sapa. Medical services are not up to par, even for Vietnam. You can fly yourself out of Dien Bien Phu if you're in real trouble, but you're more or less on your own out on the roads. Bring a good first-aid kit for incidental cuts and scrapes, and be sure to carry stomach medicine, bug spray, and sun screen.


In proof of Chesterton's dictum that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly, I pound away at the piano playing the easier Chopin Nocturnes and I grind on my violin with a confidence only an amateur can flaunt. So I am not innocent of music. I appreciate the emotive post-war French singers, and have a soft spot for the idiomatic form called "Doo-Wop" and its highly skilled harmonization and lyricism, along with some of the more whimsical Motown singers. But the world of rock and roll is to me a bewilderment, to the amazement of the same coterie who find it hard to believe that I have never had a cellular phone. It is a fact in witness to which I am willing to swear on a Douai Bible, that I have never been able to listen to an entire rock and roll song. This is not to say that I lack curiosity. In the South Pacific, I have listened to tunes on the aboriginal eucalyptus didgeridoo and the Polynesian nose flute, but what has developed as rock and roll music and metastasized into more raucous forms, remains an anthropological enigma and I leave restaurants and public gatherings where they are played.
Consequently, it was no surprise that news of the death of David Bowie was the first time I knew that he had been alive. If you find that hard to believe, you must remember that my instinctive taste for "pop music" is encoded by Gilbert and Sullivan and eclipsed by John Phillip Souza. What did surprise me was that the Vatican, just wiping up from its Climate Change light show on the façade of the Basilica of St. Peter's, plunged into mourning for this man. At least the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi, issued a statement quoting from some lyrics of Mr. Bowie: "Ground Control to Major Tom / Commencing countdown, engines on / Check ignition and may God's love be with you." What I found most intimidating, and indeed frightening, was the assumption that others would recognize the reference.
Born in 1942, Cardinal Ravisi is older than I and yet surpasses my information of pop culture, unless a junior staff member penned the elegy. His Eminence is an accomplished archeologist and was prefect of the Ambrosian Library, whose patron had musical tastes antecedent to and, dare I say, superior to, those of David Bowie.
is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful; and also because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justify blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he will recognize and salute the friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.
Plato also knew the dangers of "anti-music" or Corybanticism, which perverted rhythms to stimulate the bodily humors in defiance of the good purposes of the muses. Its consequence would be a moral chain reaction, dissonant music deranging society and inverting virtue. The Corybants were priests of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, and their music was atonal, ecstatic, and dissolute. It was inimical to the ideal republic. But it incubated the ethereal realms of David Bowie and Michael Jackson and their sort.
In speaking of the rock and roll genre, I certainly do not want to be lumped with those preachers who once condemned Ragtime music, or even Chesterton who in an unmeasured moment called Jazz "the song of the treadmill." But I am a pastor of a section of Manhattan called Hell's Kitchen. I recently had the funeral of a young man who died of a drug overdose, and whose musical world was Corybantic. His cousin, a client of the rock and drug scene, is in prison for murder. So I speak not only as an aesthete who publicly avows that he prefers Mozart and Chopin to Jackson and Bowie, but as a priest who has to pick up the pieces of those who never knew they had a choice. And I object to comfortable prelates in a higher realm, penning panegyrics for the doyens of a culture that destroys my children.
On the one hand, there is pop music, which is certainly no longer supported by the people in the ancient senses (populous). It's aimed at the phenomenon of the masses, is industrially produced, and ultimately has to be described as a cult of the banal. "Rock," on the other hand, is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumed a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. The music of the Holy Spirit's sober inebriation seems to have little chance when self has become a prison, the mind is a shackle, and breaking out from both appears as a true promise of redemption that can be tasted at least for a few moments.
Young people are embarrassed when their mothers try to be "cool." These youths may tread wrong paths unadvisedly on occasion, for such is the indiscretion of nascent years, but they want their mothers to be mature and not adolescent. Mother Church appears ridiculous as Adolescent Church, as in the case of the Holy See lamenting David Bowie. The insatiable desire for approval by pop culture is beneath the dignity of the Church as the Mother of Nations.
Christ was a carpenter and his apostles were mostly fishermen and none of them was what is called today a "metrosexual." I am not sure what that term fully means, but it embraces anyone who weeps for paragons of degeneracy and paladins of vice.


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I think it was last week that the market rose because sales of existing homes significantly increased so there were thoughts around an economy looking better. Unfortunately, overnight the latest report regarding new home sales was that of a fall. Guess what? New homes is a far stronger indicator of the strength of an economy than existing homes…the US is a long way away from a strong looking economy. With unemployment still enormous and monetary policy at the end of its limits (i.e. the nil interest bound), banks like Citi struggling, perhaps another US stimulus package is needed???


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On Wednesday, July 31, the Michigan Humane Society (MHS) will hold a feral cat workshop for residents who want to help reduce the number of homeless cats and provide feral cats with much-needed care. This workshop will teach residents how utilize a "Trap-Neuter-Release" (TNR) strategy, which has proven to be the most effective and humane way of handling feral cats.
