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Legions logo in Photoshop Shapes.
Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Snooks, May 24, 2011.
Way back when I was doing some website stuff for Legions(personal), I made the logo in shapes in Photoshop. Now I'm not sure if this has been released, or if the vector files have been either, but here you go. It's not perfect, but pretty darn close.
I did this because having things as shapes in Photoshop makes things much cleaner/clearer than porting from any Vector program, such as Illustrator. I sometimes do this with logos.
All the legions Vectors can also be found in these vector packs.
Wheres the ring, just asking.
Buying Vectors to use is pretty lame, if only of course you consider yourself to be a Designer.
I just figured people could use this if they were doing a website or something. Much better than an actual Vector for web.
The ring wasn't always used before, but maybe I'll get to that one day if Legions ever gets big, lol.
Uhm, don't ever compare Gimp to Photoshop, lol.
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These are some very artistic watercolor paintings. I'm really interested in visiting the fair, so that I can view more of these works. It's sad that I wasn't able to attend the last one. I hope that I can make it for this year's Christmas show. My friends and I are art enthusiasts and we really enjoy looking at beautiful paintings.


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Douglas Christopher Judge is an American actor best known for playing Teal'c in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. He attended the University of Oregon on a football scholarship and was a Pacific Ten Conference player.
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I think this is the first thread I've started here, so it's a shame it's derivative of two topics of which this is only an important sub-topic. If this opening post is too long for you, focus on the red conclusions, then work your way back to the premises you disagree with, don't understand, or have a comment on--if you agree with the premises, but disagree with a conclusion, then explain how you think the argument is invalid. I will frequently post supporting links [#] without referring to their content; I don't suggest reading them all unless the claim they're nearby interests you, because there are going to be a lot.
Please focus on criticizing these reasons, not arguing alternatives like Intelligent Design or talking about tangents like abiogenesis and metaphysics. I ask just because this topic is important enough to stand alone.
P1-0) The same phenomenon under the same observed conditions is usually caused by the same process in the world.
* This is the basic premise of empirical inductive reasoning, and is a key to the scientific method in general.
P2-0) Theories explain a phenomenon by delineating the process which causes it; a scientific theory generates predictions that can be falsified by the observation of an experiment.
C1-0) Theories are more likely to be true when valid experiments do not falsify them; when they successfully predict observations.
* Note that a theory is still called a theory, even when confirmed by valid experiment hundreds or millions of times, because P1-0 does not hold as a logical truth. Note also that you trust your lungs to breathe primarily due to P1-0.
P1-1) Fossils are remnants of organisms .
P2-1) Fossils formed across the last 3.8 billion years  as determined by our ability to date them within a substantial degree of accuracy .
* We can also date some types of fossils and rock absolutely with raioisotope dating .
C1-1) Organisms have been on earth for at least 3.8 billion years and we know roughly when many types of them lived.
P3-1) Fossils show specific groups living at specific times; with no fossils of humans, e.g., forming 3.8 billion years ago, and fossils of e.g. dinosaurs which are no longer extant today .
C2-1) Evolution, the changing and growing complexity of the form of life on earth, as well as vast extinction of life, has occurred over the last 3.8 billion years.
* Note that at this point I have made no conclusions about how evolution has happened.
P1-2) Organisms reproduce themselves using their genetic coding, usually DNA .
P2-2) Reproduction of DNA (and RNA) molecules in biological systems often leads to small mutations or changes in the DNA molecule .
P3-2) Changes in DNA can lead to changes in protein structure .
* This premise is often referred to as part of the "central dogma" of biology; that DNA is ultimately translated into amino acid sequences.
* While "dogma" may sound like a strong term, we have actually synthesized DNA from simple compounds and given it to bacteria--who then use that DNA .
* It is further standard practice to give bacterial cells particular DNA sequences to have them produce the protein encoded by that DNA .
C1-2) When organisms reproduce, sometimes mutations occur and lead offspring to have slightly different traits than the parent.
* This is partly an explanation of microevolution--note that bacteria can evolve both without the creation of 'new' genetic information  and due to mutations that occur during recombination and DNA copying .
P1-3) If an organism does not reproduce itself, it will eventually die and its genetic information will not be expressed.
* I think this follows deductively.
C1-3) If a mutation does not help an organism reproduce, there will not be any pressure for that change in genetic information to promulgate.
* This is microevolution by natural selection. We see it all the time in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
P1-4) Reproduction itself is governed by the expression of DNA.
P2-4) Two populations of organisms that do not reproduce using one another's genetic material are of different species.
C1-4) Species can diverge due to the accumulation of gradual mutations.
* This has been explored on a genetic level for past eukaryotic species divergence events .
* This has been observed in the present tense for bacteria .
C2-4) Species can diverge due to reproductive pressure (from C1-3).
* This has been specifically observed in the present tense in many types of organism .
* This is the theory of evolution by natural selection.
C3-4) Evolution in the past can be explained as a consequence of species divergence due to reproductive pressure.
Obviously there's a lot more to explain; specific events that are shown by the fossil record still need to be explained. For example, why is it that change seems to occur sporadically, instead of all the time? For this particular point, there is a lot of evidence that genes are relatively stable without reproductive pressure; basically, the species under no pressure will only "wobble" genetically, on average staying the same . In fact the general view is that one would only expect change when reproductive pressure is in play; that punctuated equilibrium is unsurprising. (There's also the interesting application of this theory to our own species.) However, I think this discussion would be best suited to focus on disagreements with the above argument; more detailed applications can be discussed if the basic argument is ever finished.
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First let us provide a specific definition to the theory of "Natural Selection" before trying to apply it to a fossil record or confusing it with what is known about the process of genetic mutability and transference.
Charles Darwin is the originator of the theory of natural selection which has its premise based on aspects of animal husbandry were animals of the same species are bred in order to produce more desirable and advantageous traits. Horses, for instance, would be bred for specific utility: race horses for racing, pack horses for carrying and plow horses for plowing. By this example we must understand that Darwin's original theory, based on the primitive observations at the time has transformed from his original concept into the completely different definition of today. Before providing criticisms or rebuttals to the overall theory we must understand what the difference is between the classic and the modern representations of natural selection and the reasons for that metamorphosis.
