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Deep Navigation – Alastair Reynolds
A collection of Alastair Reynolds novelettes and short stories, a few of which also feature in Beyond the Aquila Rift. The anthology is a mix of everything from post-apocalyptic tales to deep deep future wonders.
As ever, Reynolds impresses with his mastery of the short fiction genre. The often mind bending concepts are always refined into their significance on people. This makes them resonate strongly with the reader.
Century Rain – Alastair Reynolds
In Paris in 1959, private investigator Wendell Floyd is retained to look into the mysterious death of an American woman. In a parallel story thread set hundreds of years in the future, archeologist Verity Auger comes upon a strange map of twentieth-century Paris, with missing details. Is this the same Paris as the one in her history?
The parts of the story set in 1959 Paris, clearly inspired by Casablanca, read somewhat like the plot of a classic detective noir film. The old flame. The gumshoe detective. The uncomfortable relationship with the police. The rain. It is utterly charming and nostalgic. The parts of the story set in the future are pure Reynolds. Unfortunately, they don't always mesh well. Mr. Reynolds has come up with a fantastic premise, but perhaps due to the setup, the conclusion feels somewhat forced, though the actual ending is quite satisfying. I felt as if the book was perhaps overlong, and some plot aspects which were not revealed until the last third, seemed overly complex.
Nevertheless, Mr. Reynolds's marvelous prose and rich, three-dimensional characters are always enjoyable.
Aurora – Kim Stanley Robinson
Over a hundred and fifty years into their voyage, the inhabitants of a generation starship are only a decade out from the Tau Ceti star system. Despite the massive size of the ship, delicate ecological cycles have been slowly deteriorating over the decades. After arrival, more serious problems crop up with the colonisation effort. The issues are so severe that the colonists are faced with deciding whether to stay, or attempt a return to Earth. Both options are fraught with risk.
While the novel ostensibly chronicles the life of a single inhabitant, Freya, it is also fair to say that the AI running the ship is as much a protagonist. Ship, as it prefers to call itself (or is it themselves) develops over time under the ministrations of Freya's mother Devi, and much of the novel deals with the emergence of its consciousness. Indeed, many pages are spent debating the nature of consciousness and sentience. Is Ship truly sentient? Can a purportedly sentient being even know if it is sentient?
A lot of time is also spent on the suitability attempting to colonise other star systems, or even other planets in the Solar System. Mr. Robinson's ultimate answer to this question is rather surprising, but hopeful in its own way.
The narrative feels somewhat impersonal, as if the reader is kept at a distance from the protagonist and even the action. This seems to be a conscious choice on the part of Mr. Robinson, given that the story is told in the voice of Ship itself, even as Ship's understanding of language and humans develops. An interesting narrative device, and finely implemented.
River of Night (Black Tide Rising VII) – John Ringo & Mike Massa
The sequel to The Valley of Shadows follows Tom Smith, Risky, Astroga and the rest after their escape from New York. The plan is to establish a settlement with adequate defenses, and also very importantly electrical power. However, a band calling itself Gleaners, set up by a scruple-deprived man called Harlan Green, has similar plans. And they lack the morals of Tom's group.
The zombies are still around in this installment, but they act more like nuisance monsters than a major threat. Fittingly, the biggest danger to humans is other humans. There is some fine action as always, with a major set piece battle capping the book.
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians I) – Rick Riordan
Twelve-year old Perseus "Percy" Jackson goes to a boarding school because of learning difficulties. And odd stuff keeps happening, such as when he accidentally vaporises one of his teachers while on a field trip. As it turns out, Percy is a demi-god, and soon finds himself in all sorts of trouble with the ancient Greek Pantheon.
The story is clever, and the writing snappy. For a young adult reader, the protagonist is readily identifiable. The idea of using Greek Mythology and applying it to the modern day is inspired. I enjoyed the story, but did find myself annoyed at the sometimes excessive pandering to younger readers and their (perceived) tastes.
Voices of the Fall (Black Tide Rising VI½) – John Ringo & Gary Poole (ed.)
A collection of short stories set in the Black Tide Rising universe. As with the first collection, the quality is mixed, but as a whole the book is entertaining for fans of the series.
Permafrost – Alastair Reynolds
In the not too distant future, a cascading ecological apocalypse has ended all food production. Humanity is down to stored rations, and there is no future. Mathematician Valentina Lidova is recruited to a remote research facility, where scientists are attempting practical time travel into the past, with a twist.
Mr. Reynolds's fluid style makes the narrative of this bleak novella shine despite the grim setting and themes. The concept of inertia as history is changed, as well as the fact that characters' memories are altered mid-paragraph due to chances, makes things potentially quite confusing for the reader, but that is not a problem here.
Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds – Alastair Reynolds
This massive collection contains most of Mr. Reynolds's short stories and novelettes, which have formerly appearaed in other publications. Some are set in the Revelation Space universe, but most are standalone. Thousandth Night is a prequel of sorts to House of Suns. It is by far the weakest of the entries, overlong and tedious like most of the book it connects with. The average standard is very high, as one would expect from Mr. Reynolds. Most deal in some way with the nature and meaning of existence, as well as the spectre of deep time. In Mr. Reynolds's worlds, faster than light travel is impossible, so it may take thousands of years to travel between stars, making any sort of coherent and stable interstellar society almost impossible. Vainglory, and the charming Zima Blue, are their hearts commentaries on the nature of art and legacy.
As ever with this author, the prose is polished, the characters are deep and interesting, and the concepts are often awe-inspiring. A nice read in parts and as a whole.
The Valley of Shadows (Black Tide Rising VI) – John Ringo & Mike Massa
In Under a Graveyard Sky, Faith and Sophia spend some time on Manhattan helping out their uncle Tom Smith. This book is the full story of how Tom and his security team at a major Wall Street bank handled the zombie apocalypse, from the first reports to the total collapse of civilisation.
Far from just filling out the story of a side character, Mr. Ringo and Mr. Massa tell a compelling story, firmly establishing Tom Smith as a major protagonist in his own right. While he naturally shares character traits with his brother Steve, he is not a carbon copy.
The story takes place against the backdrop of Wall Street, and the authors have really captured the feeling of the environment. Investment bankers tend to be smart, driven, and analytical. The response to a zombie apocalypse is rational, but also mired in internal politics. Inevitably, the situation devolves, meaning more action and less analysis, but that is not a bad thing. The action scenes are excellent and some of the ZAMMIEs (Zombie Apocalypse Moments) are hilarious.
House of Suns – Alastair Reynolds
Six millions years previously, Abigail Gentian, scion of an influential and rich family, made one thousand clones of herself and infused each one with her personality and memories. Since then "Gentian Line" has travelled the Milky Way at sublight speeds, exploring, experiencing and helping civilisations. Every two hundred thousand years, the "shatterlings" of Gentian Line come together in a grand reunion, to share experiences and memories, and to remember their lost.
Purslane and Campion are two shatterlings who, despite strong taboos against it, have fallen in love and travel together. They are thousands of years late for the coming reunion. Once they arrive, they find that the Line has been attacked for unknown reasons, and decimated.
The premise is interesting, tackling the tricky concept of deep time and societal survival. Is it possible for a planet-bound civilisation, or even an interstellar empire, to sustain its own existence beyond a few tens of thousands of years? And what of consciousness, machine or biological. How can these handle intervals of millions of years, even if many are spent in suspended animation?
Unfortunately, too much of the story depends on reactions to events that happened previously, which are revealed piecemeal in massive and awkward infodumps. The plot will grind to a halt as a character expounds for pages and pages on events of five millions years ago and how they explain the events of last year in perceived time (which perhaps actually happened fifty thousand years ago in actual time). The love story of Purslane and Campion is sweet and tragic and compelling, and that would have made a lovely book. However, the whole edifice is heavily weighed down by having to explain and analyse the effects of deep time and ancient history, making it an ungainly slog only rescued by Mr. Reynolds's superb prose and flair for illustrating the immense. Ironically, the final chapters are absolutely beautiful and would have been an amazing coda to a less ponderous narrative.
Saints (Monster Hunter Memoirs III) – Larry Correia & John Ringo
In the third and final Monster Hunter Memoirs book, Chad finds a great evil lurking under New Orleans, which might explain the unusual density of supernatural events in the city. He suspects this might be why Saint Peter sent him back to Earth after his death. A showdown approaches.
Saints wraps up the series, but the teasing final sentence opens up to more adventures in perhaps not a direct sequel but another spin-off. While there are some rambling tangents, Ringo's prose is as always filled with great action scenes and bone-dry humour.
Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency II) – Alastair Reynolds
Some time after the events in The Prefect/Aurora Rising, a new crisis is brewing in the Glitter Band. Random citizens are having their brains "fried" by their electronic implants. As Dreyfus and the other Panoply operatives investigate the links between victims, they find links to an old and very distinguished Yellowstone family.
While a solid and enjoyable novel, this one lacks the panache of "The Prefect". The mystery feels contrived and doesn't lead to any sort of even half-epic conclusion. That being said, Mr. Reynolds's prose is a pleasure to read as usual, and the characters are interesting and engaging.
The Prefect AKA Aurora Rising (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency I) – Alastair Reynolds
The Prefect was republished as Aurora Rising in order to identify it more as the beginning of its own series than as tied to the Revelation Space series. The series do share the same Universe, though this book is set in a much earlier era.
The setting is the Glitter Band, a swarm of thousands of orbital habitats around the planet Yellowstone. Tom Dreyfus is a prefect for Panoply, a police force tasked with ensuring voting rights are respected, including investigating and punishing voting fraud. The habitats of the Glitter Band are as varied as they are many, from tyrannies to utopias to all manner of strange types of government. An investigation into voting fraud leads Dreyfus and his small team to a flaw in the voting system, and then all hell breaks loose.
While the setting is hard science fiction, the plot is in large part police procedural, and the characters could have been picked from any group of archetypal police investigators and functionaries. Dreyfus himself is the stereotypical dedicated detective with a tragic past. His assistants Thalia and Sparver are, respectively, the spunky and energetic young tech whiz and the stoic, solid sidekick. His boss Aumonier is the classic experienced police chief. The trope works very well for the novel, allowing the reader to immediately grasp relationships while navigating a completely new and strange world. The plot starts as a relatively simple police mystery, but as events unfold, the magnitude of the crisis becomes vast, encompassing the entire system. The ghosts from Dreyfus's past, and indeed society's past, come back to haunt the present, with some clever twists.
The vignette Open and Shut, available for free on the publisher's website, serves as an epilogue for the novel.
Sleepover – Alastair Reynolds
Sixty-year old Gaunt, a billionaire in his previous life, is woken up from the hibernation he entered in order to sleep his way to a future where medical technology would have evolved towards clinical immortaliy. But the future is not what he expected. He finds himself on a massive platform in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, as part of a caretaker crew for billions of sleeping humans.
This short story started as notes for a novel, and has a very interesting premise. As post-apocalyptic scenarios go, it is certainly one of the most original I have read. Mr. Reynolds's masterful prose makes the whole thing flow smoothly.
The Gods of Sagittarius – Eric Flint & Mike Resnick
In the future, humanity is part of an interstellar society. A security expert is tasked to escort a scientist as he investigates a murder with seemingly paranormal aspects. Meanwhile, an alien seeks vengeance for the extermination of her religious sect. Unlike the science-rooted humans, the alien knows that magic is real.
The novel is space opera with a large degree of comedy. Unfortunately, I didn't find the overwrought dialogue and interactions very funny. The story isn't very entertaining either.
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach – Kelly Robson
On a future Earth only just recovering from massive ecological disaster and plague, the technologically advanced but environmentally constrained remnants of humanity dwell in overground habs and underground "hells". Information technology and augmented reality is pervasive. A form of granular capitalism controls the economy, with contracts and debts giving structure. In this context, fluvial restoration specialist Minh is given an opportunity to gather data on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, by traveling back in time to ancient Mesopotamia.
Ms. Robson drops the reader directly into the deep end of a fully realised world. The sensation is rather dizzying at first, perhaps mirroring how young research assistant Kiki feels about coming of age. The story and themes of this novella are well realised, and leave the reader wanting to read more about this fascinating world.
Sinners (Monster Hunter Memoirs II) – Larry Correia & John Ringo
The second book in the series is set in New Orleans, after Chad has had to hastily move from Seattle due to an ill-advised liaison with a young elf. In New Orleans, so many people believe in "hoodoo" that the local MHI branch, "Hoodoo Squad", is very busy all the time. Adding to the culture shock for Chad, the population of the city seems as unusual as the monsters.
While the first book was really funny, this one is plain hilarious. The action scenes are superb. However, just as in the earlier installment, there are no real surprises, and we seem no closer to finding out what Chad's "Divine Mission" is.
Grunge (Monster Hunter Memoirs I) – Larry Correia & John Ringo
"Chad" Gardenier grows up in an academic household, hating his parents. He enlists the Marines as quickly as he can, and is killed in the 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings. He is sent back to the mortal realm with a mission, and instructions to look for a sign. The sign is "57". He eventually joins Monster Hunter International as a, you guessed it, monster hunter.
The book, written in memoir form, has all the hallmarks of a John Ringo novel. The hero is self-reliant, really good at what he does, has right-wing political views and is total badass. The prose is infused with Mr. Ringo's signature dry wit, and the action scenes especially are laugh-out-loud funny.
While it is a fun and easy read, it is disappointing that the story is not very interesting, or surprising. This is a fun little book for John Ringo fans, but it doesn't have the same high stakes feel as the main Monster Hunter International series. While the journey is entertaining, the outcome is very much predictable.
The Monster Hunter Memoirs series is set in the Monster Hunter International universe, specifically about 30 years prior. While both Mr. Correia and Mr. Ringo are credited as authors, the books are written almost entirely by Mr. Ringo.
Pushing Ice – Alastair Reynolds
In the second half of the 21st Century, the ship Rockhopper is the base for a crew of hardcore ice miners. Much like the crew of the Nostromo in Alien or the workers of the Deep Core in The Abyss, these are not space heroes but no-nonsense blue-collar worker types. The company sucks them dry but they get the job done.
Janus, a small inner moon of Saturn, is observed to be moving out of its orbit, seemingly of its own power. Rockhopper is the only ship close enough to intercept what can only be alien artifact. As it nears Janus, Rockhopper is caught in a gravitational field from which it cannot escape, carrying it along for years until it reaches a vast alien artifact soon dubbed The Structure.
Mr. Reynolds anchors the narrative on two strong women, Bella Lind and Svetlana Barseghian; fast friends who fall out as they disagree on how to deal with the challenges faced by the marooned crew of the Rockhopper. The novel jumps smoothly between discrete events, sometimes separated by decades.
The enigma of The Structure is disturbing on many levels, but before being able to even hope to probe it, the small contingent of humans must ensure their very survival. And so, in an isolated corner of an alien place they know nothing about, humans must thrive despite their factional nature and penchant for disagreement. Despite its often intimidating scope, this novel is a joy to read. Ingeniously plotted, epic in scope, and yet intimate in its exploration of humanity.
Revenger – Alastair Reynolds
Fura Ness and her sister are adolescents on a little planetoid, growing up under an overprotective widowed father whose business fortunes are poor at best. They escape from home to make money crewing on a ship plying the spaceways for treasure left over from fallen civilizations. But on their first journey, things go horribly wrong. Fura vows revenge on the pirate captain who destroyed her life.
The style of this novel verges on Young Adult, and the story itself, while enjoyable, is nothing that stands out. The setting, however, is fascinating and inventive. The star system is full of wordlets and space habitats, having been "occupied" at least thirteen times over millions of years by various empires and polities. The current civilization sustains itself partly on picking up loot from asteroids protected by periodically inactive force fields. The loot can be anything from decorative items to ancient and powerful weapons. I was somewhat disappointed that more aspects of this setting were not explored, especially the mysterious origin of the "cuoins" used as currency.
Temple – Matthew Reilly
William Race is a professor of linguistics in New York. Without warning, he is drafted to translate an ancient manuscript detailing events during the Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire. Specifically, he must assist a team of military and civilian operatives in determining the location of a mythical Incan idol. This idol holds the key to building a superweapon. The adventure soon takes our characters into the depths of the unexplored Amazonian rainforest, searching for an abandoned temple.
Full disclosure: I only got about a third of the way through this book. It reads like a Hollywood action-adventure movie. The action scenes are exciting but strain suspension of disbelief in the extreme. Hollywood physics are definitely in evidence. Additionally, Mr. Reilly is not very rigorous in his research on his props, such as aircraft and weapons, not to mention the material of the superweapon itself. The characters are cardboard cutouts and I didn't find myself engaging in their story. The one redeeming quality of the book was the somewhat interesting parallel story set in the 16th Century.
Posted on July 21, 2016 May 29, 2019
Black Tide Rising (Black Tide Rising IV½) – edited by John Ringo & Gary Poole
A short story collection set in the the Black Tide Rising universe of zombie apocalypse. Some stories are really good and some are average. On the whole a fun collection if you've read the books by John Ringo. The dialogue only vignette by John Scalzi deserves special mention as it is both clever and hilarious.
Slow Bullets – Alastair Reynolds
In the final days of a devastating war, the conscript soldier Scur is captured and tortured for sport by a war criminal. She is left for dead but manages to survive. She is on her way home, in hibernation on a starship, but on awakening discovers that the ship is malfunctioning and in orbit around an unknown planet. It turns out that thousands of years have passed and human civilization has fallen. On the ship, factions of "dregs", criminals and misfits from the war, must now make peace.
A dark, melancholy tone pervades this novelette. It is soon clear that Scur is writing down for posterity her memoirs of the difficult time that defined her life. While hope remains, indeed must prevail, she knows that she will not see the dreams of her band come to fruition in her lifetime. More interesting is the fact that those who remain are the outcasts and misfits; those that the rest of civilization wanted out of sight. As so often with Mr. Reynolds, the vastness and frightening nature of the Universe makes the reader feel small and frightened. By gradually unfolding the story through the memory of Scur, the scary truth is only slowly revealed, but the fact that it is a scary truth is always hinted at.
Full disclosure: My copy was kindly provided by Tachyon Publications.
Strands of Sorrow (Black Tide Rising IV) – John Ringo
The fourth and last book in Black Tide Rising sees the beginning of major zombie clearance on the US mainland, with the retaking of some large coastal bases, and planning for the re-establishment of proper civilization beyond survival. Given the clearance of the bases, more and more surviving higher officers start to appear, some of whom are unable to adapt to the "new military".
Throughout the series, Ringo has approached the zombie problem from a logical perspective. Once the survivors have gotten through the initial collapse of society and achieved a modicum of organization, ridding the world of all those zombies becomes a logistical issue. While the discussions on said logistics are interesting per se, they do not an action novel make. Furthermore, given that what action is now relatively safe for our heroes, there is not a huge amount of tension. Mr. Ringo is as always a very funny author so the novel is still a page turner, but sadly the subject matter and the way it is treated makes this one less engaging than most of his works. The novel also verges further into "preachy" about the military and the right wing than even the author's usual, and that part got old fast.
Insurgent (Divergent II) – Veronica Roth
Immediately following the events in Divergent, Tris and Four escape the city to the Amity compound. However they must soon return in order to deal with the Erudite threat. The faction system is broken beyond repair, but what will come after?
After the promising start with Divergent, this book was a serious disappointment. The conceptual simplicity that worked in the first book turns against itself as the story becomes more complex. The many twists and turns seem put in there to create events for their own sake, without a clear direction to the story. While the parts where Tris has to confront her own fate are still gripping, they are lost in the white noise of a confused plot. It felt as if I was reading a badly written action TV series episode. Just as in Divergent, there are interesting themes of social structure and change in this book, but they too are lost in the noise.
On a side note, I was continually irritated at the slapdash way in which guns and tactics are portrayed. I'm not expecting Ms. Roth to be an expert on weaponry, but a little research would have gone a long way. Even a beta reader with a modicum of knowledge could have polished those bits and explained what words like bullet, clip and chamber actually mean. I also felt that a faction like Dauntless could perhaps be expected to have better tactics than a bunch of eight-year-olds attacking a tree fort.
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From the latest technical developments and prototypes to exquisite luxury cars, lovers of the four-wheel roadster will find everything their heart desires at the Salon International de l'Automobile de Monaco (SIAM). Even automobile racing is represented, and of course, being held in Monaco under the High Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II, the salon focuses on environmentally friendly alternatives.
There will be four different pavilions where visitors will find different themes. On Friday 1 March, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., there will be a "Forum de l'Automobile Ecologique" organised jointly with the Prince's Foundation. Cars on display will be available for test drive in the Principality during the entire duration of the fair.
The closing date for entries is Friday, 22 February 2019!
The fair is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., admission 15 euros, free for under 10-year-olds.