MHS' TNR program gives individuals who wish to manage a feral cat colony near their home or place of employment the chance to provide the animals with vaccinations, sterilization and veterinary care. Caretakers will be trained on proper techniques and equipment to humanely trap feral cats and bring them to the Michigan Humane Society for sterilization and identification. The animals will then be released back to their habitat by their caretaker.
For those interested in becoming a feral cat colony caretaker and participating in the TNR program, MHS is hosting this required workshop on Wednesday, July 31, at 5:30 p.m. at the Michigan Humane Society's administrative office, located at 30300 Telegraph Road, Suite 220 in Bingham Farms. Register online or get more information at www.michiganhumane.org/feral or call (248) 283-1000, ext. 127. An RSVP is required.
Providing a TNR service for feral cats is a critical component of lowering the number of unadoptable animals coming into shelters, as feral cats generally cannot be adopted into homes unless they are young enough to be properly socialized with humans. TNR is the best way to allow the cats to humanely live out their lives in their natural habitat, while preventing them from contributing to the pet overpopulation problem.
Seems they do fantastic work preventing more feral cats joining the population. We wish them well. Have a terrific Tuesday.
This sounds awesome! I hope it is well-attended.
We love MHS! They do so much, and have so many wonderful programs to help animals in the community!
That really is mega-wonderful and simply made my whiskers grin up. Ferals so need the help.
Thanks for your kind comments on our blog today.
you are most welcome my furiends!!!
Hurray! What a great program--your Humane Society rocks, Caren & Cory! I wonder if they do those here? I might look into that!
I have one question....WHO IS "CORY???" MOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have several NGOs who promote TNR but are unable to get the council's agreement NOT to capture these animals (which are ear notched). It's an ongoing battle with the dumbos sitting in the council.
I've TNR'd a couple of cats who wander around my street. Thankfully our immediate neighbors are pretty accepting of these cats.
We just trapped our latest newcomer to the Riverfront Colony--Sinbad, a tuxedo. He actually backed up into the trap! That is a first.
that is too cute! It's as if he knew you were going to take good care of him!
MHS ROCKS!!!! Thank you so much for sharing all the wonderful things they are doing for animals with your readers Caren! You make a huge difference and are a wonderful part of saving feral cats lives by sharing this!
that is so kind of you Amelia! I feel that it is important to share too, some think that because it is a Michigan rescue it doesn't pertain to them, but in reality, it does. Other rescues can get ideas by seeing what others are doing. Plus, if it will help save some cats and help to control the unwanted kittens being born I am all for it! I feel it is super important to share and I THANK YOU for agreeing, it makes me sad because my rescue posts or Michigan Humane posts are the LEAST read. Regardless, I will continue to share what I feel is important to share! (((((hugs)))) THANK YOU!


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Conference Call: Hazard's star turn and excitement at Spurs semi
Gianfranco Zola singled out the impact made by our substitutes against Bournemouth, including the matchwinner Eden Hazard, as proving pivotal in our success tonight, and he also reacted to a mouthwatering Carabao Cup semi-final draw.
After edging past Bournemouth we will play Tottenham in the last four, with the first leg taking place away from home. When queried about the pairing, our assistant first team coach noted it was a good opportunity to exact some revenge on our London rivals after what happened at Wembley last month…
'It could have been better but we are in the semi-finals,' was Zola's immediate reaction to the draw.
'We are happy because some time ago they gave us a good football lesson, and we are looking forward to challenging them again. I'm sure it's going to be a different type of game, and I think everybody is very excited to face them again.
'We were hurting [after the league defeat]. Too many players underplayed in that game. There are a lot of proud players in our team, and of course they will want to play this game. I am really pleased we are playing against them and I can't wait.'
Zola was asked if it will be a good opportunity for Chelsea supporters to back the team in the correct manner, as Blues chairman Bruce Buck called on our fans to do in an open letter yesterday
'I have no doubts they will respond to it in a proper way. We have fantastic supporters and I'm sure they will be supporting respectfully, and with the Chelsea way.'
Focusing on tonight's hard-fought 1-0 win, Zola had praise for the beaten Cherries
'It was a very tough game. Bournemouth are a very good team. The coaches they have do an excellent job. They gave us a really hard time.
'We started very well in the first 20, 25 minutes, but they didn't concede much. They closed down all the spaces well, and in the end they got stronger and stronger.
'I thought the difference was the changes we made. When Pedro and Eden came on it really gave us an extra gear. We got the goal that made the difference.'
Zola considered whether at this busy time of year he would rather Hazard remained unused
'We have a lot of games. Players like Eden we need to keep fit and in good condition. But we also know Eden is the type of player when he comes on, even for 20 minutes, he can make a big difference. Also Pedrito. He was excellent.'
Hazard's stock continues to rise after his 10th goal of the season and 99th in a Chelsea shirt
'He is certainly one of the players who has given this club a lot of satisfaction. Considering he is only 27, hopefully he will stay longer with us and become even bigger.