Charles Lyell laid the groundwork for Darwin's theory through his observations of geology and his theory of "uniformatarianism" which fundamentally stated that the earth is very old and transformed by current observable phenomenon, volcanoes and earthquakes. So Darwin's theory had to fit with that concept of a very old earth.
We have to understand that Darwin, although he provides limited observations for his theory, was very much motivated by his own reasoning and the works and observations of others in his day. I mention this so that we can understand that Darwin really did not have any real empirical evidence for his theory and that it is basically a thought exercise for him.
In reality it can be argued that Darwin actually got the impetus to publish his seminal work "Origin of Species" as a result of reading a paper written by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. Not to give credit to Russel, but only to invite inquiry into the evolution of evolution theory.
1. Organisms have changed over time, and the ones living today are different from those that lived in the past. Furthermore, many organisms that once lived are now extinct. The world is not constant, but changing. The fossil record provided ample evidence for this view.
2. All organisms are derived from common ancestors by a process of branching. Over time, populations split into different species, which are related because they are descended from a common ancestor. Thus, if one goes far enough back in time, any pair of organisms has a common ancestor. This explained the similarities of organisms that were classified together -- they were similar because of shared traits inherited from their common ancestor. It also explained why similar species tended to occur in the same geographic region.
3. Change is gradual and slow, taking place over a long time. This was supported by the fossil record, and was consistent with the fact that no naturalist had observed the sudden appearance of a new species.
4. The mechanism of evolutionary change was natural selection. This was the most important and revolutionary part of Darwin's theory, and it deserves to be considered in greater detail.
*One of the prime motives for all species is to reproduce and survive. When species do this they tend to produce more offspring than the environment can support.
*The lack of resources to nourish these individuals places pressure on the size of the species population, and the lack of resources means increased competition and as a consequence, some organisms will not survive.
*The organisms who die as a consequence of this competition were not totally random, Darwin found that those organisms more suited to their environment were more likely to survive.
*Those organisms who are better suited to their environment exhibit desirable characteristics.
Consider that Darwin had no idea of inherited traits and had no clue of genes as the driver of change. In fact Darwin actually regretted using the term "Natural Selection", preferring "Natural Preservation"
As we will see the concept of Natural Selection had to be modified due to the discovery of inherited traits and subsequently "genes".
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Juice wrote: First let us provide a specific definition to the theory of "Natural Selection" before trying to apply it to a fossil record or confusing it with what is known about the process of genetic mutability and transference.
I distinguished it; it is (P1-3) and (C1-3)--or the 3rd argument. The claims from the fossil record (1st argument) and DNA behavior (2nd argument) do not derive anything from the 3rd argument about natural selection.
I'm not really sure how this relates to the modern theory's validity as a scientific explanation. Maybe I'll understand once you draw conclusions from it.
To be honest there is so much history in natural history that it is indeed difficult to know where to start. Suffice it to say that an in depth study of the history of the science which led to Darwin's theory could occupy a man for a lifetime. So while on this topic it would be interesting and helpful if others could supply clarification or insight to points made or not. In order for us, the layman but the interested, to make a poignant determination of the validity of Darwinism we must take the time to understand the history. The rational for this methodology is so we can re-explore and rethink what we think we know.
Evolution did occur; Evolutionary change was gradual, requiring thousands to millions of years; The primary mechanism for evolution was a process called natural selection (determined by an organism's ability to adapt to its environment); The millions of species alive today arose from a single original life form through a branching process called "specialization."
The process by which individuals' inherited needs and abilities are more or less closely matched to resources available in their environment, giving those with greater "fitness" a better chance of survival and reproduction.
Illustrations of the Action of Natural Selection "Origin of Species" chap 4-In order to make it clear how, as I believe, natural selection acts, I must beg permission to give one or two imaginary illustrations.
This is an extremely intricate subject. A large amount of inheritable and diversified variability is favourable, but I believe mere individual differences suffice for the work. A large number of individuals, by giving a better chance for the appearance within any given period of profitable variations, will compensate for a lesser amount of variability in each individual, and is, I believe, an extremely important element of success. Though nature grants vast periods of time for the work of natural selection, she does not grant an indefinite period; for as all organic beings are striving, it may be said, to seize on each place in the economy of nature, if any one species does not become modified and improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated.
I point out the above mentioned abstracts from Darwin's book in order to illustrate that Darwin based his theory primarily on speculation and a large dose of imagination.
The use of the term "specialization" is important since we must extrapolate what Darwin meant as it is unclear in his writings. But we can either surmise that Darwin meant, on a small scale, specialized organs of traits, or on a larger scale traits which allowed a particular species to be better adapted to an environment than others. I tend towards the later since this is the gist of Darwin's argument in that chapter.
We can understand that Darwin saw more complexity in the biosphere as a whole and did not concentrate, as yet, on individual and separate structures let alone the cell. Darwin never discusses origin of life, his whole work is an attempt to answer origin of species.
The modern theory of evolution is a sort of combination of Darwinism and Mendelian science.
What made Darwin's theory scientifically useful is that it could be tested in an experimental setting. As I made my case above, I showed that we have proven evolution by natural selection occurs in bacteria and eukaryotes. Once this has been done, it makes plenty of sense to extrapolate the experimental case to historical cases where the same results, e.g. species divergence, came about under similar conditions, e.g. reproductive pressure.
In fact even Darwin attempted this in part (although obviously not to the mechanistic level of genetics). That's what his birds were all about; showing how it happens in a controlled environment, and then extrapolating to explain history.
"When organisms reproduce, sometimes mutations occur and lead offspring to have slightly different traits than the parent."
Isn't there an unexplained discrepency between the rate at which favorable and reproducible mutations have been observed to occur in nature - very rarely as I understand it - and the wide divergence and variety of life that we see on Earth? Thank you.
Yes Felix, good questions and important too. The ratio between favorable and unfavorable mutations is approximately 1:1,000,000, and its random too.
Juice, I do not believe you.