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Not(e) for a Dreamer from Enrico Poli on Vimeo.
Not(e) for a Dreamer is the latest film by award-winning director Enrico Poli, produced by the London-based production company White Coat. The film uses the changing of seasons as a reflection of the transition from childhood into adulthood. Lead character Anaïs voices her feelings with a mixture of anticipation and anxiety. She's fully aware that things are changing, though not entirely sure to what extent. Each season represents a specific time in one's life: spring full of the carelessness of youth; summer full of opportunities but tinged with sadness as autumn approaches; autumn and winter representing the shift into adulthood where we struggle as we long for the past and accept change as part of being human.
Not(e) for a Dreamer excels with its sublime visual language and sound design which connects with the viewer on an emotional level. The film was shot in Greve in Chianti in Italy making use of natural and available light only as a way to achieve a realistic, yet poetic look. The cinematography complements and enriches the nostalgic feel of the film, in which shots and framing play a key role in the unfolding of the story. Not(e) for a Dreamer is a tribute to the classics of the past through a modern eye.
The music was created by composer Mahlon Berv. It touches upon the idea of playtime and adolescence through the lightness and beauty of the violin, with a bittersweet undertone as youth is also fleeting. Using the baroque music style as a springboard, through the use of a solo violin and string orchestra, the music reflects Not(e) for a Dreamer's complex emotions, pure colours and need to bring new life to the past.
The film is Enrico Poli's third collaboration with Italian fashion label M O N O – Y. Their first film, titled M O N O – Y, won several international awards, including Best New Italian Fashion Film at Fashion Film Festival Milano in 2017. Both brand and Not(e) for a Dreamer explore youth culture. Playing with the idea of reinventing the past into something contemporary, the film translates M O N O – Y's sense of discovery and search for identity into cinematic language.