'I am really looking forward to seeing Eden achieving great things with the club, and to help us coaches achieve something important.'
Ruben Loftus-Cheek was a danger on the right wing and hit the post in the second half
'I was impressed with him. He has done very well as one of the wide players, but he showed a lot of application and sacrifice when he played as a midfielder. He was getting tired towards the end but he was still disciplined and gave the team a hand.
'He has come far since the beginning of the season. He has improved in many ways, and I'm pleased because he is a good boy and he works very hard on his game.'
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My boy Kevin Campos owner and pest control technician extraordinaire at PestCal Exterminators stops by to discuss exterminating practices, starting his own business and some exterminating stories. From Bed Bug detection to Rodent extermination he discusses signs of infestation and how to rid of them. Prevention is always the key but how do you prevent if you don't know what they're attracted to? How do you protect yourself against Bed bugs while traveling you ask? Oh we also discuss the trend in eating Insects namely Crickets as Protein flour. You're already ingesting insect particles why not consider eating them for nutrition? Tune in and get your ear holes waxed. Big up to PestCal!


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366 days of gratitude
In Dunedin 10 days ago I tried to pay for lunch with my credit card. The transaction was cancelled.
I knew there was more than enough credit in the account so tried again. It was cancelled again.
I paid cash.
An hour or so later I tried to pay for a purchase at a shop with the credit card. It wouldn't work.
I went to the bank, the teller put the card in the hole in the wall and got a message saying the chip was damaged.
She said that was happening to cards used to self-checkouts in supermarkets. That doesn't make sense when the card thingees are the same as those at checkouts with staff but I didn't argue with her.
She said the bank would send me a new card and that would take about seven working days.
I found the new card in the mail that had arrived when I was away at the end of last week when I got home yesterday and it worked at the supermarket where I used it for the first time today. I'm grateful for that and that being credit-cardless for 10 days wasn't a problem because I know that for some people it would have been.
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Spheromancy – the making of determinations or predictions using questionable or unscientific means; divination using a crystal ball.
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Dot test
Can you pass the dot test?
You hit all the dots correctly which means that you have an incredible ability to understand what you see, analyze and calculate it immediately.
On top of that, you're very patient when you need to be and that gives you the peace of mind to actually concentrate and reach the right conclusion instead of giving up and pick a random solution.
All these indicate that you're officially smarter than most of the population. That's pretty impressive and you should be proud of yourself. Woot woot!
It isn't that hard if you can count.
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Pascoe's 2nd gold
Sophie Pascoe set a world record when she won the 200 metre individual medley. This is her second gold following her win in the 100 metre backstroke and silver in the 50 metre freestyle yesterday.
New Zealand is now 11th in the medal tally with four gold, three silver and two bronze.
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Shearing role an honour – Sally Rae:
Johnny Fraser has a busy few months ahead of him.
Mr Fraser, a North Otago farmer, has been selected as New Zealand team manager for a transtasman shearing test in Australia in October.
Next year, he is heading to the United Kingdom for nearly six weeks, to manage the New Zealand team.
Shearing has taken Mr Fraser around the world, yet he reckoned the appointment was the highlight of a lengthy involvement in the sport. . .
Hardest part out of the way – Hamish MacLean:
The North Otago Irrigation Company has not hit its target of a September 1 commissioning for all shareholders, but chief executive Robyn Wells says the work programme for its $57million expansion is now progressing well.
With a staged commissioning of lines, Mrs Wells said all farmers on the expanded scheme would have their water turned on before Christmas.
Installing the large 1200mm pipe making up the "main spine" of the expansion had been "the most difficult", but was now complete.
Ten crews, or 138 workers, continued to work across a "significant area of North Otago". . .
Strong outlook for horticultural sector – Sally Rae:
An average price of $90 for a 17.5kg lamb is being picked by ANZ economists for 2016-17 — but there are down side risks from Brexit impacts.
The bank's latest Agri Focus focused on the price outlook for New Zealand's major agricultural sectors.
The expected environment still looked challenging for key livestock sectors, despite some expected improvement for the dairy industry.
In contrast, the main horticultural crops were on track to post near-record export volumes and still achieve solid prices.
It was a mixed outlook for sheepmeat prices. down side risks were possible due to Brexit impacts but on the positive side, tradeable supply was expected to tighten during New Zealand's main production window. . .
Nelson Honey's sweet success with Rainbow Station lease :
Nelson Honey has bought Rainbow Station's pastoral lease, securing long-term access to 8300-hectares of high country.
Managing director Philip Cropp said the 33-year lease, which was finalised at the end of August, was significant as it future-proofed its access to the high-country farm.
It would see the company increase hive numbers across the station from 600 to 800. The number was about a fifth of the total hives the company had out across the region, he said. . .
Family puts cropping skills to good use on sheep and beef farm – Heather Chalmers:
The McLauchlan family has gone against the dairy flow to stock a Mid Canterbury farm with sheep and beef, writes Heather Chalmers.
When the McLauchlan family bought their Mid-Canterbury farm in 2011, they were starting with a clean slate.