Felix, that's a fairly difficult question to answer, and definitely not as generally applicable as it sounds. A mutation can be as small a change as one almost unnoticeable amino acid in one protein, or it can be the amino acid in the active site of a protein that has a cascading effect on other proteins. The effect of a given mutation depends heavily on where it occurs, which in turn depends heavily on the organism involved.
On top of that, a mutation also doesn't have to be so simple; it could, for example, be the movement of a whole segment of a gene sequence into another. The rates of different types of mutations depend on the organism and even the area of the genome. Therefore any bald-faced claims about the universal likelihood of a beneficial mutation are virtually impossible to justify. There simply is not that kind of correlation across all the genes of all life on earth.
This article (pdf) is a meta-analysis, and essentially concludes that we do not yet know how often beneficial mutations occur even in simpler species such as fruit flies.
However, I do not think this really undermines the picture. The fact is that while it is very hard for us to look at every mutation in every organism in a population, we can watch organisms change in the direction of fitness, as I referenced in the OP, and we can watch the way a beneficial mutation spreads through a population in contrast to a non-beneficial mutation. We can then apply the patterns we see in evolution from experiments to the evolution that is shown in the fossil record; both of these, in general, correlate with what we expect of natural selection.
Great post, Alun! I think you've done a great job summarizing the facts and reasoning of evolution--particularly by laying it out in a logical format that clearly identifies the premises and conclusions. For those who are skeptical about aspects of the theory of evolution or the facts of evolution or who just have questions about it, they can specify precisely which premises they doubt or which logical inferences they think are invalid. This will avoid misunderstandings, straw-man arguments and "talking past each other."
Even though you have laid the groundwork for a productive discussion, I unfortunately already believe all the premises you posted and find your logic to be valid.
Belatedly: Thanks Scott. I keep hoping someone will drop in and challenge me to make the argument stronger. I suppose I could add a segment about the probability of genetic mutations and natural selection of actually producing the trends seen in history, but then I worry I'll get into too many competing scientific theories (how important is genetic drift, deleterious mutation vs. copying mutation etc., geographical isolation vs. ecological divergence, etc. etc.).
Also, I think there's work to be done in the pure philosophy of science part of the argument (which right now is just one premise), but it's hard to see where with nobody throwing questions at me.
Do you agree that there is no scientific proof that intelligence is not a universal quality of which intelligent thoughts, word and deeds are particular instances?
Perhaps a simple explanation of how a mutant gene becomes more prevalent in a population would help. Sickle Cell Anemia is a good example of selective evolution pressures working.
Sickle Cell Anemia is the result of mutations effecting red cells. The link explains the mutations. It also gives us some incite into the complexity of a mutation, as of which Alun writes.
Those from African decent are most apt to carry one of the two Sickle Cell Anemia mutations, because the prevalence of malaria in the region, gave those with one or the other mutation, an increased survival advantage.
because in areas where malaria is common, there is a survival value in carrying only a single sickle-cell gene (sickle cell trait). Those with only one of the two alleles of the sickle-cell disease are more resistant to malaria, since the infestation of the malaria plasmodium is halted by the sickling of the cells which it infests.
"I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption.
The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves.
For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political."
Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means.
This statement by AH undermines and is seen to undermine and would seem to undermine the basis of what you say is "the basic premise of empirical inductive reasoning, [which] is a key to the scientific method in general."
Belinda wrote: Do you agree that there is no scientific proof that intelligence is not a universal quality of which intelligent thoughts, word and deeds are particular instances?
To my knowledge, science does not purport to prove anything metaphysically (universally), much less prove the lack of anything metaphysically. So yes, I agree that science does not aim to rule out souls, gods, or some higher calling behind intelligence.
However, I do think the above argument lays groundwork to rule out claims that metaphysical explanations are necessary--we are perfectly capable of explaining empirical events without using non-empirical basis arguments. That doesn't mean we shouldn't believe in God, for example, but it does mean we shouldn't think that there are empirical reasons that rationally require us to accept that God exists.
ape wrote: Huxley: "I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption."
This is indeed a motive that some people have for accepting the theory of evolution by natural selection. However, I am trying to present objective, empirical reasons to accept the theory--I want to avoid letting my subjective bias cloud the issue. As such, even someone who does not have a motive like Huxley would have to accept the evidence I present (if it is really valid)--otherwise, they'd have to dispense with the reasoning I use or contradict themselves.
Aldous Huxley is not using the scientific method by employing such a motive, or at least not what any scientists I know of would call the scientific method.
As a side note, I do think there is objective/real/universal quality/meaning; hence I certainly don't have Huxley's bias here.
This is indeed a motive that some people have for accepting the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Every single concept advanced by the theory of evolution (and amended thereafter) is imaginary as it is not supported by the scientifically established probability concepts.
The theory of evolution may be the worst mistake made in science."
I L Cohen, Darwin Was Wrong - A Study in Probabilities PO Box 231, Greenvale, New York 11548: New Research Publications, Inc. pp 6-8, 209-210, 214-215. I.L.Cohen, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences and Officer of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Alun wrote: However, I am trying to present objective, empirical reasons to accept the theory--I want to avoid letting my subjective bias cloud the issue.
Alun wrote: As such, even someone who does not have a motive like Huxley would have to accept the evidence I present (if it is really valid)--otherwise, they'd have to dispense with the reasoning I use or contradict themselves.
Alun wrote: As a side note, I do think there is objective/real/universal quality/meaning; hence I certainly don't have Huxley's bias here.
But Alun, do you have any biases or prejudices?
Do you love and respect Huxley as prejudiced and as a prejudiced witness?
Do you love and respect yourself as biased and as unbiased?
Do you have equal Love and Respect for both creation and evolution?
Do you love yourself as both creationist and evolutionist, as both intelligent designer and its opposite?
Do you love yourself as right and as wrong?
Do you love yourself as God and as no God?
"What has perhaps been overlooked [due to irrational Hatred of the irrational and etc] is the irrational, the inconsistent, the droll, even the insane, which nature, inexhaustibly operative, implants into the individual, seemingly for her own amusement. These things are singled out only in the crucible of one's own mind."
Wd you be willing to give up the TOE if proved wrong?
Wd you at least give creationsism an equal hearing even now before proved right or wrong?