Το FDA μόλις ενέκρινε ένα νέο μονοκλωνικό αντίσωμα για την θεραπεία του σοβαρού άσθματος. Το χημικό μόριο είναι η Μερολιζουμάμπη και το εμπορικό σκεύμασμα λέγεται NUCALA. Είναι μιά μηνιαία ένεση αντισώματος που εμποδίζει την δράση της Ιντερευκίνης- 5, ρυθμιστή της δράσης των ηωσινοφίλων, και ενός κομβικού μορίου στην μεσολάβηση της αλλεργικής φλεγμονής στο αλλεργικό άσθμα.
Mepolizumab, which will also be known by its trade name Nucala, is a monthly injection of a monoclonal antibody that inhibits interleukin-5. Interleukin-5 is a cytokine which helps regulate eosinophils. Eosinophils are white blood cells which can be a prominent feature of several forms of asthma, especially allergic and severe persistent asthma. The allergic reaction to an antigen often involves the development of eosinophils. The underlying damage to the respiratory airway is often contributed by vast amounts of eosinophil migration; increase up regulation of eosinophil production; adhesion of eosinophils to the airway; and release of eosinophils toxic products. Up to now the therapy to control eosinophils often rely on inhaled and systemic steroids.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there are 235 million people living with asthma worldwide. It is estimated that as many as 10% of those patients who have severe persistent asthma cannot achieve good control with the available inhaled anti-inflammatory medicines and may need chronic systemic steroids. It is this group of patients that new therapy may provide a safe alternative for additional control. To date specialists have been able to use a monoclonal antibody known as the Xolair also known as Omalizumab which targeted the IgE antibody seen in some forms of asthma. With this recent FDA approval, specialists such as the physicians at Allergy Partners will be better able to select the appropriate therapy for the more difficult asthma patient.
The most common side effects of Mepolizumab include headaches, upper respiratory infections, asthma, local injection site reactions, back pain and fatigue.


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FJ-09 Tracer 900 Pics and Videos
New Corbin saddle
By 502mad,
August 12, 2016 in FJ-09 Tracer 900 Pics and Videos
502mad
Got my new all black leather Corbin with HEAT..... thought some of you folks, that are considering one, may want to see it:
bugsplatered
The Corbin seat goes well with the gray bike and the side cases. It looks good.
kamalv
I don't exactly dig how the look meshes with the overall aesthetics of the bike, but man, the saddle looks comfy !
I can understand what you mean as far as aesthetics, however, I actually think the mass of the seat balances the bike front and back.... But, like everything.......... beauty is subjective. I do prefer the one seat pan. It solidifies the feel and like others have said.... makes you feel more connected to the bike. I use the FJ for Sport Touring with a greater emphasis on Touring so the Corbin is perfect for me. Its 34 degrees today with a humidex of 41 soooooooooo not exactly trying out the heat yet.
IMHO in pic 3 it appears that the seat was made specifically for the FJ09.
On red bikes without the side cases is another thing.
timg
Here's their seat with the red piping, but with the side cases unfortunately, all I could find real quick.
http://corbin.com/yamaha/yfj09r_2t.jpg
How about this? http://i.imgur.com/fPPkeiH.jpg
The variety of possible combinations is quite impressive, all for the same price.
Location: Fresno, California
Bike: Tracer 900 GT
Enough about the aesthetics, do you like the comfort of the seat?
Absolutely YES! In full disclosure, I have had 2 Corbins over the years that I was disappointed in....... one was on a H-D Dyna and the other was on a KLR650 (had it replaced and replacement was fine).
Why do I like it...... again...... I use the FJ for Sport Touring (60% touring) so I wanted a seat replacement that had the strengths of support. My biggest complaint of the stock seat for the rider was that it seems too narrow...... like I'm riding a 2x4. The Corbin has just that extra little bit of width that makes it truly feel like a saddle and no parts of your arse are being compromised.
So for me the extra width was a major plus. But could it be a deterent for those of a more sporting use....... I don't think so. It still has enough "cut" nearing the front that it doesn't compromise putting your legs down or flexibility of movement. Actually the exact opposite...... I find with this seat I have more fore and aft and versatility of a comfort spot.
The second major plus is the solidness of the one seat pan. This seat is rock solid and makes you feel more connected to the bike, IMHO. I can't understand others opinions of not wanting a single seat....... that they want a dual seat config. For me the Yamaha stocker's weakness, besides being made with crap materials, was the fact that there was a disconnect from front to back, and the seat was not "planted" to the bike. Again, this is a huge plus.
Another plus (which I didnt take advantage of) is the versatility of design. With all the materials, colour combinations, etc...... you can really make it personalized. I chose to go with all black leather with no trim because I was going for subtle, subtle, subtle.
Heat.... haven't used it yet (dog days of August still) but I do like to ride my bike in the cold so this will be a plus. I initially wasnt going to order it but then I thought....... you're paying big $$$ anyways..... dont go half arsed.
And lastly..... the bolster behind your tailbone as another "being supported" feel..... on the stock I would sometimes slide back and touch the rear seat and it just felt like it was poking me. The Corbin is an improvement in that feel too.
I have not a single regret with this purchase and IMHO, there isn't a better seat on the market for our bikes. If anyone wants a stock seat front and rear........ cheap....... just PM me.
502mad, does the Corbin use the same contact points on the bike's seat mount, frame and subframe as the stock seat?
Yes, the Corbin's bumpers are placed exactly at the same points on the subframe as the 2 stock seats do. When you take the seats off you will see almost little cutouts in the side panels........ that is where the bumpers rest on the frame tubes on the Corbin and the stocker. The Corbin's front tab also fits under the bottom high slot at the front. I had to place a couple of washers under the latching tab on the Corbin, initially, as others have done, so that it latches ok but now that it is breaking in I may remove those shims and go back the the original latch setup. I can only surmise that as the pan "settles" that the latching finds its home..... so to speak.
desertfjr
We ordered a Corbin for the FJ-09 in anticipation of the Saddle Sore 1000 we completed this summer. Identical to the one pictured minus the backrest. We contacted Corbin and had them add a layer of softer foam. It made the seat a tad higher but my son never complained once about the seat in 16+ hours of riding. We are adding a set of Rox risers to compensate for the altered seat/bar position with the Corbin installed. The stock Corbin is significantly more firm and does sit lower. If you comfortable with the stock seat/bar position I don't think risers would be required.
I had a Corbin on an SV650S that was a spectacular improvement from stock.
I have been OK with the stock seat so far. Longest ride was 7 hours with a stop for pictures stretching etc every 2 hours or so. My rear was definitely getting sore by the end. My bigger complaint than comfort is the feel of the seat/materials. The vinyl cover looks/feels cheap and the latching mechanism doesn't feel all that secure.
I have been debating between the Corbin and the Sargent. Initially I was turned off by the Corbin's looks. Over time the width of the Sargent aesthetically has started to bother me more and more and I have grown to appreciate the look of the Corbin.
Especially after your review, I think a heated Corbin is in my future. Thanks for the enabling!
jgalloway
I have the same seat but with carbon fiber trim. You are going to LOVE it once it's broken in. I did 1,076 miles on it this weekend, two-up. No soreness for either of us.
I have Corbin seat as well, it was more comfortable than the stock seat right out of the box, but after some miles, it really softens up and feels much better. The more I ride it, the more I like it.