There were no stock on the 430 hectare Glengyle when they purchased it, so the family initially relied on dairy support and crops to generate an income while they gradually built up sheep and beef numbers. They have since leased a neighbouring 300ha property.
They bought Glengyle after selling their mixed cropping farm in North Canterbury to dairy interests. Don McLauchlan said they were keen to move to a sheep and beef area, and get away from irrigation and the intensive management it requires. . .
Former All White Tim Brown gets $9.7m to expand shoe business – Chloe Winter:
A woollen footwear business founded by former All White Tim Brown has been given a multi-million dollar funding boost.
Brown's company Allbirds originally launched in 2014 after successfully raising about $3.68 million through a global crowdfunding platform and a US investment fund.
On Thursday, the former Wellington Phoenix captain secured an additional US$7.25m (NZ$9.71m) from Maveron, a private equity fund established by Starbucks founder Howard Schultz. . .
The mooing of your cows/bulls at night are keeping my kids and family up late when they need to get up early for school. Please address this problem.
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Third silver
Cyclists Emma Foy and Laura Thompson won silver in the 3000 metre individual pursuit.
That takes New Zealand to 13th place in the medal table with three golds, three silvers and two bronze medals.
(This is a correction of an earlier post in which I omitted her pilot Laura's name).
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. – H.H. Asquith who was born on this day in 1852.
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September 12 in history
1213 Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeated Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
1575 Henry Hudson, English explorer, was born (d. 1611).
1683 Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies joined forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
1812 – Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press, was born (d. 1886).
1814 Battle of North Point: an American detachment halted the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun, was born (d. 1903).
1846 Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning.
1847 Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec began.
1848 Switzerland became a Federal state.
1852 H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was born (d. 1928).
1857 The SS Central America sank drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
1880 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic, ws born (d. 1956).
1888 Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor, was born (d. 1972).
1889 – Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta, was born (d. 1942).
1897 Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, was born (d. 1956).
1898 – Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator, was born (d. 1943).
1902 – Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian-American poet and author, was born (d. 1982).
1906 The Newport Transporter Bridge was opened by Viscount Tredegar.
1907 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright, was born (d. 1963).
1910 Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players).
1913 Jesse Owens, American athlete, was born (d. 1980).
1914 – Forty three miners were killed in an explosion at Huntly.
1919 Adolf Hitler joined the German Workers Party.
1928 – Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist, was born (d. 2013).
1930 Wilfred Rhodes ended his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
1931 – Ian Holm, English actor, was born.
1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light conceived the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1940 An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey killed 51 people and injured over 200.
1942 RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs was torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sankwith a heavy loss of life.
1942 First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign.
1943 – Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet, was born.
1943 Benito Mussolini was rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
1948 Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.
1952 Gerry Beckley, American musician (America), was born.
1952 Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
1958 Jack Kilby demonstrated the first integrated circuit.
1959 Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV programme presented in color.
1964 Canyonlands National Park was designated as a National Par
1966 Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini programme.
1974 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1977 South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was killed in police custody.
1979 Indonesia was hit by an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
1980 Military coup in Turkey.
1981 Flour bombs ended the rugby test between the All Blacks and Springboks at Eden Park.
1983 A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartfor,was robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
1988 Hurricane Gilbert devastated Jamaica.
1990 The two German states and the Four Powers signed the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
1992 NASA launched Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board were Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
1992 Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, was captured by Peruvian special forces.
1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashed a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
2001 Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapsed due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
2003 – In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shot and killed eight Iraqi police officers.
2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opened.
2007 Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was convicted of the crime of plunder.
2008 The 2008 Chatsworth train collision between a Metrolink commuter train and a Pacific Union Freight Train killed 25 people.
2011 – The 9/11 Memorial Museum opened to the public.
2014 – Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
2015 – A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh killed at least 105 people with over 150 injured.
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using Eto.Forms;
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namespace Eto.iOS.Forms.Controls
{
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	{
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		public SpinnerHandler()
		{
			Control = new UIActivityIndicatorView
			{
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McGrath, Lions too much for Dwight in playoff opener
Clark Reamer
Oct 26, 2018 at 12:01 AM Oct 26, 2018 at 11:53 PM
Class 3A playoff football game between Dwight and Lisle
Dwight broke a 12-year playoff drought last week to earn a Week 10 trip. The prize was a journey north to a familiar place against a familiar foe. That meeting took place Friday night as the Trojans and Lisle squared off in a Class 3A first-round contest.
Unfortunately for the Dwight faithful who made the trip to Benedictine University, their heroes were defeated by the Lions 38-14 loss in a contest between for Interstate Eight Conference rivals. It also continues a 35-year span without a playoff win for DTHS.
The Trojans did what they do best on its opening drive. Using mostly the run, DTHS marched 80 yards for the opening score. Senior tailback Logan Graham took a screen pass from Colton Holm 28 yards as the big play, and then capped the drive with a 6-yard run at 7:47 in the first period. JC Santos converted the kick to put the Trojans up 7-0.