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Gabriel Yoly (Noyon? - Terol, 19 de març de 1538), va ser un escultor francès, que va viure a la corona d'Aragó, des del 1515.

Va residir a Saragossa, i va passar els seus últims anys a Terol. Es conserva la seva lauda sepulcral, contenint la imatge jacent i la inscripció, «Gabriel Yoly, imatger». Se li atribueix una primera formació gòtica francesa i completa la seva formació en l'escola florentina. A Espanya es veu influït per Damià Forment i, a l'última etapa, per Alonso Berruguete, qui li transmet el seu dramatisme.

El 1520 signa un contracte amb Gil Morlanes el Jove, per executar a mitges les obres que concertessin en quatre anys. A la seva primera etapa s'uneix a Damià Forment, pel que es deixa influir. Però alhora afavoreix la conversió de Forment al renaixement. Algun autor considera segura la intervenció de Yoly al retaule de Sant Miquel dels Navarresos a Saragossa. De 1520 data el retaule de Santiago, a la Seo de Saragossa, fet amb Gil Morlanes. Juan de Moreto dirigeix l'execució del retaule de Sant Miquel, a la catedral de Jaca, on l'escultura és obra de Yoly i de Juan de Salas.

Al retaule major de la parròquia de Tauste (1521), l'arquitectura és de Gil Morlanes el Jove, i l'escultura de Yoly i Salas. Al retaule d'Aniñón (Saragossa) ressorgeix la col·laboració de Morlanes i Yoly. El retaule de la Catedral de Roda d'Isàvena fet el 1533,i destruït el 1936, acredita l'influx de Berruguete. El retaule del bisbe Conchillos a la catedral de Tarazona és contractat el 1535 per Juan de Moreto; l'escultura és obra de Yoly.

A l'etapa de Terol corresponen el retaule major de l'església de Sant Pere, el retaule de Sant Cosme i Sant Damià a la mateixa església, i el retaule major de la catedral de Terol, del tipus de custòdia i sense policromar, el que permet d'acusar millor la força expressiva, plena d'accents de Berruguete.

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'The Dragon' takes Strongest Man title from 'Game of Thrones' star
BRADENTON, Fla. — The creators of "Game of Thrones" might have approved of the finish of the 2019 World's Strongest Man (WSM) competition as "The Mountain" was taken down by "The Dragon."
US representative Martins Licis, known as The Dragon, won his first WSM title on Sunday by defeating defending champion Hafthor Julius Bjornsson of Iceland, best known as The Mountain from "Game of Thrones."
Just like his "GoT" character, Bjornsson, 30, didn't go down without a fight, but Licis, 28, managed to take down the 6-foot-9, 425-pound Icelandic giant without a knife to the head or a long fall into fire.
Bjornsson was not at 100% for most of the competition. He was limping during the first day of qualifying rounds, and it was later confirmed that he tore his plantar fascia, the fibrous tissue along the bottom of the foot that connects the heel bone to the toes.
At 6-foot-2 and 331 pounds, the smaller Licis tells The Post that he prepared for the competition "by lifting weights and eating food and sleeping a lot. And watching cartoons." He says his favorite cartoon is "One-Punch Man," a Japanese manga series.
Unlike his "GoT" character, Bjornsson, who finished third, immediately embraced Licis after his victory. Poland's Mateusz Kieliszkowski finished second.
In March, Licis finished 4 ½ points behind Bjornsson in the Arnold Strongman Classic in Ohio.
"Placing second in the Arnold was like a wake-up call and especially being that close to Thor. I knew I could win [World's Strongest Man]," says Licis.
This is the 12th victory for the US in the World's Strongest Man in the 42-year history of the event. Licis, who lives in California, was born in Latvia, so he considers his victory the first for Latvia as well.
The 2019 World's Strongest Man competition will be televised with the first episode on Sunday, June 30, on CBS. The next nine episodes will be broadcast on the CBS Sports Network with the finals to be shown on CBS.
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Super Bowl Sunday with Dudamel's Mahler Ninth
United States Mahler: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 5.2.2012 (LV)
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic wound up their mammoth Mahler Project with an affable, untroubled Ninth on Super Bowl Sunday afternoon at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Mahler is right up the orchestra's Technicolor alley: punch and glory from the brass, unfailingly exquisite sounds from the woodwinds, and some good work as well from the double basses – aside, however, from Carrie Dennis's passionate leadership from the first viola chair, the strings sounded tired and occasionally imprecise. It could easily have been the ensemble's grueling pace: performing all the symphonies in three-and-a-half weeks, and finally combining with Dudamel's Simon Bolívar Orchestra to play the gigantic Eighth Symphony at the white-elephantine Shrine Auditorium.
But even at Disney Hall, it was a scene. There were groupies who attended every concert, haunting dark corners for spare tickets, like loose change. Lots of young demographic types – and even the seniors with walkers, canes and wheel chairs – were ready to run over anyone who stood in their way.
There was the hall's usual army of ushers: impossibly youthful, unfailingly helpful and courteous, and vigilant against straggling critics trying to lounge on the stairs. What I don't understand is why they are so totally uninterested in the music being played. If the Philharmonic is really about community, and wants to bolster the case for their 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, offering the ushers on-the-job training in the fast-growing classical music sector of the entertainment industry would be a win-win proposition for everyone.
Musically speaking, except for one Grinch of a critic, it was clear that the virtually standing-room-only turnout (pretty good since it was competing against the Super Bowl, after all) enjoyed the performance tremendously. Even the presence of an errant cell phone in the first movement – shades of Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic! – didn't cause Dudamel or the ensemble to lose focus. Through sheer, boyish innocence, the 32-year-old conductor detoxed the bitter, grim forebodings of death in whose clutches the composer lay as mortality placed its hand over his fragile heart. Dudamel's naive Ninth even had a certain redeeming quality about it, as if the composer had been able, perhaps even intended, to distill from the music's bitter landscape innocent scenes from childhood. And Dudamel made sure that applause would not interrupt the idyllic ending by conducting the silence after the last notes for a full 60 seconds.
To its immense pride and credit, Los Angeles is the only one of the country's major metropolises which said no to the National Football League (in 1995), but would never let its Philharmonic go. Just in case, however, the relative brevity (80 minutes) of Mahler's Ninth Symphony – the composer's enduring testament to a life of exaltation, love and loss – gave the audience plenty of time to get home for most of the football game.
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Q: Apache camel file with doneFileName I am just starting to look at apache camel (Using blueprint routes) and I am already stuck.
I need to process a set of csv files with different formats. I get 5 files with foo_X_20160110.csv were X specifies the type of csv file and the files have a date stamp . These files can be quite large so a 'done' file is written once all files are written. The done file is named foo_trigger_20160110.csv.
I've seen the doneFileName option on file but that only supports a static name (I have a date in the filename) or it expects a done file for each input file.
The files have to be proceeded in a fixed order but it is not guaranteed in which order they are written to the input directory. Hence I need to wait for the done file.
Any idea how this can be done with Camel?
Any suggestions for good Camel books?

A: Here is an example from the documentation
http://camel.apache.org/file2.html
from("file:C:/temp/input.txt?doneFileName=done");

As you can see the doneFileName has a static value "done". But you can use standard java to write dynamic names i.e. for current dateformat or anything else and just use string operation to construct the URI. Hope that helps.
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By the way, as mentioned in the documentation there is the option of dynamic placeholders for the doneFileName.