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The Qingdao West Coast New Area, approved by the State Council on June 3, 2014, is the ninth national new area in China. Centrally located between the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Area and Yangtze River Delta Metropolitan Area, it is a coastal gateway for not only Beijing and Tianjin, but also the Yellow River Basin. It stands at the eastern starting point of the Eurasian Continental Bridge. Near the Korean Peninsula and Japanese Archipelago, the new area has been strategically located to reach out to the hinterland, connecting the south and the north, and facing the Pacific.


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Black & Veatch purchased most assets of RCC Consultants for an estimated $3.1 million—$1 million more than the expected collectible accounts receivable—in a deal approved by a New Jersey bankruptcy court, according to legal documents released last Friday.
Patrick MacElroy, a spokesman for Black & Veatch, confirmed today that the deal closed late Friday night.
Under the terms of the deal, Black & Veatch will pay a "base purchase price" of $1 million, an "initial accounts receivables purchase price" of $1.6 million, and another $500,000 that will be held in escrow until Black & Veatch collects accounts receivables from RCC Consultants' clients that exceed the $1.6 million threshold, according to the court order. Black & Veatch purchased the assets "free and clear of claims" held against RCC Consultants, and the deal was not subject to a waiting period, according to the court documents.
Black & Veatch will assume RCC Consultants' role in existing consulting contracts that are selected by Black & Veatch. Almost 200 existing contracts are noted in "assumed contracts list" in the asset purchase agreement.
"Upon transfer of the assigned contracts to [Black & Veatch], [Black & Veatch] shall have all of the rights of [RCC Consultants] thereunder, and each provision of such contract shall remain in full force and effect for the benefit of [Black & Veatch] …," the court order states.
"No assigned contract may be terminated, or the rights of any party modified in any respect, including pursuant to any 'change of control' clause, by any other party thereto as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the sale, including the assignment of the assign contracts."
Marty Travers, president of Black & Veatch's telecommunications business, explained the strategy behind the company's purchase of the RCC Consultants' assets.
"RCC expands our access to new client relationships and brings specific industry expertise," Travers said in a prepared statement. "Black & Veatch's well-established carrier and utility telecom business, coupled with RCC's capabilities, will enhance our service offerings for public-safety clients.
"The team at RCC is well regarded for their expertise in the public-safety industry. By coupling RCC with our industry-leading turnkey design/build capabilities, our clients will benefit from end-to-end delivery solutions that reduce deployment costs while improving schedule durations."
Under the court order, RCC Consultants will provide assurances to clients that it will "promptly cure any defaults" in the assigned contracts, with RCC Consultants paying the first $10,000 for this purpose on each contract. Black & Veatch will be responsible for paying any "cure amount" above the $10,000 threshold for a given contract, according to the court order.


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The premise of the book is being an artist, bringing art, creativity, and originality to our homemaking.
The book opens with a chapter on the First Artist, the Lord, showing how the Lord is an Artist, filling our lives and the world with His beauty to communicate that He loves us. We are made in His image, artists who can create too. What joy we can experience as homemakers when we seek to imitate the First Artist by bringing hidden art into all areas of homemaking.
Each person God created has at least one hidden talent that can be cultivated. This artistic talent can be used in the area of homemaking. We might be photographers, poets, songwriters, illustrators, printers, bakers, cooks, flower arrangers, interior designers, landscape architects, seamstresses, quilters, musicians, singers, or basket weavers.
After 25 years of marriage, I am now raising my daughters, preparing them for their future as wives, mothers, and homemakers. This book is now part of our homeschool curriculum. My daughters take a homemaking class in high school with this book and the Bible as the textbooks. They read a chapter and do a project related to the chapter. Here is a list of chapters with the assignment topic next to each one.
Filled with real-life illustrations from the Schaeffer family and creative ideas for building a home, this book will inspire you to imitate your Heavenly Father, letting His creativity flow through you to strengthen your family. Mrs. Schaeffer reminds us to bring good things to all of the senses:lovely smells, delicious tastes, soft things to touch, delightful sounds, enchanting sights.
Edith took delight in making everything beautiful for her family. She set the table each night lovingly, giving careful attention to the centerpiece. Even putting food on a plate can be a work of art. Color, texture, and shapes combine together to make a beautiful picture. Serving dishes and table linens are another piece of the art masterpiece created for the family to dine.
Listening to good music, all kinds of excellent works, cultivates a taste for beauty. Edith reminds us that music is not only to listen to, but also something for family members to create together. Family members can play instruments, sing, and write songs together.
What fun it would have been to grow up in the Schaeffer home with treasure hunts, family song fests, and lots of intellectual discussions. Memories were made and treasured. I think the desire to create a museum of memories for our husband and children is inside all of us moms. We work hard to make holidays, birthdays, and other celebrations special.
Integration is the combining of generations, instead of segregating everyone off into their own corners of the world. God created the family to be a kalidescope of ages, giftings, personalities, and abilities. Enjoy the family with all its variety, seeing the family as an art masterpiece.
I recommend this book as a tool not only for moms, but high school students as well. Please read this book and pass it on to your daughters.
If you are interested in our homemaking class, God's Girls 105: Homemaking, a one-credit high school life skills course, is available at Amazon. The E-book is available at PayHip or Currclick.
As homemakers, we have the privilege of serving our families: fixing meals, tidying the house, doing laundry, and creating memories. Sometimes those things can feel like drudgery, but these simple tasks communicate so much love and allow us to imitate Jesus, the perfect Artist.
Remember that next to you feel weary.
It is only when we are filled with Jesus, that we can bring His Presence into our homes to create that joyful and peaceful atmosphere we all desire.
We have another resource to help you grow as a homemaker: Jesus, Fill My Heart & Home Bible Study and God's Girls 105: Homemaking. Jesus, Fill My Heart & Home is available at Amazon. The E-book is available at PayHip or Currclick.
Be blessed in every way!