Led by senior quarterback Jay McGrath, the Lions roared back with a scoring drive of their own. McGrath, behind a mammoth line, ran for 37 yards and threw for 23 yards on the drive. He scrambled for an 18-yard score, the first of his four touchdowns on the night, to cap the drive. He also added the conversion kick to tie the game at 7-7 with 2:56 left in the first frame.
Two possessions and two touchdowns quickly put this game in perspective: a defensive stop might be the difference.
Lisle got one in forcing the Trojans to punt on the ensuing possession. McGrath went back to work and the Lions took the lead right before the end of the quarter.
McGrath found Demetrius Kellie for a 23-yard strike and followed that with a 25-yard scoring run and point-after for a 14-7 lead with 22 seconds remaining in the quarter.
Lisle appeared to have made another stop, but the Trojans' coaching staff had something up their collective sleeves.
Dwight got good field position after a nice kickoff return, but seemed to stall out at midfield. Facing fourth-and-11, DTHS head coach Luke Standiford cracked open the trick play section of his playbook.
In punt formation, wideout Dakota Wahl sprinted to the sideline as if he were exiting the field and then turned upfield the snap the ball. Quarterback Colton Holm, also the DTHS punter, found Wahl for a 33-yard gain to keep the drive alive. Wahl had a bit of trouble securing the ball, but managed the haul it in while in stride along the Dwight sideline.
Graham scored six plays later on a 2-yard run. JC Santos converted the point-after to tie the game at 14-14 with 8:02 in the second quarter.
Lisle again had an answer — McGrath. Moving the ball steadily down the field, the do-it-all QB scored on a sneak with 5:40 left in the half that put the Lions up 21-14.
Dwight got stopped and Lisle was looking for a big play when McGrath's lone mistake of the night was an errant pass that Cade Enerson hauled in with no Lisle player around him.
The Lions gained some extra momentum heading into the locker room at the half after McGrath booted a 28-yard McGrath field goal. This score was aided by a pass interference penalty on DTHS with four seconds left.
"They kind of made us go away from our game plan and we had to throw it," Standiford said. "We were having some some success there but anytime you get out of your original game plan it kind of takes away your rhythm."
That was the tale of the second half for the Trojans.
Lisle's momentum carried into the third quarter as it got the ball first and scored on the possession. This one was a 25-yard pitch and catch from McGrath to Kellie with 9:06 left in the third quarter.
Dwight would be forced to punt the ball away and McGrath scrambled 48 yards on the second play of the possession to put the Lions up 38-14 to finish scoring and seal the Trojans' fate.
Graham added a 50-yard dash at the end of the game to finish with 135 yards on the night and 1,426 for the season.
"Well, we definitely have a lot of big shoes to fill," Standiford said. "But there's some talent coming in our JV football team went 5-1. The biggest thing is going to be filling those that offensive line will lose for starting offensive linemen — they were great — but we have a lot to look forward to."


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BENNING COULD BE BACK BY JANUARY/WYCOMBE PREVIEWS
Adam Murray says he is 'buzzing' with news that defender Mal Benning could be back as early as January.
— Mansfield Town FC (@mansfieldtownfc) October 28, 2015
Malvind Benning: injury update
mansfieldtown.net, 28th October 2015
Stags' boss Adam Murray has this morning given an update on the injury sustained by Mal Benning in the 2-1 defeat to Bristol Rovers at One Call Stadium.
Speaking at this morning's news conference, Murray revealed that after consulting a specialist, the full-back received the news that the injury isn't as bad as first feared and his time on the sidelines will be considerably shorter than originally thought.
Read more at http://www.mansfieldtown.net/news/article/malvind-benning-injury-update-2770003.aspx#l2uqF1LEyykxxFcm.99
"It's not as bad as we expected. We obviously expected the worst when we got the scan results and the original diagnosis, we thought it was going to be the whole season, if we're being totally honest.
"We think we'll have him back January-time, he hasn't got to have an operation. He's got to be in a brace for 12 weeks, obviously Mal's young and he's very, very fit."
Benning, who was an ever-present prior to sustaining the knee injury, will be vying for a return to action in the new year and Murray says it is good news for everyone involved.
"It's great news for the club, great news for Mal and it's great news for me."
You will be able to watch Murray's news conference, in full, later on Stags Player.
Ambitious Stags' boss wants to up the ante
mansfieldtown.net
Mansfield Town boss Adam Murray has set his squad sky-high ambitions in their continuing quest for success in Sky Bet League Two.
The Stags face the challenge of Gareth Ainsworth's Wycombe Wanderers on Saturday - the team which he wanted his side to aspire to when speaking about them last season - but now Murray is eager to improve on the standards set by the weekend's visitors to One Call Stadium.
Read more at http://www.mansfieldtown.net/news/article/perfection-is-the-aim-for-ambitious-stags-boss-2770187.aspx#LXVE1bZfuM3rwyPq.99
Stags' currently lie in 5th position in the league and Wycombe, who suffered play-off final heartbreak on penalties to Southend last season, are in 10th.