However its more common to have one done file per target file. This
  means there is a 1:1 correlation. To do this you must use dynamic
  placeholders in the doneFileName option. Currently Camel supports the
  following two dynamic tokens: file:name and file:name.noext which must
  be enclosed in ${ }. The consumer only supports the static part of the
  done file name as either prefix or suffix (not both).

from("file:bar?doneFileName=${file:name}.done");

You can also use a prefix for the done file, such as:

from("file:bar?doneFileName=ready-${file:name}");

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Sateco, a young company with a long history
Sateco has recently passed his thirties, but its history goes through two centuries, from the end of previous one until now. Four are the growing phases through which it evolved and established. Beginning from the first steps, in a simple world, to the expansion towards foreign markets, made of complexity, rules and scenarios quite different from those of first years. The sole constant: our ability to timely answer to our customers' questions, even to anticipate them.
Sateco is born on 1983, just after the privatization of the field for testing and certification of mountain lift and wire rope systems. Until the beginning of the 1980s, the inspections could be performed only by public authorities, such as Polytechnic institutes. The first Sateco members come from this scientific environment. Founded by Fulvio Rossi and Giancarlo Berruti, Sateco lays sound foundations since the beginning: precise callouts, knowledge of the territory, timely production of certifications: three features that lead to a rapid strengthening of the company. The first phase of Sateco history is in a simple world: on the one hand there were the ropes in installations to be tested, and on the other hand, skills, and tools to test and certify them.
A simple world
The strengthening
This first phase is immediately followed by the second one, of achievement and appreciation. Turin, where Sateco is based, is a city located near many important ski slopes, both in Piedmont and Aosta Valley. In a few years, Sateco is asked to perform testing on most popular mountain lift systems in both Regions, thus becoming a point of reference for non-destructive and magneto-inductive testing of the whole area. Beginning from 1985, non-destructive testing is introduced on mountain lift systems, on mechanical components other than on wire ropes. To take charge of all these installations, carrying thousands of people each season, Sateco develops another distinctive skill: the flexibility of its working teams, which rapidly intervene, easily move from one site to another, while technicians develop soft skills.
At the end of the 1990s, Alessandro Rossi, who already supported his father in the strengthening phase, becomes Sateco's owner and understands that he needs to invest to keep the company growing. In these years, the research and development process that Sateco continues to follow today begins. In this third phase, new development goals begin to delineate, between technological research and opening to new markets. Sateco tests and manufactures new instruments to perform non-destructive testing.
The investments
The new markets
The new millennium pushes Sateco towards foreign markets. Testing expands towards different rope installations, not only lift systems. The first jobs are still done in Europe: from Switzerland to Turkey, passing through France, Spain, Portugal, Greece. Working teams begin specializing on testing on industrial plants, and we lose count of the kilometres spanning Turin headquarters from the rest of the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, Malaysia. At now, more than 3,000 installations have been tested, 40,000 wire ropes have been checked on-site without disassembling them, and more than 35,000 vices for installations with automatic coupling have been tested.
Between new challenges and memorabilia
In a fluid world, where paradigms quickly change, Sateco feels comfortable. The skills acquired in more than thirty years of activity, and the timeliness of our answers to requests coming from many countries, are the background which comes with us at each new mission, from the nearest to the farthest. In the heart of Sateco a history remains deeply rooted in the territory and bounded to mountain traditions. These roots have given rise over the years to a well-kept collection of memorabilia, which we jealously guard in our offices. A little secret which is unveiled outside by a video recorded in our new premises, where each environment hosts an old-time scenario, among technical items and small goodies from ski stations. In this video our spirit is enclosed: the precision of the collection, the satisfaction to live the territory, the valorisation of a past without which the present would have not been possible. The pleasure of working in team in a comfortable environment, to return to every time we leave to go around the world.
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Brown Ivy Columbia Wake Forest ACC East Tennessee State
Childress' late shot lifts Wake past Columbia, 65-63
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Columbia's Jack Forrest and Wake Forest's Torry Johnson battle for the ball in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal via AP) )
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — For Brandon Childress, the past couple of years at Wake Forest have been marked by a parade of mid-majors that have come in and beat his Demon Deacons.
During the first home game of his final season, he wasn't going to let it happen again.
Childress hit a jumper with 0.9 seconds remaining, and Wake Forest rallied to beat Columbia 65-63 on Sunday.
"Just fight. We kept fighting," Childress said. "You have to have a dog mentality."
Chaundee Brown scored 20 points and Childress finished with 11 to lead the Demon Deacons (1-1), who trailed by four points in the final minute before finding a way to avoid their third home-opening loss in the past decade.
"Our guys didn't panic down the stretch," coach Danny Manning said. "There was no panic in their eyes."
Mike Smith scored 23 points for the Lions (0-2), including eight in a row down the stretch. His free throw with 51 seconds to play put Columbia up 63-59.
"I thought Mike Smith played like an all-ACC-level guard," coach Jim Engles said.
Brown started the comeback with a three-point play on Wake Forest's ensuing possession, and the Demon Deacons got it back after a Columbia turnover. Brown then hit a free throw that tied it 63 with 17.1 seconds left, then missed the foul shot that followed, but the rebound went out of bounds off a Columbia player's hand.
Childress wound up with the ball at the key and drove the lane on Smith, shaking free with a spin move and putting up a jump shot that bounced off the iron twice before dropping through.
"Wish it would have bounced three more times" to run out the clock, Manning quipped.
The Lions called two timeouts before Jake Killingsworth inbounded to Smith, who took two dribbles before his half-court heave at the horn bounced off the glass.
Columbia: The short-handed Lions, picked to finish next-to-last in an Ivy League dominated by favorites Harvard and Pennsylvania and playing without No. 2 scorer Gabe Stefanini (foot), could have made a statement by going on the road and beating an ACC school for the first time since they beat Wake Forest in the schools' only previous matchup in 1969. Killingsworth had 10 rebounds but they were outrebounded 48-37 — and none was more significant than the one on Brown's missed free throw in the final seconds.
"We've just got to stay confident and build off of it," Engles said.
Wake Forest: Houston Baptist, Gardner-Webb and Georgia Southern nearly had some company on the list of lower-level programs to come into Joel Coliseum and upset Manning's Demon Deacons. Credit to Brown and Childress for preventing a repeat — even after they blew an eight-point lead with 6½ minutes left.
"We've got to do a better job of building off leads once we get them," Manning said.
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Childress' clutch shot helped mask an otherwise rough day. He had as many turnovers (five) as field goals, finishing 5 of 15 with just two assists, and was 1 of 4 from the free-throw line.
Smith became the 29th player in Columbia history with 1,000 points. He reached the milestone with a corner 3 that put the Lions up 39-34 with just under 14 minutes to play.
UGLY SHOOTING
Columbia shot 40% from the field while Wake Forest was at 35% — numbers that improved after a rocky start. The teams combined to miss 14 consecutive shots during one brutal 3½-minute stretch and the Demon Deacons missed 14 of their first 15 attempts largely because they settled for long jumpers.
"We have to get off to better starts offensively," Manning said. "That takes away from our aggressiveness when we settle for those shots."
Columbia: Plays Binghamton on Wednesday night in its home opener.
Wake Forest: Plays host to UNC Asheville on Wednesday night in its final home game until Dec. 7.
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24 million lines of code to secure? I'm not sure we can do that, Dave.
The new F-35 Fighter Jet is an impressive war machine. The Lockheed Martin aircraft has a 1,200 mph top speed and a range of almost 1,400 miles. It is the result of a $400 billion program that makes it the most expensive weapons system in history. It is not only an impressive piece of aeronautical engineering. It is also a phenomenally sophisticated software lab, with an integrated control system that uses complicated algorithms to help it carry out its mission no matter what adversity it encounters. The computer system includes a carry-on laptop-like device that stores the details of the mission and communicates over a dedicated network with ALIS, or Autonomic Logistics Information System. According to the Lockheed Martin website, "ALIS provides the IT backbone and capabilities to support current and future Warfighters across the U.S. services and the world." ALIS communicates with the plane as it flies, monitoring its health and scanning for potential problems related to logistics, health, and maintenance. Between the mission-specific on-board laptop and the ALIS backbone, 24 million lines of code keep the plane in the air and on its mission.
That's a lot of code, not to mention a lot of opportunities for bugs and security flaws. A conservative estimate of the number of software bugs is one per every thousand lines of code. Even if the software powering the F-35 has a bug rate of one-tenth that figure, we can expect 2,400 bugs in its software. Some of those bugs are likely to be exploitable by software hackers. Can there be any more enticing a target for state-sponsored hackers than a US fighter jet?
And here's an even more sobering shocker: the human pilot cannot override the wishes of the computer captain. ALIS has final say regardless of what the pilot wants to do. This isn't Star Wars; this is HAL from 2001 Space Odyssey. They've seen that movie, right?
A 60 Minutes segment on the F-35 and its potential software Achilles heel doesn't exactly give one the warm-and-fuzzies. The commander seems like he's trying unsuccessfully to convince himself that the system won't be hackable. Unfortunately, the statistics don't support even his tentative optimism. Complexity is the enemy of security and reliability. Take the human out of the loop, and you've relinquished all control to the complexity you should be avoiding. This simply does not compute.