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THC—this simple molecule inspires millions of people to grow cannabis every year. But what exactly is THC? And why do people love it so much?
Otherwise known as tetrahydrocannabinol, THC underpins the psychoactive effects of the cannabis plant. However, THC provides more than a recreational high—the molecule continues to demonstrate profound medicinal effects, both in laboratories and as reported by medicinal users. Explore the guide below to find out everything you need to know about the psychoactive cannabinoid.
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Cannabis has been used by humans for around 10,000 years. But it wasn't until the 1960's when Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, an Israeli chemist, procured 5kg of Moroccan hashish from the police to conduct his pioneering cannabis research. His team was the first to isolate delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC in 1964.
Mankind and marijuana have had something of a cyclical relationship. Early on, we understood the benefits of consuming cannabis. Then we forgot them, only to remember once again. At present, it's safe to say that cannabis is experiencing a resurgence unlike ever before.
THC is the world star. Of 100+ known cannabinoids, from a pool of as many as 500 chemical compounds contained in cannabis, THC is "the one." As the chief psychoactive cannabinoid responsible for inducing a "high," cannabis strains were bred for decades to contain higher and higher THC levels. Many still are, but this is usually relegated to the recreational market.
CBD is the cannabinoid of the 21st century. Cannabidiol has made a tremendous impact on cannabis culture. Medical cannabis has been revolutionised by the advent of non-psychoactive CBD-rich strains and CBD medicines. CBD-rich hybrid strains with low-THC content like Critical+ Auto CBD and Candida (CD-1) are easy to grow and allow novice cultivators to achieve medical cannabis self-sufficiency.
Understanding The Importance Of Different CBD:THC Ratios
CBD in isolation has many medicinal properties from anti-inflammatory to sedative effects. However, the combination of THC and CBD yields an enhanced medicinal outcome with reduced psychoactive effects known as the "entourage effect."
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In addition to getting us high, THC also has many medicinal properties. THC has been most effective for pain relief and as an appetite stimulant. Plus, whole plant medicine with a 1:1 ratio of THC:CBD is becoming one of the most popular medical cannabis blends that you can grow at home from autoflowering cannabis seeds.
The precious THC molecule is locked away inside the trichomes (resin glands) of flowering cannabis. In its raw form on a fresh, green, growing plant, THC appears as acidic precursor molecule THCA. Heat is required to convert non-psychoactive THCA into psychoactive THC. That's why smoking cannabis is the most popular method of consumption. Similarly, when cooking with cannabis, it is the heat that unlocks the psychoactive properties.
It took until 1988 for Dr. Allyn Howlett of Wake Forest University to discover cannabinoid receptors in the human brain. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a network of cells primarily concentrated in the central nervous system and the brain, although the network extends throughout the body and is even part of our skin.
The reason THC produces such strong effects is that its shape is a perfect fit for receptors. In fact, we humans produce endocannabinoids of our own, naturally. The endogenous "bliss molecule" anandamide and THC molecules are so similar that they both can bind to a receptor like a key fits in a lock.
In contrast, CBD does not bind to the same receptor sites as THC. It is not yet completely understood exactly how CBD interacts with ECS CB1 and CB2 receptors.
However, it is believed that CBD plays a role in preventing the deterioration of anandamide in the body. This would also confirm the "entourage effect."
Synthetic THC has been around for a while and is available for medical cannabis patients in drugs like Marinol and Sativex. More recently, CBD-based tinctures have become widely available across most of Europe, even in nations where weed prohibition is strictly enforced. Non-psychoactive CBD is the first cannabinoid to be accepted by mainstream medicine.
At time of writing, some 486 chemical compounds have been identified in marijuana. Regrettably, we only have an incomplete scientific understanding of two, THC and CBD. Terpenes, terpenoids, and flavonoids are perhaps the next compounds to get their share of the limelight. Recent research has identified how these compounds not only comprise the aromas and flavours of cannabis but contribute to its medical benefits as well.
The obvious immediate benefit for the recreational cannabis user is the high that THC delivers. Of course, effects can vary from person to person; but generally, if you consume THC, you feel good. Euphoria and consciousness-expansion are to be expected. As medical cannabis research continues, we are learning new applications for THC all the time, and many old stigmas are being eroded. In general, recreational THC users go through three stages: High, Hungry, and Sleepy.
Paranoia and links to schizophrenia are the most commonly attributed negative side effects of THC. However, the latest thinking is that low doses of THC actually relax the mind. No toker "patient zero" exists. Novices and users with low tolerances should not consume high doses of THC. Larger doses can deliver too intense a high, making a person feel anxious or paranoid.
Over time, habitual cannabis users build up a tolerance to THC. The best evidence for this is the never-ending quest for higher potency strains. Moreover, many stoners have a preference for dabbing and vaping extracts. Cannabis concentrates are typically far more expensive to purchase than weed or hash. A high tolerance can be a financial burden if you don't grow your own.
No long-term negative effects of cannabis use have been discovered. Nobody has ever died from consuming cannabis. Most of the negative consequences of cannabis use are legal ones. Cannabis use and cultivation throughout most of Europe and the world is still illegal.
The trend with cannabis cultivation ever since it moved indoors professionally during the 1980's has been to create increasingly potent strains. Although CBD-rich strains are on the rise and getting most of the mainstream media attention today, the pursuit of the highest possible THC levels has been ongoing for at least 40 years. Today, breeders are unleashing 30%+ THC strains.
Gorilla Glue, or perhaps more accurately "GG#4," the strain formerly known as Gorilla Glue is capable of punching through the 30% THC threshold. Perhaps even more impressive a specimen is Chiquita Banana, which has tested at 33% THC. These decadent cannabis strains are tailored to the contemporary connoisseur looking for the dankest marijuana.
Skunk gained international attention and plenty of bad tabloid press for 10%+ THC levels during the 90's. A decade later in the noughties and 20% THC was being routinely breached by High Times Cannabis Cup entries. Cup winners were topping 25% THC.
30%+ THC strains are not so much of a shocker in the age of the cannabis concentrate. 99% THC crystals are available from some US dispensaries along with uber potent 50%+ THC MoonRocks, SunRocks, and 60%+ Shatter. The popularity of dabbing and vaping as alternatives to smoking joints and spliffs has set high-THC cannabis extracts on a trajectory to overtake flowers as the method of choice for both recreational and medicinal users.
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This external evaluation of the IFAD-Oxfam Novib program "Putting Lessons into Practice: Scaling up Peoples' Biodiversity Management for Food Security" was agreed upon by IFAD and Oxfam Novib in order to "take stock of lessons learnt and transferability criteria and provide further guidance for an envisaged follow up phase". This program was the predecessor of Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security.
Means of evaluation included (1) review of program documents, reports, and miscellaneous papers provided by the implementing organizations, (2) field observations, and (3) interviews with local communities and organizations.
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An artist's rendition of Maiopatagium in Jurassic forest.
(Reconstruction by April I. Neander/UChicago).
When you think about the Jurassic Period, you probably think of massive, lumbering dinosaurs.
But now scientists say there were also gliders — early relatives of mammals, akin to today's flying squirrels – whizzing through the trees.
Fossils of two glider species, found in the Tiaojishan Formation in northeastern China, are particularly well-preserved, so the impressions left of skin membranes and hairs immediately show they are gliders, University of Chicago Paleontologist Zhe-Xi Luo tells The Two-Way.
Gliders have a wing-like flap of skin which allows them to gracefully launch themselves from tree limb to tree limb without plummeting to the ground. At about 160 million years old, these fossils are the oldest known examples of early mammals with the ability to glide — in an evolutionary lineage that was wiped out during the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs.
The fossil of the gliding mammal relative Maiopatagium furculiferum.
Their team's research – published in two papers in the journal Nature – adds further weight to the idea that "early mammals even living in a dinosaur-dominated ecosystem are incredibly diverse," Luo says. Other recent mammalian discoveries from the time include creatures that lived in trees, in the water and underground.
The larger of the two gliders, named Maiopatagium furculiferum, measured about 9 inches from head to tail and has skinny, elongated limbs, Luo says. It has a membrane between its wrist and ankle, "so we imagine that that they just glide around in between the trees just like the flying squirrels," Luo says.
The smaller of the two, Vilevolodon diplomylos, is three inches long, and its fossil is also preserved with a skin membrane "as if it's a museum-prepared specimen," he adds.
These animals likely evolved the ability to glide in order to quickly move through trees to "sample their favorite plant foods," Luo says, without the need to risk running into a predator on the ground.
An artist's rendition of the gliding mammal relative Vilevolodon diplomylos feeding on a plant.
The animals come from a dead-end evolutionary branch, because it was wiped out at the same time as the dinosaurs. That means that they have no relationship to modern gliders, which emerged about 50 million years ago.
This is evidence of convergent evolution, he says — or the ability of animals to independently evolve the same feature if it offers them an advantage. He points to the diverse mammals that currently can glide, like North American flying squirrels, African scaly-tailed gliders, southeast Asian colugos, and Australian marsupial sugar gliders.


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Along the way, I have lived a life that I could never have imagined. I have been privileged to meet people from all corners of the globe, I have been wherever my heart has desired and in the process my books have taken readers to many, many places. I always say I've started wars, I've burned down cities, and I've killed hundreds of thousands of people - but only in my imagination!
From being attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, from getting lost in the African bush without water to crawling the precarious tunnels of gold mines, from marlin fishing with Lee Marvin to near death from crash-landing a Cessna airplane, from brutal school days to redemption through writing and falling in love, Wilbur Smith tells us the intimate stories of his life that have been the raw material for his fiction. Always candid, sometimes hilarious, and never less than thrillingly entertaining, On Leopard Rock is testament to a writer whose life is as rich and eventful as his novels are compellingly unputdownable.
I'm using the book to satisfy my curiosity about Islam. We hear a lot of negativity, and I want to go to the source and see for myself. My father had a copy when I was too young to understand it, so I'm trying again. It has cleared up some misconceptions.