Murray said: "I would like us to be better than Wycombe to be honest. Wycombe didn't get promoted - we're still setting our goals [towards] the moon, we're still aiming for perfection. We know it's early into our journey and we've wanted this season to be a progressive one.
"We said a couple of months ago to aim for the limits, and if we don't quite hit that we'll end up in a good place. We believe as a football club we're growing, off the pitch and on the pitch we're moving forward.
"They (Wycombe) had a great season last season and they're carrying that on so it'll be another tough test for us. They'll provide us with different problems, they're an efficient outfit. We're at home so we'll try and make it as much about us as we can."
Reflecting on Monday's Emirates FA Cup first round draw in which Mansfield were drawn at home to play Oldham Athletic on Saturday 07 November, Murray believes his men have nothing to fear going into the contest in a little over a week.
"It's a good tie for us, good to be at home and one we can go into believing we can win. I'm not really interested in the defeat a couple of years ago, it was obviously a different team and a different way of doing things. We'll approach it in our manner, take the game to them and we're confident we can get a result."
Stags' Under 18s, managed by John Dempster, host Cambridge City at One Call Stadium on Monday evening (02 November) and Murray is excited about watching the league-leading youngsters in action.
"They're flying. I've had some conversations and I want to get the next batch through and around the first team as much as we can. There are some good players in there and they're top of the league.
"These young boys know standards have to be risen, and if they're performing well they'll go in [to first team reckoning], there's no doubt about that. It'll be a good game, we're looking forward to watching them - we've got a few of the boys training with us today, the future's bright.
"The infrastructure needs to be there. [John] Dempster has turned it into a positive manner and the play they have produced in the youth team set-up has been tremendous. [The academy] is a big part of this football club and over the next few years we want to see players coming through, grabbing shirts and keeping them."
After being thrust into the spotlight at a young age himself at then Premier League outfit Derby County, the manager added: "The importance is understanding how much hard work it is. Sometimes for the young kids they can be put into the first team environment and they think that's it, they think they've made it.
"They take their foot off the gas, they don't want to work as hard as they did before - and before you know it you're working in Tesco. It's a dream job [being a footballer] and one you need to earn the right to have."
One of Stags' young professionals, Liam Marsden, has recently been loaned out to Guiseley AFC to get some games under his belt and the manager is keen to take the same approach with other youngsters on the fringes of the first team squad.
"It's a great opportunity for Mars (Liam Marsden) because he's got to go and play games at that level, it's tough. It'll test him more than any reserve game or training so we're over the moon with the opportunity he's had.
"It's something we're going to be looking to do with a few more of our kids now. We've got a healthy squad, even though it's small on numbers there's some of these boys we're not going to have sitting around and training without any game to look forward to on the Saturday."
Watch Adam Murray's news conference now on Stags Player.
Mansfield Town v Wycombe Wanderers match preview: Stags closer to getting better of 'the big boys'
Nottingham Post
BOSS Adam Murray says Mansfield Town are edging closer to getting the better of 'the big boys' in League Two.
Read more: http://www.nottinghampost.com/Mansfield-Town-v-Wycombe-Wanderers-match-preview/story-28079964-detail/story.html#ixzz3q2Xx9Oby
The Stags held second-placed Portsmouth to a goal-less draw last weekend, on the back of a 1-0 win at Yeovil Town four days earlier.
Murray's men are right in the play-off mix ahead of tomorrow's visit of Wycombe Wanderers.
But the manager feels there is still room for improvement, with the real indicator they are challenging at the top coming when they pinch a victory on the road at one of the 'bigger clubs'.
"It was an excellent four points on the road," Murray said of last week's haul.
"We've played the top three now and none of them have beaten us. You look at our record against these teams and we've gone in structured and organised.
"Maybe (we) sacrificed a little bit of our attacking threat because we're up against the big boys. Let's not get carried away. Let's not get arrogant about where we are.
"We're up against some big boys in this league and our boys are fighting tooth and nail, they can't give any more than what they're giving, so hyper-critical we would have liked to have been better in possession at times but that's our next stage.
"That can't happen overnight and I keep saying when we achieve the standards that I think this team can achieve then they're the kind of performances when we come away and we've nicked it 1-0.
"I said it after Accrington, those types of games we have to draw or we have to nick 1-0. We go to Yeovil and we do that because it was another couple of months down the line.
"The next step will be going to these bigger clubs and nicking the 1-0s.
"It's all part of the journey and I really enjoyed Saturday. I really did. It was a pleasure to watch my team and again I thought our fans were immense.
"You come away from the game glowing because a smaller club compared to Portsmouth have gone in there and more than competed with them."
And Murray praised the solidity of his team, stressing it has been a collective effort.
"If you look at our defensive record so far it's good but that's not a back-four thing, it's not a goalkeeper thing, it's a whole team thing," he added.
"The only way we keep these standards is if we keep battering it home. It does become monotonous at times but when it's called upon it's second nature."
Adam Murray believes Mansfield Town's future is bright
Adam Murray believes the Stags' future is bright.