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The Resource List of members of the Virginia General Assembly and Council of State, 1751-1794, (microform)
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Welcome to Penrith Music Club and to our 75th Season of outstanding concerts by internationally distinguished musicians and gifted young performers with a great future.
Our 75th season concluded with a wonderful concert by Emily Sun and Jennifer Hughes. Full details of our 76th season, starting in September 2019 will appear here soon.
All concerts are at the Penrith Methodist church and start at 7:30pm unless otherwise advised.
Our 75th season of concerts starts with a visit by the Northern Chamber Orchestra. With them, Raphael Wallfisch will be the soloist in Haydn's delightfully refined Cello Concerto in C. It being also 100 years since Sir Hubert Parry's death, they will be performing his less ceremonial Suite for Lady Radnor, who both commissioned and conducted its premiere. Grace Williams' Elegy for Strings highlights a prominent Welsh composer of the last century as well as commemorating the end of the First World War, and the concert concludes appropriately with Haydn's Farewell Symphony.
The Scott Brothers delighted us with their antics and superb playing two years ago and return with another wide-ranging programme of pieces adapted, this time for piano and harmonium. Amongst the arrangements is an original work by Saint Saens for harmonium and piano. Otherwise popular classics abound, from Monti's Czardas to Rossini's Barber of Seville Overture. This is a concert not miss; two excellent musicians who exude fun and enjoyment in all they do.
Bernard d'Ascoli came to prominence in the 1980's, not, as you might presume, by winning, but by being 3rd at the Leeds International Piano Competition, the 'catch' being that he is blind. He had already come to the attention of his teachers in France and had won accolades – and prizes - throughout Europe. He brings a programme of French piano music, from the more austere Cesar Franck to the florid Debussy. Amongst these works, he will be playing some of Chopin's Studies; yet another concert opportunity not to miss.
The Albion Quartet, at the time of going to press, have only chosen two of the works for their programme. A youthful and talented group of players, they are so far sticking to the classical repertoire with one Haydn's ground-breaking quartets and Beethoven's so-called 'Harp' quartet, getting its name from the substantial plucked section of music. These are archetypal classical repertoire.
We like to include singers in our concert series and having had some excellent ladies, we turn to the operatic baritone Phillip Smith for a recital including Schubert's iconic 'Swansong' cycle, balanced with a selection of English song settings of Shakespeare by both usual suspects like Vaughan Williams and Finzi, but also Korngold, Bush, Argento and Dring. This will prove an evening of happy surprises and I would encourage you to come and hear someone and something new.
Emily Sun and Jennifer Hughes complete our concert series for this season, with a very robust programme of violin sonatas. Emily is Australian and delighted audiences in Keswick last year. Jennifer Hughes impressed a couple of years ago here, accompanying the cellist Jane Lindsay. The programme includes Poulenc's bitter-sweet sonata, Strauss' youthful work, along with Beethoven's early sonata and Saint Saens' showy Rondo Capriccioso.


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Press Release Summary: Preparing for a holiday present is made exciting through Super Warehouse's line up of Apple iPod Touch with bigger discounts. This irresistible deal is only available for a limited offer.
Press Release Body: San Diego, December 1, 2008- Online business giant, Super Warehouse is back with their promotional deal for this years hottest Apple iPod Touch player just in time for the holiday season. It is again expected to gather massive sales from consumers around the country.
The first Apple iPod was released on the market last October 23, 2001 and immediately received millions of sales. The demand for advance features of the gadget made it one of the most sought after gadget and encouraged the manufacturer to develop better designs and exceptional features.
Apple iPod Touch's advent was led by the development of the Apple iPhone that created rumors for several months before it was official out in the market. The multi touch feature which is currently native to Apple ipod Touch and iPhone is what separates the device from other portable mp3 players manufactured by big names in the industry.
The multi touch feature extends the display of the player with a 3.5" diagonal screen at 480 x 320 Resolution.
This year, it is expected that consumers will be looking for portable devices like laptops, mobile phones, and mp3 players as presents for this coming holidays. Super Warehouse is ready to provide the public with these gadgets at super discounted rates all through out their promotional season. Aside from discounted Apple ipod Touch players, Super Warehouse offers big discounts on other devices including printer inks and cartridges.
Orders on any product offered by Super Warehouse can be made 24/7 through their website. Technical assistance is available through the company's toll free number or through email.
Products come in with a 1 year limited warranty. Along with the Unit are the earphones, dock adapter, stand, polishing cloth, USB 2.0 cable, and the Quick Start Guide. Additional accessories can be purchased from the website as well.
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Q: Unity3d Problema en seleccionar los vectores3 que tengan una determinada posicion en z Me estoy volviendo loco con algo que debería ser fácil en principio.
Tengo una lista de Vector3 y quiero seleccionar solo los que la posición Z sea igual a 1.0.
La lista esta en otra clase y es la:
 tableroScript.GetComponent<Tablero>().listaPosicionesFichasParaBarajar