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This used set was just cleaned and appraised last fall and is in excellent condition. The engagement ring is a channel set cathedral style and contains a center round brilliant flanked by 10 round brilliant diamonds. The wedding band is a straight channel set band containing eleven round brilliant diamonds.
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Sometimes, every once in a while, if you're really lucky, something comes around that totally shocks you, that stops you dead in your tracks, that is so surprising and wonderful and unexpected that it can't possibly be true. For us, that was the news that The Disney Channel is developing a Boy Meets World spin-off. It's so exciting and bizarre and unlikely that it's still hard to believe.
Earlier in the week we were treated to a similar experience, the breaking of news that would change the state of the world of which we know. That development, of course, was the announcement that not only had Disney purchased Lucasfilm, but they were planning to produce Episodes Seven, Eight and Nine. We still recall vividly when, at eight-year-old, our brother's friend told us that not only had George Lucas created the greatest movie franchise and fictional universe known to man, but he was planning to expand the galaxy far, far away with three prequels and three sequels, making the Star Wars we knew just middle chapter of the grand epic. This changed everything, altering our view of what the future would be like. And for years we held onto the idea, this promise of the sequels, even when the prequels failed to live up to their predecessors, especially since the prequels failed to live up to their predecessors. But, at some point, you have to let go, and we chalked up the talk of sequels to the same gossip that had us believing for years in the eventual existence of Spaceballs 3: the Search for Part 2. So when out of the blue, out of the literal darkness in post-Sandy New York, came the news that, after all these years my brother's friend was right, the future we envisioned will finally come to pass, we were absolutely astounded.
And even that revelation paled in comparison to the announcement of new life for Boy Meets World.


Did you ever wish you could the author of a book you're reading a question about the book? Amazon's new @author service is currently in a beta release mode and is trying to let you do just that.
Sixteen authors are participating in the service. Here's how you can ask an author a question while reading a Kindle ebook. You will need a Twitter account that is tied to your Amazon.com account to use @author.
3. Enter your question about the passage you highlighted, beginning with the phrase "@author". Please note that questions asked from the Kindle are limited to 100 characters. If you would like to ask a longer question, feel free to ask the question from the Amazon Author Page.


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Иван Абросимович Баскаков (около 1732 — 1802) — русский адмирал.

Биография
8 июня 1747 году поступил учеником в Академию морской гвардии. В 17755 году произведён в гардемарины. 24 апреля 1758 года окончил Морской кадетский корпус, и выпущен в мичмана. 22 мая 1962 года произведён в унтер-лейтенанты, в 1764 - в лейтенанты. До штаб-офицерского чина служил на судах балтийского флота, после чего находился в донской экспедиции, командуя кораблём «Новопавловск» и плавая в Азовском и Чёрном морях. 30 июля 1769 года произведён в капитан-лейтенанты.

В первую турецкую войну, командуя отрядом из двух кораблей и 1 бота, принимал деятельное участие при истреблении неприятельских судов у Керченского пролива. Специально морская служба Баскакова кончилась в 1780 г., когда он, командуя кораблём «Слава России», и следуя в эскадре контр-адмирала Борисова из Кронштадта в Средиземное море, потерпел крушение близ Тулона, у острова Лажа-Лингер, окончившееся потерей корабля.

Продолжал службу в береговых должностях, в казначейской и интендантской экспедициях и в звании капитана над Архангельским портом.
 капитан генерал-майорского ранга с 24 ноября 1783 г.
 вице-адмирал с 9 февраля 1793 г.
В 1792 году назначен на должность генерал-кригскомиссара; в 1798 г. был назначен присутствовать в Адмиралтейств-коллегии; в 1799 г. произведён в адмиралы; 14 ноября 1800 г. уволен от службы.

Литература

 Описание дел архива Морского Министерства, том III

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Richard Osburne (1825-1895), journalist and historian, was born on 15 November 1825 in New South Wales, son of William Osburne, paymaster, and his wife Mary, née McLeod. He went to Melbourne in 1837 and two years later was apprenticed to general printing on J. P. Fawkner's Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser.
In 1847 Osburne moved to Warrnambool. He was correspondent for the Argus and Bell's Life in Sydney, ran a general store with his brother-in-law, J. M. Chisholm, and with John Wilkinson founded the Warrnambool Examiner in March 1851. The gold rush closed the paper and Osburne reluctantly moved to Forest Creek, near Castlemaine, where he ran a store with a nephew. In October 1853 Osburne resumed publication of the Examiner. He leased it to H. Laurie and W. Fairfax for five years from October 1867, and with his family temporarily moved to Melbourne. When Osburne resumed control of his paper, Laurie and Fairfax launched the Warrnambool Standard; another competitor was the short-lived Guardian. The 'father of the Warrnambool press' complained of disloyalty from friends and the public, and gave up his proprietorship at the end of 1880. In 1883 the Examiner was incorporated in the Standard.
In 1887 Osburne published The History of Warrnambool, Capital of the Western Ports of Victoria, from 1847 … to the end of 1886. This detailed chronicle of local events is valuable beyond its purpose: it unconsciously emphasizes the dependence of pioneering communities on a few men of Osburne's stamp. He was closely associated with the founding of Aboriginal reserves, the mechanics' institute, the lending library, the hospital, the first Sunday school and St John's Presbyterian Church. He helped to establish a National school (favoured, Osburne said, by most country people while no church had the numbers to set up its own school). He was involved with a committee to press for district amenities, municipal council, bathing baths on the beach, cricket club, fire brigade, anglers' protection society, Shakespearian society and dramatic club, parliamentary debating club, building society, meat preserving company and a committee to promote exploration for gold in the Otway Ranges. He retired to Merri, Octavia Street, St Kilda, in 1882. He died of dysentery at Prahran on 16 January 1895. He had married Eliza Plummer in March 1854; they had five children.
C. E. Sayers, By These We Flourish (Melb, 1969).
John Barrett, 'Osburne, Richard (1825–1895)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/osburne-richard-4346/text7057, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 24 April 2019.


Do you have friends that you look at and you just know they're going to be good parents? I thought that of Stacy and Isaac before they even married. High school sweethearts, two people that have fallen even more in love over the years and have managed to bring two beautiful babies into this world. I'll admit it, seeing them with Liam when he was only five weeks old was a little weird – two people I'd spent my college years with now had a child of their own! But I never doubted how awesome they'd be at it.
So now their family has grown to four – Liam is just over two and Hadley came into their lives in March. Stacy says that "there isn't an inch of our home that hasn't been taken over by the kids, but I wouldn't have any other way." Spending time with them only reiterates it – Stacy and Isaac are head over heels for their children.
Hadley resembles her brother so much when he was just born. To say the least, this little girl makes my heart pitter-patter.
Now Liam… he and I are BFFs. And he just couldn't let Hadley have all the attention. Which I was OK with because his will to dance made me smile hard. I love this little guy! The next time I visit, I'm planning extra time so I can play with Liam. And maybe dance too.
Christy Tyler - These are fabulous! I love the 2nd one of her and the yawn especially!!! Awws!
katie ohhhhhhh! - You already know I'm partial to the mom/baby shot. It's so soft and sweet. And Liam is adorable. I agree he needs some photo love too.


When you first heard the term Reputation Engineering, you likely had a light bulb moment, those two words are so much more powerful, innovative and cutting edge than Reputation Management which is what you most commonly hear.
We coined the phrase Reputation Engineering because we want to not just try to manage any damage to your reputation after the fact, like our competitors, but to engineer your reputation.
We want to fully control, engineer, and manage the responses to reputation attacks and build in armor plating so it's much more difficult for the bad guys to hurt you in the future.
Our skills, tools and expertise in this specialized area have been honed on the fierce battlegrounds of U.S. Class Actions.
As we all know this is not a field for the squeamish, its crowded with hungry and battle hardened lawyers itching for a fight and the chance to draw blood.
The rewards are often in the tens of millions of dollars and it's no hold barred warfare. Every available weapon is used without mercy and reputations are cut to ribbons and wasted in the mud.
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Jurassic Park 4 – June 2014?
With the 20th anniversary special edition of the original Jurassic Park movie due to hit our cinema screens in April of this year, there had been rumours that the "JP" franchise was going to have a fourth instalment if the re-release of the original film in 3-D format proved to be a big success.
Word has reached us from the United States that Jurassic Park 4 is scheduled for release in the summer of 2014, aiming at the big screen holiday, blockbuster market. Filming should start any time now and we know of several "scripts" that have been doing the rounds, all of which feature lots of CGI dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Steven Speilberg is not going to direct the new film, but rather he is to have a producer or executive producer role.
Whoops are mistake, we have corrected the error, thanks for pointing this out to us. Our excuse? It was written at 04.40am GMT as we packed ready for a school visit.


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Al-Nuway'imah () és un municipi palestí en la governació de Jericó a l'est de Cisjordània, situat 5 km al nord de Jericó. Està situat en una elevació baixa per sota del nivell del mar, al centre de la vall del Jordà. El poble compta amb una escola primària i una de secundària.