Mansfield Town's youth side sit top of their division and Murray has already held talks with his staff about integrating promising players in to first team training.
http://www.chad.co.uk/sport/mansfield-town/mansfield-town-news/adam-murray-believes-mansfield-town-s-future-is-bright-1-7544107
Young trio Jack Thomas, Joe Fitzpatrick and Corbin Shires were all handed professional contracts in May and Murray said the infrastructure is in place to see more come through.
He said: "They're top of the league and the more we can breed our own than that's ultimately the goal. Our young pros know the standards have risen. If they are good enough they'll go in.
"You do have to deal with the here and now but I've said to the board that I don't want this to be a one-hit wonder that'll be over in a few months and we go back to having no future goal.
"The new kids that we have got in and the academy are the future so whether I'm manager or someone else the infrastructure needs to be there. The infrastructure is there and the quality has been tremendous, that's why they're top.
"They're a big part of this football club and over the next few years we want to see the like of Thomas, Fitzpatrick and one or two others grabbing shirts and keeping them. They have to understand how important it is.
The Stags manager, whose side face Wycombe Wanderers at the One Call Stadium on Saturday, had a few words of warning for the club's young prospects about the pitfalls of professional football.
"Sometimes when they get in to the first team environment and they think that's it, they think they've made it. They take their foot off the gas, they don't want to work harder than they did before and before you know it you're working in Tescos," said Murray, who made his debut for Derby County in the Premier League.
"Professional football is a dream job that you've got to earn the right to have and you need to respect the game. If you don't it'll kick you in your so-and-sos.
"I'd gone from playing in the Premier League to playing for Mansfield in League Two. We used to train at school at that time and that was a big culture shock but it was a wake up call and something I probably needed.
"I probably had some of the best times I had as a young player here so it works both ways. We've taken a couple of young lads on loan over the past ten months and they've gone back to their club better people and better players."
Rose impressed by 'unbelievable' Stags' defence
Mitchell Rose has heaped praise on Mansfield Town's 'unbelievable' defence after they recorded back-to-back clean sheets in last week's tough Sky Bet League Two away double-header.
The midfielder has played a large part in the Stags' strong start to the season with 13 appearances in all competitions so far, and the Doncaster-born man has been delighted to play a regular part whilst also proving his versatility in the Stags' side.
Read more at http://www.mansfieldtown.net/news/article/rose-impressed-by-unbelievable-stags-defence-2770288.aspx#LDTYU8PDsLA50Epi.99
He said: "Looking over the last three or four years, I haven't played a lot of senior football so this has been a vital season for me to get senior games. The first ten to 12 games I was in the team and doing okay, I was relishing every opportunity.
"I'm grateful now to be back in the team and contributing to performances," he added after a recent suspension saw him absent from Adam Murray's squad temporarily.
Rose also went on to say: "If you look at the strength in depth of the squad, my natural position is central midfield but with the players we've got in there - Chappy (Adam Chapman), Chris Clements and Jamie McGuire - it makes it difficult for me to cement a position that I most want to be in.
"I have to be willing to play in other positions, and my performances in the other positions will then warrant me an opportunity to play in centre midfield so I've got to make sure wherever I play I'm contributing."
Speaking about the backline's displays so far this season and having to play at right-back in the recent away win at Yeovil, the ex-Rotherham United player declared: "The defence has been unbelievable, they've kept the most clean sheets in the league so to be in there in my unnatural position, I had to make sure I was on the top of my game with no room for error.
"I've been looking at that week since I first came (against Yeovil and Portsmouth). Coming out of the back of that week to get four points is massive for us and it puts us in a great position for Saturday - I think if we'd been at our best with the ball against Portsmouth we'd have taken all three points."
Looking ahead to Saturday's Sky Bet League Two contest with tenth-placed Wycombe Wanderers, Rose believes the side must not think too far ahead with the Emirates FA Cup tie against Oldham Athletic seven days later.
"We're planning for the Wycombe game in training and the attention to detail is great for us and puts us in a great position to go out and get three points on Saturday. We're looking forward to both games but we have to take one game at a time - our priority now is Wycombe on Saturday.
"We're getting stronger every single game. You can't take anything away from Wycombe, they're a very good side. We'll come up against some very good players on Saturday, so we have to compete well. No game is easy in this league, every game is a difficult game."
FREEVIEW: As promised, Harley Murray, eldest son of manager Adam, speaks to the press this morning. https://t.co/qYLgLsT5KK


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Gonystylus costalis est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Thymelaeaceae.

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 Kew Bulletin 23(2): 269–270. 1969. (5 Aug 1969)

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Thymelaeaceae
Espèce d'Angiospermes (nom scientifique)

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North Vancouver is situated in one of the most spectacular geographic settings anywhere. The land rises up from the waters of Burrard Inlet through forested slopes to British Columbia's Coast Mountains. Today's urban community has emerged from a BC wilderness where once only a handful of First Nation settlements and an isolated logging town hugged the water's edge.