(Eso no es problema ya que he comprobado que me la encuentra.)
El código que estoy usando es:
public void QuitarVectoresParaNoPonerFicha(){

        //Se configura cada escena de forma independiente
        //if (nombreDeLAEscena == "1Scena(1)") {

        for (int a = 0; a < tableroScript.GetComponent<Tablero> ().listaPosicionesFichasParaBarajar.Count; a++) {

            if (tableroScript.GetComponent<Tablero> ().listaPosicionesFichasParaBarajar [a] !=null) {

                print ("EstamosRevisandoElVector3= " + tableroScript.GetComponent<Tablero> ().listaPosicionesFichasParaBarajar [a]);

        //EN ESTA LINEA DE ABAJO DEBERIA ENCONTRAR TODAS LAS POSICIONES Z

                if (tableroScript.GetComponent<Tablero> ().listaPosicionesFichasParaBarajar [a] .z ==  1.0f) {

                    print("Esta en z 1.0");

                }
            }
        }
    }

Y no me los encuentra. No se que estoy haciendo mal.


Post operative instructions will be reviewed with you before your discharge. You will receive a written copy of the discharge instructions. You should not plan to drive, drink alcohol or make decisions for 24 hours after surgery or if you are taking pain medication.
At home, please follow your surgeon's written instructions provided by the staff at MCAOS. If you experience any problems or changes in your condition, you should contact your surgeon's office. Your surgeon will be responsible for your continuing care.
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After my son hurt his knee at soccer practice, I was sent to MCAOS by our pediatrician. As soon as we walked in, we were met by the caring staff at the door. I knew we were off to a good start. He is doing so much better today, and I am happy to report... 100 percent recovered thanks to you! We appreciate everything you do! "


Attendance at scientific sessions, conference material, 3 nights accommodation with break-fast, lunch and dinner incl. drinks, coffee breaks, as well as social activities during the conference, bus transfer from Strasbourg Airport or railway station to Mont Ste Odile on 10 October 10 and return trip on 13 October . Bus transfer will be organize from and to Strasbourg Airport and Train station on wednesday morning and saturday afternoon. To register for the bus transfer a separate email will be sent to all participants prior to the meeting.
All participants will stay at Mont Sainte Odile. All rooms have a shower (or washbasin) and a WC.
Assignment will be made on a first come-first served basis.
The organization reserves the right to assign a participant to a double room sharing with another person.
The number of single rooms is limited.
We encourage most participants to register for double rooms.
PAYMENT DETAILS: Payment will be available after registration. You will receive an email how to proceed with payment via bank transfer or check. Registration will be effective after receipt of the bank transfer statement or the cheque and will be confirmed by email.
ABSTRACT: Uploading abstracts: Abstracts can be uploaded using the template available during the online registration process. You will also be able to upload your abstract following your registration by logging back in using the username and password which you will have received on registration; the abstract template will be available for you to download.
POSTER: The poster size should not exceed 2 m x 80 cm.
Cancellations notified up to 1st September 2019 will be entitled to a refund of the total amount paid except a cancellation fee of € 100.
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Do a search for auto accident lawyers, and you'll find a ton of us—really, it's like law schools were designed to pump out personal injury lawyers with the speed of widget-making machine. Most of them have one thing in common—something that has always bugged me. They call it an automobile "accident." I'm guilty of it—it's hard to avoid that alliterative phrase.
Here's the thing: the word accident somehow makes it sound forgivable. In the religious or moral sense, that's fine. But in the legal sense, just because someone hurts someone else because of a mistake, it doesn't absolve them of having to make up for it. Sometimes we all fall back on the accident jargon, but better word is, simply, collision. The flip side of the "accident" coin is a phrase that I do like: personal responsibility.
If I do something wrong, I have to make up for it. That's how I was raised. That's how I try to raise my three kids. That's how we should all act. Insurance makes this easy—if I cause a collision, I pay insurance so my insurance company can help those people that I hurt. It might affect me a bit—a modest increase in my insurance premiums. However, it makes me feel much better to know that, whatever injury I caused, I can somehow remedy the situation, through my insurance company.
Sadly, some people don't think this. I understand how it happens with some people. You're involved in a collision, and none of us wants to think that we did something wrong. We also have this gut reaction—we want to stay out of trouble. The problem is, if we don't admit what we did right away, if we lie about it even for a minute, it is exponentially harder to tell the truth. Hard to admit that we caused a collision, and even harder to admit that we lied about it. So we double-down, and stick to that lie.
One more thing on the "accident" terminology. Accidents are avoidable. They happen because we are inattentive, because we act beyond our capabilities, because we disobey the rules of the road. That's why we must take responsibility for our accidents—if you caused it, you have to fix it.