Història
El el cens de 1945, la població del municipi era de 240 habitants i tenia jurisdicció sobre 52.600 dúnams de la terra. Segons l'Oficina Central Palestina d'Estadístiques tenia una població d'aproximadament 1.170 habitants a mitjans de 2006.

An-Nuway'imah és un dels pocs pobles a la vall del Jordà que té accés a aigua de manantial. La deu propera és clau per a l'economia del poble, ja que es basa en l'agricultura com a principal font d'ingressos i aliments. Els cultius més conreats són banana i verdures. Anteriorment, l'aigua del Wadi Nuway'imah es canalitzava a través de tubs oberts que eren vulnerables a la contaminació i la pèrdua d'aigua, però el American Near East Refugee Aid ha finançat un projecte de 233.000 $ per protegir les canonades. Actualment l'aigua de la deu d'aigua és canalitzada a la població a través de canonades soterrades i tancades i s'utilitza per a múltiples propòsits.

Referències

Bibliografia

  ( Ain en Nueiameh: pp. 171, 179206)

Enllaços externs
 Welcome To al-Nuway'imah
 Survey of Western Palestine, Map 18: IAA, Wikimedia commons
 An Nuwei'ma and 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa Town (Fact Sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
 An Nuwei'ma & 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa Town Profile, ARIJ
 An Nuwei'ma & 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa aerial photo, ARIJ
 Locality Development Priorities and Needs in An Nuwei'ma and 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa, ARIJ

An-Nuway'imah


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The Sabine River Authority said it is reducing spillway releases from Toledo Bend Reservoir as the lake level drops after a deluge of 18 inches fell this week directly into the lake and its tributaries.
The lake, which is not a flood control reservoir, rose to 174.36 inches across its 186,000 acres of surface. The lake is considered full at 172 feet above mean sea level.
On Friday, the level fell to 173.69 feet.
Nine gates at the spillway were open to 20 feet and one hydroelectic generator is running 24 hours a day for a total water release of 189,764 cubic feet per second, down from 207,000 cubic feet per second on Thursday.


SuperBorders records the performance of Womboota Pastoral , based on which clients must maintain registered Border Leicester flocks, establish and maintain direct genetic linkages with other flocks, obtain full pedigrees for all lambs born in those flocks and record flocks on the basis of the LambPlan. The LambPlan gold and silver standard includes the weaning weight of all lambs and post weaning weight, yearling weight, wool weight, fat depth and eye muscle depth.
The Border Leicester stud from Womboota Pastoral was bred only after the division of Kelso stud was established in 1995. Womboota Pastoral accelerate the genetic improvement on muscling, weaning and post weaning weights, wool weights and fertility of the studs through the use of the LambPlan. The sheep of Womboota Pastoral display resistance against Brucellosis infection.
The property of Womboota Pastoral is free from footrot and brucellosis. All the lambs of Womboota Pastoral are vaccinated with Guida vaccine. Womboota Pastoral also offer agricultural contracting services that are meant for cereal production within South Western New South Wales.


We're not shipping or manufacturing Redneck's Catfish Bait Soap at this time while Chad is focused on other aspects of his business. It's unclear if we will begin shipping or manufacturing Redneck's Catfish Bait Soap again. Chad is focused on Catfish Edge and the massive growth of North Texas Catfish Guide Service. We'll update the website with additional information if things change in the future.
This was a difficult decision for us as there are many fans of our tried and true catfish bait recipe and we still get weekly calls from people begging us to make them a special batch of catfish bait soap. With my family commitments, Catfish Edge and my guide service and the product development I do with Whisker Seeker Tackle there simply wasn't enough hours in the day for me to keep up with everything. That could always change in the future but for the time being we won't be manufacturing or selling Redneck's Catfish Bait Soap.
Redneck's Catfish Bait Soap is a homemade catfish bait that is handmade one batch at a time in Fort Worth Texas.
The bait is made from a 65 year old recipe that was designed to be used for catfish bait, and not for washing with. The first thing people usually ask me is "Is it really soap?" and the answer is yes, it really is. But it is not like a traditional soap that you would use for washing your clothes or body with, as it is much softer so it will go on a hook and not crumble, and it is packed with fish attractants to draw the fish in and get them to bite.
People have been fishing with soap for years. Many of them were homemade recipes that were made on ranches and farms throughout the south, and then later in years many began using a popular soap made by proctor and gamble or "p&g soap" but it is no longer made. There are a few other soaps that are sold commercially in grocery stores for washing clothes and bathing that people attempt to use as bait with poor results, because they do not have the right texture, and ingredients!
Soap is a very common bait throughout the south, it is just that catfishermen run in fairly tight circles, and usually stay pretty tight lipped about what they are catching their fish with, so many people don't know or never hear of some of these baits that work so great.
Former Texas Governor Ann Richards even spoke in her book about wading in creeks as a child baiting trotlines with soap.
The best thing about the bait is that it smells great. It has a strong scent of Anise, known to be a proven catfish attractant. There is no "stink" to it, it really does smell good. There are a number of other scents and ingredients added to the bait as well that the fish will smell but you won't.
The bait is also very clean and simple to use. You simply cut the catfish bait bar into pieces and stick them on a hook. It does not require a treble hook, in fact it works best with a plain old straight shank hook (kahle hooks and circle hooks are most commonly used here in Texas). There is no molding to do or forming bait balls or any of that mess, just cut a chunk and push the hook tip into the chunk of catfish bait until the hook tip is barely exposed through the top.
The bait stays on the hook very well. It does not fall off or get shaken/knocked off by fish or water current. It is an excellent bait for catfish in rivers and creeks with strong currents!
Another advantage is the cost. If you do not have time to go out and catch your own bait, it is very expensive to buy live bait. If you consider baiting 75 or 100 hooks on juglines or trotlines for the course of a weekend, you would go broke very quick buying live bait. Each bar of Rednecks Catfish Bait makes between 100 and 275 pieces of bait, and if you compare the cost of one bar of Redneck's Catfish Bait to 8 or 9 dozen of your chosen live bite, your saving a ton of money!
Last but not least, IT IS TRASH FISH PROOF. There is nothing worse than checking your fishing jugs or trotlines and finding a line full of crappie, bass or carp, or even worse, all of your bait picked off by fish. Yes, Redneck considers everything that aint a catfish a "trash fish". It is very rare that you will catch anything other than catfish with Redneck's Catfish Bait.
Redneck's Catfish Bait Soap is easy to put on the hook and it stays on the hook. No longer will you fight bait falling off or easily being shaken off the hooks.
We've shipped catfish bait all over the United States, From Texas to Tennessee the bait has proven itself time and time again. Most of Redneck's Catfish Bait customers are repeat customers, and they keep coming back for more.
Until we're back up and running selling catfish bait you can check out some other catfish bait information here or get some tips on making your own homemade catfish bait.


I am back after a week's Sabbath from blogging. I spent last week at a VBS. We used a handprint in one of the crafts. We were making sheep because our theme was The Lord is Our Shepherd.
Using the same idea I created a turtle.
Fill a pie plate or other suitable container with paint. I used green.
Press down to ensure all the paint is on the paper. Lift off carefully.
Now you can make your turtle. I used pistachio shells to decorate the turtle's shell. I enlarged the head a bit; put some toes on his feet and added a tail. You can use sparkles, stickers, cut paper, feathers, or anything else.
Then I make a background around him. You could do this first as well.
This entry was posted in Creative Saturdays and tagged Crafts, creative, Creativity, handpainting, handprint, Janis Cox, paint, Tadeo Turtle, turtle on July 20, 2013 by JanisCox.
Today I would like to show you how to make a painting using a toothbrush. Another term for this is spatter painting.
Draw your object – I chose a turtle.
Cut out the object and place it on a piece of paper.
Mix up your paint. Stick with the three primary colours: blue, yellow and red.
Tape the object to the paper.
Using a toothbrush spray the paint onto the paper.
Move the paint around. Twist the paper in all directions – any wet paint will run to make interesting patterns.
When you are finished take off the stencil. At this point you can leave the stencil as is or you can paint it. I chose to paint it.
As you can see I did not have the stencil firmly in place. If you want crisp lines ensure that the stencil is tacked down better than I did.
This entry was posted in Creative Saturdays and tagged craft, Crafts, creative, Janis Cox, paint, spatter painting, toothbrush, turtle, watercolour on July 6, 2013 by JanisCox.
Picture is courtesy of Bill Weaver.
This picture of a columbine and other pictures can be found on Bill Weaver Flickr.
This Scripture from Ephesians has become a very powerful Scripture in my life. There are so many times that I say to myself, "I can't do this". But then I remember that I am not doing it – He is. Whenever I feel like I won't have an idea in my head – He does. Whenever I feel I can't learn another social media task; a self-hosted plugin; a marketing tool, I remember that if God wants me to know this He will show me the way.
I can imagine and dream all that I want. If what I am dreaming is in God's will then all will come true.
I see my imagination growing as I continue to try new art projects, as I look around me at nature and as I look at all that God is doing around me. Imagine that! God is at work in our world. We only need to look for it.
Tadeo Turtle was a dream that became a reality. I speak about how Tadeo came to be on an interview at Christian Homeschool Moms.
God wants us to dream dreams; to seek beyond ourselves; to reach out and try things that others say might be impossible. Because God is the God of the impossible.
Jesus replied, "What is impossible with man is possible with God (Luke 18:27, NIV).
I challenge anyone who has a dream – to dream big and ask God into your dreams.
What dreams do you have? Please comment and I will pray for your dreams.
This entry was posted in Prayer and tagged art, creative, dreams, imagine, impossible, Janis Cox, possible, Scripture on May 31, 2013 by JanisCox.