North Vancouver is the home of two municipalities: a compact City facing Burrard Inlet and a larger, suburban–like District surrounding it on three sides. North Vancouver has also been home to such notables as rock star Bryan Adams, sprinter Harry Jerome, broadcaster Red Robinson, actor and Chief of the Burrard Band Dan George, skater Karen Magnussen, Group of Seven painter Fred Varley, writer Malcolm Lowry, actor Jason Priestley, Margaret Sinclair (wife of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau), cartoonist Lynn Johnston, Squamish Chief Joe Capilano, and mountaineer Phyllis Munday.
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The North Shore is more than just a spectacular backdrop for one of the world's most scenic cities. Few cities offer visitors the chance to spend the morning skiing or boarding, and the afternoon enjoying a picnic at the beach watching the cruise ships sail by. If you love water sports you've come to the right place: just head downhill from anywhere on the Shore and you'll hit the ocean. The coves and little islands on the coastline make for perfect kayak and canoe trips and some of the best diving spots in the province. All that vibrant Coast Mountain rainforest makes North and West Vancouver's trails a mecca for hikers and mountain bikers alike. Grab a map from the nearby bike shop (or eavesdrop on the locals) to discover why everyone on two wheels wants to ride here.
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Located inside the Lonsdale Quay Market, north end-ground floor.
Alternately, the closest Visitor Centre is Tourism Vancouver.


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The smartphones of CES 2013 (pictures)
Sony made one of the biggest smartphone splashes of CES 2013 with its new Xperia Z, but ambitious players like Alcatel and Huawei aren't far behind.
Kent German
Jan. 11, 2013 12:32 p.m. PT
Samsung Ativ Odyssey
LAS VEGAS--The Ativ Odyssey is the second Windows Phone for Verizon. It brings a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen with a WVGA resolution, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and a 5-megapixel camera with flash. Though announced last October, this is the first time we've been able to handle the device.
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Sony Xperia Z and ZL
The Xperia Z (left) and ZL share Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, a Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor, and 4G LTE, but the Xperia Z is slightly taller, it has a bigger battery, and you can dunk it in water. A stunning display is a highlight of both handsets.
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Huawei Ascend Mate and D2
The Ascend Mate (left) gets Huawei into phablet territory. It has a whopping 6.1-inch HD display, an 8-megapixel camera, and a 4,050mAh battery. The D2 scales down to a 5-inch display. It also brings a 3,000mAh battery, a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, and a 13-megapixel camera.
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Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD
Alcatel shoots a bit higher with the Scribe HD. It comes with a 5-inch HD screen, stock Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, a quad-core processor, and an 8-megapixel camera.
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Part of ZTE's new high-end Grand Series, the Grand S was just announced today at CES. Inside a design that promises "traditional Chinese style" are a 5-inch display, a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 processor, a 13-megapixel camera, Android Jelly Bean, a 1,780mAh battery, 2GB of RAM, and Dolby Digital surround sound.
Alcatel Authority
Announced last week for Cricket, the Alcatel Authority is thin and lightweight, but its feature set is pretty dated already. It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, and it has a 1.4GHz CPU and a 5-megapixel camera.
The Ascend W1 is Huawei's first-ever Windows 8 phone. It has a 4-inch LCD screen, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, and a 1,950mAh battery.
Still a prototype at this point, the YotaPhone is a full-fledged Android 4.1 smartphone with an e-ink display on the back for power-saving uses. It also features a 12-megapixel camera, 1.5Ghz dual-core processor, and NFC.
Alcatel One Touch Idol and Idol Ultra
The Idol Ultra is one of the thinnest phones on the planet, measuring just 0.25 inch thick. It and its sibling, the One Touch Idol, feature Android 4.1 on a 4.7-inch display. They both have an 8-megapixel camera, though the Ultra is the higher-powered of the two devices with a dual-core processor. The Idol has a single-core processor.
Pantech's Discover has a 4.8-inch 720p HD display, a 12.6-megapixel camera, NFC, and LTE. It runs on a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, and it crams in a removable 2,100mAh battery.
Alcatel's One Touch Pop series
Alcatel's One Touch Pop series is a family of entry-level Android phones. From left to right are the T'Pop (tiny), the S'Pop (small), the M'Pop (medium), and the X'Pop (large). Only the M'Pop is headed to the U.S. market. It has Android 4.1, a 4-inch WVGA screen, a 5-megapixel camera, and a VGA front-facing camera.
Alcatel One Touch Scribe X
Similar to the One Touch Scribe HD, the juiced-up One Touch Scribe X brings a 1.4GHz MediaTek quad-core processor, a 12-megapixel camera, and stock Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Lenovo's new K900 has a Z2580 2GHz dual-core processor, which is part of the Clover Trail+ platform. Other highlights include a 5.5-inch display, Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, and a 13-megapixel camera.
Lenovo's lineup
At a CES press event, Lenovo also had its other smartphones on display. The K800, which the company announced last year at CES has a 32nm "Medfield" Atom processor.
LG Optimus Vu II
Though it wasn't announced at CES, the LG Optimus Vu II made an appearance. Like its Optimus Vu predecessor it has a 5-inch display, but LG doubled its RAM to 2GB and its integrated memory to 64GB. Also, it it now comes with a microSD card slot and it runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
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