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Share this Story: Trainer Bob Baffert employs his sound-proof plan for the Preakness Stakes
Trainer Bob Baffert employs his sound-proof plan for the Preakness Stakes
Steve Buffery
For Firing Line trainer Simon Callaghan, the louder the crowd at Pimlico Racetrack on Saturday, the better.
While there's not usually a home-field advantage in horse racing, Callaghan must think that a very raucous Preakness Derby crowd — and Preakness crowds tend to get that way — would work in his favour against the talented Bob Baffert-trained duo of American Pharoah and Dortmund.
Firing Line finished second at the Kentucky Derby to American Pharoah by one length with Dortmund third, three lengths off the lead in a formidable three-horse charge to the finish line.
Saturday's second jewel of the Triple Crown marks the first time since 2009 that the top-three finishers from the Kentucky Derby have faced off in the Preakness.
And while Derby winner American Pharoah is the early 4-5 favourite, nobody is counting Dortmund or Firing Line out, or perhaps even the Canadian-bred Danzig Moon, who was fifth in the Derby two weeks ago.
But for American Pharoah and Dortmund to do well on Saturday, Baffert needs to apply his secret weapon, if you will.
It turns out both horses have sensitive ears and Baffert has geared them out with special ear plugs, which he managed to secure from the show-horse fraternity. American Pharoah wears them every time he goes out on to the track, whether for a race or a training session and he wears them throughout every race. Dortmund wears them until he's in the starting gate and then his jockey (Martin Garcia) pulls a string to remove them.
"Having a lot of people, a crowd around, makes Pharoah nervous," said Baffert. "After his first race, in which he was terrible, we determined he was sensitive to sound. He's a very gentle horse, but his ears are so sensitive. We started putting cotton in them."
Placing cotton or ear plugs in a horse's ears isn't unheard of, Baffert pointing out to 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, who raced with cotton in her ears. Baffert said trainers using blinkers and hoods is basically the same idea as ear plugs, to calm nervous horses down.
Still, it's not just his horses who are nervous. Even though Baffert has the two favourites in American Pharoah and Dortmund (7-2) in Saturday's Preakness, leaving from the one and two post positions respectively isn't exactly ideal. On top of that, Firing Line, leaving from the 8, is in good shape and has a Hall of Fame jockey in Gary Stevens.
Firing Line has finished no worse than second in six races contested over five racetracks, including a victory over Del Mar's old synthetic surface and a 14 ¼-length romp in the Sunland Park Derby on dirt. He has shown high early speed, as well as the ability to rate off the early pace.
"That's the one thing about him, he's a horse that doesn't need the lead. He can adapt to any circumstances. We'll just see how the race unfolds," Callaghan said. "You never really know until the gates open. You can presume there's going to be a lot of speed, but when you predict there's going to be speed, it doesn't happen."
Then there's the Arnaud Delacour-trained Diving Rod, one of the three entries in the Preakness who didn't race in the Derby, his last appearance a win at the Lexington Stakes (G3) on April 11 at Keeneland, so he should be fresh for the Preakness. The last horse that did not run in the Derby to win the Preakness was Rachel Alexandra in 2009.
GOAL: 'SOME TYPE OF A RUN'
The Archbishop of Baltimore, William E. Lori, joked at the Alibi Breakfast on Thursday that if he had a favourite in Saturday's Preakness Stakes, it would be Lael Stable's Divining Rod, for obvious reasons.
But Lori isn't the only person who has sought some spiritual guidance at Pimlico Racetrack this week. Woodbine-based trainer Mark Casse, who has entered Danzig Moon in the Preakness, was asked on Friday how he hoped to turn the tables on Preakness favourite American Pharoah on Saturday, and Casse joked that he was hoping for some divine intervention.
"Well, I've already started praying," said Casse, who has won the Sovereign Award as Canada's outstanding thoroughbred trainer seven times. "(Son/assistant) Norman called me yesterday and he goes, 'I've got some good news and I've got some bad news. The good news is our horse trained great. The bad news is so did the others (Baffert's duo of American Pharoah and Dortmund).' "
Danzig Moon has a good draw with the No. 4 post position for Saturday's Preakness and Casse, who arrived in Baltimore on Thursday night, expects a different kind of trip than the son of Malibu Moon had at Churchill Downs two weeks ago.
"In the Derby, (jockey) Julien (Leparoux) needed to hustle Danzig Moon away from there to get position, and when he did he really put him on the bridle and that's why he ran into that trouble going into the first turn," said Casse. "I think (Saturday) we just fall out of there, and I think if he does that, he'll be a little bit more relaxed. We've just got to hope for a battle royale up front (with American Pharoah and Dortmund leaving from the 1-2) and save ground and come with a run. We look like we're one of the few horses that can come with some type of a run."
Danzig Moon will be Casse's second Preakness. He finished seventh with Dynamic Impact last year. Danzig Moon is one of five Kentucky Derby starters in Saturday's field, having finished 6 ½ lengths behind winner American Pharoah as a troubled fifth in the field of 18.
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CNN interviews Howard Gordon on Gideon's War
By 24 Spoilers , January 26th, 2011 · 1 comment
CNN has interviewed Howard Gordon about his novel Gideon's War (and the upcoming sequel Allegiance) and even linked to my review/website in the article. Sweet, thanks CNN! :)
"Gideon's War" is not by any means Gordon's first effort to connect with an audience. As a former executive producer for The "X-Files," and a consulting producer for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," he clearly has shown a knack for keeping things exciting. But will people line up to shell out money for his latest project?
"It's hard to break out like this guy," says Gail Ross, a nonfiction literary agent based in Washington who admits to being a closet fiction reader. "But he's got enough notoriety, and once you have the blurb from people you trust and the brand recognition, the readers will talk to each other."
Gordon is getting a little help from his friends for sure. Kiefer Sutherland, the star of "24," has offered a blurb for the back cover of Gordon's book.
While Gordon says he's loved every minute of his budding career as a novelist, he hasn't given up his day job. He's hard at work on a pilot for Showtime called "Homeland." So the question is, will he continue his latest adventure?
"I'm working on it now," says Gordon. "It's called 'Allegiance,' and it's the second in the Gideon series, exploring some homegrown terrorism. I love these kinds of stories. They also are stories that are exciting as they are. They also contain a lot of ideas about politics and foreign policy and about this country."
Check out the entire article over at CNN.
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Howard Gordon talks Gideon's War, 24 movie, possible Jack Bauer novel
By 24 Spoilers , January 7th, 2011 · 2 comments
Howard Gordon is interviewed by Newsday's Verne Gay about his upcoming debut novel Gideon's War, the 24 movie, and a possible Jack Bauer novel should the movie deal fall through. The interview also mentions a planned sequel to Gideon's War, "Allegiance," due out next year. The ninth season of "24" should have been starting just… View Article
Howard Gordon on Gideon's War and his favorite '24' episode
Here's a lengthy (24 minute) live radio interview I recorded where TV Confidential interviews Howard Gordon, showrunner of 24 and the author of Gideon's War. Comparisons of the Gideon Davis and Jack Bauer characters come up, Howard shares his writing past, reveals what other writers and stories he was inspired by, they talk about Gregory… View Article
24's Howard Gordon on his three TV series, novel, and 24 movie
By 24 Spoilers , February 23rd, 2011 · 1 comment
Howard Gordon is interviewed about his three television projects, his novel Gideon's War (and the upcoming sequel) and the 24 movie which he says is "on hold" (despite Kiefer saying otherwise). He also claims that the 24 series had "run its course" and was "time to end". The first January in a decade with no… View Article
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