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Pretty Baby Names
Choosing the right baby name is the biggest decision you'll make as a new parent, and we know you can spend hours trawling through that baby name book - here, we've rounded up 278 of the cutest baby names for girls for you to look at on your phone.
Most parents look to choose a name that has meaning but that also sounds pretty, so that it suits their cute newborn.
From Arianna to Poppy, we have chosen our favourite pretty names to help you find the perfect cute girl name for your baby. In this list you'll find everything from popular baby girl names to cute unique girl names as well as gender neutral options too.
Take a look at our list of top pretty and cute girl names that you will definitely fall in love with...
Arianna - Arianna is a Greek name which means 'chaste, very holy.'
Belle - Short for Isabella, the name Belle means 'beautiful' in French.
Amelia - The pretty moniker means 'Industrious' and 'Striving' and is often associated with 'defender'.
Daisy - Daisy is a pretty girl's name commonly thought to be derived from the name of the flower.
Elodie - Elodie means 'Foreign riches'.
Florence - French for 'blossoming'.
Grace - The popular name Grace means 'God's favour' and has English origin.
Isla - Isla is derived from "Islay", which is the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland
Lottie - Lottie means 'Tiny' and 'Feminine' in French.
Luna - The pretty name has Latin origin and means 'Moon'.
Nora - Nora means 'Honour' and 'Reputation'.
Poppy - The moniker derives from the popular flower'.
Savannah - With English origin, Savannah means 'From the open plain'.
Adeline - Variant of Adelaide, meaning 'noble'.
Blossom - English, meaning 'flowerlike'.
Clara - Meaning 'bright' and 'clear' this French name is growing in popularity.
Clemence - This adorable name means 'mild and merciful'.
Fleur - French, meaning 'flower'.
Jasmine - Meaning 'jasmine flower'.
Milana - The meaning of Milana is "favored".
Amelie - A traditional French name meaning 'hard-working'.
Coco - Spanish, meaning 'help'.
Fifi - Hebrew, meaning 'Jehovah increases'.
Fiorella - Italian, meaning 'little flower'. Feminine form of the Italian boys' name Fiorello.
Iris - Greek, meaning 'rainbow'. Also from the flower of the same name, a symbol of wisdom and courage.
Isabelle - Meaning 'pledged to God'.
Juliette - The French version of the English 'Juliet', the extra syllable makes the entire name sound far more romantic.
Lily - Latin, from the flower of the same name.
Lola - Spanish, meaning 'sorrows'. Also used as a shortened form of Delores.
Millie - This adorable variation on Millicent has been a classic German baby girl name for decades. It's extremely popular yet continues to remain stylish.
Niamh - Gaelic, meaning 'brightness'. In Irish mythology, Niamh was a goddess, the daughter of the god of the sea and a queen of the land of eternal youth.
Orla - Irish Gaelic, meaning 'golden lady'.
Posy - English, meaning 'small flower'.
Rosabel - Contraction of Rose and Belle, meaning 'beautiful rose'. Most commonly used in the USA.
Serena - This old classic Italian baby girl name has been popular since Roman times.
Sienna - Derived from Latin, the baby name Sienna is believed to originate from a Tuscan town which is spelt Siena.
Sofia - Sofia means "wisdom" in Greek and has become popular as a German name.
Violet - Latin, meaning 'purple'. Also a small purple flower of the same name.
Lavender - Latin, from the flowering plant of the same name.
Bella - Latin, meaning 'beautiful'.
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My daughter was filling a bag with leaves when she excitedly told me, "Mommy, I think Paul Klee made this bag because look at all the lines between the colours!" Indeed, this is reflective of some of Paul Klee's artwork.
So we dug up some library books about Paul Klee.
My daughter was fascinated by his work. She especially loved the artwork which showcased strong black lines and bright colours.
We explored and learned so much about his life. We discovered that he was born in Switzerland, created over 9000 pieces of art and loved to play the violin. He was a teacher, poet, musician, and philosopher.
After all this exploration, my daughter decided to create another Paul Klee inspired painting (she had made one back in September). However, this time, she wanted it to be "really real" (painted on canvas as opposed to paper).
My daughter was fascinated by Paul Klee's painting entitled, Grieving. The repetitive squares of different colours caught her attention. She decided she wanted her painting to have lots of squares. So she got out a square Duplo block and started tracing her squares onto the canvas. Then she outlined the squares with black paint.
Upon letting the dozens of squares dry, she began to paint them in. She was intent on having a pattern to her colours and was very methodical about every colour she added to the painting.
She worked so hard on her painting and took great pride in the finished product. We hung the painting above our kitchen table and I am thoroughly in love with the newest piece of artwork in our home.
Here is the outline of our Paul Klee inspired curriculum, broken down by subject areas.
An additional resource to investigate is Artsy's page on Paul Klee. It has Klee's bio, over 30 of his works, exclusive articles, as well as up-to-date Klee exhibition listings.
We will probably continue to explore Paul Klee's work for the next couple of months. He has become a fascinating artist to both my daughter and myself.
We're enjoying this (and far from "done"). My daughter is really enjoying Paul Klee's work.
Thanks for reading Sheri! Yes, it is interesting and it's amazing how much we can learn simply by exploring the work of one artist!
I love it too! This project is much more aligned with the way I wish to homeschool. I can't believe how many subjects we were able to pull into the investigation of one artist… and we're still not "done"! My daughter wants to learn more about Paul Klee, so we're going to keep on exploring. I loved her painting too! It's so colourful!
This is so cool! You know the knowledge is sticking with her because of what she said while gathering leaves in her bag. Too cute!
What a great project!! And what a beautiful piece of art work to display in your house!
What an inspiration. I'm so happy that you're able to incorporate real world with your learning. That artwork is simply beautiful as well. Love the name "Rainbow Squares". I'm going to be coming back here in a few years when I'm ready to homeschool Madison because I'm so going to need the help.
I love her art work and how one topic can lead to learning so much. I think your'e doing fantastic!
I mean my goodness! She is quite the little artist! This made my day. It's so great that she's so interested in art and learning about the artists as well.
Have a wonderful weekend Jennifer!
I feel it takes a lot of effort to home school from parents side.
It is not very popular in India, in fact I don't know anyone who has home schooled their kids.
I did do my 12th grade via home school though. I studied at home and gave my exams in the centre of the course(pattern) I followed. I did this, just because I got married in between and I did not want to hear every classmate snarl at me lol.
I love this. You've inspired me to study Paul Klee and more artists in our homeschool!
I love when I can integrate various subjects into one project. I'm hoping that next year I can have more integrated curriculum projects like this.


1. What do you mean by other applications ? Are these internal applications such as e-mail services, etc... ?
2. Did you check the routing table ?
Yup, that was my initial thought but this would depend in we are talking about internal applications ?
Oops!! I forgot to specify that. The application was Skype which was installed by me and hence Iam sure no proxy was set. If the PC doesnt know where to sent the traffic then how would this application work?
I have not looked the routing table. Is it a nice idea to add a default gateway via "route add" command?
Its best to add a default gateway through the TCP/IP properties. If however you have several subnets within your organisation, you may add then seperately using the route add. Most people would just use the default gateway.
I have never used Skype but you may find that it checks your IE proxy settings and will use the proxy server which is why this is working.


It was an Ontario Hockey League first for Joseph Garreffa.
"I wish it was a little sooner," laughed Garreffa after his first OHL hat-trick. "It takes four years to get one. I wanted to get one before my career was over here in the OHL. It feels pretty good."
He added an assist, and the Kitchener Rangers routed the Erie Otters 8-4.
The win is Kitchener's eleventh in 17 games since the Christmas break.
"Going into the break, we were holding our sticks a little too tight," said Garreffa, after his team lost 7-of-8 before the break. "We were over thinking stuff. Now, we're just going out and playing."
The former third-round pick of the Rangers has always been about that mindset.
In his rookie season, he only played 41 games notching 13 points. Given the opportunity the next year, he tallied 25 goals and 60 points.
"At the end of the day, that's what you have to do, is enjoy hockey," said Joe after his team's most recent win. "When you're having fun, things are going to work out. You can see the way were playing, guys are making plays and moving the puck."
Joe was moved onto a different line Wednesday, early, with Greg Meireles and Jonathan Yantsis.
"It's easy playing with those guys," said Joe. "[Yantsis], big strong; puts the puck in the net. Greg, "He's an easy guy to play with; with his speed and with his skill, it's fun to be on their line."
Eight different players had a multi-point night in the win.
It was the Rangers' first win over Erie in three games this season.
Kitchener is back at home Friday when they host the Hamilton Bulldogs.
Pregame is at 7 p.m. on 570 NEWS.


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